I would totally do AngusDei if you could capitalize mid-name. Moosader is totally awesome too, though.
Still sticking with Lightcream, though - it works on so many levels. Especially if I use the blondeish-colored cow.
I really wish you could do middle caps. Put a limit of 2 so people don't go nuts, and have it not affect the actual spelling of the name. It would make things so much better.
As a resto Shaman, I get horribly bored. I often try to get the tank, regardless of whatever gear he's in, to speed it up and start chain pulling. Literally, Earth Shield and Riptide pretty much take care of it all.
Holy Paladin is SO SO SO SO much worse.
Like seriously, I have zero attack spells of any consequence so I can't even DPS if I wanted to.
Mostly I Sacred Shield the tank, Judge Light, alt-tab-forum-reading.
I've healed whole runs while only casting like 20 heal spells.
Not to throw spit into the fire or anything, but isn't the dude from MMO IN the alpha?
Something I read made me think that. Whatever you guys think about him, he seems to get the scoop on shit pretty quick, one thinks he might have an inside angle on stuff.
As a resto Shaman, I get horribly bored. I often try to get the tank, regardless of whatever gear he's in, to speed it up and start chain pulling. Literally, Earth Shield and Riptide pretty much take care of it all.
Holy Paladin is SO SO SO SO much worse.
Like seriously, I have zero attack spells of any consequence so I can't even DPS if I wanted to.
Mostly I Sacred Shield the tank, Judge Light, alt-tab-forum-reading.
I've healed whole runs while only casting like 20 heal spells.
put up SoR (Sov/Corr bosses), run up to mobs, consecrate, SHoR, judge, holy shock, exorcism if feelin' frisky, holy wrath for undeads
not amazing dps potential but you should at least add a small amount to pulls. I usually toss around bombs as well
Not to throw spit into the fire or anything, but isn't the dude from MMO IN the alpha?
Something I read made me think that. Whatever you guys think about him, he seems to get the scoop on shit pretty quick, one thinks he might have an inside angle on stuff.
Not to throw spit into the fire or anything, but isn't the dude from MMO IN the alpha?
Something I read made me think that. Whatever you guys think about him, he seems to get the scoop on shit pretty quick, one thinks he might have an inside angle on stuff.
Hu? The guy from MMO? Do you mean mmo-champion?
Yes, hes in the alpha. He says so on his website.
Yeaaaaah. About that. I think it's pretty much certainly past-tense now. Not only did he commit major NDA violations, but he shouldn't have been in in the first place, due to being press.
Really, what he pulled was a major dick move. Remember - an employee had to invite him in the first place, and employees can't give out invites to press or people who are affiliated with gaming sites.
So, by first off admitting that he's in the alpha and then blowing it sky high, he's not only boned himself, there's a good chance he ended up getting someone fired with his bullshit.
Really, I wouldn't care if he was just some dude who was datamining, but to violate the trust of someone and get that person fired, as well as recanting on his earlier promise to abide by the guidelines of the NDA.... yeah. That really gets me riled.
I used to moonfire/wrath/hurricane in groups to speed things up till I realized that in the groups that can afford me not healing my 1k dps isn't really speeding it up at all.
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Not to throw spit into the fire or anything, but isn't the dude from MMO IN the alpha?
Something I read made me think that. Whatever you guys think about him, he seems to get the scoop on shit pretty quick, one thinks he might have an inside angle on stuff.
Hu? The guy from MMO? Do you mean mmo-champion?
Yes, hes in the alpha. He says so on his website.
Yeaaaaah. About that. I think it's pretty much certainly past-tense now. Not only did he commit major NDA violations, but he shouldn't have been in in the first place, due to being press.
Really, what he pulled was a major dick move. Remember - an employee had to invite him in the first place, and employees can't give out invites to press or people who are affiliated with gaming sites.
So, by first off admitting that he's in the alpha and then blowing it sky high, he's not only boned himself, there's a good chance he ended up getting someone fired with his bullshit.
Really, I wouldn't care if he was just some dude who was datamining, but to violate the trust of someone and get that person fired, as well as recanting on his earlier promise to abide by the guidelines of the NDA.... yeah. That really gets me riled.
My biggest problem (if that's what happened) would be that he blew his alpha access to post crap from the earliest build rather than waiting for more stuff to be added. That would be pretty moronic and short-sighted.
Not to throw spit into the fire or anything, but isn't the dude from MMO IN the alpha?
Something I read made me think that. Whatever you guys think about him, he seems to get the scoop on shit pretty quick, one thinks he might have an inside angle on stuff.
Hu? The guy from MMO? Do you mean mmo-champion?
Yes, hes in the alpha. He says so on his website.
Yeaaaaah. About that. I think it's pretty much certainly past-tense now. Not only did he commit major NDA violations, but he shouldn't have been in in the first place, due to being press.
Really, what he pulled was a major dick move. Remember - an employee had to invite him in the first place, and employees can't give out invites to press or people who are affiliated with gaming sites.
So, by first off admitting that he's in the alpha and then blowing it sky high, he's not only boned himself, there's a good chance he ended up getting someone fired with his bullshit.
Really, I wouldn't care if he was just some dude who was datamining, but to violate the trust of someone and get that person fired, as well as recanting on his earlier promise to abide by the guidelines of the NDA.... yeah. That really gets me riled.
Well, I was more responding to Ender's "He must have an inside source!" when the mmo-champion guy almost directly says "I have an inside source. Its the alpha."
Personally, he was also revealing a lot of shit I just didn't want to be true. Seriously, fuck Garrosh. Frankly, I'm going to sit out the Catalcysm launch, and if WoW draws me back, so be it, but I want to see how things go first, as well as reclaim my week nights. (Which means I'd play more "casually", if I play again.)
This is pretty much what I'm doing as well. I'm looking at the new MMOs coming out to replace WoW because, frankly, I haven't liked a whole lot of the lore changes and gameplay things they have been doing lately, primarily with how they just rushed right through Wrath. Here's Ulduar for what feels like 3 months and then ToC, and then free badges for easymode heroics. And the whole GS thing. It's not all Blizzard's fault but it's still a problem all the same.
It's just feels so goddamn easy and everyone's characters are all wearing the latest gear sets you need to raid, PvP gear is almost irrelevantly easy to ignore/get, and resist gear is almost never used anymore. And nothing about what Cataclysm is showing right now indicates that this will change.
This game just ain't impressing me or entertaining me as much as it did before.
It's pretty damn unlikely he's in the alpha himself since it'd be much easier to get info from an anonymous source then post; since he hasn't signed an NDA they can't go after him and he can keep his source(s) secret. Plus, given the Cataclysm info he had access to before Blizzcon we already know he has or at least had inside sources with Blizz.
My biggest problem (if that's what happened) would be that he blew his alpha access to post crap from the earliest build rather than waiting for more stuff to be added. That would be pretty moronic and short-sighted.
Really, I wouldn't care that he boned himself, but... okay. I will say this - I know a lot more about the inner workings of Blizzard that the vast majority of people out there.
And from what I know, the only possible way for him to be in the alpha as he had claimed is if a GM in Austin had invited him. Which means he got some poor schmuck fired because Blizzard can and will track down the person who gave him the invite. They have an entire department dedicated to loss-prevention stuff like that.
The reason it has to be an Austin GM is simple - his posts about the state of Alpha and his leaked info all directly correlate to when that information had been passed to GMs in general, since they're low on the totem pole and they hear about stuff way after the people in Irvine do.
For the record, my sources are: At my current job, we have several employees who used to do GM work for Blizzard before they closed the center out here. I get to hear all sorts of awesome stories.
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edited May 2010
I fail to feel sorry for this hypothetical "poor schmuck" who possibly invited him in to the alpha in the first place. Stupidity has a price.
Like I've said before, the healer role in 5-mans has been optional for quite a while now.
I can count on one hand the amount of random heroics I've been on where I could afford to just sit there and DPS and never heal.
If you're sitting there doing randoms with all ridiculously overgeared guidlies, sure, but for the majority of the people you get saddled with in entirely pugged runs? Not a chance.
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- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I fail to feel sorry for this hypothetical "poor schmuck" who possibly invited him in to the alpha in the first place. Stupidity has a price.
I can almost certainly guarantee that it's not hypothetical. And I wouldn't call it stupidity, necessarily. He could have been bribed, or really could have just been trying to be nice and got burned.
Regardless, posting all about how you'd respect Blizzard's wishes and not do anything that could violate the NDA, blahblah, and then going around the next day and doing everything you said you wouldn't do is fucked up.
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I fail to feel sorry for this hypothetical "poor schmuck" who possibly invited him in to the alpha in the first place. Stupidity has a price.
I can almost certainly guarantee that it's not hypothetical. And I wouldn't call it stupidity, necessarily. He could have been bribed,
Oh now I'm really feeling sorry for him.
or really could have just been trying to be nice and got burned.
= stupidity.
"Hey, I run the #1 WoW data mining/rumor mongering site. If you give me an alpha access I promise I won't immediately leak everything all over the Internet after I'm done being pretentious." *wears a beret*
"I don't know..."
"Scout's honor." *drinks wine, eats croissant*
"Well, when you put it like that, here's an alpha access key."
"Merci." *surrenders*
My biggest problem (if that's what happened) would be that he blew his alpha access to post crap from the earliest build rather than waiting for more stuff to be added. That would be pretty moronic and short-sighted.
Really, I wouldn't care that he boned himself, but... okay. I will say this - I know a lot more about the inner workings of Blizzard that the vast majority of people out there.
And from what I know, the only possible way for him to be in the alpha as he had claimed is if a GM in Austin had invited him. Which means he got some poor schmuck fired because Blizzard can and will track down the person who gave him the invite. They have an entire department dedicated to loss-prevention stuff like that.
The reason it has to be an Austin GM is simple - his posts about the state of Alpha and his leaked info all directly correlate to when that information had been passed to GMs in general, since they're low on the totem pole and they hear about stuff way after the people in Irvine do.
For the record, my sources are: At my current job, we have several employees who used to do GM work for Blizzard before they closed the center out here. I get to hear all sorts of awesome stories.
Remember he's leaked info before though, albeit not nearly as early as this. From his (rare) posts on the SA forums around Blizzcon he said he has several connections with Blizzard employees, which was confirmed by another regular poster and previous Blizzard employee (who had the same info for at least a week or two prior to blizzcon, but unlike Boubouille he wouldn't risk posting more than a vague hint or two that only made sense in hindsight, since he still works in the game industry and would risk his reputation if he leaked stuff).
If he doesn't have access but only secondhand info or use of someone else's alpha account it would be much harder to track down as well. I also think it was confirmed he's french in which case he probably gets his stuff from WoW-Europe employees.
My biggest problem (if that's what happened) would be that he blew his alpha access to post crap from the earliest build rather than waiting for more stuff to be added. That would be pretty moronic and short-sighted.
Really, I wouldn't care that he boned himself, but... okay. I will say this - I know a lot more about the inner workings of Blizzard that the vast majority of people out there.
And from what I know, the only possible way for him to be in the alpha as he had claimed is if a GM in Austin had invited him. Which means he got some poor schmuck fired because Blizzard can and will track down the person who gave him the invite. They have an entire department dedicated to loss-prevention stuff like that.
The reason it has to be an Austin GM is simple - his posts about the state of Alpha and his leaked info all directly correlate to when that information had been passed to GMs in general, since they're low on the totem pole and they hear about stuff way after the people in Irvine do.
For the record, my sources are: At my current job, we have several employees who used to do GM work for Blizzard before they closed the center out here. I get to hear all sorts of awesome stories.
Remember he's leaked info before though, albeit not nearly as early as this. From his (rare) posts on the SA forums around Blizzcon he said he has several connections with Blizzard employees, which was confirmed by another regular poster and previous Blizzard employee (who had the same info for at least a week or two prior to blizzcon, but unlike Boubouille he wouldn't risk posting more than a vague hint or two that only made sense in hindsight, since he still works in the game industry and would risk his reputation if he leaked stuff).
If he doesn't have access but only secondhand info or use of someone else's alpha account it would be much harder to track down as well. I also think it was confirmed he's french in which case he probably gets his stuff from WoW-Europe employees.
I picture Boubouille riding around with a posse of GMs, like some sort of geeky, unholy French pimp.
...hell, my active sources are better than his. Maybe I should betray their trust and set up a gaming website to funnel money into my pocket. 8-) 8-)
Like I've said before, the healer role in 5-mans has been optional for quite a while now.
I can count on one hand the amount of random heroics I've been on where I could afford to just sit there and DPS and never heal.
If you're sitting there doing randoms with all ridiculously overgeared guidlies, sure, but for the majority of the people you get saddled with in entirely pugged runs? Not a chance.
I didn't mean to imply that groups never need any heals. Rather, I'm saying that groups haven't required a dedicated healer (who does almost nothing but heal/support) in a long time.
To most people this is probably a good thing, since it makes groups easier to create. But to me, this is very disappointing, because the reason I play a healer is to support my group. To be the most important role in the group, by virtue of amplifying everyone else and mitigating their mistakes. To be able to prop up the rest of the party so that they can accomplish more.
WotLK's 5-man instances severely marginalized that role, probably because there are not a lot of people who enjoy it. Again, I'd guess that most people were in favor of that change, so overall it was a good thing.
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reVerseAttack and Dethrone GodRegistered Userregular
edited May 2010
Upon learning that he is French, I have adjusted the hypothetical scenario in my previous post.
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Shaman name. They can walk on water and resurrect themselves, after all.
edit: Make your gaild name <Peccata Moondi>
Yeah I was thinking that.
The best tauren name I saw ever was Anguskhan. Fuck that was so clever.
Or Mooscipe.
Also, I just remembered this from that time we had the HUGE argument about MMO Champ:
Steam: YOU FACE JARAXXUS| Twitch.tv: CainLoveless
Still sticking with Lightcream, though - it works on so many levels. Especially if I use the blondeish-colored cow.
DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN
I long for a better connection than dialup so I can see that again.
ZOMG WORGEN FEMALES!
My favorite remains the Tauren druid: Bullshift
Also, Sirloin for the (male) paladin
I really wish you could do middle caps. Put a limit of 2 so people don't go nuts, and have it not affect the actual spelling of the name. It would make things so much better.
Holy Paladin is SO SO SO SO much worse.
Like seriously, I have zero attack spells of any consequence so I can't even DPS if I wanted to.
Mostly I Sacred Shield the tank, Judge Light, alt-tab-forum-reading.
I've healed whole runs while only casting like 20 heal spells.
Something I read made me think that. Whatever you guys think about him, he seems to get the scoop on shit pretty quick, one thinks he might have an inside angle on stuff.
put up SoR (Sov/Corr bosses), run up to mobs, consecrate, SHoR, judge, holy shock, exorcism if feelin' frisky, holy wrath for undeads
not amazing dps potential but you should at least add a small amount to pulls. I usually toss around bombs as well
Hu? The guy from MMO? Do you mean mmo-champion?
Yes, hes in the alpha. He says so on his website.
Yeaaaaah. About that. I think it's pretty much certainly past-tense now. Not only did he commit major NDA violations, but he shouldn't have been in in the first place, due to being press.
Really, what he pulled was a major dick move. Remember - an employee had to invite him in the first place, and employees can't give out invites to press or people who are affiliated with gaming sites.
So, by first off admitting that he's in the alpha and then blowing it sky high, he's not only boned himself, there's a good chance he ended up getting someone fired with his bullshit.
Really, I wouldn't care if he was just some dude who was datamining, but to violate the trust of someone and get that person fired, as well as recanting on his earlier promise to abide by the guidelines of the NDA.... yeah. That really gets me riled.
SW:Tor - Tao - Kryatt Dragon Server
My biggest problem (if that's what happened) would be that he blew his alpha access to post crap from the earliest build rather than waiting for more stuff to be added. That would be pretty moronic and short-sighted.
Well, I was more responding to Ender's "He must have an inside source!" when the mmo-champion guy almost directly says "I have an inside source. Its the alpha."
This is pretty much what I'm doing as well. I'm looking at the new MMOs coming out to replace WoW because, frankly, I haven't liked a whole lot of the lore changes and gameplay things they have been doing lately, primarily with how they just rushed right through Wrath. Here's Ulduar for what feels like 3 months and then ToC, and then free badges for easymode heroics. And the whole GS thing. It's not all Blizzard's fault but it's still a problem all the same.
It's just feels so goddamn easy and everyone's characters are all wearing the latest gear sets you need to raid, PvP gear is almost irrelevantly easy to ignore/get, and resist gear is almost never used anymore. And nothing about what Cataclysm is showing right now indicates that this will change.
This game just ain't impressing me or entertaining me as much as it did before.
Really, I wouldn't care that he boned himself, but... okay. I will say this - I know a lot more about the inner workings of Blizzard that the vast majority of people out there.
And from what I know, the only possible way for him to be in the alpha as he had claimed is if a GM in Austin had invited him. Which means he got some poor schmuck fired because Blizzard can and will track down the person who gave him the invite. They have an entire department dedicated to loss-prevention stuff like that.
The reason it has to be an Austin GM is simple - his posts about the state of Alpha and his leaked info all directly correlate to when that information had been passed to GMs in general, since they're low on the totem pole and they hear about stuff way after the people in Irvine do.
For the record, my sources are: At my current job, we have several employees who used to do GM work for Blizzard before they closed the center out here. I get to hear all sorts of awesome stories.
I can count on one hand the amount of random heroics I've been on where I could afford to just sit there and DPS and never heal.
If you're sitting there doing randoms with all ridiculously overgeared guidlies, sure, but for the majority of the people you get saddled with in entirely pugged runs? Not a chance.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I can almost certainly guarantee that it's not hypothetical. And I wouldn't call it stupidity, necessarily. He could have been bribed, or really could have just been trying to be nice and got burned.
Regardless, posting all about how you'd respect Blizzard's wishes and not do anything that could violate the NDA, blahblah, and then going around the next day and doing everything you said you wouldn't do is fucked up.
Oh now I'm really feeling sorry for him.
= stupidity.
"Hey, I run the #1 WoW data mining/rumor mongering site. If you give me an alpha access I promise I won't immediately leak everything all over the Internet after I'm done being pretentious." *wears a beret*
"I don't know..."
"Scout's honor." *drinks wine, eats croissant*
"Well, when you put it like that, here's an alpha access key."
"Merci." *surrenders*
Remember he's leaked info before though, albeit not nearly as early as this. From his (rare) posts on the SA forums around Blizzcon he said he has several connections with Blizzard employees, which was confirmed by another regular poster and previous Blizzard employee (who had the same info for at least a week or two prior to blizzcon, but unlike Boubouille he wouldn't risk posting more than a vague hint or two that only made sense in hindsight, since he still works in the game industry and would risk his reputation if he leaked stuff).
If he doesn't have access but only secondhand info or use of someone else's alpha account it would be much harder to track down as well. I also think it was confirmed he's french in which case he probably gets his stuff from WoW-Europe employees.
I picture Boubouille riding around with a posse of GMs, like some sort of geeky, unholy French pimp.
...hell, my active sources are better than his. Maybe I should betray their trust and set up a gaming website to funnel money into my pocket. 8-) 8-)
I didn't mean to imply that groups never need any heals. Rather, I'm saying that groups haven't required a dedicated healer (who does almost nothing but heal/support) in a long time.
To most people this is probably a good thing, since it makes groups easier to create. But to me, this is very disappointing, because the reason I play a healer is to support my group. To be the most important role in the group, by virtue of amplifying everyone else and mitigating their mistakes. To be able to prop up the rest of the party so that they can accomplish more.
WotLK's 5-man instances severely marginalized that role, probably because there are not a lot of people who enjoy it. Again, I'd guess that most people were in favor of that change, so overall it was a good thing.