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Hope & Hate (Ghostcrawler promised me a pony!)

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  • AnialosAnialos Collies are love, Collies are life! Shadowbrook ColliesRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Happy: Thorim finally down again after they patched in the stacking of the buff. Turns out we could stick with our old strat as long as our dps in the arena didn't suck.

    Amused: On that note, the boomchicken that goes to almost every single one of my guilds raids significantly outgears me at this point. Shocking I know. However, every time I go to a raid with him I either keep up or outdo him on every type of meter O.o. Dps...yup. Damage done...yup. Dispels? sure why the hell not.

    Hope: That our resident feral drood convinces him to go feral as well so I can take the regular boomkin spot in the raid =p.

    Hate: That means I might have to raid without my wife, who usually only gets a spot on the weekend like I do. During the week too many people that outrank us show up.

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  • tallgeezetallgeeze Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    reVerse wrote: »
    tallgeeze wrote: »
    Sad: Did 2 different heroics with 2 different ret pallys besides myself. I owned the charts and they were below or just above the tanks. Both of them were using Seal of Command. I feel sad when I see that.

    You shouldn't feel sad. Atleast Command does decent damage even if it's inferior to Blood.

    But dear jesus when the Rets think that Vengeance is a DPS seal... One out of every three Rets I met during 70-79 did that. Vengeance for DPS. Urgh.

    ouch, I haven't seen that yet. I can only think of 1 type of fight were SoC maybe better than blood. It's those fights like maly or thad where you get the damage multipliers. I imagine you could 1 shot yourself because of the recoil of SoB.

    I remember 1 shotting myself on RoS on my moonkin back in BT. That was always fun.

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  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Happy: Ended up picking up two mounts this weekend (deathcharger and argent hippogryph).

    Hate: Discovering that vexallus in Heroic MgT may not be as soloable as the rest of the instance (I don't think I saved the arcane resist badge from karazhan).

    Happy: Went on a pvp binge with two guildies where we did our best to be the spoilers (recap team in AV being the best example). Multiple WSGs, Strands, and AVs (ABs weren't popping) and ended with enough AV badges to cover the two mounts. Now to work on the WSG and AB for those.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Nobody wrote: »

    Hate: Discovering that vexallus in Heroic MgT may not be as soloable as the rest of the instance (I don't think I saved the arcane resist badge from karazhan).


    I have told my brother repeatably that all you need is someone to semi heal and a dpser to do that instance because trying to solo it protection spec'd is just stupid

    So to do the demo I have to take his mage into normal to get attuned then heroic so to lure another in for a few quick heals on two runs

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  • DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Happy: Exalted with Wyrmrest, Rev with SoH....Dragon and Mammoth time!

    Hate: Only enough for 1 though since I broke

    Annoying: Recruited to a guild, told to gear up for a regular spot in the Naxx/Uld raids, spend my cash on craftable epics only to have the guild drop out from under me. GL and all officers quit for another guild.

    Cautiously hopeful: The shaman that recruited me asked me to join the new guild.

    More than likely future: Dual Spec to PVP-Resto and go back to being a BG healer supreme.

    Decoy on
  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Nobody wrote: »

    Hate: Discovering that vexallus in Heroic MgT may not be as soloable as the rest of the instance (I don't think I saved the arcane resist badge from karazhan).


    I have told my brother repeatably that all you need is someone to semi heal and a dpser to do that instance because trying to solo it protection spec'd is just stupid

    So to do the demo I have to take his mage into normal to get attuned then heroic so to lure another in for a few quick heals on two runs

    It can be done, it's just not that easy and requires you to have saved a trinket that people didn't even use in TBC.

    I dislike having to rely on somebody else (let alone 2 people) being on and available at the same time and potentially having to share rolls on the mount.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Nobody wrote: »
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Nobody wrote: »

    Hate: Discovering that vexallus in Heroic MgT may not be as soloable as the rest of the instance (I don't think I saved the arcane resist badge from karazhan).


    I have told my brother repeatably that all you need is someone to semi heal and a dpser to do that instance because trying to solo it protection spec'd is just stupid

    So to do the demo I have to take his mage into normal to get attuned then heroic so to lure another in for a few quick heals on two runs

    It can be done, it's just not that easy and requires you to have saved a trinket that people didn't even use in TBC.

    I dislike having to rely on somebody else (let alone 2 people) being on and available at the same time and potentially having to share rolls on the mount.


    My brother and I abuse my alts because I would rather have certain things over the mounts
    Zg rep, the MGT pet, and so on that is why I usually switch between my rogue and priest

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  • NeylaNeyla Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Happy: Got the Three Lights in the Darkness achievement on Yogg-saron (10). Though i will say, I am not looking forward to the two or fewer one....

    Meh: I got offered a perm spot with the 10 Uld, since the guy i was subbing for needs a break. I said they raid too late for me to do this always, so they will now be starting earlier to end earlier... damn it... I now raid 4 nights a week.

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  • ExistentialSoundandFuryExistentialSoundandFury Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    HAPPY: My fiance has been raiding Naxx25 for months, until this past week was still wearing the Hat of Wintry Doom. She picked up a helm(healer head technically) that was okay, then the Sunwell Helmet from a lolrun which actually was a small upgrade. Yesterday she picked up Turning Tide and T7.5 Helm of KT. FINALLY.

    Hope: This weeks progression isn't held back by a shortage of healers.

    Hate: Guild drama that escalated for no fucking reason. The officers were getting super defensive and I actually had to step in and tell everyone to calm the fuck down, I'

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  • JadedJaded Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Neyla wrote: »
    Happy: Got the Three Lights in the Darkness achievement on Yogg-saron (10). Though i will say, I am not looking forward to the two or fewer one....

    Meh: I got offered a perm spot with the 10 Uld, since the guy i was subbing for needs a break. I said they raid too late for me to do this always, so they will now be starting earlier to end earlier... damn it... I now raid 4 nights a week.

    The sun just called our house love, it misses you.

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Hate: The loot tables of the bosses in Uld-10. Want DPS plate boots? Hard mode. Want plate DPS anything off some bosses? Hard mode. Hey, where's a good bracer upgrade? Hard mode baby!

    I don't mind that these modes exist, that's fine and dandy, but these loot tables are goddamned anemic without them save for a few bosses (and the last two, naturally). It sucks ass trying to learn new encounters and get geared up enough to survive some DPS races when said gear drops only in a mode that requires you to have better DPS :|

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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Mild annoyance: I do love the fact that most people in my guild like to put stuff into the guild bank. But 100 Succulent Clam meats? Really? How about 100 Pygmy oil, yeah we got that. So I've been cleaning it up. Selling random junk no one needs, making food out of all the raw meats, DE'ing greens, combining motes, and what I can to make it so we actually have room for more useful things.

    Happy: My druid is coming along nicely, I think.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Mild annoyance: I do love the fact that most people in my guild like to put stuff into the guild bank. But 100 Succulent Clam meats? Really?
    On my server that'd be about 250G. Handy.

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  • orthancstoneorthancstone TexasRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Halfmex wrote: »
    Hate: The loot tables of the bosses in Uld-10. Want DPS plate boots? Hard mode. Want plate DPS anything off some bosses? Hard mode. Hey, where's a good bracer upgrade? Hard mode baby!

    I don't mind that these modes exist, that's fine and dandy, but these loot tables are goddamned anemic without them save for a few bosses (and the last two, naturally). It sucks ass trying to learn new encounters and get geared up enough to survive some DPS races when said gear drops only in a mode that requires you to have better DPS :|

    The boots aren't a hard mode drop (perhaps they initially were? No clue). I got them last week on a Stormcaller last kill.

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Halfmex wrote: »
    Hate: The loot tables of the bosses in Uld-10. Want DPS plate boots? Hard mode. Want plate DPS anything off some bosses? Hard mode. Hey, where's a good bracer upgrade? Hard mode baby!

    I don't mind that these modes exist, that's fine and dandy, but these loot tables are goddamned anemic without them save for a few bosses (and the last two, naturally). It sucks ass trying to learn new encounters and get geared up enough to survive some DPS races when said gear drops only in a mode that requires you to have better DPS :|
    The boots aren't a hard mode drop (perhaps they initially were? No clue). I got them last week on a Stormcaller last kill.
    Hm, maybe my Atlas Loot isn't correct or up to date then, they just show as a Hard Mode drop from one of the bosses in there. Though it also showed the 2H Axe drop from the Iron Council as well, when it actually drops from Hodir, so who knows.

    In any case the drop tables still seem pretty small without taking the hard mode loot into comparison.

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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Mild annoyance: I do love the fact that most people in my guild like to put stuff into the guild bank. But 100 Succulent Clam meats? Really?
    On my server that'd be about 250G. Handy.

    I made it all into some kind of food. Same thing with the other meats.

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  • orthancstoneorthancstone TexasRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Halfmex wrote: »
    Hm, maybe my Atlas Loot isn't correct or up to date then, they just show as a Hard Mode drop from one of the bosses in there. Though it also showed the 2H Axe drop from the Iron Council as well, when it actually drops from Hodir, so who knows.

    In any case the drop tables still seem pretty small without taking the hard mode loot into comparison.

    I've got the latest AtlasLoot, it does have some incorrect listings with the gear (hey, I was shocked when I saw the boots for that exact reason).

    You are correct, though. It is obnoxious that some BiS gear is hard mode only. I can understand BiS upgrades to gear you get in Normal mode (like the weapons), but making the only viable bracers upgrade a hard mode only is a bit "wtf?" worthy.

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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Putting best in slot gear in normal moves would make the hard modes not so hard. As well as remove any incentive for doing them in the first place.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I think BiS gear should be hardmode only. I feel like the best of the best gear should be obtainable to people who have the skill/determination to get them. But not something you can eventually just PuG for. (unless of course the puggers are alt's of people who can do that stuff on their mains, etc.)

    I think my BiS bracers are from a 10man hardmode though. (good chance I'm wrong) Which doesn't make sense to me, and is kind of crappy given my current situation of us not really doing 10mans and focusing on 25's.



    Also why are people saying the next content patch is on the way just because there was a blue post talking about it? Uld just came out. Most people haven't seen Yogg yet. Fewer still have seen Alg. I would think that they'd give us time to actually farm the place for a bit before dropping another raid. I'm not talking about waiting for people struggling with Naxx right now to get Uld on farm. But the guilds that are progressing through it right now.

    I mean, I know they announced it and all. But some people are acting like, "omg next patch day we get a new raid!" (maybe not to that extreme, but you get my point)

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  • Lunatic ClamLunatic Clam Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    PierceNeck wrote: »
    I think BiS gear should be hardmode only. I feel like the best of the best gear should be obtainable to people who have the skill/determination to get them. But not something you can eventually just PuG for. (unless of course the puggers are alt's of people who can do that stuff on their mains, etc.)

    I agree to a degree - you should NEED the BiS gear to beat hardmode though, or at least some of it. So giving away the best rewards for completing the most challenging content really has no payoff save for making your farm attempts easier.

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I don't necessarily want best in slot anything for normal difficutly raiding, but I believe that I should be able to obtain a full set of armor and weapons of normal difficulty level quality without having to do the hard modes. Hard modes make sense and I understand and appreciate their inclusion, but I'm just saying that, again, let's go with the bracers example, any Hard Mode should not be the ONLY place to get ANY of one particular type of item from a raid. Best in slot? Sure. ONLY in slot? No.

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  • orthancstoneorthancstone TexasRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Putting best in slot gear in normal moves would make the hard modes not so hard. As well as remove any incentive for doing them in the first place.

    Ok, then at least make a viable upgrade available in the normal mode. Granted, I imagine the lack of bracers in normal mode is due to the Emblem bracers, but it is still a bit disappointing.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Well the "easier" hardmodes would be doable in regular gear. (10man or 25man gear depending on which you're doing) And then the gear you get from those, would help with the really difficult hardmodes. At least that's how I'd like to see it work. But I haven't done any hardmodes yet, so I don't really know from experience. I'm just saying you shouldn't get BiS from regular modes. Because then, like Beyond said, there's no real incentive to do the hardmode more than once for an achievement.

    Edit: But I also see everyone's point regarding there should be upgrades for every slot on regular modes and not just hardmode.

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  • Lunatic ClamLunatic Clam Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Simple solution - have Hard Modes drop vanity items (mounts / pets / glyphs) that are BOE. Either pass them around the guild or sell them for ridiculous sums of money to finance guild banks

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Coming from Naxx-10 to Uld-10, I should, at least in my mind, be able to upgrade my gear pretty much entirely eventually, without having to touch a hard mode. Now, if I want to have some really great gear and we're still working on Uld-10, then the Hard Modes are great, because they, as has been said, offer incentive to down these encounters with additional challenges.

    But unfortunately, at least in Uld-10, there are whole slots (again, bracers, though I believe there are more...gloves or leggings I think as well?) for which there are no available options without doing these hard modes, and that's just ridiculous. It would be nice if there were new badges and gear for 10 man Uld, as there should be, but that's a whole 'nother 'Hate:'.

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  • WavechaserWavechaser Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Happy/Confused: Jumped into a OS 25 PuG today that had the high hopes of doing Sarth +1. Sadly, once we started, only 3 DPS'rs out of 25 could even break 3k DPS. Most were below 2k. I basically thought to myself that the OS 25 +1 is going to fail miserably, but whatever, i'll give it a shot.

    I MT'd the fight, and even though the encounter lasted close to 10 minutes, unbelievably we 1 shotted it. It's so weird, nothing like that has ever happened to me before.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Still have yet to do an OS + anything, in 10 or 25 man. My guild could definitely field the people for a +2 and maybe even +3 10-man, but they don't see any reason to do so with Ulduar out. I can't entirely blame them, but it's something I'd like to do before the gear make it trivial.

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  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Happy when this happens: elixirmastery.jpg

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Wavechaser wrote: »
    Happy/Confused: Jumped into a OS 25 PuG today that had the high hopes of doing Sarth +1. Sadly, once we started, only 3 DPS'rs out of 25 could even break 3k DPS. Most were below 2k. I basically thought to myself that the OS 25 +1 is going to fail miserably, but whatever, i'll give it a shot.

    I MT'd the fight, and even though the encounter lasted close to 10 minutes, unbelievably we 1 shotted it. It's so weird, nothing like that has ever happened to me before.

    +1 drakes is about your tanks and healers, not so much about your DPS. Its a good one for a PuG to try if you've filled it with tanks and healers you know are good.

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  • DmanDman Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    reVerse wrote: »
    Happy when this happens: elixirmastery.jpg

    i didn't even know that was possible....

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Halfmex wrote: »
    Coming from Naxx-10 to Uld-10, I should, at least in my mind, be able to upgrade my gear pretty much entirely eventually, without having to touch a hard mode. Now, if I want to have some really great gear and we're still working on Uld-10, then the Hard Modes are great, because they, as has been said, offer incentive to down these encounters with additional challenges.

    But unfortunately, at least in Uld-10, there are whole slots (again, bracers, though I believe there are more...gloves or leggings I think as well?) for which there are no available options without doing these hard modes, and that's just ridiculous. It would be nice if there were new badges and gear for 10 man Uld, as there should be, but that's a whole 'nother 'Hate:'.

    Well gloves and leggings aren't hardmode restricted. There's these great things called tier gloves which drop from the watcher bosses.

    So, just bracers. That's a failure of itemization, but its not an end of the world one.

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Well gloves and leggings aren't hardmode restricted. There's these great things called tier gloves which drop from the watcher bosses.

    So, just bracers. That's a failure of itemization, but its not an end of the world one.
    Tier gloves which aren't purchaseable via tokens which means I'm having to wait for them to drop and roll against our other DPS classes for them, though. And on top of that, they don't appear until the bosses in the latter part of the instance. And again, it's not just bracers, there are other items for which there is no normal-mode equivalent that are hardmode restricted. I'm just saying it's a bad policy to follow, especially when there are no tokens which will allow you to purchase T8 gear as there are in Uld-25.

    Plus there's that whole 'no one ever said it was an end of the world issue' thing. But other than that, sure, you're right on.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Halfmex wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Well gloves and leggings aren't hardmode restricted. There's these great things called tier gloves which drop from the watcher bosses.

    So, just bracers. That's a failure of itemization, but its not an end of the world one.
    Tier gloves which aren't purchaseable via tokens which means I'm having to wait for them to drop and roll against our other DPS classes for them, though. And on top of that, they don't appear until the bosses in the latter part of the instance. And again, it's not just bracers, there are other items for which there is no normal-mode equivalent that are hardmode restricted. I'm just saying it's a bad policy to follow, especially when there are no tokens which will allow you to purchase T8 gear as there are in Uld-25.

    Plus there's that whole 'no one ever said it was an end of the world issue' thing. But other than that, sure, you're right on.

    Oh, so your concern has moved from "They're not in the normal-mode loot table" to "They're not in the normal mode loot pinatas".
    Having to roll against people for tokens is a very far cry from "There are none of the item in this instance".

    I don't care to look all this up for myself, but I would be EXTREMELY surprised if there isn't at least one pair of every item, except bracers (I'll take your word on that) in the normal mode bosses.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why is it even a bad policy?

    Run a hard mode. Many of them aren't that hard.

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    No, my concern is, and has always been, 'they're not in the normal mode loot table'. In Naxx, that wasn't the case. You had a non-tier item for every slot for most purposes (even though plate spellpower sure did love to drop). Even if the stats weren't always ideal, at least they were there. Here, they went pretty crazy with the hard modes, which again is fine, but as I said, I should be able to put a full set of normal-difficulty-stat-budgeted gear together outside of that.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    And then you went on to cite that bracers couldn't be done, which I'll grant since I'm too lazy to check it. You also then went on to say that perhaps gloves and leggings are included in that, which is just blatantly retarded because the tier pieces are RIGHT there.

    There is then also three more tier pieces.
    So besides bracers, gloves, legs, helm, chest, shoulders...what are we left with needing an item for?
    Weapons, offhands, ranged slot, necks, belts, boots, rings and trinkets. That's not that many different types, especially considering that necks, rings, and trinkets are homogenised between DPS, tank, and healing.

    As I said, I'll grant you that bracers weren't there, because I haven't checked for myself, but I'd have a hard time believing that there's any other items that are unrepresented.

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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    INSANELY HAPPY: Vezax 25 man hard mode down tonight.

    Man my guild has some bad players and we cant replace them as we literally get 25 people showing up for each raid.

    Hope: this bump up the world rankings will get us some decent apps.

    HATE: 239 ilevel moonkin gear drops and we dont have one. Guess our ONLY resto druid was happy with it but the other drops would have been much better.

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  • HalfmexHalfmex I mock your value system You also appear foolish in the eyes of othersRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Belt, also, is not represented. And that's just what I've checked offhand. So yeah, you're wrong. And I don't really give two shits what you think is acceptable or otherwise. Having to pray for a tier piece drop is retarded when all of the other slots are represented far earlier in the instance. This is a thread for expressing hope, hate and happiness, and poor itemization is a particular Hate of mine.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I see your point, and agree with it.

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  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I did VoA in a PUG last night and got disconnected near the end of the fight with the new boss. Never happend before but I figured it was just general WG lag.

    Today I did VoA again with the guild and I was getting disconnected several times during the fight. I even rebooted my cable modem to see if that would fix it, but I still was getting lag and disconnects.

    We're starting a Naxx run now.. I hope the lag was just WG related.

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