It’s weird that you capitalize “guild.”
Lorini
4042
Whoah they moved maintenance to today. I assume it’s because of the big arena hiccup.
Soloing Ozumat (final phase of H ToT) is amusing.
jeffd
4044
Oy I can’t believe you guys are so well geared after two weeks! Nerds! :P
Wolff
4045
So crazy Arena hotfix - all ratings and mmr reset to 1500 - conquest points (via arena only?) locked to 1383 this week. The MMR exploit ratings needed to be reigned in, but this may be a bit much for players who have been legitimately playing.
Also nerf ferals FFS :P
Blue Post:
As many of you are aware there was an issue which allowed players to reach unexpectedly high Match Making Values. While that issue has since been resolved, we’re taking steps to control what occurred while it was active.
• All existing items requiring 2200 rating will have their minimum level requirement temporarily increased to make those items unusable. This change is currently planned to be reverted on January 25.
• Weapons which require a 2200 rating will be unavailable for purchase. This limitation is also planned for reversion on January 25.
• All player and team ratings for arenas will be reduced to a maximum of 1500. (Player, team and matchmaking ratings below 1500 will not be affected)
• Match Making Values for all players will be set to 1500.
In addition, the “best week rating” will be reduced to a maximum of 1500 to match the rating change, which will in turn be used to determine next week’s max weekly Conquest Points. The maximum Conquest Points given for next week will be set to 1343 to match the number that would be obtainable with a rating of 1500.
Can anyone quickly summarize what was going on?
You didn’t lose any MMR when losing a game so everyone had a crazy inflated MMR (1300 players sitting at 2700 etc.). It also led to legitimate 2.5-2.7k players farming those 1300 players to inflating their rating even more, so we had quite a few teams sitting at 3.5k rating, or more, which is pretty bad one week in to the season.
No such thing as playing legitimately. Everyone benefitted from this one way or another even if they didn’t know about it. This kind of reset was the only way to solve it.
Lorini
4049
One wonders how they could blow this so badly. That’s a pretty spectacular mistake.
Galadin
4050
Okay, all this talk on cataclysm has sadly made me interested in at least checking out Azeroth.
With that in mind, I know they have the Scrolls of Resurrection and wonder if anyone wants to send me one.
I am not sure I will resubscribe, but if I do, would like to know that someone at least gets a free month for it.
Send one to my email, galadin@linderoth.org.
Sent you one, galadin. Hope it works.
I’ve heard people say a couple of times now that all of the dedicated PVP developers are working on “Titan” now. I’d imagine in a few weeks, the Titan MMO is going to be systematically blamed for every serious error in WoW (Tol Barad, bugged quests, frost mages and feral druids running away with the PVP game…).
sinnick
4053
Effing Wintergrasp. I’ve been trying to buy some heirloom shoulders with my left over Honor Points for two nights now, but every time I go there it’s under Horde control. Which means I can’t visit the Quartermaster because he doesn’t appear unless it’s under Alliance Control.
What a stupid system. I don’t want to fight the bloody battleground, I just want to visit the damn shop. Even if I wanted to fight the battleground, it only runs every 2 and a half hours and no one ever does it, so I have no help.
Yeah, even stupid Tol Barad lets you use the vendors and do the dailies while a battle’s going on.
I’m glad to see that my decision to stop caring about PvP about halfway through vanilla appears to have been the correct one.
Athryn
4056
Except that, kinda like wintergrasp, it has an effect on PvE. There’s a raid boss, and dailies that don’t unlock unless you hold the keep. There are PvE weapons/trinkets on the vendors, and without the extra dailies it takes longer to get them :(
Also, it’s going to take a month to fix. Wut? I was hoping to grab an arena weapon quick, since my Death Knight seems to do a strangely low amount of damage in PVP. Especially compared to Frost Mages and Feral Druids, which are overpowered to the extent of lolololololololololololol, or over 9000, or charging their lazers, or <your meme here>.
No seriously, Frost Mages are fucking ridiculous right now. I think I spend half of every BG/Tol Barad frozen by one of their potential 4 Frost Novas at a time. Ice Barrier -> Elemental Freeze -> 2x Ice Lance Crits -> Nova -> Ice Lance til break -> free Nova from Ice Barrier breaking -> Ice Lance til break -> kite til CDs are up (or just Frost Snap) -> return to start. I’m pretty sure a Frost Mage bot could get at least 2000. It’s such low-level logic and decision making that it makes me worry the players are getting dumber for it.
At least Feral Druids just kill you in the span of two stuns and move on to their next free kill.
Oh, is there some kind of lore guide book out there for WoW? Not one of the novels, but just an encyclopedia or something?
James:
First off, freeze is on DR. Second, you’re a DK, for fuck’s sake; you have snares to keep them there, Death Grip for after they blink, a massive duration interrupt, and a defensive cooldown that prevents the application of magic debuffs, not to mention that every one of those CCs can be dispelled by any healer or by the use of a PvP trinket.
Oh, and that doesn’t even count Strangulate.
Frost Mages might be slightly overpowered right now, but nowhere near the level to which you’re massively QQing about.
