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Loyalty vs Levels2010-03-11BaseWolf wrote:If I keep my pet from lvl 10 and raise it to lvl 50, dose it get more skill points then a new pet at lvl 50 with full loyalty lvl? And are there any other differences then the skill points, like do the raised ones get better stats? <br />Edited, Jul 7th 2007 8:57pm by BaseWolf <br />Why don't you go read a few things before posting here. <br />Hell, I'll make you a little list... <br />1. The God Damned STICKY! More specifically, the pet section. Page two, first post. <br />2. Petopia! There is hardly a single letter on these p...
ammo and quivers2010-03-06So I was recently checking out the leatherworking patterns for my rogue and noticed that after around lvl 40 there aren't any recipe's for ammo pouches or quivers. Now the reason I ask is on my hunter who's a lvl 60, I'm using both the ammo pouch from my lvl 40 and the quiver also lvl 40ish, but is there anything that drops from bosses? It would seem that a 16 slot ammo/quiver would be a little rough for raids. Even when I run instances I probably run through about half of my ammo on a good run. So is there anything else?This thread has been moved. It ...
Ex-NCsoft Employees on Tabula Rasa's Demise2010-02-24NCsoft Europe's ex-CTO Adam Martin commented on his T=Machine blog about his close-up experience as a NCsoft insider with Tabula Rasa's prolonged development, and giving an excellent analysis on the reasons that led to the eventual demise:<br /><br />In the online games industry, if we keep quiet about the causes, the hopes, the fears, the successes, and the failures of the best part of $100million burnt on a single project, then what hope is there for us to avoid making the same mistakes again?<br />Unlike Scott, I actually (superficially speaking) agree with this statement as to why Tabula Rasa, Age of Conan, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and Hellgate:London failed (TR, AoC, PotBS, and HL from now now...)<br />"No, these games failed because their developers let it happen."-Funcom *should have* learned enough lessons with Anarchy Online not to make the mistakes they did with AoC; not the precise same mistakes, but the same "class" of mistakes were made, suggesting that they tried to fix only the symptoms and failed to understand the causes.<br />-Destination Games knew a long long time before TR went to beta that it wasn't (going to be) ready even for beta, let alone launch. IMHO NCsoft collectively knew very well that TR wasn't ready for launch, but went ahead and launched it anyway.<br />-Bill Roper went on record to say that no-one understood their sales/revenue model, from the start. As I've mentioned before, that pretty much guarantees failure, and it's not rocket-science to understand why!<br />-Pirates ... I have no idea, actually. It's the one that I have never played (although I really wanted to) nor even *seen* (which is unusual). I'm not going to talk about PotBS any more, since I really know nothing about it.<br />NB: I don't happen to agree with anything else in that post. I've got nothing against it, I just didn't find anything interesting or new about the games themselves in the post, and IMHO the list of "why this happened" is too shallow and derivative to be worth saying in 2009 - the same has been said many times over the last ten years by many people, and ain't particularly insightful in the first place. Sorry, dude.<br />Martin's personal post-mortem generated waves with another ex-NCsoft employee, Scott "Lum the Mad" Jennings, who had the following to say:<br />Well, Adam's a bit safer in that he's on a whole other continent....
Unadulterated Awesomeness2009-09-21Unadulterated Awesomeness<br />Last time, the Mage They Call Jayne(z) died quite a bit. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and all that. Thanks to the wondrous magic of "Rez Spells"? death was in no way permanent. Oh, video games. Where else can you die and live to complain about it? <br />After going up against some nifty bosses and actually not winning, Jayne(z) decided that he'd had enough of this zone for now-besides, he didn't like it ANYWAY. So THERE! He made his way to the gentle rolling plains of Nagrand, ran into Sir Hemet Nesingwary of Nesingwary's "Gank Me" Expedition, and ended up in Garadar, home of the Mag'har tribe of brown Orcs.<br /><br />I kinda wonder what makes them "Brown." I mean, they're definitely biological kin: we see Kilrogg Deadeye's son, Grom Hellscream's son, Saurfang's son... and they're all brown, not green like their kin. Strange. Perhaps it's something in Outland? Let's just say a wizard (Medivh!) did it. <br /><br />As one can expect, there's a boatload of quests for yours truly, with objectives all over the massive zone of Nagrand. I can tell right away that this is going to be a blast. No, really, it's actually pretty cool. But what would I be without my sarcasm? Certainly not your loveable, humble, narrator! <br />I've got quests up the wazoo, which is a very uncomfortable place for quests. Apparently, the Mag'har had another village far to the West, which was then invaded by the Murkblood tribe of Broken, who slaughtered most of the inhabitants. But since the Greatmother is sick and dying, Garrosh Hellscream can't get off his emo ass and go do something. So, the orcs ask if a certain awesomely nifty Mage can go help them get revenge. Unfortunately, as revenge is against my code, I have to decline.<br />Just kidding. You know me better than that, people! I'm all over that revenge thing.<br /><br />In a pleasant discovery, each Broken killed awards me with 10 Mag'har reputation. Since there are groups of Murkblood Scavengers that have next to no HP, this becomes a very quick way to grind rep. Not that I really see a point to it (the only faction rewards I've seen thus far are some nifty epic mounts at Exalted, but I've got other things to do!) but... it's nice anyway. <br /><br />Nearby, I encounter Saurfang the Younger-not yet ascended to ULTIMATE BADASS status like his father, but tough enough-and two Mag'Har Elders, who relate the tragic story about how the Warmaul Ogres attacked their caravan and kidnapped their people. I go kick some ass, set some Orcs free, you know the drill. I'm starting to think that being a Mag'har Orc sucks, by the way.<br /><br />Of course, this entire time I'm also accomplishing quests from that ol' Nesingwary. No longer content with asking players to kill 12 or 15 of a creature type, Hemet and Pals ask for a hefty 30 kills per quest in their drive to make everything on Outland extinct. Well, not everything-just the Clefthooves, the Talbuks (think antelopes) and the Windrocs. <br /><br />Far to the southwest, there's a large mountain called Oshu'gun, surrounded by Voidspawns, various Ethereals, and at least one gigantic Gronn called Durn the Hungerer that gives me a bit of a scare. 10g say I have to kill him at some point. Any takers? Didn't think so.<br /><br />I wonder what the point of Oshu'gun is, but talking to NPCs in Aeris Point helps clear it up. Apparently, Oshu'gun is the most massive diamond in the known universe, and the Ethereals from the Consortium are out to mine it. So, they want me to help by killing some of the other Ethereals who are looking to get it first, getting rid of the Voidspawns, et cetera. They mention that the Naaru aren't very happy with their plans to mine Oshu'gun, but figure that they can take the Oshu'Gun Crystal Fragments off the corpses of the renegade Ethereals that were already mined. Yay, a quest! <br />Another Ethereal asks me for three Ivory Tusks from the Wild Elekk (elephant-creatures and the Draenei mount) that inhabit Nagrand. He assures me he has an "understanding" with the Draenei and the Orcs, but I'm not entirely sure I trust him. There's something fishy about the Consortium... but since it hasn't been explicitly said in a quest yet, I suppose I got nothin'. <br />Incidentally, almost every mob in Nagrand has a chance to drop "Oshu'gun Crystal Powder," which you turn in at Halaa (when you control it) for 3 gold, 6k XP, and a Halaa Research Token... but more on Halaa later. Believe me, there will be LOTS of information on Halaa, because it is t3h awesomez.<br /><br />There's a Stonehenge-y thing up to the north called the Throne of the Elements, where four gigantic Elemental guards roam around a quartet of Shamans who give you various quests to restore harmony to the elements, largely by finding things and killing them. Apparently, it's a hub for both factions, and my curiosity at how Blizzard is planning on making it less of a Nesingwary-esque death zone is appeased when I try to fireball a Warrior, and get crushed by Gordawg (Fury of Earth) for about 21k damage. <br /><br />Ouch. Ok, lesson thoroughly learned. <br /><br />One of the more amusing quests in the zone is from the Throne of Elements, where a Broken shaman tells me that I'll need something to let me breathe underwater, and a particular berry can do the trick. Unfortunately, the best way to find them is to sift through the dung piles of the Nagrand wildlife. <br /><br />...ew? Sometimes I think the quest writers at Blizzard have a very twisted sense of humor.<br />There's also a very cool an...
Living in a material virtual world2009-09-04Whether you play WoW for the phat lewt or not, we can all agree that the end-game is mostly item-based. How cool do you feel when you're the only one running around with the Twin Blades of Azzinoth? Well, what if it suddenly became much easier to obtain those blades, and everyone was running around with them? Regardless of t...
EA Partners signs up Red Eagle2009-09-03Red Eagle has signed up with EA Partners to produce games based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series.<br />Under the agreement, Red Eagle will develop and publish games for consoles, PCs, handhelds and mobile platforms, including an MMO based on the themes, characters and world of The Wheel of Time.<br />"The W...
Holy is not THAT bad It may not be2009-05-14YJMark wrote:Seriously though - Holy is not THAT bad. It may not be easyakes healing like a Druid or Priest or Shammy, but it's still better than any non-healing sp :) My Holy Light will beat out any bandage-using punks anytimeanyple. Bring it! very true. however, sp holy in theurrent beta build and see if my ret pally with the same gear doesn't heal better and for longer. <br><br>honestly as mh as we'll berit'ing i think the HoT from SoL will be veryommon and the instant FoL was available on most of my judgements on the test dummy testing i was doing for the seals. this was very handy for SoB testsause i never had to stop toast a heal....
iam an infomani i have one2009-05-09wowow one moment. Even though iam an infomani i have one small weakness, i keep forgetting shortterms. what is WB, RB and FT? Thanks for the all the information it helps a lot. Anyway what i meant with the flame tongue is hte explanation "slower weapons give more damage per swing" Does that mean the damage ireases per swing?<br><br>ah thanks, that whay initially thought but i had this lingering doubt.<br>so does anyone use 2handed weapons late game? to move the DPS slide more to the max per hit? or is it just two slow to...
my gear is awful really Makes2009-05-05Indeed. And as I said, my gear is awful really. Makes no differee when itomes to 5-mans or questing though.<br>Take a little bit more time in questing for rewards. Perhaps look up quests per zone on the internet and find out any drops that would suit you. I havent bought a single pie for my lk, it's all from quests and instaes. There are staffdaggeroffhands, you name it. The only thing i got besides that was a tailored pie of shadoweave. For instae, Deadmines dropped a ne staff and wand usuable for a lk. SFK has someloth stuff and seeying how your are 22, id say hit stks (and SFK?). Then around 3040 SM has some items for ya (hypnot blade, e) Getloth with +stam first and foremost. Add a bit of +int here and there. Don't bother with +shadow untill you are 40 at least and even then someonsider it not needed yet. Stay away from the AH from now on. It's a mo...
demonology sp I rarely use shards 2009-04-30I should maybe add... My lk is demonology sp. I rarely use shards. Only use them to reple my healthstone and felguard, when needed. Not sure why, but I stillarry around a shard bag and it's always full. However, I don't run into any problems with my bag spe, so having the shard bag on me doesn'tause me problems. I'd prefer it if we (alllasses) got 1 additional spot for a bag, but have the spot spifally for an ammo bag or shard bag. This would make so we wouldn't need to dih the shard bag for anothe...
