Let's be real here, those numbers don't matter and never have mattered. Look at the numbers they supposedly use for the blood elf/high elf population, and that was pre tempest keep/netherstorm/sunwell/shadowmoon/black temple elf genocide, yet there's still a billion blood/high elves in wow.
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Let's be real here, those numbers don't matter and never have mattered. Look at the numbers they supposedly use for the blood elf/high elf population, and that was pre tempest keep/netherstorm/sunwell/shadowmoon/black temple elf genocide, yet there's still a billion blood/high elves in wow.
What is this thing? 
On the subject of zones, I like how Pandaria zones are constructed honestly, it feels like one cohesive place instead of any old world continent where they use ugly looking mountain ranges to separate every zone. Definitely the best world design they've done in WoW to date and moving away from Cataclysm style roller coaster ride zone design, which had zero replayability, was also the right decision, in Pandaria it at least feels like you have some choice of where you can go and quest.
Oh boy, don't early call it
What is this thing?
Armored Spectral Horse? (Picture notes it as Steel Warhorse. Who knows?)
Looks pretty neat.
Dragonhawks look alright. (Sorta wish we got something else other than another Dragonhawk...)
Man that horse is awesome, I really want it. I also saw on wowhead today that there will be new Brawler's guild fights in the patch! Super excited for that, there also appears to be a mount called Brawler's Burly Mushan Beast, which I assume will come from the guild as well based on the name. I only have 2 more fights standing in my way of rank 8, need to finish that up soon but I've been side tracked with all the new mounts added this patch.
Gentleman Jack
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What is this thing?
It's $25 at your friendly neighborhood blizzard pet shop or TCG retailer.
Its tail looks like a bug zapper.
Deputy Moonman
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I've always liked the tier 2.5 shoulders. But it's hard to find a good set to match unless you go full doomcaller. The helm is fairly unique too.BITCHES BE ALL OVER THIS
Dunno why I pulled this out of the void, I've been wearing T3 as my transmog (and will probably go back to it soon), but I have a soft spot for AQ even if the set was ugly as hell. Nothing quite like 40 man C'Thun or Ouro. #randomnostalgia
Yeah I think jade forest was great. And i love how the entire zone is mostly under the cover of trees and mountains, and then you finally get to valley of the four winds (my personal favorite of MoP), and everthing opens up with a fantastic view of everything and at the foot of a huge wall of cliffs. I think i just liked the pandarians as a race as a whole and their lore was fantastic. Such a calm demeanor and enjoy life by taking it slow perspective.
I enjoyed Borean Tundra, Sholazar Basin, Icecrown, and Storm Peaks the most. Grizzly Hills, which seems to be a favorite of many, was just okay. That music drove me up a wall, so I turned it off. But the cursed worgen story-line was entertaining enough. Oh and speaking of music, Icecrown - awful lol. That repetitious drum beat got old fast.
I absolutely hated the fact that cata zones weren't connected. It took away from the immersion factor having to go back through earlier expansion zones to get to other cata zones. Just didn't feel like an expansion to me and more like a mega patch.
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Not to add to my lengthy post, but i was looking at the drops i've gotten in forgotten depths thus far.
- Frostborn Wristwraps: already have troll-burn bracers
- Crystal-Claw Gloves: already have tier 15 (the only useful drop I've gotten so far and that was in the first section of ToT's Last Stand of the Zandalari)
- Megaera's Shining Eye x 2: already have destroyer's battle tags
This game is trolling me hard. 4 drops in 3 weeks. all useless...
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How are pallys at soloing the warbringers? I've been all hot on getting my dk leveled to 90, but i have an 86 pally. It would be much easier getting him to 90 instead and I'm already familiar with the play style and rotations, both prot and ret.
What is this thing?
On the subject of zones, I like how Pandaria zones are constructed honestly, it feels like one cohesive place instead of any old world continent where they use ugly looking mountain ranges to separate every zone. Definitely the best world design they've done in WoW to date and moving away from Cataclysm style roller coaster ride zone design, which had zero replayability, was also the right decision, in Pandaria it at least feels like you have some choice of where you can go and quest.
Thunder Island is the exception. It feels tacked on, especially since you have to port there from the Shado-Pan outpost. I don't like the art design or the quest design there at all.
Cute Dragon Here
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The more I play the game, the more I realize that with a laptop, I don't have nearly enough buttons on my mouse. It's like I could have bound something in there, but I can't, because mine's just a standard 3-button mouse, in every way.
...Maybe it's a sign for me to replace the mouse. ...right?
...Maybe it's a sign for me to replace the mouse. ...right?
At least the music is great, especially in the area near the thunder forge!
Deputy Moonman
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One thing I'm not a fan of about Thunder Isle is that you can barely move a few feet without pulling 5 mobs. The quests are okay at first, but they do get old fast. For what it is I don't mind. You can get done with the rep really fast and then you only have to go back if you want to do the treasure chest scenario. And killing rares giving the 15 valor points isn't bad either. They spawn frequently enough.
I was killing the fletchling skyscreamers trying to get the achievement for scaring away the rare blue colored one. I put the npc id into npcscan and couldn't figure out why it wasn't going off, but said the npc had already been found. Turns out, the blue sky screamer had been up the whole time and i was in the wrong spot. Found it shortly after and got the cheeve, "blue response."
I don't think I'd consider the Isle of Thunder tacked on considering Blizzard stated they started working on it over a year ago, the island has always been on the map, there WAS a placeholder island there before it with random troll/mogu buildings on it from launch, not to mention all the story stuff talking about it...
Same way DKs are, tank spec. It seems a bit sketchier than DKs from what I have seen, but it is possible to do. You have to use holy power on healing yourself more often, which leads to less holy power you can spend on dealing damage. But, I have seen a prot paladin solo one.
Actually though, I totally saw a Warlock solo one a few nights ago, was damn impressive. Used no pet, and, used burning rush to kite him around in a huge circle. He would stop to regain HP at his gateway and when the boss started to close in he would just use the gateway and start kiting again. I was really surprised honestly, didn't expect it to work, but, a few minutes later the warbringer fell over from his DoTs (he was affliction). Talk about a creative kill.
I couldn't ever live with a mouse with such few buttons. I'm the kind of person who likes having just about everything keybound (including food, potions, mounts, etc.) so having mouse buttons is a must. Mostly though because I never got into PC gaming until I was 15 or so, and, having a lot of mouse buttons on my mouse makes the M/KB setup feel a lot more like a controller since in a case like WoW, both hands are actually doing something.
Same way DKs are, tank spec. It seems a bit sketchier than DKs from what I have seen, but it is possible to do. You have to use holy power on healing yourself more often, which leads to less holy power you can spend on dealing damage. But, I have seen a prot paladin solo one.
Actually though, I totally saw a Warlock solo one a few nights ago, was damn impressive. Used no pet, and, used burning rush to kite him around in a huge circle. He would stop to regain HP at his gateway and when the boss started to close in he would just use the gateway and start kiting again. I was really surprised honestly, didn't expect it to work, but, a few minutes later the warbringer fell over from his DoTs (he was affliction). Talk about a creative kill.
I couldn't ever live with a mouse with such few buttons. I'm the kind of person who likes having just about everything keybound (including food, potions, mounts, etc.) so having mouse buttons is a must. Mostly though because I never got into PC gaming until I was 15 or so, and, having a lot of mouse buttons on my mouse makes the M/KB setup feel a lot more like a controller since in a case like WoW, both hands are actually doing something.
Cute Dragon Here
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And since I'm a very portable gamer, I tend to want to move around a lot. That leaves... um, the Razer Orochi. 4 extra buttons, isn't glossy (if I don't want it to be), and both USB and Bluetooth. I hope I don't mess this up...
Also, I memorized my randomly generated by a password manager password for Battle.net. I think things are just about to get serious...
Deputy Moonman
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Thanks. I think I'm going to work on getting the paly to 90. Not sure if I want to try the affliction method or not, but I might give it a whirl on a night when i have some time. Do the different warbringers have different abilities? I tried soloing one and i kept getting swarmed by bugs. I wasn't expecting them and didn't know how to avoid them. All people talk about are the ghost adds summoned and avoiding the warbringers abilities.
All the warbringers spawn with 4 abilities from a pool of 5, so, they will be missing 1 ability each time. You can see what abilities they have by looking at their buffs. Those abilities are
1) Ghost, slow moving, melee for 100k+, kite them around or die.
2) Scarabs, barely do any damage, just aoe them down quickly.
3) Meteor shower, meteors fall from the sky, deal ~150k fire damage when they land, don't stand in it (adjusting your camera to look straight down at the ground helps here)
4) Thunder crush, AOE cone in front of them that deals ~250k nature damage. Has a 2 second cast time so you can run through them to avoid it. One thing to note though, if you are doing it on a not tank man and the Warbringer has scarabs/thunder crush, the scarabs can daze you so you want to kill them before he thunder crushes since daze can make it hard to get out of the way.
5) Last ability is the worst, Horrific Visage. Fear that lasts 8 seconds, used to be interruptable but it is not since the hotfix. You will die during this if you don't blow cooldowns before hand. Your best bet is saving all abilities that break fear for when this happens. It wasn't a big deal as a DK since they have 3 abilities that break fear, but, I am not sure what paladins have besides bubble. From my experience they cast fear every minute to minute and a half.
Deputy Moonman
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Wow. I didn't understand how the abilities worked, so this will help a lot! Thank you. I think it will just take a lot of practice. I tried a warbringer one time and realized i didn't have a clue what i was doing so i stopped.
Cute Dragon Here
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Looks like I smashed my head right up to the level cap. Time to stop playing for a while... and pony up...
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I think I'll just Battle Chest first for another 30 days. That should be a lot of time to play...
Maybe I'll go pre-paid.
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I think I'll just Battle Chest first for another 30 days. That should be a lot of time to play...
Maybe I'll go pre-paid.
Man these Lighting Steel Ingots... I think I'll save them for hopefully some added items in 5.4 if not 5.3.
I just can't see a good market for the "Transmog" weapons and they won't be good enough for actual use, why would you pay "15k" or whatever it settles down to for a 463 weapon when you can pay 3k for a Masterwork Spiritblade Decimator which is the same ilevel.
I'm gonna bank on them being used for something in the future so I can cash it all in that patch.
I just can't see a good market for the "Transmog" weapons and they won't be good enough for actual use, why would you pay "15k" or whatever it settles down to for a 463 weapon when you can pay 3k for a Masterwork Spiritblade Decimator which is the same ilevel.
I'm gonna bank on them being used for something in the future so I can cash it all in that patch.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Got kicked from a LFR and I still don't know why. I got a weird tell from some guy that was like "ahahhahah" and then a few seconds later, I'm removed from the group. Nothing in chat to give me a clue and my DPS kinda sucked, but wasn't near the bottom of the chart or anything.
It is a mystery
It is a mystery
Cute Dragon Here
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Wait a second, what's an LFR?
Also... sometimes I want to play with you guys together, but... anyone on Oceanic realms?
Also... sometimes I want to play with you guys together, but... anyone on Oceanic realms?
Well, keep in mind that making a weapon unlocks the 476 version, and then from that one the final version should be available to make, I think it's 498, just unlocked Mooncleaver.
LFR is a level 90 thing called Looking For Raid. Basically it's a 25-man fight against a few huge bosses. Kinda an extension of the Dungeons you're able to do right now in the Dungeon Finder.
Cute Dragon Here
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Note to self: Pandaren drags out a lot, quite unexpectedly so...
I guess I'm more of an actiony guy myself, in terms of both character and "story".
Maybe I should start experimenting with controlled PvP. I have actually won my first duel, but I wonder what that does...
I guess I'm more of an actiony guy myself, in terms of both character and "story".
Maybe I should start experimenting with controlled PvP. I have actually won my first duel, but I wonder what that does...
Dueling is just for fun. The actual PvP is an endless wormhole, and if you do it while leveling you'll be up against people who have been playing in that level bracket for years and will do 3-4 times the damage or healing that you can.
Wanted to share my hilarious method for killing warscouts on my just-hit-90 monk healer.
Paralyze any ability you don't want going off. Allow time for cooldown to pass. Regen some mana, file your nails. Chi-Burst + Jade lightening. Repeat as necessary. For 15 minutes
AKA if you don't have the gear, cheat!
Sounds like the way I completed the Monk exp-buff quests in starter whites after getting a bunch of RAF levels.
Wanted to share my hilarious method for killing warscouts on my just-hit-90 monk healer.
Paralyze any ability you don't want going off. Allow time for cooldown to pass. Regen some mana, file your nails. Chi-Burst + Jade lightening. Repeat as necessary. For 15 minutes
AKA if you don't have the gear, cheat!
I do this on my 491-ish Windwalker. I don't need to lock them down like that but it's safer that way. Usually Fists of Fury, Leg Sweep, and whatever the interrupt is called is enough, though.
Cute Dragon Here
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Hmm... Anything that I should be aware of while doing stuff pike this?
Someone was making fun of me for doing it
At least I am not the only one. 'Beetles? NOPE! Fear? NOPE! Spirits? NOPE! Yeah, go ahead with the meteors, that's fine. Ground slam whatever, I'm too far away.'
They can call me bad all they want, I'm the one with the loot.
Do it, mists is amazing!
This is how I fight them on my rogue. Gouge only has a 10 second cooldown, and if you're a cool rogue you get the criminally underrated talent that allows your DoTs to not break gouge. I just gouge any ability I don't want to deal with and it works similar to an interrupt so they will just move on to something else or go back to punching you.
Not really, Battlegrounds (the PVP objective based stuff, you can que for them like dungeons) actually give xp but it's still not as fast as questing. The only real thing you need to know is none of it is balanced at lower levels since you won't have all of your abilities unlocked. I mean, if you do it and have fun doing it keep doing it, but that can be said for anything in the game.
Gamble
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the peer pressure
I am really close to resubbing after a couple of years, may even need a scroll of resurrection. Now what to level to 80, my UD priest or my Human Paladin mmm
Don't do it! Don't sell your soul again to the WoW demon. It will make you one of us. One of us. One of us...
Gamble
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LMAO!! trying so hard but no other MMO is really satisfactory for me.......*starts slowly reaching for debit card*
Well, if you or anyone else needs a scroll and are on US servers I'd happily send one, I still don't have the mount from the scroll
and you can buy a 60 day game card without a hassle or reusing credit cards. You won't get hooked at all....
Deputy Moonman
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Started leveling my pally. Did some LFD and started collecting the tanking pieces from each of the quests when you first enter a new instance. Now I'm on the dungeon finder train. It's happening! I'm currently halfway between 87 and 88.
Seems to be happening a lot. I'm glad that there is a way to boot people who afk or aren't contributing, but man it's getting abused to no end. Not sure if there is any solution though.
How geared is your rogue? I'm gonna have to try all these tricks lol. It will be a week or two before i have some decent gear. Still doing heroics atm.
I honestly see alot of guilds trolling lfr now.
This is him. Only 492 equipped despite being my main, I just don't want to commit to a real raiding guild right now and I am very content with just running LFR. Nothing special with him really, though, I did upgrade quite a few items (some of which I've already replaced) back in 5.1. Nothing you can't achieve with enough effort, heck, my paladin is 487 equipped and I've been working on him less than a month now.
Successfully tanked 10N Elite Protectors with our guild tonight in ToES. The DPS was falling a little short in our first few attempts, until we made the decision to lust from the gun and have a healer use Heart of the Wild to nuke during that phase. It was too hard to keep good uptime on the last phase with just Kaolan up because of all the movement. That time we beat enrage with over a minute to go.
More importantly though, we got down Jin'rokh. It was really no more difficult than Protectors.
More importantly though, we got down Jin'rokh. It was really no more difficult than Protectors.
Do the pvp dailies. They're WAY better/faster.
Don't worry, every pet will have its use somewhere (especially on the Pandaren Spirits who are using pets with types that they shouldn't be). Also once you have a good set of dudes and can take out the Pandaren tamers easily, leveling becomes comedy. Defeating one of the Pandaren tamers while wearing the Safari hat gives over 5k pet experience at lower levels.
Like, right now I currently have 14 pets at level 25. Which, most of it was out of necessity. Once you get to Northrend tamers you will need to start mixing your team up more often as they use epic quality pets.
I'm pretty close to resubbing also. Quit about month after Mists because I wasn't really playing much due to real life stuff and work, but I got a free week of time offer from Blizzard last week and am playing a lot. I think Wow will always be able to pull me back in :lol
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