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11-24-2008, 02:44 PM
TheBigBB

RE: anti-boxer + anti elemental shaman

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Originally Posted by 'Catamer',index.php?page=Thread&postID=151506#post 151506

I seem to notice quite a bit of anti-boxer stuff too. Is it just me or things anti elemental shaman too?
the special death knight quests prevent follow... it's completely eliminated, an example is trying to get your mount for the death knight.
I've seen it in other quests too. One quest where I was supposed to mount a gryphon and rescue villagers has follow completely eliminated and so is focus.

It seems to me like they went out of thier way to design boss fights that are anti-boxing, like kill your doubleganger or whiplash the whole team around so they face away from the boss.
It also seems to be that they are going out of their way to be anti elemental shaman. I had one of those little plants in the nexus kill my fire elemental in two hits, these are WEAK plants and can't do much damage.
I find the shaman elementals vaporise in these instances. The grounding totems don't work in some fights. No elemental shaman gear except for leatherworking.

I used to have well geared shaman at 70. at 74 I feel like I now have so-so geared shaman and they are weak because I haven't seen hardly anything that's an upgrade.
almost all of the mail quest rewards are worthless for the elemental shaman ( no + spell )
almost all of the plate quest rewards are worthless for the protection pally ( no block, no parry, no dodge )

I don't agree with much of this. Boxers have always had occasion to do some quests one guy at a time. Collections are a good example of this. The quest to get a horse takes way less time than any collection quest ever took. Elementals might be bugged somehow if they die that easily. I haven't noticed it yet, but I rarely use the elementals. If it's a bug then report it to Blizzard, because I don't think elementals were purposely designed to be useless.

You're right that the green quest rewards are horrible, but any quest with blue gear almost always has something really nice. Check out the armory link in my sig and take a glance at my level 75 guys or even on my B-team level 70 prot pally. I got tons of nice blues from quests on these guys without even clearing an instance on the B team. Remember, prot pallies tank with gear that has no spell power on it now due to gaining spell power from stamina and some skills using strength and AP.
03-07-2009, 07:20 AM
Brutala

Hey :)

I get this follow broken problem too when riding. I run a 5 man group on 5 windows on the same computer.

It usually only happens for 1 or 2 toons at a time. But then it usually keeps happening for that 1 or 2 toons, until i restart wow completely; closing all 5 window and starting again.

Im supecting that it could be somehow related to system ressources. That the window is not getting enough "attention" from the CPU. My cpu is pretty maxed out to 90-99%. In Northrend I have to set CPU priority for my main window to "Above normal" to get 20-30 fps, else it lags at 10 fps.

I tried making my main autorun, and then watching the window of the problem toon. It seems that even though the toon is near my main paladin, it is not getting the crusader aura buff. Turning off the Crusader Aura helps a bit, but still, the toon breaks follow. It just takes a little longer without the Crusader Aura.

I even tried manually pressing the forward key W in the problems toons window. It is STILL loosing run speed compared to the other toons. I have to conclude that the "follow broken" problem do not have anything to do with the follow function. It must be some sort of priority problem. Either with the CPU or in the communication with the Blizzard server.

/Brutala
03-07-2009, 01:01 PM
Frojax

I was starting to think that I was just being a little paranoid until I read this. I've been having problems with follow since I got into WotLK too, I thought perhaps it was a i play all of my clients of full detail, so I dropped that and still suffered problems. Add to the follow problem, the fact that every other quest seems to be a collection quest and I'm not having huge amounts of fun boxing at the moment. But, it's not that far to 80, so I can put up with it for now :D
03-07-2009, 01:07 PM
Multibocks

Here's how I travel in Storm Peaks. I point my leader in the direction of travel I want to go and then hit numlok on all slaves once they are lined up. You are all travelling at the same speed and therefore you never needed follow. Now say you needed to change direction? Hit /follow again and then put on numlock. Also I could draw you a map of where in Storm Peaks you need to be careful, also there are routes you can take where it will only hit you once. I learned this while getting my sons of hodir rep up. It's a pain in the ass, but now that I have put some time into it I know exactly what to do.
03-08-2009, 04:36 AM
pinotnoir

Storm Peaks is the worse.. After fighting it with my shamans I dont plan on questing there with any other teams. PIss on that zone and its phasing.
03-08-2009, 11:18 AM
5fingersofdoom

You will get used to it Pinot,if you are doing dailies in Icecrown you will get phasing alot.
WoTLK is hard on MB,large amount of collection q,phasing ect,but stick with it,after a while you will get used to where the phasing is and be able to compensate.
Myself I use Keyclone,and just use the DNP button when I hit phasing then move all my toons through the joint together,drop DNP and carry on.
GL and HF :)
03-08-2009, 12:44 PM
pinotnoir

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Originally Posted by '5fingersofdoom',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1842 22#post184222

You will get used to it Pinot,if you are doing dailies in Icecrown you will get phasing alot.
WoTLK is hard on MB,large amount of collection q,phasing ect,but stick with it,after a while you will get used to where the phasing is and be able to compensate.
Myself I use Keyclone,and just use the DNP button when I hit phasing then move all my toons through the joint together,drop DNP and carry on.
GL and HF :)

I am pretty good with Icecrown but I dont care to go back to storm peaks. The DNP is a good idea. I didnt think of that. I would just hit my alt movement keys and go forward until they all get into the phase. My last team leveled to 80 without doing 1 quest in stormpeaks. They had lots of rest xp. I may have to go there with my new team. I dont look forward to it.
03-08-2009, 12:56 PM
Gadzooks

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Originally Posted by 'pinotnoir',index.php?page=Thread&postID=184232#po st184232

Quote:

Originally Posted by '5fingersofdoom',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1842 22#post184222

You will get used to it Pinot,if you are doing dailies in Icecrown you will get phasing alot.
WoTLK is hard on MB,large amount of collection q,phasing ect,but stick with it,after a while you will get used to where the phasing is and be able to compensate.
Myself I use Keyclone,and just use the DNP button when I hit phasing then move all my toons through the joint together,drop DNP and carry on.
GL and HF :)

I am pretty good with Icecrown but I dont care to go back to storm peaks. The DNP is a good idea. I didnt think of that. I would just hit my alt movement keys and go forward until they all get into the phase. My last team leveled to 80 without doing 1 quest in stormpeaks. They had lots of rest xp. I may have to go there with my new team. I dont look forward to it.

I quite enjoyed Storm Peaks, the questing there is a lot of fun, but yeah, it's probably the worst for teams.

I've just gotten used to the phasing, like everyone says, you get used to where it happens, and you just spam the follow key when it happens. I was pissed at it for about 5 minutes, then just accepted it. It's not "broken", so much as phasing has changed the way the zones work, and I doubt Blizzard will look at it as something needing a "fix" (unless hopefully some WoW devs MB, and ask their dev buddies to "fix" it) (heh)
03-08-2009, 08:38 PM
5fingersofdoom

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Originally Posted by 'pinotnoir',index.php?page=Thread&postID=184232#po st184232

Quote:

Originally Posted by '5fingersofdoom',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1842 22#post184222

You will get used to it Pinot,if you are doing dailies in Icecrown you will get phasing alot.
WoTLK is hard on MB,large amount of collection q,phasing ect,but stick with it,after a while you will get used to where the phasing is and be able to compensate.
Myself I use Keyclone,and just use the DNP button when I hit phasing then move all my toons through the joint together,drop DNP and carry on.
GL and HF :)

I am pretty good with Icecrown but I dont care to go back to storm peaks. The DNP is a good idea. I didnt think of that. I would just hit my alt movement keys and go forward until they all get into the phase. My last team leveled to 80 without doing 1 quest in stormpeaks. They had lots of rest xp. I may have to go there with my new team. I dont look forward to it.

Ah sry didn't know you had 80'd already,but glad the DNP may help.
I had to do Storm Peaks and agreed its hard on MB's
Anyway m8 GL hope you get through the grind ok.
03-10-2009, 01:33 AM
Simulacra

Happens to me all the time while doing icecrown dailies, the best method I've found is to not block aswd keys and when they disappear just press the w key and they reappear instantly. Also makes for some nice flying manouvers :) spread your team out and go for a fly while your main is ducking and diving between them, very entertainingg on long flights :)

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