DarkDude

Just a note, discussion of how to "mod" a console to play "backup" games is not allowed before anyone mentions that. However case modding etc. is perfectly fine and there are some awesome case mods out there that I've seen. Will look forward to seeing what you do and you'll have to post pictures when you're done.

Led a Guild 10 man ICC run today on my mage. Was fairly awesome, a lot of people there hadn't gone past Deathwhisper in 10 man and a couple of people hadn't done 10 man at all (but had done 25). One shot the first three bosses, two shot Saurfang (first time we tried doing it with only 2 ranged dps... yeah :P). One shot Festergut, which I think was everyone but about 3 of us first kill there which is awesome! Then we tried dreamwalker, didn't manage to do it, had one Pala healer healing the boss and a Disc + Resto Druid healing the raid, our best attempt was 11.3M health before we called it. Going to continue on Tuesday. Was awesome fun leading it and explaining tactics to people, all this while still continuing to do "progress" on my Pala.

Messing around this afternoon and did some Ulduar. We're going to try and get a Saturday group setup to try and get the 10 man drake. Should take a couple of weeks as a lot of us haven't done Freya or anything past that and I don't think anyone in the group has done Yogg yet. Today we've done FL with 2 towers up (only did two towers as we had 8 people in the raid at that time). Tried the Razorscale achievement but someone in the raid didn't know (they joined seconds before and AOEd all the adds down :mrgreen:. Did Ignis under 4 minutes easily. Then we tried XT hard modes, first tried 2 man healing it with me on my pala + a shaman and bloody hell, when hard mode is activated the tantrums are bloody impossible to heal through. We then got another shaman DPS to switch to healing and went down to 1 tank to make up that extra DPS and downed him on the first try after that (Despite losing one of our best DPS early on). Having only one pala makes that fight hard without the extra Divine Sacrifice, which made healing there managable, but only got to use that every other tantrum which made the others insane. We then one shot Kologarn disarmed and Crazy Cat Lady and called it for now as a few people had to go and we should be picking it back up again in a few hours. Had a lot of fun doing this to be honest, Ulduar is such a well made instance, all the encounters are fun and it says a bit that they're fairly challenging even though we largely outgear this. Huge huge props to people who did these hard modes in 219/226 gear.

That's a silly comparison. You'd be better off comparing it to the Xbox and PS2 markets. There's still a few PS2 games for sale in some places, although that's due to the huge huge marketshare the console had. Over here the Wii section is often the largest in shops, then PS3 and 360 are pretty even, although I notice PS3 is normally slightly bigger. (This is in shops such as Asda etc. (Walmart or whatever).

What's wrong with Wobbuffet? And Garchomp too? I can understand the others, all being legendary.

Never really got into Competitive battling in this so don't know, but some of those rules seem silly to me. What's wrong with boosting evasion? Seems like a valid tactic to me, as well as putting multiple Pokémon to sleep etc. Also you said no ties, but what about things such as Take Down which do recoil damage? Surely those sort of moves mean it can end in a draw. As I've said, never done competitive battling or really looked at it at all so I'm sure there's perfectly good reasons for the above, would be nice if someone could explain them though. Thanks.

No Deathwhisper in 10 man? Seems like a fairly easy encounter from what I've heard (one add spawns in Phase 2, that's it). Pugged ICC25 this week (my guild randomly decided to switch to 10 mans, causing a lot of drama because of the apparently "elitist" group I'm part of that's actually done progress) and got the first 4 bosses down Only for the Raid Leader to ninja the two Paladin marks + Deathbringer's Will... *sigh*. Was a good run up until that point although the trash pulls went bad due to people not knowing what on earth to do (ninja pulling etc.) one shot all bosses other than Saurfang though (Why on earth would you combat res the person who got killed by a mark... twice?), we did that in two bosses with only 4 healers so that was good :D No loot, but emblems are nice and means I should be getting my Tier 10 Helm at the start of the raid tomorrow giving me 3 pieces (Got Tier 10 264 gloves + 251 legs from VoA :D). Which should be a decent upgrade. We're hoping for 11/12 this week in ICC10 (Not going as an "official" guild run but everyone in the raid is either a guild member or was a guild member and still has some alts in the guild).

Yes, well worth getting. :D

Waiting for the post today and hoping my game comes :D

Nintendo 3DS is not the release name is just the name they're giving to it currently (like how the Gamecube was the Dolphin and the Wii was the Revolution). Not too fond of the 3D stuff tbh, this sounds like it could got the way of the virtual boy but we'll have to wait for E3 when we actually some details rather than mindless speculation.

Awesome ICC10 progress this week, now up to 10/12 with just Lich King + Sindragosa left. Going to be doing a long raid on Friday evening and hoping we can get everything we've already downed down again (we have pretty much all the encounters on farm now, Putricide will be our only thing we're not likely to one shot, and maybe blood queen too (our problem today was the biting going from 4->8, the first time we got that down perfectly we finished with 20 seconds on enrage). Hoping for Sindragosa down next week, had a few attempts this evening just to get an idea of the encounter and it seemed to go well so I imagine she'll be down next week which will leave us with just the LK left to kill! Woo!

Weren't infinity robes an option in that recent poll and it didn't win? Looks like that poll was meaningless then...

The game isn't out in Europe until Friday.

Just pre-ordered my copy of Heart Gold (crappy name, boo). Should hopefully get it Wednesday/Thursday. Would be nice :D

You are using the Rock band controller right? And only using the small solo buttons?

Or get a tortoise and fill it up with brews? Should be easy enough then.

Very nice, know you've been wanting that for a while so congratulations!

This quest seems "good". Although I'd rather have seen it introduced alongside some higher-level content or even something else. Quests like this make the game better, however people fail to realise that and look at this game one week at a time. If updates were released once a month, or once every two months even all at once then updates like this wouldn't get put down so much.

Well for that fight considering there's a lot of changing targets etc. that kills DPS a lot, it's normally higher for a lot of fights. We still had plenty of time left on the enrage (although the soft enrage for phase 3 ALMOST got us) so we couldn't have been doing too bad. We had a 0.5% wipe or so before this too, and another 2% wipe, the screaming on vent when that went down. Probably my favourite kill ever, not sure anything can top that.

You should have heard the shouts on vent.

Made my Pala my main in my guild now so got to tank ToC25 this week which was fun. Cleared 6/12 ICC10 last night too, dream walker was giving us problems for some reason so we've left that until Monday then went to one shot both Festergut and Rotface. Thrilled with that Rotface kill, we only downed him for the first time last week and for us to one shot him this week was awesome, although a bit messy (was just me tanking + 2 DPS alive when he went down, hah). We've made great progress on Putricide too, we'd seen him a total of 3 times I think before this week and that was without tactics. This week within 3 attempts we managed to get down to phase 3 (which we quickly wiped on as got Putricide down to 35% JUST as a gas cloud spawned) and we didn't really know what were doing. Called it a night there and going back Monday. Loot Wise I got myself the tanking mace + frost emblem tanking cloak. And this morning ran VoA25 as Holy, Tier 10 tanking hands dropped which I won the role on (thank god there was no prot pala in raid :P). So that's 2 pieces of Tier 10 now :), Guess I'll save up 60 emblems for the shoulders next.

Did 20 minutes of summoning, got 88 which I was planning to get like the day before this update was announced >_<. Now slaying the rest of the weekend.

Have 50M sitting around in my bank - tempted to dump it all into a skill. But which one? I doubt I'd be able to buy herblore supplies so late on but could get me to 80 herblore which would be nice (or higher I'd imagine). Not sure. Any suggestions?

With four hours to go I'm killing Tzhaar for some Obsidian charms. Have had very limited play time during the last two weeks so have been slacking behind. Only need 600 charms for 88 summoning which is my main goal this weekend (would have gotten it anyway, but might as well use this)