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Beev

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Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: Beev
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Beev
And using google cache to view a blocked page is any better?

No, but have you ever heard of someone getting fired from clicking on google cache? I haven't, but I have heard of people getting fired for trying to do things like you are doing. I am not lecturing you. Just trying to help you understand that the difference in risk assessment here. It's your choice.

Different means to the same end. No matter how you look at it *at all* we are both doing something to view content that has been blocked to us. Period. If I were a boss, and I saw someone looking at something that I knew was blocked, I wouldn't give a shit HOW they got to it.

I do find it funny that we can't read up on WoW but all of the sports sites are still open. Not that I'm complaining about having access to those!

Yeah, I actually had a mini crusade for that a couple of months ago. Of course, nothing ended up happening. So people can still play little sports flash games but even gaming news like kotaku is OMFGBLOCKED!
 

Xavier434

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Originally posted by: Beev
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Beev
And using google cache to view a blocked page is any better?

No, but have you ever heard of someone getting fired from clicking on google cache? I haven't, but I have heard of people getting fired for trying to do things like you are doing. I am not lecturing you. Just trying to help you understand that the difference in risk assessment here. It's your choice.

Different means to the same end. No matter how you look at it *at all* we are both doing something to view content that has been blocked to us. Period. If I were a boss, and I saw someone looking at something that I knew was blocked, I wouldn't give a shit HOW they got to it.

Ethically, you are absolutely correct but the fact remains that I have witnessed more people getting reprimanded and often fired from pushing it as far as you are taking it. Again, I am not lecturing you. I am just stating a fact. It is purely a mind over matter thing, but one that could effect the security of your job more severely all the same.
 

Juddog

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Originally posted by: Beev
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: Beev
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Beev
And using google cache to view a blocked page is any better?

No, but have you ever heard of someone getting fired from clicking on google cache? I haven't, but I have heard of people getting fired for trying to do things like you are doing. I am not lecturing you. Just trying to help you understand that the difference in risk assessment here. It's your choice.

Different means to the same end. No matter how you look at it *at all* we are both doing something to view content that has been blocked to us. Period. If I were a boss, and I saw someone looking at something that I knew was blocked, I wouldn't give a shit HOW they got to it.

I do find it funny that we can't read up on WoW but all of the sports sites are still open. Not that I'm complaining about having access to those!

Yeah, I actually had a mini crusade for that a couple of months ago. Of course, nothing ended up happening. So people can still play little sports flash games but even gaming news like kotaku is OMFGBLOCKED!

Oddly enough at my work ESPN is blocked but not Kotaku.
 

lupi

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don't seem to be anything doen to speed up the game, sitting in dal rigth now and it seems even slower.

found a couple other changes so far, the wintergraps and crystal earth both have different icons.

add preserved holly to that list.
 

lupi

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convention quest for cooking reduced to 4 stews, was that in the previous patch notes?
 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: lupi
don't seem to be anything doen to speed up the game, sitting in dal rigth now and it seems even slower.

found a couple other changes so far, the wintergraps and crystal earth both have different icons.

add preserved holly to that list.

Eternal Earth looks different too... it has a yellowish hue around the outside. Now it won't be somewhat confusable with Shadow (not that I've ever truly confused the two, but they did look a little alike).

EDIT:

People are saying that Wintergrasp is crashing the server. Do you think Blizzard would ban me if I threatened to enter Wintergrasp unless someone paid me... one biiiiillion gold?

EDIT 2:

Acherus Deathcharger has a new icon. I believe it's now the same as the Warlock Dreadsteed?

Oh and it looks like something is indeed crashing Northrend :(.
 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: lupi
any other locks have drain mana missing from their bar when you logged on?

They did redo drains... maybe it is considered a new spell now (i.e. has a new spell id)?

EDIT:

By drains I mean mana drains.

Also, +50 AP to weapon now has a red glow (kind of like beastslaying).
 

Anubis

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blizz fucked so much shit up

WG causes server wide crashed every 10 min

Warlock Summon now has a 2 min CD but we dont get the stone so its 1 summon ever 2 min GG

yes deathcharger is now the same as the dreedsteed icon :(

my drain mana was still on my bar, i use bartender 4 could be why

 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: Anubis
blizz fucked so much shit up

WG causes server wide crashed every 10 min

Warlock Summon now has a 2 min CD but we dont get the stone so its 1 summon ever 2 min GG

yes deathcharger is now the same as the dreedsteed icon :(

my drain mana was still on my bar, i use bartender 4 could be why

Yeah haha... I got my titansteel destroyer made today, so I'm in Azeroth trying to level it... although I guess I could head to Outlands too.

I really wanted to work on my Warrior's mining in Sholazar so he can help with Titansteel transmutes, but I won't get it at this rate :(.

EDIT:

Hah, leveling this is rather easy. If you miss, it only puts the rune on a 1s cooldown, so I can just spam Heart Strike :eek:.
 

lupi

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lol, yeah WG caused bad lag before when the match was going on. now it just crashed the server :D
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: lupi
any other locks have drain mana missing from their bar when you logged on?

Viper sting's missing from hunter hot bar as well. I was wondering what's missing from my hot bar when I login today.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Wow this lag is horrible... aff sucks with all this lag omg

our server wasent that laggy it just kept crashing lol :(

another week... another week with no 1 hander
 

Harabec

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Originally posted by: Aikouka
Yeah haha... I got my titansteel destroyer made today, so I'm in Azeroth trying to level it... although I guess I could head to Outlands too.

I really wanted to work on my Warrior's mining in Sholazar so he can help with Titansteel transmutes, but I won't get it at this rate :(.

EDIT:

Hah, leveling this is rather easy. If you miss, it only puts the rune on a 1s cooldown, so I can just spam Heart Strike :eek:.

Azaloth is your friend.
get close without drawing aggro (easy) - start auto-attack - go watch TV for 30 mins.
 

Soccerman06

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Soccerman06
Wow this lag is horrible... aff sucks with all this lag omg

our server wasent that laggy it just kept crashing lol :(

another week... another week with no 1 hander

Our server was so bad there would be a 10 second gap between instant casts later in the night.
 

nanobreath

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Yeah, alleria crashed every time WG went up. So we went and ran CoT. WG finally finished while we were in the middle of the instance, so afterwards we headed to gundrak and HoS. As long as we were in an instance, we were fine. Actually got to play most of the night last night.

Any warriors have any tips on gear to work towards in order to become crit immune. I figured I had enough boe gear ready to hit the cap...but i'm still 100 defense rating short. I went to go resocket for defense in order to get the extra, then found out I had just enough sockets to activate my meta-gem. GD druids cheat!
 

Harabec

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I changed spec from unholy tank to blood dps yesterday just for the heck of it, measured about 1600dps on heroic boss dummy (I'm 5-man\heroic geared, mostly pooh). Now after patch its up to ~2k without changing anything.
 

Juddog

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Yesterday our server (Drenden) kept crashing every time someone won Wintergrasp... then the battle would begin again. I ended up buying the epic helm, epic trinket, and getting about 35 WG marks because the battles were so quick. Free loot for the win! Of course since Northrend kept crashing our usual raid night in Naxx got called off.
 

Chimley

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What a disapponting night. I typically don't expect much on Patch Days, but holy shit did Blizzard fuck things up.

Wintergrasp: The big "FIX" for WG was to Instance the zone? And then you have the Instance sending out a buff to all the winning factions players throughout Northrend. No fucking wonder that shit's crashing.

Raiding Lag: We busted ass to Naxx as soon as we saw WG was crashing servers. We blew through the Abom and Spider Wings, but by time we got to Noth.. the Lag was unplayable. Since we were flirting with Immortal, we didn't want to risk Heigan with the Lag so we tried Malygos. Bad idea. We tried a couple more times and called the night off.


The Lock bug was pretty fucking annoying and our locks seemed a bit pissed at the 2 min cooldown.


Sigh.. our guild has done everything we can to avoid all this performance mess. We've changed raiding times, xferred servers (which took on too many xfers LOL.. now the NEW server gets a free xfer soon), and we still can't just have a non-laggy night of raiding. Not gonna lie.. we've had a couple long time peoples quit cause of putting up with this shit for so long. Blizzard needs to step up.
 

Xavier434

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I only played a little bit last night. I noticed some lag, but I assumed that was due to the massive patch downloads that were occurring. I didn't notice the WG crashing issue, but that might be just because I wasn't on long enough. That is a pretty serious issue. The rest of the issues that I am hearing about don't sound too nasty and should be easy to fix.
 
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