tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post9073917154739105228..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Decisions DecisionsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-73781388382205557212013-09-13T12:31:54.642-04:002013-09-13T12:31:54.642-04:00Yeah, that is where I farm rep, those are easy to ...Yeah, that is where I farm rep, those are easy to kill, give a lot of rep and respawn fast. Not to mention not a soul is ever there. People must love that I hang out there and keep it clear all the time because they can all just walk in and loot their chest and come back out.<br /><br />I love that summon idea, I have to do that for people in my guild, thanks for the idea.<br /><br />Yes, you can cross realm the island. But if they already got the chest on their realm it should not (might but should not) allow them to loot it on yours.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-33721884695881597512013-09-13T12:29:18.985-04:002013-09-13T12:29:18.985-04:00I think one of the bugs has to do with a raid. I ...I think one of the bugs has to do with a raid. I was in a flex run wednesday and after the run we all dropped group. Then reassembled 3 people, in party, not raid, and we could not loot coins or the rare we killed. As if it still considered us as in a group.<br /><br />Not sure if that was an isolated bug or not but we all logged out and back in and it was fine.<br /><br />So if you have that problem, it might, just might, be because you were in a raid group. Or if anything else, logging out and back in can help.<br /><br />Even one mobs that was not sparkling to me was sparkling to me once I logged out and back in.<br /><br />I would not be surprised if the bugs like this have something to do with the connected realms.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-43772585956797207482013-09-13T12:25:45.855-04:002013-09-13T12:25:45.855-04:00Someone else made a comment on another post that t...Someone else made a comment on another post that they changed it to be in the patch notes, so I am sure it is intended now. That is nice. Nothing huge, but nice.<br /><br />I like the even flow of the DPS a little more now. Instead of bursting at 400K and leveling off at 200K I burst at 300K and level off at 220K.<br /><br />So I saw a small buff, and a more even flow of ability. It always sucked seeing those huge numbers only to know that the entire fight they were going to drop like a rock.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-40187610681520252262013-09-13T11:58:23.005-04:002013-09-13T11:58:23.005-04:00There's one chest that has a guaranteed drop o...There's one chest that has a guaranteed drop of the thingie that makes an item into 535. It's in a courtyard off to the side from the big courtyard that Ordos lives in. You have to have a cloak to get into the Ordos courtyard BUT you don't need one to get to that chest.<br /><br />We have a warlock with the legendary cloak. We plan to have a chest-opening party - 4 or 5 of us battle our way to the chest, put up a portal, and spend an evening summoning people's alts to the chest to grab their single guaranteed 535 upgrade. I've got 5 90s so this will give me 5 good pieces for the alt I want to upgrade.<br /><br />We haven't figured out if you can cross-realm this yet. If you can, we expect to have lots and lots of fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-8129586928216560152013-09-13T11:19:00.978-04:002013-09-13T11:19:00.978-04:00The one time I had a looting issue after death I r...The one time I had a looting issue after death I ran back to my body first so the instant rez isn't the only cause of that issue.<br /><br />One other loot-related issue, I killed the big, extra-rare rock dude early last night but was unable to loot it (as were a bunch of folks in General, apparently). Some were able to loot and were basically calling the rest of us noobs, some of us couldn't loot (various issues... nothing happening when we clicked, we'd crouch down but nothing after that, or get "can't loot that" or "no permission" or whatever that error was, etc). Some players had the loot automatically show up in their chat/inventory without even having to click (which I've had happen once or twice now, too, but definitely not consistently and didn't happen that time). I eventually gave up on looting him, put in a brief bug report and moved on to other things. A while later (maybe 20 minutes) I was circling back through that area again and noticed he was still there, and still sparkling. Tried looting him again, this time it worked. No clue why.<br /><br />So, there seem to be various looting issues happening and it seems that Blizzard may be trying to improve the looting experience when 75 players kill 1 mob to get around the "object is busy" errors and people spam-clicking, which can't be good for server performance. Loot automatically showing up in chat/inventory would be a welcome change for me. Hopefully they'll come up with something that works and everything will be better in a few days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-34446516287211007352013-09-13T11:13:44.694-04:002013-09-13T11:13:44.694-04:00@ Grumpy
They changed the tooltip, I'm pretty...@ Grumpy<br /><br />They changed the tooltip, I'm pretty sure it used to say "in combat" somehow. Now it doesn'.t<br /><br />@Jaeger<br /><br />You sure? I re-checked the patch notes before posting that and only saw mention of the charge system, not about it being useable out of combat. Might just have missed it, though. Still, it definitely seems to be intended. And very welcome.<br /><br />DPS-wise, from just normal playing, my hunter's dps seems to be up quite a bit. As a non-fan of Readiness I greatly approve of the current hunter status. I'll agree to disagree with anyone who thinks otherwise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-5845321150965012412013-09-13T07:10:06.004-04:002013-09-13T07:10:06.004-04:00Quite possible. I usually try to run out of the g...Quite possible. I usually try to run out of the graveyard but sometimes you pop up with 1 second and you are stuck there.<br /><br />That could be the reason. I'll always try to run back now. Thanks for the tip.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-19703647522793594652013-09-13T07:08:57.757-04:002013-09-13T07:08:57.757-04:00Cool. I did not notice they decided to keep it. ...Cool. I did not notice they decided to keep it. I remember when it first appeared on the PTR it was not in the notes. They must have added it.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-46962190349253548262013-09-13T00:18:17.600-04:002013-09-13T00:18:17.600-04:00Hey, I can't remember what post's comment...Hey, I can't remember what post's comment section this came up, but I have good news, possibly. I was running some alts on the timeless isle, and my druid died on one of the rares, instead of respawning at the graveyard, I ran back to my body. The rare was long dead by the time I got back, I even had a 30 sec rez timer, so once I was back I couldn't rez for a little bit. But I could loot. <br /><br />Any chance when you were unable to loot, you were doing the quick rez at the graveyard? <br /><br />~DeliriumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-44113880474098213262013-09-12T20:28:00.631-04:002013-09-12T20:28:00.631-04:00The disengage change was in the patch notes, so it...The disengage change was in the patch notes, so it's an official change. Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-46770308800005922722013-09-12T15:16:34.354-04:002013-09-12T15:16:34.354-04:00Yeah, I remember the disengage out of combat thing...Yeah, I remember the disengage out of combat thing on the PTR, I think it was a bug, but I am happy it went live. I do not believe it was intended and I hope they do not remove it. No more fall deaths ever if you time it right.<br /><br />@ Delirium<br /><br />I've noticed a "minor" increase in my DPS with the patch. But I am in all normal, only one heroic, piece so that might be the difference as we scale rather badly.<br /><br />I think they just need to do some scaling of secondary stats to balance hunters at higher gear levels and that would fix the issue some.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-4637607486854384942013-09-12T15:07:43.853-04:002013-09-12T15:07:43.853-04:00You are so right. When I finally broke down and b...You are so right. When I finally broke down and brought the shado-pan legs because nalak was not dropping my pants and in in raid tokens for hunters either guess what dropped the next day. The nalak ones. And guess what else? One dropped in the raid that very night as well and no one needed it so it went to an offspec. All because I bought the darn things the day before. You are so right.<br /><br />Regualar easy to find nalak kills lasted exactly 1 week. By week 2 the only groups were tuesday groups. Maybe, just maybe, if you got lucky you might find a group that was doing one otherwise, but the zone and trade spam for them was non-existent after tuesday by week 2 of him being out.<br /><br />If it were not for cross realm I don't think I would have ever done him outside of that first week and out guild kills before we walked into the 25 man.<br /><br />Thanks for the raid and gear advice. That sounds like solid advice. I am just worried that if all the mains raid 10s we will not have a team that could even finish flex. Unless some come of course. That would effectively kill the 25 man team all together.<br /><br />It was DPS and execution factor I believe.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-13535520605325518512013-09-12T14:11:14.531-04:002013-09-12T14:11:14.531-04:00Isn't that the best news of the patch? Our dp...Isn't that the best news of the patch? Our dps is below average, so they gave us fun toys to play with. I've been having fun running off cliffs (especially right past the entrance to SoO) with my raid group, and then DEing back on. :)<br /><br />DeliriumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-15044709908693190902013-09-12T14:04:45.184-04:002013-09-12T14:04:45.184-04:00Oh, and I don't recall seeing this in the patc...Oh, and I don't recall seeing this in the patch notes, Disengage can now be used OUT OF COMBAT. REJOICE!!<br /><br />(I totally didn't discover that after walking off a cliff for absolutely no reason and saving my ass at the last second with an unexpected "holy crap, IT WORKED!" disengage after having failed with that exact same move every single time before in the history of EVER... as much as I died out there, THAT TIME I DIDN'T)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-57481002639598426672013-09-12T13:58:34.887-04:002013-09-12T13:58:34.887-04:00If there's one non-truth truth in WoW that I s...If there's one non-truth truth in WoW that I stand sort of fully behind it's that if you want to force an upgrade in a slot, buy an intermediate upgrade right before the raid that can't be refunded. Use that to your advantage.<br /><br />So, if you want the tier chest, right before raid, create the i535 chest, upgrade it with VP, enchant it up and reforge... almost guaranteed the tier chest will drop. Consider the i535 an investment in your toon's future (and making for one less upgrade token to figure out what to do with).<br /><br />Plus, worst case, you've upped your iLvl a bit if the tier chest doesn't drop.<br /><br />Regarding 1 secondary stat vs 2, it's not like 1 stat will give you the same amount as 1 of the 2... you'll get more combined with 2 but it's much less than twice a much. Also, upgrading an i535 by 8 will get you a bigger incremental upgrade than upgrading an i522 by 8. So, I'd definitely make the 522->535 swap in almost any situation. 528TF->535 would be a tougher call but I'd still probably do that as a general plan.<br /><br />I think people did so much on the Island on day 1 that day 2 was a rest day for most... next week, I'd expect to see a bit MORE of things like celestial kills on Wed and Thu than this week. However long your server did Nalak kills for, I'd expect celestials to last at least that long. If they stopped on day 2, though, you're SOL, unless CR helps with that.<br /><br />I'd prefer that you could buy VP with coins... maybe 1000 coins per 100VP. The time investment to get 10K coins should be roughly the same (if not more) than farming VP by other methods so that would seem to be a fair valuation.<br /><br />My suggestion for your raid, use Flex as your 25-man progression model until you've cleared it. Ignore 25-man normal until you're completely finished with Flex. Yes, you might get a boss or two down on normal earlier than later but that'll just complicate things. Stick to Flex.<br /><br />Let your 10-man group worry about its own run. It'll be a while before the early bosses no longer have upgrades for you so it'll be a while before you'll want to be skipping bosses so that's an issue to worry about in a couple of months. For now, I'd keep the runs separate unless someone wants to bring their main to the 25Flex run, either for experience or gear or VP or whatever reason. If they want to run (competent) alts instead, that works too.<br /><br />And as a general note, nothing you can do for yourself gear-wise will get you to a boss any faster. One person simply doesn't have that much impact on 25-man (or even 10-man, really). I'm all for upgrades but don't expect them to result in any sort of progression benefit.<br /><br />As for the difficulty, I'm going to disagree with you on that, I thought the Flex tuning was pretty much perfect. A raid that was achieving success in ToT normal (say, got to the second half of the raid) should have a chance of clearing the first 4 Flex bosses on the first night. Might not, but has a chance. I suspect your issue with boss #3 was a strategic one more than an execution one, if you weren't clearing enough dps quickly enough you simply won't have enough dps to hit the timer unless they're all above average. Mind you, if half the dps were under 50K, execution could be a factor. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com