No. They'll just occasionally cast a damage spell on the boss instead of spamming PW:S.
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No. They'll just occasionally cast a damage spell on the boss instead of spamming PW:S.
I don't particularly care about that high level of gameplay, so it doesn't matter in the first place. Besides, we have no idea at all how the spec will operate, but if it's to stay as a healer you can bet the majority of their role will be to heal in addition to the spec doing damage (which in the long run is favorable) since you will be adding to the overall damage the group puts out. Plus soloing will be a breeze.
PillowKnight
Member
The devs clarified that disc isn't going to do 50% healing of a healing spec and 50% of the dps of a damage spec. They meant 50% of disc's healing will come from atonement which is damage converted to healing. Disc will be dealing a not so significant amount of dps, maybe 10% or so.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
when is the end of their FY?
if they drop it before the end of the FY that'll give them time to boast higher subscription numbers...
Rose of Eternity
Banned
This is already how I play disc though. Heals/dps are already almost 50%. I was hoping what they were saying is that I won't have to stop and cast heal or penance, but rather I can cast smite and some percentage of that will heal. Like 75% of dps heals anyone with a bubble on. I don't want to ever have to cast a heal to heal unless its an emergency.
King Gilga
Member
MoP smite healing is the only time a healer in wow has been any fun.
And considering how boring that was that says a lot.
And considering how boring that was that says a lot.
jaundicejuice
Member
Some of the DPS you end up queuing with definitely doesn't make healing boring, that's for damn sure.
Rose of Eternity
Banned
Then you should probably play a non-healer
But I want to heal. I just don't want to heal the same way I've been healing for the last 10 years. Bubbles and absorbs are just as boring as vanilla hots were. It's one hybrid spec on a healer class. I can switch to conventional heals any time I want, so why can't I have an option to play a non-conventional healer? People shouldn't think of disc dps as negligible either. When pushing content, every single bit of dps matters.
MrPing1000
Member
So just resubbed and it appears someone has been in my account.
All my characters and items are there, but all my gold is gone. Haven't played since last November, odd. Think I had about 25k on my main then a few thousand scattered around alts. Now my main has 2g.
Very odd. Only thing to suggest something is I got an email at the end of June saying a friend gifted me "BAM - WoW Game Time" but the payment didn't complete and it has been removed from my account. Didn't take any notice of it at the time since I wasn't playing.
All my characters and items are there, but all my gold is gone. Haven't played since last November, odd. Think I had about 25k on my main then a few thousand scattered around alts. Now my main has 2g.
Very odd. Only thing to suggest something is I got an email at the end of June saying a friend gifted me "BAM - WoW Game Time" but the payment didn't complete and it has been removed from my account. Didn't take any notice of it at the time since I wasn't playing.
Rose of Eternity
Banned
You can buy the WoW token without a sub with gold from the character select screen. Would still mean someone has your log in info.
You probably resub'd for gold? It pulls gold from all of your characters to pay the current token price (which is over 25k at the moment).
MrPing1000
Member
Nah I resubbed with money, didn't have enough gold to resub via token, I tried that first.
It's odd, password wasn't changed, email is the same. I play hearthstone a bunch so I'd have noticed. Just all my gold is gone, nothing else.
Looked at my account history as well and I haven't had any sub since end of November. It looks like someone used a gifted token to resub logged in, transferred the gold out then the transaction for the token failed so suspended my account again.
jaundicejuice
Member
Do you not have an authenticator?
Schweinehund
Member
I'm sure Disc priests will bring something to the table so bringing one to the raid will be really fruitful. Reminded me of their design philosophy in TBC & Wotlk where they had shadow priests as mana batteries / dps healers to encourage bringing them to raids, and then they sort of spread that out as an effect with ret paladins and I think shamans as well? (it was buff that gave mana regen to the raid, I forget the name).
It makes me scared because it seems like they're doing a lot of these sweeping changes + a new class and I don't know how things will shake down. Atleast they're slimming 2hand vs dual wield choices to just one for all the specs. Personally I want to see some reworks on feral and balance, some slight changes to Arm, Enhance & Elemental.
edit: Here it is, Replenishment.
Basically they wanted to ensure you'd bring certain classes around and they could still have their niche role. I don't know if they still had the hybrid tax back then though, I think they got rid of the idea with either WOTLK or Cataclysm.
It makes me scared because it seems like they're doing a lot of these sweeping changes + a new class and I don't know how things will shake down. Atleast they're slimming 2hand vs dual wield choices to just one for all the specs. Personally I want to see some reworks on feral and balance, some slight changes to Arm, Enhance & Elemental.
edit: Here it is, Replenishment.
Basically they wanted to ensure you'd bring certain classes around and they could still have their niche role. I don't know if they still had the hybrid tax back then though, I think they got rid of the idea with either WOTLK or Cataclysm.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
That is definitely not what they said their intent is. They want it to be like, you get a stacking buff every time you smite that increase the strength of your next heal. Actually casting heals and bubbles is going to be a major part of the spec, it will just be augmented and boosted by damage.
From what I've read, the disc stuff was miscommunication. They're still a full healer, but half of their effective healing comes from atonement.
The problem with this is still balancing healer damage(classes that heal by dealing damage often deal less damage than the ones that don't, which can make it feel more like a drawback than a perk).
RoninChaos
Member
So I'm basically done with every daily except the Apexis ones. Is there a way to burn through those in one shit or do I hVe to wait for the shitty Apexis daily RNG?
For the flying achievement?
http://www.wowhead.com/items?filter=na=scouting+missive;cr=82;crs=1;crv=60003
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Zakuun once again fails to drop a trinket. Haven't had a single one drop. Meanwhile, everyone else has coined one. -_-
Would like a weapon off him too for Unholy.
Would like a weapon off him too for Unholy.
MrPing1000
Member
Support got back to me, confirmed someone accessed my account in early June. Said because it's been more than 60days they cannot restore the lost gold. Bummer, at least my characters weren't deleted. Still no idea how my account was accessed though.
RoninChaos
Member
Cool, thank you. I think i have one more to do after powering through the rest. Just have two more things to do for Nagrander and I'm done. If they don't have shit dailies where you fill up a bar and actually have quests for flying in legion I think I'd be okay. But this shit has been a slog and it fucking SUCKS.
I've also run into a DPS check on 25H Madness of Deathwing as a Druid tank with 650+ item level. I wasn't dying, but in the last phase he was healing faster than I could kill him and I had to get lucky to get him down. Switching to Balance rectified that issue.
The key is to be able to get to the middle platform as fast as possible when the second phase starts. This is dependant on in which order you kill the tentacles appearing on the back of each platform. You should kill the ones that are the farthest out first.
King Gilga
Member
Is there any way to make the default player buffs/debuffs go all the way from left to right instead of making rows after 8?
I have far more horizontal space than vertical space to spare.
I have far more horizontal space than vertical space to spare.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
No the only way to break it is with human racial or trinket.
No, doing enough damage to the dog breaks it. It's a mechanic in the fight.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Ah my priest was too undergeared I guess.
RoninChaos
Member
So, I know a few of you have multiple one hundreds. Any suggestions for leveling now? I had all level 90s for mists but i'm dreading slogging through draenor. Any suggestions to make it go quick? I need to level my warrior, paladin, lock, mage and rogue. They're all 91-92.
Heirlooms and exp potions from your garrison. I hit 100 about halfway through the third zone. Make sure you pick up treasures/kill rares/do bonus objectives too.
Move to the next zone as soon as you hit every two levels (92, 94, 96, 98) and hit all the bonus areas you can while questing (only do quests that are bunched up).
It doesn't take very long at all to go 90-100 as long as you don't get sidetracked or stay in zones longer than you should...and you definitely want to use heirlooms.
Edit: and if you choose to use the garrison xp pots, you can do 99% of several bonus objectives, drink the pot and then run and complete them. Adds a huge chunk of xp and no wasted time (and couple that with quest turn ins).
CelticKnight
Member
One thing I did while leveling the 90's was leave the bonus objectives one kill short in Shadowmoon and Gorgrond, so when I popped the XP potion I could "complete" more in the 60 minutes buff it gave you.
Might not have made too much difference, I don't know, but every little helps... although this was on an alt that didn't have many resources so I had to maximise the couple of XP potions I had. If you can buy a few then it doesn't matter.
EDIT:
Yeah, what he said lol
Might not have made too much difference, I don't know, but every little helps... although this was on an alt that didn't have many resources so I had to maximise the couple of XP potions I had. If you can buy a few then it doesn't matter.
EDIT:
Yeah, what he said lol
Schweinehund
Member
Leveling my demo lock after my hunter now and I have to say the demons are awful compared to the hunter pets. My felguard is flimsier then my pet in ferocity, let alone tenacity. Out of combat regen is pitiful too, I'm resummoning him after every second aoe pull. Think I'm better off turning off threat and having me tank it in demon form. Might make this my raiding alt considering how rare warlocks are and I like the aesthetics and gameplay.
Why aren't you using the Voidwalker?
Schweinehund
Member
Mostly because of gathering up mobs and fel storming, I'll give void walker a try though. Having neither of these pets crit immune is kind of dumb though.
Draenor is literally the easiest/fastest leveling has ever been in this game (minus the pet battle xp bug from MoP), it's anything but a slog. Especially in this patch since they added a BOE 300% xp potion. Just go to Gorgrond, build the arena outpost, collect every single elite rare spawn quest item and most of the arena quest items, get every bonus objective to almost complete, pop a 300% xp potion and then finish all the bonus objectives and then quickly turn in the rare elite/area quest items. That will get you to almost 100.
The key to fast leveling in Draenor has always been Gorgrond and they made it even more ridiculous in this patch.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
The Voidwalker is the tank pet.
Schweinehund
Member
Yeah definitely it's doing more single target damage because of the reactive shield as well. I just viewed the felguard as an all in one type pet but it's still really flimsy compared to a ferocity pet. I know hunter & demon pets aren't meant to be the same but demo doesn't feel like a pet spec, like most of the damage and power is my warlock instead of my pet, or an equal split.
How rare is the green fire tome? I wanted to give farming that a try for a day or two when I hit 100.