The Rise of Tiamat - The times, they are a' changing

My thoughts:

Custom chat tabs and filters (guild only): about time, thank you.

Kick timer, queue system and eventual hosing: pointless and entirely the wrong way to "fix" kicking, but doesn't affect me because I run with the guild. Sadface for everyone else.

Mini map: won't use it, should have spent this time on researching how to fix kicking.

As it stands, you can still be kicked the moment desirable loot drops so that aspect won't change. The whole "only dps will replace dps" thing is broken too, as most people kicking for this reason think they need a tank or cleric for whatever they are doing, and will be stuck with whatever the queue initially gave them for group make up. Admittedly, I don't know at what point groups will be punished by not refilling at all, so that could result in more dungeons going uncompleted, so maybe that will ease the kicking slightly..maybe..

"Oh The times, they are a' changin'"

Great song, Bob Dylan.. can't remember the movie it's from though.... That's gonna bug me all day.

As for the updates, it's a step in the right direction, at least!

We guildies may have worked around these issues for so long that we've become accustom to them, most of these improvements won't affect us too much. Like Gaagii said we only 'really' play with guild members these days so kicking isn't a problem. Mini-Map is useless to many of us because we know the areas so well.

But... for the game itself these improvements are excellent.

Biggest smiley face for me is the performance update, if the lag is reduced even slightly that will be great!

I'm most excited about putting gold in the shared bank! For some reason I have run out of gold on my main but my alts have loads!!

Can't be arsed to get a keyboard for one game. In all honesty I shouldn't have to get a keyboard just to do one thing in one game.

I did exactly that (although I got the keyboard for typing/chat) and can't recommend it enough. I use it all the time now, since it essentially replaces the virtual keyboard any time it would have been used.

I use the Xbox Smartglass app on my laptop, works better than i thought it would.

I have Smartglass... I was not aware you could use it for in-game chat?! I'll look into this