The male Worgen attack animations are really nice, which you don't get to see as much if you're a druid. I'm sure the female ones are probably up to par there as well.
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The male Worgen attack animations are really nice, which you don't get to see as much if you're a druid. I'm sure the female ones are probably up to par there as well.
Gentleman Jack
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Not a chance you miss the 'Kill 5 flayers' quest in its original form. BC reps in general were AWFUL as they gated off access to heroics that eventually proved unpopular like Shadow Labyrinth or Botanica.
Wow, the whole thread http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1388532-Photoshop-the-Warlords! is amazing.
I still have nightmares of Heroic Shattered Halls.
*Lays down Freezing Trap*
<Trap Resisted>
"FUUUUCK!"
*Runs around trying not to die.*
Speaking of, last week during one of my SoO runs, I trapped some of the Mantid trash before the Paragons, and people were kinda surprised they could be CC'd
(or more like they never tried to; most people just engage all of them).
Alaskanbullworm
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I hope they make some kind of reference to "Corgis Unleashed" in this expansion. Would so love a corgi companion pet
RPGCrazied
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I wonder when WoD beta will start. Just hit 90 on my hunter, so I have 4 now. Kinda of tired of MoP zones. Yet I have an 87 warlock, 85 mage and 85 monk to work on. Then I have yet even more alts lol. I'm kinda glad no new race/class this expansion. Don't really want to go through all that yet again.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Alaskanbullworm
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For Mists the beta started in March, which was only the 1-10 Pandaren starting zone and stuff like the new talents. PTR opened up in July. Then it was released September.
So, they're hoping for early Summer release and if it's at all like the Mists beta, it might last for 6 months. Although wasn't that beta more open early on then previous ones? I'd say it could be in January or February next year if we're lucky
You want Mogu Runes of Fate. A Vendor on the timeless isle near the Emperor sells them for 1000 timeless coins.
Acidote
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I miss world pvp in the netherwing caves trying to loot those eggs. It wasn't even close in Mists with the eggs being in a flying area.
I got my bronze drake soon after I dinged 80 with a premade group decked in greens and a blue here and there. And I also got the Sartharion 25 first kill of the server on a pug (ally on a horde sided server), shit was easy back then.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
They have stated that as their intention, at least. Very few dailies, more Timeless Isle-style stuff. Although I wouldn't expect anywhere near the same level of loot acquisition as timeless isle, as that is specifically a late expansion catch-up mechanic.
One thing that bothers me is that TI mechanics are *heavily* weighted towards DPS; quests are often a bit more open because the goal is generally more nuanced than 'kill this mob' (even if it's "kill multiple mobs", at least tanks can approach that in a tanky way by pulling a lot at once). I do hope they're not going to design it with the expectation that players will only attempt this content as DPS.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
How is that different from how it's always been? Solo/quest stuff has always been a DPS game, tanks being good at it is a relatively recent development. Healer specs are always going to be the worst at doing damage to stuff, and doing damage to stuff is how like 99% of solo content functions.
Tanks being good at DPS is a relatively recent development. Tanks being able to approach quest content in a different way to DPS due to being tanks has been the case since I started tanking properly in TBC at least.
That said, a nice solution for healers would be good.
helloresolven
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So, as someone who is pretty new to this, what are the good professions for my first char (a level 33 Draenei Enhancement Shaman)?
There's an easy solution for healers : switch to DPS or tank. I really doubt that with dual specs, not a single healer has a DPS or tank spec that they can use for quests/dailies/farming/soloing raids. Their job is to heal, if they could do decent DPS on top of that, everybody would be doing content in their healer spec.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yeah, that's part of why gearing across healer/caster dps specs is essentially identical, with spirit converting to hit for all applicable classes. The intent is that you just swap over to a dps spec when doing dps-focused content, which is what solo/quest stuff is.
Gentleman Jack
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Go for complementary professions where you're not starved for materials. Herbalism/Alchemy or Skinning/Leathercrafting are good combos for your first character. The only rough spots will be the cataclysm materials since you don't spend much time from 80-85 in cata zones anymore.
The problem then is that you have to learn a radically different skillset. Heck, I don't think I'm a good enough *tank* yet, without having to insert a new skillset into my range
I should emphasise: I don't really see this as a problem with a clear solution, I'm more simply highlighting that it *is* a problem. The rigid nature of quests does actually, I'd argue, make it easier for tanks and healers to complete them on a regular basis than the TI content does.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
The problem then is that you have to learn a radically different skillset. Heck, I don't think I'm a good enough *tank* yet, without having to insert a new skillset into my range
I should emphasise: I don't really see this as a problem with a clear solution, I'm more simply highlighting that it *is* a problem.
Just do what the far right tab of the spellbook tells you. It's solo questing, not heroic raiding. You'll be fine.
So we started doing Thok last night... If it wasn't for our Rogue, we would've killed it - we had an attempt where duing the 2nd P2 he ran the wrong way. Thok was at 12% during that phase too, so we would've been good during the fire P1.
Otherwise it's not an especially hard boss fight, but we're solo tanking it (a Warrior is doing the tanking). My only concern is I'm wondering if he should regem to full stamina to ensure he has enough HP to deal with the longer P1 and make healing less difficult? His HP isn't low, but it's nowhere near mine (I'm at almost 1.1mil when I'm tanking, he's more around 800k, but he has better mitigation against the shit there).
Otherwise it's not an especially hard boss fight, but we're solo tanking it (a Warrior is doing the tanking). My only concern is I'm wondering if he should regem to full stamina to ensure he has enough HP to deal with the longer P1 and make healing less difficult? His HP isn't low, but it's nowhere near mine (I'm at almost 1.1mil when I'm tanking, he's more around 800k, but he has better mitigation against the shit there).
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I think the perception is that its DPS oriented because the TI mobs have a lot of health for open world mobs.
My priest is disc/holy, although Disc ain't that bad at solo-content.
The problem then is that you have to learn a radically different skillset. Heck, I don't think I'm a good enough *tank* yet, without having to insert a new skillset into my range
Come on now, if i can play a ret paladin, a frost mage, an arm warrior, an enhancement shaman, a beastmaster hunter and a feral druid and do quest stuff with them easily, it shouldn't too much to ask for someone to learn the basics of how to play the DPS spec of their main. It's not rocket sciene to play a DPS spec for doing quests. You don't need to follow a perfect rotation of spells or read some strategy on a website if its simply for questing, farming or soloing old content. Just put your DPS spells on your action bar, read their description a little and press whatever is not on cooldown and you'll do a good enough job.
Jag
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Those are good for Shammy or you could just choose 2 gathering professions (herb and mining really). The upside is bonus XP from gathering and gold from selling materials. I've lost track how many times I've dinged levels by picking a flower.
You can always go back and level a crafting profession using the mats you collected. Your not going to make any money selling the crafted materials, but you will make some selling the mats.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Doing TI as Brewmaster takes a lot longer unless you pull a fuckload of mobs, which is frequently hard if there's anyone around.
So how bad is SoO in lfr? I got the appropriate ilvl and got into a group. Man oh man, so much dick wagging and people complaining. Tank just pulled the first boss without giving no fucks about doing a ready check and some people were still walking back after dieing. After a wipe, I just left hopefully to find a better group tonight.
CarbonatedFalcon
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I made a female Worgen Rogue that I got to maybe 15. It was pretty nice.
RoninChaos
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Can I play timeless isle with a friend from another server? He's thinking of coming back to the game but he's on a different server than me.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yeah, if you invite him to your group he will essentially be ported to your server (or vice versa)
The fucking soundtrack to this game is some kind of incredible behemoth. The greatest soundtrack to any game in existence as far as I'm concerned, if you build the collaborative efforts of the last 9 years into one package. So varied, so incredible, so resonant and so catchy. I find myself humming everything from Pandaria even in the months when I'm off the game.
It's just nuts....do we have a thread dedicated to the WoW scores over the years?
And are there ways of officially/legally obtaining the full soundtrack to the game (that is, everything from each expansion release - not just what they put on the LE soundtrack discs - as well as all the stuff added via patches between expansions)?
The number of tracks must number in the....several hundreds? Like, maybe even 300+?
I'm in love with it.
MoP's OST on full playback right now - man, the second half of August Celestials....
It's just nuts....do we have a thread dedicated to the WoW scores over the years?
And are there ways of officially/legally obtaining the full soundtrack to the game (that is, everything from each expansion release - not just what they put on the LE soundtrack discs - as well as all the stuff added via patches between expansions)?
The number of tracks must number in the....several hundreds? Like, maybe even 300+?
I'm in love with it.
MoP's OST on full playback right now - man, the second half of August Celestials....
It really varies, Tuesday is when you'll typically find the best groups, early afternoon in particular.
I feel bad. I had the music muted for most of MoP because I was in ventrilo and listening to Pandora most of the time. I missed a lot of the zones music.
Some of my favorite songs over the years are The Barrens (now Org), Howling Fjords music, and the LBRS/WC/vanilla dungeon music.
Jag
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Yeah, I've played this game since release and I probably don't know any of the music. Usually play with it down or muted.
sigils of power are for the first state of the legendary quest which you turn in to wrathion at the tavern in the mists
Sax Russel
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I doubt it's illegal to rip them from the MPQs, relatively little effort involved too. http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/download.html
It's technically reverse engineering of the game files, so it's not legal no. But I really doubt anyone would actually care.
Gentleman Jack
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I turn all the sounds down out of necessity because people have the worst mic settings when I join vent and I get sick of manually turning up the volume on new people during oqueue runs.
Sax Russel
Banned
Well. YOLO.
There's variations for a lot of tracks
But everything together still makes for a nice playlist XD
I ripped the yells from bosses ages ago. Was fun having my phone yell "YOU HAVE FAILED ME EXECUTUS!"
Yeah, I play the game muted as well so I can listen to music or podcasts. And Mumble/Vent if I'm raiding.
But for the first month or so of every expansion I play with the sound on, like when I'm leveling. And I have all of the iTunes releases for WoW. Lots of great music over the years in WoW for sure.
I think Vanilla still has a lot of my favourite songs. The original Ironforge and Stormwind tracks, Elwynn, Duskwood. Lots of good ones.
Wowhead has LFR essences on record so I'd say yes.
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