WoW: Good and bad, and RP
Apr. 8th, 2011 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The good: While this is sad news to some, I can't say I'm unhappy at all: The Obsidium shuffle will no longer work in the coming patch. I'm breaking my "don't talk about goldmaking tricks" since this one will be vanishing. Since cut green gems sell to the vendor for 9 gold, all you had to do is buy Obsidium or Elementium below "5 ore for 9 gold" and you'd make 100% risk free profit. As often times you'd get two greens and/or one to two blue raw gems, this was really good money. If you could buy ore that cheaply.
For some people on some servers (Hi
giftofarthas!), this was outstanding money. For people on most servers it was. For people on my server? It was basically knowledge I could never use, because our ore prices never fell low enough to take advantage of it.
So, all in all I'm happy with this change. It somewhat levels the playing field between servers.
The bad: Not bad so much as semi-mildly annoying. There's been an update to the Dungeon Finder Call to Arms I posted about yesterday. Now the mounts and pets from the bags will be BoA. Sigh. Even more advantage for people who play tanks!
The not listed in the subject line: Both of my worgen boys are now 24. It's almost mind boggling how easy it is to level one (hunter) compared to the other (cat druid). Thistle (the hunter) moves to the next zone on time, he's fine handling quests of or above his level. Dandelion (druid) gets his butt kicked endlessly. I have him stay and finish every quest in a zone, even when they go deep green, before he moves on.
I tried sending Dandelion to an instance yesterday. 35 minute queue, I was added to the group when they wiped on the final boss. Yay. At least I got a goodie bag with a cape upgrade. Wasn't worth my time though.
RP: My FF MUX app got approved as-is, woot. I need to log on tonight and set Thistle up.
As Keen isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, I decided I really shouldn't be using my best grammar in his dialogue. "We should of" and stuff. However, it makes me twitch! And worse yet, I worry the people I'm playing with will think it's me OOCly who doesn't know better!
For some people on some servers (Hi
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So, all in all I'm happy with this change. It somewhat levels the playing field between servers.
The bad: Not bad so much as semi-mildly annoying. There's been an update to the Dungeon Finder Call to Arms I posted about yesterday. Now the mounts and pets from the bags will be BoA. Sigh. Even more advantage for people who play tanks!
The not listed in the subject line: Both of my worgen boys are now 24. It's almost mind boggling how easy it is to level one (hunter) compared to the other (cat druid). Thistle (the hunter) moves to the next zone on time, he's fine handling quests of or above his level. Dandelion (druid) gets his butt kicked endlessly. I have him stay and finish every quest in a zone, even when they go deep green, before he moves on.
I tried sending Dandelion to an instance yesterday. 35 minute queue, I was added to the group when they wiped on the final boss. Yay. At least I got a goodie bag with a cape upgrade. Wasn't worth my time though.
RP: My FF MUX app got approved as-is, woot. I need to log on tonight and set Thistle up.
As Keen isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, I decided I really shouldn't be using my best grammar in his dialogue. "We should of" and stuff. However, it makes me twitch! And worse yet, I worry the people I'm playing with will think it's me OOCly who doesn't know better!
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Date: 2011-04-08 04:59 pm (UTC)Oh wow, that's cool! A great way to ding people who turn in papers that look like they were written by texting.
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:00 pm (UTC)At least it's easier to dumb down than to try to play someone much smarter than you. Long time back there was a person I knew who RPed a genius. I didn't envy her!
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Date: 2011-04-08 04:15 pm (UTC)Unless, again, they are really, really stupid. :| ...Which I suppose is a possibility if we're talking about WoW RP.
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Date: 2011-04-08 04:39 pm (UTC)Only if they're willing to put up with the pain of tanking a Heroic pug. And are good enough to take their group to an end boss kill.
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:11 pm (UTC)If I were a tank, I'd rather just farm directly for the mounts...
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Date: 2011-04-08 04:53 pm (UTC)More excited about bind-on-battlenet-account heirlooms T_T Want nao plz. My holydin needs a lockdress!
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:13 pm (UTC)And sorry, can't type more comment, distracted by your icon. *pats him*
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Date: 2011-04-08 06:45 pm (UTC)Or is it better to just sell what I mine? O_o Blarg so confused. Guess it would be based on how much it sells for. I may have to look. Guttler should be sitting on a pretty penny either way.
I read about the Dungeon Finder change. I talked about it with my co-worker, a hunter, who actually pointed out the fact that DPS get shafted. I can agree, though I'm also 3/4 biased to the side that isn't getting screwed with a Priest (Shadow/Disc), a DK (Blood/Unholy), a paladin (Undecided/Undecided), and a mage (Totally a tank. *nodnod*).
To my side though, my Disc Priest and Blood DK are FAR from able to function in Cata dungeons. =o
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Date: 2011-04-08 06:49 pm (UTC)Or is it better to just sell what I mine?
Totally depends on the prices on your server. If you were on WRA, selling the ore would be better. It takes 5 ore to make one green gem worth 9 gold. So do the math from there.
And yeah, DSP totally do, they'll never be the needed class!
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Date: 2011-04-08 07:18 pm (UTC)The additional reward for completing the Dungeon Finder Call to Arms (called the Satchel of Exotic Mysteries) will be Bind on Account; able to be freely sent to other characters on your account once you receive it.
Source (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1934585587)
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Date: 2011-04-08 08:18 pm (UTC)Really I knew eventually they'd drop the vendor price on green quality gems. It was fun while it lasted though!
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Date: 2011-04-10 04:32 am (UTC)Can you believe I've had to refresh 30 times now for a (previously) two word comment? I hope it doesn't show up multiple times!