I think guardian druids actually do more damage at lower levels. As a tank I would get 70% of the damage done all the way up until level 50. Mind that you have to consider they have a spammable aoe cleave and most other classes have to wait a while for their good aoe tools. Even with that aside druids do insane damage compared to anything else right now leveling up. Lots of fun.
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Tank druid dps is insane. INSANE
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
IIRC the mastery bonuses have no effect on WoD alchemy recipes.
King Gilga
Member
Eh, I don't consider them 'cat girls' anymore than than I consider tauren the same as this.
The class I'm going to be maining WoD is one of the few I have without any professions, gonna feel weird.
Druid: Engineering and Jewelcrafting. I've done them since TBC and I'm not changing.
Mage: Engineering and Mining. Same deal as above.
Rogue: Herbalism and Alchemy. Had them since WoTLK.
Paladin: Inscription and Enchanting. They're both max due to the 60+ boost.
Priest: Tailoring and Blacksmithing. Since I don't have them on anything else
Hunter or whatever other class becomes my new alt: Leatherworking and Skinning as I don't have them yet.
You can craft things at level 1 skill iirc. So you could pick professions anyway.
I agree, a few Swipes and an entire elite pull dies, it's hilarious.
I meant both by Feral Druids though, having to specify between the two specs is still something I need to get used to.
I wish the game was harder all the way up to 90. Not longer, or more of a grind. More difficult.
That's part of why everyone hates the long-ass grind from 1 all the way to cap these days; it's fairly fucking mindless, especially if you're in 5mans. I wish there were options for far more difficult and challenging gameplay, but which rewarded vastly increased levelling speed.
Like, take on this solo or 5-man challenge that's on par with CM 5man difficulty, or the Warlock Green Fire quest, but if you win, you all instantly gain a level, or something.
That's part of why everyone hates the long-ass grind from 1 all the way to cap these days; it's fairly fucking mindless, especially if you're in 5mans. I wish there were options for far more difficult and challenging gameplay, but which rewarded vastly increased levelling speed.
Like, take on this solo or 5-man challenge that's on par with CM 5man difficulty, or the Warlock Green Fire quest, but if you win, you all instantly gain a level, or something.
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Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
I'm gonna continue with mining and tailoring on my warrior. Mining so I can get materials to craft plate armor, and tailoring so I can craft capes and cloth armor for the guild.
BolognaOni
Member
Agreed. The dungeons are maybe a bit on the easy side, which I'm sort of OK with. What I really miss are the group quests that were possibly soloable by good players, or creative use of abilities/mechanics. You rarely even run into elite mobs leveling any more.
One last quick bump. Easy 5k brehs.
So I just boosted a blood DK. In my entire wow career I have only ever healed or DPS'd, and after watching a few videos and reading a bunch of material on DK's I'm still pretty confused.
I guess it will just take time for me to get used to everything but I can't seem to find a way to intuitively key bind stuff and there are so many defensive cool downs to worry about.
Does anybody have any general advice? I think mostly I just need to play the class tonight in some heroics or something and become familiar with melee.
I guess it will just take time for me to get used to everything but I can't seem to find a way to intuitively key bind stuff and there are so many defensive cool downs to worry about.
Does anybody have any general advice? I think mostly I just need to play the class tonight in some heroics or something and become familiar with melee.
Based on shipping schedules I'm familiar with from working games retail way back, I'd guess they'd arrive in stores on Tuesday. Monday afternoon earliest.
questionmark
Member
Now that they removed the number of times someone has killed a raid boss from armory, how can you tell if a raid "seller" is legit? Been thinking of buying a heroic run for the heirloom. Not sure I want to take the risk.
you can look at their achievements or find their character on a site like wowprogress though stuff like wowprogress can be messed up if the character transferred
This is my setup for Blood. Scraping my ui come raiding in wod starts. Some of the key bindings are funky, but it's something i'm used to. I use every button. ` is my ams. The only thing id change is SQ being a button. I personally dislike using this button. Don't mind asphyxiate and unholy blight. I was pvping, and trying some silly shit. Ya, my healthstones are unbound, that's bad. I dont tank raids and only roll blood solo most of the time so I never have them.
I click army because army is army. We dont have to channel it anymore woo.
The biggest thing you need to learn as blood is the dk resource system. Runic power is straight forward, but the runesystem is the most complex resource system compared to every class. The rune track i have on my unit frames is no optimal at all, and it's only there to see if I'm runestarved or not.
For tracking, there's really not much to track. Bone shield, your defensive, your diseases/soul reaper. Remember snap threat/getting threat before your diseases first is pretty important come wod. If you don't have outbreak ready it's better to get aggro via blood boil or dnd as fast as possible, and start getting the blood shields rolling.
Definitely have to be careful, but from my experience guilds on your server who actually have experience tend to be legit. I bought a heroic carry on my warlock from one of the top PvE guilds on my server for 5K and it went super smooth, took like 10 minutes. If it's just some random individual selling carries as opposed to a guild then yeah, definitely be wary.
Sadly it seems like nobody is selling normal Garrrosh. I need that second fury axe!
edit: oh damn, my cousin came through. Snuck me into his group because he was on his 588 tank lol. Sweet!
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Anyone know of an addon that will let me stick big numbers for various stats on my screen?
I'm looking for something that will basically let me put Health %, Mana %, and stack #s for certain buffs right in the middle of my screen, without the clutter of the icons and other art assets.
I'm looking for something that will basically let me put Health %, Mana %, and stack #s for certain buffs right in the middle of my screen, without the clutter of the icons and other art assets.
notworksafe
Member
Not sure what professions to get boosted on my Priest. On various toons I've got all the gathering professions, Enchanting, Tailoring, and Engineering at max.
I was thinking of going JC and Inscription but I'm not sure if those will be useful for much. I figured if nothing else I could save myself some gold from having to buy stuff on the AH.
I was thinking of going JC and Inscription but I'm not sure if those will be useful for much. I figured if nothing else I could save myself some gold from having to buy stuff on the AH.
BlitzEngineer
Member
Weakauras can basically do anything, to my knowledge. I'm no WA guru but the variety of stuff people have made with that addon convinces me it can literally do everything. It's not easy to learn on your own, but there are tons of people who put out strings to import and from there I usually just tweak it to my liking.
Basically at this point I could play all my characters with nothing but Grid, Clique, and WA. I wouldn't need regular unit frames or even an action bar. All relevant CDs are tracked by WA and all my keybinds are through Clique or Bartender for those that don't need a mouseover. And Weakauras is really doing all the heavy lifting.
CreepingFear
Member
The reagent bag has been a godsend as well as things stacking to up to 200 now such as cloth, minerals, and herbs.
What did you decide on? I'm not sure yet.
DK. DPS main spec, Blood off.
Really eager for this expansion compared to the last two for some reason. I didn't even play cataclysm for the first 9 months or so. I jumped into Pandaria right away but got turned off after a few months until about 6 months ago when I came back.
Time played a factor but I used to be incredibly hardcore. Was a Member of Death and Taxes when it was a world class guild and a few other pretty impressive guilds over the years
WOD has me really excited though and I have been more excited than my usual friends who are big on wow though one is really grumpy over the lack of his Tier shoulders not showing up on the BMAH in 2 years.
Time played a factor but I used to be incredibly hardcore. Was a Member of Death and Taxes when it was a world class guild and a few other pretty impressive guilds over the years
WOD has me really excited though and I have been more excited than my usual friends who are big on wow though one is really grumpy over the lack of his Tier shoulders not showing up on the BMAH in 2 years.
i'm excited that i'll be able to run lich king on 9 characters a week instead of just 5
too bad you missed the exploit where you could get 1-70 in 10 minutes
this but yogg
Whaaaaat
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
There are a few places poppin up where level 1s get 100% of the xp from like, level 80-90 stuff.
I got summoned to Molten Front offensive and got 2 level 70s in about an hour.
Stephen_drewz
Member
Considering I don't know too much about progression in this game yet I felt I had a pretty ok weekend playing and just chilling out with blizzcon on my second monitor. Was just focusing on getting my iLvl up a bit to make WoD a bit easier.
Finished SoO LFR.
Got a free Heroic Garry kill and got my 2H Axe(DK)
Farmed charms to upgrade 5 pieces of gear to 4/4
Ran a few BG's to replace my lowest level piece(515 ring) with a Prideful 550 ring.
Finished up at 543iLvl.
Unless theres something quick and simple I can do before WoD I think that might be it until it releases. Not much point trying to cram in another SoO run after reset when WoD gear will replace it pretty quickly.
Finished SoO LFR.
Got a free Heroic Garry kill and got my 2H Axe(DK)
Farmed charms to upgrade 5 pieces of gear to 4/4
Ran a few BG's to replace my lowest level piece(515 ring) with a Prideful 550 ring.
Finished up at 543iLvl.
Unless theres something quick and simple I can do before WoD I think that might be it until it releases. Not much point trying to cram in another SoO run after reset when WoD gear will replace it pretty quickly.
If you did the blasted lands quest, and did ubrs...you are pretty much good to go.
Stephen_drewz
Member
Blasted lands yes, Ubrs no. The queue time was over an hour on my server.
Yes. Yes. YES.
Nice!
Are you horde? We can do a quick run if you want.
Been leveling my Shaman because...I don't really have much else to do.
A couple things I've noticed:
-Wrath content still feels kinda slow-ish. A bit faster than before, but not much.
-The item squish appears to have squished the massive jump in power to Cata content; like I'd usually have a little trouble at Hyjal, but the enemies there were like nothing had changed.
-Blasted through Cata content. Farthest I got was Deepholm. Pretty crazy.
-Gear upgrades seem...almost insignificant to some extent. Like the "upgrades" I'm getting offer hardly any extra stats if any. Improvements are like +1-2 at a time.
(With how this is applied to lower-leveled content, things get weird; like I had a cloak from BC that was quite better than most Wrath cloaks I saw.)
-They appeared to have lowered or removed the ilvl requirements for a lot of dungeons. Still can't do some dungeons until you've unlocked them though (Frozen Halls/End Time stuffs).
Goddamn!
(Now I feel bad.)
A couple things I've noticed:
-Wrath content still feels kinda slow-ish. A bit faster than before, but not much.
-The item squish appears to have squished the massive jump in power to Cata content; like I'd usually have a little trouble at Hyjal, but the enemies there were like nothing had changed.
-Blasted through Cata content. Farthest I got was Deepholm. Pretty crazy.
-Gear upgrades seem...almost insignificant to some extent. Like the "upgrades" I'm getting offer hardly any extra stats if any. Improvements are like +1-2 at a time.
(With how this is applied to lower-leveled content, things get weird; like I had a cloak from BC that was quite better than most Wrath cloaks I saw.)
-They appeared to have lowered or removed the ilvl requirements for a lot of dungeons. Still can't do some dungeons until you've unlocked them though (Frozen Halls/End Time stuffs).
Goddamn!
(Now I feel bad.)
Stephen_drewz
Member
Yeah I am, sorry mrs was whinging at me to go grocery shopping.
How many people are required?
VWdrewZbie6802. All good if too late, feel free to add anyway though, more gaf the better!
Oh, i'll just tank, and have randoms. If someone else here wants to go its no big deal.
That doesn't work.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Yeah, Wrath is where my characters usually get stuck when I'm leveling. It's a pretty big drag.
Itemization is little wonky still, but I actually liked this because now gear lasts into the following expansion instead of dragging your character down until you get that massive power leap from new gear. Like, if I bring mid-BC dungeon blues into an early Wrath dungeon, it's not as big a blight on my character's effectiveness as it used to be.