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Just Hit 80 Ran TOC your advice2010-03-25 00:00:00I got the Purified Twilight Opal for all my blue/red sockets, because spell power and spirit is awesome. Spirit gives you more mana per second through Intensity and additional spell power as well. <br />Not sure about your talent build as I'm working on mine as well, but with 200 haste rating, can't you afford to take one point from Balance of Power, especially since you have Improved Faerie Fire? +9 hit chance from talents alone there, plus 200 haste rating which is 7.5 or so, right? Of course, that's on level 80 mobs, so I don't know how that converts to level 83, but ...
Loyalty vs Levels2010-03-11 00:00:00BaseWolf 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...
Ex-NCsoft Employees on Tabula Rasa's Demise2010-02-24 00:00:00NCsoft 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....
with one of our guild druid healers while2010-02-09 00:00:00ewtkler wrote:I was having a similiar issue with one of our guild druid healers while doing heros. Anytime, I had more than 1 mob on me, it was very diffult to hold the 2nd one on me and would head for him almost every time. My tanking rotation hadn'thanged and it never happened with any of our pallys or priests who run with me. Ian't remember what his bonus healing was at the time, but he was always overhealing more than nessary and healing himself, whh I believe wasausing the mob to take a partuliar interest in him.brewtkler wrote:I was having a sim...
it tually doesnt say that2010-02-06 00:00:00ead the spell again and it tually doesnt say that itant be summoned in instaes. I just always asumed itouldnt :)<br /> My guild had two replement healers in yesterdays kara run. Im 4021 Demodest. We had some doubts about only two 'new' healers on sh a healer intensive fight. I made thehoe so give up some dps to help them out onleanses. I dismissed my scy and summoned a fel hunter. It worked out really really well. He was able to get theleanses off without a problem, only oe did I see two inbetween t...
World of Warcraft: PvP Panel Discussion2009-10-24 00:00:00While much of the World of Warcraft PvP Panel was dedicated to the hows and whys of designing the game's battlegrounds, a few choice tidbits of information were revealed during the discussion that preceded the Q&A session. Once the attendees were able to ask questions, it was clear that their most pressing concern was balance -- specifically the underpowered state of their own played classes, and the overpowered classes everyone else plays (at least, that's the way players often seem to see things). <br /><br />document.write("");<br /><br />Lake Wintergrasp is the fruit of Blizzard's experimentation with world PvP in areas like Silithus and the Plaguelands. Here, players on any type of realm will be able to engage in open world PvP, and some form of persistent incentive will be implemented to make it worthwhile for players to participate. <br /><br />Firing Gnomes out of Cannons?<br /><br />There will be a new battleground as well, which will be focused on the game's new siege weapons and destructible buildings. This objective-based game will reward the team that best makes use of the siege weapons, winning once the enemy base is destroyed. Interestingly enough, siege weapons aren't just for destroying buildings. You will, for instance, be able to use an Undead meat wagon to chuck bodies at other players, or you can simply lob a boulder onto your enemies' skulls with a catapult.<br /><br />One...
Chinese gamer sued for using WoW add-on2009-09-22 00:00:00What if World of Warcraft had no add-ons, would you still play? Worse yet, what if they had the add-ons, and you were aware of them, but it was actually illegal to use them? That's the state of the game in China right now, thanks to the country's licensed WoW distributor, The9.<br /><br />As part of The9's ongoing war against add-ons, they introduced anti-...
Unadulterated Awesomeness2009-09-21 00:00:00Because they're... bruised! 'cause we hit them! A lot!
...don't judge me.
Fight #3 is against Rokdar the Sundered Lord, a Mountain Giant (but not the cute friendly kind we know from Azeroth, a big spiky ugly brute) from the Blade's Edge Mountains. He's not particularly hard, though he does hit like a truck-and his size makes it hard to get a good screenshot. Once Rokdar goes down, Gurgthock ups the prize, giving us 5 Super Health Potions and 5 Super Mana Potions in addition to the gold and XP. Sweet deal!
The fourth bout is Skra'gath, one of those armored Void Lords we've been seeing about (like Pandemonius). He's got some shadow damage, but really, not all that hard. This is cake! Easy cake, too!
Hey, Gurgthock tells me (and my party) that the next bout is against the Warmaul Champion himself to defend his title.
How bad can it be, eh?
All the other fighters spawned in the ring.
However, the Champion-a large armored Murkblood warrior-walks in from the outside. Once he nears the ring, he turns immediately hostile and attacks anybody nearby. In this case, it happens to be our Shaman, who wasn't really paying attention. Before we can blink, our totem-dropping pal is hamburger.
This guy hits hard. VERY hard. Our one healer can't really outheal his damage, especially with Mortal Strike, and we wipe.
The next time, we're all very careful to stay in the ring and let our tank aggro him first. This time, he's an armored Ethereal. I'd also see an Orc and an Ogre, so I guess it's just randomly chosen. Though he still hits like a truck, we beat him this time.
During all five fights, the big Ogre, Mogor, has been jeering us and insulting us. When the Champion falls, the brute is so incense...
Better than thou attitude?2009-09-14 00:00:00an enormous amount of inside information from spending way too much time being a clan leader in Lineage 2. Most (if not all) of these “generals” look the other way when one of their members buys adena.
They only put their virtual foot down if they receive bad publicity.
How many times has one of their members been “hacked”, lost all their gear, and bought adena to replace the ...
SouthPark: Chinatown Wars Is Worth Thirty Shekels2009-09-07 00:00:00The moral velociraptor of our times lets fly again with the story of Jesus, the Credit Crunch and GTA Chinatown Wars. Classy.<br />In "Margaritaville", aired last night, the episode follows the rough period from the Sermon on the Mount to The Last Supper with a few "clever" alterations - For instance, replacing God with the Economy, talking about how "The Economy has failed us" and "The Jewish Kid must be the Son of the Economy"<br />The Last Supper takes place over...
