Token Fatalities

So as most of you know I am for the most part not against DLCs. I don't mind DLCs that are cosmetic where people have a choice pick them up to make characters look in specific ways or do certain things. I do hate day 1 additional content DLCs because to me if you are releasing a game and the additional content is there it should be included and be for everyone. Now this doesn't include collectors or limited edition bundles because again this to me is almost always purely cosmetic and is not really anything of significance to the game itself. Also I hate DLCs that unlock content which is doable in game as a shortcut. I know this doesn't effect me, but this to me defeats the purpose of going through a game and playing it. This is a mixing of free to play game style with a purchased game and in my mind is bordering on the greedy end.

One thing I can't stand though is companies is releasing addons or DLCs which are 1 time uses which are also shortcuts. The new Mortal Kombat has purchasable 1 time use "Easy" Fatalities. Basically giving you the ability to preform an easy fatality with a simple couple button combo. Not only are fatalities not hard at all to preform charging people a one time use shortcut to me is wrong. Now to me this purchase seems completely useless, but I know people will buy this.

Some might say this is a company profiting from players lack of skill, and who cares. I care. I hate it when companies think they can take advantage of people in such a way that rewards laziness and complete lack of motivation. Why? Because this breads a population of entitlement and these will be the people that will be the ones bitching on forums and causing the games that I love to be changed for their benefit.

Maybe I am overreacting, but there has got to be people out there that think this is wrong just as much as I do.

Ask Gauss

So it is Sunday and besides the last day of The Masters it is time for Ask Gauss. This week has kinda been crazy so many requests for blog posts and of course the "have you done a fail post on ___ yet". I got through all the emails this week even the weird ones, did you know they have wow in Nigeria? Anyways let's get to the questions for the week.

Do you think encounters are easier than they used to be?

Well if we are talking about normal encounters based to previous expansions I would have to say yes for the reason there was no hard modes before. But even considering hardmodes lets think about this.

In classic WoW think of the hardest encounters. Ragnaros was the first difficult encounter people faced basically because it was the first encounter people had to be organized. Know where to stand, not stand next to others, and of course assist for proper dpsing down of the adds. Nefarian was probably the first of WoW's truly difficult encounters. It wasn't just about how fast you could dps, or how good your healers were. Was about position, kill targets, and raid management. C'thun by many is considered to be one of the most difficult encounters WoW has ever had. In my opinion this isn't close to being given this title. This encounter was hard because 40 people were in the raid not because of the mechanics.

The Burning Crusade in my opinion saw WoWs most difficult encounters, and blizzard has said an instance at the level of Sunwell won't be made again. In BC it was not unheard of to spend weeks or a month trying to get a boss down. Individual boss kills were more of an achievement rather than now the big deal is clearing the instance. When you think of the names and what went into killing Vashj, Kael'thas, Archimonde, Illidan. All of these bosses could be considered guild killers. Any raider who expierenced it though all you have to say to them is... M'uru. They have never made anything more difficult.

So comparing Wrath 3D sarth on release, Yogg +0, Algalon, Heroic Anub are at the difficult level. I don't think anyone could say any of those bosses is more difficult then completely Sunwell. So I do think the encounters are easier, but I enjoy the new designs a lot more than I used to. It is not the same boss with a different look, which to me is important and makes the game worth playing.

What addons you currently use, what you love, like, hate but use, wouldn't touch with a 50-foot Molson's?

Here is my list
Auctioneer
Bagone (when will blizzard put this option in...)
Bartender4
BloodQueen
Boss Notes
Cooldown Count
cycircled
Deadly Boss Mods
eePanels
Elkano Buff Bars
ForteXorcist
FuBar
Grid
Omen
OmniCC
oRA3
Postal
Prat
Rating Buster
Recount (I hate running a meter...)
Scrolling Combat Text (would love to run blizzards, but so used to this)
SexyMap
Shadowed UnitFrames (this is the new agunit)
Slam Alert
Strong Arms
Tankpoints
WTFrames

Now addons I would stay away from xPearl(takes too much rescources for what it does), titanpannel, CT_Mail, AuctionAdvanced, Dominos(doesn't get updated enough), CTBuff, DrDmg.

Now there are some addons which do the same of many of mine I just haven't used them and can't speak about them. Also for those wondering since it seems I use a lot. In a raid I do not run auctioneer and run at about 21M of memory.

So you are always answering peoples questions, so here is your chance to ask me a question.

Why is the rum gone?

That is it for this week. Enjoy what is left of your weekend. This Friday's readers post will be the story of your favourite boss and why. You have until Thursday night to get them in.

You Fail At Addons If...

So it is Tuesday and besides Free Loot it means it is time for the weekly fail. I still find it amusing Tuesday's are my most popular blog days. Wonder if this is because it is fail day or if it is because of down time. Or maybe both? Regardless, time to give you all what you came to see!

You Fail At Addons If...

• When someone says "Omen" you mistake it for "Oh Man"
• You answer your in game mails one at a time
• You don't use any raid frame and that includes the default UI
• You think DBM is short for Damn Bowel Movements
• You doing anything on the AH without Auctioneer
• You open your bags individually instead of having a ong bag mod
• You never update them and wonder why you are lagging and crashing
• You respond to raid whispers telling you to get out of fire, green shit, or bite someone
• The question "why I need a range frame?" has ever left your mouth
• You thought someone on vent was always yelling "runaway little girl"
• You call big brother a liar because I DIDN'T BREAK THAT SHEEP
• You don't use a decurse mod if you are a decursing class
• You set the mod "Auto Vendor" at epic threshold
• You are a pally without pally power
• After a patch you forget to click on the "load out of date addons" when you log in
• You use Curse and not WoWace

and finally

• You have no idea what I am talking about.

That is it! May your Free Loot Tuesday not be filled with shards and other useless crap no one wants besides that idiot who will equipped anything.