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World of Warcraft |OT8| CITIZENS OF DALARAN
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BreezyLimbo
Banned
I was a fire mage, and I respecced to frost. Maybe I worded that poorly.
Oh
Yeah, Frost is still a bit undertuned for most encounters. You can overtake a Fire mage in a single target fight, but only in fights that have you standing completely still, because of how Fire Mages have just more insta abilities than Frost Mages.
Each time it happens it reminds me of that Spies Like Us scene with the doctors introducing themselves. Just sub in whatever your title is in place of it.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Napalm_Frank
Member
Got a nice 870 ring from weekly chest, not even mad.
Except for the Arcway+5 keystone I got along with it ._.
Except for the Arcway+5 keystone I got along with it ._.
It's our fault for complaining about Garrisons being anti-social.
I'm fine with a lot of stuff people aren't, but when I've had to buy gear for pretty much every slot because of my luck (except last week's trinket-spree), haven't seen a legendary, and have the enjoyment sucked out of my class...
I really, really don't want to play outside of raid times anymore. It's all a pointless timesink of terrible gameplay & a carrot that never comes. Such a shame, because Mythic+ is wonderful content I WANT to play, but my class is getting in the way. Monk didn't work out in the end, either.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
"We at Blizzard are introducing Garrisons! This is a sanctuary for all players, a base for you to relax in from the world around you."
BLIZZARD IT'S EMPTY, BLIZZARD I GO HERE TOO MUCH, BLIZZARD BLIZZARD BLIZZARD
"Fine you little shits now you're all fucking heroes of time, we're literally going to make Khadgar into that guy at a renfair who goes 'Look! It's the chosen one!' to each and every fucking visitor. This is what you get."
Eh, that is lame. But honestly I mostly geared up through WQs and got lucky with the 'upgrade' procs.
I dunno.
I've felt more-or-less okay so far in EN but not too deep into Heroic yet. I am still salty about my Mastery nerf though, even if I wasn't stacking a ton of it really (~45% -> ~37%); I get it's a preventative measure and all but still
Maybe I'd notice it if I had more time as a Guardian Druid or something but so far it hasn't been noticeably bad
maybe all healers hate me though
Human Trashcan
Banned
Yeah I feel like maybe they over-corrected that mistake. It's not like we're encouraged to spend all our tme in the class hall like it was with garrisons, where you had pretty much everything you needed, if you got the AH module. So it really doesn't make sense to share the class hall with other players when all the class halls eventually make you into the supreme leader, which is a really dumb thing for an MMO to do.
Lanrutcon
Member
I'm an Archdruid!
You're an Archdruid!
Everyone is an Archdruid!
It boggles my mind that something like a cosmetic weapon skin is locked to raiding, but the goddamn title of Archdruid gets handed out from some shitty order hall quests and normal dungeons.
Blizzard are just making shit up as they go at this point.
Lanrutcon
Member
Tell that to Malfurion.
Human Trashcan
Banned
you know, the master of... that legendary hunting lodge... nobody has ever heard of....
Lanrutcon
Member
Can't make you a Ranger Lord or something like that, as it is way too cool a title for a Hunter.
Found yet another hacker.
http://i.imgur.com/JLUjVTZ.png
Seems like there's a ton of these bots on Mal'ganis right now.
http://i.imgur.com/JLUjVTZ.png
Seems like there's a ton of these bots on Mal'ganis right now.
Robin64
Member
This is stupid right now, they're everywhere. You'd think there'd be super easy ways to detect and auto ban them, too.
Robin64
Member
The silly money is from alchemy right now, and so in turn, herbalism. They just fly from node to node, ruining the game for everyone else in the process.
Just herbalism I think.
Little gross margin for Alchemy since people are going into red for skill up.
I'll know more after tonight's raid but seeing 1m+ crits on Arcane Blast is encouraging. I've also been using the pre-hotfix stat weighting in Pawn for the last couple of weeks so my itemisation is probably kind of bad right now.
my lowbie 812 Lock sure feels like he kills stuff faster in these WQs thats for sure
NumberThree
Member
My enhancement shaman feels exactly the same.
Speaking of enhancement, I really should switch from Ancestral Swiftness to Hailstorm. Losing that 10% haste just makes everything feel so terribly slow.
Speaking of enhancement, I really should switch from Ancestral Swiftness to Hailstorm. Losing that 10% haste just makes everything feel so terribly slow.
"You crawl unwitting - like a blind, writhing worm - towards endless madness and despair. I have witnessed the true End Time. This? This is a blessing you simply cannot comprehend."
Worst goddamned voice acting I've heard in this game.
My spec (Blood/Unholy) was untouched but we had a ret paladin and demo warlock shoot from the bottom to the top of our DPS charts. The paladin in particular is in my mythic+ group and is generally ecstatic about it. Logs here:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/y8vPAwfHbFDgLkdh
Had a productive night, before the raid even started we cleared a level 6 keystone (eye of azshara). We even screwed up a lot and still had plenty of time left over. Sanguine is SO much easier than Bolstering holy shit.
Actually got into the guild main raid this time, didn't get much in the way of upgrades but had fun. We cleared Xavius twice to take care of the guildies who didn't fit in the raid. Managed to get Heroic Nythendra down for the second time, but it really came down to the wire. Basically ended up being myself staying alive with Death Strike while the rogue evasion tanked, boss went down right before we did. My last ghost dad potion might have actually been the deciding factor.
Apparently both our main tanks are going to be out for the next two raids so it looks like I get to tank heroic Ursoc next time. Oh boy.
Honestly some parts of Legion are so hard to get around that it feels as if they were made with flying in mind, and backtracked later. Maybe it's just exacerbated by world quests forcing us to get around on foot a lot.
Tank 1 starts the fight and gains 1 stack of Overwhelm
Tank 2 taunts, and gains Rend Flesh
Tank 1 taunts back, and gains a 2nd stack of Overwhelm
Tank 2's Rend Flesh will fall off
Tank 2 taunts and takes the next Overwhelm, now having 1 stack
Tank 1's Overwhelm stacks fall off
Tank 1 taunts and takes the next Rend Flesh
Tank 2 taunts back, and gains a 2nd stack of Overwhelm
Tank 1's Rend Flesh will fall off
Tank 1 taunts and takes the next Overwhelm, now having 1 stack
Repeat this pattern as much as necessary to defeat Ursoc
Impulsor
Member
Yesterday I finally got my Prot Warrior Hidden artifact appearance.
What a shitty system. Not only do you have to wait for AK5, but then you just have to log and relog in front of a cave until the game decides it wants to spawn the shield.
I was lucky and got it the fourth relog I did, but I have a friend that was 2 hours doing it yesterday and had no luck.
What a shitty system. Not only do you have to wait for AK5, but then you just have to log and relog in front of a cave until the game decides it wants to spawn the shield.
I was lucky and got it the fourth relog I did, but I have a friend that was 2 hours doing it yesterday and had no luck.
BlitzEngineer
Member
I wouldn't say it's particularly difficult. You pretty much just have to swap more often than most bosses. In my experience people tend to confuse themselves because some video guides out there make the taunt swap sound way more complex than it actually is. In reality you are just alternating a little faster than most other bosses. The thing is that on heroic the tanks are kind of the only people doing any real mechanics. The rest of the fight is braindead beyond "He hits hard at 30%". 845-850 tanks, especially non-warriors, have to really be on the ball with active mit and cooldown rotation in order to not die.
But really, if you are tanking heroic raids, active mit and cd rotation should be baked in to your playstyle as a tank, so I don't really believe Ursoc is that hard for tanks.
See, this is kind of what I'm talking about. There's nothing wrong with this breakdown, but it just looks way more complicated than it actually is. You just alternate, as in "Did Boss apply a debuff to the other tank? If so, taunt."
So I had this too on my main priest right since launch day. Hasn't been the case on any of my alts. Weird!
This should actually help a bit, also keep in mind you need to constantly reposition on Heroic as he drops large pools of crap on the ground.
I tanked all of normal mode already, but the problem is our other tank for that run (a guy from LFG) was a warrior. He was familiar with the fights but every time I asked him for advice (I'd only studied them from a DPS perspective) he basically just said 'I dunno I just ignore pain through everything'
Not worried or anything, I've done plenty of harder raids as a tank in my time. Just going to need a lot more effort than what you need to do as DPS on that fight and I may need to get different consumables (how much use do armor pots get?). I also haven't raided as a tank in WoW since they put so much emphasis on 'external' healer cooldowns.
Lanrutcon
Member
I'd say that's the theme of the raid as a whole:
X leaves large piles of crap on the floor.
Hailstorm typically does a little more than 10% of my damage, but with scaling from Mastery it can go as high as 15% in some logs I've seen. But, in most Mythic dungeons, the trash is more dangerous than the bosses, and the extra haste gives you more uses of Crash Lightning. I prefer to use AS for dungeons and Hailstorm for raids.
Hey it actually helped me. But yeah it seems it'll boil down to 'taunt at two stacks of overwhelm but only when you don't have rend'. Pretty straightforward.
We'll be a DH/DK. We might actually be more geared than our usual tanks (DH/paladin). It's not until Sunday so I have plenty of mythic+ to gear up with until then.