◊ Eej

Divine Assault: Nibelung Valesti!

Do you have any idea how many times I've heard that playing Valkyrie Profile?

Anyways, short post since I have midterms to study for. Like, an unending stream of midterms one a week.

Patch 2.4 information to be released

The BHO declares Mojopox Eradication Campaign complete

In a stunning display of Troll discrimination, Blizzard has removed the ability for our people to gift [Mojo] to others via intimate contact. Apparently all the Trolls outside Zul'aman have been sterilized of their [Mojo] and it is questionable as to whether any [Mojo] obtained in this manner will be kept or similarly removed from the population.

Update: Blizzard has decided to give a stay of execution on everyone's ill(?)-gotten [Mojo]. Long live the tusks and feet!

Blizzard finally decides to support WoW Tournaments

It's kind of late since there have been some leagues trying to push WoW as a competitive game. However, the leagues have needed their own private servers for WoW for a long time now. Those of us who followed WSVG can remember quite a few debacles regarding talent specs, blacksmithing specialization, hunter pets and such.

SK Gaming

Random blue-coloured tidbits

I think people will be excited for this because this way, Threatmeter makers will finally be able to make mods that can actually measure threat. Also, Outfitter/Itemrack mods might take up less memory!

Oh, maybe someone will actually use the default versions of the mods too. Ok, maybe not.

Mmm yes, Mal'ganis, who was clearly just a pawn, will be much more powerful than any other Dreadlord to date.

Yeah so we all called it, 2.5 Horsemen. We'll have Mograine, Blaumeux (or BLAMMO, in terms of what happens when a mouthbreather isn't paying attention) and Korth'azz (he's half a man already).

Not to beat a dead horse, but yes, Vanish was broken again.

You'd think that this issue would have been fixed years ago when we had the Black Grasp doing the exact same thing.

This is really just a sign that you shouldn't be playing this terrible battleground.

I don't see why this needs to be reiterated again. The formula was described way back when they changed the way haste is displayed and it's not like theorycrafters everywhere haven't had to explain haste thousands of times in the WoW forums already.

Random Arena Screenshot

Some people are just really stubborn.

Do you like Concept Art? I know I do!

Lifted straight off from the MMO-Champion front page (like most of this post), here's some WOTLK artwork from Peter Lee. You can find his personal concept art gallery here and his Sons of the Storm gallery here.


Everyone should own a DS by now

Get Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin. It's Advanced Wars with those silly COs toned down in power so there's less game breaking passive abilities. Also, it has WiFi support for online play with microphone support so you can yell at people who forgot they were playing a game and were just reading Wikipedia/watching TV while waiting on your turn. Also, new units, like the sexy, sexy (crop) Duster, Anti-Tank and Bike.

It also has hot hot Lin and Tasha as well as pimp Forsythe and, well, I guess Isabella and Tabitha if you're into that. If you can't tell, I like the art a lot.

Obligatory Anime Blurb (。_゜)〃

Ash like snow... ash like snow...

EIGS is still going strong, despite these allegations that some people are throwing at it.

Also check out Shigofumi. Just, check it out.

Amusing Armoury Link of the Week

Here.

A very defensively-minded Mage, as you can see. Armoury almost killed this post because it caused my Mozilla to hang for like 10 minutes.

 

mirarant

Valkyrie Profile 2 is a great game. By the way shouldn't it read "It shall be engraved upon your very soul"

And err something about WoW.. here's hoping Sunwell actually has more than one piece of feral tanking gear (excluding tier pieces).

No, you may not roll a spiked chain wielding half-ogre.

 

Emeraude

Dunno about Valkyrie Profile 2, but in 1 Lenneth definitely said:

It shall be engraved upon your soul!
YouTube - Valkyrie Profile finishing move: Valkyrie (Nibelung Valesti)

It was Dark Valkyrie(minor spoiler) Hrist that said:

"It shall be engraved upon your very soul!"

One of my favorite RPGs of all time :X

Here's the Valkyrie Profile 2 version, with bonus! Just because!

YouTube - VP2- Lenneth and Hrist -Nibelung Valesti

 

ildon

Just posted today: WoW BlueTracker: 58 minute Warsong Gulches are NOT fun.

In reference to hour+ long WSG games not being fun:

So in about 2 more years solo queuing for WSG might actually be bearable!

 

Fendryl

Is it just me, or does this concern anyone else about how far off the expansion really is? Far off I had expected, but not even having started on some things that they will most definitely make feature bullet points makes it seem like it's really far off.

 

Pachwa

Yea, but it's not like the coding isn't there or something. I'd assume this will be one of their classic mod lifting techniques, like when they added in all the extra raid features and such. Not that it's a bad thing to add on to the base UI or anything though.

If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh.

 

Dollar

I wonder how extensive the built in threat meter will be. I am kind of expecting a red light green light type of thing.

"Oh he's a sad little man? He's thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?"

 

• tsigo

I believe they said that's all it would be back during Blizzcon when it was first discussed.

 

Nezralix

To my knowledge, all they claimed was that they weren't going to be providing explicit threat numbers (it kind of goes against their UI principles). I wouldn't rule out something similar to the Omen bars, but without the numbers embedded in them.

 

glowacks

No comments about the 8 hour arena match yet? Given that there was nearly 2 million damage dealt by each side, it looks like they actually did fight that long. The zero killing blows on the other side has me rather confused - even if the rogue was cycloned most of the time, I can't see the match lasting 8 hours like that 2v1 and otherwise I can't see the rogue doing that little damage.

But I don't know much about Arenas, so :/

 

Elerion

EDIT: nm

 

• tsigo

It looked like the Warrior and Rogue both died early on and the Druid and Priest had a stubborn-off.

I would have quit after about 45 minutes, anything after that isn't worth 15 points.

 

◊ zeidrich

I am not particularly concerned about that.

The message about that was from the UI Developer. Once the game is able to present information about threat to the client, it would be incredibly trivial to create a threat meter. Unlike current threatmeters that require synchronization with other players and approximation of threat as well as taking talents into account, aggro drops etc. This will just be a matter of taking a bar and filling it up X% based on threat numbers given by the game. Or else coloring something a shade between green and red based on the same criteria.

 

Mythixl

I imagine after killing the warrior, the rogue disconnected or perhaps even left the game thinking it was over. Either bad luck or a foolish mistake.

 

Tipme

It's those people's fault why 2s queues are so long!

 

Celandro

Healer vs. healer happens a lot when a rogue has cheat death go off and then manages to kill the warrior, or even from simultaneous killing blows.

That said, the screenshot has some very interesting features which suggest it may be a fake. Why would the healer recast buffs on themselves including shadow protection if fighting a druid who can not dispell? Why put up inner fire if you arent getting hit?

The priest had to heal themselves for an average of only 450 a minute, why not just rez the warrior if the druid is applying that little pressure?

Id suggest the easiest solution is that the screenshot is a fake and was done with a relatively simple addon that modified the end of arena message. If not that, then the fight was some sort of simulation with programmable keyboards. If not that, some people are really retarded.

 

Dollar

All you have to do is cast rank one moonfire or cyclone to keep him from rezzing for the next 10 seconds or whatever it takes to get out of combat. Assuming they do start the rez, they could just get interrupted with .5 seconds left. Doesn't seem to be that outrageous to me.

"Oh he's a sad little man? He's thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?"

 

Prinsesa

I'm surprised it took them 3+ years and a second expansion to even plan for an official threat meter. When you're dealing with fights that require precise control of threat, it just strikes me as natural to help the players achieve that control without having to resort to 3rd-party addons.

Something like this should've been put in as early as BWL for Vael, or Naxx for Patchwerk at the latest. When you're constantly introducing fights that ask you to manage threat well, such as Gruul or Void Reaver, why is the community still relying on estimates and guesswork. Very accurate estimates and guesswork with a solid basis, to be sure, but guesswork nonetheless.

Keep in mind that Arthas needed the Frostmourne, one of the most powerful weapons in the game, before he was able to slay Mal'ganis. If the Lich King wanted Mal'ganis to die, it's not hard to believe he could make it easy for Arthas. The Lich King giveth, and the Lich King taketh away.

It takes 10 seconds of no combat activity (no damage taken, no healing/buffs cast on a target in combat) to drop out of combat in PvP.
It takes 10 whole seconds to cast Resurrection (5 if you luck out with MSD)
It takes just one tick of damage (rank 1 Moonfire) to put you back into combat, canceling your Resurrection cast and starting the 10 second in-combat timer again.

It wouldn't be particularly difficult to keep a rezzer in combat.

"We do want Sanctuary to be the tanking seal"

- Ghostcrawler

 

Dollar

Not to mention that he would have to start the rez immediately after leaving combat, and the other person would have to have not left to go to bed/school/work/a myriad of other things.

"Oh he's a sad little man? He's thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?"

 

Emeraude

Theoretically you could hold 2vs2 arena hostage by organizing 400 people to just go idle in each arena from just one realm if they match up against each other. But who would ever do that?

 

Saraya

I read about that arena shot somewhere. Basically what happened was the rogue got DCed shortly after the match started(hence the low damage), but the priest managed to finish off the warrior. So the rogue couldn't be ressed since getting disconnected boots you from the arena, and the rest is history. Stupid, stupid history. Eight hours...

 

Seneku

So why didn't the druid just combat res the warrior instead of playing like a moron for 8 hours+? :/

 

• Vandemar

Probably because combat res has a 20 minute cooldown, and anything over 15's not allowed in arenas.

 

Eekpaladin

This is the arena that never ends - WOW Insider

That was a 10-hour 2v2 arena game back in July that someone in my guild did. 8 hours is still incredibly long, though, and I imagine that the druid in your screenshot just eventually gave up and let the priest kill him.

Personally, I'm more perplexed by his choice of PvP gear (S1 staff, S2 wand, and 5-minute PvP trinket) and spec than his retarded decision to gem Enduring Talasites.

As a side note, Blizzard really needs to buckle down on Armory. Streamline the coding or turn it into a porn site, but at least make the loading times more reasonable so that Firefox doesn't keep freezing for long periods of time if I try accessing a profile after 4PM. -,-

 

SeanDamnit

for those that are interested, here's more info on the 8 hour arena match found on the priest's realm forum:

WoW Forums -> @Lorien