Sarth 10 +3d is REALLY freaking hard.

[Wizerd]

It's not 24 hours. It's 8 or 15 days. We should know which tomorrow or Wed tho.

I haven't seen any speculation for 15 days, who's saying this? Doesn't the new arena season or something start on the 14th/15th? A blue post said something about pushing the patch before the new season started (or something along those lines).

I find it highly unlikely that they'd push a patch right in the middle of a pvp event when they could push it between key points. Especially since they already said the Equipment Manager wasn't coming with 3.1, but a minor patch just after once they get it working how they wanted it.

[Russta]

The sad thing is that the groups that can pulll together this kind of DPS have the DPS to kill it the normal way, unless your healers and tanks are the weakest part of your group. It just feels silly to me now that so many guilds with a strong core of 8+ DPS can't do this the normal way.

I love Sarth because of the superb design that went into it. With a simple choice, the fight turns from the easiest in the game to the hardest currently, at near Sunwell level. That's just brilliant design and a great jump for Blizzard IMO, and its sad to see it just reduced to a zerg. Just my 2c.

Though I don't disagree with anything you said, the issue I had with Sartharion 3D in ten man was the class requirement.

Without getting too far into it, I am on an RP server and I do my twenty-five man raids with what is referred to as a community. This frees up my guild slot for RP purposes, though I instead use it to have a very coordinated ten man guild with some of the best players I've come into contact with over the years. This means that we only have what we have to work with. Neither of our Death Knights are tank main so we had to wait until one of them acquired sufficient gear from twenty-five mans before we could attempt Sartharion 3D.

All of us have many alts (check my sig) and weren't massively concerned with rushing the Glory of the Raider achievements until the announcement was made last month that the Plagued Proto Drake was being removed when Ulduar hits. This kicked us into gear and we've been slowly checking them all off the list outside of our twenty-five man commitments and around people's "life schedules". Having finally gotten it down to just Twilight Zone and You Don't Have An Eternity, we scheduled the former for this Saturday, fully intending to go at it normally. Of course, the original Russian video came out and we knew we could theoretically do it. We gave it some attempts and when we had him at 4% on the third attempt, we knew we just needed one attempt of the planets aligning and it was onto the next achievement. That attempt came on the final one, shortly before one of our Death Knights had to go see Nickleback...

tl;dr - Our justification was taking bring-the-player-not-the-class to the limits.

If anyone has any interest in seeing it, a video was made (41MB) by one of our Mages. I suppose if you've seen one, you've seen them all though.

what.. no way russta playing wow again.. THIS IS MADNESS!

I restarted on EU servers after retiring from US servers and Blue Garter after a well needed break last April. Playing on my own terms and my own time clock after five years feels good man.

By the way, the 3.1 isn't a couple months away, it's about 8 days away. 24 hours if we're lucky, but doubtful.

The Noblegarden event was moved to April 26 on the PTR. The patch is, at minimum, three weeks away.

[Boyiee]

I haven't seen any speculation for 15 days, who's saying this? Doesn't the new arena season or something start on the 14th/15th? A blue post said something about pushing the patch before the new season started (or something along those lines).

I find it highly unlikely that they'd push a patch right in the middle of a pvp event when they could push it between key points. Especially since they already said the Equipment Manager wasn't coming with 3.1, but a minor patch just after once they get it working how they wanted it.

The arena season is going to END 1-2 weeks before new patch comes out. Arena season will not end tomorrow.

Also, blues have stated that they want Seasons and PVE content to release as close to simultaneously as possible (at least for future patches).

[Plow]

I haven't seen any speculation for 15 days, who's saying this? Doesn't the new arena season or something start on the 14th/15th? A blue post said something about pushing the patch before the new season started (or something along those lines).

I find it highly unlikely that they'd push a patch right in the middle of a pvp event when they could push it between key points. Especially since they already said the Equipment Manager wasn't coming with 3.1, but a minor patch just after once they get it working how they wanted it.

Season 5 will end patch day, season 6 will start 1 week later.

Forum announcement is that it's ending either the 14th or 21st. Although, that was like "hopefully the 14th, maybe the 21st." I hadn't seen this thing Russta mentioned about the 26th tho, so it could be even farther.

[Wizerd]

Interesting. I suppose I missed something along the way then. I wasn't too sure what I was referring to above, so I checked, and it was the Arena Tournament ending on the 6th and the new round starting after maintenance on the 14th. That's where the speculation for an April 14th patch day came into play.

When was this Noblegarden testing announcement? I assume recently. Also, if I recall correctly, they've released major patches without everything in it before, while leaving the PTR up to continue testing the remaining elements. If all they have to test is an event and an equipment manager, they may still implement the patch on the 14th.

I just find it hard to believe that they would delay the equipment manager if they still had 2+ weeks before the patch was coming out. Unless they really have no effort being put into, it shouldn't take that long to perfect. I suppose we'll see, though. I'm still hoping it's the 14th.

[Arvin]

Eat parries russta

[Russta]

Eat parries russta

Oh nostalgia!

Here, have some Teron meters.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bigrussta/arvlol.jpg

[Arvin]

IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT HOLY FUCKING SHIT

thank you so much for posting that

NUMBER ONE RESTO SHAMAN

[Dezzimal]

Lol azshara. I'm still amazed at how all of the "top" guilds cleared out of there in the span of about 4 months.

[Plow]

Lol azshara. I'm still amazed at how all of the "top" guilds cleared out of there in the span of about 4 months.

What's really amazing is there's still servers that are waaaaaay more dead than Azshara.

[erish]

doesnt look like it will get hotfixed at all from GC recent coments which is quite fucking gay tbh.

MMO-Champion BlueTracker - 25 man raids more difficult? false assumption

either way tried this tonight with a pretty fail group setup and managed to get him down to 15%. If we can get him down to 15% with 2 people in 25 man gear and 8 people in a mix of blues/naxx 10 gear then really there is no kind of accomplishment here anymore, roll on ulduar?