Yup. It's probably the most solo-friendly in years. Basically everything beyond Arena and actual raiding can be done solo/through a group finder. You'll never be as powerful as raiders, but you won't need to be to see almost all the content.
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Yup. It's probably the most solo-friendly in years. Basically everything beyond Arena and actual raiding can be done solo/through a group finder. You'll never be as powerful as raiders, but you won't need to be to see almost all the content.
awesome. i don't need to be the best, just something i can play casually since i don't have a lot of time.
so if i pre-order i can instantly get a level 90. does that also include professions? and what about gear?
A few notes on the 'instant level 90'
- You need to have made the character already
- You do not have to to do the upgrade immediately. You can do the pre-purchase and then upgrade when you decide what you want to boost.
- It comes with ilvl 483 gear. You can go to the Timeless Isle where you have the opportunity to get ilvl 496 gear. You can also do the world bosses there which drop 553 tier pieces(legs, gloves) or ilvl 550 PvP gear.
- You choose what spec you want it to be.
- It does not come with glyphs
- If you are under level 60, you do not get a profession boost.
- If you are level 60 or above and have professions, they are automatically boosted to 600 (cap)
thank you for all the information.
sounds like it would be easier (and faster) to level professions than to do 1-90. that way i can jump right in the game. i don't really need them anyway i guess until i feel like leveling them.
does that include archaeology?
So, I hit 90 on my Priest over the weekend. Get excited.
Now, I'm a bit confused as to the best way to get geared up to be a decent Disc Priest. I've done some grinding on the Timeless Isle, but I'm still in mostly greens and trying to solo some of the mobs as Shadow just takes a lot of time, and leads to a lot of deaths. Is that the most efficient way to go about it, or am I missing a better way to get some early gear?
Now, I'm a bit confused as to the best way to get geared up to be a decent Disc Priest. I've done some grinding on the Timeless Isle, but I'm still in mostly greens and trying to solo some of the mobs as Shadow just takes a lot of time, and leads to a lot of deaths. Is that the most efficient way to go about it, or am I missing a better way to get some early gear?
When was WoW *not* solo-friendly?
Even in vanilla, it was solo friendly up to the cap, and if you're willing to do 5-mans and Heroics, that about covers everything outside of raids. LFR is just the last piece with a guided zerg through all tiers of sharply nerfed raid content.
Archaeology not included. Only primary professions + First Aid.
I personally think the 1-60 is faster than leveling the tradeskills.
Buy the BOE crafted belt (but not legs) for your class. That's usually second-BIS if you don't plan to raid Normal/Heroic. With the influx of new 90s with max trades, prices have been tanking on these.
Trade 50 lesser charms for 3 runes each week to reroll world bosses and run+reroll Celestials. They have 553 tier gloves and legs, and drop most pieces of the current season (Prideful) PvP gear at 550.
Grinding BGs for Honor will get you ilevel 522 gear in every slot, though the trinkets aren't as useful for PvE. The PvP Power stat doesn't actually eat much into an item's ilevel budget. The only thing you really lose is the socket bonus of some items, because THOSE get PvP Power instead of your primary stat.
Arena for Conquest will net you 550s, but that's capped to 1800 a week. You can run with a carry, or pay for one, and that's still cheaper than buying BOE crafted items.
Those are all better than Timeless items (496). I wouldn't count on Burdening them much. Maybe 1-3. I didn't really get a bunch of them until well after I needed them, and they were all useless vendor trash at that point.
Honor will get you the most slots without any time constraints like caps or lockouts. Conquest will get you stuff about on par with upgraded Flex (548). You'll want to run the raids for PvE trinkets though. Those aren't really replaceable.
The Lamonster
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Don't they give you new bags too? Do they throw the new gear in your bags or equip it?
And what happens to the existing bags and existing loot in your bags and bank and what's equipped?
It also helps that professions won't be "mandatory" for raiders in the future, since they're removing the bonuses. They'll be nice to have to make money but with the changes they're (planning) on making to make them all easier to level, just jumping in will be fine.
It gets mailed to you.
You get 4x Embersilk Bags, ilevel 483 green gear, and all of your old stuff/bags is mailed back to you.
And mount training includes everything up to 280% and Pandaria riding, so you're only missing the 310%.
The Lamonster
Member
^ that's great!
On another note, I need to get my lvl 87 to 90. Are "monkey runs" the fastest way still?
Assuming I can't find a group, what's the next fastest way? I'd prefer to mindlessly run dungeons over having to quest...
On another note, I need to get my lvl 87 to 90. Are "monkey runs" the fastest way still?
Assuming I can't find a group, what's the next fastest way? I'd prefer to mindlessly run dungeons over having to quest...
The faster way is to grind the small worms in Timeless Isle. They pay you exp as l90 elite mobs(each) and are relatively easy to kill, you only need to have a class with a good AoE.
The Lamonster
Member
News to me...I'll look into it, thanks!
my 87 is kind of weak though, if I grouped with a 90 who did most of the killing would I still get just as much EXP?
I don't think you are supposed to be grouped up? I think you tag it, they kill it or something/
Eh, I'd suggest just putting the nose to the grindstone and questing. Staying current on your zone helps it go faster. I know I usually do 87 and almost all of 88 in Kun Lai summit just because all the quests are in nice-sized chunks. Plus, there are plenty of rare items to get bonus XP and rare mobs that aren't too tough(except that Mantid guy in the mountains can be a pain). Throw in each dungeon at least once for the great quest XP and you'll be 90 in no time.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Blizzard gave up on the encounter not long after PTR testing, IIRC.
Primethius
Banned
I resubbed to WoW after sometime and just finished installing the game a bit ago. However, my game crashes everytime I try to change the video settings. Have a GTX 770 with the latest Nvidia drivers. Running the repair at the moment as my google fu failed me.
Anyone encounter something similar or have any advice?
Anyone encounter something similar or have any advice?
BigWeather
Member
I wish I could get the 90 boost now and commit to the physical CE pre-order. Sucks that I won't be able to get the 90 boost until basically launch day.
i'm a day late, but thank you for all of this. i've been read a bunch while i was at work today. really appreciate it.
Probably not. RNG is RNG.
I don't think I've actively tried to farm for it, but since you just get it from pools, just find one of the Fish of the Day spots in Pandaria and fish from the massive amount of pools available.
Pandaren Fishing Charm is also supposed to work on helping you get it, but that just vaguely increases your chances.
No problem!
So I've got a question for you folks. How long before you figure out if a guild is for you or not? I ask because I haven't been able to find a truly stable home, and I've jumped from guild to guild based on my class not necessarily on my experience. Which I don't mind, but I can't seem to find a group for either outfit that I want. I can't find a progressive heroic guild that needs me and gets me in on a large chunk of fights, and I can't find my other option. I can't find a decent group of normal raiders that I have a good time with.
I guess the frustrating thing is just how hard it is to 'come back' this late in the tier. I'm still trying to piece together gear, and I'm running out of options, and I am SO sick of pugging raids.
I guess the frustrating thing is just how hard it is to 'come back' this late in the tier. I'm still trying to piece together gear, and I'm running out of options, and I am SO sick of pugging raids.
Eh. That's up to you. I'd definitely try to make friends and be social more than anything. That's the most important thing to finding a guild you like. Stick around after raids, before raids, etc in mumble.
If you want to jump right into a 'heroic' guild that needs you, you can't just guild hop and have little experience.
A) new members/trials/initiates are NEVER going to 'get in' for every fight unless it's a farm mode guild who is solely testing the shit out of apps.
B) Even as a member you can't be too selfish about this unless you've proven yourself to be the ebst of the best in the guild.
SuperAndroid17
Member
How big are these guilds you are joining? If you're joining small time guilds you're going to have a hard time. Try joining guilds that have raid slots open and then do your social networking with them.
Speaking of which, I still need to do CM Golds. I hate WoW-GAF because they are all filthy horde.
Damn you filthy horde GAF
Elemental is broken as hell damage wise if you're in the best gear possible from what I understand.
1up
Member
I got my turtle from Grizzly Hills years ago. RNG is RNG though.
From dev interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CG53OjeStw
Garrisons are sounding cooler and cooler. I'm really looking forward to it.
I'm curious to see how much time/effort is required to going to be needed to do the tasks. I'd rather not have the insane amount of things to do that MoP had.
I hope Garrisons aren't "Optional but feel required"
I can't imagine any way to balance such a thing.
It's going to be required.
Gentleman Jack
Member
They look like a cross between the Argent Tournament and Sunsong Ranch.
So yeah, tons and tons of hours, daily
StormyTheRabbit
Member
They look like a cross between the Argent Tournament and Sunsong Ranch.
So yeah, tons and tons of hours, daily
Based off of how much information is readily available for you to make such an assumption, I'm going to do the same in defense of my own argument:
Nah.
As long as they don't require any significant gold investment, it actually seems like a neat new feature. Which is something this expansion is rather sorely lacking.
If they're not an account based thing like Pet battles, I'll hate them. Turns alts into even more of a time investment than they already are.
1. Confirmed to be per-character
2. If you don't want to do it on an alt then... don't?
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