[WoW] Battle for Azeroth - Page 352

On November 04 2017 22:51 Gorsameth wrote:
step 1 to better class balance is to stop designing dumb fights that hugely incentivise classes with immunities and multiple low cd dr abilities.

On November 05 2017 07:11 Soularion wrote:

I just want the ability to kill big monsters by myself, really. I miss days of wandering the world, searching for big max level elites that would pose a challenge to kill. Doesn't really happen anymore because they're so weak relative to, say, Wrath/Cata/MoP. Like, the Direhorn dudes in MoP were super fun to solo.

On November 05 2017 09:38 Atreides wrote:



Hmm... if your gear is bad, soloing argus bosses non-trivial. If your gear is great can solo mythic dungeons or even much harder stuff depending on class/gear/skill. I mean its not really rewarded per se. But it never has been and I also think that is kind of cool, and I dont think opportunities are too bad right now. Doubt it will change much.

I will say I remember kiting tbc elites across the entire zone and taking 15-20 mins to kill them and that doesnt really work so much anymore.

On November 05 2017 16:31 Cyro wrote:
Mage tower wasn't locked for gear so it was always going to become trivial for most of the expansion

Tuned hard at launch w/ 750k simdps and a bit over 3 mill health, oneshot joke for a character that is 2-5x more powerful (tomb-antorus gear, crucible)

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Antorus on the 29'th, that's a little while to wait and pretty comfortable level 75 weapons

On November 05 2017 17:38 deth2munkies wrote:


Gear is gonna trivialize everything after a patch or 2, that's always been the way WoW works because they don't sync stuff like FFXIV does.

Holy shit, do people in here actually do the LFR- "Discussion"? Isnt that what the XXXXXXXXXXXXXX forum is for?

On November 05 2017 18:07 Cyro wrote:


reduction in difficulty is not really the problem as much as the extent of it, there's no tuning bar that makes sense when player power varies this much



We do not speak of that dark place

On November 06 2017 15:01 Glacierz wrote:
Hi guys, I'm a complete MMORPG noob. A few RL friends are trying to me to play this game with them. They are recommending me to play a DPS role (heal/tank requires more awareness I'm guessing), any recommendations on what classes/race to choose?

I also heard there are a bunch of add-ons available, anything I should be using?

On November 06 2017 15:09 Glacierz wrote:
Thanks. I think I will roll a warrior and see. I will check with them on which side they are on before making.

On November 05 2017 22:37 Cyro wrote:
Btw for anyone interested in WoW performance / benchmarking / hardware stuff

my initial memory benchmarks have proven very strong (flight path)

same config and bench, small error margin, 3200c16 RAM getting 19% more average FPS than 2400c16.

I thought that something weird was happening when my CPU and RAM clocks got reset last week and my performance changed by far more than the CPU overclock could account for; it seemed to be +30% or even more when the OC shouldn't have been even half of that.

These tests so far back up most of that performance change coming from RAM performance gains (from ~2133c15 to ~3200c16) and indicate a strong reliance on memory in at least some CPU limited situations that should continue to scale with high end memory instead of just from low end to midrange. Large raid encounters are a more relevant and quite different CPU load and are a lot harder to test but i seemed to see very significant scaling from what i could tell in the argus rift 40 man raids; i'l take a few hours to investigate that in more detail soon as well

Visuals:

max settings, 15-16% gain from RAM


my performance optimized settings, 19% gain


Every dot is a frame and the scales are a bit different to best represent each set of data. Nothing is GPU limited (max GPU load 60-70% on the highest load config)