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World of Warcraft |OT7| Feel the hatred of 10,000 Murlocs
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Was she sleeping?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Well there's at least new stuff to do when 7.0 drops on the 26th. So it's not a total waste.
HarryDemeanor
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That's what I wrote.
Hm, maybe when I get back from vacay at the beginning of August then!
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
They're doing a big "Legion Launch" test on the beta today at 3 PST to simulate launch conditions, locking you out of characters already above 100 for the duration.
So I got the MMO itch again and decided to start WOW this week. I got an Orc warlock lvl 19 and Im wondering whats better to level? Grind dungeons or keep questing or a combination of both? Also any other tips for starting out? Im making money out of mining but still havent decided on another profession.
Solo DPS queue for dungeons for the dungeon quests and variation + dungeon completion experience and while waiting for queue quest.
Solo DPS queue can be long at times so at least this way you got some exp at all times.
Just keep questing, it gives you a steady stream of gold which helps starting out. I prefer the Barrens path as it is cleaner, travel wise, going through the Classic content. The roughest patch is from 50-60. The professions are really just gold sinks if you are leveling up, you get everything you need from quest or dungeon rewards. Once you hit 58, you'll have access to Outland and the first expansion, Burning Crusade content. Here you might prefer doing dungeons to supplement questing since the content is pretty dated. The 1-60 zones were all updated more recently. Then at 68, you can start in Northrend on Wrath of the Lich King content, at 80 you can do Cataclysm zones i.e. Vashj'ir and Hyjal, at 85 Pandaria, and at 90 you can begin on the current expansion Draenor content.
Interfectum
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On Sargeras my solo DPS queue has been 3 minutes tops. I've gone from level 15 to 50 in two days doing nothing but solo queue dungeons with a mage. I don't even have time to get to a quest hub before it pops.
I'm guessing tank and healer have instant queues.
It's been so quick I'm going to take a Shaman and Warrior to 60 as well to see which class I should boost.
they are nowhere near that at max or scaled level in comparison to death knight
dk is the best dps in the game on beta at max, its not really close
even the most unbalanced specs beat out tanks at max/scaled so it isnt really an issue, especially when those dps specs finally get the tuning they need
Where's shadow dps in beta raids?
DPS queues are fast at lower levels because the content is so trivial to tank/heal. When you get into expansion content that changes entirely.
That said, I was playing a Disc Priest the other day and a group managed to run me OOM in Scholomance on-level by pulling the first big room in its entirety.
moderate, they do very well on some fights and moderate on others, meaning they are fine outside of aoe of course
short lived aoe, anything that can survive a full duration of dots its really strong against
as well as any encounter that requires on demand burst and target swaps
one of the better ranged
Nope. Volmar won't be set up unless you complete the intro quests for shipyard/Tanaan.
Freeman76
Member
I clearly have been schooled, i apologise! Where do you buy those medallions?
I'll take it. Thanks for the quick reply.
Interfectum
Member
That happened to me yesterday. Our healer ran out of mana cause the tank pulled everything. Was there a frost mage in your group? lol
Interfectum
Member
MMO-Champion getting a summary going as they doing the QA: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/
It wasn't the tank that pulled it all. He went to the left, and the shaman jumped over to start the boss encounter like it was the Pandaria heroic version. Seeing how I had no AoE heals at that level, I was using my raid frames to flash heal everyone in turn, since the bear couldn't keep threat on everything. Pretty intense.
jaundicejuice
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Thanks, not having access to the beta or trying the PTR I was simply curious as to how the evaluations were occurring. I was of the mind that half the problem is people have gone from their god-tier geared WoD toons and lower geared Legion toons with low powered artifacts but that isn't the case.
The simcrafting stuff doesn't really matter for me since I'm pretty casual and just want to play certain classes to try their changes out. It's why I rolled a Priest for Legion, to try the new Discipline and Shadow. It's why I'll eventually have a Warlock and Hunter. Besides, it's not like things will remain static.
That's exactly what I was wondering, unless it's a new Warlock weapon type going forward, floating head familiar.
In the next expansion you should have the option of leveling up your artifact as well. To get something amazing like the Ashbringer and then it being outclassed by a Level 120 green feels bad man.
Or create some sort of artifact creation system where YOU get to create the next greatest artifact and what it looks like, with modular pieces so everyone's artifact is unique.
Or create some sort of artifact creation system where YOU get to create the next greatest artifact and what it looks like, with modular pieces so everyone's artifact is unique.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yeah it's definitely going to be super weird going from these historic weapons of legend to quest blues or whatever at level 111. I wonder how they are going to end up dealing with that.
We've been doing that since TBC.
Interfectum
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So I take it the Lich King will appear in the Frost DK questline?
In the next expansion you should have the option of leveling up your artifact as well. To get something amazing like the Ashbringer and then it being outclassed by a Level 120 green feels bad man.
Or create some sort of artifact creation system where YOU get to create the next greatest artifact and what it looks like, with modular pieces so everyone's artifact is unique.
people have been going for the arcane one since it was discovered and only like 2 days ago have we MAYBE found the first lead which ahs to do with polymorphing certain mob types in zones bringing up a chat bubble of a sheep saying ...
I'm just going to assume there's some sort of rogue artifact hidden appearance in Ravenholdt.
'The war against the demonic army has weakened the power of your atifacts from overuse' pre-patch for next exp
'The war against the demonic army has weakened the power of your atifacts from overuse' pre-patch for next exp
Ah, hadn't seen that.
Oh boy this is going to be interesting...
Though truth be told, I'm more interested in the variant appearance that'll come in a later patch, since it should be that Kirin Tor style Aluneth that was datamined. I need that bad.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Ehh not really though. This is the first time the weapons themselves have been significant to the story and directly related to the overall world. Even morseo than previous legendary weapons for the most part, because a lot of the artifacts are like thousands of years old mythical relics and/or directly related to super iconic moments in Warcraft history.
Like, Ashbringer is the Ret paladin weapon. Putting it down for anything else would feel like a downgrade.
I mean... Rogues and Warriors already ditched warglaives after BC. I don't see how that's any different than Ashbringer.
All of the DK artifacts involve the lich king. Frost is about Arthas if that's what you meant though. There are class specific artifact power gains in the world too, and the DK ones are pretty badass.
Obviously slight spoilers, just voiceovers though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDXvhkIH1M4 the four memories of arthas you find in the different zones, so this is four separate dialogues. the one at 15 seconds is the best imo.
Ner'zhul too
Interfectum
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Yeah that's what I meant... cool.
Are these quests/stories supposed to be any good? Are they in beta?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Glaives were cool but they were never really anything more than "Illidan's cool looking weapons". They weren't very special themselves, as far as their actual relation to the Warcraft history or their origins. Stuff like Ashbringer, Scythe of Elune and Staff of Sargeras are. Hell, the latter was literally the tool used to destroy Draenor.
You have to do them to get your artifacts, so yes
Most of them are quite good. I have to say the blood DK one is super super underwhelming, but frost and unholy are good.Hey, dual wielding frostmourne is cool
Interfectum
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"My bank alt has an Ashbringer."
Dog Problems
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Ugh, fist weapons really are the worst. Makes me not even want to mess with Windwalker at all.
It's different now that they've designed the entire expansion around artifacts for every class. If it works well, people are going to want them to do it again and maintain the system in some fashion, but then it won't be as new or interesting. If it works badly, Legion is going to suck and they'll have to completely redesign classes yet again. So they've basically backed themselves into a corner they probably already regret.
It annoys me a bit since they said at start of alpha that they were looking into ways to have them displayed.
Also I find it hard to believe that fist weapons are more bulky and clip yet that doesn't happen with the ginormous axes and swords we wield.
Dog Problems
Banned
Bet Enhnacement isn't complaining now
jaundicejuice
Member
We'll lose artifact weapons for the next expansion the same way Grom Hellscream declared Draenor was finally free, in an unsatisfying way. The hero's weapon will probably have to be sacrificed to end the Legion's invasion of Azeroth.