World of Warcraft: Mists of Panderia **RAAAAANT**
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This is wholly true. I am in an RP guild and I absolutely love it
Sorry, you just kept saying it. But as for the rest, Scy preeeeety much debunked everything you said, so I thought I would just toss my opinion in there on that.[/quote]
Blizzard is once again doing some stat adjustment for Mists of Pandaria. The whole article is here, but I will list some of the major changes.
Resistances have been abolished. They felt that with the way the game was moving they were not utilizing the mechanic, so it just was adding another set of confusing stats. As such, spell penetration is also being abolished. They have not explained what this will do to racials that increase resistances.
Hit and Expertise are being slightly redesigned. The game will not longer play off melee hit and spell hit in the background, and instead hit will become a single stat that works on all classes. Expertise is also being altered to give a bonus to all classes, by negating dodge or spell miss, and then parry. Hunter ranged attacks can now be dodged, so they will be more balanced once the melee deadzone is removed.
Block is being moved to a separate combat roll that follows the first. The game will first roll to see if you parry or dodge, and if you fail to parry or dodge it will roll again to see if you block. If you fail both those rolls you will take the full strike. Be aware this is a slight nerf, since it means tanks can no longer "cap out" their block/parry/dodge to reach a near 100% chance of one of those items firing over taking a full strike.
Critical Strikes are being altered to baseline X2.0 for all classes. If you make a successful critical strike roll you will always do double the damage of the strike, rather then the current design in which many classes only did X1.5
Resilience is being abolished in favor of two new stats. PVP Defense and PVP Power. All characters will have a baseline 30% PVP Defense, meaning all players will have a natural damage reduction versus other players to make PVP battles less about burst damage. As one collects PVP gear this stat will increase, making them even more difficult to kill, while also giving PVP Power, which will increase damage versus other players, as a way to counteract other players PVP Defense. These stats are not included in the item budget, meaning they don't remove other PVE relevant stats like Haste. However, since they will not be budgeted into the scale, a PVP gear tier will be one tier lower in item level then PVE gear. Though that seems bad, due to PVP Defense and PVP Power, one in the higher item level PVE gear will likely not survive well in PVP situations, even though his item level is higher, because he does not have any stats to counteract the PVP players high PVP Defense.
Some interesting changes, and it will be interesting to see how they work out in the end.
Resistances have been abolished. They felt that with the way the game was moving they were not utilizing the mechanic, so it just was adding another set of confusing stats. As such, spell penetration is also being abolished. They have not explained what this will do to racials that increase resistances.
Hit and Expertise are being slightly redesigned. The game will not longer play off melee hit and spell hit in the background, and instead hit will become a single stat that works on all classes. Expertise is also being altered to give a bonus to all classes, by negating dodge or spell miss, and then parry. Hunter ranged attacks can now be dodged, so they will be more balanced once the melee deadzone is removed.
Block is being moved to a separate combat roll that follows the first. The game will first roll to see if you parry or dodge, and if you fail to parry or dodge it will roll again to see if you block. If you fail both those rolls you will take the full strike. Be aware this is a slight nerf, since it means tanks can no longer "cap out" their block/parry/dodge to reach a near 100% chance of one of those items firing over taking a full strike.
Critical Strikes are being altered to baseline X2.0 for all classes. If you make a successful critical strike roll you will always do double the damage of the strike, rather then the current design in which many classes only did X1.5
Resilience is being abolished in favor of two new stats. PVP Defense and PVP Power. All characters will have a baseline 30% PVP Defense, meaning all players will have a natural damage reduction versus other players to make PVP battles less about burst damage. As one collects PVP gear this stat will increase, making them even more difficult to kill, while also giving PVP Power, which will increase damage versus other players, as a way to counteract other players PVP Defense. These stats are not included in the item budget, meaning they don't remove other PVE relevant stats like Haste. However, since they will not be budgeted into the scale, a PVP gear tier will be one tier lower in item level then PVE gear. Though that seems bad, due to PVP Defense and PVP Power, one in the higher item level PVE gear will likely not survive well in PVP situations, even though his item level is higher, because he does not have any stats to counteract the PVP players high PVP Defense.
Some interesting changes, and it will be interesting to see how they work out in the end.
This week is going to be the big march press event, lots of new information coming out about Mists of Pandaria soon. One of the larger reveals is going to be the finished model for the Pandaren female, which right now is just a silhouette teaser. Going to be interesting to see what else is revealed. There are also rumors that beta will start in the next month.
Oh man, good gaming overload for the first time for me since the original NES days. I just picked up Mass Effect, so I could get into the franchise since 3 was released, and plan on picking up 2 and then 3 as I play my way through; I still have Skyrim to finish up (the dragonborn quest line at least); I've been meaning to give Dragon Age Origins another play through and then finish up Dragon Age 2, which I got to basically the end of and then decided I'd wait before finishing it off and then got sucked back in to WoW and forgot all about DA2; and now the MoP beta? Not to mention D3 shouldn't be too far off now. God damn... guess I won't be bored for a while.
My recent drop out of WoW is simply because I have all 4 of my main chars fully LFR geared (I have no intention of raiding N/H modes), a 6 figure gold stock pile, capped professions on all 4 chars, and 85-90% of all the achievements in the game completed (That I'd want to achieve) throughout the 4 chars . Right now there's nothing holding my interest in WoW, however don't misunderstand, it's my go-to #1 game when there's new content and when Mists hits, everythingelse is going to take the backseat till I'm back again at that place I am now. I've very much anticipating the news release.
As for the Jack Black comment?
Has a good 20yrs on KFP and would like a word with you.
As for the Jack Black comment?
Has a good 20yrs on KFP and would like a word with you.
Cute Little Guy? That panda is a douchebag, like everyone else in Ranma 1/2.
I am in a similar spot, but I still play because I never run out of alts to dabble in, plus my wife and I love to PVP together regardless of level. Collecting gear sets is also a fun side distraction, though I seem to gravitate most of my characters towards the WOTLK pvp sets when it comes to design, which are not hard to get. The only thing keeping me from playing a whole lot more right now is with MoP on the horizon, it's the perfect time to try out other games.
My Night Elf Druid just turned 84 last weekend, she is officially higher then my long time Tauren Druid that I played very little during Cataclysm, who is right now sitting at 82.
Agreed. All four of my "mains" (Pld, Shm, Mage, Rog) have all the gear sets I want on them (Full void storages and full bank tabs) and the other 4 85s I have (Druid, Warlock, Hunter, Warrior) I don't have enough interest in to really go that far with.
I don't PVP since I did the High Warlord grind in vanilla (Happy with my title, don't feel the need to do it anymore) so now that I've fully done what I want on PVE it's the "Pre-Xpac wait game" for me. *sigh*
I don't PVP since I did the High Warlord grind in vanilla (Happy with my title, don't feel the need to do it anymore) so now that I've fully done what I want on PVE it's the "Pre-Xpac wait game" for me. *sigh*
New landscape shot, really showing off the new texture mixing tools they have started using for this expansion. We are going to get a new shot a day till the big info release on the 19th, so looks like it's actually happening next week.
Yeah I'm loving the atmosphere. I purposely leave my last 2 char slots open so that I can level and create class combos that I haven't tried before and I'll gladly be making a couple Pandas, of course I'll have to level a 90 Monk as well.
The game sold me on the atmosphere alone so everythingelse is just bonus.
The game sold me on the atmosphere alone so everythingelse is just bonus.
I wish other people saw it that way. So far today I have read...
"Friggin Pandas are so retarded. No one wanted them because they are fat and stupid"
"OMG the colors are so fucking cartoony, are they making this game for toddlers now?"
"WTF is this asian shit? This is azeroth, not fucking china."
"Look at how crappy her body shape is, she is way to fat and ugly no one will play her."
"Look at how crappy her body shape is, it's way to thin to be a panda, stupid furries, she is supposed to be round."
I know these idiots are the minority (the minority is always the most vocal because they never shut up), but I am still getting sick of the whining over such trivial shit. No one seems to care that we have native american cow people, but god forbid a panda person gets added to the game.
"Friggin Pandas are so retarded. No one wanted them because they are fat and stupid"
"OMG the colors are so fucking cartoony, are they making this game for toddlers now?"
"WTF is this asian shit? This is azeroth, not fucking china."
"Look at how crappy her body shape is, she is way to fat and ugly no one will play her."
"Look at how crappy her body shape is, it's way to thin to be a panda, stupid furries, she is supposed to be round."
I know these idiots are the minority (the minority is always the most vocal because they never shut up), but I am still getting sick of the whining over such trivial shit. No one seems to care that we have native american cow people, but god forbid a panda person gets added to the game.
During the initial announcement I rounded the forums (WoW and MMO Champ) daily just to post the Genma pictures in a futile attempt to shut people up about the KFP refrences. Usually whatever thread I did it in, was pretty successful but it was a drop in the bucket. All I can say is that I'll be glad if WoW really did bleed off 1 million in idiots after the announcement of Mists.
Is that like the Dance Studio in Wrath? Oh wait. =/
Also, whiners also bitched about a rainbow in Diablo, why do people still listen to them?
They've been talking about revamping the pre-BC races on and off for awhile now, would be nice to see them look and animate as slick as Goblins and Worgen.
They are working on them. We know this because they didn't have to make a new unique model for Azshara or Illidan in the new WOT heroic, but they did. The implication is that the new models are in the building stages, so they simply took the basic skeleton they are using for the new models and added the new flare to make them viable for some one shot NPCs. It makes sense, because the easiest time to add and mess around with a model is when it's still able to be molded around easily.
Be aware that Blizzard is NOT announcing that these models are going to be coming out. They finally learned their lesson from Dance Studio and Path of the Titans, don't announce something as being in the game unless they know they can deliver it, and instead dance around it and say "maybe". It makes the surprise when the get them in to be more exciting, and if they can't finish it, less people will be riding their asses over it.
Be aware that Blizzard is NOT announcing that these models are going to be coming out. They finally learned their lesson from Dance Studio and Path of the Titans, don't announce something as being in the game unless they know they can deliver it, and instead dance around it and say "maybe". It makes the surprise when the get them in to be more exciting, and if they can't finish it, less people will be riding their asses over it.
But riding their ass was such a favorite pastime of mine all those years ago. I remember screaming "FROST SHOCK NERF" back in the old Vanilla days.
I was one of the first lvl 60 hunters on my server. My first pet was a bear named Yogi. When BC came out I switched him out for a ravager. My guild mourned poor yogi. He was...smarter than the average bear in Loch Modan.
Oh..so much of my life wasted.
*cries*.
I was one of the first lvl 60 hunters on my server. My first pet was a bear named Yogi. When BC came out I switched him out for a ravager. My guild mourned poor yogi. He was...smarter than the average bear in Loch Modan.
Oh..so much of my life wasted.
*cries*.
Yeah, I primarily played on an RP server, the fallout upon the news of no dance studio could be called...
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...Cataclysmic.
For the record, I am a "lore whore" and have been wanting pandarens since the first expansions.
Back when Burning Crusade came out, I was increadibly active on the boards and actually had to argue about the whole "derp, dranei= klingons" BS.
I'd usually point out that orcs themselves are green skinned men from another planet. So what made Dranei any more sci fi?
Back when Burning Crusade came out, I was increadibly active on the boards and actually had to argue about the whole "derp, dranei= klingons" BS.
I'd usually point out that orcs themselves are green skinned men from another planet. So what made Dranei any more sci fi?
I remember the old druid only raids too.@ Death Knights are not over-powered:
That's one tier back. That's not even "old content".
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