Comments on: The Tale of One Bronze Drake http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-tale-of-one-bronze-drake/ MMOs and game design Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-tale-of-one-bronze-drake/#comment-290 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:53:02 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=785#comment-290 It’s quite funny writing about this in the same week as Watchmen, because I had that feeling also. He was making a horrible decision because he felt it needed to be done.

And for all Jaina and Uther’s protests, they didn’t have any other ideas.

But we don’t really know that killing those people prevented them from becoming Scourge at all. I think there was an unspoken notion that burning the houses down (with people alive in them!) would stop them from becoming undead, presumably due to lack of bodies. I’m not sure that was ever explicit.

In any case, I didn’t really get much of that from running the instance. We just killed zombies which wasn’t ever really a moral dilemma.

]]> By: Katherine http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-tale-of-one-bronze-drake/#comment-287 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:08:59 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=785#comment-287 Regarding the story, playing Warcraft III I always felt at that point that while what Arthas was doing was horrific, it was something that needed to be done. ALL of the people were already infected and it was only a matter of time before they became undead. (I played it pre-Frozen Throne, where once you broke open the houses the people soon turned undead and started attacking your guys.) If only they hadn’t hidden in their houses and had just come to you to make it quick and painless!

I felt that his insanity may have been caused by that event; the fact that he had to do something so horrific to save the rest of his people drove him to his burning desire to wipe out the scourge at any cost, which caused him to pick up Frostmourne despite the warnings. Frostmourne corrupted Arthas, it wasn’t really his fault that he became that which he hated most, he thought it would save his people…

Remember, everyone you ever oppose probably thinks they are trying to do the right thing.

]]> By: *vlad* http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-tale-of-one-bronze-drake/#comment-273 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:09:08 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=785#comment-273 You probably are too busy with the adds, but while the party runs backwards and forwards between groups of mobs, Arthas is at the gates of the town mercilessly chopping down innocents and undead alike.

]]> By: Cilarith http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-tale-of-one-bronze-drake/#comment-272 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:46:10 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=785#comment-272 Making the Timer on Old Stratholme is a combination of gear and luck. Obviously, there is an element of luck involved, but in my experience, it’s almost entirely down to the quality of your DPS. Provided you’re pulling aggressively, it’s nice to finally have an instance where you can (think, even if you don’t say it) point at the DPS, and say “YOU need to improve your gear and skill this time, not me”. After just one or two bad PuGs, this gives me immense satisfaction, even with guild-members!*

It was quite an interesting evolution to watch, really. Back when we first hit 80, and were still wiping to Meathook repeatedly, to when we were in heroic blues, and could pull the boss with a minute to go, to now, when most people have a combination of Naxx10 or 25 gear, and have mastered the new mechanics, and it’s feasible t pull him with 6-8 minutes to go, even with bad luck.

*I have actually been turned down from heroic PuGs for “only” having 24k health (at the time). Despite the fact that I was pretty sure I was doing them a favour.

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