Patch 3.3

[Fordel]

Really on our Battlegroup, the alliance is so stubborn that we'll just send 10-20 guys to defend Van at the start of the games now. Fuck your blitzing, think we are afraid of turtling? 

[Dren]

Really on our Battlegroup, the alliance is so stubborn that we'll just send 10-20 guys to defend Van at the start of the games now. Fuck your blitzing, think we are afraid of turtling? 

Nope.  Turtle's turn into a horde win 99% of the time in my experience.  They grab the bottle neck and GY quick and it is hell getting it back.  I've seen it done, but it was an extremely long AV.  I actually enjoyed it and the honor was exceptional.  Another reason I'd like to see them fix AV so it isn't a zerg.  I enjoy it even if we lose a turtle.  I'm in BG's to PvP, not bumrush a Boss with 39 other people.

[Fordel]

We've won just about every game when we cockblock the Van-Blitz. We'll still have 20+ guys attacking the horde towers the old fashioned way, and we'll win either through pure attrition or we'll knock down enough towers to just kill Drek oldschool.


If we dedicate ourselves to defense, they simply will not get the DunBaldar bunkers or GY. There only hope is to have their own tower recapture teams be on the ball back on their side of the map. Since we shit up every tower with at least 5+ people, it's rare for that to happen.

[Lakov_Sanite]

So wait..

you're telling me that after a new AV change that many have been winning by zerging until people start figuring out that a solid defense can stop this?!


Oh my god it's 2006!

[SurfD]

Which is why I usually cyclone the enemy tank about 10-20 seconds into the general fight. 

Back in the days when you could still wall jump around a bit due to creative use of polygon angles, i found a way to get my druid wedged about 20 feet up the back wall in Dreks room.  It quite often took the alliance a good 10 minutes to figure out who was cycloning their tanks when they ran in to take drek.

[Fordel]

We once had someone do that on our side, some rogue got up there and kept Evade bugging Drek for us ><


Was brutal, couldn't reset Drek, couldn't kill him, couldn't do anything to our own rogue being a giant cockhole. We eventually managed to /emote convo a horde hunter into shooting him dead.

/point
/point
/Yes
/kill
/yes
/thank

[Wolf]

bah... got this one yesterday: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=24872

Seems... kind of hard, compared to other icecrown weeklies.

[Merusk]

No harder than killing Princes & Engaging Bloodqueen in 20min.  http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=24879#comments

If anything it's easier because there's no damn timer on it, your guild just has to be able to kill Sindragosa.  Sure, it seems hard now but so did Saurfang at first.

[Wolf]

We've been killing Sindragosa since the second reset she was out. The mechanic is weird, off of wowhead:

In order to complete this quest, you need to have multiple people using their Pulsing Life Crystal. (obtained from Valithria Dreamwalker for the random raid weekly) Having multiple people using the quest item, will make the buff Life Unfusion stack faster. You CAN have one person do it, but it will go faster the more people that do it. You need to get 30 stacks on her in 10-player, and 75 stacks for the 25-player encounter. She will do an emote when she hits 20% life, and only after that are you allowed to use the item. You have 10 seconds for someone in the raid to use the Pulsing Life Crystal before the entire stack of buffs falls off.

Anyway, you can still fail it if you don't get enough stacks up and still kill sindragosa.

Princes/Lathanel has been 30 min since the first week iirc? Not that hard, we've been getting it every week but this, and one time fester/rot.

[K9]

Keeping Darnavan alive from your lolderp DPS is the hardest quest of all.

[Minvaren]

Got a two-fer:

1] Did drop rates change for ICC instances?  PoS reg today looked like purple rain off the trash.

2] Does the LFD tool no longer tell you when you're joining a group already in progress?

[Merusk]

1) Dunno, haven't had an ICC instance since the patch... sometimes you just get lucky, though.
2) It still does, it just looks different so you have to read the window.  It also doesn't tell you how many bosses are dead in the instance.  Overall I dislike the change.

[Evildrider]

Keeping Darnavan alive from your lolderp DPS is the hardest quest of all.

We never have this problem.  Usually it's the transition between the tanks when they have to swap aggro that is a pain for us.

[K9]

The Random dungeon finder hasn't been showing me the partially-complete warning since 3.3.2 I think. On the flip-side I don't think completing an instance with a group that you join part-way through saves you to the place, I'm not 100% sure though; it may just be buggy.

I did HoR earlier and saw no trash drops, and I haven't seen a hilt since day one when we got three of trash (pre-nerf ofc). Maybe they'll buff the droprate back up again. I wouldn't mind tbh, ICC weapons are fairly accessible now on most servers and I rather want to do the quest on my priest.

[Evildrider]

All I know about those damn heroics is that I've only seen the battered hilt drop once.  :(

[Rendakor]

Yea the Hilt seems really rare these days; I figure it's a combination of the nerfed drop rate and less people running the ICC 5ms for gear. Regardless, there hasn't been one on the AH on my server in a week or so, nor have I seen anyone spamming in trade.

[Ironwood]

All I know about those damn heroics is that I've only seen the battered hilt drop once.  :(

Me too.  Once, and a lucky roll, was enough.

 

[Kageh]

Farming the three ICC 5-mans religiously for 2 weeks (done H-Fos/PoS/HoR every day) I've seen it drop 3 times. I won the third one, haven't seen it since.

On the day I won it, I joined a 10-man guild and have seen the damn Saurafang axe drop three times since. And to think how much PITA the hilt farming was.

[Selby]

And to think how much PITA the hilt farming was.

Which is why I used to scoff at all the "WTB Battered Hilt 10k" comments in trade chat.  Seriously, can't get into an ICC-10 PUG?  The new ICC-5 heroic weapons aren't that much worse than the Hilt's rewards.  Other than the achievement, none of my characters have any need for it.

[K9]

For shamans  the mace rewards are the best weapons you can get outside of 25-man ICC, ICC10 hardmodes and ToGC25.

[Shrike]

I'd argue that the ICC10 fist weapon is better, and more easily avialablie (GC finally comes through on the 1h itemization promise...), but at least we have more than one thing that doesn't drop off an end bosss that's useful to us now.

[Wolf]

Hmmm... They're testing Ruby Sanctum this week.

Now that the 3.3.5 patch is available for PTR testing, we wanted to have a round of focus testing for Ruby Sanctum this Thursday, May 13. Only normal mode will be available, with Heroic testing to occur at a later date.

Only normal mode? There will be heroic? Nice. If they give it a couple of weeks we might very well be up to Arthas in heroic icc, just on time for us slow pokes.

I'm just wondering what sort of hurt I can put on blizzard if there's no decent 10m caster trinket in there.

[Paelos]

So Ruby Sanctum 10 man will have what? 264 gear?

[caladein]

All the drops so far up on Wowhead are item level 258 or 271, so it'll have the same levels as Lich King's loot.

As for trinkets, they all appear to be from 25-man for now.

[sickrubik]

3.3.5 live this week.

[Merusk]

L.O.L Patch day.

I just foolishly tried to login, forgetting today was Battle.net integration day AND, while not going live yet, the next raid was being patched in.  Yeah I'll just pretend I tried to login for the raid all night and will be on the PS3 for the evening instead.

[Shrike]

Oh, wait until you log in. 3.3.5 has some very special "features" waiting for you.

Teaser: how can a perfectly stable 6 year old game become unplayable? Well, you might very well find out.

[Rasix]

I like that the known issues list is almost bigger than the patch notes.

Glad, I'm not playing right now.  Because, like an idiot, I'd try to play.

[Shrike]

I can--at present--do instances just fine. However, wandering about the world...not so much.

[Rendakor]

Honestly besides some lag in Dalaran and our whole 10m raid DCing once on Marrowgar, I've had no problems. Even my addons all appear to be functioning. All in all, this patch seems less of a clusterfuck than normal for Blizz.

[Ingmar]

People were DCing in Dal and of course everyone's addons broke, but otherwise it seemed ok while I was on last night.

[Musashi]

Never, ever try to raid on Tuesday.

[Lantyssa]

Other than taking a while to load in Dal, and breaking Chatter, I had no problems at all.

[WindupAtheist]

My server was one of the first to come up. Other than all the dipshit addicts from other servers running around on level 1 alts shitting up trade even worse than normal, everything was fine. Logged right in and did Wintergrasp.

[Sjofn]

Never, ever try to raid on Tuesday.

It's one of my guild's raid days. We've tried to move it but Tues/Thurs seems to work best for us. We've finally just accepted that sometimes our raids will be cancelled on account of patch.