Cataclysm

[Fordel]

No, PBAE Hurricane with leather armor (with no armor buff so it was actually lower armor then mages/priests) with no pushback and no spell damage gear as your 31 point talent. On a 1 minute cooldown.


Actually having a the current ranged AE spell would have been such a LUXURY 

[Malakili]

No, PBAE Hurricane with leather armor (with no armor buff so it was actually lower armor then mages/priests) with no pushback and no spell damage gear as your 31 point talent. On a 1 minute cooldown.


Actually having a the current ranged AE spell would have been such a LUXURY 

Yeah, true.  I recall the only balance druid I knew on the server was doing it for RP reasons 

[Merusk]

Marks was ok, but the other two were wretched. Especially survival, who basically got warrior rend as their 31 point talent. 

I still miss shot weaving. 

I also remember survival hunters saying "this is our melee spec!" and one guy trying so very, very hard to make it work. 

[Fordel]

Melee Hunters worked better then Casting Druids 

[ajax34i]

Actually it's talent specs and gear.  Healy druids used to have to wear cloth, I think.

[Merusk]

They did, yep.  Wife was a resto and the clothies got irritated when she'd roll on "their gear"

[Sheepherder]

Of course if you were a fucking warrior everything was great.

No, no it was not.  No instant attacks actually worth using until level 40 was not great.

[Simond]

7-year Anniversary and Not-Thanksgiving are both live now, btw.

[Miasma]

Anniversery gift is a buff giving 7% more xp and rep.  Not too exciting.

Also, why does every world event have to have a damn find x of enemy faction and do something to them?  I have to find rogues?  No one plays them and they can stealth, they're like fucking unicorns man.

[fuser]

I cancelled my WoW sub after my first SWTOR beta weekend.  My guild isn't even logging in anymore, we are just in waiting mode for release.

Yeah that's a major difference I have a group of friends still playing so its a social experience with them and LFD. SWTOR had nothing like that for me. Again might be just the beta constraints, level (didn't get past 13), but I'll give it a fair shake on release.

[Rokal]

Anniversery gift is a buff giving 7% more xp and rep.  Not too exciting.

Wow, that is one ugly ass tabard.

[Wolf]

Also, why does every world event have to have a damn find x of enemy faction and do something to them?  I have to find rogues?  No one plays them and they can stealth, they're like fucking unicorns man.

I did that achievment two years ago in Dalaran. Good luck doing it now

[Outlawedprod]

Blizzard hopes Chuck Norris will make you want to try Wow / re-sub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKpdxjHamI

[Hawkbit]

That was wasted money.  Terrible ad, and Norris is a douche.  Back when I was into martial arts, he wanted 35k to come to one of our AAU tournaments and talk for five minutes.  /nochuck

[Evildrider]

That was wasted money.  Terrible ad, and Norris is a douche.  Back when I was into martial arts, he wanted 35k to come to one of our AAU tournaments and talk for five minutes.  /nochuck

That's a deal nowadays, considering you need to pay that much just for Snookie to show up to an event.   

[Merusk]

Also, why does every world event have to have a damn find x of enemy faction and do something to them?  I have to find rogues?  No one plays them and they can stealth, they're like fucking unicorns man.

I did that achievment two years ago in Dalaran. Good luck doing it now

Since then the best way of doing it is joining any BG except IOC and AV and checking the scoreboard for the guys you need.  The constant death cycle in the BG keeps the debuff off of them so you don't experience the frustration of FINALLY finding that orc rogue, only to discover he's already a turkey.

Barring that, have a friend roll an alt and go plug him.  This one doesn't  have the level requirement like the goddamn Easter one.

Or just skip it altogether unless you're an achievement whore. Pilgrim's bounty doesn't count towards anything for the long, crazy trip mount.

[Kail]

Blizzard hopes Chuck Norris will make you want to try Wow / re-sub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKpdxjHamI

About half a decade late there, Blizz.  When they didn't run an ad like this with their Mr. T et al ads, I assumed they couldn't get him.  These memes have a finite shelf life, why run it now, that the whole thing has blown over?  Even Barrens Chat has been basically gone since Burning Crusade.

[Rendakor]

They should have made him a monk anyway.

[ajax34i]

Others are releasing Jedi and Dragons and etc. and Blizzard is releasing kung-fu Pandas...  Yeah.

[Rokal]

New sparkle pony in the Blizzard store.



Two in one expansion? Guess they're looking to make up for some of the money they lost from sub drops.

I'm not opposed to microtransactions, and I actually really like the look of this one. ...May actually bite on it 

[Merusk]

Expect the microtrans gimmicks to speed up, not slow down. There's been one every 6 months if I recokn right. That will accelerate.

[Tannhauser]

I hear for $100, they'll come to your house dressed as a Night Elf and give you a handy.

Seriously though, I thought the earnings report stated that they held their ground last quarter or did I mis-remember that?

[Miasma]

They had datamined that model some time ago but no one knew how it would be obtained, some were thinking heroic dragon soul achievement.  I'm glad I can just buy it instead, that's amazing, might be too big for my liking though so I'll have to see them in game.

If I were to put on a tinfoil hat I would have to note it is asian looking, was probably meant for MoP and was pushed ahead to make some cash now though.

Tinfoil2:  Either the guy I'm looking at right now is bugged and can't land it or the thing doesn't land and has no running animation, if true I would feel it was rushed out for cash.

[Miasma]

Only about twenty seven thousand or so people in line at this particular moment.  Most people haven't even heard about it yet.  Jesus money.

[Paelos]

Seriously though, I thought the earnings report stated that they held their ground last quarter or did I mis-remember that?

They did report that. Without any numbers. I didn't bother reading the report this time around because the point that Cataclysm was a failure and was costing them large amounts of money has been well-accepted by now.

[Merusk]

I thought they didn't mention sub numbers but said reveneues were the same.. which included a lot of RMT and/ or yearly sub stuff.

[Paelos]

I thought they didn't mention sub numbers but said reveneues were the same.. which included a lot of RMT and/ or yearly sub stuff.

Yeah at this point I'd imagine they have a lot of up front cash they need to amortize over the next year.

[Miasma]

I thought they didn't mention sub numbers but said reveneues were the same.. which included a lot of RMT and/ or yearly sub stuff.

They stated the number of subs is currently 10.2 million, they lost 100,000 in the last quarter.

[Rendakor]

Is this one BoE? i want one but not enough to spend real money on it.

[Miasma]

No it's BoP but account wide on all your characters.

[Wolf]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3966606644

that's very cool. I'll probably try when my tor sub runs out.

[Sjofn]

Man, no cooking or fishing allowed? I just like to do those to do them. 

[Merusk]

No it's BoP but account wide on all your characters.

That's a welcome switch.

[Rendakor]

How is that a switch? That's exactly how the original Blizz pony (and maybe the lion too) worked. I was hoping that they'd make this one BoE like the last pet they sold.

Also that Ironman thing sounds horrible.

[Merusk]

For some reason I thought the sparkle pony was single character.  I didn't buy one but only ever saw mains on them, never alts.  /shrug.

If it's always been that way it strikes me as odd pointing it out in the first place.