World of Warcraft: Current Year

  • Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!



    Go here and give us your nominations!
    Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
T

Teron D'Amun

607
1
Dandai_sl said:
I assume it's much more difficult to get 25 people who can avoid standing in fire than it is to get 10.
Click to expand...
thats only the logistics side, not personal responsibility during the fights themselves
someone dying on 10m who has a vital role has a much bigger impact than on 25 man (1 combat res vs 3) and early on you needed to have a certain class setup and their cooldowns for ToT heroics or go home, don't have a Discipline Priest or Protection Paladin in your 10 man? Well shit, better recruit some or keep doing normal modes until you overgear that fight.
 
Grayson Carlyle

Grayson Carlyle

Golden Squire
225
9
What Dream Paragon said was that their 10-man group was the best 10 people they could find, which where all individually far more skilled than the average of their old 25 (though that seems exaggerated to me, that's what they said), and world first race was unrelated to that. On that topic, they said that 10s and 25s can't be compared because of movement and encounter mechanic logistics; they are in reality different fights in 10 and 25, so you can't have the same race between them at all. They did not mention in any way the guild and social logistics of 10s and 25s in respect to that topic.
 
Kuro

Kuro

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
8,937
23,490
Do you want to play Crit Roulette and watch your DPS nosedive when you roll poorly, or do you want to play The Unmoving Turret and curse when your DPS nosedives whenever a mechanic tells you to move when your mindflay procs are lined up?


I do consider killing yourself/wiping the raid with Alter Time to be a point in Mage's favor.
 
A

Astral Projection_sl

shitlord
1,268
18
DavivMcD_sl said:
Priest so you can lifegrip tanks right as they run in to pull and watch the first few dps reach the boss get creamed.
Click to expand...
Damn, now I wanna finish leveling my Priest just to do this in LFR.
tongue.png
 
Cybsled

Cybsled

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
17,090
13,617
I've been in LFR where the priest lifegrip AFK leachers into the fire so the leachers die ;P
 
bixxby

bixxby

Molten Core Raider
2,750
47
Priest dps seemed to scale really poorly when I was gearing mine. Mages scale retardedly well and do big boy dps. Neither are as fun as a ret paladin though!
 
Noodleface

Noodleface

A Mod Real Quick
38,275
15,106
Got tired of levelling my lock (86) so did some pvp on my DK (90). Pretty decent so far. I swore I did pvp this expansion and was fully geared, but alas all I had was a single pair of boots I got off Sha in season 12. They're still good so I'll upgrade other stuff. Seems ok, Didn't really understand the new MOP BG that I did but that's ok. I do terrible damage so far. Is Frost the preferred PVP dps spec?

How do warriors fare in PVP? I have one at 71 I might level up if they are decent.
 
OneofOne

OneofOne

Silver Baronet of the Realm
6,886
8,712
Me thinks Kotick will suck off or kill anyone who gets in his way of NOT paying that dividend.
 
Noodleface

Noodleface

A Mod Real Quick
38,275
15,106
nice, I'll have to gear up a bit before I'm able to compete at all. Walking around in LFR (1st raid) gear now. With a PVP set of boots.
 
R

Running Dog_sl

shitlord
1,199
3
Drakurii_sl said:
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/vivend...20130721-00005
Click to expand...
Wow I didn't realise just how much cash Kotick had stockpiled...

"At Activision Blizzard, one option under consideration is for Vivendi--which controls a majority of the seats on the videogame company's board--to vote for a dividend of over $3 billion from its subsidiary, some of the people familiar with the matter said. Given Vivendi's 60% stake in Activision Blizzard, such a dividend would pay Vivendi roughly $2 billion. Activision Blizzard would have to raise debt to fund such a dividend, because it does not have enough cash in the U.S. to pay it, the people familiar with the matter said.Activision Blizzard had $4.3 billion in cash and cash equivalents at the end of March, but $2.7 billion of that cash is held offshore, and would be hit with U.S. taxes if repatriated.."
 
Ukerric

Ukerric

Bearded Ape
<Silver Donator>
8,311
10,289
Running Dog_sl said:
Wow I didn't realise just how much cash Kotick had stockpiled...
Click to expand...
About every major multinational company these days operates on the same system. A stack of off-shore companies holding "IP rights" that your real company has to pay at exorbitant rates, which happen to just match the amount of profit you made. In a world where the majority of the stockholder profit is made from selling/buying, rather than dividends, it doesn't matter that this money can't be used to distribute dividends.

Oh, and Apple had the same problem: when Tim Cook decided to break tradition by distributing a dividend to stockholders, he borrowed the money, because the interest on it was less than the US tax would be if Apple brought the money back. Thankfully, no politician is really serious about deficits, so those loopholes will never be plugged.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.