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World of Warcraft |OT9| People still play this? Isn't it from 2004
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Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
I remember reading this would be upcoming, and was hoping it would be this (relatively) good.
Out of the two paladin bodyguards, I have one with dual order resource per WQ completion (with another champion equipment ready for the third slot) that I keep on as a combat follower, but the XP difference between him and the other champions (loaded with 8 hr+ % boosts) is nearly 50k XP at this point.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
The 7-follower setup we have access to lends itself to having a bodyguard pretty well.
I know, I'm talking about comparing 7 vs. 6-with-bodyguard.
cartographer
Member
I'm not optimizing correctly but more often than not I can't get 7 followers all out on worthwhile missions at the same time (the caveat here being that I've basically stopped acknowledging the existence of AP). Even when I had 5 I would often have one sitting back.
I used him while leveling but I got sick of him taunting stuff and causing it to evade bug. Of course then I tried using Broll on my druid and he'd never taunt anything at all which made him equally annoying.
I find having a bodyguard to be very useful even if sometimes I'd want to kill them because of the issues they bring, like the visual obstruction making looting corpses difficult, something the new DH bodyguard excels at but her bubble buff is too damn good and I like her VA so I can't give her up.
I've had good times with Kanrethad already. He's a boss. Literally, since you killed him to get green fire back in Pandaria.
jaundicejuice
Member
I only use a follower now that I've got seven slots because it's got a 50 gold/oh boost trinket per WQ completed. It doesn't sound like much but it adds up pretty quickly.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
So the next mage tower buff is water walking on mounts.
We can fly now...
We can fly now...
It's a shame you can't stack them. I was looking forward to getting 150g per world quest.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Oh? I know the order resource items stack. I get 150 per WQ
maybe you can.
jaundicejuice
Member
1027 away, I will tomorrow!
It's okay tho, you can rub your bitchin' looking Paladin mount (which has multiple colour schemes for the different races) in the face of my magic frisbee when we all get our class mounts.
It's okay tho, you can rub your bitchin' looking Paladin mount (which has multiple colour schemes for the different races) in the face of my magic frisbee when we all get our class mounts.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Flying really is amazing after the long wait. Makes world quests a lot easier.
I need to stop getting my hopes up about these nethershard pieces, though. I continue to get absolutely worthless versatility gear.
Has Blizzard ever talked about took out reforging? Really sucks ass to get big upgrades as far as item level goes but have the piece be totally worthless because of bad stats.
I need to stop getting my hopes up about these nethershard pieces, though. I continue to get absolutely worthless versatility gear.
Has Blizzard ever talked about took out reforging? Really sucks ass to get big upgrades as far as item level goes but have the piece be totally worthless because of bad stats.
Honestly there are 8 more steps in the Legionfall campaign, so if we assume each rewards 1500 rep like the previous all have, if you just do that and nothing else you'll get more than halfway there. Can prob get exalted from the occasional WQ, World Bosses, Kirin Tor emissaries and follower missions alone.
Which is also why I don't think exalted will be THAT bad on alts, once all the campagin can be done in one day you can get ~22,500 rep just from that on new characters. Of course, this is all assuming the 1500 rep trend, but I don't think it is surprising if it continues.
As for bodyguards, I HATE using them on my druid. Damn things keep me stuck in combat, aggro random stuff, keep things out of my AoE, and are generally worthless to me as a tank. But I love using them on healers and DPS characters. I generally prefer the ability ones that you can chose when to use overall though, like Remulos for druids.
I think reforging coming back is pretty unlikely. They said they don't like the idea of you getting an item mid raid, and having to zone out to reforge the piece before using it and coming back in. And they also didn't like plugging your gear into an external website to find the best way to reforge it all, and changing all your reforges every upgrade. Stats are still a problem, but could be fixed by just trying to balance 2ndary stats better balanced, and making primary stats contribute more to DPS than secondary by a lot so higher ilvl are still an upgrade, just less of an upgrade than perfectly itemized ilvl upgrades. I never minded reforging personally, but I also really liked Hit/Expertise cap and Defense cap for tanks, so I don't think I'm the typical use case hah.
jaundicejuice
Member
PVP BGs are a gongshow but kinda fun. Been running them to unlock the 1000 PVP Kills tint for the Woolomancer. Got over 100 kills with just two BGs, not too bad. Should have that unlocked in no time. Aegwynn's Fall on the other hand looks like it will take a significantly longer amount of time to unlock.
I didn't know there was a mount reward for those. What is it?
Got to say, Legion really is just a nice, solid expansion. I resubbed today after playing when Legion launched, just for a quick revisit. Broken Shore is ugly as hell, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hooked again.
That Xylem's tower questline was amazing.
My only real enduring issue is just... these zones. The degree of restrictiveness and verticality is totally infuriating. No zone should be as nightmarish to navigate as Highmoutain, it's insane. It was easier to get out of the game's boundaries in old WoW than it was to navigate this godforsaken hellhole of a zone.
That Xylem's tower questline was amazing.
My only real enduring issue is just... these zones. The degree of restrictiveness and verticality is totally infuriating. No zone should be as nightmarish to navigate as Highmoutain, it's insane. It was easier to get out of the game's boundaries in old WoW than it was to navigate this godforsaken hellhole of a zone.
jaundicejuice
Member
The Prestigious War Steed.
Isn't that the same one you get when hitting prestige 5?
I for one really enjoyed reforging everything to Crit and having 27 yellow Crit gems in my gear... as a tank. Pandaria.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Yay i can finally fly, time to level up my alts
Robin64
Member
Hopefully Sign of the Emissary works on the Broken Shore quests too. I don't see why not, but you never know with Blizzard and 7.2.
Ah, I see. When I read "steed" my mind instantly thinks of horse. I'll definitely be aiming for that wolf then. I think I just have to reach 20 at Black Rook and Darkbrul now (which are the most annoying ones)
As a prot paladin myself, I found it endlessly amusing when I tried to level the prot paladin follower (Defender Illona) back in WoD. Cue lots of cries of "Let ME keep aggro, I won't die, you idiot!" from me.
Of course, that's also with the WoD hour-or-so CD on bodyguard death.
cartographer
Member
Is that the only quest this week?
SillyEskimo
Member
I have to admit it's a tad jarring to see so many people posting here that look forward to flying and how much they are enjoying it when they get it. Several months ago there was an extremely passionate crowd of anti flyers posting here. As someone who always wants flying, it was really off putting at the time.
Robin64
Member
Yep! What a beautiful drip-drip method.
R
Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
152 reputation points until Revered with Armies of Legionfall. But I have done all available world quests on Broken Shore, including the world boss. Ah well, a wait until tomorrow isn't much.
God damn it, should've saved mine instead of gambling them, gonna have to wait until the invasion to do this one hah.
cartographer
Member
Zero shame lol.
You only get nethershards from invasion quests.
man as someone who has been firmly in bare-minimum raid and mythic+ mode for a while, this new stuff is annoying as hell. I did manage to barely scrape together two 875 ilvl followers in time for the big AP mission, so when that's done tonight I might finally get to figure out what the hell the frost DK trait Thronebreaker even does (the description is hilariously vague). But I'm falling way behind in AP relative to most of my guild, and I was already pretty low due to splitting between tank/dps specs. I mean I still do fine and my guild certainly doesn't give a shit, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
on top of that, requiring tons more order resources is a real kick in the dick considering I barely manage enough for artifact research and occasional missions. I guess most people who play WoW, only play WoW, so I'm sure they're happy. But asking me to stop playing persona 5 to grind tons of world quests just makes me want to drop WoW entirely rather than keep playing casually. And yes I realize that mythic raiding and +10 keystones doesn't fit everyone's definition of casual but it was only a few hours a week to bang all that stuff out. Also playing with friends is a lot different from mindlessly plugging away at repetitive daily garbage rep grinds.
I'm aware of the absurdity if 'more content? fuck that, unsubbing' but eh. We'll see what happens in a month or two when it runs out.
on top of that, requiring tons more order resources is a real kick in the dick considering I barely manage enough for artifact research and occasional missions. I guess most people who play WoW, only play WoW, so I'm sure they're happy. But asking me to stop playing persona 5 to grind tons of world quests just makes me want to drop WoW entirely rather than keep playing casually. And yes I realize that mythic raiding and +10 keystones doesn't fit everyone's definition of casual but it was only a few hours a week to bang all that stuff out. Also playing with friends is a lot different from mindlessly plugging away at repetitive daily garbage rep grinds.
I'm aware of the absurdity if 'more content? fuck that, unsubbing' but eh. We'll see what happens in a month or two when it runs out.