Fog in Stormwind

[Xanthippe]

What's that all about?  And that floaty thing near Thunder Bluff?  Candles in the ponds?

Is this all the same thing, that midsummer festival, or is some of it something else?

[Signe]

I think it's the Midsummer Festival stuff, though I've not come across much of anything yet.  I'm still pretty much a n00b on Aerie something or other server.  Righ and Stray started a Bat Country guild there.  Evidently we can dance around a maypole or some such nonsense.  Too bad it's not May.

[bhodi]

The "Floaty thing" in thunder bluff is part of "The Invasion" quest lines which herald the Naxx opening. Unless you're a poopsocking catass like myself, you'll never see the inside of that until after the expansion.

[Chenghiz]

Nah the floaty things over the capital cities are Scourge necropoli and part of the invasion, but the actualy Naxxramas Necropolis is floating over Stratholme in the Plaguelands. The fog is also a consequence of the inavasion, I believe, but the candles are from the Midsummer Festival.

[Jayce]

Nah the floaty things over the capital cities are Scourge necropoli and part of the invasion, but the actualy Naxxramas Necropolis is floating over Stratholme in the Plaguelands. The fog is also a consequence of the inavasion, I believe, but the candles are from the Midsummer Festival.

The fog over Stormwind and the citadels are IMO the coolest world change with a patch evar.  I to some extent pine IRL for the "old days" of sunny Elwynn forest.   Reminds me of the old AC1 days with shadow spires that moved (and destroyed stuff) every patch.

[SurfD]

Nah the floaty things over the capital cities are Scourge necropoli and part of the invasion, but the actualy Naxxramas Necropolis is floating over Stratholme in the Plaguelands. The fog is also a consequence of the inavasion, I believe, but the candles are from the Midsummer Festival.

The fog over Stormwind and the citadels are IMO the coolest world change with a patch evar.  I to some extent pine IRL for the "old days" of sunny Elwynn forest.   Reminds me of the old AC1 days with shadow spires that moved (and destroyed stuff) every patch.

Hehe, i remember those.  It was fun to follow the spires around, and when they nuked a couple of cities into smoking craters in the ground, that was simply AWESOME.  Nothing like running over the hill to get to that town only to see a humongous hole in the ground surrounded by smoking rubble.

[stray]

This fog was cool at first, but now it's irritating me.

[Morat20]

Damn lag is killing me. Destroyed an UD Strat run (our best latency was 800ms) and killed our weekly ZG run (we wiped on the bloodlord because the healers were up to 1.5 seconds behind events).

Not to mention there's some strange ass bug where social windows keep popping up open to the raid tab. OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

World event + patch week = LAG.

[Zane0]

Here is a home made fix to the popping raidinfo window and "You are now saved to this instance" bug:

/script local i; for i=1, 7 do getglobal("ChatFrame"..i): UnregisterEvent("UPDATE_INSTANCE_INFO");end


put it on a button on your toolbar, click the button. just copy that line exactly, you can Ctrl-V it into the macro window in the game.

[Morat20]

Thanks. That bug was killing half the raid last night. We haven't even gotten Hakkar on farm status (we are the anti-catass guild!) on an old server, but we're getting close. Our MC raids start the 30th. Half the guild has been many times (our more advanced folks raid with another guild) but we've finally gotten enough people -- and enough alliances with other guilds -- to field our own MC team.

This is a complication we don't need.

[stray]

Any Shaman want to clue me in on how your class got borked? I've probably been reading the WoW forums too much, but is there any truth to them? I don't know a lot about the class, other than those people seemed to be a little too dependent on Windfury.

Also, if I mainly wanted to be a pure Elemental caster, how would I spec and/or level? Or is it a bad idea to be a "pure" anything?

[Righ]

Nah, you were better of levelling with elemental than enhancement before the changes anyhow, its faster. Also, the totem changes are incredible, and the windfury nerf is much more minor than people have made out. A pretty powerful class got more powerful. Provided you're not trying to be a main healer in late game raids, Shaman just rock. They're abut the most adaptable offensive class out there. Nerf shamans. :)

[stray]

Thanks

Also: I posted in the wrong thread. Heh. For some reason I thought it was this one.

[MrHat]

I loved loved loved my shaman in all situations except pve groups larger than 5.

[Xanthippe]

Do trolls make good shamans?

I want to make a troll but don't know what class to make her.

[stray]

Trolls seem like the worst Horde race for anything. Except maybe for fast leveling PvE rogues or bow specced hunters. Other than that, their best asset is their looks. That's the only reason why I made my Rogue a Troll at least.

If you don't take Tauren or Orc as a Shaman, you're passing up an AoE stun or a nice AP boost and a high percentage stun resist proc. For a class that isn't exactly fast dps, but mana hogging burst, it doesn't seem like Troll beserk would turn the tides like Orc and Tauren racials could.

[edit]

And then again, I'm sure it works fine somehow. Most of the time, good pvping just comes down to having a system that works for you. There's all kinds of bad ass players in games who can get away with anything, so long as they have a clear picture of how their character works.

[Chenghiz]

Troll shamans are actually pretty awesome, because if you pop Berserking at low health, you can heal almost as fast as if you burned Nature's Swiftness - which frees up a talent point for Elemental Mastery if you're going elemental.

[caladein]

Troll shamans are actually pretty awesome, because if you pop Berserking at low health, you can heal almost as fast as if you burned Nature's Swiftness - which frees up a talent point for Elemental Mastery if you're going elemental.

Aye, I've seen Troll Priests get obscenely fast Flash Heals if they have 3/8 Prophecy and they hit Berserking at the right time. Same with Berserking + Improved Aspect of the Hawk + Rapid Fire... something's going to get filled with arrows there.

For a Troll, they make good just about anything since their racials are rather neutral (and they of course... look good). Probably Mage and Priest aren't great since a Mage at low health is a dead Mage, and well... Devouring Plague is such a powerful racial spell for PvP it hurts. Yeah, Orcs have the Stun resist (and you can Mortal Strike yourself... which strikes me as dumb for a class that can heal) and Taurens have War Stomp... but a Lightning spam with Berserking certainly means you're taking down a couple people with you (as long as your mana holds out of course).