tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Troll Racials are OverpoweredKlepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger7167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-34576082451611788462016-01-07T17:53:23.910-06:002016-01-07T17:53:23.910-06:00Maybe it's something outside the visible spect...Maybe it's something outside the visible spectrum and the reflection in the water is shifted into visible range.Kringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128630042421602039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-13163875923299948962016-01-07T17:50:42.941-06:002016-01-07T17:50:42.941-06:00But what is the light that it is reflecting? That&...But what is the light that it is reflecting? That's not what the sky looks like, and that's what is above me.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-79450527109132011892016-01-07T16:01:05.187-06:002016-01-07T16:01:05.187-06:00Have you been reading Plato?
I think reflection h...Have you been reading Plato?<br /><br />I think reflection has more to do with light than the sky. Coreushttp://halfgoblin.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-47193633681673106882015-12-01T21:41:46.117-06:002015-12-01T21:41:46.117-06:00I expect that a single-player game will have fewer...I expect that a single-player game will have fewer and less frequent dramatically game-altering patches, so the addons should break less often. In WoW I've run supposedly out of date addons for months with few or no issues.<br /><br />I'd argue that "configure" mostly means "customize", which is my goal anyway.<br /><br />Charging for addons might be trouble. Since they're often UI improvements, it runs the risk of creating a worse game to have something to sell. That seems even worse than the risk of stripping content to sell later as DLC.<br /><br />Beside that, tech support is expensive. It saves Blizzard a lot of money to be able to respond to all UI problems with "delete your WTF folder and disable addons". That will fix 99.99% of problems with the base UI. If it's theirs, then they have to fix it.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-59795837526885378632015-12-01T09:27:26.741-06:002015-12-01T09:27:26.741-06:00I don't know what's worse. Bad interfaces ...I don't know what's worse. Bad interfaces or addons which you have to download, configure, update and maintain. I hate both.<br /><br />And I wonder why Blizzard didn't add a play store to their Battle.Net. Can you imagine how much money they could make with 30% of payed addons? And it would be a huge improvement for the players with a server side addon list and server side addon configuration.Kringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128630042421602039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-45581602776494808202015-11-24T19:41:19.996-06:002015-11-24T19:41:19.996-06:00Well, the problem is that for someone to complain ...Well, the problem is that for someone to complain they have to care, at least a little. I don't care all that much about it anymore. I'd say it goes back to my old post on the bubble bursting: most things in life have value because you care about them, and you give them value from time, and you give them time because you care about them. Break the cycle and there's nothing to hold it up. Without some social element, which I no longer have in WoW, there's nothing beside the steadily-declining investment in the game.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-79538283597632254942015-11-11T02:00:17.640-06:002015-11-11T02:00:17.640-06:00We're all disappointed with WoD... but... can&...We're all disappointed with WoD... but... can't you just find something to complain... I mean, write about?Kringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128630042421602039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-11218586779883103542015-11-10T19:00:26.874-06:002015-11-10T19:00:26.874-06:00Finding people has always been one of my weaknesse...Finding people has always been one of my weaknesses. It's the sort of thing that makes me wish I were more outgoing.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-65836697276425247422015-11-04T22:10:49.912-06:002015-11-04T22:10:49.912-06:00I feel your boredom about all the single-player pa...I feel your boredom about all the single-player parts of WoW. I've been more or less on a break recently since trying to find a guild that I could get along with was getting too stressful. The monk class is really good but I eventually got bored about 70 levels into the fourth one.<br /><br />But on my main toon I've had a few really great 5-man pugs for both Mythic and Challenge Modes. WoW is still extremely fun if you can just find a few other players at your level.Coreushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10258450322199352185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-59631014913922374452015-11-03T07:26:32.049-06:002015-11-03T07:26:32.049-06:00Good question.Good question.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-40746710882483085512015-09-24T05:04:31.546-05:002015-09-24T05:04:31.546-05:00Where are you?Where are you?Kringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128630042421602039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-10725771848877729932015-03-25T10:36:51.537-05:002015-03-25T10:36:51.537-05:00Well if that wasn't an invitation for nosey pe...Well if that wasn't an invitation for nosey people to check into. I seem to recall Peter Griffin stating that Brian's favorite exclamation was, "Bonerific!" <br /><br />Sex sells and it works especially well on the ignorant and naïve.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09136845814680794385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-61800000789627787572015-02-06T16:11:28.405-06:002015-02-06T16:11:28.405-06:00Could be worse. About halfway through a 4-hour run...Could be worse. About halfway through a 4-hour run I realized we had a team of 4 or 5 people actively wiping us by pulling adds and/or aggroing bosses.<br /><br />Robhttp://us.battle.net/wow/en/guild/nerzhul/Acceptable_Losses/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-15932122438654548552015-02-01T18:25:30.804-06:002015-02-01T18:25:30.804-06:00I totally get what you mean. The clusterfuck that ...I totally get what you mean. The clusterfuck that is crafting materials in this expansion was a huge disappointment for me. I've always enjoyed crafting for profit, but the time gates are so front and centre in this expansion that crafting has become that thing you do every few weeks when you've saved up enough days of logging in and pressing a button that you can now craft a single item that is still not worth that much because the game also gave everybody else the same "free" daily materials just to keep them playing, so they all have to craft it too.Coreushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10258450322199352185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-64991136391677896032015-01-05T16:28:13.784-06:002015-01-05T16:28:13.784-06:00"I'd be amused to hear if Blizzard releas..."I'd be amused to hear if Blizzard released a similar version of BWL, or an old school version of vanilla Strath, Scholo, or UBRS back when they were so hard that you needed 10-15 people to clear them."<br /><br />You didn't need 10-15 people to clear them, it was just faster and the XP/quests were irrelevant, so why not raid? No daily lockouts so could just keep repeating.<br /><br />I mean, if you played back in Vanilla then surely you remember the 45 minute Baron run, no? Had to be done with 5 players, and they didn't nerf mob HP or damage or size of pulls when they capped it at 5 versus 10.<br /><br />P.S. why do you care about the average player? The average player in almost every game is terrible. Just find a raiding guild and do heroic or, if you're actually good enough, do mythic. Plenty of organization, coordination, and teamwork there.Balkothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12425374556730828853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-9616009950358022472015-01-05T16:22:33.252-06:002015-01-05T16:22:33.252-06:00"All I can guess is that by starting off with..."All I can guess is that by starting off with a bit of polite hello and some direction, we were able to get rolling and I think slow and steady is tolerable if people see that it is working."<br /><br />Pretty much. The problem is that it's usually a blind mob. This is why even a led team of not very good players can do normal Highmaul while an unled team of similar players are going to just have nightmares trying Highmaul.<br /><br />But you have no way to guarantee some degree of direction in LFR, all it takes is a few jerks to run ahead and pull everything and it's beyond the ability of the group to cope with.Balkothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12425374556730828853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-4253389121898863412015-01-05T07:18:21.752-06:002015-01-05T07:18:21.752-06:00I have to admit, I was pretty amused too by your s...I have to admit, I was pretty amused too by your story, Klep. This is one of the reasons I don't play WoW any more: the average player doesn't even recognize the value of good organization, coordination and teamwork. I'd be amused to hear if Blizzard released a similar version of BWL, or an old school version of vanilla Strath, Scholo, or UBRS back when they were so hard that you needed 10-15 people to clear them.Verilazichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950924751154692401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-67655758605851171292015-01-05T00:55:44.978-06:002015-01-05T00:55:44.978-06:00While I'm sorry you had a rotten time reading ...While I'm sorry you had a rotten time reading about it sounds absolutely hilarious.Stabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716211705647213383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-83924634380919326502015-01-03T23:53:33.323-06:002015-01-03T23:53:33.323-06:00In a very, very confusing contrast, I just finishe...In a very, very confusing contrast, I just finished an MC run that I would not describe as "tolerable", but would actually apply the exclusive label of "good".<br /><br />We started out with me saying hello and telling people to listen to the tanks. We then proceeded to slowly but steadily pull trash. A few went slightly wrong, but DPS were on the ball with handling lava spawns. We wiped once, near Golemagg. That's approximately 1% as many wipes per minute.<br /><br />Except for one druid tank, people were patient and did not race ahead. As for the druid, a priest took on the job of lifegripping him back before he could cause too much trouble. No one talked trash, except for a brief bit about decursing, and even that was based on an actual problem.<br /><br />All I can guess is that by starting off with a bit of polite hello and some direction, we were able to get rolling and I think slow and steady is tolerable if people see that it is working.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-76739195847571924532015-01-03T19:48:36.012-06:002015-01-03T19:48:36.012-06:00I think balkoth has the jest of it. Even though bl...I think balkoth has the jest of it. Even though blizz nerfed some aggro ranges, etc MC is still a raid set in a time where tanks had macros like "move up to, NOT past me" raidwarnings. If you pull 2-3 groups in hcs or normal raids, maybe even in LFR, your group will likely wipe (barring overgear or good healers). Difference with MC is that this is a likely scenario. Now a days you almost often have to do it deliberately if you are to pull 3 groups. In MC all you need is impatience.... And thats not a rare trade in wow players :-)Shandrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09243368468608048536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-43845906815871126322015-01-03T16:48:08.446-06:002015-01-03T16:48:08.446-06:00MC can't be sleepwalked through unlike most PU...MC can't be sleepwalked through unlike most PUGs or LFR -- actually has some trash mechanics (and the trash (especially aggroing extra packs) is worse than the bosses). This is why people claiming there should be an LFR tool for normal raids or above are completely out of their mind. MC shows very well how something still trivial manages to be completely screwed up by tons of idiots.Balkothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12425374556730828853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-48844707429024142842015-01-03T11:40:44.882-06:002015-01-03T11:40:44.882-06:00I spent almost 4 hours there going through around ...I spent almost 4 hours there going through around 7 wipes before we even got to the room with the dogs. I shouted "OH GOD I forgot the dogs!" Realizing that getting these morons to AOE as a unit was going to be a nightmare. For some reason we took down all the packs with only one wipe-go figure. By the 3rd hour the group had solidified and people were taking it seriously with only another 5 wipes before the end from people not paying attention. I am an old school tank and have been OUTRAGED at the behavior in low level pugs by supposed veterans in heirlooms. I have told every group that they of all people should know better. I finally ragequit tanking pugs after every single DPS ran off to do their own thing then yelled at healer for not keeping them up!!! I told them heals are for tanks not dumb-ass dps who should NEVER pull or run ahead of the tank! If you take damage (other than unavoidable mechanic damage) as a dps then you dont know how to play. People have gotten sloppy and MC kicked their sloppy asses! All in all a nightmare I will never repeat. If not for the mount I would have quit before the first hour was up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-5214543959487019592014-12-24T01:50:52.203-06:002014-12-24T01:50:52.203-06:00Not to be obnoxious, but the Exodar is actually a ...Not to be obnoxious, but the Exodar is actually a dimensional ship, not a spaceship. ;)Maddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17674200903738283129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-26953887436885629212014-12-09T04:40:09.322-06:002014-12-09T04:40:09.322-06:00You think you are setting missions for your follow...You think you are setting missions for your followers? They are setting tasks for you. They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid. Controlling your behaviour, like a lab rat in a maze. You are a cog in their giant machine.Dàchénghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02994982502333811797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-6157537471078686912014-12-03T10:57:39.291-06:002014-12-03T10:57:39.291-06:00Not sure if you knew that already, but if you get ...Not sure if you knew that already, but if you get max rep with the Bodyguard follower Leorajh, you will have access to a portable mission table. :)Maddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17674200903738283129noreply@blogger.com