News, Patches, PTR, Ulduar

It’s coming fast and furious now. Methinks we’ll see the PTR far sooner than I imagined. Here’s the cliff notes for pertinent information:

• Boss testing will only be allowed during primetime in respective regions.
• Boss testing schedule will be published beforehand so you will know when and what is being tested.
• Some bosses will only be tested in ONE region (US or EU).
• Only a couple bosses will be up for extended testing.
• First set of bosses to be tested are: Freya, Thorim, Hodir, The Iron Council (killing all the good guys eh?).
• Vehicles will mostly only be used in the initial encounter area. Once you’re inside the “meat” of the dungeon there won’t be vehicles (or very few).
• The power of vehicles will scale with your gear (most likely iLevel and quality, not actual stats).

So far the known bosses in Ulduar are as follows:

• Freya
• Thorim
• Hodir

• Tyr
• Mimir

• The Iron Council
• The Flame Leviathan
• Yogg-Saron

I will update this post when and if new information becomes available. Tell your friends to visit if you want Ulduar information distilled down to a need-to-know format!

Bad Players, elitistjerks, skill

One of the favorite pass times of people in the Benefactor’s Bar is pointing out and making fun of people who are horrible at the game. As mean as it is, it is boatloads of fun and I’m not above being an elitist asshole to a certain degree. Let’s be honest, I read our applications forum and deny 95% of our apps within literally 3 seconds of opening the application multiple times a day. I have a lot of experience being a cold hearted asshole in the privacy of my own home. With that said I bring you some choice quotes:

Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I usually put out 1500 dps (more or less, depending on the instance), so did you by chance mean 2600 dps for Naxx? If I redo my talents and get a couple more epics I’m sure I could do 1600 DPS.

And the response by a shall-not-be-named Benefactor’s Bar poster:

I’m pretty sure I can autoshot/pet attack my way to 2k dps, at least. How do you do 1600 dps without purposely sabotaging your dps?

For reference, the Armory of the person in question is located here. Now I realize that most people don’t take this game seriously, don’t put a ton of effort into their characters, and don’t do a lot of research into doing things the “right” way. But this is a guy on the Elitist Jerks forums, posting about DPS. This SEEMS like the type of person who would actually be putting some effort into, you know, not SUCKING COMPLETE ASS. I just can’t imagine there’s any guides on EJ saying to socket 24 stamina into your gear, to use old world gems, or using items with expertise on them (and gemming for expertise socket bonuses!) as a Hunter. I won’t mentioned the stuff that’s ungemmed or unenchanted; maybe he’s been busy lately or maybe he’s donating all his gold to the Red Cross. I don’t know, I won’t judge.

There’s no real point to this post. Just to have a laugh and get your weekly dose of being an elitist asshole. It’s nice knowing there’s always someone worse than you. Enjoy!