DamirH

The instance discussions were pointless since when the server resets, all instances will.... reset!

Brag with level 45? Stay salty. I made the thread to see if anyone else ran into this issue and how they handled it. Thanks but I am sceptical about doing this since that just delays the issue - I'll run into the same issue at 55 if I keep borrowing quests from that range. I think I'll just run a few dozen ZF / Uldaman runs.

I've hit a major questing slump now that I've reached level 45. I've done the first round of quests in Tanaris, Feralas and the Hinterlands, done all ZF and Uldaman quests and everything that opened up now in Searing Gorge and the previous 3 zones is 48-50. Is it just me or is this level range seriously stretching it this thin?

You're calculating DPM, which is good for efficiency, but it has nothing to do with DPS. Check how much damage r4 does compared to r5, then divide with the cast time to get the DPS difference. I sincerely doubt a lower rank is better in terms of DPS.

Statistically, that's 1 in 300 spells critting. There is no fight in the game that has you fire 300 spells. It may as well be 0.

Human / Gnome is a completely trivial difference (< 0.5% crit) so I'd go for Human for the rep bonus.

AM does 9% higher base damage, but with the 6% damage from the frost tree, that is reduced to 3%, which is then outweighed by the increase crit damage % in frost. This is then outweighed even more by Winter's Chill which you will have in a raid as Frost, either from yourself or some other mage. It's simple math. Besides, it's not like this game started yesterday, this is 12 year old content. Do you really think people haven't tried this out yet hundreds, if not thousands of times? Frost for MC / BWL, fire for AQ / Naxx.

A 0.33% crit increase chance falls within the margin of error... At best it's 1 extra crit, which won't even make a dent in any statistical analysis. But I assume if you people want to be pedantic, the correct term would be that Humans and Gnomes are same within a margin of error. In any real world situation there would be absolutely no difference between the two, all else being equal.

Works fine now with the Google Authenticator app.

(Sorry for the double post, not sure how to edit a quote into a post) I am not defending gold buyers, I am just stating the fact that it's just human nature and that everyone who fought against that lost (see: any form of DRM or anti-piracy). Even if I were to concede that gold sellers don't come from China, virtually every single mediator I know does. All I am arguing is that the farmers and sellers are not being punished at all right now, when in my opinion, the blame lies with them, not the buyers.

Let me use a different allegory: If I give you a bowl of skittles and tell you that 1% of the skittles are poisonous and will systematically destroy your organism, will you do all in your power to find out which ones are poisonous or will you just throw away the bowl of skittles? But fine, you claim (still without any proof) that the majority of actual gold sellers are east European... the Chinese websites are still the mediators. They are the ones that enable those people to have a profit and make the farming worthwhile. As I discussed above, gold buyers are NOT the real problem, you people are just looking for a witch hunt. Taking the easy way is human nature, you can't punish people for human nature. Going back to the drug dealer comparison, most of humanity agrees that it's the dealers who should be behind bars, not the drug addicts (of course the opposite is true for prostitution, where the consumer is also punished but eh, we humans are good at double standards). You say that while there are buyers there will be sellers. But you forget that there couldn't have been a first buyer without a first seller. People will always go for convenience, and buying gold is convenient. We simply disagree on who should be punished in this case, the provider, the mediator or the consumer. The fact of the matter is simply that the last one, in my opinion the most blameless party, is being punished the hardest right now.

So you're saying the drug dealer isn't responsible for the drugs he sells just because he has his lackeys do the transactions and because he's importing it from overseas? Nice assumption there, I a) don't know who Yuri bezmenov is and b) never even mention DDoS. The fact of the matter is that you are defending the mediator of these transactions as I've said above at the expense of the VAST MAJORITY of the legit player base. At the end of the day, the most innocent party here are the gold buyers and they get punished most rigorously. Give someone an easy option to do something and they will do it. In retail WoW you can still look for a party in /2 and walk to a dungeon but no one does that because the LFG tool is readily and conveniently available. You are punishing people for their human nature, instead of punishing the enablers and exploiters of that human nature. And lastly, what does "converging the PC and useful idiots" sentence even mean? It doesn't invalidate a single point made by it, you ARE a useful idiot to them.

Gold buyers are already banned with extreme prejudice, catching many legit players in the cross-fire. The difference between banning a gold buyer and a gold seller is that the latter loses nothing .They just make a new account and go on their merry way. Banning individual accounts of them is ineffective. This PC tolerance only hurts the legit player base, no one else. These people you defend just laugh at you and call you useful idiots. Also, I have yet to see proof that most gold sellers aren't Chinese.

Yesterday's hack, regardless how morally questionable it was, showed thousands upon thousands of transactions to Chinese gold selling websites. Are you claiming that those are the minority of gold transactions? Every shred of evidence points toward one thing and you claim another. Thus, I'll have to see some proof of your 60% figure.

So based on the number of gold sellers there are, extrapolating that to how many legit Chinese players are on the server... you mean to tell me I'm the only non-Chinese person online at the time?