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World of Warcraft |OT8| CITIZENS OF DALARAN
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I don't know why historically - and still to this day - Blizzard has been so afraid of giving professions attractive gear. I mean, make it BOP by all means if you're worried about the economy. But it's so, so, so rarely ever been worth crafting anything for your own use and it's quite silly. You should be able to craft a well itemized, raid quality item of your choice using somewhat expensive mats.
It's not like allowing people to make ONE guaranteed-to-be-good item is gonna throw the balance of everything hopelessly out of whack. But the fact that world quests almost ever give better gear than something that costs thousands of gold to make is very silly.
Robin64
Member
Worse than Starcraft II?
CelticKnight
Member
Speaking of Blizzard's crap writing, I found the "Tyrande searches for Malfurion" bit at the end of Val'sharah borderline laughable when I played through it.
The script, the voice acting... just hideous.
Diablo 3?
Well praised ability
Blizzard: Awesome! We did a great job we're really proud of it and proud to see our intelligent playerbase figure out ways to make it work well
'It's a Shadow Priest ability'
NERF IT INTO THE FUCKIGN DIRT
It's
very similar
There's a part near the end that I actually burst out laughing at.
Blizzard: Awesome! We did a great job we're really proud of it and proud to see our intelligent playerbase figure out ways to make it work well
'It's a Shadow Priest ability'
NERF IT INTO THE FUCKIGN DIRT
It's
very similar
There's a part near the end that I actually burst out laughing at.
Lanrutcon
Member
something something TERROAAAAR
jaundicejuice
Member
So basically if you're a Demonology Warlock, fight any and every Eredar mob you come across in any of the zones. Until people at least figure out what the perquisites are to trigger the initial head drop.
Welp, Logged into my arms warrior 3-4 times trying things out and just felt too demoralized. I didn't sign up to play warlords of draenor again where I'm just auto attacking 60% of the time. Wish they just nerfed arms' damage and didn't mess with the playstyle, but not only did they crush the damage by ~25% but they did so by reducing the number of procs you get by 25% which is the heart of the entire spec and the fun of the entire spec.
So the result is a spec that just isn't exciting or thrilling anymore and is even more RNG-dependent than it was before (and it was very RNG dependant before). In doing so they also crushed any potential alternative builds to Focused Rage (the current dominant build). Just very demoralizing, especially with how much time I put into my artifact. Just wanted to enjoy my Arms warrior mang. I can't enjoy Fury with the current enrage mechanic, so I cancelled my sub and will check back in with 7.1.
I loved Legion out of the gate, had high hopes, but they just fucked the entire playstyle of my favorite spec overnight in a reckless manner.
So the result is a spec that just isn't exciting or thrilling anymore and is even more RNG-dependent than it was before (and it was very RNG dependant before). In doing so they also crushed any potential alternative builds to Focused Rage (the current dominant build). Just very demoralizing, especially with how much time I put into my artifact. Just wanted to enjoy my Arms warrior mang. I can't enjoy Fury with the current enrage mechanic, so I cancelled my sub and will check back in with 7.1.
I loved Legion out of the gate, had high hopes, but they just fucked the entire playstyle of my favorite spec overnight in a reckless manner.
Lanrutcon
Member
99% surety that it's artifact knowledge 5 that triggers it.
Their current theory is it has to do with being exalted with highmountain or killing xavius but it's all theory
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I think the exalted is just a coincidence, as it doesn't really make sense. AK is the most likely trigger, but who knows.
Any arcane mages who hit AK5 gone and sheep the specific mobs that people found yet?
I've got close to 2 days left before I can test it myself, and since it seems AK5 gates a number of hidden appearances, it may also trigger something for the Woolomancer.
Otherwise, we're still in the dark.
I've got close to 2 days left before I can test it myself, and since it seems AK5 gates a number of hidden appearances, it may also trigger something for the Woolomancer.
Otherwise, we're still in the dark.
Lanrutcon
Member
Ak5 is the trigger for a few confirmed hidden artifact skins so far. The pattern makes sense.
Echelon079
Member
What's AK5?
Problem I think is that there are so many more people applying to mythic groups than there are spots. Like, when I list my groups, I set min ilvl at 830, and would happily take most 830 people. But then I get 10 applicants in the first 5 seconds, 5 of which are 840+, so why should I disadvantage myself and make my run longer by taking the people who have a lower ilvl (but need it more maybe). Also unfortunately defines spec choices. Sorry warlocks/ele shams (pre-hotfix at least), but if a fire mage or BM hunter also applies it is hard to decide to pick the class that on average is worse for the run.
The mythic and mythic+ system is definitely WAY better for social experiences, but because it isn't a queue and you pick your players, it ends up being much harder for solo DPS at low end ilvls playing non top end classes to get in to runs. Guess thats why I only play tanks/healers these days, at least at that point I can make my own groups.
Artifact knowledge level 5, the thing you put work orders towards that increases the artifact power you earn.
Lanrutcon
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Artifact Knowledge 5. The fifth one you research. I believe AK2 and AK3 unlock quests (not sure if AK4 does squat).
Viklund got benched for Serenity because of these changes. Despite being top DPS on Xavius this week.
ayylmao
I'm with you brother
ayylmao
Project reroll from Prot Warrior underway!
I'm with you brother
I guess just complete. We only beat a Mythic+3 timer but also beat Mythic+5 and it now shows +5 as the highest level I beat.
Wow, what ilvls? And the affix and dungeon? I didn't think anyone could do +8 yet.
HarryDemeanor
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CarbonatedFalcon
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Havoc DPS will play drastically differently next week, it's gonna be a ride. When your most or second-most damaging ability gets dumpstered into *almost never use*.
Yeah...
So we get to play around with some different talents.
Anyway been leveling my Fire Mage to get in on some of that dank herb action. She's 110 now, but I still gotta finish up some Suramar stuffs before I get world quests.
Yeah...
So we get to play around with some different talents.
Anyway been leveling my Fire Mage to get in on some of that dank herb action. She's 110 now, but I still gotta finish up some Suramar stuffs before I get world quests.
But then I have to play with people!
Orochinagis
Member
Had a lot of fun using the DPS Monk for questing, but I am not gonna do Suramar quests for a while for the friendly cap and go WQs. the suramar grind is pretty boring and unfair when you get caught on their city
850-855 (DK has legendary), Teeming & Skittish on Eye of Azshara. We've people going for +10 in this thread.
I haven't played since the first xpac, Burning crusade(?). I was never a super hardcore player, I remember doing some of the raids and stuff. But wow, everything is so different... what happened to the talent tree??
Aside from just get used to everything new, enjoying going through all the new changes to the world. Seeing what I remember from Human areas and how they've changed is cool.
Also if anyone has any tips for a player coming back and rolling a new char, I'd appreciate it. Not sure if I'm just not aware of some stuff.
Aside from just get used to everything new, enjoying going through all the new changes to the world. Seeing what I remember from Human areas and how they've changed is cool.
Also if anyone has any tips for a player coming back and rolling a new char, I'd appreciate it. Not sure if I'm just not aware of some stuff.
How much do you get? I've done 2-3 but I didn't even bother looking at how much AP I was getting.
jaundicejuice
Member
I don't understand why there's no way to refund artifact power invested. They basically implement a system that locks people in to a specific spec, then make really heavy handed changes that can basically make the player feel like they've completely wasted their time and offer them absolutely no recourse.
That just seems like such a gross oversight.
If they can't get the balancing done well, they need to ease up on how AP functions. I have a feeling that Artifact Power is going to end up being like Paragon Levels by the end of the expansion or there's going to be a lot of upset players who simply unsubscribe.
That just seems like such a gross oversight.
If they can't get the balancing done well, they need to ease up on how AP functions. I have a feeling that Artifact Power is going to end up being like Paragon Levels by the end of the expansion or there's going to be a lot of upset players who simply unsubscribe.
I had read that artifact knowledge eventually scales artifact power up to 1499% or something like that? If that's the case, and if artifact knowledge research times will decrease globally the further we get from release, then the issues will be really front-loaded. I know people are always concerned about right now, but it doesn't seem like it'll be that long before it isn't the sky is falling issue that people are making it out to be.
Lanrutcon
Member
Once you get the process down at +2 and above, you get thousands. And by god, the amount of gear you get compared to raiding.
Lanrutcon
Member
Sölf;217991972 said:
Once they balance it against raiding. And they tweak it to stop the griefing. And add a way to replace members and deal with disconnects. And solve the class imbalance so every spec performs well in dungeons. And add a tool so it's easier to organise outside of guilds.
Guys, add me on BT: Sarcasm#1161
Did you watch the video above?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcRqjKjpeIU
Maw of Souls +10, disc healer PoV.
Disc is quite good, and the extra damage helps with speed clears.
For easier ones, sure, it's great. For the highest possible difficulties, absolutely no chance.
Project reroll from Prot Warrior underway!
Viklund got benched for Serenity because of these changes. Despite being top DPS on Xavius this week.
ayylmao
I'm with you brother
What class is Viklund? I tried leveling a few alts. For some reason I just can't this expansion unlike the others. I have several 100s but I just can't get myself to. I just didn't enjoy the leveling experience.