[WoW] 2.4

[Pigeon]

I'm very happy with this patch! there's so much to do! Anyone have any new favorite things?

[Telefrog]

I haven't even fired it up yet. I was busy last night with the free Halo 3 maps.

[Deadend]

The new UI changes are for the better, and the new version of Omen is hawt. Not much change to me at lv 30.

[GrinR]

Omen ?

[Ten19]

Omen ?

Omen is one of the more popular threat meter add-ons for WoW, built with the Ace library.

http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Omen

[UWCrash]

Omen ?

Threat meter mod.

I jumped on and enabled all of my now out-of-date addons. Things seemed mostly stable as I ran through the new 5-man with a friend. He'd been through it twice already so he was pushing us pretty fast and I didn't really stop to enjoy the scenery. It's okay as far as instances go. We were already pretty decked out (myself being the lowest in s1/T4 gear) and we pretty much destroyed everything except for a couple wipes to Kael'thas.

I only did four of the new dailies. I'm probably not going anywhere near that Sunwell isle again for a few days. I got disconnected from server when I was about to land and had trouble logging back in afterwards. I'm on a high pop server (Mal'ganis) and it was pretty damn laggy just running around.

[GrinR]

High level WoW players speak in a foreign language. I'm busy just questing and the 2.4 patch gave me insta-wolf with my shaman, so I'm happy.

[Yellowman]

Must not go back... finals in... month and a half.

[Camel]

Three words for you:

Daily. Fishing. Quests.

Hooray!

[Ten19]

Hopped back in last night to check out the new content. The tiny little island isn't all that fun on a PvP server, I think 75% of the server's Horde population was there, but Magisters' Terrace (The new 5-man) was a lot of fun, didn't take too long, and the Kael'thas fight was interesting, only took us four tries to down him. They also added in a few little things that impressed me with the 5-man, the first being the Heroic attunement after just one run, the second being a neat cut-scene that helped explain what was going on. It had a lot of elements of the WC3 cutscenes, as well as the ones in FFXI.

I'm not that bothered about the dailies right now, as trying to get anything done involves being ganked every 10 seconds.

I'm really impressed with a lot of the core UI things they've introduced, the awesome built-in combat log filters for one.

I don't think I'll be taking a crack at the 25-man with my guild until later, but so far a thumbs up on the new content.

[Pigeon]

Three words for you:

Daily. Fishing. Quests.

Hooray!

Yeah! I just got the +fishing beer recipe. :D

[roboninja]

Non-corporeal undead and mechanical creatures now susceptible to bleed effects? Makes no sense, but I am levelling an Arms warrior, so I like it :D

[GrinR]

What UI changes? What's so great?

[roboninja]

What UI changes? What's so great?

Go into the Interface options, the whole screen has a new layout with several new options (empty bag space indicator being one I like).

[Ghostbear]

I got the new Baby Phoenix pet :)

[Ten19]

Also how you manage the preferences for your mods is handled a lot better through a built-in modular add-on preference manager of sorts. Also, as I mentioned before, the built-in combat log filtering system is awesome, and is damned useful.

The only mod I really had trouble after the update was installing Trinity2, I had to recreate all of my buttons.

[Superman's Dead]

Non-corporeal undead and mechanical creatures now susceptible to bleed effects? Makes no sense, but I am levelling an Arms warrior, so I like it :D

The patch just makes the warriors stab really really hard.

[sparkfizt]

mechanical = oil
non-corporeal = ectoplasm

makes perfect sense?:P

[Lima Beans]

as a horde AV queues went from 2-3 hours to 2-3 minutes!! nice!

also, Damage Meters is broken and author said he wont be updating it, anyone have any reccomendations for a similiar mod?

[Ten19]

also, Damage Meters is broken and author said he wont be updating it, anyone have any reccomendations for a similiar mod?

We usually use SW Stats, but it hasn't been updated for 2.4 and the current version doesn't play nice with the patch. Hoping they get this fixed soon.

[NationalKato]

I recently visited my old guild forums and this damned game is pulling at me. But I will resist. I must.

[Camel]

Yeah! I just got the +fishing beer recipe. :D
That's kind of crazy! I got the same recipe about ten minutes after my last post.

Also, I really don't think the new 5 man is all that fun. The last two five mans that were added through patches (Maraudon, Dire Maul) were two of my favorite instances in the whole game, so color me disappointed!

[Isamura]

I play a mage, and am certainly happy with some of the changes. Particularly the Icy Veins talent being uninteruptable from damage, and to a lesser extent, the decreased cost in mana for blink, and the new improved blink talent.

Finally, a mage has an alternative when a melee breaches their safe zone. Rather than limping away and dying, you can stand toe to toe and deal out some real pain to them. Not to mention what this will mean when facing hunters and warlocks with their little pets nipping at you when you're trying to cast.

[reimomo]

Incredibly dissapointed at the complete and utter FAIL of blizzard at a pvp balancing act (as this patch was promised to be). I guess its easier to stack another 10 levels on and pretend to balance again in a year or so :)

Other than that, I like the new daily's, new zone seems purty good. Liked the 5 man (although I prefer less CC dependant instances), badge rewards = yummy.

[iHap]

Geebus the new Instance was hard, even on Norm.

[Pigeon]

Maraudon, Dire Maul) were two of my favorite instances in the whole game

Mara? Really? We can't be friends.

[silv]

We usually use SW Stats, but it hasn't been updated for 2.4 and the current version doesn't play nice with the patch. Hoping they get this fixed soon.

Recount > SWS.

[Deadend]

mechanical = oil
non-corporeal = ectoplasm

makes perfect sense?:P

Well, I want to use my Hunter Stings on them! and use hunter fear as well! It's not fair that some mobs are slightly challenging while leveling my hunter!

[Lima Beans]

Love the 5v5 AI PvP fight in the new 5 man dungeon. A nice little twist =)

[zeonxavier]

I like that there is no longer a cooldown on arcanite transmutes. The daily where you turn in one mark from each PvP battlefield for a good amount of honor and gold is also a big plus.

[Camel]

Mara? Really? We can't be friends.
Man, you're the second person to tell me that. I didn't like the wings, but I really liked the central area with all the waterfalls and the huge croc and everything.

Another thing I like about this patch: the spirit/mana regen buff! I play as a Moonkin, and got maybe...50-100 more mp5. I noticed a HUGE difference almost immediately.

[sparkfizt]

I like that there is no longer a cooldown on arcanite transmutes. The daily where you turn in one mark from each PvP battlefield for a good amount of honor and gold is also a big plus.

that's actually not a daily, you can repeat that quest at will :)

[zeonxavier]

that's actually not a daily, you can repeat that quest at will :)
But you're only going to get gold for it once a day, right? Only makes sense for me to do it once a day, then...

[grandepolloloco]

But you're only going to get gold for it once a day, right? Only makes sense for me to do it once a day, then...

holy shit? once a day for that? I thought it was just for a first time turn in that you get gold for it.

[Lima Beans]

But you're only going to get gold for it once a day, right? Only makes sense for me to do it once a day, then...

You get the gold for it ONCE period. not once per day.

[Mashidar]

Oh when I return from vacation in a few days I plan on pounding out the final 8 levels to 70 to join the rest of the EvAv folks on VashJ.

[grandepolloloco]

Oh when I return from vacation in a few days I plan on pounding out the final 8 levels to 70 to join the rest of the EvAv folks on VashJ.


Yeah we miss you not talking on voice chat. Hurry up and get to 70 I need an MS warrior to partner with for 2v2.

[anakin876]

Oh that's where Etin has been. Geez Mashidar - I'm starting to catch back up again. Vacation instead of leveling - what a choice!

[Arilin]

Rather than make a new topic thought i'd post in this one.

I held off on doing dailies for awhile, but jesus christ. The SSO dailys are easy cash. I suprised myself. In 4 days, I'm up 750 gold, and 4440/12000 in revered with SSO. It's like 3k rep a day doing all the quests, and they're easy as crap. Why the hell didn't I ever do this before? I actually will be able to finally afford an epic flyer.

[Pigeon]

Yeah, I just hit exalted with SSO a couple days ago and only did MgT once

[Chaos Machine]

elemental shamans got nerfed again...big surprize

[Mr. Lake]

Yay! Free bag space!

[Chaos Machine]

We usually use SW Stats, but it hasn't been updated for 2.4 and the current version doesn't play nice with the patch. Hoping they get this fixed soon.

this is incorrect, there is a version for 2.4 google swstats and check the forums, its there.

[Chimpbot]

Love the 5v5 AI PvP fight in the new 5 man dungeon. A nice little twist =)

It's not really all that big of a twist if you've ever been to Kara; it's basically a knockoff Moroes fight.
Just like the first boss is a knockoff of the last boss from Steam Vaults or the third boss being a knockoff of Curator, also from Kara. The only unique fight in the entire place is Kael...and he's pretty easy, even on heroic.

It's an okay island; the dailies are numerous and bunched together and the badge rewards are disgustingly good. Magister's is a little too CC-heavy for my taste and all but the last fights are redecorated variations of fights they've already done before.

[GreenIce]

The only unique fight in the entire place is Kael...and he's pretty easy, even on heroic.

You know he is modeled after the Kael fight in TK, right?

[Pigeon]

Yup, they just lifted 2 phases from The Eye ;)

[Chimpbot]

You know he is modeled after the Kael fight in TK, right?

No, I didn't; my guild hasn't gotten that far yet.
It would appear be a direct lift of his 5th Phase in the Eye with the Phoneix thrown in for added fun.

My opinion of the dungeon dropped even more...the only thing saving it in my eyes is the sheer ease of the Kael fight.

Oh well.

[court12b]

I don't know, it seems to me that it would be a lot of work coming up with, balancing and testing new types of encounters. It doesn't bother me one bit that blizz recycles some of their raid boss fights in the 5 man instances because the large percentage of their player base never fully cleared Naxx and probably won't ever see Illidan.

I'll have to read up on that arena-esque 5v5 encounter, I've always wanted to see something like that. What is it called? Do they give you time to sit there and plan out the whole thing like the moroes fight? or do they throw you into it blindly?

[violentp]

So I jumped back in last night after a 6 month hiatus and it feels like a different game now. Unlimited arcanite transmutes? That's just not fair. I played last night for 3 hours and made 250 gold. Many little changes all over the place since I last left. It feels good to be back as I have motivation again. Kara.

[Pigeon]

I don't know, it seems to me that it would be a lot of work coming up with, balancing and testing new types of encounters. It doesn't bother me one bit that blizz recycles some of their raid boss fights in the 5 man instances because the large percentage of their player base never fully cleared Naxx and probably won't ever see Illidan.

I'll have to read up on that arena-esque 5v5 encounter, I've always wanted to see something like that. What is it called? Do they give you time to sit there and plan out the whole thing like the moroes fight? or do they throw you into it blindly?
Yeah, it's just like moroes, just with different minions