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I've been doing some goblin speculation since I don't care about worgen (lol furries) and I think/hope they should get this combo of classes:
Warrior
Rogue
Warlock
Mage
Hunter
Priest/Shaman (not sure which, neither one seems to fit existing lore but they are both possible)
As far as racials go I think they should get something like...
Engineering bonus (like gnomes, too obvious to pass up)
Agility bonus (similar to int/spi/hp bonuses from gnomes/humans/tauren)
Buy/sell bonus (being the merchant race, an extra 5% discount or being able to vendor stuff for 5% more would fit and be nice, but not game-breaking in any way)
Gun specialization
Some kind of active racial cooldown, though I have no idea what they could get that's unique and fits pre-existing goblin lore
that's 5 things, I know, but really a lot of races have more than 4 racials now, unless their standard 4 are way better.
Warrior
Rogue
Warlock
Mage
Hunter
Priest/Shaman (not sure which, neither one seems to fit existing lore but they are both possible)
As far as racials go I think they should get something like...
Engineering bonus (like gnomes, too obvious to pass up)
Agility bonus (similar to int/spi/hp bonuses from gnomes/humans/tauren)
Buy/sell bonus (being the merchant race, an extra 5% discount or being able to vendor stuff for 5% more would fit and be nice, but not game-breaking in any way)
Gun specialization
Some kind of active racial cooldown, though I have no idea what they could get that's unique and fits pre-existing goblin lore
that's 5 things, I know, but really a lot of races have more than 4 racials now, unless their standard 4 are way better.
Masta_Killah
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jim-jam bongs said:Has this always been in the Dalaran Sewers?
It appears that the turtles, under rat supervision, are planning something. Whether it will be a peaceful coup or a violent revolution remains to be seen, but I for one welcome our new furry/half-shelled overlords.
:lol glad someone else noticed it. Hopefully you also noticed it was a ninja turtle reference
yeah, that's what I mean. I don't see how something like that won't be given to goblins, just because it fits the lore and gives a fun reason to make a goblin alt.
I really want goblin hunter as an option. I kind of doubt it's going to happen, but oh god I wish it would. I would drop my orc for a goblin hunter asap.
I really want goblin hunter as an option. I kind of doubt it's going to happen, but oh god I wish it would. I would drop my orc for a goblin hunter asap.
firex said:
I was thinking Rogue, Warrior, Mage, Hunter, and Death Knight (of course). Goblins don't seem like they'd be too keen on being tied to demonic forces, so I didn't think Warlock would fit. Priest seems completely off as I can't really see Goblins following the Light either. Shaman would work, though, but just barely.
firex said:
I don't think the buy/sell option would be a good idea; far too many people would mail all of their vendor crap to a goblin alt for the slightly better prices. I realize 5% isn't that huge, but... keep in mind what kind of cockstains are known to play the game. I was thinking instead that their merchant ways would translate better as a larger default backpack. Anyways, here's a few ideas I've had; not advocating all of them, just... pick whichever ones you like.
Expansive Mind: Increase Intellect by 5%.
Engineering Specialist: 15 point skill bonus to Engineering.
Gun Specialization: Your chance to critically hit with Guns is increased by 1%.
Merchant's Satchel: Starting Backback is 20 slots instead of the default 16.
Mechanical Gnome: Summons a small, mechanical, and most importantly, obedient gnome that can deliver mail, repair, or provide shopping to you. You may also choose to abuse it for comical value. One option per use, 1 hour cooldown.
Shortstuff:Reduces your chance to be hit by spells and ranged attacks by 1%.
Run away!: Increases movement speed by 60% for 15 sec. 5 min cooldown.
there's already been goblin warlocks and stuff in the game though. A level 12 durotar quest is to kill a goblin warlock in particular, and they are just as liable to get in over their heads as gnomes are when it comes to thinking they can outsmart anything in terms of lore/quests/story in game.
I also don't think copying every gnome racial outright is what they could use. The whole reason I see 5% buying/selling not mattering is it's 5% of vendor stuff and vendor stuff never sells for enough to make you go "oh wow that's awesome" since it would be 10s at most for grays and you can't mail anything soulbound. And it helps making a new alt because you spend less money on them leveling them up. I guess a 20 slot starting bag would help, too, but that already seems lamer than getting a little bit of extra gold. It sounds big on paper, but in practice it wouldn't be anything major, especially as gold becomes pretty valueless (and dailies become much better ways of getting gold) as the expansions and levels continue to pile up.
Engineering bonus does seem like a must, though, because obviously the two specialties are goblin and gnomish engineering. The way I see it given how they tend to be portrayed, the obvious/gimme racials are gun spec and engineering bonus, and from there you just come up with other racials that would be fun/cool/might convince people to roll goblins as a specific class. I go with agi bonus over int bonus purely as a personal choice (no duplicate stat bonus, but a similar passive bonus to one base stat for a race) even though goblins aren't necessarily that agile, despite the whole sapper/quick movement traits to their race.
I didn't list DK because I think it's a given that any new race will be able to be a DK. Just going by the non-hero classes.
Actually, one other idea one of my friends thought of ingame is what if goblins could speak both common and orcish? I doubt it would happen due to pvp servers (I remember the horrors of cross-faction trash talking when undead could speak common in vanilla beta) but since goblins are the neutral merchant race, it would make sense for them.
I can basically see goblins as any class with very little lore justification except for priest/shaman/druid/paladin. That's just because goblins don't really have any kind of church or worship the light or anything, and in general aren't that religious in any kind of way (including animism) so basically they would lean more towards the arcane magic or the non-magical classes. But then I can see a reason to have goblin healers, and if they join the horde I can see priest/shaman as possibilities for sure.
I also don't think copying every gnome racial outright is what they could use. The whole reason I see 5% buying/selling not mattering is it's 5% of vendor stuff and vendor stuff never sells for enough to make you go "oh wow that's awesome" since it would be 10s at most for grays and you can't mail anything soulbound. And it helps making a new alt because you spend less money on them leveling them up. I guess a 20 slot starting bag would help, too, but that already seems lamer than getting a little bit of extra gold. It sounds big on paper, but in practice it wouldn't be anything major, especially as gold becomes pretty valueless (and dailies become much better ways of getting gold) as the expansions and levels continue to pile up.
Engineering bonus does seem like a must, though, because obviously the two specialties are goblin and gnomish engineering. The way I see it given how they tend to be portrayed, the obvious/gimme racials are gun spec and engineering bonus, and from there you just come up with other racials that would be fun/cool/might convince people to roll goblins as a specific class. I go with agi bonus over int bonus purely as a personal choice (no duplicate stat bonus, but a similar passive bonus to one base stat for a race) even though goblins aren't necessarily that agile, despite the whole sapper/quick movement traits to their race.
I didn't list DK because I think it's a given that any new race will be able to be a DK. Just going by the non-hero classes.
Actually, one other idea one of my friends thought of ingame is what if goblins could speak both common and orcish? I doubt it would happen due to pvp servers (I remember the horrors of cross-faction trash talking when undead could speak common in vanilla beta) but since goblins are the neutral merchant race, it would make sense for them.
I can basically see goblins as any class with very little lore justification except for priest/shaman/druid/paladin. That's just because goblins don't really have any kind of church or worship the light or anything, and in general aren't that religious in any kind of way (including animism) so basically they would lean more towards the arcane magic or the non-magical classes. But then I can see a reason to have goblin healers, and if they join the horde I can see priest/shaman as possibilities for sure.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
My theories on Worgen and Goblin classes would be:
-- Worgen --
Warrior, Rogue, Druid, Warlock, Priest, Hunter, Mage
-- Goblin --
Warrior, Rogue, Warlock, Mage, Priest, Hunter
If the MMO-C leak is anything to go by we can assume that since Trolls gets druids another alliance race gets it aswell, and what would be better suited than Worgen? I mean, they're already shifters.
And oh, I'm betting 5g that Worgen will have fist weapon speciality.
-- Worgen --
Warrior, Rogue, Druid, Warlock, Priest, Hunter, Mage
-- Goblin --
Warrior, Rogue, Warlock, Mage, Priest, Hunter
If the MMO-C leak is anything to go by we can assume that since Trolls gets druids another alliance race gets it aswell, and what would be better suited than Worgen? I mean, they're already shifters.
And oh, I'm betting 5g that Worgen will have fist weapon speciality.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
Does anyone that was on the PTR know anything about the boss coming out this week?
These were obviously generalizations. I have never been in a Mal'Ganis pug that has failed and even back in the Naxx-is-endgame days, you would have to break 3.5k to even show up in the top 10 in most pugs I joined. Most of the pugs would make you list your VoA achievements and stats before they would invite you.Angry Grimace said:
I haven't been on Mal'Ganis in a couple months though so they may have lightened up a bit since then.
sykoex said:
I've got a /castsequence macro called "DK faceroll" on my DK alt. Just look at the official forums for good leveling builds (blood) and the accompanying rotation. They're designed to line up with rune cooldowns, so if you macro them you can just hit one button.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Angry Grimace said:
Well you are in a better position than I am. I don't think our guild will ever see Yogg. In regards to your shoulder woes I feel your pain. I have never seen any dps plate drops in Uld EVER. But there is hope. Simply save 30 triumph badges and you can buy tier 9. Better than the 25 man Yogg shoulder set drop and you get started on making your next set. Thank you Blizzard!
The Dark One
I finally got around to doing the Exploration achievements. I wanted to do them off and on ever since I first played the game years ago, but never felt the desire to really motivate myself. I mean, this is coming from someone who water-walked around the northern tip of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms when you couldn't mount or even change into Ghost Wolf to make the trip faster. And that was just for fun to see what was around there.
So I spent around 3-4 hours doing it, and I feel really burnt out. Tabard is ok, title is ok, but I only just re-subbed a week ago and I don't feel like playing anymore of the game till the expansion :lol
Was going to try and up my fishing and cooking cause they seemed to be real easy and laid back, but I doubt I want to even bother with that now.
So I spent around 3-4 hours doing it, and I feel really burnt out. Tabard is ok, title is ok, but I only just re-subbed a week ago and I don't feel like playing anymore of the game till the expansion :lol
Was going to try and up my fishing and cooking cause they seemed to be real easy and laid back, but I doubt I want to even bother with that now.
Angry Grimace said:
You never bought the T7.5 shoulders with emblems? If you really did many, many Ulduar runs, you should have enough. :lol
Myself, i'm still stuck with the T7 ones. But, thanks to the daily heroic quests, i can buy the T9 later today after work.
I've done that quest every days since the patch went live. :lolFor fishing, well at the beginning at least, i usually try to get 5 points into Fishing for every lvl i get, so that my fishing is usually at the same point as my weapon skills. It's rather fast and not too boring to do. Of course sometimes i lvl so fast i forget about it, so it's 10 points to get, but whatever. :lol
Then, when i reach 250+ fishing where it takes like 10 fishes to get 1 single point, i just forget about it and wait for Northrend where i can do the fishing daily and just lvl up it up like this.
Then, when i reach 250+ fishing where it takes like 10 fishes to get 1 single point, i just forget about it and wait for Northrend where i can do the fishing daily and just lvl up it up like this.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The reason you aren't seeing DPS shoulder drops is because there is only one in both 10 and 25 man, the ones off of Auriaya-25.DarkMage619 said:
My plan for now is to go 2 pc. T8.5 from badges and 2 pc. T9 while I wait for the other set. I'm behind on Triumph badges at the moment, but not too bad. The bonus isn't amazing on T9 but it's definetely a DPS increase (6 sec/2 ticks extra per VT)
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The number of Valor emblems required to get them is stupid high, like 60 if I recall right. I had other things I wanted, although to be fair, I did most of our regular scheduled Ulduar runs on my DK.Bisnic said:You never bought the T7.5 shoulders with emblems? If you really did many, many Ulduar runs, you should have enough. :lol
Myself, i'm still stuck with the T7 ones. But, thanks to the daily heroic quests, i can buy the T9 later today after work.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Angry Grimace said:
Exactly! We have killed her over 10 times and she NEVER dropped them. So I said screw it and I'll get tier 9. Same type of stats just much more of them. Take THAT Auriaya!
The Dark One
lakesideflight
Member
lakesideflight said:
still looking, I'd like to roll alliance. If we start today we could get a 60 before blizzcon this weekend
Started my prepared horde warrior (just shoulders and chest BoA stuff for now) since Lakesideflight took forever to respond to pms and wants to roll alliance (YUCK)
So if anyone wants to do RAF on a US PvP server, Horde side, let me know (parked the dude at level 5, since I'm waiting to get the BoA trinket and Bloodied Arcanite Reaper)
So if anyone wants to do RAF on a US PvP server, Horde side, let me know (parked the dude at level 5, since I'm waiting to get the BoA trinket and Bloodied Arcanite Reaper)
funkmastergeneral
Banned
Bisnic said:You never bought the T7.5 shoulders with emblems? If you really did many, many Ulduar runs, you should have enough. :lol
Myself, i'm still stuck with the T7 ones. But, thanks to the daily heroic quests, i can buy the T9 later today after work.
I'm tempted to buy the Tier 9 shoulders myself sometime this week, but I I kind of want to save my emblems up for when I can finally get myself a Trophy of the Crusade. It'll probably take awhile but that gear is awesome.
funkmastergeneral
Banned
Macattk15 said:
Heroic 25 man drops armor tokens, so no need to trade emblems in for them.
jim-jam bongs
Member
speedpop said:
I started to level fishing when my priest was level 5, didn't touch it again until she was 80 but once I got into it I loved every minute of it. And that was before the patch, when it was genuinely a hassle because you had to fish in areas that were at your skill level.
Depends on the person; I do find it oddly relaxing, and have been known to fish in Thaddius' room while the raid confuses each other by shouting "NEGATIVE" and "POSITIVE" at one another over and over.
cubicle47b
Member
The Super Mario add-on will be the death of our raid.
Angry Grimace said:
Dotimer can't do different color for each buff. It goes based off time. Well, you CAN, but it involves setting up a separate anchor and timer for each individual dot and then setting the long medium short time color the same, and all that's just way too much fucking work.
I was a dotimer fan for a long time, but fortexorcist blows it away.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/fortexorcist.aspx
It's easy to setup colors for each individual dot and easy to ignore the ones you don't need. I also like how it handles multiple mobs better, and has made it much easier for me to keep multiple dots up on multiple targets.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I dunno, I just find it easy to track them by color. I tend to associate them by the color of their icon, i.e. VT is blue, DP is red, and I want SW: P to be yellow.johnsmith said:
cubicle47b
Member
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Some dumbass priest we PUGed in H ToC he'd randomly release after getting killed for failing at healing himself when the Black Knight was at 10% health. I'm sure you can imagine the loot argument afterwards when nobody noticed he released his corpse :lol
So is anyone here thinking about buying the Blizzcon stream and then flipping the murloc pet on ebay?
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=murloc&_sacat=See-All-Categories
I see there's already a few there now.
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=murloc&_sacat=See-All-Categories
I see there's already a few there now.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
rhfb said:
There's places in there, that if you haven't phased them, are outstanding.
Chat on Vent/listen to podcasts. Take breaks. Makes it possible.
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