Missing you so much. Wondering why life will never give us more than one attempt as this game that you used to play (such so many laughs) allows... We all must fight against the vile cáncer as you faithly did during your last years. True gamer. Rest In Peace.
@Theninja114 I hope not. Heroics should obviously be harder but we should at least be challenged by a dungeon if we're doing it in levelling gear. It doesn't need to be raid level difficulty, but this dungeon was a walkthrough.
@stewyxtreme It also means no hotstreaks or ignites for my firemage so yeah, join the club in terms of how much the big cut in crit is hurting dps across the board
@Veleronis I just did. The author auras just look different. You can see all of them on MMO Champion, I'm not going to spend hours on 10 different characters capturing auras for no good reason
@TheEduardo81 The lore kinda rolls into the questing. Wrath's questing was far superior, nobody should dispute that. Unfortunately questing is about a week's worth of a 2 year expansion for many of us.
@gn1t3 It's not a realistic introduction though. Just like Naxx didn't actually train people for real raiding because there were no consequences to fucking up (ie. mechanics that would have killed you in vanilla, were easily countered by a heal), bosses with mechanics that don't synergise well and keep you on your toes, do not train you for actual raiding. Raid bosses have mechanics which work together to create a challenging environment, these bosses do not.
@Theninja114 I assume that's just the raid or something. Alternatively they have different mechanics for it in the raid. In this case, it's a bug that allows you to fly at the start, it's not intended and will be fixed.
@Antzu313 Yes, but I put it in afterwards due to the speeding up, so it's not necessarily in the right order. I'd imagine the more up-beat, urgent tracks are from the boss fights.
@Armlace To be fair, the balance was better than vanilla, in which there were certain specs like say, shadowpriest, that were bloody useless. It's not to say that TBC didn't have it's problems, it did, in abundance, but they were balance issues rather than entire bad design philosophies.
So glad for these videos. Outstanding quality, direction and commentary makes them so entertaining to watch start-to-finish. Furthermore, I stopped playing WoW just before Christmas (The Warcraft experience started with Arthas/Lich King with WC3 when I was young, ended for me with Icecrown Citadel) but after having played it for so long, I still like to see the way the game's proceeding, and this channel is just perfect for that.
@TheDarkSide1337 Yeah it is. It's all 'Skywall' music. I put it in after the fact in post-production because otherwise it would be sped up and sound ridiculous.
@barkong Playing an MMORPG does not mean socialising with every single person you come across, just as going to a bar with friends does not require you to go and talk to everyone else in the premises. Claiming that PUGing is a challenge because you get grouped with bads is like claiming Bioshock is a really hard game for double amputees.
@acabana213 From what the shaman healer explained, Bind Elemental is pretty much a CC ability you can use on Elementals. Just locks em down, kinda like Shackle.
@miloso Well what I assume it does is it looks at everything you own, bank, bags etc, takes the highest in each slot and calculates. But I can't be certain, some people are saying the system is bugged atm anyway.
@TheKimPam Yes they have, three times. They didn't get the message the first time. I am not interested in working with Machinima and their offer wasn't good enough anyway.
Dude, I have two words for you YOU ROCK I love your commentary and your showing of the Beta, but I wish you did more of the storytelling, but still your dungeons make me really happy for when Cataclysm comes out!!!!!! Keep us the good work
Awesome video! I've absolutely loved the aesthetics of the Skywall instances from day one, I cannot wait to see them myself. Just wanted to point out the tooltips of the food you're eating. Conjured Mana Strudel - Restores 22500 health and 19200 mana over 30 sec. Black Jelly - Restores 45000 health and 38400 mana over 1 min. Basically, you get double the health and mana in double the time, thus it is exactly the same as what you can conjure for yourself.
@blaaaaaaaaaaaaargh Basically, the iLvl restriction should only exist for PUGs. Pre-arranged groups should bypass it entirely, since the game can safely assume the group has already decided who it does and does not want playing with them.
thanks again for another wonderful video, really appreaciate you putting time and energy into these. this not only gives insight to what cataclysm has in store but also lets us prepare for the tacts.
@shmack72 Indeed, it sucked then too. LFG is the most convenient way to queue and the most OPTIMAL way to queue, because of the extra badges you get. The iLvL restriction exists solely to protect random groups from undergeared players, pre-arranged groups have already determined that they want to roll with these guys and shouldn't be stopped by the game from doing so for no good reason at all.
I appreciate the video mate, I like seeing dungeon videos in all these vids you're doing, I mentioned it in a message previously and I'm glad to see you continuing in a direction I was hoping to see. P:S: Thank you for helping me along with a friend opening my eyes to how fun Mages are, come Cata I'm re-rolling troll mage to try out the new Darkspear startign area.
@ArisAlexiou No, you're right, you don't understand me at all. I guess in your mind there are only two kinds of difficulty, Utgarde Keep Normal and LK HC. Thankfully you're not the one designing the game or we'd only have 2 difficulty setti......oh :
@TotalHalibut Thanks again, TB, for yet another great dungeon video! I'm particularly fond of these, since I'm more of a raider, like you. It's really great to see all the new bosses and tactics, even for lower level content. Can't wait until the heroics and raids are available, that should be exciting! THANK YOU for the time and effort you put into the many, many videos you make. They're such a great Cata resource, especially when paired with Jesse's to see the more in-depth questing side.
Man... Everytime I watch your videos I love hearing your critique of what you're doing BETA. I think its a great service for people who will be playing soon. Im definately rerolling a mage in Cata.
I find you to be one of the better commentators here on YT. instead of just saying random shit all the time you actually explain things. you got an awesome voice. and you actually get silent at some moments.
@douchebag599 Well firstly I'm not clicking on everything. Mostly just Assist-F and tab targeting plus using hotkeys. There's a few incidental abilities like Molten Armour and Arcane Intellect that I click because they don't have to be used regularly. Secondly, I turn off the cursor in FRAPs because it's extremely distracting to the viewer and can cause artifacting in the video encode.
This place really is gorgeous. It's already my favorite dungeon as far as aesthetics go. If Blizzard takes your advice from this video it'll probably be my favorite dungeon ever.
@legarambor Sup, Blizzard is a company and isn't going to cry in a corner when confronted by feedback. There is no such thing as 'being too harsh' to a corporate entity, it's not like saying their instance needs work = insulting their mother. That is what beta testers are for and hopefully enough of them realise that otherwise you're not going to have as good as product as you should get on launch.
@legarambor Sure they can be drastic, they can be anything Blizzard wants them to be. They can make huge sweeping changes at the drop of a hat. My feedback contained tons of possible improvements. I'm not going to temper my feedback with idiots in mind, I don't care about them and I want them to all leave the game, so don't expect any quarter from me in that regard.
@THESpoonyLegs There really isn't since they're both the same thing. A criticism is a complaint, a complaint is a criticism. It's a good job you're not in the beta, we don't need any more freeloaders that don't understand what providing feedback is.
@ArisAlexiou I take it you never played vanilla or TBC, because they mobs aren't a candle on any of them. I guess someone that only played Wrath would think these are great, but that's a very low standard to judge them by, because Wrath trash in 5-mans sucks.
Here is casual vs hardcore in a nutshell. A 4 hour dungeon that's really easy, is not casual friendly. A 20 minute difficult dungeon is not hardcore only. Casual play is determined by time and when you are able to invest it. Casual players can't regularly raid for 4 hours or so, they can't reliably turn up on schedule, that's the nature of their life. That does not mean they are stupid or incapable of playing well and they should be shouting that from the rooftops. Casual != Easy.
@MrIggy562 Blizzard has said (repeatedly in fact) that there will be no new sanctuary cities in Cata at all. There will be sanctuary spots like the dark portal (outland side) and the Argent Tournament grounds which will have quest givers for both factions, but no sanctuary cities.
I know you're trying to focus on the instance, but would you be able to divulge on some things such as how you were having mana issues on your mage or maybe going a little more in depth on why warriors are weak in aoe? Enjoyed the vid and thanks! Also, the slipstreams remind of Sonic games bouncing from the springs! :P
One thing Blizz can do with the grounding field is, when the boss is creating it it does a moderate amount of damage to any one close to it, or just all the time but on a smaller scale. And I enjoy how the new Proc Auras look.
In Heroic, the last boss takes about 1.5 seconds to cast an ability called Static Cling that snares you to the ground for 20 seconds then immediately casts supremacy of the storm after conjuring the lightning triangle thing. The only way to avoid the static cling is to jump RIGHT before he finishes casting the spell, it's pretty much almost instant cast and very hard to catch when he's constantly spamming chain lightning whose icons look almost the same.
@Foxmandan1350 In case you haven't found out yet. From streams I've seen, people just hitting 85 with w/e quest gear they find are at 74k for clothies HP wise. And I believe that's only with lvl 82-83 gear.
@TheZofren I've looked over the carbonite quest maps before, and i've worked out a rough idea... it would be nice to them in the game, even with like an invisible wall (or ceiling) but to be able to see them would be pretty neat, then theres the problem of where does WSG go? it's in the middle of ashenvale supposedly (not literally), but theres no room, same with AV and AB, EoTS, SoTA and Isle of conquest could probably be stuck in there somewhere easily though.
I partially agree about your complaints with the item level lock out. I've actually had this issue with alts in WoLK, but at the same time I don't want to get into a dungeon with a tank that has half the needed HP and defense. I've had this happen. In some cases i felt the item level was too low in WoLK (HoR for example) and in others I thought it was too high (ToC for example). I suggest that a full 5 man premade group should be immune to lockouts, but not a PuG.
just have to say you are brilliant, and i laughed at your satyrical comment at the start, mostly because you reminded me of Eddie Izzard, and he is one of my favourite british comedians. kudos man.
I didn't read all the comments (cause that would be a huge waste of time) so I don't know if anyone else might have mentioned this already. But I actually like the glyph that allows your mirror image to cast what you're casting and I think it actually makes sense in a pvp situation. You can better blend into your group then if you're casting fire and they're casting ice. I mean, it's a minor thing, but it makes a little sense.
never responded to one of your videos, but i want to take the time to once just to say thank you for actually voicing the view of the people that want a harder game again. average joes don't have a chance in hell to hold any sort of impact on the game's design. i'm sure blizzard will consider it more thoroughly this time around.
How much dps do you pull on average in this kind of instances? Also, is Frostfire Bolt still available, and if yes, did you try the spec out in the beta? What was your experience. Great video!
well it makes sense that if your fire spec and your mirror images are casting fireballs your going to do more damage because the mage using them will be using the scorch debuff and possibly other fire enhancements. The same would go for the frost or arcane.
@imalazyspartan It's part of the new built-in HUD based on the addon PowerAuras. You can see that he gets two fire-coloured arcs around his character every time hot streaks procs as well - this is going to be the case for most (all?) abilities that are dependant on RNG.
Great video, shows everything I wanted to know about that instance! Good commentary aswell, the intro made me chuckle a bit :) Keep up the good work, ignore all the whiners crying about your commentary and shit like that.. Im glad we have someone who shows stuff properly. I love the looks of mages, leveled one to 80 not long ago and it looks alot more fun in Cataclysm! Looking forward to your next video.
@catzblu999 CC isn't about nullifying the threat, it's about decreasing the threat to a a manageable level. I agree that things shouldn't be trivialized by proper use of CC--they should be made possible by it. That doesn't mean "a circus of mechanics" necessarily. You could just balance it so that the tank couldn't sustain damage from all of the mobs unless you CC one or two. I see your point, but I don't think proper balance with CC in mind means it should be easy with it and hard without.
@xbob1966 Because it's probably about 5m xp from 83-84 or something mad, so 11k xp per mob is probably the equivalent to any other amount of xp you get at low levels, like 200xp in Deadmines
Love your videos TotalBiscuit. I was just wondering, what's the average (dps) HP/mana pool in cataclysm? Or what's yours at least? Since it seems like you can take tons of damage that would kill wotlk-level dps in the blink of an eye. Thanks!
Have you thought about trying flying over the areas on the map where Battlegrounds like AB or WsG are supposedly supposed to be? I've always been curious about where they are in the world, if there at all.
Did they take the new food out of the beta? I was able to buy some as of a couple patches ago, and it's been serving me well. I haven't looked back in a while to see if it's still there. I bought it at, I believe, the Stormwind inn right beside the bank and AH.
Mirror images casting fireball? awesome! and is that the original Pyroblast animation and not the extra large fireball animation added around the same time as Argent Tournament?
speaking of Throne of the Tides, is the Neptulon encounter fixed yet? but lol, that advancimng forward more after 1st boss remineds so much on Sonic the Hedgehog thing XD
man I miss old TH-cam so much, it was more raw and straightforward
Missing you so much.
Wondering why life will never give us more than one attempt as this game that you used to play (such so many laughs) allows...
We all must fight against the vile cáncer as you faithly did during your last years. True gamer.
Rest In Peace.
VP has just been announced for Dragonflight Season 2 - Wish you could see it, bud.
Missed so much, CB.
damn that hits hard
damn :(
@Theninja114 I hope not. Heroics should obviously be harder but we should at least be challenged by a dungeon if we're doing it in levelling gear. It doesn't need to be raid level difficulty, but this dungeon was a walkthrough.
Yo this video popped up in my youtube now that 10.1 was announced hehehe
Awww I miss TB. Seriously it's hard to express how excited I was when the intro rolled. I blindly clicked the guide I wanted. ♥ TB + Genna.
Hello df s2
@stewyxtreme It also means no hotstreaks or ignites for my firemage so yeah, join the club in terms of how much the big cut in crit is hurting dps across the board
@Veleronis I just did. The author auras just look different. You can see all of them on MMO Champion, I'm not going to spend hours on 10 different characters capturing auras for no good reason
@TheEduardo81 The lore kinda rolls into the questing. Wrath's questing was far superior, nobody should dispute that. Unfortunately questing is about a week's worth of a 2 year expansion for many of us.
@gn1t3 It's not a realistic introduction though. Just like Naxx didn't actually train people for real raiding because there were no consequences to fucking up (ie. mechanics that would have killed you in vanilla, were easily countered by a heal), bosses with mechanics that don't synergise well and keep you on your toes, do not train you for actual raiding. Raid bosses have mechanics which work together to create a challenging environment, these bosses do not.
@Theninja114 I assume that's just the raid or something. Alternatively they have different mechanics for it in the raid. In this case, it's a bug that allows you to fly at the start, it's not intended and will be fixed.
@mark01318 But it's an LFG group, he can just press the button to get right back into the dungeon anyway.
@Antzu313 Yes, but I put it in afterwards due to the speeding up, so it's not necessarily in the right order. I'd imagine the more up-beat, urgent tracks are from the boss fights.
@Armlace To be fair, the balance was better than vanilla, in which there were certain specs like say, shadowpriest, that were bloody useless. It's not to say that TBC didn't have it's problems, it did, in abundance, but they were balance issues rather than entire bad design philosophies.
So glad for these videos. Outstanding quality, direction and commentary makes them so entertaining to watch start-to-finish. Furthermore, I stopped playing WoW just before Christmas (The Warcraft experience started with Arthas/Lich King with WC3 when I was young, ended for me with Icecrown Citadel) but after having played it for so long, I still like to see the way the game's proceeding, and this channel is just perfect for that.
@mark01318 You can only res in Dalaran if you spirit res, so it wouldn't help that much, you've still got the same problem.
@pikez17 I am pretty damn sure I mentioned that you could not enter via the dungeon portal.
@TheDarkSide1337 Yeah it is. It's all 'Skywall' music. I put it in after the fact in post-production because otherwise it would be sped up and sound ridiculous.
I am grateful to get ANY videos from you.
Especially a Skywall video.
@barkong Playing an MMORPG does not mean socialising with every single person you come across, just as going to a bar with friends does not require you to go and talk to everyone else in the premises.
Claiming that PUGing is a challenge because you get grouped with bads is like claiming Bioshock is a really hard game for double amputees.
@acabana213 From what the shaman healer explained, Bind Elemental is pretty much a CC ability you can use on Elementals. Just locks em down, kinda like Shackle.
@miloso Well what I assume it does is it looks at everything you own, bank, bags etc, takes the highest in each slot and calculates. But I can't be certain, some people are saying the system is bugged atm anyway.
@TheKimPam Yes they have, three times. They didn't get the message the first time. I am not interested in working with Machinima and their offer wasn't good enough anyway.
Dude, I have two words for you
YOU ROCK
I love your commentary and your showing of the Beta, but I wish you did more of the storytelling, but still your dungeons make me really happy for when Cataclysm comes out!!!!!! Keep us the good work
Awesome video! I've absolutely loved the aesthetics of the Skywall instances from day one, I cannot wait to see them myself.
Just wanted to point out the tooltips of the food you're eating. Conjured Mana Strudel - Restores 22500 health and 19200 mana over 30 sec. Black Jelly - Restores 45000 health and 38400 mana over 1 min.
Basically, you get double the health and mana in double the time, thus it is exactly the same as what you can conjure for yourself.
@blaaaaaaaaaaaaargh Basically, the iLvl restriction should only exist for PUGs. Pre-arranged groups should bypass it entirely, since the game can safely assume the group has already decided who it does and does not want playing with them.
thanks again for another wonderful video, really appreaciate you putting time and energy into these. this not only gives insight to what cataclysm has in store but also lets us prepare for the tacts.
@pikez17 Well if you listened to the whole video you'd also have heard the the dungeon portal doesn't work.
@Mbarnes3381 Because Cataclysm slashes your crit ratings into pieces. I had about 17% crit in this video, which is a massive drop from Wrath.
@shmack72 Indeed, it sucked then too. LFG is the most convenient way to queue and the most OPTIMAL way to queue, because of the extra badges you get. The iLvL restriction exists solely to protect random groups from undergeared players, pre-arranged groups have already determined that they want to roll with these guys and shouldn't be stopped by the game from doing so for no good reason at all.
@GamezFTW1990 Well the raids aren't in yet
I appreciate the video mate, I like seeing dungeon videos in all these vids you're doing, I mentioned it in a message previously and I'm glad to see you continuing in a direction I was hoping to see.
P:S: Thank you for helping me along with a friend opening my eyes to how fun Mages are, come Cata I'm re-rolling troll mage to try out the new Darkspear startign area.
@ArisAlexiou No, you're right, you don't understand me at all. I guess in your mind there are only two kinds of difficulty, Utgarde Keep Normal and LK HC. Thankfully you're not the one designing the game or we'd only have 2 difficulty setti......oh :
@polynuuma Blastwave is crazy mana efficient right now, but it's not free no.
@TotalHalibut Thanks again, TB, for yet another great dungeon video! I'm particularly fond of these, since I'm more of a raider, like you. It's really great to see all the new bosses and tactics, even for lower level content. Can't wait until the heroics and raids are available, that should be exciting!
THANK YOU for the time and effort you put into the many, many videos you make. They're such a great Cata resource, especially when paired with Jesse's to see the more in-depth questing side.
I love the design of the walls.The spinning vortex's is a very nice touch to this instance.Great video!!
@Coldfan223 Power auras, as explained in the video
Man... Everytime I watch your videos I love hearing your critique of what you're doing BETA. I think its a great service for people who will be playing soon. Im definately rerolling a mage in Cata.
@geminighost3 Ya have? It only came out a couple of days ago :P
I find you to be one of the better commentators here on YT.
instead of just saying random shit all the time you actually explain things.
you got an awesome voice.
and you actually get silent at some moments.
@zingmars The one linked at the top of my channel with the big F button?
I'm grateful for ALL of your videos EXCEPT THE SEAGULL ONE! It really NEEDS to be 27 minutes and 40 seconds long.
@douchebag599 Well firstly I'm not clicking on everything. Mostly just Assist-F and tab targeting plus using hotkeys. There's a few incidental abilities like Molten Armour and Arcane Intellect that I click because they don't have to be used regularly.
Secondly, I turn off the cursor in FRAPs because it's extremely distracting to the viewer and can cause artifacting in the video encode.
@xad166 Ya go to Dalaran, enjoy that.
I totally appreciate the bloody pain and suffering you went through for us! Keep up the interesting and entertaining beta previews!
This place really is gorgeous. It's already my favorite dungeon as far as aesthetics go. If Blizzard takes your advice from this video it'll probably be my favorite dungeon ever.
@legarambor Sup, Blizzard is a company and isn't going to cry in a corner when confronted by feedback. There is no such thing as 'being too harsh' to a corporate entity, it's not like saying their instance needs work = insulting their mother. That is what beta testers are for and hopefully enough of them realise that otherwise you're not going to have as good as product as you should get on launch.
@CuntDangIt Sounds great... except that buff isn't magic so you can't.
@legarambor Sure they can be drastic, they can be anything Blizzard wants them to be. They can make huge sweeping changes at the drop of a hat. My feedback contained tons of possible improvements. I'm not going to temper my feedback with idiots in mind, I don't care about them and I want them to all leave the game, so don't expect any quarter from me in that regard.
When it comes down to your videos, i just look up the longest one and start viewing :) Love your voice, it's awesome!!
@THESpoonyLegs There really isn't since they're both the same thing. A criticism is a complaint, a complaint is a criticism. It's a good job you're not in the beta, we don't need any more freeloaders that don't understand what providing feedback is.
@9Cheff1 I already did, plus there's pics up on my Facebook page.
@Puffles15 Watch the whole video before commenting.
@ArisAlexiou I take it you never played vanilla or TBC, because they mobs aren't a candle on any of them. I guess someone that only played Wrath would think these are great, but that's a very low standard to judge them by, because Wrath trash in 5-mans sucks.
Here is casual vs hardcore in a nutshell. A 4 hour dungeon that's really easy, is not casual friendly. A 20 minute difficult dungeon is not hardcore only. Casual play is determined by time and when you are able to invest it. Casual players can't regularly raid for 4 hours or so, they can't reliably turn up on schedule, that's the nature of their life. That does not mean they are stupid or incapable of playing well and they should be shouting that from the rooftops. Casual != Easy.
Glad to see the need for CC is back. Also: Thank you for making beta videos entertaining.
@MultiverseTheory I turned them down, their offer wasn't good enough.
@MrIggy562 Blizzard has said (repeatedly in fact) that there will be no new sanctuary cities in Cata at all. There will be sanctuary spots like the dark portal (outland side) and the Argent Tournament grounds which will have quest givers for both factions, but no sanctuary cities.
@Gorinrogue Not magic afaik.
this instance is just gorgeous. I don't think I'll get bored of this one for a while :P
I know you're trying to focus on the instance, but would you be able to divulge on some things such as how you were having mana issues on your mage or maybe going a little more in depth on why warriors are weak in aoe?
Enjoyed the vid and thanks! Also, the slipstreams remind of Sonic games bouncing from the springs! :P
One thing Blizz can do with the grounding field is, when the boss is creating it it does a moderate amount of damage to any one close to it, or just all the time but on a smaller scale.
And I enjoy how the new Proc Auras look.
In Heroic, the last boss takes about 1.5 seconds to cast an ability called Static Cling that snares you to the ground for 20 seconds then immediately casts supremacy of the storm after conjuring the lightning triangle thing. The only way to avoid the static cling is to jump RIGHT before he finishes casting the spell, it's pretty much almost instant cast and very hard to catch when he's constantly spamming chain lightning whose icons look almost the same.
Yes I remember static cling. Good fun. Though as a druid you can just shapeshift out of it if you screwed up and got hit by it.
@dxforme999 I... do? Frequently?
We still love ya TB. I remember the audio runthroughs of BC instances. Yer the coolest.
@archlorddestin Lv81 ability. Not all that great unfortunately :/
!!! I Saw the new aura that glows for the special procs! Is that helping you more? They look sick!
@Foxmandan1350 In case you haven't found out yet. From streams I've seen, people just hitting 85 with w/e quest gear they find are at 74k for clothies HP wise. And I believe that's only with lvl 82-83 gear.
I enjoy your videos, I get to see the stuff without having to play.
@TheZofren I've looked over the carbonite quest maps before, and i've worked out a rough idea... it would be nice to them in the game, even with like an invisible wall (or ceiling) but to be able to see them would be pretty neat, then theres the problem of where does WSG go? it's in the middle of ashenvale supposedly (not literally), but theres no room, same with AV and AB, EoTS, SoTA and Isle of conquest could probably be stuck in there somewhere easily though.
I am loving the instance and the power aura's built in. I hope that they do touch up on this place in terms of mobs etcs
I cant bloody wait, that has got to be the most beautiful dungeon I have seen in a long time, Thumbs up for Cataclysm. (y)
Oh Cataclysm, I AM SO EXCITED.
That instance looks absolutely gorgeous..and CC is back ^^
I partially agree about your complaints with the item level lock out. I've actually had this issue with alts in WoLK, but at the same time I don't want to get into a dungeon with a tank that has half the needed HP and defense.
I've had this happen. In some cases i felt the item level was too low in WoLK (HoR for example) and in others I thought it was too high (ToC for example).
I suggest that a full 5 man premade group should be immune to lockouts, but not a PuG.
Just a thought, consider trying Frostfire? If it's still as mana efficient as it is currently then it'd greatly reduce downtime
just have to say you are brilliant, and i laughed at your satyrical comment at the start, mostly because you reminded me of Eddie Izzard, and he is one of my favourite british comedians. kudos man.
I didn't read all the comments (cause that would be a huge waste of time) so I don't know if anyone else might have mentioned this already. But I actually like the glyph that allows your mirror image to cast what you're casting and I think it actually makes sense in a pvp situation. You can better blend into your group then if you're casting fire and they're casting ice. I mean, it's a minor thing, but it makes a little sense.
never responded to one of your videos, but i want to take the time to once just to say thank you for actually voicing the view of the people that want a harder game again. average joes don't have a chance in hell to hold any sort of impact on the game's design. i'm sure blizzard will consider it more thoroughly this time around.
How much dps do you pull on average in this kind of instances? Also, is Frostfire Bolt still available, and if yes, did you try the spec out in the beta? What was your experience. Great video!
well it makes sense that if your fire spec and your mirror images are casting fireballs your going to do more damage because the mage using them will be using the scorch debuff and possibly other fire enhancements. The same would go for the frost or arcane.
@imalazyspartan
It's part of the new built-in HUD based on the addon PowerAuras. You can see that he gets two fire-coloured arcs around his character every time hot streaks procs as well - this is going to be the case for most (all?) abilities that are dependant on RNG.
@p3u3g3 Interesting. According to p3u3g3, in order to give a more realistic view of this instance, we have to suck.
Great video, shows everything I wanted to know about that instance! Good commentary aswell, the intro made me chuckle a bit :)
Keep up the good work, ignore all the whiners crying about your commentary and shit like that.. Im glad we have someone who shows stuff properly.
I love the looks of mages, leveled one to 80 not long ago and it looks alot more fun in Cataclysm!
Looking forward to your next video.
Thanks for another great video and also thanks for the quick bugged out moment at Vashj'ir earlier today!
try to disable the option "Hardware cursor" under your advanced video options, i think it will stop some of the crashes when targetting mobs
@catzblu999 CC isn't about nullifying the threat, it's about decreasing the threat to a a manageable level. I agree that things shouldn't be trivialized by proper use of CC--they should be made possible by it. That doesn't mean "a circus of mechanics" necessarily. You could just balance it so that the tank couldn't sustain damage from all of the mobs unless you CC one or two. I see your point, but I don't think proper balance with CC in mind means it should be easy with it and hard without.
Great Guide man. How much dps do you do?
I'll never get tired of this place!
@xbob1966 Because it's probably about 5m xp from 83-84 or something mad, so 11k xp per mob is probably the equivalent to any other amount of xp you get at low levels, like 200xp in Deadmines
Love your videos TotalBiscuit. I was just wondering, what's the average (dps) HP/mana pool in cataclysm? Or what's yours at least? Since it seems like you can take tons of damage that would kill wotlk-level dps in the blink of an eye. Thanks!
Have you thought about trying flying over the areas on the map where Battlegrounds like AB or WsG are supposedly supposed to be? I've always been curious about where they are in the world, if there at all.
Did they take the new food out of the beta? I was able to buy some as of a couple patches ago, and it's been serving me well. I haven't looked back in a while to see if it's still there. I bought it at, I believe, the Stormwind inn right beside the bank and AH.
thanks for posting your gameplay totalhalibut. its nice to see warcraft gameplay and enjoy a nice cup of joe. thanks again. peace!
Mirror images casting fireball? awesome! and is that the original Pyroblast animation and not the extra large fireball animation added around the same time as Argent Tournament?
speaking of Throne of the Tides, is the Neptulon encounter fixed yet?
but lol, that advancimng forward more after 1st boss remineds so much on Sonic the Hedgehog thing XD
designs like this dungeon are the kind of amazing compositions that made me want to become a game designer. just wow
The roaming silencing tornados of the Ancient Stone Keeper (Uldaman) would be nice to add in this. Cause some required movement.
This is the most impressive area you have shown from Cataclysm so far.
howd you find poweruras? Obtainable by Curse? Very nice, thank you im very grateful you made this.