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Official WoW Cataclysm Thread

BondExtreme said:
First off I honestly have never seen the option for that. And I mean it literally never was an option for me. :wtf: Though back when I did play the game, I was running Vista so who knows. I am thankfully running Win 7 now but I doubt it has to do with the OS.

Also it was patch 3.0 that ruined the engine in terms of bottlenecking and extreme CPU dependency. I remember that when I had my old 2006 laptop, it could run the game on the highest settings and run a constant 40-60+ frames. When 3.0 was released, my laptop couldn't handle it even at medium settings. After a week it was too much for the GPU in the laptop thus destroying the gpu in there. :banghead: Now this was two years ago so I had to build a new gaming desktop PC. And this is my current PC I am using now. I fitted it with a GTX 260 and the Q6600 CPU at 3.0Ghz. Even with these settings even at ultra I get only about 30 frames or less in game and about 5-15 frames in cities..... I was so mad at Blizz with how they added all this junk in the engine in 3.0. It's almost like you need a $3000 computer now to have an amazing experience with the game on ultra settings. And all you needed on max settings before 3.0 was about a $600 computer :P
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That setting is just called "maximize" rather than fullscreen, but its the check box right under Windowed Mode, and it does get rid of the start bar and all, for me at least.

Also, yeah 3.0 was a big hammer, 2.0 added a bit of stress and I seen some crappy performance in BC, but nothing that compares to Dala crap.
 
1Kurgan1 said:
That setting is just called "maximize" rather than fullscreen, but its the check box right under Windowed Mode, and it does get rid of the start bar and all, for me at least.
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You know what. Maybe it was the maximized button that I never checked.. I never noticed somehow. :laugh: Weird.

I do HOWEVER know that they will be changing that in Cataclysm to the three options, Windowed, Fullscreen or Windowed (Fullscreen).
 
There is a nice exploit out there for the PTR. Delete your base-enUS.MPQ file in your World of Warcraft Public Test\Data\enUS folder. This will load all cataclysm maps, but kalamdor crashes when you load it.
 
News Update

The Battle for Gilneas Battleground Preview

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Very nice looking battleground. Also has the same concept of Arathi Basin. Capture points to obtain enough resources to win the game.

First part of patch 4.0.1 is now available through background downloader!

Can't believe they are already releasing some of the patch already. This however does not mean the patch will be active once the download is complete. Just means you can start downloading data for it so you won't have to download the entire patch in one day. ;)
 
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And you'd best get this thing before patch day, whenever that will be.
4 GB can take a while to get across Blizzard's download system.
 
News Update

Ugh. So sorry guys. Have had computer issues the past week and over that time there have been too many updates to really go over. I will just go over some big ones. :)

Vial of the Sands - Alchemy Mount?

Pre-Cataclysm World Event on PTRs

Brewfest is Here

A lot of Blue Posts

Small Tier 11 Preview

Peacebloom Vs. Ghouls (Plants Vs. Zombies)

Horde Guild Mount - Scorpion / Kron'Kar Annihilator

Female Worgens Models on Beta

Running Wild - No Worgen Mounts

And a lot more!

Please view all of these on the MMO-Champion homepage.
 
1Kurgan1 said:
lol, running wild is awesome right now, let me see if I can find the vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R84OrJN0_Q
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LOL yeah I saw that. Haha!

News Update

"Return to Graveyard" Button This is the best thing Blizzard implemented into the game so far! lol

Halls of Origination Video Preview by TotalBiscuit
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Hunter Pet Skills Update

Hillsbrad / Alterac Mountains in Cataclysm - Updated Screenshots

Beta - Heroic Dungeons Now Available

Gear scaling in Cataclysm

A lot more blue posts

Read all this here!
 
News Update

Warlock Tier 11

Talent Calculator Update

World Map Update

Achievements

Spell Changes

Patch 4.0.1 Stage 3 available on Background Downloader

Cataclysm Heroic Instances and Lost City of the Tol'vir videos

Tol Barad Focus Test w/ Devs

Blue Posts

Guild Leveling - 25-Man Raids Achievements
We just made a change to all of the old 25 player raids that allows guild achievements to be completed as if they were a 10 player raid. This means you will only need 8/10 instead of 20/25.

Raids & Dungeons - Dungeon Finder average iLVL
The built-in Blizzard number is an average of the best piece of gear in every slot. It counts equipped gear as well as your bags and banks. It is meant as a general measurement of whether you're capable of handling a dungeon or not, and shouldn't be taken too seriously as a measurement of awesomeness.

GCD Locked
This is a good start, but there are other reasons we don't like being GCD locked. It means you can never take even a moment to look around and notice the battlefield, notice who is in trouble, maybe shout something out on Vent. If you have a situational utility ability, or even are asked to do something unusual on a boss fight, you're reluctant because you need those GCDs for more dps!!!!

(Usually when I say that, the response is "I can multitask!" But the reality doesn't always match that boast. What we see instead if players complaining about e.g. movement fights because that means they can't always get to step 6 of a 6 step damage rotation.)

Even more importantly, we also want design space for ourselves. When your spec is GCD locked, you have to start ignoring things like procs or free resources, because you can't spend them without screwing up your rotation.

That said, we know that being GCD locked is a really subjective issue. Some players like hitting a button every 1.5 (or 1.0) seconds and feel like they are waiting around when that doesn't happen. Fury warriors and the dps paladins who can't necessarily hit a button every 1.5 sec now have found their Cataclysm versions of the classes to feel almost foreign... though we still think it will feel better in the long run. I worry a little about the overall health of our game if going 1.5 seconds without hitting a button bores you to tears. Overall, I think everyone would have more fun if they focused more on beating the boss as a team and less on their individual contribution to that effort.

We also know that some players are just really intolerant of randomness. They make the logical leap from understanding that dealing with randomness is a challenge they need to overcome to campaigning for us to remove the randomness altogether. This is particularly true in PvP, which some players want to be more like a button masher fighting game and less like an RPG. Suffice to say that we think randomness is healthy and necessary as long as it doesn't get out of control. Even though you may claim it's the easiest thing in the world to hit that Pyroblast button when Hot Streak procs, we also know that dps can vary enormously even between relatively skilled and fantastically skilled players, and a great deal of that is using the right abilities at the right time.

Death Knight
GCD Locked
Now with regard to DKs specifically, we think what is happening is that players are transfering characters in at 80 and ending up with 40% haste or whatever because of the way gear was converted on their character (no mastery, no armor pen). Once you get closer to 85, you won't have that much haste. You may be GCD locked for short periods of time when the stars align and you get a bunch of procs at once, but you'll also go streaks without those procs. This is still a world of difference from the DK on live, whose rotation collapses if they fail to get off a Plague Strike, or who can't even take advantage of free runes or procs, or who just have to reroll if they experience the unfortunate but also inevitable lag that comes with playing an online game.

Now, if you're one of those players who just hates gaps, then go ahead and stack a bunch of haste. You'll have to go out of your way to do that though, and sacrifice some other stats to get there. For the DK that balances gear out, you shouldn't be GCD locked for long periods of time.

Druid
Stampede change
You have 10 sec to use Ravage once, not as many Ravages as you can manage in 10 sec.

Paladin
Protection and Holy Power
If we give Protection ways to generate more Holy Power, then that opens the door for getting both Inquisition and Shield of the Righteous going at the same time. As soon as that's possible, you're going to assume you have to do both to be competitive, and whenever you can't keep both up, you're going to be frustrated.

Retribution in WotLK
Ret was broken. If you don't see eye to eye with us on that, then it's understandable why the degree of change might be surprising to you. We tried to advertise that change was coming for a long time because we didn't want anyone to be surprised when it happened. Many players, including many Ret players, were just not happy with the mechanics of the spec in Lich King. I can understand if you just happened to love your character the way he or she was, but unfortunately, that doesn't give us much room to maneuver in attempting to implement a design that we will be happy with, and ultimately many players (though it will never be all) will be as well.

Priest
Quality of life
Power Word: Fortitude no longer requires candles. Poor candle vendors.

Power Word: Shield does not require the target to be in your party or raid today on Live. We made this change in 3.3 IIRC.

We still want Shadowform to be a little bit of a tradeoff. If you have all the utility of a healer and can do competitive damage with any caster, then why would players want to be anything else?

We agree that the number of self buffs feels high. We'll try and think of a way to address that.

Discipline Priest
There is an optional Discipline build where you take Atonement/Archangel and you can use Smite on the tanked target, and have higher HPS than if you just chain Heal the tank. This isn’t always optimal, as Atonement heals the lowest health target (which could be a Rogue standing in a fire), but that’s not always such a bad thing in Cataclysm’s environment where the MT doesn’t have to be spam healed. That said, we think it is interesting gameplay unique to the Disc priest.

In an upcoming build, when you critically hit with Smite your Atonement will critically heal (and cause Divine Aegis).

We’ve also optimized some of the talents, and pruned some of the 3-pointers down to 2-pointers and also reduced the mana cost of Power Word: Barrier throughout the tree.

We’re toning Spiritual Guidance down to bring the healing mount between Discipline and Holy closer together, Holy’s “talent tree passive” is currently stronger than intended than Discipline’s.

We want Disc to be able to do any raid job, but we are also trying not to just have every healer use the same retinue of spells. If the situation arises, they should be able to Prayer of Heal, Holy Nova, Prayer of Mending for comparable healing throughput / efficiency as Holy can to raid heal. The only difference is Holy can be in a Chakra state which increases the healing done, but then again Disc can heal for 30%+ (depending on Mastery) with Divine Aegis and can also cast free Prayer of Healing with Inner Focus.

Rogue
Combat DPS
Yep. I can tell you right now that Combat's dps is a little low. This is a known issue.

View all this here!
 
News Update

Cataclysm Release Date Postponed

Beta Build 13066 - Portals removed from Shattrath and Dalaran

Super-Mega-Uber Cataclysm Items Update

Valor Points rewards

Tier 11 Armor Sets Stats

Justice Points Rewards

Arena Season 9/Rated Battlegrounds Rewards

View the entire update and all the new items here at MMO Champion.

Anyway, yeah.... Very disappointed that the release won't be for another month or so.. :ohwell: At least we will have a better polished game.
 
Thread Hi Jack :D
new PTR patch.




Patch 4.0.1 - PTR Build 13082
A small PTR build is now available.

Spell Changes
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Druid (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Balance•Solar Beam now affects targets within 5 yards, down from 10 yards.

Hunter (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery•Mend Pet no longer heals for x health, now heals for 25% of the pet's total health over 10 sec.

Marksmanship•Flare now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.
•Silencing Shot interrupt effect now works on players.

Paladin (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Retribution•Rule of Law no longer increases the critical effect chance of Holy Shock, affects Hammer of the Righteous instead.

Priest (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Shadow•Mind Spike now causes a "high amount of threat".

Warlock (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Demonology•Health Funnel now sacrifices 1% of your total health to restore 6% of your summoned Demon's total health every 1 sec.
•(Metamorphosis) Demon Leap has been changed back to his pre-Cataclysm version: Leap through the air and slam down on all enemies within 5 yards of the target area, causing 2213.67 to 2624.95 Shadow damage and stunning them for 2 sec.

Destruction•Searing Pain now costs 12% of base mana, up from 8% of base mana. Base damage increased by 150%.
•Immolate base damage increased by 55%.

Affliction•Soul Swap now only removes your shadow damage-over-time effects from the target.


Link:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/
 
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News Update - OMG!

Guys, check out all this awesome information!!! All info from MMOC.

Patch 4.0.1 release date
We're very close to the release of Patch 4.0.1, at this point the only question is "How close?"

As far as I can tell, you can probably expect the patch on October 5th or October 12th. Ghostcrawler already suggested that the patch would be deployed right before the end of the arena season and added that "they shouldn't have a lasting impact on ratings, titles, and the like".

Since the current PvP season will end when these changes go live, they shouldn't have a lasting impact on ratings, titles and the like. We are prepared to just drop a temporary player damage nerf on all BGs and Arenas if necessary just so things don't feel too silly until everyone can level up to 85.

Heroic Deadmines Video
View here.

Cataclysm Release Date - December 7th
Very cool how we have a release but a bit later than everyone thought it would be...:ohwell:

Season 9 starts on December 14th, a blue post stated that Cataclysm would be released one week earlier.

The next Arena Season will begin for level-85 players approximately one week after the official launch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

Tier 11 Preview - Warrior
Holy crap! Guys, check their gear out! INCREDIBLE! :twitch:

Professions Changes
*Alchemy Updates
*Enchanting Updates
*Engineering Updates
*Tailoring Updates

For all you alchemists out there!!!!! WOW!!! Vial of the Sands Yes that's right guys! You can transform into that and get someone on your back for a nice ride! :D

Spell Changes Updates
(View on link below)

View all of this amazing info at these two links. Link 1 - Link 2

Discuss, discuss!


Zubasa said:
Another great vid from TotalBiscuit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy3AKepEGRU

Also another great cinematic from Blizz. :toast:
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Thanks for posting this. I saw that too and my mouth dropped. I can't believe how much work Blizz is putting into this game. Can't wait to see more cinematics. :)
 
Littlejenny said:
sry for asking noob question , but i'm really new to WoW and stucking in leveling at lv 20 ... it's really slow, can someone help me to find the best way to lvl ...
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grab a load of quest , do random dungeons and battle grounds inbetween your quest. i did lvl 79 to 80 in less than 4 hours using this method. also when it shows up do the battle ground that says (call to arms) next to it for even more exp and honor.
 
animal007uk said:
Littlejenny said:
sry for asking noob question , but i'm really new to WoW and stucking in leveling at lv 20 ... it's really slow, can someone help me to find the best way to lvl ...
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grab a load of quest , do random dungeons and battle grounds inbetween your quest. i did lvl 79 to 80 in less than 4 hours using this method. also when it shows up do the battle ground that says (call to arms) next to it for even more exp and honor.
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Having leveled 5 characters to level 80, I can do 79~80 just under 3 hours with addons.
Addons like Quest Helper are very handy.

PUG (pick up group) dungeons or BGs can be quite troublesome given how many terribad players out there.
Depending on which class/role you play and depending on which dungeons you happen to be doing, PUGs can be very enjoyable or absolute nightmares.

@Littlejenny may I ask what class/spec you play?
 
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Hehe. Yeah good ol pugs. It's funny how that at times you can have the best group and then other times you get stuck with the worst group. You would think they are 5 years old. -_-
 
BondExtreme said:
Hehe. Yeah good ol pugs. It's funny how that at times you can have the best group and then other times you get stuck with the worst group. You would think they are 5 years old. -_-
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Welcome to the internets. :)

And how on earth do you get to those levels in such a short time? Questing takes time as it's pretty much the same as grinding.
 
Frick said:
Welcome to the internets. :)

And how on earth do you get to those levels in such a short time? Questing takes time as it's pretty much the same as grinding.
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The key is to minimize traveling time ;)
A good questing Addon will help you to pick the best route for a bunch of quest.
Also by experience I level in place where I can finish half a dozen quest all at once and turn them in on one go.
 
Frick said:
Welcome to the internets. :)

And how on earth do you get to those levels in such a short time? Questing takes time as it's pretty much the same as grinding.
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79-80 in under 3 hours? It doesn't sound hard at all :/ I only have 2 80's but with even the Blizzard UI now tells you where to go for quests. lol
 
BondExtreme said:
79-80 in under 3 hours? It doesn't sound hard at all :/ I only have 2 80's but with even the Blizzard UI now tells you where to go for quests. lol
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Leveling as healing spec under 3 hours is the best I can do :ohwell:
The thing is some class/specs are much better at leveling than others...
I know someone in China managed to do 70~80 within 16 hours. :respect:

BTW, when WotLK first released, the Blizzard UI does not give any useful locations on the map.

Edit: Anyways, there is no point braggin about leveling time...
The point is most experienced players should be able to do it around 3 hours give or take.
I bet the gold farmers from the mainland can level much faster. :laugh:
 
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Zubasa said:
I know someone in China managed to do 70~80 within 16 hours. :respect:
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Would this someone happen to be you? Hehe j/k ;)

In my opinion I always thought healing while leveling would just take longer. You take more damage it seems and your attacks are weaker. :/ Just my experience.
 
BondExtreme said:
Would this someone happen to be you? Hehe j/k ;)

In my opinion I always thought healing while leveling would just take longer. You take more damage it seems and your attacks are weaker. :/ Just my experience.
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I leveled as a healer because it was much easier to get into dungeons as one.
I did that back then before dual-spec and dungeon finder.
Now that there are dual spec+dungeon finder+heirlooms leveling is easy.
 
Just started playing back, after a break of nearly two years (quit about a week after Wrath, I was disappoint). Re-leveling an Undead Mage, what I've been playing since pre-bc :D. Undead is the only way to go. Also, glad they took a few steps to make leveling a bit less painful, a welcome change.

Pretty pumped for Cataclysm. Has blizzard stated when they will introduce 4.0.1?
 
olithereal said:
Pretty pumped for Cataclysm. Has blizzard stated when they will introduce 4.0.1?
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In the above post I made bro. ;) Unfortunately though they JUST delayed the patch today..:eek:

But yeah I quit in Feb this past year and will be coming back soon. I don't know when though. I may come back as soon as patch 4.0.1 hits or maybe 4.0.2.

You are right though when you say they will make leveling a bit less stressful and a lot more fun. Every zone is changed and they are adding LOADS of quests even for the low levels. :respect:

Btw, what server are you on, olithereal?
 
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