Thread: Patch 3.2 PTR Patch Notes, Battlegrounds Q&A

After much quiet contemplation, rogues now possess the ability to learn how to use one-handed axes

is this a joke?

Originally Posted by Furkel

Oh! Raptor hatchling pets, squee!

[i]Yes!!

Originally Posted by gilfanon

Last week: OMG Ulduar is so easy, when will Blizzard make some content that's challenging and not totally faceroll. Bring back SWP!

This week: OMG Blizzard giving T8 to people who run Heroics when I worked my ass off and spent hours slaving away to beat extremely challenging content in Ulduar in order to get my Tier gear.

In two Months: OMG Coliseum is so easy, when will Blizzard make some content that's challenging and not totally faceroll. Bring back SWP!

In 4 months: OMG Blizzard giving T9 to people who run Heroics when I worked my ass off and spent hours slaving away to beat extremely challenging content in Coliseum in order to get my Tier gear.

In 18 months: OMG The Maelstrom Expansion is so shit compared to WOTLK and the endgame is so easy, totally catering to casuals, remember when endgame was actually hard like back in Ulduar?

In 3 years: OMG The Planes Expansion is so shit compared to The Maelstrom and the endgame is so easy, totally catering to casuals, remember when endgame was actually hard like back in <<Insert Maelstrom Raid Instance Here>>?

Rinse. Repeat. Rinse. Repeat...

So full of truth it hurts...
People are so predictable.
Especially if they think they are themselves part of ensidia.

Originally Posted by gilfanon

Last week: OMG Ulduar is so easy, when will Blizzard make some content that's challenging and not totally faceroll. Bring back SWP!

This week: OMG Blizzard giving T8 to people who run Heroics when I worked my ass off and spent hours slaving away to beat extremely challenging content in Ulduar in order to get my Tier gear.

In two Months: OMG Coliseum is so easy, when will Blizzard make some content that's challenging and not totally faceroll. Bring back SWP!

In 4 months: OMG Blizzard giving T9 to people who run Heroics when I worked my ass off and spent hours slaving away to beat extremely challenging content in Coliseum in order to get my Tier gear.

In 18 months: OMG The Maelstrom Expansion is so shit compared to WOTLK and the endgame is so easy, totally catering to casuals, remember when endgame was actually hard like back in Ulduar?

In 3 years: OMG The Planes Expansion is so shit compared to The Maelstrom and the endgame is so easy, totally catering to casuals, remember when endgame was actually hard like back in <<Insert Maelstrom Raid Instance Here>>?

Rinse. Repeat. Rinse. Repeat...

Almost got it right.

Current endgame content IS to easy and still gets nefred every week and yes everyone whines.
But it's in the next part you've made and error. Noone is claiming casuals will get the same gear as them because they are doing "hard endgame content". They are saying people who are to fucking retarded to even do the endgame content in it's current form will get the same gear as them.

Rogues get to use axes.
Interesting.


Sadly there's no axe worth using at this time.

As a raid leader, I do see some positives with the emblem change. Yes, people can now get conquest badges easier. No, they are not handing out top tier gear. Ulduar gear is excellent now. When 3.2 comes out, it will be one content tier behind. 3.2 is not Tier 9. It's more like ZA. Now why I see this as a good thing.

As someone who organizes 25 man raids for my guild weekly, there is always the problem of people taking a break from raiding, or coming back after a break and being far behind the gear requirements for where the guild is now progression wise. For that matter, most of us have level 80 alts or dual specs to gear as well. At the moment, my guild is gearing three ranged dps to help them catch up to our level of content (Ulduar 25) and to have them available on the roster. Right now, that means gear runs of Naxx until they have sufficient levels to be viable in Ulduar. Once 3.2 hits, it'll be several more steps required to get them caught up just to have those backups be viable. These were good raiders in BC and just need the gear to jump back in where we need them.

Additionally, in BC, Blizzard released the Sunwell quality badge gear. This gear was purchasable with the very same badges you started farming as soon as you started farming heroics. Think about how quickly everyone was able to grab that gear as soon as it was released. Now, they're switching all lower tier content to conquest badges once 3.2 hits. This means the only people who can horde those badges now are people already running conquest content. They aren't turning your badges of heroism or valor into conquest. They are simply increasing the way they can be obtained from that point forward. I'm a hybrid. You can bet I'll be taking advantage of some of that badge gear for my offspec. I also have alts which will be taking advantage of it to for when I just may want to swap my melee dps main out for my ranged dps alt on certain raid encounters. Try to think of how these changes can be a good thing for us instead of focusing on the "bad players are getting my gear" comments. Yes poor raiders can get some good gear, but their poor performance will prevent them from getting into most raids (or at least ensure they never get invited back).

- Quest creatures and objects will now show on the player's world map.

Did Blizzard just give Questhelper The Finger?

Woooho Emblemchange, WoW is gonna be more casual the EVER!

Rogues with axes, where THE FUCK is Shamans with swords?!

*waits patiently for Warrior changes*

*waits*

*waits*

F-it, it'll be weeks before we see another line or two of changes added in that are extremely minimal changes that mean next to nothing just like nearly every other patch, onto stuff that concerns my alts:

PvP changes, interesting, interesting indeed.

Badge change = Win. Able to gear up alt's easier without having to spend 5 hours trying to fill a PuG for Naxx25, or scrambling the guild and guild member's friends to try and put together a Naxx25 run. Releasing these badges isn't a horrible thing, why does it matter if someone "looks" the same as a "hardcore" raider. This is WotLK, 75% of the gear all looks the same anyway. Giving someone the chance to get better gear isn't going to automagically make them an awesome player that can steal your raid position. However, if they are a "casual" player that just couldn't be bothered spending the excess time getting into PuG raids to try and catch up gear-wise, but are skilled, they will now have a much better chance of getting into a guild and actually helping out instead of leeching for a month while they gear up.