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

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Cindres

Vied for a tag related to cocks, so here it is.
CarbonatedFalcon said:
You are as much a part of the problem/reason why your guild has dissolved as the guys who didn't show. For any raiding guild to work on a base level (skill not a factor here), you need to have everyone able to make a regular commitment to agreed-upon times. It's easy to dismiss as a "merely a game" or whatever, but nothing is going to get done if people don't show up, same as if people didn't show up to work. Without a steady roster, a raid team will experience a myriad of issues that otherwise wouldn't exist.

People expect absences, even unexpected ones, and that's totally fine, but never being able to commit to a regular schedule is not going to fly with the vast majority of groups out there. Raiding is a team activity -- can you see why leaders would never want to deal with someone who's wildly inconsistent in terms of attendance? It would make planning strategy more difficult than it already is, besides figuring out how to handle loot with you, etc.

That's my brief, unpolished thoughts on the matter.

As for actual advice, I'm not sure what I'd recommend. Is your real-life schedule wildly inconsistent that you can't commit to a regular gaming schedule? Because if you look hard enough there are guilds that raid at nearly any time you could want. 3+ day guilds, 2 day guilds, Late night, Prime time, Mornings, etc.

All I have to say for now.
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Well I wasn't really trying to place blame, but it was the healers not logging in that caused it to fall apart. I'm a ranged DPS, my friends always knew what my deal was as It's the same as it has been before and it's never been a problem for me to come when necessary, I always made sure to click attending on the raid event at least a day before.

And yes, my evening schedule is pretty inconsistent, my girlfriend and I have various activities and social things that can change on a weekly basis. I get that it can be inconvenient to organisers but nobody ever raised it as an issue with me and as a ranged DPS which we had plenty of I didn't see it as an issue either.


There are also no Suramar WQs popping up at the moment, finally managed to get 4 at once and one of them's Magistrix which I can't do alone.
 
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Strimei

Member
God damn this world quest Rocko pet battle is annoying as hell. Can't damage it at all, have to survive 10 rounds before it kills itself, and its attack hits the whole team whittling them down.

edit: Odd. earlier it was immune to any of my debuffs, now its not.

edit 2: The corresponding falcosaur pet gets a little heart icon above them for a moment if you have them out when you mount up on the right falcosaur mount. Neat.
 
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cdyhybrid

Member
Cindres said:
Well I wasn't really trying to place blame, but it was the healers not logging in that caused it to fall apart. I'm a ranged DPS, my friends always knew what my deal was as It's the same as it has been before and it's never been a problem for me to come when necessary, I always made sure to click attending on the raid event at least a day before.

And yes, my evening schedule is pretty inconsistent, my girlfriend and I have various activities and social things that can change on a weekly basis. I get that it can be inconvenient to organisers but nobody ever raised it as an issue with me and as a ranged DPS which we had plenty of I didn't see it as an issue either.


There are also no Suramar WQs popping up at the moment, finally managed to get 4 at once and one of them's Magistrix which I can't do alone.
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You should be able to easily find a group for that with the group finder.
 
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LogicStep

Member
Enh shaman, how am I looking?

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Lain

Member
I hope I'll have the hidden skin colour from world quests unlocked soon, because doing WQs as Holy has become sorta annoying after having spent some time doing them as prot. Getting dazed and dismounted left and right is pretty annoying.
I wish there was a counter somewhere to know how many I have left.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
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And here I thought two Falcosaurs was enough.

No, I must have all the Falcosaur accessories.
 
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v1perz53

Member
Chie Satonaka said:
I got my first legendary this morning.

I was really excited.

Hidden Master's Forbidden Touch.

I wasn't aware that you could only use it the second time on a different target, making it's effectiveness, well. It's not optimal.

Oh well. The grind continues.
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It has some interesting use cases. It is a huge DPS gain on any fight with at least 2 targets that live a long time. And on fights where there are many adds that die quickly, you can use it to proc the artifact trait Death Art to basically give your ToD a 30% faster recharge time for the whole fight, which is also a pretty big DPS boost. Obviously it is not useful in purely ST fights, but at least there are some creative ways to play around it. Definitely better than Sephuz/Prydaz and almost always Cinidaria!
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Whenever I lose it's to Lil Ragnaros, Lil Deathwing, or some other P2W battle pet.

I'M SENSING A PATTERN HERE.
 
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v1perz53

Member
I really loved the idea of the order hall quests, and I think they were a great addition, if not over a little too quickly. However, one way I think they dropped the ball a little with them is how they were handled regarding other players. I get that my order hall is a collection of my class, but I do think most of the order campaign should've been single player scenarios. Kind of took me out of the moment to be the Great Farseer of the Shaman! the only hope, killing the
spawn of Sinestra
! Only to walk up and see the mob at 10%, 3 other "farseer" killing it, missing out on all of the lore regarding it. Or getting ganked by another shaman on the plane of wind while trying to unite the wind elementals against the forces of the burning legion. Just kind of took away from the story to see other people there, when the whole point is that now I am the one leader of my class. Minor nitpick though. Shaman order campaign is ballin so far, really enjoying it, always liked the elementals and their "ambivalent but not really bad in most cases" kind of style.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
They fixed Falcosaur swapping between alts, rip.

Oh well, I'm nearly done with Snowfeather and it's not like I can progress Bloodgazer past Nighthold.
 
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Strimei

Member
Haly said:
They fixed Falcosaur swapping between alts, rip.

Oh well, I'm nearly done with Snowfeather and it's not like I can progress Bloodgazer past Nighthold.
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They must have just done that as it worked for me at like, 5 pm EST earlier.

Just in time, heh.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
1.09 said:
undead valkyr, pandaren water spirit, anubisath.

xoxo
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Need to get Water Spirit and finish leveling my Valkyr.

Want to level Sunborn Valkyr as well during this event...
 
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Mupod

Member
Came within 10 seconds of succeeding the Nightbane speedrun...wouldn't have mattered anyways as one of our group can only play 2 hours a night and we were at the end of his time. We would have had to do it again tomorrow to re-summon Nightbane.

Completely confident in the next run - we even wiped to spiders on that one once because two of them randomly aggroed for no reason. Next time I'll pull them to be safe. They were the last two before the portal, the ones on the far right side...we were NOWHERE close to them when they pulled.

Could have probably still done it if we'd killed Curator during evocation...next time I'll save dancing rune weapon and an old war, and give an old war to our monk healer for dps.

On the upside our feral found his third legendary during the run. He was one of those people who got two in the first week before they fixed the bug, but hadn't found any since despite running hundreds of mythic+. Should help us, it's the one that buffs Thrash I think.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Sarcasm said:
How did swapping work?
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The Falcosaur questlines are supposed to be on a daily lockout. Although you can do the questlines for all 4 in parallel, they could only advance to the next quest once per day.

Of course, Blizzard overlooked that pets were account-bound, and players could circumvent the limit partially by advancing the quest lines on different 110 characters.

Today's the day I get Chromonius boys. I can feel it. This is the run.

EDIT: This was not the run.
 
Teletraan1

Teletraan1

Banned
I just started this whole pet thing. Got myself a Anubisath Idol and a Chrominius on my first lockout. Chrominius dropped on my first run. Anub I had to run like 5x on various alts before it dropped. I don't know why I have never even tried this before. Never even bothered to learn it from a trainer before the other day. Seems pretty fun.
 
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v1perz53

Member
Haly said:
The Falcosaur questlines are supposed to be on a daily lockout. Although you can do the questlines for all 4 in parallel, they could only advance to the next quest once per day.

Of course, Blizzard overlooked that pets were account-bound, and players could circumvent the limit partially by advancing the quest lines on different 110 characters.

Today's the day I get Chromonius boys. I can feel it. This is the run.

EDIT: This was not the run.
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Is Chrominius even expensive anymore? (You ARE talking about the pet right? Don't know of anything else named that!) They went down to like 600g on my server after they nerfed Howl-Bomb. Or are you trying to get it yourself for raiding with leashes (which you can just buy him and it counts as well). Or is it a personal pride thing that you just want it to drop lol.

(if you just want one to have it, and you play US I can just make an alt on your server and trade you one, I have plenty)

Pet battling is something I'm glad I did little by little each expansion, because at this point I have a huge repertoire of max level pets and useable combos. Seems really intimidating to start from scratch now.
 
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Tarazet

Member
LogicStep said:
Enh shaman, how am I looking?

6olpAmc.jpg
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Is that with AS or Hailstorm? It looks like your stat priority is basically in the right place since you have a lot of Mastery for 857. It's so hard to drop Crit from everything, and it's not really worth it. Would also be nice to know what trinkets you are using.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
v1perz53 said:
Is Chrominius even expensive anymore? (You ARE talking about the pet right? Don't know of anything else named that!) They went down to like 600g on my server after they nerfed Howl-Bomb. Or are you trying to get it yourself for raiding with leashes (which you can just buy him and it counts as well). Or is it a personal pride thing that you just want it to drop lol.
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I don't actually know how much it costs on my server. I just never thought of buying it.

I'm kind of a purist when it comes to pokemans. My first instinct is always to get something myself. But it seems like a waste of time here. I don't even like Chrominius as a pet. I just want him to help power level other guys....
 
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Lain

Member
Just finished the archeology double-weekly and damn, I hated every single second of the last part in front of Halls of Valor. Who thought having to constantly fight mobs while moving over a large area doing solves was a good and fun experience is what I was asking myself.
 
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v1perz53

Member
Haly said:
I don't actually know how much it costs on my server. I just never thought of buying it.

I'm kind of a purist when it comes to pokemans. My first instinct is always to get something myself. But it seems like a waste of time here. I don't even like Chrominius as a pet. I just want him to help power level other guys....
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Yea I feel you, I liked getting all of mine myself, felt much more satisfying that way. Though I've broken down recently, specifically when it came to something like the pet that only drops from Big Bad Wolf opera event, hoping to get that specific opera THEN hoping for the drop was just too much for me.

Also, man I'm glad they put in that guy to remove fire mage orbs. Messing around on one now, these things are hella distracting. How did people cope before the removal? (probably the same crazy people who love Chi Orbit's visual on monks...) They are certainly a cool visual but they're so damn busy. Wish I could set them to only show up in combat.
 
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Xeteh

Member
Haly said:
I don't actually know how much it costs on my server. I just never thought of buying it.

I'm kind of a purist when it comes to pokemans. My first instinct is always to get something myself. But it seems like a waste of time here. I don't even like Chrominius as a pet. I just want him to help power level other guys....
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If you're on US servers I have a level 1 you can have.
 
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v1perz53

Member
Man I really should start leveraging my random 100s that I don't plan on levelling by like parking them next to Tempest Keep or something. TK runs don't take that much time, could prob get an Ashes finally in the next 3-114 weeks if I did that.
 
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Lain

Member
Is there a better place than wowhead to check world quests outside of the game? Just found another WQ that wasn't shown in game in Highmountain and looking at wowhead for EU realms, they don't show any highmountain WQ as up right now, despite a few being up for me.
 
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Xeteh

Member
Lain said:
Is there a better place than wowhead to check world quests outside of the game? Just found another WQ that wasn't shown in game in Highmountain and looking at wowhead for EU realms, they don't show any highmountain WQ as up right now, despite a few being up for me.
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The mobile Legion app, maybe? I've noticed that some quests just don't show up on the map in game too that the addon World Quest List shows on the list and is active when I go there.
 
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Lain

Member
Xeteh said:
The mobile Legion app, maybe? I've noticed that some quests just don't show up on the map in game too that the addon World Quest List shows on the list and is active when I go there.
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I don't have a smartphone to use the app, so I was hoping for some website.
 
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Anbokr

Bull on a Donut
MetroidPrimeRib said:
gear is terrible, not worth it for how hard the last parts are
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nightbane has better gear than heroic trial of valor (which isn't even out yet) and he's a yoke

not to mention kara trinkets are really really good even more so with the 30% amp from the chest (and some of the other stuff like the tank ring/neck, healer cloak)
 
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