Cataclysm

[DakAttack]

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I know the guys that run WeGame... sort of. I'm actually surprised to see that anybody is enjoying their content.

[Aksannyi]

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I stumbled upon it while viewing other videos and I thought I'd check it out. It's pretty dumb, like I said, but it was just ridiculous enough to make me laugh.

[Aksannyi]

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Man it annoys me how an emergency maintenance or a hotfix that breaks some things gets a zillion replies about how Blizzard should refund them part of their fee.

Let's see, $15 a month, so 50 cents a day, so a few hours is about ... 12 cents? Actually less.

And the people bitching that Blizzard doesn't communicate. Just ... lol.

These people need to play FFXI first and figure out how bad communication can be, and six emergency maintenance sessions after every update. I mean playing the comparison game is bad, but they really don't know how good they have it in terms of uptime and communication.

[Aeni]

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Anyone playing a pally and can (hopefully) provide reasonable comparisons to how that class used to be in Wotlk? I'm seeing an increased in anecdotes suggesting the class is weaker than it used to be (all around)

[Takelli]

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Anyone playing a pally and can (hopefully) provide reasonable comparisons to how that class used to be in Wotlk? I'm seeing an increased in anecdotes suggesting the class is weaker than it used to be (all around)

I have heard that they where nerfed badly, and they can't keep threat all that well. But the good pallys are still able to hold threat well, and can still dish out the damage if they are DPs. Not sure about the healing pallys though.

[DakAttack]

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They needed one. Not exactly fair that they can bubble up and two-shot everything.

[Aksannyi]

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I'm not terribly familiar with Pally as mine are 28 and 24, but I've heard their healing was nerfed in Prot spec. I don't know how badly yet, as I haven't run anything at 85 in a while.

[Aeni]

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I was a prot paladin during Wotlk (Actually was a healadin in TBC so the change was refreshing) and was the OT in a set 10 man raiding guild (the MT was a druid) While I agree that both druids and paladins were a bit too strong in the tanking department during ICC (I didn't participate in Ruby Sanctum) I thought they would just bring DKs and Warriors up to par in Cata.

[Aksannyi]

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Been hearing that Druids are awful nowadays, Pallies are okay, Warriors are fine, and DK self-heals should be nerfed to bring them back down to being on par with Pallies now that their self-heals were nerfed.

But Blizz has been making hotfixes damn near every day since 4.0.6 so I wouldn't worry too much about it. They'll eventually stop fucking with shit and let people play the game.

In other news, I now have a total of twelve toons. 2 are alliance and made on a friend's realm where we will be playing together, basically on rotation. I made some toons on his realm, he made some on mine, and we're alternating weeks to level them. On the other days, I'm basically doing a rotation style of leveling. I wait until my toons are listed as 100% rested (as noted on altoholic, best addon ever) and then xp them until I've worked off their rested. Since it takes about 10 days to get 100% rested, this works pretty much perfectly. And since most of my toons are under level 50, I can burn through their rested in a few hours.

My DK, however ... well, I started yesterday at 100% at level 70, and leveled for about 8 hours which got me about halfway. Finished off today with her rested after another seven hours of play and got her to level 74. I'd forgotten how long it takes to work out of rested at that level.

And yeah, I'm super methodical with my toons, lol. I'm going to make a few more. I have one of each class on Horde, and made sure that I covered all of the races so I could see all of the starting areas, and I'm going to make 4 more on the Ally side to get the remaining races just so I can see their starting "stories." Did a worgen a few days ago and man, that's just dark. Lol. But I like how worgen/Gilneans are all apparently Australian.

[Firewind]

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Druids are awful? Sorry but I stopped reading your post right there Aks .

Ferals are critting for over 24K on Rake DoTs. Try going against one as a Rogue or Holy Pally (my mains) and try to say they're weak XD

Restoration and Balance Druids are awful though. They are HK piñatas for my Rogue.

[Aksannyi]

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Hey now keep in mind that I'm not even talking about firsthand because I haven't done shit for dungeons in over a month. This is all just what I've heard from others.

[Firewind]

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Sorry, I just get annoyed when people call Druids useless, considering that since Cata came out, it's completely obsoleted the Rogue in both PvE and PvP. All we Rogues have going for us now is Smoke Bomb for Arena really

[Aksannyi]

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Well also I was just talking in terms of tanking, which is apparently pretty weak right now? Or maybe all the bears people I've talked to have interacted with have just been shitty tanks. Which is possible.

[Firewind]

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To be honest it's less "Bears and Prot Pallies suck" and more "People really need to learn the new raid bosses". It happens every time an expansion comes out for WoW

[Aeni]

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To be honest it's less "Bears and Prot Pallies suck" and more "People really need to learn the new raid bosses". It happens every time an expansion comes out for WoW

I've talked with a few of the end game raiders (a couple from AK, one of the top 3 in NA) and they said that Blizzard apparently thinks there's issues with healing for druids and that both pallies and druids are lagging a bit behind Warriors and DKs, but moreso pallies, since they seemed to have been over-corrected (which happens a lot apparently ... anyone remember the over-correction of DKs during the last expansion?)

Other than that there doesn't seem to be too many issues with paladin tanking and healing but there's a lot of QQ over their DPS'ing.

Idk about druids but during beta I called it saying druid healing was gonna be a completely different thing from the way it was done before this expansion. I pretty much played most of the classes and experienced most of their roles in last expac (Warrior, Paladin, Druid, Death Knight, Rogue, Hunter, Shaman and Warrior all to 80)