On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:31:01 -0400, IYM <
nor...@whitehouse.gov>
wrote:
>On 4/5/2013 8:58 AM, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:59:38 -0400, IYM <
nor...@whitehouse.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My realm also hit the last (I think) phase of the Island of Thunder
>>> dailies the other night. did the solo scenario and had one new quest
>>> that was kind of fun. Will be interesting to see what happens after
>>> this phase 6. heh...
>>
>> Wow nice one, we only reached phase 5 a couple of days back, realm
>> participation is down at 20% though so not too surprising it's slowed
>> way down (I guess most the people who reached exalted can't be
>> bothered with dailies now - I'm still doing them as they're great
>> valor mixed in with some rare-hunting, but I guess I'm unusual!).
>
>I agree - with rares and extras, it's the quickest set of dailies to do
>to earn valors while you wait in queue. It sometimes takes me all night
>to do the dailies as I get some done in between raids and a dungeon...As
>with any dailies, there are some I despise, some I like...
>
>btw: I hate "cockroach day" as everyone and their mother is out trying
>to squish the roaches and it takes forever to find 150 of them. The
>spots where they are sometimes gathered are always empty or you see 3
>people jumping on them and is gone in 2 seconds before you even get there.
I don't mind that one too much, Compy Stomp is my most hated, dozens
of people trying to camp some not-very-common spawns, arrrgh. Why oh
why have Blizz not hotfixed the spawnrate yet... :-/
>I'm surprised your participation rate is that far down. I still see a
>bunch of people and would think that (and think blizzard believes that)
>with the option of PvP questing that it should keep the PvPers
>participating. I see a bunch out doing them, but not as many as when 5.2
>dropped a few weeks ago. Patch 5.1 was a disappointment I think for
>the PvPers...I think they (and I) were thinking it was going to be a bit
>different than it was. I'm really surprised Blizzard didn't (and
>hasn't) introduced a PvP area like Wintergrasp, or Tol Barad that even
>PvE'ers would que for so they could get control of a raid area like those.
Yeah I'm surprised too, I understand the participation rate to be the
% of people who visit the island that complete just one daily, so
there must be a heck of a lot of people passing through to the raid
portal that don't bother with any dailies. You'd think they'd want to
get Nalak up though, and surely the guilds organised enough to go
raiding could get the message through to their members...
>I
>> believe the worldboss Nalak opens with the last phase, so either you
>> already have him or will get him when you finish it :-)
>
>Nope - Just read up that it's after phase 6, so not yet :)
Ah well, not too long away anyway. I only hope he's not as hard as
Oondasta, massive lagspikes for no obvious reason (when you're nowhere
near that island) get old after a while, and even post-nerf he's
brought the server down a few times, could live without two bosses
capable of that effect!
>> I'm still chickening out of trying the 2nd ToT raid lol, so nowhere
>> near the third one yet! 3 clears of the first raid and one drop
>> (having used a coin every boss), luck's not really on my side then.
>
>/chicken LOL - Don't be - It's a lot better after 2 weeks and you will
>be fine. I even have healed it on my alt druid. Like I said - you will
>know whether the group is fail by the first boss, so you won't waste
>time. Go fer it!!! :)
Sounds good, will try and make some time over this weekend then. 1st
one is simple enough now, even when a group fails dismally on a boss
the 2nd try gets it. Couldn't quite follow the logic of my group last
night though... bitching about lack of healing, as it seemed only 5
healers were healing (and 2 must've been lowgeared going on their
results), and a votekick comes up for a "healer" that was top of the
dps charts and 8th on healing... yet, people argue to leave him in the
raid. Huh? Even more daft was one of the dpsers switched spec to heal
instead (nice of him), yet, next try we only had 4 healers healing
(and I don't believe anyone left between pulls). Huh??
We actually succeeded anyway but I don't really get why anyone would
not want to kick someone who queued as the wrong role to jump the
queue, and thus caused the group to struggle as the remaining healers
were running oom trying to compensate. Seems clearcut to me, I hate
people who do that and screw things up for the rest of us (wasn't
greatly impressed by the paper tank with the same healthpool as me
either, although at least he was actually tanking - can't have been
his tank set that gave him the ilvl to queue though!)
>> Well, at least Galleon gave me a new head this week!
>
>Now there's one on my realm I can never get luck on! I don't see many
>forming groups up for it, but then again - I'm not standing around
>cities and don't see if any are forming. That's the negative about the
>island. I'm either there, or in an instance. I have to rely on guildes
>to let me know if a group is forming. I've only done him and the dino
>boss on Giant Island once each. I really want to get in on him as he
>drops 522 gear, but miss out.
If you want a group for Galleon, go to Valley - I'm there every day
checking my farm anyway, and always within 5 mins someone asks when
he's due to spawn and somebody will know :-) Then it's a case of if
it's soon, hang around, if not, come back at that time, and there'll
be people around. Oondasta groups tend to be announced on tradechat
I've found, as less people hang out on the island, and it takes way
more people to kill him, but for Galleon it's just a case of visit the
zone (and picking up my 16 motes is a decent reason to head there :-))
Speaking of Galleon reminds me of a depressing example of human nature
I saw the other day, I'll never get some people's attitudes. We're a
very Horde-dominated server nowadays, I'd imagine Alliance get to tag
the world bosses maybe once a week if they're lucky (they presumably
never get Oondasta given the numbers required), and one time I went to
Galleon last week, they actually had a raid there and got the tag.
Well good for them, I thought - Galleon's up often enough that I don't
much care about having to wait 2 hours, they've likely had to wait all
week.
Some Horde tried to pvp to make them wipe, bit silly I thought but eh,
fair enough. Other Horde dpsed the boss, also fair enough IMO, but a
whole load of idiots on general chat were really having a go at those
Horde who helped, swearing at them and all. That just left me baffled
- it's only a game: he respawns in 2 hours, and it's probably the only
time all week that Alliance got to tag him, why exactly does it
require throwing of tantrums and screaming insults if some people are
nice enough to help out? I can't understand that attitude at all; if
it was still a really low spawnrate then fair enough! But it's not,
and we get the tag nearly every time, so why on earth begrudge it to
the other side for once.
Between that and the "anal" spam in trade later that night (must've
been at least 50 different people doing it, I had much fun with the
right-click report language button :-P), I despair for the human race
at times, I really do...