Patch 4.1 Dungeon Call To Arms Interface/Mechanics
A lot of people still wonder how the dungeon Call to Arms works and I hopped on PTRs to check it out.








Rated Battlegrounds VS. The Blues
It looks like the lack of blue posts lately is because the blues have been spending most of their time training in PvP!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Greetings Once Again!

I know a lot of you had fun a couple weeks back when we logged on to the PTRs and ran ZA & ZG with you. Well, we're coming back! This time however rather than fighting alongside you we're going to be duking it out on the fields of honor, better known as Rated Battlegrounds!

We're going to be online tomorrow, 4/12/2011, at 4:30pm PST.

To participate you'll need to roll Horde characters (we flipped a coin) and form teams on the Broxigar PTR realm. The reason we're specifying a faction is because this is actually a big test of our experimental same-faction rated battlegrounds.

Hope to see you online, I'm sure this'll be a blast!

Patch 4.1 - New Game Master/Support Interface
The support interface gets a redesign in the next patch, you should be able to find what you're looking for easily now!



Comics
Dark Legacy Comics #283 and Teh Gladiators #226 + #227 are out!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Dungeon Call To Arms Interface, New Support UI, Rated BG PTRs, Comics started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. lb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lynix View Post
    Nobody else noticed that blizzard are horde?

    eat shit alliance.

    ---------- Post added 2011-04-12 at 07:22 AM ----------



    actually people doing this makes queues longer. So you're partly to blame.
    Doing what ? Following the "call of nature!" ... get a grip dude - nobody can expect from someone to wait and sit still infront of the computer for aprox 30-45 mins to not miss the invite.
  1. Eleveneleven's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lb View Post
    Doing what ? Following the "call of nature!" ... get a grip dude - nobody can expect from someone to wait and sit still infront of the computer for aprox 30-45 mins to not miss the invite.
    Agreed. People can make sure they hit the john before they queue if it is short. When Blizzard screwed everything up and suddenly this expansion queues skyrocketed, the window became too large to expect everyone to not have anything come up.
  1. Gouky's Avatar
    well simply making heals and tanks unnesesery would do the job. I remember doing Rampars with 5 dks was kinda fun.
    kinda like Magica
  1. draksoul's Avatar
    good thing i do more call to arms on my druid then my rogue so if i want the bag on my rogue ill just mail it to him so easy havin a 3-in-1 class lol
  1. mmocf4909abf90's Avatar
    Tbh, DPS shouldnt moan about this, the CTA is so that tanks and healers will do more random HC's so you DPS can get faster queue's. Myself, as a tank, wouldnt do allot of HC's since i dont need anything from it, this will make me do a few more a day, so be happy.
  1. Bombkirby's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    Fat chance. CtA won't be enough for many tanks to endure idiot-randoms. It sure won't be enough for me, because I want to have fun playing and not some "ogogog!! - OMG we wiped you noob stfu!" DPS.
    Yeah wipe that fear from your head. Its not that bad. You can thank Luck of the Draw for that partially.
  1. VitesseEOD's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by buggerlugs View Post
    same faction battlegrounds are a stupid idea, totally break any storyline and are a bad attempt to fix horrible queues
    Im sorry? PvP has a storyline? Since when?
  1. Gouky's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Twf View Post
    Tbh, DPS shouldnt moan about this, the CTA is so that tanks and healers will do more random HC's so you DPS can get faster queue's. Myself, as a tank, wouldnt do allot of HC's since i dont need anything from it, this will make me do a few more a day, so be happy.
    the attitude towards tanks, only gona get worse because of this. you gona be back afkaing in Org after a fail run or 2.
  1. Lobstarrr's Avatar
    I like how the hottest issue is ''why cant i get any more arch fragments''.

    Gives a clear indication of the general player base.
  1. Bombkirby's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gouky View Post
    the attitude towards tanks, only gona get worse because of this. you gona be back afkaing in Org after a fail run or 2.

    Hmmmm how so?
  1. mmoc97343e7e90's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lynix View Post
    Nobody else noticed that blizzard are horde?

    eat shit alliance.
    Shoo... smelly horde! QQ why the Americans get all the fun! where's our battle with the blue dudes!

    I know they are scared of the Europeans we whip butt! As an American would say... Hell yeah, Hoorah cowboy!
  1. mmocf4909abf90's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gouky View Post
    the attitude towards tanks, only gona get worse because of this. you gona be back afkaing in Org after a fail run or 2.
    I still cant see how people can fail on HC's, they nerfed the HC's SOO SOOO SOO MUCH!
    HC's were easy already when they just released them.

    But yes, even though the attitude will maybe get worse, you can always kick the QQers (most of the time).
    I havnt got any fail groups the past 2 months though, so hopefully i wont get any then.
  1. Bombkirby's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sickness View Post
    Shoo... smelly horde! QQ why the Americans get all the fun! where's our battle with the blue dudes!

    I know they are scared of the Europeans we whip butt! As an American would say... Hell yeah, Hoorah cowboy!
    Never in a billion years would you catch ME saying that. T_T Texas is so small people! No one but them talks like that! XD


    And it'd prolly be more like: Yeeeehaaaw! Yippe ki yaaaay cowboy!
  1. Psychos's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by buggerlugs View Post
    same faction battlegrounds are a stupid idea, totally break any storyline and are a bad attempt to fix horrible queues
    "LOL BLIZZ DO SOMETHING TO FIX BG QUEUE!!!!!"

    "LOL BLIZZ U FIX BG QUEUE? FU LOL, UNSUBBING."

    Nobody cares about BG storyline.
  1. posessor's Avatar
    rated bg storyline

    both horde and alliance realise they need to be able to practice killing each other. so they practice with others from their own faction. very violently.. there's your lore
  1. Stormgnoef's Avatar
    Just Wake up early around 5 am and do lfg most of the time at that hour there is almost no dps atleast on my server
  1. Kahran's Avatar
    I'm sure this will just encourage the brilliant behavior I just had tonight.

    Just had someone queue into a random dungeon as a tank. He was a Paladin in nearly full PVP Holy gear with a Prot spec. He had 65k mana with 2 items that didn't have Stam/Int on them and one strength DPS trinket. When we asked him why he had an agility weapon and healing gear on as a tank, he said "I'm still getting gear." and proceeded to run, alone I might add, into the group of enemies as the other 3 people in the group stood back with me and watched him die in a quarter of a second. We told him that he shouldn't be queuing as a tank without having any tank gear at all and he had a fit. We kicked him out and one of the other people left, just to be replaced with a Warlock that had a +130 Agility enchant on his staff that pulled 2k DPS and couldn't figure out how to face enemies to cast.
  1. Blazefury5's Avatar
    I'm just glad this will bring the population that raids and doesn't need badge loot, will have to do dungeons again!
    O wait

    ---------- Post added 2011-04-12 at 10:11 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Kahran View Post
    I'm sure this will just encourage the brilliant behavior I just had tonight.

    Just had someone queue into a random dungeon as a tank. He was a Paladin in nearly full PVP Holy gear with a Prot spec. He had 65k mana with 2 items that didn't have Stam/Int on them and one strength DPS trinket. When we asked him why he had an agility weapon and healing gear on as a tank, he said "I'm still getting gear." and proceeded to run, alone I might add, into the group of enemies as the other 3 people in the group stood back with me and watched him die in a quarter of a second. We told him that he shouldn't be queuing as a tank without having any tank gear at all and he had a fit. We kicked him out and one of the other people left, just to be replaced with a Warlock that had a +130 Agility enchant on his staff that pulled 2k DPS and couldn't figure out how to face enemies to cast.
    That's why I pull mobs around the dps in a circle.
  1. traen's Avatar
    Sadly, this new satchel reward is pretty useless.
    First of all - I never do heroics without guild group. And I'm not going to betray my guildies for a stupid satchel.
    Second - I have all the old content mounts and pets that drop in dungeons.

    So.. what I'm going to get? I'm wasting 1 hour of my life to burst green-geared pugs in heroic dungeon for a hundred gold?
    No thanks.

    So what is it for? Well, basicly people in dps/healing gear will queue as tank. You will see a lot of tanks with 120k hp. There will be a lot of wipes and classical dialogs like
    - You are ignorant bastard, why you queued as tank if you dont have tank gear at all?
    - But I just want my satchel !!

    Doing rd with pugs will be even more fun than before.
  1. Mammoth's Avatar
    There are always going to be bad people about. That's why there had to be a kick feature to LFG.

    This feature may cause more bads to go from being DPS where they were unnoticed to being tanks where you will notice. But once they realise they can't get their satchels because they never complete a dungeon they'll disappear back to the ranks of DPS.

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