Saturday, June 26, 2010

Scattershot

Here's another installment of "Multiple One-Paragraph Ideas From Zarat Theatre".

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I've gotten really stressed over raiding lately, and so I'm taking some impromptu mental health leave. I wish it hadn't come right as Nocturne was so close to Kingslayer, but I feel like if I go raiding one more time I'ma go on a Falling Down-esque murderous rampage. Man that was a good movie.

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Blizzard should make their announcements about future developments somehow knowable in-game. I remember people being really upset when things are taken out of the game (black proto, for instance) without having a chance to get them, to which Blizzard oft replies, "Tough tits, we said as much in a blue post a month ago". I think it's a little weak to expect, nay, demand players visit mmo-champion or compulsively check the forums to see what game-altering shit is on the horizon. And no, the launcher doesn't count.

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I don't want to harp too much on how the LK fight is disappointing from a story perspective, but here's how I would have done it. Beginning starts much the same, sans terrible dialogue we have to hear every goddamned time, but it gets different at the end. When you get him down to 10%, Ner'zhul's ghost rips out of Arthas' body, leaving him bloody and tattered. Everyone's all like, shit, only the Legion knows how to bind him without a human body. The king of all necromancers CCs everyone in place and casts his instant death spell, but before everyone dies, they are protected by all getting mysteriously frozen.

Then the GUARDIANS OF ULDUAR ride in on a helicopter, saving your asses. The Guardians are all about binding shit; it's what they do best. So you beat Ner'zhul up with them, and seal him back in the Frozen Throne with their help. Head back to Dalaran for debriefing and cocktails. Shit. Yes.

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When will cross-realm mail get implemented? I hate leveling my ally alts knowing that I could be leveling 20% faster.

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