Comments on: [Cataclysm] Racing other players

By: gnome of zurich

gnome of zurich — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:20:42 +0000

The problem I have with the bloody top hat is that combined with the basic dress style, and the accents, it makes everybody look like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange.

(shudder)

By: Jal

Jal — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:46:53 +0000

This is where I mention that nobody’s ninja-ing Cindermaul from you; the quest is bugged. Exit game, delete cache, and profit.

There’s enough racing it takes a while to figure out you’re not being out-tagged.

The PvP brew haha sounds great.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:30:23 +0000

I can’t say I had any problems when leveling my Worgen. It’s possibly due to the fact that my server isn’t as busy but I think Blizzard anticipated and handled the crowds quite nicely. In fact, it’s just plain nice to see other people when you’re leveling now

By: Stabs

Stabs — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:37:07 +0000

Hunters are best at tagging. Just trap the spawn location.

By: dwism

dwism — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:23:59 +0000

If you tag a mob with a single target (non-cast-time) ability, it will actually hit the mob faster than any aoe effect does.

So what I do, is I lay down DnD and let all the others start their own form of aoe, then you tag the mob, and let the aoe handle em….

By: Werit

Werit — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:26:01 +0000

Hey, Goblins know how to party.

By: Ming

Ming — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:49:34 +0000

The obvious thing to note is that in a month or so, maybe less, there will only be about five people doing the same quest at the same time at best. It’s actually fairly rare for people’s questing to line up like that; it is only primarily at the beginning of an expansion that so much competition during questing happens. So of course it’s mostly during the beginning of the expansion that people complain that Blizzard should have implemented more server hardware to remove queues and designed quests to support everyone on the server for the first week or two of the expansion, and thus have the game overcompensate for its load for the next two years before the next expansion comes out.

By: ZombiePirate

ZombiePirate — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:47:11 +0000

I race changed my Troll Shaman to a Goblin because they are hilarious so I think I was one of only a handful of Goblins swimming around last night. I’m only level 5 on my Worgen Hunter but am enjoying it at the moment. Finally managed to ding 81 but agree with what has been said about the over-crowding. There are three named mobs you are tasked with killing in the first area of Vashj’ir and people are racing each other for them. I actually went and did some mining in OL to try and get it up to the point where I can go to Cata zones to try and cash in. Tradeskills are something I’ve not really bothered with on my Shaman but need to rectify that as I have decided to finally finish Engineering.

By: Copra

Copra — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:37:52 +0000

it’s not only competitiveness that this current situation creates, but also kill stealing and anti-social behaviour. The quests have been designed for single or couple players at a time, whence they should have been designed fro 50-1000 players around the area at a time.

Blizzard has again proven how well they understand social engineering.

I have the same gripes with worgen area: too much killing quests. Goblins have better quests but I cannot stomach them otherwise.

C out

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:16:32 +0000

That staff is sooo pretty. I zoomed in on one while levelling. Also the hat, and there’s a fantastic headband which I’ll try to capture, makes you look really funny.

Have to say in worgen areas on SC, there were rows of worgen in neat queues waiting for spawns, also plenty of random groups where everything went wrong in hilarious manner…