Realms are appearing... :)

[therealjohnpeat]

Hehe - over 24 hours from maintenance start and they still haven't got a clue have they?

What I find REALLY REALLY perplexing is that the US patched the SAME code on (presumably) VERY similar servers less than 24 hours before - so how is it when the Europeans start they have NO clue how long it will take and ALWAYS - absolutely ALWAYS - fuck it up anyway.

There were 'some' working servers at 3pm - nine hours later there are none - what the FUCK is that about?

I'm sorry but they are RAKING in the cash - I think it's time they got some more competent technical people - they cannot say they can't afford to pay for some actual talent...

I think it's time Blizzard US kicked some serious ass in Europe - you only have to spend 10 mins on the US forums to see that the quality of service isn't even REMOTELY comparable.

It's cos they chose the fucking French isn't it? It's revenge for that 'Freedom Fries' shit or something...

[cowfields]

There were 'some' working servers at 3pm - nine hours later there are none - what the FUCK is that about?

That's the one part that is easy to explain. On the few servers that work, when you have the normal amount of people (i.e. everyone) already on that server trying to test out Force of Nature (heh) as well as everyone from ALL the dead servers creating level 1 gnomes called "deadsurverlol" and "omgblizzardnoob" and dancing around ironforge. That then breaks those servers already bulging dangerously.

As for why it takes this much faffing about to get the other servers working, nah, you got me there.

[Orchid]

And up they go...

[therealjohnpeat]

Scenes from the only server with allows new char generation and which is up

Holy Shit!!!

[fragglerock]

They really should turn of char creation on patch-days.

Forum moaning may cause meltdown though!

[therealjohnpeat]

They really should turn of char creation on patch-days.

Forum moaning may cause meltdown though!

How, then, would I end up with an Orc 'random' on 9 realms - all called "GrrDowntime"???

DRAENOR UP!!!!!

[Space Renegade Ulala]

I know this is just a very little thing and not really of consequence or importance to anyone else but...

I MADE BLOOD GUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had 162k for the week but I really didn't think I'd make it from 1% in Stone Guard! Wooooo!

Drinks are on meeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Nimmel]

Gratz Ulala.

[therealjohnpeat]

I MADE BLOOD GUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gratz - I thought 150k would do it

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Things I have learned in the last couple of hours:

* Life without Shadowburn and really slow nukes is painful. Only at first, though because...

* ..Affliction is goddamn wonderful. Get Unstable Affliction on, stick up the others and laugh yourself silly as Drain Life leaves them dead and you with almost full health and minimal mana loss...

* ..except with rogues. Devdas has Cloak of Shadows and it's every bit as bad as I feared. No sooner had I finished casting and bang, everything was gone, even UA.

* The Frost tree elemental seems quite sweet but I don't think he's really got what it takes. I watched him go up against a Felguard and the results weren't pretty. At all.

* Speaking of which, the Felguard looks great and a lot of fun. Hits surprisingly hard too, he went through my health at an alarming rate.

* The Blood Elf quests a couple of us did were fun if completely untaxing. I did feel a bit bad when Uther showed up upset at what we were doing. I'm such a soft touch.

Tomorrow - mods and PvP carnage. I am so looking forward to throwing out UAs like nobodies business.

[cowfields]

http://www.cowfields.com/balancelol_t.jpg

I couldn't resist the lure of piling 51 points into balance. I thought that was good, for a druid anyway. Just wait till I buff up.

Well, we'll see how it fairs tomorrow in 'actual' play (i.e. PvP) once I fix my ui. Probably not very well. I might be able to put out bigger bursty damage but I fear that there's still basically not much to escape a situation when you're in moonkin form. Can that roguey thing shrug off entangling roots like it can your DoTs? If so PvP might not be so fun.

That's the thing about this patch, for all the cool extras I'm enjoying I can't help feeling that my buffs will pale in comparison to the buffs of every other class. I mean, we didn't really get any new spells (don't mention 3 trees because their lives are too short to do anything worthwhile) but what we did have got more powerful. This is all PvP talk, by the way. For PvE, I'd like to try dps molten core or something. And I don't know when I'll try treeform. Maybe even this weekend - I purposely farmed a bit of spare respec cash before the patch. I'll either go tree if the raids are there, or I'll either stick with my spec as is or go a bit more pvp-friendly (i.e. put some points to get nature's swiftness, maybe loose moonkin form)

[Mr Ben]

Funny, I went complete resto, and I must say I'm fucking impressed! Takes a helluva lot to kill me now! Earth Shield FTW! The extra healing and damage talent that scales with int is also awesome - consistent 700 hit lightning bolts and 1k crits with *no spell damage gear* on, other than the BoN ring and my tier 2 chest - thats like 40 or so +dmg lol. Add on the talents that help prevent you getting interrupted while casting or silenced, and, well....lets just say it took a small army to kill me by stun locking me

Awesome night in AV, and my heals were rewarded by getting a [skullflame Shield] off an Alliance guard

Met Aleph in AV also, which was pretty awesome. Fellow RLLMUK'er from another realm

Kinda cool night all in, considering the trouble we've all had with mods and the servers

[Rattlehead.ie]

This is me for now

I only got to play for 10 mins before Server shutdown, but all my duels inc against a lvl 43 Warrior was impressive. Havent got to play fully yet though

[Kyouma]

Im with no lag.

Great stuff, now someone tell me why the fuck Curse is down - need to get photek 2.0

[Rattlehead.ie]

Im with no lag.

Great stuff, now someone tell me why the fuck Curse is down - need to get photek 2.0

Piro language doesnt like that doesnt suit you. didems is a more apropriate word

Curse is either down OR the owners have loaded up the low bandwidth version of the site, Suggestion keep trying as your request will eventually get through. Also google is your friend, try googling it,it mght apear somewhere else on the magic they all call the interweb net

[kitten]

I went for "Help everything's on fire". Haven't had a chance to try it out yet, though we have a raid scheduled for tonight if everything's up and working.

Still got some addons left to track down - mostly -Fu plugins. I really want an updated PerfectRaid but apparently it's going to be a week or so before it's done (suspect the author was concentrating on getting Clique done, because that's updated and working fine).

WoWInterface seems to be working again, albeit very slowly.

[sprite]

Grats Chant

Thinking about it, most people probably said "FFS what's the point" and gave up PVPing, so those who DID carry on ended up ranking much higher, relatively speaking, than if they had the same amount of honour the week before.

Or... something

[Kyouma]

Piro language doesnt like that doesnt suit you. didems is a more apropriate word

Curse is either down OR the owners have loaded up the low bandwidth version of the site, m suggestion keep trying as your request will eventually get through. Also google is your friend, try googling it,it mght apear somewhere else on the magic they all the interweb net

[PinkMoon]

Im with no lag.

Great stuff, now someone tell me why the fuck Curse is down - need to get photek 2.0

New Photek, just for you.

I've installed it this morning. Don't like it very much compared to the version I was using immediately before the patch; the bars are kinda ugly looking, the HuD is clunky and the chat boxes are fucked for me.

*sigh*

Early days though, I guess.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

That's the thing about this patch, for all the cool extras I'm enjoying I can't help feeling that my buffs will pale in comparison to the buffs of every other class.

Let's go bust some heads tonight, kiddo. They shall know us by the trail of the dead.

As far as Unstable Affliction goes, I was impressed with its basic damage, it practically halved a mage's health bar on its own (and presumably Ice Block is the only way to get rid of it?). Another joyous moment was a CoD hitting a critter for 6200 and knowing it can be even better once we get the latest set of talents in (it will be available to amplify for an extra 50% damage). I spent a point in Shadow Embrace to get an extra 5% on Drain Life and found myself in the rather wonderful position of killing 6 50-52s at once and leaving the fight with about 95% health and enough mana to do it all over again so levelling should be pretty fast and painless once we get going again, even with the annoying new shard/XP gathering limit in place.

My only real concern is my total lack of burst damage now and the fact I actually have over 11% crit that's pretty much wasted on my current spec. Still, I may go Destruction in a couple of weeks just to play around as one of my guildmates did and was having a grand old time with Backlash and the health return on nukes thing, not to mention Shadowfury crits for 1400 (he did get murdered by rogues, however).

Oh and is that really the same Khaz who loled at Earth Shield whenever any of us mentioned it and how good the feedback was? Surely not! Glad to hear you're enjoying it.

[Mr.Jeff]

Hows the regular curses ticking now Chant? Didn't get a chance to sort my old locks talents last night so I'm kinda curious as to how corruption and coa et all are ticking now with the buff in the talents *and* the overall buff from spell damage.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

I need to test it out properly in a more challenging zone (it was late before the damn thing was working again so I just picked the field near the Bulwark as it was relatively close) but let's put it this way: if you open with UA > CoA > Siphon Life > Corruption, things tend to be practically dead by the first tick of the last DoT. In most cases, I didn't even have time to cast Drain Soul, the last 45% on the 52s was dropping to about 5-10% and dead on the next tick.

Testing them on a rogue who was waiting for the last one on before using Cloak of Shadows, by the time I'd finished casting them all and he hit CoS, a couple of ticks have hit and third of his life was already gone so if he stuns and starts shredding you once he reappears, just reapplying a couple should easily be enough to kill him whatever he does to you. Drain Life was the only thing I really noticed numbers on, with 4 DoTs and Shadow Embrace up, it was draining for around 170 a tick with 576 shadow damage. Assuming you have better gear and factoring in Fel Armour next month and you could easily be getting 200 a tick in Outland, not to mention Siphon Life constantly ticking away in the background too. And all with practically no downtime (something the Destruction 'lock I was speaking to was bothered about, he was drinking lots apparently)

Best thing may be to go to Darkwhisper Gorge tonight and test out on the Felguard elites there, they should have enough health to get a proper picture of how things are.

Despite taking them, I completely forgot to use Howl of Terror and Curse of Exhaustion. Doh.

[Orchid]

Now I get to start the honor grind yay!

Anyone got stats on honor per game etc?

[Kyouma]

Now I get to start the honor grind yay!

Anyone got stats on honor per game etc?

Wont know until 12/1 tonight when it updates.

It's the wrong patch - the honour should update weekly, you should get 5 AV tokens for winning instead of 3, but this is the PTR patch not the one on TBC Beta =/

17 more AV marks to go.

New Photek, just for you.

I've installed it this morning. Don't like it very much compared to the version I was using immediately before the patch; the bars are kinda ugly looking, the HuD is clunky and the chat boxes are fucked for me.

*sigh*

Early days though, I guess.

Cheers

Draenor Restarted

[connerfitzgerald]

DoTting someone up in PVP then watching them cleanse and be silenced bu UA is aces.

[Nicky]

you get around 300HPs for an AB win, similar (but slightly more)f or a gulch win, and dunno about AV.

thats including average kills. after an evening of about 5-6 ABs alone, i was sitting with 1700honor points. only another 130,000 to go then or something daft.

[Kyouma]

New Photek, just for you.

I've installed it this morning. Don't like it very much compared to the version I was using immediately before the patch; the bars are kinda ugly looking, the HuD is clunky and the chat boxes are fucked for me.

*sigh*

Early days though, I guess.

Icehud wont change colours and is really dark, AguF had to be removed for me to duel someone leaving me without ANY unit frames or casting bar - there's a big black box where the orginal bars were before i moved them and battlegrounds FU does jackshit all now!

edit: And now MY chat boxes are fooked.

[Mr Ben]

Oh and is that really the same Khaz who loled at Earth Shield whenever any of us mentioned it and how good the feedback was? Surely not! Glad to hear you're enjoying it.

The talent tooltip says nothing about it benefitting from +healing, just that it heals for 200 or so, which sounds pretty lol. Then you actually try it out and realise that even when stunlocked by 5 people it takes em a while to kill you

Its instant cast, no cooldown(!!! ), and costs me about 800 mana (pfft thats nothing to me as well ). And I can run about and not worry too much about damage unless I've blindly run into 10 Alliance or something

The fact you can slap it onto the tank who's tanking the boss in AV is also pretty awesome

[Orchid]

I've won 8 or 9 ABs in a row, then an AV. 2k Honor, sound about right?

[connerfitzgerald]

Can you still get XP from BGs?