u/wakeofchaos

Hey guys. So I’m looking to start a band. Really just want one other person involved besides me. I write music as a singer/songwriter (can find my Spotify on my profile. I play guitar and sing, but everything there is just me messing with Ableton) and I’d like to have someone else to regularly write with. Then maybe have a full band to play the songs. I live in Bountiful. Ideally someone either lives kind of close, or are willing to drive up/down here regularly

My primary influence is anything Julian Casablancas makes (The Strokes, The Voidz), but I also like some synth sounds but I’m not wealthy enough to afford crazy gear lol. Some of that is reflected in my writing. I probably like most bands adjacent to these two.

The music I’ve written so far has a melody and some generic instruments playing it on the Spotify stuff I’ve posted so far, but the idea is that I’d replace the lead melody with lyrics and sing it myself (or someone could help me with harmonies or whatever), but just takes forever to write/record all that, so I’d like some help.

I’m hoping to have an album out by the end of the year (maybe that’s too soon though) and I’d also be willing to try and translate the songs into some kind of live performance. I’d also be willing to learn and perform covers for some income if that’s what the band needs.

Kind of want this thing to be fairly serious. Not looking for just a drinking buddy or two (been there done that), but I’m also not a stickler about that too much. I just want music (and connecting) to be the focus, rather than just getting wasted and not playing.

I’d want us to eventually be a regular performance in SLC. I’m not really looking to tour further, but if that’s what’s best for the band, I might consider it. I’m 37 and married so I don’t know if that kind of road life is for me anymore, but a little weekend tour every so often might be cool.

I want to be clear too that I talked about me a bunch here, but I’m aware that collaboration would involve you and your views and opinions and I’m willing to work with that and we can come to some middle ground on where the songs should go and whatnot. This is actually exactly what I’m looking for. Someone who deeply cares about making music for whatever reason, and is willing, in fact dying, to make their “voice” heard.

Anyway TLDR: Looking for someone willing to read the whole post and consider it. Thanks

As a healer main, I’m pretty happy with how the healers feel. The pruning was good, and the tuning feels good (healer dps considerations aside).

Tank balance is frustrating for sure. Hopefully they’ll get better at these things, especially since more players are probably going to push keys (myself included).

I also wonder if the reason why blizz has only recently incentivized the gap between 10-12s and title is because they didn’t want to have to balance things as closely, and maybe now they feel like they can handle it to the degree that we’d be ok with it all. Part of me wishes they’d tune the classes with as much detail as something like league of legends or some other hero based PvP game though.

It seems like those games live and die by their balance, and I feel like the only reason it’s not a huge problem in wow is because we all have access to every class (nothing locked behind mtx), and while gearing a new toon is annoying, it’s never been easier.

But it is also not very fun to play a class you don’t feel connected to for whatever reason. So to have to choose between playing meta to get into (and likely succeed in) more keys vs. playing what’s fun will definitely make for a frustrating season.

Like I personally love disc. I’ve really enjoyed their kit for as long as I can remember. But it’s really awkward and frustrating to be at 2/3rds mana after 1 pack, where every other healer I play the same pack on in the same key, at a similar ilvl, is either barely below 100% or *at* 100% mana, ready to move on

It’s also pretty awkward to press my full rdruid catweave rotation on a pack, only see that I’m doing 15k dps. So now my druid strat is to just make sure I have as many hots rolling as I can, but I’d have much more fun if I had to make a choice between the two more often

I guess this is mostly just a rant about the game’s balance. I wish it were waaaay closer. Like dps, hps, and utility all factor into why you bring this or that class. If they have less utility, they do more damage/healing, etc. but it’s pretty rare imo that things get even remotely close. There’s always some winners and some losers and I feel like m+ kind of suffers overall from the lack of tuning.

I think it would be generally more popular for any gamer if they’d just get the numbers closer. Like the game might get more of an esports-type angle. It’ll never be perfect but if every reset also came with some slight m+ tuning, I’d be much more excited to just stick to my favorite class, and this much more excited to play for the whole season.

What do ya’ll think?