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Post by **Madadeva** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:13 pm

lucimay wrote:i am really liking my pally! yay!! i'm past lvl 10!!!!!! wooo hoodey!
this one might take!

Pallys rock!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:51 pm

Yeah, I soloed Ahune. It was such a long (very, very long) and annoying fight I wish I'd waited and grouped for it, heh.

Also: Horns.

Post by **Madadeva** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:14 pm

Grats!! Pallys rock ... and our Watch Pally Kysen rocks the best!!

Post by **Madadeva** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:34 am

BTW, might be on and off the next few night! I am using my work computer (with swapping out main drive) instead of my normal one. Unfortunately, sometimes it freezes and X'ing out seems to corrupt files so I need to use the repair tool. Damn thing takes a while. So if I DC; that's proably why!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:27 pm

Patch 3.2 BOP Items Trade
A very nice feature was added to the game with the latest PTR patch, according to the interface files and a few in-game tests you can now trade BOP items with members of your raid who participated in the kill. This change will probably considerably lower the amount of GM petitions each day.

* BIND_TRADE_TIME_REMAINING = "You may trade this item with players that were also eligible to loot this item for the next %s."; -- Time remaining to trade a bound item. Example: You may trade this item with players that were eligible to loot this item for the next 1 hour 30 minutes.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:16 pm

Dojin's new look.

Still contemplating a gender swap on him.

Edit: Coming soon: Engineer-only Auction House in Dalaran!

A Steam-Powered Auctioneer has been added to the Dalaran Like Clockwork engineering shop, allowing access to one's faction Auction House. The Steam-Powered Auctioneer was programmed with a superiority chip, and will only interact with Grand Master engineers.

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:24 am

Murrin wrote:Dojin's new look.

Still contemplating a gender swap on him.

Cool. I'm happy with the recent changes I made to one of my characters.

And it's good to be an engineer.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:07 pm

Change I like: T9 will only have one armor token, that can be exchanged for any piece of the set. That reduces the number of token drops from 15 to 3.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:44 am

For a bit of fun, and to try out a couple of things before making a decision, I rolled a new DK on a server I pretty much just picked at random. Female Dwarf, Frost spec. I completed the whole starting area.

I didn't like the 2H animations at first, but I've gotten more used to them, and the DW animations are better. Frost itself is a little more interesting than Blood in terms of rotation (procs, and auto-crits).

There is only one thing now holding me back from paying for Dojin's operation. It's the boobs. Ever watched a female Dwarf run? It just looks... wrong (particularly considering that's plate she's wearing...).

Post by **Creator** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:03 am

Murrin wrote:... There is only one thing now holding me back from paying for Dojin's operation. It's the boobs. Ever watched a female Dwarf run? It just looks... wrong (particularly considering that's plate she's wearing...).

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:01 pm

For the hunters:
www.maniasarcania.com/2009/07/04/pet-worgen/

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:10 pm

I'd try it if I had a free stable slot.

Post by **Web Monkey** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:18 pm

More patch notes that make me gasp:

Warsong Gulch

--There is a now a 20 minute timer on this battleground. After that time, the team with the most flag captures wins. If this would result in a tie, the team that captured the first flag wins. If neither side has captured a flag, then the game ends in a tie.--

That seems like a slight overreaction to me. As much as I sometimes hated 1 hour-long WSG's...they sometimes had an epic feeling to them. Probably some of the most intense moments I have had in WoW have been in the truly great long WSG matches. I think capping it at 45 minutes, or MAYBE 30 minutes would have been better (if any cap was needed). The group that gets the first flag could now conceivably keep all 10 members on defense and wait out the 20 minute window, and get a 1-0 victory. That is lame to me.

The other thing that jumped out at me:

--The heroic dungeon daily quest will now reward 2 Emblems of Triumph and the normal daily dungeon quest will reward 1 Emblem of Triumph--

So not only are all heroics instances going to reward you with Ulduar level gear (via emblems)... The daily instance quests can eventually lead to even higher gear (Tier 9?)

This seems taking it waayyy too far. It just seems to me like they take legitimate problems, and rather than making small or incremental changes, they make huge sweeping changes.

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:05 am

What I would like to see is more gear available for purchase with the existing emblems. I've been raiding for six months, and have a stack of emblems that are of almost no use, yet I am still using a 'pre-raid' crafted weapon because I have no luck with drops. It's more than a little frustrating.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:28 pm

Garwal is now untameable. They're apparently looking at what to do with the ones already tamed.

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:59 am

Those folks will wake up one morning soon with a regular wolf. Blizz doesn't like hunters taming things they shouldn't; there was no point in removing the summoning animation from my warp stalker, they're certainly not going to let people keep pet humanoids.

I'd try it for the challenge if I thought it wouldn't be a waste of time. And if it didn't mean giving up my leveling pet - not that I use her, but she earned that stable slot.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:53 am

Welp, the fix they've done is that Garwal is untameable, and anyone who has a Worgen pet now has a pet that's useless - because it belongs to no pet family (according to Blizz) it now has no abilities or talent trees. It's pretty much just a vanity pet now.

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:23 pm

Went through with that name change I'd been considering for a while...

I did it for many reasons, but the main one was that I am Sorus, and it's the name I should have used from the beginning.

It'll confuse some of the Bunnies folks at first, but they'll get used to it.

Post by **lucimay** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:45 am

a supermodel by any other name... nice screenshot!

Post by **Damelon** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:05 pm

Saw this in The Onion.

I'm Not Questing With You Until You Admit You Screwed Up The Zul'Aman Raid
BY LARRY GROZNIC

JULY 9, 2009 | ISSUE 45•28

I have had enough, Paul. It is no longer worth the gold it costs to fly to the Ghostlands if my soldiers are going to fail me halfway through and leave the party running for its life, quaffing expensive potions, and dying before we've seen the second boss.

This is not my usual "raid postmortem" e-mail to the whole team. This is specifically directed at you, Paul, and will address the increasingly serious range of problems that have manifested themselves in the four months since you began raiding with the Destroyers of Infinity guild.

We usually feel like we're babysitting you on our raids, but in this particular instance (pun not intended), you seemed far more interested in role-playing than in little, peripheral concerns like finding and killing Zul'jin, or teensy tiny little perks like not dying! I was mad enough about the Molten Core incident in March, and the time you accidentally healed the dire troll, but your behavior last night has driven me to throw down an ultimatum: If you're going to be welcome on our future quests, you must at the very least own up to the monumental errors you made in Zul'Aman and take responsibility for the humiliating failure of that raid.

Right now my IRL rage bar is about 98, but I'm going to equip a ring of calm long enough to specify the major problems you have consistently brought to our raids. Please read and understand the following in full:

1. FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A GOOD, SPEEDY COMPUTER

Your five-year-old Mac G5, still on OS 10.4 and with its hard drive nearly full, is incapable of running a legendary RAM gobbler at the velocity necessary to keep up with our raids. Waiting an hour for your antique collection to download and install the new patch is not a fun Friday night for any of us, and you are frankly cheating yourself of the full in-world experience by having to scale back so much on the video menu. All problems that could have been avoided if you'd used your birthday money to get a quad-core Mac Pro (like we suggested) instead of going to science camp and missing the game for two weeks.

2. ABANDONING CHARACTERS

Taking a full week to get your characters to level 23 and then deciding you don't like their attribute spread is trying our patience. You wouldn't even qualify for the expansions if Glen hadn't power-leveled your guys while you were at camp—a time-saving maneuver that I am beginning to regret ever having suggested.

3. YOUR PERSISTENT COMPLAINTS THAT THE GAME INVOLVES "TOO MUCH WALKING"

There are lots of sci-fi MMORPGs with liberal instant transportation methods if you don't want the immersive feel of a 3-D world with actual distances between things. But that's not the real problem, is it, Paul? Because, hey, if you finished a mission every now and then, you could afford to fly! Or, if you stayed with a character long enough to hit level 30, you could get a mount and move much quicker. Yet another good reason to just pick an orc and stick with it.

4. YOUR REFUSAL TO AVAIL YOURSELF OF USEFUL SOURCES OF INFORMATION

It is bad enough that you don't have the official strategy guide bolstered by a decent unofficial one, but refusing to even check the wiki for help is absurd. We are sick of telling you it is not cheating to use the wiki. The wiki tells you what you need to know so you don't have to spend hours figuring it out. That's why our characters are smacking around the Knights of the Ebon Blade while you're still crisscrossing Gnomeregan hunting for Bink's gizmonitor.

5. UNWISE MANAGEMENT OF HUNTER TALENTS

Did you put all your talent points into Beast Mastery in hopes that the zoo in Stratholme will reopen, or because that's the tab that's showing when you open the window and you haven't figured out that there are two other talent trees? We needed a solid marksman on that raid, and you might as well have been snapping rubber bands at those crocolisks. Maybe it's my fault; when I said, "Show up with at least 1,000 high-quality arrows," I forgot to add, "Also, do not be insane." I'm not going to rewrite the blood-elves-are-crummy-hunters-to-begin-with e-mail (though if I were, I could provide numerous additional links to support my case), but could you at least invest in some serious battle skills before you jump into the Burning Crusade?

6. GENERAL FAILURE TO APPRECIATE THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF AN MMORPG

I believe your experience with dungeon crawlers has tainted your appreciation of the vibrant, living world of Azeroth. Paul, we are no longer in fourth grade, scumming through Angband 2.9. You can't just poke around until you find Calris and then kick ass. This is a densely layered game of honor, reputation, and complex allegiances among living characters. A game of wondrous fantasy scenarios like wielding profound mystic powers and earning the respect of others. But if grid-based dungeon-spelunking is the apex of the gaming experience on your homeworld, I suggest you invest your time in PhatLewt for the iPhone. I hear they've got a hobgoblin infestation you might be able to help with. Or, hey, Evony.com has a nice, leisurely pace that might suit you better. But if you want to strive for immortality, then pay me heed.

I could, of course, go on for pages, but Onyxia's Lair is resetting shortly. In closing, I've been working a long time on this tauren druid, and I would like to fly into Orgrimmar without people thinking, "Hey, here comes Othgar, the tauren druid who leads lame expeditions that pick up a couple silver pieces for a night of work." As it is, I can't even talk to Cairne Bloodhoof without wanting to hide my face behind a Shadoweave Mask. And I was hoping to show up to BlizzCon this year with some accomplishments besides winning a hoodie in the Mountain Dew Game Fuel promotion.

The Destroyers of Infinity have lofty ambitions, and we have gotten Leeroyed by the likes of you too many times to let it go. Please choose where your allegiances lie, Paul, and have the decency to unsubscribe if you're not going to exert the kind of commitment that creates legends.

And I trust you will return your tabard and deposit all acquired wealth in the guild bank first.

Kevin's Watch

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