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[Minifig]

What driver version did you install? Also, WoW now uses PhysX?

I don't think it uses Physx, but it sure as heck made a difference in my game, and as far as Drivers? 260.89..

[Argi]

WoW doesn't use Physx.

[Shaun N.]

WOW..

With the new NVidia Drivers, I offloaded Physx to my secondary 250S card, and started tinkering around with my settings in WoW..

Here's my results:

The game never ever drops below 60 FPS. :woot:

What was the point in the screenshot? there's no info from what I can see that shows any performance increase or decrease.

[Noveed]

WOW..

With the new NVidia Drivers, I offloaded Physx to my secondary 250S card, and started tinkering around with my settings in WoW..

Here's my results:

The game never ever drops below 60 FPS. :woot:

My graphics card>yours

My pc>yours

My fps>yours

go me for lowering the tone :p

[the evn show]

In the latest patch addons seem to handle the window resizing much better. In earlier times I had to setup three separate profiles

depending on where I was playing:

• 1280x800 on my notebook
  
• 1920x1080 for playing on my TV
  
• 1680x1050 for my old creeky desktop
  

If you play on a mac it's not unusual to jump between full screen and windowed mode (CMD+M) to browse the web, or watch a

movie with the game in the background. The problem is that such activities would destroy your UI as things resized at varing rates

and they had their positions bounce around. Going from a TV to a notebook meant that your action bars, chat windows, etc. would

all stack up.

Now I'm able to go from my laptop to desktop without having my UI break: all the elements just get uniformly larger which is pretty

much exactly the behaviour I'm looking for. Better still, I can resize my window down to around 650 pixels across and everything

still works.

I haven't tried changing aspect ratios and I expect that might cause some issues because addons set their anchors relative to UIParent's

top left, bottom left, and centre depending on the authors mood. but I think it'll be a lot easier to fix in the future.

[iKenndac]

Argh.

All going to plan, I'll get [What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been] during Love Is In The Air, in February. I've been having a blast doing all the holidays ? hell, I even had fun during the crazy times of Children's Week doing School of Hard Knocks.

For Hallows End, I've done all of the achievements bar one of the RNG ones. I got my helm yesterday, and my toothpick just dropped. All I need is that squashling!

It's come down to me logging in every hour to do a Trick or Treat to see if I get the random drops, and of course doing the dailies. Having to log in hourly for a random drop is against the spirit of these holidays IMO - I have an advantage over a lot of people because I work from home and can hop on WoW every hour even during work time. Some people will have an advantage of me, since I often go out in the evenings and such.

/rant

[Minifig]

My graphics card>yours

My pc>yours

My fps>yours

go me for lowering the tone :p

:huh:.

I've never said what my PC's full stats were so, I don't know how you know your PC is better than mine.. and frankly I don't care. I love my PC.

Willy-wag all you want.

[Sethos]

With the 4.0 patch, have some of the new texture work been implemented? If not, I remember reading about a little 'tweak' you could do to apply them, anyone recall what that was?

[_neutrino Veteran]

So far as i know there were a few textures that were replaced. however the overall texture work has not been done yet. Although the new water and lighting effects are amazing especially if you have DX11 mode enabled.

[Prosidius]

So I'll admit I play this game far too much. I have over a year /played on my warrior and over half a year /played on my Paladin. In total I'm probobly reaching near 600 days /played on the account. I've recently had some drama issues with this person in my guild and it's reached the point where I dont want to login sometimes. Well I missed a raid 2 weeks ago because of this guild member and I'm missing a raid today. I must say, it feels pretty good to not be logged into WoW at all. The issue is off my mind and I'm just chilling far happier than I would be if I was in WoW now. I should start playing this game less. :)

[Slane]

^Good. I don't feel like doing **** till Cata. And then it's a 10-12 man guild and that's that.

Though did login today to finish out Zandalar tribe. Which gave me 40 exalted titles also. :)

[troGGers]

Taking a break is definitely a good idea once in a while. At the end of an expansion in particular. :)

[game_over]

I take breaks on a weekly basis... usually play it hard for a week or so every night, then i'll drop off and leave it for a week.. if i didn't have an attention hungry partner i'd probably play more often.

[Eric Veteran]

I get full FPS on Ultra with DX11 - the same as Good in DX9 mode... go figure.

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

debating on resubbing to WoW, been alittle over a year since last played.

had a DK Tank in full Scourgeborne (T7 all 10 man except 1 or 2 that was 25 )

how hard should it be to regear up agian, i know there is the Dungon finder thing, but are people still anal about everybodys gear rating being so high they want a free ride through the instance ?

[Slane]

how hard should it be to regear up agian, i know there is the Dungon finder thing, but are people still anal about everybodys gear rating being so high they want a free ride through the instance ?

Of course they are. That's how people determine "skill". Hopefully Cata will change that. Less welfare epics. :)

As a tank doing Dungeon Finder, you'll be insta-ques (1-10 seconds norm) and you'll quickly be able to get full 232 gear, which should let ya into the oddball Uld/TOC(and G) run. You'll also be able to buy 251 (didn't bother to check prices on those) which will boost your GS up a bit to get into ICC. Which is a joke w/o Chill of Throne and 30% buff. I'm thinking of setting a few nights aside and getting a solid group and walking in and taking loot. Just can't be bother to play the game long enough for that. Bring on Cata!

[I am Redbeard]

Of course they are. That's how people determine "skill". Hopefully Cata will change that. Less welfare epics. :)

As a tank doing Dungeon Finder, you'll be insta-ques (1-10 seconds norm) and you'll quickly be able to get full 232 gear, which should let ya into the oddball Uld/TOC(and G) run. You'll also be able to buy 251 (didn't bother to check prices on those) which will boost your GS up a bit to get into ICC. Which is a joke w/o Chill of Throne and 30% buff. I'm thinking of setting a few nights aside and getting a solid group and walking in and taking loot. Just can't be bother to play the game long enough for that. Bring on Cata!

Not sure why everyone insists on getting 232 gear. My feral tank has less than 10 hrs played @80 and my avg item level is already 256. 251 off pieces are cheaper than 226 off pieces. The Veteran arena vendor is broken so you can buy 270ilevel stuff without a rating (arena teams are gone..). It's stupidly easy to get gear.

That being said.. Player > Gear.

[Slane]

Not sure why everyone insists on getting 232 gear. My feral tank has less than 10 hrs played @80 and my avg item level is already 256. 251 off pieces are cheaper than 226 off pieces. The Veteran arena vendor is broken so you can buy 270ilevel stuff without a rating (arena teams are gone..). It's stupidly easy to get gear.

Only got one toon I play. It might have changed since I'd use dungeon finder to gear up. If that's the case it'll be even easier for him.

edit: Logged in and looked at prices for Frost gear, it's stupid cheap. Ignore any 232, go straight to 251 ****. And I guess heirlooms is going to the points sink.

That being said.. Player > Gear.

As much as I would love to agree, that hasn't been LK mindset this entire expansion. (spare a few select fights, which is bull anyways as all fights should be like that)

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

Of course they are. That's how people determine "skill". Hopefully Cata will change that. Less welfare epics. :)

As a tank doing Dungeon Finder, you'll be insta-ques (1-10 seconds norm) and you'll quickly be able to get full 232 gear, which should let ya into the oddball Uld/TOC(and G) run. You'll also be able to buy 251 (didn't bother to check prices on those) which will boost your GS up a bit to get into ICC. Which is a joke w/o Chill of Throne and 30% buff. I'm thinking of setting a few nights aside and getting a solid group and walking in and taking loot. Just can't be bother to play the game long enough for that. Bring on Cata!

ill prolly try it out for a bit, but those type of people annoy me, back in Vanilla i would take people in Greens to the raids, but it was full 40 back then, had alot more slack, now people pretty much require you to be OVERGEARD for the instance/raid. its like come on, i do older instances for fun, but why would somebody else that doesnt need anything out of the isntance, run it just so you can stroll through it

its literally those types of people that drove me away from the game in the first place, was to much " no we cant take that player cause his gear is to low, making me sit outside the bloody instance for an hour cause nobody was good enough, ended up dropping group and trying again, repeat. eventually i said screw it cleared as far as i could of mobs solo, leving the boss's. lol

[the evn show]

As much as I would love to agree, that hasn't been LK mindset this entire expansion. (spare a few select fights, which is bull anyways as all fights should be like that)

ICC10 was being done when the buff was <30% by people in nothing but blues. You don't get much more "player > gear" than a situation where players wouldn't even be allowed to queue for some heroic dungeons.

The problem is that the bar for both skill and gear was set very low.

A skilled player in blues.
Marginal players with 2 tiers more gear than the content is tuned for.
------ You must be this good to pass ------
naked characters played by competent people
People who spec 25/25/25 + 6 unspent + marginal gear
Face rolling keyboard turners with full 264 tier 10
Face rolling keyboard turners with blues and greens

Skill was always the deciding factor (evidence: if gear was; why isn't everybody in this thread with 264 at least "bane of the fallen king")?

Take players with full 277 (and skill to match) and toss them in 232 welfare epics and they'll still be able to clear ICC.

Take a fire-standing keyboard turners and give them full 264/277 and they still aren't going to be getting a heroic lich king kill, hell the bottom

half aren't even killing normal lich king (the 30% buff gives you the stats of someone with full 258 at 0% even if you're in 5-man epics. 258 was more than enough to kill lich king at 0%)

IMO gear hasn't been the largest concern since 2.4.

[ponytail]

Not sure why everyone insists on getting 232 gear. My feral tank has less than 10 hrs played @80 and my avg item level is already 256. 251 off pieces are cheaper than 226 off pieces. The Veteran arena vendor is broken so you can buy 270ilevel stuff without a rating (arena teams are gone..). It's stupidly easy to get gear.

That being said.. Player > Gear.

According to a blue poster on the wow forums, not a bug. info here

[I am Redbeard]

According to a blue poster on the wow forums, not a bug. info here

Looks like a bug, smells like a bug, acts like a bug, confirmed not a bug. Either way, gear = Earl Z. Moade.

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

Blighton @ Dark Iron

Here is my character, when i activated last night, i just threw a bunch of talents into blood, as I was talentless due to patch.

My gear and glyphs and sockets are geared atm for Frost ( i was NOT a DW Tank ) also there is a gem or 2 that looks like they switched as i don't remember it buffing that, but then again i have been away for a while. Personally im not going to start dungeon finder and kick heroic to get back into tanking let alone learning Blood Spec

But any tips would be appreciated.

[the evn show]

The trees are pretty specific now, tank = blood, dw = frost, lolghoul = unholy. Frost is more difficult but fun to play. 2h frost is viable.

You can more or less steal my DK's talent build. There are a handful of 'optional' points that should be easy to spot, and if you plan to

dual wield then the changes needed should be pretty obvious.

If you're going to dual wield then head over to Forge of Souls as often as you can and farm for Nighttime (2.6 speed 1h axe, ilevel 232)

and if you're going to go 2h then get into pit of Sauron and try for the 2h axe from the last boss. If you've got a little gold to spend you

can get the ilevel 264 2h axe "shadows edge" crafted. Depending on your server's economy the raw materials could be as low as about

5000g - you'll need to kill boss 5 & 6 of ICC on 25 man mode for drops, but pugs have been doing that for months. If you have friends

who will take you: you're golden. The majority of your gear will come from the badge vendor or auction house: it's just face-roll heroics

until you have your set of tier 10.

For stats: Get hit capped, get expertise capped. After that you have to chose what to gear for:

If you're dual wielding then you'll stack strength and reforge your 'bad' stats into mastery. (strength is king because the other stats never come close to being as much DPS as str is)

If you're using a 2 hander you'll want to stack haste as much as you can while reforging 'garbage' stats into mastery (more haste = more attacks+faster rune regen = more procs + more strikes)

Correct glyphs are frost strike, howling blast, and obliterate - you'll replace howling blast with icy touch when going to a boss fight

where aoe doesn't matter. Dual wield is played in frost presence, 2h is played in unholy.

The basic rule of thumb for playing is: "diseases up, obliterate whenever you can, bloodstrike when both blood runes are up, frost strike as filler"

Obviously the above is all just "welcome to frost DK in 4.0, here's enough to get you started." The details are more subtle but the above should

takes you about 85% of the way and hopefully it wasn't too difficult to follow.

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

I was frost tanking before I deactivated, why my ger is set for frost, not going to dps, why I'm switching to blood. To tank

I'll look those items up but if they are dps weeps, not going to go after them