Lanrutcon
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I'm a EU Hordie. Always willing to try whatever, and I don't stand in the fire.
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World of Warcraft |OT8| CITIZENS OF DALARAN
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I'm a EU Hordie. Always willing to try whatever, and I don't stand in the fire.
The only ones who won't take locks are the ones competing for world firsts and idiot guilds.We have every spec on our roster and most of them in our raids. I just did a m+3 with an elemental shaman and last night we did a m+ (forgot #) with an affliction lock. Got two chests on both runs.
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I'm a EU Hordie.
Oh, well in *that* case, you deserve everything you get
Okay, maybe not everything.
When I was sorting out some Archi mount runs for gaffers at the end of WoD, I know there were a few people who wanted to join but were regrettably afflicted with being Horde (I have MMarasu in mind, although my memory might be playing up? I think there were a few others). They may well still be around; they might even be looking for people to group with as well.
Lanrutcon
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I don't perform badly in dungeons. I've learned to abuse havoc to pad the numbers, and if there's a lot of little trash minion I spec Brimstone to cheese even further. If I know the tank is going balls to the wall pulls I spec the full 4/4 aoe build even.
And I was #1 in EN LFR last night
(because everyone sucked and my 200k dps was apparently expectional).I don't perform badly in dungeons. I've learned to abuse havoc to pad the numbers, and if there's a lot of little trash minion I spec Brimstone to cheese even further. If I know the tank is going balls to the wall pulls I spec the full 4/4 aoe build even.
And I was #1 in EN LFR last night
One thing I'd like to see Blizzard do - or at least an addon (maybe one exists, I'll have a look) - is flag up people who are guildless when you do an LFR or random 5-man with them (or even better, going beyond the concept of a guild, have people flag themselves as 'looking for people to run content with on a regular basis'). As a GM myself, every expansion I urge my guildies to keep an eye out for anyone in random groups who might be looking out for people to run with long-term, but the recurring response is that you can't really tell who's after exchanging contact details.
On paper, LFR and random 5's are a great way to advertise yourself. In practice, it's hard to make such an advert land.
I guess I want a WoW equivalent of the hanky code. With less sexy connotations, but the same principle of advertising yourself as being available at the heart of it.
I'm AK1 and it just shows 125 in addition to the usual daily 500 one for the first heroic.
Curious. I wonder if I'm misremembering
Edit: Oh, wait, I bet I've been thinking of the main one as the CtA one, because I've never done a non-CtA random heroic. That'd make sense; 400 base AP + 200% = 1200.
I'm assuming this is a bug? Cos I've never seen bonus XP icons on my world quest view before.
I noticed them today. I suspect it's them changing the icon for 'this quest gives artifact power' from the swirly to something a bit more descriptive, but having it not work retroactively for quests that existed prior to the change.
The fact that it seems to only be on newer quests with the older AP quests still having the swirly does suggest it's not a simple bug, at least - if it was a simple bug, I'd have expected the icon reference to have become broken, and for all such quests to have the new one.
I'm assuming this is a bug? Cos I've never seen bonus XP icons on my world quest view before.
Those same ones give me trouble when clicking them on the wowhead site tracker on mobile
http://www.wowhead.com/world-quests/na
A lot of the raiding guilds on wowprogress are currently recruiting Locks, just as an FYI.
So, withered army training on my prot pally was a god damn joke.
Obviously knowing what to do from doing it on my Shaman a few times had helped, but this... was insane.
The first time I went in there was part of the first time you do it as a normal quest. I got a score of like 220'ish. I started with 8, got a few more but then sent some back with a medium chest.
The WQ was up, so I farmed up 900 Mana and was on my way with my little army. I got over 420 points. I encounted Dro with only 3 Withered up, and survived with 1 still with me. I managed to get another few withered from the halls and had them port back with another chest. I am pretty sure after only 2 runs by Withered Army on my Paladin is as strong in terms of health/damage than my Shaman. The only advantage is that my Shaman has a couple more Berserkers, and has a couple of those casters.
Obviously knowing what to do from doing it on my Shaman a few times had helped, but this... was insane.
The first time I went in there was part of the first time you do it as a normal quest. I got a score of like 220'ish. I started with 8, got a few more but then sent some back with a medium chest.
The WQ was up, so I farmed up 900 Mana and was on my way with my little army. I got over 420 points. I encounted Dro with only 3 Withered up, and survived with 1 still with me. I managed to get another few withered from the halls and had them port back with another chest. I am pretty sure after only 2 runs by Withered Army on my Paladin is as strong in terms of health/damage than my Shaman. The only advantage is that my Shaman has a couple more Berserkers, and has a couple of those casters.
Cpt.Underpants
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Once you get all the upgrades for your withered, its a breeze. You barely have to do anything at all
Doing it as a tank spec is pretty much cheating that scenario. The fact that you can keep aggro off your withered and can still do OK damage is crazy to me. Worse that healers get completely screwed because once a withered has lost health you can't heal them over that.
Well, unless it's ultimately covered by the end of Good Suramaritan, I assume we're training our Withered for something...
(I know we are in story terms, but I'd be very surprised if there's not some sort of gameplay Withered quest. Might be a one-off rather than a repeatable, though)
I assume the intent is that it's really hard for a tank to chase a runner to balance it up, and I certainly get very frustrated when I have multiple runners up at a time - but on the other hand, you're only really risking one when that happens, whereas being a tank can save the health pool of several Withered.
Withered Training is extremely easy as a BM hunter. Your pet does all the tanking, you have freedom of movement to chase runners or whatever, and your DPS is quite good too. It's almost impossible to fail. I heard people complaining about Dro for so long and when I actually met him for the first time on my BM hunter, he was nothing. It seriously feels like cheating. My friend, a shadow priest, has a really hard time with it.
The only really annoying part is the stairs at the end with the infinitely spawning small spiders.
The only really annoying part is the stairs at the end with the infinitely spawning small spiders.
I would say go with whatever you'll use/sell. As long as your professions pair well with one another, that's all that really matters imo. Check the AH and see what things are selling for in your professions. Or check online and see what you can build/craft that you may find useful.
Protip for Dro: Get the buff from the nightfallen chick who gives you a bubble that knocks back enemies when your HP is reduced to zero. He'll keep trying to run at you and it takes off 1/4 of his health each time it hits. He dies super fast. I just taunt him and let him kill me quick.
Carpe Libertatem
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It's not covered in the current quests/Good Suramaritan. I'm sure it'll be at least referenced in 7.1, but right know the withered have very little to do with the story.
the end quests currently are more stealth based
Mamont1537
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I've actually tried to do this last week. Got bubble buff, gathered around 20 withered, ran into Dro, stopped healing myself, died... and scenario ended and I was ported back to the entrance.
Maybe a bug, I dunno, but I wasn't very happy about that.
CarbonatedFalcon
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We're actually not done yet this lockout. Have a full night on Monday to work on Mythic.
We probably could've full cleared last week, but we dicked around in normal first. This week our normal run is optional on Sunday for trinkets/relics/etc.
HarryDemeanor
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Might just be NA specific but I'm not so sure about that.
For the stairs just put your withered on aggressive and run up the stairs fast to MD the spider to your pet so they stop spawning. Easiest way I found to do that section.
BreezyLimbo
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For the Warlock Ritual of Doom, do you need 3 other warlocks to do it? It cant be any other class?
For the loot, not even personal loot? The two pieces I've gotten from world bosses were just instantly put into my bags.
WTF. And 879 already, goddamn.
buy some manure and BE a tauren
jaundicejuice
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Been leveling a Draenei Holy Paladin from scratch, mostly just to acclimatise myself to dealing with PUGs. Healing is probably the only role that makes me want to be actively critical of other players. If I'm going to be predominantly running PUGs as a healer, off-tanking where able, I want to be completely inured to anything and everything that can and does happen with PUGs.
I want to achieve serenity now before hitting Legion content.
I also want to get used to maining a healer in PVE, since I want this to be the primary spec I initially dump AP into. Low-level content is okay because heirlooms make content a faceroll. The real test will be fighting the urge to just switch to Prot in Legion PVE, although I guess I could constantly switch specs once I hit 102.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=137573/reins-of-the-llothien-prowler#comments
I want to achieve serenity now before hitting Legion content.
I also want to get used to maining a healer in PVE, since I want this to be the primary spec I initially dump AP into. Low-level content is okay because heirlooms make content a faceroll. The real test will be fighting the urge to just switch to Prot in Legion PVE, although I guess I could constantly switch specs once I hit 102.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=137573/reins-of-the-llothien-prowler#comments
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
According to guildies, It can also drop from withered training (only the one main chest at the end), as well as (this one is more vague) purportedly possible to acquire on the order hall follower quest board.
jaundicejuice
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It's solid, and mandatory for your artifact progression later on. No reason to avoid it!
I like Suramar a lot, there's some crappy quests but I really like the zone.
Yeah, the zone seems really neat. I've only done like 4-5 quests at the start, but the story and the concept of the Nightfallen is cool imo.
I think the last thing I did was open up my "base" with the female Nightfallen in that cave. Could tell it was since a bunch of other plays were instantly phased in when I finished it.
The main city area is like =O looks amazing.