The Blizzcon Thread: Let there be PandasFollow

I can barely bring myself to run the 5-man thing. Doubling the number of idiots present in the group will help little.





Thankfully PvP and solo content is much improved this expansion, or I wouldn't see myself hanging on.

Some of us don't need to eat the whole pie to know it didn't turn out well.

Woah, shiver. Prom night flashback.

Damn cake. So innocent, so inviting, so aware of itself.

Where the hell is teacake when we need her?

you transferred to Aerie Peak and there's a doubt in your mind on that bigdaddy? I have 12 characters across 2 accounts there, and the guilds I've been in well lets see... a guild leader who thinks he can dictate what members go to what runs and he'll "guide" the way turning a 30 minute run into 2 hour crap fest because out...in...out alternating is too complex for him.... to other guilds that "want to raid" and have those that do raid from our guild with friends who then move on because others aren't catching up and then implode... and then the "guild" bulk moved to a sister guild who then decides to change leadership and you log in to find yourself not in a guild so once again bulk move to a sister guild.... blech

10-mans have roughly the same Tank:Healer:DPS ratio as 5-mans (2:2:6/1:1:3). Blizz said said that they're going with 2 tanks for 25-mans in the LFR, so it will be 2:6:17, or 1:3:8 1/2. 3x as many healers and almost 3x as many DPS per tank will, hopefully, shorten queue times for non-tanks in LFR.

And yes, the word is quintuple.

scary...

Edited, Oct 27th 2011 7:16pm by someproteinguy

They aren't. Blizzard has, over time, moved directly away from the more "hardcore" players to a moderate mean average. One can assume this is because the income from the far larger amount of casual or casual-core players outweighs the income from the dedicated hardcore player base. But this is only assumption of course. But I wouldn't go so far as to call their tactics populist. They'd need to market far more outside of established gamer culture to earn that tile. A few more Super Sunday commercials and it'll be ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!

(edit: The move to easier content in WoW is one aspect that is being touted as being a huge important thing about GW2 by that community. There is, supposedly, a serious "FU" difficulty mode for dungeons that even the developers can't beat yet. But, we'll see if that makes release!)

25 toon PUG raiding makes my *** pucker. I dare not try to imagine the hellish nightmare that such a group could create. Let's start with the 30 minutes of "wtf is 'vent'???? lol" and go from there...

/shudder

Edited, Oct 28th 2011 2:12pm by TherionSaysWhat

When was the decent voice chat thing around? I remember raiding during Vanilla, around the time AQ came out and we all used teamspeak back then.

There was an in-game voice thing in Wrath. Thought it still existed.

Also, speaking of Mists of Pandaria, I found this tidbit funny:


http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2868760485?page=2#24

Silly language barrier. It's not like people haven't bypassed it since they brought it up anyway. And it only got worse when they allowed cross-faction character creation on PvP servers.

And like someone else wrote in that thread:



There are a couple of theories up on the EU boards as to why Pandaren can't communicate with each other in MoP. Some suggest that it's a Matrix style blue/red pill thing while others are leaning more to the Pandaren being brainwashed by the Naaru.



Lore, lol comes to mind.

Come on, Tails... Pandas being brainwashed by giant luminescent wind chimes? Totally plausible.