World Of Warcraft

First one was (Reshak and his owl bird). After that it went from "Meh" to "Ok, we get it."

Maybe for you. I like to know why the hell I'm killing stuff.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:35:26 AM by Aszur

Because they have phat loots. More seriously, not every boss has to be an existential threat to the world. That gets as old as the opposite.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:38:04 AM by Fighteer

How many 50 layers of shadow jokes were there? I only saw 2. the bird comment and you potentially find a copy as one of the forbidden texts you collect in a quest.

But World Of Warcraft loves its smut, there is robot smut that actually cant be read because the pages are too oily. A Book with malfunctioning 'Fluxfire felines' exposing themselves. A Goblin in Nagrand 2.0 sends you to get his pinup mags from his old out posts. Several rogue only books are cheesy romance novels.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:42:30 AM by Memers

@Aszur: I meant Toph is cooler than Snooki.

Not to mention poop jokes, alcohol jokes, and so forth.

I get the feeling Matt Stone & Trey Parker secretly work at Blizzard, hence all the poop jokes. >.>

I'd love to see a South Park reference somewhere, but I don't recall any.

Oh yeah, definitely on Snooki.

Reshad and his bird make the reference again later down the line, as you go down the mountain.

Also, in the quest with Admiral Taylors garrison, the ghost sends you to pick up a cannon and ammunition. The text for when you are returning the quest to her has her tell you "I hope you are toting some balls and a cannon in there, private". Yes, they do love their smut, and they get it in there in more ways than one, but those are easter eggs that are concealed pretty well. When they feature prominently then they lose their flavor as an easter egg and are just distracting. But to a plot they do not really care about it is not so much a distraction as it is a shrug of the shoulder and a resounding, echoing "Meh?", I guess.

And uh many things that are killed are not a threat to the world but we still know why we kill them. The scarlet crusade, for example, is hardly a threat to the world.

Also, there is a sword in Naxxramas called "the Slayer of the Lifeless", flavor text "As foretold by salzman", which is a reference to the south park episode of "make love, not warcraft"

Well there was to be a Sword of a Thousand Truths in wow but they changed the name of it in the ptr patch, the flavor text still says 'foretold by Salsman' or something. But I know they did a you killed Kenny joke somewhere.

> Not to mention poop jokes, alcohol jokes, and so forth.

Did Warlords have a mandatory poopquest by the way? I don't think I've run into anything like that.

There's a quest line in Nagrand where a goblin sends you to collect cherries... real cherries this time, not the euphemistic ones from Outland!Nagrand. But the reference is clear for anyone who played it.

Oh, and let's not forget the achievement you earn for using the Garrison outhouse.

edited 2nd Mar '15 8:55:05 AM by Fighteer

There is the achievement for using the outhouse, you even get a buff for using it.

Also http://www.wowwiki.com/List_of_pop_culture_references_in_Warcraft/All the big list of references.

In Nagrand, there is a quest that has you fetch cherries from the nearby trees to feed elephants (who seem sad). The flavor text of returning to the goblin actually is a shoutout to that old quest (the first poop quest). the quest is called "Fruitful Ventures" and you can read the goblin NPC reference the BC quest with his "progression" speech.

There is also, again on Admiral Taylors garrison, a spectral dog called "rooby roo". If you buy the treats from the innkeeper nearby and feed him three he will lead you to his poop from where you can loot a blue necklace called "Rooby Roos Ruby Rollar"

edited 2nd Mar '15 9:03:08 AM by Aszur

I actually am surprised that we haven't fought a poop monster yet.

Many a Hozen DID fling "dook".

Well yeah but I was thinking more of a living poop monster.

Anyway it kinda sucks that there was never a Hozen raid boss.

Introducing WoW Tokens. Buy gametime tokens with real money and sell them over the auction house.

So many restrictions...

Seems fairly straightforward to me. The nice thing is that it's a system that will be very hard to game or troll. What I'm really curious about is what the gold-to-game time rate will settle at.

"Determined dynamically based on supply and demand" sounds really weird, considering they have no real benchmark for demand.

"A: Each game region—Americas (including ANZ realms), Europe, Taiwan, Korea, and China—will have its own shared World Of Warcraft Token exchange. We’ll share additional details at a later date."
Russia is a separate region from the rest of Europe, it would be hilarious if they forget.

edited 2nd Mar '15 11:49:02 AM by Adannor

The newly updated male blood elves have a smug grin on their face. The female ones, however, haven't changed much. Why is that?

Because the male belves have always had smug grins? I Irc there was one neutral face and 2 frowns also.

PTR Build 19711 for Patch 6.1.2

This is the one that includes the WoW Tokens to trade purchased game time. That post also references an updated buglist for the game, which include this little gem that they finally acknowledged:

• Mouse-over tooltips maybe sometimes only remain on screen for a fraction of a second.

Also included are some changes to diminishing returns on CC, making it more consistent, some Blue posts, and a link to a new premium feature for AskMrRobot, a "team optimizer", which lets you plug in your raid group and find out who hasn't optimized their gear and who needs what upgrades the most.

edited 3rd Mar '15 5:50:22 PM by Fighteer

I don't really remember that.

Working again for the last month n. Resubbed yesterday . After today probably unemployed again. Unsubbing now.

Thank god for the max level pet token. Finally got a pet to 25 and disposed of the quest pests. Now to farm shit like an unborn valkyrie.

Ooh nice, an ability to turn the gold token sub on even from a lapsed game.