World Of Warcraft

I am aware. But they are no less annoying. Specially because, again, ridiculously high amounts of health.

Its better than Sunwell trash though. Now that trash back in the day would be the soviet joke.

Oh god yes. My Belf Pally hated that place. It was especially bad when you were grouped up with folks who weren't guild members but that was the same for most dungeons in that era.

Or So O trash leading up to Garrosh. Those were LFR killers.

So O trash was a joke in LFR and nothing in World Of Warcraft can be compared to the hell that was sunwell's gauntlet after Felmyst.

Incoming Heirloom Item Level Change

A hotfix is being deployed with today's maintenance that increases the item level scaling of 91-100 heirlooms so that they are more competitive with dungeon gear. I admit that I was a little disappointed to find out that they capped at ilvl 600, as opposed to the Grommash weapons which cap at 620.

Patch 6.1.4 Patch notes

April Fools!

• These patch notes were written by lead game designers, producers, engineers, and artists, instead of having them work on important new changes and features.

In your face, forum posters!!!

Uh oh.

• Support for VR hardware has been added, but only to the Grimrail Depot dungeon and Hans'gar & Franzok raid encounter.

I suppose this is to make players vomit uncontrollably from motion sickness.

• "Lightly Fried Lurker" and "Spicy Fried Herring" can no longer be crafted in level 90+ zones, as frying is not allowed in Draenor.

Well, played, Blizzard.

• The short-lived Autocorrect feature in chat has been disabled again after it caused a power substation meltdown near one of our datacenters.

Take that, chat! And, lastly:

• Players who literally can't even should be able to literally even again.

edited 1st Apr '15 5:34:38 AM by Fighteer

"Worgen All Worgen characters must now wear a collar and carry around little blue baggies."

That's so unfair. Does it have to be blue baggies? My Worgen would like pink. Yeah, he's a guy. Respect his life choices.

Blizzard is adding a new social optimization tool called B'Motes.

For World Of Warcraft, we get a whole suite of RP-enhancing addons that will let us immerse ourselves to a hitherto unseen degree in the fact that we're playing a game.

Oh, and this gem cracks me up:

edited 1st Apr '15 7:33:21 AM by Fighteer

I liked this list.

• These patch notes were written by lead game designers, producers, engineers, and artists, instead of having them work on important new changes and features.

I knew it! They could have fixed Pv P, added an entire raid tier, or eliminated weekly downtime forever if not for April Fool's Day.

Best bit of those patch notes:

New Primary Profession: Character Model We're pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really ridiculously good looking, but you no longer need to find out what that is. Master models can learn the Ambi-turn ability, allowing you to further customize your runway walk and go for the "I Turned Left!" achievement. When taking the Character Model profession, you can still learn to do other stuff good too, because you're so hot right now.

Squee!!!

That is indeed hilarious, but I imagine the usual crowd of frowny-faced forum posters arguing that it would be more interesting than the professions already in the game.

edited 1st Apr '15 3:41:11 PM by Fighteer

I actually enjoy the effects of grimrail depot.

What I don't enjoy is the dungeon journal not telling me that as a tank I'm not supposed to try to run up to the turret between waves. apparently this is a different game.

I still like that one April Fool's Day joke Blizzard made in the past.

They said they were going to open a chain of casual restaurants with the theme of their three great franchises: Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo.

Uh... you know, I haven't played WoW for the longest time, but... I have to question about this sudden rise of hatred towards Thrall. I mean, I don't want to take sides here, but I find this whole hate ridiculous, without saying that Garrosh doesn't have a point. Yes, he has.

People blamed Thrall to be leaving Garrosh for a position he's not ready for. May be true, but considering the threat Deathwing presented in Cataclysm, does Thrall really have the time to stay idle and go with "Oh, I know this world is getting torn asunder, but my responsibility is for the Horde alone, please go find someone else to deal with that problem. Malfurion, maybe?" That was incredibly and unnecessarily selfish when there was other choices.

This is also forgetting that for one moment in Cataclysm, it looked as if Thrall was making the right choice, Garrosh WAS improving as a leader. However, there's also one point that Thrall was making and it isn't denying his responsibility. He thought Garrosh COULD take up responsibility on his own, a grown up orc that knows which one is right or wrong. He ended up taking the wrong influences that shaped him up to be the villain in MoP, instead of respecting those who are on good graces with Thrall (e.g: Vol'jin, Cairne). That is Garrosh's misstep and it wasn't completely Thrall's fault. You were already given the good parts that will ensure you success, WHY would you just choose the bad ones? Only Garrosh gets to decide that. This is where Thrall's words that Garrosh made his own destiny rang truth. It was in his decision that the vision of the Horde must be like the brutal ones. It was his decision for the mess in Pandaria, the Bombing of Theramore...

So how does it that Garrosh still made a point? I will also agree that Thrall DOES have a part in leaving the inexperienced one, and it does shape him up like that. However, when Garrosh screamed that Thrall made him the way he was, I think this is actually where Garrosh's mentality broke down, he was pretty sure he was doing the best for the Horde, but everything due to lack of experience broke him down. And due to his pride, there is no way he'll admit himself guilty. So in the end, all he could do was to shift the blame to Thrall and make him look like the guilty party. It looks like a sad desperate moment to say Never My Fault.

In the end, both parts have their own share of blame, Thrall for leaving Garrosh in a position he's not ready for, and Garrosh for willingly taking the questionable acts to shape his 'destiny'.

... Of course this is not going to persuade anyone already disillusioned with how Thrall is Metzen's Pet... But I hope at least someone understands my take to unveil something from a story heavily contested to be uber asses. I don't even know what kind of story would please everyone.

edited 6th Apr '15 3:45:49 PM by ChrisX

Those are fair points, but...Malygos? You can't tell him and Deathwing apart?

I seem to get along with the LFG players better in the Bloodmaul Slag Mines than I do in the Iron Docks.

Most people you see complain about thrall usually have it held over from all the...

Gloriously awful writing that was the expanded books for Cataclysm. We have Jesus thrall, Med'an and a few other unmentionable things that would make even C'thun cringe.

Oh shoot me for only hearing from hearsays after stopping WoW since Burning Crusade...

So... Thrall is having some sort of Never Live It Down over a side material?

Thrall left Garrosh in charge not because he thought he was the better leader but because he was well aware that his people were kinda sick of the fact he was such a peacemonger.

Garrosh gained fame during the Wrath campaign and the Horde wanted a leader that was more about conquering. Thrall was counting on Garrosh to have some personal growth moment and realizing war led nowhere by himself but as Wolfheart and Tides of War let know, that did not happen.

So yeah, Thrall left a cat on the couch and got angry when he found out the cat scratched the couch. I do not know what he expected. Neglect and willfull ignorance is still grounds for culpability.

And he admitted blame for that decision in the end.

Now, if it was the Spanish Inquisition...that I would not have expected and I would forgive Thrall for not seing that coming.

In other news, I am very proud of the name I gave to my Darkmoon Tonk pet.

Badonkatonk.

Release date for ''WorldOfWarcraft'' Tokens is April 7.

Starts at 30k gold, which will change based on supply and demand.

edited 6th Apr '15 10:45:11 AM by stingerbrg