Thunderfury for life

Basically my guild died and I wanted to finish my Valanyr, so I started hosting some SR runs with fragments reserved. It was a complete disaster: loot drama, people saying that class doesn't need x items, people just alt f4-ing after their item doesnt drop, we were left with 20 people at yogg and couldn't even finish the raid, and it was a normal run. This happened twice.

After this I decided screw it I'm hosting GDKPs, well, everybody sticks in, very easy to replace people in case it happens cause new recruits just get the full cut, and we cleared algalon and almost all hms every time.

So what are we talking about? I think without bots Gdkps would still exist, but instead of selling things at 50k they would sell for 3-5, but this model of raiding is just too efficient.

I thought to myself, "How hard could it be? Surely all those death videos are because people made dumb mistakes. No way I would even come close to dying. noobs." I see loads of level 6-10 dying on the death chart, pft, noobs. Never would be me.

Queue me in elwynn forest. My first ever HC character. I am being sent to kill goldtooth on my warrior. Ha, easy. Plenty of people around, cave is always clear due to others questing.

Me: Running through the cave, all happy with my mace and shield. I come upon a level 13 hunter and a priest killing goldtooth. I get in line. I wait my turn.

This is easy.

My turn. I charge him, mid charge, 2 kobolds spawn near him. Instantly aggro onto me. Oh fuck. Run. I side run, avoiding daze. Making sure I don't attack to prevent keeping them in combat. Panic.

I am 2 hits from death, gold tooth and 1 other de aggro. I'm still running, I feel safe. WHACK. I am 1 hp, I am screaming.

Kobold deaggros right before the next hit. I am practically crying out of fear and terror. My heart is racing. I sit to eat as fast as possible. Spend the next 5 minutes standing in a small alcove staring at my screen, realizing I should have died, trying to process the feelings of absolutely fear.

Still havent seen the 25m HM Hodir staff yet myself

Everyone set your push to talk to left control key.

I get arena isn't the main focus of Blizzard but sniping is out of hand. Also map rng/bugs are out of control.

What I'd like to see:

Invisibility mode on friends lists to prevent sniping.

Que from anywhere in the world.

Ramps on Dal + Blade's Edge

Lorderon window fix

Combat bug fix (anything that gives true combat)

And it is only there to stop RMT. I guess it's not considered RMT if it's bought from them directly instead of bots ? (/s)

https://youtu.be/A98D_FuKZn0?t=36

Thoughts ?

Was anyone watching Mitch's stream just now where he got caught sending gold over to his character to buy a weapon/bags/skills? He got clowned off stream after showing his verification at 99.0% which typically means he had his addon off for some time. He somehow has bags he shouldn't have at his level. The chat literally trolled him into turning off his stream and he doubled down on saying he farmed it off stream lol. Even gaslighted his own viewers, then turned chat to sub mode after turning his stream off.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1830629023?t=1h9m31s

The above video showing the before interaction with his chat and denying has been deleted. lol.

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UPDATE: AFTER THIS POST, NOW HE IS ON STREAM ADMITTING ONE OF HIS MODS TRADED HIM BAGS LMAOOOOO. It's hilarious he lied, got caught, then came back to admit it. Like bruh

https://clips.twitch.tv/RelentlessTacitFennelTheThing-peWkYjxVG_GV9kmj

Allen Iverson: "We talkin about bag space? Bag space? FUCKING BAG SPACE?"

Final update: Mitch's final excuse is "I just didn't know how much bags are worth, I didn't know they cost that much."

Ain't no way you get to level 56 and don't know what bags cost lmao, He is now waiting for Xaryu to hear what he has to say. How the hell do you go deeper into the lie after coming clean.

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context clips: https://clips.twitch.tv/TenaciousBlazingSandstormJKanStyle-DpUhVFcru3lJDClE

https://clips.twitch.tv/SullenPolishedTortoisePunchTrees-SQopB2oRYvwGt4de

Roughly 2 weeks suspension for getting caught and rarely even getting the gold you bought revoked? It was and still is just simply worth it to eat the punishment and take a vacation.

If Blizzard had dished out permanent account bans for buying gold during late classic/early TBC, I have no doubt we would not be where we are today. The demand just would not be there.

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To me the idea of SSF sounds awesome, however the HC part doesn't. Not necessarily the leveling bit of hardcore puts me off, but dying at 60 in the middle of a raid and losing literally everything just sounds awful to me.

So I guess what I'm kinda looking for would be the OSRS type of regular ironman. No trading, no mailbox, no gold buying, no gdkps. Even at 60. I think I personally wouldn't be opposed to personal loot in this kind of mode either, but this wouldn't be a requirement for me.

Do you guys think people would play an official version of softcore SSF?

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/edit

Just to clarify I don't mean SSF as in PoE SSF, you'd still group for content, just without trading.

So you'd still interact with people during group quests, dungeons, raids and open world PvP.

Just the title basically,

I want to play Classic era but not hardcore, in NA which server should I go on?