tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post749217438349541837..comments2024-03-29T05:19:30.673-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Monday Random ThoughtsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-65024399186569686872013-02-12T07:11:46.255-05:002013-02-12T07:11:46.255-05:00No PvP gear either.
That is the key, if they spen...No PvP gear either.<br /><br />That is the key, if they spent some of their resources on developing something else, like pet battles instead of the old world remake, cataclysm might have been better.<br /><br />When it comes down to it cataclysm ended up being exactly what I said it was when it was first released. It was a patch they charged us for. Nothing more. It went on way to long and was not good enough to be an expansion on its own. Blizzard wanted to remake the old world so they did, put in some areas that had been in the game since vanilla, and called it an expansion just so they could charge us for it.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-69262915956934276672013-02-12T06:57:26.075-05:002013-02-12T06:57:26.075-05:00I finished the 6K part a while ago, but can not ge...I finished the 6K part a while ago, but can not get a group to beat that guy. Not like I have really tried, no sha touched weapon yet to even do anything with, so no rush.<br /><br />Can't believe the new patch is in 2 weeks and we have not finished normal mode raiding yet and I still have not got the sha weapon, even in MFR quality.<br /><br />It is way too soon to be released.<br /><br />As I always say, blizzard has no clue what balance is. They do things feast or famine. Now we are in feast mode, more than we can do. Don't worry, in due time we will be sitting around with nothing to do when the last raid comes out and we are stuck doing it for a year and the over nerf it over and over again to make it seem like we are getting something new. I have faith in them to totally abandon their faster release nature. That is too quality for them and they have proved they are anything but a good quality company.<br /><br />In the end, the raid being ready for release so soon is awesome design and shows a step in the right direction. However, actually releasing it when nearly no one has finished it on normal (percentage wise) is a failure to plan.<br /><br />@Roo<br /><br />Check your dungeon finder, under the drop down menu you will see chemical crown company, that is the love dungeon.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-50263543352842534132013-02-12T06:52:02.972-05:002013-02-12T06:52:02.972-05:00I agree, they were not bad on their own except for...I agree, they were not bad on their own except for the linear nature of them but they really did seem to lack cohesion as you mentioned. In the end, that is what makes them bad.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-40477833488450844842013-02-12T06:35:27.100-05:002013-02-12T06:35:27.100-05:00I doubt he has the time to read things like this. ...I doubt he has the time to read things like this. But it would be interesting to see what he would say.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-80270241518738718192013-02-12T03:17:28.730-05:002013-02-12T03:17:28.730-05:00I like the revamp of the old zones that they did i...I like the revamp of the old zones that they did in Cata. They did make things far too linear, but I think the 1-60 zones are much better now than they were before. On the other hand, I don't know whether the revamp of that scale was really worth it. Many of the old quests were pretty unfun (very badly itemized rewards, traveling all over the zone or sometimes all over the world for little reason, etc), that's true. But maybe if they spent 20% of their effort on fixing just those things and redirected the remaining 80% to something else (like, we could have had pet battles, the farm, world bosses and maybe something else in Cata, and something new instead of these things today), it would have been better? It is, however, easy to theorize about all these things now, so I don't really blame them.<br /><br />On getting ilvl 460 without dungeons, crafting and valor: I take it you exclude PVP as well, because if you don't, it's a piece of cake (458 just from honor). :-)<br /><br />On the upcoming 5.2 and the holiday: I don't need anything from the holiday, so that's two weeks with little to do aside from PVP. I briefly thought about maybe getting my 85 DK to 90 and getting her to 460 in anticipation of the increased drop rates in 5.0/5.1 LFRs. Then, after 5 minutes of thinking about it, I wondered why I'd even contemplate doing such a thing since I already have a couple of characters that can do both LFR and normal raids, and I am rarely doing any of them any more as this just don't seem to be fun (not saying the raids can't be fun for anyone). That thought killed the temptation. It is amazing how deep the lure of gear sits, even though I know I don't need or even want it, my brain sometimes acts like I do. :-)PVP anonhttp://nowhere.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-55373536637004056832013-02-11T20:59:59.278-05:002013-02-11T20:59:59.278-05:00Love Dungeon - wtf- where is that Jaeger?Love Dungeon - wtf- where is that Jaeger?-abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-48929449515662008172013-02-11T20:37:12.886-05:002013-02-11T20:37:12.886-05:00-Just finished the 6000vp part of the Legendary qu...-Just finished the 6000vp part of the Legendary quest.<br /><br />-Got the two BG wins, luckily without too much trouble. Saw a lot of people talking about still trying after dozens of attempts.<br /><br />-Really annoying to include PvP in the PvE Legendary questline... You know, just sayin...<br /><br />-Blizz is also stupid if they think that the baseline 40% resilience does anything. I was better off in mixed 460-something pvp/pve gear than I was is full 488 pve gear. I still got killed super fast though.<br /><br />-Need to do the raid group quest now. Hopefully enough people in guild still need to do it. Need to setup a guild event for it.<br /><br />-Did a heroic 10man ICC run with 6 people over the weekend. Just seems pathetic how easily we can zerg things now. Those Shadowtraps will still knock you off the platform though.<br /><br />-Did a scenario yesterday to cap valor. I did 70% of the overall dmg. I was with two fresh 90s that could barely pull that 15K Grumpy mentioned above. One was a hunter. He was so bad that I didn't even know where to start. If he was on my server, I probably would have tried teaching him some things but I'm sure I'll never see him again so...<br /><br />-Patch is coming in two weeks?!?!? WTF?!!?!? WAY TOO SOON!!!! Still have tons of stuff to do.<br /><br />-Our guild just got Lei Shi last week and are working on Sha. They're not ready for a new raid tier... Personally, I haven't even stepped into a normal.<br /><br />-The way Blizz is handling valor gear this expansion is so screwed up... Valor gets converted to Justice but that's useless because the old Valor gear still costs Valor!!! Brilliant Blizzard! Just Brilliant! /rollseyes<br /><br />-It really seems like Blizzard is changing stuff just to make changes... "who cares if it's good for the game or not, just change things"<br /><br />-Guess I'll go do the Love dungeon. Still need the mount. Got lucky with the pet yesterday at least.<br /><br />-Hopefully, Blizz fixed the starting point so we aren't getting ported into the wrong room still...Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-57038293030609509752013-02-11T19:30:42.394-05:002013-02-11T19:30:42.394-05:00You don't need a plan really for cata questing...You don't need a plan really for cata questing, it goes absurdly fast now. I usually do the whole Hyjal zone (I just like it, but you can go to Deepholm at I think 81?) which gets me to 82 and change, then do about half of Deepholm to get to 83, then the cat people quests in Uldum to 84, then about 1/3 of Twilight Highlands to 85. The first time I did it after MOP I was amazed at how fast it went.<br /><br />The Cata zones aren't bad in and of themselves, but they definitely do lack any kind of cohesive theme. Even a zone like Zul'drak which was mostly self-contained fit within the theme of Wrath, but in Cata you go from fighting Ragnaros to fixing the world-pillar to running around a desert helping cat people and doing the Indiana Jones thing, then off to do...stuff...in Twilight Highlands. The whole experience is like: what? <br /><br />I remember them saying that the whole old-world revamp ended up suffering from mission creep, where they initially set out to clean up the edges some and eventually ended up redoing almost every zone. That definitely explains why Cataclysm was so crappy. But they actually made some aspects of the old world worse: the old old world had I think 4 different end zones (Winterspring, Silithus, EPL, Burning Steppes), the new old world only has 2, Silithus and Blasted Lands. And Silithus was apparently untouched for the most part, not even having enough quests to get you from 55-58. My warrior went through it and went from 55-56.5 or something. Got the achievement and everything. So I had to go to Blasted Lands, which has everyone else in that level range, + CRZ, and, well, I hope you like waiting for quest spawns. Thanks Blizzard!Mattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-48626499536506039532013-02-11T17:18:54.058-05:002013-02-11T17:18:54.058-05:00- I think the next big patch should be more about ...<i> - I think the next big patch should be more about developing a better community and not developing another raid.</i><br /><br />Here, here! Too bad ghostcrawler doesn't read this blog.<br /><br />-roo <i>"where's my bologna?"</i><br /><br />-abhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14899567485973250660noreply@blogger.com