Random Complaint Thread

[aurik]

Blizzard QA is terrible. You'd think with millions of active subscribers they could afford to hire a bunch of folks to run through every raid prior to releasing each patch to identify broken encounters, but its pretty common for each major patch to break something old. And then there's new stuff that never works properly like the TB escort, how the fuck did that ever make it live in such a bad state?

The 10/25 lockout change has really harmed 25man raiding, and 10 mans are so much easier to quit on. In retrospect this was a huge mistake by Blizzard, because it makes it way easier for people to quit the game. We've cycled through probably 7 or 8 people since breaking the 25 man into a 10 man in February, and the other 10 man group has gone through the same troubles.

With the current pace of development on 4.1 (1 "new" feature per week and a handful of balance changes?) they must be developing it with like 5 people.

[Dantrag]

I think if XIV were to have been released a year later with all the stuff they're putting into it and hopefully will continue to put into it, things would be much different. But then again, I doubt they'd have the current dev team if that was the case.

[Katlan]

I think if XIV were to have been released a year later with all the stuff they're putting into it and hopefully will continue to put into it, things would be much different. But then again, I doubt they'd have the current dev team if that was the case.

wrong thread

[Dantrag]

Not really, I was referring to patching and comparing it to the Cata release /shrug. Just saying it would have done better if SE waited for this moment of frustration instead of trying to rush out and beat the release of Cata.

[Correction]

Completely different markets being addressed. One where people don't mind grinding for hours, another where people don't mind their subscription dollars going to an activity that occupies 6 hours/week at top levels of mastery. Blizzard is clearly heading for the latter category and are inevitably going to slough off the degenerate MMO addicts.

[Whaleporn]

Completely different markets being addressed. One where people don't mind grinding for hours, another where people don't mind their subscription dollars going to an activity that occupies 6 hours/week at top levels of mastery. Blizzard is clearly heading for the latter category and are inevitably going to slough off the degenerate MMO addicts.

Yeah like former FFXI players..... FUCK

[Meresgi]

I gotta agree with the complaints in the previous page. The game has been scaled down too much for it's own damn good. At least back in WoTLk as a DK, each spec required a little different gearing and playstyle, now we no longer even have blood dps spec, and frost/UH are pretty much the same. Not to mention all the other plate wearing classes are the same as DKs on top of that, since Blizzard didn't want to be bothered making a few different armor sets.

I mean come the fuck on, are you kidding me that it requires TOO much of their precious time and effort. Because i'm damn sure it doesn't. It all boils down to money, they could hire a few more artists/modelers to push out some interesting gear and they wouldn't require very many. Even if they made regular to heroic mode tiers look different, that would be enough for a lot of players.

I think the addition of heroic mode only bosses like Sinestra/Algalon are a good idea...but why stop with only 1, and make it the LAST boss there is? Fucking give us an elevator under Chogall that leads to a dark lair where there are 3-4 new bosses AND sinestra.

I think Blizzard has realized that a lot of their player base have low expectations and they can glide mostly on name alone right now. I like WoW, I think it's a fun game, but these in between patch phases kill the fuck out of your enjoyment.. and with Firelands only going to have a few bosses that means the next "fuck it im bored" phase will come even sooner.


Also the Q&A today was fucking horrible.

Edit: Where the fuck is dance studio btw?

[Tajin]

I had loads of fun with heroics on cata release back when people actually was like "soooo oooook 1st time here, lets wipe a few times" and it was all cool, some silly wipes some reaaally stupid wipes on trash, CC galore and me having to solo a few bosses from 20%, and it lasted all of 2 weeks ._.

Edit: Fuck missed queue typing that....

[Lordender]

few more things that bother me about cata that I remember.

- Guild leveling, it sounded great on paper but it was implemented poorly. I feel like that system could have been 100x more epic where it could have delivered impromptu situations where something goes down like a twilight hammer attack on some city thats phased for your guild only to have your guild come in and save the day, this would be giving something for your guild to do outside of raids other than running older heroics/raids/dunegons of the past.

- Little to no interaction once-so-ever with a degrading community, I would like events that go down where you have to interact with people on your server to overcome the odds. Does this make any sense to anyone? Deathwing just destroyed most of the world, everything is in panic as described in the new 1-60 content, all hell has broke loose but just about the entire population of the game is sitting in orgrimmar or stormwind queuing up for dunegons/bg's or trolling trade chat. There is literally no reason to leave town anymore unless you're pugging a raid, dailies, farming mats.

[Tajin]

It seems to me its time for you to try a new MMO really.

[Katlan]

It seems to me its time for you to try a new MMO really.

Don't try rift, its basically the same endgame as wow but only 10x the grinding and 5x more daily quests you have to do (im being serious)

[Gulkeeva]

Gotta say an icc heroic geared hunter in a BG is the most broken thing ever (bought lv 80 cata blues + enchanted + gemmed + lvled crafts to boost the dps way up) hitting people for 30,000-40,000 crits (with a crit rating of over 90% with trinket procs) is hilarious. Lv84 die about as fast as they can kill me in 3-4 seconds ;/

[Meresgi]

Why the FUCK is there a cap on rep gain for your guild. We just hit 25 in the guild I transferred into, which I helped get through running tons of heroics to push beyond 23...and yet I have a month or more to hit exalted because I transferred from alliance to horde.

I also enjoy that in the last Q&A someone asked Blizzard about the rep grind for AB/WSG and maybe making it give you rep for returning flags/defending flags..blizzard said they thought the grind was fine where it is..

The grind is comparable to grinding out Hydraxian rep in MC each week (which I have been doing). I grinded out AB to exalted on my previous horde for the tabard, it took me about 3months...they really need to implement a tabard system or at least give a small amount of bonus rep in each BG.

[Lordender]

Why the FUCK is there a cap on rep gain for your guild. We just hit 25 in the guild I transferred into, which I helped get through running tons of heroics to push beyond 23...and yet I have a month or more to hit exalted because I transferred from alliance to horde.

Its because they have to stretch the cata content as much as possible to hide the fact there wasent much to do at the start of this expansion in the first place. Putting caps on the stuff is the lazy way of stretching out content that really shouldn't be stretched out.

It's almost the same thing as saying why isn't there chocobo's in FF14? its because they wanted you to take forever to get to places thus eating up lots of time trying to "cover up lack of content at release plus adding to the cutting corners arguement."

Eventually that shit is going to get nerfed by the time Deathwings raid is coming out and it'll be a rep palooza which can be attained in a week but they can't do that yet because cata is still new.

[Meresgi]

It's ok though, they hiked up the cost of Blizzcon tickets 25$ again so that way they can afford to do those super expensive things they promised us!


Blizz is amazing a double talking.

"Tanking/healing is fun and isn't hard at all, and tons of people enjoy it....so since tanking and healing is hard and most people don't do it, we're going to bribe you all"

"Making new animations for casters would be too hard and cost too much...so we made a new animation for every race for taking out your map and looking at it..shit..scrap that"

[Mortilox]

Going to rant this here instead of to my guild.

Did Halfus HC last night again and Book of Binding Will dropped, now usually I'd solo roll for it but we had a old boomkin(who's not all that good) with us, who rolled and won it. Naturally I'm accepting and gz ect whatever lets move on to the next boss. I notice she's using a staff from 5man hcs.. I ask why she isn't using it and replies that she doesn't have a main hand to use with it.

This is where I get annoyed, the first one that dropped I wasn't allowed to roll because I didn't have a 359 mainhand weapon to go with it. Yet for this person it's cool that they can take it and store it away until they first get a 346, and then get a 359. fucking hipocrites.

fucking pixels.

[Lordwafik]

Going to rant this here instead of to my guild.

Did Halfus HC last night again and Book of Binding Will dropped, now usually I'd solo roll for it but we had a old boomkin(who's not all that good) with us, who rolled and won it. Naturally I'm accepting and gz ect whatever lets move on to the next boss. I notice she's using a staff from 5man hcs.. I ask why she isn't using it and replies that she doesn't have a main hand to use with it.

This is where I get annoyed, the first one that dropped I wasn't allowed to roll because I didn't have a 359 mainhand weapon to go with it. Yet for this person it's cool that they can take it and store it away until they first get a 346, and then get a 359. fucking hipocrites.

fucking pixels.

Don't know if it's the case, but this is a huge reason why this happens quite frequently.

[Dantrag]

That's why running with people that actually follow points is much better.

[Meresgi]

Killed Chogall the other day, shoulders dropped for me that ive been trying to get for the past few weeks. The last week they were given to some DK who had won shoulders off Halfus, 2 weapons off trash and a ring but...w/e... this time they were given to a DK who announced earlier HE WAS GOING TO QUIT HIS DK.

The fuck is wrong with people in this game, if you don't plan on playing your character any longer, why the shit are you rolling against other people for loot for it. Not that it matters because I out dps all the other DK's even with their 4 piece bonus, which is sad, but shit like that has happened a lot. I remember losing tier legs, weapons, trinkets and other stuff to people who quit the following week.

[aurik]

Kinda sucks. We had someone take our first 372 weapon off of heroic magmaw and quit the game later that night. Thanks, asshole.

Oh well, we're better off without him.