I think this was me. It was on live--there was a bug once where I logged after some patch and my character was a wasp.

That's one hell of a bug.

Perhaps, but either at Blizzcon or at WWI (can't remember which) there was also mention of Legacy items, stuff that would drop and be bound to your account, not your character...weapons and the like. They could then be passed on to other alts on the same account once the initial recipient was through with them.

To be honest, I'd thought they'd forgotten about that, since there's been no mention about them since.

Speaking of things that have been forgotten, has there been any word of the new dances since it was mentioned in Blizzcon 07? Hardly the most important part of the expansion, but still.

I really hope badges becomes BoA.

On a similar tack, has there been anything more said about this idea of the in-game wardrobe-type addon? Or ability to equip several different sets of equipment on paper dolls and swap them to save bag space?

Edit: Way off topic now but, since the argument didn't really resolve...

This is really easy to answer. Simply add talents that buff damage but break PVP. I.e. you gain a 10% chance to crit and to be crit. It won't affect raiding at all because rogues should never be the target, but there's no way that a PVP rogue could take it.

That's a very inelegant and unrealistic solution. It doesn't just break PVP, it affects many aspects of PVE as well. Just because rogues don't often take direct hits during raid boss fights, doesn't mean it wouldn't suck ass to have that talent at times.

That would screw up anyone that wants to PvP without changing specs, which happens a lot with the "10 games a week" part of the population (or that's how I envision Blizzard thinking). If the dual spec feature actually appears at some point, then that'd solve the problem but we've yet to actually see anything related to it.

Uhm, they already did that once with fire mages and "Playing with Fire" (Increases spelldamage done AND taken by 1/2/3%), so I don't see how it could be called unrealistic. They apparently don't hate this talent since it isn't yet being changed for wotlk. Despite how sad and pathetic a talent it is, it's still mandatory in any fire pve spec.

I'll give you that, but increasing fire damage done to a mage doesn't really compare to increasing incoming critical chance against a rogue. Fire damage isn't all that common. With a rogue's natural evasion rate, that talent would make most landed hits be crits. Anyway its irrelevant, I was just responding to the guy above saying its such an easy fix, when his "fix" doesn't make sense.

Did you even read the talent or my post? It increases all spelldamage taken. Fire, frost, nature, holy, whatever.

You said it was "unrealistic", which it obviously isn't since they've already done it.

This part of your post is already in use - glyph slots are progressively unlocked as you level. Death Knights start with four of the six glyph slots unlocked, once you reach level 60 you unlock the last two slots. At least one of the level 60 slots is Major, I don't remember if the other was Major or Minor.

What slots are unlocked at low levels? I assume that the two L15 and L30 slots are Minor glyphs?

Level 15 - Major and Minor
Level 30 - Minor
Level 45 - Major
Level 60 - Major and Minor

There are reports that it's level 45 to unlock the 3rd glyph.

More inscription information here - Glyphs - El's Inscription - WoW Inscribing Guide It's a pretty good guide that covers the current state of beta inscription.

For those that are arguing that Blizz won't do a trade off like this, besides the mage example, my made up example is really just extrapolating from what fury warriors already deal with in berserker stance. Its taken to an extreme to make a point, but I'm not worried about the specifics of whether it is 2% 5% or 10% or even whether is it is crit or straight damage or a trade off with any other DPS stat. The point is simply that the mechanics for the game for DPS in PVE is to max outgoing damage and to never be the target of enemy mobs, whereas PVP is always a trade of between beating on and getting beat on. So its pretty easy to make a talent that points out the competing goals there.

As far as the 10 games a week, its the same trade off that you make now. If all you're going for is 200 points on your 1400 rated team it's still not going to matter. If you want to PVP for real than you are probably repeccing each week anyway, and if you really just want to find some mid ground I'm sure that will be an option in some form anyway. All I'm really saying is that it is certainly possible for them to engineer the classes so PVP and PVE can be looked at separately. I'm sure there might be more elegant solutions, but I'll take an inelegant one over no solution and leaving it broken.

I thought KJ's built in "boss timer" was pretty good. Every event he had was synced with a corresponding yell, both in text and in game sound.

A lot of emotes trigger raid warnings without any addons... this goes back all the way to Mechanar and the Gate-Watcher sub-boss that roots and does aoe melee damage. I believe I've gotten some random raid warnings just flying around in the outside world as well.

Even so, timers for countdowns are invaluable so bossmods (as they are, who knows what Blizzard may add in future) will always have a place.

What can I say? I love that raid warnings appear without any addons. It makes explaining boss mechanics that don't exist, for the love of pranks, in Beta so much easier to accomplish. Especially since no one knows what the mobs do yet.

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I didn't see this here, there seems to be a native threatmeter UI : In Game Threat Meter Default UI

That would be a nice change to allow alts to be geared up quickly.

Well.. it would allow alts to be geared quickly, but I would probably be able to gear my main even more quickly.

Imagine Naxx dropping its own tier of badges, and the next instance as well. I bet I will be fighting in the 2nd or 3rd instance, all the while Naxx badge loot, or the badges themselves, are still relevant for my main.

I run 3 alts, and if I would just do the easier parts of Naxx in 10-man every week, and ship off the badges to my main, it would lead to a high speed of gearing, which I think Blizzard doesnt want to happen. While Id love to be able to do this, it would shorten the lifespan of any gearchecks considerably.

Bind on Account sounds interesting. It would be really cool if they removed the BoP feature and made it BoA instead (leaving class/rep/tradeskill requirements, etc, in place). What good argument could they have against doing this, other than technicality? It'd be too easy to gear up alts? If I've grown tired with my warlock, I can just swap all his gear over to my shadow priest and ta-dah - I'm raid worthy without making my guild suffer any extra burden with gearing up. Don't they claim they want to make the game easier to play? This'd go miles on improving that.

If somebody needs help from my warrior to tank InstanceX, but I really want something from there on my paladin, I can just go there tanking, take the - previously agreed upon - paladin item, and simply mail it over. It'd make it highly unlikely that any loot would rot, which it does all the time now. I can't remember last time something dropped outside of BT that didn't inspire a "any enchanters?" response.

That sounds like far too radical a change, though, and I'm sure I'm being short-sighted about this. Maybe people would start rolling on items that their alts could use while in 5 mans, or other such things. Still, one can dream.

How is alts gearing up fast a bad thing? It makes people enjoy the game - and they gear up fast anyway thanks to the whole "welfare"-thing. My 61 shaman will have a BT-level main hand when he hits 70 thanks to AV. Any besides that, I can just go to ZA/SSC/BT with some of my friends and presto - insta-greaup. Making stuff BoA would just make this less troublesome and frustrating than it is now, and remove all those irritating "shit, my other char could REALLY have used that 11% drop that nobody else in the raid needs and it'll likely never see due to the low droprate".