5041

Does anyone have an idea about this issue that only affects my shaman? It seems that whenever I cast a spell, the resulting spell effect causes the game to lock up for 5+ seconds at a time. Other shamans don’t cause it, and my other characters are all fine, even in raid situations.

5042

i got that and it was one of my addons.

5043

Any idea which one?

Edit: My shaman uses Grid, Gatherer, TellMeWhen, ItemRack and DBM

Edit2: Disabled Grid, seems to have been the culprit.

5044

I’m sure you’re being at least partially sardonic. Right? Please tell me I’m right.

That said, I’ll still mention that for every 1 hilarious story about Bilbo Baddins there are 25 that aren’t funny at all and simply induce rage and a deep hatred of all that is WoW.

Also, if one of the primary perks to (truly random, not you and your friends) LFD’ing is learning when to leave LFDs, then I really don’t know what to think of people that keep slamming their head against that wall other that they’re into S&M and prefer playing the sub.

And that’s a solid theory.

My girlfriend doesn’t read chat. At all. Not by choice, she just gets caught up in the action and stops caring. We jokingly say that she comes off as a chinese gold farmer – dead silent, completely unresponsive, and when she does talk, it’s one line per dungeon and in all caps (her fingers are too small to hit the Tab key from WASD on my large keyboard, and as a result she has to use capslock for tab-targetting).

I think the number of people that truly don’t care about winning is pretty small. Conversely, I think the number of people that truly don’t care about min/maxing every drip of TPS/DPS/HPS out of their character is absolutely huge. And the number of people like my girlfriend – who just get caught up in the action and don’t read chat/have DBM installed/don’t pay attention to more than the combat – is also huge.

Cataclysm’s primary failure (and I think it’s a very successful, well-designed expansion – save for this point) is that the content becomes totally biploar at 85. They understand that WoW is, at this point, a casual game… and then totally forget that at 85.

There are all kinds of heavy-handed fixes, like removing LFD for heroics. There are also sane fixes, like fixing tank queueing exploitation.

But that won’t help. Only outgearing/nerfing the dungeons will. Blizzard is trying to reset the faceroll easymode of WOTLK, but failed to realize 1-84 is faceroll easymode.

And yes, I’ve cancelled my account. My billing cycle was to renew on the 19th, which is about a week away from Rift. I’ll be away from WoW for awhile, but I saw that coming. I play expansions hardcore for a month and inevitably burn out.

5045

Can’t cancel until I finish my outfit by completing the pants, chest and shoulder (the face is horrible)

5046

I dunno, the only ones that make me mad are when I fuck up something. The rest are usually hilarious in some way. I can’t get enough of man hit in crotch by football style humor, though, so your mileage may vary.

5047

I’d say this is exciting news, but I’m sure you’ll still be posting your rants here anyway.

5048

This! If you get angry at PUGs you are taking a video game way to seriously and are really missing out on a great opportunity to laugh at adversity.

But I guess without people like James Johnson, who would I laugh at while picturing them smashing their monitor with their keyboard because people are road fighting in BG’s or standing in the desecration on Springvale?

5049

There’s laughing at adversity and then there’s these stupid goddamn worthless sons of whores are wasting my DAMN TIME AND MONEY. I had the second reaction in Guild Wars all the time, and that’s why I won’t run PUGs any more. I like thinking that the time that I spent with a game was spent well, and MMOs have a terrible way of making you feel like you’ve wasted several hours of your life that you’ll never get back if you don’t get the cheese at the end.

5050

And without people like you, I might still be giving Blizzard $15 a month!

This. Players like anarch standing in the fire for the fifth time telling my group to “chill out” while peaking at 3k DPS and refusing to leave: not funny. The only “adversity” there is the fact that the kick vote has a cooldown.

When a mistake turns into a bizarre situation, yeah, it’s funny. I’ve had a few of those in Heroic Deadmines, mostly involving the stupid ropes at the end. One was due to a player taking an intuitive route (jump off the boat when it’s about to explode) instead of the “correct” route (click the rope that just magically appeared). The fight promptly bugged the hell out. The other was a feral druid not realizing he couldn’t click the rope in cat form and the hilarity that ensued when he finally figured it out, clicked the rope and started to swing, and promptly blew up.

Standing in the big honking obvious fire, dying, then saying “lol sry im so high rite now?” Yeah, those are the “stupid goddamn worthless sons of whores are wasting my DAMN TIME AND MONEY.” And for every 1 funny fuckup, there are 20-30 stoners who are just wasting my time.

5051

Yeah man, anarch preaching the values of not getting pissed off by stuff that happens in WoW totally means that’s he’s a terrible player! Cast-iron logic!

5052

How can you be a good player if you don’t treat everyone else like inferior garbage there to serve your gaming needs?

5053

Unfortunately that’s not the role I play, otherwise I would be having way more fun. I just don’t mind carrying a group of bad players. I have no desire to make them better players or to make them passionate about a video game.

Instead, I like playing little games like, can I do more DPS then everyone combined? How many interrupts can I get in a single instance 100? 200? If I keep tricks killing the baddie hunter on every aoe pull will he say something?

5054

This is a fun game to play.

On my tankadin alt, I liked to play the following game while doing instances (Classic instances, mostly, and some BC ones):

Can I pull more DPS than the group combined, more HPS than the healer, get the most interrupts, and never be tanking less than two groups of mobs at a time?

The answer was usually “Yes”.

I play a similar game on my Elemental Shaman: Can I pull more DPS than the rest of the group while kite-tanking more mobs than the tank was tanking before he died?

Those were what kept me entertaining in the shitty groups I had.

But 90% of my groups are better than that. :)

5055

Being able to do the DPS to kill a boss and keep the tank up with heals when we’re the only 2 guys alive is also fun. :)

5056

So is this video of one of my guildies being James’ nightmare as insane as I think it is?

…When does that happen? I’m at 330 equipped ilevel and have 114k.

5057

sigh Four normal queues today, and I just couldn’t find a group that I could keep alive. Tanks that ignore crowd control, pull multiple packs, dps standing in the fire. Mostly, I kept getting yelled at by dps for not keeping them alive. I politely informed them that they needed to be more careful, and that healing the tank was a priority. One even said ‘well, you’ve got bacon of light up, right?’. I assured him that I did and the group promptly kicked me. I’m getting less inclined to queue at all right now, which sucks because I’m trying to gear for raiding.

5058

I am starting to think that the raid lock mechanic is counter-productive.

In normal circumstances, better players should be able to clear contents faster. And assuming that the act of raiding is fun (which I think it is). It means that the better raider you become, the less amount of fun you will have. As someone who raids exclusively with pugs (thanks to my chaotic schedule), this is bothering me more and more. For example, this week I joined a very good pug on the first day after reset and we cleared almost all contents in 3 hour. What am I going to do in WoW for the rest of the week? Compares to last week, which I joined a series of pug raids and downing a boss at a time, I had much more fun doing that.

5059

Normal queues? Really, wow. That’s some shitty luck. My condolences.

5060

Who’s healing that frost mage?