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Yeah, I've been doing a lot of alt leveling recently, so I was seriously dreading 80-90 on my new druid(who I want to level because I might actually main her in WoD). Cata was a breeze, I got to 84 in about the amount of time I expected to get a single level.
Wibblewozzer
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One small tip is that you can turn on friendly nameplates and it'll show for the figurines so that'll at least cut down on the chance of overlooking one since it gets a big, fat blue (if I recall) health bar that stands out. Definitely made finding them a lot quicker when I got the alert and flew down to the ground.
I saw people say npcscan was done for now while I was in Storm Peaks so I hopped on my TLPD and flew about for a bit while waiting for instances to get fixed early on.
Cpt.Underpants
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Warface!!
Hey that actually looks pretty good. Maybe I can finally make my Poppy equivalent in WoW
that pandaren kid is like...yeah....
I was thinking of going human female for my mage, but i dont like how they "throw" their spells now, they don't even extend their arm completely like with the old model.
Maybe i'll go with the male "gorilla" human instead.
StormyTheRabbit
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Lol I love the new models. People have such hard rose tinted glasses. The old low poly/animation models are so disgusting.
Sure, a few have a couple minor tweaks that could probably be made, but its night and day how much better the new ones are.
I've been playing since launch, couldn't miss the old models any less.
Sure, a few have a couple minor tweaks that could probably be made, but its night and day how much better the new ones are.
I've been playing since launch, couldn't miss the old models any less.
Mixed feelings about everything so far. WoD (and its pre-release patch) is so schizophrenic. For every good thing added or changed, there are some awful things too.
This pre-release event quest chain can be done in 15 minutes. Super disappointing and kind of sad.
Main's a Belf Unholy DK, so not much has changed, yet. Duoing with a priest, we were able to pull 10-15 elites at a time near the Dark Portal to farm for the bronze drake. We were able to get one time-locked box last night, but will probably continue to farm that spot for a bit longer.
Took my Orc Warlock alt to a barber, and I changed the look to something I was okay with, but the skin tone is now a very bright green. Ehh. Also, with the ability pruning, there's even less for Destro locks to do
The Toybox is great, but some things they removed in earlier test builds should have been kept in (lookin' at you, Safari Hat).
Also got another Blood-Soaked Wraps in the mail, not sure why there.
Edit: I should also add I'm meh about some of the Pet ability changes too. Many abilities that were 70-95% to hit were changed to 100% chance to hit, but now have a damage range instead of a fixed value. If they were going to mess with Pets, they could have sped up everything and made it all snappier.
This pre-release event quest chain can be done in 15 minutes. Super disappointing and kind of sad.
Main's a Belf Unholy DK, so not much has changed, yet. Duoing with a priest, we were able to pull 10-15 elites at a time near the Dark Portal to farm for the bronze drake. We were able to get one time-locked box last night, but will probably continue to farm that spot for a bit longer.
Took my Orc Warlock alt to a barber, and I changed the look to something I was okay with, but the skin tone is now a very bright green. Ehh. Also, with the ability pruning, there's even less for Destro locks to do
The Toybox is great, but some things they removed in earlier test builds should have been kept in (lookin' at you, Safari Hat).
Also got another Blood-Soaked Wraps in the mail, not sure why there.
Edit: I should also add I'm meh about some of the Pet ability changes too. Many abilities that were 70-95% to hit were changed to 100% chance to hit, but now have a damage range instead of a fixed value. If they were going to mess with Pets, they could have sped up everything and made it all snappier.
Vigilant Walrus
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I wonder if the average MMO gamer is becoming more immune to QQ in games. Since it's everywhere, it seems more and more people simply can't handle the negativity.
Could you explain the crafting profession changes please? I just resubbed after mostly missing Pandaria (Only a single level 90 and didn't do any dungeons with him) and haven't been following the development of WoD. Is it something Garrisons provide?
fluffydelusions
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So is the pre release quest line the only new thing to do atm?
New UBRS too.
New UBRS for level 90s. Requires ilevel 510. WoD has updated UBRS to level 100, so this is only for the pre-release event.
But yes, that's all.
fluffydelusions
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Damn only ilvl 508 atm lol
CelticKnight
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I notice the "recommended" settings button on the graphics options gives you a lower set of results than before. I'd click that and get mostly "highs", now it's half "good" and half "lows".
I remember old Rend Arena wave mobs wigging out. Obviously tapping into that nostalgia factor by recycling zones and reintroducing the same bugs.
New UBRS: same as the old UBRS.
Like the big huge screen you get when you first log onto a character :lol
Heh, they copied the yells from that fight. "Kill the one in the dress!".. though with less hissing.
I'm really digging the new models and animations. I don't get all the complaints. To each their own, though. The Dark Portal quest line was short and easy, but it was still fun. Love it when new content drops and everyone descends on the same place at once. My realm was pretty solid yesterday, so kudos to Blizz for a smooth patch launch.
HighResTomato
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Remember how you could just walk through Lava in MC as a 90 and barely get any damage... I just died for the first time.
BigWeather
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Yeah, lava means business now. Was the only serious threat in Firelands as well.
the running animation I can deal with but the casting animation...nope
Mops aff was.
Okay, this is random, just uploded on their official facebook
The movie Fight Club released October 15th, 1999 - 15 years ago today. Think this is just their little tribute.
Schweinehund
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It's extremely exaggerated, I hope they fix it. My nelf female looks less hopped up by far when she runs.
Pretty sure that is the end. I don't think you make it to Zaela until 100. At least same thing happened to me and the rest of my group left (like they knew it was the end)....
Sounds like you didn't get to Blackfuse
Mythic fights:
Immerseus: Easy but not enough puddles spawn during inactive phases so the fight takes forever.
Norushen: Easy, has no HP. Watch out on sending too many people in at once though, the big adds still hit hard.
Galakras: Easy... but I died from fall damage leaving the tower for some reason, never has happened before. Perhaps I just fell further than normal but that was odd.
Malkorak: Mostly easy, but for solo soaking Blood Rage it's worth noting that tank CDs don't last 20 seconds anymore... I almost died when Fort Brew and my Protectors trinket wore off with 5 seconds to go.
Spoils: My self healing was so good I stayed alive alone for over a minute when my side 'wiped' from sparks going off lol. Easy fight
Blackfuse: Shredder adds have way too much fucking HP. Makes me think Blizzard didn't do a single full clear on Mythic to test it. We literally had to have all dps switch to them until I had more than 4 stacks. Stupid tuning, fight took us like an hour because we had no idea that happen.
Garrosh: Way overtuned HP. Probably 20-30% more than he should have. We didn't have enough time to adjust and a broken malice on someone not in the p4 room wiped us. Did hear that Iron Stars were not spawning or the visual was broken in p4 though.
Protectors, Sha of Pride, Jugg, Shamans, Nazgrim, Thok, Paragons: Easy, nothing noteworthy
RoninChaos
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The posture and running of the new male night elf model looks so... derpy. I'm getting used to the new dranei stance, but in CM dk armor it looks like he's pregnant. Looks fine in normal armor though.
Gentleman Jack
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Man I thought I could get used to CMAA after 16x super sampling.
I can't. I really can't.
I can't. I really can't.
The Lamonster
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ha, I noticed this too, especially with Cheetah on.
He's all over the place...but somehow I prefer it to the stiff previous animation.
orcs have always had that hunch
Even on 'heroic', Garrosh was way overtuned.
I have not seen it yet, but the old male nelf casting was absolutely terrible so it can't be worse.
TheContact
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Can't wait to go home and try this. Is molten core and the new bg out yet? I'm in the beta but barely did the first zone because I want it to be fresh when the expansion comes out
RoninChaos
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So I tried CMAA like you guys suggested and the game looks very jagged. Should I be using another AA option? Like something through nVidia's control panel? I have a gtx 670 currently. 4.1 ghz i7 and I used to run everything at ultra.
cpp_is_king
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Fuck Cata, MoP leveling is crazy fast. I got from 88-90 in 2 hours last night. Normally would take 12 hours.
In other news, normal mode dungeons when you're at level are way harder now. I must have done 100 WotLK and Cara instances leveling up, and a handful of MoP ones. Every single time we would just steamroll the shit out of it. No effort. Last night we were wiping on bosses, and in one instance even trash, because everyone was treating it like pre patch. I actually think It was a great change, but it's definitely noticeable. I hope the step up in heroics is even more, back like old school BC heroics.
One thing I don't like is how trivial old legacy content is. You shouldn't be able to waltz into AQ40 and wreck everything as if it were level 1. That shit has got to get fixed.
Not till late November. The only new content is the Blasted Lands questline and the UBRS teaser. You'll spend most of your time in the next month just getting reacquainted with your class.
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