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World of Warcraft |OT4| "Why do we keep playing? It is simply in our nature."
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I found this pretty amusing:
ArenaPass fun with CM Nakatoir - Arena vs. Raid Bosses
Apparently, some guys go up against some CMs on the EU Tourney Realm and they go and spawn all sorts of shit like Heroic Ragnaros, Vashj, and other stuff.
Reminds me of the of the old PTRs where the GMs would spawn bosses in cities and towns.
ArenaPass fun with CM Nakatoir - Arena vs. Raid Bosses
Apparently, some guys go up against some CMs on the EU Tourney Realm and they go and spawn all sorts of shit like Heroic Ragnaros, Vashj, and other stuff.
Reminds me of the of the old PTRs where the GMs would spawn bosses in cities and towns.
Gentleman Jack
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Arguably every boss mechanic matters in LFR if you're looking to become a better player. If you watch videos and strategies you'll understand how not to die to stupid shit, a valuable skill. Whether or not it contributes to the group's success matters even beyond Durumu. Nobody doing Ji-Kun nests, for example, will almost certainly wipe the group. Tanks not properly timing pillar transitions on Lei-Shen will give you a suboptimal checkerboard during the final phase, which sucks. Inexperienced groups still wipe to Crimson Wake everywhere on Animus.
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Rösti
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http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/events/gamescom-2013-article.html?id=2
I wonder if patch 5.4 will be out prior to gamescom. I can assume Bobby & Co want new content out as fast as possible due to the recent news of further subscription decline. There's not too much left to test anyway. Some heroic encounters in Siege of Orgrimmar, some bosses in Raid Finder and Flexible Raid difficulty. And also Virtual Realms, if that's even going to be tested externally.
Also, as a reminder:
http://investor.activision.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=132930
Orochinagis
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Did Heroic dungeons gave me bonus for being a tank?
Whats the deal with those realms? I'm from Ragnaros and rarely see one of them in LFR.
Whats the deal with those realms? I'm from Ragnaros and rarely see one of them in LFR.
That's because those servers arent in your battlegroup.
Super populated pvp realms, illidan and mal'ganis are almost 100% horde and kt and sargeras are full alliance
RPGCrazied
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Oh, got it ordered. I tend to read the WoW novels, they all have been great, the Arthas one was really good. I know this isn't by Christie Golden, but seems the author of this book writes star war novels. Should be good nonetheless.
http://www.wowprogress.com/realms/rank/us sort of does. These aren't super accurate. But a lot can be said to the correlation between server population and progression.
I use http://wow.realmpop.com/
Sorta accurate, but you can read how they gather the info.
Granted, I don't think you'll find anything completely accurate.
Good lord their service prices are so outrageous. I started leveling brand new characters on another server a couple of weeks ago, and by the end of the day I should have my 2nd 90 on here. I started fresh since there was no way I was going to pay for all my characters (or at least my level 70+ characters) to change server and faction.
So I reconsidered it, and figured I'd transfer my two 90s from the old server to the new. I'd spoil myself. Then I realized it would cost $110. Fuck that. I would assume Blizzard would make a lot more money by offering a deal where all your characters from a server can move and change factions for ~$50. I know I'd pay for that. Hell, I might pay for it a few times if I wanted to move again later.
No real point to this post other than to vent.
So I reconsidered it, and figured I'd transfer my two 90s from the old server to the new. I'd spoil myself. Then I realized it would cost $110. Fuck that. I would assume Blizzard would make a lot more money by offering a deal where all your characters from a server can move and change factions for ~$50. I know I'd pay for that. Hell, I might pay for it a few times if I wanted to move again later.
No real point to this post other than to vent.
Agreed. Faction + server transfer together at $55 is just reprehensibly awful pricing. There need to be an all-in recustomization/transfer price under $30, and a mass recustomization/transfer for multiple characters at a fairer price.
My one real fear with the addition of more micro-transactions is that the character services will probably never be reasonably priced.
lol are some of those server pops for real? Sub-1000?
Is that at peak time or actual overall population of characters? Or does it count all characters on a server for one account as (1)?
SRTtoZ
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That's players at one time. My realm Kil'Jaeden has about 190,000 characters on it (alts and such).
Anyway to my question, I'm starting my first monk since my Shaman is all geared out and not much to do so ill be going Brewmaster tank. How viable are MW and WW for a second spec?
Further edit: I take that back Magnus, the asterisk next to "Population" says that number represents level 90 toons who killed something from at least tier 14 content. (Or in a guild that did)
Orochinagis
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Daaaamn it will be a Big Bang then.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Geezus..pvp is fuckin terrible right now. I'm admittedly in shit gear but I hit people for like 3-5k.. and pvp power is apparently not the answer.
PVP power is certainly not the answer. Just gem your pvp hit caps normally and then go for whatever you would normally go for with PVP, the baseline resilience changes favor standard gemming now.
NotMyUsername
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I don't do hardly any pvp but does that mean pvp power is worthless to the point that if I'm wearing 519 ilvl pve gear I'm better off using that then spending honor to gear up with 476 pvp pieces? I actually do alright in pvp and some people just melt against me while others I find I can't do much (healers almost always heal more than I can damage and it's a useless fight). I've been slowly accruing a pvp set using honor because I need a place to spend honor and JP but I've been reluctant to actually equip a full set because that drop in ilvl makes me question how viable it is. I figured the boost in pvp power would balance it out in my favor, though.
Just a bit curious since I figure I'll jump more seriously into pvp stuff one of these days.
In other news in an attempt to get a fourth Primal Egg I've been killing dinos and went from 1400 bones collected and I'm now at around 4200 bones. One Primal Egg dropped but it's after I randomly ran into a tanking guildmate on the island so we grouped up to take down all sizes of dinos. We got a load of Direhorn Runts and bones but the one egg that dropped he won in the roll. Anyhow, at this rate I'll end up getting the 9,999 bones for the white raptor before I get a primal egg that hatches into the last raptor I need. Ugh.
Damn, I wish I was on Tichondrius. Pacific timezone and relatively balanced factions.
I like Sargeras because there's always stuff going on on Alliance, but it's CST (I'm in California) and we outnumber the horde badly. Though cross realm zones makes up for that somewhat.
I'm leveling a hunter alt at the moment, and earlier I was mid-20s in Ashenvale doing some quests. There were a few horde in the area, and decided to partake in some PvP. Nobody really put up a fight, but I must've pissed one of them off something fierce. As I was leaving the quest givers I had a 90 fly in, one shot me, /spit on me, and then fly off. I can only assume it was the main of one of the characters I killed. I've never made someone so angry in same-level PvP that they felt the need to use a 90 for vengeance. I kind of liked it.
Carpe Libertatem
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All PvP power does is make PvP better than equivalent PvE gear (because PvP power isn't counted in the item budget). Which works particularly well with Blizzard's new system of scaling down the iLvl of gear in structured PvP (BGs and arena).
Unless you only do World PvP, you aren't switching from iLvl 519 to 476. You're switching from 496 (what all gear is scaled down to in structured PvP - at least right now) to 476. Ultimately, what pieces of gear to you should really just be up to you and what stats you value most (ie. a 476 gear with stats you like is better than a 519 (496) piece with stats you don't care for).
I'd recommend just doing quick arena for points to get 496 Tyrannical gear, though.
Orochinagis
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Any monk heal players? I have some trouble healing more than 3 objetives on instances, damn you druids healing even me and I ventured in pvp. what is the exact stat to help me healing more in pvp, power pvp ?
Haha, yeah I see a lot of world PvP these days with cross realm zones. I like it. Not quite what it was back in vanilla, but still makes things a lot more interesting out in the world.
Garajal is my favorite fight in the lfr world as a ret paladin, pop in and lay on hands and pop out with cds.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Thanks for the pvp talk guys, I'd go into it more but I realize most don't pvp here.
Jumped into the Mogu vaults, my first lfr, main tank, wtf.
It's just a big heroic.
Literally. Tank and spank.
Everything.
Jumped into the Mogu vaults, my first lfr, main tank, wtf.
It's just a big heroic.
Literally. Tank and spank.
Everything.
Well, you're talking about something that is easy to start with and has been out there for 8 or 9 months now. Not like it was really hard to begin with but at this point most people doing it are either shitty alts or people that are far too over geared just looking to cap vp.
Wowprogress is really just tracking level 90s that raid, so as Entropia said it's not that accurate in terms of total population. Pretty sure wowprogress coulds alts twice if you raid on both toons. Not sure if it counts LFR only raiders or not
That being said, there are some very low population servers.
Unfortunately so.
Take my server, Garithos, for example.
Back during the Vanilla/BC days, it was pretty active (something like Medium pop I guess?).
But it had a pretty competitive community and lots of people knew one another.
Anywho, sometime after I quit and a good ways into Wrath, there was apparently a mass exodus to other servers, and the population dwindled.
By the time I came back in late Cata, it'd become almost a ghost town, albeit with some small activity here and there.
But for whatever reason, once Mists hit, the place is like near-dead. I might see like a handful of people running around every day.
On top of that, the raiding scene is barely there. If you look on wowprogress, you'll see that only 2 guilds actually did all of Normal T14 (nobody got past Heroic MSV though) and the few other guilds that attempted it got stuck on HoF.
T15 hasn't fared better with only one guild full clearing Normal and the 2nd closest guild only has 3 bosses down.
So yeah, it kinda sucks to see my old home fall into such disarray.
Well, they are merging servers but you can't force people to play together. They'll just quit like they did in Cata.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
I literally just hit a point now where I feel I can take down an average geared person in a bg.. 4/5 of Malevolent and both weaps (I'm fuckin around with fury). I'm still horribly undergeared but at after changing my spec to something that suited me I'm at least able to get some burst out. Not sure if I should eventually just throw my conquest points at a 2h and return to the wonderful world of arms.
Flex and merges might bring back WotLK era pugging
I hope. I loved being able to hop on an alt and find a raid.
see you in 5.4 or next xpac.
RPGCrazied
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So, what to expect in the last wing of ToT? Yes, I finally made it. Still no weapon though.
Same, that reason is why I think Wrath was the best server. You could raid pretty much at anytime because of all the pugs that were happening. It wasn't forced content like dailies :<
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Rösti
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The best PUG experience I've ever had was during Wrath of the Lich King and patch 3.3.2. We got to Sindragosa and wiped probably more than ten times. But there was no bitching, no moaning and no swearing. Everyone was very friendly to one another and the whole run was a complete joy. One of my best memories from the game.
Also, regarding Flexible Raid difficulty, I read this on the forums:
Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/9561666086?page=1#16
I don't know if it will become popular to complete Flexible with only eight people but if you are looking for a higher challenge that's definitely the way to go.
Blizzard has solved this now, right? I saw characters from other servers all the time while playing the trial 1-20 (on an underpopulated realm).
cartoon_soldier
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You can go cross realm with friends I believe. Virtual realm will basically act like server merges without actually merging servers.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
He's saying we basically have that now. All zones levels 1-85 have people from all different servers in them.
On Stone Guard, you keep the dogs together because otherwise, it's inevitable they'll not bring the lone one in during his petrify and everyone will get turned to stone and reset. Feng has a shield the tanks can use, and an ability swap they can channel on the other tank to spellsteal and do a shitload of damage. (Mutually exclusive) Plus there are tank swaps. Then on Gara'jal, the tank that gets banished has to kill his Severer of Souls within 30 seconds, or he gets one-shot.
So the tanks should have some vague notion of what they're doing. But it's only helpful, not mandatory. Enough classes have battle-res that even a tank death is rarely an issue.
Bacon_Boss
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The difference here is you can join guilds with and raid with anyone who's on your server via virtual realms, and auction houses are merging as well. Plus i'm fairly certain cities and level 90 areas are merging as well.
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