[WoW] 4.0 - Horde BDF - /join foh

[whatsamattau]

Originally Posted by Mist

Cataclysm: Throttle + Homogenize everything.

Might as well play Mafia Wars.

Pretty much. They've all but said that classes should *barely* matter when forming your raid. Why not go all the way with it at this point.

[Qhue]

All they need to do is have enough content or enough of a hook to keep people subscribed.

Every member of every guild that has killed the Lich King in IC25 could quit the game and it wouldnt even make a blip on their fiscal report. The original WoW might have been a labor of love and an effort to make a better Everquest but at this point its just about the benjamins.

[Ionsniper]

And the funny thing is if all raiders quit it becomes even easier for Blizzard to manage since all they would have to worry about are the casuals. More Bliz store goodies, easier epic drops and turn it almost into a single player game. Pretty sad.

[DJk_zero]

Originally Posted by Qhue

The original WoW might have been a labor of love and an effort to make a better Everquest but at this point its just about the benjamins.

AKA B-Team at the helm.

[Cinge]

Originally Posted by Arcarsenal

holy cow I want my wow to look like this. Are they overhauling the graphics engine?

Is it just me or does that look so out of place? All super realistic water, then the land is back to the cartoony look for everything else. Looks so odd next to each other.

[Vinen]

Originally Posted by Cinge

Is it just me or does that look so out of place? All super realistic water, then the land is back to the cartoony look for everything else. Looks so odd next to each other.

Looks fucking terrible imho. I liked the old water...

[Blumpster]

What looks hilarious is this picture. All new high-res stuff, except for the big stone in the center. Looks totally out of place. Compare it to the tower to the left. LOL. Those cacti aren't new either, but they don't look nearly as bad.

[Believe]

Originally Posted by Blumpster

What looks hilarious is this picture. All new high-res stuff, except for the big stone in the center. Looks totally out of place. Compare it to the tower to the left. LOL. Those cacti aren't new either, but they don't look nearly as bad.

Eh, I'm sure if you got up close to the tower, it would look blurry and shitty like every other texture in WoW. Most look great from afar, but up close pretty much everything is blurry.

I wish they would release like an optional high res patch for everything, for people who don't still have hamsters powering their computers.



I'm pretty excited about this expansion. A lot of the changes should have been like that in the first place, especially 10's and 25's dropping the same loot. It seems terrible now, but only because we want to be able to farm both for loot. I also like the stat changes, and agree with most their reasoning for it. They let a lot of it get out of hand, they need to get back to basics and let the base stats take place of the extra shit they added. Also good to see Spirit will actually matter for every caster.

I'm wondering how DKs are going to compare to Warriors and Paladins with the new block changes. Very cool change, might just level up my Paladin just to hedge my bets. Although I can't wait to have my all-time favorite ability back with Bone Shield. I miss being Unholy spec, but it took a big hit for tanking when DKs got nerfed a while back.

[Grizzlebeard]

Originally Posted by Vinen

Looks fucking terrible imho. I liked the old water...

They need to take advice from the guy who designed water in FFXI. To this day I haven't seen anyone do a better job of making something look so natural.

[Talineth]

Originally Posted by Believe

I'm wondering how DKs are going to compare to Warriors and Paladins with the new block changes. Very cool change, might just level up my Paladin just to hedge my bets.

I'm interested in seeing how this is going to pan out as well.

From what I can tell, between Warriors and Paladins, the Paladins are getting the better deal. Consistently being able to reduce damage over multiple blocks seems to me to be a lot better than having a single critical block. How often are you going to critically block some bullshit 1k hit instead of the 10k one you'd much rather block? It seems a consistent damage reduction is a lot better simply because it's more reliable.

I'll still need to know more about DK's revamped tanking tree to make my decision as to what tank I'm going to take into Cataclysm.

[Draegan]

LOTRO made pretty water.

[Vinen]

Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

They need to take advice from the guy who designed water in FFXI. To this day I haven't seen anyone do a better job of making something look so natural.

No shit, same goes for Weather effects. FFXI has destroyed everyone else in those departments.

[001001102]

Originally Posted by Vinen

No shit, same goes for Weather effects. FFXI has destroyed everyone else in those departments.

And music. Omg music.

[Goofy]

Originally Posted by Talineth

I'm interested in seeing how this is going to pan out as well.

From what I can tell, between Warriors and Paladins, the Paladins are getting the better deal. Consistently being able to reduce damage over multiple blocks seems to me to be a lot better than having a single critical block. How often are you going to critically block some bullshit 1k hit instead of the 10k one you'd much rather block? It seems a consistent damage reduction is a lot better simply because it's more reliable.

I'll still need to know more about DK's revamped tanking tree to make my decision as to what tank I'm going to take into Cataclysm.

They are going to give DK tanks a new innate ability that has a % chance to proc a demonic shield that absorbs 50% physical damage and call it a day.

[Clericnon2boxed]

how about some screenshots of that 'awesome' ffxi water ? (google doesnt bring up anything) - AoC has awesome water

anyhow it seem WoW introduces graphical advances on its own sluggish pace, just imagine what tesselation could do with WoWs blocky art