IRC log for #wowhead on 20130213

00:06.23Amarandehmm. if you just stay mounted above him, nothing much happens. you never even get spears or such till you actually do something, at which point you're actually In Combat and can't mount and have to play the game the way the sadist at Blizzard intended it. :|
00:07.57Amarandethe NPC also seems to completely stop damaging him once he hits 13.65M
00:08.15AmarandeJunk, did you do this during 5.0 or 5.1?
00:08.51Amarandecrap, don't tell me 5.1 nerfed it and I'll never get to buy any items from their quartermaster again till I'm willing to throw away hundreds of gold learning this one-off fight. :|
00:10.44kullervoAmarande: what are you killing?
00:11.15Amarandekullervo: Zhao-Jin, final fight of the Golden Lotus exalted end chain
00:11.24kullervoOh.
00:11.31kullervoI should do that on my paladin I guess.
00:11.33Amarandepretty much you seem to need to be the kind of person who plays Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry with skill to get this bastard down.
00:11.49kullervowhat's the fight like?
00:11.56Amarandeoodles of hit points and a SINGLE mistake and you're killed in one shot & he resets, of course
00:12.32kullervodoes he melee that hard, with a special ability, or is it environment?
00:12.36Amarandeseriously. why do so many people think that's what makes a better game, instead of having things be strategy and thought based, have it be based on twitch and being able to dexterously lay down a smack over several minutes without error :|
00:12.56Amarandepretty much every now and then he casts a lightning wall thing, if you land in it, it hits you for 30k about 20 times
00:13.13kullervothat doesn't sound hard
00:13.17Amarandeand it's one of those "rolls over the area" moving walls of doom, so only precisely timed jumps every time do the trick
00:13.20kullervowhat's your brawler's rank?
00:13.51AmarandeHe also has 13.7M HP, and the only thing that deals more than normal amounts of damage to him is a spear that gets dropped on the ground every now and then, you still need to do about 20 of those
00:13.57AmarandeStill don't have one, haven't been able to win the BMAH auctions
00:14.16Amarandeand most definitely NOT willing to drop 5000-10000g on a pass just to make sure I don't get sniped
00:14.28kullervothey get sold for 2k or so on my realm's AH
00:14.36Amarandeseems to still be about 5k on ours
00:14.50kullervoI looted mine while farming black prince rep
00:15.15Amarandeand I'm presuming I can never again buy any gear from the GL quartermaster until I get this guy down
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00:15.27kullervohahaha
00:15.31Amarandeseriously, this seems like a bullshit fight they put in to appeal to crazy action game kids
00:15.43Amarandeeven the people who've been known to criticise me for "conspiracy theories" or "ranting" hate this boss's guts LOL
00:15.48kullervofuck you almost made me log in to do that
00:16.23kullervojust wasted too much time killing lk25n
00:16.25Amarandebut yeah, what is with MoP's general focus on greatly increased twitch over Wrath and even BC or Cata?
00:16.34kullervojust so I can do lk25h tomorrow
00:16.37Amarandeare they trying to balance the economy with increased frequency of repair bills?
00:16.56kullervobecause solo things where the only difficulty is in the mob hitting hard aren't very fun
00:17.00Amarandeor trying to appeal to action game adrenaline kiddies who won't sub unless it reminds them of a Tecmo or Capcom game?
00:17.08kullervowhereas instantly seeing you succeeded at something is rewarding and fun
00:17.53Amarande(oddly enough, if this was a raid mechanic, I probably wouldn't be nearly so grumbly about it heh)
00:19.07Amarandeand I might need to retalent thanks to the craptastic 5.1 fix for druid mushroom exploits in arenas
00:19.40Amarandewhich has had a *much* more far-ranging effect (it affects certain quests, and also seems to affect practically everything with a reticle, like mages' rune of power)
00:20.02Amarandeotherwise, I'd have been able to use the stand on the pillar strategy, but you still get hit every now and then there and you can't put a rune because of that stupid fix
00:20.29AmarandeBlizz. Stop ruining the PvE game for the sake of arenas. Seriously. :|
00:22.03Sephirothamazing
00:22.13Sephirothanother week of lfr, and no wisdoms.
00:22.15Amarande(basically, there are oodles of places now where you are no longer allowed to put down a reticle-based ability or item for any reason, all to prevent druids from cheaping out in arenas by putting mushrooms where melee fighters can't destroy them)
00:22.59Amarandeit kills one of the Redridge quests, and it also means there's loads of places where us mages can't put down Rune of Power without there being any good reason for us not to be able to
00:23.15Amarandesince all we get is "no path available"
00:23.40Amarandepath-etic, really. :P
00:25.21AmarandeBut yeah, you know what that lightning wall reminds me of, come to think of it?
00:25.31AmarandeCrash fucking Bandicoot. I didn't sign up for World of Bandicraft. LOL
00:25.45AmarandeI seem to remember one of the Crash bosses worked exactly like this. :|
00:27.16Amarandehm. flames do damage but aren't impassible. at least if I die in Mogu'shan Palace instance with this quest active I don't have to worry heh
00:27.22Amarande(have to pass through quest area to reach instance portal)
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00:30.57AmarandeI've also, FWIW, never quite understood the people who *like* super unforgiving twitch action games like Ninja Gaiden, heh
00:31.14AmarandeIt's fun to watch Let's Play videos of such games, but I can't really get into them in any way resembling "gah, I just got my ass kicked again" LOL
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00:32.19AmarandeNow on the other hand, super unforgiving turn-based thought-based games like Shin Megami Tensei series stuff or Pools of Darkness, those I <3. :)
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00:38.26Amarandeyay, standing on the pillar and using invocation to heal doesn't work either
00:38.41Amarandeseriously, blizz. is this all about getting hundreds of our dailies gold back to try to pull it out of the game economy? :P
00:40.55AmarandeWTF.
00:40.57AmarandeSeriously?
00:41.10AmarandeI can no longer do my weekly turn ins of lesser charms until I suck it up and spend all the gold it takes on repairs to beat this guy?
00:41.13AmarandeWTF BLIZZARD.
00:42.56Amarandeand I'm guessing it's 99.99% impossible to get any help at all with the quest unless by absolute stroke of luck, due to the phasing
00:56.32JammerAmarande: what you talking about? :p
01:00.28Jammerdid you try abandoning the quest? maybe it'll reset the phasing
01:02.32AmarandeJammer: abandoning it does no good
01:02.43Jammerzhao-jin wasn't that hard tho? :p
01:02.45Amarandeonce you get to the point where you can accept the quest to kill Zhao-Jin, you're basically fucked as a raider
01:02.51Amarandeuntil you can manage to complete it
01:03.10Amarandeno more coins till you do, as even the NPCs at the faction homes phase out, including the guy you turn in lesser charms to
01:03.30Amarandewonder if a GM would help me or just LOL at me
01:04.40AmarandeOne mistake and you die, and the few viable ways to do it take 20-30 minutes
01:08.02Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] 5.2 PTR - Build 16577 - Spell Changes and More - http://www.wowhead.com/news=210686/5-2-ptr-build-16577-spell-changes-and-more
01:09.06neutronimityerm what was the other channel again?
01:09.11neutronimityI accidentally left
01:09.35Amarande#wowuidev
01:33.01Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] 5.2 PTR - Build 16577 - New Reputation Rewards, Spell Changes, and More - http://www.wowhead.com/news=210686/5-2-ptr-build-16577-new-reputation-rewards-spell-changes-and-more
01:33.09Amarandeyay, finally.
01:33.17Amarandestill have to agree with most of the wowhead comments here
01:33.22Amarandewhich is to say, the fight was overlong and underfun
01:34.05Amarandeparticularly for an action-based RPG
01:34.11hyljefun is a buzzword
01:38.15Amarandehylje: heh. don't we play games to have fun?
01:47.32Amarandebah.
01:47.35Amarandestill i469
01:47.49Amarandec'mon, can't I queue with just one item level less? pretty pretty please? :D
01:48.52hyljegather your friends, you can go underleveled if you have your own party
01:49.06hyljelike in the old times
01:49.16AmarandeI guess it's better than the old times, too
01:49.45AmarandeIf it was still like the old Wrath days, to get into a PUG raid they'd be basically asking you to have i509 and link cheeve LOL
01:49.57hyljethe lfd gear limits are meant for the generic buffoon
01:50.24Amarandeman, I was glad when Ten Ton Hammer got hit with a ten ton hammer for being asshats (apparently, got caught stealing addons against their licence terms to post on their site)
01:50.39Amarandethey're the company that created GearScore, which was responsible for so much wailing and gnashing of teeth in LK
01:52.40Amarandebtw. something that also occurred to me just now. you get an achievement when you finally beat that boss
01:52.54Amarandedoes Blizzard use the percentage of people who get a given achievement as a yardstick to balance difficulty for the next expansion?
01:53.15Amarandelike if too many people get particularly hard achievements, it means we're in for a rough one next xpac as they feel that they'll need to make it challenging for that market?
01:55.07hyljeachievements were probably born out of statistics gathering like that
01:55.26hyljeyou can't really design stuff without response
01:58.14JammerAmarande: they also have data like amount of pulls it took to get the kill
01:59.00Amarandehylje: I'm thinking more things like, if you stretch to manage an achievement for the points' sake
01:59.09Amarandeand too many people do so, when it was otherwise something hard enough that they might not have tried it otherwise
01:59.20Amarandeif then it means a higher likelihood that that level of difficulty becomes baseline next time
01:59.33Amarandeand then you wish you hadn't all stretched for 10 achievement points :)
02:03.36Jammerstatistical data probably isn't the only consideration for game balance and you would require thousands of players to do something in order for them to even notice
02:04.42hyljei hope blizzard indeed has some qualitative playtesting going on
02:05.10Jammertheir playtesting seems really horrible at times :P
02:05.39Jammeror maybe they're just using the diablo3 initial balance thing... "we tested this and then tripled all values to make it harder"
02:05.45hyljehave you played through portal developer commentary? valve's playtesters are worse
02:06.01Amarandeheh, I've still yet to give Diablo III a try
02:06.21Jammerwell it got nerfed to the ground so probably at suitable level for you now
02:06.25Amarandemind you, I might run into boss fights that make me want to pull hair like that one
02:06.26hyljeand yeah i heard d3 inferno was something their playtesters could barely beat.. and then they doubled or tripled the numbers
02:06.32Amarandebut ... that would probably be on inferno
02:06.37Amarandeand inferno is supposed to be hard :)
02:07.14Amarandethe pisser about that golden lotus boss is not only is it overlong and underfun, but once you get to that point, you MUST beat him or you're locked out of a lot of *baseline* content
02:07.27Amarandee.g., the ability to simply trade in your spirits or lesser charms
02:07.54Jammerhow hard is it to jump over that wall? :P
02:07.54Amarandeand I'd hate to even imagine the feeling of someone if they'd somehow managed to get to that point without a flying mount (not sure if it's even possible, maybe, there's one daily you'd have to skip at least)
02:08.15Amarandesince then you wouldn't even be able to buy Pandarian flying at all until you succeeded
02:08.25AmarandeJammer: a single time, not at all
02:08.44Jammerbut it's exactly the same the whole fight ><
02:08.56Amarandethe number of times it takes to whittle the boss down, knowing that a single mistake means you have to start all over because it's a guaranteed kill (except maybe against dedicated tank types with their 800k buffed HP)
02:09.11Amarandethat starts to make you nervous, and that in turn makes it easier to fuck up
02:09.49Amarandewhile I was doing my successful mounted run, I saw a death knight on the ground attempt it the ballsy way
02:09.52Jammeroh damn it... eu servers down until ~noon ><
02:10.01Amarandehe was there for a few spear hits or so, I didn't see him come back after that
02:10.04AmarandeI presume he gave up
02:10.36AmarandeJammer: not exactly, there's two different patterns, and I'm not 100% positive there's a way to tell which until they spawn
02:11.19Amarandehmm. at least two. I think I saw "single strafing wall", "single strafing back & forth wall", "double outward sweeping walls" and "double pincer walls"
02:11.45Amarandebut like I said, I don't think I saw any pattern to which spawned when that would be of any help, and the jumping itself isn't very easy to control either, as I noticed if e.g. I wanted to land on top of a pillar using that method
02:12.26Jammerwhat class are you playing?
02:12.29Amarandemage
02:13.41Amarandeoh, yeah. the couple of times I tried the "DPS from a pillar" strategy, one of which actually went quite far before I ran out of mana and was screwed
02:13.47Jammerdoes cauterize work there?
02:13.55AmarandeI noticed you can't put a rune of power on top of the pillar either ... it will give you the dreaded "no path available"
02:14.08Amarandehave never tried Cauterize, I do know that Greater Invisibility lets you drop out of battle though
02:15.05Amarandeand from what I understand, the no path available thing (which I've also seen every now and then when trying to put down a rune during normal questing, if I'm e.g. on a rocky incline) we can blame on that usual thing that we blame random PvE screw-overs on. *sigh*
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03:59.02Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] 5.2 Update: You Can Keep Your Valor! - http://www.wowhead.com/news=210687/5-2-update-you-can-keep-your-valor
04:00.38fewyn^ hooray
04:03.12foomzwow
04:03.14foomzthats awesome
04:10.42Jammernot sure if that's good thing :I
04:10.50fewynwhy wouldn't it be?
04:11.08Jammercan't use it for upgrades any longer
04:11.17Jammerso if you don't have rep to buy new items you're just wasting it
04:14.56Jammerwhat's the optimal amount of valor to save is rather tricky question when you can't really predict your raid progress
04:16.43Jammerlooks like you can buy amulets for 1250 valor at neutral
04:17.18Jammerassuming you can access the quartermaster without earning any valor guess that's the first thing you do after patch
04:19.42Jammerso 2nd week of patch you're at 2750 valor at start of the week... but do you have friendly rep to spend it on something else beside amulets?
04:46.15nebula169its all 496, so meh
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06:49.47Jammernebula169: new valor gear is 522
06:59.31nebula169from raids
06:59.48nebula169like you need to run the raids to get rep for the 522 stuff
07:00.36Jammerone item seems to be available at neutral already
07:01.20Jammeralso would be nice to see some figures how much rep you get per full clear
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22:56.06Jammergood way to wipe your raid on sha of fear as priest... lifegrip your tank 1 second before breath of fear... worked perfectly... totally planned that
22:56.41b4k4^^:D
22:56.55b4k4^^you have won an internet :D
23:00.55Jammerdecided to move my lifegrip from being same button as pw:s after that :P
23:01.04b4k4^^:P
23:01.04Jammermistake potential just too great
23:01.21b4k4^^good thing I don't have macros
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23:02.26Jammerjust too many abilities to not have some trigger from same buttons with shift/ctrl/alt etc
23:03.21JammerI guess you could manage if you had one of those crazy mouse with keypads in them
23:05.57Jammerwarrior is the worst there... got like 4 full bars of buttons
23:06.03JunkHeadmy warrior got tier helm today from lfr.
23:06.13JunkHeadso now i have dps 4 set bonus.:)
23:06.24JunkHeadand it replaced a blue!
23:06.26JunkHead:D
23:06.36b4k4^^I just try to map things so that possibly dangerous (and/or rarely used) things are in non-trivial places :P
23:07.01neutronimityWTB divine intervention.
23:07.14b4k4^^should run Terrace, finally got my priest to the chimera quest bit
23:07.34b4k4^^and with luck I'll get the staff too
23:08.19JunkHeadhttp://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stormrage/Sickman/advanced  <-- despite this pic, he's quite a lovable guy
23:08.33JunkHeadAlthough he hates his tanking-turned-dps shoulders.:(
23:10.45Jammerb4k4^^: yeah indeed but things like lifegrip need to be quick often :)
23:12.08b4k4^^there's that, esp. if you're a healer
23:12.23b4k4^^my priest is mainly shadow
23:17.19Wardwhen I play resto, I always put symbiosis on a shadow priest
23:17.22Wardfor the life grip
23:23.32JunkHead4 possible upgrades for me in HoF pt 1
23:23.45JunkHeadhmm....

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