Thalyssra is an interesting and nuanced character with connections to multiple groups and factions, reasons to have split loyalty, and the political savvy to be a major player in the storyline.
Blizzard’s “writers” can’t handle a character like that, so of course she’s going to be pushed into the corner. Could’ve told you that a year ago.
Can we just pretend that Thalyssra died liberating Suramar and that bizarro non-wrinkly Horde-joining petty doofus Thalyssra doesn’t exist
Honestly? That would have been an impactful and unique resolution to the entire Suramar storyline.
… Ugh.
The Alliance calls dibs on Cool Thalyssra.
I hate Enhancement Shaman.
It’s just storebrand Fury Warrior now.
Maelstrom used to be a unique system that worked kind of like combo points, but was distinctly dissimilar as well. It needed some modern tweaking, but wiping the whole thing out to make yet another rage builder?
Anyway, I know they’re bringing totems back, but I honestly don’t see how Enhancement can ever really be a Shaman spec without another overhaul to make it more than a clone of Warrior.
I liked when Maelstrom modified other abilities, rather than being a “this ability costs Maelstrom” thing. Like if you had some Maelstrom, you could use it to cast a heal instantly. But you could still use the heal without Maelstrom too, it just wouldn’t be instant.
It’s still not super unique, but I think the flavor of ‘your resource MODIFIES your abilities’ would still be something in Enhancement Shamans’ favor over other melee classes. As it stands, yeah - Maelstrom is just Rage Except Blue.
Sad salty crank from Krenk.
After a horrid week, I’ve got some venting to do.
Eight people got fired for sneaking off for a smoke break … and since they didn’t want to be filmed for it and have their pay docked by 15 minutes for the unscheduled break, they went to the one place in the site where the cameras don’t reach.
Behind the LPG tanks. TO SMOKE.
Told them they couldn’t light up there. They had to go to the smoking area for that, so if they just snuffed the cigarettes, I’d let it go because I understood their anger at the contract being torn up this close to christmas, but what they were doing could quite literally kill us all.
Got spat on, so went to get the site manager.
He told me to go wait outside the office, he had some calls to make.
A minute later we’re strolling over so somebody with actual authority can move these people on, because even a casual manager is still considered a filthy casual by the unionized crew. Site manager tells them they’ve got an hour to grab their stuff and get off the site, they’re fired and there is a camera watching the tanks, and he does have all the evidence he needs to make sure their sacking sticks.
Lots of shouting, commentary about our sexual preferences and mothers … over walks the security guard. And some friends. About twenty of them all wearing the same unifrom.
I didn’t think we had that many security guards. At best, we’re supposed to have a gate guard and three other guys patrolling the site.
All eight of the nimrods got hustled off the site and barred, and to add insult to injury, the site manager told me he’s planning on slapping restraining orders on some of them who got a bit mouthy because it will make it even harder for them to get re-employed.
I pointed out that was a bit petty. He pointed out that if the tanks had gone up, we’d likely all be dead and probably have set several kilometers of nearby bush and houses on fire right as large chunks of the country are already burning merrily.
“Stupid choices, stupid prizes. You’ll get a bonus for this in your next pay-check, you’re one of the most on-the-ball managers we’ve had in years. Pity we can’t bring you on full-time.”
Rolled up yesterday for my shift … there’s a gaggle of people all standing and yelling out the front of the site and holding placards that they want their jobs back, I drive past and then something flies past my windscreen. From the thunk as it hits one of the trees on the other side of the entrance, it sounds like a brick or a stone.
Not having this.
I hear the screaming about ‘scabs’ and just floor it to the entrance, security guards tell me to not park in the normal bays, all Night Shift are to park in the enclosed areas now for security and when my team leaves tonight, we have to alert a security guard and they’ll walk us out to the main road.
Apparently a number of folks have been issued trespassing warnings for trying to sneak into the normal staff-parking bays, and two of the former staff-members are in lock-up for breaking and entering because they walked right past security to talk to the site manager and when their pass-codes to get into the office section didn’t work anymore, proceeded to smash the door-lock off to get inside.
All because a bunch of idiots didn’t want to lose 15 minutes of wages so they could have their nicotine fix.
Some of the people who got fired have large families and I’m just sitting here trying to not freak out over the fact, for good reasons or not, I got people with ‘combined’ families from multiple marriages who have a sole, single income fired a week before christmas, a number of whom are now going to be hit with restraining orders for verbal threats that is going to impact their chances of employment in a region already suffering 18-21% unemployment, and I am going to be rewarded for this.
I don’t know what I am supposed to be feeling right now.
For what it’s worth, it sounds like the overwhelming majority of that was out of your hands. You just tried to stop them from doing something very stupid and possibly getting a lot of people (including themselves) killed. The threats were their choice. The decision to fire them was the site manager’s. So was the decision to set a restraining order in motion. You didn’t have any real ability to impact any of that once it was in motion.
It’s easy to feel responsible for being the one who first got things moving, but that doesn’t really sound like it was the case. It’s a garbage situation all around, for sure. But I’d try not to beat yourself up over it.
You’re all good, one way or another screwups will get booted. You’re a good dude, you didn’t try to hit any with your car and stuff. Some people would go berserk at that stuff.
I was once punched in the face over turning the Gas pump off on somebody who decided to smoke while filling his tank.
Those people can all go fornicate a cactus dude.
For what it’s worth, being in a Supervisory/Managerial role means making tough choices. I’ve had to speak to someone about their behavior at my job only for them to go home and commit suicide.
So I get being upset that actions you took have severe consequences to other people. But it’s important to understand that you aren’t responsible for the actions other people take. You just told them to kindly not risk killing everyone by smoking by the gas tanks. Their actions afterward are not your fault.