Josh with a J
Member
I won't promise anything but there will be a lot of alt-tabbing and afking
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I won't promise anything but there will be a lot of alt-tabbing and afking
Mitch
Banned
Preferred raid times? I know of a few guilds that may be looking.Sighhh.
I want to raid a little bit more seriously than premade pugs, mostly because I hate how they take FOREVER to get started, how there's so much waiting (3 attempts an hour? dafuq), and how the momentum is so hard to build.
My partner and I both, I think, would like to raid, but the problem is we don't want to disband our guild, which is made up of our RL friends. I suppose we could keep our alts in the guild and join another one on our raiding toons, but ... ionno.. I want to have my cake and eat it too. Would like to stay in my guild but raid with a stable group.
Does this kind of stuff happen? Both of us are not too shabbily geared, I'm 650 now and he's over 650, and I heal and he DK deeps. Problem is, I'm not even sure where I'd go to look for this, or if it's feasible.
Any suggestions, y'all? (Also, if you wanna adopt us, we're Horde).
Robin64
Member
Ashran doesn't even feel as big as AV. And dammit, we were promised an old skool Alterac Valley vibe from this thing, but I haven't felt that in there once. Old AV basically welcomed in PvE players, had all sorts of quests for them to do, and slowly eased them up the battlefield to seamlessly transition into PvP. Ashran is a fucking zerg road.
RandyBobandy
Banned
Ashran is terrible if you're Horde on my realm. Think it's like 5:1 in favor of alliance. Probably higher
ToyMachine228
Member
Any chance Warlords of Draenor is going to go on sale before Christmas? I think they did put Pandaria on sale for Christmas the year it released.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Daily Apexis groups are trending smaller and less efficient. It's either because Shattrath is more complicated and harder to navigate than The Pit or because people are growing very fatigued with the lack of variety. Pit for seven days, then Shatt for seven days. Repeat.
Robin64
Member
Is that really how it works? I thought I was just getting unlucky with Shat several days in a row, but they really only switch once a week?
Honestly, it does feel like Old AV for me, except the graveyard in the middle isn't as fun as the trolls.
The quests are replaced by mini-events.
I'm actually one of those who likes it, but then again I'm on the side that's winning 100% of the time.
Mitch
Banned
Heart of Shattrath got extremely boring after the 4th day. At least with The Pit, you could see people struggling to stay on the tracks. Watching people accidentally launch themselves in cannons was also entertaining.
Mitch
Banned
I'd get mine out of the way really early in the morning. Find a full group of people and spam Mind Sear.
Gentleman Jack
Member
This is what I do. Used to take 15 minutes tops. Now it's getting to take 30 minutes, particularly if it's shattrath because of the challenge in getting people to stay together and avoid going up elevators without prior knowledge of a rare being up. Last group I was in was pulling 1-2 mobs at a time and nobody used their outpost CDs.
Robin64
Member
Mitch
Banned
No thanks. Not worth it. Being in a group where they round up everything in an area, or go after rares, is what made the daily bearable.
I'm not saying l2p to my random BGs
but I'm saying I'm in no PVP gear and constantly topping scoreboards while defending while everyone else has gear. I mean the heals help too but yknow. It's always funny when I use Intimidating Shout then the guy I'm fighting uses his afterwards like as if he forgot he had it until I used it.
but I'm saying I'm in no PVP gear and constantly topping scoreboards while defending while everyone else has gear. I mean the heals help too but yknow. It's always funny when I use Intimidating Shout then the guy I'm fighting uses his afterwards like as if he forgot he had it until I used it.
CambriaRising
Member
Yup, don't care. Nobody should.
I do them sometimes, but I don't do them out of necessity. The only reason I try to do them is to get my seals of tempered fate.
The Lamonster
Member
What's the latest word from Blizz on when or if we'll ever be able to fly in Draenor?
Riding a taxi is a cruel tease. I want to see this beautiful world from above!
Riding a taxi is a cruel tease. I want to see this beautiful world from above!
Mitch
Banned
If you're the only Priest healer in the group, you should be Disc. Those absorbs you dish out are amazing.
A lot of people in BGs these days are either bots or AFK players who really don't care. They may as well be bots. It's unfortunate.
At the moment there is no ETA. During their last AMA thread on Reddit, they made it clear that there will be no flying in patch 6.1. I wouldn't be surprised if they keep flying out of Draenor until the next pre-expansion patch.
Lanrutcon
Member
This is where several people tell you you're silly for wanting your flying mounts to fly.
Interfectum
Member
I'm kind of stuck ATM too. I don't want to do alts and I'd like to keep grinding dungeons... but the DPS queue is so long that I lose interest in Garrison chores before the dungeon pops.
The Lamonster
Member
Yep. It breaks PvP. It breaks questing blah blah
I just like the world art in WoW and it's nice to see it from a bird's eye view. I also like zoning out and taking long flights across the continents.
Schweinehund
Member
The nice thing about the difficulty slider is that you can come back and do higmaul on heroic or mythic if your guild couldn't clear that before blackrock hit, and you'll get pieces to fill in your character.
Blackrock LFR stuff is like 655 I think, I wanna bet that you need 630 to queue for LFR (15 ilvl higher than the 615 required for highmaul).
Is blackrock 6.1? Always assumed 6.1 was newer stuff and blackrock was already in the game, just not unlocked. Really hope they patch in Karabor or Shattrath's interior and make that a dungeon or raid. inb4 draenor troll raid.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Abrogator Stones.
Gentleman Jack
Member
I've resorted to farming in Nagrand. My inscription alt is hungry and I still need to get Steamwheedle to exalted.
So a lot of my guildmates sold their accounts over the years - out of all the returning players in my guild atm there's maybe 5 or 6 of us on our original characters (myself included). And a couple of those guys DID sell their characters, they just took control of them again later on.
Anyways, I have a friend I've been playing with since day 1 (and before that in WC3/diablo) and he sold his guy at the end of WOTLK. He was thinking of trying to get the account back but didn't want to do it if the guy was still using the character, and he had no way of finding out if the account was in use. Or so we thought.
My bank alt is still wearing a tuxedo crafted by his original character - when he sold it, the buyer transferred off the server and changed his name. So when I was playing in cata the item had no <Made by> tag anymore. But now since the game has all these cross-server features that must extend to crafting tags - and it apparently will even keep track of this if the character has a different name. So through this we were able to figure out the new character name, look it up on the armory, and find the one with mounts/achievements that match his old character.
The guy is still playing so my friend decided not to try and get the account back, but playing armory detective was kinda fun.
Anyways, I have a friend I've been playing with since day 1 (and before that in WC3/diablo) and he sold his guy at the end of WOTLK. He was thinking of trying to get the account back but didn't want to do it if the guy was still using the character, and he had no way of finding out if the account was in use. Or so we thought.
My bank alt is still wearing a tuxedo crafted by his original character - when he sold it, the buyer transferred off the server and changed his name. So when I was playing in cata the item had no <Made by> tag anymore. But now since the game has all these cross-server features that must extend to crafting tags - and it apparently will even keep track of this if the character has a different name. So through this we were able to figure out the new character name, look it up on the armory, and find the one with mounts/achievements that match his old character.
The guy is still playing so my friend decided not to try and get the account back, but playing armory detective was kinda fun.
FTFY. Just as a reminder
Blackrock Foundry:
LFR: 650
Normal: 665
Heroic: 680
Mythic: 695
And I'm not sure if BRF is in 6.1, but I kinda doubt it is. Who knows what 6.1 has in store for us.
Mitch
Banned
Good on him. I know a guy who sold his account at the height of BC, when he was one of the top Boomkins in the US. When he decided to return, he simply took the account back.
Pretty scummy in my opinion. I could never sell my account, now that I think about it. It'd be cool knowing how much it's worth though.
better than the *cling* *cling* *cling* *cling* *cling* *cling*
Jag
Member
Gliders. If you don't have an engi (and you should), any Garrison engi building can build gliders or just buy them cheap from the AH.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
BRF is still 6.0, unless they surprise us and release 6.1 before then for some reason. Ala Terrace and Heart of Fear. It's just more spread out (read: paced better) this time.
And my problem with Ashran isn't with the zone itself, so much as the balancing/queues. If it was fairly even it would be fine. Though I'm still not a fan of zergy battlegrounds as a melee. Can't really do much.
And yeah, if you're not into Normal+ Raiding or RBGs/Arenas, I agree there's not much content for you right now. But dailies out the ass like in MoP 5.0 aren't a good answer to that void either. They need something fresh like and I'm not sure what it could be. Quests/hunts for those player accessory items would maybe work, but word was that's not coming until the next expac, so...
And my problem with Ashran isn't with the zone itself, so much as the balancing/queues. If it was fairly even it would be fine. Though I'm still not a fan of zergy battlegrounds as a melee. Can't really do much.
And yeah, if you're not into Normal+ Raiding or RBGs/Arenas, I agree there's not much content for you right now. But dailies out the ass like in MoP 5.0 aren't a good answer to that void either. They need something fresh like and I'm not sure what it could be. Quests/hunts for those player accessory items would maybe work, but word was that's not coming until the next expac, so...
Robin64
Member
I'd like to see something we can properly work on again that doesn't need raids.
Past examples include the Gates of AQ and the Dungeon Set 1 upgrade questline.
Quite surprised they didn't do that for the Ashran hubs. Have them start basic (as they are) and we as a playerbase can collect shitloads of items to get them upgraded, opening new perks.
Past examples include the Gates of AQ and the Dungeon Set 1 upgrade questline.
Quite surprised they didn't do that for the Ashran hubs. Have them start basic (as they are) and we as a playerbase can collect shitloads of items to get them upgraded, opening new perks.
Mitch
Banned
A ton of dailies was simply filler content, so you're right in that regard. During MoP launch, that was my morning routine. Felt more fulfilling than doing Shatt/The Pit 4+ times in a row.
Spread out daily hubs gave me an opportunity to find rares, search for the BoA weapons, farm a little gold and participate in world PvP. That's the only aspect I miss.
Spread out daily hubs gave me an opportunity to find rares, search for the BoA weapons, farm a little gold and participate in world PvP. That's the only aspect I miss.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
95% Mission Fail for Blackrock (630) Weaponry.
WELP
At least it wasn't something more important.
WELP
At least it wasn't something more important.
Yeah, my guild never got world firsts but we came within a week in BC a few times. I was insanely geared-out around when we got Kael down and I burned out on the game. I never planned for it to be as long an absence as it was, and I don't want to know how much my account was worth. Probably a shit ton. I'd never sell Mu though.
Currently playing with a guy who sold his T3 mage for $1500 a month or so before BC. Buyer was probably ivemadeahugemistake.gif as soon as he saw what BC quest greens looked like.
Mitch
Banned
Accounts went for so much more back then. Leveling was actually a chore, and gearing surely wasn't as easy.
There's nothing really special about my account. I could probably get around $350 for it? I don't know.
1x 100 /w 655 ilvl
90 of every class, and 2 more 90s on another server
Insane, Loremaster, Seeker of Knowledge
Magic Rooster, Clutch of Ji-Kun and archaeology bug mount
Bunch of other random achievements anyone can get easy as pie
Orochinagis
Member
Welp after doing the raid and the LFR there is nothing useful to do, the apex cristals dailies are meh for me, I am starting to miss the rep dailies from MoP.
Mitch
Banned
Weird. They're usually really good about refunding unused game time.
Josh with a J
Member
Heroic Imp tonight then off to Mythic. I swear if I lose on something that I need again by 1 on a roll like last night Ima be pissed