IRC log for #wowhead on 20120817

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00:39.18Amarandeheh
00:39.26Amarandeit just occurs to me that I will probably never see Doom Lord Kazzak again LOL
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02:12.50Mr_Rabiesi've killed him uh
02:12.56Mr_Rabies2-3 times in the last month
02:12.56Mr_Rabies:o
02:21.59AmarandeMr_Rabies: I'm thinking more like, if you aren't able to be on in the first hour or two after maintenance, he'll probably already be gone for the week by the time you do get on, heh
02:23.18AmarandeI don't get home from work till about 6:30 on Tuesday evenings
02:24.08Amarandeif he's not soloable now (though I get the suspicion he is), he certainly will be in MoP
02:25.54Jammeryou can pretty much solo it on any class already
02:29.19Amarandeah
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03:37.24ccoxIs there any ETA on getting wowhead looter and client updated to work with MoP?
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05:00.21sidjiccox: just comment out lines 2327-2332,2335,2369
05:01.09ccoxok
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05:02.18sidjiand backup the new file its replaced each time ...
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06:14.06ccoxhmm, your looter code is different from mine
06:14.11raspyweeeeee
06:14.18ccoxprobably Mac (out of date) vs Win (who knows) issues
06:15.04ccoxbut that looks like the right basic area, so I'll see if I can hack it into shape
06:18.36snOOpdid u know penises come in all shapes, sizes and colours?
06:24.33Corgan………………….
06:25.07StormscapeI think this might be psychological, but when I'm slouched in my chair I tend to get tired
06:26.01CorganStormscape
06:26.02Corganhttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/18783372/Screenshots/Screen%20Shot%202012-08-16%20at%2011.24.13%20PM.png
06:26.04Corgan?????????????????????
06:26.13CorganWarrior, Shaman, Hunter
06:26.14Corganall my alts
06:26.15Corgan=\
06:26.28CorganSame binding, Garr's
06:27.03CorganI have the left one on my paladin ಠ_ಠ
06:27.21Stormscapeloooooooooooooooooooooool
06:27.45Corganmakes me so sad
06:28.31snOOpare u sad over not having legendaries that were moot even 5 years ago
06:31.54Stormscapeuhhh
06:32.00StormscapeThunderfury was awesome for tanking until BT
06:32.04Stormscapethe fuck you smokin bro
06:32.37Corganit's also badass as fuck
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06:33.36snOOpbt was released over 5 years ago t.t
06:34.27Mr_Rabiesfirelands came out over a year ago :o
06:34.40CorganMr_Rabies
06:34.53Corgandem bindings ಠ_ಠ
06:34.55Mr_Rabiesit's been like 8, almost 9 months since DS came out
06:34.59Mr_Rabiesyeah, wtheck
06:35.20snOOpi scored 2 both bindings in 3 runs
06:35.26snOOpbut eye took me a year or so
06:35.49Mr_Rabiesi can't wait for 5.0.4
06:35.51Mr_Rabiesdem battletags
06:36.01Mr_Rabiesi'll run all kinds of old content with people once those go properly active
06:36.02Corgano u
06:36.05Corganyeah
06:36.17snOOpcross realm?
06:36.38Mr_Rabiesyeah, like openraid
06:37.02Stormscapemy bags are filling up with pigments, inks, and glyphs
06:37.04Stormscapedamn you inscription
06:37.13Stormscapewhy do you generate so many materials when levelling
06:37.52snOOpsounds cool
06:38.06snOOpdidnt even get to try cross realm bgs and/or raids yet
06:39.34Stormscapecross-realm is so handy at times
06:40.25snOOpwhen was that introduced
06:40.39Stormscape4.3
06:41.00snOOpdec 13 then
06:41.23snOOpno, nov 29
06:41.34snOOpclean for over a year flex
06:43.30StormscapeI have a screenshot of a guy getting all 3 items in a single run... on his priest.
06:43.37StormscapeHe was trying to get his Tier for transmog
06:46.34snOOpan old guild mate of mine had offhand glaive on his rogue during all of burning crusade, never seeing the mainhand
06:46.45snOOpthen he rerolls for wrath, and his mage gets back to back glaives
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07:40.02StormscapeSo I just realised, making my mage a scribe means I'm going to be fucking rich
07:40.07Stormscapeit's like a license to print money
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07:44.58sidjiohayo
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09:57.05raspyok now i hit 85 on the druid now cant figure out what i need to get for him
09:57.53hyljepretty armor so that you can show off
09:58.12raspyim serious not joking
09:58.32hyljewhy don't you want to be pretty
09:59.10raspycuz i wanna do decent and not be a douche
09:59.38hyljestack agility
09:59.44hyljedone
10:06.05Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] MMOUI and WoWInterface Celebrate Ten Great Years - http://www.wowhead.com/news=205558/mmoui-and-wowinterface-celebrate-ten-great-years
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10:25.32Djones_raspy, go look up stuff on the druid forums
10:25.37Djones_They'll have all you can need and more.
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12:37.35eidyiamorning all
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12:38.46sidjimorning kalimdor
12:39.51eidyiayou must be in EK
12:39.59Juuso:D
12:40.42eidyiaanyone have a good resource for learning LUA?
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12:43.15eidyiasidji: you have thoughts on the best way to learn LUA? seeing as you are the only UI dev i know?
12:44.25Jammerif you got any kind of programming experience lua is kinda trivial to learn :p
12:45.23eidyiayah - but i need to learn their syntax and random API-type things I can access
12:45.57eidyiamore interesting i knowing which variables i have access to in game and how to access them
12:46.23Jammerthere is at least 1 book written on warcraft programming
12:46.36eidyiai picked that up recently
12:46.41eidyiaknow of any good online resources?
12:47.19sidjii hate this petlist...
12:47.47eidyiahitting up the google for results
12:49.48Coreclownmaybe this one: World of Warcraft Programming (2nd Edition)? Any help from that?
12:49.49sidjithe blizzard interface is to slow and the list is not initialized
12:50.11Coreclowntheres torrent for it, e-book
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12:51.00Jammereidyia: http://www.wowpedia.org/Lua
12:51.22Jammerthe See also links especially handy
12:51.28eidyiaty Jammer
13:02.41neutronimityeidyia: #wowuidev
13:03.22neutronimityoh you are in there
13:04.13blademeldneutronimity: #Rosemountlovescocksoup
13:04.42Coreclownhaha
13:04.59blademeld?
13:05.38Coreclownnothing :D just sweet channel name
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13:10.24neutronimitysweet channel name? :p
13:10.59Amarandeheh
13:11.05AmarandeI still remember the fun in LOTRO with that kind of soup
13:11.21AmarandeIn Rise of Isengard, they introduced cock-a-leekie soup as a food item
13:11.31eidyia:)
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13:11.34AmarandeWhenever you try to mail it to someone, the subject line comes out all #$&@*#@&*(#@&*(
13:11.46eidyiadidn't realize wowinterface was connected to wowhead
13:12.18AmarandeROFL, reminds me of Guild Wars where people would talk about the Damned Clerics (an actual mob type) in the Kryta zones
13:12.35Amarandeand it would always come out %#$#ed Cleric to everyone who didn't turn off the profanity filter yet this install (it was on by default)
13:12.51AmarandeOr, even more sillily, Captain Quimang, which would be Captain %#$@ang in guild chat to many folks :blink
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13:13.16AmarandeSeriously. I had to Google to figure out why "Quim" was bleeped out. If it's obscure enough that you have to Google it, it probably doesn't need to be on the list LOL
13:13.55CoreclownYou programming add-on or UI? :P
13:14.26Amarande(Interestingly, there are NPC conversations that involve that character as well, and THEY TOO will get caught by the profanity filter ... ROFL)
13:16.11Djones_quim is not briths for anything
13:16.28Niadythyeah, I've never heard that before either
13:16.31Niadythi had to google it too
13:17.32neutronimityGod I hate beer
13:17.45neutronimityThe hops is shit
13:17.56neutronimityPfui man pfaugh
13:18.24Amarandeneutronimity: cheap American beer?
13:18.34neutronimityGerman Karamalz
13:18.43Niadythwhy is american beer so close to having sex in a canoe?
13:18.47Niadyththey're both fucking close to water
13:19.16CoreclownShouldn't German beers be the best in quality?
13:19.17Niadythba-dum-tish
13:19.26Coreclownhaha good one
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13:32.05blademeldthe best beers are the ones neutronimity makes in his basement
13:32.24blademeldI think neutronimity is African or something
13:33.33eidyiaare battle tags going to be usable starting with 5.0.4 or with Mists launch?
13:34.21Amarandeeidyia: 5.0.4, I presume
13:34.46AmarandeBattletags are a systems patch thing, I haven't seen anything saying that purchase of MoP will be mandatory to use them
13:35.16neutronimitywouldn't think will be mandatory
13:35.25AmarandeGenerally, anything that doesn't require players to actually purchase the expansion to get access to, is something that comes in with the pre-patch
13:36.20AmarandeLike with 4.0 we got the new talents and abilities, IIRC the reduced cost for Northrend flight, that kind of things before Cata release date
13:36.43eidyiamakes sense
13:36.44AmarandeOTOH, you couldn't get the Azeroth flight training before Cata hit, because you actually had to buy Cata to get that one
13:37.03Amarande(It led to much confusion in Orgrimmar as I remember ... "WHERE DO I BUY THE FLIGHT MASTER'S LICENCE?" ...)
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13:37.44AmarandeAnd this time, the new locations are not something you can just walk to, so we don't get any glitches like the infamous Badlands glitch in pre-Cata
13:38.15neutronimityWhat was that glitch?
13:38.37Amarandeneutronimity: with cata, the breadcrumb to Badlands consists of taking a rocket from EPL to Fuselight-by-the-Sea
13:38.55Amarandeunfortunately, if you tried to do the zone in 4.0.3a before Cata release, the rocket would never get there
13:39.02WardHyeah but there´s a breadcrump from SW to EPL to that connects to it
13:39.18WardHso it´s really just a breadcrumb from sw to bl with a big detour :p
13:39.21Amarandebecause the trajectory would take you over TwiHi, and someone in the security department forgot to consider that when enforcing no-man's-land
13:39.27eidyiathe breadcrumbs were a great add with data - but hard to do if you were 80 and heading back to old zones
13:39.54WardHthey should make breadcrumbs zone triggered
13:39.56eidyiaeasily caused you to miss quests in badlands, for example, cause it started in a diff zone
13:40.02WardHyou can either pick it up at the source
13:40.06WardHor you get it automatically
13:40.12WardHwhen you get near the base you turn it in
13:40.18AmarandeWell, in that particular case it was particularly bad
13:40.25blademeldoh
13:40.28Amarandebecause the Badlands quest progression, thus, started at Fuselight-by-the-Sea
13:40.30eidyiareally needs to be like the war boards/call to arm things
13:40.41AmarandeWhich is all the way on the opposite side of the zone from where you would enter it by walking
13:40.42blademeldAmarande: I had someone ask where to buy flight master license in sw 3 weeks ago
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13:41.22Amarandeso you'd end up either having to swim all the way up (not down, that's TwiHi) the coast there, or you'd have to walk in and then trek all the way across the zone to reach your first quest hub
13:41.39Amarandeblademeld: well, the thing back then was, people kept asking where to buy something that wasn't even available yet :)
13:41.52neutronimityTrek, damn, where is the exploration!
13:42.20blademeldAmarande: the guy kept saying that it couldn't buy it from the riding trainer, so I kept telling him to go back to the trainer
13:42.26AmarandeI think it had something to do with that some NPC dialogues mentioned the flight master's licence as soon as the Shattering happened, but the licence itself wasn't available till Cata came out and you purchased it
13:42.29blademeldI didn't consider he might not have cata
13:42.34eidyiablademeld: probably a filter issue
13:42.41neutronimityFilter, yeah.
13:42.44blademeldeidyia: nada, fresh 60
13:42.47Amarandeblademeld: also the fact that only the SW riding trainer has the flight training, which is silly
13:43.04Amarandethe IF, Darnassus, and Exodar ones for some reason only train ground riding. not really sure why
13:43.15Amarandeespecially since pretty much every other trainer in the game for, well, anything, now trains all levels of it
13:43.23eidyiathe filters mess everyone up all over the place with training
13:44.28AmarandeIt kind of punishes non-human, non-dwarf characters pretty severely if you follow a natural questing progression, too :|
13:44.36neutronimityI wonder what Darnassus would look like if it was as full as a full Stormwind city.
13:44.46eidyiasame with Silvermooon
13:45.01eidyiaplace is easy for Ally to raid any given day - if you can handle running in (no flight there)
13:45.05blademeldthere's two AH hubs in SW, only 1 in darn
13:45.16Amarandeeidyia: and yet, against single Ally characters, is like Fort Knox
13:45.17blademeldit would suck for darn to be full
13:45.44AmarandeIt's still pretty damn challenging (unless you're really geared up in PvP or tanking gear) to do a complete Explore Eastern Kingdoms on an Alliance character without any deaths :)
13:45.44eidyiaamarande: yah - that's the case with most places though for single toons raiding a cap city on foot.
13:45.44neutronimityDid it suck for SW when it had only one? :p
13:45.56blademeldneutronimity: yeah
13:46.03Amarandeeidyia: I mean, even for something as simple as getting the explore credit
13:46.04neutronimityAh well.
13:46.17blademeldbut back when sw had 1, if was busier
13:46.18Amarandeunless you're a tank or re-gear totally for stamina, you're not going to survive completing Eversong Woods
13:46.21blademeldiirc
13:46.31eidyiaamarande: yah - didn't think of that. gotta just run in as far as you can, release, then rez farther inside
13:46.59blademeldAmarande: why is exploring hard? I did it as a 70 something paladin
13:47.06neutronimityIF is dead empty, only 4x85 and 3 other lower levels.
13:47.06eidyiasame with horde who want to fish in iron forge - it's a few deaths to get to the pools
13:47.26Amarandeblademeld: because of the way that the Silvermoon City entrance is built, and the fact that you cannot fly in
13:47.43eidyiacan ally take the portal from UC?
13:47.45Amarandeyou can't get credit without attracting about 4532478273892789543 guards and going down like a sack of potatoes
13:47.52blademeldAmarande: ah, right I had bubblehearth
13:47.54neutronimityNo they can't.
13:47.57eidyiaah
13:48.11eidyiai don't play alliance (personal reasons)
13:48.20neutronimityFriends?
13:48.26blademeldwhat is friends?
13:48.29eidyiano - i have standards :-D
13:48.30AmarandeMeanwhile, Horde have no similar challenge.
13:48.52AmarandeIF can be entered via flight to get exploration credit and you have a pretty good chance of swooping in to get credit and getting out before you get swarmed
13:48.53eidyiai've been tempted at times to see what life would be like as a dwarf
13:48.54parall4xKind of funny how the Orb of Translocation is at ground level and very exposed yet only Horde characters can use it.
13:48.58blademeldAmarande: they do, it's called being ugly or BE for males
13:49.24AmarandeExodar is the corresponding situation to Silvermoon, but the way zones are assigned in Azuremyst, it's stupidly easy to get Exodar's explore credit without even seeing a draenei guard
13:49.40eidyiathat it is
13:49.59AmarandeWhereas you actually have to get within the walls of Silvermoon to be credited with it (I did try squeezing as close as possible up to all the walls, without success)
13:50.29JunkHeadWord.
13:50.40JunkHeadTaking some more time off at the end of the month.
13:51.44eidyiaanyone try seeing if you can fly in silvermoon on beta?
13:52.17AmarandeIndeed, I think Horde in general have it far easier on achievements since Cata :|
13:52.34eidyiaamarande: i wouldn't say that
13:52.37Amarandebetween the Silvermoon thing, and between the relative guardedness of SW vs. Orgrimmar, in particular
13:52.43Amarandeeidyia: consider, say, The Fishing Diplomat
13:52.54AmarandeHorde just need to find one of the many quiet spots where there is water considered "in Stormwind" to get it
13:53.07Amarandewhile Alliance are lucky if they get a cast off before being mobbed with the new Orgrimmar
13:53.07eidyiadisagree - org has plenty of easy fishing spots people can fly in and squat at
13:53.19Amarandesimilarly, it's a lot easier to reach Stormwind Stockades in one piece than it is to get to RFC if you missed it while leveling
13:53.23eidyiaIF is a pain to get to - and i always get ganked
13:53.34eidyiai'll give ya RFC
13:53.43eidyiabut fishing in org is cake - you're going to the wrong place, that's all
13:53.44Amarandeheh, on my server (and I'm Alliance, so I know this well) IF is pretty much dead
13:53.55parall4xYeah, I find that the new Orgrimmar is fairly friendly to Alliance fishers. There's a waterfall in the Valley of Honor that some of them hide under and typicallly go unnoticed.
13:53.57eidyiayah - but still a pain to get too, and a long walk for a rez
13:54.05Amarandepeople go to IF to get the cooking and fishing achievements, and that's pretty much it
13:54.12Amarandewell, that and it's the best place to power-train cooking
13:54.33Amarandedue to the fact that you can buy meat from the AH and cook it as soon as you pick up your mail, due to the dwarven brazier next to the mailbox being considered a valid cooking fire :)
13:55.33blademeldlol
13:55.40Djones_I like how you think it's hard to get achievements
13:55.56parall4xThe opposite of the inexplicable lack of a forge in the blacksmith's shop in the Valley of Strength in Orgrimmar.
13:55.58Djones_The exploration achievements are a piece of piss for both sides.
13:56.16Amarandeparall4x: isn't there a forge right outside in that area with the anvils and such?
13:56.29parall4xIn the Valley of Honor, yes.
13:56.34parall4xNot the Valley of Strength shop.
13:56.44Amarandebeen a while since I played my horde toons and I usually try to base in UC because I find it a bear to find stuff in Org a lot of the time since Cata
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13:57.11blademeldDjones_: I like how you quantify piss in solid object-form
13:57.23Djones_blademeld, of course.
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13:57.46AmarandeI guess this is Horde's revenge for the achievements tending to favour Alliance back in LK though
13:58.03Djones_The idea that achievements favour anyone is ludicrous.
13:58.05Amarandewhen LK was new, achievements hated Horde, hard.
13:58.22blademeldDjones_: there was one case
13:58.24parall4xDjones_, it's not ludicrous that achievements might incidentally favor a particular faction.
13:58.24AmarandeDjones: some of them are easier depending on NPC placement/capital city setup
13:58.29blademeldthe mounts in early cata
13:58.40Djones_parall4x, the idea that it makes any real difference
13:58.44Djones_Okay let me rephrase.
13:58.45fewyn[09:58:36] [85:Fewyn] has earned the achievement [Rock Lover]!
13:58.48fewynhurrah
13:58.50Djones_The idea that achievements are hard : Ludicrous.
13:58.53g0urrawell when it comes to rep achievements humans are imba
13:58.56blademeldfewyn: make love to rocks?
13:58.59Amarandeblademeld: mounts in early LK, I thought it was, because Tauren were locked out of so many mounts
13:59.01blademeldg0urra: idd
13:59.23blademeldAmarande: that too, but I was referring the worgen mount complaint
13:59.52AmarandeIn fact, I'm pretty sure one of the mount achievements was actually nerfed when it came out with LK because of tauren
14:00.04blademeldcould be
14:00.07Djones_And tauren had problems because?
14:00.10Amarandesince it was decided that it wasn't quite fair to make a particular race have to spend hundreds of dollars in real world money to be able to achieve it
14:00.20AmarandeDjones: it used to be that tauren couldn't ride most of the Horde faction mounts
14:00.33Djones_Right. That's hardly a horde issue though, is it?
14:00.37Amarandeso you lost about 15 mounts from the max possible compared to other races
14:01.01Amarandetoo much to make up without having to buy cruelly expensive TCG mounts
14:01.04Djones_That's a class issue.
14:01.17blademeldno
14:01.18blademeldrace
14:01.20blademeldnot class
14:01.22Djones_Herp, yes.
14:01.25Djones_That's what I meant.
14:01.30blademeldalso, tits
14:01.35Djones_But again
14:01.38Djones_that's not a matter of difficulty
14:01.41Djones_rather, impossibility
14:01.52Djones_The same way for instance, you can't get the insane without access to a rogue.
14:02.30blademeldsure you can, buy out the blizz stocks to about 20% and ask them to change it
14:04.40AmarandeDjones: or that rogues and overly rich players have a *huge* advantage in the most recent X-recipes cooking achievement?
14:05.05parall4xOverly rich? Now now, Mr. 99%.
14:05.43blademeldhad 2k by level 20 or 30 on a fresh realm
14:05.47blademeldgold is hurd
14:05.51blademeldhurr durr
14:06.48parall4xI wonder if gold will inflate much in Mists.
14:06.56blademeldmeh
14:07.02blademelddoubt it will change much
14:07.06blademeldeven with the blackmarket
14:07.14parall4xIt is kind of consistent from xpack to xpack, isn't it?
14:07.38blademeldexcept from Vanilla to tBC iirc
14:08.12Amarandeparall4x: how many players really have 200000+g and are willing to blow it all with an xpack coming up this soon?
14:08.13parall4xI was but a lowly level 40 at that time and was sheltered from the concerns of the in-game economy. Couldn't make myself play enough to hit the level cap in Vanilla :3
14:08.27AmarandeI'm talking about "rich enough to afford to buy Dirge's when it comes up on the AH" overly rich
14:09.16AmarandeThing being that if you're a non-rogue and do not have access to Dirge's, it's actually your guild membership that determines if you can get that achievement.
14:09.27parall4xWell, they had to put in some form of effort to achieve those funds. Those funds give them the flexibility to cheese through stuff like material-dependent achievements because of previous effort rendered elsewhere, I suppose.
14:09.50Amarandeparall4x: yeah, but you'd want to have a good bit more than 200k on hand if you wanted to buy Dirge's now, though
14:10.34Amarandeyou don't want to be broke at the beginning of an expansion, even if Dirge's is a limited-ever deal :)
14:11.42parall4xI've got 30k on my only max-level character, but I won't be rushing to PvE end game content, so I'm not sure it'll matter for me.
14:11.55Amarandeah, if you're not rushing, it won't matter much
14:12.10Amarandeif you are trying to get to raids quickly, it means the world, because then you have to spend obscene amounts of money on the AH to buy early-on crafted gear
14:12.24parall4xI intend to just enjoy the leveling experience and new story content at my own pace and then unsub again until new content is release.
14:12.26parall4x*released
14:17.02blademeldAmarande: I believe me and about a dozen or more people in this channel have that kind of gold ot blow
14:17.32blademeldbtw, what's a dirge's mount?
14:22.07Djones_blademeld, 450k pocket change i think.
14:22.16Djones_if I sold all my mats.
14:22.33blademeldyeah
14:22.34Niadythblademeld : http://www.wowhead.com/item=21025/recipe-dirges-kickin-chimaerok-chops
14:22.36blademeldsounds about right
14:24.17blademeldhuh
14:25.05blademeldfortunately, I don't give two damns about cooking recipes or ahievements
14:30.26Amarandeanyway, the reason that's important is because of this:
14:30.31Amarandethe highest cooking achievement is for 200 recipes known
14:30.43AmarandeThere are currently only 202 recipes in the game, and four of them have special conditions on them
14:30.45eidyia200 recipes was tough to get
14:31.11AmarandeThistle Tea requires you to be a rogue (they even revoked it retroactively around cata release from folks who had obtained it on non-rogues via legitimate-at-the-time means)
14:31.32AmarandeDirge's requires you to spend 200k gold or so, as only a limited number are available per server at all now
14:31.34eidyiait'll be cake with Mists
14:31.48AmarandeAnd two of them require you be in a guild who's gotten specific Guild Achievements
14:32.05eidyiamy theory with most achievements: wait until the next xpac - life will be easier
14:32.15AmarandeWe only just recently got Set the Oven to Cataclysmic in ours, and we're nowhere near 10,000 fish from pools yet
14:32.23Amarandewhich is surprising, as I'd think 10,000 fish from pools would be cake
14:32.44blademeldit is cake
14:32.46Amarande(hell, a single player quite likely gets that while they're trying to do the damned Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box achievement, which I still haven't been masochistic enough to attempt :P)
14:33.17Amarandenot to mention the fishing skill system now strongly encourages people to fish from pools exclusively unless searching for something specific that you can't get from one :)
14:33.28Djones_erm what
14:33.30Djones_No it doesn't.
14:33.33blademeld^^
14:33.40AmarandeDjones: when fishing from pools, fishing skill is irrelevant
14:33.40eidyia^^
14:33.45Djones_So?
14:33.51Djones_it's always been irrelevant.
14:33.58blademeld^^
14:34.00AmarandeWhich becomes more and more relevant with how high the no-junk skill levels are for higher level areas.
14:34.05Djones_No. It doesn't.
14:34.08eidyiayou can't fish a cata pool and get a cata fish with fishing lvl 1
14:34.22Djones_Don't be level 1 fishing
14:34.26Djones_fishing from pools is so incredibly inefficient.
14:34.29blademeldyou guys are being silly
14:34.29Amarandeeidyia: I'm pretty sure you can, actually :)
14:34.37eidyiathen that's a huge bug amarande
14:34.44Djones_eidyia, nope. Working as intended.
14:34.49eidyiawhat?!?
14:34.51Djones_Doesn't matter. It takes you LESS time to level to 525 fishing
14:35.08eidyiathat's just silly
14:35.09Amarandeeidyia: pools are guaranteed to provide their fish/crates/etc. regardless of fishing skill level
14:35.11eidyiai should just quit now
14:35.19Djones_Basically, the time wasted on pools levelling fishing from 1-525 is a factor of 10's greater than if you just levelled in orgrimmar from 1-525 and then just fished where you want.
14:35.35Djones_My point of rerefence : 6 toons with fishing 525
14:35.42AmarandeThey actually had to nerf an exploit at one point because of that, so it's clearly intended that the pools do so
14:36.03eidyiaagree with Djones_
14:36.04Djones_Amarande, you have it so backwards it's kind of funny.
14:36.08eidyiapool travel blows
14:36.13Djones_You only ever fish from pools when you DO -want- something specific.
14:36.39AmarandePeople looking for Dalaran fountain coins would go pick up the DEHTA animal poacher debuff from Borean and then hearth and take a dip in the fountain
14:36.55Amarandeso that the fountain would be considered a pool and they didn't need the obscenely high fishing level that thing needs
14:37.02Djones_No, they didn't.
14:37.04Djones_As that is retarded.
14:37.16Djones_Because that round trip is at least 3 minutes
14:37.22Djones_to do 100 casts is 5 hours.
14:37.25Djones_of wasted time
14:37.30Djones_it took less than that to max fishing in wrath.
14:37.37Djones_Considering you need THOUSANDS of casts to do that achieve.
14:37.43AmarandeDjones: they might have done with mages, then
14:37.50Djones_so the roundtrip is a mere 2 minutes
14:37.52Djones_instead fo 3.
14:37.55Amarandesince then you could hearth to Borean to get the debuff and then teleport back to Dala
14:38.05Amarandeand it's better for your sanity that you don't try to fish all the coins at once
14:38.07Djones_hell, if it was ONLY a minute
14:38.18Djones_Then you're still talking Hour 40 for every 100 casts
14:38.25Djones_you do 1-300 in an hour
14:38.29eidyianew topic: archaeology : digging through the past, discuss
14:38.46Djones_THe only people who did that have NO concept of how time works
14:38.56Djones_I.e stupid people. Because it is so grossfully stupidly inefficient.
14:39.05TorhalTime is an imaginary invention of humans.
14:39.08Torhal:D
14:39.14Djones_That's actually the stupidist idea i've heard yet.
14:39.24blademeldnot really
14:39.25AmarandeDjones: this depends on if you want to level fishing as fast as possible or if you simply want to only fish when you're going to get something that doesn't suck
14:39.25Djones_Again backwards. People used to grind to max fishing in that pool because it was dead easy
14:39.27TorhalYay, I ruffled MOAR feathers.
14:39.32g0urraTime is a dimension along which events are ordered from the past through the present into the future
14:39.40g0urraduh.
14:40.20Djones_Amarande, no, nobody in their right mind would waste that much time
14:40.31AmarandeIn LK it was probably different
14:40.46AmarandePre-cata it took a ridiculous number of casts to gain a fishing skill point past 350 or so
14:40.59Amarandewhereas now if Fishing Buddy is accurate it's an average of 4 casts even at high fishing levels
14:41.05Amarandeused to be 10+ per point
14:41.56AmarandeOn top of that, Dalaran's fountain was horribly hard to get anything in. You needed at least 75 bonus points to stop getting greys even IF you had max fishing then.
14:42.24Stormscape75 bonus points isn't that hard.
14:43.35Djones_Amarande, you really don't understand how time efficiency works.
14:43.39eidyiaso - i step away for a few mins and we're still talking about fishing?
14:43.42Djones_in the time it would take to get that debuff
14:43.55Djones_You would have gotten more coins at level 1
14:44.01Djones_since you could still get those regardless of skill.
14:44.35AmarandeFishing trivia: It's actually impossible apparently to get a 100% fish catch rate in the current hardest zone, without having won at least one competitive fishing contest.
14:45.00AmarandeIt's only going to get worse in MoP, since El's lists a place that needs a whopping *825* fishing skill to not get junk.
14:45.14eidyiareally? 825?
14:45.16StormscapeSolution: Stop being a casual fisherman
14:45.21Amarandeeidyia: yup, Vale of Eternal Blossoms
14:45.24eidyiayou can get like ~100 bonus points?
14:45.29StormscapeWell over 100
14:45.30eidyiabetween pole, hat, gloves
14:45.35Amarandehttp://www.elsanglin.com/skill_and_location.html
14:45.46Amarandeeidyia: the maximum you can get without the contest exclusive gear is +145, if I haven't miscalculated
14:46.14Stormscapelures guv
14:46.18eidyiaah
14:46.22eidyiaforgot lures
14:46.23Amarande100 from lure, 30 from pole, 5 from daily quest hat, 5 from eternium fishing line (by getting lucky on the NR fishing dailies, if you don't win a contest), 5 from the Angler enchant
14:46.25eidyiai was thinking gear
14:46.37StormscapeNo
14:46.39Stormscape150 from lure
14:46.43Stormscapestop being casual, I just told you
14:46.45AmarandeAn additional 25 points are possible, but only via the Arcanite fishing pole and the boots from the Kalu'ak derby
14:47.20AmarandeStormscape: ugh, now I feel like a real idiot
14:47.24Amarandeindeed, a double idiot
14:47.28Amarandebecause I'm an engineer :|
14:47.29blademeldStormscape: I'm loling
14:47.36StormscapeHARDCORE FISHING
14:47.39StormscapeGET ON MY LEVEL WOWHEAD
14:48.00AmarandeHeh, still won't get you 100% fishing rate in Vale in MoP, though
14:48.00blademeldf that Stormscape, let's go salmon fishing irl
14:48.26Amarande600 fishing + 150 lure + 30 pole + 5 line + 5 enchant + 5 hat -> 795 fishing, you need 825 to not get junk, so you will still get a lot of junk
14:48.36Amarande(in fact, even with the contest gear, you still only get to 820. Sorrow!)
14:48.54StormscapeThat's not "a lot" of junk
14:48.58StormscapeThat's a 7% junk rate
14:49.16Djones_Amarande, except that doesn't exist.
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14:49.51Djones_because you're completely ignoring pool travel time.
14:50.11AmarandeDjones: we're talking about MoP, where the hardest fishing area is 150 points higher than Cata's, but you'll only be able to get an extra 75 points of skill, unless there's a new lure in MoP I don't know about
14:50.33Amarandelast time I looked at engineering in MoP it was far from polished, hell the engi ranged weapons were showing ilvl 200 stats that were worse than the cata ones
14:50.44Djones_Amarande, and your'e STILL ignoring pool travel time
14:50.54Djones_which results in less than HALF the amount of casts per minute
14:51.03Amarandethat's probably because I haven't made a concerted attempt to actually sit and grind fishing lately
14:51.35AmarandeI do keep my fishing pole on me all the time, but apart from the amount of time you have to sit there and fish for dailies (especially outland), pretty much I just grab pools as I pass them while questing
14:51.46Djones_And it's inefficient and poor.
14:52.25blademeldDjones_: you're not going to get through to him?
14:52.37Amarandeyeah, I didn't quite think of pool travel time
14:52.45Amarandebecause I wasn't thinking of the "concerted attempt to grind fishing" angler
14:52.54AmarandeI was thinking more of the casual angler that you'll find in more guilds
14:53.06Amarandeand if you're not actively grinding fishing, you're better off only stopping to fish when you meet a pool
14:53.15eidyiaStormscape suggests not going casual and being a pro
14:53.20Djones_So don't make claims that pool fishing is better
14:53.23Djones_Because it's not
14:53.50StormscapeThe only reason to fish in pools is if you need a fish that has a low open water drop rate
14:54.20eidyiaonly reason i fish pools is for my stupid turtle
14:55.06AmarandeOTOH, 10,000 does seem even a little low for that one guild achievement, because I get the feeling I might finish that guild achievement out solo when I get around to actively trying for Mr. Pinchy :P
14:55.26AmarandeBut this is because they probably hired the guy who designed the Adamantite Armour acquisition in Final Fantasy IV to do the Mr. Pinchy bit. Heh.
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14:58.16eidyiahold the boat
14:58.27eidyiaHowever most meta-achievements, like Accomplished Angler, do not now require all constituent achievements on the same character.
14:58.31Amarande(Adamantite Armour basically required that you get a 1/64 drop item from a mob that itself was a 1/64 chance to encounter in the one tiny area that you can find it. :P)
14:58.33eidyiafrom El's
14:58.42eidyiathis mean that you can get some criteria on one toon, and some on another?
14:58.51eidyiai thought that wasn't the way it was meant to work
14:58.55Amarandeeidyia: it depends
14:59.08Amarandeif the criteria are straight criteria (like a normal checklist or progress bar), they have to be all on one toon
14:59.13Amarandehowever, because achievements share between characters
14:59.20eidyiagotcha
14:59.26Amarandeif the criteria are themselves achievements, they can be spread between toons because the achievements will spread
14:59.30eidyiachecklist = 1 toon, other achieves = multi-toon
14:59.42eidyiawill all get the mount then?
14:59.50eidyialike long strange trip
14:59.54AmarandeMounts are cross-toon too, so yeah
15:00.06eidyiahum...
15:00.10eidyiathis coming with 5.0.4?
15:00.17Amarandeyup, that's what I hear
15:00.20eidyiaso
15:00.36eidyiamy 85 with long strange trip will now give master riding to all my toons in like 10 days?
15:00.47eidyiathat, while odd, is enjoyable. yet doesn't seem right
15:00.51Amarandee.g., you can spread out Loremaster among other toons (because the zone criteria are achievements), and that's actually a good idea in a way (it means you don't use up all the content on one toon in order to get a loremaster title)
15:01.00AmarandeOTOH, if you want Seeker you have to do all 3,000 quests on one toon
15:02.18AmarandeActually, the Loremaster thing is also useful tactically in another fashion. Let a toon you don't care about reps for get the Zangar quest achievement for you while leveling up, for instance. :)
15:02.50Amarande(As it is generally a bad idea if you want exalted with CenEx to touch any of the Zangarmarsh quests - hell, you might even want to skip Borean Tundra initially - until you are ... Revered, I think it is)
15:03.42Amarandeeidyia: it's not clear how it's supposed to work with Master Riding
15:03.51Amarandeor even if the Master Riding for Long Strange Trip is still going to be on in MoP
15:04.17eidyiaway it looks now is no master riding - but just more curious pre-Mists and post-5.0.4
15:04.31Amarandeespecially since it doesn't just affect that IIRC, it also affects arena PvP (I seem to recall reading that the Gladiator title mount gives Master Riding too)
15:05.37AmarandeIt's probably even more reasonable for Gladiator mounts to do it than the holiday ones, too
15:05.58Djones_All 310% mounts granted master riding
15:06.03Djones_if you had a 310% mount, BEFORE master riding
15:06.30AmarandeIf you're a Gladiator, chances are you're spending most of your game time in arena, and you can't buy riding training with PvP points
15:06.41Djones_i lol'd
15:06.43AmarandeWhat gold you do get is probably going away on enchants for your PvP gear
15:06.55Djones_gladiators are amongst the most wealthy players there are
15:06.56eidyia^
15:07.08eidyiahow do pvp'ers get money?
15:07.46eidyiaserious question here - i don't really php
15:07.51eidyia*pvp
15:07.56Djones_most glads play 10 hours a day
15:08.07AmarandeYeah, but most glads probably play most of those hours in PvP environments
15:08.08Djones_tjey do the same as the rest of us
15:08.14Djones_Not really.
15:08.17Amarandeand you don't get money in PvP, you get honour and conquest
15:08.21Amarandeand arena points
15:08.23eidyiaright
15:08.28eidyiaso - where do they get their gold?
15:08.32Djones_glads do less real pvp then most pvpers
15:08.37Djones_you get to glad and then stop
15:08.47Coreclownif you mean pure pvp'er, like one who can't afford pve content after leveling up
15:08.53AmarandeThe only way I would see PvP granting a lot of gold is if you're using all those surplus points after gearing up to buy gear just to DE it and sell the shards
15:08.56Coreclowndunno about those
15:09.01AmarandeThat, actually, I could understand riches from, though
15:09.12Djones_Amarande, for once, could you make a SUBSTANTIATED claim?
15:09.19Amarandeespecially since the big PvP servers tend to have enormous populations in general (especially US-Illidan) which gives a healthy economy for selling stuff on the AH
15:10.12Amarandeactually, Djones, yeah that didn't quite occur to me, the you get to glad and then stop thing
15:10.22Djones_Yes, because you never think before you say -anything
15:10.39Amarandeonce you get to be, or are near being the top dog in arena ratings, I recall it gets harder and harder to actually do arena
15:10.40Djones_You're almost as bad as blacknet
15:10.40Djones_Wait
15:10.42Djones_Are you blacknet?
15:10.42Niadyth*popcorn*
15:10.47Amarandewho's blacknet?
15:10.57Amarandeit's why the whole "win trading" thing exploded on the forums at one point
15:10.59Djones_That's just what a pretend not really blacknet would say.
15:11.47AmarandeTop rated arena teams got frustrated because, due to the rating-based matchups in queue, they would get very long queues (as the other teams in queue would consistently get matched with lower-rated teams closer to their own rating, rather than with the top team)
15:11.58AmarandeSo they would try to arrange for other top rated teams to be on at the same time so they'd ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO
15:12.16Amarandeand for their trouble, all they got was their gear taken away and 72 hour bans for "win trading violations"
15:13.14AmarandeYup. Blizzard has frequently had phases where the integrity of Arena PvP is considered their top priority, even more than such niceties as the game actually being fun for players of all tiers
15:13.51AmarandeSometimes even making balance changes that kick dedicated PvE players in the ass simply in order to make sure something's not too off the rocker in arena. :|
15:15.17Amarandeheh
15:15.28AmarandeYou know what's laughable about the whole "win trading" thing?
15:16.00AmarandeIn the game that originally gave us the rating system that Blizzard now uses for arena, "top rated players playing mostly only one another during arranged matches" is pretty much the *norm*
15:16.22Djones_if only it made sense for top level players to play those at their level
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15:16.23Djones_or something
15:16.41AmarandeDjones: the problem wasn't quite that
15:16.52Amarandeit was that top rated players *wanted to* play those at their level (and the queuing system pushed them to do so)
15:17.03Amarandehowever, any attempt to try to get the top rated players online at the same time as one another (so that they could do so)
15:17.13Amarandewas given a 72 hour ban and gear revocation by Blizzard as a win-trading TOS violation
15:17.37Amarandeso Blizzard was basically saying "well, you got to the top! now your reward is to barely ever get to play unless you're lucky, or we'll slap you!"
15:17.39hyljehaha oh wow
15:18.00RealDjonesAmarande: simple solution, make a seo
15:18.07RealDjonessecon character
15:18.13RealDjoneslose on purpose
15:18.19Amarandeheh, that really would be win trading :P
15:18.31Amarandebut the laughable thing is this
15:18.46AmarandeThe rating system used in arena is Elo. We get the Elo rating system from Chess.
15:19.14AmarandeAnd, in Chess, that's actually the norm. When you become a grandmaster, you tend to stop playing in ordinary tournaments and mainly only play in grandmaster-exclusive invitational tournaments
15:19.21Amarandewhich ... is kind of the same thing as the top rated WoW players were doing
15:19.31Amarandeexcept that in chess, it's considered the norm, while in WoW, it's considered a TOS violation
15:19.54hyljecheese
15:20.36AmarandeThe paranoid part of me wonders if it's Legal pressuring for that interpretation (after all, the TOS is a creature of the Legal department, generally, too)
15:20.46TorhalGood lord, you can talk about absolutely nothing for hours.
15:20.47Amarandespecifically, because Blizzard runs arena tournaments, which take real cash entry fees and give real cash prizes
15:21.01Niadythbacon
15:21.04Amarandewhich makes me wonder if they feel under pressure to make sure that arena is especially well-tuned, so that they're not accused of being a casino on net
15:22.20Amarandegiven that the legalities of e-sport cash prizes (i.e., under what circumstances they're okay and what circumstances they're considered to make you the next PokerStars) are doubtless a pretty young thing, and not being a lawyer I'm not sure how many test cases there have been at all, I have to wonder how much that matters.
15:24.30AmarandeIt does seem like there's the possibility that if there was seen as being too much of an element of chance in arena, though, or an environment where Blizzard could be accused of condoning fixing, that Little Spoiled Rich Timmy might have his parents drag Blizzard into court after losing in the tournament. :P
15:25.08NiadythI have to stop you there
15:25.24Niadythno parent in the world is irresponsible to do that
15:25.26AmarandeAnd it's not like US authorities in particular have had a particularly loving eye towards online games with a real money element, and often not towards video games in general. I should know, being that I'm from Connecticut where we've had one of the most anti-gaming Senators for years. *sigh*
15:25.28Niadyth*enough
15:25.39AmarandeNiadyth: are you from the United States?
15:25.54Niadythno, but neither do I hold Americans in such contempt
15:26.11Amarandesadly, it's something that us Americans only know too well that all too many Americans will stoop to the level of ridiculous lawsuits
15:26.30Amarandeand all too many juries will vote in their favour and grant them multi-million dollar awards
15:27.20Niadythif you say so
15:28.01AmarandeThis is the country where if you buy a cup of hot coffee and keep it in an irresponsibly dangerous area and burn yourself badly when it spills in your car, you can successfully get the fast food company that sold you the cup of coffee to pay you lottery-jackpot levels of cash. :P
15:28.12AmarandeBecause, somehow, they DIDN'T WARN YOU ENOUGH THAT IT WAS HOT.
15:28.27Niadythif you say so
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15:29.51AmarandeThis is the country where it becomes more and more expensive to see a doctor because all too often when a sick person goes south after seeing the doctor, the family does all they can to hunt for a reason to claim the doctor was at fault so that they can get large amounts of cash as compensation for their loss, so the doctors are forced to buy horrendously expensive malpractise insurance to
15:29.52Amarandefeel reasonably able to see patients (or to even get hired in many institutions).
15:29.57Niadythif you say so
15:30.35Amarandemany U.S. doctors (especially in some fields like obstetrics, which is generally the worst in that regard) don't make six digits out of greed, they make it out of need, because the *malpractise insurance premium itself* costs six digits a year
15:30.54Niadythif you say so
15:32.30Stormscapethat feel when I bought and milled the wrong herb
15:32.32Stormscapefeelsbadman
15:33.24AmarandeStorm: you buy herbs off the AH for your scribe?
15:33.32Stormscapeduh
15:33.34Stormscapehigh pop server
15:34.03Bladescapepfft, you can still buy herbs cheap on low pop servers
15:34.29StormscapeAnyway, farming herbs on any size server = mug's game
15:34.34AmarandeBladescape: I would think it's more that on high pop servers it's harder to gather things in quantity in current zones because too many other people are doing it too
15:34.44Bladescapenope
15:35.13Bladescaperespawn reflects number of people in zone and bots and etc
15:36.22StormscapeMore like there's so many people gathering them it's quicker to do some dailies
15:36.23Stormscapeand buy them
15:36.26Stormscapethan to farm them
15:36.36Stormscapebecause they're so cheap
15:36.37Amarandenodes tend to be spread out though. it's a matter of luck if the next nodes spawn close enough to you that you can snag them before the other guy does.
15:36.49Stormscapeit takes a real schmuck to be a gatherer on a high pop server
15:36.53Amarandein fact, it makes one almost prefer bots
15:37.22AmarandeBots tend to follow a fixed pattern, so you can avoid being outfarmed by them by knowing which node they're likely going for next so you don't go for it yourself
15:37.27Amarandeas I learned during that night in Sholazar Basin
15:37.45Amarandeit's also how I learned they were bots, because they would constantly try to mine the same node I'd just taken
15:37.59StormmeldI stopped farming after WotLK, I farmed faster and more than bots or other players
15:38.00Amarandewithout any apparent cognition that it was gone
15:38.14Stormmeldshrugs
15:39.21StormblademscapeStormscape: loveeeeeeeeeeeee meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
15:39.53StormscapeT_t
15:40.56AmarandeStorm: speaking of that, I wonder how that's going to impact the market in MoP, due to the fact that dailies will be being relied on quite a lot more
15:41.06Amarande(can't rep up with mop factions through dungeons, it's all dailies)
15:41.23Stormblademscapef that lol
15:41.39StormblademscapeI don't have time for sh*tty dailies
15:42.23Coreclownno tabards for instance rep farming at all? :o
15:42.36AmarandeCoreclown: nope. all dailies. in fact, you can get valor from dailies in mop, too
15:42.49AmarandeI presume if you still need some city rep, you can still use your city tabards
15:43.00Amarandemaybe they'll be nice and unlock the LK and Cata tabards to still work at 90, but probably not
15:43.08StormblademscapeI'm sure they'll implement it in a couple patches, once majority of the players have grinded the rep and they just need it on their alts
15:43.17AmarandeAlso there should be a lot more money staying in-game in MoP, excluding the occasional purchase from the black market AH
15:43.36Amarandeif people can get rep and valor from dailies, a lot of people will probably do that instead of taking the time to queue up in dungeons/frustration of wiping on bad groups
15:43.47CoreclownOh well, in fact I do my dailies everyday now for some extra money, I don't think it will be a problem for me then
15:44.14AmarandeImportant factor here: You die frequently in dungeons, due to wipes from poor groups/DCs/etc.
15:44.33Stormblademscapenot if you run with guild members
15:44.44AmarandeThis leads to a lot of money exiting the game due to repair bills (which are probably going to start running into the triple digits in mop seeing as some folks have already gotten 50+g repair bills in cata on a bad night)
15:45.27fewyni had a big repair bill i think a few weeks ago closer to 100
15:45.35Stormblademscapelot of money from repairs
15:45.37Stormblademscapewhat
15:45.42AmarandeI'm suspecting you also make a much lower hard cash:time ratio in dungeons, too, compared to doing dailies (assuming you don't get lucky and get an expensive BoE item or the latest Orb type to sell)
15:45.56AmarandeIn dailies, you get a very high cash:time ratio, and you don't generally die much
15:46.05Amarandeat least not since netherwing (Dragonmaw Ascendants *shakes fist*)
15:46.50Stormblademscapedailies average about 300g/hour for overall dailies, and ~4-500g in more compact zones
15:47.06AmarandeYeah, you don't make 300g+/hour from dungeons :)
15:47.25AmarandeYou also spend more, because you'll repair more often. Even with a good group, dungeon deaths tend to be far more common than questing deaths. :)
15:47.28Stormblademscapedungeons are about 10 min with a decent group and you get ~100G or so
15:48.06Stormblademscapethat's 600G+/hr with good groups
15:48.06Jammerthink you'll spend 15min at least
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15:48.12Jammereven with good group
15:48.15Stormblademscapereally?
15:48.28Jammercertainly seem to be doing about 15-20min usually
15:48.37AmarandeThis is especially true when content is new (between the fact that people are still learning the encounters, plus the fact that new expansion content means you can't rely on being able to faceroll heroics with your high tier raid gear like you can later on)
15:48.40Stormblademscapeeither way, they're about the same
15:48.49AmarandeJammer: are you counting queue time, or is this exclusively guild group?
15:49.04JammerAmarande: nope this doesn't have queue time
15:49.10Stormblademscapeif you're lucky, dungeons give about 1k/G on a single run
15:49.22Jammerof course as tank/healer queue time usually isn't issue
15:49.28AmarandeStorm: what's the average repair cost per death in MoP?
15:49.44StormblademscapeANYWAY, making gold via dailies or dungeons is dumb
15:50.00StormblademscapeStormscape: I think he's asking you
15:50.09Stormscape...
15:50.18StormscapeHow the fuck am I supposed to know
15:50.19AmarandeHeh. But you said that farming mats is dumb, too
15:50.20StormscapeI don't have Beta
15:50.37AmarandeHow do you make gold if doing dailies and dungeons is dumb and so is farming mats :P
15:50.57blademeldif you want to make gold, you don't farm mats (save for fish) and you do not go around killing things
15:51.12Stormscapeyou become a scribe
15:51.16blademeldfishing is ideal if you don't want to think
15:51.16Stormscapeand get a license to print money
15:51.21blademeldStormscape: idd lol
15:51.31Jammerscribes got nerfed bad in cata
15:51.42Amarandeyeah, scribes lose out big if you didn't get in on it in LK
15:51.49blademeldJammer: it's not as bad as it could have been
15:52.36Amarandeespecially because so many of the glyphs come from the book of glyph mastery which *doesn't drop in cata*
15:52.36JammerI can't really make more than few K a day as a scribe even posting all day long
15:53.03Amarandeit only drops in northrend, and I recall it only has a decent drop rate from high level NR instance elites, to boot
15:53.13Jammerit's okayish income but it's definately not a licence to print money :p
15:53.26blademeldJammer: I make a couple k a day on glyphs... I'm no a scribe lol
15:53.37blademeldanyways, easier way is the fortune cards
15:53.47hyljepeople love dat lottery
15:53.47Amarandemoreover, at this point thanks to those books, it might be better to wait till MoP :S
15:53.57Jammerblademeld: dunno my realm fortune card prices are below mat costs
15:54.06blademeldJammer: lol
15:54.11Amarandean awful lot of the Book glyphs are Prime ones which will be wasting your hundreds of gold on a book since they're going away on the 28th
15:55.00Amarandenot to mention, is it quite clear yet which glyphs will be the really desirable ones in mop? the whole thing is being overhauled.
15:55.26StormscapeScribes are going to be rich for a whole different reason in Mists
15:55.28Stormscapeshoulder enchants
15:56.15Amarandeyeah, that will be a much needed cash infusion
15:56.24Amarandethe other reason that glyphs started to suck in cata was because of perma-learning
15:56.52Amarandeit was different in LK when re-glyphing meant in some cases needing to keep several of each glyph on hand at a time
15:57.04StormscapeGot all the way to 382 inscription before I didn't have any orange recipies
15:57.09Stormscapeboy levelling inscription is easy
15:57.23Amarande(Some LK raiding strategies did involve re-glyphing on a fight to fight basis.)
15:57.33blademeldhehe
15:57.35blademeldgood times
15:58.19AmarandeNow a character only ever needs a given glyph once, and the item to re-glyph is bought from vendors. Big crash for scribe income.
15:58.31blademeldhehe
15:58.39blademeldI used to buy them from the vendors and resold them
15:58.42blademeldon the AH
15:58.49blademelduntil the scribes caught on
15:59.00Amarandeyeah, occasionally you'll find someone who doesn't know that they're buyable from vendors :P
15:59.07blademeldand then they started selling 25% or vendor price
15:59.14blademeldof*
15:59.32AmarandeI've sometimes seen vendor items make decent bank on the AH, even unlimited ones sometimes, but that's usually for old world recipes that you have to visit some far-flung BFE to purchase
15:59.36blademeldat which point I was like, eh, I made enough
15:59.52Amarandelike the engineering recipes from Winterspring, or various Cooking recipes that are scattered to the nine winds
16:00.49AmarandeI wonder if the Winterspring recipes are more profitable on Horde though. Should check that.
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16:01.40Amarande(Reason being that Horde has no real reason to ever go to Winterspring anymore once they're done with the quest and exploration achievements, unless of course they're engineers buying the recipes from the vendors themselves, while Alliance will be coming back there daily for nearly a month to get their cat)
16:02.07StormscapeBlizzard you bastards
16:02.15Stormscape397-400 requires making green recipies
16:02.27hyljehordies will go to tanaris for their lizard
16:02.33hyljeStormscape: ocd
16:02.45Amarandehylje: yeah, but there's fewer useful recipes sold only in Tanaris than only in Winterspring
16:03.09Amarandealso Tanaris tends to be in easier reach for players in general due to Uldum being a popular farming spot
16:03.25Stormscapeheh I've already burned through 2.5k gold
16:03.38Stormscapejust going from 225 to 400 inscription
16:03.39Amarandeexcept for the cat mount, high level players don't really go near Winterspring all that often unless it's Lunar Festival and Moonglade is the place to be
16:04.18Amarandeespecially now that the rare crafting recipes were taken away from there too (used to be a big farming spot because you could make money off GAPP and especially Arcanite Dragonling recipes, but now you can't get those there)
16:04.39Stormscapetime to burn through another 2k
16:04.44Stormscapehopefully that'll take me to 525
16:04.52AmarandeStormscape: heh, green recipe fun
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16:05.10Amarandethat's been the case for a lot of ranges over wow's history
16:05.14Stormscapeyeah managed to get through those 3 points with just 6 crafts
16:05.17AmarandeI remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth from LWs when Cata was new
16:05.18Stormscapefelt good
16:05.49Amarande510, 515 or so, you start needing enough leather to kit out an entire corporate chain of BDSM dungeons to craft anything that gives you even a *chance* of leveling it up
16:05.52Amarandeand that's just that, a chance
16:06.26AmarandeThe last few points of engineering in LK were a bear, too
16:06.51Stormscapetheir first problem was making a leatherworker
16:06.56Stormscapeit's pretty clear Blizzard hates LWers
16:07.02Stormscapesame with engineers
16:07.11Stormscape"sup 2k gold per point"
16:09.39Amarandeyeah, I didn't realise the level of engineer hate till I leveled this one
16:09.54Amarandeand noted that at least at lower levels (it seemed to stop being the case at higher levels, or maybe it depends on the precise sort of item?)
16:10.12Amarandeit used to be you were allowed one kaboom every couple of minutes or so
16:10.31Amarandeat some point it appears they've put that as the "one every couple of minutes AFTER YOUR COMBAT IS OVER" rule like potions
16:10.56Amarandebut not consistently (some of them still have a basic 1-minute CD)
16:10.57StormscapeI'm /still/ mad about the potion change in Wrath
16:11.21Amarandeyeah, I never really quite got the rationale for that one
16:11.52AmarandeThey claimed it was to reduce consumables dependence (although then they made glyphs consumable and you had to have stacks on hand if you needed to change glyphs for specific fights ...)
16:12.08AmarandeIt *could* be a resource balancing thing, but not sure
16:12.25Amarandei.e., it used to be that herbs were only useful for alchemy items (with a very very few exceptions)
16:12.36StormscapeAlso the "removal of oils/sharpening stones
16:12.42Stormscapeclaiming it was to reduce costs
16:12.51StormscapeNo it was because you can't balance the game worth shit
16:13.00AmarandeBut now that herbs were going to be a shared resource between multiple professions
16:13.22AmarandeI wonder if it was really to keep costs under control - but those of herbs, which otherwise stood to spike in price much more due to more competition for the supply
16:13.37StormscapeI remember powerlevelling alchemy in TBC
16:13.40Stormscapecost me 900g to do 1-375
16:13.43Stormscapetook me all of 2 hours
16:14.00AmarandeFewer consumables used -> fewer herbs that go to alchemists for potion making -> more for scribes to have on hand for glyphs -> lower herb costs
16:14.02fewynpowerleveling some profs is ezpz
16:14.06fewynsome it’s super hard
16:14.12fewyneng has to be the worst
16:15.13AmarandeOils and sharpening stones are only half-heartedly removed, heh
16:15.29AmarandeThey've not added any new ones since Wrath, but they keep bumping up the maximum ilvl on the old ones so people can use them for longer while leveling
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16:16.04AmarandeUsed to be ilvl 163 max or some such, now I believe the cap is 200
16:16.40Amarandewhich actually has another nice point: if you are leveling a character now, it means you get at least a little extra boost in those hellish initial quests in Cata
16:17.06Amarande(particularly as the weapon is often one of the items you replace last)
16:17.10Stormscapewow, Postal won't open mail if you don't have regular bagslots free
16:17.15Stormscapeeven if you got profession bags free for it
16:18.07Amarandefewyn: actually eng isn't too bad till you hit cata levels
16:18.14fewynehhhh
16:18.20fewyndepends if there’s mithril ore on the ah
16:18.22fewynor not
16:18.24Stormscapeblacksmithing, lol
16:18.34fewynblacksmithing is hard too
16:18.34Amarandethat mainly because you need stupid amounts of electrified ether to level it efficiently, and volatile air is always bloody expensive
16:18.54fewynanything that requires some of those mid level vanilla mats
16:18.56fewynis a pita
16:19.00fewynvanilla ore mats
16:19.12Amarandethe efficient eng leveling guide I've been following says I need 42 electrified ether
16:19.13fewynherbs aren’t usually that difficult to get ahold of
16:19.19Amarandethat's 84 volatile air, which on AH is 17g or so a pop
16:19.35Amarandethat's not counting all the hardened elementium bars
16:19.36fewyngood thing i’m almost back up to ~200k
16:19.48fewynmop is gonna be exxxxpensive
16:19.52AmarandeMithril ore seems to be plentiful on my server at least
16:20.01AmarandeTo the point where I paid back my guild leader for it in ore recently
16:20.26Stormscapewow, good job Blizzard. Blackfallow Ink is available at 425, and is orange until 440
16:20.35Stormscapebecause there's nothing from 425 to 450 if you weren't a scribe during Wrath
16:20.49AmarandeBack when I first hit the point of needing mithril, my guild leader helped me out with several stacks of mithril ore plus a little gold and truesilver, and even said "keep the rest or sell it on AH I don't care"
16:20.59AmarandeSo, I used that mithril, got past the mithril stage
16:21.21Amarandelater on, I came back to Felwood (where all the mining nodes are mithril/TS) to get the Denmother's Cloak (requires virtually all the quests in zone to be done) for mog
16:21.30Amarandeended up with about the same amount of mithril and truesilver
16:21.45Amarandeended up giving it back to the guild leader with a thank you note because it literally went a week + without selling
16:22.24Stormscapeaha yes I got the real money maker for inscription now
16:22.27Stormscapemysterious fortune cards
16:22.30Stormscapepeople love gambling
16:22.38AmarandeStormscape: you know what's strange? :)
16:22.43fewyni flip my own cards typically
16:22.48fewyni’ve had pretty good luck
16:22.49AmarandeBack in the day I remember reading about Blizzard cracking down on "chat casinos" in trade
16:22.55Amarande... Now they let scribes sell scratch lottos. :)
16:22.58fewyni break even or make a profit typically
16:23.08fewynvery rarely do i lose money
16:23.21fewynbut i do 1000 cards at a time
16:23.27Stormscapewat
16:23.36AmarandeBut yeah, eng isn't too bad till Cata levels
16:23.48AmarandeEven the last run to 300 is actually one of the easiest, because it's all dense stone and thorium now
16:23.50fewynwhat are you whatting about Stormscape
16:23.57Amarandeand, for one, dense stone is actually worthless :P
16:23.59Stormscape>1000 at once
16:24.03fewynyeah?
16:24.07fewynthat’s typical for me =p
16:24.11Stormscapeu cray
16:24.24fewynnah i just do a lot of shuffling
16:24.30Amarandeevery time I've acquired dense stone (I used to get a lot of it because I'd hit the thorium nodes while I was doing my Winterspring cat dailies)
16:24.31fewynexcess ink gets turned into cards
16:24.39AmarandeAuctioneer has emphatically stated "vendor this item"
16:24.44Amarandeit's always below vendor on AH
16:24.51fewyni don’t even vendor it
16:24.54fewyni just destroy it
16:24.59fewynnot worth the hassle
16:25.31blademeldmeh
16:25.46AmarandeLW is probably the worst
16:25.52AmarandeThe problem with LW is that you just need SO MUCH of it
16:26.14fewynlwing is only bad if you don’t have a skinner
16:26.17AmarandeMy joke that you could probably equip every BDSM dungeon on the East Coast with the amount of leather it takes to go from 1-300 is probably accurate LOL
16:26.20blademeldgood night stormscape
16:26.27AmarandeThe trouble is not even the cost, it's availability
16:26.28blademeldgood night fewyn
16:26.28Stormscape>night
16:26.30Stormscapeoh right
16:26.31StormscapeKorea
16:26.35blademeldthe rest of you, I don't know
16:26.45AmarandeYou're forced to go out there and mass farm, because generally there's nowhere near enough of each type available even if you buy out the whole AH
16:27.04AmarandeThen 340-350 needs primals or oddball BC mats for every point
16:27.24AmarandeI think 400-425 is the same, too
16:28.41AmarandeJC can be pretty bad too, 290-300 and 320-325 seemed to be the chief hurdles
16:28.59Amarandebut at least ore is usually something you can get enough of from the AH
16:30.01AmarandeNow, mind you, there's two things where eng is a pain, but you don't need to do them to initially level it up. :)
16:30.15AmarandeAnd they both sum up mostly to one word.
16:30.43Amarande"Khorium."
16:31.04Amarandewell, that and felsteel
16:31.07StormscapeAH logic: 1 Voltatile Life for 17g, or 200 for 186g.
16:31.38eidyianice
16:32.48AmarandeStormscape: AH lucky, you mean
16:33.29StormscapeI appear to have encountered the "fuck you" part of scribe levelling finally
16:33.38Stormscape490 skill, only thing that are orange require lots of rare ink
16:33.40Stormscapeand volatiles
16:34.00Amarandehere's what we're looking at on my server: https://theunderminejournal.com/item.php?realm=A-Ysera&item=52328
16:34.24Amarandethe 5 and 10 packs are often even worse values than the singles
16:34.51Stormscape>stack of 200: 3000g
16:34.51Stormscapewat
16:36.42AmarandeBut yeah, between Jeeves and the turbo-copter, you need 16 felsteel bars and 10 khorium bars
16:37.10eidyiai think i need to server xfer to one that has better AH prices
16:43.04Stormscapeeidyia: just go to wowprogress.com and pick any server that's in Top 20
16:43.12Stormscapeguranteed to have stupidly low AH prices
16:43.42eidyiasad thing is i have 10 toons on my server and not gonna shell the cash to move them all :(
16:44.23Stormscapegod why does the mobile armoury have such a better interface for posting auctions than even the website
16:44.27Stormscapeit automatically prices shit for me
16:44.35Stormscapewith the website I have to do it myself
16:44.36Stormscapefuck that
16:44.56AmarandeI use Auctioneer in-game to set prices
16:45.19StormscapeI really can't be bothered to install any in-game addons
16:45.21Stormscapefor AH
16:45.31Stormscapethey generally manage to just fuck up the interface with massive clutter
16:45.48Mr_Rabiesauctionator is pretty nice
16:46.18Mr_Rabiesit's way more barebones than auctioneer, and generally a little quicker to update for patches, etc
16:46.46Mr_Rabieshowever, it hasn't been updated since december 2011, now that i look at it D:
16:46.54Amarandeouch. wonder if it will break with mop
16:47.02Amarandewonder if auctioneer is mop-ready in its present version, too
16:47.42AmarandeNot having a good working auction addon for a time period could have fairly far-ranging effects, I'd imagine :|
16:48.19Stormscaperemote AH masterace
16:48.42Amarandehow popular is the WoW Remote subscription addon in general?
16:51.27StormscapeI haven't even finished posting all my glyphsd
16:51.32Stormscapeand they're already selling
16:51.39eidyiaAmarande: i don't have it on my account, but if you let me battle my pets come mists, then i'll add it
16:52.03eidyiai should note: they have to lvl too and count wins, etc
16:52.26AmarandeThe main effect I would imagine would be that there'd be a lot less stuff on the AH, because people would feel like only posting more reliable sellers due to having to spend extra time to research and determine prices
16:52.38Amarandeand therefore, things would probably also cost more because people would want to charge more to make up for not selling as much stuff
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16:55.10StormscapeAlright, all my auctions posted
16:55.14Stormscapeboy that was quick and easy
16:55.33StormscapeI get the feeling the best selling glyphs are probably always DK glyphs
16:55.41Stormscapebecause they'll be level 58 with no glyphs, every time
16:55.44Stormscapeso they need a bunch all at once
16:58.02Amarandeexcept that savvy players tend to only buy the glyphs their spec plan actually needs :)
16:58.26AmarandeI certainly don't waste good gold on glyphs I'll probably never equip
16:58.33StormscapeYou're assuming WoW players are smart
17:05.23Amarandeheh
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17:05.44AmarandeYeah, there are plenty of people who can't hack 5K DPS at 85 in decent gear
17:05.53neutronimityI think fewyn will love this. http://i.imgur.com/ntN6u.gif
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17:11.58g0urraneutronimity: skaters gonna skate.
17:12.05neutronimityyeah
17:13.27AmarandeOr, what was that spoof of the Gatorade theme song I came up with ... "Haterade is first aid ... For that deep down ego hurt!"
17:19.22JammerAmarande: surely you get 5k with like autoattacks :P
17:24.58Stormscapewow, 520-525 is pretty straightforward for scribes
17:25.02Stormscapemake ONE relatively cheap item
17:26.00eidyiaStormscape: that's what DMF is for :)
17:26.25Stormscapeno, it really is pretty cheap for this last item
17:26.28StormscapeI just need 12 inferno ink
17:26.31Stormscapeand a vendor item
17:26.38Djones_Stormscape, yup
17:26.53StormscapeCompared to tailoring which was like
17:26.55Stormscapehaha fuck you
17:27.00Stormscapegive me all your cloth
17:27.26AmarandeYeah, Engineering looks easy enough to max too once you get past needing all those hardened elementium bars and volatile airs
17:27.45AmarandeHave you gotten the impression that the cloth rate drop seems to be down in Cata/LK compared to earlier levels, too?
17:28.05AmarandeCloth was all over the place in old world, and it seems like humanoids in Outland drop netherweave more often than not
17:28.17Amarandebut frostweave and embersilk seem to be an awful lot rarer
17:28.45Stormscape>embersilk
17:28.48Stormscapelearn to Tol Barad
17:28.53StormscapeI get like 4 stacks from doing dailies
17:29.06Amarandewell, I mean, just leveling seems to get you netherweave and earlier at a pretty good clip
17:29.29Amarandewhereas I think I have only about two and a half stacks of embersilk after finishing the whole of Vashj'ir (which does have a decent number of humanoid enemies)
17:29.56Djones_Amarande, you just need a lot MORE of it
17:29.59Djones_The drop rate is apprxoimately the same.
17:30.38StormscapeHow did you only have that much cloth after finishing vashj'ir
17:30.43Stormscapemy bags were OVERFLOWING with it
17:31.10Coreclownsame when I leveled
17:31.22Niadythanyone else having problems opening up the options in grid2 ?
17:31.22Stormscape>mfw book of glyph mastery is 1000g on Area 52
17:31.25Coreclowngot to maxed first aid easily on 2 toons
17:31.26Stormscapedafuq.jpg
17:31.45StormscapeNo wonder glyphs are so expensive, 1k gold per glyph
17:32.26Djones_What.
17:32.27Djones_No.
17:36.49Mr_Rabies>glyphs
17:36.51Mr_Rabies>expensive
17:37.31Mr_Rabiesinscription is so messed up right now
17:37.38Mr_Rabiesyou practically can't make money doing it
17:37.42Djones_^
17:37.49Mr_Rabiesmaybe once MoP comes out
17:37.50Djones_Sell glyphs at below herb price.
17:37.54Djones_gg?
17:37.54Mr_Rabiesyeah, exactly
17:38.07Mr_Rabiesalso, learning new recipes is a total pain the ass
17:38.19Mr_Rabiesalso: 4 different kinds of paper, and a convoluted ink system
17:38.25Djones_Aye.
17:38.33Djones_Although, I wish crafting was scrapped and made interesting.
17:38.42Djones_I -hate- recipe based systems.
17:38.43Djones_So lame.
17:38.46Mr_Rabiesyeah
17:38.59Djones_Game called ryzom had the best crafting system of all time.
17:39.14Djones_You had Blueprints for stuff. Heavy armour say requires wood, resin, sap, something else.
17:39.15Mr_Rabiesthe rest of ryzom was totally nutso though
17:39.22Djones_There are like 50 different woods/resin etc.
17:39.22Djones_Oh sure.
17:39.45Djones_The "recipes" were ones the community figured out.
17:39.45Mr_Rabiessee, i don't really like that either
17:39.58Mr_Rabiesit should be considerably more simplified, in my opinion
17:40.02Djones_No, that was FUN.
17:40.12Djones_Eveyone could make basic stuff, and knew the general recipes.
17:40.20Mr_Rabiesright now some professions are needlessly complicated with extra steps in the process for no reason
17:40.22Djones_But the best stuff was kept secret by the crafters. That was cool.
17:40.28AmarandeWell, depending on the type of crafting, would free-crafting be viable for all professions?
17:40.29Mr_Rabieslike, alchemists do this
17:40.35Mr_Rabiesherbs -> potions
17:40.41Mr_Rabiesmetal -> other metal
17:40.41AmarandeI could see it being viable for Alchemy (just use an Elder Scrolls style potion combine system)
17:40.44Mr_Rabiesengineers go
17:40.52AmarandeOTOH, for things like a weapon or armour?
17:41.12StormscapeI still think WoW needs the ability for crafting to fail
17:41.17Mr_Rabiesmetal -> parts, parts, parts -> bigger part -> final product
17:41.32Mr_Rabieswhich is totally unnecessary
17:41.41AmarandeNot sure you can do much realistically there, except for taking perhaps a leaf from NWN2 and having just the one recipe for each type of weapon or armour, with the actual properties of the output modulated by crafting skill and the type of mats chosen
17:42.11eidyiaMr_Rabies: i'd say it's part of managing the economy
17:42.12Amarandeimagines WoW with Stormscape's idea
17:42.22Amarandeimagines Stormscape being flayed raw by hordes of angry leatherworkers
17:42.27eidyiaspending 8k for cycle parts is a gold sink
17:42.35Stormscapemat costs would go down obviously because of fail chance
17:42.43Stormscapecan't have something that needs 100k in mats
17:42.45Stormscapeand have it fail
17:42.52Mr_Rabiesthat's not the problem i'm talking about eidyia
17:42.53AmarandeBut for instance, instead of having separate recipes for, say, a basic 1H sword
17:42.59AmarandeYou'd have just a "1H metallic sword" recipe
17:43.00Mr_Rabiesi'm talking about there being extra steps in the process for no reason
17:43.07Mr_Rabiesgold sinks are good
17:43.11Mr_Rabiestime sinks aren't
17:43.15eidyiai hear ya
17:43.16AmarandeHow high level your BS is would determine what metals you could work with, and the stats would be based on the particular ingots you use ... that might work
17:43.23Mr_Rabieswell
17:43.25eidyiaie. if i have all the mats to make the big machine - just make it
17:43.27Mr_Rabiestime sinks have their purpose
17:43.32Mr_Rabiesbut in the crafting system, it doesn't
17:43.47Mr_Rabiesbecause the items you produce are generally not that strong
17:44.02Mr_Rabiesthere's no real reason for crafting to take so much meticulous planning and time
17:44.05AmarandeYeah, that would pretty much mean making crafted gear the supreme gear
17:44.15eidyiaif a bike is made with 8 parts which are made of 3 bars, 5 bolts, and a red gem, just let me make the bike if i have all the raw mats
17:44.19Amarandealthough this is actually the case in some MMOs
17:44.29Mr_Rabiesexactly, eidyia
17:44.31Mr_Rabiesinstead of going
17:44.34Mr_Rabiesokay, i gotta make wheels
17:44.35eidyiai agree
17:44.36Mr_Rabiesi gotta make a seat
17:44.38Amarandein LOTRO for instance, the best weapons, class items, and in Rise of Isengard, cloaks, are all crafted
17:44.42Mr_Rabiesi gotta make headlights
17:44.42eidyiamakes planning those things a pain
17:45.02Mr_Rabiesokay, now i need to combine the headlight and the frame, then combine the second frame with the wheels
17:45.04eidyiai'd say: if you have the raw mats, make the bike; if i have a few raw mats and a few parts, make the parts then bike
17:45.09AmarandeRaid bosses don't drop weapons directly, instead they drop special mats that are used to craft them (and Saruman drops special cloak clasps for epic cloak crafts)
17:45.46eidyiai'm with ya
17:45.50Mr_Rabiesbut really, there's not much of a reason not to be an alchemist if you have just one character
17:45.57Mr_Rabiesit's got the most perks, it's simple, it's always needed
17:46.00AmarandeBasically, to get the LOTRO system in WoW? Just have most or all of the top end stuff be either crafted or purchased with valor/justice
17:46.13AmarandeThen have the raid bosses just drop valor and special mats for the top end crafted items
17:46.24Djones_Mr_Rabies, it's always thus
17:46.25Mr_Rabiesalchemy is essentially the perfect profession
17:46.29AmarandeIt mostly eliminates loot complaints, too. :)
17:46.30Djones_Alchemy+BS
17:46.31Djones_always optimal.
17:46.37Mr_Rabiesi hate to be one of those guys
17:46.43Mr_Rabiesbut it seems to be blizzard's favorite
17:46.55Mr_Rabiesit's, in my mind, the perfect profession
17:47.05eidyiai feel being an enchanter is good too - always people needing enchants and while a huge up-front investment, pays off financially
17:47.07Amarandeactually, alchemy got a fair amount of hate from blizzard when they nerfed potions to one per battle
17:47.15Mr_Rabieshell, it even got cool shit that's normally reserved for engineering since eng is insanely unprofitable
17:47.35eidyiathey do have a mount now
17:47.37AmarandeI expect eng will become more profitable in MoP, if only a little
17:47.50Mr_Rabiesthey got cool flavor items like the illusion potion thing, treasure finding, a mount
17:47.53Amarandethe way fishing difficulty has been ramping up, the +150 lures start to become quite attractive
17:47.53Mr_Rabiesengineering got uh
17:47.59Mr_Rabiesloot-a-rang?
17:48.11Djones_"Fishing difficulty"
17:48.19Mr_Rabiesfishing timesink, i think you mean :p
17:48.22AmarandeIn fact, you HAVE TO have a 150 lure to maximise your chances of fishing non-junk in Vale, and even with all the stuff, you can still get greys
17:48.29Djones_Amarande, it doesn't MATTER.
17:48.31eidyianeed to make more engr mounts - then ppl will buy again
17:48.32Djones_Nobody cares about junk.
17:48.38Djones_Because so will everyone else.
17:48.57Mr_Rabiesi don't really even necessarily want engineering to be profitable
17:49.03Mr_Rabiesi just want it to be fun and useful
17:49.05AmarandeMr_Rabies: hopefully loot-a-rang works with the new AoE looting in mop
17:49.11Amarandethen it will be win and awesome for ranged classes
17:49.13Mr_Rabiesright now you get an extra minitrinket and loot-a-rang
17:49.16Mr_Rabiesit does, but it's awkward
17:49.25Mr_Rabies1 sec cast time, pulls druids out of feral forms
17:49.29eidyiai'm sure it's like getting your hunter pet to fetch loot
17:49.45AmarandeGood thing about being ranged: You can kill mobs before they even get close enough to hurt you
17:50.03AmarandeBad thing about being ranged: You kill mobs at a fair distance which means they're still near enough to their buddies to have to worry about aggroing them when you go to loot :)
17:50.18Mr_Rabiesgood thing about being melee: uh
17:50.25Stormscapehttp://i.imgur.com/5ncIQ.jpg
17:50.30Stormscapeevery WoW player ever
17:51.26eidyiaStormscape - i'd like to see someone take the April Fool's ghost crawl clippy/crab on there and mash it up
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17:57.58Djones_<Amarande> Bad thing about being ranged: You kill mobs at a fair distance which means they're still near enough to their buddies to have to worry about aggroing them when you go to loot :) : Wut.
17:58.08Djones_If they're close enough to aggro you would have aggro'd them when you pulled.
17:58.22Djones_And since they move towards you, and thus away from their friends when you attack them. I repeat. Wut.
18:00.37Stormscape^
18:00.45Stormscapeif you're worried about prox aggro, wait for them to get closer
18:00.46Stormscapejeeez
18:13.43JunkHeadDjones_ I bet i can give you an aggro situation much much worse and confusing and headache inducing.
18:14.28JunkHeadI'll simply just use the word "argo" repeatedly.
18:18.47Djones_<3
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18:37.14g0urrahttp://i.imgur.com/cDnBe.jpg
18:37.40StormscapeOverheard in Russia: "It's not like we can arrest the car"
18:47.47StormscapeDjones so I went to a DS10 with my mage, I was only cloth user in the group
18:48.00Stormscapele boner face
18:50.06Djones_lol
18:50.52Amarandebans JunkHead from Argo
18:51.51StormscapeI got tic toc and belt because of that
18:51.54Stormscapewas pretty awesome
18:53.33AmarandeStormscape: yeah, being the only user of a particular gear type is usually win :)
18:53.42AmarandeDuring my ICC10 days on my DK, I was usually the only plate DPS present :)
18:54.01Amarandeand, on top of that, usually the only user of 1H physical DPS weapons
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22:37.29fewynhttp://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum_perks
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22:53.44fewynok so
22:53.47fewyninscription bags
22:54.06fewynwhat don’t they hold?
22:54.44fewynGlyphs · Scrolls · Pigments · Ink · Parchment
23:00.47g0urrahm.. is it just me or has Shadowflame been removed in MoP?
23:01.18g0urraI can't see it anywhere
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23:04.50fewyni think it is
23:04.53fewyni don’t see it on the mop db
23:04.57fewynhttp://mop.wowhead.com/search?q=shadowflame
23:05.55g0urrayeah. weird how there's still a glyph there
23:05.56g0urraoh well
23:06.49llanoAnyone have a Scroll of Resurrection to hand out - was looking to try wow again?
23:07.42g0urraeu or us?
23:07.52llanoUS
23:10.35llanoNo takers? You can send unlimited Scrolls
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