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World of Warcraft |OT9| People still play this? Isn't it from 2004

v1perz53

Member
AK has catchup mechanics too. They should be getting 1-2 day work orders until they start to catchup to everyone else.

I hit 110 on my warrior yesterday and my AK work orders are still 2 days 7 hours each, so not quite down to 1 day just yet even for fresh alts. I think they need to make it a bit quicker, because I imagine that most guilds are at the point where they would be very hesitant to recruit someone without at least all 3 golds (just as a baseline, I know some classes gold's suck), which will be a little frustrating to re-rolls and latecomers. I don't think anyone would be upset if they accelerated it to ~2 weeks to get to AK 11-12, but as it is 30 days to get to there is a bit of a rough buy in if it ends up making it much more difficult to find people to play with.

Though that is emergent player behavior and I don't know if it actually has/will happen, so it might not be a problem at all.
 

Faiz

Member
Ugh. Ok, dumb question...anyone know where in the DK class hall the artifact vendor is? Man, this is so different than vanilla where I just ran dungeons and a few world quests. In a good way though, I'm just gotta get on my grind and do it correctly.

No idea about DK but it will be marked by a scroll on the minimap. When you hit 110 you should have got a quest in your hall to talk to the AK research guy to start your first order.

Also, you can start and collect AK research orders on the app. It's very very helpful.
 
Ugh. Ok, dumb question...anyone know where in the DK class hall the artifact vendor is? Man, this is so different than vanilla where I just ran dungeons and a few world quests. In a good way though, I'm just gotta get on my grind and do it correctly.

It's not a vendor, it's a work order thing, and the person is right near the mission table, within that inner circle.
 
No idea about DK but it will be marked by a scroll on the minimap. When you hit 110 you should have got a quest in your hall to talk to the AK research guy to start your first order.

Also, you can start and collect AK research orders on the app. It's very very helpful.

Oh...well then I'm gonna install that, lol.
 

Artanisix

Member
Itemization is so dumb this expansion. I've gone down 4 item levels but pawn/simcraft has me gaining about 40% dps all together

they've said multiple times they're making strides to fix it so you'll just have to deal for now

alternatively roll a guardian druid and dont worry about stats xcept for jewelry
 

Lomax

Member
Just be aware that the app doesn't "use" the artifact research item, just collects it where it sits in your inventory and you have to use it in game. It can get easily forgotten.
 

Lain

Member
AK has catchup mechanics too. They should be getting 1-2 day work orders until they start to catchup to everyone else.

My hunter is at... AK 6? 7? and she has been getting 3-4 days work orders since forever. I wonder when do the catch up mechanics really kick in and for how long they last. Going from my paladin getting 4/5k ap items to 12k ap items to my hunter getting 1.5k ap items at most feels damn slow, especially when I'm already needing 30k on my hunter.
 

Faiz

Member
Just be aware that the app doesn't "use" the artifact research item, just collects it where it sits in your inventory and you have to use it in game. It can get easily forgotten.

This is true. I've left it till I was doing my end of the night bag clean up before :/
 

Lomax

Member
My hunter is at... AK 6? 7? and she has been getting 3-4 days work orders since forever. I wonder when do the catch up mechanics really kick in and for how long they last. Going from my paladin getting 4/5k ap items to 12k ap items to my hunter getting 1.5k ap items at most feels damn slow, especially when I'm already needing 30k on my hunter.

The base amount is 5 days, so 3-4 days is "catch up". But the other "catch up" is more of a "slow down" because it takes exponentially more and more AP per point, so long before AK catches you up you'll be within a few points just because your paladin is essentially throttled at this point anyway.
 

Data West

coaches in the WNBA
I think I'm going to go back to double gathering on my main. It's just the easiest for me to deal with. My money generating has always been doing tedious shit no one wants to do and not playing the AH as much. With crafting I always wind up sticking everything in my reagent bank and ignoring it, sitting on too much dust or whatever else because I'm 'waiting on the perfect moment'

I think I'd be better off just mining/herb or mining/skin and selling everything
 

v1perz53

Member
I really wish picking a 2nd/3rd artifact was at 101 not 102. Wanting to mess around with a few specs and see the artifact questlines, but levelling 7 more characters to 102 through the exact same quests is very grating. Guess I'll try to get them to 101 quickly, then see if I can level them through follower missions...
 
I really wish picking a 2nd/3rd artifact was at 101 not 102. Wanting to mess around with a few specs and see the artifact questlines, but levelling 7 more characters to 102 through the exact same quests is very grating. Guess I'll try to get them to 101 quickly, then see if I can level them through follower missions...

I think you reach 102 after doing one main pillar quest, I wish you could do the other artifact at 101 anyway
 

lazygecko

Member
Someone tell me how I'm supposed to play holy paladin in PvP. I feel fucking pathetic in battlegrounds compared to my resto shaman which is a breeze.
 

Oscar

Member
850 fury warrior and I repeatedly get denied for normal mythic groups wtf.

When I do get in, I'm always 1st or close 2nd.

They really need to add normal mythics to LFD.
 

v1perz53

Member
I think you reach 102 after doing one main pillar quest, I wish you could do the other artifact at 101 anyway

Yea, that seems about right. I have 5 chars at 110 now though, which means I've done every pillar quest 5x so far, they've gotten quite old by now heh. Which is the one problem I've found with the Legion model. Questing is great, but since they have utterly destroyed the XP you get from any other activity, be it grinding, chain running dungeons, finding treasures, killing rares, etc. you just have to do those same quests again on every alt. Oddly the only thing that gives reasonable XP now that isn't questing is pet battles, at ~11k XP per win (vs ~16k for a quest turnin)
 

v1perz53

Member
make your own groups. seriously, just make your own groups

Quoted for truth, I know a lot of people think this wont work but honestly I started some groups for Mythic0s on my 825 ilvl Arms warrior, took ~5-10 min to fill and were easy clears each time. You get denied from other groups because when someone makes a group they get 10+ applications, you can have your pick from this pool as well. Yea, it will be quicker if you have a healer or tank friend, but it is totally viable to just start a Mythic0 group with just you in the group finder and fill it up, FAR quicker than a DPS only Mythic0 LFG queue would take.
 

Strimei

Member
Is Blizzard's stuff down? I can't log onto battle.net and their site is loading realy slowly (if at all) right now.

edit: Seems to be something patch related that went out, fixed now.
 

Strimei

Member
Wasn't the old brawler's guild mount (the mushan) originally just available for the character that bought it? I seem to remember it being like that.

I ask as I just noticed I can use it on my priest and I never did it on her.
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Wasn't the old brawler's guild mount (the mushan) originally just available for the character that bought it? I seem to remember it being like that.

I ask as I just noticed I can use it on my priest and I never did it on her.

I don't believe so, I think it was always account-wide.
 

Data West

coaches in the WNBA
Wasn't the old brawler's guild mount (the mushan) originally just available for the character that bought it? I seem to remember it being like that.

I ask as I just noticed I can use it on my priest and I never did it on her.

The title was, not the mount.
 

Sarcasm

Member
I think I'm going to go back to double gathering on my main. It's just the easiest for me to deal with. My money generating has always been doing tedious shit no one wants to do and not playing the AH as much. With crafting I always wind up sticking everything in my reagent bank and ignoring it, sitting on too much dust or whatever else because I'm 'waiting on the perfect moment'

I think I'd be better off just mining/herb or mining/skin and selling everything

I got alch and enchanting on my main. I get bloods like nothing. I actually just sell materials I make from enchanting. The purple crystals sell for 400g and the effort to get them is low.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
I should've dumped all my Chaos Crystals when they were 400-800g.

Now they're barely 300g on my enchanter's realm.
 

M.D

Member
I'm still missing 8k order resources to research the ability to wear a second legendary and then its gonna take 2 weeks.. ugh :(
 

v1perz53

Member
I'm still missing 8k order resources to research the ability to wear a second legendary and then its gonna take 2 weeks.. ugh :(

If you have extra blood of sargeras on any of your characters you can buy a BoA cache with 200 resources from the blood vendor to make up the difference.
 

Lomax

Member
Well my "legendary story" is now that my 812 iLvl druid with 8 hours /played at 110 has one, and my 855 iLvl paladin that has been 110 since the second week after expansion release still doesn't have any. Enthralling, I know. I'll be telling that story to my grandkids.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
"Grandpa, where were you the day they gave everyone legendaries?"
"Fucking around on my alt."
 
Part of me has been wanting to play an alt but I just can't bring myself to do everything on another character again. Level through all the zones, the time-gated stuff, and so on. Looking forward to 110 character boosts that skip all of that stuff, sort of like how the 100 boost skipped a character right to Tanaan.
 

Strimei

Member
My biggest fear of playing an alt is getting a legendary on them, and still not having one on my main.

Simple solution, get a legendary on your main first! :p

In all seriousness, I can understand. Though right now my problem is my primary alt has yet to get a legendary, but I do on my main and secondary alt. I live in fear of getting Sephuz or Prydaz...

Speaking of my secondary alt, I've been trying to get some sort of shadow/void priest getup going but haven't been too happy until I realized some of the priests in order hall wear a pretty good getup. Slight problem arose when I realized the robe is actually a plate chest/robe from MoP, but I just went and got the LFR SOO chestpiece instead, works fine I think.

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Pretty happy. Never thought I'd like the LFR color of that set (hated it back in MoP, which is why I never bothered to get it) but it goes well with the helm's colors.
 

Bizazedo

Member
Opposing team in Warsong has 4 healers. I hate Blizzard's balancing in PvP since you have to have so many deeps focus down a healer.
 

Strimei

Member
When there were playable ogres in beta (alpha?), were there females?

The only female ogre stuff, to my knowledge, is a piece of artwork from either Warcraft 1 or 2's manual (I think 1) and the mask Blizzard whipped up to try and explain away the sudden HD worgen (male and female) faces that were found in the files before Cataclysm was announced.
 

Mupod

Member
managed to finally get the +10 keystone under time limit guild achievement...with a +11. Oh yeah. Shit for loot though. And it turned into a +12 Arcway, I've never noped so hard.

Nelth's lair is not too bad even at +11, but I wouldn't want to do that if it was Fortified instead of Tyrannical. How would you even beat those damn scorpions.
 

Renekton

Member
Rats at the +15 ilvl hotfix for legendaries.

This will set me back even further when applying to pugs, at least until I get my 1st legendary.

Edit: Destro Lock can now one-shot most people in world pvp.
 

v1perz53

Member
managed to finally get the +10 keystone under time limit guild achievement...with a +11. Oh yeah. Shit for loot though. And it turned into a +12 Arcway, I've never noped so hard.

Nelth's lair is not too bad even at +11, but I wouldn't want to do that if it was Fortified instead of Tyrannical. How would you even beat those damn scorpions.

Hah kind of funny, we got our acheiv with a +11 Nelth's as well (after re-rolling the dice when our first 11 keystone was HoV). I can't imagine those scorpion pulls on fortified are possible without something crazy, like I think Sco had a video of them lusting for the 2nd pull with their Rdruid sustaining like 700 HPS. You can skip them with a hunter at least, but it feels like cheese to me. Instance wasn't so bad with Fortified, we one shot all the bosses, even with a near failure on the 3rd boss when our DPS fell asleep and he ate an add then me because the sticky floor puddle despawned as soon as spiked tongue started. Our +12 ended up being CoS, similarly noped out of that, not really interested in doing that last boss with 80% more HP/40% more damage.

Though I will say, while we were more successful with Tyrannical (and no necrotic BS) than we were with fortified, I think I prefer fortified. The bosses just go on way too long with tyrannical and are generally either nail bitingly terrible or just insanely boring like the 2nd and 4th bosses in Nelths. No chance of dying on them, but my god do they take forever. And if you wipe at like 10% on a tyrannical boss due to healer mana, you just wasted like 3-4 minutes of time and your run is likely over, vs wiping to a single fortified pack isn't as run-ending.
 

Anbokr

Bull on a Donut
not looking forward to playing against locks in pvp after tomorrow wtF blizz

affl and destro were alrdy good too lmao -- it was just demo that they overnerfed
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
not looking forward to playing against locks in pvp after tomorrow wtF blizz

affl and destro were alrdy good too lmao -- it was just demo that they overnerfed
Where can I see these patch notes?
 
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