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Tanking is the fastest way to level. I have no idea if Heirlooms still work, but shit man, it took me maybe 2 days to get my paladin from 1 to max level in Cataclysm. Granted it was a long 2 days, but once I got to around level 20 (i think), I just kept queuing for instances. If anyone talked shit about my playing as a paladin, I would vote kick. Aint nobody going to argue with a tank or healer in instance queues

Pat there schooling very single one of us at once. Pat I love you man, you have such a powerful but calm tone about you, a real Canadian. Always a pleasure to see you pop up online.

I don't know the ins and outs of ray tracing but can't wait for benchmarks and non founders editions.

World of Warcraft has been popping up in our Whatsapp group and in various random spots around the forum, I'd like to create a new character and give it a go again but given how addictive it was last time, I will tread lightly and see how it goes. Anyway, WoW has been without the most amazing game I have ever played, no game has ever encapsulated the feeling of freedom, awe, curiosity and dedication as World of Warcraft. It all started when I lived in Holland. I was about 20 at the time and a friend of mine disappeared off the map. He wasn't enough of a friend to go hunting for but enough to notice his absence in our social circles. He'd pop up now and again looking all scruffy and like a textbook basement dwelling gamer, probably living off Mountain Spew and Doritos. He was always very cagey about his activities and most of us put it down to drug addiction. One night he turned up at a party and had a few drinks, when he eventually said "I need to go home, my raidee is starting soon". That sentence marked the start of my WoW career. My curiosity piqued, I asked him what he meant and he said he played WoW and that his raid with his guild was starting in half an hour and he needed to be there. We all put this down to things like NERD and all the shite but in reality it always sat in the back of my mind, how someone could leave a party, with booze and weed and chicks and people and music and all the cool stuff to go home to play a video game. It made no sense to me but it did get my curiosity going and the seed was planted. A few years later I was living in London when this game made an appearance on South Park. This was another seed planted, another moment of wondering what it was all about and more progress towards me playing the game. After a few appearances in pop culture, on various TV shows, films, and magazines I could take it no more: I had to know why this game had the reputation it did. I downloaded the trial and that was that. Before I knew it I'd bought the Battlechest which contained the vanilla game, the Burning Crusade expansion and some guide books. I added some game time and I was set. I remember my first character like it was yesterday: A human warrior, fresh in the breeze of Elwynn Forest and no stranger to Northsire Abbey. This is where a half decade long adventure would begin, an adventure I will never forget, with highs, lows and everything in between. More politics than a Trump campaign and more drama than a Kardashian after a sex change. Not long after killing the wolves, putting out fires, killing some thieves and other naughty people, I levelled up a few times. This brought me to Goldshire, or as many know it, the Duel capital of Azeroth. This is where I saw my first level 60 player. I was a wee little warrior wearing all the wrong stuff, all his talent points all over the place, staring at what was very clearly an end-game hero. Mounted upon a horse which looked like it came from another universe and in armour which was more brightly coloured than the RGB keyboard upon which I now type, this guy just stood there, so all us lesser mortals could admire the amazing power this guy had. He didn't move, he didn't accept any duels, he just stood there being amazing. In hindsight he probably went for a shit or something but I like to think that old Spotty McSpottyface on the other end of the internet was basking in the glory of being stood amongst us peons like a god. Anyway, this was my first taste of the real game and what I wanted: I wanted a character like Spotty McSpottyface. There and then I grabbed all the quests I could and ventured out, eventually killing Hogger which any WoW vet will know was the hardest boss in the game, often requiring multiple 40 man raids to kill. I eventually solo'd him and that was the end of that. Slowly I made my way through all the world zones in the game, venturing off the beaten path and getting absolutely buttfucked in the process by creatures I had no chance of defeating. I eventually started making a few friends, joined a guild, got some professions, learned how the auction house worked, farmed loads of materials, killed loads of Chinese gold farmers, and became a bit of a vet myself, albeit with Kronenbourg rather than Mountain Spew. I started doing dungeons, one of which I will never forget, it was with Leonvegas, MK_Ul7tra and a few others from our guild at the time. It took us longer to kill the first boss of that dungeon than it took most guilds to clear an entire raid but we did it, and man were we proud. I'm not joking when I say it probably took us two hours to kill a boss that an end game character could kill with one shot. We laughed, we absolutely hosed ourselves but in the end we got there. I eventually inherited a guild called Proud Guardians, and single handedly grew this guild to over 1000 members, some of which I became good friends with. This adventure goes on and on, I'll leave it at this for now but if there's enough interest I'll type out the next one. I genuinely hope we can make a group of folks who want to give it a go as it's genuinely one of the most relaxing, chilled out games around, until you hit the arena. For some arena action, Swifty was always my go to guy, I love this dude. And trust me, Arena is srs bznz. Watch this for a taster: @GazzaGarratt @crispymorgan @Bluebear Someone tag Hamish please. @phil bottle @tronic44 @Sennex

Nothing. I want nothing. Ready for random rolls

I'll be just happy to know I might find something in emgrams other then materials for more emgrams of materials

Need a crimson otherwise in all good

Nameless, Graviton, Crimson, Sins of the Past launcher and Skyburners Oath comes to mind.

I have a red Uriel's Gift, a blue Uriel's Gift, the raid hand cannon, raid rocket launcher, some exotics, and some other crap. The only time I ever take Crimson off is when I need whisper.

Pretty sure I've got all the heirlooms all on my account but I'll be shunning those to enjoy the game with the noobs if I decide to play. It would be really ace if we could get this off the ground, I know @GazzaGarratt would take to it like a duck to water.

LFM naked hogger raid gnomes only pls Via the FG App

Heirloom still work. The base heirloom will only take you so far, but you can buy an augmentation type thing that will let them last longer. Queuing as a tank or healer while leveling is amazing. My priest zips right along whenever I play her.

Expansion come with a boost to lvl 110, so you would only have to do new content.

@Diddums keep sharing. Your writing is engaging and you've basically described the feels I've had getting back into it. My guild wants to recruit more people. Legacy on Blade's Edge. They aren't super hardcore, so if you want to play somewhat casually but still see endgame content they're pretty good. At least half a dozen got to 120 within the first week.

If there’s a group on I’ll always raid. I would really like to try to get 9 people to do EP this week as the shotgun is this week. Plus I know a few people that would still like the Whisper.

I jumped from DAoC to WoW when it launched. There are a ton of good memories, the blood plague when ZG opened up. Battling in world PVP at the Crossroads in the Barrens. Or even out near Tarren Mill! Harvesting random supplies for the battles to open AQ (which no one fucking saw because the servers crashed) Everything in and around Wrath of the Lich King. So much damn fun! I remember my coming home from work when LK came out, my wife decided to not go to work that day, and had been leveling all day, and didn't tell me. My only regret was not switching to a Paladin sooner. It really was the best Tanking class there towards the end, and I stubbornly wanted to make a DK or Warrior work. Cataclysm was okay, but Mists killed the game for me. No part of it did I enjoy. I have no place in my house currently for a gaming PC. The one I do own is actually broken down in a storage bin next to my 2 monitors. So as much as i would like to give this game a go again, it isn't happening sadly.

I cancelled my Blops3 4 pre-order but kept the BF5. I've seen many streamers have fun with the Beta so I'm hopeful it's a solid game. That WW3 game hits early access soon on Steam too...looks so much like BF3/BF4 I'm surprised they're not getting in trouble for it. Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

I played WoW early on when I was younger and banned for power leveling an account. Years later when Mists launches I gave it a try because a rugby buddy asked me to get back into it. With RAF (refer a friend) I managed to level 6 lv.70 characters in that short span. I would like to go back to horde though. Wow has always been solid. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Don’t think losing momentum will be a issue. May be good to take a couple weeks off before Forsaken.

Cool I’m avoiding WOW because ex plays it like it’s going out of style but great to see others enjoying the game as well good on ya @Diddums

Make a calendar event for it. Initiation night or something... I'll give it a bash if we have a few willing FGers on board. Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Pre-orders down 85% on Black Ops 4 alone - although I don't always trust these figures entirely as being precise even though they use tracked retail data and some estimations, it can't be too far off the mark because this game is incredibly low down in the pecking order on sites like Gamestop and Amazon based on ranked sales. If only they did a modern Battlefield or Bad Company 3 they would've dominated the FPS genre this year.

With the upcoming weapon slot changes I recommend holding on to weapons that you normally wouldn't to see how they pan out. I'm looking over my current power weapons and I don't have a good selection. Up until now I've had no use for shotguns other than the Basilisk or Ikelos, snipers other than exotics, or any grenade launchers or fusion rifles (liked them as specials in D1 though) so I usually scrap them immediately. I know we'll get plenty of good weapons but no sense being too limited going into it.

Looks ten times better than BO4 though. (graphics I mean)

That’s a pretty good update Pat and great to hear the family are doing well....now get back on line fella!!

Thanks man. My son graduated University and now is an account at KPMG. Finished in the top 10 students and did out proud My daughter is about to start her bio-chemistry research at health canada/university and is on schedule to graduate My wife is looking at early retirement in the next few months

Hello there Wolowitz. How is Bernadette doing? 😉

Out of this world (sorry couldn't help myself ) It's actually very structure very tedious work. The number of times you have to do the same work is very high. We were response for the "Canadarm" which is on both the shuttle and the space station. I had to redesign the same communication transceiver 5 ways for example, just to get the "most prefered" way. Testing on the "Vomit Comet" (reduced gravity aircraft) and the Natural Buoyancy lab was the best part. Not recommended for those who are prone to motion sickness,

Now that's an intro! New people, watch and learn! 😀

I swear when I die I’ll have them engrave my tombstone with "I fucking hate you all". The rage was too much at some points, like @GazzaGarratt knocking me off the same ramp twice, making me fall off it a total of 4 times...

The price is way too much, there’s not enough to the game to justify that price.

With IB tokens carrying forward it might be worth grinding a bit of banner this time around, to get ahead of the game for first IB in year 2

I just had an friend of a friend drop 2400.00 on the 2080ti, no benchmarks, no anything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk