Some information from some of the blue post's from Blizzard.
Epic items in Cataclysm
We're actually working on restoring the epic feeling to epic items in Cataclysm. Epic loot should be epic, and something to be very proud of. Our plan is to try and get the Heroic -> Blue Gear and Raid -> Purple Gear balance back.
Now this is a thing I will be looking forward to. As this will make the good looking gear way more uniqe to look at. The best time was back in Vanilla (Some extent TBC), where you came across those epic players in IF. Decked in raid gear, looking all shiny. And you was dreaming to once be able to obtain that gear for yourself.
I still shiver, when I'm in a lvl 60 AV, and see a guy in Full T3. So damn hot.... hehe.. Bring back the epicness.
UI Improvements in Cataclysm
We are working on many raid / party improvements for Cataclysm. The challenge is that different features or layouts are "mandatory" for different players. Thus I would not at all be comfortable saying that you won't want UI mods for Cataclysm, and that's not our goal anyway. The default UI could be improved a lot though.
I have many times wondering how blizzard could be satisfied with how they handle raid and party frames. I guess party frames are ok, but the raid UI is imo terrible.
I cannot reminder anytime I have been using the standard UI for raid frames, they simply dont cut just the basic needs. Hopefully they will make em good, as the less addons, the more power is going to the actually game world, not to running addons.
25% buff in ICC now. Maybe its time for me to finally see the LK go down. Only been up to his door a couple of times. But that could have something to do with that I dont raid at all atm.....
Ohh well, I will see him death at some point. I have seen enough of ICC, done 11/12 in normal both 10 and 25. And done around 7 HC mode kills. And seen all phases of LK fight, plus ofc the video part long before he was avaible. So not sure I miss out on alot, besides the pleasure of the title and seeing him crumble under my sword and board.
Last day at the office today, then im out on a weeks vacation. So that means no wow as im away from home. Just relaxation, sun, females, family and good times. Gonna be sweet.
June 25, 2010
June 24, 2010
Superb post
I do read alot of blogs, forums and see way to many video's. I use alot of time on it, but why do I do that ?
Well, from time to time, I stumbled across great laughs, good jokes, insightfull knowledge and sometimes I just read or watch something that hits.
I have no special flavour of topic, but somethings is just damn awesome to read or watch.
The post im gonna link here is one of those. Its a post from may, on a blog I have not read before. But im sure I will be reading in the future. Just a damn fine post.
Enjoy the read. Link to post. (The post is writen by Arkaneena, from the blog Arkslaw.)
Well, from time to time, I stumbled across great laughs, good jokes, insightfull knowledge and sometimes I just read or watch something that hits.
I have no special flavour of topic, but somethings is just damn awesome to read or watch.
The post im gonna link here is one of those. Its a post from may, on a blog I have not read before. But im sure I will be reading in the future. Just a damn fine post.
Enjoy the read. Link to post. (The post is writen by Arkaneena, from the blog Arkslaw.)
Gearscore (Parody)
I will let the video speak for itself....
Orinal song:
Beautiful by Christina Aguilera
Lyrics:
Every raid is so wonderful,
N' suddenly, I'm so elite.
Gearing up from my head to toes,
And enchanting,
Every epic thing...
I am telling you,
That GS is the way.
No scrubs can bring me down.
I am telling you,
GS equals skill.
So don't be trolling me.
Just because my gear is leet.
To all you noobs,
You're delirious!
So consumed,
With all your blues.
Trying hard to raid in ICC,
But you're wiping on trash,
And then trolling trade chat.
I am telling you,
That GS is the way.
No scrubs can bring me down.
I am telling you,
GS equals skill.
So don't be trolling me.
Just because my gear is leet.
No matter what we do,
No matter what we raid,
They say when the loot drops for you,
Then the scrubs will go away.
And everywhere we go,
Oh the loot won't always drop,
But tomorrow's another raid,
And all the other times.
I am telling you,
That GS is the way.
No scrubs can bring us down.
I am telling you,
GS equals skill.
So don't be trolling me.
Just because my gear is leet.
Yeah don't you be trolling me,
Just because my gear is leet.
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
All credits go to Taintedlore from youtube, tjeck out her youtube page here.
Orinal song:
Beautiful by Christina Aguilera
Lyrics:
Every raid is so wonderful,
N' suddenly, I'm so elite.
Gearing up from my head to toes,
And enchanting,
Every epic thing...
I am telling you,
That GS is the way.
No scrubs can bring me down.
I am telling you,
GS equals skill.
So don't be trolling me.
Just because my gear is leet.
To all you noobs,
You're delirious!
So consumed,
With all your blues.
Trying hard to raid in ICC,
But you're wiping on trash,
And then trolling trade chat.
I am telling you,
That GS is the way.
No scrubs can bring me down.
I am telling you,
GS equals skill.
So don't be trolling me.
Just because my gear is leet.
No matter what we do,
No matter what we raid,
They say when the loot drops for you,
Then the scrubs will go away.
And everywhere we go,
Oh the loot won't always drop,
But tomorrow's another raid,
And all the other times.
I am telling you,
That GS is the way.
No scrubs can bring us down.
I am telling you,
GS equals skill.
So don't be trolling me.
Just because my gear is leet.
Yeah don't you be trolling me,
Just because my gear is leet.
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
All credits go to Taintedlore from youtube, tjeck out her youtube page here.
June 23, 2010
Some people just dont know, how to behave...
I have been pugging alot lately through the LFG system. I must admit that I think that system is the best that have happend to wow. Close to one of the best things ever.
It have on its own made it possible to enjoy all the instances the game have to offer. And especially the ones I love the most, the old azeroth ones. I have been able to farm fest my way through BRD, my alltime favourite instance. I even got the pleasure of being in a kick ass pug, which took from start to end, all bosses down. And got all the way to the emperor and got him down as well. I havent been able to do that in a regular group since back in vanilla wow. Where most groups crumbled in the torch room.
Did I say I love the LFG system... /wink
But it also brings forward some very rude people, people I dont wanna waste my time playing with.
I'm atm leveling a shaman healer (Alli side) and a warrior tank (Horde side). This is from a run on my shaman, which recently turned 60. So this was one of my first runs in Ramparts. We had a DK tank and a dps rogue.
I will try to reconstruct the chat between those two. (Unfortnaly I didnt screenshot it.)
Tank : Does anyone have some runecloth I could buy ?
Rogue : I have alot 1g pr piece
Tank : WTF YOUR FUCKING BASTARD WHAT A SICK PRICE IS THAT ?
Rogue : Economic crisis, YOU FUCKED POOR BASTARD!!!!!
Tank : GHGSFGYGFYGFYGEF and so on.....
I left after a few more lines, I just didnt have the patience or desire to play with ppl like that.
Not all just fun and good runs in LFG. But I must admit Im mostly in good runs. Like another Ramparts run with a ret specced paladin with a 2 hander as tank. I was like, tank dont you have a shield. No, but I can solo this, so we will be fine....
I was a bit sceptic when he made the first couple of pulls, but it was actually one of the smoothes runs I have been on. May needed a bit more healing, but his and the grp's dps more than made up for it.
What's your view on the LFG system ?
Btw a small hint. If you play as healer or tank, dont be to afraid to skip a grp if they are lame people. You may get the debuff, but that only prevents you from using the random tool. You can still choose to join a specific or a list of specific dungeons. The debuff dont dis-allow you that...
It have on its own made it possible to enjoy all the instances the game have to offer. And especially the ones I love the most, the old azeroth ones. I have been able to farm fest my way through BRD, my alltime favourite instance. I even got the pleasure of being in a kick ass pug, which took from start to end, all bosses down. And got all the way to the emperor and got him down as well. I havent been able to do that in a regular group since back in vanilla wow. Where most groups crumbled in the torch room.
Did I say I love the LFG system... /wink
But it also brings forward some very rude people, people I dont wanna waste my time playing with.
I'm atm leveling a shaman healer (Alli side) and a warrior tank (Horde side). This is from a run on my shaman, which recently turned 60. So this was one of my first runs in Ramparts. We had a DK tank and a dps rogue.
I will try to reconstruct the chat between those two. (Unfortnaly I didnt screenshot it.)
Tank : Does anyone have some runecloth I could buy ?
Rogue : I have alot 1g pr piece
Tank : WTF YOUR FUCKING BASTARD WHAT A SICK PRICE IS THAT ?
Rogue : Economic crisis, YOU FUCKED POOR BASTARD!!!!!
Tank : GHGSFGYGFYGFYGEF and so on.....
I left after a few more lines, I just didnt have the patience or desire to play with ppl like that.
Not all just fun and good runs in LFG. But I must admit Im mostly in good runs. Like another Ramparts run with a ret specced paladin with a 2 hander as tank. I was like, tank dont you have a shield. No, but I can solo this, so we will be fine....
I was a bit sceptic when he made the first couple of pulls, but it was actually one of the smoothes runs I have been on. May needed a bit more healing, but his and the grp's dps more than made up for it.
What's your view on the LFG system ?
Btw a small hint. If you play as healer or tank, dont be to afraid to skip a grp if they are lame people. You may get the debuff, but that only prevents you from using the random tool. You can still choose to join a specific or a list of specific dungeons. The debuff dont dis-allow you that...
December 23, 2009
The year 09 in wow
I have no idea if any visit this blog anymore. Well, I dont blame you, I have not been writing here since a very little post, 28. October.
But its close to christmas, time of miracles. So here is a post more... :)
Its close to the end of the year, and as many of the regular blog readers know already there is a meme out there. Dealing with the year and how its been. I have tagged myself, as its get around the different topics to take up, when a year is ending.
1. What did you do in the World of Warcraft in 2009 that you’d never done before?
I have for the first time, been on the edge of the content. I have downed close to every single boss in the game, before the next tier have been released. Which I must admit have been awesome. Ofc it has something to do with blizzards way of making the content, a bit easyer than before. Only thing I have yet to see drop down is Algalon. Rest have been takend down before a new instance have been released. I hope that I can continue like that in ICC and Cataclysm.
2. What was your favorite new place that you visited?
ICC is looking very promising and I predict that it will be my favorite place in the whole expansion. But as it is not out yet, all of it. I will place it on a current 2nd place.
My favorite place have to be Ulduar. The instance reminds me of instances like Black Tempel. Big places lots of bosses, great looks and very different bosses. I love it, and still like to come back and clear it. And Yogg, that is so far the best encounter in this expansion, if you ask me. I like the chaos, all the stuff happening and best of it all, when you enter the portals. One word, amazing.
3. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Raid content in a bit more streamlined manner. I still think that ToC was nothing than a filler raid instance. Trying to fill a cap, which was way to big. More in a more timelined manner, thats about it. I really like the quests, the zones, the raid instances (minus TOC) and what else the expansion have had to offer.
4. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
There have been many heights in this expansion for me, but there is one that stands out. Togheter with my guild Epiphany, when we took down Sath3D 10 man. (Pre 3.1 ofc.) We used 3-4 nights of pure wiping before we had perfected our strategy, and it finally went down. I even get goose-spoons just typing this. That was my Ragnaros moment of WOTLK. Tnx blizzard and my fellow players that took it down with me. That was a true team effort.
5. What was your biggest failure?
My biggest failure is actually very recently. A few weeks back I decided to follow alot of the ppl I have played with since end of Vanilla wow to a new server. Burning Blade.
I blindly followed em, before seeing how the server was. What a mistake. The server is pverpopulated with Cz/Sk players. As I like to pug quiet a few raids during a reset, I rely a bit on the ppl on the server. Problem is with this server that these cz/sk ppl, make cz/sk only raids. And thats about it, for pug raids on the server. Pretty sucky to say it the least.
On top of that alot of the ppl, I moved to play with, have not be online much or at all.
So im left with my main on a server I dont wanna be on, and left a good guild behind in the process.
6. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I must admit I have been really excited about my main class, Paladin. It have been an amazing expansion for the class. We are a very solid dps class now, and we are one of the best tanks as well. (Thats my 2 speccs.) And it seems that holy paladins are doing very well as well. So all in all and very good expansion for us. And as I love the class very much and have done that since I started playing 5 years ago, that has been a blast for me.
Recently the LFG system, have got me up in the sky. I must say I think it work great, it work great for me when I tank. And work also amazing for my alts, dps'ers mostly to gear up in. I have done nummerous runs so far, and have had 1-3 bad runs. And I think im on the other side of 50+ runs about now. So damn good work there blizzard.
7. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Server transfer, even though I have only done it once, that was 1 to many.... :)
8. What was your favorite WoW blog or podcast?
I follow loads of blogs, but I have 2 which have a very special place in my heart. The one should not be a surprise to ppl who have read this blog before. Its ofc Jong's Ret paladin blog. And the other is a blog which never have bad content, a protection paladin, Mister Rhidach.
I dont listen to podcast's, but I have actually been following a videocast on youtube since it came out. And thats the one made by Lore from tankspot.com, he is a bit weird but I like what he have to say nevertheless.
9. Tell us a valuable WoW lesson you learned in 2009.
"The grass is not greener on the other side", value what you have. Even though it may look greener on the other side, dont count on it. Have some kind of information to make your decision about.
And remember World Of Warcraft is a GAME, a game should be entertaining and fun. And you should have fun playing it, its not a job. But a game. Remember that.
But its close to christmas, time of miracles. So here is a post more... :)
Its close to the end of the year, and as many of the regular blog readers know already there is a meme out there. Dealing with the year and how its been. I have tagged myself, as its get around the different topics to take up, when a year is ending.
1. What did you do in the World of Warcraft in 2009 that you’d never done before?
I have for the first time, been on the edge of the content. I have downed close to every single boss in the game, before the next tier have been released. Which I must admit have been awesome. Ofc it has something to do with blizzards way of making the content, a bit easyer than before. Only thing I have yet to see drop down is Algalon. Rest have been takend down before a new instance have been released. I hope that I can continue like that in ICC and Cataclysm.
2. What was your favorite new place that you visited?
ICC is looking very promising and I predict that it will be my favorite place in the whole expansion. But as it is not out yet, all of it. I will place it on a current 2nd place.
My favorite place have to be Ulduar. The instance reminds me of instances like Black Tempel. Big places lots of bosses, great looks and very different bosses. I love it, and still like to come back and clear it. And Yogg, that is so far the best encounter in this expansion, if you ask me. I like the chaos, all the stuff happening and best of it all, when you enter the portals. One word, amazing.
3. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Raid content in a bit more streamlined manner. I still think that ToC was nothing than a filler raid instance. Trying to fill a cap, which was way to big. More in a more timelined manner, thats about it. I really like the quests, the zones, the raid instances (minus TOC) and what else the expansion have had to offer.
4. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
There have been many heights in this expansion for me, but there is one that stands out. Togheter with my guild Epiphany, when we took down Sath3D 10 man. (Pre 3.1 ofc.) We used 3-4 nights of pure wiping before we had perfected our strategy, and it finally went down. I even get goose-spoons just typing this. That was my Ragnaros moment of WOTLK. Tnx blizzard and my fellow players that took it down with me. That was a true team effort.
5. What was your biggest failure?
My biggest failure is actually very recently. A few weeks back I decided to follow alot of the ppl I have played with since end of Vanilla wow to a new server. Burning Blade.
I blindly followed em, before seeing how the server was. What a mistake. The server is pverpopulated with Cz/Sk players. As I like to pug quiet a few raids during a reset, I rely a bit on the ppl on the server. Problem is with this server that these cz/sk ppl, make cz/sk only raids. And thats about it, for pug raids on the server. Pretty sucky to say it the least.
On top of that alot of the ppl, I moved to play with, have not be online much or at all.
So im left with my main on a server I dont wanna be on, and left a good guild behind in the process.
6. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I must admit I have been really excited about my main class, Paladin. It have been an amazing expansion for the class. We are a very solid dps class now, and we are one of the best tanks as well. (Thats my 2 speccs.) And it seems that holy paladins are doing very well as well. So all in all and very good expansion for us. And as I love the class very much and have done that since I started playing 5 years ago, that has been a blast for me.
Recently the LFG system, have got me up in the sky. I must say I think it work great, it work great for me when I tank. And work also amazing for my alts, dps'ers mostly to gear up in. I have done nummerous runs so far, and have had 1-3 bad runs. And I think im on the other side of 50+ runs about now. So damn good work there blizzard.
7. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Server transfer, even though I have only done it once, that was 1 to many.... :)
8. What was your favorite WoW blog or podcast?
I follow loads of blogs, but I have 2 which have a very special place in my heart. The one should not be a surprise to ppl who have read this blog before. Its ofc Jong's Ret paladin blog. And the other is a blog which never have bad content, a protection paladin, Mister Rhidach.
I dont listen to podcast's, but I have actually been following a videocast on youtube since it came out. And thats the one made by Lore from tankspot.com, he is a bit weird but I like what he have to say nevertheless.
9. Tell us a valuable WoW lesson you learned in 2009.
"The grass is not greener on the other side", value what you have. Even though it may look greener on the other side, dont count on it. Have some kind of information to make your decision about.
And remember World Of Warcraft is a GAME, a game should be entertaining and fun. And you should have fun playing it, its not a job. But a game. Remember that.
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