Post your Frustrations.

[Passionario]

You don't simply walk into quittin Wow !

And yet we keep trying. One day we may even succeed.

On a related note, I never realized how spoiled I was to play on a vanilla-release active server until I started a new character on a low pop realm. Maybe WoW is really dying, after all.

[Nikachelle]

You don't simply walk into quittin Wow !

And yet we keep trying. One day we may even succeed.

On a related note, I never realized how spoiled I was to play on a vanilla-release active server until I started a new character on a low pop realm. Maybe WoW is really dying, after all.

It has to be dying... even these forums are pretty quiet nowadays.

[Sagara]

Well, we're also in a hiatus right now. Most of us that are playing have probably plateau'd on their objectives, and may actually be taking a couple of months off until beta starts. I remember late WotLK when Dalaran already felt like a desert.

Another factor is that it may simply MT that's outliving its usefulness. With Theck and Rhidach becoming household names for tankadins, and their insights being basically yanked by every wannabee "Paladin High Teacher" on the internet, plus the simplicity in gearing choices nowadays, the number of tankadins looking for a class-specific forum to discuss has slimmed quite a bit.

Now this is mostly conjecture and it could indeed be explained by dropping subs, but I wouldn't just jump the gun already.

[Klaudandus]

I still visit these forums like once an hour. >=(

[Sagara]

I still visit these forums like once an hour. >=(

We're both slackers that lucked in IT, we don't count ;-)

[Amirya]

This week is supposed to be my mother's 2nd to last chemo treatment. Even with heavily reduced dosages, this is wreaking havoc on her body. She went for the treatment yesterday, and no go. Potassium is too low (she now has these amazing horse pills), calcium is too low, white blood cells are too low...

She was telling us yesterday that she's not hungry a lot anymore, so she feels like she has to forcefeed herself. However, when the timing is right, she eats a lot (Friday night saw her eating 1 2/3 lobster, clams, shrimp, noodles...my roommate and I went out to dinner, and I boxed most of mine to bring home to her).

So frustrating, to be so close and to be told, "nope, gotta wait."

[Worldie]

I can understand your feeling, my mother has been through similar situations with chemio. To feel a bit well just try to think this suffering is saving her from a much worse fate.

[halabar]

Well, we're also in a hiatus right now. Most of us that are playing have probably plateau'd on their objectives, and may actually be taking a couple of months off until beta starts. I remember late WotLK when Dalaran already felt like a desert.

Another factor is that it may simply MT that's outliving its usefulness. With Theck and Rhidach becoming household names for tankadins, and their insights being basically yanked by every wannabee "Paladin High Teacher" on the internet, plus the simplicity in gearing choices nowadays, the number of tankadins looking for a class-specific forum to discuss has slimmed quite a bit.

Now this is mostly conjecture and it could indeed be explained by dropping subs, but I wouldn't just jump the gun already.

To be fair, there are a lot of us that don't play mtankadins anymore, so much of the content here is irrelevant.

Folks also have found other communities, in my case my current raid team groupme. And Twitter.

Also, to be frank, the lawmchair contingent here has somewhat soured meaningful game discussion of the current game.

[Klaudandus]

I need to check the CTR forums more often =/

[KysenMurrin]

Ragnaros survived Brawl, with 5 minions on the board.

[Newsom]

Taken from /2

"LFM SoO10n, must have ilvl 560+ and curve."
"LFM Flex4, need ilvl 565+ and curve."
and the best one of them all...
"LFM Flex1, need 565+, curve and 4/14HC minimum" Oo

And the worst part is, I've come to realize that the curve achiev is going to be the determining factor to get into any kind of PuG come WoD... those without it will be banned to the Looking For Retards... :(

Or you could make a group of your own with reasonable requirements, that's what I usually end up doing on my lesser geard alts.

Anyway, this is nothing new. Remember Gearscore back in WotLK?

[Fetzie]

Taken from /2

"LFM SoO10n, must have ilvl 560+ and curve."
"LFM Flex4, need ilvl 565+ and curve."
and the best one of them all...
"LFM Flex1, need 565+, curve and 4/14HC minimum" Oo

Sure the second two aren't just trolling the first?

[Worldie]

Might be trolls, but I'm used to see similar requirements. I often see 550+ required for Flex 4 (sometimes 560) and always at least 560 for normal.
Considering normal drops 553, I'm not sure why I need higher ilvl than the drops in the istance to join it.

[Passionario]

My grandma and uncle are in Donetsk. :(

Considering normal drops 553, I'm not sure why I need higher ilvl than the drops in the istance to join it.

So that we can boost whoever's doing the recruiting *and* let them get all the drops.

[Sagara]

My grandma and uncle are in Donetsk. :(

Goddammit :-/
To quote a song, "It hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year", indeed...

[valura]

Taken from /2

"LFM SoO10n, must have ilvl 560+ and curve."
"LFM Flex4, need ilvl 565+ and curve."
and the best one of them all...
"LFM Flex1, need 565+, curve and 4/14HC minimum" Oo

Sure the second two aren't just trolling the first?

Sadly no, these were some of the most noticeable in a 10 minutes window of /2 filled with LFM, LGF, vendoring, etc...

These just stood out due to the lack of logic behind them.

Edit: Have gotten Curve earlier this week, with a good PuG (no windowlickers) that had an avg ilvl of 545-553 (one very skilled healer had 539 and was doing just fine). One near-wipe (FD + mass ress FTW), and one failure on Siege Engineer later 4 ppl got their first Garrosh normal kill. With skill and some dedication everything can be done, even in an almost pure PuG with below par requirements... Now if only the masses would come to realize that

[Worldie]

valura, it's not about "cannot be done" with lower ilvl (remember Flex is tuned for people in 520-530 gear and SoO normal is tuned for 540ish).

It's about people who pug not really wantin to put effort and progress, rather wanting a free and clean loot run. People who want to progress usually do that with guilds or with organized pugs, or even in alt runs, and have no interest in grouping with randoms for it.
By going with people 20-30 ilvls ahead of the minimum requirement you eliminate a lot of the randomness due to lack of skill of the members.

[Jabari]

LAG

(There is something horribly wrong with the servers - we couldn't do a thing last night. Somehow got through H:Thok (but the healers were crying the entire time), had no chance to even make more attempts at Blackfuse.)

[Amirya]

Fucking Santa Claus on a pogo stick.

Dealing with a claim that I rarely deal with, I check with one of our liability representatives on how to handle it. Looking in the policy guide yields the lovely gem of, "welp, you can handle it this way OR you can handle it that way."

Gee, thanks. So I get to pick and choose?

6 more weeks of this type of stupidity...

[Fetzie]

On-GCD Seal Twisting/stance requirements in WoD.

2005 phoned, they said to stop stealing their mechanics.

[Klaudandus]

On-GCD Seal Twisting/stance requirements in WoD.

2005 phoned, they said to stop stealing their mechanics.

Can you link it? I think I somehow missed something.

[Fetzie]

On-GCD Seal Twisting/stance requirements in WoD.

2005 phoned, they said to stop stealing their mechanics.

Can you link it? I think I somehow missed something.

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/4 ... 3500418048
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@Maegoree: @Celestalon If HotR is activated by SoR, are seals still on GCD? Affects seal dancing talent as well.

‏@Celestalon: @Maegoree Yes.

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/4 ... 7643021312

@Celestalon: Ret/Prot will swap Seals more than Holy will. Seal of Righteousness will convert Crusader Strike into Hammer of the Righteousness

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/4 ... 4828582912

@Faytte: @Celestalon So where do you find a balance here? Are prot tanks gonna be 1 gcd behind other tanks for switching between aoe/single threat?

@Celestalon: @Faytte There IS room between CS cooldowns, remember.

[Amirya]

Trying to get some paperwork approved for intermittent absences under FMLA.

The case manager decided to call me this morning to let me know the paperwork, while received, is incomplete.

I appreciate the information, but I probably would have appreciated it a lot more had she not called me at 445 in the fucking morning.

(As it was an 800 number, I ignored the call, struggled to get back to sleep, and listened to the message after my shower.)

Which leads me to the next frustration - day 3 in a row of waking up at some stupid hour and struggling to go back to sleep.

[Klaudandus]

On-GCD Seal Twisting/stance requirements in WoD.

2005 phoned, they said to stop stealing their mechanics.

Can you link it? I think I somehow missed something.

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/4 ... 3500418048
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@Maegoree: @Celestalon If HotR is activated by SoR, are seals still on GCD? Affects seal dancing talent as well.

‏@Celestalon: @Maegoree Yes.

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/4 ... 7643021312

@Celestalon: Ret/Prot will swap Seals more than Holy will. Seal of Righteousness will convert Crusader Strike into Hammer of the Righteousness

https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/4 ... 4828582912

@Faytte: @Celestalon So where do you find a balance here? Are prot tanks gonna be 1 gcd behind other tanks for switching between aoe/single threat?

@Celestalon: @Faytte There IS room between CS cooldowns, remember.

Someone please smack Celestalon on the head.

[Newsom]

Someone please smack Celestalon on the head.

If this goes live I don't think I want to play Paladin any more. Seal swapping ON THE GCD is a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE idea.