The Queue: Crossroads
by Adam Holisky 
Jul 6th 2009 at 5:00PM
This queue is certified Panadaran free.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Today's reading music The Crossroads by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Every time I'm in the Crossroads I think of that song.
Yokumgang asked...
"Why can't we bandage while bleeding?"
Each time you suffer damage from a bleed effect it will interrupt your bandaging. Bleed effects are DoTs, and DoTs only allow you to get one tick of the bandage process off. That's the technical explanation.
Now on the other hand, you'd expect from a lore / logical standpoint you'd be able to apply bandages while you're bleeding. Just like you do in real life. Unfortunately WoW != real life, so we're at the mercy of the game's mechanics.
Deffo asked...
"Does the Warlock Affliction talent Nightfall stack with the Glyph of Corruption?"
Yes, but as Osirus noted: "[But] not quite as they can proc at the same time. I think with both you get 7.6% chance due to chance of dual procs." Reports vary between a 7.2% and a 7.6% proc rate.
Vacasta asked...
"Any more scuttlebutt on faction changes? Any possibility that it will be restricted in such a way as to only allow those changes that would help balance the server's horde:alliance ratio?"
I imagine there'd be some restrictions in place for extreme circumstances, just like there are now for server transfers. I doubt there'll be a rule however that says "One Horde->Alliance for every Alliance->Horde."
We're expecting to see more news about this soon. And as we talked about on the podcast this last weekend, we're expecting this feature to come out sometime around BlizzCon, just because of the sheer amount of press it'll get. Note that we don't have any inside info here, it just makes sense.
Meethan asked...
"I was just gone for 10 days. In 15 words or less, can you tell me the most important things that have happened here at WoW.com?"
Faction changes, Cataclysm, Midsummer Fire Festival, Patch 3.2 PTR Updates, Worgen Hunter Pets, Twitter Tweets
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Cam Jul 6th 2009 5:08PM
Ah, barrens, 5% questing, 95% running around.
I got a question: My keyboard died on me yesterday and i am thinking of buying the G15 keyboard and i am wondering, is it any good and if anyone got it how long is the cord?
roybrennanjohnson Jul 6th 2009 5:55PM
G15 is pretty good. Had that one for a bit. Nice feature with the LCD display. Shows your character stats when pve and shows the stats for whatever BG you are in, # of players, Kill/Death, Score, etc. Not sure if it does anything for arenas, never tried it out. Switch to the Razer line now though. Like the looks and feel a lot better. Both have lots of extra macro keys and profile saves for multiple macro setups.
Thetealone Jul 6th 2009 7:13PM
I LOVE my G15 keyboard.. there's a wow addon that supports it for extra buttons.. you can also customize different profiles to switch to so you buttons do different things for different characters, on my tank the extra buttons apply marks like skull x triangle...etc... where on my pally it applies the different blessings, i havent gotten into the more complex macro's it can be used for but there is plenty of room for scripting in the software that controls the buttons. (I also would recommend the G5 logiteh gaming mouse, extra buttons at the thumb make for easier gameplay on commonly used spells (i.e. holy light(pally), Mutilate(rogue) etc.)
The LCD is most useful when your on vent with strangers. You just need to go into vent properties and check the box for G15 LCD support and viola.
Stephen Jul 6th 2009 7:46PM
After using both the G15 & the G11, I'd recommend the G11 keyboard. It has more programmable macro buttons than the G15, it's about half the price, and loses the gimmicky black & white LCD screen.
Cam Jul 6th 2009 9:37PM
Thanks for your answers, ordering G15 tomorrow^^
micgillam Jul 7th 2009 11:48AM
Sounds like you're already decided, but I thought I'd weigh-in on this anyway. I have the previous version of the G15 (looks like the current G11 but has a flip-up LCD), and it's been good to me. It's a tank, in-fact, that has been through a lot of play and a lot of abuse over the past several years, and still works as good as new. Due to a change in my desk size, I've switched it to my work PC and I use a Razer Lycosa on my gaming PC. I would consider the G15 to still be the better of the two.
Gerell Jul 7th 2009 12:13PM
I've gone through two of them by both of them being the unfortunate victims of spillage. They are vulnerable to liquid damage more than other keyboards I've used. (personal experience). I opened both up, cleaned and dried, but both had dead keys. Other than that, I loved it and the way it felt to type on. The pop up screen was nice to keep track of stats and who was who on vent.
Just keep your soda out of range.
Titusx Jul 6th 2009 5:09PM
I think the correct character combination for "different" should be /= or =/, not !=. But maybe Im wrong about that.
Arslan Jul 6th 2009 5:12PM
It's definitely != :D
impurezero Jul 6th 2009 5:15PM
I think he was using a version from some kind of programming language (this is based on the first result from a Google search of "not equal").
But what's wrong with a little ≠ ?
Hansbo Jul 6th 2009 5:18PM
In almost all programming languages, == indicates equality and != basically means not equal.
≠ isn't really an easy symbol to type ;)
epixthedwarf Jul 6th 2009 5:18PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!=
Nusos Jul 6th 2009 5:20PM
The character combination != is correct in the sense of software development. The ! is the NOT operator, so this means NOT EQUAL. Some of the older languages use to mean NOT EQUAL, though C/C++ and derivatives use !=.
Eternauta Jul 6th 2009 5:19PM
" != " is in most (if not all) the programming languages the operational symbol for "different"
epixthedwarf Jul 6th 2009 5:19PM
Bah, apparently the != gets broken off the URL when linked in the comment. Just copy-and-paste it into your Address bar and have a look.
Adam Holisky Jul 6th 2009 5:20PM
See comparison operators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C%2B%2B
That's the language I was referring to with my use of "!=".
impurezero Jul 6th 2009 5:25PM
I simply cannot see Adam's avatar without thinking, "Captain Picard on a bad day."
Falcom Jul 6th 2009 6:01PM
!= is a programming standard. One exception to this is SQL scripting where you would use a greater carrot and a less than carrot. I can't type that here though without borking my post. Well, lets try...
amazing if it worked!
Spazmoose Jul 6th 2009 6:26PM
While I don't mind the use of "!=" in the reference, because it is relatively common, wouldn't it be more applicable to use "~=" which is the not equal comparison operator used in LUA programming?
micgillam Jul 7th 2009 1:48PM
'" != " is in most (if not all) the programming languages the operational symbol for "different"'
Less-than Greater-than <> is a fairly common one, especially in block syntax languages (it tends to be (curly)brace-bracket languages that favor != )
Also, some languages use "NOT [value] =" or "= NOT" , flipping the boolean result.