I feel seen.
As someone who’s allergic to being the main protagonist and just wants to be random quest related person number 2 or 3 (reoccurring but not a story focus) I do not understand
Just let me chill and occasionally bump the story into a new direction
The only other part I could see myself having fun with is major antagonist but definitely not for a group that includes the wider public, I’m not insane
if you want to win rp just type “/e Wins the Roleplay” at the end of the session, simple as.
Congratulations on being freed.
However, if you do want to be chained once more, simply appeal and say you were censored for your rightwing views. It’s stupid, like Elon Musk, but it does work.
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Came back late yday evening from a 3 day long trip to Senja, Andenes and Svolvær (Part of Lofoten Islands in Norway).
Was great, though i did not sleep for 2 days due to my colleague’s snoring being about 60 desibels on average.
Highlight was going to a whale safari in Andenes on a big rubber boat. We went to the canyon where the continental shell drops sharply to a depth of 2km, and saw not one, not two, but three adult sp3rm whales (cmon blizzard that is the name of the species). The 1st and 3rd allowed us to get fairly close too, about 10 meters or so and stayed on the surface for close to a minute or so, allowing us to get some great pictures.
We also saw a humpback whale, which is very rare for this time of the year, since they follow the herring which arrive in late October/ early November.
Other than that, saw some eagles, puffins and fur seals. Definitely a highlight of the tour.
Seeing our collaborators was nice, food was great and the landscape is beautiful. Tourism up here is quickly growing, and I can only recommend everyone warmly to come over!
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That’s the one, yes. I have binged it for two days straight. It’s pretty pog.
I sure love when I google for people’s thoughts on thematic influences of one character on another and instead get a page full of links to versus discussions, which I’m utterly uninterested in and consider an absolute waste of time.
Who would win, Melkor or Sargeras? The answer is always the same: whoever the writer wants, because they’re the one writing it.
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Sargeras can cleave entire planets in half. Sargeras no-diffs, Sauron gets clapped ez gg no re
Tiger Drop negates all damage.
I enjoy making silly meme edits of my vulpera and his dumb little face and his gremlin tendencies too much to permit myself freedom
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“Yeah, sure. Take the A.I. spyware out of it and I might consider it. Otherwise lol. Lmao.”
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I’d like to remind everyone on this forum that I’d be more than happy to help them move to Linux!
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The girl is questing in the blood elf starting zone, with the help of me reading quest requirements out loud.
— He wants you to kill seven small treants and seven big treants.
— Why? Are they evil?
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Can be interesting in comparable settings with an equal or similar amount of magic system nuance.
My favourite (least favourite) part about all this is how the versus fiends try to extrapolate a character’s strength or destructive powers from feats.
ONEPUNCHMAN DESTROY A UNIVERSE WITH ONE PUNCH AND THAT REQUIRES 1000000000000 PSEUDOTONS OF FORCE WHICH IS EQUAL TO 8X10(5700000) POUNDS OF TNT SO SAURON DOESNT STAND A CHANCE
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I don’t understand the hate for LFR and I think people asking for its removal are silly.
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Just wait for the Old Whitebark quest. 
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I’m going to take you up on that offer one of these days.
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That’s the fun part; you don’t get a choice. Capitalism, baby!
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She’s gonna go far.
As a confessed LFR-hater, I’ll write far too many words on the subject.
Far too many words
My main issues are twofold. One is direct mechanics, and one is meta. I have more issues after.
The mechanics issue is one of balance, something which Blizzard has never gotten right and doesn’t care to try to do so. The majority of LFR bosses are the sort where you walk in, half the raid twiddles their thumbs, the other half then kind of hits their buttons, and the boss falls over. However, some bosses come with instant-death/wipe effects that require more significant coordination or even rely on individuals to perform to an adequate level (tanks, usually). Failure to do so leads to people leaving, waiting for replacements, and a stack of Determination that helps (but not really).
In short, its difficulty curve is more like a collection of spikes, and WoW doesn’t do a good job of actually teaching people to play, nor are there adequate ways to deal with those who slack off. Conversely, it’s a playground for those who do have good gear (who usually are there to farm a mount or similar rare drop) to needlessly flex their numbers which just engenders a toxic atmosphere. Again, without any real way to deal with them.
Put short, despite a half-dozen expansions since it was first implemented it still doesn’t really respect your time as a player, and the atmosphere is almost universally either silent or toxic. Call me boring or whatever, but I think it’d be better if it was basically impossible to wipe on every LFR boss. At least then people could be chill without worry.
On the meta-side, LFR was created because Blizzard saw that they were putting in a bunch of effort into their raids but only a fraction of players were actually doing them, which caused them to miss out on a bunch of the story. Yet, the raids are staggered.
Aberrus had N/H/M release on May 9th along with LFR wing 1. May 23rd (two weeks later!) had LFR wing 2. Two weeks later they got wing 3, and then finally on June 20th - a month and a half after the raid first came out - they finally got to finish the story with their character. This is asinine, and all it does from the player side is serve to string you along for no reason. From the game design side, it serves to suck an extra month or two of sub out of you. That’s gross.
Also, and this is kind of a minor thing, its existence as a tier of content shifts ilevel discrepancies. As an example, (assuming wowhead isn’t lying to me), Mythic Aberrus gear has an ilevel of 415-431. LFR Amidrassil gear has 441 ilevel. If LFR didn’t exist, then normal gear would be presumably be shunted down, causing less of a discrepancy between raid tiers, and in turn slowing ilevel and stat inflation.
Why does that matter? Mostly 'cos every time blizzard do a stat+ilevel squish (which I presume is coming - non-tanks are already back at around a million HP and tanks have soared far past that point) they bugger it up, something goes wrong, and there’s a bunch of mob and raid scaling that gets broken in the process. Staving off the inevitable is good.
Tied into the above, because it offers an ilevel boost over previous content, ‘actual’ raiders (even if they only do normal/heroic and aren’t Cutting Edge pushers) will feel obligated to add it to their weekly rotation to fill in upgrades, at least for a while. I don’t think that’s a good thing.
(I also think that Mythic raids shouldn’t have ilevel-gear at all and instead normalise your ilevel so literally anyone who has skills could complete it - no gear grinding whatsoever. It would still offer cosmetic recolours etc. of course but that’s a separate conversation).
Anyway that’s far too many words about my issues with LFR. Some of these could be adjusted, if Blizzard cared to, without deleting it I’m sure, but I’d still rather see it just dropped for a story mode. If they scrapped ilevel from Mythic too then that’d mean each new tier would only have normal and heroic gear, halving the rate of ilevel and stat inflation - potentially doubling the time between each stat squish!
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