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Topic: [3.1] Ulduar Preview - NOW WITH PATCH NOTES (Read 104353 times)
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Khaldun
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Yeah, I'm not sure what it services except mages who were making money selling portals. It's the kind of change where I'd really like a designer to pop out from behind the curtain and say, "This is why we think we need to change this, because Bad Thing X will happen or is already happening as a result of this practice spreading in some fashion."
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Fordel
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I'm guessing it has something to do with BG queuing from anywhere in the world.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Lantyssa
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Apparently the dual talent option will now open up at 40. No word if the cost is still 1k gold or if it scales up. No lexicon needed, just a 5 second cast time.
I doubt I'll be so lucky, but I really, really want to be able to switch between Feral and Moonkin.
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Merusk
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Wow two totally and completely different sets of equipment. You hate your bank space, don't you? Such a girl.  (And now I have to confess to keeping 3 sets on my pally.) I'm guessing it has something to do with BG queuing from anywhere in the world.
Yes. They didn't build the game from the ground-up with this in mind like WAR, so they have to ghetto it in. That means respawns at GYs after BGs. Damn char copy queue has been full since I heard it was open. I wont get to check the PTR until next month, it seems. |
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« Last Edit: February 24, 2009, 02:47:49 PM by Merusk »
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Drubear
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Wow two totally and completely different sets of equipment. You hate your bank space, don't you? Such a girl. (And now I have to confess to keeping 3 sets on my pally.) Amateur. My druid is working on 2x20 slotters of PvE gear - 4 sets. I'm eye-ing the Overcast set for PvP >>and<< nice Resto/Boomkin overlap gear. |
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WindupAtheist
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I'm still not entirely sure what it is that you do in the game. I'm just doing battlegrounds and dailies until I get bored and quit. Everything else kinda sucks. |
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Gobbeldygook
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It's the kind of change where I'd really like a designer to pop out from behind the curtain and say, "This is why we think we need to change this, because Bad Thing X will happen or is already happening as a result of this practice spreading in some fashion." My guess is that ghetto hearthing was part of the cause of instance servers getting overloaded and refusing to launch new instances. |
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K9
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My guess is that ghetto hearthing was part of the cause of instance servers getting overloaded and refusing to launch new instances.
I wouldn't say it's the sole cause, but I bet it didn't make it any better. |
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K9
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My 80 priest is now on the PTR, EU-Brill. I'll see if I can check stuff out for people.
If anyone else is there the name is now "Wobble"
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Lantyssa
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Wow two totally and completely different sets of equipment. You hate your bank space, don't you? Such a girl. (And now I have to confess to keeping 3 sets on my pally.) Ha ha, that's nothing. My old 61 feral druid has a full set of casting gear, including rings, in case I was ever needed for healing. (I was once I think; Iusually solo.) Along with about six matching outfits plus another couple dozen "Oooh, this looks cool and I'll never be able to replace it. I wonder if I can find a skirt/shirt/boots/gloves/belt to go with it?" pieces of clothing. One of my long time requests is for a wardrobe option that lets you save "useless" gear and recall it later. I think being able to collect full outfits for turn-ins and later retreival would be very well received. Gotta put an Achiever spin on anything social or exploratory to get it considered unfortunately. |
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K9
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I've been playing around with the gear manager between crashes, it's really well done. It uses an interface similar to the macro design interface where you pick a name and an icon for the set, then this is saved with what you have on at the time. It's got a few bugs (seemed to have problems swapping rings, trinkets and offhands correctly) but otherwise is really neat. Instant-swap, and you have 10 or 12 slots to store configurations.
I also tried dual spec (prior to crashing and loosing the 1K gold I spent on it ...). In combination with the option that lets you preview talents before saving it's really good. The preview talent option has the added benefit that there's no 1s latency between clicks, so you can fill up the talents you know you want much faster. Dual spec has a 5s cast on it and it reduces your mana (and presumably energy, focus, rage, RP, runes etc) to zer when you cast. Currently you can cast it anywhere. You automatically learn any talent based spells you have already trained when you switch. I'm not sure about the action bars since my bars are rather fubared at the moment.
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Delmania
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Well, Affliction has been gutted, for the most part. How do you remove a spell and not give any compensation? Oh right, Eradication gives 30% more crit to Shadowbolts! Why not just replace all the talents in Affliction with Improved Shadowbolt?
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Sjofn
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The aura alterations are cute until you hit Unholy, at which point WHAT THE FUCK? You're letting it reduce rune cooldown? WHAT? Inc every deathknight being unholy again.
I will rant about my woe as a tanking DK later, but yeah, I was like, "Oh, that's a nice change to blood's aura. Oh, I like the frost one too, what a nice little ... what the FUCK, unholy?" They're working hard trying to make Unholy a viable presence.
Wat? Every DK I've ever seen on my server outside of my own is already Unholy. What, you never saw me? :( |
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« Last Edit: February 24, 2009, 06:55:57 PM by Sjofn »
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God Save the Horn Players
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Nevermore
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What, you never saw me? :(
Actually no, I've yet to see your DK. You never hang out with us noobs.  |
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Fordel
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Not everyone can be as benevolent as myself.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Sjofn
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You are totally lying, Nevermore! WHO HELPED YOU GET THOSE ROSES IN UTGARD KEEP, HMMMMM?
It's because I don't have a penis, isn't it. :(
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God Save the Horn Players
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Nevermore
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You are totally lying, Nevermore! WHO HELPED YOU GET THOSE ROSES IN UTGARD KEEP, HMMMMM?
It's because I don't have a penis, isn't it. :(
You were there for that? I think I warned you all I'd been drinking that night.  |
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Hindenburg
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The lof of you is comprised of elitist jerks who won't mingle with us powerlevelers  That emo gnome was cool, tho. Sam or something. |
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kildorn
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Hey, I've mingled! Like, TWICE!
But I'm totally an elitist jerk.
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sickrubik
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Sam/Zam... it's all the same to you. |
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Ironwood
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Ok, what the heck is ghetto hearthing ?
Because I've had this 'cannot launch an instance shit' for a while and it's fucking annoying.
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sickrubik
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Ok, what the heck is ghetto hearthing ?
Because I've had this 'cannot launch an instance shit' for a while and it's fucking annoying.
Right now, if you are in an instance you're not supposed to be, you'll be ported back to your bindspot. on the PTR, it takes you to the nearest graveyard. |
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Hindenburg
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Like I said, emo. Ghetto hearthing is used by those who have hearthstone on CD and need to hearth. It is exploited by making somebody else leader of a group and joining an instance then dropping group which will force the use of your hearthstone. |
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Merusk
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Which begs the next question: Why not just reduce the CD on the damn things already. Shaman get 5 hearths in an hour, why can't the rest of us be as fortunate?
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Fordel
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Which begs the next question: Why not just reduce the CD on the damn things already. Shaman get 5 hearths in an hour, why can't the rest of us be as fortunate?
They sorta do already, with the special Dalaran rings. You want luxury? Pay up fuckers!  |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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kildorn
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Not having a special hearth sucks.
The DK hearth being back to bumblefuck is also lame.
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JWIV
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Go level up an engineer and hearth to Everlook ( or blow yourself up)!
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Nevermore
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 my Moonglade port!
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Lantyssa
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Sam/Zam... it's all the same to you.
Hi Zam! my Moonglade port! I do, too. I always miss it on my non-druidically inclined characters. |
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Fordel
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It's a lot less awesome on my Tauren druid I find.
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Ingmar
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It's a lot less awesome on my Tauren druid I find.
Yeah it takes forever to fly to anywhere with an AH for a Horde type from Moonglade. |
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Sjofn
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Not having a special hearth sucks.
The DK hearth being back to bumblefuck is also lame.
I like that port, you shut up. |
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Merusk
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It's got to be a short flight to Undercity for Horde. I can see the Alliance complaining about that 6 min flight to IF, but I just afk or tab-out and read forums. Win-win!
Still, I'd rather have astral recall so I can wind-up where *I* want to, not my class' home base.
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Sjofn
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Well yes, astral recall is much better, but there are definitely worse places for me to have a port to than Plagueland. I like porting there way better than the stupid Moonglade. :P
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Nevermore
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And I bet the grapes there are sour, too!  |
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