CarbonatedFalcon
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That's the T8 helmet. The shoulders are Dragon Soul though, right?
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From the games I believe so, you still have all the profession quests and the various one-offs you can find in the world. But I think they're limiting it so you can get maybe one item per month.
Seems incredibly limiting. Should be able to earn as many as you want in the week. ;\
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yup, soon as I found out they actually thought I should do hundreds of dailies I just laughed off the DMF entirely
All that effort they put into the island and content spent in a week, what is this, regular Dragon Soul?
Figured that i should show my transmo gear for my 2 main characters since everyone did it. 
Yeah, not very original with using lvl 70 PVP gear, but i think they look cool, and hey at least the weapons werent bought with honor points. Kinda wish they would upgrade the resolution of BC gear though...
Yeah, not very original with using lvl 70 PVP gear, but i think they look cool, and hey at least the weapons werent bought with honor points.
Kinda wish they would upgrade the resolution of BC gear though...
keeblerdrow
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Finally finished my Nemesis look alike set for my Priest!
wonderdung
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Any guesses as to how far people will get in progression next week?
I guess I expect 5-6/8 for the top 200ish guilds. Not sure if the top 2-3 will full clear or not.
I guess I expect 5-6/8 for the top 200ish guilds. Not sure if the top 2-3 will full clear or not.
Indeed. I'm sad, though, because Soulforge looks so nice on my tauren paladin. The BC lookalike set isn't nearly as nice.
CarbonatedFalcon
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I wasn't sure about the shoulders. I never did Arena in Wrath. Honestly, I'm not sure where/when I've racked up the most PvP hours. Suppose I could check some of my statistics.
Speaking of which - cross-realm RealID Arena Teams...WANT.
I need to log on, but I've been playing a bunch of Skyrim, and Dark Souls is sitting there, tempting me as well. Really though, I've done a bunch of reading in the past week, rather than gaming.
Oni Link 666
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Gentlemen, BEHOLD!
An Orc Stormwind guard. Now I've seen everything.
We had a couple composition problems this week (one of our main tanks unavailable, one of our better healers without power), but we're 5/8 on 10m normal. Mor'chok we one-shot, but everything else took ~3 attempts. We only put 3 attempts into Blackhorn, but people were dying to shockwave in P2.
It's hard to judge the balance of these fights given that we all have a decent amount of H FL gear. Yor'sahj and Zon'ozz might have felt pretty demanding on healers in flat 378 gear. Mor'chok and Hagara would have been chumps even with bad gear. Ultraxion I'm not sure we'd have been able to do without H FL gear, though I think the fight would have been easier with an extra dps instead of a third healer.
The raid zone overall is disappointing. It's a boss gauntlet through boring re-hashed areas. The tuning of the bosses probably would have felt much better if there were more bosses in the zone so that things could have ramped up appropriately after the first 4.
I'm curious to see how the tuning of the heroics is.
It's hard to judge the balance of these fights given that we all have a decent amount of H FL gear. Yor'sahj and Zon'ozz might have felt pretty demanding on healers in flat 378 gear. Mor'chok and Hagara would have been chumps even with bad gear. Ultraxion I'm not sure we'd have been able to do without H FL gear, though I think the fight would have been easier with an extra dps instead of a third healer.
The raid zone overall is disappointing. It's a boss gauntlet through boring re-hashed areas. The tuning of the bosses probably would have felt much better if there were more bosses in the zone so that things could have ramped up appropriately after the first 4.
I'm curious to see how the tuning of the heroics is.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Most of those pro guilds get up to the second half almost immediately, but you have to remember it's not just the difficulty, but the fact that they've already run those encounters on PTR since they test heroics up to the end.
I read a interesting post on this whole World First thing from one of those people from Paragon; they basically just said it's a series of exploits to do virtually anything involved in competition, which explained a lot of that LFR exploiting stuff too:
I think the top guilds will probably be 5-6 H minimum, with the 2 Heroic Deathwing fights being the barrier.
Re: Exploiting. I honestly don 't think Blizzard gives a real care about situations where the top guilds in the world are doing whatever they can (in some cases breaking the rules) to get ahead. These guys will do whatever it takes to be first and it's just not realistic to punish them for exploiting as much as it is to tune encounters around them (except for maybe 1 encounter a patch cycle).
Re: Exploiting. I honestly don 't think Blizzard gives a real care about situations where the top guilds in the world are doing whatever they can (in some cases breaking the rules) to get ahead. These guys will do whatever it takes to be first and it's just not realistic to punish them for exploiting as much as it is to tune encounters around them (except for maybe 1 encounter a patch cycle).
ARE YOU ME?!?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't care if they exploit, but I kind of have to laugh at the theory that they're too important to ban.
why do we even have trash any more
like who are they kidding
if youre not gonna make us work, why even waste a little bit of our time on stuff like this
just have a pinata and be done with it tbh
Since everyone else is doing it...
And another bonus shot of my holy transmog, but I'm linking it because its 1920x1080
And another bonus shot of my holy transmog, but I'm linking it because its 1920x1080
Horde or Alliance(lol)?
I've always liked Crystalforge. Screw all the haters!
Yeah, I find that funny too. I just don't think Blizzard cares one way or the other tbh. The whole concept of a "race" to be world first with this level of content is kind of a joke. When it would take people weeks and weeks to clear stuff (vanilla and BC) for example, maybe it made sense. Now I just feel 'eh' about it.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Alliance Mal'ganis is just a rumor
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
lolololololo
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
All of the high end guilds that exploited LFR got bans, which means all of them. Oh noes, 8 days without WoW!
Although I did read this cute comment from one of the US guilds:
Although I did read this cute comment from one of the US guilds:
Talk about entitlement. Deal with the one week you have to do something you don't like.
I guess that means we'll be seeing a couple of new names on the scoreboard. Some of these guys are gonna go into cardiac arrest without their fix. (I kid, I kid)
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It isn't like they were going to down Deathwing-H in a week anyways. Even the most hardcore of hardcore guilds can't field 25 people with no jobs or income.
What was the LFR exploit anyway?
Edit: Nevermind. http://manaflask.com/en/article/1403/the-lfr-exploit
Edit: Nevermind. http://manaflask.com/en/article/1403/the-lfr-exploit
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You know, I'm not entirely certain why people don't play Unholy DK more. Frost is a lot more random than Unholy, which is extremely predictable.
I suppose having two weapons is easier than one, although more annoying to acquire.
I suppose having two weapons is easier than one, although more annoying to acquire.
I levelled entirely with UH. It's really really boring to play.
Leveling is different from dungeons unfortunately. Something like... Blood>>Frost>>>>>>Unholy in leveling.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Alex
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It's part of what caused me to quit in 4.2, haha, I was already burnt out and trying to adjust to it was really offputting to me. I disliked the pet management and ramp up. Not sure if it's changed but I just really enjoy dual wield frost.
My pet died so damn much on 4.2 patch day, too, it'd cut across lava, get stomped to bits by every form of AoE, which confused me as I thought permanent pets had like -90% reduction or some such.
Yeah, we noticed that too, LFR would work better with its own point system, otherwise its amazingly rough to get an item. We had a Rogue in our finder group who respawn pulled the third boss two times in a row and basically afk auto attacked (did like 12k DPS compared to the 25-30 the real players did) win both vanq tokens :lol
I'd really love a setup where you can comfortably play without being bound to rigid scheduling but I dont think LFR is going to remedy this for me, it's not like it's very engaging either since it's stripped of challenge.
Really wish there were fun and extremely difficult small group content types. It'd work well for me being able to just grab a few guildies and ago whenever we wanted. That and it'd be fun to see them really go all out on design that isn't just stripped down and muddled (10 man) from the sheep herding challenges of 25 man.
Frost was beast in 4.2 Why didn't you do that?
Azwethinkweiz
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Frost is still the top DPS spec, actually.
I don't think the margin is as high as it was in 4.0 or 4.2. Pretty sure Unholy was dead in 4.0.
Alex
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Unholy was parsing a lot higher than 2H Frost, which was my only option since I didn't play to ever Dual Wield and had no 1Hs (passed like Heroic Lava Spines to our Warriors for SMF since they actually liked it). I only played like a week of 4.2 though, I always burn out around the first summer in an expansion.
I've taken to DW Frost now though, and I've finally hit that point where I just don't give a shit about theory craft and parsing anymore regardless, I'm a good player so especially in the kind of guilds I join I always pull top end numbers despite anything.
I want to try my Enhancement Shaman out and see what it's AoE is like now since I bitched so relentlessly about how clunky it was before, but I really feel like I've seen enough of those 5 mans already haha.
Unholy was great at Cata launch but they meganerfed it down for awhile.
Well, the 365 craftables were quite good an inexpensive, especially if you had an alch alt. Even the troll 1handers did high DPS in raids. I used to hate frost in WOTLK. Switched to it in 4.0, loved it, and still doing it.
I had to buy two Obsidium Cleavers which sucked tho. :| None dropped.
Alex
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No one even had 'em the first week though, guy! I wanted them!
But yeah when I came back I just snatched two of those axes off of the AH and said fuck it, I just want to play.Has any guild ever did a full clear in the first week of progress?