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Well good news (for my server) and bad news (for me).

I've mentioned it before I play on an Oceanic server, which are LA based servers. I get a 30 ms ping and moved there because the ANZ time worked well with my schedule.

Yesterday/Last night Blizz announced Oceanic servers are being transferred to Australia, which helps all the ANZ players but now Im looking at a 200+ latency.

Bliz is offering "free" transfers from all servers to an Oceanic server to get the ANZ players there. I put free in quotes because its a "You pay for the transfer and we'll refund the money" which is BS but w/e.

Me and the Wife have posted a bit on OBoards asking CMs if they are going to offer US players free transfers off since they are essentially making the game unplayable competitively. No response and being the Oboards the trolls are a coming out.

Worst part is were worried that even if they do offer "free" transfers off we dont have 500 dollars that we can wait to have refunded. I have no money since Im in college on retraining grants . I'm considering putting in a ticket to refund 2xWoD(one digital collectors)/ game time. I don't want to but I don't think I could handle 200 + ping. The CMs havent responded to the people questioning getting off.

I think its dirty that Blizzard is pretty much extorting us. "Thats a nice account of characters there. Wouldnt it be a shame if something were to happen to them?"

Edited, Oct 23rd 2014 9:19pm by BeanX

Pretty much. I read they are creating oceanic servers and thought "how nice". I did not read further since it doesn't concern me, but the way they are apparently doing it is not as nice as I first thought.

That's great! Hope you enjoy your new server.

Probably nowhere near done, I'd think. I fully expect things up to 6.1 to be a mess.

That's nothing against Blizz, it's still crazy hard to get things to balance closely at all. Every time a new round of hotfixes go out the Shadow guys and gals at least have to rerun about 60 hours worth of sims, just for the one spec. We're getting closer, though.

Honestly though, the complaint this expac isn't necessarily balance. It just feels like they had two different teams on class design, because certain class/specs are absolutely a blast to play. Then there are classes that parse extremely well, but are just junk


When you have a dps that takes a lot of thought to play, which has buttons to press and decisions to make it's a joy to raid.. Then you have Fire Mage or Feral Druid that are clunky or suffer from excessive dead time with nothing to do. For healers you have Holy Priest and Resto Druid which play great, then Resto Shaman and Holy paladin that are basically what they were in TBC and feel dated. Then other classes which are just clunky (boomkin).

Which is my main concern, balance can be fixed with numbers, how do you address clunky or dated gameplay?




Edited, Oct 31st 2014 7:01pm by bodhisattva

Been playing a low lvl toon and found some older quests have been broken with the squash. The quest in West Plaguelands involving the troll druid (name starts with a Z) is semi broke. HE randomly turns into a druid aspect and when he turns into boomkin he starts casting on himself. Before it would take him down to about 40% health. Now he kills himself and you have to run back to the camp and talk to him for him to follow you again.

Another list of hotfixes.

Was it Rotface or Festergut? Because Festergut actually had an instant kill mechanic.

The one with the spore mechanic then. I remember that wiping us many time because people are stupid and do not understand words.

That would have been it then. Got my spores mixed up, thinking it was the damage buff one ala Loetheb.