New race to be the Draenei

[Xanthippe]

The important question must be answered: What is the draenei dance? We already know bloodelves do the Twist. I've heard rumor it'll be the robot.

The Blood Elf dance has been changed. They now do the Napolian Dynomite dance. Its fucking awesome.

The female Blood Elf dance looks like shit.  Bring back the twist for the girls, anyway.

[Xanthippe]

Where's the female Draenei dance?

[Trippy]

I'm not sure they are showing the female Draenei model in action at the show.

[Righ]

This was about the worst kept secret since the NSA started collecting data on domestic phone calls.

Apparently they get a scaleable heal over time, a bonus to jewelcrafting, increased hit chance with spells and improved shadow resist.

[SurfD]

Rumors of a Caster Epic Staff sound pretty interesting.  Wonder how dificult it will be to get.  Supposedly the staff will be different depending on what class you are when you do the associated quest.


Mage Version
Atiash, Staff of the Guardian
Two Hand Staff
130-244 Damage
(64.4 damage per second)
+31 Stamina
+32 Intellect
+24 Spirit
Durability 145 / 145
Requires Level 60
Equip: Improves your chance to hit with spells by 2%.
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 150
Equip: Gives party members within 30 yards a chance to get a critical strike with spells by 2%.
Use: Creates a portal. Teleporting group members that use it to Karazhan.



Warlock Version
Atiash, Staff of the Guardian
Two Hand Staff
130-244 Damage
(64.4 damage per second)
+30 Stamina
+29 Intellect
Durability 145 / 145
Requires Level 60
Equip: Improves your chance to crit with spells by 2%.
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 150
Equip: Gives party members within 30 yards increased damage done by magical spells and effects by up to 33.
Use: Creates a portal. Teleporting group members that use it to Karazhan.



Priest Version
Atiash, Staff of the Guardian
Two Hand Staff
130-244 Damage
(64.4 damage per second)
+28 Stamina
+28 Intellect
+27 Spirit
Durability 145 / 145
Requires Level 60
Equip: Restores 11 mana per 5 sec.
Equip: Increases healing done by spells and effects by up to 300
Equip: Increase damage done by spells and effects by up to 120
Equip: Gives party members within 30 yards increased healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 62.
Use: Creates a portal. Teleporting group members that use it to Karazhan.



Druid Version
Atiash, Staff of the Guardian
Two Hand Staff
130-244 Damage
(64.4 damage per second)
+28 Stamina
+28 Intellect
+27 Spirit
Durability 145 / 145
Requires Level 60
Equip: Restores 11 mana per 5 sec.
Equip: Increases healing done by spells and effects by up to 300
Equip: +420 Attack Power in Cat, Bear, and Dire Bear forms only.
Equip: Restores 11 mana every 5 sec to party members within 30 yards.
Use: Creates a portal. Teleporting group members that use it to Karazhan.

[Strazos]

+238 to healing and spell damage on a Mace up there.

What The Fuck.

Casual PvP at max level will be FUCKED on most servers.

[Rasix]

+238 to healing and spell damage on a Mace up there.

Just healing.  But yah, nice jump from Nef's mace to that.

[Azazel]

The important question is yet to be answered, though.

What will the female Dranei look like when stripped down to their underwear?

[Oban]

The important question is yet to be answered, though.

What will the female Dranei look like when stripped down to their underwear?

[Zetor]

This was about the worst kept secret since the NSA started collecting data on domestic phone calls.

Apparently they get a scaleable heal over time, a bonus to jewelcrafting, increased hit chance with spells and improved shadow resist.

Pretty crappy racials if that's true, especially compared to the AOE silence / mana drain the bloodelves have. Ah well. At least they have spaceships!!1


-- Z.

[Chenghiz]

Well for raid encounters the spell-hit is very useful, especially given that fact that it's a 30-yard aura. The first reports implied that it was physical +hit chance, which would be disgustingly overpowered.

[Zetor]

Yeah... I guess I'm just disappointed that alliance get the uber pve racial and horde get the uber pvp racial AGAIN. Kinda wish it was the other way around... would alleviate a lot of whines from both sides.


-- Z.

[SurfD]

Yeah... I guess I'm just disappointed that alliance get the uber pve racial and horde get the uber pvp racial AGAIN. Kinda wish it was the other way around... would alleviate a lot of whines from both sides.


-- Z.

I swear that was the exact same thought i had when I found out about their racials.  I am convinced someone on the dev deam is stuck with the idea that Alliance dont PvP and Horde dont PvE or some wierd shit like that.

[Xanthippe]

Except the point is to get more people to play horde, isn't it?

So this should do it. Horde elves with a good racial. 

[Strazos]

Imagine all the male Belves dancing at the bank.

Zomg, lag.

[Righ]

The bank and the auction house are pretty acceptable now that you can use the unpopular ones. Just avoid Silvermoon City and hang out in Thunder Bluff.

[Simond]

I prefer TB ayway, because it's got a forge right next to the AH and not halfway across the sodding city like Org.

[Ironwood]

What really worries me is that they're already hammering on about the Draenei's 'shamanistic' roots.


Oh dear.

Ahem.

[bhodi]

wtf ironwood, necropost that shit.

[Xanthippe]

I prefer TB ayway, because it's got a forge right next to the AH and not halfway across the sodding city like Org.

Org has the worst setup of any of the towns, with the Undercity a close second, I think.

I wish they'd remodel them all, based on the ease of use of TB.  Stormwind and Ironforge aren't too bad, but Darn is a pain in the ass.  Especially since there's only one mailbox.

[bhodi]

TB and IF are the best towns by far.

[Koyasha]

Except for the lack of mailboxes, I personally like Darnassus's layout the best.  It's also the prettiest town.  I don't like Thunder Bluff's separation by bridges that you have to go through those little huts to get onto.  Ironforge also has a good layout, all things considered, but I don't like the look of it, personally.  Having to go around the lava ditch is annoying too (although I'm not one of those who's ever fallen into it).  Stormwind's separation by canals/bridges is annoying too.  Undercity is ok...kinda like Ironforge, but it feels more cramped.

[Ironwood]

If you make a mistake in TB, you fall to your death.

Seems harsh.

[jpark]

Chiming in here on the derail :)  Thunderbluff is possibly the most creative city in a MMORPG I have ever seen.  The vision and art behind it is fantastic.

[Righ]

You just wanted a tree house when you were a child.

[Simond]

If you make a mistake in TB, you fall to your death.

Seems harsh.

It could be worse - it could be bloody Kelethin.

[Teleku]

My very first action ever in EQ, right after making my char the day the game went live, was falling off the top of that fucking city.

[raydeen]

My very first action ever in EQ, right after making my char the day the game went live, was falling off the top of that fucking city.

And did you know how to get back up? I didn't, at least not at first. I think I had 6 or 7 corpses lying around before I got my bearings. And when you died in old skool EQ, you had to find your stuff even at level 1. I think I probably just deleted and re-rolled and made mental note to stay away from edges. Painful memories like trying to find my way around Neriak or the fecking Qeynos sewers. These kids today with their automaps.

[bhodi]

Yeah, you seriously have to *try* to fall off of TB. You can't jump off the rope bridges, and they have (jumpable) ropes at all of the edges for saftey.

You have to willingly attempt to plunge to your doom. Which of course is the first thing I did, I wanted to see what would happen. I died and had a quick walk back to my body. It was worth it :)

[Xanthippe]

No you don't!

Well, I don't anyway.  I've fallen out of TB a few times.  I've also fallen into the lava in IF, and into the canals in SW.

[bhodi]

No you don't!

Well, I don't anyway.  I've fallen out of TB a few times.  I've also fallen into the lava in IF, and into the canals in SW.

Nice. The lava in IF takes talent. There are barriers all around it, the only place you can get in is if you willingly jump in the center. There's nowhere that you can just autorun, look away, look back, and be in the lava.

[Merusk]

I'm pretty sure you can autorun into one of the smelting pools in the center and down the 'pour out' effect into the lava.   I'll have to check for certain when I get home.

[Righ]

There never used to be protection against frequent lava death in IF. The loading lag when running into the city would kill near everybody who didn't pause for a while to let everything load.

Also, no elevator deaths in Undercity Xanth?

[Xanthippe]

Oh yeah, I hate those damned things.

[caladein]

No you don't!

Well, I don't anyway.  I've fallen out of TB a few times.  I've also fallen into the lava in IF, and into the canals in SW.

I've fallen into the canals in SW more times then I care to remember. The Lava or plummeting to my death, not really. I think I died maybe once to the elevators in UC though.