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sazzy
Member
Well the new raiding flasks give you 1000 stat increase, up from 300 from the current set.
Number inflation woot.
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?
Holy Christ!World boss. Looks awesome.
sazzy
Member
looks epic. can't wait.
Same. I want Cata to be over with already!
Last night in raid, we did our usual clearing up of Dragon Soul (alas, we were missing someone so we didn't get to do H Ultrax, so just a reg clear). Afterwards we went to Firelands (reg). We 9-manned Beth, Alysrazor and Rhyolith. After we killed Rhyolith a buddy of ours hit 85 so we brought him into the raid. He got: Variable Lightning Pulse Capacitor, Necromantic Focus, Coalwalker Sandals T12 Helm, and Flowform choker.
Told you glyphs are awesome
When they do cool shit! Not add 20% more healing to yourself! That's useful, not cool!
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Green fire has been something that locks have been asking for literally for several years and a couple of expansions now, yet it never happens. Fact is Blizzard just doesn't want to do it. Minor glyphs is the perfect way to handle the choice in game. They have used every excuse from "it's very hard to do with our current engine" to "we just want to do it right via a huge quest line" to "we plan to do it but we just can't spare the resources right now", yet we see recolors of all manner of things in this game with every expansion and patch.
Truth is, they just don't want to. Not badly enough anyway.
Other classes get cool things they don't ask for, yet locks can't get the one thing they have been asking for YEARS for. Kinda sucks.
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?
Now you're just being a meany to poor Yoshi ._.
Enosh
Member
yeah numbers are getting way too high imo
They should have never moved from classic WoW's rate at which numbers were improving at each lvls/item lvls. BC was ok, WOTLK wasnt so bad, but Cataclysm went way overboard. I remember when 2k-3k DPS in heroics was considered good at lvl 80. Now people do over 40k.
They should do the mega/k system on items as well. With that many zeros it all kind of runs together.
No stam gain from food buffs is interesting. Pandaren racial is pretty awesome for some classes atm, will have to see what the combat ratings are like at 90 to really tell. At 85 you only need 2:1 primary/secondary ratio vs crit/haste which I assume most dps classes have.
Taking in the whole kit though, I'm not sure I would necessarily change any of my toons to panda for those racials though...for example, I'm not sure I'd change a toon from worgen since I've found darkflight to be better than a 50dps gain from trading crit for a primary stat (assuming your class values crit.)
Taking in the whole kit though, I'm not sure I would necessarily change any of my toons to panda for those racials though...for example, I'm not sure I'd change a toon from worgen since I've found darkflight to be better than a 50dps gain from trading crit for a primary stat (assuming your class values crit.)
VGChampion
Member
I should really stay out but I can't resist! I'm so happy a world boss is showing up again! I miss the dragons hanging around. And Kazzak.
Enosh
Member
I hate that
in fact I wish they would go the gw2 route with old raids and reduce you to a certain ilvl when you enter
redo MC, BWL etc around 25 people, throw then into the LFR tool, tune them to that level, bam instant 4 expansions worth of raids, make them give out justice point or whatever and have the bosses drop the gear for transmog
people have more stuff to do and people get to see important WoW story bits they might have missed due to not raiding around that time or not being in a guild that got far enough
So having avoided pvp pretty much at all costs I have a question. Do conquest points work like valor in that you can cap out on them by just doing normal BGs? Turns out the second BiS neck and cloak for druid tanks come from pvp
You can cap them with random bgs, but it will take forever (100cp for first daily and 50 for each after that). It's much easier/faster to cap doing 2s/3s or, if you can, rbgs, I see some cross server low mmr ones advertised from time to time.
So having avoided pvp pretty much at all costs I have a question. Do conquest points work like valor in that you can cap out on them by just doing normal BGs? Turns out the second BiS neck and cloak for druid tanks come from pvp
Yea you can. Although you'll need to set a LOT of time aside because winning that many games isn't easy going to be easy. Sometimes you can sit there for 3 hours and still not get your daily win for 100 conquest. After a daily win each win is worth 50pts.
If you're at the point I am. The best thing to do is spend your valor on conquest points. 250 for 250. What I do is use that early in the week to go up to 1500 conquest, and do daily pvp until cap. If you're just looking to get the neck (i think its only 1250pts?) then you won't have to go that far.
Also yes its easy to cap or get close to it with 2's and 3's but lets be clear, if pvp isn't your thing, and you've avoided it for a long time. SAVE YOURSELF THE HEADACHE. Also finding a decent pug rbg group isn't easy at all.. then when you do you have to spend A LOT of time earning a win. It's kind of sad tho because on my server the only people you see asking for more for arena or RBG's are 2k+ rating... never understood why people are like that. Not everyone is a 2k rated player and if they are.... or were at some point, they probably aren't looking for your shitty pug group.
So having avoided pvp pretty much at all costs I have a question. Do conquest points work like valor in that you can cap out on them by just doing normal BGs? Turns out the second BiS neck and cloak for druid tanks come from pvp
Easier to get some person and do 2s or 3s. Just find a Rogue or something and do double stealth lulz.
Alternatively, do rated battlegrounds. You should be able to find cross-realm teams somewhere.
VGChampion
Member
I've been playing bg's for the conquest points. My brother and I created a joke arena team (so 2v2) and hit the max in a day. Ret Pally + Prot / Arms Warrior. We lose as much as we win but all we care about is the conquest points. Plus, if we actually had a strategy we could probably do better. We aren't on Vent or anything so the best we do is text typing. We go in blind every single time.
Not really. The first few matches will probably be lost but you'll start going up against some amazingly bad teams that you can win.
scoobs
Member
haha yup, sucks! Was hoping to get some game time in before work, oooooh well. Nap time instead
VGChampion
Member
My launcher wasn't working for a bit but it's fine again. I wanna head to Darkmoon.
Ugh they extended maintance again
What's the new time they expect to be finished?
3 PM PDT
ShadyMilkman
Banned
Agree with this completely
I've done plenty of arena starting off with completely new teams. Sure you may run into some amazingly bad teams but almost 95% of them are already in full PVP gear. You can still run into some really hard teams with a 0 rating.
And yes really. He said he avoided pvp up until now, probably means he doesn't have any gear for it and it also probably means he doesn't like it. Sorry but you are missing the point.
VGChampion
Member
Yeah, I definitely missed it. When I hit 85 and tried PVP I got absolutely destroyed. My one defining moment was when I spent almost an entire Gilneas game in the middle fighting one holy priest with a fellow Horde that we just could not kill. Luckily IoC showed up as a holiday weekend which Horde almost always wins so I was able to gear up all the main armor pieces into Ruthless Gladiator which let me live long enough / kill fast enough that I could finish upgrading everything. Now I'm working my way through Cataclysmic gear. IoC was perfect because Horde always takes the Hangar which allowed me to never run into the Alliance players.
2k was good for Sunwell, I'm not sure it was good at 80 for heroics. By the time you were in 3.2 people were regularly doing 4k dps.
Stuff really hit the fan in Cata, story of that expansion really.
eh, not really. people were doing 10k+ without the icc buff on fights like festergut. we've jumped around 4-5x what we had in icc, which was around the same jump as we had from sunwell to icc.
Shit hit the fan in WotLK with heroic raids and has been out of control since.
Shitty screengrab I took off the other world boss.
Taken from Affiniti's stream.
http://www.twitch.tv/affinitii_yapi_bl
Taken from Affiniti's stream.
http://www.twitch.tv/affinitii_yapi_bl
VGChampion
Member
Delayed another hour. :/
Free day please Blizz! It's funny looking through my account history at the number of free days added to my account.
You're probably right. I stopped playing shortly after 3.3 so I wasn't around for ICC at all.