THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE OLD GOD TENTACLE

Read the first post in the below picture (blatantly borrowed from Foton) to get up to speed if you aren't already.

Sound familiar? It should.

The Plane of Time
2003-05-09 18:50:26 - Furor Planedefiler

You have 14 Days. If after that time the Plane is not properly tuned, I am deleting my characters, and cancelling all of my accounts. The rest of my guild will follow suit, as will several other guilds and people that play Everquest.

To be brief, I did not work my ass off, jumping through your idiotic hoops with my friends and guildmates, so I could go to a zone where only groups of 18 could enjoy the content. EVEN if past these initial moronic events I can finally get my entire guild in to raid with me, FUCK YOU GUYS. Seriously, FUCK YOU.

I cannot believe this... right now I'm just so pissed off. I am sitting here in the Plane of Time, and 3/4 of my guild is just sitting around while a group of 18 is repeatedly trying to beat one of the mini ring encounters. Don't you people have ANY FUCKING DECENCY? SMEDLEY WHY DON'T YOU STOP COUNTING YOUR MONEY AND START ISSUING ORDERS?

The tragic irony of creating the ultimate cockblock encounter in the form of the Rathe which requires 80 people to defeat and then to limit encounters in the Plane of Time to 18.

14 Days.... after that this site will change from the most popular EQ fan site on the internet to the most popular World of Warcraft fan site on the internet. I'm done playing ball with you useless fuckers... it's my turn.

In reply to the post on the Death and Taxes front page, Furor thought intently, weighed the arguments put forth from both sides of the fence, and had this to say;

I think you're just being a retard.

Furor "I'll Give You 14 Fucking Days. I Know My Game's Shit" Planedefiler then went on to reply;

because you cannot beat content doesnt mean its broken, learn to understand the difference

Confident that C'thun was working perfectly and everything was alright with the world, Blizzard didn't change anything and retired to the country to happily raise kittens.

Wait, that's not right. Let's try this:

Examining the C'thun encounter, Blizzard discovered something actually wasn't right and patched in a fix.

Yeah, that way works better.

Ouro has been hotfixed so his Quake effects deal significantly less damage.
 
We have also hotfixed the following changes to the C’thun encounter in Ahn’Qiraj:
 
- Lowered the hit points of both Giant Claw Tentacles and Giant Eye Tentacles.
 
- Decreased the damage caused by Ground Rupture, and made the effect resistable.
 
- Significantly decreased the melee damage done by Giant Eye Tentacles.
 
In the 1.10.1 patch, we also changed the way that C’thun identifies who is in his stomach. The faction changing debuff that was previously applied will no longer appear, but C’thun’s tentacles should not spawn in the stomach, nor should a player in the stomach be the target of C’thun’s Eye Beam.
 
The combination of these changes should give players more time to damage C'thun instead of dealing with tentacles, and see fewer “unavoidable, random” deaths occur due to Ground Rupture effects.

In short, we have the following closure;

A) The Giant Tentacles that are a large part, and the large problem, of Phase 2 have been nerfed
AND
B) Blizzard was ignorant to the difficulty of the C'thun encounter (as exhibited by Furor's chat comments). With it finally shoved in their face, rather than just sitting on the official forums where it supposedly was not being read, a change was finally made.
OR
C) Blizzard was aware of the unbalanced C'thun encounter and did not feel it was necessary to fix it right away. "Let them kamikaze themselves on that encounter all day until we get Naxxramas up and running". Changes were planned, but with the growing furor (*badoom* *tish*) of the past few weeks which cumulated in the Death and Taxes copycat ultimation, it was decided the changes should be made live immediately.

In either case, Blizzard failed the community communication test here. No official comment on C'thun being looked into after uber guild after uber guild was failing consistently. No official comment on the C'thun encounter being broken and players should wait until a fix. Nothing from the 157 Community Managers that Blizzard employs. And yet will no one think of the fanbois??!!

Expect the first C'thun kill to be announced within the next few days. That is, if guilds can get past the Eye Beams still being shot into C'thun's stomach regardless of what the hotfix patch notes said.

Comments

[Zane]

From what I hear, Furor was arguing semantics with this Xi fellow. Furor's position was that the encounter couldn't be called "broken", since most of C'thun's abilities do in fact work properly- they're just too powerful. Xi maintained that there was little functional difference.

Here's more of the IRC chat that was apparently logged:

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(Furor) broken is not the same as too hard, that's all I'm putting up here
(Furor) they really are two very different things
(Wodin) That's perfectly reasonable
(Furor) If the encounter is unreasonable, that's a whole nother argument
(Wodin) and we've never debated that the encounter is broken mechanicswise
(Furor) back inthe day, we'd lay it out for the devs
(Zarcath) even if they retuned it and DnT couldn't beat it where would you go from there?
(Furor) Your encounter sucks, here's why
(Furor) etc...
(Zarcath) keep retuning until DnT can kill it and they A-OK the encounter?
(Wodin) umm, I'm in EJ, not DnT
(DnT-XI) i'd say we need to learn2fucking play
(Furor) thats when the encounters were too hard, but that was really a rarity in EQ for the most part
(Wodin) If it's in a killable state and we can't, then it's learn2play time
(Lenthan) you guys need a batphone and suggestions on parts that are overly difficult
(Furor) they were always/mostly one of two things
(Furor) broken or too easy
(Zarcath) I don't know but all I got from your post was bitching and moaning, you took someone elses rant and applied it to something you don't even have a basis of comparisson for
(Furor) broken always got the big FU
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(DnT-XI) what's the difference between broken and too hard
(DnT-XI) if you can't beat it
(DnT-XI) does it matter which it is?
(Furor) the difference is that you can attempt it
(Furor) I wont argue whats WORSE
(Furor) not the point
(Furor) Im just saying, when they tout a raid zone
(Lenthan) He's telling you what to do Xi
(Furor) and then you find that it doesnt even exist
(Furor) thats broken
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(Wodin) basically
(Lenthan) figure out what makes the encounter impossible, and talk to the devs about tuning those parts
(Wodin) we did
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(DnT-XI) exactly
(Furor) and its appreciated
(DnT-XI) we did
(Furor) believe me

[D-0ne]

Furor is as big an ass now as ever. I like how he has acually become Absor... heh.