General WoD Alpha/Beta Discussion

[Marlamin]

http://marlamin.com/minimaps/ updated. You guys can check for changes, I'm going back to sleep.

[Paula Deen]

Click the settings icon on the top left of the launcher, and turn down the KB/s to whatever % you want it to download at your regular internet speed.

Test your speed here, and put about half that in the bandwidth.

M8, I already did that, it simply doesn't change on the Battle.net launcher. It changes on every other program I have tested it with, Origin, Chrome, Steam, but it doesn't change in Battle.net, I have yet to get a reply from Blizz, but I am hoping for one soon because its a rather obnoxious issue.

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http://marlamin.com/minimaps/ updated. You guys can check for changes, I'm going back to sleep.

<3 U ADHD Bird

[shoc]

Yeah, because past playable races have kept the same skeleton they started out with

That's not the only reason. I know this is only alpha obviously but these are my reasonings at to why (so far) the Saberon aren't going to be a playable race.

Well, also they aren't wearing underwear. AFAIK no playable race does not wear underwear. /checkmate

[rcshaggy]

Cool Saberon, looks pretty similar to the Concept art I guess.

[IMG]http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131112003022/wowwiki/images/b/bf/Saberon.jpg[IMG]

But sharing a skeleton with Worgen/Saurok pretty much rules them out as a playable race candidate.

Would love cat people for the Horde, and of course Ogres and Vrykul to. :P

[Hardkorr]

Sticking to your guns isn't always a good idea. It has to have merit so it's not so simple.

Totally true. I guess what grinds my gears is constantly reading about what Blizz sacked. Like this http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/10/04/th...hat-never-was/

Maybe I should stop reading into what could have been and just tolerate what there is... damnit

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Totally true. I guess what grinds my gears is constantly reading about what Blizz sacked. Like this http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/10/04/th...hat-never-was/

Maybe I should stop reading into what could have been and just tolerate what there is... damnit

I understand your pain, I truly do. Just keep in mind sticking to your guns is nice but at times people don't want you to do that. I mean I've seen my fair share of complaints "WHY BLIZZ U CAVE111111" Then Blizzard starts sticking to their guns


People get upset. SUre there's different people complaining but it's a never ending battle. For example the War of the Ancients Raid.




._. I wanted that so bad. My Body was ready.

[Hardkorr]

War of the Ancients Raid.

Fucking. Ouch. I totally repressed the thought that the raid was scrapped and now, I'm hurting inside.

[Dhomeli]

http://marlamin.com/minimaps/ updated. You guys can check for changes, I'm going back to sleep.

I noticed this part of southern Gorgrond was changed. There's a large mushroom area (I assume that's what those red circles are) and some greener parts of the zone.

(If I need to change this to a thumbnail, let me know.)

[Krazzorx]

Ive always been Intrigued by the human nature of wanting something desperately working hard towards it and... it not living up to expectations. (Ofc, this doesn't always happen)

For example, if you are a transmog farmer. Work so hard to finish that set and once you complete it, you wind up never using it. For example, there were a variety of reasons I wanted the Warrior CM gear due to it looking cool and worked hard at it. But, once I got it, never used it.

In this I'm somewhat referring to when Blizz changes directions. (Like original Jade Forest) People look longingly at would could have been. Yet if all those things were added, sure some we'd love. But others people would've gone "not as great as I thought it would be". Other examples of this are Abyssal Maw raid, Illidan in BC, original DK idea, monks not auto attacking, etc.

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I wonder.... How many of these changes they've already internally implemented and are slowly uploading it to the alpha client? Seems like a lot of work in such a short period of time between those 2 builds,

[laughtrey]

It's crazy how done they can get with the terrain, and then do another pass and seamlessly change the area without even being able to tell anything was changed.

Like, they're drastically changing some pretty complete looking zones, and you can't tell where the changes start and end.

I wonder how much of the terrain is done by hand and how much is just auto-generated from height.

I wonder.... How many of these changes they've already internally implemented and are slowly uploading it to the alpha client? Seems like a lot of work in such a short period of time between those 2 builds,

If you mean the environments it's probably more than one person and just multiple commits at different times.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

It's more interesting to wonder when these builds were first made.


http://media.mmo-champion.com/images...ril/ashRan.jpg


http://media.mmo-champion.com/images...orde_Tier1.jpg


Interesting.

[Deleted]

It's more interesting to wonder when these builds were first made.

That's not hard to find out, each build shows the date of building on the login screen, this new one is dated april 22nd, the 15164 we got on monday was from last wednesday i think.

[Terahertz]

http://beta.wowdb.com/items/111820-swapblaster

This. This is gonna be abused so much. I don't know how difficult it will be to obtain. All I know is that I want it. No... I need it...

[want my Slimjim]

Med'an. put him in blizz

[Zoaric]

http://beta.wowdb.com/items/111820-swapblaster

This. This is gonna be abused so much. I don't know how difficult it will be to obtain. All I know is that I want it. No... I need it...

As an engineer, I agree. The more silly toys that can be abused until nerfed to death,
the better!

[shoc]

The mushrooms being outside of Zangarmarsh makes sense, because if you remember the RTS games there were mushrooms all over Draenor, even Hellfire, not just in the Marsh.

[Arbs]

When they are in the last month or so before release, they are really only working on fine tuning bugs. All of the major systems changes need to be pretty much completed by the time 6.0 goes live. Plus, one reason they want to test raids earlier in the beta process might be that they don't want to be cramming testing sessions in the last 2 weeks before release, which is usually what happens. Maybe the reason they don't want that is because Blizzcon and Blizzcon preparations (both on the development team side and with top guilds) will be going on during that last minute crunch period?

I am also not buying that the idea of releasing the second raid after Blizzcon and the first raid before is that realistic. Let's say they release September 30. They have said they are considering a 2 week gap between release and the first raids this time. If that happens.

September 30 - Release
October 14 - Normal/Heroic Highmaul Opens
October 21 - Mythic Highmaul Opens
Blizzcon - 2 weeks later

2 weeks is not a big enough gap between progression starting and Blizzcon for a 7 boss raid. If you look at T14 as an example; MSV was a shorter raid (6 bosses) and it took 42 days for 25 US 25 man guilds to clear it on heroic. I can't see any rational argument for there being less than a month between Highmaul opening on Mythic and Blizzcon. It will screw over too many people. They can't release it before Blizzcon without major problems.

This is 100% their fault as well; they decided when to schedule Blizzcon and they decided to protract the development of WoD. The result of their actions means they are pretty much locked to a November release. Although, it's entirely possible/likely that they scheduled Blizzcon at that time knowing they wouldn't be ready until November.

I can agree with this, But Tib would you agree on a September 9th release at all ??

[Shampro]

So they are giveing the zone more forest, etc. Could see that they want to introduce quests where we try to stop further destruction from the Iron Horde.

[Arbs]

Blaming raiding guilds for insisting on the timeline of Blizzcon being lined up in a reasonable way as to not ruin the progression race is focusing your anger in the wrong place. Blizzard are the ones that have ruled out releasing the expansion in July/August. Blizzard are the ones that set the date of Blizzcon, knowing that it would create either progression conflict or force a delayed release date. They are the ones that created this situation, and now they have to deal with the consequences of either releasing in November or giving a giant middle finger to their most dedicated community. Considering that the overall hardcore raiding community is in the hundreds of thousands, it's a lot bigger group than people want to acknowledge, and the people from that group are magnitudes more likely to care about Blizzcon than the average player.

Amen Tib !!

[HeaddsDead]

http://beta.wowdb.com/items/111820-swapblaster

This. This is gonna be abused so much. I don't know how difficult it will be to obtain. All I know is that I want it. No... I need it...

i knowwww how u feel i cant freaking wait to get my hands on it

what im gonna miss the most once i get past lvl 94 is my hardened shell...i love love loveeeee knocking ally off their mount and ganking them