Your very first post

[Furiously]

Maybe we should have done "best post" anyhow... My first post was... quoting someone else. With no text of my own. I'm a horrid poster and still am.

My second was in the COH thread...

Anyone have a link to this patch they have planned for the end of the month?

I keep hearing clothing shops and respec whispers, but I cant find jack from the devs.

[Engels]

My first post was about online flight sims. People though I was a mole. I think that 4 years later some people still think I'm a mole. They haven't figured out what product I'm hawking, but f13ers are a surly, suspicious lot.

[Teleku]

Guns.

[ShenMolo]

For some reason I was up at 5:41 in the morning pontificating about WOW raid progression.

Hello all,

Long time lurker, first time poster, looking to discuss Raid Progression in Burning Crusade.

Currently Blizzard has designed raid instances to be a progression with lockout timers, gear, faction, and resist checks all designed to string out the time it takes to "clear" a raid instance. It can take a new guild, on a new server, 6+ months to even enter Naxx, much less "finish" it. This has the effect of keeping the hardcore raiders subscribed, by giving them content that requires much time & skill and effectively weeds out 90% of the player base, introducing the catass or "elite" factor for those able to complete Naxx.

It appears that the new Raid Instances may be designed differently. There is speculation that Karazhan is designed to be the toughest Raid, and the raid from which many Tier 4 pieces will drop. There is also rumors that Karazhan and other Raids will be doable using the level 70 blues available in the 5 man instances and other raids. If this is true, then it appears that Blizzard is fundamentally changing the raid progression design.

Currently Naxx is only doable by spending months farming items in BWL/AQ40. However, the toughest raids in BC appear to be doable without the same requirements. Karazhan may be hard, it may require extremely well coordinated & skilled groups. But it appears to at least be doable without 4 months of raid farming other instances.

If this is true, it would appear that Blizzard has decided to fundamentally change the end-game by making it accessible to the vast majority of the playerbase, rather than the 10% who currently experience it.

Other factors suggesting this:

-Smaller raid sizes means it is easier to have a raiding guild.
-PvP rewards on par with PVE rewards means raiders will no longer be able to out-gear non-raiders.

Hardcore raiders are already dismayed that their T3 gear is being outclassed quickly in the expansion. Some hardcore guilds are bemoaning the smaller raids sizes and worried about losing members or having to cull their membership. Cries that Blizzard has sold-out to the casual playerbase have been loud and many.


If Blizzard is indeed fundamentally changing the raid progression formula, what effect will this have on the game?

[Tebonas]

My first post was about what to do with Saddam

Tricky one that. First pick would go to Iraq, his crimes being against his own people and that. No other country has any business trialing him. Least of all Israel. There could be made a case for the USA, because they invaded his country and later arrested him. Den Hague would be an international tribunal which would be a good compromise, but their track record is less than stellar. I would be for an Iraqi trial under international supervision, if the Iraqi laws provide the means for a fitting punishment.

Its really really easier when your own country revolts and the people shoot you in some backyard behind your palace.

And my first post having to do something with gaming was actually my fifth.

Indeed, and PvP should be about the challenging fight where you can die as well as kill. Or the kill for specific goals that fit into the context.

If you get off from killing defenseless victims, you need a good therapist or the right medicaments, but not a PvP-game.

Usually those are the people that try to evade resonsibility for their actions as well. Because a fair fight would be unfair to them and would ruin their gaming experience. I'm all for a fixed time people can't log out of the game after they started PvP. Thusly they can be hunted down by alerted Antis and brought to justice. Of couse "losing connection" during that period would instantly kill them and make their corpse lootable. Would suck to be a PvP with bad connection I guess, but since PvPers with bad connection are dead anyway I would take that risk. And if he can evade all Antis for one or two hours he has earned his joy of killing for a day by experiencing fear as well.

I wanted to see a lot of people dead in those days. Luckily I mellowed out since then 

[voodoolily]

Yeah, so I'm new here but can see I'm in good company with being Miyamoto's bitch and all. Y'know, I was gonna preorder the shit anyway, so what do I have to lose? $50 now instead of in October? Who gives a shit? And I totally TOTALLY also fucking hated the water level in the N64 Zeldas. How did the Zelda Collector's Edition disk get put out originally (I bought mine on eBay)? Promo? Bling for registering the game? Point: even if it's a joke, it's prolly not a scam.

 

I was teh newbs, fell for the classic April Fool's scam.