Where's a mashing F5 smiley when you need it?

Also 12:00 EDT!

I have no idea what you're talking about Appleseed. Silence or I'll punt your gnome.

12:01 EDT.

Edit- EST LAWL @ WODIN

I thought I heard that it was being tested.

No, it was definitely cancelled. Blizzard doesn't want to make too big a deal out of it obviously, but it's like Warcraft Adventures -- just much further along in the production cycle.

It was by all accounts pretty close to done. It just wasn't groundbreaking as a game.

At this point Blizzard loses less by eating all the production and marketing costs than they would by releasing a title that isn't certified AAA.

And the offical forums is down. Who would have thought ?

Edit : and http://wowvault.ign.com/ is down also.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ghost turned up as a novel and had Nova as a major hero in Starcraft II. Gee, where have I heard that one before...

That still leaves a question though. What in the crap was being tested? Talk to us, Blizzard!

What was I waiting for here?

Mage talents. I'm still very curious to see how they managed to make Elemental spec "viable."

This delay wouldn't have happened on Gamespot. :ph34r:

Where is it ffffff

We'll see when they get the shaman talent exclusive eh?

Its bad, I'm at work and in between sales calls im refreshing this site for links as well as trying to get back onto the WoW mage forums.

This thread is not going to turn into pages of people spamming "OMG WHERE IS IT" "F5F5F5F5F5F5" and the like. That is all.

Ghost wasnt cancelled. It was put on hold to be released for the next gen consoles(PS3,Revo).

"OMG WHERE IS IT" "F5F5F5F5F5F5"

oh wait....

Yet another reason I absolutely despise marketting types. "Exclusive" previews, especially when their servers can't handle the load.

I wouldn't hold my breath. Short of making PoM/Clearcasting innate, I don't really see it being any more viable than it is now. It might be made to be MORE attractive than it was, but a troglodyte with a nice rack is still a troglodyte.

Blinga and I agreed that the best thing to do is make arcane power a skill and make polymorph the new 31 point arcane talent.

Arcane Power needs to be massively nerfed or removed from the game, not made into a skill :angry:

Any ability that lets you do 5000+ damage with a single spell, will always be massively stupid and unbalancing. As Mage gear/spells gets better, the Arcane Power "problem" will only get worse. One way around it would be for AP to increase spelldamage by a fixed amount, rather than a %-increase.

Hmm. Making IAE innate already makes the 30frost/21fire spec that abuses ICoC and Blastwave much better - one of the biggest problems I had with the spec when I tried it on Zappy was closing out fights - you'd burn all your instants, and be waiting like 3s for one to cool down so you could do that last little bit of damage, and in that time they'd do Action X that won them the fight. In retrospect Improved Fireblast probably would have been really really good in that build.

Also, any bets as to where the mage version of Spiritual Guidance ends up?

I'll vote for mini-guidances for frost, fire and arcane in each tree.

maybe a 3 point 25% of int for each of the schools respectively.

They aren't going to do that. They just gave Priests a targeted %-increase spell in the last patch, so, unfortunately, they don't seem like they want to get away from the % modifier paradigm.