World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Athryn · 2010-10-12T13:43:30.000Z

Ranulf:

No it was after the streaming bit had finished.

You’re right, any time you have the launcher open, it uploads patch info to other people. That’s pretty sneaky of Blizzard.

I thought what you said sounded weird, but I relaunched the launcher and checked the connection info, and lo and behold it started making connections and uploading to people.

Soapyfrog · 2010-10-12T13:50:31.000Z

Ranulf:

They’re cutting out half the raid content (being able to do 10 and 25mans in ICC and RS) all to test their new Cataclysm “flexible” system. ICC gear is not designed for this and its a nightmare for many working on achievements and figuring out if someone is locked to an instance or can swap to 10 or 25. Mostly its a nerf on running dual heroic raids (10 and 25man).

You can still do both you just cant kill the same bosses in both, as I understand it.

sinnick · 2010-10-12T14:11:49.000Z

Athryn:

Wowhead has some nicely formatted Patch Notes. I’m still looking through them myself, but thought I’d toss them up.

Just popping into this thread and catching up on stuff, since I’m considering going back into the game in a week or two now that new stuff is starting to happen. And I read this:

Patch Notes:

Ammo has been removed from the game.

Holy crap! Maybe it’s time to dust off my hunter? That’s quite a change.

JM1 · 2010-10-12T14:18:35.000Z

Ranulf:

Yes, you can get in there sub 4k gearscore, I’ve seen it happen. And no I don’t buy that you did heroic version with 28k and it being easy if you all had under 5k gearscore. Its possible but requires high dps, CC, and a good healer with high mana/regen.

You cannot queue for the heroic ICC instances with sub 4k GS. It doesn’t let you until you have around 4400. I’ve done this and my friends have done this often enough for us to know what we’re talking about. You might be getting screwed by people artificially inflating their GS and then swapping gear out.

And I’m sorry if you “don’t buy” that I did heroic FOS/POS with 28k. To make matters even worse for you, two of the other characters were my friend’s priests - shadow and holy - that he was dualboxing with, both of whom had equal gear to me.

FOS and POS are just not difficult instances to tank, especially on a Paladin.

Sinnick: Mana’s gone, too. Bigger change.

LesJarvis · 2010-10-12T14:27:21.000Z

Someone on the general forums noted that RankWatch no longer has a purpose. Makes me a little sad, I love that mod.

JM1 · 2010-10-12T14:30:19.000Z

Well, yeah. Spells no longer have ranks afaik.

Michael_Fitch · 2010-10-12T14:32:31.000Z

JM:

You cannot queue for the heroic ICC instances with sub 4k GS. It doesn’t let you until you have around 4400. I’ve done this and my friends have done this often enough for us to know what we’re talking about. You might be getting screwed by people artificially inflating their GS and then swapping gear out.

And I’m sorry if you “don’t buy” that I did heroic FOS/POS with 28k. To make matters even worse for you, two of the other characters were my friend’s priests - shadow and holy - that he was dualboxing with, both of whom had equal gear to me.

FOS and POS are just not difficult instances to tank, especially on a Paladin.

Sinnick: Mana’s gone, too. Bigger change.

Greetings:
Well, to be fair, Paladin tanking is just easy mode in general. Or, it was before the patch.

Best,
Michael.

Athryn · 2010-10-12T15:06:31.000Z

LesJarvis:

Someone on the general forums noted that RankWatch no longer has a purpose. Makes me a little sad, I love that mod.

Yep, I deleted it today since it’s no longer necessary. I’m not sad at all about it, it will be nice to see that players will finally just use the correct spells (ha) and that the dual spec bug is gone.

Nathan_Phoenix · 2010-10-12T15:12:41.000Z

JM:

You cannot queue for the heroic ICC instances with sub 4k GS. It doesn’t let you until you have around 4400. I’ve done this and my friends have done this often enough for us to know what we’re talking about. You might be getting screwed by people artificially inflating their GS and then swapping gear out.

And I’m sorry if you “don’t buy” that I did heroic FOS/POS with 28k. To make matters even worse for you, two of the other characters were my friend’s priests - shadow and holy - that he was dualboxing with, both of whom had equal gear to me.

FOS and POS are just not difficult instances to tank, especially on a Paladin.

Sinnick: Mana’s gone, too. Bigger change.

I buy it, and I did it around 30k hp on a druid tank my first time, which i’m sure comes out to even worse geared. I didn’t find it hard, but was lucky I had a good group that did stuff like crowd control (two priests with shackle) the pulls after ick and krick.

Andre_Costa · 2010-10-12T15:24:43.000Z

At first i thought he was trolling but now i believe he is just dumb.

Lorini · 2010-10-12T15:55:27.000Z

What?! (From Blizzard)

Are the mage glyph tiers (Prime, Major, Minor) going to be organized to match that of beta because on PTR certain Glyphs were marked as majors instead of primes and thus would cause mayhem with specs.

Unfortunately, no—but thank you for bringing this up. For those reading along, the following mage glyphs in 4.0.1 are incorrectly classified as Major glyphs instead of Prime glyphs and, as a result, cannot be slotted at this time:

Glyph of Arcane Barrage
Glyph of Molten Armor
Glyph of Frostbolt
Glyph of Arcane Missiles
Glyph of Frostfire Bolt
Glyph of Fireball

While this issue cannot be hotfixed, we understand the impact it will have on players and so are searching for means by which to address the matter as quickly as possible. It’s definitely a priority for us.

Frost here I come <sigh>

EDIT:

The listed prime glyphs that are currently incorrectly categorized as major glyphs can still be slotted as majors for the time being.

Nephrinn · 2010-10-12T16:06:38.000Z

My god Blizzard is killing me here. 12 PST then 2 PST then 3 PST then 4 PST and now 5 PST. How can their estimates be that off? I mean, they’ve only done this process a million times. Fortunately, Civ5 has kept me busy the past 3 or 4 hours, but I’m itching for something else now darn it.

JM1 · 2010-10-12T16:13:41.000Z

Michael, I completely agree. The last time I’d tanked was as a warrior back in vanilla, and oh god it was so painful. The Paladin was so easy I actually enjoyed tanking with it which I would never have expected.

Matthew_Bramblet · 2010-10-12T16:19:32.000Z

In all fairness, they only do this process every 2 years, with a new expansion. And this is by far the largest patch they’ve ever put up.

But yeah, this is a big one. I guess it’s good the known issues list takes so long to read…

Eric_T_Cheng · 2010-10-12T16:34:00.000Z

Good thing I picked up Medal of Honour today.

ColonelT · 2010-10-12T17:08:55.000Z

Despite triple-checking my background downloader settings, apparently I have downloaded exactly 0.0 MB of the 4.0.1 patch. Doesn’t sound like anyone’s playing yet, so I guess it doesn’t matter much.

Lorini · 2010-10-12T17:09:37.000Z

Servers up and I’m in! :)

Yes and the stamina buff is in! Mage with 23K HP, I’m a tank now :)

Sean_Tudor · 2010-10-12T17:12:30.000Z

Having issues with this massive update. Curse Updater is no longer updating addons even though it is reporting my addons out of date. Also the WoW Repair Tool is not working anymore. I also had an error during the main WoW patching process.

JM1 · 2010-10-12T17:13:16.000Z

Curse Premium Client is working fine here.

Lorini · 2010-10-12T17:14:36.000Z

I was dc’d within 3 minutes of being c’d.