I completely agree. I think totems were great back in Vanilla/TBC when they were unique and powerful group effects that were balanced against their weaknesses. Then they started homogenizing buffs in WOTLK and that fine balance went out the window, and we've been stuck with basic niche spells every since.
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I completely agree. I think totems were great back in Vanilla/TBC when they were unique and powerful group effects that were balanced against their weaknesses. Then they started homogenizing buffs in WOTLK and that fine balance went out the window, and we've been stuck with basic niche spells every since.
HarryDemeanor
Member
I use that from time to time. Takes a while going through the settings to get it looking how I want it.
2 years of steady content this time, and one year for the drought! lol
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
At least we get cool sound effects.
Avenger's Shield! *DONG*
Consecration! *SCORCH*
Judgement! *SEAR*
Love those pali sound effects.
CelticKnight
Member
I'm not sure which ability it is, but sometimes my Ret Pally sounds like he's hitting someone in the face with a frying pan.
I do understand this concern, but if Kara is really big, as in 2-4+ hours big, I am not sure I would want to run that via LFG tool.
Sounds like Judgment, lol. Paladin has great sound design.
MHWilliams
Member
Also, I also the ability to queue for any dungeon. Jumping back into tanking was a pain in Warlords, because I couldn't do a practice runs on Normal.
I mean it could also be split into wings, like the LFR. But if this really is a sort of 5 man raid, maybe we would get boss fights that last 3-5 minutes and have several phases (which we rarely see in 5 mans), trash packs that need CC (maybe even with special objects that lie around so you don't have to bother with a specific comp) or other things that make the whole thing "LFG unfriendly".
I would say, since both Suramar dungeons will also be mythic only, let's see how this experiment pans out and then, well, be either quiet or rage at Blizzard.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I have absolutely no problem with Blizzard make some content that doesn't have the easy mode random queue version. I've been seeing this discussion play out on the official forums a bit and I can't help but roll my eyes at people who act like anything they can't queue for is automatically an impossible to reach plateau that may as well not exist for them.
Finally happy with my hunter transmog, only piece I'm not sure about is chest
Thats a shaman. Thief!
jaundicejuice
Member
Are these shards only currency for this pre-patch event? Outside of buying the chocker, trinker, ring and cape, and that's only 200 shards, I have nothing to spend shards on but felbat pups. Managed to get Plate, Mail and Leather sets with other toons and bought the Cloth transmog set sicne I currently have no one to unlock that with. I've been having to buy felbat pups to avoid capping out and they go for so little right now. I hope this pet is limited to the pre-patch event and they eventually re-gain some value. It's kinda free gold from really lazy people, so I probably shouldn't complain,
Honestly, the holy enchantment buff still wrecks elites. Instead of 2 shotting elites it takes around 2-3 procs. Which comes out to 15 seconds or less per elite. Sometimes even quicker. I'm able to 1 shot the non-elites with it. Don't need to worry about others hitting it since I'm far off in the distance before stage 3 starts. Pretty much all XP to myself.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
No kilt, that's how you know it's not a shaman!
Shit, you got me there. No kilt so I have to look at dem lanky ass legs ugh.
What belt is that btw?
Ah yeah. I love that Shaman tier.
HarryDemeanor
Member
I am plowing through levels now that the hotfixes are live.
Sgtpepper89
Member
Should be temporary yes. For exessive shards you can buy upgrades for the weapons that can drop, 150 for +5 ilvls and can upgrade one wep 5 times. The event farm is kinda just for making shitty alts a better situation for whats to come. Or stack up pets for selling in a few years.
usually when you choose to mog it it ends the timer. But it gets even weirder. I have the lookalikes, they are called Flamebloom Gloves, but they dont show up on my mage. So I go "ok maybe its bugging out because I have both, so let me sell back the tier gloves"
I sell back the tier gloves, they get removed from my transmog collection, but the flamebloom ones (the lookalikes) dont show up lol. They show up for my lock and priest, but not my mage
I know this post was a few pages back, but what level is your mage? If your mage isn't at least the same level that the gear was ment for, you can't transmog into it.
100 mate. This was right after soloing heroic t11 shit and realising the heroic tier was red and I wanted the blue. So I bought the blue one from the vendor and I couldnt transmog the gloves. It was some bug with the same model gloves I already owned which wasnt showing up for my mage for whatever reason. I fixed it tho.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Yeah, takes a while but it just looks so much better than the default UI. if ElvUI ever stopped getting updated, I dunno how I could play WoW again.
So will the new exploit be running around tagging everything?
jaundicejuice
Member
My main bank page is full of Coalesced Fel weapon upgrades.
I also have a hexweave bag full of invasions chests reserved for when I hit 100. I should get both the 1 and 2H weapons maxed. I leveled this Monk almost exclusively through invasions.HarryDemeanor
Member
Yes. And this time Blizzard will have to shut down WoW forever due to being plagued with cheaters.
I wonder what sort of plan they have to encourage class diversity in raids. Class exclusive buffs again? I guess stuff like the Windwalker 10% movement speed aura maybe and warlock summons
Yea, he's right. I mean sometimes a spec actually is garbage and it's the devs' fault, but usually everything is viable for 99% of players.
You get all the talents in the artifact eventually, its up to you to choose what should have priority.
For example, on my BM hunter I will take the path that gets me faster to the talent that makes it so Hati (the artifact pet you get) also benefits from kill command, beast cleave and bestial wrath (so I will go "up" the artifact tree and not "down" to start with)
Take a look at the calculator, at the big golden talents and see whats more important to you and how you should get there faster
My chief concern is being able to get into them at all.
I am in a guild but its very small, just a handful of us, and we come and go so I can't rely overly much on them if I want to run it. Thus I have to turn to my server community in its entirety, and whenever people are able to set requirements, it always tends to be on the stupidly high side.
I don't want to have to be decked out in bleeding edge raid gear just so I can join something that's, ostensibly, for non-raiders.
LiquidSword
Member
Wait so the reduced XP was just a bug? lol
HarryDemeanor
Member
No. They're calling it a bug but it was always the way XP worked in-game.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
All the people who gave me the Broken Shore buffs disappeared?
King Gilga
Member
That and scaling making you get one shot by boss stuff.
I personally know I ended up cleaving down tons of lowbies when tagging packs in phase 1 for xp purposes, not my fault, hate the game not the player.
I just don't engage till the last 10% of boss type mobs health now.
It's blizzards fault for not giving xp when you're dead or ghosted.
Hippopuncher12
Member
Yeah I have started doing the same....so damn annoying to die multiple times right before a boss dies and get zilch...dumb.