[WoW] [Chat] Introducing New Random Forum Events

Munkus Beaver

In celebration of the new expansion Cataclysm, Moderators will choose a random page in the chat thread and ban every poster on that page once per day.

Munkus Beaver

And Rorus put a lot of effort into this informative post, so I'm going to copy it over here:

Rorus Raz wrote: »

Don't get too attached to this special 4.0 chat thread, as DeathMunkus could very well rise from the depths to shatter this thread and remake it in his own glorious image.

Are you secretly part of the Twilight's Beaver Cult?

Oh, and I would never forget about his partner-in-crime, Echo'gall.

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READ BELOW BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS GOD DAMN YOU

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Glyph Changes
Gem Changes
Stat Changes
Reforging Info
New Class Mechanics
Guild UI Changes
Streaming Launcher Info
Known Issues in 4.0.1

[url=Patch 4.0.1
Released October 12th, 2010
-The shattering is NOT occurring. This means NO changes to Azeroth's landmass.
-You can run ZG still.
-You CANNOT purchase your flying license in Azeroth.
-You CAN purchase your 310% mount speed for 5,000g.
-Your mounts WILL all scale to your highest skill level.
-You WILL get new talents and skills up to 80.
-You WILL get to reforge your gear. Talk to a guard for directions.
-You WILL get the new glyph system.
-All classes WILL get their new mechanics, if any.
-Stats WILL be changing. Armor Penetration, Mana per Five Seconds and so forth will be replaced with other stats.
-Guilds WILL have a cap of 1,000 members. Pre-4.0 guilds will be grandfathered in: they can stay past the hard cap but will be unable to invite new members until they go under 1,000.
-You will NOT have guild leveling.
-You will NOT have new class/race combos.
-I shouldn't have to say this, but you CANNOT roll Worgen or Goblins.
-Pre-Expansion events WILL be occurring. Enjoy!
-The Guild UI WILL be changed to the Cataclysm version.
-The events for Echo Isles and Gnomeregan have ended.

Patch 4.0.3
Expected late November
-The Shattering will occur, changing Azeroth's landmass.
-You can fly in Azeroth.
-The new race/class combinations will be available.
-Guild leveling will NOT be in.
-No, you still can't roll Worgen or Goblins.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
December 7th, 2010
-Guild Leveling is go, along with everything else, really.
-Yes, you can roll a fucking Worgen or Goblin.

Halfmex

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

In celebration of the new expansion Cataclysm, Moderators will choose a random page in the chat thread and ban every poster on that page once per day.

How long will this be going on? Is this some plot to reduce the number of overall posts? Did Kotick put you up to this?!

Munkus Beaver

It will be a temporary event so there will be an achievement of strength* to go along with it.


*[tiny]Infraction[/tiny]

lionheart_m

Halfmex wrote: »

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

In celebration of the new expansion Cataclysm, Moderators will choose a random page in the chat thread and ban every poster on that page once per day.

How long will this be going on? Is this some plot to reduce the number of overall posts? Did Kotick put you up to this?!

I wonder how the infraction will be called...

Aeyther

How many points will this [strike]infraction[/strike] achievement be worth?

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lionheart_m wrote: »

Halfmex wrote: »

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

In celebration of the new expansion Cataclysm, Moderators will choose a random page in the chat thread and ban every poster on that page once per day.

How long will this be going on? Is this some plot to reduce the number of overall posts? Did Kotick put you up to this?!

I wonder how the infraction will be called...

failure to adequately die in a fire

Vincent Grayson

Anyone know why it goes from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3?

Beyond Normal

Vincent Grayson wrote: »

Anyone know why it goes from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3?

Because it wants to. Things don't have to go in order, it just makes good sense to do it that way.

danx

Software houses sometimes reserve even numbers for internal builds/testing/experimental branches and odd for published branches or mainline or vice versa. Not clue about Blizzards internal development tho. It's entirely possible they do it that way because they hate even numbers more than odder ones.

Undead Scottsman

Honestly, Cataclysm should technically be 4.1.0, given how much change there's going to be between 4.0.1 and Cata.

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meh

Versioning is pretty arbitrary anyway.

Ledneh

End wrote: »

meh

Versioning is pretty arbitrary anyway.

What irritates me is how many people in my shop insist that in versioning, 1.0.2 comes AFTER 1.0.19, for example.

the dot is a separator, not a decimal, you clots

Toldo

wait

can i roll worgan

mynameisguido

Well, I had a really weird and frustrating bug happen to me when I was questing with my lowbie mage. I decided I wanted to level before I flew to Exodar for a quest so I went about killing stuff in the area, and wander a little ways away from Blood Watch.

So then, I decide to go back, so I look at map to see where I am relative to Blood Watch---according to my map I'm NW of Blood Watch, so I try to head SE in order to get there. But when I get near what should be the "edge" of BW, I run into a big body of water----I don't remember running across a body of water so I dive in anyways. Soon enough my area gets changed to "The Veiled Sea" and I'm puzzled by this, but I keep on wandering around trying to figure out where I'm going wrong.

Finally, I decide to logout just beside the big body of water, turn off all my addons, and log back in. When I get back in, my map shows me at the far edge of the map, far SE of where it was showing me before the relog. I then find BW easily.

Rizzi

I've got a small problem.


What's with the green textures? I tried using the repair tool, but that didn't do anything.
Thoughts?

The Dude With Herpes

Toldo wrote: »

wait

can i roll worgan

Not till December 7th with cata on your account, no. Not even when 4.0.3 comes live with the new world.

Bloodshed

Try checking for an update for your video card?

Rizzi

Yeah. Done all that too. It's weird, those two textures are the only two things I've seen do that. Ever.

mynameisguido

Does anyone know if there's a way to have Trade Chat off by default. I'm tired of getting a face full of dumb every time I make a new character.

The Dude With Herpes

When you're in a town, right click on the general chat tab of your chatbox, go to settings and find 2. Trade in the list of channels and unselect it.

Tyberius

I don't know, I find /Trade more bearable with the spam blocking. No more ASCII drawings, but plenty of anal goosery for the kids.

darklite_x

I can only look upon trade chat in shame and disgust, realizing full well that at one point in time I was one of those people. I'm a monster.

Sterica

Nooooo, my delicious pun titles!

That's my WoW Chat thread for 2010. I seem to make one every year.

shryke

What's a good addon for doing ICC Acheivements?

I really need one to track the 25 Sindragosa one.

mynameisguido

I think heirlooms have spoiled me. I'm finding leveling at a low level without them far harder than I thought I would.

I mean, it's ultimately not *that* difficult or anything, but the dropoff without heirlooms is tremendous.

tehmarken

The biggest thing is the weapon, because it boost your damage a ridiculous amount if it's enchanted. It practically doubles your damage. And having tons of mana for a caster is awesome.

The Dude With Herpes

Yeah it really is all about the weapon. There's little, if anything, that you'll ever find from 1-80 that will be as high damage, or stats, as the heirloom weapons, unless you get it way early. Even crap like the weapon rewards from the "arena" quests in Nagrand and Zul'drak, are weaker by a good bit, than the heirlooms, by the time you're high enough level to accept the quests.

The shoulders/chest are nice for the bonus XP, and the trinkets are nice for low levels till you start getting trinkets that aren't total shit from quest rewards in Outland/Northrend; but neither make a huge difference, compared to the weapon for speed of leveling.

Also, rest XP makes leveling an alt a night and day experience. I can hardly level a character anymore unless they have full rest. I will shelf them for a week at a time to get it too.

tehmarken

I actually prefer sometimes to only use the weapon and trinkets for an alt; there's a certain joy in getting new gear for the while leveling. And especially seeing new shoulders once in a while, because there's some cool ones in the game.

Emporium

It was very recently brought to my attention that DKs could use heirloom weapons with runeforging. If only I had known about that before I hit level 79.

tehmarken

But it makes the enchant go away so you can't reuse it for that warrior alt!

The Dude With Herpes

just reenchant it?

mynameisguido

My real issue (and understand that this is at an extremely low level) has been that a couple adds means pretty certain death due to the longish cooldown on Frost Nova before you have other escape options like Polymorph or Blink.

Not that it's a big deal considering these levels aren't going to last any time at all, but still....

Undead Scottsman

I'm glad they didn't fix the "disconnect when you alt-tab out" bug. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if that went away. :P

tehmarken

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

I'm glad they didn't fix the "disconnect when you alt-tab out" bug. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if that went away. :P

Do you play in Windowed-Maximized mode or Fullscreen?

Sterica

Update on the FUTUUUUUURE.

So now we're getting 4.0.3, which is likely going to sync us up closer with beta and have all the new zone data. But, 4.0.3a is when the ACTUAL shattering occurs. I don't know which patch race combos and the like are attached to.

Oh, and now the flying license is linked to launch for some arbitrary reason. Don't be shocked if we get dicked on new race combos in a similar fashion.

-SPI-

There is no part of this that is not utterly hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyMB19q7ms&feature=player_embedded

Aeyther

-SPI- wrote: »

There is no part of this that is not utterly hilarious.

youtube - red shirt guy

ahahahahaha

TheGerbil

I. Gudah. Wow. That is 5 levels of special.

Undead Scottsman

tehmarken wrote: »

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

I'm glad they didn't fix the "disconnect when you alt-tab out" bug. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if that went away. :P

Do you play in Windowed-Maximized mode or Fullscreen?

Fullscreen.

PMAvers

Might as well mention this again, since I got it in right at the end of the last thread...

But dunno how many beta players we've got, we should try to get together on the same server and take a swing at Blackwing Descent or something.

I was suggesting Alliance on Gilneas. (Mostly since that's where my stuff is, and I've got officership on a level 25 guild on my paladin.)

If we want to jump in the /pennyarcade channel, I could watch and hit people with invites.