Thursday, October 11, 2007

45 Second Hypothermia

Suck my dick Blizzard. Not for the taste. Or the texture. But for the nutritional content. If you want nutritional facts, you can check my -- actually, fine, whatever. I won't emo out, yet. I'm involved in some wedding bullshit this weekend and have been the past few days hence the lack of posting. I'm so sorry. So fucking sorry.

My video was rejected from Warcraft Movies for reasons unknown. I almost care enough to inquire as to why, al-fucking-most. Anyways, I'll have some drunken updates over the weekend which should contain my thoughts on the PTR changes, drunken ramblings, and general whining about how we can't beat X class or X team next season. Happy PTR weekend -- I'm sure even without my sweet nothings in your eyes, the multitude of new purples will keep you satisfied.

Oh, and:

Players no longer gain the moving AOE radius bonus if they are jumping.

That's right. Blizzard went out of its way just to nerf me. It's like that.

47 comments:

Anonymous said...

gotta luv blizzard devz ^_________________^

Goretongue said...

Serves you right.

Anonymous said...

Blizz hates everyone but warriors and healers. I read it in the PTR notes.

Anonymous said...

You deserved it.

Anonymous said...

You wanted to know why your video got rejected? Blizzard just answered your question for you.

O_O

Magdain said...

45 second Hypothermia is top 10 out-of-left-field-WHAT-THE-FUCKING-
FUCK-WERE-YOU-THINKING-Do-You-Even-
Play-Your-Own-Game changes in wow history.

Will it be huge? Meh. Probably not. But tacking 15 seconds on hypothermia when mages were already pretty lackluster in 2s/3s and were still killable in 5s after IB.. Pretty dumb.

Also, most of the reasons WCM submissions are rejected is because of filesize. They have an x mb / 1min limit on movies. I forget exactly what it is, but it's probably somewhere on the site. And if you get around to caring enough, you can PM Gedan or post on their forums.

Shaan said...

Definatly agree with you Magdain. What in gods name are blizzard thinking?

Ambiguous Foo said...

raddy i miss the days when you actually made substantive non-minglike posts.

Anonymous said...

Mages were already one of the freaking weakest classes in the arena yet they nerf us?? While all healers, including resto druids get a shitload of dmg on their gear. WTF are they thinking??? Instead of 12/20 druids in top 20 2v2 it'll become 16/20.

Anonymous said...

I was considering coming back to the game (despite the Hypothermia changes) but then I read about the jumping penalty.

-Corrz

Anonymous said...

Just bloody stop crying like an emo-noob. Your blog used to be a favorite of mine, but now.... what a shame!

Anonymous said...

Sorry but I don't understand the moving aoe thing is it a joke or a real change either way I don't really get what it means :(

eldude said...

QQ hypothermia WTF, now there is a 15 second window where its ATLEAST POSSIBLE to kill a frost mage, since killing one within 30secs of high level play is a farcical notion.

If you want to QQ look at the buffs they are giving warrirors!

Good bye locks your arena domination is over

welcome back to the throne once again warriors you pieces of shit.

Raddy said...

Yawn, we'll see what happens. There could very well be a few more rounds of changes on PTR, and if not, this blog very well could be a poker blog full time. ^^

Anonymous said...

Please I would rather read about poker than a stupid MMO all the time.

depredate said...

Time for a new blog rad. <3

hypez said...

pretty sure every team is gonna see this in the patch notes and immediately want to focus mages :(

also: http://vhairi.blogspot.com/
(^arena class distribution)

eldude said...

indeed the notes still arent complete,

there was massive uproar in rogue forums due to the lack of hemo buff and dirty deeds change on the current notes, drysc did respond with a wait and see its not all done changing yet.

Szod - Malfurion said...

Since I've started reading from the site your writing's gotten a lot more crass, vulgar, and I see a lot less value in coming to this page.

Here's hoping you start to write intelligently again soon. It's not all about making your site more like the other sites out there.

Swearing is proof of the mind unable to express itself by normal means. You demean us all with your writing.

Kawklee said...

"Since I've started reading from the site your writing's gotten a lot more crass, vulgar, and I see a lot less value in coming to this page.

Here's hoping you start to write intelligently again soon. It's not all about making your site more like the other sites out there.

Swearing is proof of the mind unable to express itself by normal means. You demean us all with your writing."

ur mom

Szod - malfurion said...

You must have been a pretty determined baby to crawl out of the abortion bucket!

Ambiguous Foo said...

If any of you blasting away on szod have followed Raddy's blog for any length of time, you would know that many of his old time fans were originally attracted to his blog due to his intelligent analysis of pvp tactics and trends. He was unique in the regard that he was not tainted by the type of emo qq and vulgarity that watered down the content of other blogs that were available.

Granted, recently wow itself is becoming more watered down, new arena topics are becoming slim (especially given raddy's past coverage of arenas and mage pvp), and raddy along with the rest of us has gotten jaded and bored with Wow and its inability to really step up as an e-sport.

Whether or not vulgarity is used isnt the point, its whether or not intelligent and interesting concepts are being presented. Thats all i ask for at least.

Anonymous said...

45 hypothermia sucks, but for any mage who likes to wsg this hurts way more. Especially with the possibility of rated wsg.

"Dropping the Flag in a battleground will now result in a debuff that will not allow you to pick up the flag again for 3 seconds."

Raddy said...

I bit the head off a kitten when I read that patch note about the flag dropping cooldown. No, I didn't swallow. I wanted to though. I really don't have that much to say about the 2.3 changes. WoW just doesn't treat me right. If WoW was a girl, even a sweet awesome hot on, I'd dump her and send her videos of me fucking her fat sister. Well, i'd at least impersonate her and post rape fantasies with contact information on CollarMe. Okay, I'd do neither and just take the abuse like a bitch. I'd SO post mean shit on my blog though.

David said...

Didja hear the one about the hunter deadzone being eliminated?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2366566665&sid=1&pageNo=15

Raddy said...

I don't really understand these changes in 2.3 very well yet. They are increasingly stupid.

Tyveris said...

It is funny. A thread came up about the change, and it didn't matter what class, everyone thought it was retarded and unneeded.
Thread: http://www.arenajunkies.com/showthread.php?t=1454

They are clueless, and somehow think 45 seconds is some magic number.

Lets give MSD a cooldown. How about 45 seconds. Ooh good idea, give it to hypothermia too for consistency.

Anonymous said...

Wow you need to issue WCM an ultimatum.

I mean, how can they disregard the epitome of baller

Bubbles said...

How about spell penetration on arena staff instead of hit rating...

PvP mages, coming next on your S3 gear 5dmg/4hit gems...

Bubbles said...

I'd also like to know who at Blizzard thinks minus 0.15 second on polymorph is on the same level than an extra 10 energy for rogues or 5 seconds off intercept cooldown for warriors.

I m still hoping to upgrade my 2 piece T4 before WOTLK...

mike said...

hey u copied that from this guy! u cheater =P

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2288092851&postId=23663851520&sid=1#494

Raddy said...

NO I DID NOT COPY THAT I MADE IT UP FIRST OMG

Anonymous said...

i <3 the new 4pc bonus!
-0.15s sheep cast time. 2500 rating here i come..

Anonymous said...

Lawl finally overpowered frost noobs got the well deserved nerfs. They should make hypothermia last 1minute and put diminishing returns on newbie frost moves. Oh and radikal, I look forward to your next dueling vid, seeing you get owned by healing classes is going to be hilarious.

Anonymous said...

At least it doesn't stoop to the lows of the druid glove bonuses. The cast time reductions on cyclone / roots they offer actually are nerfs the respective abilities.

eltariel said...

It should be 50% uninterruptability when casting Polymorph, not this bullshit placeholder -0.15s cast time.

Anonymous said...

or the t4 2pc bonus...

Anonymous said...

Once upon a time you actually could have referenced your blog for something obtainable and respectable in RL. Now, if I were you, I would hide your identity and never claim ownership to the person behind the crap that is written now. You took the ONE good thing that probably came out of WoW and managed to flush that down the toilet with trash talk. I truly believe that not a single good thing comes out of playing this game and you have proven that point once again.

Anonymous said...

just 21 point of talents give you 20s immune of everything.....even a noob know it's will be a nerf coming

Vhairi said...

http://vhairi.blogspot.com/

104,000 teams from 86 EU realms.

Only Hunters do worse than Mages in 2v2, and even there Mages actually have the worst scaling (-14% from 1400 to 2300, compared to -12%)

With the Hypo changes this will just get worse. Well done Blizz.

Raddy said...

@ dickhead anonymous:

I don't normally respond to the plebs, but the extreme amount of venom in your post is interesting.

First of all, I don't need to reference my fucking video game blog in real life. That's sort of the whole fucking point.

Second, I don't trash talk anybody, at least seriously.

Third, nothing I ever wrote on this blog was of the caliber that anyone should think of it as the "ONE good thing to come out of WoW." I'm flattered that you enjoyed my earlier content, but my articles were the sort of thing that dozens of other players could have easily written.

I apologize if you feel let down by what the site turned into, but honestly I love the ability to be irreverent and silly and talk about what I desire.

Illexiyel said...

yo let me axe you this let me axe you this right quick

"Now, if I were you, I would hide your identity and never claim ownership to the person behind the crap that is written now."

You posted a comment as anonymous with no name below it saying who you were.

OH THE IRONY THE IRONY

Flawless Victory. COMMMMMMMBOOOO BREAKKKKKKER.

Dune said...

Wow this blog is trash now, it's like Ming is posting with all the stupid metaphors. The only good blog posts left are by OTHER authors on Mings blog -_-

Anonymous said...

"That's right. Blizzard went out of its way just to nerf me. It's like that."

I would lay down my eLife for you raddy, in a second.

Matt said...

OH LEFT FIELD

Yeah kinda wtf

Vontre said...

Glad I'm all up ons PvE and casual alts now. Wailing Caverns sucks.

Anonymous said...

video is probably too big, check your email acct associated with your login, can't be over 20mb/min i think

-pv