Pet Peeve: The Undying

What sort of content do you see as casual? Does it include any keystones/raiding?

My peeve is Blizzard are dragging their feet on the inevitable return to the justice/valor gear system we had from TBC-MoP. It was perfectly fine. It’s only sins were being “boring” for some people, or being gated behind a rep grind in MoP, that was really dumb.

But other than that I vastly prefer badge gear over relying entirely on a slot machine. Even vanilla wasn’t this bad as a lot of really good gear was crafted or was a vendor reward of some kind. It was an easily measurable form of progress towards our next upgrade, which compelled me to do “Just X more dungeons” far more than “I’ve run this place 20 times and still not gotten X, I feel like I’m wasting my time”. It also made drops you did get pleasant surprises instead of soemthing you desperately needed. And if you got something in a slot you were saving up for, great! Now you can put those badges/pointsinto a different slot.

Regular, tangible, measurable progress is what got me playing far more than any “excitement” from a random drop.

Benethic gear is so agonisingly close but they had to faceplant at the last minute by letting it titanforge sockets and stats (Which should either be baseline or be a part of the upgrades) and be limited to a currency from very specific activities rather than PvE as a whole. You can tell they’re gritting their teeth and reluctantly backstepping towards a far more engaging reward structure that might actually let players feel ‘done’ after X hours rather than stringing them along for as much as humanly possible to pad out that “engagement” metric in the finance department.

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No dungeons or raiding of any sort and no rated PvP.

By the end of 8.1.5, that got me to 400 on the dot.

Another night of mythic sethraliss spam (just because I could do it with my eyes shut) and again, not a single pole arm.

The robotic approach is certainly help me time it quicker and quicker however.

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Peeve: the usual.

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TOOTH ACHE. Well, gum pain making my tooth ache.

Dentist can btfo.

Whats this about lord Sicco?

I keep pushing back the inevitable removal of my wisdom teeth, while the one on the right hasn’t ever emerged from the gums and has ever bothered me, the one of the left only partially did.

Every now and then I go through periods of regularly biting down on my gums and I cannot clench my teeth without paying attention or else intense pain comes… Even worse at night because it disturbs my sleep.

If I had any money I’d go see my dentist already.

I mean this is nothing new for Blizzard. They will never -ever- admit that they are wrong openly, only to do effectively what player suggestions have been saying for x amount of time.

It’s a corporate culture that curates the “ah but the players don’t know anything - ADD ANOTHER STORE MOUNT.” And frankly why the game has haemorrhaged so badly. When you have a corporation triple dipping on players its no wonder that any suggestions for systems that have been shown to work previously but were scrapped for some nonsensical need to “improve” what is not broken its not hard to fathom why there is a steady stream of lost subs.

Blizzard could really afford to take more examples from Square-Enix’s way of conducting affairs. You know, making a game with a coherent story first and foremost.

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If i could I’d help you go see one :< That sounds nasty. Teeth are annoying.

I get free dentistry care but UFF. I don’t wanna waste time AND I’m nervous as heck. I was supposed to have my wisdom teeth out but they stopped being weird before the appointment and have been fine since? But now I’ve just got an infected gum (idk why) and it’s hurting.

Has food gotten caught somewhere?
Any odd iron taste when you swallow or bad breath going?

Got home at 3:45 from work, go to pour a drink and head to bed. Some gronk left a mug sitting partially off a shelf, so when I opened the cupboard, cordial ended up flying everywhere. It’s now 4:05am and I’m still cleaning this crud up. I’ve got work B in four hours.

Only when I’ve been drinking coke, the next day my burps will taste how Underrot dungeon looks like. Sooo, I don’t drink coke anymore.

When your 6 am train to work doesnt depart cus the driver called in ill 10 mins before departure, so you have to wait half an hour for the next…

… and your analyses are time sensitive

… and its a saturday

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There are no weekends. Only Zuul.

That feel when you have to work a Saturday last minute when you’ve been looking forward to the weekend off all week.

Naw, s’just a swollen, hurting gum >:(

I had that issue with my wisdom teeth, turned out a small bit of food debris had gotten caught and caused it to get inflamed.
See if getting it cleaned and a couple days antibiotics clears it up?

looks like saturday is the new monday

The Mechagon rare mounts. I camp them on 5+ alts every day (yeah I am dedicated).
No drops. And others got them on the first day.

Initial D Deja Vu except instead of “Deja Vu” the lyrics are “RNG”.

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