Ko'ragh Solo Kill, Tweets, Americas Arena Regionals, 3D Printed Blackhand's Hammer

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Ko'ragh Solo Kill
Wannoob has managed a solo kill of Normal Ko'ragh. It took over 100 attempts and an item level of 713 to get the kill. You can see more details in the video description.



Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Timewalking
is Ironbound Wraithcharger a WoD exclusive? or will it be obtainable a long while from now? should i be rushing to get asap?
The Timewalking rewards aren’t tied to this expansion – no need to rush! (WarcraftDevs)

Game Design
could either of you clarify the difference between creative and technical design from your perspectives?
Good question. I can't fit a good answer in a twitter post, so I wrote a quick blog on it: https://t.co/sao6zGnWPk (craig_amai)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
but why did so many feel the need to server transfer? Cause playerbase dropped with cata overtuning. Servers healthy in wotlk
Not my recollection. In NA, PvP players move to Tich and raiders to Mal'ganis. That's where the action was. (OccupyGStreet)
In my memory, my server still had an identity (i.e. I knew individual players) in BC but not beyond. YMMV. (OccupyGStreet)

Were you consulted on things that had a dollar or pound/euro value behind them like server transfers, you know what I mean.
Yes. (OccupyGStreet)



Road to BlizzCon – Watch the Americas Regionals Live September 12–13
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Eight teams have qualified for the 2015 World of Warcraft Arena Americas Regionals tournament—one from Latin America, one from Australia and New Zealand, and six from North America. On September 12 and 13, three of those teams will advance to the WoW Arena World Championship at BlizzCon 2015 . . . and five will be heading back home.

You’ll be able to watch the carnage unfold live on Twitch.tv/Warcraft on September 12 and 13 at 12 p.m. PT—but in the meantime, let’s meet the contenders who’ve risen through the ranks over the past few months.

The Teams

Method
Under their original moniker "Is Butter a Carb," this was the first North American team to qualify, beating out Luminosity in the Grand Finals of the first North American Online Qualifier Cup back in July. Since then, the group has reunited under the Method banner to prove that their run in Cup 1 was no coincidence and that they deserve a spot in the World Championships at BlizzCon.
  • Team Captain: Chanimal – Affliction/Demonology Warlock
  • Gorecki – Restoration Shaman, Balance Druid, Beast Mastery Hunter, Affliction Warlock
  • Rositajonez – Frost Mage
  • Psytrix – Holy Paladin

Juveniles
This team claimed victory under the name "Rise of le Sock" in the second North American Online Qualifier Cup, and eliminated many well-known players to get here. As the only team in the Regionals with only three players on their roster—and only one playable composition—they must prove that numbers don’t make might if they want to advance to BlizzCon.
  • Team Captain: Roastyz – Subtlety Rogue
  • Wealthysockx – Frost Mage
  • Kubzy – Restoration Druid

Tempo Storm
The name Tempo Storm has inspired fear in opponents in many eSports events, and the World of Warcraft Arena is no different. Tempo Storm has proven time and again that they’re a force to be reckoned with in online tournaments, but can they hold up under pressure at the Americas Regionals?
  • Team Captain: Elite – Holy Paladin
  • Pikaboo – Subtlety Rogue, Arms Warrior
  • Jahmilli – Frost Mage, Subtlety/Combat Rogue, Shadow Priest, Enhancement Shaman
  • Starship – Restoration Druid, Survival/Beast Mastery Hunter

Luminosity
Luminosity had a very competitive showing in NA Online Qualifier Cups 1 and 2, but it wasn’t until Cup 3 that they secured their position at Regionals. Now they’re out to prove that those defeats were merely a setback and that they’re destined for the Arena stage at BlizzCon.
  • Team Captain: Vanguards – Enhancement Shaman, Retribution Paladin, Mistweaver Monk
  • Maldiva – Affliction Warlock
  • Smexxin – Arms/Fury Warrior
  • Dannycarry – Restoration Druid, Mistweaver Monk

Dream Deferred
In the third NA Online Qualifier Cup, this team (previously named "World of Warcats") showed just how much of a threat they can be right out of the gates, scoring two wins in under 60 seconds. Are the other teams prepared for Dream Deferred’s opening onslaught?
  • Team Captain: Blackjeff – Frost/Unholy Death Knight
  • Beatsbydrake – Affliction/Demonology Warlock
  • Sychzy – Feral Druid
  • Vincentwong – Holy Paladin

FolloweSports.com
Formerly known as "Carlos’ Bandidos", this team fought to the bitter end to secure their spot, beating out Dream Team 3–2 in the third-place match at NA Online Cup 3. They’re going to need to keep that same determination and tenacity to fight through the other teams in the Americas Regionals.
  • Team Captain: Absterge – Restoration Shaman
  • Jellybeans – Beast Mastery Hunter
  • Vosil – Affliction/Demonology Warlock
  • Walterbare – Feral Druid

Hype
Hype (previously "Bang Bang AU") emerged victorious as the winners of the Australia & New Zealand qualifying tournament in July. Although these players are relatively unknown, they had an extremely solid showing in the qualifiers. How will they stack up against the best teams from the Americas?
  • Team Captain: Nyz – Unholy Death Knight
  • Oyx – Arms Warrior
  • Ymcmshred – Restoration Druid
  • Creepinbrah – Restoration Druid

Santos Dexterity
Santos Dexterity, originally known as "This is Brasil", dominated the Copa America, winning four out of five play days and not dropping a single game in the finals stage. Consistency was the name of their game, as they won every single game with their preferred composition of Enhancement Shaman, Affliction Warlock, and Restoration Druid.
  • Team Captain: Rynd – Restoration Druid, Restoration Shaman, Holy Paladin
  • Shapis – Affliction Warlock
  • Murmindz – Enhancement Shaman, Shadow Priest
  • Xadin – Arms Warrior

The Prizes
The teams at the Americas Regionals will be competing for their share of a massive $100,000 prize pool—the largest of any regional event in World of Warcraft history. Every team will receive a portion of that money, but the amount increases dramatically the further the teams advance through the tournament.
  • 1st place team: $50,000
  • 2nd place team: $20,000
  • 3rd place team: $10,000
  • 4th place team: $8,000
  • 5th–6th place teams: $4,000
  • 7th–8th place teams: $2,000

Of course, that’s not the only prize at stake. The top three teams will also advance to the WoW Arena World Championship at BlizzCon 2015, where they’ll join five more teams from around the world to compete for $250,000 in prize money.

The Event
The World of Warcraft Arena Americas Regionals will be broadcast live on Twitch.tv/Warcraft starting at 12 p.m. PT on Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13. You won’t want to miss a second of the action.

Of course, an epic event needs an epic crew, and we’re pulling out all the stops with a collection of some of the best shoutcasters and analysts in the World of Warcraft Arena scene:
  • Sid ’Supatease’ Compston
  • Elliott ‘Venruki’ Venczel
  • Jared ‘vhell’ Coulston
  • Josh ‘Lore’ Allen
  • Jackson ‘Bajheera’ Bliton

These guys will be talking spectators through every match, ensuring that you don’t miss any of the high-level strategic play we know we can expect from these amazing teams. We’ll see you there!

3D Printed Weapon - Blackhand's Hammer
Ceravyn shared a 3D Printer Blackhand's Hammer, similar to The Black Hand's model.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Ko'ragh Solo Kill, Tweets, Americas Arena Regionals, 3D Printed Blackhand's Hammer started by chaud View original post
Published on 2015-09-12 10:32 AM
61 Comments
Comments 61 Comments
  1. Raging Penguin's Avatar
    Interesting music and awesome kill. I don't see an issue with the anime UI, the action is taking place on the center of the screen idk why people are looking at or paying attention to the corner to begin with.
  1. DeiVias's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Jack Flash View Post
    Why are people so fucking concerned with his UI.
    Probably cause it's not enjoyable to watch due to the UI taking up 95% of screen real estate and shit overlapping all over the place.


    I'm sure you'll reply with something like don't watch it then, well he made it public viewing so you gotta expect criticism.
  1. facerollin's Avatar
    Full blown weeb UI.
  1. Fritters154's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by shogunit3 View Post
    Interesting music and awesome kill. I don't see an issue with the anime UI, the action is taking place on the center of the screen idk why people are looking at or paying attention to the corner to begin with.
    Because it is changing from picture to picture frequently. I understand the purpose of it (indicating resolve amount) but it's just such an ugly addition to the already exploded interface. I'm sure it helps him as he is used to it but another player looking at that interface could find a million things that could be put in better places. Personally, I hate having all the extra symbols in the middle of the screen as I feel like it obstructs the field of view needlessly. But I have to agree with others that have posted, of all parts of the interface that resolve signal thing is just disgusting. But really, i've seen a lot of interesting interfaces in boss kill videos but that resolve meter is probably the single worst addon i've ever seen. There has to be something far more visually appealing and less cumbersome that has been developed for resolve.
  1. darkminaz's Avatar
    cool kill, looks like a lot of work was put in there
    i would change the corners to color boxes, simpler for the eye but whatever works for you i guess
  1. Mokuna's Avatar
    I don't care about the UI that much but the kill itself isn't impressive, the mechanics are pretty straight forward and the "tight dps check" which is about 40k dps? not really worth a mmo champion frontpage imo
  1. Salech's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Garfurion View Post
    Here's the link to the video Hunter Solo; Shoot vs Tectus.

    Why did this not get an MMO-Champion video? such a great kill.
  1. Shilien's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by leetsushi View Post
    Never have I said his UI shouldn't suit his needs, but if he wants his video to appeal to the masses, then using something less obvious is the better choice, which would easily be possible using video editing. De facto it deterred quite a bit of people, pointing it out is criticism.

    No need to get aggressive about it, I'm just trying to make a solid discussion. calling out people being "insecure" sure as hell doesn't make your opinion stronger.
    You're not interested in having a discussion, you're interested in throwing around passive aggressive insults.

    The important part of the video is the accomplishment. The UI let him do that. You and 3 or 4 other people having a problem with the UI has nothing to do with the accomplishment - the POINT of the video.
  1. Kindahuge's Avatar
    You don't even do mythics? Lol, fuckin scrub
  1. ketsui's Avatar
    that UI was so ugly and messy i couldn't bear more than 15 seconds of it, why do people put up with that kinda crap?
  1. Lolsteak's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shilien View Post
    You're not interested in having a discussion, you're interested in throwing around passive aggressive insults.

    The important part of the video is the accomplishment. The UI let him do that. You and 3 or 4 other people having a problem with the UI has nothing to do with the accomplishment - the POINT of the video.
    You contradict yourself.

    The point of the video was to showoff his kill, if the abomination of a UI puts half the people watching the video off then it's already failing.
  1. Ickabob's Avatar
    I'd have much rather seen them feature the hunter who got the world first Tectus kill over this crap. Tanks soloing things is far from interesting.
  1. Easo's Avatar
    Gratz with the kill.
    Not realy sure about the choice of pictures, though.
    Wouldnt huge-ass text be better than a bunch of quite similar anime girls to draw your (your as in Wannoob) attention?
  1. Planeshaper's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolsteak View Post
    You contradict yourself.

    The point of the video was to showoff his kill, if the abomination of a UI puts half the people watching the video off then it's already failing.
    If it puts off the half of the people that it appears to have actually put off, then I'd say that's a rousing success.
  1. Zka's Avatar
    The very skilled monk with the horrid UI is back Sorry, I just don't believe you actually read and use all that information. Unless you are a savant or something like that. For normal people, such a convoluted UI is a hindrance.
  1. Shilien's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolsteak View Post
    You contradict yourself.

    The point of the video was to showoff his kill, if the abomination of a UI puts half the people watching the video off then it's already failing.
    Well it's a good thing I both didn't contradict myself and it isn't upsetting half the people that watched it, isn't it?

    I'd say the accomplishment is pretty amazing if the only thing people bitching about is the UI.
  1. ElDoorO's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zka View Post
    The very skilled monk with the horrid UI is back Sorry, I just don't believe you actually read and use all that information. Unless you are a savant or something like that. For normal people, such a convoluted UI is a hindrance.
    Not really. It's in the center of the screen because that's where your vision is best.
    It looks like two of those show the ICD of trinkets (useful to know).
    Pretty much everything on there I can see a reason for.
    You'll notice the -huge- open bottom left area. There's a reason for that.

    More likely than your theory is: You don't try to solo bosses. Knowing that much information to *you* isn't needed and is not likely to be the make/break for downing a boss.

    So you prefer to spend your time cleaning up your interface -- this person prefers to solo bosses and down them. You two simply have different interests.
  1. Katelockwell's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ElDoorO View Post
    Not really. It's in the center of the screen because that's where your vision is best.
    It looks like two of those show the ICD of trinkets (useful to know).
    Pretty much everything on there I can see a reason for.
    You'll notice the -huge- open bottom left area. There's a reason for that.

    More likely than your theory is: You don't try to solo bosses. Knowing that much information to *you* isn't needed and is not likely to be the make/break for downing a boss.

    So you prefer to spend your time cleaning up your interface -- this person prefers to solo bosses and down them. You two simply have different interests.
    I think the point is

    For a video that's being made public to showcase a 'feat' being accomplished, especially one that's now being promoted on one of (if not the largest) fan site for the game, the video could look presentable. Right now there's so much everything everywhere on the screen that 10 seconds in I nearly forgot what it was I was trying to watch.

    Functional for you or not, if you're making videos for the public to showcase your game play, the UI should look a little bit better than:

    i.imgur.com/nTDavFb.jpg
  1. ElDoorO's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Katelockwell View Post
    I think the point is

    For a video that's being made public to showcase a 'feat' being accomplished, especially one that's now being promoted on one of (if not the largest) fan site for the game, the video could look presentable. Right now there's so much everything everywhere on the screen that 10 seconds in I nearly forgot what it was I was trying to watch.

    Functional for you or not, if you're making videos for the public to showcase your game play, the UI should look a little bit better than:

    i.imgur.com/nTDavFb.jpg
    Then don't watch it?
    If I make a video, you can fuck right on off. I owe you NOTHING.
    You're welcome to criticize it but to feel entitled to a "better" UI? Nope. Be grateful it was recorded and you can see it.
  1. Katelockwell's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ElDoorO View Post
    Then don't watch it?
    If I make a video, you can fuck right on off. I owe you NOTHING.
    You're welcome to criticize it but to feel entitled to a "better" UI? Nope. Be grateful it was recorded and you can see it.
    Sure, here's my criticism.

    The UI is so god awful and bloated combined with buttons that are nearly as large as the boss, that I immediately lost focus of anything that was trying to be shown in the video. I've seen two year olds draw pictures that look better than that bucket of pig slop someone threw on a monk's FoV. Perhaps next time you make a video you can

    I don't "feel entitled to a "better" ui". I feel like the point of the video is lost because that UI is so god awful that 10 seconds in you're trying to figure out what it was you were trying to watch in the first place. Was there even a boss in that video?

    Be grateful it was recorded and I get to see this

    i.imgur.com/nTDavFb.jpg

    for a few minutes?
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