My problem is I also like to write. Or, at least I did. I haven’t in a while. I keep telling myself that I don’t have enough time, that when I move to a solo apartment I’ll have my creative space, that I’ll just finish this one thing and leave this note here and then I’ll get back into it (but I never do).

So I’m jealous of the Waypoint crew. They have fun RP stuff that goes on (even though they only joke about being an RP guild) that I would love to get in on.

But I’m not on their server, and cross-realm parties only go so far. (For one, we’d have to be online at the same time, and usually that time I’m raiding or otherwise working. Sadface.)

But then their Tumblr account posted this and Cynwise posted this in response. I said something on Twitter about wanting to write a little something, and Snack said “do iiiiiiit, it’s a lot of fun.” I don’t want to butt in unexpectedly or godmode or whatever, so here’s just a little fic for the Waypoint folks featuring Poneria the warlock (and also a little of Machairi the nelf rogue).

When the bells of Karazhan tolled three, Poneria finally looked up from the books spread across the table. Her felhound Bheezhem lay beside her chair. The arcane elementals were still there, and a shade kept disappearing and reappearing by the table. The ghosts didn’t bother her anymore, so long as she didn’t tread too far into their personal space. They were still pissed every week when she smacked Attumen across the face with a green conflagration, but Poneria didn’t care. The ghosts always came back. The library of Karazhan was expansive; she wasn’t going to let that old knowledge go to waste just because of a few hundred ghosts wandering around the place.

Besides, no one bothered her here. It was a good place to study. The ghosts didn’t bother her when she talked things through and out loud to herself.

Poneria had hit a rut with the journal she had open. Previous pages held details of the mutant Primordius and his various effects, or the bestiary of Iron Qon’s quilen mounts. Her journal of her guild’s efforts in the war against the Thunder King. The warlock was stuck on deciphering the runes of Lei Shen’s floor or why she could only summon a stone on certain floor tiles in Primordius’s room. Her curiosity kept distracting her from completing a full raid strategy.

She reached for a slice of parchment and her elbow knocked a book to the floor. It tumbled and landed spine up, bending a couple of pages. Poneria scooched out her chair and bent to pick up the book. The preferred diet of felhunters…

Paper crumbled noisily.

“Bheez?”

Her felhunter had climbed half into her chair and was snarfing down the slice of parchment.

“DOWN.” She snapped half a summoning spell to stun the hound further.

The felhunter immediately obeyed, dropping to the floor with its mouth agape, the parchment impaled many times on the hound’s sharp teeth. The felhound waited for instructions. Poneria lowered her hand out, and the felhunter dropped the parchment perfectly into it. His antennae, however, couldn’t stop touching the parchment. Tap, t-tap, tap, t-tap, t-tap, his antennae were frantic over that paper.

Poneria turned the sheet over. It was a map. It was, past tense, a map, because it was now more present a tense a beat up, half-eaten scrap of paper. Poneria couldn’t quite make out the description of the runes anymore. She glared at the felhound and sat back down in the chair.

Tap, t-tap, tap, t-t-tap, t-tap, t-tap. That sheet of parchment was like candy to the felhunter. The hound was linked to Poneria, as demons always are to their masters, and he looked up expectedly, panting and wagging his scaled tail.

“No. You’ll just eat it.”

The felhunter crouched in disappointment for a moment, but then his antennae scanned in lines over the parchment.

“Bullshit.” She tapped Jubeka’s journal with two fingers. “Felhunters can’t read, remember?”

T-tap, t-tap, t-tap tap tap.

Poneria turned her attention back to the parchment. She tilted the sheet in the light. As an illustrious and masterful enchantress herself, Poneria could tell quality magic in front of her. She might not know exactly of its origins or make, but that was fine. She was a warlock with no intention of studying magely arcana. The fel and demonic arts suited her just fine.

This one? The parchment wasn’t an enchantment itself, but certain spots glistened with a taint. She turned the map around and held the parchment outstretched and taut, like she was reading a map.

“Like that,” she thought loud. The tainted spots aligned with her hands. Someone magical held this map before.

“A warlock’s hands.” No way would that taint come from a wizardly prude pair of hands. She turned the parchment over and spread out the corners.

“Per…no, Property. Property…of the Way…the fel is that letter…” The felhound had torn the corner off. “There. Property of the Waypoint Union of …something. Cah something.” Poneria sat back in her chair and thought for a moment.

“What did Mach call me again?”

The warlock fumbled through her bags. She found the unlocked ghost iron lockbox in one of the elaborately embroidered satchels she’d made a month ago. She pulled the notes out of the lockbox and let the uncommon item fall back into her pack. That was the arrangement she had made: the rogue could keep any gold found inside the lockbox, but she’d return any items inside for further enchantment studies.

Ponier, the rogue had written. Sometimes the rogue added notes or other items she’d found from her own solitary pocket-pickings.

Oddly, the warlock was the only one she’d communicate with at all nowadays. The rogue got caught in a shot of firebreath when the Earth-Warder burned the world back in the Cataclysm. She was out for weeks, and it took all Xeny’s skill with natural healing to get her back.

Mach, as she liked to be called, sometimes somberly admitted she never got all the way back. She swigged a lot of alcohol now — nearly anything she found from someone else’s pockets. It made for “a great swingin’ an’ a swaggerin’ pirate combat play, tho’, ah ha ha,” the rogue often joked.

Her Darnassian was fantastic and eloquent, but Machairi’s Common was never spectacular to begin with. Whether it was the booze or the real reason she drank, Machairi gave up in trying to write Common clearly. Poneria had tried to learn Darnassian from Ama to help the rogue be more comfortable with communication, but the rogue insisted on writing in poor Common for “Ponier.” Ponier was a friend worth the trouble, the rogue had often insisted.

Foun somthin utter then those lakbaks boots for ya. Eh figyur yood lyk it. S mayde by sum fohk lyk yurself — map n makurs. Dun kid yurself Ponier. Yoos wun o dem on dat insyd.

Poneria shook her head and chuckled. Mach had known Poneria long enough to tell when the warlock would try to technically correct her out of habit.

Yoos a map n makur. Deys doo dat uh dat fissikal land. Yoos doo dat mind land. Wit dem books an paypurs an writin. For dohs new warlocks. Yood lyk dis paypur ohkay sos yoo half it.

An dun worrie hows eh got it. Jus deres now sum disgustin greenskin stinkin up dat lumber mill in Arathi ohkay.

“She called me a mapmaker” Poneria chuckled. ”…cartographer. Property of the Waypoint Union of Cartographers. And I need terrain maps to make my ma–I mean, my raid strategies.”

Machairi had scrawled below her contrastingly beautiful Darnassian signature: P.S. Yoo lyk it? Eh new yoo wuld ohkay so yoo go heer an get sum mor maps ohkay. A map to find the mapmakers was drawn on the back of the note. It was in one of Machairi’s favorite Stormwind Haunts: Cut-throat Alley.

“Come on, Bheez,” Poneria said, standing up to collect her things. The felhound obediently snapped up and walked to her left, exactly two paces away, as always.

“I need to talk to someone about repairing this map. Back to Stormwind we go.”

Speaking of recruiting, my guild is 5/12 N on 25-man as of last night. We finished off T14 as 4/16 25H. We’re a bit full at the moment, though being full never lasts for long. At this point I think we’re looking for an awesome mage or warlock to fill it out. We’re trying to add a third night to our 25man schedule, so being able to raid at least 2 of 3 nights — Wednesday, Thursday, or Sunday — is something you need to be able to do. Preferably a Sunday night since that’s the added day and our raiders are already used to showing up for W & Th.

I should update our kill pictures and other things on my guild page, but I have other things I’m doing. Have a screenshot.

Back to the blog.

Writing Blood Pact basically just meant that everything I wanted to talk about warlock-wise went there. For one, it’s paid over there and not over here, but for two, I also felt a little guilty if I wanted to take a topic over here, even if I thought it was too long/big to discuss over there. I just kept telling myself that it was writing practice, to work on my tendency to filling space with needless words.

But, writing for Blood Pact is highly public, and since I am The Warlock Columnist with all the capital letters of importance, any misstep I make is blown out of (or just into bigger) proportion instead of what happens when a random blogger missteps in her own corner of the internet. There’s not much room to learn, unless I try to do it with the creative side instead of with the actual facts.

Also, hi, I’ve been the warlock columnist at WoW Insider for a year now and I haven’t died yet. Go me. Insert joke about knocking on a tree druid without somehow sounding perverse.

Moving on, I’m trying to learn from my lessons there. I’m going to explore doing fun projects or topics, researching before I write this time, and then trying to not sound/read like a school paper summary on the topic. But to support that, I need space to muse and go in the wrong directions of the maze despite all the hate the internet gives you when you dare to do something suboptimally. Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Well, OK, you can read textbooks all you want and do experiments by yourself, but I think you get more out of learning when you do it with someone else, conversing about it.

Doing my own little projects is a thing I having really done since high school. Oddly enough, my depression and anxiety issues really started get in my way around then, too. Maybe coincidence — I’m sure I haven’t been taking care of myself as well as I should now that I’m on my own and have no parents to schedule things for me. But I have found myself less angry and less agitated in general when I create outside of pure research writing, which is what most of Blood Pact and boss guides for the guild have been. When I creatively write, whether fiction or poetry, or when I draw or when I try to organize gear or strategies or transmogs together, then I seem to find my inner peace more often.

So I’m going to go in that direction and hope it takes me closer to my mountain. I feel like I don’t know where my mountain is. Some days I’m surrounded by trees, so it’s a nice view, but I can’t see my mountain. Sometimes, much like last week and rather most of 2013 so far, those trees are thorns and I’m all out of swords.

So here’s to CFN and  some theorycrafting pursuits that are hopefully not as incorrect or misled as I think they probably will be. (Maybe some toon roleplay? Maybe.) FC is going to stop trying to be fancy pants warlock who is always perfect and just go back to being my personal space, where often warlock things will happen.

We are recruiting! Now that we’re better than when we started out, we’re going to be a bit pickier than before, so here’s some things you might want to know.

What class/specs we want:

• Ranged DPS: We’re looking for caster deeps, particularly warlocks (!) and (unfortunately) mages.

We are heavy on melee right now, full on our healer complement, and are working on a third/swing tank, but if you think you are awesome, feel free to apply. We’ll take a great player over a specific class.

Some info bits about us:

• 25-man focus. We have a progression/gearing 10man, but the focus is on the 25man.
• We’re 2/16 25H, with heroic Stone Guard and heroic Feng kills under our belts.
• Required raid nights are Wednesday & Thursday, 8-11:00pm server/Eastern.
• We use an out-of-game raid calendar, from which raid leads will approve 25 to go that week/day.
• We start raid invites around 7:55pm server, and we usually invite by you whispering a codeword to the raid leader (who invites automatically via an addon). So be online and ready to go.
• We end raids before or at 11:00pm server most days; it depends on pulls when exactly. Around 9:30pm is our halfway break (10-15min).
• The guild provides food, pots, and flasks, but as a trial/applicant, bringing your own stuff helps out your app.
• We use EPGP for loot. We’ve rarely had actual problems with it, and people are actually really generous with passing to help gear others.
• A few guildmates PvP, but most of us don’t. Our server is heavily Alliance PvE.`

Regarding guild disposition:

• As I put it: we derp a lot, and still kill things. So be prepared for derping, because it happens. Derpful kills are termed “UR-style kills.” We have had kills where the last member standing was the Greater Earth Elemental and/or our Blood DK.
• As my GM put it: “we are a rule guild.” We have a lot of rules, but it’s mostly so we’re clear on our expectations and demands.
• As my raid leader put it: “There’s really only two rules. One, don’t be a dick, both online in raid and offline on Twitter/elsewhere. Two: tell us if you have to leave or whatever.” (I may or may not violate One in offline mode occasionally, but I’m way better than I was.)

I have some tips on applying, particularly to my guild, from watching various applicants come and go.

Have some raid experience:

• Bring a raid log: chances are, someone will ask for a World of Logs from you. If you have one to show off, bring it! Otherwise, we’ll likely pull you from raidbots.
• Experience > gear: Even if you’ve taken a break from raiding, if you have past raid logs from Cataclysm or even Wrath, bring them.
• Name your raiding alts: If you’ve raided on a different character for a while, even with the account-wide achievs active, name which alts you’ve played before & what roles (tanking/DPS/heals). We like to double-check backgrounds on raid progression.
• Be prepared to explain your stuff. Guildmates are allowed to look at your app and comment on any oddities or differences they see in your app.

But gear is not unimportant:

• Log out in your intended raiding spec and gear, please, so we can see you properly on the Armory. Even if you mess around with odd talents, please let your Armory reflect how you’re going to approach a general boss fight.
• We’re moving into heroic modes starting with Mogu’shan Vaults, so while we admire dedication, being dressed in all LFR gear won’t get you very far. Some of the lower geared raiders we have are approximately 490 ilvl, so aim for that.
• Professions! Be using your bonuses. Cooking is a great bonus, if you can make your own food.
• I know my GM in particular likes to look at how well you’ve kept up with reputations; it’s a dedication thing but also if there’s good gear to be bought still.

Remember, it’s a 25-man environment:

• Make sure your computer can handle all the graphical/combat log requirements. Anyone remember shamans + green healy thing on Ultraxion?! You don’t need top-of-the-line, but be able to raid on what you’ve got.
• There’s more people. Be willing to work with more people, especially if you’re applying for healing. As far as DPS goes, feel free to talk to other raid members or your class or role. When it looked like we were going to get a third warlock, the other warlock and I made a warlock channel so we could all talk to each other during the fight (we whisper each other enough now).

And now, have some pretty progression pictures that I just posted of past kills. You can see other kills on my guild’s page here.

So I’m back to my old method of reforging, which is doing the math by hand. It’s not even difficult math. It’s mostly a logic problem. I referred to it on Twitter as being like the old logic problem where you have a two-seater boat and you must get a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage across a river. The wolf will eat the goat and the goat will eat the cabbage, so you have to pick which you leave alone wisely.

So let me show you how I do it. You might think it’s just a bunch of work, but what works for you works for you and what works for me works for me.

Time 

Since I do this a lot, it doesn’t take me very long. 5 minutes? It’s not the seconds an addon might take, but I don’t mind it.

Stat weights, gear upgrades, and reforging

One stat weight priority does not, in fact, rule them all.

The stat weights that come out of SimulationCraft are meant for additions to the gear that has already been simmed. You may judge enchants, gems, and upgrades in ilevel with these, since you are doing nothing to the original gear. Reforging, however, is not an addition, but a transfer. Different reforges will yield slightly different simulated DPS and stat weights.

Different gemming schemes will also simulate differently, since you are replacing gems not adding gems. Upgrades in ilevel will generally increase your DPS, as they’ll have more of a stat (primarily, more intellect) on them than before, but a change in secondary stats may put a minor ilevel upgrade a little below your current piece, reforging depending. With a good understanding of how a gear change will affect the simulation, you can guess without re-simming.

But it is safest to re-simulate for every gear change you make, no matter how small.

However, you can use the stat weights as a general guideline for what reforging strategy is the best. Ideally, your secondary stats — mastery, haste, and crit — will align to the same value when you’ve found the perfect reforge. That is, you have the Goldilocks amount of each stat on your gear.

On hit: Similarly, because the stat weights address additions to your gear, the weight for hit will drop significantly when simulated with a hit-capped gearset, as any additional hit will be useless. This is not evidence that the hit cap is insignificant. Meeting the hit cap helps you deal with your personal lag at realizing when your spells have missed a target. If you don’t want to worry about missing, then cap your hit as close as possible to cap.

I don’t like missing. It’s just fucking annoying. Thus I try to cap my hit within a certain margin.

My personal margin for hit used to be within a hybrid gem’s worth of hit. As my current gear will reforge for more than that, but not quite double on some pieces, I’ve now accepted 4900 (14.41%) as the lowest I’ll go, though I prefer 5000-5100 (14.70-15.00%).

I used my most recent simulation stat weights for the gem calculations. My stat weights have changed only a little (a margin of 0.10 points, maybe) over about 4 gear piece changes, so I feel confident using recent stat weights on a 1-piece change. In this case, especially so, since the stats on that piece were the same (mastery & crit –> mastery & crit). My most recent simulation yielded these stat weights:

• 3.81 intellect
• 3.13 spellpower
• 1.94 mastery
• 2.05 haste
• 1.64 hit
• 1.35 crit
• 0.06 error margin

In the past, I’ve found that mastery rises significantly after I’ve reached a haste threshold of 11-12% (4677-5102 rating) on my gear. This is not surprising considering the major T14N haste DoT breakpoint is 4717 (Corruption +2).

Previously, mastery had been greater than haste, but this simulation, my gear was severely lacking in haste pieces. Even with reforging mostly to haste, I barely hit the 4717 breakpoint I wanted.

This time I was only a few reforges off the haste breakpoint, so I felt confident going for the “haste (4717) > mastery > haste” gearing/reforging strategy.

Reforging

You can’t reforge to another stat already present on that piece of gear. The exception is that expertise counts like hit for spellcasters, so reforging to expertise on a piece of gear that already has hit is effectively adding hit without breaking the rule.

Other than that rule, reforging is about knowing when to stop (caps and breakpoints). The more you know about specific amounts of a stat affecting your gear, the better you can reforge without an optimizer.

I’ve enchanted and gemmed each piece separately. I’m trying out pure hit gems in blue sockets, so I can push as much reforging towards favorable stats. Once I reached about 11-12% haste, my mastery stat weight grew so that hybrid gems (orange for mastery/intellect) started to overtake my pure intellect gems (red), so I gem on a yellow-based scheme:

• Prismatic or yellow sockets = +320 mastery / Fractured Amberjewel
• Red sockets = +80 intellect & +160 mastery / Artful Vermillion Onyx
• Blue sockets (way below hit cap) = +320 hit / Rigid River’s Heart
• Blue sockets (close to cap) = +160 hit & +160 mastery / Sensei’s Wild Jade

I start with all my gear unreforged. It doesn’t cost gold to unreforge, and at worst, I might spend 150-200g reforging a bunch of pieces. But this starts with me what I need to achieve and all my options.

I already have a shorthand I write with; most are obvious, except hit is T since H is already haste. My stat priority is I > SP > T (to cap) > M >= H (4717) > C. I also have reduced the slots to two-letter combinations in my shorthand. I used to have a “wd” for the ranged slot, and a mh/2h designation, but not anymore!

I write down the slots, their secondary stats in priority order, and how much the lesser stat will reforge into. Parentheses indicate I’d rather leave that piece alone, but here’s how much it will reforge to, just in case. Writing down both stats helps me lay out which stats I can or can’t reforge into. The second column is for knowing what pieces I’ve set aside for reforging.

I want to meet a specific cap (5100 hit but no more) and a specific breakpoint (at least 4717 haste). So I write down at the unreforged totals:

• 4965 hit
• 4177 haste

I want a tiny bit more hit (135 rating to cap) and a handful of haste (540 rating).

Immediately, I see from my list that reforging the main hand dagger to hit will net me pretty close to cap. I’ll have 5057 hit rating (14.87%), which is close enough for me.

It’s time to work on haste. I need more haste, so I don’t want to reforge any of it off just yet, so I strike out all the “H –> #” reforges. I also would prefer not to reforge off any mastery, so I temporarily strike out my “M –> #” reforges. I also strike out my shoulders as reforging to mastery, since I obviously cannot reforge the crit on there to haste. Here’s what’s left:

• hd = TC –> 257
• bk = MC –> 166
• ch = MC –> 299
• lg = TC –> 303

I won’t be reforging my back and chest pieces to mastery, since they already have mastery on them. Leaving them alone would be leaving all that unwanted crit on there, so that makes them prime pieces for haste reforging.

166 + 299 = 465, which is 75 off from the desired 540+. I do have some haste pieces without mastery on my reforge list, however, and I could always reforge those off into mastery to hit the correct haste breakpoint. Let’s look at those:

• wr = TH –> 184
• ha = TH –> 260
• f2 = TH –> 166
• t2 = H –> 382

The lowest +haste reforge is the head slot at 257, and the matching -haste reforge that I chose was the second finger slot at 166.

Here’s the math again: 4177 + 166 + 299 + 257 – 166 = 4733. That’s only 16 rating off the haste breakpoint. Pretty tight, eh!

I then let all the remaining mastery-able reforges be mastery, since affliction loves that stat right now. Here’s the end result with 5057 hit (14.87%), 4733 haste (11.14%), and 6204 mastery (55.02%):

And really…that’s it. That’s all there is to reforging by hand. No complicated math; just adding and subtracting goats and cabbages.

WELL EXCUSE YOU I WAS HERE FIRST.

I’m not mad. Swear.

I have a somewhat private soloing blog that might be resurrected later. Maybe.

Anyway. This was my first pull in a long time of AQ40.

(But I already know the mounts from previous AQ runs with friends.)

The Oatmeal made it.

I typed a bunch about my thoughts relating to it and how this is how it works with me on Blood Pact and yada yada yada…

You don’t need to hear that. Go read the comic.

Here’s some things I wanted to mention anyway.

I love this quote:

Inspiration is more like food poisoning: it sprays out uncontrollably when you need it the least.

which is why writers tend to carry a pen and some paper or some other means of writing absolutely everywhere. Shower tip: Go get those washable crayons for bathtime for kids that work on bathroom tiles. Regular crayons if you’re a cheapo like me.

The notebook looks a lot like my notebooks, than I have everywhere. Lots of arrows. Lots of random remarks and even “LOL” on things. Underlining. Writing in different directions because I ran out of room on the page but it’s relevant so I can’t just turn the page over. Yep.

This quote:

If you have done all of these things and you still don’t have anything to write about, then you shouldn’t be a writer.

reminds me of this scene from Sister Act 2 (up to 1:32):

Writing is usually the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, so I figure. (Sometimes I think of WoW first. Welp.)

And the comments thing. I have yet to learn that I need to not really read/consider the comments on Blood Pact. But I’m almost out of the funk from the hit post shitstorm.

But I’ll work that one while I work on other self-goals for my writing.

We have 2 — myself and another fantastic warlock who will cream me on the meters if I don’t bring my A-game. The officers are looking for a third to fill out our 25man raiding since warlocks appear to be hot right now.

We’re also looking for a feral druid, a windwalker monk, and a shadow priest.

You can read more about our guild at our portal page or you can look through my page for the guild here on Fel Concentration. I try to keep that one updated with all the kills I’m there for, at least. We one-shot Stone Guard on our first time in there as 25man and we’re currently working on Feng, though I hope he topples over soon. Some raiders have been probing the Vaults on 10man and have gotten so far as 4/6 in the few weeks we’ve been in there.

Expectations

We let our raiders comment on apps, particularly apps of their class. (Be prepared for my brutal honesty on warlock apps.)

We are raiding already in Mogu’shan Vaults, so officers will be looking for that caliber of gear & spec. Some tips based on past apps we’ve had:

• Gear: Be at least raid-ready at the very least. This means heroic 5man gear, world boss pieces if you’re lucky, crafted gear if you can get it, and LFR gear.
• Reps: Since we’re in the first tier of the new expansion, officers are looking at reputations to be done. We’re not expecting Exalted with everything, but be doing your part to reach the required Honored/Revered states.
• Spec: Know it. We’re typically flexible about which spec you’d like to play so long as you can carry your weight or exceed typical expectations.
• Raid experience: It’s great if you have some past experience, but not totally required. If you have it on other toons than the one you’re apping on, please link those & tell us what for.
• Logs: Someone will ask you for one, since it’s easy to spout off the latest theorycraft but less so to actually perform it. So log an LFR if you can or give us current logs if you have those.

Raiding details

Days | Wednesday and Thursday nights are the main & required raids, being our 25man nights. We have 10man nights on Sunday and Monday; in early tier it’s likely a progression group, in late tier it’s likely an alt group.

The rest of the week is subjective to guild members doing various activities, but in the past we have done Old World raids on Tuesdays and casual PvP on Fridays or Saturdays.

Time | We’re on the Elune server which operates at Eastern US time and we have many members on the east coast, so we operate on Eastern US time. Raids start at 8pm server, with invites around 7:50-7:55, and end at approximately 11:00pm server, boss pulls cooperating. Scheduled activities can be whenever but they generally follow the pattern of raids, 8-11p.

Loot & Signups | We sign up for raids using an out-of-game calendar, and the officers/raid leads approve members for the raid. We use EPGP as our loot system.

Style of progression | We’re not looking to be server-first or even “hardcore.” I think the general consensus is to see all the content, and heroics if we can, while it is current, but we are always looking to push ourselves further. We finished 8/8 25H in Dragon Soul, and I think we’d like to see that repeated in T14.

As I tend to sum it up: we derp about as much as you can derp during the boss fight but we end up killing it anyway. There are “traditions” of UR to be killing things past the enrage or killing a progression boss with 20-23 people in raid or doing an achievement by accident. If you’re not so forgiving of us not doing it the Correct Way, then maybe we’re not a good fit for you, because we often have to adapt the Everybody Does It This Way strat to our own quirks.