Comments on: Random LFG in WoW: Day 1 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/ MMOs and game design Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4675 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:52:58 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4675 I quite like it ;) I think I need to encourage my raid to address me as Sir at all times!

]]> By: Carson63000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4673 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:32:14 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4673 Whoops, it has just come to my attention that “sir” was probably not the best term of address for you, Spinks. Sorry!

]]> By: Carson63000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4672 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:28:44 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4672 Entertaining stories, sir!

I did a couple of randoms on my main (priest).. first a Halls of Lightning, where we wiped once as the impatient tank ass-pulled the first boss as he patrolled. Then one of the dps went afk and never returned, but we four-manned the rest of it comfortably (it was the first day of the system, I don’t think any of us knew how to vote-kick). Then the next day I got Utgarde Pinnacle which was as smooth as could possibly be, tore through it with minimal conversation, everyone just knew what to do.

By the way, neither queue took even a minute to pop, with me queueing as healer/dps. Naturally I was selected as a healer!

And then I queued my level 75 DK, as dps, that queue did take about 10 minutes I think. Went to Drak’tharon Keep and it too was smooth, despite the tank being only level 73, and me forgetting that I was in my “tanking” gear (stam over dps, basically), whoops. It was the first instance I’d ever run on that alt, but I don’t think it showed. :-)

]]> By: Dungeon Finder Taking A Cue From DDO? « Bio Break http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4661 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:27:35 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4661 [...] In what’s most likely the last big content patch before Cataclysm, WoW has rolled out patch 3.3, which includes (among other goodies, like a ripoff of QuestHelper’s map aid) a nifty feature called the Dungeon Finder.  This might be the first move on Blizzard’s behalf that’s really impressed me in quite some time (and others as well). [...]

]]> By: Kring http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4660 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:29 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4660 If you put yourself into the tool as DD and something you have a 100% chance of getting in as something.

That’s good because it gets more groups going.

What would be the right thing to do with my shaman? He’s enhancement (which is the spec I raid with 10 mans) and heal (to get into 5 man instances to farm emblems). I’d primarily like to get enhancement gear from the new 5 man. Only sign up as DD or sign up as DD+Heal and roll an enhancement gear?

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But that was not what I meant. There is cloth and leather heal gear and I can’t roll need on that, even when healing. The groups will press disenchant. So I have a 20% chance to get the upgrade I’m after, if it drops. And if it drops and is disenchanted I would be really annoyed. That’s why I will just not care and not run the instance.

Not having a chance at an upgrade is better, for me, than losing an upgrade because of a “defect in the game mechanic”.

WoW was always about “better save than sorry” and did forgive about every error. You can buy items back, the 10 last things you sold. Try to do that in Guild Wars. :-) GMs even restore items or fix loot master mistakes. With that change it puts the game back in the dark age of game design. One wrong click by accident of any group member can screw you.

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]]> By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4659 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:35:51 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4659 One thing I do think we’ll see is people being less shy of rolling need on actual upgrades.

]]> By: ZombiePirate http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4658 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:30:41 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4658 This makes me sad that my internet has been down for the past two days so I can’t get in any WoW time at all and try out teh new stuff. Frustrated… you bet!

]]> By: Tamarind http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4657 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:06:19 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4657 I was very amused by your first encounter with Occulus – I’m pretty sure the LFG tool is just going to constantly between Occulus and ToC and laugh at me. Thanks for the post, I haven’t logged in yet, so reading about is almost as good (possibly better, due to lack of bugs in my eyes…)

]]> By: Kring http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4656 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:03:14 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4656 With my warlock I got in a group with 4 people from different servers. we cleared the new 5 man. The healer had to go but the other 4 decided to do the next one together. The LFG tool replaced the healer faster than I could have whispered someone. And we cleared the second instance. Then a dps had to go and was replaced and we did the last one too. Very nice, that you can do multiple instances with the same people. Now, if there only was a way to invite them again another day. :-(

On the other side I’m probably not going to run any instance with my shaman anymore. The risk of not winning an upgrade and have it sharded is to big for me, that would be to frustrating to loose an upgrade because of Blizzards idiocy. That’s developing into a game killer for me.

]]> By: Kring http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/random-lfg-in-wow-day-1/#comment-4655 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:48:47 +0000 http://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=2889#comment-4655 Yeah, that was my group yesterday and we took him down. :)

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