Alaskanbullworm
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Just lost a 96% Highmaul Garrison mission
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
They should do kickstarters for each feature and people pay money for what they want to be made outside of the dev cycle.
I actually do wonder what the patch cycle will be like this expansion. BRF will probably last a few months so I wonder if they plan to make 6.2 another 6.1 type patch or if 6.2 will come later and be the next raid tier + other shit that usually comes with a new raid tier.
It doesn't make much sense anyway really, why would you sacrifice content to fix old stuff and then sell it as an expansion. Even if they wanted to waste time fixing a lot of minor annoyances it would be better suited to a patch.
Normal Imperator: >40 tries with various pugs but never down once.
Heroic Imperator: AotC within 10 tries.
Normal dungeon: wipe reform several times.
Heroic dungeon: clean fast finish.
Puglyfe in a nutshell. Basically you're in elo-hell until your item levels magically reach a point where good teams pick you up from raid finder.
Heroic Imperator: AotC within 10 tries.
Normal dungeon: wipe reform several times.
Heroic dungeon: clean fast finish.
Puglyfe in a nutshell. Basically you're in elo-hell until your item levels magically reach a point where good teams pick you up from raid finder.
unknownstranger
Member
One shot mythic Kar'gath and Twin Ogron (just our second kill, even though it wasn't pretty) and spent the rest of the night on Brackenspore. He feels massively RNG based on mythic. The new mechanics aren't hard, but it's the new ones mixed with the old ones (mainly Tidal Wave and Infesting Spores as the same time) that are. At least with Twin Ogron everything is on a set timer so you know what to prepare for.
It's not really that RNG heavy. You can get RNG fucked if it pops up spore shooters just as you have stacked but green shroom / CDs aren't up yet or if the green shroom pops up in the middle of the creeping moss. The wave is easy enough to dodge.
It's just too damn long. Much prefer the shorter, tighter fights.
It's just too damn long. Much prefer the shorter, tighter fights.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
It's also the dust settling on the expansion launch and the only people still playing are the ones who have a modicum of awareness.
As time goes on, the average knowledge of the fights gets higher.
Wait until next week, it'll be hell again.
It's not REALLY rng though, it's just punishing. I think he's like the second or third hardest boss in the zone to learn (absolute difficulty not as high, but has a LOT of points of failure). That said, it's not random - the timings are very precise, the only rng is whether he does mushrooms or tides, but both have answers that aren't too bad no matter what happens. I PREFER mushrooms most of the time, but tides are ok too.
How would you rate Mythic HM mechanically compared to other instances - e.g. Sunwell, Ulduar, AQ40?
Quite curious since I will never get into Mythic.
Harder than all of those. Every other boss fight is a guild check. If you have one bad person its so obvious. Especially when the healing is lacking. Every person basically has a responsibility that will wipe you if you can't meet it. I'm 4/7 due to bad time management, and having the healing core fall apart. Brf is gonna be great but my guild is not ready for the real progression.
unknownstranger
Member
Meh it's the last time my guild is gonna do mythic Highmaul anyways. We're gonna focus on Blackrock Foundry instead even if it takes us a bit to get into mythic. Depending on how our roster shapes up (having a bunch of new recruits coming to heroic and having a few people switch mains) we might eventually go back but I don't think people need anything that badly (we've had so many agility weapons drop from Kar'gath and Twin Ogron that I think out of our Brewmaster, 3 Rogues and Enhancement Shaman, only two aren't already dual wielding mythic weapons yet).
I don't have much of a track record of heroic raiding but of what I've done I'd say Highmaul is a lot less predictable than past raids.
I don't have much of a track record of heroic raiding but of what I've done I'd say Highmaul is a lot less predictable than past raids.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Instance atmosphere I found to be quite bad, but mechanics-wise, Mythic Highmaul is probably on the more difficult end of the spectrum.
Though I'm sure part of the difficulty is due to it being the first tier and people adjusting to expansion changes/lacking gear.
I think I got spoiled with how long SoO was out for though, in that it became so mapped out - I probably have those strategies ingrained in my brain.
Though I'm sure part of the difficulty is due to it being the first tier and people adjusting to expansion changes/lacking gear.
I think I got spoiled with how long SoO was out for though, in that it became so mapped out - I probably have those strategies ingrained in my brain.
Just remember it when we farm tusks :3
Schweinehund
Member
I'm sitting on my tokens, atleast for arms warrior the 2 handers are way better in BRF in terms of secondary stats.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Rukhmar is going to reduce LFG groups to ash. I predict ilvl requirements at 650 week one.
GamerKingFaiz
Member
Guild finally killed M Tectus. FYI you can still get the kill even after messing up a pillar placement, just roll with it!
Kill video.
Kill video.
Definitely easier than stuff like Sunwell, to claim otherwise would be folly. It's really hard to make these comparisons, because highmaul has probably a slightly high 'average' difficulty, but at the end of the day even Margok is not THAT hard. Except for a few fights they firmly rest in the like 20-70 wipe range for most guilds (while lots of guilds did less or more), kargath and twins way below that, maybe even tectus or butcher now that people have gear, and margok more like 100 wipe range.
It'll be more realistic to evaluate the tier as a whole once we have more than 7 bosses imo. Sunwell had few bosses but way FAR harder (by design), AQ40 is really old and not 'hard' like that in the first place, but it also had like 4 really tough bosses and the rest were very easy. Ulduar had plenty of easy bosses, but it had a high number of 'VERY HARD' tier bosses. Freya 3 tree, Firefighter, Yogg 0, those were all harder than Margok.
Grats
Pretty nice first killRazorbackDB
Member
Happened to me a couple of times in the last few weeks.
Im getting DCed everywhere these days
could be killing bears and then boom...DC...and then when I login I have lost like 5 mins of my progress.
WoW Insider is shutting down With the rumored closing of Joystiq, this was pretty much inevitable, still a bummer though.
With the rumored closing of Joystiq, this was pretty much inevitable, still a bummer though.Shadowhaxor
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Just lost a 96% Highmaul Garrison mission
Don't you hate that shit. I failed a 98% before and I'm still in shocked about that. A 96% and a 98%, how the hell.....
WoW Insider is shutting down
Was pretty much inevitable after the Joystiq news but yeah it really bums me out, I've been visiting the site for what feels like forever now, gonna be weird.
WoW Insider is shutting down
that sucks =/
WoW Insider is shutting down
This is putting more of a damper on my day than I thought it would... Everyone writing for that site is such a fan, it's clear they all really love the game and they did a lot of great work connecting fans and fan work.
It's a shame that something like that is being shuttered in the name of corporate consolidation. I hope whatever they all move on to next is successful.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Sad, but I hardly went there in recent years. MMO-Champ and Wowhead generally supply all the news I need.
RandyBobandy
Banned
Void Tendrils is infinitely better than Psychic Scream in arenas. I don't know why so many guides recommend it.
45 second cd and it's useless because everyone trinket outs of it
Lol, alliance is garbage at events. I do it once a day for the boss and gtfo because they have no idea what they're doing. Hey, there's a couple of horde here lets run away
Meanwhile I cap cp on my orc hunter just doing events
45 second cd and it's useless because everyone trinket outs of it
Lol, alliance is garbage at events. I do it once a day for the boss and gtfo because they have no idea what they're doing. Hey, there's a couple of horde here lets run away
Meanwhile I cap cp on my orc hunter just doing events
I just read their WoW Archivist articles which gave me a taste of how WoW during it's early history for a few days. Really liked reading them.
It's gonna be a damn shame losing them.
I actually never really went there for the news myself, enjoyed the authors a lot and reading their personal opinions on stuff.
Can always do a quick LFR wing for a few stones on Tuesday. Not a big deal.
JORMBO
Darkness no more
Wednesday for me - in the EU - and there's not really any time between home-from-work and start-of-raid.
Fortunately, though, the RNG gods have smiled upon me.
(Now watch me somehow manage to fail it)
A glyph?
Edit: Wait, it couldn't be Soul of the Forge, could it? Perhaps with a few pet treats?
Gentleman Jack
Member
I need to put in some serious time in LFR or something to see why I seem to be hitting a hard ceiling on my assassination rogue's DPS during Imperator attempts. Time off target is my biggest enemy but there's a ret at my ilvl nearly doubling me up on every pull so I wonder what the hell is wrong. It feels like my tools are just wrong, or maybe I'm just at that point of inflection where a secondary stat is wavering between amazing and crap and I just need that one upgrade or something.
Nah, it had the 'Fire Elemental' title and everything. Not a glyph either, I checked.