WoW Journal - 1-May-2005

Sunday morning, and I head with Raslebol over to the Hinterlands to gather Sungrass and other herbs, before too many other people log on and have the same idea. Herbalism is a skill best performed when there are the least other players online. While I’m there, I do a tour through the slime cave, where lots of level 46 to 48 green slime monsters are guarding rare ghost mushrooms. I kill a lot of those slimes in the process, and as I got tons of rest xp bonus, I ding 53 in the process.

Sounds like a rather normal and boring WoW session. But I’m very excited how well all of this went, because I was playing on my laptop, using the built-in 56k modem on a normal telephone line. Sure, my framerate is around 30 fps instead of 60 fps, and I got around 200 ms of lag. But I can play smoothly enough, even in combat. Mobile WoW gaming works!

While playing I notice that the last patch has changed how the troll berzerking skill works. Previously you could only use it when you were below 25% health. So I didn’t use it very often, because when I was that low in health, I was usually dead a few seconds later. In normal combat when nothing goes wrong I rarely drop down that low. But since the patch the condition to use berzerking has changed: You now can use it every time you get hit with a critical hit. I don’t know how often monsters land critical hits, but it should be anywhere between 5% and 10%, if they don’t work completely different than me. That means every 10 to 20 hits I take, I can use the berzerking hotkey to buff me. And as a tank I get hit a lot. Great!

But well, I'm on holiday, and the sun is shining, so I'd rather do other things than playing online. But its good to know that it works for rainy days away from home.
- posted by Tobold @ 11:02 AM Permanent Link