Jag
Member
Yeah, finally got the onxyia mount
Congrats. The only upside of running my 10 90s through her for the mount is that they all get big bags as consolation prizes.
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Congrats. The only upside of running my 10 90s through her for the mount is that they all get big bags as consolation prizes.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I don't remember a demon presence in Shatt in beta. They were all around Auchindoun, but Shatt was squarely an Iron Horde deal.
Dat Mione
Yeah, finally got the onxyia mount
http://i7.minus.com/ibk3qf0eQv1agy.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]
Grats. Get that drake achievement!!
[quote="Anoregon, post: 137758261"]I don't remember a demon presence in Shatt in beta. They were all around Auchindoun, but Shatt was squarely an Iron Horde deal.[/QUOTE]
Shatt was full of demons when I checked on beta
[quote="Shahadan, post: 137758252"]So...was there any solution for people who couldn't delete a character? Because I have the problem today.
It's goddamn annoying. No I have no mail, heirloom, or anything whatsoever.[/QUOTE]
Make a ticket and they will delete it for you
So... speaking of the Burning Legion.
Obviously the plot was added in layers through each WarCraft game, and it shows, but taking what we know: in our present timeline, they corrupted the orcs, ostensibly, to invade Azeroth so that they could claim the Well of Eternity.
In the alternate-universe past Draenor (still a dumb idea), orcs refuse demonic corruption with Garrosh's warnings to invade Azeroth anyway (which is Wrathion's newly-winged grand plan to create a united force to repel the Legion). There is zero difference here to the Legion's original interest, as the orc invasion is just to weaken and scatter any resistance that the native races would be able to mount. The only significant departure is the Iron Horde's utter failure to invade, as we launch pre-emptive strikes on their terrorist locations because we're tired of playing in Azeroth.
None of the metaplot makes much sense, and looking at the raid tiers, I don't think anyone cares too much to make sense of it, either.
Obviously the plot was added in layers through each WarCraft game, and it shows, but taking what we know: in our present timeline, they corrupted the orcs, ostensibly, to invade Azeroth so that they could claim the Well of Eternity.
In the alternate-universe past Draenor (still a dumb idea), orcs refuse demonic corruption with Garrosh's warnings to invade Azeroth anyway (which is Wrathion's newly-winged grand plan to create a united force to repel the Legion). There is zero difference here to the Legion's original interest, as the orc invasion is just to weaken and scatter any resistance that the native races would be able to mount. The only significant departure is the Iron Horde's utter failure to invade, as we launch pre-emptive strikes on their terrorist locations because we're tired of playing in Azeroth.
None of the metaplot makes much sense, and looking at the raid tiers, I don't think anyone cares too much to make sense of it, either.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
The Iron Horde as it exists is not part of Wrathion's plot. Garrosh promptly killed Kairoz as soon as they got to Draenor, so Kairoz was unable to enact any part of their sneaky dragon plot. They didn't necessarily plan on having the Orc unite and immediately invade the primary timeline. They did plan on stopping the Legion corruption and uniting the orcs, but it was Garrosh's influence that caused Grom to form the Iron Horde and invade Azeroth.
Yeah it's more of a vehicle to show the players these old Orc warlords and old Draenor.
The metaplot is just bonkers in WoW.
Well, in the first instance, the invasion force is made submissive to the Legion. They control the Well and becomes Masters of the Universe.
Iron Horde ain't taking any of that slavery or bowing to no one. Wrathion's idea is that this strong United Horde is probably stronger than the divided Current-Azeroth and they would be better suited as protectors in the long run.
Of course, turns out he's incredibly wrong, but I don't have a canon problem with it.
1up
Member
I'm horde on Runetotem so we are at least on the same connected realm.
Jag
Member
Whats on your MoP bucket list before WoD drops?
For me, I want to finish running all my alts through the WoD questline and run them all through Onyxia for easy bags and the mount.
I may finish leveling up my second blacksmith, but ore is so ridiculously overpriced right now so I'm selling off my stash rather than leveling with it.
That's pretty much it. Maybe a couple of H Garry runs for secondary heirlooms, but I have enough to get all my guys to 100.
For me, I want to finish running all my alts through the WoD questline and run them all through Onyxia for easy bags and the mount.
I may finish leveling up my second blacksmith, but ore is so ridiculously overpriced right now so I'm selling off my stash rather than leveling with it.
That's pretty much it. Maybe a couple of H Garry runs for secondary heirlooms, but I have enough to get all my guys to 100.
It's so quick to go from 60-90 now that you should be fine if you have enough time.
Finally!
Nice!
CrashPrime
Member
$10 increase for the free 90 boost. Fair trade.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
It's annoying enough running old raids on 2-3 characters. I don't know how you do it on 9
Finally managed to figure out the new file storage. With WoD they switched from .mpq to a new format called CASC. Found a tool called Cascexplorer, and after some tinkering with the config and getting an up-to-date listfile I can finally browse and extract WoW assets again.
Started working on that sound mod I said I was gonna do. Working on melee weapons right now since those were not updated for WoD. The old 2004 ones are in 22khz but the new ones are in 44.1khz
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66640537/Sword 1H.mp3
Here are the one-handed sword sounds for flesh, chain and plate impacts. 3 for each with 1 extra crit sound that has some kind of woosh added. First the old ones and then the new ones I'm working on. Probably have to go through a lot of additional passes before they seamlessly blend into the game.
There are some other things I want to address as well. Did you ever think it was a bit jarring how monstrous the female orc grunts sound compared to her "normal" voice? There's actually 2 separate folders for player race grunts in the game data, where one of them is likely from the beta and has different voices from the release version (with additional ones like voices for jumping and getting stunned). For some strange reason, female orcs still use their beta voices instead of the final ones. It's even more jarring post-WoD with the additional voices added that clash in style with the beta ones. I think I'm going to replace the beta voices with the unused release ones so it's much more consistent (even though the monstrous beta ones have become an "acquired taste" over the years).
Started working on that sound mod I said I was gonna do. Working on melee weapons right now since those were not updated for WoD. The old 2004 ones are in 22khz but the new ones are in 44.1khz
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66640537/Sword 1H.mp3
Here are the one-handed sword sounds for flesh, chain and plate impacts. 3 for each with 1 extra crit sound that has some kind of woosh added. First the old ones and then the new ones I'm working on. Probably have to go through a lot of additional passes before they seamlessly blend into the game.
There are some other things I want to address as well. Did you ever think it was a bit jarring how monstrous the female orc grunts sound compared to her "normal" voice? There's actually 2 separate folders for player race grunts in the game data, where one of them is likely from the beta and has different voices from the release version (with additional ones like voices for jumping and getting stunned). For some strange reason, female orcs still use their beta voices instead of the final ones. It's even more jarring post-WoD with the additional voices added that clash in style with the beta ones. I think I'm going to replace the beta voices with the unused release ones so it's much more consistent (even though the monstrous beta ones have become an "acquired taste" over the years).
It's annoying enough running old raids on 2-3 characters. I don't know how you do it on 9
It takes 30 secs to do Karazhan, 10 mins to do Tempest Keep and 5-7 mins to do Alystrazor in Firelands. (I try Ragnaros on only 2 alts) Add another 10-12 mins of travel between all of these... so maybe around 30 mins x 9 in a week isn't that bad. It's 4.5 hours in a week.
I'm not crazy enough to do the whole raids on 9 characters. Just kill the bosses that drop a mount.
...4.5 hours isn't a lot of time? lol
Some people spend that amount of time in a single day doing a current raid. So... yes 4.5 hours in a week isn't that bad. You spend 2 hours one day and 2 hours the next and it's almost over for the week and then you can do something else. 2 hours of WoW during an evening is like... completely normal for a WoW player.
Are people doing the dungeons at such ease that my newbness won't hinder the group?
Yup, no worries here. Unless you're a tank, and even then, someone will do it for you most of the time :lol:
Melhisedek
Member
Guys, I can't seem to decide on who to lvl first in expansion... I always played ranged class but now I want to try out melee.
I have lvl 90 Druid (played the most created just before TBC), Pala (boosted him few hours ago), Monk (played for a bit in MoP)
Also Warr and DK who are around 70
I think I have narrowed it down to Pala and Druid and I plan on doing mostly PvP with them (no arena) so I think self healing will be important.
What do you guys think? I like Druid but I think they've lost a lot of their Hybrid aspect following Guardian spec, still they do just fine.
Pala was always my "dream" but never got around to level one. But I really don't know anything about them.
Any ideas
I have lvl 90 Druid (played the most created just before TBC), Pala (boosted him few hours ago), Monk (played for a bit in MoP)
Also Warr and DK who are around 70
I think I have narrowed it down to Pala and Druid and I plan on doing mostly PvP with them (no arena) so I think self healing will be important.
What do you guys think? I like Druid but I think they've lost a lot of their Hybrid aspect following Guardian spec, still they do just fine.
Pala was always my "dream" but never got around to level one. But I really don't know anything about them.
Any ideas
Gentleman Jack
Member
That ended up going to a horde toon I seldom use because level 90 boosts don't help me even a little bit.
CreepingFear
Member
Interfectum
Member
I've settled on taking my DK through WoD to 100. I'm currently working on cleaning out some inventory space, getting some cool cosmetics and toys (Darkmoon Faire dailies), running random end game raids to flesh out my gear score and probably some pet battles in the mix. I'll also make some quality of life engineering toys (portable mailbox, repair, etc). I've already got my rocket boots and parachute enchants.
I'm basically on maintenance mode for WoD.
phoenix296
Member
Using that 7 day promotion thing. Going through a bunch of old content getting achievements and I managed to get the Onyxia mount.
Props to Mione for sure, but something about this makes me salty. No class (no matter the skill) should be able to solo this boss, even on flex, at current level/content. Proves how broken DK's are.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Ehhh. It's mostly a function of the stat squish. The gear you have from Mythic SoO is 2-3 tiers of iLvl ahead of what flex Garrosh was originally intended for, which is almost an expansion's worth. The content isn't really current anymore. It certainly wasn't possible pre-squish and nerf.
And Blood DKs have always been good at soloing, nothing wrong with that. They're balanced fine in normal raid settings
Nah DKs are fine. Mione is just too OP (and it's flex and got nerfed hard after the stat squish)
edit: Should also say that at level 90 in 6.0, things are just wonky. Don't worry about it much. This kind of soloing was not possible in 5.4.
Not the next raid tier, but maybe 6.1 (which is probably a non-raid content patch)
Only thing left on my WoD bucket list is exalting Shaohao. Currently at revered, just have to finish it off. Everything else is maxed out, cutting edge is done, mounts are done, done done done. Oh and world boss mounts, but those don't exist.
On the subject of running old raids for mounts, I may just start doing 1 in WoD instead of 3-5 alts running it every week. Just for my sanity's sake.
On the subject of running old raids for mounts, I may just start doing 1 in WoD instead of 3-5 alts running it every week. Just for my sanity's sake.
That can be wise...
I got the Al'Akir mount this week, but I'm still doing Dragon Soul 4 times a week. Might do less when WoD hits because I'll be gearing my main
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Definitely gonna cut back on old raids for awhile once WoD drops. Got all that new content to do my time will be limited. Especially with the leveling process for alts.
Gearing + hunting the new rares and building up my garrison will be my main focus.
I'll probably still run at least once a week, but not 2+ times.
Gearing + hunting the new rares and building up my garrison will be my main focus.
I'll probably still run at least once a week, but not 2+ times.
Jag
Member
Everything I've read says to get your main Garrison to Level Three (at 100) then worry about alts. It's going to be really hard not to just get all my Garrisons rolling at once though.
For the first time ever going into an expac launch I'm not going to be raiding so I won't be focused purely on my main. I think I'll actually level all my characters up to max so I've got a large variety of things and proffesions to work with. Until MoP I'd only ever had 2 max level characters, now I've got 4, nearly 5.
Just trying to finish off my mount farming. Might try and run SoO on my DK for some extra gear to level to 100 just a bit faster, but meh.
Currently on the list:
-Raven Lord
-Darkmoon Faire
-Tol Barad (have the Spectral Wolf, pushing for the Drake)
-Argent Tournament (I think I have 3 more racial mounts and then I'm done)
-Qiraji Battle Tank and Vial of the Sands farming
MoP was really the thing that turned me off leveling PVE alts. Nothing fun about queueing LFR across multiple characters and valor capping them each for the cloak. And the whole time all I could think is, 'Man, my Shaman could be killing these mobs so much faster.'
And vicious saddles(after b eing used) being character-specific certainly didn't help matters any
And vicious saddles(after b eing used) being character-specific certainly didn't help matters any
So, Achieve [The Incredible Hulk] is plain bugged or broken, did it a multitude of times while farming that mount, never popped...not biggie I figure they will fix it.
So now, I am going through 10m Uld to get the drake, as I never did it before, no sweat all the way through, get to Yogg, kill him, no achieve no loot no nothing.
I'm kinda miffed...
So now, I am going through 10m Uld to get the drake, as I never did it before, no sweat all the way through, get to Yogg, kill him, no achieve no loot no nothing.
I'm kinda miffed...
