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The Chatterbox => Gaming => Topic started by: Kulli on August 18, 2007, 11:37:13 PM
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Woo, just got to level 22, just got to Exalted with Tranquillien...it's been great recently.
Also, it would be great if you guys post your realm. Mine is Area 52.
Oh, please mark any Cataclysm-related links with [CATA] so that I don't click on them. If you guys want to discuss it, please make a new thread so that I won't be tempted to look at any of it. Danke!
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I roll with Lethon, Also rouges and hunters are overpowered. Every hunter I've ever fought just waits for me to use my charge then freezes me, walks away, stuns me and keeps attacking and by the time I can use intercept and reach him I have about half/three fifths of my health left, and rouges just stun me and do enough damage so that I can't move until I'm dying.
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lol I just made a rogue
Only died once, and I got to level 6 in only a couple of hours. I think I might be sticking to rogues.
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I went from 1-14 in 7 hours on my rogue. I was so cracked out on Rockstars during this feat.
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I got you all beat, 7 hours to level 58. on a private server
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I got you all beat, 7 hours to level 58. on a private server
Shouldn't it take like 1 kill to get to 70 then?
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http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Windrunner&n=Vladgd
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Vladgd
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Vlagd
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Illidan&n=Onegd
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I thought you deleted your account
and if you did, holy fuck do you level fast
Also, I've completed all the quests in Silvermoon and the Ghostlands. Where should I go next? Orgrimmar?
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Shouldn't it take like 1 kill to get to 70 then?
Uhh, no. I play these servers to be able to actually experience most of the high level stuff, and check out things I can't on my main character, considering I've been playing WoW off and on for ages, and still only have a lv 42 pally. I can't stand grinding ingame for the most part, so I play on servers with experience rates ranging from 2x to 200x. 200x is what I managed that with. By the 50's, you're making about 30k ex per kill.
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http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Windrunner&n=Vladgd
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Illidan&n=Onegd
Someone likes to tank.
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Rofl, nice items there vlad.
If I can find a way to post my equipment from my private server, I will.
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I thought you deleted your account
and if you did, holy fuck do you level fast
Also, I've completed all the quests in Silvermoon and the Ghostlands. Where should I go next? Orgrimmar?
i never deleted my account. and im not really a fast leveler. ive had the shaman for ages, my warrior dinged 60 back last summer, the rogue has just been casual playing, and the paladin i started about two weeks ago.
after ghostlands, go to silverpine or the barrens, those zones will last you till level 20 or so. after around level 20, go to ashenvale, and hillsbrad, the quests from both zones will last you until 30. at 30, you have arathi highlands, alteric mountain (iirc), and decolace are great places to get up to around 35. at 35, run the piss out of scarlet monistary until you get every last item you need out of there, and after that, if you prefer, keep running it to 40. if you don't want to grind sm till 40, at around level 35, dustwallow marsh should keep you busy to 40. at 40, tanaris, feralas, hinderlands, and the badlands do quests from those zones, and from your low to mid 40's you can start running zul farak in tanaris, and uldaman (a few levels lower than zf) in the badlands. that stuff should keep you busy until level 50, which things start slowing down even more. quests in western plaguelands, and un goro crater/grind untl level 55. and from 55-60, eastern plaguelands/winterspring questing/grinding.
that is azeroth, you can go to outlands at level 58, but depending on class, it may be a bit hard until level 60. but i will explain outlands as its a bit easier to get through than azeroth. (note, i will not list any instances, it is faster to skip them all together, but not a bad idea to run them for a few pieces of gear you need for that level)
basicly im listing the zones that should keep you busy for the level range. DO EVERY SINGLE QUEST YOU CAN GET YOUR GRUBBY HANDS ON, and you should easily have near 2000g at level 70 if you arent leveling a profession/spending alot of money.
60-62 - hellfire peninsula
61-63 - zangarmarsh
63-65 - terokkar forest
65-67 - nagrand
67-68 - blades edge mountains
67-70 - netherstorm
67-70 - shadowmoon valley
there are WAY MORE than enough quests avalible to level from 60-70 on quests alone. seriously, i didn't touch shadowmoon valley until level 70, and i still had netherstorm quests avalible.
not really a "guide" but more of an outline of where i prefer to go when im leveling a character. you may think 1-60 is pretty sluggish, "not too fun" but 60-70, i ended up enjoying it quite a bit, the quests were fun, i loved the zones, good rewards, lots of 5man instances, good stuff.
ohh and for the warrior being prot, on that server the horde gank a little too much for comfort, so im taking it slow and leveling it only in instances, and prot being a good instance spec, yep. for the prot paladin, i want to tank as a paladin because its unique in WoW, and later on you can solo 5+ mobs your level with ease.
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I love tanking with my pally, it's something nobody ever let me do, and I was only marginally worse than a warrior my level, and that was only really in damage. He could kill them faster, but I was able to tank just as well.
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Yeah, I'd like to DD once in a while but everyone is like "oh your a warrior YOUR TANKING BITCH".
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My armory:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&n=Skorion
My guild is currently working on Kael'thas in Tempest Keep. Hopefully we will kill him this week. We are skipping SSC to just work on him and get him down, so four days of Kael'thas... or less I hope, if we kill him sooner.
Also, this funny video was posted on the forum, of Corpsegrinder, singer of Cannibal Corpse, talking about WOW.
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Also, this funny video was posted on the forum, of Corpsegrinder, singer of Cannibal Corpse, talking about WOW.
:D
He is right about the prot warrior thing, and I'm fury :<.
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal%27Ganis&n=Kde (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal%27Ganis&n=Kde) -Just hit 56 last night. :D
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal%27Ganis&n=Ollec (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal%27Ganis&n=Ollec) -Decided to play something drastically different from my main. This one's more casual than anything right now.
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Oh shit, Fury warriors.
http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Lethon&n=Mortifiedacl
I really hate my main DPS weapon tho.
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Beast Mastery is no joke.
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I hate twinks :o. So dumb, they shouldn't exist.
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twinks are fine, don't do battlegrounds pre 70.
and for some reason, i have an odd desire to make a survival hunter.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=VZE0bRVZcGhGzf0uVuVo
this build looks like it would give me a good bit of control in pvp, so...well now the hard part is leveling the character.
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I hate my hunter now, you can have him. I'm down with the rogues now.
I'm horde on dunemaul btw.
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I hate my hunter now, you can have him. I'm down with the rogues now.
I'm horde on dunemaul btw.
I'll take it. What do you want for it?
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Exactly the opposite, Gawd: I went back to being a paladin, and I'm enjoying it.
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I'm torn between the server type I want to play. I've always been on PvP, never played anything else. I know the "normal" servers are better for straight leveling, without having to worry about random players who want to gank you when you're at 20% health after fighting about six mobs, then attack you, kill you, and camp like the cocksuckers they are. That has got to be THE most frustrating thing about PvP servers. I know on the 'Normal' servers, you don't have to worry about that though. I just really don't want to have to roll ANOTHER character, and start from square one.. I've worked hard on my 56 NE hunter. Sure, I'm still going to get him to 70, but some nights I can't get anything done; I'm killed about 9-10+ times, and camped for about 30 minutes each time. Argh, this is starting to piss me off just thinking about it, so I'm cutting this short. What do you guys have to say about the different server types?
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twinks are fine, don't do battlegrounds pre 70.
Takes like all the fun out of PVP for me then. I am currently horrible under geared and I was dueling some shaman 4 levels below me and I win twice. Then he pulls out some epic axe with an enchant on it and starts doing more dps to me and I die. Also most people with twinks are asses, if they beat a person a few levels higher then them they get all cocky about it even tho the original person has no way to get gear even equivalent to the twinks.
Also I'm sick of my warrior, I want something that can do decent range attacks and dosen't get raped in PVP. I guess I'm going to level my preist.
Holy shit I suck with spell casters. That whole delay with a spell when you get hit throws me off horribly.
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Try being a fireball mage, lol. Once fireball gets up there, you pretty much need to switch to using another spell for damage, and use a combo of frostbolt and fireball for pulling.. or at least, that's what happened to me.
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people twink because its fun, they put money into it, and play their alts.
if you hate twinks, join them, and kick peoples asses.
or quit pissing around pvping and level up ;o
however, its your $15.00, and your opinion, not mine. i don't pvp anyway =/
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i don't pvp anyway =/
FINALLY
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or quit pissing around pvping and level up ;o
however, its your $15.00, and your opinion, not mine. i don't pvp anyway =/
I level faster then most of the people I know. Except for my one friend who got his alt up to my main, I'm 47 and he's 43 now.
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when you have a 70, you start to know how to level faster. it took me around three weeks of semi casual play to get my paladin to level 40. past 40 however, is where i slow down...A LOT, 40-60 = worst level grind in the game. so i have a 40 paladin, and a 40 rogue, that probably won't be leveling for a long time. i can almost guarantee i will have a 40 mage/hunter/warlock/druid/ or priest by the time i decide to touch my paladin or rogue again :_;
hell, ill probably get my warrior from 66-70 before i touch the 40-60 grind again. meaning, i would rather grind 66-70, with my prot warrior, solo, on this ganktastic server called illidan, than do 40-60.
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hell, ill probably get my warrior from 66-70 before i touch the 40-60 grind again. meaning, i would rather grind 66-70, with my prot warrior, solo, on this ganktastic server called illidan, than do 40-60.
Heh, I'm at 47 and I have to go between 4 different zones just to do a few quests. Also my friends main is 50 and then he said he was having trouble leveling.
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its like this 40-50 ouch 50-60 hell
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Not so bad if you only play when you have rest bonus :P
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http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Lethon&n=Mortifiedacl
I'm almost a beast, just need to get my pvp boots and I'll be fucking shit up.
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Replace the bow with something that gives you stats.
peep dis nigga rite her: http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dunemaul&n=G%C3%A0li .Dat nigga wuld stab da shit out cha wif a ruzty nife niga.
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I need something for pulling, also I really need to respect my talent tree.
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http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dunemaul&n=G%C3%A0li
thought the bow said "Nigga Heartbreaker"
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thought the bow said "Nigga Heartbreaker"
Same thing, also I got my boots.
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I now have over 1 gold as a level 8
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Nice, that's about the earliest you can really manage 1 gold on your own, more or less. Aldo depends on whether you manage to get some stuff to sell on the AH though, you can make wicked gold at the start if you know how to work the AH.
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you can make wicked gold at the start if you know how to work the AH.
that's how I got the money :P
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Just dinged again today. Only five more to go. Mana Tombs is pretty fun, though we wiped three times. I blame the Rogue, Rogues are useless IMO, no offense or anything, I just think people roll them to be cheap. "That's the World of Warcraft Game You Play", I guess.
http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal%27Ganis&n=Kde (http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal%27Ganis&n=Kde)
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I got you all beat, 7 hours to level 58. on a private server
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. :C
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Just dinged again today. Only five more to go. Mana Tombs is pretty fun, though we wiped three times. I blame the Rogue, Rogues are useless IMO, no offense or anything, I just think people roll them to be cheap. "That's the World of Warcraft Game You Play", I guess.
I thought they had decent DPS near the end of the game. I guess their more of a pvp thing, I would like something that worked better for pvp considering hunters, priests, rouges, mages, and sometimes pallys can take me.
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Well, on a lv 58 rogue on that private server I was doing about 1200 DPS... That any good?
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Well, on a lv 58 rogue on that private server I was doing about 1200 DPS... That any good?
I'm level 50 with meh gear and my average crit is like 500. that's with a one handed weapon to. Also I got a 1000 crit when I was level 26, thank you execute.
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Well, I was also exploiting a glitch, lol. On the server Cold Blood (Is that the one that guarantees a crit for the next offensive skill?) wouldn't disable, so every hit was a crit... But I'd be getting close to 800-1000 without it, really. I was using 2 badass weapons (I forget what they were). Pretty much, I was as pimped as a lv 58 could be.
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could you link me to a private server or two (If thats ok)? I want to try one out.
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wowstatus.net has large list of private servers. And I highly suggest getting their WoW Front End to make switching between official and private servers easy (it edits the line in the WTF file that tells WoW where to get the realm list). Also, that program won't save the servers you add to it automatically, so make sure to save them before closing it the first time. And it's set up to use links on the site that read "Click here to add this server to your favorites", WoWFE will add the server and all the info when you click the link because it's a wowadd:// link.
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I blame the Rogue, Rogues are useless IMO, no offense or anything, I just think people roll them to be cheap.
I just cleared RFC as a rogue, asshole 8)
Also, does this mean you can level on a private server and have the same stats as if you played on a regular server?
if so, I'm going to be playing private when I make a new character
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Yes, some private servers are very close to blizzard standard servers. Some of them are funservers, for dicking around, and making unstoppable characters, and some of them are higher rate servers with some modifications so that you can go even higher level and such. The server that I was playing on had a max level of 85, and had some custom items for 70+ characters. You still had to make money to buy them and such, but moneymaking was pretty easy since you could take all the vendor trash from lv 60+ mobs and usually make like, 100-200 gold per inventory, which doesn't take long when you're dropping like, 5-10 trash items per mob. But, making 2k gold for each item to get the high level raid tiers still takes a while.
There's a lot of selection on these servers. I personally enjoy playing on them occasionally because you get a slightly faster game, depending on which server you use, and you can meet people easier, since there's usually a decent amount of regulars who you get to know.
Also, I'm kinda used to playing private servers since I've been playing on them in some form or another for like, 5 years now (different games, of course, lol. I think it started with mu online, though.) [Which happens to have the WORST server architecture I've ever seen. 8 programs with the main server program taking 300+ MB of ram, totaling about 800 MB of ram? No thanks....]
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Also, does this mean you can level on a private server and have the same stats as if you played on a regular server?
if so, I'm going to be playing private when I make a new character
Well yeah, it's the same game plus whatever the private server adds. You couldn't level really fast then switch your character to a blizzard server tho.
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hardcore bump
I'm having trouble with what to do now that I'm level 30. I need someplace to level to 30-35 in particular. My character is Alliance.
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This always helped me, and they just updated it for BC.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/flashmap/
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30-35 i'd say go to STV.
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30-35 i'd say go to STV.
Playing on a PVP server you would get ass raped frequently there. Plus it hyas random patches of high level enemies around.
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Playing on a PVP server you would get ass raped frequently there. Plus it hyas random patches of high level enemies around.
Well, I play on a PVP server, and it's not that bad. It's a big enough place that you can hide fairly easily. Also, it's good to have those high level dudes, because you can spend a long time in there before you need to go some place else for leveling. It has you covered for a long time.
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Just find a couple lvl 70 friends to help you power lvl in there for a bit.
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I still dunno what's with all the PvE hate, but whatever.
More importantly, I hit level 40 with my paladin, which means...PLATE AND CHEAP MOUNT
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Well, I didn't go on a PvE server because I liked the idea of being able to actually get in fights with the other faction and such. I now know why some people play though. My build is a PvE build, so I'm decent at killing mobs, but craptacular at PvP :/
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So I want to make an enh shaman, but I can't decide what race to make it: Orc or Troll.
Any advice?
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i wouldn't recommend an enhancement shaman, unless you are doing it entirely for pve dps, and you don't solo often.
enhancement shaman = rogue/fury warrior with the worst survivability out of just about all class/specs in the game
however, if you want to give it a try (it can be fun, for a little while) either race works fine. bloodfury is a nice dps boost, but so is troll berzerking at low health (and believe me, you will be at low health a lot)
i say, pick what looks better
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Go orc, better racial traits.
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i wouldn't recommend an enhancement shaman, unless you are doing it entirely for pve dps, and you don't solo often.
enhancement shaman = rogue/fury warrior with the worst survivability out of just about all class/specs in the game
however, if you want to give it a try (it can be fun, for a little while) either race works fine. bloodfury is a nice dps boost, but so is troll berzerking at low health (and believe me, you will be at low health a lot)
i say, pick what looks better
Well...damn.
Coming from you, that makes me not want to play an enhance shaman anymore.
Anyone have any ideas what I should play as? I tried being a shadow priest, but I got sick of healbotting for PUGs and ended up deleting her. Note: The only character I have gotten to mid-game level is my prot pally (she's 49).
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Go orc, better racial traits.
You mean as a hunter. I always liked Trolls berserk, but I also hear that trolls also have the highest melee crit chance out of any horde race.
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shouldn't this thread be moved to AWW, FIDDLESTICKS!
jk <3
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well if you want to play a needed class, that doesn't much need to worry about spec in pvp and pve, mage.
yep, mage. i mean, maby you will need a specific spec for pvp, but you can still do the damage regardless your spec, people will want you for groups, you can solo fine.
so yea, mage if you enjoy playing the class.
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**Sigh** I gotta stop being brave at the END of the match, so I can get a nice perfect SS.....The death is when I stormed in BS when there were like 10 of them there....damn it.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/ABDEMOLISH.jpg)
Close enough though. Regardless if we won or lost...I completely RAPED that BG.
RAPED.
RAPED.
Raped.
:)
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You mean as a hunter. I always liked Trolls berserk, but I also hear that trolls also have the highest melee crit chance out of any horde race.
I like orcs in general because of their stun resistance, unless that got nerfed after I stopped playing.
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I just watch ATHENE on youtube
he makes me sort of want to play WoW
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Valhalen - Durotan 70 Shaman Alliance
Luxan - Shattered Hand 33 Pally Horde
Also, there should be a list of who's on what server because I'm too lazy to look through all those posts.
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im not playing, but ill repost for the hell of it
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Windrunner&n=Vladgd
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Vladgd
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Vlagd
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maiev&n=Onegd
i MAY renew to either
A: pvp with the shaman to get more welfare epix
B: get the paladin to 70 in preparation for wlk, as the shaman is a useless class, and my patience with it is running thin over the years ive played it
C: don't renew at all, sell the 60 day gamecard i have to my friend for $20.00, and get rid of my account so i won't play again
D: quit thinking about the game and play some more iidx
for now, its D
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Yeah, since my parents are having a bit of financial trouble right now, they got me to cancel my account, which means I'll need to buy gamecards if I want to play now. And I'm too damn lazy to buy gamecards. Plus, I'm kinda bored with it anyway.
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Same, I'm more then likely going to give my friends my gold, considering I do nothing in the game and I don't feel like leveling.
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Well, I'm a lv 40 human pally with a solo PVE build on a regular (pvp allowed) server. After lv 40 it takes way too long to level (yes, I know it gets much worse), and the game is full of incompetent morons. I've found hat it's practically impossible to find a guild worth joining. Most of them are loose collections of average players who sit around all day announcing levels ups with "ding", and do pretty much nothing else. They are also usually full of people who are offended at the slightest bit of swearing, despite the fact that there is an optional filter. (I'm gonna get pissed at a guild that preaches being a family guild and all that BS trying to tell me what I can and can't say really quickly.)
All in all, it's a great game, but the community sucks. If only the money was enough of a deterrent to get rid of the insufferable idiots who infest it.
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Going to disagree. I found the game at first was fun, I liked the combat system, then once you stop learning things it gets insanely repetitive and forces you to grind. I hardly see how my friends still play. The only reason I can think of why you would grind for levels and gear is for PVP, and even then it's not worth it. Also the community is trash, if you're a tank/healer and anyone dies for ANY reason you will be blamed. I've had a guy kick me and argue with me over who's fault it was that we died, then he called me a pedo and threatened to call the cops and he ignored me, then his friend (the previous guy mentioned his name like 4 times in the instance, and he still tried to act like I wouldn't know him) tried arguing with me, so I just ended up pissing him off until he said "I hope you die" and ignored me.
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thats why pick up groups suck. the majority of the people who tend to fall under the "MUST PLAY WoW, CANNOT STOP PLAYING EVER, MUST PUT OFF FRIENDS FOR MORE WoW" type are in nice guilds with cool people they like to talk to, and good players to group and pvp/do instances with. good players will usually know what caused a wipe, whether it was the tank not holding aggro as normal, the mage critting a few too many pulling aggro and getting killed, the hunter fucking up the pull, the healer was out of los and he couldn't get the heal off, they will get it, and try the pull/boss fight again.
i think this paragraph answered both points, but i just woke up, and i can barely put sentences together.
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lol, if you think pugs suck so much, how come none of your characters have a guild
Personally, there are good and bad PuGs. Mostly bad. Especially on my server.
Yet, on my level 50 paladin, I've never done a guild instance run; mostly because I have no guild, but still. I would gladly join a guild with a funny name, but most of them are raiding guilds (like the guild "VC on Farm"; made me lol, but it was a raiding guild, so :/)
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I don't have a guild because every guild I've encountered except my cousin's has been utter crap. Manned by casual players with a maturity level of a 10 year old, and the language skills to match.
And my lv 40 pally isn't on the server my cousin's guild is.
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I was talking to vlad, but I guess your point remains valid.
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back in my day, i had a guild. several months after tbc came out, it died, been guildless since then.
pre tbc raiding was the most fun i have had in that game, everything else was downhill.
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5839/chromagfirstxi2.jpg)
(http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6470/vaelqk4.jpg)
(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1207/thrallnk8.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhiTOMXlL-A)
40 man raids > 25 man raids
ps: click image 3 for the video, yes, i was in the only horde raid to kill thrall, ever.
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40-mans and other pre-BC stuff sounded fun to me, which is why I somewhat regret coming on the scene so late (aka a few days after BC came out.)
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They made the game smaller? the fuck why? Raids on towns seemed like some of the funnest dumb pointless things you could do. I remember when the alliance tried to raid thunder bluff and didn't even make it onto the same continent as TB, all of it in retaliation to when the horde killed storm wind cities main NPC and some other one. I think the only successful thing the allies have attacked on my server was the cross roads. Meh, maybe when I get it on my new PC and get bored I'll grind to 70 just to fuck around.
Oh yeah, and awesome video. How the fuck did you attack him?
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at the time, there was a quest debuff called mark of shame, if you got it, you could attack npc's on your own faction.
got a few tanks and dps with mark of shame to attack, the healers (myself included) just needed to spamheal, which was piss easy, and when we went oom, just sit down to drink since we aren't in combat.
it was a fun day.
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Man, that's awesome. Mark of Dishonor was probably one of the coolest parts of WoW, ever. My cousin had so much fun kicking ass in crossroads. Took them like, 10 minutes to figure out what was happening.
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pre tbc raiding was the most fun i have had in that game, everything else was downhill.
After TBC came out I quit. I played Wow just for those 40 mans. It was sad to see my uber hunter turn obsolete overnight.
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I think the mindset of most WoW players is "NOW I CAN GET STRONGER" when really they just have to grind more to be back where they originally were.
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to mention
i understand AND agree about why blizzard lowered the dungeon raid to 25 from 40. it was to make raiding more accessible to more guilds, so more people could experience the content they normally couldn't because of not having a balanced group of 40 max level people to play at the same time for said duration of time. not to mention, less players means more emphasis on individual player skill.
however, having experienced the 40 man raid, the 25 man model just doesn't give you the same experience.
the burning crusade did a lot of good for the game, and my interest dropped 100% because my guild couldn't adapt to the new raid model.
i mean, you can't say it was a bad expansion.
shamans, druids, paladins, priests, are actually viable in rolls that ARENT healing.
warriors aren't the only tank anymore, druids and paladins can hold their own just fine with their own flavor of doing it at that.
thats just naming a few things.
but thats that, i can go on and on about this game whether my account is active or not =/
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I think what they should have done was reduce many of the 40 man raids into 25 man, and keep/add a couple 40 man raids for those guys who can actually get 40 people into a proper raid. Then they could have both worlds, accessible 25 man raids, as well as a couple 40 man raids for the guys who can handle it.
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The reason I pointed out that I had a 50 paladin (now 52) was because I enjoy her, and I would like to know a class/spec that's somewhat similar to that.
halp plz
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What where you tanking or healing? You could always go priest for healing and warr for tanking, but I doubt there is anything that really plays out like a pally.
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well, first you need to tell me your spec.
because if its prot, and you like tanking. prot warrior/feral druid.
if its holy and you like to heal. holy priest/restoration shaman/restoration druid.
if it is ret and you like killing things with a big two hander. arms warrior/pre tbc enhancement shaman.
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I could have sworn I said my toon was prot. Oh well.
So now I'm making a prot warrior; if I don't like it, then I'm making an enh shaman.
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dude, level a mage. You wont regret it.
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I tried a mage. They suck.
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I hate mage jobs too.
But I play FFXI. Fuck all y'all, play a real man's MMO.
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But I play FFXI. Fuck all y'all, play a real man's MMO.
i almost tried it, but the former ffxi players that i talked to in the WoW scared me away from it.
you need to be in a group to grind? groups take forever to find? you need to be in a group for just about everyting? losing hard earned exp after getting killed?
i enjoy being a woman tyvm, keep your manliness.
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you need to be in a group to grind? groups take forever to find? you need to be in a group for just about everyting? losing hard earned exp after getting killed?
Let's do this question by question.
Kinda yeah, not all the time, depends on your job.
Lmao no whoever said this is dumb.
Entirely situational.
You only lose a bit, and it's incentive to not blow dicks at the game.
It's a completely different game from WoW, and honestly IMO it's worth a shot at least.
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Yeah, you can't really compare WoW and FFXI. It's really hard to compare most MMORPGs simply because the mechanics are completely different.
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woah
As a ret pally on the arena test realms (aka full S2 gear and shit like that), I beat a holy pally. Who had beaten a ret pally I had just lost to.
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Nice, lol.
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the paladin is a useless class, and my patience with it is running thin over the months ive played it
fixed for my situation
Playing a paladin is painful, and the only reason I haven't deleted it is because I've had it for 5 months and it's the highest I've ever got a character (55). But seriously, I hate playing it so much, but yet I always come back.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Quel%27dorei&n=Veemon
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Ugh, Prot. I could never play a Prot pally. Sure, you've got great defense, but you can't hit anything for anything close to decent damage, lol. But then again, my character is meant for PvE, so I've tried to keep him kinda balanced. I can ALMOST match a warrior for DPS shot for shot (not including skills and shit), so it's not like he's completely useless.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Garithos&n=Bobbias
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I just started playing 2 days ago with my friend sean who has played it before, only to lvl 16 or so though. First I chose a priest then figured out i didn't enjoy the class.. so I read up some material on the interwebs, and went with Warlock, which I enjoy :D
yay me. Orc lock on runetotem server, Zolothor is his name
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forget this post, I've changed my mind
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you could umm level up another character.
assuming you have nothing better to do, it shouldn't take longer than a month to hit 40.
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lol vlad, I was reading through some old posts on the wow forums, and I found out we both made a draenei paladin for the same reason: they're hot
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guess it wouldn't suprise you that i have a 150 or so draenei image folder...
/cry
/fapfap
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zomg share plz
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In non-WoW related news, FFXI update today. It's a huge update.
FUUUUUUCK I have Dynamis tonight but I have school and the update isn't released until after I leave, so I have to try to get my parents to learn how to update FFXI for me so I can make it to Dynamis on time.
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Wow, lol. That's kinda funny. Kinda shitty, but kinda funny.
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sup I have a serious question: How to deal with having a female character when you're a male.
I made friends with this guy I met on Medivh (I liked the server name lol) and after he found out that I was a "male, with long hair" he called me a fag and said some other stuff. I promptly blocked him on AIM and deleted my character on that server.
Vlad, you have a lot of female characters; how do you deal with being a male playing a female character? I have another old friend on Windrunner that I'm afraid to tell that I'm a guy in case the same thing happens.
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Wow. First off, on WoW, as on many other games, there are lots of guys who play female characters. I'd say that if someone is retarded enough and homophobic enough to call you a fag and shit after finding out, they don't deserve to be your friend anyway. If someone automatically thinks that a female character has to be played by a girl, then they don't know shit all about the internet.
I think I heard someone say that something like 50% or more of female characters on a game were played by guys.
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I think I heard someone say that something like 90% or more of female characters on a game were played by guys.
More accurate.
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Truth.
I believe that if someone can't 'handle' you or anyone for that matter playing a girl character and being a guy, they don't deserve to talk to you anyway. There are those gamers out there that will NOT make a girl character ever, because their insecurity in masculinity goes so deep it has to transverse into a virtual world. Crazy. Screw anyone who gives you shit, it's just a visual change anyway, who cares?
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Exactly.
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I really don't get his argument against you, "lol you don't look at a male characters ass all day, u must be a faget".
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zomg share plz
whenever i feel like uploading it, it will come in a pm ;o
also, people that can't handle men playing female characters need to grow some fucking balls. ITS JUST POLYGONS SON!
67 human female warrior
40ish draenei female paladin
40ish orc female rogue
i simply assume every person in WoW is a man unless corrected (hey, he is a pretty good healer "naw dude, im a her")
also
http://www.epicweapons.com/products/frostmourne/
goddamn
*edit* ohh, to answer the question. its kind of like what i said a few lines up, only oposite. (hey, she is tearin' up the dps charts "naa son, im a dude") and life goes on, its just a matter of changing a letter or two when addressing me from her to him. ive not much had problems with people being stupid with it, but this could be because the majority of the time i have logged on is most likley on my shaman, who is a male troll. but then again, i should have close to that amount of time logged on those three characters, i guess millage may vary depending on who you deal with. as long as people arent hitting on me(which pathetically DOES happen sparsely), i don't much give a damn. male humans have a retarded run animation, while female humans run just fine. make draenei just look wonkey, female draenei look fine. male orcs...well they are awesome, i have a male orc warlock, but my rogue be woman. trolls...i like both, 23 female troll mage, 70 male troll shaman.
yadda yadda, polygonz112
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Yeah, lots of people are the exact same way. I haven't played many female characters in WoW, but on most other MMORPGs I've played I've had a couple female characters. Nobody makes much of a deal about it.
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I'm downloading the trial client to a pc(s) here at school and using my 'upgraded' account to activate, and update it so I can have something else to do but sit here for an hour and fifteen minutes every tuesday and thursday.
/win
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Windrunner&n=Viavasquez
New name, old server.
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keep working at it. the only people with 70's in this game that i know of is me, newf, and scorpian9x. also the last 11 levels in outland aren't bad AT ALL (the first time through) if you do quests. if you have a partner for most of it, you could actually call it fun. skip instances, do every quest you can get your hands on, TRY to do most of it with a partner, try to do every group quest you can(pretty fuckin good gear from the group quests avalible at the end of most chains), and yea, if you do quests, you won't need to grind mobs for levels, as you will still have quests left over after you hit 70. by that, i mean, you will still have quite a lot of quests left over after you hit 70, having only done quests to level from 60-70.
umm yea...why do i end up making a post about this game only to have it come out as ZOMG DECENTLY BIG WALL OF TEXT. i played too much of this game.
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Anyone wanna by a WoW account? I've grown weary of it, and its become boring to me. If you do, we might be able to negotiate out a price.
Armory page - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorefiend&n=N%C3%A8wf
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You could get a lot of money for that. I've seen a guy sell a 70 with a couple epic mounts for something like 700 dollars.
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Well I got both epic ground and epic flyer so yeah. If you know anyone who'd wanna buy it, just post it here and we can work something out.
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I think I'm going to start playing this game. I'd buy yours but then I'd feel like i cheated plus i don't have 700 bucks rofl.
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Just don't roll a paladin. Paladins are the most useless class ever.
The sad part is, after I get my draenei to 70, I'm probably rolling another one because I hate myself.
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Bah, pallies are pretty nice to have. They can heal, they can give some nice buffs, and they can nearly match a warrior for tanking. They're not all that great for PvE though :/
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I think I'm going to start playing this game. I'd buy yours but then I'd feel like i cheated plus i don't have 700 bucks rofl.
Leveling up to 70 is a bunch of EWWWWWW. Also, it wouldn't have to be 700 bucks, we'd work something out lol.
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Newf, start playing FFXI since you're quitting WoW.
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Newf, start playing FFXI since you're quitting WoW.
thats like telling someone "since you are quitting smoking marlboro's start smoking camels"
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Vlad, I'm leveling a new shaman on Windrunner (started yesterday; got to level 16) and I'd love to have a instance buddy lol
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don't ruin what i got, im actually in a state of no desire to play WoW whatsoever.
IGNORE THE FACT THAT I HAVE A WOW T-SHIRT ON RIGHT NOW, IGNORE IT!
its like this
"i do have a 60 day gamecard sitting on my bookshelf...
..i mean i could level the paladin from 40-70, then id be ready for WLK. but wait, leveling from 40-60 is pure hell, i did it twice, and nobody runs 60-67 instances anymore, thats not going to be fun. maby i will dick around on the 4chan smore and play a little contra after that"
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60-67? EVERYONE does those. I think you mean the 40-60 instances. Finding a group for strat, DM, and scholo for my mount quest was pure hell. (I still need one for scholo so I can be done with it)
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leveling from 40-60 is pure hell, i did it twice, and nobody runs 60-67 instances anymore
He just made a typo.
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uhh, no.
my warrior is stuck at level 67 due to this. and i did the 40-60 grind twice, i know what im talking about. not to mention, you could have assumed lack of instances was part of why i called 40-60 hell.
l2p
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Well, the way you worded it sounded like you were just talking about 40-60.
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How is it possible to be stuck at lvl 67?
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prot warrior, nobody wants to run anything...yea. you'd think id get groups being a fucking prot warrior, but nope.
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Did anyone else sign up for the arena tournament? I did (thanks Mom!), but I can't find out how to get to the realm.
EDIT: Oh, it got delayed. Typical Blizz.
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Typical, yes, but honestly, can you fault them for that sort of thing. Think about the technical aspect of that sort of thing. It takes a lot to set something like that up.
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prot warrior, nobody wants to run anything...yea. you'd think id get groups being a fucking prot warrior, but nope.
Depends, on my server if you were a healer you'd have people CONSTANTLY messaging you for runs. Hell, even me as a furry warr would get people asking me for tanking constantly, then they'd be shocked when they figured I sucked.
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Hell, even me as a furry warr
best typo ever
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ololol typo
but seriously, illidan wasn't too hot, don't go to that server. and the server i transfered too(maiev iirc), no idea, i canceled the account soon after i moved.
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best typo ever
That wasn't a typolike the third time I've made it too, god damn.
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OK, here's my situation. I'm stuck at level 61; been 2 bars away from ding for about 2-3 weeks now, but I can't get groups.
I'm still willing to sell my paladin again because of this.
Also, does anyone know about a pre-BC private server? I hate Outland, gemming, etc. and want to see what it was like back in the old days.
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Well, IIRC if you make a non-BC account you don't get the BC specific stuff. I don't think you can gemcraft on a non-BC account.
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OK, here's my situation. I'm stuck at level 61; been 2 bars away from ding for about 2-3 weeks now, but I can't get groups.
I'm still willing to sell my paladin again because of this.
Also, does anyone know about a pre-BC private server? I hate Outland, gemming, etc. and want to see what it was like back in the old days.
Stuck at level 61? Quest in Outlands, wtf. You may not like it, but you gotta do it. Rarely anybody does those level 60 instances anymore, they're pretty useless. I don't see how people get "stuck" at a certain level. When BC came out, I went from 60-70 on my own, without any groups (besides like 1 or 2 in blades edge for a couple quests) and I went from 60-70 without doing ANY instances.
As for a pre-BC server, doubt you'll find one. Not many people are into it anymore. Even all the old school raids (although they were insanely fun to do) Nobody does them anymore, which kinda sucks. Your best bet to get the "old school" experience, is to try to find a group who are willing to do BWL or AQ40 or something. Which would be pretty hard. But then again, theres alot of people that have't done all those hard instances back in the day, so theres a decent few of them out there that would wanna check them out and do them.
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wtb account
but seriously, I want to talk about WoW again, in some ways it's better than actually playing
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I can sell you my account, I stopped as soon as BC came out. 60 hunter, a shit load of 20+, a couple of decent 19 twinks.
rofl, http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dunemaul&n=Rundi
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still kidding, but repost because of the realization I just went through
PVPing with a warrior kicks ass. K done
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wellp, its WoW
id kind of like to get the paladin from 41-70, but thats quite a lot of work, and id only do it if a friend of mine starts back up and plays his mage.
level 70 ret pally getting bg wellfare epix seems like a fun way to kill time.
but whatever, if anything, if i want to kill time, i should get better at starcraft.
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PVPing with a warrior kicks ass. K done
Heh, I remember using charge right into a group of allies at one of my bases in Arathi, I tendon chopped (I don't remember the move name :3) some shaman and feared his team mates and I beat him to death before they could get back.
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i think i AM getting wlk when it comes out, and getting my shaman to 80....
i haven't played since december, but shit, new content = fun
and i can't deny myself from this, when im done with the content, ill just stop again, just like any other vidya.
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I'm leveling a prot warrior myself, and I was wondering: how the hell did you level to 67 without a guild? I mean, I could understand with a prot paladin, but a prot warrior? Holy shit.
Are you sure you never had a guild on that char?
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I dunno how you guys are having problems leveling up. I leveled from 60-70 SOLO questing/grinding. I did one instance while leveling, and that was sethekk halls. Other than that, its easy. Just quest. From like 60-63 I did Hellfire pen. Then to terrorkar forest till 65ish, then 66-68ish in nagrand, then 68-70 in netherstorm and shadowmoon valley. theres MORE than enough quests around everywhere. Im drunk right now and I dont really remember exactly HOW I did it all, but its friggin' simple to solo grind. Just quest, and grind, rinse lather repeat.
You dont need a guild for shit all till you hit 70 anyway either.
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you know, having a friend at the same level as you, and doing all of the quests together...it is actually "fun"
i soloed about 50% of the time in outland, the other 50% was with a guildie or two. 1x elemental shaman, 1x enhancement shaman, you can really rip through quests. or if i was partnered with a hunter, and we had to fight a tough named mob/elite, i could go into healing gear, and use the earth elemental to tank as i healed it, while the hunter dpsed it down.
i mean, the ONLY time i really had fun in the TBC expansion was going from 60-70 on the shaman (and maby the neterwing rep, that was pretty cool to be honest)
i have to get one of my friends to level 70 before wlk, because going from 70-80 with a friend is worth the price of admission alone, even if i quit the second i hit 80.
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didn't answer my question >:(
ps ding 10
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didn't answer my question >:(
well i eventually abandoned the warrior, im not much a fan of the class.
but uhh, instances, and a temp respec to fury.
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I wouldn't roll warrior. I mean you can play an important roll in instances (TANKING ONLY) but you are incredibly dependent on a team to do any good in PVP.
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I've seen warriors in DPS roles in instances many times before. Your server must suck, sorry to say :/
Oh yeah, and I'm currently willing to buy a character or two (NOT accounts. I'd rather you keep those.) I honestly regret deleting my paladin, and I'd love to have character near the end game (55+).
PS ding 15
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It did, I was a DPS warr and yet I was forced to tank because dip shits can't put together a half decent instance team and just accept the first person within the level limit that wants to join.
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blablabla, tank shortage, blablabla, pugs need tanks, blablabla, if you are a class that can tank (warr, paladin, druid) you should be expected to tank, blablabla, you should expect to tank if you can tank, and heal if you can heal, blablabla l2p.
im contemplating whether to
A: use my 60 day gamecard (which ive had for some time) now and level a non shaman/warrior class to 70 (my shaman is 70, my warrior is 67)
B: wait till wlk which brings
B1: level the shaman to 80, since i like the shaman regardless of the problems the class has
B2: by having a level 70 character, i will be able to make a deathknight of any race right off the bat, so i could make a deathknight which starts out at level 55 and play that.
C: have some other poor sap level my paladin (which isn't going to happen, i just felt like adding a C option)
if anything, i AM getting wlk, and most likley, i will quit shortly after it comes out like tbc. unless they change up the pvp, or the deathknight kicks tons of ass, or they make shamans op again.
yea yea, so thats that, been in the "reading up on WoW MMMMAAAABBBYYY starting up soonish but most likley not" kind of mood.
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or they make shamans op again.
ENHANCEMENT INSTAGIB OMG
even though the days of that are technically over, I want to make a draenei shammy dual-wielding two GM fist weapons (the 2.9 speed ones) and instagib some niggaz in level 60 AV.
besides that, how were shamans op before? Damn my Jan. '07 start :(
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big slow 2h weapon + pre tbc (well a good ways before tbc came out, like a year or more before tbc came out) = OOOWOWWWNWNNWNWNWNWNWNWNWNWNWNWNWNWNNNN
by the way, enhancement shamans suck in pvp, DO NOT EVEN TRY IT, it is a waste of time.
*edit*
ok the enh shaman rape period was around 2005-2006
mainly before the battlegrounds were released, but a little bit after the bg's were released.
&feature=related
this is creed, he is basically the shaman people refer to when "phat wf crits" are mentioned.
note, this is back when the unstoppable force was the weapon of choice, replacing the arcanite reaper. so the numbers may not seem high, but back in the day, this shit was epic.
and uhh i believe this is the same guy, but an earlier video, hence the arcanite reaper.
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Newf, what's the difference between Assassination and Subtlety?
Also, ITT screenies plz
EDIT: nvm, assi focuses on poisons, while subtlety is about stealth
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assassination = burst dps
subtlety, its a bit harder to explain than using just one word. they use a combination of differant abilities to become effective. you generally see sub rogues in pvp as the tallents aren't much suited for raw dps, but rather towards taking down an opponent effectively.
now im no rogue expert nor claim to be, so someone like newf who has a 70 rogue has more experience with this than i do with my 43 rogue.
and screenies of what? if its the leet shaman stuff, i can't deliver. my starting spec for the game was kind of half resto half enh(natures swiftness and flurry, not a "good" spec by any means, especially now) and i used a 2h to do damage, and as i started raiding it was basically all resto, but i soloed with a 2h. near tbc/post tbc, it was elemental for soloing, and sometimes a respec to resto.
anyway, here is a random screenshot of my corpse glitched in the air after a failed rag attempt.
(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4854/wowscrnshot071306002016ll5.jpg)
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Just screenies that you have. Like I have one of Horde losing eots 2000 to 13 when I was on my friend's account on my desktop, so when I post on it I'll post that too.
PS lol @ 3000 health
damn, it really was a different time :O
EDIT: my late pally <3:
(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6293/wowscrnshot041808040500zr1.jpg)
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i see you are wearing the "hot pants"
anyway, i have a metric fuckton of screens, this was taken fairly shortly before tbc came out. the tabard came from the portal event quest a weekish before tbc hit. it looks the exact same as the argent dawn tabard, only it has a use which does a holy nova type animation and it has a 5 minute cooldown.
(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5317/powany0.jpg)
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assassination = burst dps
subtlety, its a bit harder to explain than using just one word. they use a combination of differant abilities to become effective. you generally see sub rogues in pvp as the tallents aren't much suited for raw dps, but rather towards taking down an opponent effectively.
Well, assassination is more of a constant stun-lock + a string of medium-heavy hits. Assassination relies on stun-locks for the most part. Combat rogues are usually either sword or mace. Reason why is because combat rogues rely on faster dps. So say you got a mace that swings at 2.80 per second, Use slce and dice, with a mongoose proc, and serrated blades I think it is, and adrennaline rush, thats WOW wtf dmg, because the weapon speeds up a hell of alot, and you got all those heavy hits with the mace, plus the special moves (sinister strike, eviscerate) and also, 100% faster energy regeneration. So they have alot of quit hits, and constant damage. Combat spec rogues are more for pve, but are still, really really good pvp.
Now subtley rogues (Which is what I use) is Pure PvP. We go for the biggest crits possible. Main thing I do is my starting attack. I use a trinket that adds 300+ attack power, that brings me up to about 2300+ attack power, then pre-meditation, which adds 2 combo points to my target. Then I go in with a shadowstep, which adds +20% extra damage to my next special attack, then an ambush, which is mad heavy damage. My highest ambush crit so far was like around 8300 on a clothie in WSG. I was fully buffed up with Might and battle shout, so I had damn near 3k attack power. Plus the berserker. So yeah -
assassination = stun lockers + moderate damage.
Combat = Fast heavy white damage (White damage is just normal hits with weapons) and constant dps. Basically mass damage over time, Which is why they go pve cause boss fights take a while, and in the long run, they'll have the most damage done.
Subtlety = massive crits. Great for pvp. When you want to get a single target down, thats the way to go.
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Thanks, NewF.
Also, I would like to point out how in my screenshot I have The Immovable Object. Just a warning, Vlad, if you start your paladin back up: The Reckoning BG sucks for alliance, and I had to grind AV all the way up to Revered for it.
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actually my horde AND alliance servers are both on reckoning, odd.
i do say i kick much ass on my horde server, but there are times where the alliance gives you a run for your money, especially on EotS. but as alliance, you don't much see that luck.
also, i think later on (like a decent bit after wlk comes out) i will transfer the 67 warrior from maiev to windrunner and get that sonbitch up to level 80.
i figure if i have a high level character, ill try to get it up to the level cap. THERE IS NO GIVING UP!
and an image to make my post slightly entertaining.
this was back, LONG ago back in december 2005. i was at the entrance to zfk, and a horde warlock fears me...i clip through the wall, and fall through the floor...falling....falling....falling....dead. so i literally was killed by a single fear, nerf locks.
(http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/8448/fearsuckswt9.jpg)
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What's that addon you have with your health, energy, and exp?
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My account is set to expire in about 3 hours. Basically, I'm quitting the game for the 3rd or 4th time.
EDIT: FUCKKKKKKKKKKK
I'm coming back
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lol, the hell.
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I can't seem to quit this game. It pisses me the fuck off.
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What's that addon you have with your health, energy, and exp?
first, its rage, second, i don't know. that screenshot is from 2005, haha.
also, coming back to the game isn't necessarily "bad". what is bad is spending too much damn time on the game, and ignoring friends/family like some people do. if you aren't playing 6 hours a day every day, i don't quite see a problem. i know i keep coming back, but i really can't stay on the game longer than 3 hours before i need to get up and do something else.
but yea, coming back to a game you like isn't a bad thing. hell, i got back on my second file on ninja gaiden (xbox) the other day, that game kicks ass.
i mean, when wlk comes out, i will most likely binge game till i hit 80 on the shayman(yea, im making a dk, but im going to camp him in the inn right away. not a bad idea methinks), but after thats done, im a pretty casual player id like to think.
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(http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/8541/wowscrnshot052308194228xu0.jpg)
As you can tell, I'm king of the hood
P.S. It's because I feel like there are some things I never got done that I have to (like getting to 70), but I also want to quit for other reasons. And yes, I used to play about 8 hours a day, but now I've stopped.
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Nice boobs. ;)
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two videos for y'all
my last raid (i brought up will smith in vent, and we all agreed we needed a will smith song in the next raid video, hence MIAMI)
http://warmod.com/bluntlogic/videos/maiden.wmv
and a better resolution of the only horde thrall kill on an official server, that i just happened to be in
http://warmod.com/bluntlogic/videos/thrall.wmv
its a shame the man responsible for most of the awesome things the guild did, died several months ago.
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woah kara :O
Seems like your old guild was awesome. Is that why it seems you haven't looked for another one?
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sorta kinda, mainly it was the lack of a desire to raid. i mean, after the guild died, all i did was level my paladin/rogue/warrior and get netherwing rep on my shaman. after that, there was a period of HEAVY honor farming for gear, and i eventually got a decent bit of elemental pvp gear.
now its a matter of "why bother "working" towards better gear when it will "soonish" be obsolete.
the only real reasons i may reactivate before wlk is to level up a dwarf priest, or maby grind on the paladin. but in my current state, i don't want to bother with that stuff till i have an 80 shaman and a 60+ deathknight.
also, if i do find a new guild for the shaman, its going to be casual, and pvp focused. i believe i am done with raiding (maby id try out a few 10 man raids, if they don't take forever to go through), too damn time consuming for my tastes.
i like the idea of hopping on for an hour or two, ganking people with the guild, and then logging off when im done.
yadda yadda, random image = BEST MELEE WEAPON FOR EVERY LEVEL 30 WARRIOR (screenie taken november 2005)
(http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/6928/wwaxesr3.jpg)
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(http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/9693/wowscrnshot050108074254dw1.jpg)
Me on my friend's account.
Also, I encourage the rest of you guys to post screenshots too. We can't be the only ones with screenies!
EDIT: If you decide to make that priest pre-xpac, here's a build I made for a priest I'm making: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bxMGu0MZZVMGpMtRhtVo
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this is kind of awkward, but if WAR is good, i may end up playing.
pvp, with MY OLD GUILD, i just can't see any mmo topping that.
its just a matter of which ends up being better, the next WoW expansion, or if WAR pulls off pvp.
i mean, thats basically what makes mmo's genuinely fun, having a good group of people you can have fun owning people with.
so im kind of excited for that. i mean, the differance between pvp and pve, is in pve you are stuck in a raid instance fighting steroid injected mobs, and in pvp, its chaotic and you are owning other people. not to mention, you aren't stuck in pvp for a set amount of time, when you are done, you are done. you don't need to dedicate some "5-6 hours" sitting in pvp like pve generally requires.
anyway, ironically, NEFARIAN, last boss of the best raid instance in WoW (yes, i really did love blackwing lair)
(http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/534/nefariansq9.jpg)
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Me winning a 2v1 arena.....vs 2 rogues, lol.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/2v1arenarape.jpg)
Arathi Basin? Thou hath been rapeth.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/ABDEMOLISH-1.jpg)
3257 backstab crit with just battle shout. Could you imagine what it woulda been with my trinket and a berserker from a battleground? :D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/BACKSTABCRIT.jpg)
Heres one with just the berserker....Look at the combat log in the bottom right corner.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/BSCrit3.jpg)
Yeah....Healers are fucking gay, espically shamans with their instant heal bullshit.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/FUCKINGNOOBShealmuch.jpg)
Over 70,000 damage to kill em? What the FUCK.
Warsong? Thou hath been raped as well :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/wsgrapeagain.jpg)
But yeah, sorry, I don't play this game anymore, and for some reason I dont have any of my good ambush crits saved...But I can tell you my highest ambush crit so far was around 8.3k on a clothie.
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Me doing RFC for the first time in a long time:
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8212/wowscrnshot052608192125bh7.jpg)
Me as of right now:
(http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/5531/wowscrnshot052608212255tg1.jpg)
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by the way, if you want your paladin back, you can have it restored by a gm.
and a druid soloed onyxia...yea...and i thought the 3 man pre tbc onyxia was impressive
http://www.worldofraids.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16639
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Yeah, I heard about the druid solo on WoW Insider. Also, I would ask for my paladin back, but I figured it was too late to get it back. I know you can do it because my friend did it when he quit the game; he deleted his character, asked for it back, and then gave the account to his friend.
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i don't think theres a "time limit" on it, only a limited number of times you can do it. i believe the number is three.
anyway, leeroy is a level 70 arena ret paladin
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Laughing+Skull&n=Leeroy
interesting he still plays, and hes RET, which only makes him more awesome.
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Exploring Gnomeregan. Man I hate this place.
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/736/img20080516220556qn0.png)
About to pop some trash mobs in Spire. Raids get so boring after a while.
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5969/img20080530004739uk8.png)
Accidental wipe in Kara. :whoops: Think I need to respec.
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3673/img20080527010301lz6.png)
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Lawl.
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I c wut u did thar.
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K, I just opened a ticket to restore my paladin.
WISH ME LUCK
EDIT: IT'S BACK
YAY
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http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/paladin/talents.html?tal=5050010100000000000000000000000000000000000523035130033125331051
poasting spec here so i don't need to add to my already XBAWX HUEG bookmark list
"when" i eventually decide to play again, im respeccing the paladin ret till prot is more viable for soloing(its iffy at level 41 or whatever level that pally is), unless ret turns out to be really fun.
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My spec: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sZVhtI00dgMqtV0xx0b
I've leveled prot for a long time now; not giving up yet!
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Wait, Vlad, your a DD pally?
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uhh i have a 41 draenei paladin alt
REPOSTING INFO
main
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Vladgd
alt
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Windrunner&n=Vladgd
alt
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maiev&n=Onegd
alt
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Vlagd
and armory seems to be bugged at the moment so you can't really read what any of the gear is
and for the shaman, i spend a fuckload of time farming honor for whatever honor gear i got(within the constraints of a week), then i got burnt out, played a few alts for about a week, and stopped playing about a month before the account ended. id really fuckin' like to make an arena team come wlk, but i don't know anybody with a 70 horde on my server. well i have a friend...but his 48 paladin has some leveling to do.
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Here's a picture of an undead rogue fishing in SW:
(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/5706/wowscrnshot060808142657wl3.jpg)
Funny thing is, there was another guy doing the same thing just a little while ago.
I love PvE servers.
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shoulda ganked that nub
ps: lol draenei thong
pps: shadowpriest draenei
(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3904/coebythundercakebm8.jpg)
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I used to do the same thing in PVP. If I was pissed, I'd run threw a low level place, see a group of 20-30s and just start killing. If not I'd just run up to them, wave, and throw down my party keg. Had a 70 run up to me after not killing a level 30, which was rather nice timing on my part since the 70 just waved and ran off.
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If RED IS DEAD, how come you rolled on a PvE server
btw PvP servers suck dicks, world PvP is dead, all there is is ganking
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all there is is ganking
Was it alive in the first place? I've NEVER seen any proper world PvP. Actually, There was about 1 time. Some lv 70 Horde guys decided to harass southshore, so I got a lv 70 guildie to help get rid of them. That was about the only world PvP I've seen between people at the same level.
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I love pvp servers. I constantly go to places and stir up shit. After a while, a couple 70's come, then I get a few of my friends, then they get more, until it grows into a huge war. We had a HUGE one in Orgrimmar once. Lasted for hours.
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If RED IS DEAD, how come you rolled on a PvE server
my 41 paladin is on a pve server....
my 43 rogue, 70 shaman, 67 warrior are on PVP servers. though, id transfer the warrior to a pve server because leveling that class is like eating glass.
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my 41 paladin is on a pve server....
Yeah, I mean that one char
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frustration free leveling
and looks shaman will be getting a nice buff
(http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4366/olliely1.jpg)
CANT SILENCE MY TOTEMS NOW BITCHES
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Way too long of a sentence for Ollie, methinks.
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hows the weather ollie?
ITS COLD OUT!
thanks ollie.
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How're you beating the heat, Ollie?
SWIMMIN' HOLE
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mounts at 30 omfg
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say what?
elaborate
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lol I thought you kept up to date with all this stuff
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
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well, i know more than i should know for somebody who hasn't played since early december.
anyway, thats pretty bitchin', it will make getting to scarlet monistary easier i can tell you that.
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Damn it, getting to 30 is so much easier then getting to 40. Makes me want to play again.
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remember its the test realm patch notes, so if you do want to start up, wait till said patch is out.
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(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3565/wowscrnshot062208222136fk7.jpg)
I GOT MY CHARGER FUCK YEAH
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grats on the charger, now get that epic flying mount biatch.
but uhh, this has to be one of the most unique awesome things ive seen in WoW
http://www.massively.com/2008/06/24/turpstervision-oh-and-one-more-ding/
just watch the video, level 69 ud shadowpriest posing as a raid boss to some 200+ level 1-5 gnomes in the cave in the gnome/dwarf starting area.
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Thats awesome lol.
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I just farmed about 24,000 honor in one day. I have a screenshot, if anyone wants to see.
What's your record?
EDIT: (http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/3204/wowscrnshot062608045452bh7.jpg)
:D:D:D:D:D
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Double post.
I dunno how you guys are having problems leveling up. I leveled from 60-70 SOLO questing/grinding. I did one instance while leveling, and that was sethekk halls. Other than that, its easy. Just quest. From like 60-63 I did Hellfire pen. Then to terrorkar forest till 65ish, then 66-68ish in nagrand, then 68-70 in netherstorm and shadowmoon valley. theres MORE than enough quests around everywhere. Im drunk right now and I dont really remember exactly HOW I did it all, but its friggin' simple to solo grind. Just quest, and grind, rinse lather repeat.
You dont need a guild for shit all till you hit 70 anyway either.
Well, I was prot for about 45 levels. That kind of makes you not want to quests ever.
Also, I went from 60-64 doing Outland instances, then I respecced ret and got to 67 in like 3 days. Note that those 4 levels took about 2 months.
EDIT: I also moved to Korialstrasz. Windrunner was getting progressively dumber.
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TEH TRIPPLE
2.4.3 is out. Anyone restarting their account because of this (MOUNTS AT 30)?
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If anyone happens to play Horde in Arathor, I just created a tauren hunter -- Slonoko. Currently level 6 and very sexy.
Dis game iz fun.
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2.4.3 is out. Anyone restarting their account because of this (MOUNTS AT 30)?
noep
the alts i would level are level 40+ (rogue, paladin, warrior) and im doing a good job at not renewing the account (i have a 60 day gamecard..unopened). so if i play my cards right, i won't play again till WLK comes out, if ever.
and spectere, 3 websites which should help you with quests/general information
http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.wowhead.com/
http://wow.allakhazam.com/
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Last chance for someone to buy my account before I sell it to one of those retarded websites!
Armory link - http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorefiend&n=N%C3%A8wf
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(http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/9254/wowscrnshot072008210619fj8.jpg)
'bout time.
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sweet jesus, now do the following
-get flying mount
-get epic flying mount
-get netherdrake mount
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As I post this, I'm running back to my corpse again.
Honestly, who's fucking bright idea was it to have mobs respawn on top of you? I've gotten killed three times tonight because, in mid-fight, something spawned next to me.
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after you play for a while, you learn to be aware of your surroundings. this includes knowing the aggro radius of enemies, and roughly knowing when repops should be showing up.
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That doesn't change the fact that it's bad game design. It doesn't have anything to do with being aware of your surroundings, either, especially when things just pop in right next to you. I've seen enemies just appear right beside me, literally. It's not like WoW has a large visibility radius, either. You can't see further than, say, 50 yds. They could wait to spawn enemies until players have left. It would drastically improve presentation (i.e. things wouldn't just appear nearby) and it would prevent players from getting completely screwed and having to spend five minutes walking back to their body.
Also, some of the mobs in the noob areas seem overly large. There were a few instances where it literally felt like I was navigating through a maze just because I didn't want to be bothered with having to mow through things that were half my level.
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I usually just run straight through stuff like that, they quit following you after a short while.
However, I totally agree with you about that, I have no idea how many times I've been killed by mobs popping up beside/on top of me.
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I typically do the same thing, but that doesn't help much when you're running low on health, you're trying to flee from a battle, and OMG THINGS RESPAWNED RIGHT BEHIND YOU. :(
Also, I came across mobs that were literally so dense that there's no way I would have been able to survive running straight through them. Crazy.
At least there isn't any sort of spawn penalty in WoW aside from running to your corpse (and then running, since you only have half health and mana) or having your items take a 25% durability hit. If you lost levels by the truckload like you do in some other MMOs (or, for that matter, if you were subjected to the completely idiotic rez sickness that Guild Wars has) I wouldn't still be playing it.
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Wait, Guilz wars has worse rez sickeness than WoW? How is that possible.
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Dude, Guild Wars is beyond awful.
When you die it throws a 5% health and mana penalty on you for like 49303 years (not really, but it feels like it -- it's at least 5-10 minutes). To make it worse, it adds up with every time you die, up to like 30%. It doesn't put you back in town after that either, no. You have to make a bee-line through the enemies from the spawn area. It's fucking dumb.
It probably wouldn't be too bad if my character (a lv.9 elementalist/ranger) wouldn't get his ass kicked by certain lv.3-4 enemies (I'm dead serious). To make matters even dumber, the aforementioned enemies don't give me any experience when I defeat them despite the fact that they are somehow more powerful than me.
I seriously hate Guild Wars. Most of my nitpicks about WoW are fairly minor or are, at the very least, somewhat avoidable or easy to work around. Guild Wars is basically unplayable for me.
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Wow, that sucks ass.
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Indeed...'tis a bitch.
Another thing that kind of bugs me about Guild Wars is how the entire game is instanced. I really like how in WoW players can help each other out of jams. When I was questing the other day, I found myself kind of trapped (thanks to that mob damn respawn system) in an area with little hope of an escape. Things would have been bad, but I ran into a tauren druid (I was playing my hunter) in the same area. We didn't even know each other at all -- the only thing that we had in common was that we were doing the same quest -- yet we formed an impromptu party and cut a path out of there, then exchanged a friendly wave and went our separate ways.
I can honestly see why people choose to play MMOs over a lot of single-player games. There's a certain kind of interaction that you just can't replicate in a single-player experience.
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I can honestly see why people choose to play MMOs over a lot of single-player games. There's a certain kind of interaction that you just can't replicate in a single-player experience.
Seconded, but quality of the community is hard to keep when you have something so big. I've literally had people kick me from groups because a healer dying is the fault of the tank regardless of the circumstances, and I've had people devolve arguments into "I BET YOU'RE 13, I'M 26, I HAVE SEX WITH MY GIRLFRIENDS VAGINA, YOU'RE A BITCH". Also the amount of people who act like you're an idiot for not knowing every single little nick name for a move or strategy is staggering.
I've probably had the same amount of people help me tho, so I guess it balances out. Plus when I was bored I liked going into a low level area and raising my hand to hand skills while helping some low level guy do something.
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if the expansion comes around christmas, im pretty much still obligated to play through the 70-80 content.
i have a 60 day gamecard, may as well use it up, and what better to get use than with a new expansion.
i basically just want to have a level 80 deathknight. the hardest part is which race...orc or draenei. leaning towards female orc, because from my rogue, they work well with the dual wielding thing. not to mention the draenei weapon animations aren't as cool. other than that, its a tough call.
anyway, this was sparked by wlk beta footage. the main reason i stopped playing AGAIN was i went through the 60-70 content, tried raiding(post tbc raiding, pre tbc raiding kicked ass), didn't like it, the guild died, and i got my netherdrake. this time round, more content to keep busy with for several more months, and then stopping again. now if i meet up with a good group of people for pvp, i may stay on longer, but if not, i will still enjoy the solo/pug stuff.
http://static.filefront.com/ffv6/video/fullpage.php?v=713979&autorun=true
WoW Radio goes through Utgarde Keep
http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/07/22/wotlk-beta-review-the-death-knight-tutorial/
blog of the dk starting area
YOU GET TO RIDE (like control and fly, not ride in a set path) A FREAKIN FROST WYVERN!
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don't mind me, just posting this (the wlk talents were added)
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/talent-index/wrath.html
*edit*
read the 51 point elemental talent
i am keeping my shaman
aoe damage, personal mana regan, aoe knockback
FDDGNHGTGMTGNTGMHMGNFGMHDGMGHHMGFHFJGHMHJMHTJNGRHNGNHGH
well this will be my soloing/pvp/e hybrid ish build
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents2.html?tal=35030015032153510253135100000000000000000000000000050005031000000000000000000
and slighty modified for a bit more pvp focus (taking out a few pve tallents, and putting them into resto for a total of 4% more lightning crit)
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents2.html?tal=35030015032133510053035100000000000000000000000000051005031004000000000000000
but fuck, the lower half of the elemental tree is like porn
and i guess my healing build for when i spec for that
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents2.html?tal=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000053035331355310551122331251
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I have to say, some people in WoW are beyond dumb.
Case 1: The warrior who wanted to trade his sword for my gun when I was using my hunter. Uh, yeah...about that...
Case 2: I started an orc warrior last night and raised him to level 9. Immediately before I logged out just now I had a lv.5 orc warrior challenge me to a dual. Yeahhhh, about that.
Speaking of my orc warrior, I managed to find a weapon when I was lv.8 that deals an even 7 dps. Lucky? I think so.
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can't comment on case 1, but case 2 is pretty normal. i sometimes tend to randomly duel people grossly higher, or lower than me for the hell of it. and if a low level wants to duel, ill just let him attack me, giggle as they kill themselves because of my lightning shield, and heal them after the duel is over.
also, warriors are the most gear dependent class in the game, if you don't plan on getting leet epicks, you probably won't enjoy him in the longer term. i got mine to level 67 before getting tired of it.
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I had some dumbass follow me around when I was on my undead warlock challenging me to a duel, and when I kicked his ass because I had my imp, he bitched about how it wasn't fair and shit. Sure, I was 2 levels below him, but that imp is REALLY useful, and when I can hit him a couple times with my spells because he's fighting the imp, it's no wonder that I beat him.
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Well thats what he gets for fighting the imp. You're supposed to just ignore it, its useless to fight it lol. Only one you should try to fight is the succubus because of the seduction crap.
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Well, I was like, level 9, and he was about 11, so I doubt he knew what the hell he was doing. After that fight he kept wanting a rematch against me without my imp.
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Yeah hes a dumbass then. Thats like someone saying "Dude wtf, rematch, this time you're not allowed to hit me"
Its just like when I duel people and fucking RAPE them royally, they're like "Oh you used all these cooldowns" I was like...WTF man, what are they there for. Thats no different than saying, "Do nothing but white damage to me the entire fight, because I suck and whine because you kick my ass when you use the moves you're supposed to use when you fight"
People piss me off. Wow....K i'm gonna stop talking about this because it makes me angry.
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Yeah hes a dumbass then. Thats like someone saying "Dude wtf, rematch, this time you're not allowed to hit me"
Well, you can do some decent damage to people just from taking melee hits, in some cases. :P
Oh yeah...which realm do you guys play on? I'd like to be able to play with people who are over 10 years old one of these days and maybe learn a few things (I'm not exaggerating when I say this: I'm probably one of the better low-level players in the areas that I'm in with my three toons).
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7 DPS? Nice Spectere...talk about the nice random algorithim that says. "I like you, you get awsome item."
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7 DPS isn't all that great. My druid's weapon deals 6.4 DPS and I'm not much further along with that character (and whenever I'm in a bind with him I can just transform into a bear). It's just lucky that I got it that early in the game, especially considering warriors need heavy-hitting weapons to not die.
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Well, It's always nice to drop a good DPS weapon that's good for a while, because until you get weapons that can match it, you've got better weapon DPS than most people your level (except for twinked out characters).
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'Fo rizzle.
It should do for a while, I hope. I've found that my warrior is pretty effective with it, at my level anyway.
I'm also planning to head over to Thunder Bluff (BECAUSE I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE ENOUGH LOL) with my orc to learn me some gunz so I have something to do with my hunter's borderline-worthless (monetarily speaking, of course) hand-me-downs.
I also am starting to really see the value of the in-game mail system in other ways. After playing around a bit (mainly, transferring some silver to my new orcster) I came to the realization that I can pretty much produce anything just by passing items back and forth. I love love LOVE LOVE HOLY FUCKING SHIT LOVE that. My biggest gripe about EVE is that having multiple character slots is virtually worthless. Of course, EVE is pretty much designed for players to have multiuser corporations, but it's still a pain in the ass to get any sort of serious production started in that game.
Edit: I originally put this in a PM to Omni, but I figured I'd repost it here for the farfulga of it:
I ended up feeling WoW's cold, icy grip tonight. I started the game at 3:00am, meaning to do a quest or two and quit at 3:30am to get some sleep. It was around 4:15am when I actually logged off.
What's strange is that I'm not addicted to it to the point where I shun family, friends, etc, I just have problems quitting after I've already started playing (unless I have somewhere to do or be, which I guess puts me above most WoW-obsessed players). It's kind of like the soft Diablo-style addictions. You know, it starts with, "oh, I'll rescue Deckard Cain real fast and hit the hay." Then it evolves to, "hmm, I'm close to level 7...I think I'll ding that first and then go to bed." Then next thing you know you're finishing off Andariel and heading to the desert, wondering what the hell is wrong with you.
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Heh, yeah, Wow was like that for me, until things took ridiculously long. It's like "oh, I'm close to dinging lv 41, that's only be another 2-3 hours, I guess I can manage".
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Very true. I found myself doing a lot less of that after I hit lv.10 for all of my characters, even. :x
That said, I still have a nasty tendency to do more quests that I should during any given night
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Ugh, the one thing I hated while playing WoW, was leveling up. So annoying.
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Ahh yes, the WoW community. The whole reason I'm leaving this game in September for WAR.
Also, I got mad welfare epix yo, but I haven't decided what I'm going to do with my paladin.
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can't comment on case 1, but case 2 is pretty normal. i sometimes tend to randomly duel people grossly higher, or lower than me for the hell of it. and if a low level wants to duel, ill just let him attack me, giggle as they kill themselves because of my lightning shield, and heal them after the duel is over.
Same here, of course I found out how wonderfully balanced the PVP was when a priest about 10 levels lower then me beat me twice in a row...(I was a warr). Then again, I did fight a hunter who couldn't keep me off of him and I took him out. Afterwords he said something like "you would never get that close to me in a battlefield" which I found funny.
Ahh yes, the WoW community. The whole reason I'm leaving this game in September for WAR.
I'm curious about War myself. From what I've heard it isn't pay 2 play, which I'm all over.
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the wlk tallents have been updated...good fucking god...
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents2.html?tal=45030015032150510253035100000000000000000000000000054030030002000000000000000
I WILL PLAY MY SHAMAN TO LEVEL 80 REGARDLESS HOW AWESOME WAR IS (THOUGH I WILL STILL PLAY WAR, JUST MABY TAKE A BREAK TO DO THIS)
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no spell hit?
lol
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you ain't no shaymin
being as its built mainly for pvp, AND i want the top tier elemental talents, and every shaman tree is bloated at the moment, theres got to be some cuts.
spell hit isn't as important in pvp, and the reduced threat is specially not important. id rather have 2% crit from the points in tidal mastery, and 3/3 healing focus should be in every pvp build ever.
also, look at lava focus, and astral shift, THOSE ARE BADASS TALENTS. all in all, i feel i gain more overall by sacrificing 3% spellhit (and that is gaining 2% lighting/healing crit and an additional 24% immunity to spell interruption while healing)
NOT TO MENTION its all subject to change, and considering they changed em from what they were a few weeks ago...they are bound to do it again. combine some talents, take some away, add new ones, ect.
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aw guess I'm not going to be playing WAR
there's no /dance emote wtf
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play both!
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Yeah, I was upset, but I guess I can deal.
I'm going to be a High Elf Swordmaster.
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im thinking to myself, i don't need the healing tallent to avoid interruption with the new tallents.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/shaman/talents2.html?tal=55330015232150510253135100500230000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
ALL OFFENSE
61-10-0
basically every single talent to increase damage in the elemental tree, and enhancement for imp ghost wolf, and lightning shield. looks fun to solo with. MY LAVA BURST WILL HIT HARDER THAN A PYROBLAST!111 (not really...but it should make the thing i attack with it cry)
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http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/comics/images/ss233.jpg
FUCK YEAR! WATER WALKAN
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WAR looks sorta "meh" to me, TBH. I was gonna take a hiatus from FFXI for it originally and go spread the word of the Lord of Pleasure but now it looks like I'm sticking to FFXI. I swear man, it's like an abusive girlfriend that you want to break up with, but you won't because she does that thing with her tongue.
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i can't really attest my opinion on the game till i try it. from what i hear its good, and i have a bunch of e-people (da guild) who are going to play, so im going to buy it, roll a runepriest. if i like it, i will keep subscribed, if not, ill do something else.
i just hope its like WoW with more pvp and less grindan.
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i just hope its like WoW with more pvp and less grindan.
If it's like that, I'll be happy. Hopefully it doesn't have cookie cutter pvp, that's what I hated about wow.
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just got invited to the WOTLK beta
ps all you pvptards make me lol
I'd raid, but I detest guilds
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just got invited to the WOTLK beta
ps all you pvptards make me lol
I'd raid, but I detest guilds
so you don't raid...but you don't like pvp? what exactly do you do, use the game as an interactive chat room? if you aren't doing pvp or pve, what are you doing is what im saying.
i LIKE the raiding, its just so damn time consuming i can't do it often. pvp is simple jump in, have fun, and leave whenever.
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I pvp for welfare epix
it's fun, but I'd really prefer to raid
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Why do you hate guilds so much? I mean, I hate the childish stupid guilds made up of the average players (you know, 5 or 6 12 year olds, maybe 20 members that are older than say, 18, and then 1 or 2 old geezers (well, 45, 50 years old, that sort of thing)). Those guilds suck absolute monkey cock. Guilds like my cousin's, which are made up of people who practically live on WoW, love getting stoned/drunk, and are either in college or actually out of college, and who actually don't mind (and rather enthusiastically engage in) swearing, those are the guilds that are cool. In my opinion anyway. I hate logging in at say, 2 AM and finding 1 person in your guild of say, 120 members, actually awake. In my cousin's guild, you could log in at any time of the day, and probably find 2 or 3 members logged in at any given time, and they're a rather small guild anyway.
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fuck anything or everything that came from WoW
except for leeroy jenkins
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Quit gaying up real threads.
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bump
Me irl (http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2233/wowscrnshot101008035535gi2.jpg)
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Wow, I last posted in this thread all the way back on page 1. If anyone cares, here's an update of my characters (yes, I have more than one now!... well I always have, but the others were too low level and inactive to mention).
After over two years of raiding with Legacy of Honor on Khadgar, the guild ran into really tough times and was having trouble rebuilding, so they decided to call it quits for raiding. I transferred with some of my friends from LoH to raid with a guild on Dalaran, which also died about two months later. After that, I transferred again to Blackhand to raid with Transcended (#13 in the US on Wowjutsu). I've been there for just over a month now. My armory: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Blackhand&n=Skorion
I also leveled a Draenei Paladin (holy most of the way - went ret for a few levels in the 40s but didn't like it)! She came to Dalaran with Skorion, but I haven't transferred her to Blackhand yet. Armory: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dalaran&n=Haruhiism
And finally, I've been leveling the second character I ever made - my hunter. She sat at level 28 for a really long time, but while I was leveling my Paladin, I also put some work into leveling her to 49 (not a twink, just coincidentally where I stopped playing her again). She sat at 49 for a while again, until I saw the new hunter talents in WotLK. She's always been Beast Mastery spec, and will remain so in the expansion. I can't wait to get some exotic pets, like a core hound, and perhaps one of the new and rare Spirit Beasts. Anyway, she is now level 64. Armory: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&n=Rakka
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FUCKING HEALADINS
nice chars btw
here's me: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maiev&n=Veemon
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*glances at lv.70 character profiles*
I, uh, dinged 25 (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormrage&n=Slonoko) tonight?
*shuffles back into the corner*
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Don't worry spec, my best char is 52 IIRC. And that covers pretty much the entirety of my playing on the official servers. I never really leveld any other chars much.
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Played a lot of v3.02 today. I mean a lot. Good lawd.
First off, there was the problem of updating all of my mods. I wound up just scrapping the clusterfuck I had on there before (let's just say, I'd given Cosmos a try) and only put in the real essentials: Cartographer3, NotesUNeed, Omen (I don't use it for raids [yet], but it's proven to be a real life-saver for hunters and warlocks; and yes, I know Blizzard implemented visible threat displays in v3...Omen still does it better), QuestHelper, and, most importantly, Bejeweled. In 2.4.X I used LightHeaded/TomTom instead of QuestHelper/Cartographer and, frankly, I'm glad I made the switch. There are some things about QuestHelper that annoy me (namely, it being unwilling to directly let me set which quest I want to set the arrow to) but overall it's been a much better experience than trusting the commenters on WoWHead (not that the advice is bad, it's just that LH pulls in everything, even the outdated comments, so things can get confusing).
Stormrage was down for most of yesterday so I ended up rolling up a Blood Elf Warlock on another realm. Nailing lv.10 within three hours == very easy. I did so with plenty of dicking around between quests.
After Stormrage came back up I signed on as my hunter and played for even longer. For one thing, I love the free talent tree reset (I disliked some of the choices that I made early on -- my hunter being my first character and all -- and I didn't feel like paying to reroll). Pets having their own talent trees kicks ass.
Now I just need to raise a character to lv.55+ before WotLK comes out...
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I've been playing my hunter a lot since 3.0.2 as well. I specced BM and got a core hound pet from MC at level 65 (just had to have the original)! My hunter is 68 now. Perhaps I'll finish the grind to 70 today since leveling is so much faster.
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I used to be a hybrid BM/Survival hunter but with the patch I respecced to pure BM.
I wound up completing my 100th quest yesterday. That achievement system is going to be the end of me.
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Argh I swear once I get a job going, I'm reopening my account haha.
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Ding, 30.
Now I just need to save up ~40 gold (only 31 gold to go...ugh) to get a mount. It's hard to save gold with so many nice skills getting unlocked. D:
I ended up switching from guns to bows thanks to finding a fairly nice uncommon bow that deals something like 15dps. I can't shoot it as fast (2.2 speed vs. 1.9) but its damage output per hit is so much nicer.
Also, goddamn zombie infestation. D:
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Now I just need to save up ~40 gold (only 31 gold to go...ugh) to get a mount.
lol 40 gold. That should be easy with the inflated prices of stuff these days, even for low level greens. Back in my day, those were 90g and low level stuff didn't sell for much on the AH.
I decided that I'm going to drop Scryers on my druid and get my rep up with Aldor. I'm doing this for two reasons. One, to get the feat of strength achievement for getting exalted with both (if it works; from what I read on Wowhead, it might be bugged, though I'm sure they'll fix it eventually). And two, to get the tabard. I've determined that, without spending real money for UDE points, it is possible for me to get exactly 25 tabards before WotLK, which is just the amount needed for the 25 tabards achievement, which awards another tabard. I'll have to do a lot more rep grinding than just Aldor to accomplish this, and there isn't much time. I need to get exalted with Consortium, Kurenai, The League of Arathor, Sporeggar, and the Keepers of Time. So in my near future, there will be much much grinding, and quite a bit of PVP for that League of Arathor rep, plus AV marks of honor which I need for two other tabards (the AV one and the knight's colors).
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lol 40 gold. That should be easy with the inflated prices of stuff these days, even for low level greens. Back in my day, those were 90g and low level stuff didn't sell for much on the AH.
Yeah, it's not too terrible. I heard about how expensive things were way back when. I'm glad they changed things around a bit, I doubt I'd still be playing if everything were horribly expensive (kinda like how it is in EVE).
It's still kind of a drag seeing as it's the only thing preventing me from being able to quickly ride around Thousand Needles instead of walking. Aspect of the Cheetah is nice, but it definitely doesn't compare to a mount.
Fortunately, I think I'll be able to become revered with Thunder Bluff way before I'd be able to afford the riding lessons, so that'll certainly help. If that's the case I'll be able to learn the riding skill with 29g 75s rather than 31g 50s. I'd love a raptor mount, but tauren are fat and can only ride a couple of epic ones. I'm not particular fond of kodos, so yay wolves. I'm honored with Orgrimmar (and am not even close to being revered with them) so it'll be 9g for the mount itself. Edit: Scratch that, looks like I have to be exalted with Orgrimmar to purchase their mounts. That fucking blows.
So yay, 39g 75s for everything. I'm currently at a little over 13g. If I play an hour or two a day I should be close, if not there, by the end of the week.
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Well, one tip I have is you can try to play the AH. I made 120ish gold from one purchase/resell.
Someone was selling a 12 stack of IIRC, Glimmering Shards, or one of those type thingies (one of the rather expensive ones) for like, 2G when they were selling at a price of 10G each normally. There wasn't much demand, so selling them all was tough, but I did eventually sell them all, and that really helped.
You may not be able to make that much off it, but you can occasionally find people who just want to get rid of something for dirt cheap, and you can resell those and make a quick bit of gold.
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I'm not particular fond of kodos, so yay wolves.
I think kodos are cool. Especially the epic ones with the war drums on the sides. Unfortunately, luck wasn't on my side when I had the chance to get myself a kodo mount (from brewfest). It's okay though, because I have an Amani War Bear which is no longer obtainable. And I got mine for free, plus made a few thousand gold selling them before the patch :).
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Nice work, I've never been a big fan of the horde designs though :/ I do like the warlock mounts though.
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lol
PVP servers blow a dick when you're not majority
brb going to a PVE server
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This zombie shit is getting ridiculous. Incubation time down to a minute, zombie DPS up by 20? God.
Oh well, gives me a good excuse to take a break. I would have probably had fun with it if my character weren't a mid-level one and if I weren't kinda focused on doing something. Last thing I want to do at this point is have to pay out for durability damage (I'm a cheap bastard).
It might not be so bad if all of my major quests didn't seem to be coming from Thunder Bluff...lawl.
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Oh man, I love the zombie event. It's so funny when like a whole town or city is taken over by zombies. Sure it sucks when the flight master is gone or something, but it's a small price to pay for the good times. I wish they'd do stuff like this more often.
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Eh, not so good when you're trying to actually do stuff. :/
I can definitely see it being a fun time waster when you're lv.60-70. Not so much at lv.31.
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Well, one tip I have is you can try to play the AH.
Yeah, I've been doing a lot of collecting in Thousand Needles. It's proven to be fairly profitable, all in all, thanks to the decent number of uncommon drops there are out there. Hell, even the poor quality items out there can fetch a couple silver pieces each from NPCs.
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My friend recently got back into WoW and is working on another Undead Warlock...he used to have 3 lv 70 characters including another Undead Warlock untill he sold them...I never found out how much he sold them for.
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(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/slonoko-firstmount.jpg)
/dance
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I quit WoW btw
However, /cheer Spec for keeping with it
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However, /cheer Spec for keeping with it
/fart
Heh, I couldn't possibly quit. I haven't even gotten to see any endgame content yet. :P
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I've quit, and the closes I got to seeing endgame content was on a private server using a char that wasn't even made when I installed TBC and getting into the 60+ instances and trying to solo them with a rogue. Lucky thing I averaged something like 1200 DPS :P
But yeah, I never did get very far into any of them, because trying to solo those instances is FUCKING HARD.
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But yeah, I never did get very far into any of them, because trying to solo those instances is FUCKING HARD.
Indeed. I wound up waiting until I was around lv.29 to solo a lv.19 instance. It was pretty easy at that point. ;D
Instances are one of the main reasons why I'm hoping to either get into a guild soon or convince a few of my friends to play.
If anyone here is still playing: I still play primarily on Stormrage, Horde side, usually with Slonoko, my tauren hunter.
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Better man than me, I quit when I reached 55-ish, then my account got canceled (it was a friends account, he didn't care for it). Really, the game started getting boring for me.
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/fart
Heh, I couldn't possibly quit. I haven't even gotten to see any endgame content yet. :P
I'd like to play but:
1) I don't have a credit card
2) I don't have the soft/hardware
3) I really don't have that much money
4) My computer would probably run like shit if I played it on here
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Overclocking just a little bit can make a huge difference in WoW, lol.
My desktop is an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (running 32 bit windows :/) clocked from the default 2.0 GHz to 2.64 GHz,, and my graphics card is a fucking CHEAP one.
My Graphics is an ATI Radeon x550 (cost $90 a couple years ago), slightly overclocked (it only has passive cooling :/).
When I OC'd that card by like, maybe 3%, it made a huge difference. WoW went form running something like 15 FPS average to like, 23 FPS average (in unpopulated areas, that is).
And that computer only has 1GB of ram (and it's not even running at Dual Channel, because my mobo is retarded)
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4) My computer would probably run like shit if I played it on here
WoW's system requirements are fairly low, actually. I can maintain 50-60fps on my laptop and the video card in that system was considered low-end even when I bought it in 2005. I'm running it at 1280x800 with most (but not all) of the detail settings floored.
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Well, my computer runs it at 1440x900, so that might make some difference. Plus, I've pretty much got it maxed (mind you with some options to try to make it run a bit better)
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You could legitimately acquire it and play on private servers, just to get the hang of it/see if your pc is 'good enough' for it and such. At least thats what I did to see if I enjoyed the game at least a little bit before I paid for it monthly. They DO have demo CDs in gamestops/etc, or a 7 day trial if you go online and download it, so you can 'experience' the community online.
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Well, my computer runs it at 1440x900, so that might make some difference. Plus, I've pretty much got it maxed (mind you with some options to try to make it run a bit better)
Lowering the detail settings seemed to help more than dropping the resolution. My laptop doesn't seem to support 1440x900 directly and I don't feel like mucking with it, so 1280x800 is good for me. It was kind of funny when I first ran it. I ended up copying the entire WoW directory from my PowerTower(tm) and forgot to delete the WTF\Config.wtf file (why on earth did they pick that extension? heh). There was nothing quite like watching my laptop struggle to run the game on full detail at 1920x1200. Thankfully, its X300 only supports FSAA at 1024x768 and below, otherwise it would have been running at far less than 2fps.
They DO have demo CDs in gamestops/etc, or a 7 day trial if you go online and download it, so you can 'experience' the community online.
It's a 10 day trial, actually. 8)
That's actually how I ended up getting into the game. Best part about it is that you don't need a credit card to give it a try.
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WTF is the best extension ever, lol.
well, if it doesn't list 1440x900 in the drop down menu, you can easily just type that into the config file and it will work.
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What I mean with the 1440x900 support is that the driver doesn't list it as a valid mode. WoW just retrieves the available resolutions from Windows.
I could probably get the resolution added, either through the ATI driver configuration (I can't get the Catalyst Control Center with the drivers that my laptop has, so I might not be able to do it directly like that) or through other means (custom utility like PowerStrip or whatever) but it's not that big of a deal, really. On a laptop display you're not going to notice that much of a difference anyway, especially by the time the display scaling gets done with it.
It doesn't really serve much of a use for me as a desktop resolution either since I always run it at 1920x1200. All in all, not worth the effort.
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Ahh, well, I have the CCC on here, but for some reason, I couldn't find it for the longest time, lol.
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(http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/738/wowscrnshot110708025044pv8.jpg)
See you, BC.
You'll be missed.
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So I soloed Onyxia (a level 60 forty man raid boss) today on my druid :).
A few days ago, I had read that ferals could solo her on the class forums, so I was like "I got this" and jumped right into it after a minimal amount of research. I got my ass kicked. It turns out the ferals who had soloed her were herbalists, with the new lifeblood ability. Well my druid's a skinner so I don't have that. I had just about given up the idea of soloing her (not going to drop skinning and level herbalism just for that) when it occurred to me - I have a trinket from SSC that does pretty much the same thing as Lifeblood. So I went in there today, with a different set of gear. First attempt I got owned because I forgot to respec for 2/2 imp LotP (my normal spec is 1/2 in that talent). So I teleported to Moonglade to respec and I also dusted off two pieces of my T5 set for the instant regrowth bonus. I went back into her lair, recleared the trash which can be harder than Onyxia herself sometimes (the level 63 ones make me use my cooldowns), and then I took another stab at her. This time I emerged victorious!
She dropped for me the following items: 163 gold, Helm of Wrath, Netherwind Crown, Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire, Mature Black Dragon Sinew (damn, this can't be vendored!), Head of Onyxia, Onyxia Hide Backpack (replaced the last 16 slotter in my bank), Mugthol's Helm, Elven Spirit Claws, Book: Gift of the Wild, a random green of the whale or something, and Chapter VI of Draconic for Dummies (quest item). I then skinned her for 4 Onyxia Scales, unfortunately forgetting to take screenshot(s) beforehand. I did however take this screenshot of my Eavesdrop combat log later in Ironforge: http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z96/skorpion9x/onyxia.jpg .
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Christ, awesome!
I've seen a video of the first person to have solo'd Onyxia, but they took someone with them in case they got screwed by that flaw that aggro's one of the mobs there, since they pretty much screw you, and it can be unavoidable, thanks to a flaw in how the level was designed.
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I unquit.
btw check out my gear, it owns Skorion's face (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maiev&n=Veemon)
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btw check out my gear, it owns Skorion's face (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Maiev&n=Veemon)
Holy crap...even though most of that gear is said to be common I know that it is actually pretty hard to get and must have teken a while to achive so, "GOOD JOB!!!"
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man what (http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8201/wowscrnshot112108161513bn8.jpg)
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!!!
/want
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V33mon, no second profession? Not even mining to go along with your 410 blacksmithing?? Why? You must spend a ton of gold to level blacksmithing.
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V33mon, no second profession? Not even mining to go along with your 410 blacksmithing?? Why? You must spend a ton of gold to level blacksmithing.
I used to be a miner a while back; dropped it because I was planning on picking up JCing (which I haven't done yet)
And yes, I did spend a ton of gold leveling BSing. Those thorium bars were a bitch :(
(I dropped mining about halfway through needing thorium bars or something like that)
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Since NeWF is alive again, I want to ask what it's like to have an accented letter in your char's name
does it hamper anything? I was thinking of changing my char's name
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Nope, its just a letter I put in because plain NewF was taken. Don't mess with anything at all :D
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Doooonnnnnggg!!!
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/ding40.png)
(erm, did I do dat rite lol?)
Yeah, I'm slow (and have extreme ADD when it comes to characters). Sue me. <3
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Doooonnnnnggg!!!
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/ding40.png)
(erm, did I do dat rite lol?)
Yeah, I'm slow (and have extreme ADD when it comes to characters). Sue me. <3
It took me a lot longer for my character....
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As far as raw playtime goes, it took me about...three and a half days? Not even. I could have done that easily in a month but I got too sidetracked by other characters.
Plus, the fact that WoW still crashes on me with my main computer when I go near the Barrens makes it hard to want to play as any character near there. I've been playing my Blood Elves a lot since that problem started. :/
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speaking of leveling
ding 76
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ding 80
time to go to bed
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Christ, that was some fast leveling.
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ding 80
Congrats. ;D
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Christ, that was some fast leveling.
No kidding.
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ding
Fries are done!
jk, but nice!
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3.0.8 is supposedly coming out soon.
Here's my favorite feature:
Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostrider? Tauren on raptor? You
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ty everyone
I started leveling a shaman last night; got suspended today so that'll help in her progress for sure
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got suspended today
Wait....from school?...I don't know you so that is a ligitimate question...for what, may I ask?
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some stupid shit
anyway I moved servers again: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Alterac+Mountains&n=Veemon
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Ding, 50. T-minus five levels until I can get my Death Knight.
I also managed to get my friend to start playing. If nothing else it gave me a good excuse to start playing my blood elf rogue again.
Oh, I'm also in a guild on Stormrage now with my tauren hunter. Seems like a nice group of people.
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Ding, 50. T-minus five levels until I can get my Death Knight.
I also managed to get my friend to start playing. If nothing else it gave me a good excuse to start playing my blood elf rogue again.
Oh, I'm also in a guild on Stormrage now with my tauren hunter. Seems like a nice group of people.
Gratz, nice work.
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Ding, 53...and a half. I'm so close that the flavor of...um...really evil-looking plate armor, is almost palpable!
Also, after 19 levels of being clueless (and letting the toon sit for several months), I finally figured out how the hell to play as a rogue after a few duels. I was able to beat, or (in most cases) nearly beat, people with considerably better gear than I had (as in, I have maybe one piece of uncommon gear...the people I was fighting had numerous buffs and a full set of uncommon/rare gear). Not bad.
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WOOOOOOOO! Played on my account today, and got BARON RIVENDARES MOUNT. A super rare mount thats only like 0.1% drop rate. WEEEEEE!
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(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/death_knight.jpg)
Moo, motherfucker!
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WOOOOOOOO! Played on my account today, and got BARON RIVENDARES MOUNT. A super rare mount thats only like 0.1% drop rate. WEEEEEE!
dude link your armory
I'M THE GODDAMN (argent) CHAMPION
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorefiend&n=Hanja
The gear is crap right now cause I dont play much.
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorefiend&n=Hanja
The gear is crap right now cause I dont play much.
Hanja? As opposed to Hangul?
DUDES
If you could find me a place to trade my pally for a enhance or elemental shammy I would love you forever
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorefiend&n=Hanja
My rogue could kick your rogue's candy ass. (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormrage&n=Taladar)
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Hanja? As opposed to Hangul?
Koreafag!!!! Also, hangul kicks hanja ass
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WOOOOOOOO! Played on my account today, and got BARON RIVENDARES MOUNT. A super rare mount thats only like 0.1% drop rate. WEEEEEE!
Actually, it was much lower than .1% in the past, but they increased it to like 1% in 3.0.
Moo, motherfucker!
I have a 61 death knight on Khadgar, but I'm waiting for the next patch so I can make it on Arygos where most of my Khadgar friends are now. As it stands right now, you have to have a level 55 character on the realm to make a death knight there, but in 3.0.8, you just have to have a 55 period, and you can make a death knight on any realm.
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Actually, it was much lower than .1% in the past, but they increased it to like 1% in 3.0.
I have a 61 death knight on Khadgar, but I'm waiting for the next patch so I can make it on Arygos where most of my Khadgar friends are now. As it stands right now, you have to have a level 55 character on the realm to make a death knight there, but in 3.0.8, you just have to have a 55 period, and you can make a death knight on any realm.
Yeah, that Hanja name wasn't chosen by me, I sold the account to my friend and he re-named the character, now we share it.
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I have a 61 death knight on Khadgar, but I'm waiting for the next patch so I can make it on Arygos where most of my Khadgar friends are now. As it stands right now, you have to have a level 55 character on the realm to make a death knight there, but in 3.0.8, you just have to have a 55 period, and you can make a death knight on any realm.
So I've read. Definitely looking forward to that; I'd like to roll one on a PvP server. I couldn't imagine walking through heavy traffic, contested areas with a lowbie on a PvP server. Run into one asshole on the other faction and he's going to prevent you from doing anything, even spawning if he were bored enough.
Speaking of the patch, I couldn't help but notice that they removed racial restrictions on mounts...still need to suck some troll wang before I'll be able to take advantage of that.
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lawl dobble post
NEW TROLL HERE. Rolled a troll hunter today so that my level 20 friend and I can have a pet assisting us a few days down the road and so that I could goof around with new builds and play styles without respecing my dear level 55 friend, Slonoko.
I found that starting over was, surprisingly, very refreshing. It's amazing how much I learned about maintaining ranged distance between when I first started Slonoko way back when and now. Even though I don't have a pet I find it amazingly easy to kill mobs using only my ranged weapon, with possibly one or two finishing blows with my axe. With Slonoko I planted my feet in place when I started shooting. With Zurlek I jump back after every shot. It makes a far bigger difference than I could have possibly imagined and, thanks to that, I hardly took any hits thus far.
Sadly enough, right when I dinged level 2 with this guy some dumbass shamen (Fucqueue on Stormrage, if anyone wants to dick with him...and if you actually decide to do that, feel free to say hi to Slonoko, Juntoko, Khaladra, Keidra, Amerolim, Taladar, Shanoe, and/or Zurlek while you're at it :)) started spamming me with duel challenges. What I don't understand is how so many fucking n00bs seem to think that two level 2 non-twinks dueling is even remotely interesting. Seriously, you have what, two or three moves -- including attack -- at your disposal at that point in the game? Dueling doesn't start getting good until you're in the teens at least.
I've pretty much stopped being kind on das interwebs, particularly on the WoW front. After being bombarded with jackasses who shove their guild charters in my face (the best real-life analogue probably being a person shoving a petition and a pen in your face and screaming for you to sign it), people who repeatedly send duel challenges or party invites despite me clearly not being interested, occasionally reading trade chat, and being a part of some pretty awful pick-up groups, I've pretty much given up hope on my fellow adventurers. As such, I ignored Mr. Fucqueue after the third challenge and proceeded to make taunt him and his intelligence and say a few lines about the virtues of /ignore while he made many futile attempts to annoy me. I could tell because the duel flag kept repeatedly coming down whenever I wasn't in combat and he was following me everywhere. After, I kid you not, ten minutes of me not even acknowledging his existence, he finally wandered off.
What I really should do is log on as my death knight and, if he's on, go to the area that he's in and kill off everything that he needs to kill for a quest (if nobody else is around, of course). Or, perhaps, challenge him to a few hundred duels. He'd probably be dumb enough to accept.
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lawl dobble post
NEW TROLL HERE. Rolled a troll hunter today so that my level 20 friend and I can have a pet assisting us a few days down the road and so that I could goof around with new builds and play styles without respecing my dear level 55 friend, Slonoko.
I found that starting over was, surprisingly, very refreshing. It's amazing how much I learned about maintaining ranged distance between when I first started Slonoko way back when and now. Even though I don't have a pet I find it amazingly easy to kill mobs using only my ranged weapon, with possibly one or two finishing blows with my axe. With Slonoko I planted my feet in place when I started shooting. With Zurlek I jump back after every shot. It makes a far bigger difference than I could have possibly imagined and, thanks to that, I hardly took any hits thus far.
Sadly enough, right when I dinged level 2 with this guy some dumbass shamen (Fucqueue on Stormrage, if anyone wants to dick with him...and if you actually decide to do that, feel free to say hi to Slonoko, Juntoko, Khaladra, Keidra, Amerolim, Taladar, Shanoe, and/or Zurlek while you're at it :)) started spamming me with duel challenges. What I don't understand is how so many fucking n00bs seem to think that two level 2 non-twinks dueling is even remotely interesting. Seriously, you have what, two or three moves -- including attack -- at your disposal at that point in the game? Dueling doesn't start getting good until you're in the teens at least.
I've pretty much stopped being kind on das interwebs, particularly on the WoW front. After being bombarded with jackasses who shove their guild charters in my face (the best real-life analogue probably being a person shoving a petition and a pen in your face and screaming for you to sign it), people who repeatedly send duel challenges or party invites despite me clearly not being interested, occasionally reading trade chat, and being a part of some pretty awful pick-up groups, I've pretty much given up hope on my fellow adventurers. As such, I ignored Mr. Fucqueue after the third challenge and proceeded to make taunt him and his intelligence and say a few lines about the virtues of /ignore while he made many futile attempts to annoy me. I could tell because the duel flag kept repeatedly coming down whenever I wasn't in combat and he was following me everywhere. After, I kid you not, ten minutes of me not even acknowledging his existence, he finally wandered off.
What I really should do is log on as my death knight and, if he's on, go to the area that he's in and kill off everything that he needs to kill for a quest (if nobody else is around, of course). Or, perhaps, challenge him to a few hundred duels. He'd probably be dumb enough to accept.
Yeah, I had some moron do that to me before. I was playing a lv 9 undead warlock. So, After a minute or two of ignoring his duel requests, I accepted, after all, he was 1 level higher than me (I forget what class he was). So, after I promptly owned his pathetic ass (he attacked my goddamned imp the whole time!) he bitched and whined about my imp and how that wasn't a fair fight and proceeded to challenge me to fights without an imp. So I laughed at him, and left. I dunno if you've played a warlock before spec, but they're pretty useless without their imps, so I wasn't going to let him beat me and gloat just because warlocks need an imp at low level. I know I had a chance to beat him, but being a low level warlock gives you essentially 0 armor.
It was kinda funny.
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Yeah, I've played as a 'lock. Playing without a minion is like playing as a hunter without a pet, only kiting isn't really a viable option.
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Yeah, I've played as a 'lock. Playing without a minion is like playing as a hunter without a pet, only kiting isn't really a viable option.
shadowbolt shadowbolt shadowbolt shadowbolt
btw, did I mention shadowbolt
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soloed ony a little while ago btw
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shadowbolt shadowbolt shadowbolt shadowbolt
btw, did I mention shadowbolt
Shadowbolt isn't an instant cast, though. You can keep people away for a while but you can't hold them at a given distance, they will always catch up at some point so long as they have enough HP.
Hunters get arcane shot and serpent sting at an early level, both of which are instant cast spells, the latter dealing damage over time. If the mob is faster than you you can snare them for four seconds with concussive shot, another instant cast shot, to keep them back. Using those three spells alone a hunter can kite pretty much anything all over the map without getting in melee range, assuming he/she has enough mana. You just can't do that if you're being held back by cast time.
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Shadowbolt isn't an instant cast, though. You can keep people away for a while but you can't hold them at a given distance, they will always catch up at some point so long as they have enough HP.
Hunters get arcane shot and serpent sting at an early level, both of which are instant cast spells, the latter dealing damage over time. If the mob is faster than you you can snare them for four seconds with concussive shot, another instant cast shot, to keep them back. Using those three spells alone a hunter can kite pretty much anything all over the map without getting in melee range, assuming he/she has enough mana. You just can't do that if you're being held back by cast time.
I was just describing a warlock's spell rotation for the first 10 levels or so
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Ah, my bad, I thought you were implying that shadowbolt would be good for kiting. I got confuzzled.
And...yeah, that sounds about right.
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That's exactly it, lol. And yes, spec outlined why there was no fucking way i'd solo his ass.
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soloed ony a little while ago btw
I NEED TEH GZ
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That's exactly it, lol. And yes, spec outlined why there was no fucking way i'd solo his ass.
Kekekekekeke.....
I think you have more to fear from my pet, though. I ended up focusing on beast mastery with a ferocious pet, so he generally does more damage than me. In every serious duel that I've been in people made the mistake of focusing on me. All I had to do was keep a sting on them (usually just for some additive damage or mana burning more than anything else), then nail them with wing clip and/or concussive shot, then occasionally throwing intimidate on my pet when I could (generally used to pull threat, but also stuns the target for a few seconds), and let my pet do the rest with his rather high dps. The best part is that some people kept the same strategy despite me absolutely destroying them repeatedly. Kind of funny, really, especially when you figure that if they killed off my pet (and his HP isn't particularly high, given that he's not a tenacious pet) all I could have really done was kite them and hit them with comparatively weak (compared to a marksman hunter, that is) shots.
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Fuck, now I want to play WoW, spec plays, my GF plays, my cousin plays, my GF's friend plays. Goddamnit, I played before everyone in that list but my cousin. :/
I hate being broke.
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http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/intro/shop.html (http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/intro/shop.html)
$20 for the base game and all of the expansions, comes with a free 30-day trial.
DO IT
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By broke, I mean that I don't even have enough money for all my school books, let alone games :/
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FINAL FANTASY 11
Shh, Chris might hear you. ;)
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Ding, 60.
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/shanoe-60.jpg)
Edit: Ding, new page.
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Man, I like how they added achievements in. That was a cool addition that I never heard anything about till I saw it on my GF's computer. I had to laugh when I saw that she had just under 400 total kills on her character, because she has no idea how many kills it can take to level up once you get up there.
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Oh yes, achievements are definitely fun. :) I'm particularly fond of some of the off-the-wall ones ("to all the squirrels I've loved before") and the exploration ones.
I just like how WoW has so many different achievements, too. It's sort of nice how Blizz didn't try to cap them at all.
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lawldobblepost
So, I love it when morons overcharge for common gear on the auction house. I was looking around for some stuff for my lowbie warrior (mainly to make him less useless without spending a lot of cash) and couldn't help but notice that people were trying to sell green drops from RFC for upwards of 10-100 gold. lolWUT. Seriously, I can't think of a single person who would be dumb enough to do that. For one thing, if someone has that much money at that low of a level for that gear to be useful, they also have a character that can run RFC in five minutes. Second, if that is their main character (like, if they just started playing) there's no way in hell they would be able to pay that much for fairly basic gear that'll get replaced before long anyway.
Also, got some new UI mods. IceHUD and Magic Runes are both quite nice. After using IceHUD for a while I don't see how I was able to tolerate looking up at the upper-left corner of the screen constantly.
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lawldobblepost
So, I love it when morons overcharge for common gear on the auction house. I was looking around for some stuff for my lowbie warrior (mainly to make him less useless without spending a lot of cash) and couldn't help but notice that people were trying to sell green drops from RFC for upwards of 10-100 gold. lolWUT. Seriously, I can't think of a single person who would be dumb enough to do that. For one thing, if someone has that much money at that low of a level for that gear to be useful, they also have a character that can run RFC in five minutes. Second, if that is their main character (like, if they just started playing) there's no way in hell they would be able to pay that much for fairly basic gear that'll get replaced before long anyway.
Also, got some new UI mods. IceHUD and Magic Runes are both quite nice. After using IceHUD for a while I don't see how I was able to tolerate looking up at the upper-left corner of the screen constantly.
Well, there are quite a few morons out there, but willing to try to sell at that sort of level, and (in some cases) willing to buy for those prices. However, the items that really cost a lot are the twink gear. There are some items that may seem to really not be worth what they are being priced at, but thanks to some assholes who like to make twinks at lower levels, those items are now worth a lot because they are the best item (or one of the best items) to use for that level group.
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I know that twink gear is more expensive, but the stuff that I'm talking about isn't twink gear. It's, literally, stuff from right out of Ragefire Chasm and other low level instances. I know this because I ran those half a dozen times to farm for green gear for my friends and I. It's better gear that you'd get out of a quest at that level but it's certainly not twink-worthy. And, again, if you roll a twink, you're going to have plenty of money to finance it and a character who can easily get all of the BoE gear in RFC.
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Did normal The Twilight Zone tonight (normal mode Sartharion plus 3 drakes), the hardest encounter currently in the game :). Yes, the 10 man is harder than the 25 man because you're much more restricted on who you bring to the raid. You really have to stack the raid to put out maximum dps, plus have enough tanks for all the shit, and healers to keep them up! I am now "Skorion of the Nightfall" :D.
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Congrats! :D
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(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/tainted-pierce.jpg)
...WELL HEY, I can't complain! If I knew that running the Scarlet Monastery were so lucrative (especially if I get lucky and walk out with a weapon like that) I would have started doing it a long time ago.
I most definitely have enough for a flying mount if I send my DK a couple hundred gold from my main. Seven levels early, even. Better still, I'm sure I'll be able to finance it with my DK alone by the time I'm 70.
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haha you sold it for that much
it's a pretty bad wep, but I guess blue = good to some people (not saying that about you, spec)
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From what I understand, it's most sought out by rogues. I can kind of see why, but then again I haven't leveled a rogue up to 30, so I don't really know what the norm is for the rogue gear around that level.
But yeah, some people are definitely obsessed with rare gear. I don't see the point, really, the only character that I have loaded with blue crap is my DK, and the only reason most of his stuff is still blue is because most of the improved green armor that I've picked up does the opposite of what I want to do (i.e. trading in +30 strength for an unnecessary +30 intellect, or buffing casting post).
Ah well, it gives jerks like me a good way to make fast money on the AH (that, and taking advantage of the idiots who sell ore incredibly cheaply).
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From what I understand, it's most sought out by rogues. I can kind of see why, but then again I haven't leveled a rogue up to 30, so I don't really know what the norm is for the rogue gear around that level.
But yeah, some people are definitely obsessed with rare gear. I don't see the point, really, the only character that I have loaded with blue crap is my DK, and the only reason most of his stuff is still blue is because most of the improved green armor that I've picked up does the opposite of what I want to do (i.e. trading in +30 strength for an unnecessary +30 intellect, or buffing casting post).
Ah well, it gives jerks like me a good way to make fast money on the AH (that, and taking advantage of the idiots who sell ore incredibly cheaply).
Haha, nice. I always try to take advantage of people who sell crap for real cheap. Sometimes I'll take all the real cheap crap of one item buy them, and sell them back at market value :P Makes lots of money if you do it right.
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That's what I've been doing ever since I started using Auctioneer. Amazing addon, that. I always did some market research prior to selling items, but Auctioneer makes it really easy to see what the market trends are on each server. It also provides a nice tooltip with other information, such as the vendor value, average market value, and enchantment value. Not to mention an interface that does an amazing job at listing a bazillion items at one time. I listed 140 copper bars last night by simply setting the price I wanted per unit and clicking one button. Very nice.
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That's what I've been doing ever since I started using Auctioneer. Amazing addon, that. I always did some market research prior to selling items, but Auctioneer makes it really easy to see what the market trends are on each server. It also provides a nice tooltip with other information, such as the vendor value, average market value, and enchantment value. Not to mention an interface that does an amazing job at listing a bazillion items at one time. I listed 140 copper bars last night by simply setting the price I wanted per unit and clicking one button. Very nice.
For me, Auctioneer is an absolute must have addon.
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Just made about 60 gold by simply reselling cloth and waiting. My supplies aren't even completely sold off yet, either.
Oh yes, by the time I hit level 70 I'll certainly have enough for expert riding and a flying mount. After that, all I have to do is save up for artisan flying and raise my rep with the Netherwing and I can get a free, awesome-looking Netherwing drake mount (http://www.wowwiki.com/Netherwing_drake_mounts). Only six levels to go before I can do that...woo!
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So how long would it take you to level a character from 1 to 60 like that, playing like 3 hours a day/without cheating/bots? I'd like to pick up playing again once my $ situation becomes better.
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Oh yes, by the time I hit level 70 I'll certainly have enough for expert riding and a flying mount. After that, all I have to do is save up for artisan flying and raise my rep with the Netherwing and I can get a free, awesome-looking Netherwing drake mount (http://www.wowwiki.com/Netherwing_drake_mounts). Only six levels to go before I can do that...woo!
Netherwing rep is a waste of time compared to reaching 80 imo
It also takes a long time to grind rep with them, so yeah
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So how long would it take you to level a character from 1 to 60 like that, playing like 3 hours a day/without cheating/bots? I'd like to pick up playing again once my $ situation becomes better.
Couldn't tell you, haha. The only character I really went from 1 to 55 with was my hunter (my lvl.64 is a death knight, which starts at lvl.55). Also, I spent a lot of time profession grinding, running friends/guildies through instances, so it's hard to say for sure. IIRC, my /played time on my hunter is around 4-5 days.
Netherwing rep is a waste of time compared to reaching 80 imo
oh no you di'nt
I definitely wouldn't do it all in one sitting. I'd up my rep in between levels or whatever. That's how I usually do that kind of stuff.
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Woo, 3.0.8 is out! Time to fill up the rest of my free global toon slots with Death Knights. :3
Edit: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14498530635 (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14498530635)
Bastards. My dreams of darkness have been vanquished by the light! Oh well...I'll do it whenever they enable that feature. >:D
Meh, probably not.
Edit 2: Based on the responses in that thread it seems like it works across some realms but not others. Weird.
Edit 3: Oh yeah, this definitely works. Not sure why Blizzard said aw hell naw but whatever.
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why would you fill it with DKs, I doubt anyone would want to play that many DKs >_>
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With 3.08 out, I finally made my DK on Arygos so now I can play with friends from my old guild (a bunch of those from my Khadgar guild transferred there). My DK is 63 now. On the subject of Netherwing rep, it doesn't take long to farm now because the eggs are somewhat common without a million other people also looking for them. It only took me four or five days to reach exalted. While I was grinding rep there, I did come across a few people in the mid 70s and thought, "what the hell are these bastards doing here stealing my eggs? Shouldn't they be in Northrend leveling?" :P
Oh, I also got my Hunter to 77 a few days ago. And it's still 77. My hunter doesn't have the fast flying mount training, so reaching 77 was like this: "Sweet, I'm 77 now and can fly in Northrend." *trains Cold Weather Flying and mounts on 60% speed flying mount* "... This sucks."
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I'm an engineer IRL (http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3038/img00008ph8.jpg) btw, it looks weird on purpose, no jokes plz
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why would you fill it with DKs, I doubt anyone would want to play that many DKs >_>
I was kidding. Two DKs are enough for me.
I'm an engineer IRL (http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3038/img00008ph8.jpg) btw, it looks weird on purpose, no jokes plz
...whoa.
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Surpassed 1000 gold on my DK. Looks like that character has semi-officially become my bank.
I also finally found upgrades for some of my starting DK armor. I wound up rejecting a lot of the armor that I've found in Outland up to this point because most of it either cripples my important stats to the point where it's a downgrade or doesn't offer the same additional stats (additional crit chance, etc). Long story short, I now have both a fairly healthy stat boost and a good bump up in armor. Also, I think I brought my crit chance up by like 2.5%. Definitely can't complain.
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bump this shit
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I just got "the Love Fool" title. I also got the "Elder" title back in January.
Woo?
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I've got an awesome new friend. I'm now farming 1500g a month, for time cards hes buying for me. Free WoW rocks! :)
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I made friends with a gold farmer once. I used to make him stuff (I'm a BS.) I wonder how he's doing (I transferred servers :( )
btw do you have a new char or something, I checked your armory and it says you haven't played since January
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(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/shanoe-70.jpg)
Yay!
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I sold my old character to my friend because I needed money at the time, and he gave me his old one in return, plus the money. The characters name is Jarda, Gorefiend server.
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<rant>
I don't know about you guys, but I'm really starting to hate the achievement system. All it is is a super fucking time sink, and a way for Blizzard to lazily add more "content." As a raider, it only leads me to burnout and makes me very bitter about raiding and the game in general. In the past, when a new raid zone was released, you would go there and learn all the bosses, which would take a bit of time for most raid guilds since they were actually somewhat challenging naturally. And then you would farm the instance and have some days off so you can enjoy a break from the game and raiding for most of the week, because you were only taking one or two days to clear everything. Then a new instance would come out and you'd do it all over again. Those were good days.
Now we have WotLK, where they tried to make raiding more accessible for the casuals. First of all, the only real new raid content we got is two single boss encounters (three if you cound Archavon). And then we got Naxx, a completely dumbed down to retardation version of its original glory. I swear, raiding the original Naxx in a 40 man level 70 raid group was more challenging than the mind-numbing garbage it is today. But it's okay, because Ulduar is already in the works, to be released nearly half a freaking year later! Plenty of time to farm Naxx, right? But instead of just farming it, since they made normal (10 man) and heroic (25 man), we get to farm it TWICE a week. As if raiding it at 60 and 70 wasn't enough already. But wait, there's more... instead of just farming it and getting it over with, we have these fucking achievements now. So you don't just go in and kill shit and have the week off. You have to bang your fucking head against the wall for these stupid fucking achievements all the time.
Lately, I found myself logging on only on Tuesday and Wednesday to clear shit, and I'd log off right after raids ended to avoid being asked to do a 10 man raid. This only lasted about two weeks until I logged onto my guild forum and found a post from the GM about raid performance and attendance. One line read, "Tanks. You are needed for 10 man content as well as 25 man. Maybe you have everything you need, but if you cannot make yourselves available to help others - what's the point in keeping you here?" So now my position in this guild is in jeopardy because I don't want to do 10 man (read: casual) raids in my 25 man progression raid guild. I honestly almost don't care at all. On one hand, I want to stick around and see the upcoming raid zones, but on the other, I know that it's going to be full of even more achievement-ridden garbage that will have me clearing everything twice a week pounding out achievements that I don't care about. I'm seriously considering cancelling my subscription at this point, or maybe just going casual or something.
</rant>
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^this
I miss BC.
And Naxx really is piss easy, I swear Kara was harder than this
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double post because I want to
HOLY SHIT I MISS OWNING BGs BACK PRE-WRATH
I want 2.4 back goddamn it
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double post because I want to
HOLY SHIT I MISS OWNING BGs BACK PRE-WRATH
I want 2.4 back goddamn it
I miss owning the crossroads pre-BGs. I actually went there tonight out of boredom and stirred up some action. It was a great time, I killed a bunch of NPCs to get people to show up. Most at first were 70 or in the mid 70s, but there was an 80 hunter early on, and an 80 DK. Later they were gone, but an 80 elemental shaman showed up, and some 70 hunters, and a 70 holy paladin. I would sit up in the tower and wait for them to come to me, then pop berserk with them all in the little room up there and just mow them all down haha. If I fought them outside where they could all spread out, they could kill me. They got me a few times by death gripping me from the tower down to them. In the end, it was me against an 80 warrior, 80 DK, the 80 shaman, 76 DK and some other lower levels (70 paladin, 60 mage, etc). That was a little bit too much for me. Just a little ;).
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This seems to happen with every good MMO, it just takes time.. Seeing all the people that have played it since day one/earlier than most, looking at the new expansions and updates as nerfing and dumbing-down of the game. Example most strongly as Star wars galaxies.. now look at it, no one plays it haha. I doubt that will happen to WoW seeing as how many people actually pay to play this huge ass game. Plus, blizzard should know what it's doing by now, and hopefully won't piss off it's long-time most-loyal customers.
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I miss owning the crossroads pre-BGs. I actually went there tonight out of boredom and stirred up some action. It was a great time, I killed a bunch of NPCs to get people to show up. Most at first were 70 or in the mid 70s, but there was an 80 hunter early on, and an 80 DK. Later they were gone, but an 80 elemental shaman showed up, and some 70 hunters, and a 70 holy paladin. I would sit up in the tower and wait for them to come to me, then pop berserk with them all in the little room up there and just mow them all down haha. If I fought them outside where they could all spread out, they could kill me. They got me a few times by death gripping me from the tower down to them. In the end, it was me against an 80 warrior, 80 DK, the 80 shaman, 76 DK and some other lower levels (70 paladin, 60 mage, etc). That was a little bit too much for me. Just a little ;).
I wasn't around pre-BGs (I started during patch 2.0) so my preferences are limited to Jan 07 on.
I even put on my old S2 gear in SW because of nostalgia.
WTS my account, has epix
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There's always other games, Skor.
:D
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There's always other games, Skor.
:D
HOLY SHIT WHAT GAME COULD YOU MEAN
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HOLY SHIT WHAT GAME COULD YOU MEAN
EVERQUEST, CLEARLY
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm really starting to hate the achievement system. All it is is a super fucking time sink, and a way for Blizzard to lazily add more "content." As a raider, it only leads me to burnout and makes me very bitter about raiding and the game in general.
wha. How does the achievement system lead to any sort of burnout? If you don't like it, just ignore it.
Re: Dumbing down the game
Can't say I've experienced that (yet) but...yeah. I was amazed at how much 2.3/2.4 dumbed quests down (i.e. enemies that were previously elite were made non-elite, etc).
The biggest thing that kills me about WotLK are the stability issues and general problems. 3.0.8 basically broke the game for me. For whatever reason it broke the install when I used my downloaded WoW/BC and WotLK DVD, forcing me to download 6.5 fucking gigabytes of content so that I could get a relatively bug-free installation (as in, not crashing all over Northrend). As far as I know, the Barrens still crashes on my computer (and, apparently, it's my computer's fault).
*sigh*
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How do achievements lead to burnout? I thought I explained it in my post. Anyway, before achievements, a raid guild would go into a new instance and bang their heads against the walls to learn the encounters. Once an encounter was learned and consistently killable without trouble, it was on farm status. Once you had the current raid content on farm, you would be in and out really fast, just clearing it without trouble, and have the rest of the week off to relax.
Since the achievement system is put into place, now you go into a new raid and bang your head against the wall learning it. Once you can do a fight well, there's probably at least one or two achievements that involve gimping yourself somehow for that same encounter, so you have to continue banging your head against the wall for that same encounter that you would otherwise just be farming.
Take Malygos for example. There's the fight itself, and then two achievements that require you to gimp or stack the raid group - the 20 man achievement "A Poke in the Eye," and the 6 minute kill "You don't have an eternity." First you learn the fight in a 25 man raid group. Once you do that, you farm it for some time until people are good at it and well geared. Then you probably do the 20 man next, which isn't that hard, but is still kinda tough. Especially if there are people in the raid with sub-par dps or who suck at using the drakes in phase 3. You would probably wipe at least a few times on this unless you're in a really good guild (which sadly isn't the case for my guild anymore... most of the good people left just before WotLK). Once you do that... two or three times so you can get the people who were left out the achievement in subsequent raids, then you get to work on the 6 minute kill, which is a bit tougher. So basically on this one boss, you go through three phases of learning and relearning the encounter. It gets annoying after a while wiping to something that should be on farm status. Now imagine doing all of that on 10 man raids as well as 25 man. And from what I've read about Ulduar, a lot of bosses in there will have Hard Modes. Plus the obligatory 20 man clear of the whole zone. Yay.
Also, sorry to hear about your installation problems (I hope you tried the repair thing before completely reinstalling). I used to have problems in the past with installing the game. I had to reinstall it after nearly every patch long ago (long before tbc). Hell, even my very first installation of the game was screwed up somehow. Though I suppose I'm lucky since I haven't really had to do that at all since TBC. I can't imagine having to reinstall the game, two expansions, and all the freaking patches. That must've really sucked :(.
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See, all that wouldn't be a problem if people could stop being so damned obsessed about 100% complete on everything. Christ, if you don't want to participate in some gimped out ridiculous run on something, you shouldn't have to. If my guild told me they'd drop me if I didn't do more, I'd tell them to stop being so damned obsessed about some stupid fucking raid and quit acting like a bunch of asshats.
Seriously, if something is no longer making the game fun any more, and you have the option to ignore it and do things how you want, why the fuck should someone be able to force you into doing it when it's no longer fun? That is just ridiculous.
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73 UD strat runs later.....I finally got it! w0000000t.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/Mount1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/Mount2.jpg)
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you are a male human
how I chortle
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See, all that wouldn't be a problem if people could stop being so damned obsessed about 100% complete on everything.
Yeah, pretty much this. I generally go after achievements either when they're fairly easy, not too out of the way, cheap, or I'm just bored with playing normally. Some of them (exploration, for example) I started doing for fun with 2.4. Just ignore them if you don't like them. If the people you normally raid are obsessed with achievements and it's annoying you, find someone else to play with. I know that wouldn't necessarily be easy to find a solid group for 25 man and heroics, but if you're not having fun because of a few obsessive personalities then what's the point?
Also, sorry to hear about your installation problems (I hope you tried the repair thing before completely reinstalling). I used to have problems in the past with installing the game. I had to reinstall it after nearly every patch long ago (long before tbc). Hell, even my very first installation of the game was screwed up somehow. Though I suppose I'm lucky since I haven't really had to do that at all since TBC. I can't imagine having to reinstall the game, two expansions, and all the freaking patches. That must've really sucked :(.
Oh yeah, I've tried the repair tool numerous times. I've pretty much came to the conclusion that it doesn't do jack shit. Ever. Even when there was obvious file corruption (to the point that the patches wouldn't install) it didn't pick it up. As far as its other features go, I can do that from Windows Explorer.
Oh, the install was even more fun than that. After installing WoW, then BC, then WotLK, I tried applying the 3.0.2 patch only to find that something got borked. I don't know if I was "lucky" enough to get a screwy WotLK DVD or if that particular installation attempt committed harakiri for whatever reason, but Northrend was completely fucked. Many people on the WoW forums had the same issue -- epic file corruption all throughout Northrend. Joy.
That wasted about an hour. After that, I uninstalled and looked for a digital download for WotLK. Unfortunately, Blizz doesn't seem to offer it separately. The only way to get that would be to download the entire game again. Fully patched. 6.5GB. Unfortunately, that had to come about right before we ordered the higher speed DSL, so it took six freaking hours. Then I had to get it patched, which took another half hour or so. Argh. At least it works now. Now I just need to find a dual layer DVD to burn what amounts to the only truly working copy of the game onto. </frustration> </annoyance> </RAEG>
Oh, I played around a bit without addons after reinstalling the game just to make sure that everything was a-okay before I copied my WTF and Interface directories over. It's amazing, it's almost painful for me to play like that now. :s
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Haha, yeah, every time I reinstall WoW I have the same thought go through my head: Christ, where is all my extra item info? Where's my handy all-in-one bag that I can actually organize things with? You mean I have do hunt down and reinstall them? Fuck :/
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Got The Undying last night in 10 man naxx. Now all I need for the Glory of the Hero is the 6 minute Malygos kill... which I've actually done. At the start of phase 3, two people died (including myself), so I thought there would be no way we'd make the timer with two dead and released. I sat outside the instance portal as a wisp while the rest of the group completed it, and I wasn't given credit lol. I'll do it again this week. 310% speed proto drake :D. I wish I could just upgrade my Flight Form speed.
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So I reopened my account
fucking World of Crack
edit: just checked the armory, because I forgot what I had.
lv 23 Troll Warrior 'Kirathor' on Runetotem/vengeance.
friends plox?
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Runetotem, eh? I'll create a toon on that realm and shit.
Just FYI: I'd probably have to avoid the Barrens (sadly) because Blizz can't seem to get their client side shit together and I really don't want to have to play on my laptop everyday.
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I made a new toon on Anub Arak or whatever since that's where my friend plays, and she has a couple 70s and a few deathknights and a fancy guild and shit. I'm an undead Rouge right now, starting brill quests now.
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What's your name on that realm?
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*looks up* Radunas
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/thumbs up
Awesome possum.
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Personal best: dinged 10 in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 11 seconds as a Blood Elf Warlock on Sneaky's server.
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Personal best: dinged 10 in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 11 seconds as a Blood Elf Warlock on Sneaky's server.
:<
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lol u sed undead ROUGE
btw I quit again, deleted a char with near complete epix, 3k gold, and more
/shrug
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Personal best: dinged 10 in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 11 seconds as a Blood Elf Warlock on Sneaky's server.
:<
sry :'(
But hey, I managed to wind up pretty close to your level in the process (though I'm 13 now, heh...yay for having a day dedicated to laziness).
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new main
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&n=Onegd
old main
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Vladgd
alt i wish to hit 80
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&n=Vladgd
thinking about going back in to level ye ole paladin, it's getting close to outland content, and that stuff is frankly pretty good.
pretty teeter totter at the moment, yet inevidible, not like i don't spend more than $15 a week in food, so the only "flaw" here is me reinstalling the game on this pc after the client was wiped from me reinstalling vista due to a bit of a virus scare. so yeah, basically the shitty grind from 51-57/8 is keeping me from going at it. not to mention im playing street fighter/tf2 at the moment, and those are both games you can invest a lot of time into and can't complete....not to mention im THINKING about attempting to get compitent at playing wc3 again...but it probably won't happen. ive lost all that ive learned in that game.
tldr, leaving these links here just cause.
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http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Anub%27arak&n=Radunas
Almost 43, just didn't have it in me last night to grind 3 bars, since I'd just finished running both Uldaman and Zul'Farrak with a nice group o' guys. Got the nice new daggar from the dragon boss in ZF, the boots from Uld, the sword from ZF, Legs from Uld... and a nice new helm and other stuff I can't wear just yet, but a few levels off.
Damn it feels good to get some drops for me. There was a gap in instances in which I got jack poop shit. *cough* Scarlet monastery *cough* but ZF, Uld, and Maruadon are fucking amazing.
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My rogue brother! Soon you will look like this and better!
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorefiend&n=Jarda
^Me btw.
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doing this because i thought it was funny.
level 50 plate
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2118/wowscrnshot061009214656.jpg
level 80 plate
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2285/wowscrnshot061009214610.jpg
linked as to not be an ass again and link full size 1680x1050 resolution images.
*edit*
got the paladin from 51-53, god bless rest xp + un goro crater quests
*edit*
fuck it,i like posting huge images. and smf restricts it's width to the post anyway so i ain't hurting nobody.
haven't been overdoing it, "fairly" casual play, still playing other shit (sf4, sf2, tf2), still have my job...maby i just forgot there were quests in felwood, and winterspring, but so far...the leveling has been going quite fast. also, FOR FUCK SAKE RET RAPES GODDAMN, AND EXORCISM ACTUALLY BEING USEFUL IS FUCKING AWESOME AOFMREGRGDHJHT
i feel like a deathknight. anywho, hot near naked draenei for you.
(http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1005/wowscrnshot061309011158.jpg)
i just hope the quests last me....but wait...i can technically go to outland at 57, since ret is fucking godly, i could possibly do fine there right away. if i didn't work early tomorrow id work on hitting 57 before sleeping today, ohh well.
also, addons i use. i prefer to keep it simple.
xpearl- at my resolution, the tiny character portrait/health bars just can't do(yes i know you can altar the size of the default ui), not to mention xpearl bars look really nice and are easy to customize. only problem is setting up everything comfortable for use, at first it's a bit hard/awkward to get everything just the way you like it, but when you do, on other characters, you can import the settings and have those precise settings on any character as easy as two clicks.
quest helper- dude, this minimizes my trips to "wowhead, wowiki, allakhazam, thottbot, whatever WoW quest giver thing you use" drastically.
titan panel- after using it for a while, it's too hard to live without. i like having coords, i like seeing my xp/hour, i like seeing my latency, fps, coords, all at a glance.
pretty much all i really need.
anyway, call me crazy, but i get in spurts of "i generally enjoy leveling this character"
67-80 on my warrior, i didn't hate a second of it, i thoroughly enjoyed the time i had experiencing what changes they applied to the warrior, and just the overall amp in quality in how quests are designed. i mean, borean tundra, quest chain, last quest you fucking ring a bell in the town hall and call the militia, just like the humans can do in warcraft 3. that's just goddamn awesome. ohh, and i did it as prot, yeah, prot warrior soloing, and it was fun.
one last note before i double post whenever i have more shit to talk about. having 26k hp unbuffed, yeah, i like it. im not even raid geared, just heroics, crafted gear, and high level blues.
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(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5493/wowscrnshot061409020606.jpg)
took about 5 hours to get from 56-58, first time i really felt that they really did fucking speed up the leveling process (don't mind i have the artifact shoulders that give you 10% more exp gain from mob kills/quests)
anywho, outland, yay...now to get through hellfire peninsula and to my favorite zone, zangarmarsh.
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oh hello
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Windrunner&n=Sugarmuffin
I decided I'm getting a name change to...Cuddlybunny :/ Should be tomorrow or the day after
I might also be changing servers again too (to Laughing Skull this time, aka Leeroy's server) but I'm undecided.
And I must agree with the awesomeness of Ret; and NewF, two words for rogues: Ret Aura :P
Ending with the obligatory screenshot:
(http://bayimg.com/image/eabklaacb.jpg)
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god fucking damn, im on fucking fire.
2 hours and 23 minutes from 63-64. several minutes more than than from the prior level. i was like 52 a week ago, and now im 64, the fuck, leveling is fast, easy, and more fun than i remember.
plus ret pallies just steamroll through everything, and im having a good time doing it.
anywho, 6d 21h on this character.
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3959/wowscrnshot061609041259.jpg)
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Christ that is fast. I've never understood how people could level that damned fast.
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well i zoomed 1-40 way back when in 2007. 40-50 was kind of (EXPLOIT REST XP) as was 50-53ish. then basically, find quests, do them, find more, do them. have podcasts to listen to, and keep going.
it helps they made it easier to level in azeroth and outland, as well as the exp shoulders i am wearing, my prior knowledge of the content, AND quest helper.
to be honest, i never understood how people level so fast either. i say that being the first person in my guild to hit 70 in tbc, and the first person to hit rank 40 in my guild in WAR, even though i rolled an ironbreaker to 10, deleted it and restarted as a rune priest while everyone else was rank 15-18. i guess i just love to bitch.
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lol, yeah, those shoulders certainly do help. And quest helper kicks ass. I just find that I never complete entire quest chains because I get sick of running back and forth across the same place 25 million times :/ maybe I just need more patience.... And maybe part of it is that I need more people that I can talk to that don't seem like a bunch of fucking 12 year olds or 45 year old moms :/
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omg crusader aura what a noob
:O
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omg crusader aura what a noob
:O
pre tbc i soloed my shaman to 60 resto spec with a 2h weapon, with int gear.
AND i leveled 1-10 with the skinning knife.
top that.
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I uh
leveled prot in spacious, impossible to aoe grind outland
but yeah, /bow to you
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double post for this
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Anub%27arak&n=Radunas
holy shit, leveling assa? impressive, I would have gone crazy from having to just spam backstab/ambush
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When I was leveling my rogue, I was assassination as well, its awesome. With the burst damage of ambush, and decent damage from backstab, mobs go down in no time.
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Yeah, I remember playing as a bit of a hybrid assination build, and the burst damage kicked ass. I never used poisons, but the rest of the build was pure assasination. (This was on a private server).
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...im seriously impressed with myself right now. 4 days since i hit outland...screenshot speaks for itself.
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/8274/wowscrnshot061809042915.jpg)
and i decided to spend the money on a purple elephant mount, since honestly, i hate horses. i really hate horses, in vidya, irl, doesn't matter, i don't like them. don't care if it's in cool looking armor and glows in "holyness" because it's the paladin epic...i hate horses.
and honestly, i think the epic elekk mounts are the best ground mounts in the game. (flying mount would go to the netherdrake protodrake imo)
but yeah, blowing through outland in 4 days without ANY trouble...[borat]NICE![/borat]
i don't think ill be intimidated to level another alt again, may work on the deathknight casually since well i have the plate exp shoulders that need somewhere to go after the paladin is 80, since the warrior is 80...and my deathknight is on the same server, it's logical that's where they will go. but with the pally, i plan on going prot and tanking heroics, so ill get marks to get some cloth shoulders, and alt level with those.
TILL THEN, sweet northrend, i love you. and the blue polearm i got in nagrand uses the blackhand doomsaw graphic, sweet nostalgia.
*related but unrelated note*
i noticed when im playing a game, and im posting about it, i tend to use said thread as kind of a "progress blog" of sorts, even double posting at times when one post has gotten long enough. ahh well, i enjoy typing up my progress to internet peoples to read up on for mild to low interest.
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mmochamp has the new planned paladin changes up
good thing I'm leveling a shaman, WTS pally
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hmm, it doesn't look bad.
>Exorcism: Now has a 1.5 second cast time,
GAY
>but can once again be used on players.
nice, but still, how am i to use it in soloing?
>Art of War: Now only applies to melee critical hits, but will make your next Flash of Light or Exorcism instant.
ohh, that's how, im fine with that.
>Seal of Command: Redesigned. This seal now deals 36% weapon damage on every swing, and deals substantially less judgement damage.
so they changed it to rockbiter weapon, and because of that basically made repentance and hammer of justice suck (SoC's judge is autocrit on a stunned target)? GAY
>Seal of Vengeance and Seal of Corruption: These seals have been redesigned to deal substantially more damage. Now, once a paladin has 5 copies of the debuff from these seals on his or her target, on each swing the paladin will deal 33% weapon damage as Holy, with critical strikes dealing double damage.
INTERESTING MY GOOD SIR, INTERESTING. hopefully i won't need to spend that tallent point in SoC anymore.
> Seal of Blood: This ability has been removed.
> Seal of the Martyr: This ability has been removed.
good riddance, "I DO DAMAGE TO YOU SO I DO DAMAGE TO MYSELF" is a shit mechanic.
>Righteous Fury: No longer has a duration or mana cost, remaining until cancelled or death. Also cancelled when a Paladin activates a different talent specialization.
good, now paladins have a "toggle defense mode" like the warriors and dk's do.
looking at shamans, resto got buffed pretty ok, and some other minor cool changes, 7% more base health is always welcome.
and warriors got one buff...a pretty good one imo.
>Armored to the Teeth: This talent now provides 1/2/3 attack power per 108 armor, up from per 180 armor.
basically it's an approx gain of 255 attack power for my character of nearly 23k armor. (prot bitch)
but those are just specific class changes, overall the patch has some pretty huge changes to it, and frankly, they are welcome.
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Then again, maybe the patch won't be so bad.
# The local Postal Service has grown tired of walking so far each day to collect mail and have decided to install a large number of new mailboxes to Stormwind, Undercity, Darnassus and Orgrimmar.
still rerolling though
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roll horde shaman
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too late, I'm ally :/
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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17631614834&pageNo=2&sid=1#36
FAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAP THIS IS BETTER THAN PORN FAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAP
(for those of you who don't wish to click the link)
chestpiece heirloom items, next content patch 10% exp bonus like the shoulders....that STACKS with the shoulders. 20% exp bonus anyone? definitely going to be farming marks of heroism to get cloth versions of both (since like everybody can use those...and ill have a priest/lock on the same server, as well as a druid that could use those)
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Watch it be typical blizz and have it be a 10% of 10% (ie 1%) bonus
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as lame as that would be, i kind of highly doubt it.
going "they won't do that" is kind of an obsolete term now, since well, people have said that on some topics, and well, look at what things turned out.
"they won't ever allow pve to pvp server transfers"
"they won't make a new class"
"they won't give alliance shamans or horde paladins"
"they won't allow players to level up with pvp"
"they won't give druids an out of combat rez"
"they won't
-make paladins viable tanks
-make druids viable tanks
-make druids viable dps
-make shamans/paladins viable dps
you get my point"
so it's kind of exciting seeing any theory of what they will come out with, because it could happen. but stuff like i linked, having a blue poster going "yo, next patch, this comes out" with something that awesome is always nice to read.
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chestpiece heirloom items
My mind combined that down into some sort of chest hair item for a minute.
I think that'd be cooler, TBH. (OR SHOULD I SAY TBC LOLOLOLWOWJOKE)
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lol, get back to your ff11 :<
Also, I need income so I can get back on my OLD ASS ACCOUNT :/
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Fine, I'll go back to wiping in Dynamis - Jeuno like we did last night. Or doing Proto-Ultima so we can get gear I don't give a shit about for people who are going to leave Limbus after we get it, instead of getting shit for the people who ARE going to stick around. Or trying to drag people to Sky to kill gods for gear we need when nobody wants to go, but bitches when nobody goes.
:D
EDIT:
(http://i39.tinypic.com/fb9pjd.jpg)
HOW COOL DO I LOOK
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I hope they don't fuck up the mounts too bad... moving apprentice mounts to lvl 20 and journeyman to 40.. since Im almost 50... hm.
Things I like:
>a new 100% speed ground mount has been added for the undead.
> Increased healing from Lifeblood (Rank 6).
> Lifeblood now scales slightly with maximum health. No longer affected by global cooldown.
>Toughness (Rank 6) provides more stamina.
>All stackable potions now stack to 20.
> Holding the shift key while hovering over an item will now display the stat differences with the item currently equipped in the relevant slot.
Things I disapprove of:
>After much quiet contemplation, rogues now possess the ability to learn how to use one-handed axes.
>if the mounts alteration is a negative thing for me
Overall looks pretty good, can't wait.
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Wait, so with the new patch, you'll be able to get a mount at level 20? Holy crap.
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yeah, and it's 6g.
60g and level 40 for the epic.
basically it's fucking awesome.
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I decided I'm not going to reroll because I'm lazy and I have too much shit done on my pally :'(
I really wish I had some prot gear though, damn
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blacksmithing
tempered saronite gear
you can craft (or get crafted) a super kickass tank shield (onegd on the armory, my character, uses it)
tank weapon can be easily obtained from marks in the argent tournament, it's a 1h axe, or run heroic UP, red sword of courage is really nice.
paladins use block a bit more than warriors so the block trinket from heroic whatevertheinstanceindalaran is called is good.
uhh and the 40 marks of heroism dodge trinket is also really nice.
basically look at this link, and use wowhead to see where most of my stuff is from
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&n=Onegd
yeah im a warrior but as far as i know, paladins basically use the same damn gear for the most part.
*edit*
CANT FORGET THIS
+24 stamina gems are cheap, buy lots of them.
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oh, I know where to get the gear...I just feel ashamed that I have to go back to crafted blues when I'm in full epics.
also, apparently I don't have enough experience for raiding guilds so I guess I'm just going to do what I did back in BC: do a fuckton of BGs
brb
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if you want gear, yet don't want the time investment of raiding(i abandoned raiding when tbc came out, too much of a timesink).
you can get raid quality gear from the new tokens you get from the daily heroic/dungeon (two and one token respectively) in the upcoming patch. which im psyched for, i like myself some welfare epics.
also looks like they are adding a tallent to the dk frost tree to improve dual wield damage. i wouldn't mind trying out some dual wield death knight, JUST TO BE DIFFERENT!
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I figured you guys (meaning vlad) would like this:
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4026/wowscrnshot062109232549.png)
He also had +22 agi to cloak and a +def enchant on his helm (along with a +16 agi gem)
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thems good people bro, reminds me of back in the day (when crusader enchant costed A LOT OF MONEY) seeing people enchant crusader on worn daggers and whatnot.
anywho, this made me cum, twice.
"Flying in Azeroth
Flying in Azeroth would be pretty awesome. There are almost limitless amounts of features we'd like to add to the game, and flying in the old world is certainly one of them. It all comes down to prioritizing as best as possible to keep the game appealing to as broad a population as possible. We try to keep all sub-communities and play styles in mind whenever working on content, and we're always looking at the big picture. Features being added in the next patch are features that were planned and in production months ago, just as features coming further down the road are in development right now. (Source)
[...] The old world was not designed to support flying (this is a technical issue currently, not an unwillingness to allow this on our part) and by having the level requirement for flying, it allows us to set a pace at which we feel content should be accessed. As you can see by the recent mount changes, this could be readdressed at a future point in time. (Source)"
http://www.mmo-champion.com/
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Holy christ. I know a bit about the inner workings of WoW, thanks to having played around with a private server, but I've never known why you couldn't fly in Azeroth.
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well i mean it should be pretty obvious from the start, they even stated when tbc came out that "azeroth was not designed for flying mounts"
there are even zones that aren't even made yet, gilneas south of silverpine is a good example.
though "when" this change occurs, and (assuming here, it should be inevitable) when the maelstorm is ready for exploring, it would be nice to have like the ability to fly literally all over the planet, sure the continents would be seperated by load times, but it would be pretty neat to fly from say ironforge to darnassus.
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Yeah, you'd be able to fly much more directly than the damned flight paths. And I realize that there are a number of uncreated/unused zones and such. There are also big blank areas between many of the provinces. But I meant the inner workings. I'm sure there's something preventing flying from even working in Azeroth, but I don't know whether it's a simple flag, or if there's something much deeper in the maps/server info that prevents flying there.
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Heh, I got a 72 hour suspension for exploiting Flame Leviathan.
What's up with that image above? A mage staff with berserking?? Must be a joke.
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Heh, I got a 72 hour suspension for exploiting Flame Leviathan.
What's up with that image above? A mage staff with berserking?? Must be a joke.
lol, people on MMOchamp keep talking about their bans
and that was from the tourny realm; I dueled him and he had 0 talent points and everything
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Heh, I got a 72 hour suspension for exploiting Flame Leviathan.
that's a load of shit, if you got a suspension for exploiting a boss, i should have gotten AT LEAST a suspension from various shenanigans that ive done along my troll shamans career
-bugging the ZG raptor boss
-rooftop camping in tanaris
-KILLING THRALL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhiTOMXlL-A&feature=channel_page) gm's weren't happy about this one, but nobody that participated even got a suspension
-OOC rezzing in molten core (basically i stay out of combat, and when people in the raid die...i rez them, they ended up making it impossible to do since the entire raid goes into combat, but i recall taking ooc rez roll many a time)
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The OOC ressing thing was never an exploit or anything. In fact, if I recall correctly, I think they even mentioned it as a role of the healer classes on the website long ago. It's just something they changed their mind about.
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Rerolling warrior
charge is awesome
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charge is awesome
That it is.
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charge is weaksauce
charge tallented with warbringer and imp charge however, passable.
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says the guy with the 80 warrior
I've had a paladin for the past 2 years; charge is the best thing ever created, in my eyes
it also has the greatest animation ever, I used to love doing it all the time on my lowbie wars
it's always been my dream to jump off the cliff in AB, just to charge/intercept back on
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Haha, yeah, after playing a pally, charge is god.
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FIRST
"We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we
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I can see the functionality.. I personally don't think I'll use it AND it will cost either real money or a lot of gold, seeing as simple character transfers realm to realm cost money. At least they're doing something productive, right?
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LOLBUMP
If you have PayPal/aren't broke as shit, I have 2 game cards for sale. $20 for each ($10 less than from a store!) (in USD, of course)
If you want me to send it physically, it'll cost more for postage. If you trust me to scratch off the card and tell you online, even better.
Just contact me somehow (through PM, AIM, whatev) and we'll work it out. I'm planning on quitting after my card runs out next month, and I can't return it to the store for cash for multiple reasons (lost receipt, and I payed in game store credit, not actual cash.)
Would love to have your money your business, PST contact me!
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Lol, my GF is planning on quitting the real servers as well, when her card dies. Plus, her and I are dead broke. If I had the spare money, I'd likely have been willing :/
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Woo, where shall I begin?
Got my death knight up to lv.80. Yay!
600g away from the super-dee-duper flying skill. w00t
Blew 2000g on weapons and armor to make myself somewhat ready for endgame content (complete Savage Saronite Set + Titansteel Destroyer). That combination is serving me quite well right now.
Joined an awesome guild.
Murdered about a dozen Alliance punks. >:D
Realized that Stratholme is a Runecloth goldmine. Ran it several times.
TOOK BACK THE FREAKING UNDERCITY LAST NIGHT. Epic quest.
Participated in a failed city raid, which was totally spoiled due to the fucking evade glitch. You win this time, Ironforge!
Started a bunch more toons; currently have one character of each class on Stormrage.
Claimed my Swift Zhevra. <3 the refer a friend feature.
Explored the entire world on my DK. Running through Darnassus was fuuuuun...especially when I forgot where in the hell I was going half-way through. Luckily, I managed to survive the experience.
Oh, and lastly: tried setting up a private server. Holy fucking bugs, Batman! I'll just stick with Blizz's servers, kthxbai.
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Haha, what private server emulator did you try? and what database? I don't know that much, though I have set a test realm up. and yes, there are lots of bugs.
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I used Ascent Hearthstone with RivalDB. Before that I used a repack that someone put together. The one that I put together myself worked better than the repack, but both were basically unplayable. I was gobsmacked to see major class abilities bugging out. You'd think that after WoW has been out all this time that the private servers and databases would at least give hunters the feed pet ability properly.
That was pretty much what caused me to just delete it and write that particular weekend off. I was going to use it as a staging area to test out builds, item combinations, and things like that, but it's far too unreliable to do anything like that.
The most hilarious thing were the way the Thunder Bluff lifts worked. One of them worked mostly okay but the other one started at the top platform and zoomed up to the sky. It was certainly interesting!
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Yeah, well, by what I've seen, Hearthstone Ascent's lifts are particularly bad. I never used RivalDB, though I kinda forget what I was using. The emulator you chose really effects what bugs there are though.
There are some good private servers out there. But running a private server is a lot of work. There always seems to be something broken. Mind you, some of them are pretty good at fixing things.
And I bet part of the problem with the emulators is that because WoW is constantly changing, the emulators themselves need to constantly change, to deal with all of the changes between each release on the official servers. Stuff like the Phasing system, changes in how data is transmitted to the server (which pretty much never gets mentioned in changelogs) and other back end changes can introduce tons of bugs into talents, and such. Though there are some things that there is no excuse for. For example: Most outland uncommons are supposed to have 2 or 3 random enchantments. However, on most, if not all private servers, one of those is always missing, so they still only have 1 or 2 enchants.
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I heard there's some WoW movie in production with Sam Raimi as director
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Yeah, well, by what I've seen, Hearthstone Ascent's lifts are particularly bad. I never used RivalDB, though I kinda forget what I was using. The emulator you chose really effects what bugs there are though.
Yeah...
It seemed to me like Arc-Emu was the most mature of the bunch, but I wasn't willing to downgrade to 3.0.9 to use it.
And I bet part of the problem with the emulators is that because WoW is constantly changing, the emulators themselves need to constantly change, to deal with all of the changes between each release on the official servers.
Oh yeah, no doubt. I think that's the number one thing that's making Blizzard's model a success -- there's always something new to do in WoW. Literally, always. If you aren't in the midst of a world event you're probably going to be exploring new patch features.
Like you said, though, there are a lot of things that there simply aren't good excuses for. Honestly, I think that missing core class abilities that have been in the game for years upon years is far worse of an offense than leaving off an enchant or two in drops. When the bare essentials of the game aren't playable without cheats, there's a problem.
I think most of the problem is the strife in the private server development community. Rather than bonding together and making one kickass project you get what happened with IRC servers and service bots -- there are a bunch of them and they're all incompatible with one another. Even though most of them are based on Ascent they each have their own quirks and various differences that even limit database compatibility. It's nothing but a disjointed mess.
I heard there's some WoW movie in production with Sam Raimi as director
Yeah, I heard about that, too. Given that it's a video game based movie my level of skepticism is high, but we'll see. I'd definitely love to get a glimpse on some more Warcraft-related lore.
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Sam Raimi
Oh god, no! He should stick to stuff like Army of Darkness :/ Seriously. I guess he can't be as bad as Uwe Boll, but seriously. Lmao, I just read that Uwe made a bit at the WoW movie, but was turned away by Blizzard, lmao.
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Epic flyer GET. Finally.
Managed to make about 1000g today. I was pleased.
And, finally, snagged the Icecrown questing achievement.
I also maxed out my skinning and now have four weapon skills up to 400. My mining is now up to ~410...only 40 points to go.
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Nice. Makes me want to play WoW on the real servers :/ However, I've found a new server, which has around 3k to 4k players online at once. The rates are a bit high for my liking, but I'm a lot more willing to play on it because it's a custom server built by an in house development team, the GMs are quite active (and there are a number of them) and it seems quite stable. Plus, they just upgraded their server bandwidth, storage etc. to accommodate more players. I'm quite impressed with them.
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Tonight, my 10 man raid did hard mode Iron Council using only one tank (myself) :).
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The Dragonmaw Race "quests" are the worst things in the game. Seriously, they're complete bullshit.
That said, ~12000 rep points away from exhaulted with Netherwing. I should have my drake pretty damn soon! ;D
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skyshatter took me about two hours of constant attempts to beat...but i did it, and i got my trinket which is the same as the riding crop (that i bought to do said quests) only basically proof that you beat him.
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The only reason I would possibly have to waste my time going through that shitty chain is for rep. I'm over level 70, so riding crops aren't going to do me any good.
If the reward was actually relevant to WotLK (aside from the achievement, which I don't really give two shits about now) I might consider it, but a one-time rep gain (+1500 for the two quests that I haven't done in the chain -- very simple to make that up through egg hunting) for the most frustrating quest I've ever seen just isn't worth it to me.
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the rep isn't even worth the pain, i just did it because i wanted to, and this was tbc, so i actually used said trinket.
also, it isn't as bad as the damn vehicle quest in sholazar basin (the mountains where you control some rock guy in the middle of shittons of zombies), worst quest in the game imo, even worse than the zul'drak mission where you control the giant.
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also, it isn't as bad as the damn vehicle quest in sholazar basin (the mountains where you control some rock guy in the middle of shittons of zombies), worst quest in the game imo, even worse than the zul'drak mission where you control the giant.
lolwut, I beat that on the first try. Does it bug out or something?
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Some of my guildies and I got the Jenkins title/achievement tonight.
It was great. There were two death knights in our raid and both of us hit howling blast on a group of 50+ whelps at the same time. One of the raid members actually got disconnected due to the resulting lag and game slowdown. XD It was enough to make my computer to only manage to draw one frame of the actual attack -- the one with all of the damage numbers on it (and that filled the entire screen). Good times, good times.
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Haha, awesome. You don't happen to have a screenshot, do you?
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My computer was lagging. There's no way I could have gotten a screenshot.
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Lol, I figured that was the answer. That would have been one epic screenshot if you could have gotten one though.
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It's patch day! Yay, new feral druid form models! And a new raid!
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And my current private server is still 3.0.9 :/ though they are working on bringing out 3.1.3...
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I love and hate patch days. Love the new content... but I HATE the "oh yea it'll be ready by about noon." then at 12:01, oh yea it'll be ready around 3:00. Let's see what they have to say around 3..
Its just just blizzard, it translates to real life too :o People not doing what they say they are going to :p I'm not complaining though, its just a minor annoyance.
CHEAP MOUNTS FTW
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Death knights seem to be getting pushed more toward being a good DPS class. I'm not sure how I feel about frost spec's tanking being nerfed. On the bright side, it looks like my damage output is going to increase, but on the other hand I'm going to be a bit less effective as a tank.
Maybe I'll just respec blood after I finally manage to get the damn patch installed. Most of my gear is aimed toward DPS anyway.
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DKs were always a good DPS class, it's just that you were specced wrong (Frost has been terrible for a while)
EDIT: in case I sound like an asshole, I don't think it's right, but it's true
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i couldn't really get into the deathknight, they work way too weird for my taste.
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DKs were always a good DPS class, it's just that you were specced wrong (Frost has been terrible for a while)
I know a good number of people that would disagree with you. You get quite a few nice goodies toward the end of the tree. Most of frost's best strengths come from its AoE abilities, it seems. Frost Fever + Blood Plague + Pestilence + Howling Blast = a ton of 4000s flying through the air if you pull enough mobs.
That said, I'm so used to playing frost that I'm sucking with blood. This is going to take some time to get used to...
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well, that and in PvP.
8k frost strikes ftl
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I don't PvP too much, I primarily do PvE. I would always gather groups of enemies, pull them, infect all of them, and hit howling blast. It's also quite useful for dungeons, in part due to the increased threat that frost presence generates. Catching a group of enemies in death and decay, then increasing threat with a howling blast was always a pretty sure-fire way of keeping them focused on me (unless some other DK grabbed them with death grip for some stupid reason, then started running around in a panic because ZOMG ELITE ATTACKING ME).
I'm guessing that when all is said and done I'm most likely going to wind up speccing frost and undead -- frost for tanking, undead for DPS. Blood is great at keeping me healed (like, 100% health at almost all times...crikey), but I don't find it as fun to play as frost.
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(http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/1025/snaxxramasbykiru100.jpg)
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^ Awesome. :D
Also, forgot to mention this. Got my motherfucking netherwing drake.
I plan to collect them all down the road (GOTTA BUY THEM ALL! NETHERDRAKE!).
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this fucking game
http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=92919.0
i will probably never quit it
all of what is there is fucking awesome, goddamnit blizzard
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My guild was buzzing about this tonight.
Some of the class/race combinations made me go O.o but some of it does make sense from a lore standpoint. They were datamined, so there is a possibility that it could be inaccurate.
As for the rest of it, wow. I hope most of that's true. The game would be instantly bumped up to HOLY SHIT EPIC if they really intend to change it that much.
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and we will see how much of it is true come blizzcon, which is like a week away.
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Holy fuck. If they implement half of what I'm reading there, that is going to be an absolute must have.
It's also going to be the biggest headache on earth for anyone working on making private servers compatible, lmao.
After reading some posts on that site, wow... Some people are pretty stupid. This is entirely plausible for Blizzard. They've been saying for years that they wanted to open up Gilneas (well, in fewer words) and have hinted at opening Hyjal for a long time. Time and time again they've thwarted people's probing into some of the closed areas, and have said they definitely want to open these places up again, so I'm not surprised that they would want to release an expansion opening new areas.
I can definitely see the use of dailies and generally revamping the lower level areas to work more like the expansion areas. I think it's a damn good idea, and almost see it as being necessary. Plus, this gives them a chance to revamp the main maps of the continents, and maybe they'll allow flight across Azeroth, instead of just in Outland and Northrend (they've said before that they would like to do that).
All in all, this looks pretty amazing.
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and we will see how much of it is true come blizzcon, which is like a week away.
QFT.. there could be some false things around in there, but it also does sound like stuff blizz WOULD do at some point. We shall see what blizz does durin the con.
Also <3 flying in old world PLOX KTHX
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Well, their designers and such have talked about wanting to add flying in azeroth for a while, but it takes a lot of work to get the maps ready, since they need to revamp numerous areas that weren't meant to be seen, as well as all the technical issues preventing it from working in the first place. Revamping the entire azeroth map would give them an excuse to work flying into it.
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I got in a good [For The Horde!] (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=619) group last night and we slaughtered King Wrynn. It wasn't even a fight.
Then we had some punkass cheating kid dual box and proceeded to get slaughtered in both Ironforge and the Exodar. Lame.
The Alliance bastards then attempted to attack Orgrimmar and got absolutely creamed. After that, a skeleton group killed the Exodar boss with a fucking hunter tank.
Yeah, the Alliance on my realm are pretty pathetic despite outnumbering us 3:1. The only thing they can raid is the Crossroads.
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The leaked expansion notes do look awesome indeed. I can't wait to hear something official from Blizzcon. The funny thing is, it was exactly the same when Wrath notes were leaked - so many people said they were fake, bullshit, etc, but everything turned out to be true. Now people are saying the same stuff about this leak.
By the way, if anyone needs to learn a new spec or new class, go to www.elitistjerks.com (forums, class mechanics, class subforum). You can always find good information there. That's where I learned to play my DK. I rock the damage meters as blood spec. All you have to do is learn the rotation :). I nearly always outdps even better-geared DKs than myself when I'm grouped with them.
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Nice. I'll have to check that place out. I've always wondered what the optimal rotations for some of my characters were, but never felt like seriously investigating that sort of thing myself.
And yeah, it's kinda funny to see people calling bullshit on all that stuff when many different employees have independently hinted at a good portion of the major points, such as opening Hyjal and Gilneas, flying on Azeroth (and the fact that enabling flying on Azeroth is a very large issue, since the original maps would have had to be practically remade.)
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even going back to this thread reading stuff i already posted/read
i still have a slobbering boner over this, I WANT IT
so if/when this is announced, and if/when this thing comes out, i can transfer my paladin(shaman if it was horde)to whatever server and we can try and do some kind of SPEKTUR OFFICIAL WOW SURVR or whatever. id prever a pve server(not to sound like a pussy, but after having played for years on a pvp server as both factions, i kind of enjoy being able to do shit without being ganked), but this thing won't be for a while (assuming, durp) so yeah, JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE. the money for a transfer is well worth the expense if it means playing with other bros. i mean, when i got into lich king, i was playing on vent with some irl friends and it was a fucking blast. i mean, having 5 people to run heroics with, or even people just in vent to talk to about the game whilst casually leveling, makes leveling actually fun.
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Yeah, just talking in vent with people while you level makes things much more fun. I'd love to get in on this, but I've got no money, and likely won't for quite some time. (As in, not till next summer, likely.)
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If you guys roll toons on Stormrage, Horde side, I'll happily send ginvites. I'm already in an awesome, friendly guild, with an awesome (if still exceedingly new and unpopulated) web forum hosted by an awesome guy (http://blacktooth.spectere.net/). Stormrage is a PvE realm, so no worries about being hurr ganked.
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TAUREN PALADINS ARE FUCKING REAL! YES. XD
I'm totally rerolling my pally on Stormrage. Why? Well, BIG FUCKING BOVINE vs. PRETTY-BOY BLOOD ELF...need I say more?
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wow, and I was just talking to my friends how my least favorite new combo was tauren paladins
also: quick, reserve the name "negrow" for your worgen everyone
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The tauren pally does kind of make sense when you go to...uh, that one rise in TB and listen to the conversation. I was kind of like O.o when I first heard about that, but, eh, if it's true I definitely want one.
The worgen thing is probably going to make me play on Kargath (which I've deemed my Alliance realm) more often. It's about time the Alliance got another cool race. I might end up waiting and making my death knight on that realm a worgen if they look good enough in the armor.
Speaking of death knights, is it just me or would a goblin death knight seem about as threatening as a gnome death knight? I can't wait to see them springing up in the world.
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watch all of the parts
basically warhammer online is like "these parts about wow suck, lets make them better"
and now WoW is like "you know, them parts about warhammer were pretty good, lets change things up"
attack power- GONE
defense- GONE
spellpower- GONE
hunter mana- FUCKIN GONE!
spell ranks- GOOONNNEEEEEE
mp5- GGGGGGGGGGGGGGgggggggooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
armor penetration- GOOOOOOOOOOOOonnnnnnnneeeFISHINnnnnnnnn
and what are they doing with this? well watch the videos, merging the benefits with other stats, like spellpower with int, and whatnot.
pretty exciting stuff
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It's about time the Alliance got another cool race.
I thought Draenei were cool. Female ones anyway! I'm considering rerolling my druid as a worgen. I've got a bunch of potential names reserved already, such as Meatworgen. Here comes the Meatworgen. Wee-ooo Wee-ooo Wee-ooo!
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watch all of the parts
basically warhammer online is like "these parts about wow suck, lets make them better"
and now WoW is like "you know, them parts about warhammer were pretty good, lets change things up"
attack power- GONE
defense- GONE
spellpower- GONE
hunter mana- FUCKIN GONE!
spell ranks- GOOONNNEEEEEE
mp5- GGGGGGGGGGGGGGgggggggooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
armor penetration- GOOOOOOOOOOOOonnnnnnnneeeFISHINnnnnnnnn
and what are they doing with this? well watch the videos, merging the benefits with other stats, like spellpower with int, and whatnot.
pretty exciting stuff
You dick butt. I was just coming here to talk about WAR. I've been playing the free trial, and I'm definitely subscribing as soon as I get my paycheck next week. Shit's fun.
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I thought Draenei were cool. Female ones anyway!
fact, not opinion
(http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4370/beautifulhoovesbykonpei.png)
undead hunter sounds kind of interesting
Shit's fun....for about 2 months
FIXD FOR ACCURACY
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I love how they go over what Rogues ge-OH WAIT
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I thought Draenei were cool. Female ones anyway!
This man is smart, and is worthy of being listened to.
I used to play Horde-only, until I made my first Draenei.
Too bad more women irl aren't blue with horns and hooves
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I love how they go over what Rogues ge-OH WAIT
they stated something about wanting more rogues to use daggers, and something about assassination talents to motivate this. but other than that, nothing but the agi on gear change, which benefits multiple classes.
Too bad more women irl aren't blue with horns and hooves
genetic engineering mah friend
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I read that worgen are "a furry's dream"
I laughed so hard
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Didn't they also mention something about haste increasing energy regeneration?
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hunter mana- FUCKIN GONE!
EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! :D Now I won't need to switch between aspect of the hawk and aspect of the viper ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
I thought Draenei were cool. Female ones anyway!
Yeah, that was the first cool race they ended up getting. ;)
Edit: vlad, I'm surprised you didn't mention this regarding hunters:
Ammos will become an item, not a consumable.
WOOOOOOOOOOO! Thank goodness! No more having to sell/trash all of my shit when I reach the next ammo tier, and NO NEED TO CARRY AROUND STUPID SHOT BAGS AND QUIVERS (which isn't really necessary now anyway because they made them virtually useless now, but still).
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Wow, they are really re-balancing the game. I'm really pumped about this, even though I don't get to play retail, lol.
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Might want to try to play retail for a few months when it comes out. The private server databases don't even have WotLK and 3.1 ironed out yet, it's going to be years before they come close to making Cataclysm playable.
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Edit: vlad, I'm surprised you didn't mention this regarding hunters:
WOOOOOOOOOOO! Thank goodness! No more having to sell/trash all of my shit when I reach the next ammo tier, and NO NEED TO CARRY AROUND STUPID SHOT BAGS AND QUIVERS (which isn't really necessary now anyway because they made them virtually useless now, but still).
because it was announced a long time ago and im surprised it isn't in game yet. nevertheless, it's a good announcement, just not a new one.
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because it was announced a long time ago and im surprised it isn't in game yet. nevertheless, it's a good announcement, just not a new one.
Touché
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I've been playing this fucking game too much lately.
Finally started getting some purples on my DK (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormrage&n=Shanoe): [Banner of Victory] (http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=47214) [Ring of Ghoulish Glee] (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=49121) [Girdle of Arrogant Downfall] (http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=47229)
/me needs more ToC runs.
Oh, I've also officially advanced to the officer ranks in my guild. I'm awesome. :D
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Goddamn, that banner is insane.
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Meh its alright, dosen't proc too often, and now unfortunately, they nerfed armor penetration again.
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Meh its alright, dosen't proc too often
QFT. However, when it does proc it's quite nice. :)
It's still an upgrade from my previous trinket, so awesome. I do plan to replace it with something a bit more predictable when I can.
I think it goes without saying, but I'm working on a decent DPS set first. I was originally going to get a kickass set of tanking gear, but I literally have yet to have a good piece of purple tanking gear drop for me. Oh well, guess I'd better start perfecting my talent sets early (not to mention actually buying my dual spec, uh, "certification").
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REAL MEN HAD THE MIRROR OF TRUTH (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40684) SINCE 3.0
the expansion changes make me sick to my stomach every time I think of them
Tauren paladins? dwarf shamans? WORGEN/NEGROWS? wtf is this shit
/subquit
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and yet spacegoats are fine? lol. you remind me of someone i once talked too, i think his name was...
the world of warcraft forums
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Isn't Warcraft lore just completely raped by WoW?
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and yet spacegoats are fine? lol. you remind me of someone i once talked too, i think his name was...
the world of warcraft forums
this made me lol, because you're right
but I started in BC, I never knew anything but horned blue women
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Isn't Warcraft lore just completely raped by WoW?
yes, but fuck lore if it makes the game more fun to more people.
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I managed to get [The Horseman's Horrific Helm] (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=49126) last night. It looks fucking ridiculous (as in, everyone in my party that saw it had a good laugh) but it's a decent upgrade from my old [Savage Saronite Skullshield] (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41350) (in everything but the looks department, that is). Thank goodness for the "display helm" option, I say.
I also dropped 1K gold for dual-spec and it's proven to be worth every copper. In addition to my crappy frost spec (as in, I have some serious retooling to do before it's a practical tank class), I now have an undead DPS spec. My single-target DPS has shot through the roof (comparatively speaking, of course...I still need better gear) and baddies have been falling down a lot faster for me. Also, being able to fly at 350-360% speed on a 280% mount thanks to Improved Undead Presence KICKS ASS. I can't wait until I manage to get a 310% mount and will be able to feasibly race wind riders.
yes, but fuck lore if it makes the game more fun to more people.
And keep in mind that lore is a constantly-changing beast when it comes to MMOs and Blizzard is at the reins. They have more than enough writers to find a way to explain it (and there are some instances where they imply that a tauren paladin is at least feasible in the game right now).
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Isn't Warcraft lore just completely raped by WoW?
Oh noes, the sacred lore! How dare they add stuff to the lore they created to progress the game!
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Oh noes, the sacred lore! How dare they add stuff to the lore they created to progress the game!
LORE WAS JUST A SETBACK
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# Lay on Hands can no longer be cast on yourself.
paladins are OP in duels btw
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Oh noes, the sacred lore! How dare they add stuff to the lore they created to progress the game!
but Warcraft lore wasn't created with WoW, technically.
paladins are OP in duels btw
WoW has fairly horrible balance when it comes to duels.
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WoW has fairly horrible balance when it comes to duels.
qft
you can't dispute that either, blizzard even specifically mentioned time and time again that the game is not balanced for 1v1.
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I was being sarcastic (my only level 80 was a pally)
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internet sarcasm does not translate well :<
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I thought it was obvious I was joking. because seriously, who complains about losing in duels lol
sorry about that
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who complains about losing in duels lol
the world of warcraft forums
[hank hill]that's what[/hank hill]
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I love how battlegrounds either make you realize how undergeared you are (and, believe me, I'm royally undergeared) or make you feel like a harbinger of destruction; NEVER both. The Alliance is either so awful that I can single-handedly cut down three of them at the same time, unbuffed and without heals, or I struggle on taking down pally tanks with 40k health whose health never decreases for more than few seconds.
One thing that I really dislike is the way the players are matched up. 40 man bgs have so much more balance it's ridiculous simply because it's hard not to have enough people to fill a certain role. On Arathi Basin I had the fortune of teaming up with an entire raid full of tanks and DPS...NO dedicated healers (and the only one that actually healed anyone sucked hard -- to the point where Armegeddon and I, a warrior and DK, respectively, collectively healed ourselves almost as much as he healed everyone -- and did nothing but whine for the entire match). The Alliance side, on the other hand, had three healers. I don't think I need to even say who won that engagement. Even if the healers on the Ally side were complete shit they'd be better off than what we had.
Oh well, I guess all's fair in love and PvP (and it does work both ways, after all).
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So 3.3.0 came out
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Yep.
I'm saddened by the nerfing of my [Army of the Dead], but I suppose it was only a matter of time. Oh well, at least I can use it more often now.
On the bright side, I love the idea of cross-server instances. Love it love it love it!
But anyhoo, I should probably stop talking about it and, y'know, actually get 3.3.0 installed. 'Twould be a good idea, hmm?
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3.3 is cool
I got 3 pieces of T9 in one day
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On the bright side, I love the idea of cross-server instances. Love it love it love it!
That's fucking awesome. Now I really wish I could legitimately get back into playing WoW. I got that whole "Free 7 day activation" thing for the anniversary, but never used it, because what's the point of going on for 7 days then leaving again.
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My gear went from shitty to less shitty really quickly. I can easily squeeze off 2.4k DPS against single mobs, unbuffed. After I get the T9 DK set (70 emblems left until I can get the last two pieces) I think I'm going to start /lfr'ing me some
Naxx/Uld 10.
I also need to get my tank gear up. I have a decent set right now, but I'm still a ways from being crit capped. I did a few random regs with that set coupled with my frost spec and it's been working out awesomely. I also love being able to get into a group in approximately 0.2 seconds.
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EDIT: I actually looked at your gear, and I have some recommendations:
- Gem strength, gemming for socket bonuses is mostly unnecessary and STR > AP due to modifiers we plate classes have
- enchant your gear, lol
- Get this (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41398) or this (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41285) meta, not sure which is better for DKs (the former is better for paladins, though)
- www.elitistjerks.com is a cool site, has a lot of info about gearing and rotations if you didn't know
- try and get a new wep, TSD is so 2008
just trying to be helpful for once
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1) The gems suck, yes, but I practically got them for free, so I figured I'd throw them in to get a little bit of a boost. I need to get my guild JC to cut me some better shit after I manage to get the gems themselves.
2) WUTS AN ENCHANT LOL. But seriously, see above, except replace JC with chanter. I should probably just spam trade.
3) I actually have the latter meta. I'm waiting until I actually get my T9 helm, though; don't want to waste it on something I'm not going to keep for long.
4) Coolies...I'll have to check it out. I've mainly been just experimenting.
5) /cry. I know. :(
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so like i started dicking around yesterday on the 72 paladin...as you can see i am level 74, in a few hours of casual questing. i have been enjoying my free 7 days.
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4397/wowscrnshot122709032336.th.jpg) (http://img192.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot122709032336.jpg/)
this was taken months back and i figured it was silly so here you go. im just going to state the shirt i have is the starting shirt from a troll shaman, best shirt in the game.
(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/6639/wowscrnshot062209231322.th.jpg) (http://img706.imageshack.us/i/wowscrnshot062209231322.jpg/)
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Just bought dual specialization with my priest, so now he's holy/shadow.
And holy fuck, shadow is so much easier to solo with. I'm not even optimized for damage output (my entire set is designed for healing) but I can still do up to 800dps at level 75 with very little effort. Getting to level 80 might not be so bad now!
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And holy fuck, shadow is so much easier to solo with.
Are you really surprised?
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Not that much, I guess, but not having to heal after every other fight is an amazing feeling.
The main reason I got to level 75 as holy is because I was joined by the hip to a warrior. Talk about a perfect combination. When the warrior got to Northrend, though, I wound up helping him level using my DK, so my priest kinda got left behind.
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this was taken in 2004
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5840/wowshaman8kk.jpg)
and this in uhh, summerish 2007.
(http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8002/drakelh.jpg)
my baby has grown up, though, not to 80, not even 71, just 70. i keep thinking about playing again before the expansion comes out, but with nobody to play with, and a good amount of games available to me right now, i keep passing it up. i would like to level the paladin to 80, and transfer the shaman off ye ole pvp server and level him to 80 in peace.
thinking about this, most of my playing of the game was done in 2005 to early summer 2006 when i slowed down with the game and stopped 40man raiding. everything else save for the first three weeks of tbc was pretty casual play.
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(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8017/1273125796961.jpg)
if you have played some big many lots of the wao, this is like...WWHAHAAhaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttttttt!>>!.1
but in a good way
*edit*
i was originally planning on buying the game, but because of this screenshot alone, im buying the goddamn collectors edition.
(http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/4804/1273136856377.jpg)
AND i need to figure out which class i want my goblin to be.
worgen priest
undead hunter
goblin warlock...maby...
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Goddamn. I so want to play Cataclysm.
I'm stuck playing on private servers for now, though. I'm gonna be broke when Cataclysm comes out (most likely anyway), so that's likely not gonna change. Guess I'll have to wait till private servers support it, however long that takes.
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THE RACETRACK IS STILL THERE?
ARE WE GOING TO HAVE SPEEDBOATS?!?!?!?!?!/!1/??!?!!//!?/111111/1//1/.?!
I probably won't be playing cata at all because college > wow (and I'll only have a laptop anyway), but still
FUCKING TAUREN PALADINS UGHHHH
I don't want cows in my class kthx
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Well college > WoW is true, and that's why if I do plya cata, I'll be on a private server. will fix when i can type bettr.
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/news-2/cataclysm-friends-family-alpha-198562/
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re-uploaded
person who uploaded the original did so a long time ago, and youtube has gotten better since then so i uploaded it for better quality.
the original uploader can't re-upload the video himself since he died two years ago.
plus better quality = YOU CAN SEE ME...somewhat...barely...BUT AT ALL!
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WoW is an interesting game. ive seen a lot of crazy shit in vanilla (3 man onyxia, solo EVERYTHING in brd comes to mind), this would probably be up there. people have soloed 25 man bosses before (im pretty sure i remember a lock soloing a 25 man ssc boss in tbc), and this is another one. though, a bit more significant because i was pretty into the game when vanilla naxx was out and seeing the first patchwerk kill...only for a new version to come out and an 80 rogue to solo 25 man patchwerk. albiet naxx ain't the "only 5 guilds can pass this content" endgame instance it once was, it's pretty impressive.
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I have three 80s now. Wow.
Also: http://files.spectere.net/audio/omgwtf/betrayed.ogg (http://files.spectere.net/audio/omgwtf/betrayed.ogg)
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here's a picture of me doing 6.4k boss dps in a heroic
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/818/wowscrnshot062310125743.jpg)
oh yeah, and I race changed to a human
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and this is me hitting 25k honor kills
(http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/5590/wowscrnshot062410151752.jpg)
yes; we ended up winning this game
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(http://i.imgur.com/xCxT2.jpg)
Get that fuckin' camera outta my face.
Love,
Shanoe
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BARMP.
Just got a Real ID request from an "Andrew Reeder." Is that any of yours guys?
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well i am an andrew, but the last name is way off.
can't say it's me bruh. well, and the fact i don't have an active sub.
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figured i have nothing better to be doing save for browsing /v/, more cata info is out, i want to get the paladin to 80 before that, shouldn't be hard. two days of casual play got me from 74 to 76. not even trying, just chilling, doing quests, and listening to podcasts.
so like yeah, im actually posting because i made a short video.
i should probably check out fraps beacause i can't for the life of me get camstudio to record at a decent framerate. but fraps costs money, and it's hard for me to justify spending money on something i just want to dick around for a bit. if there's a trial or something i guess ill go check it out, or a better/easier to use program.
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Your voice is nothing like I imagined :O
And BoP is generally better for that than Divine Shield (shorter CD with talents, has less overall uses so DS can be saved, etc.) but yeah, it's fun.
Jumping off Aldor Rise instead of waiting for the elevator pre-flyer = yes
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Oh, figured I'd mention this. Because Stormrage kinda sucks for Horde I ended up moving my serious toons away.
Shanoe (unholy DPS DK, off-spec seems to constantly change but is currently blood tank) is now on Turalyon and Tralok (disc and holy priest) is now on Andorhal. I'm too lazy to buzz through this thread. Anyone happen to be from around those parts?
Also: RealID is spectere@gmail.com if you wanna cyber.
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I've been on Turalyon ally side, but it wasn't memorable (plus it was a long time ago)
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(http://i32.tinypic.com/102np1c.jpg)
ahahahaha
I hope I get on the beta before I move out
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Gawd, I've been a complete whore on my DK lately.
-Exalted with Orgrimmar (yay, wolf mount!)
-Exalted with Thunder Bluff (yay, I got my title!)
-Exalted with Argent Dawn (yay, I got that other title!)
-All Burning Crusade 5-man instances soloed (...yay, Outland Dungeonmaster?)
Speaking of the 5-man BC dungeons, is it just me or are some of them complete bullshit? I was running through Botanica and wound up at one point getting hit with kidney shot and being stunned for a few seconds immediately when combat began. I can't think of any better way to cause a wipe. The tank would literally have no time to build aggro, so the second heals started going out the healer would pull and be killed very quickly. Considering how hard they were hitting me in high level WotLK DPS gear (def rating was only 400, so I was likely critable, but my armor and health pool is still higher than most BC endgame tanks would be), I can't see a 70 healer lasting more than a few hits. Honestly, I've had an easier time soloing some of the WotLK dungeons. They just feel much more balanced, all in all. You're less likely to wipe due to simply having bad luck.
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I've had that happen before, but I use a rogue, so when the tank got stun-locked, rather than the healer popping heals on the tank, i'd just Fan of knives all the mobs and pop evasion, and evasion tank till the tank came out of stun-lock. Evasion tank FTW! :)
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I've had that happen before, but I use a rogue, so when the tank got stun-locked, rather than the healer popping heals on the tank, i'd just Fan of knives all the mobs and pop evasion, and evasion tank till the tank came out of stun-lock. Evasion tank FTW! :)
Botanica
BC bro. And yes, BC dungeons were a joy. Tanking Shadow Labs was just as fun as it sounds (ps it wasn't)
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Tanking Shadow Labs was just as fun as it sounds (ps it wasn't)
Most of it was pretty easy to solo simply because Blackheart's mind control doesn't do shit (for obvious reasons). The only real "gotcha" that I ran into with SL was that the entire room pulls when you aggro Blackheart. I love when the game breaks its own rules with no warning.
The most annoying Auchindoun instance for me to solo would have to be Sethekk Halls. Not really because it was a hard instance, but because the Time-Lost Controllers throw down charm totems. To make things even better, they always seemed to throw them down as they were dying. By about the fourth time getting charmed and having to sit there until the totem despawned I was ready to lose it. It wouldn't have been as bad if I still had my frost spec (hi, Lichbourne), but I wound up switching my tank/solo spec to blood because of the self-heals and decent DPS that you can pull off (without even trying, even...I can pretty much bind every key on my keyboard to do pestilence/heart strike and just faceroll that fucker).
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hitting 80 on the paladin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcf_I290Ks#)
warriorchute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5WOrQWN-1U#)
took shorter than i expected
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grats bro
now grind all those WotLK reps to exalted (http://www.spectere.net/forums/index.php?topic=16.msg17624#msg17624)
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you would link a post i made two years ago.
(http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3649/1236601390789.jpg)
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I can't read the line "Good news, everyone!" without following it up with, "I've created a plague that will destroy all life on Azeroth!"
Fuck you, Putricide.
hitting 80 on the paladin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcf_I290Ks#)
warriorchute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5WOrQWN-1U#)
took shorter than i expected
Grats! :o
now grind all those WotLK reps to exalted (http://www.spectere.net/forums/index.php?topic=16.msg17624#msg17624)
Pssh. You need to give him a task that can't be completed in one night (well, except for the Oracles/Frenzyheart and Kalu'ak, but the former is mostly useless and the latter is only really useful up to Revered).
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You need to give him a task that can't be completed in one night
Back in my day, you had to grind out each rep one by one. None of this "dungeon finder" bullshit.
Also, gl spending all your hard-earned badges (assuming you queue as dps) on rep instead of gear
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Back in my day, you had to grind out each rep one by one. None of this "dungeon finder" bullshit.
BACK IN MY DAY WARLOCK DOTS WOULD KILL YOU IN A DUEL
but since the paladin is 80, my warrior has over 440 blacksmithing (assuming that is more than enough to start cata blacksmithing), i pretty much did what i subbed for.
account canceled, gametime ends aug 14, may still dick around until the time is up.
(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/493/1277161641738.jpg)
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Also, gl spending all your hard-earned badges (assuming you queue as dps) on rep instead of gear
No need. Just buy the tabards when you hit friend with the factions. I think that'll cover you for four factions.
I didn't spend a single emblem on any of my characters for rep. Ever. There's simply no need unless you're really pushing for a particular recipe. Hell, by the time you're done running random heroics, you'll probably have enough Relics of Ulduar to hit exalted with Sons of Hodir.
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No need. Just buy the tabards when you hit friend with the factions. I think that'll cover you for four factions.
All this + Sons of Hodir in one day?
er o er
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I was exaggerating slightly. Still, being able to grind almost all of an expansion's factions rep in a week is pretty crazy.
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Being as this is a WoW forum, and the simple act that I do not even play WoW anymore, does anyone want an 80 prot. warrior? Realm is Shattered Hand. After realizing I had no life, and hitting 80 wasn't that great (no one wants to run 25mans for a chance to roll on gear they might not even get), I decided that my reign of terror came to an end. So if anyone wants the account let me know, and I'll dig up the account for you.
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Getting an 80 warrior is tempting, but I think I'd rather raise one from birth. :3 It's much easier to learn a class when you ease into it rather than having a zomg abilitygasm.
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I hear you on that one. I felt like such a noob when Dual Spec came out. I was like tank, tank, tank, tank, DPSSSSSSSS! Ow, my pride.
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Lol, god I wish i had an account with time on it :/ It's been so damn long since I've gotten to play on the official servers, but I really can't afford it :<
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I hear you on that one. I felt like such a noob when Dual Spec came out. I was like tank, tank, tank, tank, DPSSSSSSSS! Ow, my pride.
Haha, hear hear. It was just the opposite with my DK. I pretty much always DPSed and decided to try tanking.
...it was rough. Oh well, at least I stuck with it and got good enough to tank Ulduar without a problem. I should give tanking ICC a whirl one of these days after I get a few more epic stamina gems.
It was also rough when I decided to dual-spec holy and shadow on my priest healer to make leveling less painful...for about five seconds. After that I pretty much realized that in most battles all I had to do was throw DoTs on the main target and keep mind sear going. It's fun pulling 8k DPS with a 2k gear score.
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I can't quit you, WoW. /gay
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Haha, nice. What sucks ass is when you just get dual spec, and you don't have any gear for your other spec. Kinda makes it a lot less useful than it should be.
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I hear you on that one. I felt like such a noob when Dual Spec came out. I was like tank, tank, tank, tank, DPSSSSSSSS! Ow, my pride.
I heard fury is hard
unless you dual-specced arms, in which case my apologies
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Spectere, 3 reasons I do NOT like Priests.
1) Priests are sooooo OP in my opinion. They are like healing warlocks. Damage over Time would always ruin my day. I would just be running around and all of a sudden I was losing health. I was like "screw this, I am going to die anyway, now."
2) Occasionally you run an instance with a priest that you say the wrong thing to and then they refuse to heal you.
3) They molest little boys.
V33nom, I can't even remember my second spec. Regardless, even if I got better gear for the DPS, tanking for 70+ levels kinda pushes you away. When you hold aggro your entire account on a prot warr, you kinda wanna use thunderclap anyways. >.<
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Pssh, priests are generally subpar tank and raid healers in PvE in terms of raw output (though I do tend to rock the Recount on the Blood Queen fight in ICC because CoH and PoH are used to their full potential every time despite the long cast times). About the only thing that keeps us afloat is our ridiculous raid utility.
As for PvP, priests (disc priests, at least, since that's the spec I use almost exclusively for PvP) are way to squishy, our DoTs aren't that great, and about the only thing we have is the ability to stay in the fight and, more importantly, keeping others in the fight.
Shadow priests definitely have better DoTs (though I'm definitely not convinced that they're as good as a warlock's), but the heals suffer quite a bit. Also, bear in mind that we have to leave shadowform to cast most holy spells, so we lose at least two GCDs when switching back and forth. Finally, keep in mind that DoTs in general can be dispelled if your healers don't fail. I've found that dispelling DoTs and DK diseases (especially DK diseases, since each one increases the damage that scourge strike and obliterate do, not to mention the frost talent that causes frost fever to cut the target's speed in half) helps in WG and BGs as much as throwing a shield on the target, sometimes more so.
And how in the hell did you find out about the little boys? Argh.
Speaking of PvP, you know what's as fun as watching two holy pallies duel? Watching a disc priest duel a holy pally. This pally and I were literally going back and forth for over a half hour before Wintergrasp and, no matter how hard we tried, neither of us would run out of mana. It was...kind of boring, actually.
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That reminds me of the low level pally duel I had once (one of the only duels I've actually done). It was retarded. We could both heal ourselves basically back to full, and neither of us could do enough damage to bring the other down in the time it took to recover from casting the heal. It was boring as shit, and we both decided to just call it quits about 5 mins in.
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Heh, I'm not sure which one of us would have given up first. Like I said, we were waiting for Wintergrasp so, well, we didn't have much else to do.
I would imagine that the lower-leveled healer duels could potentially end due to mana issues, but when it comes to endgame it can literally go on forever. The pally was cocky at the beginning about being able to outlast me. All in all, the battle basically consisted of the pally throwing Judgement of Wisdom on me, stunning me (if Hammer of Justice was off CD), me dispelling the seal and burning the pally's mana, then fearing the pally and trying to DPS them down. If my mana was running low, I would fear and pop any mana restoring CDs that I had (Hymn of Hope, Shadowfiend, etc, and let my already-ridiculous discipline regen take affect).
They did make a few attempts to hurt me, but disc shields are a bit too much for a holy pally's attacks. Literally, the only way that pally would have beaten me was to run me out of mana, and vice versa, but it simply wasn't ever going to happen unless one of us royally screwed up.
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Well at the level we were, healing used up most of our mana, but neither of us had enough DPS to take the other down far enough that a single heal wouldn't bring us back up, this was like, level 5, or something.
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priest stuff
you know shadow priests are OP as shit, right? hasted DoTs are the most retarded thing ever.
disc with resil is far from squishy, as well, unless you're fighting an ArP stacking warrior/hunter
how much PvP do you do, exactly?
EDIT: in fact, I'd drop Disc PvP and just stick with Shadow. Disc is overly complicated (offensive healer lolwut) and gets smashed by mouth-breathing warriors, while shadow is about as hard as pressing 3 buttons and afking
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on an unrelated note:
(http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7923/evryonelvsjunsa.jpg)
That was the tank. I was doing 12k on trash and about 6-7k on bosses. We did like 2 or 3 more heroics together :D
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What a suck-up. ROFL
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Oh yeah, I forgot to give context.
He was amazed by my high DPS despite my GS (he said it was about 5.1k; I don't run that shit addon), and that basically he had never seen a pally do that much dps in a 5-man before
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you know shadow priests are OP as shit, right? hasted DoTs are the most retarded thing ever.
Please. You could talk to different people and every single one of them would bitch about XXX class being OP due to YYY.
disc with resil is far from squishy, as well, unless you're fighting an ArP stacking warrior/hunter
So, disc isn't squishy unless you fight against the classes that are the biggest threat to a disc priest?
Pretty much the only things that I can't easily escape from are hunters and warriors. I don't think I've ever been killed by anything else unless I wound up stunned. I consider that pretty significant, considering the first time I went into WG I had 0 resil and pretty much relied on escaping encounters and hiding behind the cows.
how much PvP do you do, exactly?
Some.
I'm more of a PvE'er, but BGs and WG are fun to queue in every once in a while.
EDIT: in fact, I'd drop Disc PvP and just stick with Shadow. Disc is overly complicated (offensive healer lolwut) and gets smashed by mouth-breathing warriors, while shadow is about as hard as pressing 3 buttons and afking
Screw that. Shadow is boring as hell.
Besides, considering how many fights I've helped save by healing and shielding people like crazy, I'm not going to change to an offensive spec. I don't care how many people I kill, I care more about ultimately winning the objective.
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Please. You could talk to different people and every single one of them would bitch about XXX class being OP due to YYY.
Talk to any melee who does arena and they will agree with me
Hell; even someone who just does BGs probably will, too, if they actually know what's killing them
So, disc isn't squishy unless you fight against the classes that are the biggest threat to a disc priest?
Pretty much the only things that I can't easily escape from are hunters and warriors. I don't think I've ever been killed by anything else unless I wound up stunned. I consider that pretty significant, considering the first time I went into WG I had 0 resil and pretty much relied on escaping encounters and hiding behind the cows.
I can sit on a disc priest in full furious and never kill him. A lot of other melee are the same way (hint: most of them don't have MS). No resil (or close to no resil) is basically the only way I stand a chance. Casters aren't included in this, because this is World of Castercraft and they kill everyone (GL INTERRUPTING ANYTHING)
Also, you just showed you fought a bunch of baddies because they didn't focus the 0-resil healer.
Some.
I'm more of a PvE'er, but BGs and WG are fun to queue in every once in a while.
How much resil do you go in with?
Screw that. Shadow is boring as hell.
while shadow is about as hard as pressing 3 buttons and afking
Besides, considering how many fights I've helped save by healing and shielding people like crazy, I'm not going to change to an offensive spec. I don't care how many people I kill, I care more about ultimately winning the objective.
I was talking about arena, but yeah in BGs that's perfectly fine (in arena you're expected to mana burn and dispel the other team, while keeping your partner up)
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Talk to any melee who does arena and they will agree with me
Hell; even someone who just does BGs probably will, too, if they actually know what's killing them
Arena is kind of a different story, though. There's a lot less class diffusion than there are with the larger groups of AV and the like. Not to mention that you'd really have to depend on your partner to either heal/dispel you or burn the bastard that's trying to DoT you to death.
I've been thinking about getting a 2v2 arena team set up with my cousin after I get a decent set of PvP gear (T9 for the main bits and whatever else I can scrounge together) together. Do you think an arms warrior and a disc priest would make a decent pair?
I can sit on a disc priest in full furious and never kill him. A lot of other melee are the same way (hint: most of them don't have MS). No resil (or close to no resil) is basically the only way I stand a chance. Casters aren't included in this, because this is World of Castercraft and they kill everyone (GL INTERRUPTING ANYTHING)
Eh, it just seems kind of touch and go after they break through the shields and crap. Generally, I run into issues with melee gradually wearing me down in duels. Then again, that could be just due to gearing. I'm pretty good at keeping people away from me, at any rate, though I do find myself missing Body and Soul when I'm in disc spec.
Also, you just showed you fought a bunch of baddies because they didn't focus the 0-resil healer.
Well, this is Andorhal Alliance we're talking about. I don't even think they know how to do WG.
Also, keep in mind that they'd pretty much have to break through the pallies and warriors to even get to me. Typically, someone would have to bring me down in two hits. If they can't do it that quickly, it's inevitable that they're going to get rushed by a warrior, stunned by a pally, or DG'ed by a DK. The only time I ever die in massive battles is when we are royally outnumbered and the "tanks" get gang-raped.
How much resil do you go in with?
Not. Enough.
I didn't start doing any serious PvP with my priest until I hit 80, so I've been playing catch-up. Right now I'm sitting at right around 500. Definitely, definitely not enough. That's why I'm only doing things like WG with him. He can put out some serious heals, but I can't leave him too exposed.
I mainly do BGs with my PvP DK. I'm kind of afraid of what the lv.60-70 bracket is going to be like seeing as there is precisely zero PvP gear for DKs. It's going to be like going from stupidly OP (DKs even start with a PvP trinket, FFS) to plz omg don't kill me. I think the only thing I can do is stack def on top of the heirlooms...roll in with tank gear and hope for the best.
On another note, it's kind of fun being a frost DK in BGs. Most people seem to pick unholy for the raw damage output, but I usually prefer to pair up with a friendly rogue, hit the enemy with Icy Touch (spiked with an annoying dose of Icy Clutch (http://www.wowwiki.com/Chilblains) and letting the rogue burst them to death. It feels like the perfect defensive and "annoy the piss out of your enemies for fun and profit" build.
I was talking about arena, but yeah in BGs that's perfectly fine (in arena you're expected to mana burn and dispel the other team, while keeping your partner up)
Makes sense, yeah. You'd have to be as offensive as you are defensive, especially in the smaller groups.
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I've been thinking about getting a 2v2 arena team set up with my cousin after I get a decent set of PvP gear (T9 for the main bits and whatever else I can scrounge together) together. Do you think an arms warrior and a disc priest would make a decent pair?
You mean S6/Furious? Because I don't recommend going into arena as a healer with T9 on (the warrior can have 2pc T9 for the bonus)
I think it would be alright, but usually disc goes with a rogue and a warrior goes with an hpal
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You mean S6/Furious? Because I don't recommend going into arena as a healer with T9 on (the warrior can have 2pc T9 for the bonus)
Yeah, that's what I meant. Sorry, I have a terrible habit of (erroneously) calling the items that can potentially come from the triumph emblem vendor T9/T9.5.
I think it would be alright, but usually disc goes with a rogue and a warrior goes with an hpal
Yeah, but he doesn't have a rogue and I don't have a holy pally. :p
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Also, if you don't get any more resil before you start doing arena, you'd better hope your cousin is a master of peeling dps off of you. Double DPS probably have wet dreams about people with your level of resil; I'm planning on running ret/rogue with my friend after he gets some more gear, and I know I do :O
I recommend full PvP gear, except weps and a trinket ofc
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Oh gawd no, I'm not going into arena without a full set of PvP gear. I'm a fan of living, thank you.
I'm probably going to start doing BGs after I get the full S6 set (which looks fuckin' pimp, if I do say so myself) and a trinket so that I can build up some more honor. I'm definitely glad that Blizz made the S6 set obtainable using triumph emblems or honor. I like being able to save for two different things.
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They are up to 9.5 on gear???
P.S. I detest those people who sit in chat and constantly spam [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]
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Nah, they're up to T10 now, and there's two item levels for it -- 251 (tier 10), 264 (sanctified tier 10). They also have heroic drops with item levels 271, heroic sanctified tier 10 sets and a rep ring with the Ashen Verdict at 277, and the likes of Shadowmorne (http://www.wowwiki.com/Shadowmourne) and the drops for Helion and Lich King on 25-man heroic are item level 284 and, I can assure you, that gear is insane.
And yes, sadly, there still exists plenty of Thunderfury spam. *shudder*
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Nah, they're up to T10 now, and there's two item levels for it -- 251 (tier 10), 264 (sanctified tier 10).
There is also a "heroic" T10 that's i277
apparently your server isn't pro enough to have that :D
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Nah, I mentioned that:
heroic sanctified tier 10 sets and a rep ring with the Ashen Verdict at 277
And whatchu talkin 'bout, woman? Like four guilds (two Alliance, two Horde, I believe) on my realm cleared H ICC25. 8) Sure, I haven't even completely cleared ICC10 (11/12 on my DK, 10/12 on my priest) yet, BUT STILL. :o
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(http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/6524/wowscrnshot080510142853.jpg)
this thing is so awesome
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lawlz
I need to find an unfortunate soul to pass the World onto so I can get meself a rocket. I already have two Zhevra mounts from getting people addicted to this shit.
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I recruited myself, actually. I'm in a rare situation known as "can't spend money fast enough"
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I sorta did the same in the interests of dual-boxing.
I did a dumb, though. I attached the Android authenticator to it, paid for a month (and the game itself, of course, so I at least got the free month on my main account) then reflashed my phone without even thinking about it. Maybe if I get unlazy I'll just call up billing and get the authenticator removed (it's only a secondary account anyway, though I do get the Core Hound Pup...).
Even the relatively-dumb dual-boxing that I'm doing makes leveling a whole lot easier, aside from those dumb gather quests.
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My healer (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Andorhal&cn=Tralok)'s guild and I just cleared 10/12 bosses in ICC10, then proceeded to get Sindragosa down to 5.5% on our second attempt. Not bad for one night.
I need to seriously work on getting my enchanting up (currently 304), enchanting my gear, and getting my gear properly gemmed (my cousin is a 450 JC, so that shouldn't take much).
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I need to seriously work on getting my enchanting up (currently 304), enchanting my gear, and getting my gear properly gemmed (my cousin is a 450 JC, so that shouldn't take much).
I see your priest
I raise you this (http://elitistjerks.com/f77/t97934-wotlk_healing_compendium_v3_3_5_fun_twilight_halion/)
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Yeah, I know about Elitist Jerks. I've been using their stat table as a guide.
The main issue for me was gold. I can't really afford to buy pre-cut epics at the moment, and I haven't had much luck finding a jewelcrafter who has the plans that I need. Thankfully, uncut epic gems are stupidly easy to get, so all I have to do is demand that my cousin spends his hard-earned jewelcrafter tokens for my benefit (under the threat of violence, of course).
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Yeah, I know about Elitist Jerks. I've been using their stat table as a guide.
solly
The main issue for me was gold. I can't really afford to buy pre-cut epics at the moment, and I haven't had much luck finding a jewelcrafter who has the plans that I need. Thankfully, uncut epic gems are stupidly easy to get, so all I have to do is demand that my cousin spends his hard-earned jewelcrafter tokens for my benefit (under the threat of violence, of course).
Pay for my transfer to your server and back and I'll cut you any gem you want at 100g per
(jk)
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solly
S'aight. :3
Pay for my transfer to your server and back and I'll cut you any gem you want at 100g per
Hay, that's not saving me much money. D:<
(jk)
oic
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&feature=sub
pretty much the best quest in WoW
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there was a thread on mmochamp about this
the vid makes it better worse
this dude talks too much
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Oh, please mark any Cataclysm-related links with [CATA] so that I don't click on them. If you guys want to discuss it, please make a new thread so that I won't be tempted to look at any of it. Danke!
Yeah, I'm one of "those people" who never watch pre-release footage. I dunno, I just like to be surprised. Against my better judgment, I'm even refraining from looking at discussion regarding the new talent trees. I'm stupid like that.
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Oh. God.
(http://i.imgur.com/NDXdD.png)
From Cataclysm, but it's not spoiling much. It's a shame it has a grammar fail, though.
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I laughed the first time I saw it, but:
pic
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&feature=sub
pretty much the best quest in WoW
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same thing
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Like I said, I don't watch Cataclysm content that could possibly contain spoilers. I clicked the video (which didn't have a description in the post) saw a reference to Cataclysm, and closed it before watching it.
I didn't have much of a choice with the picture, but I still found it funny...and it didn't really spoil much.
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Wasn't trying to get at you or anything; I just found it funny you posted that picture when content related was already posted
also WoW is boring now; release cata plz
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YOU CUT ME DEEP, Aa. /emo
But in all seriousness, my reaction when you posted that was pretty much "D'oh."
also WoW is boring now; release cata plz
Sadly, I'm having a lot of fun leveling my night elf death knight on Misha despite it being the fourth time I've done most of those quests (and it doesn't help that the Horde and Alliance quests in Outland are the fucking same for the most part). My blood elf mage on Turalyon is coming along swimmingly as well. Not sure why I find leveling alts so amusing now, but what the hey.
Playing a DK when you know what the hell you're doing is insanely rewarding. It's kind of ridiculous how many mad props I've gotten in randoms so far for not using death grip on every single target I see like EVERY OTHER DPS DK I'VE SEEN seems to do. That being said, healers love me because I usually protect them from bad tanks by popping frost and pulling all of the loose mobs all of them.
I love being useful.
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I just tanked my first few dungeons as a druid tank. Why didn't anyone tell me that druid tanking was fun as hell? XD
Apparently I did a pretty decent job, too.
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swipe spam is hard?
also PLZPLZPLZ AZEROTH REVAMP C'MON
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swipe spam is hard?
It is for most druid tanks, apparently.
Actually, with the DPS that my cousin was putting out I had to single target the main targets and mash mangle in almost every pull to do some additional threat. At least he helped make things more interesting.
also PLZPLZPLZ AZEROTH REVAMP C'MON
This. Walking is overrated.
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This. Walking is overrated.
but isn't WoW a walking simulator?
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^says the guy who quit before he got his mount/before mounts became available earlier
*3*
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Heh, yeah, I love how Blizzard pretty much hands you mounts now.
Also, another nice thing about Cataclysm (if you haven't already read about it): cold weather flying at level 68 for 500g. Looks like 310% flying is going to be trainable now as well. Kind of sucks for the people who legitimately earned their 310% mounts (though I would hope that mounts earned pre-Cataclysm would keep the faster speed with no additional costs), but at least I'll be able to make my netherwing mounts swift without going back in time and scoring high in the BC arena ladder.
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People with 310 mounts don't have to pay for 310 speed (for sure), while everyone else pays 5k (iirc)
also lol at still having to buy cold weather flying; just delete it already
I have well over 20k gold, so cost isn't a problem...it's just that it's dumb
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Yep, it's 5K. Adjusted for rep bonuses, of course, so in practice it's more like 4-4.25k.
Yeah, I feel the same way about cold weather flying. It made sense when WotLK came out, but it's really just pointless now. Not to mention that, for some reason, it's more expensive than flying in the Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms is going to be.
I'm kind of surprised Blizz didn't reduce the cost of epic flying. They've been on a roll with knocking down riding skill prices lately. Now that epic flying doesn't offer as much of a boost as it used to (what with regular flyers giving you a 150% speed increase while flying and all) that seems like the next logical step.
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^says the guy who quit before he got his mount/before mounts became available earlier
*3*
Hey, I had my racial mount. Fuck, I made it to 55 before getting bored. Also it's not a shock that they're making mounts easy to get, when I played some random guy in my guild saw me in the field (it was one of those massive, accept everyone guilds) and he asked me for something like 30 gold towards his mount. Shit, I wouldn't have gotten mine if it my friends didn't spot me some dosh.
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funny part is that people still ask for money for their mounts
good thing I played a paladin back in BC LOL
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Meh, when I was in Acherus Hold I had a DK beg me for gold so that he could buy skills.
Seriously, if you're having gold problems as a DK, you're fucking doing it wrong. It's not trivial to get 500 gold a night from doing quests alone. Even if you set the bar at a fairly low amount -- say, 200 gold a night -- you can get it alarmingly fast.
When my priest hit 80 I had almost 3k (no epic flying, but whatever) with all of the highest skills for holy and shadow purchased, without playing the auction house at all. Until you start gemming for raids and buying mats to level professions there's no excuse for being poor, and even those two reasons are kind of flimsy.
Testicles.
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I found this interesting.
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So...I'm in the Cataclysm beta now.
I just couldn't leave well enough alone. Bring on the spoilers, I guess.
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I got in beta on Friday. I guess they're in the "let everyone in" stage of testing.
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Yeah, most likely.
What realm/faction/toons are you using?
I only transferred my DK over for now. I'm on Echo Isles, Horde, and my toon's name is Shanoe.
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I'm not using any one char/realm consistently; I do not plan on playing my paladin in Cata (if I play at all), so all I plan on doing is trying out 1-60 leveling
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Yeah, that's roughly my plan after I get my DK up to 85 and really learn the new move set. Right now I'm still kind of up in the air over whether frost or unholy presence is going to be a better bet for optimal output. Frost seems to be more consistent, but unholy seems to be better in some encounters. It's a welcome change from when blood was the only usable combat presence and unholy was only used when you wanted to spend half of the battle auto-attacking while your runes came off cooldown. It's nice that haste is actually good and that some abilities reduce rune cooldowns. I'm extremely happy with how Blizzard treated that class.
I'll probably move over my priest and see how he fares as well. Blizzard apparently made some pretty substantial changes to healing and mana regen, so I think it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Both healing specs start with the mana regen talent that used to be in the discipline tree, so I can't see it being too much different aside from spirit possibly being downplayed in the holy spec, but we'll see. Hopefully Grid and Clique either work or have been updated to work with Cataclysm, because healing the old fashioned way is like totally lame and stuff.
Other than that, I really want to see how low-level questing is now. Looks like the world is a bit less sparse in terms of mob count, so it looks like you're a lot less likely to get jumped at low levels. Guess I'll find out soon enough.
I also love the automatic quests. It's great for steering you in the right direction when you go into an unfamiliar area. Aside from that, I like how killing some mobs can activate quests (like the eel killing quest in Vashj'ir). It's a nice way to get some extra coin and experience, and the fact that some of them don't require you to turn them into an NPC is very convenient.
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DW Frost in UH Presence was some of the most fun I've ever had in this game (3.3 PTR iirc.) It was like riding a roller coaster on speed.
But yeah, my interest in Cata is much less than my interest in Wrath when I got into the beta. I remember being like WHOA RETTTTTTTT and now it's like "man, fuck this shit"
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Unholy presence in WotLK was fun for short fights, in my experience. It was fun being able to throw down a ridiculous stream of damage.
For me, it kind of fell apart in raids. Even a full bar of runic power couldn't sustain me until runes came off cooldown. Thankfully, that seems to have changed. In Cata, I've been using unholy presence almost exclusively and it just feels right. I haven't been running out of RP at all, and since haste adjusts the rune recharge rate, unholy presence makes a lot of sense now. I'm still getting used to the way that the runes recharge, though, and have had to adjust my playing style quite a bit to accommodate that change.
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In case anyone here was willing to try WoW again:
1-60 leveling is much, much improved. That is all.
EDIT: and being in a guild is awesome, now
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1-60 leveling is much, much improved. That is all.
This, times a million.
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As both of us who played WoW have noticed, the 4.0.1 patch dropped yesterday. It's kind of nice to have talent trees that fit on one screen.
I was surprised how good of a reception the massive update wound up getting, too. Most of the people in trade were either positive (i.e. "fukkin finally") or optimistic (i.e. "I was scared at first, but this looks aight!") about the change. Of course, I wound up having one of the people on my friends list whine incessantly about it. Heaven forbid you have to learn how to play your class again. That only happens every goddamn time Blizzard makes a major release (or even a not-so-major release).
I've come across a few oddball issues. One of my friends noted that one of his +str gems changed into a +agil gem. My druid wound up losing his bear form (I think I got it through the quest line and not through the trainer; perhaps that's why?) but everything seemed strangely calm considering how many things were changed.
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Looks like I'm gonna have to check out the changes. I wonder how long this'll take to get implemented on decent private servers, lol.
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I wonder how long this'll take to get implemented on decent private servers, lol.
Considering from what I've heard (I'm just a BC n00b, lolz), the only way Blizz could have changed more stuff was to make a new game.
It's totally different. Not to mention that the game's technology took a dramatic change. It has a shinier renderer and the ability to stream worlds, not to mention support for the new Cataclysm features, such as terrain phasing (and there's no way that could be done server-side like object phasing). Not to mention other, smaller changes, like completely axing spell rankings (thank god), a handful of new abilities for each class, very different itemizations, a new profession (a couple of new professions if you include archeology, which should be supported by the engine), another glyph type...
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
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Holy crap. Wow, I'm definitely looking forward to that then. God damn I wish I had money for a retail account right now.
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Do some, uh, "under the table" work for someone. That should pay pretty well.
Make sure to bring some mouthwash and breath mints, though. That kind of "job" isn't exactly something you'd want to, uh, advertise.
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Lol, I don't think my knees could take that kind of punishment.
If I get a co-op position (even though it's really late for that) I'll have money, but none of it will be expendable :/
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Yeah, being out of work for a while is rough. So much stuff to catch up on.
I'd suggest trying to get a part-time position somewhere just to hold you by for now (since employment, regardless of where it is, looks far better than unemployment does on a resum
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Thing is, this is a co-op term in college, which ends just before Christmas break. Basically I need to get a co-op position ASAP so I can get enough hours in for it to be accepted, not to mention that any money I make basically needs to go towards tuition. If I don't make any money, I'll need to dip into the college funds my parents put away for my brother (which means if he does decide to go to college sometime, I owe him). Of course, he doesn't seem like he's gonna be going to college, so I don't think I've got much to worry about on that front. The kid seems perfectly content to waste his time trying to make it in a band (actually, in 2 bands right now). He isn't even trying to get a job, either.
In any case, basically, I'm in a really bad position, and getting some shitty job won't help nearly as much as getting a co-op, because every co-op that I miss means I'll graduate one more semester later than I should. I've already missed one, and it looks like I might miss this one too :/
Also, on topic: What new kinds of quests are available for 1-60 leveling now?
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From my personal experience, it's about 75% new quests and 25% the same as before/slightly retooled. (Depending on the zone, this percentage fluctuates. However, the percentage of "new" is usually always at least >50%.)
OT: How come you don't move to Toronto or something, if you don't mind me asking? There should be jobs and stuff there :O
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From my personal experience, it's about 75% new quests and 25% the same as before/slightly retooled. (Depending on the zone, this percentage fluctuates. However, the percentage of "new" is usually always at least >50%.)
OT: How come you don't move to Toronto or something, if you don't mind me asking? There should be jobs and stuff there :O
I was more curious about what kinds of quests the new ones are, but it's nice to hear that they changed things so dramatically. I've been really pumped for cataclysm since it was announced, and this REALLY makes me wish I had some chance to play it. I mean, the last time I played on the official servers was sometime just after TBC came out :/
OT: I can't move out because I have no money, plus, moving to Toronto would make me even farther away from my college than I already am. It's just not feasible. I'd have moved to Barrie, where my college is, if it would have been cheaper than living at home, but it's still cheaper to drive every day to school than it would have been to live there, even if I didn't have a car (tl;dr my car still needs work).
My girlfriend has been living in Barrie for most of the time we've been in college, but she's also taking OSAP student loans to pay for her education, something I'm trying to avoid at all costs. (I do NOT want to be in debt to the government...) My girlfriend is going to be something like 60k in debt by the time she's done :/ (she's going to be an artist, and she's taking a 4 year program in art, and then she's going to use the university connections our school has to get a BFA on top of that program.)
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I was more curious about what kinds of quests the new ones are, but it's nice to hear that they changed things so dramatically.
Imagine real-time quests that you can turn in when you're nowhere near the questgiver (not all quests are like this)
Imagine quests with non-cinematic cutscenes
Imagine quests that actually flow with each other
etc.
OT
sorry to hear that, sir
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Oh god, I forgot to mention those. I love the real-time quests the most. Here's a couple examples of how they work:
Going into Durotar with a high level toon will give you a quest to talk to a shaman in the city. Speaking with him will basically cause a non-cinematic cutscene and will lead you to the quests in Vashj'ir. While you're roaming through the city you'll see a quest-giver that gives you quests to go into Hyjal and, uh, the other 78-82 area. There's no more question of the next level-appropriate area to go to is. The game points you in the right direction without you having to roam around, yet still gives you the freedom to ignore its suggestions.
A variety of this quest occurs in Vashj'ir. If you kill an eel, you get this quest:
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2299/eelquest.jpg)
After you follow the objectives, the quest shows up with a "(click to complete)" tag on the tracker, which allows you to turn it in without going to see an NPC:
(http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/5682/eelturnin.jpg)
It's probably best not to ask where the gold comes from. At least it's something to do while you're milling about.
Oh, also, you get some experience for gathering ore and flowers now (roughly the same experience you get for killing monsters, it seems, though you do get tiny amounts of exp for mining low level mats at a high level). I haven't checked whether you get experience for crafting yet. This occurs on the 4.0.1 patch that was just released, too, so yay.
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Very interesting! I really like the idea of real-time quests, though I have to admit before I even read your comment about not asking, I immediately wondered where the hell the gold came from :P Also, exp from mining etc. is fucking awesome.
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(http://imgur.com/zgNar.jpg)
Tonight was Good(TM).
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Heh, I soloed regular Forge of Souls as a level 85 fury warrior. Not bad considering I've never really played a warrior over level 20 before.
It probably helps that you get an obscene amount of health in Cataclysm.
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holy crap man, thats badass
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Damn straight. Of course, I did it with like iLvl 359 epics. Yay for premades!
Now to do PoS and HoR... <_<
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iLvl 359 epics.
Christ. What sort of DPS were you getting?
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Oh lawl, didn't see this.
Christ. What sort of DPS were you getting?
I was able to effortlessly get 9-10k without knowing what the hell I was doing. A half-decent warrior should be able to beat that without a problem.
Edit: Just made myself a minimalist auction house alt UI (click to enlarge):
(http://i.imgur.com/X1iC0l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/X1iC0.jpg)
I like how Pitbull lets me put the portrait inside of the health bar. Very stylish. I don't really even need the health bars to be there, but whatever.
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ArkInventory, and Auctioneer, nice.
What sort of work was involved in making that UI, anyway?
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Not a lot. I just heavily stripped down my standard UI.
I use Dominos on my main UI for my action bars. In the AH layout, I hid all of the bars except for bar 5, since in all of my toons I keep my hearth in the last slot on that bar. I did that for consistency, so that I could theoretically convert any toon into an AH alt.
I use PitBull for my unit and raid frames, so doing that was just a matter of reducing the information down to nil. The unit frames are basically just giant health bars that are only there to show who my current target is. I have party frames listed under mine as well, just in case.
ArkInventory is essential. It's painful to play without that addon. I use the same profile that I use on all of my other toons just to keep it consistent.
I'd be dumb not to use Auctioneer.
I disabled most of the mods that I have no use for (i.e. Omen, Recount, Clique, Atlas, Carbonite, etc) using Addon Control Panel. This also lets me easily convert other toons to AH alts, since I can save different UI sets.
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Apparently my girlfriend used to play the AH without auctioneer... And made good money at it too :S That is so much more work than using Auctioneer. Seriously, that and ArkInventory are both God Level addons, lol.
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I made a ton of money before I started using Auctioneer. As long as you play the market intelligently you can easily turn some nice profits.
The nicest part about Auctioneer is that it lets you easily see market trends. Also, the appraiser interface is fantastic for selling mass quantities of goods.
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Apparently my girlfriend used to play the AH without auctioneer... And made good money at it too :S
I made a ton of money before I started using Auctioneer. As long as you play the market intelligently you can easily turn some nice profits.
...but how much?
I can't log into my char atm, but I've probably made at least 60k+ through the AH.
/mild epeen
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No damned clue. She didn't play it for that long (well, she played for like, most of a year, or something), and it's been a while since she "retired".
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...but how much?
Blah, I dunno. Not as much as most, probably, but more than enough for all of my mounts before artisan flying.
I've been making quite a bit lately because I've been hitting the market pretty hard. I made probably 5k in the last week. I know I have a ways to go before hitting 60k, lawl.
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Keep at it, yo. I made enough to get the 50+ mount achieve, all versions of the strength DPS Dalaran ring, almost every BSing pattern in the game back in BC (then I dropped BS for awhile, lol), etc...and I did it all with no farming alts, and I still have over 20k gold.
Yeah, I'm probably going to play in Cata. I love seeing how rich I can get (more than any other aspect of the game, actually)
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It's hard to say with me because I've been pulling from the same pool of gold for so long. I have the 50 mount achievement on my DK and fully gemmed and enchanted gear on my DK and priest. I also leveled cooking to 400+ on my DK without actually gathering any mats or finding recipes.
It definitely helped that I really didn't pay out much gold for gear. I paid for a titansteel destroyer on my DK before the finder came out and made gearing up a joke, but aside from that, emblems were easy to get when I seriously started working on gearing myself up. Aside from buying gems (since I took up alchemy, it's more like "buying a blue gem, transmuting, and tipping a jewelcrafter," but I digress) and tipping for enchants, I basically got all of my gear for free. I never paid for BoEs or anything, I just geared up from ToTC25 (one of my trinkets), VoA, frost emblems, and ICC10/25. That alone saved me quite a bit of gold; I remember seeing how pricey the Dalaran rings are.
Oh, I also have the gigantique bag, so I don't have a problem with blowing lots of gold for achievements, apparently.
So I guess I did pretty well for myself, all in all. I think at my peak I had about 10k gold between my toons. Right now, on my main realm, I have about 7k total at the moment. I used some of it to found a bank guild ("CowMart Inc"), which has proven to be insanely useful when it comes to leveling my toons. Having a shared bank is niiiiiiiiice.
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Having a shared bank is niiiiiiiiice.
For some reason, I never thought of a personal guild bank this way. I always thought it was for cases where you had too much money :|
AND PATCH 4.0.3. is coming out tomorrow, so I guess I'll be resubbing...and making a personal gbank lol
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For some reason, I never thought of a personal guild bank this way. I always thought it was for cases where you had too much money :|
It's cheap in the early stages (the first few tabs are are fairly cheap and have 98 slots each) so it's a nice way to share ingredients. I can also load it up with gold that I can use to level my various toons and do repairs, so that I don't have to keep a lot of gold on any specific toon.
I also have one tab saved for accumulating goods that I want to auction off.
AND PATCH 4.0.3. is coming out tomorrow, so I guess I'll be resubbing...
Oh god, seriously? :o
Shit is definitely going down on the servers (ELEMENTALS RUINING SHIT OMG), so I guess it's not too surprising.
and making a personal gbank lol
XD
If you want a free signature, let me know.
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Fuck, personal gbank is the coolest idea ever, lol.
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
so no zul'gurub tiger mount for me i guess :<
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so no zul'gurub tiger mount for me i guess :<
/hug
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You claim to not be an "it", but you play(ed) WoW? pfft, make up your mind
Everyone knows females do not play WoW
EDIT: sorry about the tiger; never farmed/wanted it, personally, but oh well \o/
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I was trying to get all the saber mounts that I could. :< I was only able to farm it about 4 times. D:
bleh.
someone buy me the spectral tiger. :V
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You claim to not be an "it", but you play(ed) WoW? pfft, make up your mind
Everyone knows females do not play WoW
And she it's actually a rather good unholy DK to boot.
Alliance unholy DK, but we can't all be perfect like me.
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if
she it plays a female draenei, then fuck you. I used to play horde only until I discovered draenei; it's also been months since I faction-changed and I still long for my beautiful horns
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And she it's actually a rather good unholy DK to boot.
Alliance unholy DK, but we can't all be perfect like me.
I'm only good 'cause you taught me things. :3
and yes, draenei.
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if she it plays a female draenei, then fuck you. I used to play horde only until I discovered draenei; it's also been months since I faction-changed and I still long for my beautiful horns
See, I like draenei and night elves, but I love tauren and trolls.
Also, gnome warlocks are fun. The chip on the shoulders of the ones in the n00b area are so huge they're almost planet-sized.
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draenei
delicious
night elves
I like their melee animations (esp. the females)
tauren
no
trolls
probably the most amusing race. I like how all trolls (even non-shamans) talk about voodoo and act like stoned Haitians/Jamaicans
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no
Yes.
War stomp ftw.
probably the most amusing race. I like how all trolls (even non-shamans) talk about voodoo and act like stoned Haitians/Jamaicans
That's pretty much the entire reason that I like them. :p They've also got that hunched over, laid back look, which is pretty neat-o.
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Always liked trolls. Neutral on taurens, and space goats, etc. Played a human character as my main (yeah, horde ftw and all that stuff), but most of the people I knew when I started playing, oh so long ago, were alliance, and humans were the ones I hated the least. I don't like playing small characters, and I liked the human starting area the best (it's not fucking halfway across the world from stormwind). For some reason I absolutely hate the undead.
God, I want to play on the official servers :/ Fuck I hate being broke. I've got a million things I need to pay for, and WoW isn't even close to the top of the list, but I really do miss playing on the official servers, especially now that I know more people that play (When I started, I only knew a couple people, everyone played on garithos, and basically everyone I knew dropped out of the guild, or the game, relatively quickly.)
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Soloed regular PoS in Cata Beta with my premade warrior (click to enlarge):
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/PoS-solo-t.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/PoS-solo.jpg)
Surprisingly, it didn't take very many attempts. I think I'm getting better at this whole "warrior" thing.
Edit: HoR is proving to be a bitch so far. All it takes is for the mercenary to do one sap and you suddenly lose about 40k health in certain mob groups. Enraged regeneration doesn't come off cooldown fast enough to compensate, the other self-heals aren't potent enough due to the new healing model introduced in 4.0 (i.e. higher HP with slightly higher heals, to prevent damage/healing spikes in raids/dungeons), potions and bandages (even the highest level ones) don't heal for enough, and you don't get enough of a break between waves to eat. I think the best I was able to do was wave 4.
I'm going to keep working at it a bit. The first major hurdle is going to be surviving the beginning. The mercenaries are going to be tough to deal with without having constant heals due to the sheer amount of damage that they and their friends can inflict, especially if they stun me early in the battle. The first boss would prove to be a pain due to his painful DoT and fear effect, though if I'm able to hold off on using enraged regeneration until I fight him I might be able to outlast him due to having a 129K [buffed] health pool). As long as I stay out of the fire, the second boss should be cake.
The other part that troubles me is the end run. I'm not entirely sure what the DPS requirements are going to be to clear that part on normal, but it's going to be rough. I can usually maintain 12-15k with my limited fury warrior experience, but when I'm dealing with a bunch of weak mobs I usually run into issues with rage generation. I think I would be able to survive the waves, because I don't recall any of those mobs hitting particularly hard in regular HoR. With whirlwind, it would be pretty easy to damage the big guys while fending off the little ones.
Of course, that's assuming I can make it past the first gauntlet. I'm going to try to form a new plan of attack for this one. I've been thinking about abandoning the brute force LOS strategy that groups usually and kite the hell out of them (I figure, if I can stay out of range of the rifleman and mage, and keep the rogue in front of me, I might have a chance -- and the new heroic leap ability is great for clearing large stretches if things get rough). I'm not going to give up without a hell of a fight (and repair bills so high that it'll give you nosebleeds just thinking about it). Besides, until Cataclysm comes out I can always transfer over other premade characters with 5k gold a piece. ;)
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lawl, power overwhelming.
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Why not just try prot?
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A prot spec would pretty much ensure that I wouldn't be able to DPS my way through the final gauntlet. Also, in my experience with my DK, soloing in a tank spec really isn't particularly effective. The amount of additional defense that you wind up getting is quickly offset by the increased length of the battle. Plus, I think losing whirlwind and cleave would really hurt at the beginning of HoR.
Didn't have a chance to make another attempt today. Maybe tomorrow.
Edit: I also have a feeling that frost DKs are quite overpowered (click for a full screenshot):
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/frostdk-73-7kdps-t.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/frostdk-73-7kdps.jpg)
Howling blast, plague strike, and pestilence, followed by howling blast and blood boil spam, without having particularly good gear. It just doesn't seem right.
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This is where you mention that the DPS your beating is level 80 (IIRC)... lawl.
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<- Teknyx
brb, crying.
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<- Teknyx
brb, crying.
/hug :(
Also, look at it this way: I beat Dan and he has considerably better gear.
A prot spec would pretty much ensure that I wouldn't be able to DPS my way through the final gauntlet. Also, in my experience with my DK, soloing in a tank spec really isn't particularly effective.
To elaborate on this a bit more (now that I'm not le tired), I've noticed that even very good warriors lose a considerably amount of DPS when jumping to prot. Whenever I have my cousin run me through things on my druid, it's always far easier for him to use fury as opposed to his prot spec. He can hold aggro exceedingly well in prot, even with large groups, but his damage output is rather low. Even though he's not particularly well-geared for DPS, simply speccing fury and holding a couple of two-handers pushes his damage output way up. DKs and pallies don't feel the burn nearly as badly as druid and warrior tanks. Even as of 4.0, DKs can still work as a functional tank -- at least in 5-mans -- in any spec (despite what Blizzard says) due to how presences work. I can pop blood on my DK, become uncrittable, and still do decent damage. Hitting defensive stance on a warrior forces you to say goodbye to most of your heavy-hitting moves, since the AoEs available in defensive stance are focused on greatly increasing threat and not dealing high damage. To that end, I rarely see prot warriors out-DPS anyone, regardless of how well-geared they are.
In the case of HoR, I absolutely need to be doing considerable damage. The mobs have high health and hit hard. Regardless of whether I'm in a tank or DPS spec, the rogue can still sap me and they can deliver a ton of hurt to me while I'm stunned. I think that the only way I'm going to do it is to try to keep the casters from hitting me (or casting, for that matter), dealing as much damage as I can to specific mobs, and ignore the standard mob prioritization. I'm thinking that Mercenary -> Footman -> Priest -> Mage -> Marksman would probably work. Bonus points if I can get keep the casters together and DPS them down quickly.
I know I'm kind of obsessing over DPS and LOL NUMBERS, but it's really a huge deal for this. Before I successfully killed Tyrannus I pretty much filed through everything, trying to find a way to push up my attack power and stamina as much as humanly possible. It's probably a good thing that my mind has been thoroughly stuck in raid mode lately.
Edit: FUCK. Beta was shut down without notice. D:< So much for that...
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I think I logged out in Auberdine doing some rep grinding.
....it'll be interesting to see where I log in at (or am dead lol)
I'll be floating in water next to some dead night elves D:
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With this current patch going, is it changing everything around for eastern and kalimdor now, or just prepping for cata when it releases?
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2086-Patch-4.0.3a-on-live-realms-this-week
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Wow, I was online, and ported to Ironforge, now whenever I try to log on with ANY character, it immediately disconnects me. Any known fix for this? I already tried disabling/deleting all my addons, but that didn't do it.
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Try clearing you cache. (Just delete the folder called Cache inside the WoW folder.)
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Did all that, cleared cache wtf and interface folders, still doing it.
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Open wow through the launcher
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I started up a tauren pally on Turalyon tonight with Armegeddon, did a bunch of quests, and came to a startling revelation:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/mulgore-newbie-mail-t.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wow/mulgore-newbie-mail.jpg)
THE STARTING GEAR IS ACTUALLY A MATCHED SET. Holy fucking shit. No more technicolor tauren for me, I guess.
I have no idea how it's going to be when I walk outside of Mulgore, but I guess I'll soon find out. My only hope is that everyone doesn't wind up looking the same like they do when they're geared for endgame raids.
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Wow, you were right, that actually kinda does look pretty good for starter gear (and in general).
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tauren pally
hate you
also all pre-outland gear matches whatever zone it came from
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i dunno, you guys may find this interesting, it humored me lol (except Ian cause his dumb face had beta)
Having quested with 4 horde characters in Hillsbrad Foothills (mainly the Tarren Mill stuff) I logged on with one of them to check out the major Forsaken stuffs changes. I ran over to the Sludge Fields and saw that all the named people you had to kill from the Battle for Hillsbrad quests were now undead elites.
but mainly the thing that made me actually laugh irl?
http://www.wowhead.com/npc=47793
the fact that they mashed all the farmers together to make one disgustingly hilarious blob.
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Its actually a clone of festergut and Rotface, 2 bosses from ICC. Just added a rake to their hands, haha.
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also all pre-outland gear matches whatever zone it came from
That hasn't proven true in my experience. I distinctly remember being mismatched before even stepping foot outside of Mulgore.
My current rogue (a troll) was geared in pre-Shattering Durotar and his gear was all over the place before I left Durotar (brown vest, green pants, yellow boots...he looks terrible). That was a very recent character, rolled after 4.0 hit the public realm.
Its actually a clone of festergut and Rotface, 2 bosses from ICC. Just added a rake to their hands, haha.
Lawl yeah, that. He's quite a bit smaller, too, IIRC (I just did a fly-over in beta, so I didn't get a good sense of scale).
It made me chuckle.
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I just found it funny that that's what ended up happening to them. :D but it's nice to know I'll eventually see that model again. D: ehhh, if I get to that point. KEEP PLAYING ALTS. KEEP. GAHH
I actually just got to do the quests at level with a spriest i had that just kinda sat there.
I pretty much love the 'quest giver' quests.
I USED TO BE A FARMER!
also when leveling I really don't think my outfits have matched much, except for the draenei pally i made who bought all the starter stuff outright.
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I meant after the latest patch came out, but OK
It is currently looking extremely doubtful that I will buy Cata/renew my sub beyond the one month I bought.
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Now it would appear that 2H Frost plays like the roller coaster ride I enjoyed back in 3.3.
ughhhhhh now I want to play (but I can't lol)
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Now it would appear that 2H Frost plays like the roller coaster ride I enjoyed back in 3.3.
Sheesh, I could've told you that. :) Howling blast is ridiculous now that it only requires one rune.
Even so, I'm still more of a fan of unholy. It just feels a lot more versatile now that scourge strike can be used more. I find that I don't suffer on single-target DPS as much as I used to.
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In case you didn't know, DW Unholy is currently on-pace to be the top spec at 85.
Just saying.
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I never got my DK to 85 in beta; I was too busy doing random stuff and soloing shit with a premade warrior like a douche.
It's kind of good to hear, but at the same time it was nice being the sleeper spec. There really don't seem to be many unholy players who know what the hell they're doing, so I've kind of made my mark by being the exception. </ego>
On an unrelated note, I can't stop watching your fucking sig pic. Goddamnit.
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Yeah, I was reading some DK websites because I plan on playing one if/when I play again.
It's almost like each loop has something different, right? Also, you guys can use my gifs for whatever you want <3
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DKs are fun as hell to play. It's a shame there's so many nubs that give us a bad name. We're like the hunters of Wrath of the Lich King.
Sweet. My GIF collection's gonna be a-growin'.
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We were the hunters of Wrath of the Lich King.
fixed
too bad you didn't play in BC; you could've seen some real huntards
EDIT: vanilla would be even better, but I didn't play back then :X
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too bad you didn't play in BC; you could've seen some real huntards
I got about 35 levels in BC, actually...as a hunter. :x
Luckily for my sanity, on the relatively few dungeon runs that I did at that early stage I didn't have the displeasure of seeing a true huntard in action. I had to wait until WotLK to see hunters that did less DPS than their pets.
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EDIT: vanilla would be even better, but I didn't play back then :X
I did, lol. Too bad most people I know now that play WoW didn't :<
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Did anyone preorder? I didn't, 'cuz it seems like I won't be able to play until 4.1 at least
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I preordered...yesterday. Oh well, three days in advance is actually pretty good for me.
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So apparently people on the EU servers got realm-first 525 cooking <20 mins after logging in, and some have already gotten realm-first 525 mining
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Azshara is the best zone ever now. Why? Because of the motherfucking Gob Squad. Five of the most badass goblins that ever lived.
Their awesomeness is so grand that it brought a tear to my eye. Then they kicked my ass, spat on me, and called me a pussy. Man, I love those guys.
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Oh Em gee three hours!
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gay shit about the pussy Gob Squad
Redridge's A-Team/Rambo parody is much better (http://www.wowhead.com/quest=26708)
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I've heard of that. Didn't get a chance to jump on any of my Alliance toons to do it, though.
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I got 'Stood in the Fire' yesterday questing in Eastern Plaguelands. holy shit was that out of nowhere. It actually scared me because I had my speakers kind of loud lol
Also no cata for me until this weekend, I overspent on Christmas. :< My worgen warlock will have to wait.
Wonder how many worgen I will get in my dungeon finder groups this evening on my 44 mage... it would not surprise me.
edit: I realise now many could just be race changes. :< but it's still amusing.
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Deathwing: U DIE NAO.
Jinxie: ;_;
Pyroko: i h8 dethwing >:(
Jinxie has died.
Jinxie has earned the achievement [Stood in the Fire].
Pyroko has died.
Pyroko has earned the achievement [Stood in the Fire].
Pyroko: i h8 blizerd >:(
Jinxie: ;_;!!!
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Yay, level 83.
Strangely enough, Vashj'ir feels buggier than it did in late beta. I'm stuck at 140/150 quests complete because there are two major quests that are bugged.
I did a brief stint in Deepholm followed by a briefer stint in Hyjal, and now I'm in Uldum. Fun! Alchemy feels insanely easy to level for some reason. Maybe it's because I went from 1-450 during WotLK, but it just feels like there's less obscure crap mixed in. Haven't done much work on archeology, nor have I bothered to raise my cooking skill above 450. We'll see how that goes.
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Ding, 85.
I really really really really enjoyed Grim Batol. An instance that makes you think? In my WoW? Yay Cataclysm! Sure, Armegeddon and I were the only two from the original random group that stayed in long enough to learn the fights, but it was totally worth it. I love actually having to use interrupts and slows in dungeons now. It's just so much more involved and it really makes being a pew pewer interesting now. Even the "hard" instance in Wrath didn't really require you to do anything special to save teh dayy1!111 (unless you CC the mobs at the beginning of HoR like my first group in there did).
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I can't wait until dungeons get nerfed.
Seriously, I don't want to think in a 5-man. Give me a raid (or a BG/arena) for that BS
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Fuck that noise. When doing dailies becomes more interesting than doing high level dungeons there's something seriously wrong.
I actually got annoyed when heroics popped (queued for goblin rep and nothing else) before Cataclysm came out because the dungeons were so damn monotonous. I'll take a reasonable challenge any day over that shit.
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My point was I don't want a challenge if I'm doing a PUG with strangers in a 5-man. I want to GTFO.
Do a guild progression raid for a challenge
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I'm gonna agree with spectere here. Dungeons need to be actually interesting.
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My point was I don't want a challenge if I'm doing a PUG with strangers in a 5-man. I want to GTFO.
Do a guild progression raid for a challenge
And my point was that dungeons should be harder than slapping a keyboard.
The mechanics in the dungeons are not difficult by a long shot. The point is that the dungeons actually have mechanics again, whereas in WotLK they practically didn't. Almost every single encounter was a tank and spank.
Even the raids in WotLK weren't hard. The only ones that proved to be somewhat of a challenge were TotGC and some encounters in ICC, and only because people stood in the fire because they were too used to the weaksauce dungeons. After you get used to killing the ICC bosses it practically starts feeling like a dungeon, albeit with less room for error.
If you're having problems, wait for DBM or something similar to be updated so that it can do all of the thinking for you (though Blizzard's interface pretty much does that now anyway).
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If you're having problems, wait for DBM or something similar to be updated so that it can do all of the thinking for you (though Blizzard's interface pretty much does that now anyway).
I'm not playing at the moment; I'm going by what I've heard on the forums.
Even the raids in WotLK weren't hard.
And did you do Uld hard modes when they were relevant? ToGC when it was relevant? ICC hard modes before 30% buff?
Otherwise your opinion on raid difficulty is moot, I'm afraid. Blizzard balances "hard" through its hard modes; not normal.
I'm gonna agree with spectere here. Dungeons need to be actually interesting.
You haven't played in 4+ years. You have no idea how much the community's changed.
P.S. No they don't. Not for shitty blues, they don't. People didn't enjoy long, challenging heroics for shitty blues back in BC (REMEMBER? CUZ I WAS ACTUALLY THERE LOL), and they sure as hell aren't enjoying it now (check the Healing (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/1033925/) forums; while at the moment of this posting it's full of "I like it", for the last few days it was almost nothing but "fuck this shit")
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I wasn't geared in time to do Ulduar and ToGC, but I did ICC hard modes as an undergeared healer with a 10% buff. I wasn't particularly impressed with the first wing. The rest of the group wasn't particularly well geared, either, save for one person (the person who we used to run the hard modes). The mechanics are not that difficult unless you're a 'tard. Literally, outside of a few isolated mistakes, the only people that ever wiped my raid groups were 'tards. There was no buff when I first started doing regular ICC.
Also, you're mistaking difficult mechanics for different play styles. Most of the wipes that I've been involved in are because healers are royally overhealing, not because of the "difficult" mechanics. Probably because the "difficult" mechanics are easy as hell if you have eyes.
P.S. No they don't. Not for shitty blues, they don't. People didn't enjoy long, challenging heroics for shitty blues back in BC (REMEMBER? CUZ I WAS ACTUALLY THERE LOL), and they sure as hell aren't enjoying it now (check the Healing (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/1033925/) forums; while at the moment of this posting it's full of "I like it", for the last few days it was almost nothing but "fuck this shit")
Yeah, that's because shit changed. Considering, as you say, you've been playing for all this time, you should know that people always QQ when anything changes in this game. They either suck it up and deal, quit WoW and sign up to one of the many "WoW-killers" that are out, or find out that they whined, bitched, and complained about something that was perfectly fine.
I'm not playing at the moment; I'm going by what I've heard on the forums.
No comment necessary.
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I wasn't geared in time to do Ulduar and ToGC, but I did ICC hard modes as an undergeared healer with a 10% buff. I wasn't particularly impressed with the first wing. The rest of the group wasn't particularly well geared, either, save for one person (the person who we used to run the hard modes). The mechanics are not that difficult unless you're a 'tard. Literally, outside of a few isolated mistakes, the only people that ever wiped my raid groups were 'tards. There was no buff when I first started doing regular ICC.
Respectable enough, then. But what about H LK?
Most of the wipes that I've been involved in are because healers are royally overhealing, not because of the "difficult" mechanics.
There was a multiple-page thread about how healers can only use 2 (at most 3) different heals in heroics or else they go OOM. Most hate it.
They either suck it up and deal, quit WoW and sign up to one of the many "WoW-killers" that are out, or find out that they whined, bitched, and complained about something that was perfectly fine.
Because Blizz is always right. It can't be bosses are overtuned and healing is undertuned--nah bro, it's just whining. While there are always complaints after a change, this is different from the usual.
No comment necessary.
I hate dragon slaying; what can I say? My loves are PvP and the AH. Yet, sometimes I need to go into 5-mans (or even raids) for something, and when I do, I prefer it really easy. PvE is almost never fun, and anything that can get me out quicker is the best.
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Respectable enough, then. But what about H LK?
My guild disbanded before we had the opportunity.
There was a multiple-page thread about how healers can only use 2 (at most 3) different heals in heroics or else they go OOM. Most hate it.
Most healers are shitty. What's new?
At least this weeds out the ones who can't do more than cast one spell over and over again.
Because Blizz is always right. It can't be bosses are overtuned and healing is undertuned--nah bro, it's just whining. While there are always complaints after a change, this is different from the usual.
Actually, most of the dungeon groups that I've been in have zero problems as long as the people aren't fucking stupid. The only people who have problems are the Wrath idiots who think that all they should have to do is press a giant I WIN button and Blizzard will hand them epics. Fuck them.
I literally had a healer earlier that said "all I should have to do is throw a HoT and spam nourish." Yeah. Okay. Healers are finally having to do what priests have always had to do -- use what's optimal for the situation -- and tanks need to watch their pulls, and DPS needs to have more than two things on their bar. Heaven forbid people actually have to use all of those fancy spells that Blizzard programmed in.
I hate dragon slaying; what can I say? My loves are PvP and the AH. Yet, sometimes I need to go into 5-mans (or even raids) for something, and when I do, I prefer it really easy. PvE is almost never fun, and anything that can get me out quicker is the best.
The thing is, Blizzard already separated PvP and PvE for the most part when Wrath came out. I could see having to run BC dungeons, because I distinctly recall PvP gear dropping from them. The only thing that's connected is the ability to occasionally get honor from dungeons (though I think that's only a Wintergrasp/Northrend thing) and the ability to get started with PvP by buying lower level gear from the emblem vendors.
The only time I could see having to raid for PvP gear is if you're doing VoA or, presumably, the one in Tol Borad. Outside of that, I can't see the need.
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My guild disbanded before we had the opportunity.
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Most healers are shitty. What's new?
At least this weeds out the ones who can't do more than cast one spell over and over again.
[more stuff about healers]
I tried to heal in late Wrath in blues and a few epics. It was definitely a lot more than what you're saying.
The thing is, Blizzard already separated PvP and PvE for the most part when Wrath came out. I could see having to run BC dungeons, because I distinctly recall PvP gear dropping from them. The only thing that's connected is the ability to occasionally get honor from dungeons (though I think that's only a Wintergrasp/Northrend thing) and the ability to get started with PvP by buying lower level gear from the emblem vendors.
The only time I could see having to raid for PvP gear is if you're doing VoA or, presumably, the one in Tol Borad. Outside of that, I can't see the need.
This is untrue. There were many times where stuff you could get from 5-mans (or raids) were even better than PvP gear (mostly trinkets; otherwise it was usually related to 2pc T9/10.) And no, you didn't get PvP gear from BC dungeons (unless you count that one resil ring from Ramps as "PvP".) You did, however, have to grind reps like Honor Hold and Keepers of Time for the blue starter PvP gear.
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I hate dragon slaying; what can I say? My loves are PvP and the AH. Yet, sometimes I need to go into 5-mans (or even raids) for something, and when I do, I prefer it really easy. PvE is almost never fun, and anything that can get me out quicker is the best.
This explains everything. I'm a PvE player, so I'm going to be biased for dungeons being interesting. But just because your biased and don't want to deal with it doesn't mean that that's how the game should be.
And by the way, I have been playing on and off on private servers (blizzlike rates only, I HATE bullshit instant 80 shit), and I've had to solo dungeons and instances for half decent gear.
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I tried to heal in late Wrath in blues and a few epics. It was definitely a lot more than what you're saying.
I did exaggerate, yeah, but literally every healing class I've played beside my priest (most notably druids) hardly took any effort.
Healing was incredibly easy in Wrath aside from the occasional spikes in some of the endgame stuff. The part that really sucked is that my overheals were out of control without me even trying or, for that matter, exerting my mana pool. There is no doubt that the system was broken.
This is untrue. There were many times where stuff you could get from 5-mans (or raids) were even better than PvP gear (mostly trinkets; otherwise it was usually related to 2pc T9/10.) And no, you didn't get PvP gear from BC dungeons (unless you count that one resil ring from Ramps as "PvP".) You did, however, have to grind reps like Honor Hold and Keepers of Time for the blue starter PvP gear.
I don't PvP much, so I'm mainly going based on what I've done with my priest. The vendor PvP gear seemed pretty good from what I've seen, but it probably depends on what class you're playing and how much of X, Y and Z stat that you need to stack.
And yeah, anything with resilience is pretty much PvP now, even if the gear sucks. Not sure if you've messed with 4.0 much, but resil doesn't do anything outside of PvP now.
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The vendor PvP gear seemed pretty good from what I've seen, but it probably depends on what class you're playing and how much of X, Y and Z stat that you need to stack.
Casters (and to a lesser extent, healers) wore as much haste gear as they could get without dropping too low resil-wise, and warriors (and other ArP stacking classes/specs) wore as much ArP as they could without dropping too low resil-wise. This led to situations like full PvE gear warrior + double healer, which could basically kill full-resil geared players in a Bladestorm if they were lucky.
So yeah,
There were many times where stuff you could get from 5-mans (or raids) were even better than PvP gear (mostly trinkets; otherwise it was usually related to 2pc T9/10.)
By the way, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIyv_CFs72k) video basically sums up Wrath PvP. And this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqd6SzWZWqo) sums up Season 8.
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Double post because I am an admin.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/gundrak/junsa/advanced I was so close to 31k, too Q_Q
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http://fanboys-online.com/
Relevant.
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http://fanboys-online.com/
Relevant.
It's oversimplified, but mostly true. I laughed.
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The draw to us is leveling characters and not being miserable for 60 levels. The draw to blizzard is having people come back and enjoying classic leveling for probably the first time in the game
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lolbump
Really close to getting my first seasonal event title. Nobel, in this case. It's the little things in life...
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Panda monks. Discuss. </slowpoke>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation
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what about the pokemans?
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WoW is running out of ideas....Wouldn't surprise me if the Panda was specialized in Kung-fu.
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what about the pokemans?
Very intriguing, especially since I'm a companion collector. I haven't read up on it too much, though.
WoW is running out of ideas....Wouldn't surprise me if the Panda was specialized in Kung-fu.
They've been going strong for 8 years. There's only so much they can do to keep it fresh.
I have to hand it to them, though, they have a lot of ideas for the Pandarians considering they were originally conceived as an April Fools' gag. I also like how you can actually join a faction.
I really hope they increase the number of character slots per realm. If I have to find another realm specifically for my monk, I'm going to be a sad panda (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fuck me that was dumb).
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LMAO!
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So it looks like I'm raiding regularly again. A buddy of mine from Turalyon decided to jump on and resurrect his old guild literally on the same night that I started playing again after a three month break. Strangely, the reason I even knew about him coming back was because he cold messaged my unguilded goblin warlock (whom I rerolled recently) asking if I were interested in joining the guild and I simply recognized his name.
So yeah, awesome coincidence.
With his help and some considerable luck, I managed to bring my priest's item level from 358 to 377 (not to mention replacing all of the 3-4 pieces of PvP gear that I had) in one night (!), scoring about ten lucky drops between LFG and LFR. As of right now we're 3/8 into Dragon Soul normal and would have gone farther if the raid leader didn't have to quit and deal with unexpected real life crap.
I wound up respeccing to disc/holy, from disc/shadow, and am happy to report that holy isn't worthless like it was when Cataclysm first launched.
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Lol, good job. I'd like play some retail WoW now. Too bad the last time I played retail WoW was before TBC came out, lol.
I've never had the chance to properly raid in retail, thanks to soloing up a vanilla pally to level 40... That was punishment enough and I quit, and private servers are garbage for raiding.
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Well, if you ever decide to hop on again let me know. Blizzard went kinda nerf-happy on elites so, outside of dungeon quests, pretty much everything is soloable. They tried to make up for it by making the quests themselves more interesting and rewarding.
What bugged me was that they nerfed a lot of the BC group quests, making them non-elite quests. That pisses me off, because I have been able to solo every single one of them on every single class I've taken through that content. It was a fun challenge but, alas, no more. At least the Fel Reaver is still painful at level 60-70. If they would have given him the nerf bat I would have been furious.