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Ironically this is your opinion of their decision making process, which you (thankfully) have no personal experience with

They literally host a pve server too, what the fuck else do you want son

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Yeah except nobody does that. You'd still have more people testing in the end. I completely understand why they wouldn't do it, but there's distinct benefits

Just as a little thought... there's 8k players on Elysium at nearly all times. There's like 500 people on the PTR whenever it's going. The main method of finding out bugs, exploits and broken mechanics is usually hitting target dummies on the PTR. Wouldn't it be nice if people could test shit on Elysium itself instead of having to run to the PTR? You can argue "but they could just go on the PTR" but again: 8k players vs 500 players. Surely it'd aid the overall atmosphere of testing things and help improve the server. As for the weapon skill concern, I assume they could just turn it off on those. And if not... to be honest I dont think it would cheapen a single aspect of the game if you could just afk next to a training dummy and get 300 wep skill eventually. It's not like weapon skill training actually adds anything to the game. It's just pointless time wasting anyways.

Feels a bit pointless limiting world buffs when we're letting people clear naxx in 1.12 talents, but ok

Does the fact that over 50% of my lifetime HKs are from after I hit r14 give me any authority to call you a fuckboy? Here's a little thing you're not considering, fuckboy. Consider you got r12 on retail by "not focusing on the gear" (let's disregard the fact that you probably tryharded to r12 for the pants and are lying about it now). You're saying there is now a lack of people who don't just "honor stomp", but want to actually play the game and get rewarded on the side. Do you suppose that maybe making the easily attainable awards (r10) better wouldn't cause more people to play, and encourage guilds to randomly put together a prem to win some game, and encourage people to give the current no-competition honor stompers some fucking competition? Do you not suppose this would happen, fuckboy?

Drakkisath adds are supposed to be part of the fight. Kiting drakki until they're dead is aggroing them and dealing with them. FD splitpulling drakki to reset the adds would be a bug. Kromkrush is circumventable. You're just fidning another way to circumvent him. Seems ok. Emperors room is supposed to link to the Emperor. Kiting emperor, killing them all, then having hunter FD to have the emp come back seems to me analogous to the drakkisath strat. FD pulling to split them and leaving the adds alive isn't. Apply common sense

Add to that that alliance hunters who defend can hide in hard hitting elite NPCs, while there's absolutely nothing to hide in at the horde flag. Luckily it doesn't matter so much because said alliance hunters are generally too retarded to prevent 10+ people from capping if they all click the flag at once

Good thing the post you literally just replied to said they're fixing it. No, I dont naturally assume anything I'm able to do without a third party program or boxing 2 clients is ok. There's a metric fuckton of things that require neither of these things and are VERY obviously not ok. Win trading. Gold buying. To name a few. The staff expects you to know what is, what is not, because you can literally read their ToU. There are grayzones, but using hunter pets bugged pathing to pull and farm bosses you're not supposed to be able to pull and farm isn't very gray

Has the change actually changed much for you, though? Aren't you just still getting stomped by games that are 50-80% premaders?

It indeed wont be good to premaders. But they're still players, you know? They're playing the game just like the casual puggers. if this change doesn't help the puggers, but harms the premaders, then what's the point here? Why not just ban them if they're doing something wrong? I agree with what you're saying by the way, but I think watching for win traders just isn't something the devs want to be doing with their time.

Let's see I spent about 15 hours per day from the very start cause I ranked with the tide from day one. Eventually I started getting the last day off when premade was established and doing well. The journey took me exactly 3 months (again, cause I ranked day 1. Nowadays it's closer to 4). To keep it simple let's just assume 6 days a week. That's 810 hours. I'm assuming it's a lot more for people who start ranking now rather than earlier. To put this into perspective, let's see how those 800 hours do for you when raiding. Assuming you raid twice a week for 4 hours each time, and spend 3 farming gold for consumables each week for about 100g, this means 115 raid weeks are an equivalent time investment to ranking to r14 (if you ranked fast). In other words, you can kill nef 115 times, rag 115 times, ony 115 times in the same time it takes you to rank to r14. How many times have the people who are raid BiS on elysium right now killed these bosses? Less than that, because that's nearly 3 years worth of raiding. It takes an equivalent time investment to 3 YEARS WORTH OF RAIDING to get r14. From a time investment perspective you'd have to be an absolute retard to claim that ranking is easier than raiding. Let's also please think about the fact that you're forced to put in those hours on weekdays and aren't agreeable with a job. With my countries minimum wage in mind, I would've been able to make 20k USD with the time I spent ranking. Meanwhile you can have a job and raid easily.

They'd probably use truestrikes even with the arcanum and way past hitcap, unless there's some sort of softcap for hit% at 12-13% I'm not aware of.

Were you lying to me, white boy?

People go "wahh premades" all the time and don't even try and it would seem like premades really do cause this defeatist attitude right? Then you go into Winterspring or Dire Maul and try to do some world pvp against other 60s, 1v1. And you'll have mages stand still and /clap and /sigh while you, a warrior, kill them. When you could easily be solod by any old level 58+ mage because you're not even wearing your pvp trinket while farming/going for a dungeon. And then you realize: most people just dont like pvp. It has nothing to do with premades. Some people just don't seem to be aware that you can fight back. This is why the "make your own premade" argument is always shot down by these people. They literally cannot fathom it.

http://blue.cardplace.com/cache/wow-customer-service/22951.htm Stick to truths, please. And hey, that's how it is. Alliance are much more organized and overpower horde when it comes to world bosses here. Maybe the dynamic will change one day. It certainly won't change by means of cross faction collusion, though. if you want something to blame for this particular dynamic that seems lame to you, blame the fact that Blizzard designed this game to be very casual due to the two faction system. You can't kill same faction people contesting the things you contest, so it comes down to exactly what you described: people having tag wars. And yeah, you can go "but it'll bring pvp!" all you want, but in the end it will infact end up with horde helping alliance and alliance helping horde and that seems to be pretty fucking against everything world pvp stands for.

For dualwielding players it should be. To which extent I can't really answer accurately because my theorycrafting isn't amazing, but I can tell you that the top 5 dps warrs and rogues on elysium all use ~12%+, the warrs all use truestrikes. Which in other words means: Raid warriors will put on a set of low item level lvl56 shoulders over BWL drops simply because they have 2% hit and some change. Viewed from that perspective, a proposed item such as an arcanum of accuracy would overpower all other arcanums.

Truestrikes stays BiS warrior until AQ I'm pretty sure

oh For the record if I played a druid I absolutely would be dicking around in a hybrid spec too, because it's fun as fuck, but I have zero delusions that respec cost has anything to do with hybrid specs being tolerated or not. It's simply a minmaxing thing.

I don't think you've ever premaded, so your opinion is probably safely discarded

But then less people would be killing them

The only reason you wanted to be a hybrid spec in the first place is because respec costs ran you dry if you wanted to be a different role each raid. You're complaining about a solution to a problem you had because it conflicts with your own suboptimal solution you came up with for it. Being in some weird hybrid spec that can (just barely) tank and heal both at once may work for you, but it doesn't work for most people and it certainly doesn't work for people who want to be raiding more seriously. You have to understand that the "just be specced hybrid at all times" solution is a solution that works for very few people. I really doubt that any guild that would've tolerated you in such a weird hybrid spec would no longer tolerate you because "it's 25g instead of 50g to respec now". It seems to me more like a mindset thing. More relevant to the topic at hand tho, they'll probably just find out that the change doesnt really do all that much except ruin premade vs premade games. People will still sync queue and stomp pugs.

They're now trying something out on Anathema, and they'll find out what is pretty obvious for anyone with some experience to see: people will just sync queue anyway. I'm glad Anathema is beta testing for us, though I guess it sucks for them. Pugs will still get stomped by teams that consist over half of some premade, and pug vs pug games will still be riddled by AFK retards because "every game is a premade anyway! lol! might aswell afk!". The only thing that will be prevented by this cap to group queue will be high level (as far as you can call anything in WoW high level) premade vs premade games because it'll be completely impossible ot get a group of 10 people matched against another group 10 people now. Why does seemingly nobody care that this is killing premade vs premade games? There's a lot of fun being ruined here.

Enjoy not getting it fixed then lmao