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Be sure to wipe off the drool after you're done watching. :wink:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/801/801128p1.html Has some videos.

:lol: :uhh: oh man...

May want to sort out your sense of humor as well. :|

I'm so stealing that name and using it elsewhere.

Yeah I, truthfully, don't PUG anymore. Aside from the fact I have very few upgrades I can get from 5 mans these days but it just isn't worth it for me. Did a heroic slabs group the other day, had a good friend of mine (resto drood) healing. Problem is the tank we had sucked really bad. (tank was a feral druid). Now my guild has a feral druid and he tanks kara. I guess maybe I'm just lucky (the feral is my 2v2 partner too :D) but I can not pull agro off of him. However, this PUG tank? not a chance of him holding agro. I ended up tanking some of these mobs (hitting me for 2k a pop in heroic) most of the time. The druid then went afk for 15 minutes randomly. We kicked him and got this warrior. The warrior walks inside and goes "oh, this was heroic?" :wall: . He was a bit better of a tank luckily, but still not geared up enough to run a heroic instance.

Woah, slow down there you rebellious maniac!! Don't you know that swearing is bad and is a sin, ultimately condemning you to a life in hell! Aaargh! Oh Sh--! No! I just sinned, damnit! Aaargh I'm going to hell double now! :shock: First smart thing you've said in this thread thus far.

Good news on the controls. I was reading up some more on AoC and stumbled upon an IGN article where they did a play test of it. Yeah yeah, IGN but the actual article wasn't bad. For melee combat the game will use buttons such as Q,E,1,2,3 for attacks. Q for example is left swing, E is right and then 1 might be an upper left, 2 up, 3 upper right. At least thats what I understood of it. The way you do things in this game is instead of pressing "4" to do a move you instead string together combos. There is a little timer swing bar at the middle of the screen with an axis on it that lets you time attacks. If you wanted to do a move you could, for example, do "Q E 3" or whatever. As you get higher level you can do more potent and powerful combos. The video looked pretty good for them being in technical beta testing right now. A few animations were still a little choppy but there was a lot of action in the game. Ranged combat from what I read in another article works in two ways. One is where you can do more precision firing by going into first person view and aiming your arrows. Third person view gives you a little 'cone' of where your character will shoot into. Less accurate but easier to kite with. Ranged will have special combos as well. For example you could hit your enemy in the leg to hamstring them and cripple their movement speed. Spell casting is a lot like in other current MMOs except that you can 'weave ' certain spells together to cast even more potent spells. Of course this can backfire on you as well. I should also mention that in, for example melee combat, what your weapon hits it hits. There is no only being able to auto attack one enemy but if two enemies, for example, are together and you do a side swing it can hit both of them at once. Really cool stuff.

Congrats :). Finding a good guild to run kara with and stuff isn't too tough if you know how to play. A ton of guilds are either putting it on farm status these days and/or working on it. Just make sure you like the players in the guild too. :P I read a thread on mmorpg.com (because wow forums are down for maint atm) about how a guy was complaining about bad guilds. Really made me realize how lucky I am for my guild. We're a smaller sized guild and pretty much everyone in the guild knows each other and are friendly to each other. We've had maybe 3 things of drama in the guild the entire time and the member that caused it was removed/left afterwards. Plus they're a bunch of really skilled players. :thumbsup:

Yeah that was me :) . Glad someone checked them out. I haven't had a chance to find more of their stuff but the few songs I have are interesting. Very unique style to be honest.

Awesome, checking out those links now blade. :D

Haha yeah, we as humans aren't work to working like that really. There are some examples on how human companies are using methods such as that for stuff such as trucking.

We need to know your computer model name or what video card you are using before we can figure anything out. Go to Control panel > System and tell us what it says there.

I just got the weirdest idea after reading http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... 1&pageNo=2 that thread. The idea its self is weird, rogues using 2hers? Well what if they did this: Normilize sinister strike and hemo (hemo'd have to be changed so lets leave it out) to a weapon speed. For example, a 2.8 speed weapon will cost 40 energy to swing a sinister stike. a 1.4 speed weapon would take 20 energy. Mean while a, for example, 3.8 speed weapon would take take something like 70 energy (or whatever, can't get the calculation exact). What would happen is any speed weapon could be viable. Likewise having a talent, perhaps deep into combat, to allow rogues to use two handers. I know the idea sounds silly but think about it -- look at current warrior MS crits! The normalization would mean that a rogue would probably sacrifice a lot with a 70 energy attack, and because it wouldn't be positional the extra 10 energy does it justice over backstab. I dunno, just a stupid idea really. Even if we couldn't use two handers it'd be cool for it to be normalized to weapon speed live shiv currently is.

http://aoc.warcry.com/news/view/73185 it seems like the developers do and will most likely have item looting in the game (even if just for PvP servers) -- they are just trying to decide on a looting system that is fun. man I can't wait for this, I had no idea about item looting even!

Fork over the full price sir! but... but i'm only four! Anyways I think I am probably in the most agreement for 18. Thats the age that you can start making decisions on your own, so to speak, legally.

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/ ... index.html Its 5 pages but a good read, here's a highlight about the theory: I've read through the 5 pages and its an incredibly interesting read. The basic idea (TL;DR version) is that animals such as ants are stupid as a single but smart and capable of complex tasks as a whole. It also goes into how we are using this theory to better show realistic patterns of animals in movies, video games and even robotics.

UO doesn't have quests. It's a self motivated game, so to say. A true MMO sandbox. There was a chat command you could type to party, I forget it. :oops:

Oh I know what point he was trying to get at. Point is though is that the iPhone has gotten some very good reviews thus far. With the exception of its price it is a nice device. I do agree that for a lot of users they won't need it. It still has nothing to do with apple milking their customers (obviously).

And thats the fault of... who exactly? He isn't 'milking' his customers. If someone is going to buy every single product of it so be it, they probably have the money to do so.

Yep, I think I heard version 2 was set for December. Wow, that seems a bit soon :shock: Going to delete this post as well, tripsis? You do realise that people will buy this version and then update to version 2, proving my point of apple milking its customers even more. Shame on a business trying to make money, shame!

People who can afford better/more expensive products than me are stupid and/or spoiled. :uhh: :roll:

Don't be mistaken, I do agree with you -- I just think the saying its self is stupid.

http://www.kingdom-reborn.com I can't specifically tell if you need an account or not with them, looks like you don't though. For those who don't know much about the Kingdom reborn expansion its mostly a client change to give life to an old (and great) game. heres what I mean: old UI/graphics New UI/graphics It also will have a better in game starting tutorial for newbies to better get into the game. I think its worth a shot to look at even if just for open beta. I know I'm going to see how the game has changed.

If it's the longest thing we do than why did you just say it was short?