Outdoor Miner
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I love it! Can't wait for my troll shaman to be rocking that.
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yeah, I don't know, some of this stuff, while I don't really case what it looks like, just looks like the typical Vrykul-ish designs we were rocking 75-80. Especially the cloth gear, and most so the lame-ass priest one (which looks like the Ulduar set with a different hood).Retro said:
Just to help out Blizzard's design department, I'll share some of my great ideas for Tier 11 in Cataclysm. Here's my concept designs:
Warrior:
Rogue:
Death Knight:
Paladin:
Druid:
Mage:
Priest:
Warlock:
Shaman:
Hunter:
dave is ok said:
The theme wasn't lost on me and it's honestly not a bad idea, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm not getting "Liches" from the Warlock set, and if that was the intention, then they *really* undersold locks. Also, I may have missed one of their encampments, but I don't recall seeing any Boar-themed Vyrkul. Dragon themed might have made more sense considering UK and UP.
Angry Grimace said:
This is the problem with listening to the community. They scream "We want armor sets that match! We're tired of Purple Pants, Green Gloves, Blue Helms, etc.", when this was really only a problem when you first walked into Outland or were between tiers. But instead of sticking to their guns or trying a more tier-like color palette approach, they said "Fuckit, make everything dark". Now, everything more or less looks the same from 70-80, and even some of the Tiers blend into the overly dark fray.
Hopefully, with itemization improving in Cataclysm (no more caster mail, for one) and the return to the Old World (which I feel had the best style), we'll see some more variety in gear. After all, thematically, the gear we'll be earning in the next expansion isn't imported from anywhere; it should all be themed around the world the players call home.
To me, that means more traditional plate and mail armor, more tribal leather, and more interesting cloth. I'm hoping that they spend time ensuring the Horde gets horde-looking armor (Tribal accents, black iron, leather straps) and the alliance gets alliance-looking gear (more uniform-like, steel plate, tailored, etc.).
Heh, you're actually pretty dead on; Blizz perhaps has gotten a little too 'out there' in terms of style, and they seem to have completely lost any touches of traditional fantasy style. I'll let people decide whether that's a bad or good thing on their own.Angry Grimace said:
Honestly though, if they made a Paladin set that looked like that, I'd wear it.
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Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Holy moly shaman tier 10 looks sick. So glad they picked a dress, it won't look retarded on me now! :lol
A dragon or the undead dragons (I forgot the lore name for undead dragons) theme for the Hunters would have more fitting since we've fought Sartharion, Malygos, there is an Emerald dragon in Icecrown and also Sindragosa. But we have Anub'arak, Anub'arak and oh yeah, Anub'arak so it makes sense for the Hunter to take up after that.
Some early starting zone details from the Igromir Game Fair (in Soviet Russia, zone starts in you!). Spoilers, I guess:
- Worgen Human forms are not customizable, just wolf. Have not heard whether your worgen form makes changes in color / hair when human, but early reports say all human form worgen look identical (bleh). Probably not implemented yet.
- Worgen begin the game in wolf form, captured and about to be executed. You're given a potion that transforms you back, and are then tasked with gathering ingredients to make more. While you're out, the Forsaken attack and you're called to help. Supposedly it's all phased now, and players won't be subjected to 1000 Worgen nubs running around the starting area.
- Goblin Rocket Boots are supposedly pretty cool looking, the Rocket Launcher's current animation isn't implemented completely yet. The "Hobgoblin" you can summon to do banking is supposedly a big, dopey looking oaf somewhere between an ogre and a goblin.
- Goblins start dead after their ship crashes, but quickly get brought back to life (via a very hilarious sequence involving, what else?, Goblin Jumper Cables). You're then tasked with finding other goblins, freeing other survivors from their escape pods, and establishing a base camp on the island. This apparently involves, amongst other things, throwing explosive bananas at monkeys, who chow down and explode. Pure win, right there.
A video to boot (shitty cameraman though); Goblin animations look fantastic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2BC2DW9MxQ
Water also looks really nice.
- Worgen Human forms are not customizable, just wolf. Have not heard whether your worgen form makes changes in color / hair when human, but early reports say all human form worgen look identical (bleh). Probably not implemented yet.
- Worgen begin the game in wolf form, captured and about to be executed. You're given a potion that transforms you back, and are then tasked with gathering ingredients to make more. While you're out, the Forsaken attack and you're called to help. Supposedly it's all phased now, and players won't be subjected to 1000 Worgen nubs running around the starting area.
- Goblin Rocket Boots are supposedly pretty cool looking, the Rocket Launcher's current animation isn't implemented completely yet. The "Hobgoblin" you can summon to do banking is supposedly a big, dopey looking oaf somewhere between an ogre and a goblin.
- Goblins start dead after their ship crashes, but quickly get brought back to life (via a very hilarious sequence involving, what else?, Goblin Jumper Cables). You're then tasked with finding other goblins, freeing other survivors from their escape pods, and establishing a base camp on the island. This apparently involves, amongst other things, throwing explosive bananas at monkeys, who chow down and explode. Pure win, right there.
A video to boot (shitty cameraman though); Goblin animations look fantastic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2BC2DW9MxQ
Water also looks really nice.
Outdoor Miner
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Retro said:
WANT NOW.
Xabora said:
Heh, shocked I didn't notice that. Give him a [Armor Plated Combat Shotgun] and a [Lil' Smokey] and we're not terribly far off.:lol
It's the ears, I tell ya.
My problem with the Paladin Tier 10 is, if you wrote "Death Knight Tier 10" under it and showed it to someone who was none the wiser, they wouldn't question it at all.LAUGHTREY said:
Paladins had a bit of a wait too, and when they did get theirs it was glitched. That said, this Shaman set was worth the wait, while the Paladin set clearly was not.Acid08 said:
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Really?Acid08 said:
So, yeah, finally into the raiding scene thanks mostly to Xabora, but I'm having one very big issue- disconnects. I've never had any problems with them before (mostly- logging in the day of an Xpac launch being an exception) but apparently the local school network can't handle 25 man raids at all. I'm talking disconnects on every pull with me being unable to log back in until after the action has ended. I've tried killing the Blizz combat log, disabling a lot of my addons during raids, killing background programs I normally have running like Steam and my antivirus, and I just tried a registry hack which has, promisingly, cut down my normal latency from about 250 ms to 60 ms. Unfortunately, the only way I'll be able to tell if this solves the disconnect problems is by going into a raid as I never dc outside of them and, at that point, it's a little late to be testing.
So, to get to the point, you guys have any other suggestions? I'm starting to run out of options and I don't want to have to forgo the raiding scene entirely before I even get a chance to see if I like it. (I have, also, emailed my school tech support to see if they can do anything on their end to fix our horrible network, but I doubt they will as mine and my roommates' connections have been pretty awful the entire semester)
So, to get to the point, you guys have any other suggestions? I'm starting to run out of options and I don't want to have to forgo the raiding scene entirely before I even get a chance to see if I like it. (I have, also, emailed my school tech support to see if they can do anything on their end to fix our horrible network, but I doubt they will as mine and my roommates' connections have been pretty awful the entire semester)
dave is ok
aztek is ok
You can have that opinion, but to complain about your T10 armor set being given a preview a week later than the other classes is kind of a small complaintAcid08 said:
nForce Issue (If you have an nForce Board): If your disconnects are only in WOW, and if you have an nForce board and you are using the onboard nVidia adapter then the problem is "Checksum Offload". Go into the properties of your network card and disable it, and your disconnect problems should go away.traveler said:
Doubt thats the issue. >_<
However read this good insight on Addon spam even if you dont have it installed.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20143779109&sid=1&pageNo=1
Another good article:
http://elitistjerks.com/blogs/cadfael/302-fixing_chain_disconnecting.html
I'll install that addon and give it a try, although I'm not sure how much I'll be able to get out of it. By the Faction Champs last night, the only addons I had active were bartender and Xperl. ><
The EJ article was a good read and what I've based all my attempted fixes thus far on. I'm hoping the registry one will have good results tonight. (Any ideas on how I can test this outside an actual raid? I tried BGs but I never lag out of them so it's hard to spot any difference)
Edit: Well this is showing some interesting results. It may not be my addons at all that are hitting up my connection with requests. I'm getting whispered constantly by other characters by some addon called GuildPositions as well as several others. No doubt there will be many other addons requesting info during a raid.
Edit2: I'm being hit up by someone else's gatherer constantly for some reason as well.
The EJ article was a good read and what I've based all my attempted fixes thus far on. I'm hoping the registry one will have good results tonight. (Any ideas on how I can test this outside an actual raid? I tried BGs but I never lag out of them so it's hard to spot any difference)
Edit: Well this is showing some interesting results. It may not be my addons at all that are hitting up my connection with requests. I'm getting whispered constantly by other characters by some addon called GuildPositions as well as several others. No doubt there will be many other addons requesting info during a raid.
Edit2: I'm being hit up by someone else's gatherer constantly for some reason as well.
Acid08 said:
Tamanon said:
To be fair, every class has had some major fault overlooked for a consistently long time. Rogues have been waiting for a fix to Vanish forever, Retribution Paladins were waiting to be end-game viable for two entire expansions, Hunters had problems with Pets being detonated, warriors had problems with rage generation, Warlocks have had to deal with soul shards... every class has had lengthy periods of seemingly being ignored.
From what I have heard, Cataclysm is Blizzard basically calling a do-over on a lot of the game's fundamentals. For example;
- The removal or overhaul of of AP, MP5, Spell Power, Defense, Armor Penetration and Haste.
-Talent Mastery reducing mandatory 'fluff' talents, hopefully making talent trees much more about choice and less about fulfilling a role.
- Improved Itemization, including the removal of caster mail and the (supposed) removal of caster Plate.
- Improved starting zones, improved leveling flow between zones.
- New mechanics to differentiate class roles; Hunters use focus, Warlocks use Shards, etc.
And you've been nerfed nearly every patch since. Blizzard has never thrown a new class into the mix, and I think they learned a valuable lesson;Angry Grimace said:
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Except us DKs! We shipped out of the box in God Mode! :lolRetro said:
The fact that it was a new class wasn't the problem, the problem was that they really wanted you to be able to use all three trees to tank and dps, which meant a monster to balance.:lol
http://www.worldofraids.com/news/957-patch-3-3-ptr-patch-notes-update-november-9th-2009.html
Big ol' Oculus nerf since more people will be running it soon.:lol
http://www.worldofraids.com/news/957-patch-3-3-ptr-patch-notes-update-november-9th-2009.html
Big ol' Oculus nerf since more people will be running it soon.:lol
Ok, I'll hop on tonight when I get back from this bday party for a family member with snoop and try to figure out whats going on.traveler said:
EDIT: Try this
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/ignore-addon-spam.aspx
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Pro tip: We're still in God Mode.Retro said:
Yeah, thats the insanity of it all. More nerfs needed actually.Angry Grimace said:
DKs actually just "good" on bosses up to Twins and Anub when god mode is turned back on. IOW the fights that really matter in heroic 25. Up to that point ferals, rogues, and hunters can and do beat them pretty regularly.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I loved my 9006 DPS on Val'kyr Twins last weekend.offtopic said:
Edit: I don't love that the game no longer works.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The game is now broken.
Some hotfix patch keeps coming up and failing miserably. Some genius at Blizzard decided to push through a hotfix for the repair utility and Launcher that broke the game installation. On a Monday.
Some hotfix patch keeps coming up and failing miserably. Some genius at Blizzard decided to push through a hotfix for the repair utility and Launcher that broke the game installation. On a Monday.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
*rimshot*Acid08 said:
Angry Grimace said:
Typically see 10-12k without getting empowering buff (kill too fast on normal, play a conservative orb-blocking-cheese-the-door strat for heroic). Considerably more if I get the buff. Feral.
On heroic anub25 p3 now...die bastard DIE. :/
elitehebrew
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Did maintenance start already b/c it got super laggy for me and now i can't reconnect. Did all problem solving stuff on my side.
Acid08 said:
I already said it -- stop using the launcher. Go to C:/World of Warcraft or whatever and double-click on WoW.exe.......
I'm doing dailies with my Death Knight right now.
EDIT: Shit -- it wasn't making me download the update until I merged my account with Battle.Net. Damn that fucking penguin.
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