I wonder if they're adding 20-player Mythic on top of the existing structure for now, or also flexifying normal and heroic (and therefore adjusting the difficulty). As a 10-man raid working through heroic very slowly, it's a bit inconvenient if we'd have to recruit 10 more people to do the same difficulty content we're currently doing.
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I wonder if they're adding 20-player Mythic on top of the existing structure for now, or also flexifying normal and heroic (and therefore adjusting the difficulty). As a 10-man raid working through heroic very slowly, it's a bit inconvenient if we'd have to recruit 10 more people to do the same difficulty content we're currently doing.
Melhisedek
Member
Guys I have dinged 90 with my warrior and he is still in his quest greens 
So I wonder what kind of old content would I be able to solo and experience with this guy? Or I plan on getting a pally or monk to 90 if they are better option for soloing old content?
And how much difference in soloing would getting LFR and TI gear make?
So I wonder what kind of old content would I be able to solo and experience with this guy? Or I plan on getting a pally or monk to 90 if they are better option for soloing old content?And how much difference in soloing would getting LFR and TI gear make?
maniac-kun
Member
There:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ__nRnO2mE
In his channel he has tons of lore videos that are all pretty good and detailed.
Thanks, but that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I basically want to see the events and cinematics and cutscenes from the perspective of someone playing the game, but skipping past all the leveling quests and grinding. I see he has a Lets Play playlist in his channel so maybe that will work.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV3Yvqnl3FYeHENy6wipyBYYcmGlIEjVz
edit: OK that Let's Play is like the exact opposite of what I'm looking for
Guys I have dinged 90 with my warrior and he is still in his quest greens
And how much difference in soloing would getting LFR and TI gear make?
In quest greens you could solo practically anything through WotLK, I didn't raid in Cata but I doubt it. Warriors are great for soloing the old raids. And yes getting LFR gear would make it an insane amount easier. Your stats get hugely upgraded by the time you get to SoO LFR gear. Go to the timeless isle, loot all the chest and do some of the quests and before you know it you'll have a decent amount if 496 gear without raiding.
Eh...that would be REALLY hard to do.
A) a lot of the story is in-game events that happen, not cutscenes or cinematics, as well as some of it being in quest text (primarily nuances, they've gotten good about not making the text the vital parts to get what's going on).
B) There's no 'set' way to experience it all, that's just not how these games work.
C) even considering what I've said above, that's only covering like the last expansion, older stuff ABSOLUTELY revolves around reading lots of quests and paying attention to truly get what's going on. I would wager even a lot of the playerbase had to be told what some of the shit was during the early days. Reading a synopsis would honestly be shorter/easier.
Much like how an open world game is both partly about an overall story, but also lots of side stories and more of a 'tone', that's how Wow is, and most MMOs to be fair. It's more like series of events that may or may not be connected that when formed together make the story, and that's difficult to convey in the way that you're asking.
Yeah I get it. Thinking about it through yeah even a normal player wouldn't know there's a major story going on and just click through all the exclamation marks and kill bosses without knowing their story and from what I know of WoW there aren't many (any?) in-game cinematics.
They started doing ingame cinematics with WotLK. The Wrathgate one is pretty cool.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
*werk werk*
*zug zug*
*zug zug*
witchedwiz
Member
Well, for all he knows that's exactly what Blizzard is planning.
witchedwiz
Member
He=me
witchedwiz
Member
well why not...
anyway the blizzcon will be like 7-8 november? it's 4-5 days before release, so it's not a big loss..
my qualms is that we have 3 more months of SoO..
worst case scenario, I'll dip into heartstone/d3 or dig into PoE...
I like HotS so far, but frankly getting a reset on every talent/rank i unlock for heroes, after the painful rise to 10 to get the master skins? not cool..
If they confirm a "no reset" policy, by all means I'll play a lot, but as things stands i'll just do dailies every three days and that's that.
witchedwiz
Member
If you're alliance, Why not..
I'm still missing rogue (shit gear), monk (upper lfr gear healer), priest (upper lfr shadow or holy), mage (shit gear)..
Already done with all the rest.. Though i can't lead, in cm you need to know what pulls to do, and what you can skip.. I dps and heal like a basse, but c a to take a lead role in a game, i already do that irl, in games i want to relax..
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
We'll see the login screen at the very latest when 6.0 goes live, presumably in October.
Well I mean, is Mythic SoO even really important at that point? Once 6.0 launches we are only going to have a few more weeks of SoO being end-game content, and if your guild wants to do WoD raids at the current heroic difficulty you will need to pick up 10 more for mythic anyway.
IIRC they up the droprate for the heirlooms a lot in 6.0 and if your character is missing their main spec one, it's guaranteed on the first kill by then.
Manus
Member
Omg the T - Rex boss in SoO is so frustrating. Been tanking it in LFR and no one moves out of the laser. Easiest tank fight ever, but no can't move out of raid with laser on you. I just came back recently after about a year and haven't ran into any idiots yet in LFR till this boss.
Yeah, but I was rather counting on a gradual ramp-up where we could use levelling and the flex-friendly lower raiding content to accumulate a critical mass of people to do so. This way 'round, we're dumped into the situation much quicker than I'm comfortable with.
I haven't fought this guy on LFR since early 2014. I'm not surprised LFR hasn't improved on this boss.
The funny thing is, it doesn't kill you instantly in LFR. In Flex and above, it will one shot you!
Gentleman Jack
Member
Hey Gul'dan, what's the worst part about doing Thok with an LFR group?
Thok is the new Durumu in LFR, if you don't pop bloodlust/heroism at the start you won't get its benefit after half the people die during the first 'hey dodge that giant death beam' phase to kill him.
Hands are the new shoulders. Or at least the CGI version of them.
Cpt.Underpants
Member
I'm gonna miss Thok lfr
King Gilga
Member
^ I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad I won't have to do LFR for it's unique transmog colors anymore.
Because all it's gear looks like shit now, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
the new login will be with 6.0 which is before blizzcon
So I have played around with Garrisons some more on Beta and it's pretty damn awesome.
You can see your followers walk around your little mini base and even have one of them as your personal Bodyguard.
But what I wish for is if they can add your own alts to Garrisons..seeing your alts walk around instead and follow you around, that would be even more awesome.
I had my Mage follower follow me around in the world and she just melee stuff...n00b.
Also, they have rep too.
God, feel like im going to spend some time with Garrisons on LIVE.
You can see your followers walk around your little mini base and even have one of them as your personal Bodyguard.
But what I wish for is if they can add your own alts to Garrisons..seeing your alts walk around instead and follow you around, that would be even more awesome.
I had my Mage follower follow me around in the world and she just melee stuff...n00b.
Also, they have rep too.
God, feel like im going to spend some time with Garrisons on LIVE.
yes, its called the 90 boost >_>
but they nerfed the xp needed btween 85 and 90, the stuff before is the same
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
85-90 is still PAIN.
So boring past the first time.
At least Cata content you're done in like 4 hours.
So boring past the first time.
At least Cata content you're done in like 4 hours.
Cpt.Underpants
Member
Gonna pimp the shit out of my garrison, that's the first thing I would be doing
Been over a year now.
I bet it'll happen when 6.0 is released. I anxiously await to convert my Draenei shaman to an Orc.
Pretty sure they already said somewhere that the last boss won't "just be an orc." So chances are we'll get a multi-man last boss fight or a mutated Gromm.
Yeah it's kinda meh that the official last boss is an Orc (as far as we know), but I trust blizzard in this regard. Their final boss fights have always been some of the most epic send-outs, even if there were a few bumps leading up to them.
Eh, if anything I think they'll do it a couple months before to get people to resub or a few months after. Character services are going to be in high demand regardless after Draenor and they'll extract every bit of cash from those willing to pay in the first few weeks. Maybe a few months to a year after launch they'll have a discount.
I'm still hoping they still give every char one free re-customization without a race change, since all the faces are changing. What we picked 6 years ago doesn't really reflect what we're getting now, nor the detail we are getting (duh).
Orochinagis
Member
The CM will be gone after patch 6.0 lands ?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
ICE CREAM SHOULD COME OUT OF THE TAP AND IT SHOULD RAIN CHOCOLATE
I think they will still exist, but you won't be able to get the rewards anymore. Not positive about the first part, thoughl
That doesn't sound nice at all.
i swear to god though imma be pissed if they make the very last bit of story be all about "oh no i gromm hellscream can't stop these random heroes, gul'dan was right all along; I gotta drink more powerful blood, Sargeras or Kil'Jaedan blood! I, demon gromm, will show you what it means to be called hellscream! O wait, uhahahaha the legion was behind this time travel thing all along in order to create an even more powerful and loyal army of orcs blablabla 'you actually can't change history' lesson from chris metz--i mean nozdormu."
King Gilga
Member
Trusay
Darn, re: no character services soon. Alas. I guess I'll just level new ones. Or maybe use my boost on a fresh character for a class I already have, just so I can have it on my current new server. I was saving it for a Rogue, the one class I don't have at higher levels...but maybe it's smarter to use it on something I'll actually play, since melee dps is my least favourite kind of play in this game, and that's all a rogue can do.
Also, re: Orc as a final boss, I really fucking wish they wouldn't be discussing this shit so early. Expansion's not even out. I hated that Garrosh was revealed as a boss that fucking early. Why in the world would you intentionally spoil that shit for your entire audience? Speculation's half the fun.
That's....probably exactly what we're going to get. Keep this prediction safe for reference in two years.
There'll almost certainly be a 'lesson' imparted somewhere, maybe from Thrall to Garrosh, or whoever, about how some things "will never change".
Also, re: Orc as a final boss, I really fucking wish they wouldn't be discussing this shit so early. Expansion's not even out. I hated that Garrosh was revealed as a boss that fucking early. Why in the world would you intentionally spoil that shit for your entire audience? Speculation's half the fun.
That's....probably exactly what we're going to get.
Keep this prediction safe for reference in two years. There'll almost certainly be a 'lesson' imparted somewhere, maybe from Thrall to Garrosh, or whoever, about how some things "will never change".- Status