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Thursday, 22 December 2011
Do you enjoy an unexpected agenda?
One of the things I like to do in World of Warcraft is use the game as an insomnia cure. When like tonight I have a strange or unsettling dream and can't get back to sleep, I log in and run some heroics, do some PvP, or go explore a place in the world I haven't been to in a while. This is how I ended up tanking the new and improved Abominable Greench at 4 a.m. as an arms warrior. Who says you can't tank as arms? Me, I say that. But he died, the reindeer was saved, and I went on my merry way, only to be pulled into a full-fledged PvP war at the gates of Orgrimmar.
A group of Alliance players was bringing the war to us. They even pulled Gamon into the fray. Gamon still hits pretty hard even at the end of the expansion with us all geared significantly higher than we were a year ago. Much back-and-forth mayhem ensued as each side found Gamon attacking one of theirs. We pushed them out of Org only for them to push back in, and I got to hit Bladestorm in the middle of a whole lot of people.
After a very enjoyable time watching Yivo cast Mind Flay on random folks, I got to thinking that I never actually got to run those heroics I'd been intending to, rather finding myself dragged into unexpected fracas after unexpected fracas. Resolving to do exactly those heroics I'd intended, I queued and found myself signed up to tank accidentally. Since I don't currently have a tanking spec, I explained my situation and offered to sit or go respec and come back, only to have yet another healer say, "Hey, let's see what happens" -- and that's how I found myself arms tanking Well of Eternity with four wisecracking people I'll probably never see again. Went surprisingly well, we finished and everything. ... OK, so I forgot about Azshara's mind control and we wiped that one time ...
So now that I've related my tale of randomness, I ask you: Ever had one of those days or nights where it feels like the world is playing with you? Where you sweep from unexpected to unexpected?
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Expanding your collection of rogue resources
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Encrypted Text for assassination, combat and subtlety rogues. Chase Christian will be your guide to the world of shadows every Wednesday. Feel free to email me with any questions or article suggestions you'd like to see covered here.
While death knights have only been around for a couple of years and retribution paladins are tasked with rediscovering themselves every few months, rogues have remained consistent throughout WoW's entire lifetime. We've obviously received tweaks and changes along the way, but the rogue of today looks an awful lot like the rogue of the past. Over the years, the rogue class has been dissected from every angle, and our studious brothers and sisters of the shadow have discovered its secrets.
There are three main areas of rogue research: mathing out how the class works (and yes, mathing is a verb), picking the right gear, and figuring out the best specific strategies. The best and brightest rogues are constantly monitoring our DPS models to ensure their continual accuracy, compiling lists of the best gear and how to get it, and detailing their guides for dealing with players and raid bosses alike. I can say with a tremendous amount of bias that Encrypted Text is the best source for rogue info, but of course there are other sites that are useful as well.
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Juggling Yor'sahj's oozes
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Every Sunday, Chase Christian invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. Feel free to email me with any questions you want answered, like why paladins are so awesome.
While Ultraxion is definitely the most unique fight for healers in this tier, Yor'sahj the Unsleeping is a close second place. The boss' abilities are simple for the DPS classes and tanks, but healers will constantly be reacting to the summoned oozes and their various effects. These globules cause us to shift our healing strategies with each new wave, and learning to handle the globules will be the key to mastering this encounter.
Every raid group is going to handle the ooze packs differently. You need to familiarize yourself with what each ooze can do, and then combine the effects based on your raid leader's preference. You'll be faced with three oozes at a time on Raid Finder and normal difficulties, with the option to kill one ooze out of each wave. On heroic difficulty, there are four oozes per wave, for a total of three effects on the boss after you've killed one of the oozes.
Rest during the ooze summoning
When you look at his native abilities, Yor'sahj is a basic tank-and-spank boss, although he uses a stacking Void Bolt debuff to force your tanks to swap every so often. The real danger comes when he summons a wave of oozes to help him. He calls his oozes every 80 seconds or so and then stands in the center of the room channeling a spell. While your DPS classes run out to pop a globule before it reaches the boss, you should be swinging at the boss for Seal of Insight procs to regain mana. Raid Finder and normal-mode raiders can use Divine Plea or a Potion of Concentration here as well. You have just over 20 seconds before the boss becomes active again.
Don't bother memorizing the confusing globule names, as nobody else will remember them either. The oozes are always referred to by their color, which should be obvious from the bright spew that's released when they're summoned and their own individual coloring. I will be listing the ooze names here for posterity, but you only need to commit the colors to memory.
What features from other games would you like to see in WoW?
Most of us don't just play World of Warcraft. And WoW is certainly not the only game we've ever played. While I love the game and consider it far better than most MMOs, I do wish it had some of the features other games have.
EverQuest had its issues and Blizzard improved on most of them, but one thing EQ had that WoW doesn't is surnames. Once you hit level 20, you could choose a surname for your character. Star Wars:The Old Republic is implementing something similar, only you create a family name for all of your characters. I want to have Roblinator Shinycollector or Peenk Sparkles.
I would also love a sidekick or mentor system like in City of Heroes. Two players of vastly different levels can play together by temporarily kicking up the level of the sidekick or temporarily lowering the level of the higher-level character. I know we have Recruit-A-Friend and there are all those levels to be given, but it's just not the same as playing together in level-appropriate content with balanced experience gain. I want to invite friends to play and run dungeons together, not run them through dungeons.
Something I think we all would like to see is the level of character customization we find in so many other MMOs. I don't need to choose nose size or ear placement, but I would like to be able to choose a body type (like a healthier blood elf) and tattoos, scars, cosmetics, warts or whatever. For Forsaken body types, one of the choices could be to not have my bones sticking out of my clothes! Gosh, I want that so much. I'm OK with bones sticking out of my skin, but really, the clothes thing doesn't make much sense and is ugh-lee.
The thing that has always intrigued me about single-player roleplaying games and now SW:TOR is that there are often choices when doing quests and those choices affect your character. Yes, WoW has reputations that change how some NPCs react to us. But you can only select Accept or Cancel on a quest -- not really a choice. I wish I could take my character along her own path of neutral goodness and have that affect her options in the future, rather than having to torture things or sort through poop to progress through the story.
What surname would you choose? How would you like to customize your character? What are the features from other games that you would like to see in WoW?
Saturday, 17 December 2011
the new leaders began a new life
Aogeruimu, a former chief in a place of refuge during the liberation of the last killed, dying before their destruction, and black plate armor with Warhammer throne Chiefs passed to the Saar, this is the fifth difficult;
Of course, all of the Orcs to rescue does not mean they have been very successful in Kalimdor that they face numerous coalition to kill, in time, has turned into a big Master Prophet Medivh told them to pass across the sea establishment of a new country, this proposal has been as commander in chief of the Lordaeron Alliance King of Tenaris refused, but the Saarland not hesitate to accept this proposal, after several hardships, finally reached the other shore of endless sea, where the them with the Kul Tiras Navy Admiral Daehlin a war occurred, in the war, the Saarland has been a very lucky Reixa enthusiastic help, they signed a contract with the Jaina, This marked the beginning to establish their own country, all of the orcs, led by the new leaders began a new life, this is the sixth difficult.
Of course, Sal's life there are a lot of people played a key role in:
Dulong Tan wife - to give him life and Orc ancestry, so he was always mindful of its mission;
Reid Brothers - Saar's Shafushamu enemies, not just let him bear in mind of hatred, but also allowed him to tribes within the state at all times maintain a clear head;
Blackmoore - He saved the Saar, yet the Saar as a plaything, thus distorting the Saar's mind, even before his death was still struggling and said he was proud of Saarland, this is not right Saar praise, while the Sal wanted to let live forever in the shadow of the past, the Saar to death will not forgive him.
Patch 4.3 hunter trinket roundup
Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you Scattered Shots for beast mastery, marksmanship and survival hunters. Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Mail your hunter questions to Frostheim.
It's trinkets day here on Scattered Shots, back by popular demand. The number of emails I've been getting about hunter trinkets lately has made me suddenly realize that I have not posted my usual new tier trinket round-up and reevaluation -- and with the new tier of Raid Finder trinkets out, there the decision of when to upgrade is yet more complex.
Trinkets are a lot like the nine support classes in WoW: You know they're useful, but it can be hard to figure out exactly which one is worth using without doing some math. Only unlike the support class players, you always want to have two of them with you. And they don't smell funny, or refuse to heal your pet, or screw up your lovely execution of executions.
Maybe trinkets aren't much like the support classes after all. They're better.
Join me after the cut as we run down the new 4.3 trinkets, compare them to the best of the previous tier's trinkets, and give some thought to the new Raid Finder versions of the trinkets as well.
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
asking about this matter a Cryptic employee
PC Games Hardware editors recently had the chance to play Star Trek Online and have published some benchmark results as well as some thoughts about technology. Check it out and see if your system measures up. When talking to the developers we learned that the engine is optimized for dual-core systems - additional cores are not or only slightly utilized. DirectX 10 or DirectX 11 are not supported. FSAA or SSAA can be activated directly in the game. The physics engine is a self-made structure that runs on the server as well as on the clients.
But we couldn‘t make out more than a few flying pieces of debris in the ground battles. Don‘t expect ripped of warp nacelles or scraped saucer sections. Like in the first trailers we noticed that in ground combats objects like grass or bushes vanish at a comparatively short distance and that static objects like trees are displayed with a lower level of detail. When you are walking on a planet‘s surface it almost looks like you were casting wave with higher details in front of you. When asking about this matter a Cryptic employee said that it might perhaps be possible the adjust the Level of Detail in the config file later on - with more variety than offered by the in-game options - so that highest-end PCs can display the environment with maximum details at all times. Head to the PCGamesHardware.com link listed above to take a look at the benchmark results.
Turbine has just released a new batch of screenshots for The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood, the upcoming digital expansion to the award-winning MMO, which is scheduled to launch on December 1st in North America. The images depict the new Gathburz region deep in the forests of Mirkwood.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
so he was always mindful of its mission
King of Tenaris refused, but the Saarland not hesitate to accept this proposal, after several hardships, finally reached the other shore of endless sea, where the them with the Kul Tiras Navy Admiral Daehlina war occurred, in the war, the Saarland has been a very lucky Reixa enthusiastic help, they signed a contract with the Jaina, This marked the beginning to establish their own country, all of the orcs, led by the new leaders began a new life, this is the sixth difficult.
Of course, Sal's life there are a lot of people played a key role in:
Dulong Tan wife - to give him life and Orc ancestry, so he was always mindful of its mission;
Reid Brothers - Saar's Shafushamu enemies, not just let him bear in mind of hatred, but also allowed him to tribes within the state at all times maintain a clear head;
Blackmoore - He saved the Saar, yet the Saar as a plaything, thus distorting the Saar's mind, even before his death was still struggling and said he was proud of Saarland, this is not right Saar praise, while the Sal wanted to let live forever in the shadow of the past, the Saar to death will not forgive him.
Teresa - There is no doubt that this girl was Saarland's life, the only Gladiator to give him comfort and helped him to escape the people, in order to Saar, she died, and that became his most heavy grief Saar This can be in the "Wheel of hatred" in a dialogue Saar and Jaina be seen;
led by the new leaders began a new life
Aogeruimu, a former chief in a place of refuge during the liberation of the last killed, dying before their destruction, and black plate armor with Warhammer throne Chiefs passed to the Saar, this is the fifth difficult;
Of course, all of the Orcs to rescue does not mean they have been very successful in Kalimdor that they face numerous coalition to kill, in time, has turned into a big Master Prophet Medivh told them to pass across the sea establishment of a new country, this proposal has been as commander in chief of the Lordaeron Alliance King of Tenaris refused, but the Saarland not hesitate to accept this proposal, after several hardships, finally reached the other shore of endless sea, where the them with the Kul Tiras Navy Admiral Daehlin a war occurred, in the war, the Saarland has been a very lucky Reixa enthusiastic help, they signed a contract with the Jaina, This marked the beginning to establish their own country, all of the orcs, led by the new leaders began a new life, this is the sixth difficult.
Of course, Sal's life there are a lot of people played a key role in:
Dulong Tan wife - to give him life and Orc ancestry, so he was always mindful of its mission;
Reid Brothers - Saar's Shafushamu enemies, not just let him bear in mind of hatred, but also allowed him to tribes within the state at all times maintain a clear head;
Blackmoore - He saved the Saar, yet the Saar as a plaything, thus distorting the Saar's mind, even before his death was still struggling and said he was proud of Saarland, this is not right Saar praise, while the Sal wanted to let live forever in the shadow of the past, the Saar to death will not forgive him.
Friday, 31 July 2009
Ten thousand years to the pursuit of Illidan's forces for what?
I Qingqing three Association master, no one to find the channel chat, Qingqing he will always say the first time with three young master of the situation to meet a lot of interesting things,
it was said that the network is a virtual computer but to sit next to are true, each time in the network have been moved, each time in the network to reveal the truth, and that is the best witness to the reality of the the three together can be regarded as set margin of it? Review of Past Buddha 500 times before they get passed this life, I believe we can meet beyond the network, it has 500 times more than the Review, which is the sublimation of the network.
The summer of that year, the three of us to stay with a rope around my hometown of sites, that was a summer night, fireflies dancing in the grass between the colorful, open flowers, and dew on the lotus leaf circled beating, we take a lotus green, lying boat, the sky looking at the stars, those Xingzi shaky, such as floating in the Shuiguang together, the lotus seeds in the opening rounds of the Pan-tongue night and the sweet taste of Shibuya, between, as if to hear a the sound, I do not know whose boy, bright in the night in, mind suddenly woke up that night, moonlight, such as water, pouring a half-bed, twitter, and we sat together with the wind blowing the roof on the inside of Warcraft heard see.
Qingqing night reminds me of the problem, why not marry Illidan? Only her eyes Rio Marfa. Ten thousand years to the pursuit of Illidan's forces for what?
Three master answered and said, in order to, he betrayed the master, regardless of the outcome of their own, put aside their prejudices and Rio Marfa, to rescued. Not to Marfa Rio, only to Taylan de. after waiting for the masters of their own anger Kil'jaeden. Illidaninto the outer domain in the left Azeroth at the moment, it determines that his conclusion.
Domain from the highest point, the end is heroic. He is not the devil, not a traitor, just a infatuated men, the tragedy of life.
