Encounter Journal Preview

[Metalfenrir]

No one mentioned the most important aspect of the journal yet. Crabby is in the left hand corner, ready to help us with his friendly advice and commentary!

[Magik505]

looks sick

[lightmgl]

Sigh, and just to think that only 5 days ago Michael Morhaime "complained" about people burning through content too fast....

Which was only a month after the lead game producer announced at GDC that players were moving through the content slower than expected. Morhaime is full of shit and just trying to appease investors. Investors won't know about that GDC comment but they definitely know about Morhaime's one.

Anyways the DJ isn't really gonna have an effect on anyone except the very first guilds who try to knock over encounters and maybe make it a little easier for the first few who follow after them to get the information from the DJ instead of watching videos and searching the spell database. If anything, I'm hoping Blizzard takes this as a queue to make sure the challenge of the fight relies on the execution and not the gimmicks. Design the fights so that knowing just lets you make attempts without spending the first hour or two figuring out whats going on, but rather figuring out how to execute it.

[Beet]

I agree its like the 1% of super special "elitist" show offs pay more to play this game than the other 99%? It's why they must cater to the smaller side of the player base, because they can OBVIOUSLY run the entire game off that "enormous" income. They need to change this games name while they are at it ... either to World of Catercraft, or World of Elitistpigcraft.

Wow.. really? You're the type of player that gives casuals a bad name. I'm not sure why you seem to think players wanting challenges in WoW makes them automatic elitists. Because it doesn't, just FYI.

Back to the main subject. I think the Encounter Journal is a good idea. It doesn't ruin anything at all and I really cannot believe some people are crying about this being implemented. Just seeing boss abilities doesn't make the fight a joke. I mean look at heroic LK25. People knew every single ability for that fight yet it took many many guilds months to kill him.

And yeah goodbye Atlas Loot.

[Deleted]

Am I the only one to have caught this faux paus: "Cenarius is a demigod, the son of Malorne and Elune, and the patron of all of Azeroth's druids."

Cenarius, according to the stories, is the son of Malorne and YSERA. Hence why the Aspect when berserk in the Ancients trilogy when she saw Malorne slaughtered by the demons, and Cenarius wounded. =\

malorne was killed by archimonde

[Puro]

Hahahaahhaha, I just check back here for the first time since I quit little over a month ago, and what do I see?
A useless window to tell you about useless stuff, and Raggy with legs.
HAEHAHAHA Raggy with legs, what a game, I tell you.
What a game.

[meroko]

I realize it's undone and may change but didn't they say Heroic Ragnaros would be completely different than normal? According to this, it only adds a new phase. That's hardly a redone fight. I guess we will see as time progresses but if that is the only change to Heroic Rag I am disappointed.....only because we were promised it would be an original fight on its own.

[Alraml]

Hahahaahhaha, I just check back here for the first time since I quit little over a month ago, and what do I see?
A useless window to tell you about useless stuff, and Raggy with legs.
HAEHAHAHA Raggy with legs, what a game, I tell you.
What a game.

Oh you're so cool.

[Freese]

As a player that never looked at a loot table... as a player who always went into a first try with minimal info and let it be a surprise (looked at abilites and strats later).. I find this really sad day.

It doesn't matter how good or bad the actual coding is. Its good for lootwhores who will now see even better when they can leave a pug in middle of the run. But as part of an immersive game that I personally want to play this is actually one of the worst feature I have ever seen.

You still don't have to look. And people can look at loot drops from other sources rights now. Ergo, both of your points are invalid.

[Puro]

I know, because if you can't see how far this game is down the trash can, then you need glasses.
Ragnaros with legs, I mean come on, I lol'd so hard.

[Spoiledkid]

Hahahaahhaha, I just check back here for the first time since I quit little over a month ago, and what do I see?
A useless window to tell you about useless stuff, and Raggy with legs.
HAEHAHAHA Raggy with legs, what a game, I tell you.
What a game.

I guess these things improve others' gaming experience.

---------- Post added 2011-05-16 at 04:02 AM ----------

No one mentioned the most important aspect of the journal yet. Crabby is in the left hand corner, ready to help us with his friendly advice and commentary!

I think you were the 8th or something.

[Alayea]

What caught my attention first when looking at the journal was a certain creature in the upper-left corner. Go Crabby! XD

[DaGhostDS]

lets make this game easier.. meh :/

[tusker]

lets make this game easier.. meh :/

Seriously? This information is widely available anyway. You've got to be kidding. Even if it did make the game "easier" would that be a bad thing to those crying the game is too hard?

[good diu bro]

So that crab wasnt an april fool! Aw we should have known that we wont get 3 april fool jokes in a year.

This is just to give people who said the Encounter Journal doesn't provide enough information from which to generate loose strategies:
- Magma Trap is a new ability. Players should be mindful of not standing in locations that could create a line of Magma Traps that would otherwise limit your ability to move freely around Ragnaros' platform (as these apparently persist for "the remainder of the battle").

I suspect we have to alternate members to eat the trap.

- Move around the platform in CW or CCW fashion as Living Meteors come down so they are always trailing you. They will essentially be "kite killed" by ranged DPS.

Depends, it might use the prince setback council's mechanics in ICC.

- Hamuul will most likely place Entrapping Roots on the ground and you must kite/navigate Ragnaros towards them to trap him for additional damage/immobilization. This is reminiscent of Maiev's traps during the Illidan encounter(BT) or the Crystals against Ossirian the Unscarred (AQ20).

Oh raggy, what big legs you got?
All the better to trap me with!
Thats sound stupid, he can simply sit there and empowering his sulfuras while telling us to face him or get wtfpwned.

[KnickKnack]

Thanks for ruining another fun aspect of the game Blizzard.... good job

Yeah, it is fun to have to always have PuG's in dungeon finder to not know the fights.

[Amazad]

they're kidding right ?

[Puro]

I guess these things improve others' gaming experience. [COLOR="red"]

Yes, Ragnaros with legs sure improves the game a lot.

Seriously? This information is widely available anyway. You've got to be kidding. Even if it did make the game "easier" would that be a bad thing to those crying the game is too hard?

If people thinks this game is hard they have to start playing something else, they are just not up for the "challenges" this game delivers.
I lol'd, this game, hard.. haha.

[sabrelime]

I realize it's undone and may change but didn't they say Heroic Ragnaros would be completely different than normal? According to this, it only adds a new phase. That's hardly a redone fight. I guess we will see as time progresses but if that is the only change to Heroic Rag I am disappointed.....only because we were promised it would be an original fight on its own.

They said specifically that the legs were for a special heroic only PHASE, they have never said a completely different fight.

[Puremallace]

I am confused how people see this is as a bad thing? People do realize before you were relying on some bubba to update a add-on every patch and now blizzard does it for you. It has been there for as long as even I was playing WoW and I stopped a long time ago.