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[FLEABttn]

I love when I get WoW angry, it's 1 month into a 6 month sub, and then by the time I want to play again, it's 1 month outside of that 6 month sub. I've wasted so much money by trying to save money.

Seems these cross realm flex raids are enough to get most of my prior raid force interested in the game again, so I'm back in again. And off Tich and PvP for good.

 

[mileS]

I've been away a while. Whats cross realm flex raids?

 

[FLEABttn]

I've been away a while. Whats cross realm flex raids?

A new raid difficulty between normal raids and LFR. It supports anywhere between 10 and 25 people and allows you to raid with people cross server.

So I can finally raid at the difficulty of WotLK 10 mans again without having to be on a shithole PvP server so I can raid with friends.

 

[Fjordson]

The flex raid idea sounds cool. Might be able to get some GAF groups going.

 

[Entropia]

The flex raid idea sounds cool. Might be able to get some GAF groups going.

Yeah, that would be pretty cool.

 

[Orochinagis]

I hate my Healer alt, its getting more gear than my main Mage in LFR in one playtrough.

Anyone knows how it works the void bank, its just a expensive bank?

 

[scoobs]

I hate my Healer alt, its getting more gear than my main Mage in LFR in one playtrough.

Anyone knows how it works the void bank, its just a expensive bank?

Ya more storage, that's where I put my old tier sets that I don't wanna throw away but don't wanna wear anytime soon.

 

[Zerokku]

Ya more storage, that's where I put my old tier sets that I don't wanna throw away but don't wanna wear anytime soon.

Can't you transmog straight from void storage as well? I've never tried it before but I know I've heard that somewhere.

 

[Berordn]

Can't you transmog straight from void storage as well? I've never tried it before but I know I've heard that somewhere.

Yup, lets you avoid the cost for depositing items again after.

 

[FLEABttn]

The flex raid idea sounds cool. Might be able to get some GAF groups going.

Yeah, that would be pretty cool.

I'd be good for that potentially if mine falls through. I think you two are alliance?

 

[TimeKillr]

The big debate on our part currently is dancing (moving LS in and out of range of the pylons) vs. not dancing. Dancing seems to make P1 a little harder to survive, but the reduced damage in the transition as a result of lower charge on each pylon (At best we've had one pylon on 90, one on 70, the third on maybe 50 and done; fourth is untouched) makes a difference; vice-versa if we don't.

Why the hell would you not "dance" him? You essentially do not want *any* of the pylons to level up, especially not Static Shock, and the other Pylons are still a bitch when they level up, so you're always better off dancing. P1 isn't that hard to survive with dancing, and if you can get him down to intermission before you even hit pylon 4 you're pretty much golden. You guys have high DPS - we reach the 4th Pylon and get it to about 60 energy before we hit intermission. Are you 2 or 3-healing it?

 

[Magnus]

Man, there is so much of every expansion/patches' soundtrack that never makes it to an official release. Is there a good place to find all of the sound/music for WoW online that actually includes all the amazing stuff they add for every patch?

And is it legal to obtain that if I own all the expansions and the music isn't available for sale anywhere else?

 

[Rösti]

The flex raid idea sounds cool. Might be able to get some GAF groups going.

For both US and EU I assume?

 

[strafer]

Man, there is so much of every expansion/patches' soundtrack that never makes it to an official release. Is there a good place to find all of the sound/music for WoW online that actually includes all the amazing stuff they add for every patch?

And is it legal to obtain that if I own all the expansions and the music isn't available for sale anywhere else?

You could try digging through the MPQ files.

 

[mclem]

Why the hell would you not "dance" him? You essentially do not want *any* of the pylons to level up, especially not Static Shock, and the other Pylons are still a bitch when they level up, so you're always better off dancing. P1 isn't that hard to survive with dancing, and if you can get him down to intermission before you even hit pylon 4 you're pretty much golden. You guys have high DPS - we reach the 4th Pylon and get it to about 60 energy before we hit intermission. Are you 2 or 3-healing it?

3-healing. The problems with survival are probably mostly ironed out, just that when we *didn't* dance, decapitate came nicely in sync with moving to the next pylon; getting decap at awkward times led to needing to be more careful with tank swaps. My healers also strongly disliked LS being outside the pylon range during the thunderstruck, but I think they're okay with that now.

When not dancing, we're pretty much on about 60 energy on pylon 4, actually. I'm certainly a lot more comfortable with dancing, but my cotank isn't, which leads to a little awkwardness with pylons getting much higher charges when he's taking the lead.

 

[ampere]

The flex raid idea sounds cool. Might be able to get some GAF groups going.

As long as people don't play dirty horde



I have one horde 90, but it's like 450 ilevel

 

[TimeKillr]

3-healing. The problems with survival are probably mostly ironed out, just that when we *didn't* dance, decapitate came nicely in sync with moving to the next pylon; getting decap at awkward times led to needing to be more careful with tank swaps. My healers also strongly disliked LS being outside the pylon range during the thunderstruck, but I think they're okay with that now.

When not dancing, we're pretty much on about 60 energy on pylon 4, actually. I'm certainly a lot more comfortable with dancing, but my cotank isn't, which leads to a little awkwardness with pylons getting much higher charges when he's taking the lead.

Okay, then it seems I've never seem this dancing strat.. I'll have to check up on it. I thought you were just referring to moving him from pylon to pylon.

 

[Schweinehund]

so happy, got my sha touched LFR axe after having been using an agility 463 pole arm for the last few raids. up to 475 ilevel since subbing on wednesday . Now I'm pretty concious of my empty sha slot, might take a while to finish wrathion questline.

Now for another question, I looted a key to raid the emperor's treasure from a chest, and I've killed like 9 rare mobs so far on isle of thunder, but I haven't gotten a key off of them. Are we limited to one key now from any source?

 

[Magnus]

so happy, got my sha touched LFR axe after having been using an agility 463 pole arm for the last few raids. up to 475 ilevel since subbing on wednesday . Now I'm pretty concious of my empty sha slot, might take a while to finish wrathion questline.

Now for another question, I looted a key to raid the emperor's treasure from a chest, and I've killed like 9 rare mobs so far on isle of thunder, but I haven't gotten a key off of them. Are we limited to one key now from any source?

I'm pretty sure a second/third a Key to Lei-Shen's Palace will still drop from all the same sources, but the chance is extremely lowered after you've looted your first Key for the week.

 

[Berordn]

I'm pretty sure a second/third a Key to Lei-Shen's Palace will still drop from all the same sources, but the chance is extremely lowered after you've looted your first Key for the week.

There's an internal quest flag that gets reset every week for an "easy" key. The keys can still appear as random drops on raid trash and mobs around the island and in a few chests, but any of the "easy" sources won't have one until the weekly quest reset.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Still camping for Ghostcrawler :lol no luck so far and my patience is already wearing thin.

I've gotten so incredibly lucky with all of the other spirit beasts, mostly just going into their zones to check on their spawn points and seeing them without much real "camping" so not sure how much longer I can camp for this one (even if he is the second coolest pet after Loque'nahak imo).

You're probably just not seeing it. Ghostcrawler is invincible to players so he's never dead and not terribly popular for taming.

 

[Schweinehund]

I'm pretty sure a second/third a Key to Lei-Shen's Palace will still drop from all the same sources, but the chance is extremely lowered after you've looted your first Key for the week.

Ah alright, one key run seems to be sufficient. All I really need from the chests anymore is the charms.

 

[Dawg]

Hey guys. I don't play WoW anymore but I was browsing through my old photos and I saw something that brought back some memories and I figured I would share it. It's a GIF/signature I made when I used to frequent WoW message boards etc etc.... really shitty low grade but I felt like sharing it Weird photo proportions too. And I put an apostrophe where it should not be lol

It's so shitty (given todays standards) but very nostalgic

I have something equally shitty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzwTs3jxHhQ

Oh, the things we did when we were still teenagers in the glory days of WoW...

 

[Ceebs]

Did 3 of the world bosses...nothing but gold. The RNG hates me.

 

[strafer]

So I'm doing my weekly MC run. I really hope the bindings drop.

>.<

 

[Entropia]

On the absolute off-chance - does anyone play on US-Elune, Alliance? I maybe heading there this week.

 

[I'm an expert]

WHERE MAH SKULLCRUSHER-US HORDE (or alliance) AT

(totally got bindings off my second run of mc on this char last week)

 

[mclem]

Okay, then it seems I've never seem this dancing strat.. I'll have to check up on it. I thought you were just referring to moving him from pylon to pylon.

Dancing him in and out of range of *a* pylon, to slow the rate it increases at the cost of taking some AoE damage - but the point being, that since the AoE damage ramps up over time, short periods of it are fairly harmless.

 

[sqwarlock]

Needed a ret pally guildmate to help me out, but I fnally got one of my most-wanted mounts:

Still can't solo 10-man though (stupid enrage drake), so I'll get some help on that after the reset tomorrow.

 

[strafer]

Nope.

Fucking drop rate.

 

[TimeKillr]

Dancing him in and out of range of *a* pylon, to slow the rate it increases at the cost of taking some AoE damage - but the point being, that since the AoE damage ramps up over time, short periods of it are fairly harmless.

Ah, and that's because the debuff that causes you to take more AoE lasts 5 seconds, so if you dance him you don't get multiple stacks and the damage remains relatively low... Interesting. It's a nice possibility.

 

[Cipherr]

Oh MAN the new launcher! So good. (Im just now getting in the beta for it). I love the way it auto logs you into the game directly to the character select screen without you having to enter your password each time.

Very very neat.

 

[Fjordson]

As long as people don't play dirty horde



I have one horde 90, but it's like 450 ilevel

Agreed, haha. I used to be horde in the BC days (after being alliance only in vanilla) but I switched back to alliance after Wrath with my main.

 

[I'm an expert]

Been alliance since launch till 3 weeks ago when I faction changed to horde from scroll of rez. I always had my alts be horde so I was familiar with everything, though the org redesign sucks. I've always felt horde had better skilled players, same seems to be true on this server, but aesthetically alliance definitely wear armor better. Why I race changed this char to belf.

 

[RPGCrazied]

I fnally got one of my most-wanted mounts

Where does that drop?

 

[sqwarlock]

Where does that drop?

25-man Sartharion with all 3 drakes still alive: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=28860/sartharion

10-man drops the black drake which, while cool, isn't nearly as cool as the twilight one.

 

[RPGCrazied]

25-man Sartharion with all 3 drakes still alive: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=28860/sartharion

10-man drops the black drake which, while cool, isn't nearly as cool as the twilight one.

wonder if a rogue can solo it, my ilvl is 504.

 

[sqwarlock]

wonder if a rogue can solo it, my ilvl is 504.

25 man? Maybe. 10 man? Most definitely. All depends on your burst really. You're going to want him dead, or really, really close to dead, before the enrage drake engages.

 

[RPGCrazied]

25 man? Maybe. 10 man? Most definitely. All depends on your burst really. You're going to want him dead, or really, really close to dead, before the enrage drake engages.

Hrm. I don't have the black drake yet either. Might as well try.

 

[vocab]

Grats.

I had a twlight for a while. A friend already had it, and was like you wanna do this place for a free mount?

 

[Ceebs]

Got the 1H caster mace from the Grand Empress just now. So what is a sha touched gem or whatever?

 

[cdyhybrid]

Got the 1H caster mace from the Grand Empress just now. So what is a sha touched gem or whatever?

It's from the legendary quest line.

 

[Fjordson]

I think I'm going to resume my Blue Proto-Drake farming. Did it last night for the first time since Wrath and Skadi is super quick at 90 now. Especially with hunter camo to get past most of the mobs. We'll see how many empty runs I can endure this time around :lol

edit: whaaat, Drake of the North Wind on my first Vortex Pinnacle run. I'm too hot right now, I need to go hit up a casino!

 

[RPGCrazied]

Embarrassing. I can't even do 10 man Sathrion. I get him halfway then all hell breaks lose. He like one shots me or something. :/

Any horde Gaffer want to help me get the twilight drake?

 

[Chie Satonaka]

Well.

I'll say it's a lot easier to have fun when making progress and getting loot.

On track to actually finish a whole tier before the next one drops. This'll be my first time doing that. I almost pulled it off with 5.0, but Amber Shaper was just too rough on us.

 

[Wibblewozzer]

Embarrassing. I can't even do 10 man Sathrion. I get him halfway then all hell breaks lose. He like one shots me or something. :/

Any horde Gaffer want to help me get the twilight drake?

At either 30 seconds into the fight or when Sarth is down to 25% the first drake will come down. It does a large amount of damage due to buffing shadow damage and some breath attack, I believe. You need to burn Sarth down so fast that it doesn't get time to actually start attacking or be ready to pop all your defensive cooldowns or whatever your class might have to keep that drake from coming at you.

I'd be willing to help any Alliance needing the drakes. I can easily do 10m for anyone and 25m can probably be done but I haven't tried soloing it now that I'm geared. I can beat the dps timer (have to kill by a minute in) but not sure how I'd fare against the shadow drake coming down and hitting. Probably should be alright.

 

[RPGCrazied]

I'd be willing to help any Alliance needing the drakes

I have a few alliance, but only one of them is 90 at the moment a warrior. His gear is awful though, don't know how much help I'd even be, lol. I have a level 85 alliance monk too.

The mount is cross faction shared? I mean, if I get it with an alliance toon I can use it with my horde characters?

 

[Orochinagis]

Oh Snap!!!!! One of the monk shoulders have a living crab living insde on the right side of the shoulders, what the hel! get it out of there

 

[Ceebs]

Embarrassing. I can't even do 10 man Sathrion. I get him halfway then all hell breaks lose. He like one shots me or something. :/

Any horde Gaffer want to help me get the twilight drake?

You have no idea how fucking hard that fight was with 3 drakes up while in a combination of Naxx and Sunwell epics still. I swear we spent 5 hours a night wiping non stop.

 

[Wibblewozzer]

I have a few alliance, but only one of them is 90 at the moment a warrior. His gear is awful though, don't know how much help I'd even be, lol. I have a level 85 alliance monk too.

The mount is cross faction shared? I mean, if I get it with an alliance toon I can use it with my horde characters?

Yeah, it's faction shared. Can't remember if you've added me on Real ID (and if you have, which name do you use on there?). You can add me otherwise: LordWibble#1924. I'll log in and have it running in the background to try to catch you,

Edit: And not worried about your gear for 10m. If you want to do 25m we can try it but we might die, heh.