Horde Pandaria Introduction, Pandaren Cutscene, Blue Posts, The Daily Blink

[TCceen]

Need a release date already, or pre-orders to start for CE. Best Buy even listed it in their ad today. I can't save my vacation days forever...

[Declaron]

Yet another absolutely appalling response to the raid nerf rate. They seem to fail to understand, that for people who are seriously poor at their class LFR is probably the best they can hope for, if not the first couple of bosses on normal, tough fucking shit for that player they need to get better at what they do, they need to EARN the right to compete in a team or guild pushing through the current raid tier, ESPECIALLY if its heroic modes.

By nerfing the raids by 5%, 10%, 15% etc. not only do you make it unappealing in the current tier through lack of challenge, you also make it absolutely trivial wen the next tier comes out, one of the things that blizzard got right in Cata was NOT NERFING the Tier 11 heroics, and as such NefarianHC, Sinestra, Ascendant Council STILL get constant people screaming to get a go at those encounters, because they are difficult, you have to EARN your way to even seeing Sinestra, let alone downing her, and your in higher gear meaning they are not absolutely ridiculously hard (RagHC in 372 gear pre-nerf) but still hard enough to provide an entertaining challenge to most players.

I suppose if i could come to a middle point with blizzard, i would say this, leave LFR as it is, thats fine, nerf the NORMAL modes by 5% each month (starting at 2 months after the content release) but providing a seperate set of achievements (essentially a non-nerf kill achieve and/or title, removed when the next tier comes out) and finally, and most importantly, NOT nerfing Heroic modes EVER, so they are still viable in 1 or 2 tiers time (as such more content avaliable, players get to play more)

[Averice]

Needs free xfers already, still charging that much on top of sub is silly.

[WoRsT]

Worst Introduction ever..

[Nathiest]

Why would SS scale with Haste? How does that help?

[good diu bro]

PvP vs Ganking
Some great thoughts here. On the topic of ganking though, it's a tough one to handle. Many players join a PvP server so that they can seek out and inflict revenge on members of the opposite faction.

Thats interesting.
HP boost and healing ability makes certain class hard to kill, while some specs cannot do revenge kills (think of the healz now in PvP).
The introduction of PvP powerz and 30% damage reduction will make it worse.
But then, in the "good old days", it is pretty much about rushing each other, which was the reason for the HP boost in the first hand.

[arthar77]

just a quick question to all mighty blizzard ... would it be good or more as a good idea to add dishonoring point like saying situations were the player is substracted their honored points for making or exploiting a situation such as farming in a oposite faction ... killing multtiple times players already been killed moments ago, ... or maybe places were honor is not given even when you are chassing the flag holder near his/her graveyard zone ... somehow to calm the abuse of over-farming in a battle-ground (mostly warsong). ... sorry if I'm giving a bad idea or giving nonsense ... just asking

[galatea210]

All of these people on the forums keep complaining about the great unwashed being able to come behind them and kill bosses with nerfs, but no one ever says they think it's wrong for "hardcore" guilds to sell heroic kills and heroic loot to people for gold. Many of them probably belong to guilds doing just that, heck, the top 2 US guild sells Heroic DW kills. So apparently it's okay for scrubs to get kills and loot when the elite can take their gold for it, but not okay when the scrubs manage to get there on their own by virtue of a nerf.

[grexly75]

All of these people on the forums keep complaining about the great unwashed being able to come behind them and kill bosses with nerfs, but no one ever says they think it's wrong for "hardcore" guilds to sell heroic kills and heroic loot to people for gold. Many of them probably belong to guilds doing just that, heck, the top 2 US guild sells Heroic DW kills. So apparently it's okay for scrubs to get kills and loot when the elite can take their gold for it, but not okay when the scrubs manage to get there on their own by virtue of a nerf.

Yeah makes ya wonder about this sometimes, on my oceanic server Nagrand we have a couple of guilds selling H DS runs at 150k + supposed guaranteed Handmaiden mounts, so you have 3 pugs in the group that's 450k that goes to that guild talk about exploiting the peeps desperate and gullible for a H DS run..

[Zauber]

Can't believe wow playerbase had grown that stupid to seriously discuss anti-world pvp and anti-ganking mechanics when they have pve servers just for such people.

On the second thought, though, yes, I can.

---------- Post added 2012-07-23 at 06:01 AM ----------

They fired the normal intro narrator? This one is much worse.

I think the narrator just got much older after all those years

[Granyala]

Is the Daily Blink run by 14 year old Elitist Jerks, crying about the good old days? Sarcasm is funny if it's subtle, not when it's just a summary of the forum with a picture attached.

Ouch, doesn't that hurt?

they need to EARN the right to compete in a team or guild pushing through the current raid tier

Get a grip dude! No one in their right mind thinks of "competition" when dealing with nerfed encounters. The moment the nerf comes out competition is over. It's basically like Blizzard is handing out consolation prizes.

[Farora]

I lol'd at the introduction. It looks so outdated and bad. You have Guild Wars 2 to compete with now Blizzard.

[volvoxaureus]

I lol'd at the introduction. It looks so outdated and bad. You have Guild Wars 2 to compete with now Blizzard.

I saw them and they are like a slide show in PowerPoint!!!!!!!!!!! and btw who cares about graphics and cutscenes in a MMO ???? if so then MMOs aren't you cup of tea

[Rioo]

Yet another absolutely appalling response to the raid nerf rate. They seem to fail to understand, that for people who are seriously poor at their class LFR is probably the best they can hope for, if not the first couple of bosses on normal, tough fucking shit for that player they need to get better at what they do, they need to EARN the right to compete in a team or guild pushing through the current raid tier, ESPECIALLY if its heroic modes.

By nerfing the raids by 5%, 10%, 15% etc. not only do you make it unappealing in the current tier through lack of challenge, you also make it absolutely trivial wen the next tier comes out, one of the things that blizzard got right in Cata was NOT NERFING the Tier 11 heroics, and as such NefarianHC, Sinestra, Ascendant Council STILL get constant people screaming to get a go at those encounters, because they are difficult, you have to EARN your way to even seeing Sinestra, let alone downing her, and your in higher gear meaning they are not absolutely ridiculously hard (RagHC in 372 gear pre-nerf) but still hard enough to provide an entertaining challenge to most players.

I suppose if i could come to a middle point with blizzard, i would say this, leave LFR as it is, thats fine, nerf the NORMAL modes by 5% each month (starting at 2 months after the content release) but providing a seperate set of achievements (essentially a non-nerf kill achieve and/or title, removed when the next tier comes out) and finally, and most importantly, NOT nerfing Heroic modes EVER, so they are still viable in 1 or 2 tiers time (as such more content avaliable, players get to play more)

They did nerf T11 a lot, but a lot of the nerfs were more like fixes to broken mechanics.

I must say Blizzard's example is the worst one yet to why raids should be nerfed. When I still played I had no problem with other guilds getting kills that gave mounts and titles after us, as long as it wasn't post-nerf. Compensating lack of skills with more time spent, isn't that how real life works too? And in WoW it's even easier since you get better gear and new tactics arrives. The raids get nerfed by that alone, no need for additional nerfs.

[Eleveneleven]

Can someone explain the daily blink to me? Apparently the thick as molasses sarcasm is not the pun here.

[malletin]

i still don't get why people get so mad then others get to kill stuff that they killed months ago.. to me it seems like an ego thing.

[Difuid]

Hopefully we get to see the Alliance intro soon. I can picture it now... we hop on a plane with a Dwarf who blacks out from drinking and we crash... EPIC! :-P

To be honest that would be funny, at least you wouldn't crash with a freaking gunship because a gnome sneezed on it.

[McNeil]

Can we expect more Guild Wars 2 news aswell? As far as I see, its more popular than Diablo 3

[wolftech]

Was I the only one who was hoping James Hong was going to do the voiceover for the Pandaran intro?

[ZURD]

Epic introduction.

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