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by Alex Ziebart 
Jan 24th 2011 at 11:00AM
I have a horrible confession to make. Until late last week, I've been playing WoW with only 2 GB of RAM in my gaming PC. It didn't run well, but I managed to do everything with it, including the highest levels of raid content in Wrath of the Lich King. Sure, my FPS wasn't great, but I still managed to kick ass. Cataclysm ... no. Never. It was never going to happen. 2 GB is not nearly enough, especially if you run any mods. Let me tell you, fighting the Omnotron Defense System with 2 FPS is not a good time. So I've upgraded to 4 GB. It's much nicer.
As an added bonus, I can now actually keep a browser window open while I raid. I am standing over Magmaw's broken husk as I write this. Feels good, man. Feels good.
Zack asked:
Now that Sinestra is down, what is the "terrible secret" she was guarding? I can't find a link to it anywhere!
She is the terrible secret. Were it not for datamining, she would have been an unknown. Cho'gall was hiding/guarding Sinestra, Deathwing's consort and broodmother of the black/twilight dragonflight. See those horrible scars all over her model? That's what happens when you mate with Deathwing. Ow.
cloudhopper013 asked:
Will we ever be able to change our username? My username was by default set as my email address (minus the @fancyemailwebsite.com), which I created when I was 10. As a result, my name is pretty... stupid. And not at all an accurate description of my personality.
You can't change your username, but you can reregister fairly effortlessly. It won't attach your old comments to the new handle, but your personality shines much brighter than your comment history! Also, everybody will need to reregister when we inevitably switch over to Joystiq's commenting system.
Cloudhopper seems like a pretty slick name to me, though. Hopping on clouds sounds awesome. I bet cloudhoppers would be pretty cool people.
Randomize asked:
I have a question. Just what exactly is the point of the Trapped Eyeball Beast in Baradin Hold? Can't kill it, can't see any special tricks, etc.
Personally, I liked Eldoron's response so much that I'm just going to go with there. Yesterday, Eldoron responded, "Why is there a painting on your wall? Can't kill it, can't eat it ... It's decoration, dude."
magic.swordsman asked:
Where are the ret and prot pally articles? All I've seen are lame holy ones for the last several weeks, what gives?
Well, first of all, holy isn't lame! Holy is super-fun in Cataclysm, and I found healing terribly boring as a paladin previously. Healing as a holy paladin now is just so ... zen. Get into your groove and make things happen. It's wonderful.
Second, we're working on getting our protection and retribution columns going again. You should see it start up from Gregg Reece again in the next week or two. If that turns out to not be the case, I will most likely write a few retribution/protection pieces myself, as my main is a raiding paladin of that variety.
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Reader Comments (Page 10 of 10)
chaosdefined Jan 25th 2011 7:49AM
I'm currently making my way through the What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been Ach on one of my characters. Why I didn't decide this a couple of years ago, I don't know.
Anyway, the Lunar Festival has to be the easiest Ach to acquire except for one part. The Northrend Dungeons. Now how likely is it that a newly dinged level 82 Ret Paladin can solo his way through the mobs and bosses of these Dungeons on normal difficulty to the Elders?
Am I best trying to get a hand or two from some nice guildmates?
Thanks
Calib Jan 25th 2011 9:59AM
As an Alliance player I constantly feel like a second class citizen both in game and out of it. Perhaps its just my perspective but there seems to be a lot more faction pride and alliance put downs on Horde side. When I went to Blizzcon I was constantly mad fun of for playing Alliance. Even at the WoWInsider meet up I was boo'ed for playing Alliance. In subtle advertisements I even see horde support. The faction change advertisement shows a Dranei moving to a Orc, and "because I want to be a blood elf" ads. Horde has the in game chants "Lok Tar Ogar" and "For the Horde" but Alliance have nothing. I have even tried Horde to see what all the fuss was about and found there are way more "go kill X-number Alliance" NPC's then Alliance have similar quests. It really bothers me that I enjoy my character and want to have Alliane pride but I have little or no solid foundation to base it on. So my question is where can I go or what can I do for Alliance so I dont feel like a second class citizen all the time?
hyperion_mp23 Jan 25th 2011 4:50PM
Do you think Blizzard will ever implement a system in the game where you can pay X amount of gold and unsoulbound a item
vltsu123 Jan 26th 2011 11:00AM
Well seems like I'm getting REALLY misunderstood... I use 'huntard' name daily, and I see it just as a sarcastic nickname, because of the hunters history. I dont use it because hunters would be stupid or something, it's just ... C'mon guys, chill out. Just a name I use while talking about them, nothing 'bad' behind it and I can't believe someone STILL takes it seriously.
That's the joke guys. It's old as time itself. It's the same thing as when I say that every loot is hunter loot. A joke. J-o-k-e. Got it? Does someone really take thoese seriously? Or offensively? If so, I'm terribly sorry, but go back to your basement and grow up. Get over it. I doubt that I had anything in the post that would even realate hunters being stupid. Just writing like I normally do, but seems like it doesnt work here that way. People take things way too seriously. When I communicate with people, I always refer hunters as huntards in heroics and everywhere. You are huntard, I AM huntard. And this is the first time someone really gets hurt by it.
And thank you for completely missunderstading the whole goddamn point in my post.
/rage
To Pyromelter, thanks for seeing what I tried to say. Yeah, I kinda doubt that we will ever see 'perfect' balance, seems kinda impossible. But I just thought as we are getting closer to that 'choose the player, not the class', so if next step would be 'choose the player, not the spec' .