AT World of Warcraft Thread (Mists, Where do you play, General BS and all that)

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Phoenix86

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I don't have any misconceptions about what it used to be, in a lot of ways vanilla was incredibly primitive and overly punishing. But now it's almost too easy.
It's a philosophy change for sure, everything is focused on the current xpack and anything that's lower level is easy mode so people can level alts much faster. Everything from XP required to level to mob difficulty is scaled way down. More alts=less players quitting because their main is "done" and they are bored.

It makes leveling simple but once you hit 85 stuff will become harder, and of course end game is still pretty tough with varying levels of difficulty: 5mans-> heroic 5mans -> LFR-> (coming soon flex raids)-> normal raids-> heroic raids.
 

cronos

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Blizzard summer sale. up to 75% off for the game (50% for MoP).

$5 base game (up to LK)
$5 Cataclysm
$20 MoP

$30 gets you the whole thing!
 

BoberFett

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And I had just ordered a couple copies of Cataclysm from Amazon the day before. :(

Oh well, digital versions bought, I'll return the boxes. We're liking this whole flying around Azeroth thing. :)
 

styrafoam

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FFFFFFFFFF damn. Even though i mainly just PVP'd i also enjoyed leveling. Was considering getting the expansion just to max out my characters and then unsubbing again, just in-case the next expansion isn't a total dud. Paying full price was one of the ways i talked myself out of it. I'll probably give in :(
 

nageov3t

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Feb 18, 2004
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looks like my account -- which has been inactive since April -- was compromised last night.

everything got restored by Blizz, but it looks like I'm going to have to re-up for a month to retrieve restored items out of the mailbox... that's pretty annoying.

I'm dying to know how the authenticator was removed from my account. no one has access to my mobile authenticator but me, and I didn't see any ticket history of someone requesting to have it removed.
 

nageov3t

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Feb 18, 2004
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all day back-and-forth with Blizz and nothing but non-answers.

they see that the authenticator was removed, but won't tell me how it was removed since a ticket was never submitted, and they won't tell me when (so that I could actually look at the time table and see what computer I was using at the time)... they're insisting that it was a man-in-the-middle attack, but that seems pretty suspect given that that I haven't logged into WoW or any bnet account in 3-4 months and no illicit activity occurred until this weekend.

they also won't tell me how anyone logged into my account at all even though it was expired/frozen and no game-time was added to it. :confused:

kinda makes me wonder if Blizz themselves didn't get hacked or something.
 

Sid59

Lifer
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just did a free 10 days and trial to Pandaria. If it works out, i'll probably get expansion and slow play until i get bored. Few questions:

- I can't figure it out .. no addons, i'm freezing/crashing 20 seconds into the Panda start zone. whereas, i can be in IF, SW, Dalaran on my other toons and not crash. Thoughts?

- I dont think i have access to the zones of Pandaria so i'll play my other toons, what's the current resource to read on talents/specs, pet battling .. anything else?

haven't played since middle of Cata
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
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all day back-and-forth with Blizz and nothing but non-answers.

they see that the authenticator was removed, but won't tell me how it was removed since a ticket was never submitted, and they won't tell me when (so that I could actually look at the time table and see what computer I was using at the time)... they're insisting that it was a man-in-the-middle attack, but that seems pretty suspect given that that I haven't logged into WoW or any bnet account in 3-4 months and no illicit activity occurred until this weekend.

they also won't tell me how anyone logged into my account at all even though it was expired/frozen and no game-time was added to it. :confused:

kinda makes me wonder if Blizz themselves didn't get hacked or something.

looks like there's a bunch of people on the CS forum reporting the same thing (authenticator magically removed, accounts compromised)... maybe it's tinfoil hat type stuff, but I wonder if there's an exploit in the Mobile Armory, which got taken offline a couple hours after all these accounts were compromised.
 

Pens1566

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looks like there's a bunch of people on the CS forum reporting the same thing (authenticator magically removed, accounts compromised)... maybe it's tinfoil hat type stuff, but I wonder if there's an exploit in the Mobile Armory, which got taken offline a couple hours after all these accounts were compromised.

Kind of similar situation here, except I had two requests submitted to remove my authenticator that didn't come from me at all. That was about 3 days ago. Highly doubt that my user/pass was compromised as it's complexity is ridiculous. Changed it anyway. Mobile armory is an interesting suspect though.
 

styrafoam

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Jun 18, 2002
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Kind of similar situation here, except I had two requests submitted to remove my authenticator that didn't come from me at all. That was about 3 days ago. Highly doubt that my user/pass was compromised as it's complexity is ridiculous. Changed it anyway. Mobile armory is an interesting suspect though.

They had a pretty big rash of these in the not too distant past, dormant accounts were getting pretexted out from under people. The only response they would give was to refer people to the safe account practices even though there was overwhelming evidence that it wasn't just people being phished/keylogged. Just last year it happened again with D3. People were leaning towards some sort of session hijack, as they would get a group invite, it would be some random level 1 with a gibberish name. Next day their account would be compromised.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Diablo-3-Session-Spoofing-Real-Do-Join-Public-Games-43162.html

They will put your account back together, but its a pain in the ass sometimes. Kind of insulting too that they don't come clean and let people know when there is a real threat.
 

SeductivePig

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Just bought the original + cata + mysts for $30.

Been playing this game on and off for probably 5 years.. figured why not, 2 expansions to keep me occupied in my free time. Can't hurt!

Does anybody know how good the performance is on a Mac though? I just bought a macbook air from 2012 with 256gb of flash storage.. hopefully it won't get laggy during instances and raids.
 

TheUnk

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Jun 24, 2005
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ok so I started playing this with my 7 year old lol.. We got to level 13 so far with no problems with him understanding what to do. Anyone have any idea how far we'll be able to get before it's too complicated? I figure raids will be totally out of the question but maybe we can do 5 man dungeons as a hunter
 

lupi

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Apr 8, 2001
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I would imagine if he can do decent dps then normal dungeons shouldn't be a problem. If he knows the basics of concentrating fire and moving out of fire, the lfg heroics may be possible.
 

nageov3t

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nothing official, but one guy is claiming to have been given this information by a GM:

In regards to the removal of your authenticator, I'm afraid it seems that those who perform the compromises figured out how to get the authenticators removed by other means. We have fixed this "backdoor" to ensure that no further actions take place!
 

cronos

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Nov 7, 2001
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nothing official, but one guy is claiming to have been given this information by a GM:

Well that sucks. Wouldn't you be notified though if your authenticator is being removed? Like some sort of confirmation through email and/or sms. I believe I opted in for both.

Your story scares me a bit. My situation is similar, my account has been frozen since January. I have an actual authenticator though, not mobile.
 

Sixguns

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So I just logged onto my account and notice all my gold is gone. But it doesnt disappear until after I log and once I do, I have a winning bid from the AH on an apple...
 

nageov3t

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Well that sucks. Wouldn't you be notified though if your authenticator is being removed? Like some sort of confirmation through email and/or sms. I believe I opted in for both.

Your story scares me a bit. My situation is similar, my account has been frozen since January. I have an actual authenticator though, not mobile.

I wasn't signed up for SMS alerts, although I am now. judging by the forums, all affected people were using mobile authenticators, not the physical tokens.

So I just logged onto my account and notice all my gold is gone. But it doesnt disappear until after I log and once I do, I have a winning bid from the AH on an apple...

report it... there was definitely a remote AH exploit over the weekend allowing hackers to bid on items remotely using other people's accounts.

that's why the mobile AH and armory are still offline.
 

JujuFish

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Feb 3, 2005
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I can't figure it out .. no addons, i'm freezing/crashing 20 seconds into the Panda start zone. whereas, i can be in IF, SW, Dalaran on my other toons and not crash. Thoughts?
I had a problem similar to this. Turns out I had the game running in DX11 mode, which my graphics card doesn't support. Changed it to DX9 and the problem stopped.
 

Sixguns

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May 22, 2011
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report it... there was definitely a remote AH exploit over the weekend allowing hackers to bid on items remotely using other people's accounts.

that's why the mobile AH and armory are still offline.

I did and now my account has been locked and password changed...

On the phone right now trying to get account unlocked so I can read my answered ticket.
 

lupi

Lifer
Apr 8, 2001
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so, remember all those people that said those in the last wave of hacked authenticator accounts said those people were lying cause an authenticator could never get hacked.

guess they meant it couldn't get hacked only once.
 

Sid59

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Sep 2, 2002
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I had a problem similar to this. Turns out I had the game running in DX11 mode, which my graphics card doesn't support. Changed it to DX9 and the problem stopped.

that fixed it .. i looked around the blizz forums and im back at it!

totally having fun with the Monk class. I tried play my level 85 lock, shaman, druid and i couldn't get into it.

edit - leveling is insanely fast. wtf .. titles and mounts are shared across the account?!
 

lupi

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Most titles and most mounts, yes. With one exception, they have done major speed boost to leveling charas now.