Wrath of Wisdom first kill of Nefarian

I have already announced kill of Nefarian by Wrath of Wisdom, quite achievement in World of Warcraft playing. I am proud to announce that we had brave enough member to record whole fight - recording is availabel at Google Video.

12.10.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

Make Love, Not Warcraft. Accurate or not?

I have to admit. I haven't seen the Make Love, Not Warcraft episode of South Park. It's not because our televisions are who knows how long behind current schedule. It's not because i cannot find it on Internet. I just simply don't like South Park at all. And with this in mind i really really really don't see reason why to watch it. But. Lot of ppl did and there is WikiPedia article pointing mainly to mistakes. Happy mistakes hunting nerds...

11.10.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

PvP and LFG Burning Crusade Menus - R.I.P. Meeting Stones?

Gaming Hybrid Crossroads shows some screenshots of new LFG system in Burning Crusade. Seems good enough for me given that it seems to be built around system used in bloody LookingForGroup channel. It's really time for  Blizzard to do something about this, as Meeting Stones are dead since the game was born. And system of looking for m8s to go with is simple - of course. You just either look for group (you alone want to join some other ppl) or you are looking for men (you have not yet complete group and need some other ppl). Something that can be easily accomplished with automated system. System which will free us of that bloody idiots spamming and misusing LFG channel.

10.10.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

Intrinsically Silly - Meeting stones

When i was a noob player i tried few times to use Meeting Stone to get into Deadmines. It was definitely intrinsically silly as Meeting Stones never worked. It's interesting to see them around some dungeons and they can be used only as way to see which levels are welcome in dungeons.

I was also hoping that somehow someday Blizzard will get rid of them as they do not serve any purpose. But seems they are going to be reincarnated : The objects will remain, but the functionality for them will change when we implement the new LFG system. That's all I can say about that for the moment. ;) (Tseric, Blizzard poster)

7.10.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

Intrinsically Silly - No increase in character slots

With Burning Crusade coming (in theory) soon there is one obvious question - will there be a increase of number of character slots per server? Most of advanced players already filled their slot and have more lvl 60 active characters. In my opinion increase in slot numbers would be wise - Burning Crusade brings two new races and i would like to see both of them. Well, something silly is going on : We will not be adding more character slots at this point in time. I have suggested in the past either strategic deletion or venturing into a new realm.  (Nethaera, Blizzard Poster)

6.10.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

Add-on : Wow Cartographe

WOW Cartographe is without doubts one from most usefull programs which i have seen for World of Warcraft - it's worth of mentioning it again as there is new version (1.06) of it with some improvements.

4.10.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

World of Warcraft bits and bytes 29/09/2006

Updated mods worth of note :

• QuickHeal beta (1.14.3) - this is a "must" mod for battleground healing
• FishingBuddy beta (0.8.9 beta 11) - for any serious fisherman
• Metamap (v11200-3) - you will be never lost again :)
• MailExpiry - good to never loose any mail

Thottbot (www.thottbot.com) lost almost all comments it had. This is really bad news as comments were most of the time source of very handy information (when you skipped all that s**t entered by egomaniacs and kids). As usual Thottbot does not answer any e-mails inquiring about situation (Gold Sellers are probably too busy spamming in WoW).

People are falling through the world and have problems to reach spirit for penalty rezzing. It did not happen to me yet, but i had some weird changes of server time and disappearing of all textures for terrain and building yday. But it's for sure that after last patch something is bit wrong as there are numeroud reports of ppl falling through world - we had this in our guild as well.

Hardware upgrades to new servers (realms) have usual effects - they all suffer from lag, disconnects and problems. We had the same problem when Shadowsong was updated some 3 weeks ago. Since then it's back to normal (knock, knock), but we have never got any reimbursement from Blizzard for those days of game unavailable.

PCT (Paid Character Transfers) limits removed - according to announcement from Blizzard it will be possible to tranfer your characters even to "Full" servers. So "you can join your friends" is the reasoning behind - no doubt, good idea. As it's "paid" i don't think we should worry too much about some servers being overloaded with thousands of new alts :)

29.9.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

Patch 1.12.1 - What's going on - Changes and bugs

Exploding bats are back according to numerous reports. So don't forget to run away when ZG bat is about to explode.

Heartstoning  from instances bug should be gone - by hotfix applied to servers. Not sure if it's true about EU ones, but US were restarted.

There should be also some fix to new mount system - fixing the problem of those who spent lot of money on epic mount but not being lvl 60 (and not getting 150 Riding because of that).

Also - if you happen to have "?" instead of some spell on action bar (i had Attack on my druid like that), just drag spell again from spell book.

If you are not seing some characters, mobs, gear, weapons (etc), just delete cache files in WDB folders - it will recreate them (and you are not going to loose anything).

And one interesting note - yday Onyxia decided to teleport me to her location even i was in range to her and not standing anywhere outside of her usual feeding spot.  So maybe count it as newly introduced bug :)

And there are numerous reports of ppl falling through the world (like Morgura in EPL, hi Morg) - if it happens to you, report it to GM i would suggest. And if you happen to fall to some interesting place, i am interested to know from where :)

28.9.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

Black Wing Lair? The place i really, really hate

Last night BWL raid was, let call it properly, disaster. We spent a hour wiping at Razorgore, then wiped several times at Vael, then fast paced through Supression room and killed Bloodlord on first try. And then it started again, wiping at Firemaw. I am really not sure what is wrong, but something is definitely wrong. Last tuesday we downed Razorgore and Vael just on first try without any problem. Even our succesfull attemp at Vael yday was so fast that we just needed only 3 tanks to die - but we were wiping so many times before, it's hard to believe. And it's hard to believe we have those bosses on farm status.

My inner feeling is that BWL is just purely random based instance (or we are complete noobs) and there are too much of random factors which noone can influence. Vael being one example - if too much of healers are BA flagged, it's over. Firemaw being other example - if MT dies, the fight is over as this extremely dumb dragon cares only about him and LineOfSight for debuff is only joke from Blizzard (how the LineOfSight can be behind the dragon, do you know?). Razorgore encounter is also based on one simple random conditions - kiting tanks must not die. And they can do very little about it simply because it depends, again, on random factor - if they will be or not slowed (and killed as they cannot do anything about it).

All this BWL wiping fest makes pisses me off. One week we just go through BWL and take down all bosses on first try. Then, other week, we just spend hours wiping at them. BWL, the place i really, really hate

16.9.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Comments : 1 (18.9.06 10:48) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +

Macros - how to avoid need to use channel number (druids handy tip)

Well, just learned something new - did not know it before and i am sure it's very handy as most of us are struggling with channel numbers in various "announce" macros.

There is /c command in form of  /c [channel_name] text which will let you solve problem with changing channel numbers.

So for example innervating macro with announcement:

/script SendChatMessage("I've innervated you!","whisper",nil,UnitName("target"))
/cast Innervate
/c [substitute_healer_channel_name_here] innervating %t

7.9.2006 | Daniel Dočekal | World of Warcraft (EN) | Add comment | Permalink | Sdílej | +