Blue Watch - April 24th, 2007

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Jensaarai — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:55 GMT

[quote]Free respecs are only given in cases where talent positions actually move and would break a build, and not in cases where talents are simply altered as far as the benefit they provide./quote

This better include Paladins. The inclusion of a talent that didn't exist before can certainly "break a build" ;)

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Kody — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:54 GMT

Agreed. Hopefully they do at least decide to give Paladins a respec, if anything.

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Jexter — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:53 GMT

blizz needs more hitrating, talk about completly missing the point of the whole pet+mount= no buff issue...

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Autocon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:52 GMT

If you went on to read the post about Paladins you would have read (if not edited by the blue poster) that kalagn bluntly states that Ret is a spec that is not very usefull in raids or group PvP, and that its more suited for Solo/Grinding content.

Funny thing is that I remember this to be a massive MULTIPLAYER game, not solo/grind craft. Every other class can be raid/PvP viable excpet Ret paladins, Blizzard seems to be taking some steps in the right direction with towning down Ret pally burst for sustained DPS but they need to make Ret a viable raid spec which helps the group like shadow preist and DPS shamans

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theantipop — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:51 GMT

In re: "Our guild is done with WoW, thanks Blizzard", how can they take that stance when organizations like the CPL hold tourney's in the US in which people from all over the freakin place win prize money?

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Kody — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:50 GMT

theantipop: That's a good question. Also remember, I'm sure folks from these states travel to Las Vegas and gamble every now and then, and that certainly isn't disallowed from what I understand.

It sounds more like there's no "official" location where some of the prize rounds take place - people simply play from their home while logged into a private server - so it's more like the competition is being held in each person's locale. Or at least that's what I gather from the situation. It would be different if Blizzard selected a venue somewhere in the country and held each round of the competition there, I'm sure.

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theantipop — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:49 GMT

Well, even then it's a weird situation. Technically everyone who makes an arena team is entered into this contest, it's just called the first qualifying round. Maybe there's some legal distinction between invite-only contests that makes the second round different from the first even though neither directly involves prizes. Still, to me it seems like Bliz really didn't try that hard to make it work.

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Heckler — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:48 GMT

Um, so trying to get to the linked threads nets me a page that says '???wow.web.forums.error500.message???'

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Kody — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:47 GMT

Hmm, I'll look into it Heckler. I'm getting the same problem as you now. :/

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sheehand — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:46 GMT

The issue with the links is they are using double = characters. So you would need to turn: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId==282488953&pageNo==1&sid==1#7 into: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=282488953&pageNo=1&sid=1#7 in order for them to work correctly.

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Kody — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:04:45 GMT

Links should be fixed now. Sorry about that.