Yeah I've said it before but I don't really care for 4 difficulties either. I thought 3 was a good number. Ideally I'd like to see a tourist mode, a mechanically simple (this part being really important) but tightly tuned flex mode (basically normal), and then the mechanically complex hard hitting fixed size mode (mythic). I just don't really understand the point of heroic, like according to blizz the whole point of flex was to get back to the feel of 10 man normal mode of wrath but I think the way better solution would have just been to you know... make normal mode that easy again.
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World of Warcraft |OT7| Feel the hatred of 10,000 Murlocs
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CarbonatedFalcon
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Goldcap confirmed raised to 9,999,999g in Legion.
RIP.
RIP.
Get those black market bargains now while you still can.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I really gotta wonder how crazy high some of the items will go for in Legion.
And I would probably end up in the 2mil range before Legion, but I need to buy CMs, so that's gonna set me back about 300k. Probably end up around where I am now at ~1.5mil.
HarryDemeanor
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Wait. What's the gold cap currently?
Legion gold cap is quite crazy.
Legion gold cap is quite crazy.
I'll make it there.
Shame there will be nothing to fucking buy. At the moment I'm stocking up my guilds bank with raid supplies.
1m. I think the majority of my raid team has it at least once.
Why pay for it? Fairly easy to run if you can get the people (even with a non-optimal group). You're in Seraph still? Shouldn't be an issue with all your members.
Don't buy the CMs - Find a few mates and do it with them! We're 5/8 at the moment with a far from great comp, and we've been beating some of the timers by over 2 minutes.
Really is some kick ass content.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
People I was doing it with have gotten busy/lost interest. It's just hard to organize. Easier to just cough up the gold and be done.
Fair enough. Just sucks having to shell out that gold 😕
1 copper short of 1 million is current cap
Novel Mike
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Wow gold cap raised again, didn't really see that coming at all.
You didn't? People were capping BMAH bids in MoP, and I know people that had several mil during early Cata.
Oh that's a question - How is profession leveling on the Alpha? Is it gated behind daily CD bollocks like WoD, or can I go out, buy a thousand dust, and max out enchanting in an hour?
It's not fully in yet, but it looks like it's heavily questing-involved. You can level from one with Legion mats and the costs to make things go down as you level it.
Enter the Dragon Punch
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Blizz on Nostalrius
Pristine realms are the things of my dreams. That's all I want.
Pristine realms are the things of my dreams. That's all I want.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Who cares about legacy servers when pristine servers could happen?
Same. I've little interest in going back in time, but I'm all for playing on a real realm.
jaundicejuice
Member
Pristine realm sounds interesting, moreso than a Vanilla server. Having to physically travel to dungeons sounds kind of nuts though, would totally roll a warlock just so I could summon people to group events. That would change so many things, outside of the obvious change forcing people to interact more with one another. I mean faction rep would only be easily obtainable through questing since you couldn't spam the dungeon queue at 15 with a tabbard until revered. It would totally slow down the pace at which you would get faction/rep bags. That might actually drive up a need for low-level tailor bags. Leveling (some) professions might be sort of worthwhile then? Crafted low-level gear might be worth something as well.
I would definitely try a Pristine server out.
I would definitely try a Pristine server out.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
At 142 attempts, 76% chance to have seen Mim's head by now. I've taken more XCOM shots in a row at that percentage that haven't failed. Seriously.
neurosisxeno
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I like the idea, but I wonder if they could make alterations and re-release expansions over time? Such as Launch in say, November 2016, then release the next expansion (or unlock it as the case may be) every November after that. You could do some adjustments here and there to make characters viable at the level caps as they move. They already did a lot of the work making sure numbers scaled and matched up at 60/70/80/90 when they r-scaled everything, so I imagine a small team could handle a lot of the fine tuning for encounters and most of the content is already "created", just needs to be adjusted here and there. The only flaw here is that the timeline would be completely messed up assuming they used Post-Cata Azeroth from the get-go (since they claim they don't have the original copies of the game on their end).
Just did 89k DPS on an LFR boss, 13k higher than the rogue in second place.
161 kills for Sulfuras, which is a much higher droprate. Man up!
Prot spec.
161 kills for Sulfuras, which is a much higher droprate. Man up!
The nost thread posts about the pristine servers are about what I would expect: People resistant because it's still 'modern' wow even though it's got everything they claim makes vanilla better. It's almost like the only reason people want vanilla is nostalgia in the first place! (fucking crazy I know). Ironically, a pristine server would be vastly superior to a vanilla server in all ways besides nostalgia, you'd get the 'community' aspects and still have actual good content on top of it.
Nostalgia aside, I'd have Vanilla PvP & crafting back in a heartbeat. Interesting-to-aqcuire mats & ridiculous PvP shits all over the current game.
But yeah, I'd play on a Pristine Server IF they didn't allow transfers to it.
What was interesting to acquire in vanilla? Genuine question. I was a miner/herbalist for much of that time, I 'acquired' every material hundreds of times over to sell to people that didn't find it that interesting (and I never found it interesting either, just profitable).
New post they made about stuff they'd been discussing/exploring regarding vanilla style servers. No dungeon finder, no x realm, no transfers, no heirlooms no xp boosts of any kind. Still 'current' wow though so that it doesn't have to maintain a separate client.
Recipes, and a wider range of mats from all over the world. I mean, crafting something like Spidersilk Boots is infinitely more interesting than crafting nameless WoD epic #62.
Self farming Robe of Power on my Warlock was so far ahead of anything I can recall doing with my professions for several years now.
Hah, funny story. A month or two back I asked Blizzard to restore a hunter I deleted back in 2007. In its bags? 20x Silver Skeleton Key and 1x Elixir of Greater Firepower. Might move it to my second realm and give it a new life.
Novel Mike
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I'm honestly shocked they replied... Well It's something I guess.
Problem with Prestine is it doesn't actually go back to the original content at all. Part of the reason I wanted to see legacy servers is because I wanted to actually try and experience some of the original raid content while it was relevent. Then you also have the original talent trees which sure are clucky but you could experiement a lot more with certain builds it was really fun way to customize your character even if a lot of the stuff was +1% hit and stuff like that. If people want a 'Prestine' experience they can already pretty much do that themseleves and if they really want a challenge they could try the Iron Man Challenge.
I do like the idea that they could try different server types. Like imagine they have a server where you could group with alliance and horde and talk to each other? They could do one that graned less experience or hell they could do one with quicker experience if they really wanted to. There is several interesting things they could do with this... I'm going to have to think on some ideas they could eventually do.
Problem with Prestine is it doesn't actually go back to the original content at all. Part of the reason I wanted to see legacy servers is because I wanted to actually try and experience some of the original raid content while it was relevent. Then you also have the original talent trees which sure are clucky but you could experiement a lot more with certain builds it was really fun way to customize your character even if a lot of the stuff was +1% hit and stuff like that. If people want a 'Prestine' experience they can already pretty much do that themseleves and if they really want a challenge they could try the Iron Man Challenge.
I do like the idea that they could try different server types. Like imagine they have a server where you could group with alliance and horde and talk to each other? They could do one that graned less experience or hell they could do one with quicker experience if they really wanted to. There is several interesting things they could do with this... I'm going to have to think on some ideas they could eventually do.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=7054/robe-of-power#created-by-spell
Self farming that would take you across the world.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=116453/steelforged-greataxe&bonus=525
Self farming that would take you to a different part of your garrison.
As someone who likes to do their own shit, there's not really a contest. THAT BEING SAID! I do agree with your post. I don't want vanilla/TBC/wrath/cata/MOP back - I did my time. I just want a little bit more of that old style stuff, and I reckon Pristine Realms could do that.
Jag
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Came back for a month or so to focus solely on gold farming just to see what I could make and to milk a bit from WoD before the gold nerf.
Made over 100k in 2 weeks focusing on 4 max garry/shipyards with treasure followers, selling in demand mats (also liquidating resources) and gear and running Cata raids for about 2k a pop (I hate Spine of DW).
Made over 100k in 2 weeks focusing on 4 max garry/shipyards with treasure followers, selling in demand mats (also liquidating resources) and gear and running Cata raids for about 2k a pop (I hate Spine of DW).
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I'd give pristine realms a shot. One of my biggest problems with pure classic servers is missing out on some of the key mechanical/graphical advancements over the years, and pristine servers sound like they wouldn't suffer from that.
They would also be totally unappealing to people who actually want, say, a level 60 or 70 endgame, so I can't see most of the nostalrius crowd being terribly interested.
They would also be totally unappealing to people who actually want, say, a level 60 or 70 endgame, so I can't see most of the nostalrius crowd being terribly interested.
Novel Mike
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Not sure if this is allowed on community threads or not but I did make a video about this post that blizzard made and what I think (or hope) it means. https://youtu.be/lQ17VkBe0eE
Posting since it is something we are currently talking about.
Posting since it is something we are currently talking about.
HarryDemeanor
Member
I would try out a pristine server. What I really want though is a progression server.
Robin64
Member
What do you mean by this exactly? A server where it begins on Vanilla and releases each big patch every several months til it's caught up? I mean, what happens then?
HarryDemeanor
Member
Well I'm going by the EQ2 version of a progression server. So current WoW but unlocking each expansions content over time. It could incorporate the proposed pristine rule set as well.
It obviously wouldn't appeal to the Nost crowd but nothing other than an actual classic realm would.
Garrison cache's in a nutshell.
Day -1 - Oh boy, I'm glad I get my cache tomorrow! I wonder what's in it!
Day 0 - Shock horror, it's shit.
Day 3 - Hey, non-raider we've boosted a few times - Grats on your BiS trinket!
Day 7 - I'm never getting excited for that stupid cache again.
Day 10 - You know, I get a new cache in a few days.
Day 13 - Hm, I wonder... I mean, it COULD contain something good. Maybe this time...!
Day 14 - I GOT THAT SAME SHIT RING LAST WEEK. FOR FUCK SAKE BLIZZARD.
Repeat.
Day -1 - Oh boy, I'm glad I get my cache tomorrow! I wonder what's in it!
Day 0 - Shock horror, it's shit.
Day 3 - Hey, non-raider we've boosted a few times - Grats on your BiS trinket!
Day 7 - I'm never getting excited for that stupid cache again.
Day 10 - You know, I get a new cache in a few days.
Day 13 - Hm, I wonder... I mean, it COULD contain something good. Maybe this time...!
Day 14 - I GOT THAT SAME SHIT RING LAST WEEK. FOR FUCK SAKE BLIZZARD.
Repeat.
Very nice!
I've been doing the same even going as far as setting myself daily averages to meet over all my chars and then seeing if I can best my previous month. I only wanted to make some easy gold for tokens but it was so easy I wanted to see how far I could push it. Now I'm in too deep and can't bring myself to stop.
I'm pumped to see what I end up with but will be relieved when Legion finally arrives.