dg-1618
Question about Legion: Is it true that we have to pay an increasing gold fee every time we want to respec (not change talents... just switch specs I mean) ? That would suck.
General question: Anyone having a high ping since yesterday ? I'm with Ogero and I am normally hovering right around 95ms (interleaved DSL) but it's been steady at 175ms since yesterday .
The313
*They changed how we can change talents and specs in legion:
-Specs: you can change between the 3 specs (4 druids,2 demon hunters) anywhere and anytime for free.
-Talents can only be changed in a rested area like cities or if you have a consumable that is made by Inscription which is in two types (an individual one and a group one)
*I am not subbed at the moment so I can't answer the 2nd question.
dg-1618
Anyone playing WoW on a European server has witnessed an increase in latency (doubled) since end of June ?
According to this post:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17612341518?page=2
someone said:
The European Union have passed a law which allows ISP in europe to throttle the network when ever they feel like it and not get done for doing so, the increased latency is due in some part to this. If you want to decrease the lag then your ISP has to pay a large amount of money to other ISP in Europe to not throttle your traffic when it goes through their servers.
dg-1618
Can't believe there's no one playing WoW in Lebanon. Please let me know if any of you WoW players has recently experienced an increase in latency. Kindly post your ISP as well.
The313
Well I am unsubbed at the moment but i recently logged in on a ''trial account'' and i had 180ms-250ms on Ragnaros-EU...
Before i stopped like 3 month ago i had 120 ms but that came after countless phone called to the isp when it was 300ms-500ms+ all the time
I am with IDM 2MB/40GB plan
Note:I did not play on peek times so it might be even worst then.
dg-1618
It's not because of IDM. I am with Ogero and ever since June 29 my latency has doubled.
According to the WoW Europe forums there are people from all around the world (Portugal, Turkey, Israel, South Africa... that are suffering from the same problem).
I am willing to bet it's a rerouting problem because blizzard is being recently subjected to Dos attacks (they started around April 2016 but just check this post which indicates the same date as when my problem appeared... June 29).
http://www.vg247.com/2016/06/29/overwatch-servers-down-blizzard-battle-net-ddos/
Totoro
Hey DG, read your post and entered a friends account to make sure it's not just me as well. Yeah I was at 100-120 latency as well.
Now it's around 180-200 which really sucks honestly. It's pretty smooth when I PvE but since I mainly PvP it's just unplayable.
Hope this gets fixed soon.
dg-1618
Totoro,
There are a lot of threads on the WoW Technical Forums about this issue and Blizzard keeps asking people to talk to their ISP.
It looks like they are finally starting to acknowledge the problem. If you check this thread (1st post on page 5) someone got a reply from a GM that they are now more convinced it's something at their end but it might take a few weeks to be solved.
Totoro
Awesome! Good to hear. Because I have friends playing other MMO's like Black Desert with 'normal' ping and that's when I was convinced it's their servers too. There's always this voice in the back of my head telling me I'm wrong when it comes to these things because I live in Lebanon.
Let's hope they solve it soon, I already got Legion but I haven't been playing WoW much mainly because I have so much going on and once I do start playing... Hahah, I'm sure you know the terrible consequences of that decision.
dg-1618
Well once you do start playing you're going to be surprised.
They pruned many of the core things in the game. That doesn't mean it's bad now... just different.
Example, spirit and bonus armor on neck, cloak, rings and trinkets are gone, buffs ((all classes) are gone, many of the abilities (all classes) are gone, glyphs are gone. And if you play a Discipline priest you will notice they are the spec that has been modified the most: You can mostly only heal now by dpsing (this will either be extremely fun or a disaster... should wait and see).
Totoro
Sounds cool, time for a change imo. I'm still up to date with some of the changes, I heard holy paladins will be dpsing too in order to heal.
xterm
Totoro wroteSounds cool, time for a change imo. I'm still up to date with some of the changes, I heard holy paladins will be dpsing too in order to heal.
No :-(
Totoro
xterm wroteTotoro wroteSounds cool, time for a change imo. I'm still up to date with some of the changes, I heard holy paladins will be dpsing too in order to heal.
No :-(
Oh well. I really liked PvPing with denounce already, such a powerful spell, at least I hope they won't remove that because it really helps out when you just destroy your opponent's cds.
Ploto
Latency is as normal , sitting on 70ms atm..
What do you guys think about the prepatch stuff?
I need to get my hand on the artifact weapon on live.
dg-1618
@Ploto,
At first I didn't like all the class changes. Now, after a week or so, I'm starting to enjoy it.
Professions seem to be much better than in WoD (where you just sat in your garrison and gathered everything you needed). In Legion, there will be no need to fight for the same node. Everyone sees their own nodes (phased) so three people can land at the same spot and mine, gather the same node at the same time.
PVP remains to be seen. Right now rogues appear to be op and I foresee a nerf very soon... before the actual launch of Legion.
Totoro
I'm loving the new animations especially with melee. You actually feel like you're hitting your target compared to the previous 10 years with Lebanese lag syndrome where you had to walk in front of your enemy to be able to actually hit him. Melee classes and Lebanese ping aren't fond of each other.
I might not come back immediately during the expansion launch due to irl things I need to take care of. But Legion definitely looks promising, compared to WoD and MoP combined.
Fingers crossed.
xterm
Totoro wroteI'm loving the new animations especially with melee. You actually feel like you're hitting your target compared to the previous 10 years with Lebanese lag syndrome where you had to walk in front of your enemy to be able to actually hit him. Melee classes and Lebanese ping aren't fond of each other.
I might not come back immediately during the expansion launch due to irl things I need to take care of. But Legion definitely looks promising, compared to WoD and MoP combined.
Fingers crossed.
I wish i shared your enthusiasm. Yes, there are a few improvements that I enjoyed in Beta (some of which made it recently onto live) but I don't feel that excited any more. For the past 3 months I've been trying to decide which character to main as in Legion, but haven't been able to decide and despite DH's being an amalgamation of Rogues/Warriors and are merely rebranded Monks, I may end up going for a Vengeance Demon Hunter.
Totoro
After watching Legion, that sounds like a plan honestly. I think I'll be playing my Holy Paladin (which is great with DH's in arena) on Alliance and my Shadow Priest on Horde.
I absolutely love the changes they did to SP's, still getting used to my H Paladin changes since I need to be hugging someone's face to be able to heal them properly.
The animations are very cool too. After 10 years of small improvements with animations this was a pretty big one. I feel more like a Holy Paladin now and a lot more like a Warrior too. They made the game a lot more class specific too.
If you're a PvPer I suggest you just reroll an Affliction Warlock because they're just destroying everything right now and won't be nerfed much in Legion.
I might PvE seriously again because of all the memories I had in TBC (basically just green stuff everywhere lol).
If you are too, let me know! :)
rtwo2008
Totoro wrote
If you're a PvPer I suggest you just reroll an Affliction Warlock because they're just destroying everything right now and won't be nerfed much in Legion.
I'm playing a warlock and I second that. However, although Affliction warlock is very good and even a beginner can do well with it, it still has a limit.
The warlock spec which is still hush hush is Destruction, hard to master, but once you do, the ceiling is much higher than affliction.
http://imgur.com/a/RSyIm
Totoro
rtwo2008 wrote
I'm playing a warlock and I second that. However, although Affliction warlock is very good and even a beginner can do well with it, it still has a limit.
The warlock spec which is still hush hush is Destruction, hard to master, but once you do, the ceiling is much higher than affliction.
http://imgur.com/a/RSyIm
It is insane in RBGs, especially if you spec Chaos bolt haste for two back to back bolts to the face. I have CS-bolt syndrome because of that ^^.
I'm playing Alliance on Ravencrest and Horde on Kazzak btw.