tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post510432966993536484..comments2023-07-26T06:20:01.981-04:00Comments on 4 Haelz: The Reasons for Hating OculusBellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13850946760618331779noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-91811512492114805662009-04-01T07:53:00.000-04:002009-04-01T07:53:00.000-04:00THANK YOU!!I like Oculus. I am the only person in...THANK YOU!!<BR/><BR/>I like Oculus. I am the only person in my guild of this opinion. That doesn't bother me, but when we end up there, they feel they have to complain so INCESSANTLY that it completely ruins my experience. I don't complain like that when I do something I don't like for one of them- and believe me there are instances I hate with the fire of a thousand suns. It really ticks me off. <BR/><BR/>And now they're starting to do it with Malygos, and I swear, if they wreck Malygos too...Lilivatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08484748124475558224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-8583690146970213822009-04-01T05:17:00.000-04:002009-04-01T05:17:00.000-04:00"..even as their friends respond to their requests..."..even as their friends respond to their requests for help with whispered obscenities and PTSD-like symptoms."<BR/><BR/>Not ashamed to admit I fall into both those categories.Sir Sannhethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14821311025592728091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-11715602322525437642009-04-01T04:41:00.000-04:002009-04-01T04:41:00.000-04:00I'm really not a fan of the Occulus either, healin...I'm really not a fan of the Occulus either, healing there is tedious, and the whole instance feels kind of weird.<BR/><BR/>Slightly out of topic remark.<BR/>I've named you for an "Honest Scrap" award, I hope you've not got one already :P<BR/>You can collect it here, and enter the fun :)<BR/>http://atouchofarcane.blogspot.com/2009/04/lets-take-that-scrap-honestly.html<BR/><BR/>Please keep up to good posts :)Dreaminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08212129259331473682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-9019217157128125032009-03-31T22:19:00.000-04:002009-03-31T22:19:00.000-04:00Sadly, the general impression I've got is that peo...Sadly, the general impression I've got is that people dislike Oculus because it's long (for a WotLK heroic) and not easy. There are two out of the four bosses in there that I'd consider "hard", as opposed to one or none in all the other heroics. Added to that are the hardest trash pulls in heroics that I can think of (the mages and arcane guardians) and the constant mounting/remounting between platforms - and I'm definitely agreed with Kring that this is annoying, I'd much rather only be flying between bosses and not between every other trash group - and you have an instance where 4 emblems can take 60-90 minutes. And when you can get 3 emblems in 30 minutes while barely looking at the monitor elsewhere (VH, UK), people are going to start hating Oculus.<BR/><BR/>Personally I love it. Learning the coordination for the 2nd and 3rd bosses and the drake for the final boss was easily the best experience I've had in a WotLK heroic. I also enjoy how the final boss can let a healer tank, a tank dps and a dps heal (as I did on my first time). I personally don't mind the fact that gear, spec, class etc isn't a factor in part of an instance - as long as it's not for a whole instance, that is, and when 3 bosses and a lot of the trash is done on foot, that isn't the case here. It's a nice break from doing what we do in all of the other instances, all of the time. That's my view, anyway.<BR/><BR/>But ultimately, concerning heroics and even raids in general, Wrath is all about both ease of entry and ease of emblem-looting. Oculus doesn't fit in to the rest of the expansion; it's more like a relic of the Burning Crusade end-game philosophy.Yeoldegitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-910953332410760612009-03-31T15:34:00.000-04:002009-03-31T15:34:00.000-04:00I decided I hated Occulus after only one shot and ...I decided I hated Occulus after only one shot and have never been back. I should try it again, though. I suppose more people know what they're doing and can drag me through! =)<BR/><BR/>p.s. I'm tagging you with Fimly's Haiku meme =) Have fun!Syllyhttp://www.rollinghots.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-17390425343344302402009-03-31T14:50:00.000-04:002009-03-31T14:50:00.000-04:00I don't like Oculus. I go there if I have to, but ...I don't like Oculus. I go there if I have to, but I don't like it.<BR/><BR/>But for a completely different reason!<BR/><BR/>First: I actually enjoy my characters. If I would not, I would not still play them after 4 years.<BR/><BR/>For me, boss fights are the reward of an instance. And loosing the end boss to a fucked up vehicle event is just crap, IMHO.<BR/><BR/>It don't want to fight the endboss with a drake. And it is not the gear. I would also not like to fight the endboss with switched characters, even if I would get a full T10 char for that fight.<BR/><BR/>Second: The continuously hopping on and off a drake while clearing the trash and always waiting 3s until your on the drake and 3s until the stupid parachute dissapears. I hate it. And after every second kill dismounting and mounting again because nobody can heal at that stage... feals like lvl 60 again where you had to drink after every pull.<BR/><BR/>Because of that the instance has a very very very slow pace.<BR/><BR/>Third: It doesn't really help that the instance contains the most annoying trash in the game. (Annoying, not difficult. Mana-Tmobs was great! Auchenai Crypt was great!)Kringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128630042421602039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-68847175670400755432009-03-31T14:33:00.000-04:002009-03-31T14:33:00.000-04:00I've managed to do a single Occ run. No one wants ...I've managed to do a single Occ run. No one wants to go back. Heck, I don't even remember what the bosses DO.<BR/><BR/>I will go back, though. I'm probably going to have to start bribing people, though.Dorgolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12936803721440329897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812976357150095653.post-43665343768641067492009-03-31T12:42:00.000-04:002009-03-31T12:42:00.000-04:00A good marriage between gear requirements and moun...A good marriage between gear requirements and mount customizability would probably be to scale the effectiveness of mounts with the rider's gear's average sLvl rather than its stats. I hear Ulduar has something along those lines with its vehicular combat event, but I don't really want to read too much into it until 3.1 actually comes out.krizzlybearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131923949935079418noreply@blogger.com