Comments on: Death Bunnies and Epic Rainbows!

By: Shatamall

Shatamall — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:13:22 +0000

Huh. I didn’t realize that you could chain GTFO and Power Auras together. That’s an awesome idea. I’ll have to set that up. I’m getting to the point that I pretty much rely on GTFO to tell me “Hey Dumbass! Stop standing in the flaming poop, you nimrod!”.

By: Herr Drache

Herr Drache — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:36:14 +0000

[BlizCon Dev Voice, not similar to GC at all]:
OK, so, because so many of you wanted a better identification about friendly and hostile spell effects, we’re going to implement this in a future patch. Friendly spell effects will have multiple fluffy bunnies surrounding them, whereas hostile spell effects will be surrounded by multiple images of the Rabbit of Caerbannog. We hope this will help your play experience.
[End Voice]

By: Moonstalker

Moonstalker — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:48:34 +0000

I have similar issues with elemental shaman earthquake and mob quake effects. Move or not to move, that is the question. I cheat and move my butt out of the effect and tank the mob in the effect. Not perfect but I don’t die and then have to listen to the pugs whine…

By: vinetail

vinetail — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:41:47 +0000

I’m hard of hearing, and many of the WoW sounds, especially when combined with Vent chatter, all become unintelligible mush.

What’s saved my ass: GTFO and Power Auras work together — you can get your visual notification as well as a sound when you’re standing in Bad. (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/05/13/addon-spotlight-power-auras/)

By: Hedwig

Hedwig — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:06:12 +0000

L2Recognize Noob! ROFL

I’ve been guilty of this too, when there are new spell effects with each new patch. The Warlock “purple circle thingy” (as I call it) is one in particular that as a healer, I always move out of. It looks an awful lot like similar enemy void zones we’ve seen before. It took me a while to notice that the purple stuff was actually being cast by someone on my team and not an enemy death trap.

I think I’ll take a look at the addon mentioned above. I do play with sound, couldn’t manage without it so it will probably be really helpful. I’ll get the addon until Blizz adds fluffy bunnies around helpful spells. :)

By: Warrior Warcraft

Warrior Warcraft — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:05:44 +0000

Well, I dont know if “ringed about with pretty bunnies, rainbows and unicorns” is what I want to see, but I love the idea. Didn’t know about the the GTFO add-on so I will have to investigate that a bit too.

By: Kemonojin

Kemonojin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:03:25 +0000

(To clarify; you can turn the sound off with the in-game ctrl-S command. When GTFO needs to alert you, it’ll turn it back on, go ‘ZOMG MOVE DOOFUS” and then turn it back off.

By: Kemonojin

Kemonojin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:40:22 +0000

GTFO has an option to unmute for itself. You can hit ctrl-S to turn the sound off, and it’ll still alert you.

So many people play without sound ,and I can’t understand how they do it. So many things tell me things by sound… :P The problem with the color overlays, if you don’t know what a spell effect is, you don’t know whether it’s a different color or not. And being colorblind, their color choices don’t always work. Have a big problem with the one Zul’Gurub fight where you have to go to the green or red cauldrons…

By: Minos

Minos — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:52:00 +0000

That matches my first experience with Hand of Gul’dan. “Huh? A purple ring? I don’t remember seeing that before. Looks like something I don’t want to stand in.”

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:49:31 +0000

That’s a good idea, and I’ve had it recommended to me and tried it before, and it works well… except for one little thing. I don’t play with in game sound on at all. I’m usually on vent with Cassie.