World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

[cjo]

A thousand people per realm dumping badges into gems and saronite means you can't sell your gems and saronite even for the price of FREE once Cata hits...

I've got ~630 badges. I've already bought almost everything except the 1-handed tank heirloom mace. I might buy that one too, I'm not sure. Regardless, I'm just going to let ALL my excess badges convert to golds. It's easiest that way.

I'm planning on having a load of gems on the AH on the night before the patch going live. A lot of stats are changing in 4.0.1 (AP -> Agi, ArP->crit), and at least combat rogues and hunters will "need" to regem, so there should be a lot of demand around.

You'll have to convert them to something other than triumph then, as your first 1400 frosts and triumphs will all become justice points. On my realm, primordial saronites are going for 400G each still, which is 17G per frost, much better than the 5.5G per valor/heroism the converter will do.

 

[Grall]

Oh. Lol, I thought much fewer badges would become points... Thanks for telling me!

On the other hand it would probably not be a bad thing to have some points stored up for Cata when I hit 85. I'll have to think it over.

The reason I even have over 600 badges is I've been trying to get some of the dungeon achievements done, and also the blue drake from the reward bag in oculus. Of course, I get every dungeon BUT oculus when I WANT to go there, and when I'm on a char that already has the dragon it pops up multiple times for me... Typical!

 

[Grall]

Ok, so patch 4.01 is finally live, and I'm playing it!

Well, not so much playing, as PREPARING to play it... -_- I've been making inks to create glyphs for like 15 minutes now, ugh. Gonna need to make a crapton of glyphs for all my characters, lucky me I had bundles and bundles of herbs stored up.

Been testing the patch for a bit on the PTR, and hunters in particular just plays A MILLION times better. The difference is quite staggering really. Hunter is a lot more fun now that they don't use mana, I've waiting for this for friggin' 6 years almost, god damnit. If only it had been this way from the start...

 

[Dresden]

Warriors were improved, as well. I saw a few people griping over the trade channel about them being nerfed, but AFAIK the only talent that took a beating was Cruelty, making it ability specific instead of an all encompassing critical strike percentage. Heroic Strike has been "normalized" making it more effective, instead of a rage dump. Plus they added an additional instant strike simply called "Strike." Whirlwind now hits an unlimited amount of targets, but only deals 50% weapon damage instead of 100%.

All in all, I'm really pleased with the warrior changes. I fooled around with my pally for a bit, apparently they have a resource bar now reliant on "holy power." Blizz can go ahead and bring on the BE warriors, now, to complete my dream.

 

[green.pixel]

 

[Malo]

Suitably epic, I expected him to be bigger though. During the first parts with the workers and rams putting on his armor he looks gigantic. When he's flying over azeroth and lands on the city he doesn't look nearly as big.

 

[homerdog]

I wish Blizzard would take all the time and money they spend on making cinematics look good, and spend it on making the actual game look good.

 

[Kaotik]

Suitably epic, I expected him to be bigger though. During the first parts with the workers and rams putting on his armor he looks gigantic. When he's flying over azeroth and lands on the city he doesn't look nearly as big.

He's about the same size as other aspects, like Alexstrasza and Malygos

 

[Grall]

During the first parts with the workers and rams putting on his armor he looks gigantic.

It's goblins working on him... Goblin rams are smaller than other rams, making dragon look bigger.

 

[Dresden]

Blizzcon starts tomorrow! Is anyone attending or have you ordered a virtual ticket? I ordered mine due to the fact I live on the East Coast.

 

[cjo]

No, not ordered one myself; Don't trust my net connection to be reliable enough to stream stuff.

How is everyone finding 4.0.1? I'm quite liking the (assassination) rogue changes; a small damage buff and a rotation that involves being slightly more awake.

Any guesses on the timeline in the run up to cataclysm? Best guess I've got is that Hallows End will finish on the 31st, so the cultist quests will start on the 6rd Nov / 13th Nov, the elemental phase will start on the 13th/20th Nov and 4.0.3 will appear on the 27th, giving us 2 weeks to explore the sundered world before cata proper.

 

[Kaotik]

4.0.1 was fine 'till they nerfed SW: Death to hell and back

 

[Grall]

SW: D crit for over 15k sometimes on my shadow priest who has a little over 3k spellpower, and glyphing it made it even crazier. Overall it was probably a good move.

 

[Grall]

How is everyone finding 4.0.1?

Good, good! Not much to complain about, methinks. Some people are perpetual whiners and will never be happy (even as they refuse to cancel their subscriptions, lol), but I firmly believe this is the best patch ever for WoW. The new class mechanics, masteries and skills are amazing. I'm really looking forward to hitting 85.

 

[Kaotik]

SW: D crit for over 15k sometimes on my shadow priest who has a little over 3k spellpower, and glyphing it made it even crazier. Overall it was probably a good move.

I did 45k crit(s) with it pre-nerf
(mostly ilvl 277 gear, raid buffs)

But that was nothing considering mages etc did even bigger crits with spells which didn't have such cooldowns the SWD does (excluding last 20% if you have the glyph)

Now it does the same damage as before (more or less) at last 20%, but you still can't execute spam it, since now the glyph only enables you to cast it twice before CD kicks in

 

[green.pixel]

http://eu.battle.net/en/promotion/

The original game and TBC for €5, and WotL for €10.

 

[eastmen]

they are $10 for the USA

http://us.blizzard.com/store/detail...s.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000044

 

[Grall]

Ok, so world servers are down now for the shattering here in Europe. I didn't get to finish my dungeon set 2 quest chain, but w/e... It was a pain in the arse anyhow.

I did manage to get exalted with zandalar though, and that's the most important bit since they have a bunch of alchemy recipes I wanted on my main, a druid. Now I should have every alchemy recipe currently available in the game.

Of course, you americats have already been shattered, and I hear your realms are back up also after only like 6 hours of extended maintenance or what? EVERY god damn time this happens. It's like they totally forget everything about how to patch their own software. Keee-risst!

 

[Kaotik]

I'll just leave this here

 

[Grall]

Lol, yea, I saw a dude several days ago in a random heroic with a lil deathwing companion flapping about him. I tried to get my PC games store to sell it to me early, but they refused.

In any case, it's not long now. 11.5 hours now in the EU, I'm still debating with myself wether to go on the midnight launch or not. Going, obviously, means getting the game faster.

NOT going means not having to wait in a bigass boring long line. Of course, I have an iPhone now, I could surf the web whilst listening to music, so it wouldn't neccessarily have to be THAT boring, heh... Still, it would be a freakin' drag and a waste of several hours easily. Then I would have to walk home, for upwards of an HOUR AND A HALF, unless I want to pay uber expensive night bus fare, so I'd get home hella late, and it's cold, and snow everywhere.

I could just level my wittle paladin alt some more, then go to sleep, wake up an buy the game tomorrow. Would be much easier.