It's more like a Guild Wars 2 zone than a sandbox, from what I've read about it. Haven't actually gone to the PTR to try it myself though.
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It's more like a Guild Wars 2 zone than a sandbox, from what I've read about it. Haven't actually gone to the PTR to try it myself though.
Bacon_Boss
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So wowhead's ptr site has all the SOO weapons in a searchable capacity. These models are SICK!
I haven't played GW2 (That plus WoW plus LoL would probably be a dangerous combo) but it feels like they are trying something really different from the norm.
It's also funny because a lot of people do not feel safe exploring the Isle even on their "geared" mains because there are a significant amount of aggressive mobs. Yet they only dropped 496 gear (until they added the upgrade item) and people were like "wut". The place has it's own currency that you get for doing things there, and that can be spend on loads (LOADS) of vanity items and some various gear.
The PTR has been fun because the world bosses there (spoilers)
The Four Celestials
Being a pet fanatic myself, I was more interested in the Pet Tournament, that requires at least 30 max level pets to even enter (and you'll probably want more since at this time once you begin you are not allowed to heal at all until you give up or defeat every trainer back to back, and their number is in the double digits). I was surprised and happy to see some familiar faces among the pet trainers (spoilers) including
Lorewalker Cho, Taran Zhu, Blingatron, Sully (with Socks!) and Wrathion,
Flexi Raid is probably taking up a lot of resources as well. My guild has a weird roster of folks so it's basically perfect for us, but we *just* got two solid 10 mans going (9/12) i think we'll be falling back to flexi on weekends when someone is gone, will be nice to do that instead of having to cancel.
Chie Satonaka
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RPGCrazied
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Wow, thanks Wibble. I'm still speechless. All within 30 minutes from each other I aquire these beauties:
Lets do it again sometime!
Lets do it again sometime!
They've stated that heroics take up too much design space for the team they have, but they're also been hiring to fill out that team.
Now I'll bitch about Well of Eternity having more assets than Dragon Soul again.
It's probably why MoP patches seems to release at a faster rate than past expansions. They're not making heroics anymore, just scenarios which reuse a bunch of already existing maps and assets.
Wow, thanks Wibble. I'm still speechless. All within 30 minutes from each other I aquire these beauties:
Lets do it again sometime!
So jealous of the Ony mount. Just started trying for that, and I'm hoping it doesn't take too long.
Shadowhaxor
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Alaskanbullworm
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Happy August one and all!
Wibblewozzer
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Wow, thanks Wibble. I'm still speechless. All within 30 minutes from each other I aquire these beauties:
Lets do it again sometime!
Well, don't really need to do it again as you already have the mounts but no problem helping as long as it's not something I actively solo for my own mount rolls. Malygos and TK I'll keep running solo, heh.
Still rather silly you were able to get Onyxia. When I offered to run there with you after OS25 my intent really was just so you could see the fight and get in the habit of soloing it yourself. But it worked out really well that you got the drake, heh.
I'm down to very few solo options now and still not getting what I want. They really need to drop these if they expect me to get 200 mounts. I have Alysrazor, TK, Malygos, and then the normals I can run plenty (Stonecore, Vortex Pinnacle, and Strat). Oh, and the daily heroic ZG where I still need the raptor. Only Alysrazor left for the raids this week but I told a friend I'd take him to get the Barrel Roll achievement. After those I'm left with metas, crafted ones to purchase, and...probably some oddball ones here and there. About time I switch to tailoring to get the three carpet mounts.
Someone spilled coffee on the servers?
I am so mad right now. This is one of those times when I hate CRZ.
Wintergrasp showing as Horde controlled in Dalaran, go to Wintergrasp its Alliance controlled.......rinse and repeat same result....
To be fair, it's probably Dalaran that is in another phase not Wintergrasp, so it's mostly just giving me false hope instead screwing me with wrong phase. Still infuriating.
Wintergrasp showing as Horde controlled in Dalaran, go to Wintergrasp its Alliance controlled.......rinse and repeat same result....
To be fair, it's probably Dalaran that is in another phase not Wintergrasp, so it's mostly just giving me false hope instead screwing me with wrong phase. Still infuriating.
Wibblewozzer
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Don't they tend to do irregular maintenance when rolling out a new build onto PTR? I thought that happened recently and that was the reason for an off-day maintenance.
Or yeah, someone spilled coffee on the servers. All of them.
Whenever there's backend changes coming in a patch (in this case virtual realms and the in-game store) they'll start updating the servers while the PTR is active so they can just flip the switch down the line.
Someone probably did spill coffee on everything though. They started early.
RPGCrazied
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Hehe, I wasn't expecting it to drop, it has a pretty low drop rate. The twilight drake I knew we could probably do, since it always drops in 25man if you leave all drakes up, but thanks! I will ride this sucker every day for awhile. I guess now I should level up the little pet that matches the mount.
Slowly gearing up my Prot Paladin. I ran ToES with a pug and picked up the T14 head and shoulders. Found that, as I usually have, the Retribution pieces are infinitely better itemized for the spec than the Prot pieces are. Did they not recognize that folks were gemming Haste and shunning avoidance like the plague? It's ridiculous that my tank has the 2-piece DPS set bonuses from T14 and T15..
They're taking steps to make avoidance more attractive... by making haste slightly less attractive.
They just really don't know what to do with the plate tanks in the long haul it seems.
If it's of any consolation, my female draenei hunter name is Waggles.
I wonder how effective it'd be if you could only reforge an item *that you have upgraded* - given the cost behind upgrading, you wouldn't be able to reforge everything in your gear. It'd give an extra benefit to buying iLvls for your gear and open up a few more interesting choices for how to reforge ("I could reforge *this*, but it'll cost me valor to unlock that capability; perhaps it's best if I just reforge this other item that I already have upgraded. It won't max my gear, but it's enough")
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Some names I've had:
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Orochinagis
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Its okayr to have different alts or is enough with one? I was planning to level up a Paladin tank to 80 to have the T10 armor.
With the system as it is now, we'd go back to the hit/expertise game we used to play back in the day (which I personally didn't mind) with reforging being a stat bonus for, what I assume, is the high end. I'm not actually sure how popular upgrading is.
I dunno. I'd almost rather just have the game go back to the stat modifying systems we had in WotLK and TBC. Reforge and item upgrading seems like useless system bloat.
Move on. Every clear gives you Shado-Pan Assault rep (once a week), which opens up 522 valor pieces.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I still have no clue what the best way for a non-raider to get VP is. Right now, my idea is to queue for Scenario, Heroic LFD and LFR all at the same time since you'll immediately pop a Scenario, immediately pop a heroic at the end of the scenario, and generally pop an LFR right at the end of the heroic, so you don't spend time standing around or doing dailies.
I have Ashes of Al'ar and Onyxian Drake. Do I get the right and the left?
I have Ashes of Al'ar and Onyxian Drake. Do I get the right and the left?
I was reading the blue posts on MMO Champion about lore, and all it did was make me think more about what I'd really love to see.
I know it'd be as much work as making a brand new game, but what I wouldn't give for a huge lore update to WoW. Change the ENTIRE world to match the current lore. No more "time travel" while leveling would be especially nice.
I know it'd be as much work as making a brand new game, but what I wouldn't give for a huge lore update to WoW. Change the ENTIRE world to match the current lore. No more "time travel" while leveling would be especially nice.
Heroic Scenarios for sure. You do need a premade group, but you def don't have to be a raider to do them, and most of the timers for bonus VP aren't too bad. It's like 150 valor for the first run and 100 for the rest if you get the timer.
Wibblewozzer
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Add me: LordWibble#1924. I'm logging on right now.
Spec for Silencing Shot so that he doesn't summon his adds.
As much as it is never going to happen because it wouldn't make sense at all, my dream Warchief would be Rexxar. I repeat, it will NEVER happen.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yeah, I guess I should try to get a group for them?
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