World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Naniad · 2010-10-17T03:35:03.000Z

Not sure if this will help but try turning off hardware cursor.

Andrew · 2010-10-17T05:40:03.000Z

seventimessix:

I’m glad I wasn’t the only person who was seeing this. I was healing our pally tank on Blood Prince Council and barely had time to heal anyone else because he was taking such large chunks of damage. At first I thought he may have forgotten to switch into his tanking gear but it was just that so much more damage was making it through to him.

Plate tanks need to reforge as much avoidance as possible into mastery. Gear right now has so much avoidance on it that you are pushing deep into diminishing returns, so additional points don’t get you much. Paladins at level 80 in decent gear can get “block capped” by reforging into mastery, which means that every hit will either miss entirely or be blocked, which reduces damage by 30%.

Royal_Fool · 2010-10-17T05:47:09.000Z

pyrhic:

I’ve had more crashes this week than i’ve ever had with wow in five years.

#1 on my hate list right now: hard crash every time i enter brd.

Yeah, I’ve been experiencing this too.

Chris_Gwinn · 2010-10-17T05:55:32.000Z

Naniad:

Not sure if this will help but try turning off hardware cursor.

And people asked how Blizzard would compete with Final Fantasy XIV…

RobotPants · 2010-10-17T11:23:07.000Z

LOL Yeah! Wait, what?

seventimessix · 2010-10-17T11:32:49.000Z

The teaser video they played today during football was very cool.

whispa · 2010-10-17T11:37:21.000Z

Haven’t played WoW in almost a year…How is the pvp these days as well as the upcoming Cataclysm expansion? As a casual player who loves pvp, I was turned off by the gear beats skill setting.

Andrew · 2010-10-17T11:51:38.000Z

whispa:

Haven’t played WoW in almost a year…How is the pvp these days as well as the upcoming Cataclysm expansion? As a casual player who loves pvp, I was turned off by the gear beats skill setting.

Gear is still supposed to be important (Blizzard seems to believe nobody will PvP if they aren’t grinding for that next piece of gear), but they are making it easier to get gear, by making almost everything acquirable in Rated Battlegrounds, and by making the entry craftable PvP gear get better each season, instead of becoming almost immediately worthless.

whispa · 2010-10-17T12:13:52.000Z

Andrew:

Gear is still supposed to be important (Blizzard seems to believe nobody will PvP if they aren’t grinding for that next piece of gear), but they are making it easier to get gear, by making almost everything acquirable in Rated Battlegrounds, and by making the entry craftable PvP gear get better each season, instead of becoming almost immediately worthless.

Thanks for the info! I just did a search for rated BG’s and read that this should even the playing field and play it more skill can beat those with better gear.

ScubaV · 2010-10-17T13:38:41.000Z

I’m looking at the tier 11 models on MMO Champion and a lot of them have a nice design (except for some ridiculous helms), but they all look to have the same type of material. As in there doesn’t appear to be a distinction between cloth, leather, mail, or plate.

rei · 2010-10-17T14:09:48.000Z

intro cinematic is out.

same monster scream as every other cg creature in existence though.

Royal_Fool · 2010-10-17T14:18:45.000Z

Pretty damn cool (as usual for Blizzard)!

Wish they’d thrown in some more landmarks in high-quality CG form, though. Their huge world deserves it.

DragonPup · 2010-10-17T15:06:52.000Z

I chuckled when I noticed that Goblin zepplin was filled with hydrogen.

RobotPants · 2010-10-17T15:38:42.000Z

Metzen does a good job with the voice-overs, but really, he shouldn’t be voicing so many signature characters. Deathwing just sounds like an angrier Thrall/Wrynn and/or a calmer Ragnaros/Nefarion.

Otherwise, awesome cinematic.

JM1 · 2010-10-17T15:39:57.000Z

Deathwing should’ve been a pissed-off Christopher Walken.

Marcin · 2010-10-17T15:59:49.000Z

rei:

intro cinematic is out.

same monster scream as every other cg creature in existence though.

… yeah, and the same screen distortion effect. Man, I was bitching about that when Wratch beta came out and it’s STILL the same scream.

So … from that trailer, how is Stormwind even left standing? :P

DragonPup · 2010-10-17T16:11:43.000Z

Marcin:

…
So … from that trailer, how is Stormwind even left standing? :P

They tricked Van Cleef into rebuilding it again.

nutsak · 2010-10-17T16:18:31.000Z

JM:

Deathwing should’ve been a pissed-off Christopher Walken.

I hid this uncomfortable hunk of Azeroth up my ass for two thousand years. Then, after seven thousand years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little <class>, I give Azeroth to you.

Royal_Fool · 2010-10-17T16:39:11.000Z

DragonPup:

They tricked Van Cleef into rebuilding it again.

I guess that explains his disappearance from the Deadmines in Cataclysm. They all want us to believe he is dead… but we know better!

Nephrinn · 2010-10-17T16:56:58.000Z

Really enjoyed the cinematic. Deathwing definitely feels like the most epic boss to date. I just wish Blizzard would wake up and turn their cinematics into movies or even a TV mini series already.