Weekend Update for December 9, 2013Follow

posted from the WoW Forums thread Rhodekylle makes every week

RL:Well date night was great we did see hunger games it was enjoyable like the 1st one. friends thanksgiving was a blast as always:) and the Eagles had a great game and won(their first half sucked nuts though)
Games: didn't log into wow had some time for EQ though got my monk/ranger combo both to 51 and earning some AAs still thinking of transferring them but its 2500 SC per and I just don't hink it would be worth it at this time although I really want to group up with you guys. I just have so much time invested on Bertoxx

Edited, Dec 9th 2013 8:19am by Rukkuss

Just played a couple hours on my SK,Mage and Shammy on Friday night in Beasts Domain.. Then on Sunday evening I took my Necro to to Feerrott Dream to burn a LOD and kite the Undead Frogloks and undead Gorillas only to find out that they are now summoning at 97% health.

I Heard that this was the developers fix/nerf for the hi level Mage beam kite issue..

Poor fix/nerf imho... It is as if they took a 4" wide paint brush to paint a portrait on a 8" X 11" canvas..thus ruining bread and butter kiting for other classes that rely on it .... anyways that is for another thread..

I hope your Girl gets better man and safe travels to your family

Finally got around to dinging 90 on my pally. Been floating within like 10% for a few weeks now, just haven't had the time/effort to really get on to play (been super busy with holiday stuff). Now I get to dig through my bank to find whatever bits I've been waiting to use until I was 90. Should be fun. I'll probably have to find new hunting grounds soon as well. Ironic that sometimes you kinda don't want to keep leveling because of this. Ah well...

Also did a bit of soloing with my wizard. Ran into an annoying twit at the farm in DSH. I'm sitting there, killing mobs in the southern part of the farm, but I'd noticed when arriving that there were a couple people hanging out around the north end, so I wasn't expecting to be able to kill a ton (didn't pop lod because of this). At some point, I see in ooc a camp check. I don't normally think in terms of camps, preferring to just look at where people are and hunt where they are not, but whatever. I do a who on the person and see that he's level 94 (so nearly 20 levels higher than me). Since I can molo about 3/4ths of the farm all by my little lonesome, I assume this clown would not be checking for a camp where I am, so I ignore him. Apparently, that's a mistake.

I'm sitting in the middle of the southern section of the farm medding (actually waiting for my merc to regen), when I get a tell from the same guy saying "the farm is camped". I'm like "really?". I ask him why on earth he's hunting mobs that are lt blue to me at his level, and he's like "I've got a couple guild members here". I check, and basically it's him (94 necro), a level 80 wizard, and a level 64 shaman (who's flagged afk, just to be classy like that). I decided to just leave the area rather than make a scene (no way I was going to be able to take advantage of lod with his lot there, and it's not like there aren't 5 other places I can port to in 10 seconds that are just as good), but really? How pathetic must you be at powerleveling that you'd pick that spot, with that set of levels to do it? The wizard alone should have been able to clear the entire farm area as fast as the respawn rate. I'm kinda stretching my brain to imagine what necessitated the level 94 necro to get involved.

Am I silly to think that was just plain rude of them? I mean, it's not like the DSH farm isn't one of the more popular hunting spots for level appropriate characters or anything. It's just always amazed me that people who powerlevel and thus have the ability to pick camps that *aren't* good for level appropriate folks to hunt at (and which will be empty because of that), still pick the most popular hunting spots instead. It's like they can think enough outside the box to PL in the first place, but not enough so to think of better places to hunt given that they're hunting differently.

But hey, some people you've just got to allow to wallow in their own stupidity. Didn't really bother me (much). I went to a secondary solo spot, ran through my lod, and grabbed a good chunk of a level and 20 or so AAs. And I managed to pick up some rarish tradeskill stuff for one of my guildies to boot!

Yeah. I actually specifically thought about Loping Plains as a great PL spot, but didn't feel like getting into an argument with the guy about it. Honestly though, with a level 94 involved, LP would be too easy IMO. But at least, it's empty as hell. I can only assume they didn't go there because they had a wizard and the wizard can port directly to DSH. LP would require like an extra couple minutes of travel time.

Yes indeed ! They almost always seem to overdo it with the nerfs.

Gladly, Piestro (The EQ community relations man) posted on the EQ-forums a few hours ago : He basically said that he met with the systems team and they discussed the issue and they have decided to revert the summoning changes back to how they were before.. He also said that the "revert" will not take effect from the next patch (Tomorrow Dec 11th 2013), but rather another patch following that.


Re the hi level Mage beam-kite issue, he said that they will look at different ways to address these issues including code solutions and they will revisit the issue at a later date..

Sounds fun!

Trappin and I ran the low tier of the Gunthak wave event last night. Was all green /con to me at 55. We got the common 2-hander drop. I think a decent group in the 40s probably has a fun challenge with that event. We plan to try the two harder tiers of it as well. The "best" rewards are really still meant for level 40s characters though.

The Torigan event is a much juicier target though, as the drops are aimed more 60-65ish iirc.