Archive for April, 2009

Ulduar’s current state and some ranting

Has been a while after my last post, the mass bans affected us more than expected (this is taking in mind that after the mass bans incident two raiders of our guild got their accounts hacked), but we’re picking up.

But then, it makes me think, what is Ulduar? If you’ve been checking the updates for the past weeks you’d notice that, after the first week, the instance has been heavily nerfed, so encounters are basically a joke now.

Altho Algalon is not the last boss in Ulduar, unless you do all the hard modes and unlock him, and kill him, there’s no real merit in finishing Ulduar. Keep in mind that after he’s unlock you can only fight him for an hour per week.

While this is nice

Daelo:
Further adjustments are highly likely to some of the other encounters in Ulduar, but these were the highest priority encounters for us. We want to allow additional players to experience more of the cool Ulduar content.

After they took so long to put Ulduar (and all that supposed testing) Ulduar became some sort of tour place?

  • Ulduar 10 man — Easy mode
  • Ulduar 10 man — Hard mode
  • Ulduar 25 man — Easy mode
  • Ulduar 25 man — Hard mode

Heroic instances come to your mind? Having an heroic inside an heroic instance… that’s a nice new concept. Before Ulduar I don’t recall any instance that has been nerfed as much (and it’s still in nerfing process) as this one; how long until everything is on farm (easy-mode version) and people get bored again?

Daelo:
We’re currently in the process of making further difficulty adjustments via hotfix to the following encounters:

  • Ignis the Furnace Master
  • Razorscale
  • XT-002 Deconstructor
  • The Assembly of Iron
  • Kologarn
  • Auriaya

The difficulty of these encounters is being lowered in multiple ways. Some of the adjustments are live already, others will be live soon. Note that some of the spell tooltips for the encounter will not reflect the hotfixes being deployed until the next patch.

Maybe in the future we will have Raid Easy, Raid Medium, Raid Hard, Rare Legendary; the same thing of the same instance, for extra content; that is what will keep us busy (yeah, repeating the same fights with just “enhanced difficulty”).

It’s somehow dissapointing. I wish they made all those changes in PvP so my feral druid could rank 2k + (and some might say that there are ferals that have been able to do that, but if you compare the ratio with, lets say, Paladins and Death Knights, the story is different).

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Gahlok
Frostbolt.com

Update: I got unbanned, finally

After I got home from work I checked my email and didn’t see any reply from the email I sent last night, so I wrote another email asking why they haven’t answered.

Later on (almost 24h after the ban) I get this response:

Thank you for taking the time to contact us regarding the World of Warcraft account you are using. We understand your point of view and have thoroughly reviewed this issue. As a result, the account action has been removed from the account and all involved parties have been addressed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Then I got a second email (along with the first one):

Upon further review of a recent series of account actions involving the exploitation of a bug affecting a chest in Ulduar, we have determined that some of the players participating in that raid did not participate in the exploitation of that bug, contrary to our original evaluation. At this time, all of the account actions for the players who did not participate in the exploitation have been removed, and you should be able to access World of Warcraft once again.

As this was an error on the part of our Account Administration staff, we have granted each of those accounts negatively affected by this error compensation of game time in the amount of 2 days of compensation.

They unbanned me and gave me 2 extra days (1 to make up for yesterday and 1 extra I guess), so it’s not bad. But, even tho they did make up their error, I still believe that it’s not the best bet to start a mass ban with the argument that they already investigated about it.

Oh well, I’m pleased with the outcome, and hopefully I won’t get accused again for something I didn’t do :P

By the way, thanks for the support ^_^

Gahlok
Frostbolt.com