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^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.

Yeah, Hiro's a tard now. And the plot holes, they're killing me to death. Im really bummed this show is tanking so fast.

Where does the article say the owner "ignored" the corpse? The article makes no mention of how long the corpse was there so maybe it was just a few hours and he thought the guy was asleep.

Was it Daaave?

I only play my mage and as you see my dps is only 915. Why I get such redicilous crits on that specific boss is because in Heroic mode he will hit each party member with a + or - polarity. If you stand next to someone of the opposite polarity you will take a 2k hit every tick but if you stand next to someone of the same polarity your damage increases exponentially. So, stand next to two players of the same polarity for a total of three of the same polarity (the most that can happen), pop Combustion, pop a trinket then spam Fireball. When a crit lands, watch out! My max damage for one battle against him way 84k and change. Normal crits against normal bosses are always in the 3-4.5k damage range.

Heh, I love BG too. Its so much more "alive" then: "You poly the star, you trap the square, you SAP the diamond..." every single time. PVE is still great fun (my favorite is Heroic Mechnaar, I can regularly crit the big robot for over 10k damage with my high water mark being 14k damage in one crit) but its only a challenge if you have a poor group dynamic. My favorite PvE is aslo AB with EotS a close second. Id rather poke myself in the eye with the poopy end of a stick then play Warsong Gulch. Most of my gear is from PvP with my pants and gloves being the Aldor tokens that drop in Kara/Gruuls and my chest, wand and a ring being a badge rewards from the blacksmith on the Isle and the glowy thing in the middle of Shatt.

Thanks for the link kiro. I must say, at first glance Im a little underwhelmed by Inscriptions.

D'oh! Reading that was like a kick in the sack. So the patch will have the new talents right? I cant imagine both versions would be DVD only, that would hurt sales. I guess worst case scenario Ill yoink an external DVD from work and use it install at home, only need it that one time anyway.