Gfted1

Is the Direbrew battle youre referring to the boss fight one in BRD that you take the mole machine to get to or another? Im assuming the latter as any 5-man PUG can take out the boss (Im hoping you know of another Direbrew fight I may have missed). I really like the achievments now. Just last night I got "Damage Control" for causing at least 300,000 damage in a single BG. One of my favorite new tricks since they gave Blastwave a knockback is during an AV battle, when all the alliance group up on the bridge in front of their castle, is to run into a pile of them, fire off Blastwave and watch them all sail over the ledge to a big drop. Man, do I love being a mage.

Dear Hell Kitty: I don't really know how to tell you this, but our horoscope doesn't match. I think I realised it when I changed tennis shoes in your camping car and I saw you carve your initials into my best friend. I'm sure you're frostbitten enough to understand that Santa doesn't exist. I'm returning your ring to you, but I'll keep my common sense as a memory. You should also know that I always will remember to ruin the second world war. Your everlasting enemy, Gfted1

Good call! I was pretty surprised they No coming back from that one! Pretty funny that Hiro got KO'd two more times, its obviously a running joke now. I wonder if the downfall of the BBEG will be

Where did Xard go? He used to post a lot but lately has been totally absent.

Heh, that gives me a mental image of you popping the talent, the sound of an air ratchet, then all the plate armor falling off a pally into a heap. I noticed a new perk under my character tab called "Toughness" which is a +300hp bonus due to "hard labor in mining has granted you 300 hp", lol. Might have always been there but I just noticed it. They also seem to have nerfed shadow resistance, a passive ability for undead. It use to grant 10% base resistance to shadow magic but now its 2% base.

You die in PvP and you can be looted? >_

Same here. Between the new spells, a talent that causes an insta-proc of my Flamestike and having moved a few icons around I catch myself occasionally fumbling for a button when the action gets heavy.

^Exactly, and consumers be damned. Maybe Im old fashioned but you would think there would be some pride and accountability in the products they make. Every single excuse cant be "its not our fault, they made us do it". I think I'd even feel better is they just came out and admitted to dropping the ball. I know if the products my company manufactures were bug riddled POS at release we would be promptly out of business and I think that plays to Crashgirl's example of how computer games are willing to put up with this, for whatever reason.

No, but neither do I think they're a bunch of oblivious n00bs that were caught totally by surprise by many, many obvious, sometimes gamebreaking, bugs. Do you honestly think the literally HUNDREDS of bugs present in the release of NWN2 was just a whoopys-daisy that slipped past QA? Now you just have to purchase the games for the honor of being a Beta tester so that some time down the road maybe they can cobble together enough zots to fix the most glaring problems.

Buffed-up over MotB? Dear god, what, can you now craft a planetbuster?

The new patch rocks. With the talent respec it seems like my mage kicks even more ass now but Ive only done some PvP so Ill reserve final judgement until Ive got some PvE under my belt. The pet tab is a godsend. I freed up 9 spaces in the bank and 2 on my person, which is huge for me as Im always pinched for bag space due to extreme packratitis. The new currency tab is nice, also freed up several bag slots. I only noticed one new piece of mage PvP gear, a new back item, so I snagged it. I thought there would be a lot more. The achievements are a cool little diversion. A real highlight IMO is the new Glyph system, I think that was a great idea. Already chose two majors but cant find any minors worth scribing into my book as of yet.

A dragon mount for an achievement! Sexy. There way no way in hell I was going to grind those crappy Netherwing dailies to get one, lol. Grats!

What am I looking at there thats a server first? The "Ambassador" prefix? If so, what do you have to do to get it? Is that a new type of dragon mount?

Cool, thanks guys and gals. That will free up some bank space too as I just cant force myself to delete my roach and a few other toy pets.

Yeah, restraint isnt my strong suit. Give me a quick rundown on the new mount things?

I understand "balance" but isnt that what cooldowns are for? So nobody can spam (x) ability? Oh well, c'est la vie. Im ambivilant on achievments. Guess its neat to look at but it doesnt do anything tangible for me. I do like not using up bag slots for my mounts but since I havent played with the new patch yet Im not sure I understand the mechanic of having to "learn" them again. Im also on the fence on whether or not to blow my wad on the new PvP gear or just wait a month when the yet newer PvP gear comes out with WotLK.

Meh, I mixed up base intellect with base mana. I just checked my mage and the base mana of 2241 is correct. I still dont like the fact that the cost of casting those spells will increase as I level from 70 to 80. I wonder what the rationale was behind that decision and why those particular spells? Two of them arent even combat spells.

I see. Well, if it in fact does not include your gear or buffs then the mana cost has significantly decreased from the previous fixed values of those spell. So I guess Ill just shut my mouth.

Im not sure how I feel about these mage changes: Teleport spells now cost 9% of base mana. Portal spells now cost 18% of base mana Polymorph now costs 12% of base mana. Counterspell now costs 9% of base mana So, if I understand correctly, the higher my Intellect goes (most important stat for mages which directly controls the "base" mana pool) the more mana these spells cost to cast. WTF is that junk?

^Commence drooling.

Wow, thats 94.4 free AP!

I didnt even get a chance to respec yet. I got like 5 minutes in this morning before the server went into reset. Im ridiculously anxious to flesh out my talents and see the new spells, PvP gear (I am maxed on honor and all four sets of honor tokens, HUZZAH), new city(!), character tabs, etc... I was this close to calling in sick today, but that would have been sad. Right? *rends cloth and knashes teeth*

By the time I fired up WoW last night and installed the patch it turns out my server was flakey. First I could log in but then had a "error retrieving characters" (commence sphincter puckering) then finally the whole server went offline and I gave up around 11pm. Logged on at o-dark-thirty this morning (characters were back, yay) and looked around for a bit before the whole thing went offline for a world reset. I was dissapointed to see in the patch notes they nerfed "Living Bomb" to not blast enemies into the air but was pleased to see "Blastwave" now has a knockback. I cant wait to get home and play.

Normally thats how he does it but thats part of the plot holes.