Lich King Weapons Changes, Blue posts

[Limelight]

As I no longer play the game, I'm hoping a guild will put out a Lich King encounter video from beginning to end, with the in-game music and sound effects and spoken dialogue, and including the cinematic, instead of videos with Euro-dance tracks that obscure things.

[nanaki]

As I no longer play the game, I'm hoping a guild will put out a Lich King encounter video from beginning to end, with the in-game music and sound effects and spoken dialogue, and including the cinematic, instead of videos with Euro-dance tracks that obscure things.

I lol'd.
Who picks their music?

[ld420]

"Oh well, at least they still have the smokin' hot Elves."

"OH COME ON!"

Casey, you are a god among insects. Keep up the good work! Thx Boub. MMO Report > *

[RevvRevv]

So in frostmournes room we have to kill the add thing before that timer reaches 0 i'm guessing?

[Calaba]

OMG, that caster mace is gonna be awesome
Best it won't be replaced until mid-tier lvl85 raiding too...

[wooshiewoo]

I sincerely believe Vanish is working fairly and i will tell you why.

When a caster casts a spell, "it is in the air", as blue has said. Which means it already knows its target. Why would the spell suddenly "forget" the target (when it has already been cast and knows where to go) just because he has vanished?

Also (and this is the most important part), every decent rogue knows that he has a stealth advantage if he makes his ping worse and causes himself to lag.

Alot of rogues do this on purpose, and when they say "LoL, Vanish bug", it's because they caused their own ping to be worse.

I think Vanish is working just fine, and believe that rogues need to be fixed so that worse pings don't give them stealth advantages before anything changes to vanish.

I believe Blue knows this and also thinks the same thing

[lilbuddhaman]

to obtain the love fool Lovely Charm pieces really easily... go into ulduar on your own (2 man raid group) and farm away at the endless spawn of Flame Leviathan trash in a siege engine..... jobsagoodun!

this works extremely well, did my weekly with a 10 man and ended up with 18 Lovely Charm Necklaces ( ie: 180 charms ). you can do with solo, duo, whatever. Just farm those lil bastards and collect em up....HAVE BAG SPACE THOUGH, those damn necklaces don't stack and the pieces only stack to 10 ( same space taken up combined or not )

[uTn]

Pfft. The problem is not the stats. LK weapons should have unique models!

The latter be the utter truth.

[Falcio]

I am not bought on the whole "Lich King as a weapon of the rightchesnous."

First, it's a creation of Evil, the most sickening, cunning and awfully brutal evil known to Azeroth.

Second, even if Bolvar was all good and pure in life, there's this fact that there isn't a single soul that can withstand corruption forever. There are ample signs that can lead to Bolvar's ultimate downfall to darkness: he is, well, a freaking lava-man; he will be constantly tortured, time and again by the countless trapped souls that have been gathered under the Lich King's power; although it was disputed, time and again that Ner'zhul is actually dead, I disagree... that old bastard is part of the Lich King, think "source code"; he sits atop a frozen throne... period.

Third, from what I described earlier in my post, we can find cues to what is called "recycling process." And why the heck not? The Lich King had his first go and had tested his strength and available options (and crucial mistakes). The next time his Wrath will be unleashed, he will be more ruthless, more cunning and more swift in his revenge against the mortal world. I can predict some pretty gruesome deaths under his sway... just you wait

PS: Oh and, he can ressurect Arthas as a mini boss... now that would be laughable

Well, there are two things that make me believe that this Lich King will be different than the other.

First off, Frostmourne is shattered. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the sword the holder of souls? Those are all freed.
Actually, this could create a lot more than we might anticipate. Maybe the reason why Frostmourne itself was never going to be the legendary for the end of the Lich King saga was because it's going to be used again in lore, instead of the obvious idea that Frostmourne will completely destroy your soul. Eh, either way...

Second, Ner'zhul had a powerful hold on Arthas even before he put on the helmet. As soon as he took Frostmourne and sliced up Mal'ganis, he was already in the service of Ner'zhul and proceeded to be his go-to Death Knight. It was only until he put on the helmet that Arthas himself became the Lich King. With that in mind, we have Bolvar, who was actually able to hold off against the Lich King's will while being tortured. [as soon through the Yogg encounter] And he is able to withstand it up to when we finally get into Icecrown Citadel. Now, that's in the time-frame of Naxxramas' downfall, Yogg'Saron being killed, and the Argent Tournament going on. Lore-wise, that could be months of time.
Maybe Bolvar ended up breaking as soon as we got there and he was putting on a show, but beside the point. Arthas was a willing participant of all the killing the Lich King ordered him to do. Bolvar's only reason was to stop the Scourge from overwhelming Azeroth. Could he be corrupted eventually? That could happen, and it would actually create a nice little storyline with everyone in Azeroth starting to mistrust Tirion for lying about the Lich King's death. Mistrusting Paladins? That'd be awesome.

But either way, we do have one very solid fact: Mal'ganis himself swore vengeance against the Lich King [probably Ner'zhul for being duped] and he wasn't even there, so that could create some good interactions as soon as the Burning Legion becomes the Big Bad again. We actually had two big Burning Legion cameos in the Wrath cycle, so it would be interesting to see what comes from all this.

[Camie]

Concerning Lovely Charm Bracelets there is a very easy way to get them just do the bombardment quest in icecrow, 200 in 10 minutes guaranteed. Dunno if it's working as intented I sent a GM ticket just in case.

[kakefarmer]

Concerning Lovely Charm Bracelets there is a very easy way to get them just do the bombardment quest in icecrow, 200 in 10 minutes guaranteed. Dunno if it's working as intented I sent a GM ticket just in case.

OH NO YOU DIDN'T?

[Peagle]

The MMO Report > everything else in this news post.

Tries to hard to be funny imho. Could be 10x better if it provided a tiny bit of analysis on the news items rather than such a broad overview its not really that interesting. i.e. Ok new arena gear, any particular class standouts, even if its funny stuff... Rogue gear looks like something a French rapist would wear. And so forth.

[FireBorne]

MMO report is win every week ;D

[Jin84]

Damn, where can I watch the Arthas video with subtitles (not the fight, the one after the kill)?

[Smokescreen1]

Weapon "fixes":

I'm curious as to why they didn't add an epic sword or axe useable by Combat Rogues that has armor pen on it. Mutilate Rogues have exclusive weapons just for them that no one else will use, and they even fixed the stats to remove armor pen and improve them. Yet combat Rogues have no exclusive weapon, nor great stats on the axe that drops (presumably not "fixed" with the other weapons so that enhance shammys could use it). It was kind of bogus already that they nerfed Combat along with a legitimately overpowered Mutilate spec in the previous patch with poison damage reductions. If nothign else it would be nice to down the game's final encounter with some possible loot you might actually want, especially since they have some pretty lore-rich epic names and such. As is, Combat rogues will be hearthing when its time for loot. Pretty lame for an end-all boss for this expansion.

[Orionsoliara]

Weapon "fixes":

I'm curious as to why they didn't add an epic sword or axe useable by Combat Rogues that has armor pen on it. Mutilate Rogues have exclusive weapons just for them that no one else will use, and they even fixed the stats to remove armor pen and improve them. Yet combat Rogues have no exclusive weapon, nor great stats on the axe that drops (presumably not "fixed" with the other weapons so that enhance shammys could use it). It was kind of bogus already that they nerfed Combat along with a legitimately overpowered Mutilate spec in the previous patch with poison damage reductions. If nothign else it would be nice to down the game's final encounter with some possible loot you might actually want, especially since they have some pretty lore-rich epic names and such. As is, Combat rogues will be hearthing when its time for loot. Pretty lame for an end-all boss for this expansion.

Funny, but according to everything I've seen, the axe is still BiS for combat rogues, and the fist off 10man is BiS until you get to 25man gear. And if you're lucky enough to be in a 10man without a hunter, the crossbow has a nice amount of arpen on it.
So if you're hearthing after downing Arthas, way to miss out on BiS gear for your class, nub.

And stop QQing about your class getting better gear. If you think mut is getting such a better deal over combat, then spend 20 minutes doing dailies, make 50g to spend on a respec, and get those nice daggers. Either way, stop bitching and enjoy the much-needed changes to weapons that were otherwise ugly to every class out there.

[Xentropy]

PS: Oh and, he can ressurect Arthas as a mini boss... now that would be laughable

The Frozen Throne was merely a setback!

[Nangz]

The Frozen Throne was merely a setback!

IN THE MOUNTAINS!

/wave

[refresher]

Rogue gear looks like something a French rapist would wear.

I thought this was what the rogue class was built around...

[N30V1RU5]

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