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I like to view it as more of a CORPG. To me the entire instanced feeling just cuts off the 'massive' feel of it all. The towns are pretty much glorified chat rooms (can't do much but trade/buy/sell stuff).

BlizzCon Day 2 BlizzCon Classes Panel - Moonkin itemization in PvE is being worked on - Priest Ability "Lightwell" will get some scaling from gear - Death Knights will have their own Rune Resource system Mana regen is a flawed mechanic for Mages and Shamans and Hunters, people don't have mana and that's why there are so many Shadow Priests. Real mana regen needed The Spirit stat in general will be improved for WotLK. Will the ability to force groupmates to change targets be implemented or something like? They will not be given an ability to force people to change targets when the new target is taunted. CC for Shamans? Evaluating CC options for the Shaman in levels 71 to 80. Priest racials? Fear Ward will be spread around. Otherwise, they are being looked at but not a high priority. Tauren cat form druid is also broken along with Night Elf cat form? Cat form range must be tuned. The Night Elf cat form's bug has to be fixed but the range will be tuned overall. Hunters for 2v2 and 3v3 under represented? Looking into very closely for patch 2.3. Many changes for Hunters will be implemented in 2.3. There are some line of sight issues in Arenas, but they won't be changed. Some more utilities for arena battles and group utility are planned. The first thing Mages have to do in a raid is make water. There are Soulwells. Will there be a Muffin factory? Yes. Water and muffin creation like the Soulwell is incoming. Shamans are low population and the totem system needs reworking -- inferior to pally auras, cost mana? Blessings, auras and totems are supposed to be different. But the totems are being looked at. The Mana Spring totem will be a lot stronger than it is. Some other totems will also be made stronger. BlizzCon PVP Panel The future of Battlegrounds - In AV, players won't spawn in the cave until there's nowhere else to spawn - They are going to give the players ability to report other players for being AFK, like the spam reports (Once enough players have reported that person, and a debuff appears that only goes away when they show up in combat. If they don't get into combat, another debuff which makes them have no honor gain.) - Honor distribution will change-- more honor gain near end of the BG, which should push people forward. - They will reintroduce queueing as a group for AV. - They're considering going toward a model where players can choose different sizes of the same battleground-- 15v15 or 20v20. - They are thinking about Guild Battlegrounds-- letting guilds challenge each other, and joining up a battleground as a guild, even tracking a rating for the guild in a certain BG. Arenas - There's going to be a rating requirement to buy an arena weapon (might be season 3). - With season 3, you'll see season 1 gear become available through the honor system. Creating 19 and 29 Arenas? We're considering it-- the problems are rewards for it, and player demand for it. Rewards for turning in Battleground marks? The marks are really there to encourage people to move around from BG to BG. We'll probably add more things that you can get for your marks. Rep probably won't be one of them, because we don't think right now that the rep is worth much. Where is the arena server where we have pregenerated character and can choose our opponents? We're doing that with actual tournaments-- pregenerated characters that can play any kind of match you need. What we may integrate is allowing teams to match up their choice to practice, as a skirmish. Why is resilience missing on the Paladin PvP sets? Season 3 set does have resilience. We won't change the older sets, because players bought them knowing what they were. Make rogues more viable for 5v5? We're going to include mobility improvements, and more utility. Sap is useless there, and we'll look at that. BlizzCon Professions and Items Panel Things to come - Free spell damage for healers - Legendary ranged weapon in the next 25-person raid dungeon. - Zul'Aman (they showed 2 ZA weapons, see below) 1h dagger, 98.6 dps, 21 agility, 40 atp and ignores ~154 armor. Things we want to do more - Improve Professions only items (e.g: alchemists getting specific pots only them can use) - Create Great Leveling Gear: up to lvl 80 gear usable in Northrend - Provide what's missing: Crafting should be able to fill itemization gaps Things to improve - Engineering is going to get some love - Transmute: Change to a daily cooldown - Discoveries: They will make some easier to get - Vendor Recipes: No longer vendor camping, it will be random but not campable New Profession: Inscription - Not Alchemy or Enchanting: no scrolls - Inscribe Spells and Abilities with power: Enhancing your spells and abilities to make them more powerful (e.g: mortal could deal more dmg, kidney shot could last longer) - Create Completely New Items: They can't talk about it but there will be a whole other side to inscription than making spells and abilities more powerful. Coming Soon - Profession Daily Quests - New Crafter Only Gear: More of the best in slot stuff, Jewelcrafter only gems, Alchemist only potions. - Smooth out Progression 275 to 300 gap particularly New Enchant: Executioner -- Zul'Aman - Armor Penetration proc (proc rate similar to mongoose) Use: Learn how to permanently enchant a Melee Weapon to occasionally ignore 840 of your ennemy's armor. Requires a level 35 or higher item. New Cooking Recipes - melee hit food, spell crit food Shaman Talent changes BlizzCon Day 1 Recap (thanks Virtuous) WRATH OF THE LICH KING Blizzard announced its new expansion to World of Warcraft today - Wrath of the Lich King. What we know so far: - Level cap will be increased to 80 - New spells and abilities will be added for every class - New talents (up to 51-point tier) will be added for every class - New battlegrounds and arenas will be implemented - Siege weapons and destructible buildings will be a part of PvP (possibly used in PvE - unknown at this time) - New profession: Inscription. Inscription allows the inscriber to permanently enhance the recipient's spells (e.g. by Tigole - Fireball could be a shorter cast time, more direct damage, more DoT damage, etc.) - New (and changeable) hairstyles, new dances - New 10- and 25-man raids - New Hero Class (made available by epic end-game quest): Death Knight - Set in Northrend - More zones than Outland - NO new races - Will include Nerubians - Features Arthas/The Lich King as main villain - Two 'points of entry' (a la Hellfire Peninsula): Borean Tundrea (Horde) and Howling Fjord (Alliance) - Other known zones: Grizzly Hills, Dragonblight - Main city in WotLK is Dalaran (now floating above Northrend) - At least one new 15+ man battleground (estimated time to finish it: 30-40 min) - Outdoor PvP zone (flagged as PvP even on PvE servers) - Lake Wintergrasp - New Arena season, including new gear and maps DEATH KNIGHT - Hybrid Tank and DPS - Tanks using 2H or DW - Can only use 'bladed' weapons (known: Swords, Axes) - Referred to as "Rune Weapons" - Wears plate armor - Blend of melee and some spellcasting - Known spell: "Army of the Dead" - raises several temporary minions "Unholy Embrace" - Instant Cast. 5 min cooldown Target is embraced by a silhouette of darkness for 12 seconds, corrupting any healing spells and effects cast upon or currently affecting the target to cause damage for 50% of their healing potential instead of restoring health. Any damage shields cast upon or currently affecting the target will also be instantly consumed, dealing 50% of their absorption potential in damage. Once afflicted with Unholy Embrace, the target cannot be afflicted with Unholy Embrace again for 1 minute." - Is a Hero Class - Unlocked by an epic questline (no raids involved) at level 80 - Will allow you to start a new character as a Death Knight at a higher level (told to expect between 55 - 70). Will not overwrite previous character. - More Hero classes may be to come - will continue to be based on Warcraft III Heroes - Death Knight does not use rage or mana - will use a new mechanic, 'Runes' - Rune schools (similar to Death Knight talents) split up into Blood, Frost, Unholy - Runes are carved into the Death Knight's weapon - 6 slots total, any combination of runes (e.g. 2 of each, 4 Blood/2 Frost, 6 Unholy, etc.) - Rune cooldowns will be modified by talents taken, etc. - Certain spells will reactive runes; spells can consume more than one rune NEW INFO - A team is currently working on redoing the 1-60 game - 51-point talents are under construction - There will be at least 1 new Caverns of Time instance - Grim Batol is likely to be a WotLK raid - New post-BT raid pre-WotLK (likely either Sunwell related or Kil'Jaeden) - 70-80 to take similar amount of time/work as 60-70 - Outdoor zones in WotLK will be primarily solo - More daily quests coming in 2.2, as well as integrated voice chat - Paladin tanking is being worked on - Any class/race can unlock the Death Knight - Players will still not be able to use flying mounts in "old" Azeroth - New post-BT dungeon to have 8 bosses - Blizzard is working on a system on the wow default interface like Outfitter and Item Rack, so we can get real space to store the extra junk (resist gear) - They will add a threat meter into the game, they are also talking about adding a Deadly Boss Mods element into the game CLASS BALANCE - Tree Form Druids to get more abilities in form (Decurse suggested) - Ret Pallies to get improved sustained DPS - Prot Pallies to get additional health (deep Prot talent suggested) - Holy Priests to see improvements to Spirit of Redemption, Lightwell, and Circle of Healing http://www.worldofraids.com/ I heard the whole PvP discussion is tomorrow. Interested in hearing what their plans are.

What South Park Character Are You? You scored as a Stan Marsh You're Stan Marsh! Probably the sanest of the group, you're the mastermind behind the good plans and can easily resolve problems. To you love is amazing, and you're probably already in it. You can be a smart [wagon] and don't have a problem saying what's on your mind. And you're probably an activist. Dude, this is pretty [bleep]ed up right here. Eric Cartman 83% Stan Marsh 83% Jimmy 67% Butters 67% Shelly 58% Kyle Broflovski 50% Tweak 42% Kenny McCormick 25% Timmy 25% A tie between stan an eric... interesting, hah.

What, all one of them?! Theres been a decent bit in the past few weeks.

omg u ruined the thread omg o noe.

I finally changed the title to reflect what it is. Tired of a bunch of other WoW posts popping up recently. :wink:

Jesus, if you're going to spell everything wrong there isn't a need to write (LOL I DONT CARE) after EVERY damn mistake.

I'm guilty of listening to it while doing whatever, well, if I'm not listening to people on ventrilo. Really it keeps my mind busy. Many times I'll spend time when I first get a song just listening to it, and absorbing the whole thing, but after that I just have my playlist on repeat.

Good band. :thumbsup: Led Zeppelin- Kashmir.

Its an easy game, seriously. It pretty much walks you through while holding your hand, you shouldn't have a problem -- just quest.

So far no problem. I'm already past where I was. Man, I can't believe I never got this game earlier, it's amazing.

Thanks! I took your advice on the HD, power supply, and the heatsink, but I kinda like that case, and am really set on getting a q-core. I like that case, though, and without the included power supply, (which is what I had before), it drops down about 50 bucks. I'm also going with the 1k power supply, it's only a little bit more than a good 650, so, why not? I also got the heatsink. I might as well get the Q6600, too, cause 3.1 is all I'm aiming for. And, yes, I am getting XP, I don't like vista, at all. Get vista, have you ever tried it? It would be kind of a waste to buy a really nice DX10 enabled card and not even be able to play games in DX10. I mean I got XP for my machine, but mostly because its still a DX9 machine. I kind of regret not getting vista for it though.

:lol: Copy pasta? I know what you meant, but that's hilarious considering the guy above your post made the same mistake. Its not a mistake. :roll:

Dude, no need to have 50 different copy pasta threads at once going on...

I've seen this a while ago somewhere...

I won't be around either by then.

So so far I've seen a lot of really stupid complaints about the new expansion. One thing that always gets me is how these people can complain about anything. "Hero classes are going to be overpowered! Ect. Ect!" You guys have been complaining that blizzard promised these but never gave us them EVER SINCE THE GAME CAME OUT. Now, that we are getting them, you decide to whine. "death knight will be the only hero class" No. Blizzard said its going to be the first hero class. "Lvl 80 waah..." Suck it up. Am I the only one who thinks that having more content is a good thing? "I've never seen X instance before and now they're making new ones!" The expansion isn't going to be out for a while. The expansion has been out for 6 months and many guilds have already downed illidan and plenty more are in BT/Hyjal. Don't suck and you'll see the content. And even if why should everyone else wait for new content because you're slow at leveling/raiding? Thats just a few of the stuff I've heard from people... its crazy.

Thats an awesome trailer. :) Too bad I'll probably not be playing any more by the time the expansion comes out, looks good though.

...You're playing the game "wrong". I leveled my priest to 70 without doing a single instance. My main, a warrior, was leveled to 70 and I didn't do most of the instances. They're not necessary to level...They don't even really HELP you level. Sure, running an instance can get ya' some exp and rewards, but if you get a sucky group and wipe for 6 hours straight (I've experienced this - LBRS+[cabbage] group=WTFWASTEDTIME), then you've set yourself back. Get an instance quest but can't find a group? Abandon it and don't do it, then. If you're running out of regular, solo quests, then try to find another level-approperiate area, or grind for a level or two so you can get new quests. Yeah instances are only good to get gear really. Even then at low levels it gets replaced quickly. WoW is a unique MMO in that the game truely does 'start' at 70.

I think a reinstall worked. I had to start all over again but I wasn't very far in the game.

There would still be the same amount of low levels though, just now they would be spread even thinner through content.

I'll try that.

I'm guessing you missed the 94 Page, 1,800+ reply thread about World of Warcraft? :roll:

Oh man.. I just watched it, thats insane. I have no idea how he was walking away honestly.

Small update but I am downloading the "Debugging tools for windows" to see what was in the contents of the Memdump. edit: Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 7F, {0, 0, 0, 0} Unable to load image RtkHDAud.sys, Win32 error 2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for RtkHDAud.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for RtkHDAud.sys Probably caused by : RtkHDAud.sys ( RtkHDAud+a5775 ) Followup: MachineOwner ---------------------------- ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP (7f) This means a trap occurred in kernel mode, and it's a trap of a kind that the kernel isn't allowed to have/catch (bound trap) or that is always instant death (double fault). The first number in the bugcheck params is the number of the trap (8 = double fault, etc) Consult an Intel x86 family manual to learn more about what these traps are. Here is a *portion* of those codes: If kv shows a taskGate use .tss on the part before the colon, then kv. Else if kv shows a trapframe use .trap on that value Else .trap on the appropriate frame will show where the trap was taken (on x86, this will be the ebp that goes with the procedure KiTrap) Endif kb will then show the corrected stack. Arguments: Arg1: 00000000, EXCEPTION_DIVIDED_BY_ZERO Arg2: 00000000 Arg3: 00000000 Arg4: 00000000 Debugging Details: ------------------ BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7f_0 TRAP_FRAME: bacc7b48 -- (.trap ffffffffbacc7b48) ErrCode = 00000000 eax=0002cfff ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=0002cfff edi=00000000 eip=b7837775 esp=bacc7bbc ebp=000000f0 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010246 RtkHDAud+0xa5775: b7837775 f7f7 div eax,edi Resetting default scope CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 2 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT PROCESS_NAME: System LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 805a11d1 to 804f9dc6 STACK_TEXT: bacc7ae4 805a11d1 0000007f b7837775 0002cfff nt!KeBugCheck+0x14 bacc7b3c 80541474 bacc7b48 000000f0 b7837775 nt!Ki386CheckDivideByZeroTrap+0x41 bacc7b3c b7837775 bacc7b48 000000f0 b7837775 nt!KiTrap00+0x84 WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong. bacc7c74 b777173f ffdff9c0 00000001 00000000 RtkHDAud+0xa5775 bacc7c7c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 portcls!CServiceGroup::RequestService+0x5d STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: RtkHDAud+a5775 b7837775 f7f7 div eax,edi SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 3 SYMBOL_NAME: RtkHDAud+a5775 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: RtkHDAud IMAGE_NAME: RtkHDAud.sys DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 45e69c7a FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x7f_0_RtkHDAud+a5775 BUCKET_ID: 0x7f_0_RtkHDAud+a5775 Followup: MachineOwner --------- --------------------- This is what I get. It looks like it is possibly a problem with the onboard sound card, Realatek? :-k Its still odd though, the game was working for a while.... double edit: I am now downloading updated audio drivers to see if it will make a difference. I'll come back with results in a few! Triple edit: Downloaded new drivers, did the same thing again -- same error. This is really making me angry. :evil: