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Vault_News  3 stars
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Zarhym posted:

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This is the sort of philosophy we're going for with phasing, as we do feel it's an important tool for storytelling. We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm. While there is still a good deal of phasing involved in many of the zones, we tried to make each phase a little more intricate and less intrusive on group gameplay. We want to make sure that, in times when a group is required, phasing doesn't hold you back from grouping with friends.

(...) [Disappearing Herbs & Nodes] It is an issue we're aware of and having been looking into. We've applied a number of hotfixes to phased gathering nodes since the release of Cataclysm, but this one is still there and is certainly a bugger.



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Arunne  1 star
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Registered: 2003-11-3 14:11:47
Well if Cataclysm is minimal phasing, i would hate to see what they think over-phased was....

 

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Azure-TheBlueOne  2 stars
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Vault_News posted:

We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm.



That must be some sort of twisted Blizzard inside joke.

 

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Quazimortal  4 stars
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I'm now certain that this Zarhym guy knows nothing about WoW.

 

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Ugh_Lancelot  3 stars
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Blizztards posted:

We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm. While there is still a good deal of phasing involved in many of the zones, we tried to make each phase a little more intricate and less intrusive on group gameplay.


Except for just about all of the lowbie zones?

What game are these people playing, anyway?

 

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Broken_Kayfabe  1 star
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Azure-TheBlueOne posted:

Vault_News posted:

We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm.



That must be some sort of twisted Blizzard inside joke.



Yeah, seriously, that is so off-base it's nonsensical. Did anyone call him out on this in the thread?

Blizzard did with phasing just what it did with other toys it invents (like vehicles) - shove them down everyone's throat at every opportunity and make it clear you do not advance content without embracing it.

 

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Broken_Kayfabe posted:

Yeah, seriously, that is so off-base it's nonsensical. Did anyone call him out on this in the thread?



If someone did it was removed, I guarantee it.

 

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Demorak  2 stars
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When wasn't there phasing?

 

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Kriegprojekt  3 stars
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Registered: 2010-4-12 13:06:28
Huh? They already admitted back in December that there was too much phasing in Cata. Which one is it?


*boggle*

 

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sarnsereg  1 star
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Demorak posted:

When wasn't there phasing?



phasing was introduced with WOTLK and was one of the "main" features of that expansion, before that there was no such thing as phasing in WOW.

 

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