sotg.sauft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=532

“Monkeybeer has been made Guildmaster and Sarah is now an officer. Sarah wanted this, because he has less time to spent on WoW at moment, especially during the workdays. Sarah will still be charge of internal guild matters and will be on in weekends and if possible after 11pm during the weekdays. Jens will take over external guild communications.”

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=213441&p=1&tmp=1#post213441

“Actually, my point was, that we are looking towards doing many 5 man dungeons in the Burning Crusade. As for Karazhan, our current thought is that it would be a 10 person raid. You mention that you hang out with 8 people — I think Karazhan would be well within your reach.”

Fair enough.

“In any event, things will change over time, as we play the Burning Crusade in beta and get a feel for what players want and need.”

Wait wait wait let me say it for you. “After much testing we found the smaller instances to not be as fun, and as such made them into 20 mans.”

“We’re not going to do anything to deliberately alienate anyone from the game. We try very hard to keep players happy — from casual to hardcore.”

I felt compelled to post in page 2 of the thread after reading that. It sounds good and all but here is what I already see happening. Forty mans are still and will always be the “legitimate” content because guilds have grown so big. Blizzard throws out winged easy 5-man table scraps every now and then. I don’t argue with something like Illidan taking 40 70s, anything less would be silly, but the small guild hardcore people are still waiting for their piece of the pie.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=213873&p=1&tmp=1#post213873

“Jeff I wish I had saved all your rants from the LoS homepage. You were one of the BIGGEST complainers about blowable spawns. It’s nice to see how you’ve sold out to “the man” just like you whined and cried about the devs over at SoE doing. You’re making the EXACT SAME MISTAKES you complained about 4 years ago. Do you not see this? I don’t care if you respond to this but I hope you read it and think just for a second about all the things you complained about through the years and then went and did them yourself.”

Calls him Jeff! Owned.

First day in Hells Elites

forums.curse-gaming.com/showthread.php?t=4296

“Testing the raids is very hard. A guild that works together will do better than a pickup raid almost always. Previously, internal testing was basically done via pickups. They would get some internal testers, CMs, and other blizzard employees… all of which are very good raiders on their own, and have them test things out. The problem was that all of these people were not used to raiding together… so they are working on a “Strike Raid Team” of dedicated raiders. A group of employees who test raid content… and work together… mimicking a guild.”

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch you didn’t have to announce that at Blizzcon, we already knew.

“They are really pleased with the “wing” experience with dungeons. A group can do a single wing, and feel accomplishment.”

GG.

“Linear progression is no longer desired in raids. One example of this was Onyxia->BWL where her cape is needed… I think they listed another… but I don’t remember what it was.”

This is a huge 180 on what some of their design philosophy was before I think.

“Smaller raid sizes are planned in the future… they want to make more 10 and 20 man instances. They will still add 40… but the focus will be on 10 and 20 man instances for the raid team.”

Twenty is not small, and I will believe it is the focus of the team when I see it.

“The random seed for loot is random. It is not seeded from the raid leader, or who ever enters the raid first. There is no mystic voodoo on what loot drops when. They did a two week study on what loot actually did drop, and found it to be random and approximately average… the way it was supposed to be.”

Left hand not talking to the right? I remember numerous blue posts where I believe it was Tigole who claimed the random was indeed generated from a seed that was given to the leader, and switching leaders generally led to different loot.

“They want to let the hardcore players shine, to reward the hard core players. Enchanting is considered the hardest core of the hard core professions. They have no plans on making “enchanting crystals” allowing enchanters to sell their enchants on the AH. Having to spam the trade channel in the cities is a conscious choice, and intentional. They will be adding something to the enchanter for the auction house.”

No. Learn 2 make a crafting system.

“Dis enchanting items are “cool” according to the items person. It allows a useless item to become useful. In the future, when you dis enchant an epic (level 60 epic or any epic was not said)… you will get a nexus crystal instead of a shard. There will be new very powerful enchants that use these crystals.”

List. More catering to the peeners.

“Wizzard oil. There is at least two types of wizard oil, which acts on weapons just like sharpening stones. One of the adds +24 to spell damage and healing to a weapon for 30 minutes… another adds to mana regen. There are consumables, and applied to the spell casters weapon.”

Very nice, better late then never.

“In 1.9 there will be a lot of new procs for casters. Spell casters are getting a massive itemization boost in 1.9. There was one proc on a weapon that when ever a successful spell cast, there is a chance to lower the targets resistances to the spell. There is a lot of caster itemizations coming.”

OK this is cool as well, good job Blizz. Just make sure they are useful and varied.

“There will not be a caster legendary any time soon. If they make a caster legendary item, they will have to make one that all casters (except hunters!!!! Specifically) would want and could use.

BOWNED! Went out of their way to mention that there will definitely NOT be a caster legendary soon. I mean the crowd/playerbase just takes that one right to the face. How hard would it be to make one that all casters could use? Right now the Rag hammer is for two classes, and the wind blade is also arguably used by 2-3. Make it a shiftable weapon like the Benediction if there was some proc based ability that clashed between DPS casters and healers.

“Do not expect any epic quest items for other classes individually any time soon. The current epic quest items for hunters and preists where a mistake. There are items in AQ that are better than both of the epic quest items for those classes. If they do make new epic weapon quests… they will release all 9 at the same time.”

Killing the idea of specialized, difficult, soloable, class-specific epic quests because the loot behind the next 40-man fruit portal is better. Wake up.

“Warlock shard bags are a long way off.”

Bwahaha.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=5525759&p=1&tmp=1#post5525759

My brother told me that while en route to Blizzcon from the airport, Insomnia’s cab was hit by a drunk driver and he sustained a leg injury. I don’t think it is life threatening, but it was bad enough that he needs to stay in the hospital and has been replaced in the Blizzcon tourney. Sorry to see it happen.

Edit: I guess he was still overseas when the accident happened, so he never even reached the US.

www.bvvp.com/wow/images/WoWExpansion1stpage.jpg
www.bvvp.com/wow/images/WoWExpansion2ndpage.jpg
www.bvvp.com/wow/images/WoWExpansion3rdpage.jpg
www.bvvp.com/wow/images/WoWExpansion4thpage.jpg
www.bvvp.com/wow/images/WoWExpansion5thpage.jpg

When I refreshed general the thread which had these screens advertised was gone, so I guess I got them right in time.

www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/

It also reminded me of Riggs’ line in LW4: “Where’s the Hongs!”

www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=9026

Easily the best paladin video I’ve seen, and up there as one of the more entertaining WoW vids (PvP, anyway) I’ve seen. Very nice editing, both video and audio (uses game audio in most fights). Smart play (both solo and in groups), consisting of both good use of skills, healing/cleansing friendly players, and smart use of pretty much all Felwood consumables.

Of course, the whole video is taken down a decent notch by using the EXACT SAME TRIZZASH MUSIC that’s in every other PvP video. FFS. It’s especially annoying because the video/audio quality is top notch and if you mute it, you miss the game audio, which detracts a lot from the fights (like most other PvP vids).

One final thing I noticed is the friendliness that seems evident in the open PvP fights (as well as the credits sequence) between alliance and horde. Makes me wonder if PvP server would have been more fun if we hadn’t (bad) lucked onto the trash hole that is Stormreaver.

Numbers from the first pull, through the clear, the Majordomo fight, and all 4 Rags attempts.

Numbers for the Rags fight only. I’m not sure of the range at which stops calculating, but it’s pretty obvious the crazy low numbers were in general DPS healers who were in a completely different spot from me. The big exception is Illithion who was a MT healer and close to me. This shows both good healing and how much consumables can push up numbers when used correctly.

My specific spell number details that may be interesting to check out.

www.bvvp.com/wow/images/exp3.jpg

When I first saw the high res cover image with the non-WoW headline, I thought for sure the smaller version with the headline was doctored. This picture however seems like absolute proof, and matches the other Blood Elf screens that were shown.

www.bvvp.com/wow/images/exp1.jpg
www.bvvp.com/wow/images/exp2.jpg
www.bvvp.com/wow/images/exp4.jpg

First UBRS run with Kivi, still in mostly greens and older AH blues. Multiple other damage meters from other players (while the exact numbers weren’t the same, of course) all had me at 3rd. Of course, if some of the better rogues I know had been in the group, it would have pushed my number down a bit.

Oh, and just so that listed #1 rogue doesn’t get a big head, here’s the listing from Termina’s most recent UBRS run:

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=202732&p=1&tmp=1#post202732

“It’s the same as damage meters, except it shows threat. All the tanks need it to work properly. Destroy Vael with ease as you know exactly when a warrior is going to pull aggro. It’s dead on. It shows info that should not be known otherwise, it shows EXACT values of threat that only devs or people with access to code would know about. It’s so top secret Nurfed doesn’t even give it to their “lesser” members. Enjoy.”

www.bizchair.com/cl-3-fs-uri.html

Read the #6 song on the list of tracks.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warlock&t=633066&p=1&tmp=1#post633066

After months of MC and weeks and weeks of frustrating failures, we finally got him. Our best attempt was 18%, then next week it was 6%, today a 2% first attempt and then we killed him the next try. Felt good.
www.xolotus.net/gallery/view_photo.php?full=1&set_albumName=WoW&id=Rags_Dead

Haven’t gotten an epic on Aggramar yet but this is probably my best drop so far.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=199165&p=1&tmp=1#post199165

Warrior + Priest in BWL gear.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=196802&p=1&tmp=1#post196802

There is a new large dragon that sits guarding the Caverns of Time door. Looks pretty cool, but I guess around 20% he despawns and says something like “It is not my time yet”. Check it out.

Ok so maybe this might be fake, but I guess somebody did post some pretty legitimate looking screens of a new starting area and Blood Elf character models and textures. The thread was found in General, but the links are now dead. I found some more details of the expansion rumors here www.wowguru.com/the-burning-crusade.php.

Edit: The screen links came back up. forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=5350815&p=1&tmp=1#post5350815

www.toptiercakes.com/

Someone posted a link to www.kotaku.com/ with the instructions to scroll down and see the WoW news blurb. Supposedly the translated text said something about the cap being raise to 70. Shortly after people posted scans of the real mag cover, which didn’t even have any WoW headline on it. Blizzard promptly deleted all the related threads yet people are still discussing the level cap rumor.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=5317572&p=1&tmp=1#post5317572

“The green dragon Emeriss will be temporarily removed from game, as we work to correct an issue with it. We hope to have the creature returned to it’s ornery self as soon as possible.”

fellowcraft.ytmnd.com/

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=191320&p=1&tmp=1#post191320

“Emeriss is truly the most gruesome and appalling of Ysera’s estranged green dragons.”

Or, you could have people use shadow reflectors to bounce his percent based dot back onto him and kill him in 5 seconds.

irc.quakenet.org
#sotg

Shut up. I also posted a comment on their boards. sotg.sauft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=466

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=5278960&p=1&tmp=1#post5278960

“Don’t you find it odd that a crafted item — lower than 250 skill needed to make it, mind — was practically a must-have for raids? It makes little sense with the way our items work that the Hat’s effect could be used without actually wearing it. Its extreme utility in the highest end content was a red flag; the hat was, to my knowledge, never meant to be used and then pocketed away. The give-and-take of the item was that you could buff your party with it but you had to be wearing it. This has been fixed so the proper advantages and drawbacks apply.

I’m aware many are unhappy with the change, but in all honesty, its old use was a bit ludicrous. ;)”

That’s the whole point you monkey, being able to give an extra buff to your MT or critical members was fun and gave the item life. It wasn’t even close to gamebreaking, it was just a little extra stamina, and you had to wait for the use timer to cooldown after equipping it to boot. God forbid one green crafting item has some end game use.

And another one bites the dust. From useful to completely useless. GG. The sad thing is, looking at Caydiem’s crackback it seems they don’t even realize what they have done. To leave an item in for months and then all of a sudden Death Touch it for no good reason. Go ahead and remove that item from the game, because it is now useless.

I think he was asking me if I was Chinese.

Yes, that means I got 3 extra attacks in 1 second.

So comment necessary.

www.casket.nl/Neffie.wmv

Plays at 1X, switches perspectives from time to time and shows a lot of details I’ve never seen before. Great video.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-realm-test&T=87936&P=1

“To clarify some of the confusion surrounding the content being added to the Silithus zone for patch version 1.8, I’ve decided to iterate a few points. First, while a great deal of solo work can be done to complete quests which offer high level rewards, the primary repeatable method for obtaining epic items in this zone is summoning 20-man raid bosses.”

Now I’m not saying scrubs like Punkcore should be able to grind out free epics, but please throw soloers and small guilds a bone. They touted Silithus as some kind of groundbreaking solo friendly zone and now it seems thats is just another raid frenzy.

Dropped trash only.

I flipped out on the Rogues and declared I would not heal them until they put on poisons. Back claimed he ran out, then I inspected him and saw his kicks.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=5179233&p=1&tmp=1#post5179233

Some lore links from within that thread:
www.blizzplanet.com/modules.php?action=Content&pa=showpage&pid=144

www.pvprp.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=43

www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page