tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post4771860120015013737..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: What Content Would You Have Liked to See in 6.1?TheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-61672943408035698592015-02-24T08:27:55.209-05:002015-02-24T08:27:55.209-05:00I could be something of that sort. But it still m...I could be something of that sort. But it still makes no sense. Even if they wanted to "show off" what they could do, leaving old content in does not take away from that.<br /><br />I know why some were removed like the old challenge modes. They were designed for hit and expertise and so forth, so instead of redesigning them for the stat change and the ability prune they just removed them. But the other stuff made no sense to remove, at least not as I see it or as they have tried to explain it.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-7161405090645499572015-02-24T04:00:56.635-05:002015-02-24T04:00:56.635-05:00Could be hubris. Could be the old devs por leads w...Could be hubris. Could be the old devs por leads were working on a new gane and the new guys wanted to show off their content by making it so you could not do the old stuff or simply not supporting a systemlike scenarios.Shaman and Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05680983121693107729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-1920487380072091362015-02-23T10:06:18.086-05:002015-02-23T10:06:18.086-05:00That would be interesting.
Makes me wonder. If m...That would be interesting.<br /><br />Makes me wonder. If my hunter could be everything, would I still have other classes.<br /><br />With no "bonus" to professions any longer I can see that as something that is possible. But I still think it is something blizzard would shy away from.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-1023661986179112852015-02-20T21:42:08.994-05:002015-02-20T21:42:08.994-05:00Something I would enjoy seeing in WOW's next p...Something I would enjoy seeing in WOW's next patch: the end of limiting professions. Whether at a certain level, or after a quest, you can slowly get all of the professions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-23026788220058101332015-02-20T16:14:29.963-05:002015-02-20T16:14:29.963-05:00Thanks, will take a look now.Thanks, will take a look now.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-80590870458008841652015-02-20T16:14:18.895-05:002015-02-20T16:14:18.895-05:00I agree. I am not a big fan of change either. Ev...I agree. I am not a big fan of change either. Even more so when it is change for the sake of change. I still say the worst thing blizzard ever did was Cataclysm and screwing up the old world and questing flow. Additions I like. Updating I like. Changing, not at all.<br /><br />US forums are useless because every time someone has a gripe even if it is well thought out and presented with no "rude" language they delete it. Blizzard does not like people speaking their minds US side, that is for sure.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-61964246212902883752015-02-20T15:45:07.280-05:002015-02-20T15:45:07.280-05:00some interesting idea on making dungeons relevant ...some interesting idea on making dungeons relevant gearing path for non-progression alts: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2wjx8c/an_idea_on_how_to_make_dungeons_relevant_taking_a/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2wjx8c/an_idea_on_how_to_make_dungeons_relevant_taking_a/</a><br />--<br />regards,<br /><br />regardsanonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-31436355999916534332015-02-20T14:06:03.551-05:002015-02-20T14:06:03.551-05:00Personally, I prefer virtual world games not to ch...Personally, I prefer virtual world games not to change that much, given their time investment requirement. MoP esp. from 5.2 onward was horrible for pre-cap PvP, literally every Patch things went topsy-turvy (5.2 bottom levels in a bracket burned, 5.3 top, 5.4 chants, perks and buffs Scaled to oblivion, and 6.0 Items Squished. I seriously have no idea anymore what gear will actually DO in a BG beforehand) and so 6.1 'just' changing mechanics is by itslef okay by me.<br /><br />I might differ on which and how mechanics should be altered (personally I'd be elated if same-Faction, same-Realm toons on the same BA-Account were automatically beFriended, would be a great QoL chnage as far as mailing to alts was concerned) but I am not against the general principle per se.<br /><br />OT:<br />A EU Forum Post regarding the lack of deliverance by Blizz vs the inflated Expansion cost etc. struck the right chord by many posters<br /><br />Blizzard: Your community deserves an apology<br /><br /> http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/13686790283<br /><br />also on the US side, but the US Forum nazi's quickly Deleted the highly upvoted Thread copying it. You might want to check it out before it gets censored.NetherLandsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-55787756243629523082015-02-20T10:19:50.302-05:002015-02-20T10:19:50.302-05:00so eden sank to grief
so dawn goes down to day
not...<i>so eden sank to grief<br />so dawn goes down to day<br />nothing gold can stay</i><br /><br />-roo-abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-40786454490445071532015-02-20T08:15:36.480-05:002015-02-20T08:15:36.480-05:00Even if I dislike being able to tweet personally I...Even if I dislike being able to tweet personally I think it is good because it gets the game out there in the public eye more. Maybe more people will stumble across it and the game can get new players and grow. It is making the players do the advertising. The game is 10 years old, many people might not even know about it. This will help spread the word. That is why I think it is great for blizzard as a company even if it us useless for me as a player.<br /><br />The jukebox allows you to play different music from the game in your garrison instead of the standard garrison music. You need to go out and "find" the track however. Like by picking it up off the ground, killing a raid boss, doing a little event, etc.<br /><br />I do not think I will bother with the color blind helper even if I am color blind unless something starts giving me fits.<br /><br />Feel better Roo.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-32541429406897377892015-02-20T08:02:38.181-05:002015-02-20T08:02:38.181-05:00They are solo ones, like the story telling ones on...They are solo ones, like the story telling ones on the isle of thunder. But just because they used them for solo purposes does not mean that can not use them for group content as well does it?<br /><br />For VP they were the best. Get 2 decent DPS and you could valor cap in less than an hour. Heck, a guild mate of mine with 2 extra accounts used to cap 3 of his characters at the same time by doing them all solo. How awesome is that?<br /><br />With that said, they need to bring valor back as well with scenarios. ;)TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-6819867196878657542015-02-20T08:00:13.055-05:002015-02-20T08:00:13.055-05:00hiya Ge and all,
Hmmm, interesting post. You are ...hiya Ge and all,<br /><br />Hmmm, interesting post. You are right in that blizzard is spouting about "new content", but one has to figure out what is new content to blizzard, versus what is new content to you or anyone else. Since you like raiding and dungeons, you don't consider this new content. But, to those who want these 'selfies" and tweeter crap, it is new content. <br /><br />[on soapbox] I truly don't understand why you consider being able to tweet something fabo. More crap for people to crapping tweet about to others who are interested in their crappy little lives every minute of every day. I am glad that ability in the game can be turned off. And to those who believe that others are interested in your little pathetic lives, more power to you. TMI comes to mind. [off soapbox]<br /><br />you did fail to mention one sorta important thing - that wizard and the dismount zone is being moved. He is going to the dark portal - HOO-RAY! Finally - he should have been moved behind the quest sign anyway instead of in the middle of the Trade District. and speaking of the dismount zone, blizz has shown it can be done, why isn't it implemented at the entrances of bldgs. and mailboxes and on top of the seasonal quest givers (such as Grandfather Christmas - I know not his real name, but I forgot it)? It should be put on them - keep those crappy tweeting selfie bastards from tweeting "lolol - I am blocking the quest giver - look at me, me is important, lolol" - /spit and roll eyes - gwad, <br /><br />I see more of that now. <br /><br />Bring back scenarios and bring back keeping 5, 10, 25 man raids separate on separate lockouts and reduce lock-outs to 2 day and make loot be personalize (so I can tweet and show it off!) when taking from any mobs and make heirlooms from 1-95!!!!!! And last but not least, bring back valor and justice - Yes. gimmee, gimmee, gimmee. <br /><br />There now, me thinks me wore out me welcome, lol.<br /><br />lovingly yours,<br />-roo<br /><br />PS - what in the sam hill is "the jukebox"? a player for just the music in wow or can one add mp3s to it and play in the game instead of some of the crappy wow music? <br /><br />PPS - don't forget about the color wheel! I will try and play with that a little. But I am so use to seeing dark grey versus light grey all over the place, it won't matter to me (red = various shades of dark grey, green = various shades of light grey), life's a bitch but I refuse to die, mu-hahahahaha.<br /><br />PPPS - hmmm, there is another thing blizz is doing, on the tip of me brain pan, oh well. yak later. <br /><br />PPPPS - yeah, I <i>DID</i> wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Cluster migraine hit at 3am my time - they are a bitch sometimes. -abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-37904250951265134272015-02-20T07:54:35.309-05:002015-02-20T07:54:35.309-05:00If they offered 1000 for the first and 500 each on...If they offered 1000 for the first and 500 each one after, that is the only way in hell I would ever even consider gearing my alts with any apexis gear. So yes, I like that idea. lol<br /><br />I am surprised they did not add anything to help with reputation. A tabard or something would have made many people happy. I already have mine done, but it sure would be great for others.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-10266991239731127222015-02-20T07:51:32.523-05:002015-02-20T07:51:32.523-05:00I sort of think of garrison invasions of scenarios...I sort of think of garrison invasions of scenarios as well. Ones you need to assemble the group for. If we could queue for them and did not need to do something to make them randomly pop up, then yes, 100% I would agree they are the scenarios of the expansion. You can see that their idea did come from scenarios however, that is sure.<br /><br />I am surprised they have not added something additional, like small daily quest hubs, to address exactly what you mentioned, the reputation grind which is seems a great many dislike. It would have been something perfect for 6.1.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-48041044823696651252015-02-20T07:48:57.363-05:002015-02-20T07:48:57.363-05:00I suffer from the same thing how. If I decide to ...I suffer from the same thing how. If I decide to queue for something I will do so as soon as I log on. If it has not popped by the time I am done doing my garrison busy work, I either log off for the day or I switch characters to another garrison. There is nothing to do to fill the time in queue and with even longer queues and the sometimes dreadful groups, it is just not worth the effort to wait it out.<br /><br />The recent LFR is sadly not the HM one. It has been wipe city once again. So the "joy" of quick, nice and easy LFRs that the first HM gave us, something we could actually want to do, it already gone. At least for me. So we do not even have that any longer.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-1056295340223989222015-02-20T01:23:43.877-05:002015-02-20T01:23:43.877-05:00even once, not even on alts. My honey feels they s...even once, not even on alts. My honey feels they should have been availavle through leveling too. Outside of VP farming for some, I don't think they were good, succesful content. And without VP...Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-18423818326118785512015-02-20T01:17:47.199-05:002015-02-20T01:17:47.199-05:00If you recall, they said scenarios are a new tech ...If you recall, they said scenarios are a new tech deve loped with the purpose of later on being used in storytelling. And they did just that, the last fights in each area are scenarios, you must have noticed that. Maybe you see it as a missed opportunity for independent content, but this is their intended purpose. I (and most of the people in my guild) stopped doing them after finishing the achis (which we did pretty quick, even the 100 one). I never did them after, notJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-19180193477860246992015-02-19T20:25:19.750-05:002015-02-19T20:25:19.750-05:00Scenarios would be great. No matter what the rewa...Scenarios would be great. No matter what the reward is for dungeons and lfr it will still suck for dps because it's behind a 40 minute queue. Reward 1,000 Apexis Crystals for the first scenario run of the day and 500 every one after. Even with the limits we have today on what we can get with Apexis it would be worth doing a few runs a week for those gaps in your gear or the faction pets/mounts/followers.<br /><br />By the way... what happened to championing a faction for rep when running a dungeon? Sure the WoD reps don't get you much, but they add these features then just forget about them...Brammanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12566947999372886795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-57758881020732160462015-02-19T18:18:15.261-05:002015-02-19T18:18:15.261-05:00Garrison invasions seem to be the only scenarios I...Garrison invasions seem to be the only scenarios I can think of and I wouldn't mind some extra mini story arcs. I do consider a lot of these additions to be a belated release of what should have been included in November. <br /><br />Additions to the Darkmoon Faire and new toys from the Lunar Festival are welcome changes (even though it's minor one-off content).<br /><br />I hate grinding unless it's for an achievement or item and is the reason why I've only levelled one of my bodyguards to wingman. It would be nice to be exalted with the rest of my Draenor reps but it's a slow and boring road for me.Cymrehttp://www.bubblesofmischief.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-21712820060169645092015-02-19T13:47:32.788-05:002015-02-19T13:47:32.788-05:00Agreed with everything you wrote, a rarity for me....Agreed with everything you wrote, a rarity for me. It just feels like every valuable lesson Blizz should have learned from MoP has been discarded. 5 man heroics had a 30 min queue when I canceled my account. That is simply atrocious. At least in the beginning of mists I could fill the time for queues with quests and scenarios (and 5man queues were only 10 min). When I eventually ran out of things to do because I either didn't need the rep or valor/justice I lost the willpower and stamina to endure the crazy long lfr queues and then just flat out stopped playing. That took me a year from launch, but I was bored of wod in just under two weeks. Silly me, I assumed the 5.1 model would be the standard for rep questing moving forward. Instead we get a bunch of tedious grinds based on the shaohao model. Pure unimaginative laziness. Blizz completely failee to understand the allure of timeless isle, at least for ppl like me who enjoyed hunting treasure chests as a way of getting our foot in the door of max lvl content. Chests in Draenor? Useless, especially since garrison resources are easy to get after the first few days. The only success of wod was eliminating queus from lfr, and that isnt enough to keep me engaged especially when the characters I decided to level ended up being a bore to play at 100. I was skeptical of wod from the moment I heard the pitch, but I still cant believe it turned out this way. How did it get so bad?oronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-50728038267753584522015-02-19T11:51:17.192-05:002015-02-19T11:51:17.192-05:00A title is one thing, heirlooms are another. I ca...A title is one thing, heirlooms are another. I can see retiring a title or making a title a timed thing, but something like heirlooms, they should still be in game. They would have given people a reason to do fun runs of SoO. And the legendary, why the hell did they remove that? I actually had 2 characters that I had planned on going back and getting it solo with. I already had 10 or 11 with the cloak, so I did not "need" to do any more. I wanted to save it for something to do later, but they removed it. Why? No real reason. Had they made the title for having it when it was current only, I could understand, but removing it completely, made no sense.<br /><br />Blizzard, at the end of mists, went on a spree of removing content for no reason what so ever. And now they have a new expansion that refuses to add content. What are they doing, it makes no sense.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-76339661679791155932015-02-19T11:31:52.146-05:002015-02-19T11:31:52.146-05:00never thought about the garrosh heirloom.
good fo...never thought about the garrosh heirloom.<br /><br />good for alts. worth farming once your main is geared enough to solo, or you can go in with a few friends and faceroll.<br /><br />Some of the playerbase likes exclusivity, like titles that are no longer obtainable like Hand of Adal. Maybe Blizzard was catering to that playerbase?<br />--<br />regards,<br /><br />regardsanonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-91367997105878221062015-02-19T11:21:43.016-05:002015-02-19T11:21:43.016-05:00That is the question, "so where are the scena...That is the question, "so where are the scenarios in WOD?" I wish someone at blizzard could answer that. They had their place and it was a good place even if not everyone liked it. But they just threw it to the side. I hate blizzards new throw away content idea like all the stuff they removed at the end of mists. Remove the heirlooms off garrosh? Why? I never got that one either. It gave us motivation to go back. Was that really a bad thing that needed to be removed?TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-3944647524601605262015-02-19T11:15:28.017-05:002015-02-19T11:15:28.017-05:00re: scenarios
Scenarios never really grabbed me u...re: scenarios<br /><br />Scenarios never really grabbed me until they added the Heroic Scenario for Valor gear. That was pretty fun. It was harder than 5-man Heroics but not as hard as challenge modes. Of course, in time the Heroic Scenarios were outgeared as well, trivializing them.<br /><br />As a blood DK tank/discipline priest healer, I still liked 5-mans more because of the importance of my tank/healer role to the group. I could save a fail group with good play.<br /><br />Non-heroic scenarios, on the other hand, were a bit more tourist-mode where the tank/healer role was unnecessary and even undesirable if dps could kill mobs faster.<br /><br />That said, for pure dps players the queues were instant so seems like a good thing for them. The ease of creating scenarios was something Blizzard cited many times when players complained about wanting more 5-mans and getting scenarios instead. So where are the scenarios in WOD?<br /><br />I'm not clamoring for scenarios, but I just don't get their absence since it seems counter to the prior explanations and I didn't hear any explanation. Maybe participation was lower than Blizzard hoped?<br />--<br />Regards,<br /><br />regardsanonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-34074410549742456782015-02-19T10:55:13.699-05:002015-02-19T10:55:13.699-05:00It was great. If you need a laugh or a smile, it ...It was great. If you need a laugh or a smile, it is worth watching.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.com