Quote :

"Raids & Dungeons * (3) New daily quests are available in the Lower City for 5 man heroic and non-heroic dungeons (Once at a time, a bit like battlegroundw weekends, each day you will get quests for a different dungeons). The following non-heroic dungeons are concerned : Shattered Halls, Steamvault, Shadow Labyrinth, Black Morass, Botanica, Mechanar, and Arcatraz. All dungeons will get quests in Heroic mode. If you're getting the non-heroic and the heroic quest on the same day for the same dungeon, you can complete both by running it in heroic mode once. Non heroic quests will reward you with a Ethereum Prison Key (various reputation), gold, and reputation with the Consortium. Heroic quests will give you 2 Badges of Justice, gold, and reputation with the Consortium."

Anyone know where this guy is that gives these?

[Edited on September 28, 2007 at 4:40 PM. Reason : V o]

9/28/2007 4:22:41 PM

^coming in 2.3

9/28/2007 4:36:04 PM

Alliance must be crying inside with the AFK patch, I havent lost an AV since. Racked up 6k honor in about 3 hours last night, horde will be catching up gear wise pretty quick at this rate haha

[Edited on September 29, 2007 at 10:31 AM. Reason : .]

9/29/2007 10:31:07 AM

yea man, AV is actually fun again

9/29/2007 11:03:23 AM

What patch is this? I don't see it on patch notes.

9/29/2007 11:53:06 AM

Last night our AVs kept crashing. It would kick you to the character screen and then you'd log back into Shatt. Sucked balls.

9/29/2007 3:28:06 PM

6 days, still crashing. awesome.

9/30/2007 6:26:16 PM

Quote :

"horde will be catching up gear wise pretty quick at this rate haha "

huh ?

9/30/2007 10:36:15 PM

It was basically the fact when I go into battlegrounds I tend to see many more alliance in full pvp gear compared to horde, and I assumed part of that was due to the dominance of AV for racking up honor at a faster rate. Now that horde dominates AV I would expect to start seeing my fellow players a bit better geared so they stop getting one shot and help me kill things lol

9/30/2007 11:19:41 PM

the reason you see so many scrub horde is that you're doing bg's. no one good does bg's besides lame pvp guilds of people in all arena arena gear and a token piece of kara gear or people with retardly nice epics that just wanna test on trash in blue/green. also, alliance in general has a much higher population.

10/1/2007 1:06:48 AM

two questions:

what is that addons that reports that night's raids DPS to a website?

and what is the best DKP addon these days?

10/1/2007 6:48:55 AM

Question: So I open WoW. It goes fullscreen. Opening screen comes up asking for username/pw. But the screen is frozen. No cursor in the pw field and I can move the mouse around the screen but cant click in the pw box. I say its frozen because all the stars and whatnot in the background are not moving and there is no music. I cannot alt+tab or even control alt delete out of the screen. I have to cold reboot my computer. Any idea what would cause this?

Is my WoW\Patches folder supposed to have anything in it? Mine has 3 things. Just curious.

[Edited on October 1, 2007 at 12:22 PM. Reason : .]

10/1/2007 12:21:01 PM

^^ wow web stats i think

10/1/2007 12:44:44 PM

hooray server restart for voice chat... how long till i start seeing LFM SV voice chat required, followed by good luck finding a group then

[Edited on October 1, 2007 at 4:08 PM. Reason : engrish]

10/1/2007 4:08:23 PM

the voice chat codec is pretty horrible, chances are you wouldn't understand what they were trying to say anyway.

10/1/2007 4:12:36 PM

wonder how many womens will say they don't have a mic now, lol

10/1/2007 4:13:37 PM

Quote :

"what is that addons that reports that night's raids DPS to a website?"

There isn't one. You type /combatlog in game and then type it again after the raid is over. You go into your world of warcraft program folder and go into the folder labeled Logs and look for CombatLog.txt, open it up and make sure it's only got logs for the raid (by looking for time stamps that are the wrong date).

Then go to http://wowwebstats.com/ and click on Start WWS Client. The client is pretty easy to figure out. Just load your combat log and go to actors, auto-load and then check and double check the list. Not everyone will show up and some people will be mislabeled as mobs. When you think you have it right click on generate report and make sure there are 25 people (or 10 if you are in Kara) and only then should you click Host report (you need a username and password to be able to host reports).

You can have multiple people run /combatlog and add more logs to the report for a more accurate graph but if the times don't match up perfectly it's not going to work.

10/1/2007 5:03:10 PM

why did blizzard spend time and effort on a voice chat when ventrilo (and probably others) already exist?

10/1/2007 5:09:41 PM

Because vent/teamspeak really are a prerequisite to raiding and servers cost money. It doesn't matter though because the codec they use is so shitty that no raiding guild will use it over vent.

10/1/2007 5:26:58 PM

i've only ever been able to get it to work once. soo poop on that

10/2/2007 12:06:16 PM

i like it better, no need to load an extra program, i can change settings in-game, it lowers volume when temporarily when someone talks, and it displays the name of who's talking (good for pugs & new guilds where i cant match voice to name yet) and now people can't have an excuse for not hearing what we are saying in voice chat (the usual "i dont have vent" or "i dont have a mic".)

10/2/2007 12:30:46 PM

stop playing with people who suck

10/2/2007 1:35:09 PM

So I wonder if this increased or decreased the amount of tram cybers.

10/2/2007 2:33:07 PM

yeah now i just use "I dont have voice chat enabled... and I dont plan to enable it either" Either that or sorry vent and voice chat dont work at the same time for me.

10/2/2007 4:02:48 PM

i like it for groupin with friends for dailies or for a 5 man, but the volume is way too low. i have to mute everything else and turn my speakers up to double the normal volume to hear what other people are saying.

10/2/2007 5:54:31 PM

hamstring needs to have like a 30 sec cooldown or some shit fuck warriors and their OP mace spec fucking bullshit asshole selves

10/2/2007 6:27:59 PM

qft

10/2/2007 6:45:15 PM

Deathcoil should jump targets like thunderfury imo.

10/2/2007 6:47:51 PM

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"hamstring needs to have like a 30 sec cooldown or some shit fuck warriors and their OP mace spec fucking bullshit asshole selves"

The most truth I've heard in my whole life.

10/2/2007 7:15:24 PM

"mangle does too much damage!! nerf druids!!"

and yet OP warriors are fine

10/2/2007 8:03:59 PM

Quote :

"hamstring fear and curse of exhaustion need to have like a 30 sec cooldown or some shit fuck warlocks their OP mace spec deathcoil fucking bullshit asshole selves"

10/2/2007 9:46:52 PM

^agreed.

And here come the class wars again.

I'm guessing the people mainly bitching about hamstring are huntards? And us warriors always bitch about deathcoil/fear.

10/2/2007 9:51:10 PM

warriors bitch about fear?
i mean the majority of warrs i face on my lock have lolmostaminuteoffearimmunity

10/2/2007 10:22:17 PM

no, I'm a rogue. the shit of the shit. the only class that has it worse are priests.

10/2/2007 10:25:11 PM

cloak of pro should proc UA as being dispelled.

other than that rogues are fair.

10/2/2007 10:31:40 PM

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"cloak of pro should proc UA as being dispelled."

no.

10/3/2007 12:51:38 AM

^^no, and i don't even play a rogue anymore

[Edited on October 3, 2007 at 1:17 AM. Reason : ]

10/3/2007 1:17:10 AM

anyone know what page SandSanta posted that leveling guide that you install in the Interface folder is. I did it before but had to format computer so need it again. his instructions were copied and pasted from somewhere. I'm going back thru them now looking. Just wondering if someone had a better idea.

10/3/2007 1:19:46 AM

got it.. p 301

10/3/2007 1:55:37 AM

anyone know what the new season 3 sets look like?
a different color t6, obviously, but what COLOR?
I want to see my warlock gear

10/3/2007 7:22:11 PM

quick newb question: im trying to get exalted from ironforge..is there anywhere i can turn in my silk and get rep for it? i knew of something like that in stormwind

10/3/2007 8:04:37 PM

nvm i found it on wow website

10/3/2007 8:43:51 PM

Killed Archimode yesterday (easy fight!) and went up to Shade in BT, probably going to do up to RoS today.

I'm actually kinda dissapointed on how easy the Hyjal fights are for melee. SSC/The Eye are much more involved fights from my standpoint.

10/4/2007 7:17:14 AM

10/4/2007 8:26:23 AM

eep

10/5/2007 11:42:21 AM

Quote :

"As a continuing part of our improvements, we will be implementing the following changes in the next patch. Strategy can be an important element of any battleground. We want to emphasize this in Alterac Valley more and give players additional meaning to both defending and attacking. To push the strategic element of the battleground to the next level we have changed how players maintain their reinforcements or deprive the other team of theirs. Each team will have a starting reinforcement count. Reinforcements can be lost in significant amounts if a tower is destroyed or if Captain Galvangar or Belinda Stonehearth is killed. For each team member death, an additional reinforcement will be lost. On the death of General Drek’Thar or Vanndar Stormpike, all reinforcements are lost and the team is defeated. At any point in time, if a team is reduced to zero reinforcements, the opposing team will win the battle. Defending your own teammates, towers, and key NPCs will be an important aspect of maintaining team resources and achieving victory in Alterac Valley. Warmasters can be the boon or the bane of any team. They are an important element for the defense of your general or the defeat of the opposing general. Warlords and their general will be more closely linked in the next patch. Pulling one is a guarantee the other will come as well. Each team begins with four Warmasters. Destroying a tower will eliminate the associated Warmaster. Unlike the current game play, however, destroying the enemy tower will not add a Warmaster to your own side. We will be changing the pace of the battle slightly with a reduction in the time needed to control a tower or graveyard. Where it currently takes five minutes to gain control, the time will be reduced to four minutes. The honor for capturing a tower will also be increased. Graveyards can be an important resource for getting your teammates back into the battle more quickly. Currently, players can sometimes be sent to their starting tunnels far from the battlefront. This can often be an inconvenient location to respawn and more out of the way from the action than we would like, to correct this, players will instead respawn at a team-controlled graveyard. Should the team not have a graveyard under their control, they will respawn in the starting tunnel. Players will only be awarded bonus honor during the battle for destroying enemy towers and slaying the enemy Captain. Once the battle is concluded, bonus honor will be awarded for intact towers, a surviving Captain, and for victory in battle. The bonus honor awarded should be similar to previous totals, but will reward players for taking more active roles in Alterac Valley toward defending or attacking key locations and NPCs. Lastly, we are changing NPC interactions within Alterac Valley. We have reduced the number of elite NPCs in Stormpike and Frostwolf holds as well as sent all Commanders and Lieutenants out of Alterac Valley. They are currently in search of other battle opportunities. This should reduce the amount of NPCs that players will have to fight and place more focus on PvP combat over key locations on the map. Strategy is the name of the game in Alterac Valley, and these changes will bring out the need for more teamwork and coordination from both the Horde and the Alliance as they vie for domination of this battleground."

10/5/2007 5:45:23 PM

I like how they ignore the most apparent flaws with AV.
the bridge as a choke point, tower design mismatch, number of archers and subsequent range of them because of poor tower design for horde vs alliance, the wolves not doing a whirlwind like the alliance marshalls, the shit that you summon taking years to move and being easy as fuck to bug out.

10/6/2007 11:28:55 AM

I'm sorry, but AV is balanced in my honest opinion. What ISNT balanced though, is the people who play in it. Everyone knows how to win AV, they are just too fucking lazy to do it. for example:

SPGY choke point = coming in from the front
Solutions = take the high road, take the road under the bridge

No one does this because they are too fucking lazy and just follow what anyone else is doing. I swear, one person runs up the front road, so does everyone else.

Alliance Bridge choke point = fighting on the bridge
Solutions = Charge straight across the bridge and duck into the towers, Charge across and flood the aid station flag

No one does this because of the same reason as the SPGY one, no one wants to be the first in to get maimed. (im not a hypocrite because i always charge in but no one follows)

Even without this stuff, horde manages to win ~50% of the games on my battlegroup, but i Just wanted to state that the solutions to all the choke points are apparent. people are just too ignorant to actually make it happen.


EDIT: i'll admit the only misbalance the sides have are the bases in which all of the alliance "trash" npc's are right near the aid station flag, and the towers can hit you from anywhere in the base. but if horde play smart, it wouldnt be an issue (i've been in games where not a single person went for a tower, and then were QQ'ing about the towers hitting them. LEARN2KILLARCHERZ)

[Edited on October 6, 2007 at 12:04 PM. Reason : .]

10/6/2007 11:53:02 AM

both alliance towers can hit players capping the stormpike aid station.
neither horde tower can hit players capping the frostwolf aid station.

10/6/2007 2:17:53 PM

you can't just charge across the bridge, the towers destroy you.

10/6/2007 4:38:23 PM