Theorycrafted: Spellslingers / Spellbreakers

    In a time long long ago, or if you are playing Classic World of Warcraft not so long ago... in fact right now. Mages and Priest both shared a talent called Wand Specialization. Now in retail, wands are gone as far as I know. The Spellslinger is a spec design for the Mage based on wand based builds from other games such as Path of Exile and Dungeon and Dragons. The idea turns the mage into a Magical auto attack class. Now this said it could work with Crossbows and maybe bows if wands are not wanted to be added back to the game. This would give them another purpose instead of just being like all loot which is hunter loot.

    The idea of the class for me falls into having a magical based hunter really. Embedding your shots with elemental or arcane magic, using blink to reposition quickly. This said it could very well be a proper Hunter Spec as well. 

    In that case I bring in the idea of the Spellbreaker as being another option for Mages. A tanking spec for mages. We already have lore about them in the game and while they do not have a ton of abilities from warcraft 3 it is easy to look at other units inside of World of Warcraft for inspiration. Looking at the Silvermoon Spellbreaker from Isle of Thunder shows them wearing what appears to be cloth armor and wielding a shield. Using a sword, but could also wield a glaive similar to Demon Hunters. 

    We also have some ideas from the World of Warcraft RPG which is non-canon, but still leads to some ideas of the spec. So many interesting ideas could come from this.

    Thank you for reading, tomorrow lets jump into bed with another spec idea that would love to beat people up with a shield. Until than, stay classy while letting me know what you think of my madness.

Theorycrafted: WoW: Necromancers

       So in yesterdays post, I talked about my thoughts on turning Unholy Death Knights into a necromancer like spec. Focusing on spellcasting, but than using big damaging melee moves. 
    Today we talk about another idea that could bring Necromancers into World of Warcraft. This is a bigger idea I have for what I would do for a World of Warcraft expansion. Instead of adding new classes add new specs to existing classes. With the talent trees being as bland as they are it would be an easy enough option. So lets talk about how I would design a new Priest spec Necromancy. Priest, would be the perfect place to stick Necromancers. Now you might wonder why I say Priest would be, but started with the DK yesterday? Thematically DK already has the kit for it. Priest on the other hand is already a cloth based caster. 

    The biggest question for me is How would this work. Well this would work wonders coming out of Shadowlands thematically speaking. As far as the design, I would take a similar route as the design I talked about yesterday with the Death Knight. You have your damaging spells Shadow Word: Pain ect ect. But you gain access to new spells that interact with your undead minions that you summon. This is not your you have a pet design. All of your minions are limited in time. Perhaps there is a limit to how many of a type of minion you can raise. If there is a corpse nearby your cooldown for your raise skeleton ability resets instantly. Giving you the ability to bring more minions in quicker. My thoughts are better mechanics of the Nightborn withered w/e they were called. A single skeleton isn't going to do a ton of damage, but a horde of them. Well, I think you get the idea. You would have abilities that interact with them. Combine 5 skeletons to form a skeleton beserker. Sacrifice a skeleton to gain a bone shield to an ally or yourself. You could even go as far as becoming a Lich like character. There are tons of possibilities. Tomorrow lets keep going with the idea of additional specs for classes by talking about a long dead talent point that both priests and another class use to share. Let me know your thoughts and as always, stay classy.

Theorycrafted: Unholy Death Knights

    Back in Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft gained access to Death Knights boy was that a time. But this blog is not about that time, it is about Unholy Death Knights (UDK)

    One important unit from Warcraft 3 has evaded the World of Warcraft the Necromancer. UDKs have the theme of a Necromancer, but lack the playstyle of something like a necromancer. Sure there is Demon Warlock, but different matter. Back when DKs were released I felt sadness because the way DKs in general felt and than UDKs felt, I knew we would never get Necromancers (Though I have this and another idea for a later post).What I felt should have been done was UDKs wear spell power plate and be primarily spellcasters. This at the time would have addressed there only being 1 spec that needed spell power plate. 

    Now looking back on this it could have worked well. However inspired by Final Fantasy XIV's Red Mage I think something could be done even more fitting. For those who do not know what the Red Mage is, it is a ranged spellcasters that builds up a resource (Mana) and than charges in uses melee abilities and than leaps back out of harms way to keep casting spells. 

    My idea for what I would do with Unholy would follow a twist to this. We would work in reverse you would have a few cast time spells that you can use, but are empowered by a resource that you gain from using your melee based spells. We have so many of the components of the Necromancer various raise dead spells, Unholy Frenzy, and we lack cripple, but chains of ice works similarly.
    Honestly I would love just the playstyle of the Red Mage. I could see using spells casted using your runes building up runic power which than you unleash powerful melee attacks. Your spells would be more based on summoning and controlling skeletons and ghouls giving you that necromancer swarming feel and casting plagues. 
    Perhaps the UDK is fine as it is. There is always the second option for having a necromancer. What is it stay tuned and let me know what your thoughts are.

180 Day Challenge : Day 1

Today started off well. I woke up at 5:30 am.

• Meditation: 10 minutes. Meditation is strange to me. I tried looking up "How to Meditate" thing said not to make your self breath, which caused me to take over that function :S idk Will try again tomorrow. 
• Stretching: 10 minutes. Lifting 10 minutes. This goal went well, except the person who's video I planned to do this two did not come out today like normal. So had to find alternatives. 
• Morning Walk: Canceled. Did not feel I had enough time to accomplish main goals due to earlier work time. Work Walking: 
• Be Creative: Spent 60 mins working on my Pathfinder 2e setting. I came up with basic ideas for the races I needed to add and fixed up my excel sheet to make the process better.
• Cleaning: Not Today.
• Read Dictionary: Ubity means a place or location, Limpid means transparent, Nacromancy is the divination through sleep, Facture is something someone crafts, Hitherside is side closes to something, Nithing is an insult that means coward. Varsal means whole. 
• Main Goal: The goal for the day was in Unity and it was  to learn about working on applying health to my enemies in my tower defense game and damage my towers can do. Also losing lives if enemies got through and even adding rewards for killing baddies.
• Bed Time: Midnight. Twas a rough one. Woke up around 3am had to use the bathroom and it was ungodly chilly. Fell back asleep after awhile. Had a dream that all my old school mates play random celebrities were all part of a massive meat processing plant. There was also some sort of training going on for like ultimate warrior or something. It was crazy. 

Phalcon’s 180ish Day Challenge

Sunday, October 13 2019

Today I will be starting my own personal 180 Day Challenge.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12WO7daoTZHe9DQgZpMh2B2TwfHRyZQuDo7N-Vl-aH4I/edit
To save room here is the link with my goals. I will be doing daily blogs here on my progress and weekly recaps on my DK 30 Projects thing.

Weekly Recap location:  https://dk30.day9.tv/projects/103596112811663360-1570933399484

To Tip or Not to Tip.

   Remember when in America you tipped people because they gave you good service, not because it was part of their lively hood. Most people won't be old enough to remember that (honestly I don't know when the idea of tip wage was invented).
  Why are we talking about tipping. Because it is something that I personally am involved in. In two sense of it infact. I tip when I can afford it, and I sometimes receive tips. It is about a .05% chance that I ever get a tip, but sometimes do. Maybe you can call me greedy, but it is way to often that I or any of my coworkers receive tips. Some asshat who came up with tip wage really screwed up everyone's view on tipping. It actually is funny because I can throw out a World of Warcraft reference that involves this. I am sure this happens today, but it was quite often that when you would get someone to craft items for you, they would tell you they  needed the materials and then they required a Tip. But that is not what a tip is. They were misusing tip for a service fee. Much like we do at places who use tip wage. You are not tipping them for their good service, you are paying a hidden service fee that you do not required to pay, but you are. Because if you don't pay it that person may not make enough money to survive. Oh and don't think that the fact that they employers are suppose to pay up to minimum wage if the employee doesn't get enough in tips. Cause I have talked to many workers who have been strong armed or feel intimidated by the companies they work for to demand they be paid properly. Lets be honest a lot of kids get into these situations. Also 18 states / provinces in the US still pay tip wage of 2.13. This has been the tip wage since 1991.
   Opps I did it again. I went off on a tangent. The thing is people should be tipping more often for more things. You should tip even a dollar for someone who gives you good service. May pops is a good example of this. I won't say all the time, because I don't pay attention that much, but he tips the people at HEB for ringing up our monthly foodz and the bagger as well. I am not saying you should tip everyone all the time; that is silly, but if you go somewhere and someone offers you a service, say you come into DQ and we are busy. Consider tipping (also make sure to say tip the cook if you got food. because chances are that will greatly improve their day *cough*). I will admit we some times get so slammed that what I get paid does not feel worth the amount of work I am doing and when a cashier slips money to me, it makes it feel worth it.
   I will admit that this is perhaps my own greed, but we had a guy who was given a 20 dollar tip for walking a bag of food out to a car. Maybe I am a dick for being annoyed by this, but I spend 10 minutes sweating to death in our terribly constructed kitchen and he spent less then 30 seconds to walk an order out and he got a tip like that. Note a DQ we all make the same wage, well similar wages. Okay this is devolving. Time to wrap up. To tip or not to tip. If you can tip, it will greatly improve someones day and make them feel worth more then their companies have pegged them as being worth.
 

I met an interesting girl

No, this is not the kinda post you are thinking. That would be creepy considering. The day of posting this it is Sam Cleveland's birthday So April 2nd. I was introduced to an 11 girl. I am not going to butcher her name as I am bad at spelling things.
   So, this girl comes up to me and asks if I play D&D. I was dumb founded we started talking about a whole list of random things. Chances are if I every show up dead, she did it. She told me about her desire to get into CIS type work, asked me if I knew the best poison to murder people with, told me she is pale because she has parcel that she walks around with, loves D&D, listens to 70s and 80s music and wants to dress like a 50's wife when she gets older. Totally weird girl, and the whole time I was thinking to myself, if I had a daughter her age, she would almost fit the bill of what I would want. Perhaps without the creepy murder hobo side, and eh.... idk about that music. She really reminded me of Abby from NCIS. I don't normally like kids, but she made me wish I had had a daughter. Why am I posting about this at midnight. I have no clue. Idk. Also again, if I ever go missing, she most likely did it.