Comments on: That’s Fine, Learn 2 Patch

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:27:49 +0000

Don’t forget to mention that the forums have been broken all day too!

By: Staarkhand

Staarkhand — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:21:25 +0000

No idea where to reliably find archives of the For Really patch notes, I read it on my guild website as I was downloading (usually by the time I get home from work someone has a mirror up), and confirmed it by reading the notes as it installed.

I suppose I should note that SnD now supposedly can trigger Ruthlessness. So overall probably a net gain for rogues this patch.

By: Foton

Foton — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:29:31 +0000

And suddenly, a new blog slave emerges. Thanks Uruloki!

By: uruloki

uruloki — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:20:58 +0000

Here’s the comparison:

http://www.gameaholic.com/world-of-warcraft-v1.9-patch-notes-differences.html

Mostly grammar changes, but there are a few big ones like the Troll racial hidden in there.

By: Foton

Foton — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:58:52 +0000

Those were labeled the live patch notes. Is there some secret place that Blizzard hides the complete, real live patch notes?

If I have to compare several sets of notes for each patch, I’m going to have to kidnap another blog slave.

By: Staarkhand

Staarkhand — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:27:42 +0000

Foton, every patch notes I can google up agrees with you, but I think those are carried over from the test client notes and when it went live yesterday the ACTUAL notes had different info on the troll racial beserking. I didn’t have a chance to test it, but I know this is so relevant to you alliance types I just have to post.

As I recall:
Scales from 10-30% haste depending on your hp when activated
No longer requires being crit
Requires energy/rage/mana
3 min cooldown instead of 2

In other words, I might actually use it, possibly every cooldown depending on the energy cost.

Also in the world of rogues, no more SnD on dead mobs, and our Tier 2 set received the only nerf in the form of decreased proc rate from the 8 item bonus, although I’m also hearing that it now crits based on your base crit % instead of 5% and so the damage stayed about even. Not that there’s a large population with 8 piece Bloodfang, but I have to ask who decided that proc rate was causing rogues to be overpowered.

By: Saccia

Saccia — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:19:38 +0000

Eh, I'll just continue to play EVE Online. I suppose it's time to shard everything and give away my gold. Getting pretty tired of 40-man instance uber-l00t babies anyway. Don't need new areas to bring out new whine.

By: Caffix

Caffix — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:07:13 +0000

Let’s hope those paladins are happy now.

But the big news really – three cheers for the arrival of economic meltdown in WoW! :

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=6518900&p=1&tmp=1#post6518900

Hurray! Also have a look at the unofficial patch notes:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3479

By: Valdesta

Valdesta — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:05:40 +0000

Ain’t updates fun?

Truthfully tho, being an employer in the software industry (not gaming tho) it boggles my head to think about having to maintain a system that went from 0 to 5 mil users in a year. The bandwidth requirements are crazy (and btw, with correct firewall configs I was getting the download at over 50K/s, not too bad) and WOW the number of servers they must have to maintain…

Of course there are bugs in a new release – they test as much as they can, but there is a point you have to let the code loose, and players/users ALWAYS find bugs. As long as they get fixed quickly (within a week or two is quickly in coding context), that’s what counts.

Perhaps it’s just because I’m a new player to World of Warcraft (just got it for Christmas), but I feel like sayin’ “Don’t Bag On Blizzard” 🙂 They’re doing the best they can in a very very stressful environment.

They must have a billion new employees just for the WoW project, and it always takes new people about 6-12 months to really ‘gel’ with the company and be a productive asset. Again, my head is boggling, LOL!

Valdesta
Zul’jin – Troll Hunter
Silvermoon – Night Elf Rogue