Cataclysm

[Takelli]

Re: Cataclysm

Well... 3 hours and 43 minutes until Cata is playable, is anyone else staying up all night and going to be playing cata?

[Ufgt]

Re: Cataclysm

I live in the middle of nowhere, so I won't be getting cata til the 15th or some such nonsense.

[DakAttack]

Re: Cataclysm

I've had this game preloaded for a while, now. I'm going to give the Worgen a try on the server Argyros, or whatever, so if anybody's interested, that's where I can be found. My horde characters are still on Sentinels, for the time being.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

I'm so bummed that after having paid my rent and taken care of yet another brake issue on my truck, I won't be able to afford Cataclysm until Thursday (when I get paid again), which is two days after launch. So while all of my guildmates and the rest of the server are leveling their happy asses to 85, I'm going to be continuing to bust out dailies and randoms. I guess on the plus side that two day window will clear most of the people the fuck out of the initial areas and make it a bit easier to level, though I may just take my happy ass to Icecrown and finish the remaining 40 quests I need to finish the Icecrown achievement, grabbing some xp there in the process. Still sucks. It'll be like the WoTG launch when they fucked over the PC users. Half the LS was checking out the new shit while the rest of us were HEY WTF WE CANT EVEN GET OUR COPIES until someone on the west coast bought us a bunch of 360 copies and we paid him back via paypal for the codes.

Oh well, life goes on, I'm definitely bummed though.

[Firewind]

Re: Cataclysm

Alliance always have it easy with getting to and raiding Horde cities really and they are easier to defend to boot. Especially now in Cata when Horde have no legit way of getting to an entire attack force to the Exodar or Darnassus while Orgimmar, the capital of the horde quite literally gained a MASSIVE backdoor.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

Oh Jesus, if you're trying to get Pilgrim's Peril as Horde, good fucking luck. I got SW and IF, but IF was a bitch and a half. I died at least 12 times, and only when someone else happened upon the tables and aggroed the guards did I manage to sit down at the table, since you can't be in combat and do it. And yeah, level 85 elite guards fuck your world up in a hurry.

SW was actually very easy, because you don't actually have to go near SW to get it. The tables north of Goldshire worked for it. Thanks so much to Wowhead for that info. Lol.

But then there's Darnassus and Exodar ...jesus fuck. Auberdine was destroyed in the shattering, so guess how you get to those stupid islands now? Either elixir of water walking or doing a lengthy corpse run to the boats in SW. What a bunch of bullshit ... and the Alliance shits have it so fucking easy in comparison. I'm seriously pissed about how unfucking fair it is now in terms of doing For the Horde compared to For the Alliance, or just doing these small achievements. And Azeroth flying isn't here until Dec 7th, which is long after the thanksgiving tables are gone. Awesome, Blizz, just awesome.

I persevered through Ironforge, though, so I guess I'll try to do this shit tomorrow and see how it goes.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

I've been trying to turkey people that seem to be AFK. I'll watch them for a minute, if they don't move, then I'll turkey them.

The damn dwarves just don't seem to be that popular though. Bastards.

[Firewind]

Re: Cataclysm

I hate the Thanksgiving event because being Turkey'd at random tends to ruin RP events. Also Vanish and Stealth doesn't work since you can always see friendly stealthed targets that are within a 20 yard radius.

Still I've made more than enough gold to cover the cost of the Flying License by staying Turkey'd and only coming out of it to let someone shoot me again for a tip (Usually 1G is they bother to ask or a couple of silver if it's a newbie). I was surprised that I was able to make that much in tips since Blood Elf is a popular race for Rogues but I guess people are lazy and like to overtip (I got a tip of 20G from some Death Knight).

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

Speaking of Rogues, I still need a dwarf to finish up that pesky turkey achievement. Anyone wanna start a dwarf rogue on Kil'Jaeden and let me come shoot you with my turkey gun? Hahaha. I don't even know where dwarves start at or I'd maybe try to camp out there and try to find one. I never see any in Dalaran and I'm certainly not going to shoot one in a battleground.

[Firewind]

Re: Cataclysm

The ridiculous stuns are coming from Warlocks and Paladins. Well there's Rogues (like myself) who likes to spam Sap until a viable target comes up but considering how broken Rogue stealth is right now it's impossible to do it for long before someone spots and murders you.

Protection Paladins are hitting like a truck now (I've had Avenger's Shield crit me for higher than my best post 4.0.1 Eviscerate Crit) but that damage should balance out when the level cap goes up.

That being said, in 1v1, I actually find Paladins of all specs cute on my Rogue at the moment because it's easy for a Rogue to keep a Pally locked out of casting. Kick + Dismantle means the Paladin's running around helpless and I always have Arcane Torrent, Gouge, Blind and Kidney Shot to interrupt any other attempts at casting. Retrubution Paladins thankfully got hit with the nerf bat so they are now more like trying to take on an Arms Warrior than an absurd killing machine with Stuns and Heals coming out of every place you can imagine.

I would have to say that right now, casters (Mage, Priest, Resto/Boomkin Druid, Hunter, Warlock. Not Shaman, though the ones that know what they are doing will murder you and Shamans are technically a Rogue counter anyway) are the anti-Rogue classes which is fucking ridiculous considering that Rogues are supposed to be the hard counter to casters. Being able to counter your hard counter is pretty much a hint that your class needs nerfing.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

I don't know, I am constantly getting stunned for far too fucking long, and to be honest I have no idea who the hell is hitting me with it. (Meaning what class) I just know that I'm stunned down to about half my health and by the time I even attempt to heal myself (if I even bother, because generally it doesn't go off) I'm dead. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. XD I do use the will of the forsaken, but the recast is like 3 minutes or something so that isn't always an option.

Seriously I hate fucking Pallys in PvP. Pretty much unkillable one on one, or even four on one, which is ridiculously annoying.

But yeah, losing Devouring Plague (which still does damage, just not as much) really makes me feel like my usefulness has been slashed some, but I'll continue to use it simply because it's instant cast and well, it at least does something.

[Firewind]

Re: Cataclysm

Ugh, Shadow Word: Pain is probably the worst thing to be hit by on my Rogue. Trying to fight a Priest as one is a fucking nightmare thanks to whiners getting stunlocks taken out of the game. Usually goes something like this:

Me: Premeditation > Garotte
Priest: Trinket LOL Psychic Scream, Shadow Word Pain LOL, Mind Blast, Mind Flay LOLZ
Me: Cloak of Shadows
Priest: LOL Sheep'd
Me: Trinket
Priest: LOL Fear'd again! Shadow Word Pain LOL, Mind Blast, Mind Flay LOLZ
Me: *Clicks spirit healer for res*

Frost Magi are worse because of the pet (Vanish no longer prevents pets from attacking you and Blizzard refuse to fix it) and all of the snares they have. Then you have Demo Locks who have a ridiculously overpowered pet with a homing AoE attack that always hits Stealthed Rogues and Druids even if they aren't targetted and a stun with a frankly silly range on it and doesn't share a DR with the rest of the Warlock's CC abilities (meaning they can stunlock you with little effort), and that's not even including the fact that they can crit an 80 in full resil gear for 30k+.

Oh yeah Rogues just got a massive nerf to Recuperate and Ambush for 4.0.3 thanks to low level players whining AGAIN and getting Rogues nerfed AGAIN because they are too busy whining about low level PvP when the knock on effect of the inevitable anti-Rogue pissing and moaning and crying is that Rogues get crippled at Lv80. These people also fail to realise that these Rogue "One-shots" are actually about 3 or 4 abilities being fired off in quick succession and it's lag that makes it look like a one shot. people need to learn how to read combat logs.

Seriously, Ambush hits like a like an asthmatic mosquito trying to suck the blood from an old age pensioner's leathery backside. Thanks to stuns being nerfed into the ground, Cheap Shot is also a useless opener because you will need to fire off a Kidney Shot at some point in a fight so Rogues now only have one usable opener: Garotte. That. Is. It.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

It's so weird in EK and Kalimdor now. It took me a fucking century to find the zeppelins in Durotar before I finally asked in general chat and was told they're actually in Org now. I'm glad that my home city of Undercity is blessedly unchanged. (At least, as far as I've noticed.)

I'm annoyed about the portals. Especially the ones in Shattrath. Was that necessary? There's nearly no one who hangs out there, not like Dalaran, where everyone idles. It's such a pain in the ass to get anywhere now.

I'm also annoyed that I was less than 100 quests away from Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms and they changed the whole thing, which negated hundreds of quests worth of progress (along with some of the Kalimdor ones I'd done). I wish I'd know they were going to change the requirements for that achievement so I could have either worked harder to get it done or spent my time doing something else. Oh well, it is what it is.

they are ridiculously overpowered right now

They nerfed one of my favorite dots into oblivion, I'm totally pissed about that. I used to spam Devouring Plague and SW: Pain in BGs because it made it easy for me to keep moving, which makes it somewhat harder to die. Lol. Unless we've got enough people in the thick of it that I can stand back and cast, but that's rarely the case, so I put my dots on everyone I can and try to keep myself out of harm's way.

[Ufgt]

Re: Cataclysm

I don't know, maybe. I was only online last night for a short time to check things out, but I think the regions have been updated. haha.

[DakAttack]

Re: Cataclysm

Oh, they updated the maps. Can people without Cata play through the redesigned starting areas?