The nerf bat falls again!

[Khatovar]

I wonder why they dont make the RPstuff in COT skippable....

It's coming, just not yet.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...geNo=1&sid=1#6

Changes to Culling of Stratholme that allow players to skip past the initial story elements will be in a future patch. What seems simple ended up taking a bit of time to implement, and will take just as long if not longer for QA to fully test. I wanted to make sure the quests are still able to be completed, and nothing broke in some rare but significant boundary cases.

Along with the huge change to allow skipping, there's other smaller changes. I lowered the delay after the first boss dies until the undead waves start again. Arthas no longer physically runs from the front to the inn, he just teleports there. Arthas runs to the bookshelf instead of walking.

[Owltoid]

GS has allowed PUG raids to be formed relatively quickly. Complain all you want, but some metric is needed to quickly assess potential. The way around it? Raid like in the old days with your guild.

[crowdx]

So in response to upping the gear to get higher GS rating, my Druid is sub 5k GS and yet he has a mix of Nax, Emblem of Triumph and Crafted gear, I have no idea how I can get a higher gear score on him without raiding. I think it is his trinkets which are pulling down the GS but nothing else I have seen can replace the trinkets and so I am stuck
My whole main team is pretty much decked out in what I feel is the best gear avaialble to them and yet none are above the magic 5k GS.

[Multibocks]

Why havent they nerfed the Brann Event yet? I still have some problems with this event (mostly on my melee team). It's ridiculous that they are making easy bosses easier, yet they don't even mention this one. Hell even if you are super awesome it still takes 5 mins for the whole thing to go down, yet the Brann walking to the event was unbearable? (LOL he took like 30 secs to walk over.)

[crowdx]

TOTALLY agree, I just posted about the Brann event and how I am still getting my ass kicked on it yet CoS is a cakewalk (very similar in my opinion).
Even if they nerfed the hp on the mobs or something and that damn laser still seems to hit like a truck

[Multibocks]

I think they should shorten it to 4 mins or more time between waves, but something needs to be changed... I mean if you are going to make VH faster and all, why not the brann event.

[Zappy]

Why havent they nerfed the Brann Event yet? I still have some problems with this event (mostly on my melee team). It's ridiculous that they are making easy bosses easier, yet they don't even mention this one. Hell even if you are super awesome it still takes 5 mins for the whole thing to go down, yet the Brann walking to the event was unbearable? (LOL he took like 30 secs to walk over.)

The first time I completed this event on my melee team (DK/4rets), i barely completed it as my entire group wiped right as it finished.

I got halls of stone again a few nights ago and retried it, and wiped pretty bad on the first attempt. 2nd attempt I figured it out and got the "Brann Spankin' New" achievement. I found fighting in the hall a little easier for the achievement, however the fight mechanics are the same regardless of your positioning. Tank and spank for the most part. When the focused beam comes out, it's important to strafe out of the way of it quickly, and you'll take very little damage. I didn't even have to use the DS/DS rotation.

[daviddoran]

I pad my gearscore with an itemset in outfitter called "GS" that just maxes out every item from both my specs, etc. It puts on some pvp gear, etc. It makes my GS number go up.

Just get the badge trinkets, and equip em only when trying to get into a pug, and switch to your ideal stuff once you are in, etc.

I also hate the ones that demand you link an achieve... How can i get an achieve in ICC 10 if i cant get into an ICC10... I just say "i have achieve on my other toon, but that one is saved to my guild run"

Waiting for monday also helps, as raid leaders are more desperate to fill the spot.

[Owltoid]

If there are plenty of people struggling with the 5k GS, then why not just start a raid asking for 4k GS? Seems like you'll get a ton of replies.

[Multibocks]

To get to 5k gs run heroics until you are full T9, then run ToC10/25 to fill in odd pieces. ToC10 is pretty darn easy and I imagine the gs requirement (for pugs) would be low, like 4100. Getting the achieve is really the hard part, because no one wants to invite someone that they have to teach how to raid.


P.S. Isnt this GS stuff getting old now? I mean all of these posts that are just lamenting how lame the system is... I don't think there are a whole lot of people that like it, can we just agree it sucks but is here to stay?