Datamining used to make me super nervous because I was terrified people would lose their minds making assumptions based on incomplete info. Now I kinda just say "fuck it let's ball" and just watch the speculation train choo choo down the tracks. It helps that I am giga hyped about what's coming. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

aggrend.bsky.social • 155 days ago

Datamining used to make me super nervous because I was terrified people would lose their minds making assumptions based on incomplete info. Now I kinda just say "fuck it let's ball" and just watch the speculation train choo choo down the tracks.

It helps that I am giga hyped about what's coming.

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marlam.in•155 days ago

Wrote a huge thread but ain't nobody reading that, so tldr I'd say the hype vs. datamining balance is in a pretty good place. As long as dataminers provide as much context as possible when posting things and respect the mostly unwritten boundaries/hints as to what not to post, it'll stay that way.

ghst.tools•155 days ago

The dataminer's code is one that benefits us all. We should get it inscribed on a stone tablet somewhere.

marlam.in•155 days ago

No chance everyone will agree to the same thing and each individual will just decide to make their own stone instead (which will say mostly the same, yet be slightly different).

emilianoggs.bsky.social•155 days ago

Something something unifying standard

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marlam.in•155 days ago

Truly a timeless classic

ghst.tools•155 days ago

Much like Python has The Zen of Python, datamining just needs its own Zen of Datamining. Surely everyone will agree with it 😉

alexdarwiche.bsky.social•153 days ago

@aggrend.bsky.social after seeing the Naxx PTR today, was curious if we should kinda expect multiple difficulties going forward in the sod raids? Is that a design strategy the team has decided is better than a single raid difficulty?

alexdarwiche.bsky.social•154 days ago

Honestly, we tried to not look into stuff early…but it’s a ton of fun to see what’s coming.

itsidd.bsky.social•154 days ago

As a resto druid main since p1 I am tentatively nervous 🙏 can't wait to see more of what yall are cooking

elainewasd.bsky.social•154 days ago

You should be rerolling, tbh. They're not going to make the T3 any better like they never made the other two tiers, that were behind the other healing classes in terms of set bonuses, any better.

It'll be a Mage/Priest Tier with Restokin and hybrid Shaman off healer meta.

itsidd.bsky.social•154 days ago

Too committed tbh, warlord rank, exalted with tons of factions, scarab lorded

If anything I'll just go boomkin/restokin with the shoulder enchant.

elainewasd.bsky.social•154 days ago

I'm in the same boat, and it's the only option if you're in a guild that likes to parse. Which isn't so bad because DPSing is fun, but I would like to healer on my healer... (mainly because Healing parses don't matter as much so I don't have to sweat like my DPS friends going for 99s and 100s lol)

lythi.bsky.social•155 days ago

Do you sprinkle in some hidden, irrelevant pieces here and there, just to watch chats go up in flames? :D

aggrend.bsky.social•155 days ago

Perhaps.
https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item=226421/placeholder-ashbringer-questitem-01

michaelloda.bsky.social•155 days ago

lythi.bsky.social•155 days ago

Marvelous

krunkdunksman.bsky.social•145 days ago

Dude I'm hyped too. You and the team have made more than worthy additions to classic, and everything is genuinely so great. I like how dungeons and old raid content is relevant, and I love the neat little stories you are hiding in. I cannot wait for the conclusion of the echoing orbs story!

aggrend.bsky.social•145 days ago

Appreciate that! As for the echoing orb stuff, It’s been concluded (for now, at least) with the paladin BWL epic weapon. Don’t want to spoil it but there’s a pretty firm conclusion there.

alphasmoke1.bsky.social•155 days ago

are we gonna be able to keep our anniversary characters in tbc and wotlk era? alot of players on the fourms are wondering everyday.

mikewhitemusic.bsky.social•153 days ago

People are just crazy ready to doom and grave dance that it’s not worth putting up with their shit. SOD has proven that the vocal minority and never happy, so fuck em!

twocoopers.bsky.social•154 days ago

A lot of Resto Shaman were hoping Healing Rain would get buffs from the Naxx set bonuses, which it doesn't seem like from the datamine. What's the design reasoning around supporting Overload instead of Healing Rain for most of SoD? It would be fun to get more set bonuses that work with healing runes

sawyermblack.bsky.social•144 days ago

Then you discovered that people will lose their minds no matter what and that the reason hardly matters, unless it's moral/ethical.