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03-16-2009, 01:21 PM
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/03/quiverammostack.jpg (http://www.bigredkitty.net/2009/03/14/28000-rounds-of-ammo/)Whoo, boy. When the news came out that ammo was changing big time in the game (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/06/big-changes-for-hunters-in-patch-3-1/), Hunters everywhere pretty much praised it -- no longer would we have to worry about carrying around tons of ammo, with one bag slot spent on just one consumable. But since then, things haven't been so peachy. First, we heard that consumable ammunition wasn't going anywhere (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/10/breaking-consumable-ammunition-will-not-be-removed-in-patch-3-1/), and then we noticed that none of the other changes were happening (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/25/ammo-changes-mia-in-the-3-1-ptr/) either. Then, ammo stacks were fixed to 1000 in a recent hotfix on the PTR, but now there's a whole other issue: while it stacks in 1000, it still only sells in stacks of 200. Which means you have to buy, and buy, and buy, and buy, and buy just to fill one slot. And what's more, Dresorull says it's not a bug (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15668068606&pageNo=1&sid=1#10) -- we'll likely see this on the live realms.
And as BRK points out, the "1000" stacks aren't even labeled on the PTR yet (http://www.bigredkitty.net/2009/03/14/28000-rounds-of-ammo/). He says you can fill your quiver with 28,000 rounds of ammo (of course, you'd have to hit buy 140 times just to do that), but what happened to the quiver changes (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/10/breaking-consumable-ammunition-will-not-be-removed-in-patch-3-1/)? Aren't Hunters supposed to get that bag slot back in 3.1 anyway?
It's all very confusing, and this smacks of a missed followthrough: the original Hunter changes as suggested were popular, but we're guessing something came up in their way (either the team was needed on another task, or some flaw in the system as designed kept them from turning consumable ammunition into a permanent item). Either way, we hope this gets fixed -- we know this is the PTR and everything is subject to change, but as it stands, it looks like we're getting a half-finished ammo system when patch 3.1 (http://wowinsider.com/tag/patch-3.1) goes live.http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Ammo stacks in 1000, sells in 200 (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/16/ammo-stacks-in-1000-sells-in-200/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/03/quiverammostack.jpg (http://www.bigredkitty.net/2009/03/14/28000-rounds-of-ammo/)Whoo, boy. When the news came out that ammo was changing big time in the game (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/06/big-changes-for-hunters-in-patch-3-1/), Hunters everywhere pretty much praised it -- no longer would we have to worry about carrying around tons of ammo, with one bag slot spent on just one consumable. But since then, things haven't been so peachy. First, we heard that consumable ammunition wasn't going anywhere (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/10/breaking-consumable-ammunition-will-not-be-removed-in-patch-3-1/), and then we noticed that none of the other changes were happening (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/25/ammo-changes-mia-in-the-3-1-ptr/) either. Then, ammo stacks were fixed to 1000 in a recent hotfix on the PTR, but now there's a whole other issue: while it stacks in 1000, it still only sells in stacks of 200. Which means you have to buy, and buy, and buy, and buy, and buy just to fill one slot. And what's more, Dresorull says it's not a bug (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15668068606&pageNo=1&sid=1#10) -- we'll likely see this on the live realms.
And as BRK points out, the "1000" stacks aren't even labeled on the PTR yet (http://www.bigredkitty.net/2009/03/14/28000-rounds-of-ammo/). He says you can fill your quiver with 28,000 rounds of ammo (of course, you'd have to hit buy 140 times just to do that), but what happened to the quiver changes (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/10/breaking-consumable-ammunition-will-not-be-removed-in-patch-3-1/)? Aren't Hunters supposed to get that bag slot back in 3.1 anyway?
It's all very confusing, and this smacks of a missed followthrough: the original Hunter changes as suggested were popular, but we're guessing something came up in their way (either the team was needed on another task, or some flaw in the system as designed kept them from turning consumable ammunition into a permanent item). Either way, we hope this gets fixed -- we know this is the PTR and everything is subject to change, but as it stands, it looks like we're getting a half-finished ammo system when patch 3.1 (http://wowinsider.com/tag/patch-3.1) goes live.http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.wowinsider.com)Ammo stacks in 1000, sells in 200 (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/03/16/ammo-stacks-in-1000-sells-in-200/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://www.wowinsider.com) on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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