The facial stuff is so good. It'll be hard to play anything other than Panda.
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The facial stuff is so good. It'll be hard to play anything other than Panda.
Looks like a lot of guilds plan to race change for the food buff, unless there's a nerf.
It's a brilliant design plan. Make everyone race change then implement new models and nerf the food buff so people can race change again. $$$$
Oh wow. Nothing else in the game is anywhere near that expressive, even goblins.
edit: Female Pandaren emotes
Many times Blizzard takes a total Schadenfreude approach to community bitching, which I love. Case in point, when "Will of the Forsaken Was Nerfed" was an actual choice when filling out the "Why are you canceling your account?" questionnaire:
And we can't forget this classic from when the armory was first introduced and players were bitching that people being able to inspect their characters on the armory was (somehow?) equivalent to allowing people to see their address and social security number -_- :
Which reminds me...April Fools Day is coming up! Can't wait to see what Blizzard has coming this year. Last year was a tad underwhelming, but most of the time even Blizzard's bad April Fools jokes are better than most other gaming related pranks. Of course 8-bit Molten Core will always be the best....
Wow. Those are some fantastic animations.
keeblerdrow
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To be fair, that's every tank's story in all instances pre-Cata levels.
Well yeah but the damage output is much higher. Or maybe I just haven't touched my other tanks in a long ass time. I was 2 shotting the elite mobs in there at 70. But I think it has been since Cata since I've leveled a new tank. Either way it's the only tank I haven't played yet, damn shame I didn't play it earlier.
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HarryDemeanor
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Those Pandaren facial animations are really impressive. Makes me want new character models even more.
ShadyMilkman
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Holy lol, the challenge mode reward armor for Hunters looks so terrible.
Oni Link 666
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The dragons on Rogue and Hunter shoulders are ridiculous. Did they make some new engine technology to make shoulders even more ridiculous? And this is just the first set. By the end of the expansion those dragons will probably be flying around your head and randomly clawing and biting your face and breathing fire on you.
The new belt buckles look terrible. I heard about actual belt armor and got excited, but the actual execution could be a bit more subtle, even if it IS WoW.
Also, if we're posting sign up and annual pass info (for SCIENCE!), then I first subscribed 12/20/05, my annual pass expires 10/21/12, and I don't have an invite yet.
Also, if we're posting sign up and annual pass info (for SCIENCE!), then I first subscribed 12/20/05, my annual pass expires 10/21/12, and I don't have an invite yet.
SHOULDERS!!!!!
"lets make them really big and stupid, all the kids like it that way"
goood lord what the flying fuck are they thinking? that rogue set is awesome.... if the shoulders was 10x as small. Just wait until we seee these sets on worgens, orcs, and other races with bigger shoulders. /quit
"lets make them really big and stupid, all the kids like it that way"
goood lord what the flying fuck are they thinking? that rogue set is awesome.... if the shoulders was 10x as small. Just wait until we seee these sets on worgens, orcs, and other races with bigger shoulders. /quit
Interesting, I'm gonna check this out tonight.
This could be entirely unrelated but try going into the beta launcher exe's properties and change the compatibility option to "run this program as an administrator".
I had some problems with the launcher this morning and doing that seemed to fix it.
Johnlenham
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Man they should patch in area loot now. That would be damn handy 
CarbonatedFalcon
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I think the Druid and Paladin sets are pretty good. Paladin set harkens back to Judgment in a way (look closely!)
The Shaman set is...interesting?
Disappointed with the DK set though. Definitely would not be wearing that.
The Shaman set is...interesting?
Disappointed with the DK set though. Definitely would not be wearing that.
Glyphed Shadow Bolt is so boss.
If warlocks are able to tank, even just 5 mans, it would be pretty awesome >.> probably just people on the forums getting their hopes up, but I always thought lock demo tanking would be awesome.
I wouldn't worry, the early starting areas for Worgen/Goblins/Death Knights were shitty too, they are done yet. Now, if it's two weeks before the release and they haven't changed anything, then I would worry.
Tanking on spine pretty much requires you to understand exactly what the fight's asking of you. There's a good two-tank method which minimises damage intake, or there's a single-tank method that's a bit less faffy. I tend to favour single-tanking.
Agree in advance how you're going to roll - we always roll left unless going for the achievement. You only *need* to roll once per plate if all's going well.
A single plate as a single tank goes down approximately like this:
Raid kills tentacles until there's only one left. Tank picks up the three amalgamations
Raid rolls DW. Amalgamations 'die'.
Remaining tentacle is killed. Tank picks up amalgamation.
*STAND ON RAID*. It'll make it much easier to pick up everything that spawns.
Raid DPSes down amalgamation and bloods. There's more blood later on, so they'll have to adapt their output based on how intense the fight is (More on that later)
If not LFR, two ranged stay alert for a beam from the current tentacle. If the beam's up, they burst the tentacle to break it. This requires practice; you don't want to kill the tentacle in question. If the tentacle does die, the tank needs to pick up an extra amalgamation and things get a bit messy.
When the amalgamation is low on health, focus on bloods. When it hits nine stacks, drag it to the plate and then call for a nuke. On the final plate you want to call for heroism at this point. Don't forget to run clear when it explodes.
While the tendon's up, gather remaining blood. Be ready to start the cycle again.
Other points:
* The increase in bloods on each plate means that your DPS strategy on the amalgamation will have to change. On the first plate the amalgamation will get low long before there's enough blood to make it worth killing him, so you'll have to spend some time waiting. On the *third* plate there's so much blood that you'll want to make a point of single-targetting the amalgamation to get it low without killing too much blood. The second is somewhere in-between
* If you fail to break a tendon on a given plate, it's still winnable, but tougher. However, it's very important that when you blow up your next amalgamation you do it on the *same side*. The other side has a completely fresh tendon on it.
* As a slightly advanced - but effective - strategy, after a plate 'dies' and the next batch of amalgamations have been rolled off, the tank will often be sitting on a lot of bloods. Before taking down the remaining tentacle to get the leftover amalgamation, I like to bring those bloods right up next to the next plate and have them killed there. That sets up a handy killzone where you can pick up a bunch of stacks very quickly. Keep track of how many are there and you know when you can move early with the Amalgamation.
* The easiest way to get the achievement is to do a second roll immediately after the first on the first plate. After that you just want to roll as normal but following the roll pattern in the achievement requirement.
* The alternative two-tank strategy has the amalgamation being tanked separately from the bloods. It keeps the stacks low but divides DPS somewhat which is tricky in the later stages.
Yeah, the damage is the same just in 3 smaller chunks.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Damn ok