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DarkAngelYuna
Banned
Pretty much anyone too damn lazy to get one deserves to be hacked now a days. I have 15 80s myself and nothing better to do until I move back to NYC so I have one just because of the time I've wasted on there since moving to Ohio. :lolJ-Rzez said:
My friend bought the game 2 weeks ago and they bothered to hack him when he was only level 23 :lol :lol
notworksafe
Member
If even FFXIV is doing it, Blizzard has no excuse.mclem said:
DarkAngelYuna
Banned
I enjoy leveling more than most people, while everyone is just standing around in org talking shit I'm leveling an alt. Don't get me wrong most of them have no gear at all. I just really play my release day UD lock, my human priest who I hope can go back to horde some day and thats mostly it. Nothing to do in one of the worst states in the country until I can find a job to move the fuck out of this state for good.HixxSAFC said:
DarkAngelYuna
Banned
God damn, Auctioneer kills my fps in northrend using ultra settins from 60+ to 10-20 wtf. :lol I guess I'll just keep it disabled and log off and on to enable it when sitting near the AH only.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Froze account, not sure if expansion will tempt me back or not.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Holy crap! One of the trips to the Firelands was a 3D remake of Joust, complete with flapping to fly and suitable quotes from the quest giver!
HarryDemeanor
Member
SiegfriedFM said:
I saw that quest while looking at one of the streams when Beta went up. Seems a bit frustrating to handle.
Worgen 1 - 5 Starting Area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpdLsNQJnvc
Goblin 1 - 5 Starting Area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_rEs90Oxw
Goblin 1 - 5 Starting Area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_rEs90Oxw
HarryDemeanor
Member
Xabora said:
Didn't know TotalBiscuit got into the beta. I'll watch these videos in a little bit.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
So just like Joust.HarryDemeanor said:
HarryDemeanor
Member
Son of Godzilla said:
Yeah I guess so. :lol
Vigilant Walrus
Member
HarryDemeanor said:
Wait, this name sounds familiar. Would he by any chance be a poster on the WoW Europe forums?
HarryDemeanor
Member
Vigilant Walrus said:
Yes he is. He also has a website called The Cynical Brit where he hosts shows about WoW and general gaming. Haven't listened to him for quite some time though.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Weenerz said:
He's the WCRadio guy. The station closed down and people went off to start their own things.
HarryDemeanor said:
Probably a good thing, the guy running it was a baboon. He was constantly bitching about how bad WoW was and trying to do other things. I like the WoW insider show, or whatever it's called now. The players don't seem like hardcore raiders, but they are good background noise while leveling.
RiskyChris
Banned
It would be nice to have anyone to play or talk to so I can do more besides 6/12 ICC and my 7 daily heroics every week. I ran out of things to buy with frost yesterday and I'm pretty much pedaling
Beta key bitching:
Beta key bitching:
Blizz you assholes! I sent in dozens of bug reports in vanilla instead of sitting on them to help my guild at release and this is what I get! No beta! Fuck!
Ok, don't know if it just comes and goes but I've been insulted more in those last two days that in the previous 2 weeks.
Everytime we wipe on a boss, it's the tank's fault. His gear sucks (it doesn't), he doesn't have enough hp (not insanely high, true, but more than enough for heroics @31k5 unbuffed) or he doesn't know how to tank (dps never focus the same mob).
Fucking tired of this shit, people need to look at themselves first instead of blaming everything on me. I do screw up sometimes, but not being healed is out of my control.
Funny thing is, when I had 3k5 of GS, I survived better than now at 4k8. I fucking tanked the Pit of Saron with my 27k HP buffed without dying because the healer knew his job.
Everytime we wipe on a boss, it's the tank's fault. His gear sucks (it doesn't), he doesn't have enough hp (not insanely high, true, but more than enough for heroics @31k5 unbuffed) or he doesn't know how to tank (dps never focus the same mob).
Fucking tired of this shit, people need to look at themselves first instead of blaming everything on me. I do screw up sometimes, but not being healed is out of my control.
Funny thing is, when I had 3k5 of GS, I survived better than now at 4k8. I fucking tanked the Pit of Saron with my 27k HP buffed without dying because the healer knew his job.
Alcoori said:
Anybody who ever says that in party chat should be eligible for instant kick. The first heroic I tanked on my DK I had about 22-23k hp and this was when avoidance wasn't at astronomical levels.
Fuck I hate the community this game has atm. Hopefully the lack of a zerg mentality in Cata dungeons makes them go away.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Xabora said:
Informative videos, but underwhelmed somehow.
1) I understand the need to make it very easy, but damn. It barely passes as a game. With a war, and ethic destruction of race, it's such a poor representation if there is not even a sense of danger. You really sense the NPCs are outdated beyond f**k. The same old /hey /talk /bow animations since 2004. Please please please, these old races beg so much for a animation and texture facelift before cata ships. It will make rerolling so much more fun!
2) He makes a good point in the Worgen starting area when an NPC says something along the lines of "we're giving the alliance a chance!" which has nothing to do with the events of the story. Yeah, just make new voice emotes instead of all the old reused "for the alliance"; "your a tall one!", "greetings", and so on... sound effects really need a tweak. It reminds me of the amazing sound rework that this guy did a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qe5PTx6jI8 < you can hear how basic tweaking of the current wow sound files and music pieces makes the game completely change.
Audio is the most underrated thing in games and films alike. people always go "nice graphics or "good animations", but it's rare for people to conciously mention the audio, even though its so important. the satisfaction of a kill, the thrill of opening a chest, the wonder of gaining a new level - all these things are elevated by good sound.
I bet the sound designers are all stuck in SC2, Diablo 3 and the new MMO + tons of CGI cinematics for all the games.. but goddamit, WoW needs a tweak bad.
We know new music will come later. They better redo the sound.
3) I don't like the new water at all. out at open sea, at best it looks "okay". everything is broken once you see it connect to land. no waves or movements. its just a flat surface. add some waves. fucking wave race 64 had it in 1996. it cant be so hard to make a fake particle effects system. i guess shit like that comes bundled as an extra with speed three! moving water is even in the warcraft 3 editor. add some seagulls and dolphins poping up. and some splashes when things/characters/boats are in the water. it doesnt feel like water at all.
only place it feels like water is in the sundering place.. the whole tornado in the earth.
4) The Goblin starting area chocked me. It's borderline stupid, like a vapor ware wii game. There is basically almost no use of the class normal abillities, and the mini games and sequences are retarded AT BEST. And goddamit do they need to redo the Vehicle UI. that pisses me off more than I dare to speak. waste of space, looks like it was made it paint with a wooden texture on it. the overly large icons everywhere was a distraction as well.
Besides that, Goblins in the starting area are really unimpressive. It looks like they tried to do cool goblins that are insane and lunatics like in the Warhammer IP, but you dont really feel anything more than some sort of spongebob humor.
This is NOTHING compared to the Death Knight starting area. Not in the same scale even. Pointless phasing as well.
Unimpressed with this bit for sure.
5)The rework to Stormwind looks excellent. Really excellent. It looks like a real city now. I love how the colors of the houses change depending on district as well. The removal of tinker town is a bigger plus. all the added water and trees are a nice bonus to get rid of the night elf park too(useless place as well). but again.. the water does not pass at all. add some splashs in the channel. it pisses me off just looking at it.
6)I hope they have fixed the thing with shields sticking out from the characters bodies. I hate that shields are floating 5-6 cm's away from the character!
7)with all these new zones, instances and land mass everywhere, the game really begs for bigger servers. a much more spread out population needs more players. more stable, and lag free servers too. Heres hoping they are really tweaking the servers to be able to handle a lot more places so it does not feel like a ghost town everywhere because its so spread thin.
8)please add some more interesting stories, voice acting and substantial quests. I don't know if I can do another one to 80.. soon 85, on these goddam reading quests. With all the upcoming MMOs I had hoped that Blizz could be pressured into voice acting. At least I hope the dungeons, and more central important quests will have some NPC narration in them. but I doubt it.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
Dance In My Blood said:
Blame this one on Blizzard, since they were the ones who made tanks stack stamina over avoidance stats. Hence more HP = betterz
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Dance In My Blood said:
sorry, I guess thats true.. so the dwarfen district is still there? I didnt like that district. Don't know why I called it tinker town, but yeah you are right, my bad.:lol
Blizzard never made people stack stamina over avoidance by design. People stack stamina because relying on a random occurence of avoiding damage is worse than gearing for mitigation and EH.funkmastergeneral said:
Now, granted, some people just don't know and won't realise that if it takes 4 hits doing 10k damage each to kill you, stacking more stamina beyond 41k is pointless and thus avoidance stats become more interesting.
But you can't teach everyone
I think the Goblin starting zone would have looked better if it wasn't being played with an "oh I'm not going to read any quest text at all so I'll just fast forward through all this stuff" mentality. And a vehicle seems like a fun idea to make their starting zone open (and crazy) instead of a linear, scripted experience like DK/Worgen. I know personally the DK zone is boring to go through more than once for me. Then again, I don't want to fuck dolphins, so I don't know how reasonable that makes these opinions.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
firex said:
You are right, but the DK starting zone was still great the first time. TBH what was really fun doing the second time? I cant think of anything.
zero margin
Member
So do the lowbie areas have phasing now? Camp T will still be the old camp T for low level players right or has all that changed? That's one thing I always had a love/hate relationship about with this game, you stop playing for 6-8 months and basically everything changes. :lol
SuperAndroid17
Member
Vigilant Walrus said:
I still have fun doing some zones again while leveling, which is the whole reason I make alts. like there are some quest chains that are fun to experience for a second/third time, like the stuff in Eversong and Ghostlands, or low level instances (when you can't just walk through them and auto attack everything to death) or STV and Dustwallow.
But then I also don't really memorize quest stories or anything. There are just a few really fun quest chains for me.
But then I also don't really memorize quest stories or anything. There are just a few really fun quest chains for me.
zero margin
Member
firex said:
Which is one reason I will level on pve servers from now on, pvp servers don't exactly give you the luxury of stopping to smell the flowers, or read the quests in detail as it were.
HarryDemeanor
Member
It's random to be honest. You should just check Battle.net whenever you can every week.Bisnic said:
I dont see the appeal for with the streams. I hate watching other people play if its not a video of boss strategies or organized PvP. All the keyboard turning, awkward moving, random afking and chatting with stupid abbreviations like ur instead of your and other dumb shit just makes my blood boil. :lol :lol
Its just unwatchable.
Its just unwatchable.
wondering if anybody has a good holy priest talent build, because I think I might level up a priest as a last alt before cataclysm thing (since they don't seem to get much of a leveling revamp). Shadow is pretty obvious so that build is no problem, but I can't think of any holy priests I know to armory so I was just curious.
Oh. Holy is pretty boring compared to disc, but this is the spec I see the most and the one I've used from time to time.
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bVcbuZcxtcc0qih0euAo
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bVcbuZcxtcc0qih0euAo
ok, thanks. I'll probably give both a try at some point. but I think (since it looks like priests don't get as much of a leveling revamp as rogues) that I will probably just level up a priest alt as shadow for now and then buy dual spec and try disc/holy until I decide which one I like more, just as a way to kill time until the expansion or I get into cataclysm beta.
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