tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post5453626560929603313..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Once Again Blizzard Fails at Winters VeilTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-53605940321029213572014-12-29T11:00:17.433-05:002014-12-29T11:00:17.433-05:00Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
A l...Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.<br /><br />A lot of people are finally seeing what I was talking about when I said professions were in a bad place. Over all I think they were at a "still in development" stage when the game was released and they never finished fine tuning them.<br /><br />The thing you mention about the non enchanter being able to make everything but the enchanter having to buy all the patterns is really a huge issue. How can someone without the profession make everything from the second they have the building but the person with the actual profession needs to wait 70 days + to get all the patterns. That was poor design. They should have made the building need books too, and then with books you can teach the people in the building the pattern, same as the person needs to learn it. That would have been more balanced. <br /><br />The whole everything being tied to cooldown materials is horrible. I believe if they were not soulbound it would not as huge of an issue, because you can buy them or have alts make them for you to speed it up. But otherwise it is horrible being locked to cooldowns for everything.<br /><br />In their effort to fix professions they destroyed them. I am not looking forward to the next expansion when they have to take a step back and try to fix this mess they made.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-56523578180373605502014-12-29T10:52:36.379-05:002014-12-29T10:52:36.379-05:00Happy holidays Roo.
Your story just goes to show ...Happy holidays Roo.<br /><br />Your story just goes to show there are not only one type of jerk, there are many. So it is not only the people on the mammoths but the people yelling at them for being on the mammoths sometimes.<br /><br />The game is a place for small people to pretend like they are big people. Sometimes I feel bad for the people acting out in game because I always think of them as these people that get crapped on all day long in real life that makes them feel this is how they can make themselves feel better, more important. Funny part is, it just shows how pitiful their real life might be, it does not give them the strength they are reaching for acting out like that.<br /><br />I like your idea. I would bet they do not last 10 minutes. Lets see how long that tough guy attitude lasts in the real world.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-74963978333236495452014-12-29T10:49:38.831-05:002014-12-29T10:49:38.831-05:00They think they can do anything they want because ...They think they can do anything they want because it is not them. But I agree, your avatar is an extension of yourself. Unless you are on a RP server and RPing something, your character is who you are. If you are a jerk in game you are a jerk outside of it as well.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-77733616393002325632014-12-29T10:48:16.330-05:002014-12-29T10:48:16.330-05:00It would be easier if they just made it so people ...It would be easier if they just made it so people could not mount there and it would be a non-issue. Not sure why they have not done that after all these years when it happens every year like this.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-13888897246255166202014-12-27T16:56:02.203-05:002014-12-27T16:56:02.203-05:00Definitely an annoyance and an easy one to fix. O...Definitely an annoyance and an easy one to fix. Only a minor annoyance compared to how unfinished professions are though! I know you've posted on this before Grumpy, but it's only now that I have my alts coming up that I see how broken professions+Garrisons are and this is as good a place as any to vent!<br /><br />JC has the Small Pouch of Coins for extra Secrets of Draenor books, Engineering does not (all profs should have this).<br /><br />My non enchanter hunter with Garrison building has access to all enchants (except the weapons). My enchanter with the Garrison building does not! and has to buy each recipe before he can make them (please tell me I missed something here!). <br /><br />Some professions require the cooldown mats to level up easily, others don't.<br /><br />Regular changes in recipes because they were so wrong to begin with... <br /><br />Really unfinished... I guess they'll be cleaned up by the next major release...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09218706040348104690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-25061251772739050402014-12-27T10:12:23.899-05:002014-12-27T10:12:23.899-05:00A story about of one of those who was yelling at t...A story about of one of those who was yelling at the assholes, they were "yelling" about getting off Grandfather", cussing up a blue streak - even made me blush! I whispered to them, this is pretty normal and instead of cussing, maybe use shrinking powder on them. I get back in a whisper "EAT ME!", all in caps. At that point, I realized, that not only those who are being big are 12 years old, but so are the ones screaming their fool heads off and cussing. The game has become (maybe it was all these years) a place for small people (in attitude and pretense) to pretend that they are big and smart. <br /><br />I truly would like to put a rifle in their hands, drop them behind enemy lines - not far, just 5 klicks or so, and see how long they last. <br /><br />Thanks again for a thoughtful post, GE.<br /><br />-roo-abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-71902683096628192612014-12-26T18:45:13.133-05:002014-12-26T18:45:13.133-05:00Welcome to a world without consequence. In real l...Welcome to a world without consequence. In real life those people would be drug down off their mounts by angry mobs and beaten. I engage them, call them out, use open chat to question their humanity and remind them that they ARE their avatar. I ask them if they need friends or attention. They sputter and grief and spam for a while but i am relentless. The goal is to make the mob question them as human beings-to strip away their avatar to reveal the ugly person behind it. At that point they turn tail and flee. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-51708189256204772882014-12-26T06:16:09.150-05:002014-12-26T06:16:09.150-05:00Belated seasonal greetings!
In regards to the sti...Belated seasonal greetings!<br /><br />In regards to the still-not-fixed Mammothapalooza: it's a hotly debated topic on the official forums (esp. the US) , the skinny being that many pose that same question regardings Blizz intentions (in the current climate) and Blizz apparently FINALLY giving people temp bans etc. for these antics (understandable given the current climate; anecdotically, I seriously see more WoD commercials on the Dutch telly now than before the launch).<br /><br />NetherLandsnoreply@blogger.com