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World of Warcraft |OT7| Feel the hatred of 10,000 Murlocs
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nismogrendel
Member
Quick question about valor upgrades and starting mythic dungeons...
I have a few 685 pieces (ironpelt gloves and legs). Should I spend valor to upgrade these?
How do I get started with mythic dungeons? I've tried to queue with the finder but get declined. I figure maybe they see my ilvl (678) and turn me down? Maybe they just aren't needing a melee dps? My guild is pretty much dead, so I don't have guildmates to queue with. How did you guys start out w/ mythics?
I have a few 685 pieces (ironpelt gloves and legs). Should I spend valor to upgrade these?
How do I get started with mythic dungeons? I've tried to queue with the finder but get declined. I figure maybe they see my ilvl (678) and turn me down? Maybe they just aren't needing a melee dps? My guild is pretty much dead, so I don't have guildmates to queue with. How did you guys start out w/ mythics?
I'm kinda wondering this as well. I'm 692, not sure if I'm geared enough to do Mythic dungeons.
And really, these days you have to be overgeared for shit. People in pugs want to faceroll every dungeon and raid.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
what other gear do you have?
you should upgrade your best pieces first and then go backwards. Mythic dungeons drop 700 gear, don't they? you should just run more mythic dungeons and upgrade all of your gear regardless.
Dreamland Boy
Neo Member
As far as I know Mythics are tuned for 675ish. You have more than enough gear for them imo but half of it is running with people you know. It's almost all just mechanics.
nismogrendel
Member
685 is my highest, rest of my stuff is between 670 and 681.
I haven't been able to get into a mythic yet, but would like to.
This is my armory link:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/doomhammer/Tobiasfunke/simple
I need to gem and enchant just about everything.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
upgrade your pants then your gloves for now. as soon as you get weapons you can upgrade, then do those. you should be getting gear naturally through the mythic dungeon grind, so upgrade whatever you get that is 685 or more.
if gear is the same ilvl or you have extra valor, priority should be something like this:
1 - weapons, 2 - legs/chest/helm, 3 - shoulders/gloves, 4 - trinkets, 5 - belt/wrists/neck/rings/cloak
saving valor won't help your item level and when you get a new piece, just do a couple more dungeons to get enough valor to upgrade that one before you use it.
as far as the queuing question, use the group finder to find some mythic groups.
Mythics are tunes for only 675? That seems crazy low.
Aquavelvaman
Banned
Go to ashran.
Get the manual of pickpocket.
Go near the enemy base and pickpocket every player than runs by.
Turn in fragments for 3 honor each.
You will be honor capped in less than an hour. Add 30 ilevels to your weapons. Do the same for any other pieces you want to get up to ilvl 700. No PVP required.
Dog Problems
Banned
Not bad. I like how shields look on goblins. I don't mind some clipping just as long as the shield isn't trying to escape away from the character.
Finally passed a million gold today, feels kinda weird since I never saw myself doing it ever. Not really a gold hoarder or anything either but there hasn't been anything I wanted to dump gold on in a while, the 5 TCG mounts I still need have not been on my AH in months.
Been watching the BMAH a lot lately and while I would like a lot of the items you can only get from there most of them go for more than I'd want to spend regardless of how much gold I have. Like no, Tabard of Fury, you are not pretty enough for me to want to spend 130k gold on you.
Been watching the BMAH a lot lately and while I would like a lot of the items you can only get from there most of them go for more than I'd want to spend regardless of how much gold I have. Like no, Tabard of Fury, you are not pretty enough for me to want to spend 130k gold on you.
Do you have all the mounts from Firelands & DS, or are you going to end up going back
Well, it drops 680 by default - warforged procs aside - so that sounds a bit high, if anything.
Yeah, it's actually tuned for around 660.
Keep in mind that BRF LFR only gave 650 gear, they couldn't really push the numbers for mythic dungeons higher without making it content that only people who were doing heroic/mythic BRF were capable of when the patch came out which would be counter productive since mythic dungeons were mostly aimed at people who weren't really interested in raiding in the first place.
That ilvl might seem crazy low now, but, mythic dungeons have been around for over half a year now and your gearing options were vastly limited before they were put in.
JSoup
Banned
I'm guessing at this point, for someone who has never run above LFR and it decked out mostly in Normal gear via chests from the Timewalking events, the best way to get your ilvl to point where Normal and Heroic runners are going to bitch is to dump all Valor into ring upgrades. Thoughts?
Well, if you have nothing else to upgrade, then that's the way to go. Could get some gear from the AH (three 725 armor pieces 6/6 +10iLvls from upgrade, boots/belt from HFC trash).
I have all the FL mounts.
I don't give a shit about the DS mounts so I don't farm those.
jaundicejuice
Member
Why do I have to play through these MoP trial arena things to play Draenor dungeons on Heroic? Shouldn't completing the Draenor dungeon on Normal be enough to permit me to play through the same dungeon on Heroic? The mechnics you deal with in the MoP trials aren't what you deal with in the dungeons outside of having to interrupt spells. I don't get it.
This is one of the things I never understood.
Completing five man dungeons isn't really a usable metric for performance. People can be asleep at the wheel and just get carried by other people. The MoP trials are not challenging but it serves as one of the few training barometers in the game that a player can test themselves against.
HarryDemeanor
Member
No. They just pop up randomly. I got two of them before I finished my legendary ring.
hellmonkey
Member
Did you kill the NPC in tanaan and complete his quest? They wont show up with out that. I figured that out the hard way. I only rectified that 2 weeks ago. I got the str and int rings 2-3 days latter on back to back mission. I havent seen the agil one and its been over a week.
Did you kill the NPC in tanaan and complete his quest? They wont show up with out that. I figured that out the hard way. I only rectified that 2 weeks ago. I got the str and int rings 2-3 days latter on back to back mission. I havent seen the agil one and its been over a week.
Which NPC?
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
No chest from Ulduar AGAIN. FUCK THIS LIFE.
jaundicejuice
Member
This is one of the problems I have with WoW. Normal gameplay in pve and dungeons should be the training for the harder gameplay in the higher diffculty dungeons and raids. It shouldn't just be this faceroll story mode where you can mash your face on your keyboard and progress.
In general, MMORPGs have been overly wary with systems transparency. I'm not really a fan personally. The epitome of this would probably be something like FFXIV, where you have hard DPS checks (like any other MMORPG), but posting damage logs is explicitly forbidden. WoW has the same problem where the numbers are all available...but they really aren't properly tallied and presented to players at any point. I'd really like to see scoreboards after bosses or once the dungeon is complete that highlights player participation through healing, damage done, and damage mitigated. This kind of thing would also serve as an ideal platform for Blizzard to co-opt the commendation system from FFXIV.
Holy fucking shit. I never knew this
The problem is that when they do do this, (see battle ground scoreboards) people quickly misinterpret the data and yell at each other like idiots. So it doesn't really help.
For content that is hard enough for player participation to matter, players are tallying damage, etc on their own and the savvier players know how to properly analyze it. If one of our raiders is top damage on a fight but ignoring the priority target, they're getting a whisper from the officers about it.
10/33 tomes for the legendary quest after the first week. Guessing my luck will slow down a bit, but not bad!
Seriously, it's awesome. I had no idea either until last week
JSoup
Banned
Well, I'm sitting at 698 currently, and most of what I'm seeing on my realms AH isn't much of an upgrade, stat wise.
King Gilga
Member
What's this transmog? I want to borrow it.
Star Falcon
Member
Enjoyable first week back! I got some gear and joined a guild which ran me through Hellfire Citadel on normal, cool place definitely gets better as it goes on. First couple of encounters were lame but the final bunch were all brilliant.
Been looking at some stuff about Legion. Are the Class Order halls effectively a version of Acherus for each different class? As in you will see other players on your realm running around them as opposed to a personal Garrison?
Looks like a recolour of the Mage Tier 8 set.
definitely gets better as it goes on. First couple of encounters were lame but the final bunch were all brilliant.Been looking at some stuff about Legion. Are the Class Order halls effectively a version of Acherus for each different class? As in you will see other players on your realm running around them as opposed to a personal Garrison?
Looks like a recolour of the Mage Tier 8 set.
Robin64
Member
Basically, yeah. They'll have more function than the current Acherus, though.
King Gilga
Member
Thanks, looks like the decent colors are mage only, hm...
Why do you have so many duplicates on your bars?
JSoup
Banned
What's this transmog? I want to borrow it.
Highlighting the gear should telling you the piece names, but it's the Valorous Kirin Tor Garb (http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=836/kirin-tor-garb).