Random Complaint Thread

[Kaylia]

What's up with this new ironman and "no deaths" challenge I keep hearing about lately. Not wearing anything above white armour, no talents, no food no buffs, and if you die you must reset back to level 1.

Who the fuck has a life so boring that they would actually consider doing this? Isn't there better things people could be doing? Hell, even if it's something that's not even productive it's probably going to be more fun than leveling to 85 at the speed of a crippled tortoise while avoiding pulling more than one monster at a time.

You pretty much described Diablo 2 hardcore mode. It wasnt much harder, and required the same kind of holding back and safe play.



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Only difference is that you might die to accidental elevator death this time around.


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Either way, fuck this challenge. Leveling a class isn't fun enough to make the process even slower.

[The Stig]

What's up with this new ironman and "no deaths" challenge I keep hearing about lately. Not wearing anything above white armour, no talents, no food no buffs, and if you die you must reset back to level 1.

Who the fuck has a life so boring that they would actually consider doing this? Isn't there better things people could be doing? Hell, even if it's something that's not even productive it's probably going to be more fun than leveling to 85 at the speed of a crippled tortoise while avoiding pulling more than one monster at a time.

The same mindset as the people on the offline FFs, for example, who try to beat the game without doing specific things:

i.e.

FF7 - No materia, initial equipment, items only, low level
FF8 - level 1 (although the game mechanics makes this easy)
FF9 - low level
FF10 - no sphere grid

Anyways, I guess the difference is that the offline games make more sense because more often than not it's possible to beat the game, whereas in WoW it's pointless due to how little you can do at 85 without the usual stuffs.

[Aksannyi]

I think it's more about getting there though, I don't think these are toons that people want to actually raid with, it's just something they do out of boredom. And if they do actually want to use the toons at endgame, it's not like they can't set their talents and glyphs at 85 and gear up.

Unless they mean no dying ever on that toon, well, then fuck raiding, dungeons, and PvP. lol

[Clash Perez]

For shits and giggles I decided to make a pacifist druid about a month ago. Leveling entirely through gathering herbs and mining (and area discovery), and fleeing what combat I do encounter. I haven't gotten very far yet, but it's a decent change of pace when I'm bored waiting for the week to roll over.

[Aksannyi]

Same here, I plan to add archaeology when I get that far. If I can stomach leveling the profession again.

[Clash Perez]

Let's start our own World of Peacecraft trend.

[Aksannyi]

I got the idea from the Official Forums so it's been floating around for a while. It's honestly just something I do when I'm bored.

[Clash Perez]

Ah, with the game having been around for seven years, I should've guessed that I was reinventing the wheel.

[Korialstrasz]

Run dungeons and raids countless times for mounts: Never get a drop.

Teach my wife about the mount in Karazhan: 1/1 Edit: nvm :D
Also 1/1 Sea Turtle, 1/1 Hawkstrider, 1/3 Raven Lord, TWO green proto drakes in a fucking row.

(ノ゜Д゜)ノ ┻━┻

[Mortilox]

^ Today I was doing some enchant hunting and shit. Went to Blackrock depths and went 1/1 on Circle of Flame and also got Thaurissan family jewels, then later on my dk I did HC mechanar for the first time and went 1/1 on The Sun Eater.

r u fckin' srs. Why can't I channel this luck towards shit I actually want Q_Q

[Meresgi]

Fucking hate UH as a DK. Feels like most fights just bug out the pet completely and despawn it. Even old content does this. Pet still fucking vanishes on Sinestra and Magmaw and other fights. Why the fucking shit a pet class has a mother fucking 2min CD on their pet is beyond me. Especially when its a majority of your damage and due to Blizzard's shitty bug testing your pet just vanishes for no reason.

[Korialstrasz]

Decided to queue up for LFR with a few friends right after the reset, and after we go in the entire raid is getting spammed with the "You are not in this instance's group. You will be teleported to the nearest graveyard in 5 seconds" bullshit. To make matters worse, we all have the fucking deserter debuff from it. How do you desert a group that you're apparently not even in?

[seph32]

Heroic?

Ofcourse, Spine normal is hardly a challenge With all the nerfs pugs even fully clear DS normal.

[Kaylia]

Q: Talk more about the 4.2 patch. Were the Firelands dailies a hint of what’s to come?
Definitely. With those dailies we were able to engage a lot of players, myself included. (I was the first quest designer on the team to get the mount and all the achievements on the live servers -- suck it up, slackers!) Previously, "doing dailies" meant hitting the same quest givers for the same three quests, usually in a static place. Here we were able to deliver a sense of progression and a story that unfurled over the course of a few weeks, all as you did a constantly changing set of quest objectives in a dynamic environment. We think that worked out well.

Moving forward, we're going to look for more opportunities like this -- ways to keep people engaged and cool things to do solo with your max-level character. We've got ambitious plans.

Anyone remember when Fargo was writing hilarious articles for gamespy (like The Grudge), instead of making our live miserable with daily quests?

Every time I see Dante, all I can think is what was said in the Dante vs Snake post (can't find it anymore)

[Mortilox]

Just finished a LFR on my warlock where every piece of gear I needed was taken by someone who already had it for MS or wanted to disenchant it.

Terrible loot system.

[CoronA1979]

Just finished a LFR on my warlock where every piece of gear I needed was taken by someone who already had it for MS or wanted to disenchant it.

Terrible loot system.

Everyone just needs on everything they possibly can and then tries to spam that they will trade for something they actually do need if it drops, pretty pathetic system yes. Often you will also see people run LFR as a large group so there chances of getting an item skyrockets. I kinda felt bad about doing it but my 10m group combined with another 10m group from another server and did LFR in the main hopes of helping a fresh 85 DK who was changing from Bear to DK for our raids gear up. He got 5/5 tokens and a couple more pieces to boot. While I felt bad about the few people not from our setup basically getting shafted for the week on there lockout I quickly realized that shit happens all to often as I have won next to nothing in LFR, ever...

[Katlan]

LFR loot needs to be untradeable, but blizz would never do something like that

[Korialstrasz]

What they should do is not cockblock you for the week if you don't win something from a particular boss. Nothing dropped that you could use and you passed all items? Fuck you, you can't loot again until reset. Wtf is that shit?

The expansion is pretty much done, who cares if people could just spam LFR until they have everything they want from it in a short time at this point?

[Boyiee]

Everyone just needs on everything they possibly can and then tries to spam that they will trade for something they actually do need if it drops, pretty pathetic system yes. Often you will also see people run LFR as a large group so there chances of getting an item skyrockets. I kinda felt bad about doing it but my 10m group combined with another 10m group from another server and did LFR in the main hopes of helping a fresh 85 DK who was changing from Bear to DK for our raids gear up. He got 5/5 tokens and a couple more pieces to boot. While I felt bad about the few people not from our setup basically getting shafted for the week on there lockout I quickly realized that shit happens all to often as I have won next to nothing in LFR, ever...

The group thing is the worst. I've been in a couple groups where 10-20 people will que together as a guild, and they dominate the loot tables and hand out gear to their alts or new members. It really fucks you over.

Blizzard is very into need/greed loot rules. Whenever something is ninja'd in a ML run, they say don't raid with ML's you don't know and instead look for Need/greed runs. LFR needs a lot of changes, but just look at it as a beta test for future LFR. I'm sure it'll be great by mists.

[Kaylia]

I don't even understand why people freak when they lose something in LFR. I mean, I can understand that you're pissed at the faggot who loot on everything ...but that gears isn't very good, and probably won't make or break anything you do in the future, especially with the -10% nerf to the harder content.