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World of Warcraft |OT4| "Why do we keep playing? It is simply in our nature."
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Yep, shits me every damn time. I basically don't do anything the pull before a boss now to save myself the frustration.
Finally got to experience the crappier side of LFR.
Had a tank, who clearly thought he was beter than the entire raid and would stand in front of the current trash pull (not tanking) and wait for the rest of the raid to catch up to HIM.
When we'd get to a boss, the other tank, having obviously not been here yet. Aksed if there was anything special he'd need to know. First tank would snarkily reply "NAH GOOGLE IT" then immediately pull the boss. We'd wipe and said tank would of course call the other tank a shit player.
Yay elitism blinding one to common sense. If he'd taken 3 minutes to tel lthe other tank what he needed to do, we'd save 20 minutes not wiping. Now I tend to hate handholding as well but if you're already this far into the instance, just suck it up and help a newb.
Had a tank, who clearly thought he was beter than the entire raid and would stand in front of the current trash pull (not tanking) and wait for the rest of the raid to catch up to HIM.
When we'd get to a boss, the other tank, having obviously not been here yet. Aksed if there was anything special he'd need to know. First tank would snarkily reply "NAH GOOGLE IT" then immediately pull the boss. We'd wipe and said tank would of course call the other tank a shit player.
Yay elitism blinding one to common sense. If he'd taken 3 minutes to tel lthe other tank what he needed to do, we'd save 20 minutes not wiping. Now I tend to hate handholding as well but if you're already this far into the instance, just suck it up and help a newb.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
So close to ilvl 480... just need that extra push. It's unfortunate that the only loot I need from LFR is from the final boss. Like, Elegon drops one piece of loot for Resto Druids, and it's not even an upgrade, wtf :lol
Stop lying.
Yep, except Akama hurr
Evil Benius
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Not until early November so you have a few weeks to farm the current LFR tier.
fluffydelusions
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ugh still down =\ Well managed to get my pali to lvl 19 yesterday anyway. Took about 5 hrs. Not sure if that is good or not lol.
A bit late to the conversation, but I've never destroyed any gaming related hardware because of a rage fit. Though, I came pretty close with the powerglove back in the day.
My luck finally changed yesterday and I got 4 items from LFR. Not a bad haul. 2 pieces I can use (legs and belt) and two pieces that are basically vendor trash as I already have the VP pieces (neck and cape). Too bad I can't DE.
My luck finally changed yesterday and I got 4 items from LFR. Not a bad haul. 2 pieces I can use (legs and belt) and two pieces that are basically vendor trash as I already have the VP pieces (neck and cape). Too bad I can't DE.
Evil Benius
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The only downside to Elegon is that it is going to be weeks of people wiping on him the first few attempts because they still do not understand the floor mechanic. Otherwise yeah the second half of Vaults is actually pretty fun in LFR.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Then i guess i should consider myself lucky that i killed him on my first attempt.
Although, i did join the LFR group while they were walking back to the boss... so who knows how many wipes they had before i joined.
Thankfully there was a hunter on chat who told us to move away from the center at some point in the fight, or else i would probably have died since i never fought him in the past. :lol
Varian talks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpR0oB5L-ug
Christ.
Also fucking bloodthirst in the beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpR0oB5L-ug
Christ.
Also fucking bloodthirst in the beginning.
Evil Benius
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If you a running DBM it is easy enough to know when to run out. The main point is when the system starts to power down you need to run off of the clear floor because it will vanish and drop anyone still on it to their death. If you are ranged or a healer just stand back close to the edge (without getting off the floor so you keep the buff) and it is a fairly easy thing to do.
I think my LFR group had about 2 wipes on each boss. It's hilarious how they just ignore mechanics (i.e. stacking in front of the first Spirit King) and just brute force the boss.
Varian talks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpR0oB5L-ug
Christ.
Also fucking bloodthirst in the beginning.
Listening to all the audio has spoiled me a lot. But it really does make the next patch feel exciting. Looking forward to the future content here, more so than in any other exp.
Quickest LFR wipe I have ever seen. 21/25 people were standing in the middle of the room when the floor gave way. I wish I had been recording it, because being a bystander to that was glorious.
Myself (healer), both tanks and a mage didn't last much longer. I'm sure Normal will be even more fun.
From what i can remember, there is orbs coming out of the middle that needs to be take down as fast as possible, and if i understood right, if those orbs reach the edge of the circle of the middle of the room, that's when the floor on the circle will collapse and you need to GTFO of it as soon as possible. Then, a bunch of pylons shows up around that needs to be destroyed so you can continue on the boss...
The rest of the fight seems to be pretty much DPS and survive. I think i remember there being some adds to kill too.
There'll be a large add that spawns and needs to be tanked when you fight in the middle with Elegon.
When you've left the middle of the room and the floor is gone, during the Pylon-kill phase there'll be a bunch of small adds that spawn. They will need to be tanked/AOE/cleaved down.
That's just...horrible.
Even then, it should be self-explanatory. See the boss turn into a Tornado? GTFO of the way.
See a giant cone of fire coming your way? Move out of the way.
See some stuff on the ground and it's hurting you? MOVE.
So Floor Boss is now more OP than Elevator Boss?
I actually didn't do LFR last night, so I'm curious as to how that will play out tonight when I attempt it.
Yeah... They made stagered releases this time, to have people looking for more stuff to do in the coming weeks and then drop 5.1 (that way, people don't feel a lack of content, that's prety clever on their part).
Evil Benius
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And honestly the stagger does not even feel that bad. We are looking at 3-4 weeks of doing the Vaults before the next wave opens up which should be a decent enough amount of time for people to get a good set of drops and Valor gear. I imagine a lot of people doing only LFR/capping weekly Valor will be close to a full set of 476+ Epics by then.
Evil Benius
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I thought no, but then I read a tooltip yesterday saying you could still use them on a boss if you completed it a second time in a lockout on LFR.
Yes and yes. You turn the blue ones in at the new capital for your faction and get 3 gold ones to use on extra rolls. this can be done once per week.
Those heirlooms wouldn't happen to work for 85-90 now do they?
Nah, who am i kidding, Blizzard wouldn't do that.
I'm leveling a monk with full heirlooms plus the daily quest that gives you 50% extra XP for an hour and I can't even complete three full quests before I've outleveled a zone. Is nice.
When you have like a few mins left on the buff turn in the next day's daily or the class quest you'll get 2 full hours on the buff meaning an extra hour. Yayeah.
Nope.
And yeah, I've been blowing through the levels with the EXP buff Monks get.
Sidenote: Leveling Enchanting has been expensive. Is it cheaper to buy/DE greens or to buy the mats?? I've been buying the Mats. I'm at 280 Enchanting right now.
Enchanting was the easiest profession to level up for me. All I did was disenchant the greens I was getting while questing and by the end of the second zone, I was 600
Problem: from 15->45'ish all I did was dungeons, so I got very few greens.
I'm one enchant away from 600, have never ever bought a green, nor mats of the AH. Leveling Vanilla/BC is a bit harder, but WoLK and beyond is easy if you just disenchant every green you see (level while you get them, or you'll end up with a bank full of dust...)
My enchanter alt barely quested so far, and with all the greens i get with my main, he's already filled with dusts in his bags.... Essences are pretty rare though, even coming from disenchanted weapons.
Yeah, I know once I get to Wrath/Cata/MoP it'll be easy. Vanilla enchanting so far has been a pain. :<
The Lamonster
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I'm out again. Waste of money quitting now, too many alts and only got my main to 86, but will get much more time back and I have a massive backlog of games to play.
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