Jag
Member
I'm actually taking an extended break now, but a big reason is Garrison and profession maintenance.
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I'm actually taking an extended break now, but a big reason is Garrison and profession maintenance.
Mad Season
Banned
I've been out of the game for an expansion or 2. can I get the latest expansion and just hop back in the saddle?
FrontalMonk
Banned
Yep. Actually, when you get Warlords you to boost a character to level 90 so you can jump right in.
Gentleman Jack
Member
On my best geared (642) character Direfang Alphas still destroy my face. I hope they never fix the double-trap glitch.
They've never made it easier.
NotMyUsername
Member
They're triggered by killing enemies in the level 100 areas the apexis dailies take place. The type of enemy killed will trigger that type of invasion. I'm guessing a few of the invasions just require mass killing outside of those areas but I haven't looked into it. If you're doing the apexis dailies you should trigger an invasion after maybe three or four days worth of killing. You can also just grind it out if you want as it doesn't need to take place during the dailies for it to count the kills.
What are the little rolling guys called? Gorens? I believe one invasion is for them so I'm guessing that and the similar ones that are outside of the apexis areas just means mass killing where they spawn.
Lanrutcon
Member
Monies, resources, loot.
Just check LFG every now and then for people looking for help with their invasions, and help with theirs instead of instigating your own. Same rewards.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I want to say it takes more than just a few, and it's specific to each faction.
IE if you keep fighting Shattraths demonic invasion forces, you'll get that faster than fighting different factions daliy. It took me about 2 weeks before I got my first invasion, I would say...I concentrated on getting Shattrath dailies, and it took about 7-8 of them?
Schweinehund
Member
Fourth week double roll butcher no weapons, also no single roll weapons in lfr 
. Really want to start doing heroic but I can't without some new weapons.
The postive news is I have a follower mission for a 675 item (though any 675 item would be an upgrade right now), hopefully it's a weapon. The bad news is 69% chance. Inc rage if mission fails.
. Really want to start doing heroic but I can't without some new weapons.The postive news is I have a follower mission for a 675 item (though any 675 item would be an upgrade right now), hopefully it's a weapon. The bad news is 69% chance. Inc rage if mission fails.
CambriaRising
Member
Fourth week double roll butcher no weapons, also no single roll weapons in lfr
The postive news is I have a follower mission for a 675 item (though any 675 item would be an upgrade right now), hopefully it's a weapon. The bad news is 69% chance. Inc rage if mission fails.
Don't get your hopes up, I had a 96% mission like that fail.
Schweinehund
Member
Well yeah, I should be cautiously optimistic, 69% isn't bad but it isn't guaranteed . Really thought my epic followers would have had more counters though, each of them could counter something seperately, but no one had double counters for this mission. Fortunately they were all human and I had a human bonus.
. Really thought my epic followers would have had more counters though, each of them could counter something seperately, but no one had double counters for this mission. Fortunately they were all human and I had a human bonus.CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I got a normal cache again today (was like 92% chance). Unfortunately. (Probably need to kill just a couple more heroic bosses).
Gave me bracers of dubious upgrade value over some 645 other mission ones I have. I'll have to do the math on it.
Gave me bracers of dubious upgrade value over some 645 other mission ones I have. I'll have to do the math on it.
Schweinehund
Member
How many missions did you have before that with 655? I did one follower mission @ 655, cleared 6/7 normal, 1/7 heroic and this is the first heroic cache I've gotten.
My guild isn't running raids due to the holidays. I used all four rolls on Ko-grah or whatever his name is. All gold. Pointless resource sink. They may as well just make it a random loot chance and drop the seals for LFR. I get that it's a way to keep players engaged with daily activities to earn resources and continue killing bosses in LFR, but shit. At this rate as soon as my play time dips to about two days a week I'm just going to quit instead.
What are you even doing with your life
Remember the mission lasts 2 weeks so maybe you can bump up some more counters and wait a bit
I think you also need an imperator kill on that difficulty. Had a guildy with 15 heroic kills and no imp kill and he got a normal cache. Not 100% sure
It picked my two worst traits. Not much I could do.
Schweinehund
Member
Ah, this makes sense now. Need to start progressing in heroic soon. Also didn't know about the bad luck rule on bonus rolls, guess I shouldn't be spending bonus rolls on anything but bosses that drop weapons. Guess that's the brightside of tectus not dropping his trinket for me this bonus roll.
edit: No imperator kill for me in normal and it still upgrade my cache to heroic.
edit2: Mission failed, bonus loot for butcher was gold again. Really losing any motivation to play when I can't increase my ilvl and thus get into harder difficultues because of rng.
Meh, pugging woes. Before you say find a guild, my schedule doesn't work well with them. :/
-The group finder needs to have a required selection for loot rules when making the listing. Not many people type them out.
-I'd like to be able to opt out of group loot for personal in ML groups. The system is already in place with previous kills taking you out of the loot pool. I'm not sure how many groups would allow it since it would change drop numbers, but a personal friendly toggle people could vote on would be nice at least for some crossover groups.
-Personal loot was a good addition, but the community leans toward ML. Outside of guild runs, one person shouldn't completely control loot. I always wonder if I'll be fucked over for the week. Blizzard could easily have a smart roll system that takes upgrades and loot history into account. They should be able to tell what's an upgrade even when Blakcrock Foundry drops with it's 5 ilvl gap. Then there could be a UI for the raid leader to modify any MS/OS and weapon quirks. Maybe this is too much to ask for...
-The group finder needs to have a required selection for loot rules when making the listing. Not many people type them out.
-I'd like to be able to opt out of group loot for personal in ML groups. The system is already in place with previous kills taking you out of the loot pool. I'm not sure how many groups would allow it since it would change drop numbers, but a personal friendly toggle people could vote on would be nice at least for some crossover groups.
-Personal loot was a good addition, but the community leans toward ML. Outside of guild runs, one person shouldn't completely control loot. I always wonder if I'll be fucked over for the week. Blizzard could easily have a smart roll system that takes upgrades and loot history into account. They should be able to tell what's an upgrade even when Blakcrock Foundry drops with it's 5 ilvl gap. Then there could be a UI for the raid leader to modify any MS/OS and weapon quirks. Maybe this is too much to ask for...
thisisalan
Member
The Gingerbread Cookie business is a good business to be in right now:
Gentleman Jack
Member
Gentleman Jack
Member
Gifts haven't spawned yet on my realm. But yeah there's a mountain of mammoths, dancing braziers, romantic picnics, darkmoon faire rides, repair bots, nomis, you name it.
Working on Christmas while their commander is at orgrimmar eating ginger bread cookies. Thats some great morale raising tactics commander.
Could have at least decorated the base a bit...
Gentleman Jack
Member
merry christmas Ironforge
guess that mount has lost its rareness
rareness, the core hound?
I'm not Horde, but ok. If you're inviting me to Orgrimmar, I'll come if you promise me I won't get killed. It's Christmas after all!
Figures the WoW community would troll Christmas...
Where the gifts are. Piles of people afking on oversized mounts.
You'd think they would be smart enough to make the tree area a no-mount zone, but naw...
RazorbackDB
Member
just put your camera close and look the other way, no problems picking up the gifts at all.
Balance in PvP feels extremely off for a few classes. After seeing them in action a lot lately (started playing BG's in earnest) I spent about 10 minutes familiarizing myself with a friend's hunter and then went to work using it. It is almost impossible to die, like you have to actually give up. And I was doing insane mounts of damage killing numerous people with very little effort. I really should have leveled my own hunter. Good lord they are so OP'd in the hands of someone who understands PvP it is insane. 38 kills, 0 deaths, in my very first BG.
Edit: my first BG after I got the hang of a hunter. Which was my second BG with him. The first one didn't count because I was just spending the time reading tool tips and trying out moves. Also kill cunt typo.
Edit: my first BG after I got the hang of a hunter. Which was my second BG with him. The first one didn't count because I was just spending the time reading tool tips and trying out moves. Also kill cunt typo.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
PVP balance is very off right now, probably the worst it's been since wotlk. I don't really blame them though as they did a lot of changes in the pre-xpac patch and the xpac itself and they need some time to get a feel for everything. However, the scale has never been as easy to see as it is right now so you do have to question if they can see the glaring issues.
There is such an obvious and noticeable divide between ret/priest/druid/hunter and the other classes, which I don't remember seeing in the last 10 years. You've had random anomalies like trinket mage/macestun war/tank lock/BM but never so many classes that are so lopsided all at one time. Again, it's kind of why I don't mind it, because there are more good classes than not (I have DK/war/lock basically at par, war slightly worse than usual due to random shit like losing charge stuns and dispels and just silly shit).
The truth is, with a class like hunter, when they got the deterrence overhaul back in the day it was huge. And its effect honestly still reverberates. Same with skills like cloak. If you changed deterrence back to parry, you'd instantly see them drop to normal levels of survival and then their glass cannon status would return.
I think they made a big mistake taking out the disarm mechanic in general, also.
There is such an obvious and noticeable divide between ret/priest/druid/hunter and the other classes, which I don't remember seeing in the last 10 years. You've had random anomalies like trinket mage/macestun war/tank lock/BM but never so many classes that are so lopsided all at one time. Again, it's kind of why I don't mind it, because there are more good classes than not (I have DK/war/lock basically at par, war slightly worse than usual due to random shit like losing charge stuns and dispels and just silly shit).
The truth is, with a class like hunter, when they got the deterrence overhaul back in the day it was huge. And its effect honestly still reverberates. Same with skills like cloak. If you changed deterrence back to parry, you'd instantly see them drop to normal levels of survival and then their glass cannon status would return.
I think they made a big mistake taking out the disarm mechanic in general, also.
zebra cushion. should be great throwing that down on mythic progression.