This new nameplate system they put it sucks major ass.
Let's say you have a house. Outside it there's one group, and inside it is another. If you have nameplates on, you can see the nameplates of everybody inside the house, even if you're not in it. Whether you want to or not. If you're fighting the group outside, if you're looking the right way, you'll have the plates of the other group spammed onto your screen, overlapping with the plates of the group you're actually fighting. And the game will happily let you tab to them as well, further screwing things up. There's no way that I could see to filter this shit off.
I mean, I guess it's really useful to see exactly who is inside something, or behind a corner, or whatnot. But I also don't need those bars on my screen when the group is around a corner and out of sight. Stupid annoying bullshit.
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LoS is a lost art in tanking, it seems. I remember I used to use it constantly as a paladin, and haven't used it once as either a warrior or paladin in Wrath.
They went way overboard on the whole making tanking less stressful in five mans stuff, using CC and pulling safely was fun, wrestling with aggro wasn't.
LoS is a lost art in tanking, it seems. I remember I used to use it constantly as a paladin, and haven't used it once as either a warrior or paladin in Wrath.
I've tried to use it occasionally in HoS for the caster groups.
The problem is, LoS doesn't work unless the whole group is onboard and not tards.
I'm busy reinstalling every patch from 3.0 upwards because I had to run the repair to actually get my wow working, and I don't even know if it worked yet!
I think I have this same issue, it seems to have fucked up my launcher/wow.exe files to a fare thee well.
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I look forward to wiping on trash thirteen fucking times and then one shotting the bosses.
If Gev does not die in the double digits then I will be sorely disappointed.
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I'm busy reinstalling every patch from 3.0 upwards because I had to run the repair to actually get my wow working, and I don't even know if it worked yet!
I think I have this same issue, it seems to have fucked up my launcher/wow.exe files to a fare thee well.
I managed to fix it, but it ain't pretty. I had to boot up in safemode and change the wow.exe permissions to allow me to run it, then copy that .exe to another folder. Now every time I restart wow, I need to copy the .exe I changed back into the wow folder over the .exe I can't use. It's a complete bitch to do and I wonder how they expect anyone to discover this.
I look forward to wiping on trash thirteen fucking times and then one shotting the bosses.
If Gev does not die in the double digits then I will be sorely disappointed.
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I look forward to wiping on trash thirteen fucking times and then one shotting the bosses.
If Gev does not die in the double digits then I will be sorely disappointed.
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Wouldn't be a beast raid if Gev wasn't dead twice in one pull.
Though I do totally take the blame for one of those deaths tonight. I was having trouble hearing you over the in game music (was turning it on just for the new instances) and only heard "Don't attack during the mirror attack." Didn't hear the why part.
In retrospect, it was a mistake to use army of the dead prior to the pull, since they can not turn off their attack.
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There's two groups of items that can be inside them. One includes bracers, rings, necklaces and cloaks. The other has belts, boots, gloves and shoulder items. What you'll find in the satchel is one item from each group, and this is also further influenced by a ten level range. So for example, what is in a satchel received for completing a dungeon between levels 20 and 30 might be a nice necklace and some gloves, but from a dungeon between 50 and 60 you might get a ring and some new boots.
Pretty good runs tonight, server was much stabler than expected.
Tried the random dungeon and got Gundrak right off, so that was a ton of easy emblems plus our bonus 2 frost emblems. Then ran part of Naxx and cleared the weekly raid quest there for 5 more frost and 5 triumph emblems. Then did the first of the new dungeons (on heroic) and cleared it with only a single wipe (and I got a new epic dagger for my rogue, and someone else got the battered hilt, both off of trash mobs).
Then we lost a member but decided to try another random dungeon and see who it gives us for a fifth.
We got Utgarde Pinnacle for the dungeon, and a gnome warrior from another server for the pugger. And this guy was insane. Literally. He actually had the Insane title, which considering the requirements is a mark of insanity if I ever saw one. He also had nearly 10K achievement points, and blew up everything in a matter of seconds. He never said anything but "Telemundo!" and we cleared the whole dungeon in 15 minutes and then he handed all the loot he won to the tank and left. He might have been a robot. Still, probably the best pug'd player I've worked with.
Edit: Also, I was getting Frosthold rep from the heroics, which is the only Northrend faction I'm not exalted with (aside from Frenzyheart, who I used to be exalted with, and the new Ashen Verdict). Kind of annoyed that I wasted all that time grinding Explorer's League to exalted.
I look forward to wiping on trash thirteen fucking times and then one shotting the bosses.
If Gev does not die in the double digits then I will be sorely disappointed.
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Wouldn't be a beast raid if Gev wasn't dead twice in one pull.
Though I do totally take the blame for one of those deaths tonight. I was having trouble hearing you over the in game music (was turning it on just for the new instances) and only heard "Don't attack during the mirror attack." Didn't hear the why part.
In retrospect, it was a mistake to use army of the dead prior to the pull, since they can not turn off their attack.
Second death was my own fault... running right when I should have run left.
This new nameplate system they put it sucks major ass.
Let's say you have a house. Outside it there's one group, and inside it is another. If you have nameplates on, you can see the nameplates of everybody inside the house, even if you're not in it. Whether you want to or not. If you're fighting the group outside, if you're looking the right way, you'll have the plates of the other group spammed onto your screen, overlapping with the plates of the group you're actually fighting. And the game will happily let you tab to them as well, further screwing things up. There's no way that I could see to filter this shit off.
I mean, I guess it's really useful to see exactly who is inside something, or behind a corner, or whatnot. But I also don't need those bars on my screen when the group is around a corner and out of sight. Stupid annoying bullshit.
You can turn off the overlapping inthe interface options, I can't remember the exact name of the option but it's the one where you can also turn off/on NPC names and whatnot.
Pretty good runs tonight, server was much stabler than expected.
Tried the random dungeon and got Gundrak right off, so that was a ton of easy emblems plus our bonus 2 frost emblems. Then ran part of Naxx and cleared the weekly raid quest there for 5 more frost and 5 triumph emblems. Then did the first of the new dungeons (on heroic) and cleared it with only a single wipe (and I got a new epic dagger for my rogue, and someone else got the battered hilt, both off of trash mobs).
Then we lost a member but decided to try another random dungeon and see who it gives us for a fifth.
We got Utgarde Pinnacle for the dungeon, and a gnome warrior from another server for the pugger. And this guy was insane. Literally. He actually had the Insane title, which considering the requirements is a mark of insanity if I ever saw one. He also had nearly 10K achievement points, and blew up everything in a matter of seconds. He never said anything but "Telemundo!" and we cleared the whole dungeon in 15 minutes and then he handed all the loot he won to the tank and left. He might have been a robot. Still, probably the best pug'd player I've worked with.
Edit: Also, I was getting Frosthold rep from the heroics, which is the only Northrend faction I'm not exalted with (aside from Frenzyheart, who I used to be exalted with, and the new Ashen Verdict). Kind of annoyed that I wasted all that time grinding Explorer's League to exalted.
That sounds like the best pug ever.
"Can I roll need on that?"
"TELEMUNDO"
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I've only done the first 2 wings due to technical difficulties but damn are the new 5-mans fantastic.
The drop rate for battered hilt also seems pretty reasonable considering my group saw 2 drop over the course of our runs.
This new nameplate system they put it sucks major ass.
Let's say you have a house. Outside it there's one group, and inside it is another. If you have nameplates on, you can see the nameplates of everybody inside the house, even if you're not in it. Whether you want to or not. If you're fighting the group outside, if you're looking the right way, you'll have the plates of the other group spammed onto your screen, overlapping with the plates of the group you're actually fighting. And the game will happily let you tab to them as well, further screwing things up. There's no way that I could see to filter this shit off.
I mean, I guess it's really useful to see exactly who is inside something, or behind a corner, or whatnot. But I also don't need those bars on my screen when the group is around a corner and out of sight. Stupid annoying bullshit.
You can turn off the overlapping inthe interface options, I can't remember the exact name of the option but it's the one where you can also turn off/on NPC names and whatnot.
I played with that. It helps a little, but not much.
To be honest though, I didn't even notice it at first. Mainly because instances today are pretty much just straight linear lines, so nothing seemed weird while doing the Icecrown wings. But then I went into the Battle of Durnholde to grind out some rep, and that's when I saw what was going on. And it was damn near unbearable. I shouldn't be able to accidently click or tab target something that is around a corner and out of my sight. It has its uses for sure, but there needs to be a way to filter it out somehow.
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I don't recall this happening before: when you buy new skills from the trainer, they are automatically placed on your action bars. Nice.
Also, the new map/quest interface is really nice.
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We got Utgarde Pinnacle for the dungeon, and a gnome warrior from another server for the pugger. And this guy was insane. Literally. He actually had the Insane title, which considering the requirements is a mark of insanity if I ever saw one. He also had nearly 10K achievement points, and blew up everything in a matter of seconds. He never said anything but "Telemundo!" and we cleared the whole dungeon in 15 minutes and then he handed all the loot he won to the tank and left. He might have been a robot. Still, probably the best pug'd player I've worked with.
Enjoyed the 5-mans. We were lucky enough to be able to join them, and after a few spots of lag, complete them. They seemed way too short, but still pretty neat.
Bosses still feel like simple tank/spanks, and CC is still pointless. Would have liked to have seen more of a challenge. Our healer was still in blues, not even ToC geared.
I'm a little wary about this "Needs better gear" checking they're doing... I can see a hunter that's gathered a bunch of high iLevel cloth items in LFG, just to get past that check... then switching to his blues/greens once in the instance.
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I ran around collecting herbs last night. It was pretty sweet.
What? The servers didn't crash? You didn't see the herbs come together and go all kzzak-ksh-ksh-ssssshzing and suddenly you were being attacked by Herbosaurus, Verdant Protector? No randomly chosen herbs for you? DAMMIT MAN IT'S PATCH DAY SOMETHING MUST HAVE GONE WRONG
I was under the impression that the cross-realm Battle.net thing was being implimented with this, must be with the expansion. I haven't looked into it much, but I wonder if you can set up groups with people on different realms that way
Well, I had to help my girlfriend do her homework at the same time. I guess that kind of sucked.
Anyhow Ravenholdt has been pretty cool. Some Alliance dude just ran right past me while I was AFK. I about had a stroke.
When me and my friends first rerolled Alliance together a few of us met up in Westfall and my first thought was, "Oh shit, a Dwarf, run!" untill I remembered I wasn't playing Horde anymore.
I was under the impression that the cross-realm Battle.net thing was being implimented with this, must be with the expansion. I haven't looked into it much, but I wonder if you can set up groups with people on different realms that way
Anything related to bnet outside of account login/management will not be implemented until cataclysm
I need a Horde server, still haven't made any. I may use Ravenholdt for that if enough people play there. Good balance between Alliance/Horde?
As far as our guilds size we're just barely out of reach of doing 25man and now that we have crossrealm lfg the only thing the population really limits is the amount of pug raids which are still common enough that I personally haven't found it a problem. There isn't a good balance between alliance and horde though I've never seen the alliance with less then 3 tenacity in WG personally.
I do heartily recommend the server though I haven't really run into too many assholes
So those Satchels of Helpful goods that lower levels can get from the random dungeon daily, what's in them?
As I alluded to above, I ran two instances (RFD and SM Armory) on my 36 priest as a healer; in both cases I got bop blue caster cloth shoulders.
As a lvl 65 warrior, I ran 2 dungeons with lfd. Apparently, at lvl 65 random dungeon means mana tombs. Hopefully I get some new ones today. Also, both times my satchel included the same caster neck. I think it sucks for a warrior to get soulbound neck caster items
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Of course, if you want The Horde with the Whores, we at the Obsidian Spur are always eager to peel the flesh from your succulen... err please.
I need a Horde server, still haven't made any. I may use Ravenholdt for that if enough people play there. Good balance between Alliance/Horde?
Raven is pretty heavy horde pop. I don't think I've seen the Alliance keep WG like ever on my server, which makes for all those wonderful stone shards.
I was under the impression that the cross-realm Battle.net thing was being implimented with this, must be with the expansion. I haven't looked into it much, but I wonder if you can set up groups with people on different realms that way
Anything related to bnet outside of account login/management will not be implemented until cataclysm
I need a Horde server, still haven't made any. I may use Ravenholdt for that if enough people play there. Good balance between Alliance/Horde?
As far as our guilds size we're just barely out of reach of doing 25man and now that we have crossrealm lfg the only thing the population really limits is the amount of pug raids which are still common enough that I personally haven't found it a problem. There isn't a good balance between alliance and horde though I've never seen the alliance with less then 3 tenacity in WG personally.
I do heartily recommend the server though I haven't really run into too many assholes
Balance is a little better than it used to be, which was somewhere in the 70/30 ratio, though Horde still has a distinct population advantage.
This is also partly due to the plethora of Blood Elf RP guilds. I'm sure at least 15% of the Horde population doesn't even leave Silvermoon.
So half my guild ran FL with pug groups to do the new weekly raid quest already, so they're locked out of our scheduled planned raid this week. I already dislike the weekly raid quests because some people don't think ahead. Like apparently the bulk of my guild.
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Let's say you have a house. Outside it there's one group, and inside it is another. If you have nameplates on, you can see the nameplates of everybody inside the house, even if you're not in it. Whether you want to or not. If you're fighting the group outside, if you're looking the right way, you'll have the plates of the other group spammed onto your screen, overlapping with the plates of the group you're actually fighting. And the game will happily let you tab to them as well, further screwing things up. There's no way that I could see to filter this shit off.
I mean, I guess it's really useful to see exactly who is inside something, or behind a corner, or whatnot. But I also don't need those bars on my screen when the group is around a corner and out of sight. Stupid annoying bullshit.
I've tried to use it occasionally in HoS for the caster groups.
The problem is, LoS doesn't work unless the whole group is onboard and not tards.
I think I have this same issue, it seems to have fucked up my launcher/wow.exe files to a fare thee well.
If Gev does not die in the double digits then I will be sorely disappointed.
I managed to fix it, but it ain't pretty. I had to boot up in safemode and change the wow.exe permissions to allow me to run it, then copy that .exe to another folder. Now every time I restart wow, I need to copy the .exe I changed back into the wow folder over the .exe I can't use. It's a complete bitch to do and I wonder how they expect anyone to discover this.
Wouldn't be a beast raid if Gev wasn't dead twice in one pull.
Though I do totally take the blame for one of those deaths tonight. I was having trouble hearing you over the in game music (was turning it on just for the new instances) and only heard "Don't attack during the mirror attack." Didn't hear the why part.
In retrospect, it was a mistake to use army of the dead prior to the pull, since they can not turn off their attack.
Mostly because I can't find out. Frozen at the Wailing Caverns loading bar.
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11541734812&sid=1
Tried the random dungeon and got Gundrak right off, so that was a ton of easy emblems plus our bonus 2 frost emblems. Then ran part of Naxx and cleared the weekly raid quest there for 5 more frost and 5 triumph emblems. Then did the first of the new dungeons (on heroic) and cleared it with only a single wipe (and I got a new epic dagger for my rogue, and someone else got the battered hilt, both off of trash mobs).
Then we lost a member but decided to try another random dungeon and see who it gives us for a fifth.
We got Utgarde Pinnacle for the dungeon, and a gnome warrior from another server for the pugger. And this guy was insane. Literally. He actually had the Insane title, which considering the requirements is a mark of insanity if I ever saw one. He also had nearly 10K achievement points, and blew up everything in a matter of seconds. He never said anything but "Telemundo!" and we cleared the whole dungeon in 15 minutes and then he handed all the loot he won to the tank and left. He might have been a robot. Still, probably the best pug'd player I've worked with.
Edit: Also, I was getting Frosthold rep from the heroics, which is the only Northrend faction I'm not exalted with (aside from Frenzyheart, who I used to be exalted with, and the new Ashen Verdict). Kind of annoyed that I wasted all that time grinding Explorer's League to exalted.
That sounds like the best pug ever.
"Can I roll need on that?"
"TELEMUNDO"
The drop rate for battered hilt also seems pretty reasonable considering my group saw 2 drop over the course of our runs.
I played with that. It helps a little, but not much.
To be honest though, I didn't even notice it at first. Mainly because instances today are pretty much just straight linear lines, so nothing seemed weird while doing the Icecrown wings. But then I went into the Battle of Durnholde to grind out some rep, and that's when I saw what was going on. And it was damn near unbearable. I shouldn't be able to accidently click or tab target something that is around a corner and out of my sight. It has its uses for sure, but there needs to be a way to filter it out somehow.
Also, the new map/quest interface is really nice.
This story made me smile.
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Bosses still feel like simple tank/spanks, and CC is still pointless. Would have liked to have seen more of a challenge. Our healer was still in blues, not even ToC geared.
I'm a little wary about this "Needs better gear" checking they're doing... I can see a hunter that's gathered a bunch of high iLevel cloth items in LFG, just to get past that check... then switching to his blues/greens once in the instance.
As I alluded to above, I ran two instances (RFD and SM Armory) on my 36 priest as a healer; in both cases I got bop blue caster cloth shoulders.
I did uh, whatever the first new instance is this morning before work.
1 instance and the Sunwell shit away from my new weapon.
Hopefully that means a solution to the dual-spec problem of off-spec skills not automatically updating when you buy new ranks. Hopefully.
What? The servers didn't crash? You didn't see the herbs come together and go all kzzak-ksh-ksh-ssssshzing and suddenly you were being attacked by Herbosaurus, Verdant Protector? No randomly chosen herbs for you? DAMMIT MAN IT'S PATCH DAY SOMETHING MUST HAVE GONE WRONG
Anyhow Ravenholdt has been pretty cool. Some Alliance dude just ran right past me while I was AFK. I about had a stroke.
I gotta say transferring to Ravenholdt as been the best WoW decision in my life. I may bring all my characters there.
Anything related to bnet outside of account login/management will not be implemented until cataclysm
As far as our guilds size we're just barely out of reach of doing 25man and now that we have crossrealm lfg the only thing the population really limits is the amount of pug raids which are still common enough that I personally haven't found it a problem. There isn't a good balance between alliance and horde though I've never seen the alliance with less then 3 tenacity in WG personally.
I do heartily recommend the server though I haven't really run into too many assholes
As a lvl 65 warrior, I ran 2 dungeons with lfd. Apparently, at lvl 65 random dungeon means mana tombs. Hopefully I get some new ones today. Also, both times my satchel included the same caster neck. I think it sucks for a warrior to get soulbound neck caster items
Raven is pretty heavy horde pop. I don't think I've seen the Alliance keep WG like ever on my server, which makes for all those wonderful stone shards.
This is also partly due to the plethora of Blood Elf RP guilds. I'm sure at least 15% of the Horde population doesn't even leave Silvermoon.
(Sigh.)