Comments on: Ghostcrawler; epic thread, epic guy

By: Ends

Ends — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:28:09 +0000

@Chris:

I love the food expiration idea! I would purposefully leave food in my bank until it went bad and started growing over the stuff in neighboring slots…just so I could watch 24 people puke in raid.

Maybe nixx the debuff part, though.

And yes, I also love to put down Great Feasts in battlegrounds just to see extra-huge cows come storming out of the start area. :)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:45:55 +0000

I’d create two dailies for an obscure faction like Hydraxian Waterlords. One of them would be in Silithus and the other would be in EPL so no flying mounts. The only way to get rep would be to do the dailies for 1000 rep per day. Next, I’d make some epic caster, dps and tanking trinkets available at exalted. Then I’d wait for about 38 days before nerfing the trinkets.

If I was feeling nasty I might try one of the following:
Nerf bags – nothing says fun like 10 slots max
Add a lifespan to mounts and pets – after all, why shouldn’t they grow old and die?
Add an expiration date to food – you know all those fish feasts that you’ve got in the bank…let them sit too long and your entire raid pukes and gets a 3 hour debuff.

By: Kall

Kall — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:24:12 +0000

Make fishing have a (very low) chance of dropping a token to upgrade the greatness cards. And increase cast time by 3s.

By: Stupid Mage

Stupid Mage — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:43:53 +0000

Blue Post-
“Yes, Rogues are the best in PvP for killing quickly. That is not a game flaw, that’s just how it is. Somebody has to be the best at it, so stop bitching. Further QQ will make us buff them until the point is made. Have a nice day.”

By: Stupid Mage

Stupid Mage — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:37:41 +0000

The fishing combat buffs should only work while standing in water.

By: dorgol

dorgol — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:41:48 +0000

I think Deyndor got it right – a buff to Eye of Killrog is in order.

Not only is it a buff to a mostly useless spell, but it’s a buff to a WARLOCK mostly useless spell.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:37:46 +0000

A re-addition to the mind vision thing, instead of nerfing, buff it!

Any target affected by mind vision takes 8000% more smite damage from the priest casting mind vision. Since mind vision is channeled and they obviously can’t smite people would spend hours trying to figure out how to smite and mind vision at the same time (I see people playing with surge of light)

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:18:06 +0000

I was thinking, “Buff Healing Touch by 20% healing…. increase cast time by 5 seconds…. and then make it not work with Nature’s Swiftness.”

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:17:07 +0000

OKay, the ‘buff fishing’ idea is galactic in scope.

I like it.

And I say that, when I don’t have a single character with fishing over 350. It’s just so full of win!

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:07:20 +0000

Those that follow the WOW forums before Ghostcrawler remember Tseric, who was doing things very similar to Ghostcrawler, but more as a community mod rather than a designer talking to the community. He tried to be direct with players and cut through any bullshit. He tried to direct conversations toward constructive debate rather than trolling and agressive ‘STFU noob’ behavior. And one day after a lengthy bout of fighting trolls, he left with a final post basically saying rather eloquently (paraphrased here) ‘This is impossible to keep up, the forum community is too trollish and its a waste of everyones time in the end’. And he never posted again. Maybe once as a ‘goodbye’ joke. But the point is he flat out stopped, and I think he moved to another job in Blizzard or in the industry. I think Ghostcrawler tried to come into the forums with the same intentions, but more to pick player’s brains about what they think about the game. And they wore him out too.

It’s the part of the community I avoid and at times want to punch in their collective face for their idiocy when they try to beat Blizzard at their own design game. It cant be done, for the simple reason is its blizzards games, and while they listen to the community, they never make final design decisions based on someone’s forum post. Until people realize that and try to build a community in the spirit of sharing (Lololol, good luck with that) Blizzards reps will find themselves beating away unruly forum posters like a zombie horde at the end of a horror movie.