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Q: WoW Tailoring Bags in MoP?

AlmadarWhat are the sizes of the bags created with tailoring in MoP? and what are the mats (or other requisites) to create them?

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Q: What counts as a death?

musefanAt the end of each chapter you get a ranking page of which one criteria is the number of deaths, but what counts as a death? I know this may seem obvious, however I have just completed chapter 5 of Chris's campaign and it tells me I have 3 deaths - the problem is I had "game over" more than 3 ti...

We haven't had a big controversy in a while, so someone should take a hard stance that we ban all lore questions for my entertainment.
@StrixVaria I don't like them. At all.
But I seem to be in the minority for it, so, eh.
@fbueckert I'm not going to vote to close, but I'm also not going to vote to reopen if it gets closed.
Once ITG got banned, I retired from arguments like that.
@StrixVaria I still think everything related to ITG should still be off-topic.
@StrixVaria I think should not be allowed!
rabble rabble rabble
16:12
The very few ITG questions we get that are decent just open the door for the crap that comes in.
@fbueckert Obviously.
@OrigamiRobot Agree.
I forgot that there are "allowed" ITG questions.
:(
@OrigamiRobot Also agree. Most of them we get are our version of
@StrixVaria How am I supposed to create conflict if you agree with me?
ie. "It broke! Oh noes! Fix it for me!"
@fbueckert "I don't feel like doing any research of my own!"
16:16
@SaintWacko Exactly.
Rarely, RARELY, we'll get a question where the guy's on the end of his rope, as he's exhausted all other avenues of approach.
@fbueckert That makes it worse. That probably means his problem is extremely localized.
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, but at least he's done his homework! I'm more inclined to try to help him if he's helped himself, first.
Also, it could be a lady. Don't be so sexist.
@OrigamiRobot I could just use 'it'. That would make it much less offensive!
@fbueckert I'm more inclined to help if it is a lady. Wait, now I'm sexist!
16:21
@OrigamiRobot You have fallen for my cunning trap!
user2334
16:34
wait we're talking about wholesale banning another category of questions? Dang it has been 2-3 weeks since the last wholesale ban discussion, was getting worried
@fbueckert Damn your avatar giving me constant subliminal suggestions to star your posts!
@James So why don't you, then?
You know you want to...
@fbueckert Cause I shall not give into peer pressure!
@James It's not peer pressure. It's just the natural state of things.
@fbueckert ಠ_ಠ
16:53
Tutti mi cercano, tutti mi vogliono
@ThomasMacDonald What's going on with the server?
@James Is it open beta yet?
@OrigamiRobot ... Peer Pressure?
@James Educated guess says he's talking about MechWarrior or something.
@fbueckert I can neither confirm nor deny this.
17:01
19 hours ago, by fbueckert
So, yes, before I can play Hawken, I'm supposed to accept an NDA.
@OrigamiRobot I have seen no emails about it
@fbueckert Meh
@James Then I'll wait to ask you stuff
@James Meh!?
MEH!?
NDAs are so annoying
@badp And most often, entirely unenforceable!
17:05
Oh yeah, Hawken!
Almost forgot about that
I dunno about that. They could very well sue you
FAE
FAE
@badp And some don't expire!
@fbueckert I've had at least one where I had to snailmail a copy of photo ID, man. I'm not taking chances.
some NDAs NDA the NDA agreement too, which creates an interesting problem when you reject the NDA
@FAE That, I can agree to.
I mean, you can't be bound by the NDA you rejected to not disclose the NDA right?
17:08
@badp Sueing a fan talking about your game sounds counterproductive.
@fbueckert You're falling under the arbitry of companies and their goodwill
@badp Hey, if they want to, then so be it. Incoming PR backlash.
"Will they sue me?" doesn't sound like a super fun game to play
FAE
FAE
@fbueckert It's usually for that whole "this alpha/beta product is not representative of the finished product" damage control thing.
@fbueckert not really, news sources and the such deal with NDAs and embargoes all the time
at least for unreleased software
17:09
@FAE True. But most fans aren't going to be talking about it to complain; they're going to be going, "Holy shit, this is amazing!".
@fbueckert That's not really what I would've said if I had opted in the Tribes Ascend beta
FAE
FAE
@fbueckert Really? You're taking the optimistic approach to a mass group of people on this? You surprise me. :P
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Q: How does Trail of Cinders work (both 1.04 and 1.05)

MikeIn 1.04, Trail of Cinders does 1500% over 3 seconds. Some say that this does not reset SharpShooter. What Skills don't reset Sharpshooter So when calculating the 1500% does it just take your Weapon Damage? Does that include your Dex modifiers? Can SharpShooter do Crits? Now with 1.05 Trail of ...

I would've said, "meh, it looks fun but it runs chuggily on my computer at lowest settings and you really want to have a butter smooth framerate for this game."
@FAE I'm a very strange blend of optimist, cynicism, and practicality.
17:11
and I get to say it! because I joined after the NDA expired.
and I could've been sued because I agreed that any and all breaks of the NDA would damage the company irrecoverably beyond what money can repair (except they still get to sue me for money obviously)
maybe not so much "it looks fun" but rather "it runs chuggily on my computer at lowest settings"
@badp Legal boilerplate is the worst.
I mean, I did have to sign a sort of NDA in the process of becoming an SE moderator (link) but this feels very much different
Yo dawg I heard you likes NDAs so I put an NDA in your NDA so you can NDA while NDA'd.
The best NDA's are the ones that tell me that I can't talk to other departments within the company I work for about things I can talk to other people about.
@LessPop_MoreFizz sounds like the kind of NDA you would have if your job was to lay off said department en-masse
17:17
(it's meant as a firewall because we have competitors among our customers, but since I don't deal with external clients, or with the parent company, it's basically a formality for me.)
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Q: Are these nude photos of Barack Obama's mother?

Ilya MelamedIn the last few days there is a video called "Dreams from My Real Father". The video claims that Barack Obama's mother posed for erotic/pornographic pictures for a pornographic magazine, and provide pictures of a woman that they claim is his mother. Is it indeed Barack Omabam's mother in those ...

ugh.
I really kind of wish Skeptics had a 'no politics' rule.
@LessPop_MoreFizz isn't calling BS on what politics say the whole point of Skeptics?
@badp Well, yes, but the vast majority of 'political' questions are about the absolute lowest of the low mudslinging looniness like Barack Obamas birth certificate or Mitt Romney and the Mormon "White House Prophecy"
they end up just providing digital ink to the worst of the worst.
17:35
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Q: Will the Wii-U be compatible with Gamecube games?

Raven DreamerSo despite some initial confusion about whether the WiiU was an accessory or a console successor to the Wii, I now understand that it is, in fact, a new console. During its initial presentation, Nintendo lavished about the fact that the WiiU would be fully backwards compatible, at least with the...

Is that not speculation on the future of the industry?
@fbueckert I think it is.
@RonanForman Right. VTC.
I'm amused that this has 20 +1s
@fbueckert I don't think it is.
@GnomeSlice Why not?
17:41
@Sterno 19
@fbueckert Because that information is fact, the Wii-U is a real, physical thing.
@GnomeSlice Yes, we know that.
But it hasn't been released yet.
How can we provide a definitive answer when we can't even use the device?
@fbueckert There's an officially sourced answer, isn't there?
It can always change.
They might have not added it in yet.
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A: Will the Wii-U be compatible with Gamecube games?

bwarnerHere's a short article with confirmation from a Nintendo source that the Wii U will not be able to play Gamecube games.

Or they might just be being sneaky and are going to reveal it actually can.
17:43
> Wii U will not play GameCube games. I learned this and other details I'll share soon about Wii U during a short interview with Mark Franklin, the head of Nintendo's public relations division.
@RonanForman Irrelevant, it's a source from nintendo saying it won't, so that should be the answer.
> Please note, however, that site policies prohibit questions of the following types:
> Speculation of the future of the industry and of upcoming releases
Its in the FAQ.
@RonanForman This isn't speculation, since the information is readily available
But I guess we don't tag based on answers, so we shouldn't close/open based on them either.
Okay.
Gratuitous Tank Battles is Steam's daily deal today.
Arg... I want it, but do I want to shell out $10 for it right now.
@GnomeSlice I gave that game away during the summer sale.
Not 19. 20.
Can't remember who I gifted it to.
17:48
@Sterno Oh, huh, I was looking at the question score, didn't see any comments with 20...
@Sterno heehee
Buh, Gratuitous Tank Battles looks AWESOME
@Sterno It's because I'm right.
@Lazers Dupity dupe dupe
Should I buy it
@GnomeSlice Is that a trick question?
@LessPop_MoreFizz Are you? I barely see any ponies nowadays
17:54
@fbueckert No. =[
@LessPop_MoreFizz I know. I was afraid to mention it in chat because it might make it resurface! But +20 was a lot
@GnomeSlice Have you played Gratuitous Space Battles?
@GnomeSlice Think tower defense, with customization very similar to GSB.
I find the combat a little unintuitive. I love Tower Defence games though.
@fbueckert I'm aware of what it is.
WHATEVER buys
17:56
@GnomeSlice The only real difference is the tower defence aspect.
@badp As I told @murgatroid, the frequency with which the subject comes up has very little to do with the magnitude of it's nuisance.
there goes all of my money again.
If you liked the customization of GSB, then you'll love the tanks.
@LessPop_MoreFizz The integral of nuisance over time does change with time, don't be silly.
@fbueckert Looks like no one agrees with us about the question.
17:57
@RonanForman Eh. That's fine. They won't fall off for awhile.
Aaand I'm back to $1 in my paypal.
It got pushed up, so, we'll see what others not so active think.
If it wasn't then one pony-related post would be n times more aggravating than n pony-related posts.
Given that the product would stay constant.
@fbueckert I don't think comments work that way.
It is 4 days, 14 hours, 1 minute, 30 seconds until XCOM.
@Wipqozn
17:58
Oh, nevermind.
I find the XCOM countdowns more annoying myself.
You weren't talking about that.
Luckily no one here is so enthralled by the topic to bring the matter up on a daily basis right?
Funny I haven't heard of her before...
@badp I never said ponies were the only thing I found bothersome.
17:59
She's done music/vocals in a bunch of popular games.
Like SCV
A Kickstarter from the Wizardry guys?. Damn it, I'm running out of money.
Anyone play Better Than Wolves???
@badp Eh. They put with me frothing about Legends of Pegasus, so the least I can do is put up with it for XCOM.
@fbueckert Did someone say XCOM?
@Sterno UFO: Aftermath. Seriously.
18:04
@badp The difference is that we do the countdowns to be annoying. That makes us way, way worse. :)
@Sterno Your face is way, way worse
(AMIDOINITRITE)
@badp On the plus side, they have a finite end date. You can just view the countdown as a countdown until we stop posting annoying countdowns!
@Sterno I was about to reply with "It's been 2 seconds since the XCOM release!" but then I figured I wouldn't give you that
Homework: find the English name of the above form of rhetoric
Bleh.
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A: Is there a better way to level up in Dragon Quest IX?

elliotWhat you need to do is go to the Gittingham Palace and hunt around for Lethal Armour. Wait until they send for their backup, which are Cure Slimes, and keep defeating them. Make sure you have at least 2 Cure Slimes and Lethal Armour. You go from 1 - 16 Cure Slimes and if do it 4 times, you will ...

Someone want to double-check that edit for me, please?
I think I got it, but I suspect I lost some of the meaning.
@fbueckert That hurt to read.
18:10
22 hours ago, by Wipqozn
1 hour ago, by Wipqozn
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@StrixVaria K. Thanks.
@Sterno Yeah. I think my brain packed it in halfway through my attempted edit.
I don't follow the "you go from 1-16 cure slimes" bit, but your edit didn't make it any less intelligible
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER
@Wipqozn Wow, you dredged this back up?
@Wipqozn Why are we nesting comment threads?
18:13
@fbueckert I have my reasons.
Oh, hey, those video spam answers got deleted.
Good enough!
@fbueckert It's his thing.
I troll Rebecca Black videos on Friday. He nests comment threads.
@Sterno I thought his thing was swooshing and assuming he's awesome.
@fbueckert @Wipqozn is a man of many things.
@Sterno Touché
18:17
@Sterno Yes, yes I am.
I'm handsome too.
@fbueckert And what is to say he is not awesome?
Really handsome. Like hot damn. You wish you could be this handsome.
Anyone who can cart around @OrigamiRobot is worthy of a *
@James Just the delusions of grandeur make me leery of his awesomeness.
Nobody's awesome until I say they are.
He gets points for being Canadian and agreeing with me on most points, but he's not in awesome territory yet.
@fbueckert He is a tortoise dude.. Even just him knowing the concept of swoosh and shades is awesome :)
18:21
@fbueckert I guess negative points are still points.
@Sterno points = abs(points)
@badp The countdown actually will automatically start counting up afterwards, so we can accommodate this request.
@StrixVaria But we will have no desire to, being too busy playing XCOM.
Cool, it's an ambigram.
@Sterno Right, obviously.
18:26
@GnomeSlice Anagram?
@James Ambigram.
An ambigram is an art form that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation. The words readable in the other viewpoint, direction or orientation may be the same or different from the original words. Douglas R. Hofstadter describes an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that manages to squeeze two different readings into the selfsame set of curves." Different ambigram artists (sometimes called ambigramists) may create completely different ambigrams from the same word or words, differing in both style and form...
@James It's upside down and backwards; anagram is just the same word backwards.
If you look, it reads 'Drink' rightside up, and 'Drunk' upside down.
@fbueckert It's two different words.
You DRINK and then you're DRUNK.
@fbueckert You're thinking about a palindrome, an anagram is where you can rearrange the letters to make another word.
@James YOU CALLING ME FAT?
@RonanForman Derp.
These things are the sickest.
@OrigamiRobot Do robots even have a concept of fat?
@fbueckert Ahh, I see :)
@James Nope, you don't he's wrong.
@James I have a new intro for ultra hardcore made, I'm uploading it now.
@RonanForman Nice :)
I should get you to do an intro for my other series some time :)
18:35
@James Sure, or you could ask Gnome, he's better at it.
@RonanForman Yeah except he says No every time I asked him ;)
Actually, I lied, I'm compressing the video so it uploads faster.
I'm not waiting 10 hours for a 10 second video, although I suspect Dropbox's estimate was wrong.
@RonanForman Its all about balance.. we found we spent 40min compressing drops to Activision to save 1-2min upload time :D
@RonanForman I'm not sure about that.
@James Yeah, it's better than that, I'm loking at 22% file size reduction ATM.
18:38
@RonanForman What resolution on the video??
@GnomeSlice STOP IT! Stop doubting yourself.
@James 720p.
Did you want larger?
@RonanForman No...
@RonanForman I upload at 1080p but 720 should work ok I think
@James I'll give you a larger video then.
@RonanForman Thanks man
18:40
Ransom Riggs is the best
You can't use transparency anyway, so I wont need an AVI for this one.
@RonanForman I should be able to do the transparency I just need to figure out how to do it
@RonanForman What? Can't use transparency in what?
@GnomeSlice Anything other than AVIs.
@James No, that's why I'm asking.
18:43
@RonanForman ...That doesn't sound right. Are you talking about layers?
@GnomeSlice No, I'm talking about exporting video.
@GnomeSlice and then me importing video so I can overlay it on top of mine for the intros
@RonanForman Ah, roger. Exporting as a Photo sequence should work too.
Actually, that might produce an avi.
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Q: Can I install bought game on another mobile phone?

WarfaceI was wondering if it's possible to install games that I own from my Google Play account and install them on my girlfriend's phone just by log in with my account on her phone. Don't know if it's against there ToS since I can't find anything related to this on Google. I know this sounds illegal b...

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Q: Is Bad Piggies nondeterministic?

mrpyoI was watching video-review and reviewer said you can get different results with the same input which is weird since from what I know Rovio uses Box2D in their games an it IS deterministic. So did they use different physics engine this time or did they screw something up?

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Q: What happened to my Gearbox?

JamesSo, I am playing Better Than Wolves mod for Minecraft and I have a very nicely redstoned up kiln/crucible with a pottery wheel to the side. And it all works great most of the time.. But one to two times during a lengthy play session a gearbox just goes missing. I do not use the pottery table ofte...

18:59
Whew. This latest patch for D3 is going to require me to update several of my answers.
@fbueckert Notes?
Also why are D3 patches always scheduled around other major releases I'm interested in?
Mostly, Monster Power changes the game dramatically.
Double Legendary drop rate
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I saw that one.
That's good; although prices for those items will drop precipitously.
resplendant chest and events give stacks
19:04
@OrigamiRobot These notes have been out for at least a couple weeks.
@fbueckert I know I saw them before. I even played on PTR
MP10 is crazy
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I heard it adds craptons of health. 8300%, or something stupid like that.
Drat, 14 views and no answers yet.. I was hoping what was going wrong with my axle was simple
Hello.
@KBKarma Hi
19:09
I stopped using Seize the Initiative and started using Combination Strike
@OrigamiRobot With Inferno getting easier, I should be safe enough dropping Seize the Initiative.
Probably throw something else in there. Not sure what, yet.
@fbueckert At MP1, it is much easier
FUCK I missed an assignment.
@OrigamiRobot Which act?
@GnomeSlice What was the assignment?
19:10
@fbueckert I solo'd Seigebreaker no problem
@OrigamiRobot Awesome.
@fbueckert Oh. I planned on ignoring that anyway.
Monster power doesn't interest me.
By which I mean, I won't be able to finish it by tonight, probably.
I hammer through everything past Siegebreaker for my normal runs.
You never know.
Grab some coffee, fire up your text editor, and go out in a blaze of glory!
19:11
'Tis better to have submitted something and failed than to submit nothing at all!
... Provided it's a college assignment.
@StrixVaria What about the legendary ring construction?
As I am finding right now, trying to test if a service that interacts with a db works correctly... for a demo tomorrow.
@fbueckert Huh?
<=- is doing test merges in SVN and is weeping over missing Git
19:13
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
New Event: Infernal Machine

The Infernal Machine is a device that will allow level 60 players to battle "uber" versions of some of Sanctuary's most nefarious bosses. While the rewards for defeating these bosses will be great, some assembly is required. Only the most powerful Nephalem can unlock the secrets to building the Infernal Machine, but once forged the device can be used to open portals to special encounters featuring not one, but two bosses which have been augmented from their original versions, both in terms of difficulty and appearance. Defeating each boss pair will provide play
@fbueckert Oh. Meh.
I never got into the whole uber thing in D2.
@LessPop_MoreFizz Aw, I misread this as Matt Damon Craft
@StrixVaria Neither did I.
Still think it'll be interesting.
I might give it a go at some point, but it's not going to take priority over XCOM.
19:16
Right, back to work. I should probably go home at some point as well...
@James Would you like me to critique her substandard selection of gems and enchants?
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Q: Please explain time travel and the realm of sleep in Kingdom Hearts 3D

phoenixheart6To start, I have to say, this is by far the most confusing plot I have ever experienced. I have played all the other KH games and understood everything just fine, with perhaps a few question marks over my head here and there, but this is the first one that has left me entirely perplexed as to wha...

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Q: How does the stat "- ## to all armor" work?

Jonah BishopSome weapons (and other items as I recall) have a stat that negatively affects enemy armor. For example, the Quatermass and the Pit legendary mace has a -470 to all armor per hit stat. But how does this work? Let's suppose that I find a weapon that has -100 to all armor per hit, and I'm fighting...

@James The solution to the "falling through" problem is called "half-blocks" or "steps".
19:30
@MartinSojka Not sure what you mean?
@James Put half blocks on top of the water.
@MartinSojka Or lily pads.
@MartinSojka Ok now I am really confused.. What water??
Yeah, but I hate lily pads. They broke way too many of my boats. :)
I need some context here :)
19:31
@James Click the arrow.
@MartinSojka why would you use boats in the middle of a sugarcane farm?
The "up and to the left" arrow left of my text, to be precise.
@RonanForman @MartinSojka Oooh I am a moron, haha.. Yeah you could do that but for the sake of 2 more plants.. I go with the suggestion in the text and have a nicely patterned area :)
Besides, at the end of the day sugar cane is pointless to farm on that scale
@murgatroid99 I wouldn't, generally. It's just that it sucks to be driving around discovering places, then running into a bunch of lily pads at top speed, especially at night.
@James yeah, in one of my worlds, I just planted sugarcane on the edge of water near my spawn and had more than I ever needed
19:33
So ... I kinda consider them the creepers of the seas and hate them with a passion.
@murgatroid99 That is all I have done, and I gather up 104 pieces of cane per harvest.. More than enough :)
@MartinSojka I thought that was fixed in 1.3.2.. Lilly pads break when ran into by a boat now.
No clue, I'm still at 1.2.5 mostly due to mods.
Ah, 91% approaching 100% efficiency on large scale
@James This is why I stopped playing Minecraft.
I don't have the patience for this shit.
@James Is the lost efficiency from the top block?
If so then it looks like you can get efficiency arbitrarily high
19:40
Wow, the 'upload' button is broken for me...
Sickest thing.
@RonanForman What screen recording software should I use if I'm going to record on Saturday?
@murgatroid99 I am actually not sure why its only 91%
That honestly looks to me like you would have 100% usage of the land, maybe one edge that would be unuseable?
@James then it just depends on how they are counting efficiency
On a large scale (largest pyramid you can make in MC) it goes out to like 99.9992% efficiency, hehe
@RedRiderX Try this taksi.sourceforge.net I haven't used it but it seems like it'll do what you want.
19:43
@RonanForman Thanks.
@RedRiderX Are you doing the UHC??
@James I plan on it!
@RedRiderX Ill add your name to the list :D
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Prescriptions

Proposed Q&A site for medical experts and people interested in or needing information about prescriptions. Will focus on interactions, side effects, and health risks/benefits instead of medical ethics.

Currently in definition.

this will go well.
@James Might even record if I can get it going.
FAE
FAE
19:45
@LessPop_MoreFizz x_X
@RedRiderX Would be awesome if you could :)
@LessPop_MoreFizz the second example isn't even a question
People in Terrafirmacraft's IRC channel have been working the last couple of days to get some recording and encoding path ways set up so they can also join in :)
@James Pathways?
@RonanForman Setting up bat files and such to make encoding easier for em
They are scrounging together a free tool set
@James Sounds awesome, if they can get it working I'd like to see so more people can record for our channel
"Do you like games with aliens? No? When then you'll love this game, because you get to shoot aliens!"
@Sterno Heeheehee
@RonanForman I saw no chatter about it today so I assume they worked it out :)
@James I'll judge that on Saturday. :)
19:53
Fair Enough :)
I just have one goal on Saturday
Wake up in time :D
Sure, I'll be carrying a bucket anyway.
@Sterno @LessPop_MoreFizz linked this yesterday. It's a terrible video.
If that was my first exposure to the game, I would not want it at all.
@LessPop_MoreFizz What's practical about this.
@GnomeSlice Presumably that it may result in the death of said person?
19:58
> "This is absolutely a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience and probably the most dangerous musical instrument ever created! I'm absolutely electrified and terrified by the opportunity to play a keyboard solo with so much energy, and to use this incredibly powerful device to send a musical surge through David's brain! I just hope he can withstand my high-powered party piano playing!"
@GnomeSlice Music is practical.
Ugh... the puns...
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Q: How to calculate DPS of your pet?

DrakeUsing arcane statistic panel I am able to understand with good precision how much DPS I do with my weapon, but how can I calculate the DPS of my pet? I didn't find anything in arcane panel and the damage shown on pet inventory seems not accurate, I am quite sure that attack speed does not influen...

@LessPop_MoreFizz Not if you're using 1,000,000 volts...
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