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Alex said:
What? I'm talking about the whole thing, with everyone pitching in materials for the war effort and all of that, plus that huge-ass questline. The AQ event went on for months, I was on Deathwing at the time, still one of the most populated servers and we didn't have crashes beyond the typical server bullshit that plagued WoW pre-BC.
And the zombie event was fun, although I prefer the original outbreak since the consequences were more dire and it was unplanned. That kind of emergent event that even catches the developers off guard are what MMOs should be about.
AWESOME night tonight!
We cleared VoA10, first time I've done that.
We facerolled OS10, again, but I lost the roll on my tier gloves
. But I did get the Dragon Bag.
We did Flame Leviathan on Uld10. I won this bad mofo: so awesome.
So much fun that fight. And he really is a loot pinata lol.
Oh and I finally got enough honor to pickup my new trinket.
We cleared VoA10, first time I've done that.
We facerolled OS10, again, but I lost the roll on my tier gloves
. But I did get the Dragon Bag.We did Flame Leviathan on Uld10. I won this bad mofo: so awesome.
So much fun that fight. And he really is a loot pinata lol.
Oh and I finally got enough honor to pickup my new trinket.
Alex
Member
The materials were just stupid. Shoveling in a ton of random bullshit, very interactive and engaging.
No, but what soured me on the whole ordeal was that retarded carapace grinding. Maybe you had some smiley happy server where everyone pitched in, but all it was for us on Kael'thas was a fucking grind fest because we were the only guild lifting a finger. It got to the point where we started bribing non-raiders with gold to farm that shit so we didnt have to schedule post-raid bug grinding.
The opening of the gates crashed the world server every 10 minutes. We had to go inside and skip all of it just to stay online.
I hate the AQ event, in fact I hate everything about AQ that isn't C'thun, which is still the most awesome boss ever. Yogg Saron was a piece of shit compared to C'thun.
If I ever go crazy and worship an evil god, it would totally be C'thun
No, but what soured me on the whole ordeal was that retarded carapace grinding. Maybe you had some smiley happy server where everyone pitched in, but all it was for us on Kael'thas was a fucking grind fest because we were the only guild lifting a finger. It got to the point where we started bribing non-raiders with gold to farm that shit so we didnt have to schedule post-raid bug grinding.
The opening of the gates crashed the world server every 10 minutes. We had to go inside and skip all of it just to stay online.
I hate the AQ event, in fact I hate everything about AQ that isn't C'thun, which is still the most awesome boss ever. Yogg Saron was a piece of shit compared to C'thun.
If I ever go crazy and worship an evil god, it would totally be C'thun
Alex said:
Yeah I didnt take it to the boards but I hated the zombie event. Not being able to even afk in a city without coming back to your pc dead was like.....only hilarious the first day or three.
The events prior to that had all been optional. That one however impeded on everyone. People were like "BUT DONT YOU WANT TO PLAY? CMON KILL ZOMBIES AND STUFF" And Im trying to Do laundry while skilling my JC on a Saturday morning. Seriously, it was annoying.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
With raiding being more accessible than ever coupled with tons and tons of casuals farming day in an out, that kind of event would be HUGE today.Alex said:
cubicle47b
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It was a good fragment night. Picked up 3 which puts me at 14/30.
Arozay
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The fragment system is such bullshit rng. Clearing virtually every hard mode and only getting a fragment off Yogg for the week while some idiots clearing the place normal are at like 20/30. Should move deafening roar to a -3/-4 keeper ability to balance out the universe.cubicle47b said:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/1pl6Iz2ADzmkz199/sum/damageDone/?s=8929&e=9376
I love damage scaling fights. :lol
I love damage scaling fights. :lol
Xabora said:
your melee are pwning your casters on hodir, :lol
edit: to clarify, there's nothing wrong with the melee owning the casters as long as you beat the encounter, plenty of guilds do it that way, I just find it amusing given how good the buffs are for casters :d
e2 - spelling
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I have the most dkp in my guild due to the fact that I have not missed a raid in 5 months. The 2h axe drops of Ignis last night and I've already spoken with all the other players who could use the axe (in the event that it drops) if they're interested in going after it. They all say no. I bid a good amount, but not a ton so it doesn't seem like I'm getting it for nothing, and lo and behold one of the DKs who told me he wasn't interested spent his entire dkp. Now I don't have a problem with people blowing their dkp and outbidding me when I make an error in assuming they don't want to spend everything they have but when someone, in my own guild, tells me that they aren't bidding then blows their entire load pisses me off. If you want to keep your bidding strategy private then just say "I haven't decided" or "I don't know yet." I would have had no issue with just bidding more dkp then he had available. These kind of tactics feel like thievery to me and something I'd expect in a PUG and not within a guild.
I have the most dkp in my guild due to the fact that I have not missed a raid in 5 months. The 2h axe drops of Ignis last night and I've already spoken with all the other players who could use the axe (in the event that it drops) if they're interested in going after it. They all say no. I bid a good amount, but not a ton so it doesn't seem like I'm getting it for nothing, and lo and behold one of the DKs who told me he wasn't interested spent his entire dkp. Now I don't have a problem with people blowing their dkp and outbidding me when I make an error in assuming they don't want to spend everything they have but when someone, in my own guild, tells me that they aren't bidding then blows their entire load pisses me off. If you want to keep your bidding strategy private then just say "I haven't decided" or "I don't know yet." I would have had no issue with just bidding more dkp then he had available. These kind of tactics feel like thievery to me and something I'd expect in a PUG and not within a guild.
You're the one who tried some bullshit tactic. It blew up in your face, and it's not his fault. Also your system is whack if you pay what you bid. In a non-zero-sum bid system, the winner should pay the 2nd highest bid +1. If I bid 500 and you bid 200. I should win and have to pay 201. Your current system is giving you incentive to try and play some retarded meta-game, using social skills to try and gain an upper hand on who is bidding how much and how much you should bid. Stupid.Epix said:
I'd lie to you about my bidding plans as well, for asking such a dick question to try and get the upper hand on dkp. Putting a fellow guild member in the position to either tell the truth to fuck themselves over or lie to protect themselves is a dick move. You deserve what you got.
LoklorXabora said:
DPS - 5876
Ugh, wat? How? How is it possible? Rogues should do over 6k dps on normal fights, let alone the damage scaling ones. I understand his gear may be worse, but damn, DAMN. Just for reference, on our last Hodir I did 12 099 dps >.>''
Yeah, gear differences, but that's over twice as much dps as he did. And I didn't even top dmg meter (well casters did, but that's usual for this fight).
Seeing things like these makes me die a little bit inside. Seriously, and I still wonder why many people think that rogues are useless >.<
CassSept said:
Ah but you probably paid attention to who had the storm cloud and ran to them or stood next to them .... and stood in as many beams as you possibly could.
Oh and our casters absolutely DESTROY the melee on Hodir .... we also have good melee ... we DESTROY them on XT .... we drop the heart without using Bloodlust. Think our last kill of Hodir we had 2 mages around 16k DPS and other casters floating from 10-13k.
We were off the hard mode time by 31 seconds and we lost a ton of melee for some reason. Maybe next week!
I hate being Arms on that fight so the crybaby druid and rogues can get their way of easiness.
I forgot to mention most of the DPS was kinda hodir happy. >_>CassSept said:
Which in turn cause problems because people were not snagging the range for the storm, which in turn caused threat issues for our tank.
FYI: My Highest on that fight is like 12k last I recall.
Been a few days since I last raided... stupid initiate rank.
EDIT: Even then not all the top people were there... except for the druid.
But oh well.
EDIT2: Shouldn't have posted that so late at night. XD
Ah, well, ok. I was just amazed at how rogue can be so low >.>
And how melee can be in top, Hodir is the casters fight, much like XT is the melee fight, it just depends on the fight. Especially in Ulduar were in many fights different types of dps have different roles, in almost every fight.
And how melee can be in top, Hodir is the casters fight, much like XT is the melee fight, it just depends on the fight. Especially in Ulduar were in many fights different types of dps have different roles, in almost every fight.
Is anyone who is with Virgin Media dropping connection? I'm struggling to stay on for 20 minutes at a time. Sometimes it cuts my internet off completely and sometimes just from wow.
I heard virgin media were it better terms, shit when it come to WoW
so wondering if anyone else is the same or just me
I heard virgin media were it better terms, shit when it come to WoW
(or internet in general)
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Shaman Changes for 3.2.0
TL/DR version:
Totemic Call removed; replaced with Call of Earth, same move different name.
Customizable totem bars a la Warrior Stance/DK pres. bars added.
Call of Fire added; places all 4 totems in 1 GCD.
Call of Air and Call of Water added; do the same thing as Call of Fire; but customizable to drop specific numbers and types of totems.
Also, Nature's Swiftness CD changed to 2 min. Chain Heal jump distance increased to 10 yds; effectiveness of CH reduced by 40% per jump instead of 50%.
TL/DR version:
Totemic Call removed; replaced with Call of Earth, same move different name.
Customizable totem bars a la Warrior Stance/DK pres. bars added.
Call of Fire added; places all 4 totems in 1 GCD.
Call of Air and Call of Water added; do the same thing as Call of Fire; but customizable to drop specific numbers and types of totems.
Also, Nature's Swiftness CD changed to 2 min. Chain Heal jump distance increased to 10 yds; effectiveness of CH reduced by 40% per jump instead of 50%.
Blizzard said:
for mostly in demand stuff, get agi and str scarlet rubies. agi/stamina twilight opal is good. hit/stamina and hit/spirit forest emerald is good. defense/stamina is also good. spell/crit and/or spell/hit (I know I have one of these, I just can't remember which) is worth picking up, too, since a lot of casters have a higher hit rating requirement than melee.Scum said:
also holy shit thank god for the shaman changes. Only 5 years late, but now they won't waste 6 seconds just setting up buffs for each fight.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
At least we're back to dungeons that could reasonably be accomplished in less than 3 days.Alex said:
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Wow, I typically loathe the vehicle sections of this game (Including Flame Leviathan, fuck that thing), but I just stumbled onto the infra-green bomber quests and they are fucking awesome.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Crusader's Coliseum raid is a 5 boss dungeon, with FOUR modes; 10 man, 25 man, 10 man Heroic and 25 man Heroic.Zaro said:
All four save to different IDs so you can try hard mode without not getting the loot from regular, I imagine. So this is a smaller patch than Ulduar, which explains why we're hearing about it so much faster.
Not much info about the 5 man instance; but I hear it's supposed to be along the lines of Magister's Terrace; i.e. much harder than other 5 mans.
Arozay
Member
I was 'wut'ing the 3 days thing.
New instance sounds horrid though. Sunwell gates + attempt limits teaming up to form the ultimate artificial cockblock. Throw in overtuned enrages for the first weeks and they can claim people are still busy with it. Also they've said its supposed to follow a Ring of Blood type formula so I'm not expecting more than one room.
The Alliance/Horde gear art sounds great, although they'll probably just recolour based on armor types x4 cause that's how Blizzard roll. Also would have made more sense to do the faction armor treatment to the Arena sets instead of adding a new spike to the previous seasons armor.
New instance sounds horrid though. Sunwell gates + attempt limits teaming up to form the ultimate artificial cockblock. Throw in overtuned enrages for the first weeks and they can claim people are still busy with it. Also they've said its supposed to follow a Ring of Blood type formula so I'm not expecting more than one room.
The Alliance/Horde gear art sounds great, although they'll probably just recolour based on armor types x4 cause that's how Blizzard roll. Also would have made more sense to do the faction armor treatment to the Arena sets instead of adding a new spike to the previous seasons armor.
Manick Joe
Member
Woo, finally downed Yogg (ended up being 3rd on server, mere days from #2). I'm kind of disappointed there's no speeches/appearances afterward considering the huge build-up in the patch cut scene or to tie it back to the Lich King. Although to top the night off I also got my cooking hat!
I ended up hopping on the raid for "for the alliance" First run was a wipe at TB. The second one was much better...Ended up doing SMC and TB then we were gonna do UC but ended up heading to ORG and even though we were warned we went in anyway, and needless to say we failed and it fell apart after that.
Anyway, I just recently hit 80...and I'd like some advice on what I should be running and what I should be looking for as far as gear is concerned.
Here is my sheet from the armory. Click
Anyway, I just recently hit 80...and I'd like some advice on what I should be running and what I should be looking for as far as gear is concerned.
Here is my sheet from the armory. Click
keeblerdrow
Member
Every heroic you can get yourself into, everyday. And make sure you get your daily heroic done each day. Get into Vault of Archavon and Obsidian Sanctum, 10 and 25 versions once a week, too.
You might want to redo your spec a little if you are pveing, but it looks like from your gear and talents you are pvp focused. Though I'm not sure why you would have glyph of healing stream totem in a pvp build. Is it actually good for that? I'd assume glyph of lightning shield is better, or glyph of frost shock.
For pve, you will want to drop frozen power and earthen power, and elemental focus and convection, and go 2/5 ancestral knowledge for the following: 3/3 static shock, 3/3 call of flame, 5/5 elemental fury. pve glyphs are basically glyph of lightning shield, glyph of stormstrike, glyph of lava lash/lightning bolt for third slot.
For pve you obviously need more hit rating, too. You have 35 and you need 335 more to be hit capped at 80 for raids (with moonkin/shadow priest debuff, but no reason to get the extra 3% spell hit past that). Your weapons need to be slower, but since you are 80 there are multiple things you can buy:
the offhand claw from ebon blade
the axes from sons of hodir
the titansteel bonecrusher from any blacksmith/the AH
probably more just by clicking "find an upgrade" on your armory.
For pve, you will want to drop frozen power and earthen power, and elemental focus and convection, and go 2/5 ancestral knowledge for the following: 3/3 static shock, 3/3 call of flame, 5/5 elemental fury. pve glyphs are basically glyph of lightning shield, glyph of stormstrike, glyph of lava lash/lightning bolt for third slot.
For pve you obviously need more hit rating, too. You have 35 and you need 335 more to be hit capped at 80 for raids (with moonkin/shadow priest debuff, but no reason to get the extra 3% spell hit past that). Your weapons need to be slower, but since you are 80 there are multiple things you can buy:
the offhand claw from ebon blade
the axes from sons of hodir
the titansteel bonecrusher from any blacksmith/the AH
probably more just by clicking "find an upgrade" on your armory.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
I'm currently leveling jewelcrafting through the thorium stage and wow this is awful
Got my t8.5 chest from Hodir last night. Threw off the t7.5 legs I had been using to maintain 4pt7 and threw my Maly caster legs back on. +14.14% hit with no talents or gems, with the only +hit enchant being Icewalker.
Have enough badges for the t8.5 hood, but it's not much of an upgrade so I'm going to wait until I get my t8.5 shoulders off of Yogg. Could be a while.
Raged on someone in vent for the first time in the guild I've been with for the past eight months. Priest called me out for taking too much damage on Biting Cold on one attempt. I went off on her, reminding her that much of that was taken when I was trying frantically to bust her out of an ice block after she missed the idiot check on flash freeze, and that the rest was taken after a wipe was called when the healers couldn't keep the tank up and I was standing there trying to die.
This is the same priest that died in void zones on Sarth3D on just about every attempt well after the rest of the guild had learned the fight.
Fucking healers need to realize that a.) you don't get a free pass to call out people in the first place and b.) the rest of the raid notices when they fuck up but we bite our tongues.
Have enough badges for the t8.5 hood, but it's not much of an upgrade so I'm going to wait until I get my t8.5 shoulders off of Yogg. Could be a while.
Raged on someone in vent for the first time in the guild I've been with for the past eight months. Priest called me out for taking too much damage on Biting Cold on one attempt. I went off on her, reminding her that much of that was taken when I was trying frantically to bust her out of an ice block after she missed the idiot check on flash freeze, and that the rest was taken after a wipe was called when the healers couldn't keep the tank up and I was standing there trying to die.
This is the same priest that died in void zones on Sarth3D on just about every attempt well after the rest of the guild had learned the fight.
Fucking healers need to realize that a.) you don't get a free pass to call out people in the first place and b.) the rest of the raid notices when they fuck up but we bite our tongues.
funkmastergeneral said:I'm currently leveling jewelcrafting through the thorium stage and wow this is awful
Leveling professions if the one thing that kills my desire to do anything with my DK besides use it as a bank alt. No need for another gathering profession (have an alt with both mining and herbalism), and the crafting professions are terrible to level.
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