Thread: 3.1 Items, Noblegarden, Blue posts, OOMCast

Overall I liked the pod-cast. I realize this is only their second attempt but I think they could work on a few things production wise. Maybe a table or counter. Guy on the left needs to loose the shorts, get some jeans, the angle is just bad. All three need to stop scratching and fidgeting. All this comes with practice. That being said, I think it had good content and I'd like to see more.

Originally Posted by Daez

Idiotic as in true? Plate gear was loaded with stamina for both holy and dps. Its sad when the retribution paladin can easily get 27k unbuffed and still do decent dps with the right gear choices. Rather you like it or not, PvP is about survival, and having that much stamina on your gear greatly increases your chances of survival. However, leather gear has the same amount of stamina (other than casting gear) if not more so and the only ones truly getting screwed are the clothies.

Here's a thought: if it was all about stamina on plate and leather with little on cloth, where are the Rogues and Warriors, and what are the 'locks doing there?

I think it has more to do with on-demand cooldowns. The highest represented classes are the ones with most effective get out of jail free cards.

I do know there's a link to discuss the podcast on a different forum, but a thought did strike me - are those top placing Paladins really Retribution like they said? I was under the impression they were Holy.

Probably just becuse its late and im rly tired,
But i lmao when the cat ran down the stairs.
No idea why

Originally Posted by ds_swooshie

Im pretty sure most people would raid in larger groups to be honest. Its like going to a party with 10 crates of beer just to find 5 of your closest friends are the only ones there. ...You should be asking yourself, not what people are doing, but what people find FUN.

They did. They found a significant number of people like hanging around with 5 of their closest friends and a box of beer just as much, if not more, than they enjoy turning up to a keg party.

These constant evidence of warrior being one of the most trashed and neglected is overwhelming. I played warrior for as long as I can remember and I lost total faith in this class. Arms is not allowed to burst, not allowed to survive burst, and have to have a pally healer hold our hands around town. This is the most ridiculous blizzard game ever now. Those arena tournament statistics are very depressing when see your class completely off the map of the tournament in both US and Europe. Playing this latest expansion is extremely frustrating to see your main class get shelved in the closet and see your profession go to crap. Blacksmiths are being totally screwed over and over again. We got a BOE weapon that is equal to or less than heroic Colossal Axe. What was the point of suffering to become an armor smith or weapon smith if blizzard won't implement something to for the people who suffer for those specialty. We get two sockets and that is it. Two stupid sockets and that is all that blacksmiths get in the expansion. I am not counting the belt one because it is BOE and other people can get that socket too. Where are the exclusiveness of blacksmith. What is the point of wasting thousands of gold to level it and get two sockets. In conclusion please fix warriors and blacksmith profession. As for the up coming patch for arms warriors, those new moves and new dps looks like utter garbage. Why? More restrictions on Taste for Blood, giving a cool down on that move. This watered down version of the old overpowered is an insult from blizzard. GET NEW ART WORK for the equipment in expansion for the love of god. Every weapon and armor looks exactly the same and punish hackers and cheaters. Make it illegal to multi-box, which I already know your not because of the profit from having multiple accounts and such. Give warriors an identity. Every move blows compared to everyone else that can be a warrior or do what warriors can do. If you think about the warrior moves and skills, every class has our moves or better improvements. This is ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Daez

No, that is not at all what I was saying. I was saying that if you miss a tier of content in this expansion there is currently nothing to fill in those gaps like there was in TBC. That means when no one else is even talking about Naxx and Uludar is cleared you won't get raid spots because your gear is no where near the gear of the other members of the raid, you don't have any unique must have abilities that help you find a spot because of your class, and people don't even pug Naxx anymore. That means you will be sidelined until the next expansion because your gear sucks. That wasn't the case when you could craft your way to T5 and fill in the gaps with pvp gear in TBC.

There's currently nothing because there IS no tiers for there to be gaps in.
There's BoE craftables coming in 3.1, there's BoE Ulduar drops, a new season of pvp gear (which always drops the prices/reqs of the previous season), as well as updating Vault of Epics with a new boss.
There's certainly still pugs of Naxx/EoE/Sarth on my server - if anything, pugs have gone up in frequency because people have all gotten bored and leveled alts that need gearing while some guilds have stopped actively raiding altogether.

BC crafting and pvp gearing were retarded. Blizzard seems to think so too.

I did watch the linked video and on the part about dualspec and loot.

I cant see how they even can be conserned about loot as on off spec man spec, allready in tbc around halfway trugh Black Temple we where on that subject and when Wotlk came we changed it slightley from only rolling main spec.

since wotlk we never usedthe term off spec / main spec - we did set it up like if you are a warrior u can roll for a dps gear and tank gear ( since we do not need healing kits) for a pally, Druid they could roll for all 3 specs, and it has worked out werry well we are not the most harcore raid guild but i could go so far to call us semi hardcore with an 20th place on our server with only 3/4 days of 4 hours rading depending if we not have allready downed the content for the week regardless to mabey new trials.

Mostley all in the gear got thir 2 or 3 kits with at least ilvl 200+ and up items and our trials even thoug they arent entitteled for a loot in 2 weeks of thir trial they still get almost a 2 - 5 epix pr run due to the rest of the more cored grp allready got thir desired items.

Why did we do this allready before dual spec ? and before we even did know it would come ?
simply because we found it more useable than trashing half of the loot to shards after a few runs,
it does bennefit us better with a tank to roll to dps or a dps to a healer on the current raid day - insted of takeing eigter pugs or not going to raid cause we miss a player.

a good tip for not having an off spec / main spec is still thoug to be kind enough to pass a desired item, lets say i want the tank axe from kel'thusad and a dps want it for offspec - this woul mostlikely be the part that would trouble up, we are just kind enough to say, well i could use it as "my second spec" but right now it bennefits you more so ill pass, and they simply mostley got it on next run, we do use dkp still for attending bosses and even with those loot terms we attend to have more dkp that we even can use on our 2 or 3 specs and nothing has been up in a big discussion about a loot term, cause in the end it can only bennefit to make us a stronger raid guild if people are sick, got irl life to take care of or what there else could come in our way for our ingame raids

So iself do not see the problem they are trying to put out its just about thinking the best way for us all and not only ourself

So, the video was basically just a recap of everything thats been on MMO in the past month or so.. kind of annoying considering anyone who wouldve watched it would know what's on here :-P

Nice one guys, personally give you guys GM jobs geting tired of this shit now, A DK holy combo on our server got te gladiator requirements in rating 2400 in a couple of days not deserved at all why make such a title and such a grind of arena months and months to just make 1 combo get it in a da GET A CLUE AND BALANCE THIS SHIT NOW else ur guna lose fukin players blizz again..

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

The design team makes all of our decisions by consensus. It's a slow process, but it means there are no I-told-you-sos down the road.

Ah, that explains a lot. It's a classic case of Design by Committee. There might not be I-told-you-sos, but there's also no vision, no boldness, and no quick improvements. They really, really need to find someone smart with a strong vision to lead the team instead of sheltering behind a false sense of security from their consensus while the game is rotting around them.

Any vidcast that has one of the hosts do the jerk-off motion when achievement points comes up can't be all bad, even if they did completely screw up what engineering can/can't do.

Originally Posted by ds_swooshie

Im just asking the question, Why on EARTH did Blizzard decide to release one raid instance at a time with WoTLK.

Because every dollar saved by not creating content is a dollar that goes directly to the bottom line of the company. It takes far more effort to create Kara/Gruul/Maggy/TK/SSC from scratch to launch TBC with than it takes to retune one old raid zone and create two new dragons.

WoW is past its golden years, now it's just a cash cow that will be milked until Blizzard gets its next MMO out or a serious competitor appears.

3.1 will not be the "Savior of WoW" Ulduar might be cleared in the first week at "non-hardmode" ...and then we will see if it is fun AND REWARDING (no mounts/titles) to play the hardmodes. if its like S3D ...finally good by WoW!