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World of Warcraft |OT4| "Why do we keep playing? It is simply in our nature."
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Jag
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Yeah, when I finally found one it was poor quality and I stoned it rather than look for a rare one.
That Blizzcon pet is awesome. They may get me again.
Edit: and a movie release date! December 18, 2015.
YES! Got my last two runestone drops this morning, powered through the rest of the chain and am now the proud owner of my Legendary Cloak 
...Damn it blizz.
You got me this time.
...Damn it blizz.
You got me this time.
unknownstranger
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WTF thought you were garenteed to get something from bonus rolls if you keep getting gold. 2 straight weeks I got double gold from both Celestials and Ordos on 3 toons.
RPGCrazied
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Ugh, while he does look cool, the murloc pet is getting a tad old. We had what... 4 or 5? I wanted a mount. Oh well, Blizzcon is already paid for through virtual ticket, so I guess I'm getting it.
Oh well, Blizzcon is already paid for through virtual ticket, so I guess I'm getting it.You can LFR now, and can do some normal Vaults and Heart of Fear. Get up to 496 and you can LFR Siege of Orgrimmar. Probably want around 510ish at least before you do Flex though.
RPGCrazied
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Timeless Isle has 496 gear you can get, no weapon though. You can waste 20k coins on a 476 one, but might as well raid finder the weapon. You can easily do ToT and start on Siege shortly after.
RPGCrazied
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Yeah. Don't know how I feel about yet another murloc pet. He looks cool though. Will go good with Deathy and Grunty.
BlizzCon is only a month away! ;D
RPGCrazied
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Then wait for another year for the next expansion to come out, lol.
Siege is very fun and the isle is neat.
Siege is a great raid I think.
Timeless Isle is interesting, though I haven't spent a ton of time there.
To temper that though, Siege is only fun on flex/normal/heroic. LFR is an absolute clusterfuck. Flex is killing it, it has removed the desire by any decent player I've met to actually run LFR, and LFR without the strong carrier types queuing is absolutely abyssmal. Like 4 hour runs of a single wing of 3 bosses with 20+ total determination stacks kind of terrible. There's a thread, Blizz claims completion rates are ok. They are wrong as fuck. If you're an LFR raider don't come back, if you are ok with hitting up openraid or trade chat to find flex groups, you'll be ok. Flex is a very fun difficulty and totally hits the mark it was aimed at.
Yeah, I've done LFR every week this expansion (until I got geared I needed) and have gotten enough enjoyment out of it, but, in this patch I've only done it once and I think that is the only one I am going to do. Flex is just too great for how I want to play the game and I've been able to play with a lot of my friends again (because queing for LFR with people you know just isn't the same).
I've no desire to carry bads through LFR anymore.
I've no desire to carry bads through LFR anymore.
Robin64
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Flex killing LFR is the saddest thing for me. I "don't raid", but ever since the Deathwing patch I've been able to step in and see things. I'm not the best DPS in the world, but I do move out of the fire and at least try and do the fight the proper way.
And usually there were enough people to get through,even if some of the raiders were as thick as shit.
As for Timeless Isle, a wander around it once was enough. I far preferred the daily quest mixed with story method of content delivery that 5.1 brought us.
And usually there were enough people to get through,even if some of the raiders were as thick as shit.
As for Timeless Isle, a wander around it once was enough. I far preferred the daily quest mixed with story method of content delivery that 5.1 brought us.
It's Reyn Time!
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Could be that while the Shammy's heals aren't topping the charts he's still getting heals to the people who need them most. A Druid spamming HoTs on people at 80% health will out heal the person keeping that one dude bouncing at 10-20% health alive.
That's what we thought too, until we clearly saw that if we replaced our Priest or our Paladin with the Shaman we kept failing at stuff we knew.
So obviously the weak cog is the Shaman, but it's just so strange that we can progress when he's there. It's just... very weird.
RNG is making me slowly change my main haha. My ret paladin "alt" already got both the T16 gloves and pants from the Celestials and the T16 Raid Finder chest. 3/5 T16 already! That and the 2h sword from Sha of Pride LFR. And i almost got 50k Timeless Coins for the DPS trinket. And my main mage got almost nothing! Only a pair of shoulders from Ordos.
Also, soloing those Yaungols for rep is much much easier with my ret paladin since they don't charge/stun me, unlike my mage. That damn ability of them hurts way too much on top of that, my mage need to eat after almost every combat while my paladin can keep going without any breaks, self heals helps a lot too.
Heroics are even more of a joke than back in WOTLK now with 530+ gear, legendary cape and legendary meta gem. Who needs a tank when the elites have even less health than elites on Timeless Isle and you're doing over 400k DPS in AOE?
Also, soloing those Yaungols for rep is much much easier with my ret paladin since they don't charge/stun me, unlike my mage. That damn ability of them hurts way too much on top of that, my mage need to eat after almost every combat while my paladin can keep going without any breaks, self heals helps a lot too.
Heroics are even more of a joke than back in WOTLK now with 530+ gear, legendary cape and legendary meta gem. Who needs a tank when the elites have even less health than elites on Timeless Isle and you're doing over 400k DPS in AOE?
Yep, that's happening for me as well, like my true main is my mage but my warrior was always my second. Right now though my mage is only ilevel 500, whereas my Warrior is ilevel 519, has the two tier 553 drops from the celestial bosses (one upgraded to max, the other as soon as possible), has the tier chest from sha of pride lfr, has two 2h weapons (axe off nazgrim, sword of sha) both upgraded, got both lfr plate shoulders for dps and I bought her the 553 belt from blacksmithing for 30k (sold about 35k in gems tonight so no biggie)
I think my warrior is like 1k valor behind in the 3k valor test (maybe mage 1500, and my warrior 500) but with that gear advantage I don't mind. So yeah I'll probably go all in on this character for the legendary shit.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The Secrets can be pretty generous at times - I got all of them in three weeks, and that was without SOO being fully open. I think I got 11 in the last week alone.
StormyTheRabbit
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God, I've been playing the MoP trial and now I'm at a crossroads. My trial is about up, but I need to upgrade to MoP and buy game time...which would come out to be like $55 bucks. It seems a little ridiculous that MoP is still 39.99 for a digital upgrade. I guess I'll just wait until it goes on sale randomly or something.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It seems the same as every first LFR week to me. Its not as fast as say, Pinnacle of Storms right before the patch (which has barely any trash, so its fast), but I haven't repeated the eight stacks of determination the way others have. The only problem I had was on the second wing where nobody was queuing at all to replace lost tanks and I left.
Damn ypu missed out 2 weeks ago it was 20 bucks. Thats when i jumped on lol.
BolognaOni
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$20 at amazon, probably some other places as well if you're willing to wait a few days to get it. That's what I ended up doing. Seems silly, since I just entered the code and threw everything away, but whatever. Charging what I think are stupid prices for digital stuff is apparently working out pretty well for them so far.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
The main bummer for me regarding the flex/lfr situation is that I only have one char with an ilvl high enough to get into OQ/openraid groups. My two 90 alts are both right around 500, so I pretty much have to do SoO lfr to get my ilvl up, and that shit just aint fun.
I've seen some OQ groups using proving ground medals as a requirement, which I think is actually a great idea. It's a totally legit in-game way of someone proving they are reasonably skilled at playing their role and doesn't rely on ilvl. A lot of people seem take issue with it and get angry at the raid leaders though, calling them elitist or whatever, which is definitely a bit of "doth protest too much" if you ask me. If you are so mad about it, go get a gold medal.
I've seen some OQ groups using proving ground medals as a requirement, which I think is actually a great idea. It's a totally legit in-game way of someone proving they are reasonably skilled at playing their role and doesn't rely on ilvl. A lot of people seem take issue with it and get angry at the raid leaders though, calling them elitist or whatever, which is definitely a bit of "doth protest too much" if you ask me. If you are so mad about it, go get a gold medal.
lol...
just saw this re-tweet:
https://twitter.com/Methodeu/status/385458408863715328
People seriously wear this?
just saw this re-tweet:
https://twitter.com/Methodeu/status/385458408863715328
People seriously wear this?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
On the plus side, the drop rate in LFR SOO is pretty high, probably for the express purpose of funnelling people into Flex Raid.
Speaking of flex raids... where are players gathering people for them? I spend most of my time on Timeless Isle farming coins or rep, and all i see in general chat is people calling when rares are up. I really don't want to stand afk in the Alliance's Shrine(whatever its name is) or Stormwind waiting for something to show up. It's the biggest reason why i do LFR instead of Flex, because i can do my farming while waiting.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Trade chat on decent servers, Openraid/OQ for servers like mine.
Whee, Immersius HC down. Went from a "wtfisthisshit" to "ezpz" in an hour or so. Legendary kill with 3 guys up at the end
I've gotten mine out of Openraid. There's loads of groups going early on the reset, just grabbing people from the chat.
I've gotten mine out of Openraid. There's loads of groups going early on the reset, just grabbing people from the chat.
scoobs
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Whee, Immersius HC down. Went from a "wtfisthisshit" to "ezpz" in an hour or so. Legendary kill with 3 guys up at the end
I've gotten mine out of Openraid. There's loads of groups going early on the reset, just grabbing people from the chat.
Killed immersius hc last night too... the first few pulls were anarchy, then we realized how easy it was.
questionmark
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Just stay close enough and they won't charge. And you should use the glyph that adds healing to evocation/rop. Must have for soloing imo.
I know about staying close, but if i stay too close, they hit me with their melee attacks and that hurts almost just as bad. And i can't really spam Evocation in the middle of combat.
Using it like 4-5 times after combat is useful to get back to 100% health, but takes a while...I think im gonna stick with my original plan to get to exalted with my ret paladin, much less of a pain in the ass.
unknownstranger
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They're really easy to kite as fire. Use cone of cold to slow them and just basically run around in a circle spamming scorch. Kilnmaster are arguably easier because basically the only way you take damage is if you stand in front of their cone.
Gentleman Jack
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unknownstranger
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Depends where you fight them. Not much room to kite up by the sanctuary
True.
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