The more pixels on screen the more processing power it takes. Same if they were utilizing multiple screens.
People with 4k monitors need 2080 & 3080s so that they can run the game as a 1080 would on similar settings. It looks better because of more pixels.
Though 3080s are made with inferior-grade material. Don’t buy them.
Yeah I bought a whole new computer with a 2080 Super in it for the same price as one of the brand new cards and I just… I’m so happy with it and I don’t understand what the fuss is, but then again I’m also one of those people who gets weirded out by super ultra HD and thinks everything looks worse by looking so much better. Thank you, crappy eyes.
I get that you’d want the more powerful cards for 4K gameplay, but most people I know that are heavily invested into first-day purchases don’t even game in 4K. They mostly use 1080p-1440p. I personally gravitate towards the later.
Makes sense to use more powerful cards for 4K gaming. Personally, the difference isn’t worth rushing to buy expensive cards for me when I can just wait a year and get them much cheaper.
I’ve been enjoying stalking people on my new Lawful Evil rogue entirely too much for anyone’s sake, and am now ultra-ultra paranoid that whenever I roleplay there’s a little bastard waiting nearby taking blackmail notes too.
I confess that for my novel I shamelessly wrote in foreshadowing of a possible scenario for a giant monster fight using the lore for the two species of dragons, the face the ‘top’ of each species is far larger than the rest and they both have an ancient hatred for each other.
I like to pretend that any passive healing and regeneration effects on my trolls are just part of their racial ability.
Imagine being a race who cant regenerate in WoW. Part of me thinks it might result in one of their sacred trees bursting into flames.
So when is Rastakhan going to regenerate ?
It’s impossible to regenerate from bad writing, just ask Vol’jin.
The same time that the Belves get that justice they claim they will have.
You don’t even need to necessarily stealth. Just obscure yourself with a wall or a tree. It’s amazing how much people just, don’t swing their camera around.
my confession is that im sick of the “cosmic-chartification” and “moral-relativisiming” of the warcraft setting
when that damn cosmic chart (you know the one) came out it was a neat little distraction and a fun little piece of visuals to see “wowie zowie, look at azeroth and the powers around it. ain’t that cool?” but ever since then we’ve been descending into a damn nightmare world where literally EVERYTHING is connected to one of the six main “powers”. this goes hand in hand with the, IMO, dumbing down of the setting whereby all of the cosmic powers are made the same shade of “morally grey” thus robbing them of their past histories and also robbing them of any differences beyond the magic colour.
let me give you an explanation of what i mean with an example:
an example is basically all the annoying and quite frankly reductionist new lore on the light. basically painting the light as yellow fel, which is especially galling cconsidering 8.3 made the void purple fel. everything is now a corruptive force, where if you get too much of it you become all magic and your body changes and you get a big glowy effect and also now you serve the cosmic power and want to paint the entire universe your brand of paint. so, what’s the difference between the cosmic powers, now? what’s the difference between fel and void and light?
nothing, apparently. they all turn you into a new colour and make you angery at anyone who doesn’t eat your preferred colour of M&M. the only difference is aesthetics. fel sets you on fire, void makes you rant like a particularly dedicated HP lovecraft fan, and light makes you talk about truth, justice, and the american way. this is A) boring, because there’s no difference between these things beyond aesthetics, and B) goes in the face of old lore. the light is not comparable, has never been comparable, to the fel, which should not be comparable to the void. the light has, consistently, been portrayed as a just and good force - it has consistently stood against the other forces that seek to do horrible things. to continue comparing to the fel and void, the fel makes you want to burn children alive and eat their souls, and powered the greatest material threat to the multiverse in millennia, whereas the light assisted contiuously in warding sentient and sapient life from it, healing and aiding people - whereas the void makes you turn into a gibbering flesh-monster. but there’s no difference???
but, no, light just as bad as fel and void, right? all the heroes who used to use it were shmucks who were getting tricked into serving Yellow Void and now are actually the bad guys. what? why? what’s the POINT? what’s the message? is it to make wow a grimdark grimgrowl grimdoom setting where the world of azeroth is against everything and it all sucks and it’s garbo and everything’s terribly awful all the time? is it to setup future villains? what happens when we’re done with the light? are we gonna get World of Wacraft: the Arcane Order, where the titular Arcane Order seeks to paint azeroth blue because they’re corrupted by the arcane?
but the arcane’s helped us in the past!!! yeah, it’s got some weird effects, sure, but it’s never been an active force against us? are mages the bad guys? did it turn out mages were just idiots for ever using the arcane? is every single damn class gonna become warlocks, DHs, and DKs, where they have to “use the dark forces of the cosmos in defense of azeroth”??? is THAT IT?! is that your endgame, BLUE COMPANY?!?!?!
look, basically, i’m angery and i think the lore is bad. more at 11.
Its all a side effect of Blizzard trying to one up every threat every expansion. Heck, every content patch. They’ve basically run out of villains form WC 1-3 to threaten the world with, even recycled several of them, and because they didn’t bother setting up new villains properly in earlier expansions we’re stuck with this.
I don’t agree with all of his takes but I feel like Yahtzee captured it very well in the Zero Punctuation regarding Cataclysm: Where do you go after “About to destroy the entire world - destroy the entire world and kick someone’s dog?”
Not necessarily evil but super paranoid and secluded and cautious to the point of being dangerous.
THEN he went mondo evil.
I had a moment relatively early getting into RP during MoP drought where I came to the forums to try and get a loose understanding of what the limitations and specifications of magic, specifically The Light, were.
And everything was basically over on the spot when within a few responses I had to experience the reality that there just… aren’t any. It sorta slapped off one of the last nostalgia goggles I had left.
I appreciate what people can do with that kind of freedom in their RP and such but it was one of the coffin nails as far as my interest in the setting.
TL:DR, Malygos was already mentally unstable after witnessing Deathwing/Neltharion, who was his best friend at the time, wipe out almost all of the Blue Dragon Flight, using a relic that Malygos had argued that the rest of the Flights should help empower.
Spent 10,000 years trying to piece himself back together.
Then Kale-ek-goose’s Dragon-Fiance-But-Its-Not-Reciprocated decides to bring a specific Flight of Nether Dragons to Azeroth because they’re dying from a lack of magic and thinks the Nexus, being a powerful font of Azeroth’s native arcane energies will sustain them.
Except Malygos is insane by this point and assumes that the Nether Dragons are phantoms of his mind and, as they’re phasing in and out of reality due to both their (un)natural abilities and the fact their bodies are literally dispersing into energy without a power source to sustain themselves, the Aspect of Magic decides to literally absorb the Nether Dragons into his being.
Old God corruption and all.
Aaaaaaand cue the Mage Wars …
Solution: Don’t play an OC that has anything to do with any form of magic.
This idiot can and will shoot you while screaming “FIREBALL” as if he’s casting a spell like some sort of LARPing wizard. Also it saves the headache of trying to work with any sort of mystical power within lore because that’s a headache.
…wait, what? When did this happen? …probably in one of the books, huh?
I dislike expanding into the multiverse or whatever vibes we’re dropping. I feel like Azeroth is home, and most of what we do should be centered there, and there’s a lot of untapped plotlines we could still resolve. Going into the Shadowlands and whatever other realms might lie beyond is… Jumping the shark.
I actually like the villanizing of the Light. The concept of cosmic forces with their own agenda is cool to me. My larger issue is that they’ve left a lot of questions unanswered about the implications of that.
For example, my biggest gripe is the “Light v. Void” battle. If the Light has an evil side, and the Void is its counter, why does the Void not have good sides? Why does it just seem to drive people insane and destroy worlds? The Light has vaguely “Deus Vult” intentions, but that’s nowhere near the magnitude of this:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/e/e5/Star_Augur_Etraeus_Old_God_corrupted_planet.jpg
(Apologies for the small size/low resolution, in my browser, it’s big and high-rez, but on the forums it’s small or low-rez.)
I head canon some stuff around the Void. Mostly, that creatures of Azeroth are typically not naturally-affiliated with it? It’s dangerous for them to use it, because they weren’t naturally made to use it. But, species such as the Nerubians or Mantid were made from the Void and far more amiable to it. Breathing water is fine for fish, but not so much for a human, and vice versa with air.
Also questions like, “If the Void is a force of consumption and entropy, how or why does it make things?” “By what mechanism does shadow magic heal us, if it also harms us? It seems to have no inherent healing properties.” “How is arcane, the nerd of cosmic forces, evil? Or, why is it only addicting to elves?”
One thing it also kinda dismisses, that I liked, was that “dark magic” (Void, Fel, Death) was always inherently more powerful than “good magic”. However, that power came at a cost, either material (in the form of souls or something) or personal (exposure to corruption). I could become very powerful by using Fel magic, but I had to find a way to get souls, risk being corrupted into a demon by it, and could have an army of heroes coming after me. In sort, dark magic was a “shortcut to power, with underlying costs”, and that kinda goes out the window with the whole “everything must be opposite and equal.”
However… Maybe that just folds into my speculation above. It’s super harmful to us because we’re not naturally-attuned to it. However, if I tried to hit a Nerubian with a blast of void magic, it might do some damage, so “dark magic” is relative to user and target.
Anyways, done rambling here.
TL;DR: Keep us on Azeroth, but I like cosmic forces with moralities and agendas.