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Forum Post of the Day: Single player instances?
If you've been playing (and trolling the forums) for any amount of time, you'll know that the argument made here -- for challenging, instanced, single-player content -- is not a new one. This thread has all the usual responses, ranging from definitions of "massively multiplayer" to suggestions that solo instances would be impossible to create to suggestions that class-specific solo instances would be perfect. However, there's a lot of good discussion in the thread -- highlighted by a post by Tseric attempting to explain why this type of content is not feasible. If it requires too much healing to complete, pure melee or casters are impeded. If it requires significant amounts of dps, you either have to spec and gear properly for one, single dungeon or pure dps classes simply have a leg up. If you can't tank or mitigate damage effectively...well, you're dead at the first pull. Therefore, if you reduce group size and composition to a single participant, the more generic and easy you have to make the dungeon. And of balancing nine class specific dungeons? Tseric quips, "Do you realize how much time that would take?" And you have to admit -- he's got a point. Would you rather see Blizzard spending their development time working on nine different variations of the same dungeon, or working on nine new dungeons everyone can see?Of course, as painful as my last PuG was, I might prefer the solo content anyway.
Forum Post of the Day: Pay to play
Oh, sure, we all pay our $15 a month to play, and I'm not referring to that. No, what I'm talking about is something a bit beyond that -- paying people in-game to play with you. Poster Cruc on the general forums complains of an inability to find priests for groups -- and that the last time he was looking for a healer, the only thing he got was an offer to heal the group in exchange for 2 gold per player. As a priest myself, I've occasionally been offered gold in order to heal people -- as if an offer of gold will suddenly make me forget that I have to log off in 10 minutes. So is this just supply and demand at work? Or is requiring more than a standard share of the loot in order to participate just being greedy?
Forum Post of the Day: Is this against the ToS?
Poster Gnipgnop claims he's taught his pet cat to play World of Warcraft -- and wants to know whether or not this is a violation of the terms of service. Tseric responds to the thread with a cop out answer -- but inquiring minds really want to know! I've chatted with a guildmate recently about teaching a cat to play World of Warcraft, and we feel that a hunter would be the best class. You'd just have to do some heavy keyboard remapping: bind a fourth of the keys to autoshoot, another fourth to pet attack, another fourth to tab targeting, and the rest to assorted directional movements -- combined with some cats' natural fascination with keyboards, and it could work! (Of course, you would have to take over the controls to tame new pets, sell phat lewts, etc.) So, Blizzard, intelligent people everywhere demand an answer -- is it against the terms of service to teach my cat to play?
Forum Post of the Day: Guild halls
Though many MMOs do have some type of guild housing available, World of Warcraft doesn't have any such option, nor are there (to my knowledge) any officially acknowledged plans to create them. However, there are players out there who would very much like to see some sort of guild housing in the game -- and some of them have hit up the suggestion forums with incredibly detailed proposals. Poster Kinn presents us with an in-depth (too in-depth to be succinctly summarized) look at what guild halls could be like, and the thread has garnered over 20 pages of mostly positive responses. So what do you think? Would such a system benefit the game? Would another type of system be better? Or is guild housing a silly idea in the first place?
Forum Post of the Day: Guilds and the constitution...
Maybe this is just a very sad attempt to troll. Maybe the person posting it is actually trying to be funny. At least I hope so -- because it's very difficult for me to understand how someone could really be this dense. After all, this is America and we all have a constitutional right to be a member of a raiding guild -- and have our choice of phat loots, of course. If you wonder -- like I do -- which constitution the original poster is referencing, poster Mikey makes a good guess:Congress shall make no law obliging any class to spec a certain way, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom to whine, or to make forum posts; or the right of the people peaceably to raid, and to petition the guild master for a redress of grievances. Furthermore Congress shall not make any law mandating the use of ventrilo, nor shall the burdensome system of Dragonkill Points be applied to any resident, be they citizen or foreigner.Giggle.[Thanks, ChrisM]
Forum Post of the Day: Stupid little wishes
I found this post hiding away in the suggestions forum listing players "stupid little wishes" -- minor (some VERY minor) changes to the game that they'd like to see in the future. Top of the list and a personal favorite is "I wish my guild tabard wasn't tucked into my robe." (What can I say, I've always thought that looked sort of silly.) Do you have your own list of Warcraft's little annoyances? Perhaps you should add them to the thread and we'll see if any of them get changed in the long run. (Not that I'm saying it's likely, but anything is possible!)
Forum Post of the Day: Blood Wars of the Bloodsails
Not familiar with the Bloodsail Buccaneers? Well, for those of you out of the loop, the Bloodsails are pirates, and mortal enemies to the goblins of Booty Bay. Some inhabitants of Azeroth have chosen to pursue a pirates' life -- but many become discouraged when they realize they've given up access to all goblin cities and questgivers. So it's no surprise that the Bloodsails have banded together to demand more recognition and benefits befiting their status. Yarr, mateys!
Forum Post of the Day: Beauty tips for the living impaired
You've got to feel sorry for the undead. It must be terribly difficult to cope with rotting flesh and bones jutting out everywhere. Fortunately for them, though, Faine on the EU forums has stepped up to help her fellow undead with an excellent array of beauty tips. (It's worth reading throughout the thread to catch questions asked and Faine's excellent replies.) However, even though I'm sure you're going to click the link and read it yourself, I can't help highlighting this excellent post by Faine herself.Dear reader, There's no shame in asking how we get that beautiful crimson tint to our lips. The answer is quite simple, really; I always carry a handkerchief and a little mirror with me. That, and I don't actually wear lipstick. You see, after I've eaten one of those delicious nightelven corpses, my face is usually entirely covered in blood. That's why I simply use my hand-mirror and my handkerchief to wipe away all the blood that isn't on my lips, returning that pretty crimson color. Of course, blood does get old, at which time it grows a flaky brown. The only solution I've found sofar is to eat alliance people on a regular basis so that I can give my lips that fresh coat of blood that I need to look my prettiest. Does that answer your question?So, as you can see, if you have any pressing questions about undeath, Faine is the one to ask.Update: Sorry, folks, but this post is on the EU forums which means only EU players can add to the comments! Still plenty of entertainment to be had in reading it, however.
Forum Post of the Day: Cheap respecs make the game more fun
Well, I tend to agree with the sentiment expressed by this thread on the beta forums, which praises the 1 copper respecs currently available to beta players. Of course, not everyone agrees -- there are also those who side with Blizzard's standing opinion on the matter, which states that your talent spec shouldn't be a casual decision, and ought to mean something. And perhaps poster Warrenders hits the nail on the head when he explains that: It would invalidate talent choices and specs as everyone can be any spec they want any time they wanted. Why not just make all talents baseline skills and be done with it then? But regardless of your opinion on the issue, there is some excellent discussion -- from both sides of the fence -- here.
Forum Post of the Day: Druid tanks from a healing perspective
There's little discussion on this post so far, but the few posts in the thread thus far are rather interesting. As far as tanking goes, the warrior has always been king, with a much wider array of abilities to hold aggro and reduce their own damage taken. But when the Burning Crusade hits store shelves, druids and paladins will both find themselves with a wider array of tanking abilities -- druids with a hardier bear form and paladins with a much nicer protection tree. And while I still feel that protection warriors will be the cream of the crop, I wonder if druids and paladins won't offer their own advantages -- in certain situations. However, warriors and paladins maintain the advantage of block and parry, neither of which druids are capable of. But whether this means druids will be the Burning Crusade's third class tank or whether their immense stamina and armor ratings make up for it -- I think I'll really have to get some experience with it before I could decide.Forum Post of the Day attempts to highlight interesting and constructive posts (I know, I know -- I'm severely restricting the available options!) from the official forums. Seen a post recently that's made you think? Let us know about it!
