***Official Wrath of the Lich King Thread***(Contains spoilers)***

Robert said:
Well I have a few issues with the new patch:

A) I cannot run shadows on max - unless I run in window mode.

B) I get hard locks. It can happen at any time. WoW will just stop responding then my system will eventually lock (from reading around it's happening to quite a few people).
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I get B all the time, at first with everything max detail it happened frequently with my 4870x2(seems to be not working great on ati cards, though not sure about nvidia, the 4870's just outsold nvidia's newer cards so massively the problem threads will simply be around in less numbers for the 260/280). Since I reinstalled the game i've been running at mostly default settings and default shader settings not looking hugely different but its been FAR longer between crashes, so assuming that has something to do with it.
 
/beginrage

ok they should really sort their patch stuff out. Every time they do a big patch like this it goes pear shaped for at least a week after. wtb server migration from stormscale and the cyclone battlegroup .... what a pos, down all day saturday (well at least in the afternoon).

Just queued for a bg, just sat there at the bloody loading bar, had to alt-f4. Position in queue 943, eta 45 mins... nice

It might be the biggest mmo out there, but seriously, why the hell I am paying for this ****ing pile of ****.

/endrage
 
ramdor said:
/beginrage

ok they should really sort their patch stuff out. Every time they do a big patch like this it goes pear shaped for at least a week after. wtb server migration from stormscale and the cyclone battlegroup .... what a pos, down all day saturday (well at least in the afternoon).

Just queued for a bg, just sat there at the bloody loading bar, had to alt-f4. Position in queue 943, eta 45 mins... nice

It might be the biggest mmo out there, but seriously, why the hell I am paying for this ****ing pile of ****.

/endrage
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Would you rather they took all servers offline for two weeks?
 
drunkenmaster said:
I'm not really sure what to roll, every time I look into a class they are talking about how its been nerfed to hell and is either boring as hell or just completely useless. So if i hit 70 with something and can never find a raid spot because its useless. .
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If you're new to the game, you need to get used to the forums - there's a lot of noise on them that you have to filter out. The changes Blizzard have made have been to ensure that there's always a raid spot for each class and that it's player ability that counts. Having said that, people always need tanks and healers. Priest healing has a lot of variety and they can also respec to a good dps class (as can all classes now). Even to this day Priests get a bit of respect from some players for being part of the now redundant grouping 'holy trinity' of Priest-Warrior-Mage. If tanking is more your thing there are several classes which are all meant to perform equally.

drunkenmaster said:
Rather than nerf classes, just make the lesser classes better. For instance now everyones talking about retri paladins being insanely powerful,
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This is often how they do it, but the trouble with WoW is the knock-on effect of giving one class a counter to another. You could then have unforeseen consequences with class balance. It's easier to nerf one class as it's much more controlled. They rarely do anything fast (for example resto Druids have been strong for a long time, Warriors have always been powerful in a group) but they certainly don't do things without consideration. As for retri Pallies, they are powerful because they are still in the balancing phase for WotLK. There's likely to be lots of tweaks to various classes in the near future.
 
Well it would seem the Locks I've leveled to 50 are fairly poor now, they aren't healers, certainly aren't tanks and now they are far from the top DPS so it would seem theres next to no reason for anyone to take them.

Hunters I started on as I have always quite liked Hunters in most games, they aren't bad, but dps wise it seems like they aren't really there yet. But other than that they simply just don't feel very fun to play, lack of attacks send pet in, wait for it to have aggro hit a couple of boring feeling attacks, rinse and repeat.

just feels like a kick in the balls frankly.

I'd prefer to level an alt and find the pvp less balanced than would be ideal, than to level an alt to 70, do a year of raiding to get the best gear, just to have the character I like become no fun at all to play, but maybe thats just me.

IN lotro, my hunter was fun to play, and when healers got insane damage considering the class and great survivability tools with tons of various heals while we have nothing I didn't much care as they didn't change how my class felt to play and I liked it, if they'd done the opposite and made my class boring I would have simply not played it again.
 
Goldfingers said:
SCREENS PLEASE!!! (showing a decent example of the new shadows)

sorry just couldn't hold it in..
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just for you, just took this whillst riding about trying to get exploration, moon shadows in silverpine, everything is maxed out except multisampling is set to 4.

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Linked rather than posted as it' full size, 1680.
 
We downed Mu'ru within 2 hrs of starting on him for the first time ever tonight, was really quite easy. Got Kil'jaedan to 63%, should go down on our next raid night :)

Silly nerf patch.
 
<De@thW!sh> said:
just for you, just took this whillst riding about trying to get exploration, moon shadows in silverpine, everything is maxed out except multisampling is set to 4.

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Linked rather than posted as it' full size, 1680.
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That is a vast improvement, how are the frame rates?
 
LeJosh said:
That is a vast improvement, how are the frame rates?
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Pretty bad, i usually get 120+ when i don't cap with V-sync to 60, and it's always 60 when i do. But now i have shadows even on 2/5 in settings it goes down to about 30-40 depending. Kinda sucks, hope they release something in a patch to improve the performance.
 
can see it on titan bar :P

alothugh im on my own iin the middle of nowhere, fine though as i was on 8x, reducing from x8, i'll also in need of ram, 2gig + vista isn't enough it seems.
 
Mine is set to 5 and it's normally about 40-60fps in most areas with a 4870 and [email protected]. The draw distance has an impact since the patch as well, which I think some people in general are overlooking and wrongly pinning some of the performance loss from that onto the shadows. It's something worth considering when looking at framerates.
 
hmm no problems for me here 1600x1200 res 4x fsaa everything on max even shadows and i get a constant 70+ fps never drops below 50 in shattrah or orgrimmer etc

guess im just lucky!

only thing thats doing my head in is price of enchanting mats and inscribing mats as im trying to level them both before wotlk comes out! its gonna cost me a fortune !
 
Well, Lastngiht was fun!

50min wait to get onto sylvanus. Our raid started late, due to only haveing 15 people on at raid start.

Guild failed on archi still! how hard is it? not very imho.. Comming from 7/8 BT to still not being able to down archi.. its a bit of a jokee..

Had a good ball doing acheivments. The Jenkins title is a right laugh. Ran is warrior AOE to pick them up, then hunter, lock and shammys spamm AOE :D one very very easy new title :) Spend most of the night doing the hallowhalled ones. Did every bucket of candy, was good, made about 250gold. So paid for me finally to get the aldor exalted! lol
 
Don't know about ret pala's being the op ones I'm more inclined to say Arcane Mages are. 3796 Arcane Barrage followed by 5 1.5k arcane missiles every .5 seconds.

Having said that i spec'd boomkin with just healing gear and was critting for on average 5.5k starfires but i did 6.4k followed by 1.4k moonfire to which they basically died
 
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