tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post1808008987207434199..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Are You Getting Into The Release Date Hype?TheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-57235879835846140482014-08-08T10:25:08.384-04:002014-08-08T10:25:08.384-04:00That is a fair chuck of people but that would only...That is a fair chuck of people but that would only be 800,001 people are "confirmed" to agree, there probably are quadruple of not more that agree but have not quit. Heck, I have not quit because I still love the game. Doesn't mean I am happy with everything about it however.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-65955936224949842232014-08-08T00:06:12.133-04:002014-08-08T00:06:12.133-04:00Looking at the latest numbers one could say "...Looking at the latest numbers one could say "800 001 people agree with you" :)<br /><br />Rauxis, chosen of CATRauxisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-82474790307021818802014-08-07T16:01:49.257-04:002014-08-07T16:01:49.257-04:00There is so little to be excited for that they are...There is so little to be excited for that they are trying to create excitement any way they can. I do find it funny that they made a big deal about telling people a date for the day they can get the date for something else. Really stretching it if you ask me.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-69024404278537311212014-08-07T15:16:07.548-04:002014-08-07T15:16:07.548-04:00The nested announcement idea is a bit humorous (th...The nested announcement idea is a bit humorous (they announced the day on which they when they will be announcing WOD release).<br /><br />I'm interested, but trying not to overhype it in my mind.<br />Just another video. <br /><br />Will be glad to finally have it though.<br />--<br />Regards,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-8100474523257906592014-08-07T08:54:12.093-04:002014-08-07T08:54:12.093-04:00I had not even thought about the PvP angle of it b...I had not even thought about the PvP angle of it but being a PvEer that makes sense. But you are very right. For a PvP player reforging was even more important. In PvE there is a right and a wrong, but for PvP while there is a "best" there is a lot more that has to do with feel and even if haste is not your best stat if it feels better with more, you will want more and reforging helps with that. Thanks for pointing out the PvP angle. More reason they should not have removed reforging.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-46664332370817133232014-08-07T08:50:59.542-04:002014-08-07T08:50:59.542-04:00Blizzard would make us level fast, as you mentione...Blizzard would make us level fast, as you mentioned with the brewfest. I remember many people in my guild being really pissed about that. The thing is, did they learn from their mistakes?<br /><br />If it comes out in october however, mid october to be exact, that leaves 5 weeks before this comes out to get to 100. I believe that even the most casual of casual players will be level 100 by then and some people, like myself, will probably have 4 or 5 characters at 100 by then. It should not be a problem for most.<br /><br />But I would not put it past blizzard to not learn from their mistakes. They keep making the same mistakes over and over again.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-30121502861557185942014-08-07T00:30:36.827-04:002014-08-07T00:30:36.827-04:00high levels -> high ratingshigh levels -> high ratingsPVP anonhttp://nowhere.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-7391916998005427252014-08-07T00:27:59.245-04:002014-08-07T00:27:59.245-04:00On reforging, I am a hundred percent behind you - ...On reforging, I am a hundred percent behind you - with no hit/expertise reforging stops being the mechanical number crunching thing that they suggested it became.<br /><br />You largely discussed reforging from the PVE point of view, and I would say that the PVP point of view speaks even more in favor of reforging: I and many others were *routinely* trying out various playstyles, particularly for healers and casters, by reforging / regemming into crit vs haste vs mastery. In PVP, "the right way" to go about stats is defined much less strongly than in PVE, there's more freedom for different playstyles, even - and, perhaps, especially - at high levels. Heck, people routinely go full mastery on a certain spec at the beginning of the season, then go full haste some time after when a particular FOTM goes up, then go balanced after that FOTM falls out of fashion due to another FOTM, etc. And IT. IS. FUN. We will still be able to do it via enchants and gems, but the contribution from reforging was huge.<br /><br />I will miss reforging a lot.PVP anonhttp://nowhere.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-62906535728345143922014-08-06T21:37:41.299-04:002014-08-06T21:37:41.299-04:00Apparently I'm getting right grumpy about the ...Apparently I'm getting right grumpy about the whole thing.<br /><br />Because everyone is assuming the release date HAS to be October 14th because it HAS to be 2 months after announce.<br /><br />And Blizz would NEVER make us level fast for the anniversary event [cough MoP Brewfest]<br /><br />And I'm just getting frustrated that people have no memory and blind faith that it's going to be perfection even if we are losing [insert whatever here]<br /><br />Or maybe I'm just having a bad night, I don't know.<br /><br />I've done this dance too many times to count... since Vanilla. And I don't really want to return to the vanilla way of doing things. Karahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03157092440833967471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-32919362786767342642014-08-06T12:05:05.464-04:002014-08-06T12:05:05.464-04:00Zones, dungeons and raids can all be added in patc...Zones, dungeons and raids can all be added in patches. But to some extent I do agree, they do seem to be expansion things as we have come to know them. Perhaps I am just anti-expansion now after having to wait so long yet again. We pay a monthly fee, we should just keep getting new content and not have to buy a new box every 2 weeks.<br /><br />With that said, expansions are just for a switch in story mode, some levels, and adding new features that require redoing everything. Like pet battles, they were added throughout the entire game. That was a new feature.<br /><br />I am all for a quest line to open flying, but it should be 1) as soon as you hit 100 you can do it and 2) account bound. I would not mind spending a month grinding for flight, if need be, but I do not want to do it on all my characters.<br /><br />Flight paths need a lot of work. They need to be direct, they need to be faster, and they need to be capable of being ended or their direction changed on the fly if need be. Otherwise, flight, even if slower than a flight path, will always be a better option.<br /><br />Model upgrade are the new zone upgrades. The zone upgrades in cataclysm were not needed and if anything ruined the flow of the game. At least models will not do that. But in a year we will be complaining that the reason the expansion is so feature light is because they wasted time on player models which is exactly what we say looking back on cataclysm, it was so lackluster because they wasted time redesigning the old world. The character models are going to do nothing but backfire on them.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-84190906124773673922014-08-06T11:40:25.410-04:002014-08-06T11:40:25.410-04:00I understand where you are coming from. WoD does s...I understand where you are coming from. WoD does seem "feature light". Even some of the features your mention arent actually part of WoD. Like the model upgrades, those will happen whether you buy WoD or not. Every player will get them automatically.<br /><br />However, I disagree somewhat with the emphasis you put on features as the main point of an expansion. I think the main point of each expansion are the new zones, new levels, new dungeons and new raids. That is, the new content. Features are just fluff in my mind. I had some fun playing around with battle pets for about 20 minutes, but they weren't the reason I bought Cata. They were just an extra thing that happened to come along with the new zones and continuing story.<br /><br />Regarding flight. I think the initial lack of it could be a great thing. If, and this is a big if, we get it back in 6.2 or 6.3 as part of an epic quest chain. Like if they explain it as the Arrakoa have air superiority in Draenor and us players cant bring our flying mounts cause we will be shot out of the sky. Then in a later patch we have to do some quests and run a series of new dungeons to weaken the Arrakoa's stranglehold on the skies, and then after that you unlock draenor flying on your character. This would make flying like it was in BC where not everybody had it, and it was more of a status symbol.<br /><br />I would like flying to be an achievement again instead of "rush to max level fast as I can, so I can then come back and quest with flying"<br /><br />If they don't introduce flying at all, then I think they really need some kind of "eject" button from a flightpath because as you said, if you take a long flight path it will suck to be stuck on the thing for another 3 minutes if you see something on the ground you really need.Troutmonkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01862533672429720139noreply@blogger.com