Yeah the forum drama was stupid, but funny. My gaming friend Garfie got my account banned for 24 hours for trolling >< His original account was banned months ago.

1/15/2006 12:22:11 AM

man i tell you what, im scared for priests getting a huge buff. In my opinion the well geared ones in PVP who know what they are doing are tough..unless of course they are getting focus fired, which SHOULD happen and they shouldnt change the game based on the fact that priests die 2 seconds into PVP because they get focus fired. thats just a group playing smart.

priests are harder for me to kill than mages, which is stupid IMO

1/15/2006 2:52:10 AM

How is that stupid?

Warlocks are supposed to kill mages.

1/15/2006 4:15:15 AM

^^ a priest has "survivability" in the sense that they can continuously cast healing on themselves for about 2 minutes, but that's a joke. all a warrior has to do is sit there and bash on them (since they have no mana to run out of) or pummel them for the kill.

1/15/2006 6:05:23 AM

^^ holy moley

1/15/2006 11:50:38 AM

from what i've read, most of the "buffs" and changes for priests will be focused on the holy and discipline trees. the devs are fairly happy with how shadow priests play and are wanting to focus on giving holy/disc priests more pvp options so priests don't have to so clearly choose between pvp or pve effectiveness.

1/15/2006 4:07:39 PM

Good priests are really hard to take down. One on one you have to pretty much burn through 20,000HP due to all the healing. All I can say is that mana drain is my friend.

1/15/2006 5:26:48 PM

^^^^ pummel is on a cooldown that is very annoying. besides an initial pummel it is very hard to get one of, many times its a waste of rage :-/

I gotta use it at the perfect time to stop a cast, and then right away they can cast something else. It really just prolongs. half the time it doesnt even work. I have a huge problem with mages. Not sure if its server communication or what. But i know the sound and what it looks ilke for them casting, and ill pop pummel and either

A) it doesnt work because they cast anyways
B) it did work but they just casted something else right away anyways

Now granite, an epic geared warrior (warlord/HWL/BWL) with a weapon better than TUF could smash a priest with well timed (luck) crits. But the fact is that almost all the priests that do PVP (at least on my server) are VERY well geared with HUGE mana pools that can outlast me (a middle of the road geared (blues) warrior). Most priests that arent very well geared or very good PVPers dont seem to bother.

So i guess technically its just the huge difference in gear but unless i get some huge crits the good priests in PVP on our server will burn me down even knowing my class well against priests(ie pummels, shield bashes, mortal strikes, you know the deal)

1/15/2006 5:43:04 PM

can someone tell me how you get to gnomeregan if you are horde?

1/15/2006 10:46:09 PM

from Wetlands, there's a path in the SE into Loch Modan, then you can take a pass in the SW into Dun Morogh, then Gnomeragen is in the NW corner of Dun Morogh.

or it may be easier for you to start in Badlands, in which case you can go north from there into Loch Modan, then the pass into Dun Morogh.

1/15/2006 11:37:19 PM

also, the goblin teleporter in booty bay goes there. I'm not sure if you need to do a quest or anything to use it though.

1/16/2006 2:08:34 AM

I respecced from disc/holy build (31/20/0) to shadow/disc (18/0/33).

Ran ZG the entire time in shadowform, all the way thru hakkar.

Ended up being 4th in damage, and 5th in healing.

Anathema + vampiric embrace for the win.

1/16/2006 4:01:25 AM

5th in healing for ZG isn't really "ftw"

But GG on 4th in damage.

1/16/2006 10:46:53 AM

lol

[Edited on January 16, 2006 at 11:04 AM. Reason : except for some bosses I can pretty close to solo heal zg]

1/16/2006 11:02:54 AM

I was #1 in damage when i ran a friend through deadmines with my lvl 40.

he is a priest.

1/16/2006 11:10:03 AM

I can't help it my wand only contributes 20 dps but in other news...DING 60

[Edited on January 16, 2006 at 2:07 PM. Reason : ...]

1/16/2006 2:07:05 PM

Is it possible (without having any crazy addons) to move the on-screen position of the status reminder text that says things like "You Are Silenced?"

1/16/2006 2:08:40 PM

^^ nice! now get to cooking my steaks and making my thick leather

1/16/2006 3:44:14 PM

Quote :

"5th in healing for ZG isn't really "ftw""

As a Shadow Priest all he can do is passively heal. All you heal for is 20% of your damage, so to heal for 300+ you'd have to crit a Mind Blast for 1500.

1/16/2006 4:08:26 PM

Quote :

"also, the goblin teleporter in booty bay goes there. I'm not sure if you need to do a quest or anything to use it though."

yea I discovered that and everyone in there was like wtf this is our instance

plus it was fun causing a huge scare around the gnome starting area

1/16/2006 4:46:35 PM

^^Yeah, and I'm still trying to figure out how exactly + healing effects vampiric embrace, and how +magic affects vampiric embrace...

like... if I had +50 to "healing and magic effects" that would mean my 1000pt mind blast would be 1050pt (or something) right?

now, would the +50 ALSO be added onto the 20% healing that the vampiric embrace does (since the dmg from mind blast is different from the healing of vampiric embrace)? or would it simply take 20% of the +50 that was added to the damage of mind blast...

1/16/2006 6:25:39 PM

I'm holy/disc, so I don't know the figures for +dmg from magic, but I know that +healing works based on how long the casting time is for a particular heal. Any heal over 3.5 seconds gets 100% of the bonus from your +healing gear, so for example, Greater Heal gets 100% of the bonus, and Flash Heal, with a 1.5 sec casting time, gets 1.5/3.5 = 43% of the bonus. I assume the same rule holds for +dmg gear, but I don't know what the casting time cutoff is to get 100% of the effect. For DoT's, I know Renew gets 100% of the bonus as well, so the cutoff for effects over time must be at most 15 seconds... if I remember right, it might be 12 seconds.

either way, the casting time on Mind Blast is pretty short compared to a lot of the direct damage spells that locks and mages have, so my hunch is that you don't get the full effect. The percentage is based on the base cast time though, not the cast time with talents, so it shouldn't be too bad. I'm not sure about how Vamp Embrace is affected in that whole scheme of things, though.

[Edited on January 16, 2006 at 6:43 PM. Reason : ]

1/16/2006 6:40:23 PM

i got crit for 3k on a pyroblast today

1/16/2006 6:49:33 PM

isnt there a mod that keeps track of your bonus honor in bgs and estimated honor from HK's to show you a real time score of your approx honor for the day so far??

1/16/2006 7:30:40 PM

yeah it's called hitting the "H" button.

1/16/2006 8:51:15 PM

Quote :

"The percentage is based on the base cast time though, not the cast time with talents, so it shouldn't be too bad."

Sorry, I haven't been shadow since I was lvl'ing to 60... forgot that the Mind Blast talent reduces the cooldown time, not cast time. Anyway, the comment is still true (talents reducing cast times for Greater Heal, etc), but just irrelevant to Mind Blast.

1/16/2006 9:17:56 PM

^^ i wish

1/16/2006 9:25:59 PM

http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=1194

already killed mod.

tracks honor for the day/week

1/16/2006 9:32:28 PM

alright thanks ill try that. i hate having to wait till 5am to see how much honor i got for the day

1/16/2006 11:44:49 PM

Quote :

"here's hoping i get my Staff of the Shadow Flame tommorow night."

took a few more days due to my guild sucking, but , wish granted: http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?613887

1/17/2006 12:35:49 AM

38 onyxia kills and finally a deathbringer drops


and i was out for the weekend.


bleh.

1/17/2006 1:05:07 AM

I'm gonna try to tame king bangladash

1/17/2006 1:19:13 AM

Quote :

"isnt there a mod that keeps track of your bonus honor in bgs and estimated honor from HK's to show you a real time score of your approx honor for the day so far??"

use Asmo honor role. Titan bar addon. not sure if there is a standalone.

1/17/2006 2:54:39 AM

Just got Destiny (http://www.thottbot.com/?i=9374) very cheep for my warrior alt. Should i sell this thing and turn some profit or just go ahead and use it? I guess im aiming for a damage build for a while.

1/17/2006 4:22:29 AM

what level are you? because if you are anywhere near 51 (or for sure at or above it) sell it and get Ice Barbed Spear from AV.

[Edited on January 17, 2006 at 9:43 AM. Reason : ]

1/17/2006 9:31:31 AM

finally got off of my ass and got my hide of the wild made last weekend.

on another note, been having fun wiping on vael in bwl. but our warr's seem to be getting the hang of it, and the shammy's seem to be getting used to actually healing. we are however only a week into tries w/vael and have been consistently getting him down to 14-15% (granted he starts at 30%).

we'll be running razorgore tonight, and hopefully have some really good vael tries.

1/17/2006 10:18:19 AM

Everyone forgot how to play Warcraft and we wiped on the tiger boss 3 times before calling quits in ZG.

How the fuck people suck at this game is beyond me.

1/17/2006 10:58:39 AM

ha we wiped 3 times on bloodlord last night wtf.

1/17/2006 4:22:49 PM

I killed a 60 druid that jumped me

I'm a 49 warlock

1/17/2006 5:13:22 PM

cough nurf

1/17/2006 5:31:43 PM

^^^^^^ well he is close to 50 and i was thinking Destiny with a crusader could be fun as hell. Im not a copper pincher so i dont care about prices. I know the ice barbed spear would make for greater crits but Im just wondering if Destiny could be a decent wep.

1/17/2006 6:42:43 PM

Medivh is at about 99.1%... too bad there's apparently a 5 day wait to open the gate while the armies march to Silithus

1/17/2006 7:16:05 PM

its decent. but IBS is better just overall PLUS weapon crit. and free. id sell that thing for money.

1/17/2006 7:22:57 PM

Vael is the most fun fight in the game.

1/17/2006 7:47:53 PM

is blizzard dead right now? I'm trying to cancel my account before midnight... but their website seems to be dead. asshats.

1/17/2006 8:07:53 PM

852 in the Medivh queue


GET THE FUCK OFF OUR SERVER!

1/17/2006 9:15:57 PM

LOL

1/17/2006 9:24:53 PM

My guild's Sunday night run of ZG:



[Edited on January 17, 2006 at 9:38 PM. Reason : ]

1/17/2006 9:37:09 PM

wtf

1/17/2006 9:39:31 PM

uhh

1/17/2006 11:20:02 PM