Friday, May 12, 2006

Tales from the Mage Forum

This blog isn't going to be entirely reduced to quotes from the World of Warcraft forums, I promise. I've got reviews for both Kingdom Hearts 2 (an 8) and Shadow Hearts: From the New World (a 3), but it's 5 AM and I really don't feel like doing them at the moment.

No, the topic for now is the mage forums. They're in disarray at the moment, but the short story is that the talent changes for mages in the upcoming 1.11 patch are rather good, actually. There are N groups of people posting at the moment, being as follows:

Mages arguing over how good, exactly, the changes are. (The Nit-pickers.)
Mages arguing that the changes aren't good enough. (The Unsatisfiable.)
PvP mages complaining that the things that improve PvE strength don't improve PvP strength as much, if at all. (PvP idiots.)
PvE mages complaining that the things that improve PvP strength don't improve PvE strength as much, if at all. (PvE idiots.)
Mages who haven't gotten the memo and who are still complaining about warlocks being #1 in raid damage.
Warlocks complaining that mages are going to have their raid damage improved.

The quote for today is in regards to a PvP idiot complaining that a talent that's mostly useful in PvE, mana reduction, was given added threat reduction.

"Get that MAGE!"
"Umm you sure man? He looks less threatening then he did before, almost 30% less. I am going to ninja the flag instead."

EDIT!: Man, there's a close contender for quote of the day.
"'Magical Chest' is the female night elf racial ability. ¬¬" That one's really better out of context, actually.