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letsbereasonable
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Cross server grouping coming:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2123552598
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2123552598
With the continued popularity of the Dungeon Finder, many players have been asking for a way to group up with real-life friends who play on other realms to take on instances together. Today, we wanted to give you a heads up about a new feature currently in development that will allow players to invite Real ID friends of the same faction to a party regardless of the realm they play on, and then queue up for a 5-player regular or Heroic dungeon.
As this is a fairly complex service to develop, we dont have a release date to share quite yet. Its important to note that as with some of the other convenience- and connectivity-oriented features we offer, certain elements of the cross-realm Real ID party system will be premium-based, though only the player sending the invitations will need to have access to the premium service. We'll have more details to share with you as development progresses -- in the meantime, you may begin to see elements of the feature appear on the World of Warcraft PTR.
As this is a fairly complex service to develop, we dont have a release date to share quite yet. Its important to note that as with some of the other convenience- and connectivity-oriented features we offer, certain elements of the cross-realm Real ID party system will be premium-based, though only the player sending the invitations will need to have access to the premium service. We'll have more details to share with you as development progresses -- in the meantime, you may begin to see elements of the feature appear on the World of Warcraft PTR.
letsbereasonable
Member
markot said:
Yeah, I hate the constant Blizzard-bashing as much as anyone, but they don't do themselves any favors. Pushing this out as a (completely) free feature could have been a nice goodwill win for them.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
All right, which gaffer is going to pay for it?
Maybe this could expand to raids. It'd be like being one step closer to having the entire community on one realm in function. Would actually be really convenient for trying out for guilds too if you could invite people over for a raids to see how they did before having them commit to the cost of a transfer. Hell, even with functionality only for dungeons, it may be useful as a tool for that sort of thing.
Maybe this could expand to raids. It'd be like being one step closer to having the entire community on one realm in function. Would actually be really convenient for trying out for guilds too if you could invite people over for a raids to see how they did before having them commit to the cost of a transfer. Hell, even with functionality only for dungeons, it may be useful as a tool for that sort of thing.
I hate all of these moves towards uniting all of the servers. They're completely killing any community aspect that the game once had. I will acknowledge that it is more convenient (queuing up instantly is nice) but it's not worth what was lost to me. I don't know anyone on my server outside of my guild because I'm as likely to interact with them as I am with someone on any other server.
Also, premium service? World of Warcraft is a premium service. Why am I paying a premium on top of a premium?
Also, premium service? World of Warcraft is a premium service. Why am I paying a premium on top of a premium?
Alex
Member
Personally, I want them to unite the servers, when I want to do something I want to be able to gather folks to do it with. When our guild needs a new whatever I don't want to have anyone to server transfer, etc.
Keeping track of community should be done with forums, a friend list and a guild, IMO. At least in this type of a game. If it was something like UO in 1997, I'd agree.
But yes, fuck this content. No issue with character services, DLC pets and the like... eh, I dont like it but I don't really care either, this is stricly game related though, it's a needed layer of interface for an old game and you're being milked for it.
Keeping track of community should be done with forums, a friend list and a guild, IMO. At least in this type of a game. If it was something like UO in 1997, I'd agree.
But yes, fuck this content. No issue with character services, DLC pets and the like... eh, I dont like it but I don't really care either, this is stricly game related though, it's a needed layer of interface for an old game and you're being milked for it.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Guys, being able to party up cross realm = less server xfers = less money for blizz
you may not want to hear it but they have to make up for it somewhere
you may not want to hear it but they have to make up for it somewhere
GasProblem
Member
Just canceled my WoW account. Only have like 15 /days played on my main, but I'm just bored. After doing heroics all day and waiting in queues and grinding rep, I asked myself, do I still think this is fun, and it's not. Not going to spent the time that is required if you want to raid, and I rather PvP in other games. Leveling up was fun, exploring new zones was fun, gearing up with heroics was fun, but I'm done now.
markot said:
I've always gone to bat for Blizzard, but this goes too far. I hope they take an epic amount of shit for this. Unreal to charge your customers more on top of a $15 monthly fee for a feature that is built into the game. ESPECIALLY considering the excruciatingly slow content patches with 50% recycled material. Really getting to the end of my rope with WoW.
Honestly, the only reason I continue to play is because there are no other legit options at the moment.
PatzCU said:
Just wait man, GW2 is not so far ahead and this one seems like a pretty good alternative once its released... in fall if we're lucky. sigh.
As for WoW, i wonder while i still play sometime, i mean i just keep making new alts all over again. I'll probably take a break soon once my last alt reach 85, maybe take look at the Horde side Kalimdor quests that i've yet to see... maybe i'll stop once 4.2 is out and i've seen a little of what's new.
AceBandage
Banned
Another week, another raid canceled due to lack of people.
*sigh*
If it wasn't for the RL friends playing this game and my awesome guild...
*sigh*
If it wasn't for the RL friends playing this game and my awesome guild...
Hey gents, I'm not sure if this is entirely appropriate, but this seems like as good a place as any to ask. Do any of you happen to know of a decent site for selling MMO accounts? I've decided I'm done with Rift and I'm looking to get whatever minimal amount I can for my account, but I don't really have a clue where to do so since Ebay frowns on that type of thing.
It doesn't include raids, which is a huge motivation to transfer.
So, you have a few scenarios:
-People who have friends on different servers who are all in guilds they want to stay in. No money loss.
-People who can't afford to xfer multiple characters. Blizzard should have a multiple character transfer deal. 4 characters costing 100 bucks is absurd. Money gain in most cases.
-A person considering trasnfering one character but opting for this service and possibly xfering later to raid. Money loss for the customer eventually.
-Helping people who keep getting fucked xfering server to server. I xfered 3 times in the past few months but it was motivated by raids. Money loss for the company if the transfers are motivated by non-raid content. Maybe a money gain if the service is kept long enough.
Not limited to.
So, you have a few scenarios:
-People who have friends on different servers who are all in guilds they want to stay in. No money loss.
-People who can't afford to xfer multiple characters. Blizzard should have a multiple character transfer deal. 4 characters costing 100 bucks is absurd. Money gain in most cases.
-A person considering trasnfering one character but opting for this service and possibly xfering later to raid. Money loss for the customer eventually.
-Helping people who keep getting fucked xfering server to server. I xfered 3 times in the past few months but it was motivated by raids. Money loss for the company if the transfers are motivated by non-raid content. Maybe a money gain if the service is kept long enough.
Not limited to.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Blizzard should spend less money on things nobody asked for, and more time on content.
I realize that's coming from a very bitter place, but so far, Cataclysm's making Wrath look completely awesome.
I realize that's coming from a very bitter place, but so far, Cataclysm's making Wrath look completely awesome.
Just figured I'd drop by my old stomping grounds, say hi, and see what people are discussing. People are starting to finally wake up and see the road this game has been going down since the very end of TBC. For every good thing they do, there's numerous downfalls elsewhere to counter it. These "premium services" are getting out of hand, and they should be applying their "time, effort, and money" to other things people have been begging for now for years. Instead they just keep trying to milk out as much cash from someone as they could. But perhaps they're trying to get as much as they can now, as they know WoW will come to an end some day, just perhaps it's coming sooner than expected.
With them losing which I'm sure is way over 600k subscribers by now, I wonder if they're going to work harder trying to get people back, or if they're just going to let it go down the road it's been going. Wonder if they're going to learn their lesson for Titan as well.
With them losing which I'm sure is way over 600k subscribers by now, I wonder if they're going to work harder trying to get people back, or if they're just going to let it go down the road it's been going. Wonder if they're going to learn their lesson for Titan as well.
half a moon
Banned
Yo, anyone see very noticeable flicker on grass when you move the camera? I thought it was only Uldum but Nagrand is bothering me right now.
Mister Zimbu
Member
Random stupid idea.
Blizzard needs an approval rating, like the president.
I just think it'd be neat to visualize a graph of people's impressions of Blizzard over time, maybe correlating spikes with their announcements (like this abysmal premium feature garbage).
Blizzard needs an approval rating, like the president.
I just think it'd be neat to visualize a graph of people's impressions of Blizzard over time, maybe correlating spikes with their announcements (like this abysmal premium feature garbage).
Have a Mage ring of Frost, have a hunter drop a trap, GG. If you have a Disc Priest healing you, have him / her PS you when the frost nova drops as you'll take a few hits but it shouldn't be a problem. Use Cooldowns Liberally.DeathNote said:
I'm assuming your not talking about heroic?
Azwethinkweiz
Member
DeathNote said:
As soon as you have them all on you, kite them to whatever spot assigned and use hungering cold. Have the mage drop ring of ice after about 8 seconds and you should be good after that. There might still be one up after ring of ice fades so just pop a cooldown, but it's important you keep him where the others died.
RaySpencer
Member
Im having a hell of a time figuring out how to set up my Druid hot bars.
Is there an addon out there that will make it so all 4 hot bars switch in forms? instead of just the 1 main one?
Edit: So I looked around on the internets, and it seems Bartender4 would do the trick... but I use a custom UI (tukui its awesome, I recommend it), and adding a whole new hotbar Ui doesnt really sound good to me.
So I guess the new question is, is there a separate addon that just takes this one part from Bartender4?
Is there an addon out there that will make it so all 4 hot bars switch in forms? instead of just the 1 main one?
Edit: So I looked around on the internets, and it seems Bartender4 would do the trick... but I use a custom UI (tukui its awesome, I recommend it), and adding a whole new hotbar Ui doesnt really sound good to me.
So I guess the new question is, is there a separate addon that just takes this one part from Bartender4?
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Nobiru said:
You could set up Bartender so that would essentially be all it does if you wanted to. Would take awhile to do though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCDkYOS8jI
New mount, and by new I mean reskinned.
http://filebeam.com/7701f2db9ab0abb19d57447683eae767.jpg
Nozdormu humanoid form. Picture is too big to put on here.
New mount, and by new I mean reskinned.
http://filebeam.com/7701f2db9ab0abb19d57447683eae767.jpg
Nozdormu humanoid form. Picture is too big to put on here.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I prefer regular Anzu. Maybe it's just the video, but the fire one doesn't look that good to me.
RaySpencer
Member
CarbonatedFalcon said:
Good to know, I will keep that in mind if I cant find a tiny addon that just lets me do this.
Alex
Member
Tanking Nefarian in the middle of the room sounds a smidge awkward to me. Possibly making people move a lot more than they have to in addition to making add resets a little harder.
Not doubting that it works just fine, but opposite ends with the two tanks rotating around the room at odds with each other for consistency was the most comfortable way we found to do it.
Not doubting that it works just fine, but opposite ends with the two tanks rotating around the room at odds with each other for consistency was the most comfortable way we found to do it.
Glyphs:
If I were to level up incsipriton, how do you learn every glyph? A lot seem to come from Book of Glyph Mastery and that only drops in Northrend? That seems like a lame farm.
Now that I think about that, that would make the second and third shadowblazes get to adds a lot quicker?
Most 10 man starts seem to have a dedicated healer?
If I were to level up incsipriton, how do you learn every glyph? A lot seem to come from Book of Glyph Mastery and that only drops in Northrend? That seems like a lame farm.
Towards the last few attempts they decided putting nef right beside where the adds would spawn would be a good idea.Alex said:
Now that I think about that, that would make the second and third shadowblazes get to adds a lot quicker?
Sebulon3k said:
Most 10 man starts seem to have a dedicated healer?
PillowKnight
Member
That's a horrible idea, since the fire would basically chase your raid around.DeathNote said:
The key to phase 3 is adds kiting, it's 100% on the tank kiting them, if they kite correctly they shouldn't be taking very much damage. The gist of add kiting is this, your tank needs to be aware when the shadowflame is coming, the adds should never touch fire, if they do it's basically a wipe because it means the tank will be taking 100k+ dmg per second from the gigantic adds. Once they hit around 20 or so stacks he should be using stuns and slows to kite them in between shadowflame missiles and electrocutes; he should not be tanking big adds during an electrocute. If the tank does this all right, healing the fight is relatively easy, if he does it wrong it's virtually impossible.
When we did it, I was healing the tank who was kiting add(as a shaman), earthbind totem in between shadowflames was pretty helpful.
Alex
Member
While I'm not the fandom type at all and I don't understand any of it I still have to comment on how it boggles my mind my mind just how fast those Blizzcon tickets are snapped up. 175 bucks and it seems like such a blah event to me. Probably well presented but there's only so much excitement you can dole out with a handful of games from one studio.
Even if I was into that kind of gig, my rationale is that you could just buy the DirecTV package or whatever, pay like a fourth of the cost and avoid all of the smelly, creepy people!
Even if I was into that kind of gig, my rationale is that you could just buy the DirecTV package or whatever, pay like a fourth of the cost and avoid all of the smelly, creepy people!
Who the hell designs the armor for World of Warcraft?
All the higher level gear I'm finding for my rogue makes him look like a bulky eyesore with shoulder pads ten times as big as his head with flames coming out of them.
When I think stealth classes, I was expecting something a lil more light and less "hit me, I'm right here and can barely move in this damn thing".
All the higher level gear I'm finding for my rogue makes him look like a bulky eyesore with shoulder pads ten times as big as his head with flames coming out of them.
When I think stealth classes, I was expecting something a lil more light and less "hit me, I'm right here and can barely move in this damn thing".
Square Triangle
Member
Installing the trial on my new mac after being absent from the game pre- lich king.
Kind of excited. Kind of worried.
Kind of excited. Kind of worried.