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World of Warcraft |OT8| CITIZENS OF DALARAN
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It used to be that Elemental had somewhat more utility than Enhancement, but now the utility abilities and talents are identical. Elemental is a little bit less squishy, but it's not enough to make a huge difference. If you have a choice between Fire Mage #5 and an Elemental, you're still not going to take the Elemental. But you will take an Enhancement because you get the same amazing kit plus great damage.
My small guild's putting together a mythic-dungeon group. Its nothing too serious, we're just a handful of friends but we have enough for a team now and we decided to give it a shot. Went fairly well though our healer's still a bit low ilevel wise so we're gearing him up more.
theres an addon that lets you see the exact times, i have it installed right now but i cant rememeber what its called
Yeah; 35 minute timer means 3 chests is within 21 minutes, 2 chests is within 28 minutes.
GottaGoFast
Sax Russel
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Got the Havoc destro legendary cloak from a mythic+ chest, wooooo. Not the belt, but I'll take it!
Orochinagis
Member
Stealth hotfix? My monk palm now track and rush to the target now
SV dps is all over the place. Single target is more or less fine, but when adds or AOE come in you have to pray the stars align and your procs are right to do some damage. You go from 0 to 100 randomly, whereas MM is hitting like a truck all the time. The two extremes in the same class.
This spec needs a LOT of work, and I'm not speaking about damage alone (that's only tuning the numbers after all), I'm speaking about the mechanics of the class as a whole. ALL the abilities need some fixing and/or readjusting and the less we speak about survivability, the better. That turtle or exhilaration work the same for all three specs mean Blizz has absolutely no fucking clue as to what they are doing. Which is exactly what's happening, the current devs clearly don't know how to fix the class so they just ignore it completely. One would think after 10 years they would know their shit, but I guess that's too much to ask.
This spec needs a LOT of work, and I'm not speaking about damage alone (that's only tuning the numbers after all), I'm speaking about the mechanics of the class as a whole. ALL the abilities need some fixing and/or readjusting and the less we speak about survivability, the better. That turtle or exhilaration work the same for all three specs mean Blizz has absolutely no fucking clue as to what they are doing. Which is exactly what's happening, the current devs clearly don't know how to fix the class so they just ignore it completely. One would think after 10 years they would know their shit, but I guess that's too much to ask.
Lanrutcon
Member
Gonna ride out my current month's sub then I'm stopping for a while. Legion turned out to be kinda meh. They fixed some of the problems that WoD had, and then dropped the ball completely in other areas.
The current spec balance is just not acceptable for a game in its sixth expansion, with a 5 month beta no less.
The current spec balance is just not acceptable for a game in its sixth expansion, with a 5 month beta no less.
I've got 20 days left on my sub and then I'm also stopping for a while.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
7/7H done. On to Mythic!
same with arcane honestly. there's shimmer and ice floes to help a bit but the class is still so dependent on long, slow hardcasts in an xpac that's very movement intensive.
I have 15k gold so no lol.
I'd feel sorry for you, but as a deathknight I really struggle right now... ;-)
Ignoring the broken damage specs, I don't see how Blizzard thinks it viable to actually have slow, immobility as a class fantasy. They've literally said that dks are supposed to be the least mobile of the classes, and yet there's no reward or payoff for that - you just end up trudging around on fights feeling like you are walking through treacle. It would make sense if you did super leetzor dps when you actually got to hit things, but you don't even have that.
Lanrutcon
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I've been saving for a spider. If I wanted I could pay for 4 or 5 months (EU) with gold right now, but even my drive to make gold has dimished because my main is being treated like a second class citizen by the player base and the devs.
Trying to find groups for my 846 Destro Lock is absolutely soul destroying. Meanwhile, my Druid just gets in everywhere and does shit dps and no-one cares because he's not a purple dot.
Yeah I really hope they continue the class campaigns throughout the expansion. That ending to the Shaman one seems like a pretty big deal.
I'm in the same boat, it doesn't help that I don't want to raid on a serious guild and LFR content is dropping too slowly, like, what's the logic behind blocking casuals entrance into raids? What's the logic behind having to wait weeks to see all the content while normal raiders can besides a big "FUCK YOU"? Isn't the fact the normal-heroic-MM provide better gear and more challenging content (thus fun) enough?
Add to that that a lot of specs are completely broken and they seem to not care.
Once the dust has settled Legion is not so good as it seemed at first. The content draught is still there, class balance is a joke and the artifact system has more downs than ups. Artifact knowledge should be realm-wise, not character-wise. Even getting artifact power for off-specs is discouraging as fuck seeing how slow the process is...
All in all I'll stop after this month and I'll come back for 7.1 or later. I just want to see the content after all.
Since it costs ~70k in Europe and I don't even have 200k yet (as well as no Flasks or potions), I probably won't even have enough gold to do that.
Man, I have loved using Shadowmeld since going alliance on my Druid with some friends in WoD, but nothing has made me wish I was still a Tauren (war stomp) more than Mythic+. For so many years I took that AoE stun for granted, man it would be so nice to have a stun for trash that I was in control of. Though I guess it isn't so bad, since I run with a DH and WW monk DPS, both with really nice AoE stuns.
It is still weird to me that they gave the AoE disorient to the tank that has a ~20 sec AoE bleed even in their ST rotation. It is cool for interrupting casts, but just seems like an odd design choice. Should be like Blinding Light for pallies, and not break off bleed damage. Only other thing I really miss now that I am doing dungeons more is Glyph of Fae Silence. Always nice as a tank to have a way to bring at least one caster into the AoE death ball from range.
It is still weird to me that they gave the AoE disorient to the tank that has a ~20 sec AoE bleed even in their ST rotation. It is cool for interrupting casts, but just seems like an odd design choice. Should be like Blinding Light for pallies, and not break off bleed damage. Only other thing I really miss now that I am doing dungeons more is Glyph of Fae Silence. Always nice as a tank to have a way to bring at least one caster into the AoE death ball from range.
Acidote
Member
If everything goes as it should next Sunday, I (we) will be heading to MM for the next save too.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I kind of wish I had more Tauren characters (my pally whom i rarely play is the only one) but at the same time don't really have any characters I would want to race change. I don't know what to do about this.
Legion emphasizes Tauren Hunters if you want to go that route
Can we do Mythic Molten Core after Heroic Hellfire Citadel?
(And then maybe Normal Nightmare?)
As much as I hate homogenization of classes, I'd kill for death grip on my brewmaster just for all the non-caster ranged mobs that Legion has slapped in like the Halls of Valor archers and the Stronethrowers in Netharion.
All I can think to do is tank the trash on one and use Provoke on cooldown on the other.
All I can think to do is tank the trash on one and use Provoke on cooldown on the other.
Lanrutcon
Member
Consider this: so there's so much to do, and I have to jump through several hoops to participate due to Blizzard's balance team playing Mages. Nothing makes me more excited to sit down and log back on than the idea that I'll be getting chain rejected for up to 30 minutes just to get into a base mythic group. And getting into a mythic +2 group? better clear my evening then.
Alternatively, I can go level a class I don't want to play, but then what's the point really.
Sölf;218559542 said:
Dear god. This guy lifts.
It's not as impressive as it might seem. At one point I accidentally pulled a group including a palanquin, and when the carnage was over the palanquin itself cheerfully trundled onwards, with no-one carrying it.
I have a theory that the palanquins themselves are alive, and the bearers are actually just there to guide them.
Yeah... "Unholy DK 856 ilvl" "Sorry, already have DH." "Your application to <every mythic ever> has been declined."
Nobody wants the old hero class melee.
They'll probably get buffed again in 7.1/whenever the next tuning pass is. I doubt Blizzard is happy with an entire class being actively shut-out by the player base.
I mean I get it, but I'm loving the story, zones, dungeons and Emerald Nightmare a huge amount.
Edit: A dually the only problem I've got right now is that one of our healers has accepted a new job which means he can't raid any more, and another has quit WoW to focus on being a bodybuilder and now I'm actually struggling to find healers that don't already have a guild. Fucking timing, man.
*fire mages
Alternatively, get some friends and play with them.
Lanrutcon
Member
I've got a group of RL friends in WoW.
They're...um...well, they love achievements, mounts, pets...but they've had terrible experiences with higher forms of content. Some of them get nervous in heroics. Mythics? let's just say they're out that night washing their sock drawers.
I could dump them and join a raiding guild (if they'll take a lock...), but I shouldn't have to approach the game like some kind of second class citizen. If Blizzard's balance team actually paid attention during beta then maybe the class divide wouldn't be a goddamn chasm.
Started messing around in PVP some. I didn't play WOD so I am not sure if versatility is supposed to be the new pvp stat. I am playing a resto druid and it is decently fun in random BG's. I grinded out 10 arena skirmish wins last night and that was almost overwhelming. I am terrible at 3v3 arena. Seems the grind for the pvp artifact skin will be a long one.
The alternative is to find people who don't have a bleeding-edge mentality (And let's be honest, when we're talking baseline Mythics, you don't *need* a bleeding-edge mentality, but the playerbase *will* go for the path of least resistance...)
You're in the EU, from earlier posts; GAF has EU members. Run with gaffers on occasion? If you're alliance, my battle.net ID is (quote to reveal) , and if we're looking for spots in a guild 5-man (or even raids, if you'd be up for that), I'll point people in your direction. I'm sure other gaffers will be able to help out in similar ways.
The hilarious thing is that from our cheerfully-strolling-through-normal-raids perspective, we'd *love* a few more warlocks and (while we're a bit over-attended by melee) a DK or two!
Er, I'm getting 1200 at Knowledge 5. Unless it scales down after the first of the day?
Is that based on how they perform, or how they've been treated?