Mists of Pandaria

[Ironwood]

That Glyph list looks like an early April Fool.

[luckton]

Glyph of Arcane Language: Your Arcane Brilliance spell allows you to comprehend your allies' racial languages.

I know a bunch of RPers that just had an orgasm.

I doubt most of the current WoW population even knows that every race has its own language, let alone how to change the option in the settings.  But it's the thought that counts, I guess.

[Selby]

I doubt most of the current WoW population even knows that every race has its own language, let alone how to change the option in the settings. 

My friends and I used to get threatened with expulsion for speaking exclusively in troll during raids.  That was good times.

[luckton]

Pokemon is now live on the beta servers.

[Sjofn]

Glyph of Arcane Language: Your Arcane Brilliance spell allows you to comprehend your allies' racial languages.

I know a bunch of RPers that just had an orgasm.

I doubt most of the current WoW population even knows that every race has its own language, let alone how to change the option in the settings.  But it's the thought that counts, I guess.

Hence why I specified "RPers." THEY use the language functionality all the freaking time.

[Rokal]

Pokemon is now live on the beta servers.

It looks really fun. I'm excited to see how this turns out once they've got the UI finished.

[Simond]

Pokemon is now live on the beta servers.

Tranquil Mechanical Yeti is OP - nerf plz

[luckton]

Well just as quickly as it went up, the Pet Battles have been disabled.  They say they weren't actually ready for them to be playable yet.

Also, I still await my Annual Pass invite, though they also say they resolved all of the 'bounced' invites from the backlogged batch, so maybe any hour now they'll move onto current business 

[Hutch]

They need to do another patch here pretty soon anyway. I tried to play this morning, and got a memory-reference ctd error, that would consistently go off after I'd been playing for a couple minutes or so. (I wasn't actually timing it.)

[luckton]

Account-wide achievements are now live in beta.  I'm really hoping this applies to all achieves; I worked my ass off for my Red and Purple Proto-Drakes.  Would be nice to have them apply to any new characters 

[Merusk]

OOh, that's one I hadn't heard about, nice.

[Lantyssa]

Are all achievements account-wide, or just certain ones?

[SurfD]

I think all the generic ones are (Ie, all the clear a specific dungeon, explore the world, craft X items, collect X items / pets / etc, get exalted with X faction) type things should be account wide.

No one knows yet if some of the very speific ones will be though, like the ones that reward Mounts for clearing all achieves in a Raid, or the one for maxing out progress in the Argent tournament will be or not.

[FieryBalrog]

They've said they want mount rewards from achieves to be account wide.

[luckton]

They've said they want mount rewards from achieves to be account wide.

Aye, I read that.  My faith is renewed 

Sounds like anything that's meta-related (achievements that count toward one large achievement) will be account-wide (the Glory of, PvP, Seasonal, etc. stuffs).  Which I'm cool with.

[Merusk]

Oh thank god, I can stop with this damn children's week bullshit then.  I've done it 4 times already.

[Azazel]

I'm doing enough Children's week stuff to make sure I pick up all the pets I've missed out on during my many times away at this time of year. It'll be interesting to see if I can get the PVP component done, though.

Pandas is looking to be a real mixed bag. A lot of the general changes I like, such as the meta stuff below, though not the removal of "Have Group, Will Travel", while the class-specific changes to my prot warrior make me feel like I'll be retiring from tanking dungeons for a good period of time and probably just questing to 90 or whatever.

[luckton]

Bah, tanking these new dungeons is the best time to be a tank, because then you don't have dumb-fuck DPS and healers complaining that you don't have 200k HP and/or putting out 20k DPS   

Unlike right now in Cata, where I basically wish I could stab those people across the net.  I mean, how am I supposed to get that 200k HP and 20k DPS if jerks abandon the group within moments of just joining it? 

[Merusk]

Easiest way to deal with them is say "Then kick me.  I'll requeue and be in another group in a few seconds and you'll still be waiting.  Or, you can take a little more time to kill things and actually interrupt and we'll be done in the same amount of time."

I started up on the instances last night on my paladin.  Only 141k hps but nobody said one word to me, even when I pulled trash that's normally skipped. (Obsidian shrine, Jaina's trash packs.)  Why? Because I'm the goddamn tank.

[luckton]

Easiest way to deal with them is say "Then kick me.  I'll requeue and be in another group in a few seconds and you'll still be waiting.  Or, you can take a little more time to kill things and actually interrupt and we'll be done in the same amount of time."

I started up on the instances last night on my paladin.  Only 141k hps but nobody said one word to me, even when I pulled trash that's normally skipped. (Obsidian shrine, Jaina's trash packs.)  Why? Because I'm the goddamn tank.

Agreed.  As a fresh 85 Pally, I also found that running through the Hyjal/Fireland stuff and Thrall's extreme dating quest line helped get me some stuff to help fluff my numbers a bit  

[Azazel]

Meh, it's not the other players I'm worried about. As I geared up, I was pretty much on Merusk's wavelength in the dungeons. I'm just disgusted from a distance as I see them fuck up my warrior. Reliance on a few less hotkeys could be nice, though - I'm already pressing about a dozen different abilities on every trash pack, and it looks like they're making it worse.

I've been running my wife's 85 hunter through the baby heroics, and I have to say that the quality of tanks and heals in my battlegroup seems to have dropped through the floor since I ran our mages through them just a short couple of months ago. It's like they're all the alts of geared fuckwit dps players who have no idea how to heal or maintain aggro, are undergeared, yet think that they can faceroll through heroics without wasting time on pleasantries like CC or so forth.

[Pennilenko]

It's like they're all the alts of geared fuckwit dps players who have no idea how to heal or maintain aggro, are undergeared, yet think that they can faceroll through heroics without wasting time on pleasantries like CC or so forth.

You just described everybody who plays that is not me.....

[Merusk]

That's because the ARE the alts of fuckwit DPS at this point.  Mains aren't running HOT or any other heroics unless their guild buddy wants to do it in a guild group because there's no need for VPs or gear.    How many returning players like myself are there really going to be this late into the expansion?

Expect it to get even worse if you're playing after D3 releases.

[luckton]

Expect it to get even worse if you're playing after D3 releases.

Oh I imagine most of us won't even be here when D3 releases anyways   

Though I may login just to do my Inscription research and whatnot until MoP.

[Azazel]

That's because the ARE the alts of fuckwit DPS at this point.  Mains aren't running HOT or any other heroics unless their guild buddy wants to do it in a guild group because there's no need for VPs or gear.    How many returning players like myself are there really going to be this late into the expansion?

Expect it to get even worse if you're playing after D3 releases.

Actually, in the HOTs, a good 50% or so of the players are quite decent. I did 2 HoTs before work today and both groups were completely fine. It's the starter heroics that are fucked. It's actually quite common to find returning players in them as well, and more often then not they're the least fuckwitted ones in the group, or even decent humans.

[Zetor]

Yep, I've not had any problems in heroics (even ZA/ZG) due to asshattery or extreme incompetence, really. But then, I play a blood DK and pretty much solo some bosses. I stopped running LFD on my dps and healer character (just do LFR), though.

I've also not seen many people at all being jerks to others in LFD party chat since very early Cata (and trollroics). In fact, I've had some interesting/amusing conversations in HOT dungeons, and sometimes the group (of 4 random cross-server strangers) stayed together for 3-4 further dungeons to let the good times roll or something.

[ghost]

Wait.  They're really putting in fucking Pandas?  Jesus fucking christ.   



The asian thing is cool, but Pandas?  I may have to resub just to live this train wreck for a little while.

Sorry if I'm reintroducing rants from the past. 

[Rasix]

Topic is only 9 months old.  I can see how you'd overlook it and feel the need for that post.

They're adding monks too.  Yah, I know, let that sink in for a bit.

[Merusk]

I heard there might even be a brewmaster class! wtf, yo!   

[ghost]

I've been on a sabbatical from WoW (and other gaming).  I am completely stunned that this was the chosen path of action.  WoW used to be such a great game. 

Oh, and the monks make sense.  Sounds like a great class to me. 

[Hutch]

Well, buckle up. I can't wait to see how you react to the Pokemons 

[ghost]

The people at Blizzard have lost their fucking minds. 

[Lakov_Sanite]

The people at Blizzard have lost their fucking minds. 

This will do nothing but make them more money hats, stupid or not.

[ghost]

You think so?  I'm not so sure. 

[Trippy]