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08:28.05VIadat least the legion pocket portal is quite useless, but I do like fixing bugs so glad its been brought to light.
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11:37.13VIadbluspacecow seems to be dx12 salvationist on the forums
11:37.37VIadI remember mockery of those thinking dx12 would improve performance for wow :D
11:39.31nevcairielone shouldnt expect magical results, however
11:45.32VIadsad thing is they will improve performance, and then boggle it down by adding suramar like fancy visuals that eat CPU resources and tank the FPS
11:45.39VIadjust because they can
11:46.02nevcairieli like fancy graphics
11:46.05VIadit's sadly not going to be like "hey guys look we made wow stable at 100 fps for modern machines - we're gonna keep it that way when designing zones, we swear"
11:46.19VIadyeah but they tank FPS for no reason as well
11:46.36VIadolder expansion nice looking zones still look nice and keep me at 144 fps on a 2k monitor
11:47.04VIadgo to suramar and for some reason the game at least halves that
11:47.49VIadI just hope they can do nice visuals but also keep performance in mind :/
11:48.06VIadmost people prefer smooth gameplay and okay visuals, than choppy gameplay and amazing visuals
11:48.28nevcairieli prefer both, hence why i have a good pc =p
11:48.35VIadit's like driving a tesla that has shitty suspensions
11:49.30VIadwell, if you look around most are okay with how it is atm, but if you compare to other games you see performance is struggling
11:49.56VIadworst thing is how low presets automatically turn off so many boss mechanic indicators its sickening :P
11:50.10VIadgraphic settings shouldnt make mechanics invisible ^^
11:50.26nevcairielyou dont even need to go very low, just going to 9 or 8 ground clutter and env detail already recovers most of the suramar loss
11:50.56VIadmaybe blizz should redo the presets
11:53.46VIadwow has a /taxibenchmark command that is useless
11:54.27VIadcould actually make a client side "scenario" that plays a specific type of fight and various stages of effects, checks your fps and suggests what graphic settings to set to what for optimal fps gains vs visuals. maybe optimize the presets per computer that way.
11:54.54VIadsince the game would know when it uses various types of CPU or GPU techniques and can monitor its own fps at those moments
11:55.02nevcairiela lot of effort for real gain =p
11:55.25VIadin fights when fps dips it could tweak the cvars naturally down to get the fps up
11:55.32VIadadaptive presets or whatever
11:55.35nevcairieleven games with proper benchmarks dont implement shit like that
11:56.12VIadyeah. maybe just a benchmark is good enough, then let the player adjust and try again :P
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11:56.53VIadits combat situations that are probably hardest to tweak, unless your raid is okay you afking in the corner :D
11:57.55VIadnvidia shadowplay recorded 20 min fight 12 gb file it's 2k at 60 fps, 83000 kbps :o
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12:04.55Chipzz12:49 < VIad> worst thing is how low presets automatically turn off so many boss mechanic indicators its sickening :P >> totally agree. if your graphics card isn't capable of drawing a certain mechanic, just draw a solid circle on the floor (assuming the effect is circular)
12:05.14Chipzzsome of the effects are annoying/ hard to spot anyway
12:05.50Chipzzbut maybe that's intentional and displaying the graphics as a solid circle would make the figh easier
12:07.13nevcairielthat reminds me how some people played older FPS  games with terrible graphic settings because its easier to spot enemies that way
12:07.29nevcairielgotta be careful that something like that doesnt happen
12:07.37VIadI remember CS when my outdated GPU drivers made walls transparent :D
12:07.44Ellypse"older FPS" many do that with Overwatch, to not have useless bushes ^^
12:08.23VIadin raid fights they should baseline the visuals around performance friendly visuals and just add particles and fluff on top if you got better PC
12:08.40VIadso it wouldn't be completely different and benefit you, just look nicer if you got the PC for it
12:08.51nevcairielmaking games look worse because people have potato PCs doesnt really sell well =p
12:08.59VIadbut its fact
12:09.09VIadnever until legion did I experience so many potato users
12:09.21VIadand anyone running preset <5 can't see half the mechanics
12:09.32nevcairielso dont do that
12:09.35nevcairielits an easy fix =p
12:09.41VIadpeople dont know or realize
12:09.52VIadthat they stood in crap and died because they play preset 1 on a laptop :D
12:11.34nevcairielthats why in lfr stuff doesnt hurt :D
12:11.39VIad:D
12:41.06VIadhey nevcairiel, what would perform better for wow. 8 Ghz 2 core CPU or a 4 Ghz 4 core CPU?
12:43.58VIadmy observation was that more cores doesn't provide more performance gain, but there is a balance between the per-core speed and how many cores you got. wow would underutilize too many cores, but even if you had many cores, if they all ran at insanely high speeds it would still be a performance increase.
12:44.55VIad10 Ghz CPU with 32 cores or a 3 Ghz CPU with 4 cores. I'd say the 32 core one would perform better purely because wow would run on a core that runs at 10 Ghz and thats super fast.
12:45.20VIad(regardless of the fact that you'd probably have 30 idle cores not doing anything.)
12:52.49nevcairielobviously idle cores dont cost performance, what kind of question is that
12:56.51VIadI guess if anything it's a question about the corelation between core count and core speeds, how it affects wow specifically
12:57.14VIadwe need more wow related benchmarks :P
12:57.38VIadbenchmarking in cinebench 3dmark whatever is so not useful for wow xD
13:36.23Chipzzhttp://www.wowhead.com/news=281885/dungeon-experience-hotfixes thank God
13:36.31Chipzzleveling felt so fucking slow
13:48.50Chipzzoh my this SquirePip figure is quite the retard
13:50.24Semlarit took me about 4 hours to get to 110 on my demon hunter
13:53.08Semlari did a couple zones and some invasions in heirloom gear
13:53.45nevcairielleveling  really isnt slow if you do it like you're supposed to, but some people are set in their ways and then complain that their special way got slower
13:54.22Semlarjust buy a character boost
13:54.35ChipzzDEmon Retards don't count :P
13:55.08Chipzznevcairiel: dungeons IS "the way it's supposed to"
13:55.18nevcairielno, its really not
13:55.23nevcairielyou're supposed to quest
13:55.26Chipzzyes, it really is
13:55.30Chipzzno, you're not
13:55.37Semlari'm going back to sleep
13:55.44Chipzzthat's an ancient an incorrect interpretation
13:55.53Chipzzyou were supposed to quest back in BC
13:55.53nevcairielon your side, yeah
13:56.07Chipzzsince then the game has changed to also allow leveling through dungeons and BGs
13:56.19nevcairielallow certainly, but questing is still faster
13:56.22Semlari leveled a character through archaeology once
13:56.30Chipzznevcairiel: nonono, YOU got this all wrong, the mistake is on your side :P
13:56.48nevcairieli'm questing and i'm not the one complaining about shit being slow
13:56.52nevcairielso spot the mistake =p
13:57.02Chipzznevcairiel: I just said they fixed it
13:57.16nevcairielonce you do a dungeon more hten once (ie. without quests), it becomes inefficient
13:57.21Chipzznevcairiel: and to be honest, the fact that they DID fix is prooves you wrong
13:57.33nevcairielall it proves is that it was too low
13:57.37nevcairielnot that its faster
13:57.50nevcairielor even supposed to be faster
13:58.30Chipzznevcairiel: everyone plays the game his way. Blizzard has long acknowledged that. Saying that YOUR way is the only way is quite self-righteous
13:59.06nevcairieli didnt say its the only way, i said its the best way =p
13:59.30nevcairielthe best is to mix both, ie. do the dungeon quests, but dont mindlessly spam dungeons without quests
13:59.37Velithrisyou guys are both wrong, I am not levelling and I am not complaining
13:59.52ChipzzSemlar: I also leveled a char 90-100 I believe through pet battles :P
14:00.38Chipzzthat went really slow, but it wasn't my goal to level fast. My goal was to get lots of rare pets, and I did it on a char that happened to still benefit XP wise :P
14:01.33EllypseKruithne did 1-110 through pet battles :P https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/6d5a4d/leveled_my_priest_to_110_doing_just_pet_battles/
14:04.37VIadI bet that would now take like 100k pet battles :P
14:05.54Chipzznevcairiel: and for the record, I wasn't complaining, I was happy they fixed it
14:06.02EllypseProbably ^^
14:06.58Chipzzthe real problem is that the XP from dungeons used to be enough to get you from one dungeon to the next different one (ie doing 1 or 2 dungeons would unlock the next one)
14:07.30Chipzzso you would pick up the dungeon quests in each and level fast
14:07.56Chipzzbefore the fix, you had to run the same dungeon a lot more times to unlock the next one
14:08.54Chipzznot saying that the old system didn't need fixing, because sometimes you would outlevel the dungeons too fast and outlevel/skip some of them
14:09.30Chipzzbut having to run the same dungeon 3 or 4 times is overdoing it
14:10.43Chipzzalso these chars I'm leveling are pure DPS and I'm queueing solo... other chars had either a healing or tank spec (which I choose) or a friend with a char with either tank or heal spec
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15:30.41sylvanaarYou are supposed to do all the stuff now!
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