Monthly Archives: July 2006

Rogue Talents v1.12 RC2

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Warcraft rogue talent review RC2: Rogue Talent Review – Second Sight. What looks good on e-paper: “Garrote, Eviscerate, and Rupture now all scale with Attack Power. The previously announced Eviscerate book will still be made available in an undisclosed location. While we had always planned to scale these abilites at a point in the future, we felt that the rank upgrade for Eviscerate and damage increase for Garotte would provide a well needed boost in the current game and carry these abilities until the scaling mechanic was implemented. Our ultimate goal to scale the abilities in a future update was decided to be moved ahead, and the current plan is to implement scaling for these abilities in 1.12, instead of in a later update.” Rogues are reportedly cautiously optimistic.

Yes, You Must Have Voice Chat to Raid

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Warcraft Forum Post #Gajillion3 about groups/guilds that require voice chat (Ventrilo or TeamSpeak) to run instances or for raiding: Vent/TS are now must haves to raid? I can sympathize, truly I can, and I don’t necessarily agree with requiring voice for little instance runs unless it’s a 45-minute Strath Baron run where people have to be on their game — but for DKP raids, everyone must be in Vent. And I’ll tell you why: who has the energy, or the WILL, to type out instructions for an encounter that’s been run 39 times before? This isn’t EQ (in this manner) where warriors hit Autoattack, lean back in their chairs and do whatever … ahem … they would do while slapping some sense into Lord Nagafen. This is Warcraft where warriors hit attack, and then use every other trick in their bags to hold aggro — only one of which is taunt, thankyouverymuch — and there’s little spare time to type out: CLOTH BACK OUTT HE CLEAVES!!!! or my personal favorite: FUKIN ROUGES VANISH!! Can it be done without Ventrilo/TeamSpeak? Of course. But most of us prefer taking the shortest route between the boss engage and the loot.

About Nothing and Everything

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… and we’re back.

While ye olde blogge was in reruns, I took a stealth vacation, retooled my work schedule (NOT for the better), abused alcohol, visited the brink of death a few times, resolved not to do THAT again anytime soon, did, and kept up with the gaming news in a minimalist kind of way — which was easy because there was no news. If there’s nothing to say, there’s nothing to say.

Umm. Let’s see. General news: EA bought Mythic (won’t affect my life in any way). And that’s kinda it.

Warcraft news: Patch 1.11 went live, and 1.11.1 went live during primetime raids … that was fun, if one thinks raiding at 2 in the morning is fun and none of us did.

The scourge invasion was in full swing, which was fun for about a day until we all did the math on how much bag space was consumed with scourge and Argent Dawn (the hosting faction) crap. /delete crap.

The new keyrings were introduced — very popular with the non-rogue types.

The new global LFG channel is not popular with anyone except the emo Myspace crowd.

The new solution to instance stacking/chaining/exploiting is that players are now “Saved to this instance” any time they pass within 20 feet of a raid instance. Ok, I exaggerate, still annoying as fuck to be spammed with “saved to this instance” on every trash kill.

Some more of CT-RaidAssist’s functionality was integrated into the basic WoW User Interface — again, without thanks or credit to the CTmod team. I’ll allow that some of CTRA’s abilities are basic raiding needs that aren’t particularly innovative or, ahem, legally protected intellectual property; still, it’s long past due that Blizzard thank CTmod for all the … let’s say, inspiration.

Paid character transfers became a reality, so did the heartache. Witness: someone’s guildbank taking a powder to another server. (You had to see that one coming.)

My server is scheduled for paid transfer availability sometime this week and we’ve already made some friendly wagers about stealth transfers (i.e they do not warn the guild that they’re transferring):

Our raid leader predicted 10 stealth transfers which we won’t care about, plus 2 more that make us OMG. My prediction is 3 stealth transfers we won’t care about (and I named the players, I’m that good) and maybe 1 that will make us OMG. And I added, that OMG transfer better not fucking be the guildbank or I will hunt him down like the dog he is.

Other guild news from my guild, because that’s really why you’re here, you gossip whore: One of our married players has hooked up, officially (that’s IRL, noobs), with one of our single players. After telling all of us that they had sex over the weekend (we needed to know?), she announced that she’s getting divorced, officially (that’s IRL, noobs).

This will not end well … for any of us.

Another real life couple in the guild has been having an ongoing, rather public argument. One raid she can’t stand to be near him and will leave midraid. The next raid she can tolerate his virtual presence but will bitch about him the entire time. (“Heals. He calls those heals??”)

All told, these two mini-dramas involve a druid, a hunter, a paladin and a priest — all raiders with high attendance. !!! Please, everyone who can read my plea, please stop fucking around with the guild healers. Fuck the rogues all you like, but leave the healers alone.

Heaven forbid two priests in my guild start fucking, then we’ll really be fucked.

UPDATE — More nothings: World of Warcraft Patch 1.11.2 is live today. Find a mirror, they still can’t bittorrent worth a damn.

July’s Carnival of Gamers is (has been) available at the Grumpy Gamer. I haven’t read it just yet, so don’t spoil the ending for me.