RazorbackDB
Member
I don't think so, mounts scale with your riding skill, 100% max for ground and 310% max for flying, so if you buy one from the store it should scale to the max speed you already have.
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I don't think so, mounts scale with your riding skill, 100% max for ground and 310% max for flying, so if you buy one from the store it should scale to the max speed you already have.
correct, even ones from the store.
My main is from vanilla (literally my launch character) when faction reputation was 100x more brutal.. so I boosted him to 90 and leveled him as my main now.. and he has (an orc mind you!!!!!) Honored rep with org... yeah, I got him to 46 in vanilla and mid-60s prior to WOD and he had honored with his own city.... Anywho, the point is if you're looking to farm rep quickly for a better epic flying discount, I've found the argent tournament is awesome. Have grabbed around 8K from it so far. Will probably just grab my epic flying now with 15% as opposed to waiting another 19K rep for the extra 5%.
man... playing goblins spoils you. that highest discount thing is sick. For instance I buy all of my guild vendor stuff from TBC-Shatt because the guild vendor there is factioned (the only guild vendor in the game that is) so I get 20% off all guild heirlooms and then mail them to other characters.
eudaemonic
Member
This is harmless considering people have been taking "selfies" of their characters since the beginning. *chuckles* I was afraid I was going to find out Betty White is a garrison follower.
hellmonkey
Member
As others have said, you can buy the mounts with real money, either from the Blizz store or buying gold and getting them from the auction house (not recommended), but they will only go as fast as the riding ability you have learned. If you buy a flying mount, but did not learn flying or epic flying, it will only run.
Mounts used to grant the flying skill when you learned the mount, but that was change during the Cata x-pack, at least I think that's when it changed.
and this bothers you....why?
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
Pop culture references have been in Warcraft since the beginning. Granted, it escalated between Warcraft 1, 2 and 3, but the real departure from the norm would be not to have anything at all.
Wibblewozzer
Member
If anyone else got stopped while working on the Cata Dungeon meta by the first achievement in BRC it's been fixed for a bit over a week now. Myself and a guildmate both needed it so we got it last night.
That got me the Volcanic Drake. Only four more mounts to go for 250. Also noticed that I'm only missing four "drakes" in total (South Wind, Blue, Blazing, and Emerald).
That got me the Volcanic Drake. Only four more mounts to go for 250. Also noticed that I'm only missing four "drakes" in total (South Wind, Blue, Blazing, and Emerald).
Grats
I am having the worst luck with the Blazing Drake. I generally have good luck with mounts so I can't complain too much, but I saw the Blazing Drake drop over 10 times in Cata and not a single time since then. I've run it a lot too!
Oh well maybe soon
I'm trying to get Blazing Drake too, hate it. The raid wouldn't be so annoying to do if there wasn't so much NPCs talking and the Spine of Deathwing. I simply wish that Blizzard someday (soon) get rid of the contant left and right running we have to do while soloing. And maybe some "skip dialogue" option.
I want blazing so bad, only one I need for the emerald drake. My guild saw a grand total of 1 drop back in DS and I think I rolled lowest.
Also if you haven't gotten the Pandaria dungeon meta yet you should do that, the heroics are very easy to solo at 100 and all the achievements except a couple can be soloed. Only one I need is the last one from Scholomance but it appears you need a full group of 5 for it and I've been too lazy to put it together.
I would be ok with this. Huttball was the shining beacon of fun in TOR
You have to run WAAAAY more in guild wars 2 to get everywhere prior to having the waypoints, which when you're sub-20 in wow is basically the point of the game you're at. Once you have flight paths or especially flight (until wod of course) getting around is super fast. Meanwhile when I start a new guild wars toon it's like 'wait. I have to RUN everywhere? No mount or anything?' it's so god damn slow.
Huttball was awesome, yea. Buggy game, but good times.
Yeah Dragon Soul is a... black mark on the raid history. Just not a good one Lorewise or otherwise. Some of the fights were cool but as a whole it was not good.
It would be nice if Spine didn't roll when solo, but I can understand they don't want to spend any development time changing that.
Yeah Dragon Soul is a... black mark on the raid history. Just not a good one Lorewise or otherwise. Some of the fights were cool but as a whole it was not good.
It would be nice if Spine didn't roll when solo, but I can understand they don't want to spend any development time changing that.
I don't think getting rid of the roll would be that much work. It's probably a simple command line somewhere that they need to delete.
I would be ok with this. Huttball was the shining beacon of fun in TOR
Yeah, it remains the only setting in which I've EVER healed (gasp).
That was still only about 1/3 of the time; the rest was spent killing carriers + trying to cheese as many medals across different stats as possible.
RIP Quelana.
I would be ok with this. Huttball was the shining beacon of fun in TOR
YES !!! man you guys talking about Huttball bringing back memories lol
I would be ok with this. Huttball was the shining beacon of fun in TOR
You have to run WAAAAY more in guild wars 2 to get everywhere prior to having the waypoints, which when you're sub-20 in wow is basically the point of the game you're at. Once you have flight paths or especially flight (until wod of course) getting around is super fast. Meanwhile when I start a new guild wars toon it's like 'wait. I have to RUN everywhere? No mount or anything?' it's so god damn slow.
Yeah, my wife and I plan to get to 20 as fast as possible tonight.
Still better than Hyjal in my book.
Though now that I sit here and think about it a lot of the things I dislike about DS are the same things I dislike about Hyjal.
I would be ok with this. Huttball was the shining beacon of fun in TOR
Huttball with Monks (serpent kick) and the DK/Druid aoe grip talents ....ugh.
I've been kinda curious, what makes Mount Hyjal a really bad raid instance to raid community? Is it because of encounter design or something else?
On another note, I managed to get a one-shot raid group (from openraid, ofc) on heroic Highmaul and fully cleared it. Got myself a ring from Tectus, the sword from Imp, and hands from butcher's bonus roll.
Blackrock Foundry can't come soon enough. ;_;
On another note, I managed to get a one-shot raid group (from openraid, ofc) on heroic Highmaul and fully cleared it. Got myself a ring from Tectus, the sword from Imp, and hands from butcher's bonus roll.
Blackrock Foundry can't come soon enough. ;_;
Gentleman Jack
Member
Trash waves with epic drops on them would get cannibalized.
The entire instance was literally waiting for trash waves to materialize and then running around trying to efficiently kill it. Took ages and there was no way to speed any of it up.
Wiping on a boss meant starting over on the trash waves.
Plus the usual TBC raiding jank like getting feared into fire/explosions/etc.
It had the same shit in star wars. It was better because of them!
I would often harpoon people into the fire pillars as they were spawning, we'd have guardians force leaping up to the goal, consulars life gripping people up with the ball, etc. If it didn't have that shit it wouldn't even be fun.
I think my biggest complaint was that the trash was literally just waves that kept coming and there was nothing really strategic about it or anything, it was the literal definition of mindless trash. Also on a personal level it was made even worse by me being a rogue and in TBC rogues had no aoe (FoK came in wrath) and there were aerial mobs and hey rogues didn't have any ranged attacks either!
But also when I said some of the stuff I personally didn't like about Dragon Soul applies to Hyjal that would be completely reused assests, Hyjal as a zone was in the game in vanilla even if it was never opened up (it was easy to get into and pretty much everyone went in and explored at some point) and all the NPC models were just reused similar to how the boss models in Dragon Soul are. Also lore-wise it made no sense because there was no Infinite Dragonflight presence which was the entire point of the dungeons in Caverns of Time.
Yeah, consulars were beyond broken in huttball due to speed buff deathgrip (if shadow) or lifegrip if sage, but the movement disparity etween classes is even stronger in Wow compared to SWTOR but not such a big deal because it isn't game breaking.in normal gameplay.
I llso played a commando in huttball and just felt useless the entire time (only thing they had was the aoe knockback so it might be my ibtterness there)
But it is utterly gamebreaking in huttball and there would be so much qq.
Now if all classes had more access to that sort of stuff i'd be cool with it.
You sound like a frog-dog. Are you a frog-dog?
RandyBobandy
Banned
Haha resto druids are getting buffed. One of the most op classes in PvP. Come on now. Shits not funny
Blizz loves them some druids.
eudaemonic
Member
I'm okay with this.
My highest pet is 17... pet battles bore me but I like collecting them.. :/
It's a smart move, I like pet battles a lot but they aren't really fun until the pets are max level and you start doing more interesting fights. That will help a lot cause once you have one max level pet it is super easy to power level others. I've actually gotten into the habit of leveling a pet to max level every day because the reward bag from the garrison daily gives you a random type level stone, so I just pick a pet of whatever type I get and do the frostfire/SMV daily tamer and then use level up stones for the remaining levels.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Such bullshit. Stop putting in aoe pulses with a snare in your fucking raids then, Blizz.
Leeching Poison change is a huge nerf. Makes me very very sad.
Yeah, 37% increase to NP is going to be toned down a bit later, I think. And I already run NP as Unholy.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I'm sick of being on a rollercoaster of DK changes that completely redefines how you play the class every other week. Dear god, I've been having enough trouble as it is lately.
If this means Necrotic Plague is now viable, I'll have to learn how to run that in the rotation, aside from making/remaking a whole new set of Weak Auras.
If this means Necrotic Plague is now viable, I'll have to learn how to run that in the rotation, aside from making/remaking a whole new set of Weak Auras.
Bristling Fur (Guardian)
Force of Nature
Guardian of Elune (Guardian)
Moment of Clarity (Restoration)
Rampant Growth (Restoration)
Renewal
Stellar Flare (Balance)
Genesis
Hmm I don't think arena rdruids use any of the above except for Genesis.
Gentleman Jack
Member
I think you mean amazing.
I'm on board.
Schweinehund
Member
avatar viable for pve now?
fuck
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slam damage too? Expected. Man I need a two hander. Need dem hueg execute crizitz.
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slam damage too? Expected. Man I need a two hander. Need dem hueg execute crizitz.
I think Avatar was already really close to being viable. It was actually a good choice on The Butcher even on a 3min cooldown because of how it lined up with stuff. With the cooldown being halved it's hard to imagine people picking up anything else. Personally I find the talent to be super boring, so I'd rather have other abilities ranking higher than it. Avatar being this good also makes Scabbard way too powerful, and I really hate BoE epics having that kind of pull.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
the head tilt <.<
lol, fuck off blizzard.
Schweinehund
Member
Damn didn't even see scabbard :/, blows away the trinket from brackenspore. I don't see how bladestorm or bloodbath are more interesting though. Blade will probably still be superior for aoe fights.
I don't think Bloodbath or Bladestorm are super interesting, but they don't feel quite as plain as Avatar. I guess there are just situations where I regularly find Bladestorm fun to use.
Then there's the dark future where Avatar use promotes Anger Management, and everything starts to feel really passive.
Gentleman Jack
Member
the head tilt <.<
Shaft!
the head tilt <.<
No seriously though, something about that head tilt looks incredibly freaky.
JSoup
Banned
Was sort of expecting them to add a bunch of bone head collect all the things achievements, but a mount is even better.
$1 says it's a horse or something decked out in heirlooms.
