Monthly Archives: January 2005

Nerf Log

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Yesterday was a Warcrack patch. And, yes, I was terror-stricken. (Please don’t let it be my class … please don’t let it be my class.) Even though Blizzard SAID it was just extended maintenance to improve performance, we all know by now that’s not how things work in the gaming world.

So who was the lucky one?

Primarily, priests and druids. From my reading, seems like they nerfed the fuck out of that line of spells (soothe/pacify), basically rendering them useless.

Speaking as a player that got out of the priest gig as fast as I could in Warcrack, that is just sad. Maybe priests are enjoyable (in ANY way) after level 20, but I can report that pre-20, that class is a bitch to play. Priests are already hard to come by for the tougher instanced dungeons; we’ve been making do with kidnapped paladins.

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Can’t Touch This

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The setting is Ironforge. The conversation in /say between a male 60 Hunter and a fem level 15 priest. It’s never too early to fish for a cyber date for the weekend.

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You can’t get this kind of up-to-the-minute, insider news on the better blogs.

Real Life Lag

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If you’ve ever played World of Warcraft, you know what loot lag is. If you haven’t tried WoW yet, you’re wrong. I kid! I kid! If you don’t know about loot lag: when the item databases start slogging (that’s my very uneducated guess), the character bends on knee to loot a corpse and gets stuck in that position until the lag clears or they log off in disgust, whichever comes first. The effect is captured here in an animated gif.