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  1. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    The "let's add zones over time" model of the last season (with the free/gem unlock model) is probably a better fit than the whole "let's have an expansion". However, a push toward the Crystal Desert/Kourna/Elona is part of a different storyline, and they will almost certainly finish with the...
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The difference in prices tells me I don't need to bother trying to farm for a mount; I'm probably facing the prospect of 150+ dungeon runs to afford a single one (mount cost about 100 times a piece of gear, and I doubt you can get one piece per run, let alone more than one).
  3. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    My recommendation at that point is "finish harvesting whatever's in range, then accept". You get a run speed buff for 1h (30mn? I think it's 1h) when you accept.
  4. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    Actually, it's the "megaserver" setup they switched to a year or so ago. Instead of one instance of lowbie zone per server, it's one instance per X players. So there's always someone, except when you're on an instance that was spawned because a world boss was going to pop up, and the players...
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's a few catch-ups already in place: drops are higher if you've got the achieve, and if you don't, you have garrison missions to catch up, plus 20k apexis per week to buy an additional batch of items. So the time gates are a lot sped up. However, you face about 4-5 weeks of last phase...
  6. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    There's games and games, though. Good games make you understand what you're doing and teach you how to play them. Bad games don't, and the "lucky" who "get it" find it ok, while the ones who would need pointers... simply stop caring at one point. That's where GW2 fails. It simply does not...
  7. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    And that is why the game fails for me. It's a game that has only one defined framework: dps. Anything else is ad-hoc glued to it. You have zero indicators on how you're supposed to play, the non-trinity means you can't draw on your game experience to figure it out. So, a lucky few figure out...
  8. Ukerric

    38 studios Auction Nov 14th and 15th.

    Disney is smart: All that Extended Universe stuff is now officially relegated to fan fiction.
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    All my alts have level 3 garrison and inn, and will probably end up with 25 treasure hunters by Legion day. 30s per day for all gold+GR missions, done. No need to even go fetch the cache. None of them ever went in a dungeon. They all took the ring quest, just to get that obnoxious wandering...
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The last two legendaries have been less about prestige (the whole concept of raid prestige is dwindling anyway) and more about story. It's about a Legendary Storyline, no a Legendary Thingummy....
  11. Ukerric

    Crowfall

    And you say only "OooOoo"...
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The GW2 system is the top of the line regarding cosmetics.
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And it gets worse. I mean, I get better rewards than CITADEL LFR by doing SOLO non-named/non-elite stuff OUTDOOR.
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Neither am I. At the moment, I'm still trying to optimize my stable of alt's gear, which is killing time since they're going to replace every piece probably within 15mn of the intro quest to Legion, and none of them ever do dungeons or raids anyway. At one point, I'm going to rip the Salvage...
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Makes it easier for marketing to sell them 50$ expansions.
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They added in 6.2.2 a section in the world version of Hellfire Citadel with specific nameds that you can only access with flying.
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My druid currently uses a Sabercat mount, because it is slightly faster than travel form, and I'm still (for 10 days) prevented from being a crow.
  18. Ukerric

    The Secret World

    I would probably motivate myself to give a try, but these days, 98% of the games that interest me are available on OS X, which means I can't bring myself to boot into Windows. So, no TSW.
  19. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Visions? Is that the political correct for hallucinations?
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's pretty much the only reason I'm waiting for it. A Tanaan daily cycle would be shortened by maybe 7-8mn tops with flying, I think. Archaeology, on the other hand...
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They have an internal alpha, we're promised access to the new continent for those at Blizzcon. So, beta in december. I think it's reasonable to expect it around Q2 2016... which means about 9-10 months of 6.2, 2 of which have already passed (yes, it's already been 2 months of 6.2). Ok, maybe...
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's called random. If you focus on one or two chars, you can have over half of their armor with your best secondary, and 3-4 pieces with their best two within a month. You get four-five pieces per day in drops on average during your dailies (from named, glowing chests, and the occasional rare...
  23. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Of course, I knew instantly what it was. Nice name, though
  24. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Suspension of disbelief is not always easy to get. One small mistake, and suddenly you're all "WTF?"
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's no one there, like ever. Aviana your way there (usually, it's an alt so not an option, but, eh). Also, if you're a skinner, and it's not a Saberstalker rep day, skinning the entire Zorammarsh is very efficient. You don't get 5-felblight nodes, but you get steady supplies. Myself, I...
  26. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    That was my first remark as well when I saw the video.
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If they're putting in the 6.2.1 patch, then they completely messed up their communication, since they could have simply said "oh, btw, the 6.2.1 is probably this week, or maybe next" instead of letting us think it was shelved in favor of a 6.2.2. So I think not. Alas.
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And they always want to know when they're going to fight. Except that goblin girl. She always ask if you can skip the job and go straight to getting paid.
  29. Ukerric

    Otherland - A Cyberpunk MMO?

    I thought it was dead. Guess it's coming back from the dead, then. We had a thread, but it might be so old, it might predate the move to rerolled...
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They even dropped the two sizes of old-denomination mythic in favor on a single raid size because that let them tune mythic better. The only mythic change that might affect retention rates would be nerfing mythic so that heroic hopefuls could get "into mythic" instead of unsubbing because...
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And up to 4 recolors per appearance. Basically, they've put as much effort in making those artefacts as they usually do for "normal" weapons. The only difference is that, when they add new raids... ahem, when they'll add THE last raid, you won't have new looks in it. Or maybe you'll unlock a...
  32. Ukerric

    38 studios Auction Nov 14th and 15th.

    There were some insurance premiums (I'm not familiar with that kind of loan structure) that needed to be paid regularly. They were running out of cash, trying to get anything they could, when their check for insurance bounced (at that point, of course, they hadn't paid healthcare, hadn't paid a...
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, at the moment it's raining, so meh
  34. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's a bit more of a build number change. It's a bait-and-switch, compounded by absolute failure to communicate clearly, on top of what's obviously a bad production decision. There is no reason to tag release a PTR unless you are reasonably sure you're going to release it, essentially because...
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Is that me or are the CM becoming deliberately obtuse, sadistic, and avoid answering questions? Apparently, the switch on PTR from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2 isn't because flying is done testing and the patch is going live and now they're working on the rest. It's because they could not add all those...
  36. Ukerric

    38 studios Auction Nov 14th and 15th.

    Curt expected some magical VC to materialize and give The Man With The Bloody Sock money without equity in his dream company in exchange for promises of insane MMO profit when the game went out. And he maintains he had some crazy asians or something lined up until the end, but alas, the deal...
  37. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have 9 alts (in addition to the main, who doesn't need apexis gear), so it's a lot slower. But if you're running only one char, you should get geared insanely fast. The only reason to run LFR is if you don't have time to do the dailies and play only during weekends (and, of course, for your 3...
  38. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It won't. They already said you'd loot (and probably craft and quest) "relics" that you slot in the weapon, which means it's basically similar to jewelcrafting, and you've got 3 different "color" with 4 slots for your ilvl (blue) /main stat (red) /1st secondary/2nd secondary (yellows). The only...
  39. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Gamescom is also bigger than E3 because it is open to the public; you don't need to pretend to have a game blog to get admittance. As a result, you have E3 with 40k people during the entire trade show, and Gamescom with 120k visitorsper day. While PAX doesn't release their numbers anymore...
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They said she's "pissed off", so I guess it's more of a political overthrow rather than a coup. I don't remember her having an artefact-type weapon, so she's safe from our greedy hands. Unlike two notable characters whose weapons would probably only pried from their cold dead hands... and which...