Not just one Overton window
7 hours ago
I do believe I've mentioned on numerous occasions that I am very fond of maps. Maps are like graphs or charts in the fact that they display very useful information, but they are also more "user-friendly". There's that old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, if you throw a bunch of data into a map, it says both a thousand words and a thousand numbers in one easy to understand package. Maps display information in a way that just makes a lot more sense. You can look at a chart of data and it might mean nothing to you until you put it on a map - the spatial environment being pictured gives you a lot of context.
For instance: Let's say I told you that I decided to go back and try to clean up some achievements I'm missing, such as the old world dungeons. And then let's say (hypothetically of course) that I told you "I got a little lost". I count only five words there. Let's see if a map really does give it a bit more context, and if it's really worth a 995 more, shall we?
In my line of work, we also always include a section in our research called "Exclusions & Limitations" (which for those of you not in Academia, that's the section where you add all the shit that makes everything you just did completely moot and pointless), so here I shall tell you that does not include the 20 minutes I spent lost trying to find the damn graveyard because I went AFK and something 40 levels below me meleed me to death.
Next time on Miss Medicina... I venture into Upper Blackrock Spire!! As a little spoiler, remember how I told you I have a problem falling off of ledges in Oculus? UBRS has giant holes...
For instance: Let's say I told you that I decided to go back and try to clean up some achievements I'm missing, such as the old world dungeons. And then let's say (hypothetically of course) that I told you "I got a little lost". I count only five words there. Let's see if a map really does give it a bit more context, and if it's really worth a 995 more, shall we?
In my line of work, we also always include a section in our research called "Exclusions & Limitations" (which for those of you not in Academia, that's the section where you add all the shit that makes everything you just did completely moot and pointless), so here I shall tell you that does not include the 20 minutes I spent lost trying to find the damn graveyard because I went AFK and something 40 levels below me meleed me to death.
Next time on Miss Medicina... I venture into Upper Blackrock Spire!! As a little spoiler, remember how I told you I have a problem falling off of ledges in Oculus? UBRS has giant holes...
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If you need someone to log on to his own toon and walk you through UBRS and LBRS, I can do that, I stealthed that places for hours one day because I was bored....
What has my life come to.....
Blackrock Spire? HAH! Go do BRD for the OMG-we're-lost-just-pull-over-and-ask-that-dwarf experience of your life.
oh, you have my sympathies! For Blackrock Spire, I highly recommend doing a search on youtube. I believe there is a vid that will give you a walk thru. (And it comes with a handy what-door-did-they-take pause button!)
Levitate!
Haha! Maraudon can be a bit confusing! I remember Sunken Temple was a bit confusing back in the good old days too.
If you do it just right, you can fall from UBRS to LBRS. Or from LBRS to OUTSIDE THE ZONE. Best instance design ever. Of all time.
Can you get into UBRS without a raid group?
I haven't gotten to going through BR yet with my 80 Pally, so I'm understandably curious.
Oh, and needless to say, Maraudon gives me headaches. Uldaman and Wailing Caverns too.
@Fealen
Awww, that's kind of you, but if I didn't have these miserable experiences to share, what exactly WOULD I blog about?
@Grimmtooth
I'm disappointed in your Grimm. Have a little more dorf pride! I can handle BRD solely due to the existence of so many dwarves!
@Chawa
I really was trying to feel smart and wing it without any videos or maps, but that did not last long...
@soulwarding
hahahah, wait until you see the next post - you read my mind!
@Niniel
Sunken Temple is a dirty word around these parts. You've been warned. I *HATE* that place!
@Kleps
That's exactly what I did. Not sure how that qualifies as doing it right, but you trolls have your own sense of humor...
@Redbeard
I was wrong, I went into LBRS. I went into UBRS last night, but I was in a raid group, and I think you do need to be in a raid.
UBRS dons not require you to be in a raid. It's a normal instance except that it has a higher player cap than normal since its designed for 10 (used to be 15) players.
Actually, since UBRS and LBRS are one instance, both can be run as 5-man or 10-man (raid). It's just that the lower part is designed for 5 and the upper part is designed (now) for 10.
I believe this is the last of the vanilla dungeon design that allowed you to run a 10-man raid in a 5-man dungeon, which was very common back then. Sometime a few months before BC, they changed it so that the level 60 dungeons only allowed 5 people in. This was the same patch that changed the limit on UBRS from 15 down to 10.
Do you think it's a girl thing? I'm so with you here. I always get lost in instances. When I'm on my mage at least I look at my surroundings, but when I'm on priestly duties, I look at bars and I have no idea where I'm going. I also get lost outside instances. Everywhere. IRL too.