Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
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World of Warcraft |OT9| People still play this? Isn't it from 2004
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Sax Russel
Banned
Underwhelming. Been using the blue version of them that better matches my gear for a while anyway, thanks to the "bug". Nothing like having a hidden appearance locked behind a world boss a couple of months in yet having access to 3/4 skins anyway.
Thanks for mentioning Render Scale guys - it's a setting I hadn't even thought to fiddle with to help improve my FPS.
I'm running an i5 with a 1060 card which should crush this game, but as others have mentioned, it's not a well-optimized game so there are random FPS drops everywhere, particularly with some fog/spell effects in dungeons and Suramar in general.
I'm running an i5 with a 1060 card which should crush this game, but as others have mentioned, it's not a well-optimized game so there are random FPS drops everywhere, particularly with some fog/spell effects in dungeons and Suramar in general.
No worries! My name is Jaxtid in game (a lowbie hunter at the moment) if you see me on there
Mammoth Jones
Member
So I have yet another dumb ass rookie question but it's in regards to which specs use which gear. Currently I'm gearing as Blood DK but if I want to switch to frost for mythics do I need different trinkets/rings/neck? Or can I do decent dps without needing specific gear to go from blood to frost for any given dungeon or raid?
Well, I didn't get my Blood appearance for a long time because of bad luck with Withered Training. And Unholy's won't drop for me no matter how many thousands of ghouls I summon. So the Frost appearance will help if for no other reason than I'm getting a little tired of doing all my world quests and PVP as Blood. I'm still quite a ways from unlocking any of the extra colours, although if I really wanted the red one it would be easy to sit around in alterac valley and rack up kills.
Also I use that crypt lord looking PVP set for transmog and the default appearances actually match it pretty well.
Teletraan1
Banned
This world boss is an absolute shit show. The one dude just randomly charges someone walking up to the encounter and then resets. Happened about 5x to much rage. On the kill I got a Prydaz. Any idea if this is getting buffed to be more than an absorb shield. The stats are kinda poo for all my specs.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Is it possible for a 104 dk to get the weapon appearance from the world boss
It's being buffed to apply its shield every 30 seconds regardless.
As Blood I like crit for mythic+ as my DPS is actually very significant (at least until Blizzard nerfs me into the ground by 40% again). So if you're trying to compromise then crit/haste works fine.
Unholy has better synergy with Blood IMO for that reason. Frost likes Versatility but there's nothing wrong with Versatility as a tank if you're worried about that. Crit just gives more damage. I just keep every strong ring/neck I find unless it's a massive upgrade for another person in my mythic+ group because it feels like every few weeks the stat I'm supposed to want ends up changing.
Now trinkets can be very different. Depends how lucky or unlucky you are. For example I really like Chrono Shard for both DPS and tanking mythic+ but good luck getting a high ilvl one. A titanforged/socketed strength+stat world quest (or trial of valor) trinket could be good for any spec if you're lucky enough to have one. My current tank trinkets are the Nythendra seed pod (gives a ton of haste and a damage/leech on use ability) and the other one varies based on what I'm doing. But for Frost I use specific trinkets like the Eye of Command (end boss of karazhan) and Memento of Angerboda (Maw of Souls) even though they are lower ilvl.
Karazhan has some other weird stuff like a ring that reduces damage by 10% for a few seconds at the start of every pull. Very useful as a speedrunning tank, but obviously not useful for DPS. Likewise the 10% autoattack ring from Court of Stars punches above its weight for DPS and is pointless for tanks.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Nope. You need to be artifact knowledge 4 for it to drop, I believe.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Ugh. I leveled mine up to make it for the World Boss but just got it up and am not at AK4. This is stupid. Next chance is in another 3 months. I'm not happy. Blizzard can go suck a butt with all this crazy time gating in Legion.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
eh
the hidden artifact is like 5% of my enjoyment from this expansion so far
the hidden artifact is like 5% of my enjoyment from this expansion so far
Druid is the best tank for Mythics, most of the known +15 clears were using Guardians.
My group is definitely considering pushing for mythic+15 this week but I'm hoping Tyrannical doesn't ruin our plans. Some bosses are just so completely broken with that up. But our gear has improved a lot and we don't need to worry about Necrotic or any other horrible bullshit this time.
I know we can't get the +15 hidden appearance until the next raid tier, but if the post-Nighthold boost to mythic dungeon difficulty is substantial then this might be the best week to get the +15 done. I don't think we have enough time to cycle back around to these affixes by then, but I didn't do the math.
I know we can't get the +15 hidden appearance until the next raid tier, but if the post-Nighthold boost to mythic dungeon difficulty is substantial then this might be the best week to get the +15 done. I don't think we have enough time to cycle back around to these affixes by then, but I didn't do the math.
Yeah I agree with this.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I'm just glad to know Warlocks will get picked for high level EoA mythic + because Wrath starts at 20% hp and Doomguard will get tons of extra dmg
You say this, but at AK 14 one of the Suramar quests was worth ~50k AP from the initial questline. The real question is why bother doing Suramar at all on an alt aside from the AP, so no reason not to wait, unless you need revered or something for profession stuff.
Moff
Member
I started one of the new suramar quests from the adventure guide that teleported me from suramar into a mountain in azuna.
I could not finish it because we did a mythic dungeon and now I can't seem to get back? I was looking for 30 minutes for a way back into the mountain. I abandoned the quest hoping I could restart it again in suramar, but nothing there. Any advice?
I could not finish it because we did a mythic dungeon and now I can't seem to get back? I was looking for 30 minutes for a way back into the mountain. I abandoned the quest hoping I could restart it again in suramar, but nothing there. Any advice?
I'm so jealous of HoT healers with overflowing. I was reading on reddit that HoT ticks remove the shield they just applied, so it never really stacks a large shield? Definitely doesn't work that way with our Holy Pal, we tested it the first week overflowing was an affix, and if he healed a target at 100%, it would add to the shield not use it up. So if he healed me with a 300k Holy Light out of combat at 100%, I would get a 300k absorb, if he healed me again I would have a 600k absorb, etc. Meaning with an unlucky crit after I full-healed myself at the end of a pull, he could drop a 1 million absorb shield on me with no way to remove it before the next pull, so I start 1 million in the hole. Really feels super broken on high crit high burst non HoT healers.
Funny for us is that now that we understand Skittish, next week's Teeming/Skittish/Fortified is by FAR our easiest shot at a +15, almost guaranteed if we have enough time and don't get screwed by "miniboss but counts as trash so it murders you with Fortified" keys like Wardens.
I never turned in the corrupted essence quest because I want to see how high that artifact power reward item can get. I think it's like 80 or 90k right now? Might turn it in before the raid because that would get my swords to the next level.
I have no idea how monk healers work. I just know he has no issues with overflowing and I can yank things out of sanguine. It'll be a nice relaxing week for dungeons and there's no reason we can't chain pull/make big pulls with bloodlust.
we are melee-heavy and that was causing us problems with Skittish before. But I'm much better at dealing with it now. Can't say the same for other tanks...I did a few runs as Frost and I almost couldn't even use Sindragosa's Fury without risking death.
Teeming sucks but there's no interaction between that and Skittish so we'll be free to CC on the real shit pulls. That's another affix that we really hated at first but learned to deal with over time. Still makes Arcway horrific though.
and yes fuck that miniboss. We don't even try that place with fortified or enraging anymore because there's just no way to survive.
here, hold my 4 880 bracers with bad stats and my trinket that is good for nobody.
I have no idea how monk healers work. I just know he has no issues with overflowing and I can yank things out of sanguine. It'll be a nice relaxing week for dungeons and there's no reason we can't chain pull/make big pulls with bloodlust.
we are melee-heavy and that was causing us problems with Skittish before. But I'm much better at dealing with it now. Can't say the same for other tanks...I did a few runs as Frost and I almost couldn't even use Sindragosa's Fury without risking death.
Teeming sucks but there's no interaction between that and Skittish so we'll be free to CC on the real shit pulls. That's another affix that we really hated at first but learned to deal with over time. Still makes Arcway horrific though.
and yes fuck that miniboss. We don't even try that place with fortified or enraging anymore because there's just no way to survive.
here, hold my 4 880 bracers with bad stats and my trinket that is good for nobody.
cartographer
Member
There's an entrance to the cave outside (you actually have to use it at the end of the quest). It's slightly obscured with some crystals and shrubbery in the crystal canyon things where the pylon / whelps WQ is.
Moff
Member
damn, I knew it had to bethere but the plant in front of it is really big, thanks
Once we learned that a 6 second head start for the tank (me on Guardian druid) basically makes it impossible for DPS to pull threat with skittish, it really made the affix barely even exist. I'm sure a higher threat/DPS tank than Guardian would need even less of a head start. We run melee heavy also, but because skittish is a flat (but random) numerical threat value added to every non tank on the aggro table, with the biggest spike always happening between 1-5 seconds (found that out thanks to our handy addon dev group member who wrote an addon to harvest threat data last week), if melee just stay off the threat table for the first few seconds of a pull any competent tank should never lose aggro. No need for CC or anything, if ever it would be one random mob I lost aggro on which is much easier to handle than dropping 5 mobs at once. Now for us skittish is basically "can you do the instance 2 minutes under the timer to account for the few seconds of waiting at the start of each pull". Also makes bosses very easy with Skittish since chain taunts and the resultant extra threat gen after a taunt make it very easy to stay ahead, so taunt bosses on CD with skittish!
But arcway is still horrible. It is bad for melee even without skittish. Hell, it is bad for everyone...
E: The harvested threat data for Skittish is actually really weird to look at. The affix is super random and unpredictable aside from the large threat spike in the first 1-5 seconds. I have no idea how or why they coded it as they did, but it definitely doesn't work ANYTHING like I expected it to before harvesting the data.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Lanrutcon
Member
Oh, nothing. Just let's you walk on water, breathe underwater, swim faster, catch more fish faster, you know. Nothing cool.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
sounds lame
Lanrutcon
Member
Bad design, I'd say. Put the damn drop on the end dude? I'm a genius!
Yup. Blame Blizzard. They did the same thing with quest items in WOD dungeons and eventually had to change the quests to require killing the last boss.
Guess they didn't learn.
Yeah, for sure. I'm leveling a Rogue and I did Eye and Darkheart and there is zero incentive (outside not being a twat) for these people to stay. So Shaman bailed after the 2nd boss in Eye and the Druid after the first. Its just so fucking selfish but totally unsurprising.
You'll get to return the favor by leaving after Ashgolm in Vault when you're farming for Thunderfury at least!
Gotta love a world boss that randomly targets people and charges to them in an area that then resets the boss. Would it really be that hard for blizz to implement a system where if a boss was brought to a leash area by someone it just went to the next highest threat target instead of fully resetting?
"Hey guys, I just threw my trap down so can we move the boss over in to it so I can get some extra damage?"
Sounds like a GENIUS change.
Ugh, couldn't they just add rage generation to Devastate? Would be so much easier than this shit.
Professor Lich
Member
If I remember correctly, you have to catch all the rare fish in Legion. After that, you'll get a quest chain for it. Here's a WoWhead guide.
In other news, I finally got my second legendary! woo Just hope it makes my rotation a little bit more interesting.
Yeah not sure how i feel about tc now being a rage generator.
Best case would be to have devastate as the second rage generator. Seems like a unnecessary extra ability to the main rotation.
The archaeology focus for the next two weeks isn't too bad, took me about an hour and some to get the 10 pieces needed. They seem to be a guaranteed drop from the rare spawn that can come too (hell, I got two off one, even), so its not like those damn jewels a few weeks back.
Reward is a wyrmtongue pet.
Reward is a wyrmtongue pet.
I mean this is kind of interesting but the bonus would have to be really amazing for it to be worthwhile...
Nightmare Dragons immediately comes to mind where such a mechanic would go off regularly.
Lay trap at 6 stacks.
Tanks swap at 7.
???
Top the chartssss
yes, im sure tanks in random groups, or even guild groups will "coordinate" with your shitty niche spec just so you get something out of it, fucking lol.
"hey tank come here with the boss...just come here, I put a trap here come ooooon"
not to mention, isnt survival still melee tho? how the fuck are they going to lead shit into traps as melee?
good lord Blizzard
"hey tank come here with the boss...just come here, I put a trap here come ooooon"
not to mention, isnt survival still melee tho? how the fuck are they going to lead shit into traps as melee?
good lord Blizzard
I'm spoiled after the speed of the last quest (10 minutes of clicking small things and done) but at least this one has me doing archaeology and has a reward I might actually use.