Dark Link Wrote:You'll be waiting a long time for the 64-bit client...
"The 64-bit client is being distributed separately from the PTR as it is not yet supported for use with World of Warcraft."

Chances are, it won't be ready until MoP...

CrazyNomad Wrote:zomg, thats mean that blood dk/feral druid in bear form won't be god anymore in PVP? I happy

CrazyNomad Wrote:hopefully not, since the 32bit option is available since patch 4.3.

we will see.

Dark Link Wrote:Yeah, I hope it won't be too long, because I run a 64-bit OS myself and I would LOVE to get more performance out of the game.

Quote:With the 4.3.2 patch we’ll be testing some new file optimization tech. As you may be aware, with previous major expansion patches (2.0, 3.0, 4.0, etc.) we’ve carried out a time-consuming process to reorganize the game files currently installed on your hard drive to integrate all previous patch files, essentially ‘cleaning up’ what’s on your computer and reducing the full installation size. This process used to require an amount of free hard drive space double that of the entire installation size to complete, which is why we’ve reserved them for large expansion-sized patches.

The new tech we’re testing with the 4.3.2 PTR will process these cleanups with no additional hard drive space required beyond what the patch is adding. Because of that you may see them appear more frequently with patches.

While the cleanup is occurring you’ll see a specific message on the launcher informing you the process is currently taking place. If you encounter any issues with the new process please be sure to visit our support site at http://www.battle.net/support/

Kodiack Wrote:From what I've gathered this seems to be consolidating files more than anything else, such as increasing framerates. It may slightly improve load times or something of the sort, although the biggest thing it seems to have going for it is the large cleanup it's performing on the way the MPQs are stored.

Currently on live (excluding Data\Cache) there are 84 files and 8 folders in the Data folder totaling 15.3 GB. On the PTR the Data folder is only 47 files and 6 folders adding up to 14.7 GB (once again, these numbers exclude Data\Cache).

The Data\Cache folder on live is 10.4 GB spread across 62 files and the localization (enUS) folder. On the PTR, it's 7.23 GB with 104 files and the localization folder. It's also worth noting that on PTR most of the files are sound cache files, while on live there are many patch-base files. I'm not sure whether that would be the same for everyone, though, so take that with a grain of salt.

In the end, this "optimization" process seems to be aimed at trimming out some of the fat. Players running WoW off of solid state drives are probably the ones that will find the smaller file sizes most exciting.

Quote:Fangs of the Father Complete
Congratulations to Имбос of Exorsus for completing Fangs of the Father. He now has both Golad, Twilight of Aspects and Tiriosh, Nightmare of Ages. We will likely start to see more of the daggers appear in the next few days.

Dark Link Wrote:Almost 4GB freed up is really nice IMO.

Also, that rogue does NOT deserve any grats. He server xferred 3 times to intentionally reset his raid lockout for the clusters / gems.

My Rogue CL buddy is still 2 weeks out from his Legendary.

DrRusty Wrote:wow I haven't even gotten to stage 2 yet.... shows the difference in speed of 10 and 25. I've done full clears since week 1

CrazyNomad Wrote:they did heroic ultraxion with 1 healer...?

Is that even possible? o_o!

Quote:During the scheduled server maintenance on the week of January 31, the Dragon Soul raid will become enveloped by the “Power of the Aspects” spell, reducing the health and damage dealt of all enemies in the raid by 5%. This spell will grow progressively stronger over time to reduce the difficulty and make the encounters more accessible. The spell will affect both normal and Heroic difficulties, but it will not affect the Looking for Raid difficulty.


The spell can also be disabled by talking to Lord Afrasastrasz at the beginning of Dragon Soul, if a raid wishes to attempt the encounters without the aid of the Dragon Aspects.

For those of you who raided in Firelands and/or Icecrown you’re no doubt aware that as time goes on we want to keep people progressing by adjusting the difficulty. For any number of reasons a group may be having difficulty on a specific encounter each week, and our intent in adjusting the content is to ensure the ability to keep progressing, enjoying the content, and gearing up. With Icecrown we progressively buffed the players, and while this slow progression (and ability to opt-out of the buff) were both beneficial, it led to an expectation of your characters power, and once you left the raid you could certainly feel less effective. For Firelands we attempted to fix that by nerfing the content instead of buffing players, but we nerfed the content difficulty all at one time, which was counterproductive for players who really didn’t need as severe a change as we made. With Dragon Soul we’re attempting to do the best of both by having a progressive nerf to the content, keeping player power constant while providing small increases in assistance over a long period of time, as well as allowing players to opt-out of the assistance by speaking to Lord Afrasastrasz.

We hope you continue to enjoy Dragon Soul, and that these changes encourage you to attempt a higher difficulty, or just keep pushing to down that next boss.

Haseo Wrote:1st Link is supposedly an "ICC Buff" for Dragon Soul, but instead of the players getting buffed, the damage AND Health of enemies gets nerfed by 5/10/15/20/25/30/35% respectively.

The "Debuff" is called "Power of the Aspects"

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=109257#see-also-other

2nd link is datamined changes from WoWhead. whether these will make it into live or not, we don't know as Blizzard has yet to mention any of these changes.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1058319-More-4.3.2-Changes-%28with-ds-nerfs%29%28from-wowhead%29

CrazyNomad Wrote:btw, anyone here have a rogue I can buy/use? no one wants to farm heavy junkbox for me, and im almost done farming goblins reputation for the "Mildly disturbed" title

Dark Link Wrote:Sucks you can't trade the boxes through other realms, otherwise I'd help ya.
Also, fixed...

bashiok Wrote:Well the nerfs are going to be progressive enough, as I said, I don't see a 5% change being a big enough change for Raid Finder players to suddenly start clearing Normal. We also don't know where we'll end up. We plan to increase the spell by 5% about every month, but we're not sure if we'll need to. If we see a lot of people able to keep progressing and downing bosses, maybe 5% is all we need. It's going to be watching completion numbers and seeing where that gets us. We're not assuming we'll need to go as far as we did with ICC. It's not going to be automatic, our hand is on the dial.

bashiok Wrote:The increase is not automatic or set in its frequency. We will be manually controlling when it increases, if at all. It will be completely based on how many people we see able to complete the raid, and our decision to increase it or not.