Thread: 3.3.3 New Toys, Blue posts

Originally Posted by aruki

Where is the war in warcraft now? It seems they're too busy killing dragons and dead things to worry about fighting each other.

Gasp, you mean people are being intelligent and prioritizing planet-threatening issues over petty "THAT GUY IS GREEN I SHOULD KILL HIM HURRRRR" retardation? MY GOD MAKE IT STOP!

Originally Posted by aruki

It's a '40 vs 40 Boss Race' rather than a bg, as for some old school ones lasting 5 hours, I've joined ones that had been going on for over a day before.

Thats a real war.

Where is the war in warcraft now? It seems they're too busy killing dragons and dead things to worry about fighting each other.

It is called evolution, as time progresses the nutshell of a brain that people had has grown to the size of a pear.
Nowadays people actually play to reach a goal whereas before everyone was just trying to blow eachother up with their 800 crits while thinking "Oh my lordy lordy, I think Ima do daet Egaen when I rezs up! ", but I guess running in circles is fun for some people.

Originally Posted by Kitanii

I don't get the mastery system at all. So, there will be "special" Stats i get for spending points in a tree, okay - i get that. But wth is up with mastery on gear? I totaly don't get that.

First stat comes from the number of talents you've spent in the tree and is reasonably generic (attack power, spell power, etc)
Second stat comes from the number of talents you've spent in the tree and is slightly more themed to your tree (haste, crit, etc)
Third stat comes from the amount of mastery you have from your gear and is something special for your tree (absorption for disc priests, for example).

I'd love longer AVs to be back if there was a reasonable bonus to making them last longer. Right now they'll time out insanely fast even without the marks because of the kill limit.

Originally Posted by Boubouille

Jepettoy Joybuzz in Dalaran will sell 3 more items in 3.3.3! Your favorite toymaker added the following to his inventory:

• Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot 50 (Companion Pet)
• Blue Crashin' Trashin' Racer Controller 40
• Tiny Blue Ragdoll 10

So only the first one is a true companion pet? I'm a collector and it seems like the other 2 are usable items. So I assume only the first one will count towards the companion pet counter?

Also: /gief 100 companion achievement

Originally Posted by Jukaï

What's there to not get? As you spend points in a single talent tree, you get 1, 2 or 3 bonusses. De third bonus will always read as something like:
"Increases [insert type] damage by [y]", or "Decreases damage taken by [y]".

The number that this Mastery stat will adjust, is [y], where [y] is a %. The higher your mastery stat, thus the higher you can stack it, the higher [y] becomes.

I'm pretty sure it's the 1st and 2nd bonuses that give you percentage-wise damage/healing increase/decrease and the 3rd one being a special one that lowers ability cooldowns, adds a HoT to your direct heals, increases RP gain etc

Originally Posted by Health

So only the first one is a true companion pet? I'm a collector and it seems like the other 2 are usable items. So I assume only the first one will count towards the companion pet counter?

Also: /gief 100 companion achievement

And gief a 150 (maybe 125tho) one for cataclysm.

The biggest imbalances of AV are way more obvious pre-80.

For example grabbing a tower as alliance is simple, you just run up and get it. As horde you need to kill 2 guards and then stand exactly right so you don't get hit by the rest. When both teams are rushing this is extremely important. (And at low levels it's extremely frustrating since all the mobs in AV haven't been adjusted for the new level brackets and the introduction of battleground levelling (50-59, level 55/60 mobs for example))

Then you have an elite at the south (or north?) DB bunker, that aggro's when you enter it. While the alliance have one non-elite to worry about that will evade before you're even at the FW towers.

Those two are easy things to fix, put the guards behind the beams in the bunkers and remove the elite or move it to a place it won't aggro at all.
The map itself isn't as bad as people make it out to be tbh. Alliance have the bridge, while horde have the nice narrow hallway with lots of corners. Both can be avoided, but most will just go through the maze like a rat and get trapped.

Originally Posted by Macalister

It is called evolution, as time progresses the nutshell of a brain that people had has grown to the size of a pear.
Nowadays people actually play to reach a goal whereas before everyone was just trying to blow eachother up with their 800 crits while thinking "Oh my lordy lordy, I think Ima do daet Egaen when I rezs up! ", but I guess running in circles is fun for some people.

For me it's not wanting the exact same AV back as it was prenerfs with the red/orange dude and all. But those things made it epic. If they only altered it into a more challenging BG where you have to use those 'tools' in order to win the battle. It would be alot more enjoyable then it is now. These days everyone is stressy about getting as much marks the fastest and they start to QQ if it isn't going fast enough and try to get people to lose. I really hope that stops with 3.3.3 . It's not about running in circles it's about an exiting battle.

the poor Crashin' Trashin' Racer got nerfed lately and now they are selling them

AV imbalance is because sometimes you fight with morones and sometimes you are not.

Hahaha, way to make warriors in prot spec with DPS gear even more overpowered. I guess we finally got out AOE rend... (Well, sort of, I THINK once this change goes live it will apply Deep Wounds for sure, meaning a lot of fury wars will start weaving it in on trash).

gif me ma cataclysm screw wotlk -.-