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[Deputy Moonman]

Holy crap. Managed to get into a heroic Garry group where we wiped the first time because Feathermoon crashed and took seven people with it and then we nailed it the second time and everyone got a heirloom weapon. Seriously couldn't have asked for better. Considerate peeps too waiting for the Feathermoon guys to come back and not auto-kicking them. Rad stuff.

That's always nice when you run into patient people in a group. Grats on the heirloom! I got mine earlier too.

 

[mstevens]

I wish I could casually get back into this game, but every time I go back I get overwhelmed by all the new stuff and the millions of things to do, that I just can't enjoy it. This expansion is pretty tempting though... Would love to get my Vanilla Shaman undeleted.

 

[Salamando]

Not to mention easy access to Tomes of the Clear Mind to reset glyphs or talents.

Can you reset your talents in the wild anymore? Tried to do so yesterday, and couldn't right-click a talent away. Talent window's help button indicated a trip to he class trainer was needed.

 

[Peachpies]

Can you reset your talents in the wild anymore? Tried to do so yesterday, and couldn't right-click a talent away. Talent window's help button indicated a trip to he class trainer was needed.

You don't right click a talent away if you left click on a different talent in that tier you will unlearn the currently selected talent. You can still unlearn talents at the class trainer but that costs a lot more than it would to simply select new talents with tomes.

 

[Salamando]

You don't right click a talent away if you left click on a different talent in that tier you will unlearn the currently selected talent. You can still unlearn talents at the class trainer but that costs a lot more than it would to simply select new talents with tomes.

Huh, guess I forgot that part. Yet I was able to rebuild my bar setup based off muscle memory.

 

[Apt101]

If your pally is retribution, then yes, continue with your shaman.

I'm a bit upset at the shaman changes though, but still doing better than ret right now.

It is, and I decided to stick with him. The cycle is really straight forward, and it's the character I played since day one back in 2003 or whenever. The shaman I started shortly after hitting 60.

So much has changed since I played during Lich King. I am completely lost healing. I saved up some healing gear while leveling and tried a dungeon out. People were maaaaaaad at me lol. I need lots of practice.

 

[StayDead]

I've started gathering a transmog set for a character I don't even have yet. *facepalm*

 

[cdyhybrid]

Got my heirloom 2H axe

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

The new group finder is literally the worst of both worlds. Idiots you'd normally find in LFR mixed in with a worse feature set than oQueue. At least oQueue was somewhat self-selecting since you had to have the addon, so it weeded out some of those people. But not anymore.

 

[Jag]

So I have 1 of every class at max. But I need to start gearing one of my alts up for SoO. What would be the most useful Heirloom? I'm thinking the +int staff? Mage, Priest, Lock. I like my Guardian Druid, but only my Monk could use the agi staff too.

 

[Apt101]

Which class and spec has the easiest time healing? Trying to decide which class to boost to 60.

 

[Dresden]

resto druid

it's always resto druid

 

[vilmer_]

I feel like I've entered some sort of time warp and I'm back in 2005 with my mage.

 

[Mordeccai]

resto druid

it's always resto druid

Can confirm. Also, imo, most fun healer. HOTs for lyfe.

 

[m_shortpants]

Mal Ganis just go down? -_-

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Dungeon instances have been going down frequently lately, dunno if Mal'ganis is related.

 

[eudaemonic]

Suramar just went down too and I've been noticing bad lag in areas overall. Rough night in general I think if the CS Twitter feed is anything to go by.

 

[BigWeather]

Gah, just noticed that Guild Herald and Guild Page pets are gray despite my having bought (and used) them in the past. Armory also thinks I own them. I transferred to Horde and then back to Alliance and from poking around the forums it sounds like this happens sometimes. Anyone else have this happen to them? I submitted a ticket but with a 6d wait time -- eeep!

 

[Apt101]

Resto druid it is! Guess I'll be an elf.

Is it a regular thing for entire parties to be kicked from instances, and the instances reset? I remember the drops being a rare occurrence, but the instances never outright reset.

 

[mstevens]

One of the only classes I've never leveled is Druid... If I preordered and boosted to 90, would it be pretty overwhelming to learn healing? Half the reason I want to resub is to bring my vanilla 60 shaman back from the dead, lol.

 

[Peachpies]

Resto druid it is! Guess I'll be an elf.

Is it a regular thing for entire parties to be kicked from instances, and the instances reset? I remember the drops being a rare occurrence, but the instances never outright reset.

There have been some server problems since 6.0

 

[Apt101]

There have been some server problems since 6.0

I see. I was just booted from the game outright this time, not to the character selection screen, so I am thinking they're having some issues with pre-maint processes right now.

 

[Apt101]

I don't know if it's growing pains with the new patch, but having no idea what I was doing and hitting buttons and stuff as they came off cooldown, I stood in place in Arathi Basin healing myself (and I suppose others) while about 6 people focused fired on me and I never came close to dying. After the match people were like "you're an awesome healer!" (sic). No idea what I was doing.

Edit: I randomly stunned someone, and I also used my shields and hands on random allies. I just clicked, then clicked.

 

[Loxley]

One of the only classes I've never leveled is Druid... If I preordered and boosted to 90, would it be pretty overwhelming to learn healing? Half the reason I want to resub is to bring my vanilla 60 shaman back from the dead, lol.

I don't think it'll be an insurmountable task, but the gear you receive with a boosted character sets you up to start running Heroics right away. More often than not, at least in the random groups you get with the LFG tool, tanks are programmed these days to pretty much just rush from boss to boss, gathering up as much trash as they possibly can kill it en masse and get it out of the way - so you'll have your work cut out for you right off the bat, especially if you don't have much experience as a healer.

And just as a heads up, tanks who use the LFG tool for random heroics are usually some of the most laughably impatient players around. So if you lag behind at all on your healing, be prepared to deal with a lot of whining.

 

[Peachpies]

Here is mythic Paragons and Garrosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDPB1kQSTYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbcLdinZzak

 

[Rizzi]

I bought my way to a heroic heirloom.
Also got pants, so that's kinda fun.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Just met a random guy while questing, around level 40, in Feralas. Invited me to a group and we went questing together for an hour or so. Turned out to be a really cool guy, and we really knocked out a good portion of quests.

Something like this hasn't happened in a long time. Usually, low level zones are dead zones, and if you do meet somebody, they're just going about their business. I'm glad patch 6.0 is breathing new life into the game.

 

[cdyhybrid]

I don't think it'll be an insurmountable task, but the gear you receive with a boosted character sets you up to start running Heroics right away. More often than not, at least in the random groups you get with the LFG tool, tanks are programmed these days to pretty much just rush from boss to boss, gathering up as much trash as they possibly can kill it en masse and get it out of the way - so you'll have your work cut out for you right off the bat, especially if you don't have much experience as a healer.

And just as a heads up, tanks who use the LFG tool for random heroics are usually some of the most laughably impatient players around. So if you lag behind at all on your healing, be prepared to deal with a lot of whining.

Could try doing Proving Grounds before jumping into a dungeon.

 

[Apt101]

I'm looking over tutorials, and I cannot find Word of Glory. Is that still a spell? Also how do I built holy power aside from Holy Shock?

 

[Peachpies]

Ai-Li's Skymirror can no longer be used on players that with the Tree Disguise Kit transformation.

Great sadness

 

[StMeph]

How is Elemental Force now? Or is Jade Spirit still king for casters?

For reference, it's for a warlock.

 

[LAUGHTREY]

Great sadness

Well it was something fun so you knew they were gonna remove it soon.


Instead of fixing botting or something. Can't let the fun get out of hand too quick.

 

[Ultratech]

Got the Normal Int Staff off Garrosh earlier.

Only other weapon I plan on getting is the Agi Staff, but my Druid happens to be semi-geared, so getting him a few ilvls up shouldn't be hard.

(Already got Bow, 2H Axe, and 1H Str Sword.)

 

[Arrogant Bastard]

How is Elemental Force now? Or is Jade Spirit still king for casters?

For reference, it's for a warlock.

Jade Spirit is the only way to go.

 

[Arcayne]

Bought iLvl550 PvP agi staff + dancing steel enchant to upgrade from my ilvl510 weapon 2 days ago. Got my normal garrosh pig sticker heirloom + another dancing steel enchant last night. And now just got my heroic version garrosh heirloom + another dancing steel enchant. My gooooooooooooooooldddddddddddd

On another note: I'm VEEEERRRYYY happy to be gearing up so quickly!

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Spine of Deathwing is awful.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Blizzard lied to me. Maintenance was supposed to start at 2

 

[davepoobond]

For once I was playing and they decided to shut the severs down at 1 instead of 2

Jerks!

 

[cdyhybrid]

WANT

 

[Kraftwerk]

WANT

I saw someone on my server with it.

Seems like if you had saved your Vicious Saddle, you could buy that after 6.00. Not sure if blizzard will do anything about it, but seems fair.

 

[StayDead]

Great sadness

Argh why do they remove all the fun things.

 

[Rizzi]

That is one sexy raptor.

 

[Data West]

So you can do multiple heroic(normal) lockouts for SoO now. That's pretty cool for selling/helping people get their BoAs across multiple characters. Surprised Blizzard did it.

 

[RoninChaos]

So you can do multiple heroic(normal) lockouts for SoO now. That's pretty cool for selling/helping people get their BoAs across multiple characters. Surprised Blizzard did it.

That will probably be fixed tomorrow.

Only get gear once right?

 

[Tacitus_]

They changed it to flex and personal loot so it should be intended behavior.

 

[StayDead]

I'm camping vanilla world rares again. I've officially lost my mind. The green has a 4 percent chance to drop that I want for transmog, but after seeing the cost of it on the AH I'd rather take my chances with camping on my characters haha.

 

[Data West]

Got a question. I was going to buy a run for my warrior as well since they're undergeared, but I know I could use the 2hander in WoD. My warrior is fury. Should I set my loot spec to arms to make sure I get the 2 hander and not the 1h sword(that was the tank sword but techncially isn't 'a tank sword' anymore)? Or do the BoAs first drop base it off the spec you're currently using?

 

[Rizzi]

Got a question. I was going to buy a run for my warrior as well since they're undergeared, but I know I could use the 2hander in WoD. My warrior is fury. Should I set my loot spec to arms to make sure I get the 2 hander and not the 1h sword(that was the tank sword but techncially isn't 'a tank sword' anymore)? Or do the BoAs first drop base it off the spec you're currently using?

You "can" get a 2h using fury, but you could also get the 1h. Pick arms if you don't want to take that chance. It all works off the loot spec.

 

[StMeph]

Got a question. I was going to buy a run for my warrior as well since they're undergeared, but I know I could use the 2hander in WoD. My warrior is fury. Should I set my loot spec to arms to make sure I get the 2 hander and not the 1h sword(that was the tank sword but techncially isn't 'a tank sword' anymore)? Or do the BoAs first drop base it off the spec you're currently using?

Set it to Arms if you want the 2H. It's based on your loot spec.

 

[Jag]

Can a 530 Druid tank normal Garrosh? I just want the heirloom and this is as far as I feel like upgrading this alt. I know 540 is probably optimal, but I really don't feel like raiding SoO anymore after running it non-stop on my main.