Armory Stats - Pet Battles, Blue Tweets, Setup of the Month, Heroes PTR Updates

Pet battling has never really interested me all that much, but I really love collecting pets.

Originally Posted by moveth

Pet battling has never really interested me all that much, but I really love collecting pets.

Thankfully that is the last of the pet battle stats, HFC boss kill rates are in the queue now!

Id imagine if jay wilson was fired it was more because the vanilla iteration of Diablo IIII was one of the worst loot hacks ever made.

Those are some dev's desperately looking for some validation.

When GC openly encouraged people, via a post on WoW's website, to mock lesser skilled players to "make them better" -- you have a problem communicating with the community combined with an elitist attitude. Instead, what they should admit is they need the casual but don't *want* the casuals. That's the elephant in the room they refuse to discuss.

Originally Posted by ElDoorO

Those are some dev's desperately looking for some validation.

When GC openly encouraged people, via a post on WoW's website, to mock lesser skilled players to "make them better" -- you have a problem communicating with the community combined with an elitist attitude. Instead, what they should admit is they need the casual but don't *want* the casuals. That's the elephant in the room they refuse to discuss.

Depressingly accurate, given Warlords of Draenor's design philosophy and how it was the sum total of the gradual disemboweling of casual endgame choices since Wrath.

Well I don't recall ghostcrawler getting butthurt and making them reserve his name because of a ton of "fire ghostcrawler" guilds popping up.

Originally Posted by chaud

Thankfully that is the last of the pet battle stats, HFC boss kill rates are in the queue now!

I love seeing these types of stats so it doesnt bother me Im glad you guys have more stats posts.

How are there more people with 75 pets to level 25 than there are with 75 pets to level 10 or 30 pets to level 75 than 30 pets to level 10? That math does not check out....

Originally Posted by Euphonious Monk

How are there more people with 75 pets to level 25 than there are with 75 pets to level 10 or 30 pets to level 75 than 30 pets to level 10? That math does not check out....

If you catch a pet at level 20 and raise it to level 25, it would only count for the 'Raise X pets to level 25' achievement and not the 'Raise X pets to level 10' achievement.

Originally Posted by Simca

If you catch a pet at level 20 and raise it to level 25, it would only count for the 'Raise X pets to level 25' achievement and not the 'Raise X pets to level 10' achievement.

As someone who only lacks the "75 to level 10" achievement, this is seriously annoying me.

I say cater more too the elite 1 % .
They are the most dedicated and skillfull players arround .
I am sure blizz bosses wont mind having 100k subs instead of 10 million .

RE: CPU Processors, you're better off with an i7-4790k these days. Only ~$50 USD more than the i5-6600k, and benchmarks a whopping 43% faster. Ya, it's still an LGA 1150 socket, instead of the newer 1151, but it's a powerhouse of a CPU. Even the new i7-6700k benchmarks lower than the 4790k. Yes, the limitation to 1150 sockets prevents, to my knowledge, running DDR4 RAM as well, but honestly, DDR4 isn't even really that much of an upgrade over DDR3 at that point. All of the new processor and RAM generations seem to be concerned with reducing power consumption rather than increasing performance, which doesn't really do anything useful for gaming towers.

holinka really drank too much of his own coolaid... he is responsible for creating a good experience for the pvp players and he has made it even worse coming from mop. It was quite bad then, and he managed to make it even worse, as impossible as some may have thought that would have been. But now we know better. Of course those petitions are just some joke and nothing will happen, that still does not change the fact that probably noone in their right mind would say that he is doing a great job, especially not when he basically now tells players to f* themselves if they are not swimming on his wave.

Way to go dude, always great practice to piss the players off. They are the reason you even have this job. I am sure your bosses will love that attitude too. But then again, it seems to be totally the standard that the devs currently set for themselves. Always defend your stuff, no matter how bad of a mistake it was, you can always say "oh yeah back then we messed up, but next time we will totally get it right.". problem is, youre not doing much right ever since wrath ended. And that is quite a couple of years away from now...

Originally Posted by Kaedis

RE: CPU Processors, you're better off with an i7-4790k these days. Only ~$50 USD more than the i5-6600k, and benchmarks a whopping 43% faster. Ya, it's still an LGA 1150 socket, instead of the newer 1151, but it's a powerhouse of a CPU. Even the new i7-6700k benchmarks lower than the 4790k. Yes, the limitation to 1150 sockets prevents, to my knowledge, running DDR4 RAM as well, but honestly, DDR4 isn't even really that much of an upgrade over DDR3 at that point. All of the new processor and RAM generations seem to be concerned with reducing power consumption rather than increasing performance, which doesn't really do anything useful for gaming towers.

I found the i5-6600k to be an odd choice too. Not really a great 'bang for the buck' option, and not really a great high end option either.

Doom

Originally Posted by heinz0r

problem is, youre not doing much right ever since wrath ended. And that is quite a couple of years away from now...

I don't believe that and I don't think a lot of other players do either. If you take out the long, long drought between release of SOO and Warlords, I think we would all look back at Mists of Pandaria as the second best expansion for all kinds of reasons. Hell even factoring in the drought i don't think it was so bad. The legendary cloak holidays weren't as good as real content but at least helped people come back in and get caught up and i think more people actually participated in "for real" raiding content than ever thanks to the group finder and openraid and whatnot.

I think if you look at how many people came back during that time and how many more showed up for warlords you can see that its not like the well was poisoned.

I honestly think that the biggest problem wow has is that half (maybe less than half) of us are simply too good at this game after 11 years (thanks to addons, websites, strat videos, fan sites, etc) and the rest are turned off - or turned away - by an increasingly elitist and exasperated attitude of the long time, "hardcore" subscribers.

The fundamental content model of world of warcraft cannot ever provide enough content to satiate the "world first mythic" guilds who chew through the content in days because its literally their jobs, nor can it keep up with players who run each dungeon once or twice on normal, find out that the heroics are more of the same and wonder why they have to run the same things over and over and over. People have never felt more "done" so fast than Warlords (for good reasons) and it doesn't help that we are no longer getting new content 7 months after release. Some people turn to PVP but by its very nature, you will lose 50% of the time if the game is doing its job correctly and PVP players HATE to lose. I've never met a single one who could handle it (myself included - it's discouraging at best).

I don't know what the answer is to that question but they have to come up with something for Legion. Leverage all past content through timewalking maybe. Maybe each week the LFR/LFD picks from random expansions to put those people in with a bias towards new content early in each patch? At least "the grind" wouldn't be so monotonous.

I guess Blizzard are finally realising something which the long term players, from vanilla, had told them all along would happen:

In general, no one gives a flying fuck about pets. This will not change.

Even when Wow 2 comes out in 2/3 years and millions pour back into the game, and we have more animated pets, there should be more to do than that. It's just not worth caring about.

Pet battleslol, so much wasted resources ...

I'd be careful with the R9's mentioned in the build for the time being. AMD is having a problem that's taking them forever to resolve when it comes to crashing in DX11 they just now finally put that in their 'Known Issues' tab in today's Beta Driver.

Originally Posted by davidcryix

I don't believe that and I don't think a lot of other players do either. If you take out the long, long drought between release of SOO and Warlords, I think we would all look back at Mists of Pandaria as the second best expansion for all kinds of reasons. Hell even factoring in the drought i don't think it was so bad. The legendary cloak holidays weren't as good as real content but at least helped people come back in and get caught up and i think more people actually participated in "for real" raiding content than ever thanks to the group finder and openraid and whatnot.
*cut off*

Brian Holinka is responsible for the pvp experience, yet you come here and tell me I am wrong, then start talking about things that have no connection to pvp. The things you said may all be true, I will neither comment or deny that, but you are simply barking at the wrong tree here

Originally Posted by moveth

Pet battling has never really interested me all that much, but I really love collecting pets.

Yeah. I like collecting them but battling is complete unbalanced pay to win garbage.

Try going up against any fucking store pet or cross-promotional pet.

The whole thing is a fucking joke. And you have Pokémon fanatics that do nothing but strategize and live for that shit.