World of Warcraft

[FireFLi]

Yes making the healing spells more potent would make them more healer based but since I am rest spec'd I am a bit bias. . I just find that druids take allot longer to take mobs out because their dps is so low. I think though that on the whole druids definitely need something. I read that initially travel form was going to be a crow but it was dumped, as that was viewed as too powerful. Imagine a flight form... ooooh.

I also generally solo in the same way as you do. I think 99% of druid players do. I would like to see the casting time reduced on regrowth, as rejuvenation is more of a recovery spell and useless in combat unless your running from a fight.

I didn't know you could use sleep on humanoids I thought it was retsricted to non-humanoids. But thanks for sleep pet tip. Although I have seen very few horde hunters around. Shaman seems to be the class of choice, and they are damn tough to beat down.

 

[FireFLi]

Who else is on EU server BloodHoof?

I am on dragonmaw. If your keen just create a character on there. I have lvl15 Paladin(Bringiton) , a lvl 8 mage (Daxi) and a druid lvl 49 (FireFLi). Can cater for almost all levels.

 

[h0ll0w]

this is a bit off the current topic, but will WoW run much slower on a 192kbit line than on a 384kbit line?

 

[FireFLi]

I play on a 384 line while my wyf surfs and it doesn't seem to affect the game much, so I suspect a 192Kb line should be ok.

 

[guest2013-1]

I'm on 192k, last night I got pings of 500ms with UUNEt, so hopefully things are looking up on that side

 

[RoosTa]

Yes, you are right you can't sleep humanoids, but the pets you can since they are 'beasts'.

 

[RoosTa]

noone, let us know how UUNET keeps up.

The ping never used to be the problem, it was always the packet loss.

 

[Strobemeister]

I'm on ISDN 128 and i have excellent play. I'm currently thinking of changing to adsl, as Imaginet have come on board with 10, 20 & 30 gig accounts, and i'm wondering if its gonna affect my play. ISDN is perfect for overseas servers, but i'd like to start playing b4 7pm, lol.
On druids again, i solo same as u guys, root, cast as much as i can b4 release, then feral. Or, if i root a caster, u have to leave some mana for rejuve b4 feral.

oh ja, I HAVE A BG WINNERS MEDAL, WHOOOOHOOO!!!!

 

[FireFLi]

oh ja, I HAVE A BG WINNERS MEDAL, WHOOOOHOOO!!!!

WoW that's awesome. Got my first taste of BG last and it great albeit we were running around like headless chickens, without a clue of what was going on. The horde guys allot more organised and gave us a smack .

After that waited 30 minutes in the queue and nadda

 

[h0ll0w]

OK so you reckon ping/latency should be the same on 192kbit/s, but what about through-put rate? is 192K enough? 64K is definitely not enough.

 

[Strobemeister]

Our strat on BG was: wait for the horde, as soon as they reached our flag area, 2 of us headed over to their side, in prowl at first, collected their flag, they never left anyone behind all 3 times, lol. But its a hell of a wait to get in, specially in the 21-30 bracket.

 

[FireFLi]

Guys we played against where not that bad. Very organised in fact. They had a group with 2 shamans protecting the flag (Druids worst nightmare) with a warrior and a skilled Rogue on the attack. Must say although they were scum horde, they were good players.

Best strat I think is to get a group of 10 players up front and organise strat before hand. I am in the 40- 50 group and didn't get a second session.

 

[Darric]

OK so you reckon ping/latency should be the same on 192kbit/s, but what about through-put rate? is 192K enough? 64K is definitely not enough.

What are you on about? Using 64K ISDN, both my brother and I sharing the connection can play the game on the official servers with latencies below 400ms. The only exception is when you're in a zone that's being raided. ;p

*cough* Astranaar *cough*

The bandwidth for the game needn't be more than 3KB/s as far as I can see. Hell, it runs fine on a 56K modem, except the latency isn't that great.

This month has been a bit of a pain as my PC tends to spontaneously reset as of late so the bill may shoot up. =(

How's ADSL looking these days for WoW in terms of latency?

 

[Perdition]

Seriously get yourself a "server" to handle the connection, this can be any old computer so it isn't expensive.

 

[Darric]

Seriously get yourself a "server" to handle the connection, this can be any old computer so it isn't expensive.

Actually top of my list for this week, after my exam on Tues. ;p

 

[h0ll0w]

What are you on about? Using 64K ISDN, both my brother and I sharing the connection can play the game on the official servers with latencies below 400ms. The only exception is when you're in a zone that's being raided. ;p

How's ADSL looking these days for WoW in terms of latency?

ISDN 64K can do rougly 8 KBytes/s. Now as you said latency is superb, better than shaped ADSL, but how big is a ICMP packet? its minute, way less than 8Kbyte, so it just flies in and out. But now you want to wanna go pwn some monster ass in Wailing caverns and suddenly there are a ****load of the buggers on your screen and your party is going crazy with all kinds of spells, lights and weaponry to survive. Now your connection has to put through 15+ Kbytes/s and it cant so you lag a second or two behind the rest of the party looking like a fool . The same thing happens during raids and that is the cool part of WoW, the high lvl action.

Thats why I want to know if 192Kbits/s is enough, cause once again 64K is a bottle neck.

 

[FireFLi]

I was pleasantly surprised this weekend to see my latency below 400. Mostly in the mid 400 range which is better than it has been for a long time.

 

[EchoZA]

Yup, this wknd latency was good, what server are you on? I'm on Stormrage as Alliance, with the BEST Guild IMHO The Flames of Alundril!(sp?)

 

[Darric]

I can't honestly say I've had a problem so far with raids on 64K, but admittedly much of my longer play sessions are left to the weekend when I connect at 128K. So I'm willing to accept you're right. ;p

Apologies for my original bluntness. =\

 

[EchoZA]

2nd thought, then again the latency issue (good latency) could have been due to TELKOM screwing up their own network! Only thing that was working was FTP, SHTTP and WOW