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World of Warcraft |OT4| "Why do we keep playing? It is simply in our nature."
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Man. Sha of Pride simply does not want to drop his trinket for me. Raid finder, flex, normal, bonus rolls. Nada.
Definitely a good move (btw, your current Evangeline avatar is one of your best).
Gentleman Jack
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oqueue has one of the worst UIs I've seen since pitbull v1
Listing worst quests in WoW and no Helcular's Rod? Travesty, I say! Damn thing didn't drop, I think I grinded yetis for over 2 hour on my first char before it dropped. For a single quest during leveling.
Fine Dining Worst quest in WoW.
I'm surprised no one mentioned this turd, easily one of the worst quests in vanilla. You had to travel around half of eastern kingdoms (back when just getting around the world was a pain), kill elite mobs, AND the quest items weren't even a 100% drop. It was back before any sort of quest helper addon so I had no idea what the areas would be like. I couldn't finish the quest because of the alterac mountains part, that place was a death trap.
That said though, I think that stinking TBC eel quest is the worst in the history of the entire game (Alliance/Horde). I think they buffed the drop rate at some point, but, at TBC launch the rate was extremely poor. Really the wowhead comments give you a good idea, 15 minutes and not a single drop, 30 minutes for another man to finish.
I'd say something like Helcular's rod was certainly worse by itself, but, the expansion launch wave of people all trying to finish the quest made the eel one so bad. Not only was the drop rate bad, there was like maybe 25 eels in that lake and there was sooooooo many people killing them.
That said though, I think that stinking TBC eel quest is the worst in the history of the entire game (Alliance/Horde). I think they buffed the drop rate at some point, but, at TBC launch the rate was extremely poor. Really the wowhead comments give you a good idea, 15 minutes and not a single drop, 30 minutes for another man to finish.
I'd say something like Helcular's rod was certainly worse by itself, but, the expansion launch wave of people all trying to finish the quest made the eel one so bad. Not only was the drop rate bad, there was like maybe 25 eels in that lake and there was sooooooo many people killing them.
Oh bugger me, that quest took ages to do. I think I grinded for hours for the rod drop.
I'm at work, I'll look tonight.
The Warrior shouldn't have to slow down, though, unless his gear sucks. He should take zero / close to zero (depends on spacing, i.e. a raid member f'ng up) falling damage and be able to pop Shield Barrier at least once. The most I usually stop (I'm a warrior) is if two mines are right next to each other, then I'll hesitate maybe half a second to let a heal hit.
And usually not even that, just pop SB and keep going. Like I said, Warrior takes zero falling damage in this fight
.For what it's worth, we don't get the warrior on Tuesdays, so we had an alt (DK) offtank for that fight... and downed it.
That said, the alt tank was poor in other regards - to be fair, he was inexperienced - but we scraped through thanks to some superb clutch work from the raid as a whole from about 20% when I was the only tank left alive. I was taking 300k/sec from Ignite Armor when I died! Fortunately, Juggernaut died literally one second after.
It may just be a practice thing, I think exposing the warrior to the fight now the healers are more comfortable with how exactly to tackle the healing role here might work better.
All that said, one thing I noticed from you was mention of the mines being explicitly closely spaced: We weren't deliberately stacking, just encouraging people with a general "Stay in closeish".
Anyhow: Next week's going to be a mess (I can't make half the raids), but the week after that we can start on the next problem, which tentatively appears to be slimes on Dark Shammies.
That said, the alt tank was poor in other regards - to be fair, he was inexperienced - but we scraped through thanks to some superb clutch work from the raid as a whole from about 20% when I was the only tank left alive. I was taking 300k/sec from Ignite Armor when I died! Fortunately, Juggernaut died literally one second after.
It may just be a practice thing, I think exposing the warrior to the fight now the healers are more comfortable with how exactly to tackle the healing role here might work better.
All that said, one thing I noticed from you was mention of the mines being explicitly closely spaced: We weren't deliberately stacking, just encouraging people with a general "Stay in closeish".
Anyhow: Next week's going to be a mess (I can't make half the raids), but the week after that we can start on the next problem, which tentatively appears to be slimes on Dark Shammies.
Quest was amazing if you were a skinner though.
I kind of feel like leveling a new toon, I haven't leveled a toon from the start since my Monk about a year ago.
Yeah, I did some reading on the cheevo for that fight and it seems that the mines head towards players so if you stay grouped, they should be close-ish.
As for the shamans... you should really try to get 3 tanks for that fight. Makes it a lot less harder.
Our raid leader won't let us cheese it like that haha.
I don't consider it cheesing, though, but whaddya gonna do
.You and like 2 other people are the only one that would have the problem of having to 'jump in' to help out their friends on the tier end boss on heroic.
cartoon_soldier
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Got my legendary cloak!
Yay
Also, joined a flex that was setup for 540 min ilvl...but the RL had guildies in 490 ilvl gear. lol, carried them through to Nazgrim, had to bail after a few wipes there.
Yay
Also, joined a flex that was setup for 540 min ilvl...but the RL had guildies in 490 ilvl gear. lol, carried them through to Nazgrim, had to bail after a few wipes there.
Lol i guess, raiding at that level is about time commitment these days moreso than how skilled you are at multiple roles and alts, i know some dudes who shouldn't even be there right now, yet are because they do nothing else with their time.
Even at that level you have to carry, except people are more vocal if they think you suck and call you out on everything, no exceptions.
Seriously, 3-tanking Dark Shaman just makes the fight a total joke. It's so stupidly easy. We 2-shot it last week and it was the first time we were seeing them.
My group's getting better and better. We consistently reach Iron Jugg on our first day and get a few attempts in (but we still have problems once in a while on Galakras). Realistically it's all good - if we can tonight we'll probably reach Nazgrim, which should be our new roadblock for a little while.
Nazgrim is easy as shit if your raid group is awake. We killed him on our first pull - which was a "lets take one pull so we can see the fight before quitting" type of pull.
Yeah but then again you're doing heroics, which means you have a better group of raiders than we do. Our awareness isn't all that, honestly.
Well, Nazgrim isn't all that. Prioritize adds - interrupt the heals from the shaman adds especially, kill banners when they pop up and don't DPS when he is in def stance. Ezpz
Are there any alliance players here that would be willing to carry my sorry ass through Challenge Mode Gold for Shado-Pan Monastery? So close to getting the Shado-Master title :<
Armory for reference -
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/wyrmrest-accord/Koruzan/simple
Armory for reference -
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/wyrmrest-accord/Koruzan/simple
I'd help you on my Ele Shaman but I don't have anyone else that could help you out,
Hello fellow GAFers! A friend and I are getting back into our old WoW characters from Cataclysm and were wondering if 1) Anyone was on Emerald Dream (I didn't see anyone listed in the Google Doc) and 2) If anyone knew a decent guild on Emerald Dream? He's a Prot Warrior who loves tanking and I'm a Disp/Holy priest that loves healing, so I think getting in a guild wouldn't be a problem, but the problem is that we're not looking for anything crazy hardcore (our hardcore raiding days are behind us... like three years behind us) but we still like doing harder and/or stupid things in game as they are usually more fun.
Also, who do I PM to get on that GAF player's list in the OP?
Thanks, and sorry for the derail! You can go back to talking about high end raiding again
Also, who do I PM to get on that GAF player's list in the OP?
Thanks, and sorry for the derail! You can go back to talking about high end raiding again
If you are referring to the Google Doc, it should be open for everyone.
RPGCrazied
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Getting this set for transmog on my hunter. I know its a shaman set, but still looks pretty cool on a hunter. Specially the helmet. I got some different leggings that match. I will post a screenshot when I have the full set. Just missing boots and shoulders.
http://wowroleplaygear.com/2011/05/07/ten-storms-recolour/
http://wowroleplaygear.com/2011/05/07/ten-storms-recolour/
First two wings are four bosses, latter two are three bosses each.
3rd and 4th wings are pretty short. Only three bosses in each and none of them have that much trash.
I just need the malk and one klaxxi mantle for the mount.No one with the Galakras mount yet?
The easiest glory meta by far. I still need three for the skyscreamer.
Being able to do them in Flex also makes it really easy/fun to do. I did an OpenRaid last Sunday for the 2nd wing achieves.
So, a bit like the 3rd and 4th wing of ToT then. Nice.
Gentleman Jack
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3rd wing is pretty nice as it feels for a change like you're participating in a siege rather than doing all the hard work then a faction NPC unlocks a door for you.
I'm beginning to suspect that we'll get major casting announcements at Blizzcon. Hell we may even find out what the hell the film is even about
They do, rarely. And it's usually the same source realms: Stormrage, Illidan, Mal'Ganis and Area 52.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm beginning to suspect that we'll get major casting announcements at Blizzcon. Hell we may even find out what the hell the film is even about
Varian furrowing his brow a lot and pre-Cataclysm Jaina wearing skimpy outfits and pining for Thrall, who furrows his CG brow a lot.
R
Rösti
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I assume the next expansion set reveal will happen during the opening ceremony (as has been the case with previous expansions), but it'd be nice to watch this as well:
I don't have a virtual ticket though...
cartoon_soldier
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I am sure there are sites out there that will have it streaming
Opening ceremony and WCS are free.
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