Comments on: 3.1 Initial Impressions or How I Learned to Love the Crash http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/ Practical advice for World of Warcraft healers and leaders Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:13:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ot http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19778 Ot Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:42 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19778 Keeva- I feel your pain. We ended up killing XT with all that broken trash up, depending on RNG aggro issues to get the kill. All the other groups on our server had the trash despawned, so we basically just got the short end of the stick. We are also defending our server first position, but I think it will really only settle once guides start focusing on hard modes. Fine by me. We knocked out 4 more bosses after XT died, but it sucks that we basically lost a whole day to bugged out super trash. Ah well, new content is worth it. Keeva- I feel your pain. We ended up killing XT with all that broken trash up, depending on RNG aggro issues to get the kill. All the other groups on our server had the trash despawned, so we basically just got the short end of the stick.

We are also defending our server first position, but I think it will really only settle once guides start focusing on hard modes. Fine by me. We knocked out 4 more bosses after XT died, but it sucks that we basically lost a whole day to bugged out super trash.

Ah well, new content is worth it.

]]> By: cringer http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19776 cringer Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:27:47 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19776 I actually got lucky last night and nabbed a raid spot for ulduar. Unfortunately it was for DPS which isn't my main spec so I was kinda draggin' ass hovering around 2800. And I didn't upgrade any of my addons so I was getting constant failures... but on the plus side I learned that /script LeaveParty() works. I didn't play too much PTR so I wasn't too familiar with the Argent Tournament but it turned out to be ok I guess. Maybe its just because it takes 3 days to get the initial 15 seals that I'm slightly disappointed, but I think once you get the 15 that will unlock a lot of new features, so that might help. Ulduar is massive. I missed out on FL so I never got to see how that works, but we did do Razorscale, which seemed pretty easy. We got that on the 2nd try. Then we tried Ignis. That was a mistake. The trash over there is insane. Naxx has definitely made us trash lazy. A cyclone pinned me up against one of the walls and didn't stop till I was a roasted chicken. Then we got to Ignis, they said he was bugged but he should have been hotfixed. I never saw this fight before so they assigned me a pretty simple task, when the OT picks up the little guys root them in the fire circle. Simple enough. Well, I got one root off and then *boom* 61K shot from Ignis. Apparently he just picks random people and one shots them. Or at least thats what I was told. So much for a hotfix. Then we wiped on Deconstructor XT for another hour and called it for the night. I'm actually kinda sad I had to go casual for RL events because Ulduar is exactly the challenge I was looking for when I started Wrath. My first impression is that Ulduar is not going to be a pug fest like Naxx is. Ulduar pugs, even once people get geared, might still have a hard time with the 2nd half of the instance. Which is the way it should be. Nice job blizz, I think this is exactly the right tuning real raiders were waiting for. I actually got lucky last night and nabbed a raid spot for ulduar. Unfortunately it was for DPS which isn’t my main spec so I was kinda draggin’ ass hovering around 2800. And I didn’t upgrade any of my addons so I was getting constant failures… but on the plus side I learned that /script LeaveParty() works.

I didn’t play too much PTR so I wasn’t too familiar with the Argent Tournament but it turned out to be ok I guess. Maybe its just because it takes 3 days to get the initial 15 seals that I’m slightly disappointed, but I think once you get the 15 that will unlock a lot of new features, so that might help.

Ulduar is massive. I missed out on FL so I never got to see how that works, but we did do Razorscale, which seemed pretty easy. We got that on the 2nd try. Then we tried Ignis. That was a mistake. The trash over there is insane. Naxx has definitely made us trash lazy. A cyclone pinned me up against one of the walls and didn’t stop till I was a roasted chicken. Then we got to Ignis, they said he was bugged but he should have been hotfixed. I never saw this fight before so they assigned me a pretty simple task, when the OT picks up the little guys root them in the fire circle. Simple enough. Well, I got one root off and then *boom* 61K shot from Ignis. Apparently he just picks random people and one shots them. Or at least thats what I was told. So much for a hotfix. Then we wiped on Deconstructor XT for another hour and called it for the night.

I’m actually kinda sad I had to go casual for RL events because Ulduar is exactly the challenge I was looking for when I started Wrath. My first impression is that Ulduar is not going to be a pug fest like Naxx is. Ulduar pugs, even once people get geared, might still have a hard time with the 2nd half of the instance. Which is the way it should be. Nice job blizz, I think this is exactly the right tuning real raiders were waiting for.

]]> By: Carly http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19774 Carly Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:46:52 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19774 We downed FL on 10 man and at that instant the instance server froze ..could talk in general guild etc. So now the joke on the server is my guild crashed the server killing FL. When we finally got back in it was so laggy we gave up after one attempt on trash. Did FL last night on 25 man but shortly after that the world server went down being late we all decided to call it and go back in tonight. I am just so happy we have new content!!! We downed FL on 10 man and at that instant the instance server froze ..could talk in general guild etc. So now the joke on the server is my guild crashed the server killing FL. When we finally got back in it was so laggy we gave up after one attempt on trash. Did FL last night on 25 man but shortly after that the world server went down being late we all decided to call it and go back in tonight. I am just so happy we have new content!!!

]]> By: Xannder http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19770 Xannder Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:22:09 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19770 Our PvE server turned into a full blown PvP server as entire guilds got bored sitting outside Ulduar. Unable to zone in tensions began to build. Things started to heat up as the #2 Aliance guild and the #3 Horde guild started into it, then Ulduar came up. We got one good attempt on FL, (32% first attempt on Hard Mode), when the instance server crashed again. At this point everyone started to jump into the fray and a "King of the Moutain" game began for the top of Ulduar. Hopefully we can get some additional attempts and our first kill in tonight. <abbr><em>Xannders last blog post..<a href="http://solinvictus.guildomatic.com/news/show/183584" rel="nofollow">25 dragons > Malygos</a></abbr></em> Our PvE server turned into a full blown PvP server as entire guilds got bored sitting outside Ulduar. Unable to zone in tensions began to build. Things started to heat up as the #2 Aliance guild and the #3 Horde guild started into it, then Ulduar came up. We got one good attempt on FL, (32% first attempt on Hard Mode), when the instance server crashed again.

At this point everyone started to jump into the fray and a “King of the Moutain” game began for the top of Ulduar.

Hopefully we can get some additional attempts and our first kill in tonight.

Xannders last blog post..25 dragons > Malygos

]]> By: Shyraia http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19767 Shyraia Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:52:26 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19767 First chance I got to look at Ulduar was early early my morning (EU 5 am) we killed FL with a group of alts, and had the mace and hood drop. Clicked the dual spec button twice already though, priest and druid, have the hunter left to do...sooo much mula x_X <abbr><em>Shyraias last blog post..<a href="http://shyatwow.blogspot.com/2009/04/first-impression-oriflame-leviathan.html" rel="nofollow">First Impression (Ori)Flame Leviathan</a></abbr></em> First chance I got to look at Ulduar was early early my morning (EU 5 am) we killed FL with a group of alts, and had the mace and hood drop.

Clicked the dual spec button twice already though, priest and druid, have the hunter left to do…sooo much mula x_X

Shyraias last blog post..First Impression (Ori)Flame Leviathan

]]> By: HoHo http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19766 HoHo Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:50:02 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19766 Wowmatrix died and there is zero replacements for Linux. Manually upgrading >50 addons + their dependencies is not my idea of fun. Guild got one boss down in Ulduar, we could have got more if server wouldn't have been so unstable. Hopefuly it's better tonight. Wowmatrix died and there is zero replacements for Linux. Manually upgrading >50 addons + their dependencies is not my idea of fun.

Guild got one boss down in Ulduar, we could have got more if server wouldn’t have been so unstable. Hopefuly it’s better tonight.

]]> By: Amoreesta http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19765 Amoreesta Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:12:58 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19765 Tuesday we got our usual 25 man going smoothly, were the first guild in there without problems, downed FL and Razorscale and called it after 2 hours. Today we got together and found out that while most of our server was in Ulduar, there was an issue with our raid ID only that caused us to receive an "Instance Not Found" error. Turns up we were the only raid that had killed Razorscale before the hotfix this morning. So we're left with a raidless night and hoping it gets fixed by tomorrow. Tuesday we got our usual 25 man going smoothly, were the first guild in there without problems, downed FL and Razorscale and called it after 2 hours. Today we got together and found out that while most of our server was in Ulduar, there was an issue with our raid ID only that caused us to receive an “Instance Not Found” error. Turns up we were the only raid that had killed Razorscale before the hotfix this morning. So we’re left with a raidless night and hoping it gets fixed by tomorrow.

]]> By: HP http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19762 HP Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:35:02 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19762 Had lots of fun on Flame Leviathan but wiped some on Razorscale. Had lots of fun on Flame Leviathan but wiped some on Razorscale.

]]> By: Dae http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19758 Dae Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:09:13 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19758 We threw together a ten man and accidentally one shot FL while trying to figure out how to work the damn vehicles. Then we had fun wiping on Razorscale, Ignis' trash, X002's trash, as we were trying to learn what they all did. We threw together a ten man and accidentally one shot FL while trying to figure out how to work the damn vehicles. Then we had fun wiping on Razorscale, Ignis’ trash, X002′s trash, as we were trying to learn what they all did.

]]> By: Keeva http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/04/15/31-initial-impressions-or-how-i-learned-to-love-the-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-19757 Keeva Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:57:11 +0000 http://www.worldofmatticus.com/?p=4578#comment-19757 Lost about 9 hours trying to clear XT trash or get around it. Had some REALLY entertaining strategies, like hunters kiting them while I ran in front in travel/caster/travel/caster (i love that kind of stuff!!!). We nearly killed him but RNG kept robbing us. Frustrating to hear that other guilds' had their trash removed by GMs while we banged our heads against the proverbial wall from about 4pm til 1am. Also very disheartening to lose our huge head start that we had on other guilds (we are defending a #1 spot). But hopefully when I head home tonight they will be fixed and we can power on. <abbr><em>Keevas last blog post..<a href="http://treebarkjacket.blogspot.com/2009/04/too-soon-executus.html" rel="nofollow">Too soon, Executus</a></abbr></em> Lost about 9 hours trying to clear XT trash or get around it. Had some REALLY entertaining strategies, like hunters kiting them while I ran in front in travel/caster/travel/caster (i love that kind of stuff!!!). We nearly killed him but RNG kept robbing us.

Frustrating to hear that other guilds’ had their trash removed by GMs while we banged our heads against the proverbial wall from about 4pm til 1am.

Also very disheartening to lose our huge head start that we had on other guilds (we are defending a #1 spot). But hopefully when I head home tonight they will be fixed and we can power on.

Keevas last blog post..Too soon, Executus

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