World of Warcraft - [Firepower Fridays] Your weekly DPS thread

[Firepower Fridays] Your weekly DPS thread
WoW PVP changes from the Warcraft Twitch chat
You called my nation a *what* hole?
This dude went too far to have a good time
How To Priest plagiarized a Discipline Priest stats spreadsheet (originally created by Joshpriest of Method) and incorrectly credits one of their own for my work.
My favorite Frost DK weapon transmog turns Howling Blast into an attack where you throw your drink into the enemy's face
Khadgar Solo Felhounds of Sargeras (What...?)
[art] Benched!
I think the walls of the Engineering building in Ratchet are in need of an update
Never forget Runas. We miss you, friend.
Why does Illidan stand there as my guild continuously wipes on Coven?
[Spoiler] The REAL lore of BfA (that Blizzard doesn't want you to know)
Funny things happen when you're leveling a character and you haven't gotten a new pair of boots since MoP...
Very observant of you, Alard... *cough*
World of Warcraft Esports: 2018 Plans Revealed
The burning legion is invading Norway
I refused to give this person loot I got from the Blight Boar Concert, this was their response
Zandalari are too short
TIL enchants mostly cover grip on main hand and the whole glaive on off hand.
My new World of Wacraft tattoo of the Kirin Tor
Lordaeron Throne room entrance render1 from warcraft 3 cinematic "Arthas betrayal"
This has bugged me for ages. I'd ask people "Did you ever see the face in The Barrens Map?" They called me crazy.
When you've played a warrior for a long time, switching to another class can be tough..
I forget how big this world is, and When you go back to places you haven't been to in years. it always brings me back to simpler times.
I guess even the alliance NPC's thought Sylvanas BfA appearance was badass

[Firepower Fridays] Your weekly DPS thread

Posted: 11 Jan 2018 08:10 PM PST

Please post any offers to help, questions, and logs in the appropriate class spot.

General DPS Questions

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WoW PVP changes from the Warcraft Twitch chat

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 10:37 AM PST

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You called my nation a *what* hole?

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 08:55 AM PST

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This dude went too far to have a good time

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 05:53 AM PST

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How To Priest plagiarized a Discipline Priest stats spreadsheet (originally created by Joshpriest of Method) and incorrectly credits one of their own for my work.

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 03:13 PM PST

Hello everyone.

Recently, How To Priest, a website that collects donations in order to run as a hub for information about the Priest class, published a spreadsheet to get stat weights for Discipline Priests. At the bottom, the spreadsheet credits Hellpriesto and Djriff, H2P staff members, for this spreadsheet. Specifically, it gives "special thanks" to Djriff for his "calculations" and links to a labyrinth of a spreadsheet. Picture for reference

However, neither Hellpriesto or Djriff came up with any of these calculations. They have made minor improvements to the spreadsheet that I maintain that was originally created by Joshpriest of Method back in 7.1 and taken over for maintenance and minor improvements by me in 7.3.2.

The sum total of changes made by H2P include adjusting a number I added (a "haste target" in the haste calculation which fudges the numbers to trend towards that percentage) by simply changing it to a variable that can be entered, and including Versatility in the formula (which simply pulls off the highest of the other stats and neither Joshpriest or I bothered to include Versatility).

Look at Leech, which uses a strange number of 460 in its formula. This is odd because Leech is 230 rating for 1% leech, not 460. I, however, changed it to 460 in my sheet manually to fudge a rough approximation that 1% leech = 0.5% extra HPS. This number was simply copied from my sheet even though it's not even remotely "calculated."

The final damning piece of evidence is that the sheet that is linked to that was originally made by Djriff didn't actually even have the Versatility portion added, but only takes the highest value of Crit or Mastery, just like Joshpriest's sheet originally did. You'll find the same 460 number in Djriff's Leech stat too.

Comparison formula from the original sheet

TL;DR H2P blatantly copied arbitrary numbers that aren't even calculations, but were used by a sheet that was not under H2P branding, then claimed they were part of a H2P branded work. They link to this on their website and discord where they ask for donations supposedly to support "their" work.

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My favorite Frost DK weapon transmog turns Howling Blast into an attack where you throw your drink into the enemy's face

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 12:41 AM PST

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Khadgar Solo Felhounds of Sargeras (What...?)

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 09:10 AM PST

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[art] Benched!

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 02:06 PM PST

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I think the walls of the Engineering building in Ratchet are in need of an update

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 06:52 AM PST

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Never forget Runas. We miss you, friend.

Posted: 11 Jan 2018 06:17 PM PST

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Why does Illidan stand there as my guild continuously wipes on Coven?

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 11:42 AM PST

Like... dude... help. Throw an eye beam this way every now and then. Distract them. Throw a glaive or something. Stop standing there.

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[Spoiler] The REAL lore of BfA (that Blizzard doesn't want you to know)

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 12:00 PM PST

Now this could be the sleep deprivation talking, but I feel like I've finally figured out why the current story of WoW just hasn't seemed right recently.

Because none if it is real.

That is - nothing after we enter the Emerald Nightmare is real. Let me explain (and bear with me, this will be long).

As we all know, this expansion has been heavily themed around fighting the legion. It is of course also well known that the legion has tried to attack Azeroth several times before and indeed multiple attempts have been made to bring Sargeras onto Azeroth, none of which have succeeded. Indeed, with how easily we've seemed to be able to thwart Sargeras (potentially the most powerful being in the universe) in the past, his might and knowledge seem underwhelming to say the least.

The beginning of this expansion had an assault that felt far more serious than previous times, with both the horde and alliance losing their faction leaders - yet there was still no sign of Sargeras, despite this being an "all out assault".

"Where are you going with this?", you might ask. There is a distinct reason why this invasion was so much more serious than the others - in the leveling zones of legion, we face many dire threats, from ~~Skovald~~ GOD KING SKOVALD to that geriatric echidna that stuns people for 30 seconds every time you threaten to take his hammer. One stands far above the rest though - Xavius. Or should I say; the true leader of the burning legion.

"Are you retarded? We steamrolled Xavius." I hear you say with one eyebrow raised. Yes, that's what Xavius wants us to believe. Let us examine the narrative:

*Valsharah:

Xavius walks in and with one feel swoop makes an entire zone his bitch. Nowhere have we seen any lord or commander of the burning legion bring about such wanton carnage and destruction with an entire army, let alone on his own. He goes on to slap Malfurions shit as if it's childs play, and then just for the lols he decides to pull a chicken nugget out of his ass and toss it towards Ysera to see if she'd actually eat it. Not only does she do so, but she finds these Xavi-ass nuggets so irresistible that she turns on her own allies in the hopes of receiving another. This is the sort of manipulative power that Kil'jaeden has wet dreams about, yet we're supposed to believe it's held by some lowly satyr? The biggest thing to take away though is that through all this Xavius doesn't kill Malfurion when he easily could. He uses him to bait us

But why does he need to bait us? Are we immune to the temptation of these Godly nuggets? Potentially, but the real reason is that Xavius needs to sell us the lie.

*The dungeon and raid Xavius lets us believe we've made progress by rescuing Malfurion in Darkheart Thicket, but we know that we've only defeated Xavius' shadow and must now venture into the Emerald Nightmare. We go through a rigorous process of defeating the corrupted nightmare before finally facing the real Xavius in order to cleanse the dream, where we save the day like always! Hooray!

But wait a second - prior to this we defeated the shadow of Xavius, which had single handedly destroyed all of Valsharah, mind controlled a dragon aspect and beaten the crap out of one of the strongest druids the world has ever known. Yet Malfurion claims that THIS shadow had no power in the real world, only in the nightmare. How could this be? And if that's not enough, the shadow of Xavius is clearly a 3 dimensional being - Meaning that the real Xavius is not only MUCH more powerful, but he is a 4 dimensional being since he casts a 3d shadow.

Mind blown, right? "But what about the rest of the expansion? How can this fit into any of that?", I hear you asking. Good question. The only feasible explanation I can come up with as to why Xavius baited us into the nightmare and then pretended to let us win was to actually trap us there, where he can now use us as batteries for the Legion, "The Matrix" style, so everything else we see now in the expansion is simply a nice dream - and if you think about it, there are sufficient "glitches in the matrix" to explain it.

Glitch #1: Gul'dan is here again from some alternate timeline/universe/whatever, despite the fact that Illidan (who died but not really and is bad but really good) has already absorbed his skull (which you have as an item in your bank) and you can't ask Yrel for help from this timeline for whatever reason.

Glitch #2: Everyone suddenly discovers that they have spaceships and laser beams that they couldn't use before, essentially turning a traditional d&d style mmo into Star Wars™ lite.

Glitch #3: The antorus storyline makes no Goddamn sense. Everything from the Pantheon, to Elunaria, to the visual bug where all melee classes appear as Affliction Warlocks on Coven of Shivarra, to Sargeras (who'd never even been near Azeroth before) roleplaying as a cloud during foreplay with his new, thicc planetary love.

Why did that need to happen? Well if we're to be at peace and resting so that Xavius can harvest our organs properly, we have to believe that the main threat has been dealt with (in this case, Sargeras). However I believe that with the available evidence, Khadgar is going to go to Kharazan so that he can talk to Medivh (Morpheus) and unplug himself from the matrix so he can reveal the illusion of Xavius' half-assed storytelling to our characters, and then the REAL battle for Azeroth (against Xavius and his droids) can begin.

I look forward to seeing all of you back on the REAL Azeroth! :)

TLDR: Xavius is basically a God that's just using us as living batteries, in a style not unlike that of the movie "The Matrix". The rest of the expansion thus far has simply been a shitty simulation he's given to us in order to keep us dreaming and the battle for Azeroth expansion will be the player characters fighting to regain control over the real world against Xavius and his droid-army.

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Funny things happen when you're leveling a character and you haven't gotten a new pair of boots since MoP...

Posted: 12 Jan 2018 08:35 AM PST