The Daily Quest: Bleeding hearts
by Michael Sacco 
Jan 6th 2010 at 7:00PM
- Miss Medicina explains, exhaustively, why the Oculus experiment was a failure.
- Blame Squelchy explains how Heartpierce works and why Mutilate rogues should be all over it.
- Cold Comfort provides you the reader with a great post showing time-to-Emblem ratio in Heroic dungeons.
- WoW in an Hour explores the best class choices when you only have a small amount of time to spare.
Filed under: The Colosseum
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DAWG Jan 6th 2010 7:23PM
In case someone was wondering, the flower pictured is called the Bleeding Heart
busuan Jan 6th 2010 7:29PM
One suggestion to future Oculus change (if current plan is still not working):
On heroic Eregos, create three modes for players to choose: Normal, Hard Core and Hell
Such switch can be set beside the chest.
Normal would be what we have today: easy enough and rewards are attractive.
Hard Core: drake hp does not scale with your gear, rather, it'd be like before, a fixed number. But we all know it's doable. 232 gear and epic gems
Hell: same as hard core, and give Eregos a short enrage timer. Demands flawless execution. 264 gear, epic gems, frost badges and orbs, and maybe a chance for primordial saronite.
Of course, the group has to be random.
Falcon6 Jan 6th 2010 7:42PM
I think people hate Oculus because of the drakes, not because of the difficulty of the boss. Oculus can be destroyed in minutes nowadays.
A better alternative would be to destroy the vehicle mechanic altogether to make people like it again, but there's no way in hell that'll happen, no matter how many people leave it in anger.
It just seems stupid how much hate the instance has been given, even though it's incredibly easy now.
Krick Jan 6th 2010 7:47PM
You know what would fix Oculus? jet packs. Seriously. Let me do my normal abilities, just while flying around in the air. Problem solved. It's so easy. The way to work it into the lore is goblin engineering. Put some goblin NPCs inside the instance that will loan you a jetpack to help you dispatch Ley-Guardian Eregos.
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Dragundam Jan 6th 2010 8:03PM
As awesome as jetpacks are, people would just blast off the edge somewhere and die, holding everyone up.
Branalia Jan 6th 2010 9:09PM
Terrible players will always be terrible if they refuse to learn. Oculus ISN'T HARD and never has been. They can cry for every reason they want but there is no reason you can't pick up and learn 2-6 abilities in the couple seconds it takes to read the tooltips. And in the case of Malygos, you've got Aces High to prepare you. Oculus is using the drakes to get around and you do the same thing every time. It's the Sunken Temple of WotLK. Easy to get lost if you aren't paying attention but once you learn it, you're golden.
And it's ONE boss fight with THREE skills. I guess that's just too hard for people. At least my battlegroup is capable of clearing it without people auto dropping.
Muse Jan 7th 2010 12:20AM
Indeed. Every single vehicle fight in the game is perfectly systematic. You're not given a bunch of random abilities and asked to make sense of them. You're given the *exact* abilities you need for your mission. In the case of Oculus, it's TWO buttons, one of which functions so similarly to your character's main dps spell that the difference is negligible, and they both come with detailed tooltips.
It's no more difficult than picking up a level 1 of a different class and figuring out what to do with it. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to use the shield and the frost bolt when you are first given control of your level 1 mage.
The other thing that annoys me is, players say "I play to play my character." Except I have alts. I have a great many alts. One of every class as a matter of fact. I've taken the joy in learning each of them. I don't consider vehicle fights to be anything other than a very small class that I play for a very short time. And I'm not so fond of "my character" that I could never ever play something else for a while.
macster Jan 7th 2010 8:12AM
People don't do Oculus not because it's hard (bar HoR, no instance is at this gear level), but because it's NOT FUN. When are you "We so l33t!" types going to grasp this?
I guess it's just easier to accuse others of "fail".
PThunder Jan 7th 2010 9:09AM
I was actually thinking about Oculus in comparison to Sunken Temple and to be honest, Oculus is even easier to navigate than ST. Oculus is open, while ST has confusing stairs and corridors.
I got confused at first, but it's easy once you remember that Oculus has four floors and there's one boss on each floor. When you beat a boss, all you have to do is fly up to the next floor and do whatever you're supposed to do there.
Matthew Rossi Jan 7th 2010 10:06AM
Okay. Here is a recent Oculus stories.
So my wife and I queue for randoms, get Oculus. We get three other players all from the same guild on the same server. We kill the first boss, get our drakes, and one of the three players immediately flies off into a pack of drakes and dies like a chicken while the rest of us have flown over to kill constructs. We wait five minutes for him to run back to the instance. We then wait five minutes while he flies his drake into another pack and dies again. The priest tells me to go ahead and pull while we wait for him to get back (again) and like a moron, I do. While I'm pulling, the priest mounts up on his drake and flies off to get the warlock, leaving my wife, myself and a moonkin with a trash pull.
The moonkin, of course, does not know what healing spells are. We get through because I cycle every bloody cooldown I have. Then the priest says to me "Why did you pull" and my wife flips out and quotes the chat log to him. Then the warlock flies into another pack and dies.
This is why I don't want to do Oculus. Not because it is hard. Because it has this strange sanity or intelligence devouring effect that causes people to do the strangest things and I'd prefer to avoid it.
Caerus Jan 7th 2010 12:49AM
I just cannot fathom how someone is able to write pages and pages about the Oculus and yet still not know how to spell it properly. It literally blows my mind that someone with such circulation is so stupifyingly ignorant. Spelling is the most basic element of communication. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?
Lemons Jan 7th 2010 1:55AM
I needz that dagger! That energy proc looks sick now, I don't know why they even bother putting rage and mana on the proc though. If any warrior or caster rolled on that dagger I'd eviscerate them irl.