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World of Warcraft |OT4| "Why do we keep playing? It is simply in our nature."
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Deputy Moonman
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I know i'm all doom and gloom most of the time, but i'm still having fun with the game. I got my i-level up to 472 this morning. Last night, I killed the horde rare Muerta and got a 2nd 483 pvp trinket, but for some reason it didn't put me up to 470 like i thought it would. This morning i got up and finished a round of shieldwall dailies and got to honored. I purchased the ring and that did the trick. I'm at work now, but I'll be giving the new raids i can enter in LFR a try later tonight. I really want Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker for the movement speed increase. I luuuuv anything that speeds me up mounted or unmounted. I've always preferred a main hand / offhand combo, but the 10% movement increase is too awesome.
Darkmoon tickets and rep are a slow, slow grind, especially with today being the last day the faire's open in the month.
You can get the bow with Justice Points if you have a character at 85/90.
Aw crap, well looks like that won't be happening for a while (only have my one level 38). Also what's the use of honor points? I did a battleground last night and got a few, but I have no idea what they're used for. :s
Deputy Moonman
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Not really. You can acquire the darkmoon faire turn ins by running heroics with the adventurer's guide in your inventory. Unfortunately you can only do one of each turn in per darkmoon faire event. And they usually sell pretty high on the AH 100+ gold.
They suffered for a good long time. These days, Chain Lightning's been nerfed enough that it isn't quite as godly as it used to be without having it glyphed and a full 4-5 targets to lay into. Removing the dropoff's an odd decision though, Lava Beam already does that.
Honor points let you buy PvP gear. It's a good idea to have a decent amount of them on hand when you hit 60 and 70, as you can go pick up cheap sets of old epic gear that'll outstrip any questing gear at those levels by a mile.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Because there's inflation due to an increase in the money the general WoW population has because Cataclysm and MOP quests give out relatively large amounts of gold.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You just download it directly from Blizzard. The game is free to level 20 and then you can upgrade to a "real" account although the Starter Edition is vaguely limited in the things it can do like joining certain chat channels.
I just have memories of late Cata where I'll see a chain and watch everything around it melt. And then you got the lava beam and they started to literally melt.
Shamans have all the fun toys.
It goes on sale from time to time where it'll be 5 dollars for the battlechest, but it's not that often.
Now that I have a Tank & Healer at max level I want to level a DPS class. What would be a pick that does not require all that much thinking?
Is it stil... Hunter? And I assume they are also solo gods at 90?
I played Rogue before but didn't really like it. Monks looks a bit complicated for no brain action.
I also have a priest still at 66 but it has been yeaaaaaaars since I played that so I am pretty cluesless about that one. Tried it earlier this week as Disc Healing to try Priest healing a bit but when you get back to some class you have not played for years it is total disaster. So many skills and stuff. She is still rocking Benediction / Anathema baby!
e) also played Paladin, not my thing.
Is it stil... Hunter? And I assume they are also solo gods at 90?
I played Rogue before but didn't really like it. Monks looks a bit complicated for no brain action.
I also have a priest still at 66 but it has been yeaaaaaaars since I played that so I am pretty cluesless about that one. Tried it earlier this week as Disc Healing to try Priest healing a bit but when you get back to some class you have not played for years it is total disaster. So many skills and stuff. She is still rocking Benediction / Anathema baby!
e) also played Paladin, not my thing.
Mage still abides by easy to learn, hard to master design. For the most part each spec revolves around a single nuke, a single castable DoT and procs, and you can achieve decent DPS just by sticking to that. But alter time and talents can throw a wrench into your playstyle and seriously make you think.
Warlocks can be fun, but they're not really that simple, each spec revolves around a variety of DoTs and unique mechanics that can take a while to learn. They're not that hard either, but doing decent DPS will require a lot of attention.
Hunters are in a weird place. Not bad, not great, and the talents can be... confusing. Still easy to level though.
Warlocks can be fun, but they're not really that simple, each spec revolves around a variety of DoTs and unique mechanics that can take a while to learn. They're not that hard either, but doing decent DPS will require a lot of attention.
Hunters are in a weird place. Not bad, not great, and the talents can be... confusing. Still easy to level though.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Grats to Grimace on Ashes. I'm jealous.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
If you fly into water with Ashes of Al'ar, it causes Al'ar to dismount and you can't mount it again until you are on the surface or out of the water (i.e. just like old school mounts). The effect is to make it look like Al'ar gets extinguished by the water when you fly in.
Also, you can't learn the mount without Artisan Riding but you can fly it at Expert level on another character that only has Expert (which begs the question of why that particular restriction exists, of course).
Challenge Conqueror: Gold! 
Thanks again to Marza (theyanger) for the guides and tips. Obviously couldn't mimic everything as I did it as a Brewmaster with a Mistweaver healer (and varying dps comp), but the guides were awesome. Stole some tips and tricks from other videos as well, but there weren't any other good commentary videos, stuff like pointing out the gong in Niuzao was really helpful.
Thanks again to Marza (theyanger) for the guides and tips
. Obviously couldn't mimic everything as I did it as a Brewmaster with a Mistweaver healer (and varying dps comp), but the guides were awesome. Stole some tips and tricks from other videos as well, but there weren't any other good commentary videos, stuff like pointing out the gong in Niuzao was really helpful.if it comes back for 5.3 (non raid patch) and goes out again for 5.4 (raid patch) it's pretty obvious they're pulling some bullshit lol. It's the "Oh you got all your raid/valor gear, well you can upgrade that in this patch" thing that they pull once new raids come out with better gear.
Thanks for the answers. Will try some of them out a bit then and see what i like the most.
fluffydelusions
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I'm still rather new to the game in comparison to others here. So far tried: Paladin, Hunter, Mage
My Paladin is 90 (ret pally) which is my main. Tried mage out today till around lvl 12. Honestly didn't have much fun with it. Just blast stuff from afar it seems. My hunter I got to lvl 79. Probably the easiest to level up...almost too easy really.
Leveling a mage is admittedly boring as sin now, everything's dead before it can touch you. It gets better, but not until 80ish.
That applies to most classes in the game though.
RoninChaos
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I got an eye of sulfuras to drop. Now no matter what I do I can't seem to get ANY blood of the mountain. Anybody have any suggestions? The AH on my server wants 5k a piece.
Kill all the Molten Destroyers w/o killing any bosses, wait for a soft reset. Rinse & repeat, also if you have a miner be sure to go mine up all the dark iron nodes.
This is true for the most part.
I've been leveling a Mage off and on, and it's really pretty boring.
As a Frost Mage, getting Blizzard and Frost Orb really helped things a bit. (All that AoE damage...hehe)
CrashPrime
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Farm ore for the 5k. It'll be faster.
It's useful in a couple of cases:
- Upgrading heroic dungeon items when the epic version stubbornly refuses to drop
- Upgrading heroic raid items or anything else that is already BiS
Other than that, I would tend to agree.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Too bad the amount of JP you need to upgrade a dungeon item is like 1500 which is like 20 dungeons worth or something.
LAUGHTREY
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It's just a dumb use of points. I bet they bring it back for the last patch though, they are always stupid with the gap between final patch -> expac. Then it won't matter as much and you could actually spend worthless valor on it.
JP are generally worthless in MoP, they take ages to collect and rewards are meh, I hope they fix it in the next expansion.
Not yet.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I wouldn't be surprised at all to never see it come back.
I wouldn't miss it, if they'd finally removed the reputation requirement from the vendors.
But seriously, what am I going to spend valor on now?
New valor gear. Or nothing. And "nothing" really isn't unprecedented.
And nothing isn't even necessarily bad. I don't mind a month or two of nothing. Gives me time to do other things.
CrashPrime
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So just wondering because I haven't really played at all since MoP.
Did Blizzard really make PVE gear crappy in PVP situations? Are there still some godly PVE gear that PVP'ers covet (Trinkets, Jewelry, Weapons were always the usual suspects)?
Did Blizzard really make PVE gear crappy in PVP situations? Are there still some godly PVE gear that PVP'ers covet (Trinkets, Jewelry, Weapons were always the usual suspects)?
The new valor gear will probably be worse than the heroic T14 gear, and if I'm going to be raiding anyway, I'm going to be capped on valor within 2 weeks, especially if there's another idiotic portion to Wrathion's line.
Nothing isn't bad, but it does nothing to encourage me to keep logging on outside of raid days. They don't need to put the best rewards behind valor, but they ought to let me do something with it.
SpaceDrake
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Soloing the Wrath raids at 90 can be a good time; I soloed 3-drake 10-man Sartharion last night and it was a fantastic moment. Especially when I wasn't entirely sure I could pull it off as Windwalker.
fluffydelusions
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Rösti
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I got Shin'ka, Execution of Dominion and Patroller's Girdle of Endless Spring today in one run (which was also my first LFR run this week).
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't know how anyone can actually run Heart of Fear enough to get them all. Its so boring.
Haha. It is not the best Raid they ever made, no.
I hope the normal raid is waaaaaaaay better than the LFR!Haha. It is not the best Raid they ever made, no.
HoF on Normal is actually a pretty decent challenge for your average raid, but some of the fights (Zor'lok and Mel'jarak in particular) are still stupid easy.
Brofist
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Took me 4 weeks of runs. Got the weapon 2 weeks after that.
eudaemonic
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I have to have the worst luck. Two weeks of raiding all the LFRs gave me one of each. At this point, I'm like "fuck the Black Prince and his loony requests".
Deputy Moonman
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You lucky piece of... grats dudeRösti;46403147 said:
I've cleared MV twice and did heart of fear and part of terrace of endless springs this morning and still haven't seen anything but a couple of sigils and gold. I need to finish up terrace of endless springs tonight, but I think I already know what the outcome will be. Really is unexciting not getting to see gear drop. I griped about it on the wow forums and apparently not many people share my sentiment. Most people immediately jump on the "you just want easy loot" or "you're just being a baby" bandwagon and blow off my posts. Is there anyone that misses being able to see stuff drop? It just gave boss kills a lot more flavor and let you see the fruits of your labor regardless of winning loot. My opinion at least.The silly part is that the Valor collection part should be the first step as well. Would make more sense. Now you complete the quests and then he's like... 'Cool, yeah, here, farm another 6 weeks!'. Though it does not really matter so far.
I would like to see what others win, yes. Makes it feel a little bit more rewarding knowing what loot others people did get. I know, there will always be people winning loot but not seeing it is just boring.
Deputy Moonman
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Exactly! I'm glad i'm not alone.
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