Patch 4.3: Dragon Soul Encounters
Start getting ready for the new raids now by brushing up with our encounter pages! All values are from Heroic 25 Man mode.
Statistics: Class Balance Follow Up
You asked for it, so here is the class balance at each of the different Valor Points achievement levels. Keep in mind that the higher we raise the bar, the smaller and nosier the sample becomes. The data from 50,000 Valor Points is unlikely to provide any statistically useful insight. Let me know if there are other things you would like to see in the future.
Sample Sizes
Any: 6,200,000
5k: 1,800,000
25k: 254,000
50k: 1,200
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Poll: How many Valor Points have you earned?
Speaking of Valor Points, how many have you earned on your main character?
Computers - Setup of the Month (by chaud)
Each month or every 2 months, depending on the hardware evolutions, the lovely chaud will work on a couple of hardware setups for those of you who are thinking of upgrading their computer!
Check back later this week for a list of Black Friday sales!
If you have been looking to purchase a new hard drive recently, you might have noticed that prices have tripled from what they were just a month or two ago. This is due to the recent floods in Thailand, which affected all of the major hard drive manufacturers and their suppliers. It is going to be 6-12 months before prices come back down closer to their previous levels, as some of the factories still have several feet of water inside.
Now is a good time to buy a SSD, as the next generation is a good while away and the current prices are fairly flat. AMD's Bulldozer arrived to universally negative reviews, citing excessive power usage and heat output and very poor single threaded performance. They are working on another stepping which may help the problem slightly, but don't expect any significantly improvements on the design until the middle of 2012 with the arrival of Piledriver. New AMD GPUs are rumored to be coming in Q1 2012 if you are thinking about upgrading.
Make sure to keep your AMD and Nvidia drivers up to date.
Don't hesitate to post any feedback in the comments of that news post, and don't forget to visit the Computer Forum for any extra questions!
Puppy and Dolphin
Overclocked Puppy will outperform Dolphin when multiple threads are in use (Not WoW) and come close in most other cases.
Mix and match anything but the CPU/Motherboard combo between Puppy and Dolphin. Mix and match anything between Dolphin and Narwhal.
Oh god please don't nerf us. I blame the ability to fill all roles (tank/healer/dps) and the classic D&D "Paladin in shining armor is fucking awesome" concepts.
Edit: Also please note on the graph that I've raided almost every week since the start of Cata and only have 43k Valor. The people with 50k+ are literally a SUPER SUPER small sample size.
How come the mouse from the dolphin section is more expensive that the mouse from the narwhal section? I thought the sections were to group together items that aim for a particular price/quality range, or am I misunderstanding it?
How come the mouse from the dolphin section is more expensive that the mouse from the narwhal section? I thought the sections were to group together items that aim for a particular price/quality range, or am I misunderstanding it?
It is usually cheaper, but hopefully everyone recognizes that all of those Peripherals/Monitors are interchangeable.
Hah, every "pure dps class" has more "low amount" than "high amount" VP characters of which the oposite is true for hybrids.Not really too surprising if you think about it, but who would think about it that way? - Definately interresting to look at.
Hmmm wonder how many valor I would have if I continued maxing it out every week even though I didn't need anything else, and the valor boe market is kind of bad on my server. Currently 34k valor total.
Around 43k points here currently, I know i missed the cap quite a lot towards the end of T11 though. I'm usually quite an achievement fiend, but this is one of those where I'm just like meh, it'll get there.
Did they seriously just recommend builds without sandybridge-e processors in November?
Here is your new Puppy build:
Case Thermaltake Level 10 VL30001N1Z - $850
Power Supply SILVERSTONE ST1500 - $350
CPU Intel Core i7-3960X - $1050
Heatsink Intel BXRTS2011LC High Performance Liquid Cooler - $100
Motherboard ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011 Intel X79 $330
Memory G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 64GB - $1200
Graphics Card 3 x EVGA 015-P3-1589-AR GeForce GTX 580 $2100
Hard Drive Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW600G3B5 600GB - $1130
DVD Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $20
You know speaking of how 4.3 is just around the corner, you think you could maybe update that cataclysm drop down menu there on the top right of the website? It hasn't been touched since Cata was new it seems, and could use some love! Not that I would use it, but it just seems odd how outdated it is now lol. >