Congrats Halx =) Finally getting the big guys down is such a thrill. We're working on Ragnaros now, ugh. Anyone on Llane want to send me some Greater Fire Protection Pots? =P

Quick question... I'm going to be closing my account in the next couple weeks here in preparation for moving to Germany at the end of the month, where I likely won't have internet access nor the time to play. How do you go about doing this? I've heard some of yall talk about reactivating your accounts and playing your old characters; does this mean that if I cancel and then decide to come back later, my characters will still be there?

Yep, they keep your characters on record, you can reactivate your account any time and get them back. To cancel your account just to go worldofwarcraft.com and go to "my account" in the upper right-hand corner.

To the guy asking about BWL, if you haven't farmed MC to death yet I recommend just sticking with that. BWL encounters are so buggy and random at this point that it is not really worth the time investment for the average guild. We have engaged the second boss (Valesestreareaasas or something like that ;)) and twenty seconds into the fight had a Priest grab agro from our MTs and he had never casted anything. That sort of randomness doesn't add difficulty to the encounter, it makes it idiotic. The old Ragnaros (2.0) was like that, with the unresistible elemental damage that may or may not go off 15 times and wipe your raid. Having to repeat encounters in an attempt to get a good roll of the dice is moronic -- especially on an encounter like the second, where you are limited to 1 hour of attempts every six days (or 1 hour every day I think it is, now.)

So, honestly, if you are not farming Ragnaros I suggest working on him and waiting for Blizzard to properly fix the BWL encounters before frustrating yourself with them.

Thanks a lot for the info Seretogis, I'll mention your advice on our forum!
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I won the game two nights ago! Well not really of course, but in my mind, Onyxia was the original gangster of bosses since she was the only one around when I created my character. I hit 60 about a week ago and rushed through the Ony key quests so I could hop in our weekly raid on Monday nights. We wiped the first three times at about 30% then managed to devour her on our fourth. Someone started a chain-ressurection at about 25% and we wound up having virtually every healer (shaman, druid, priest) alive and strong when we killed her. Aside from the regular Ony loot, she dropped two cloth pieces, cornerstone offhand, and deathbringer which I won the roll on but handed down to a warrior I like. What a fun and exciting fight! I can't wait to farm this chic.

-T

Just wanted to respark this thread, it's been almost 20 days since a post!

Yeah, been busy in BWL. Currently stuck on boss #6, "Chromaggus". And no offense Seretogis but if the fights seem too random maybe you're doing something wrong?

--jaded

Sorry, but any guild that is at Chromaggus pre-Vael-fix is either an Alliance guild (gg Blessing of Salvation) or exploiting past Vael. The first two fights have been admitted by Blizzard to have been "too random" and have been adjusted twice so far to account for the faction-differences when it comes to ease of manipulating agro.

We gave up on BWL to focus on Onyxia and MC. We've got ony on 30min farm status (I've lost twice on 10storms now) and mc sub-bosses run strong every weekend.

Our guild is fun and the people are cool, devoted, and strong, however I'm envious of guilds that are way ahead of the game and well into BWL finding the newest of loot. I play mmo's for the role of it, and when it comes to loot, I hate being the guy who has the same item as 80% of the other people on the server. Hope you guys are getting hot drops there!

Finally got Cland to 60 a few days ago. Except he's a rogue so the game sort of ends there...only half kidding.

I've been thinking about a mage, it's wierd though, any characters I play I usually decide first what is simply cool to me, then go on gameplay. With a mage I seem to like the gameplay when I'm playing. But when I'm not, I've got no cool factor for it to make me want to go back and continue. The other thing being, in my eyes, gnomes make the best mages (for alliance), but Im not sure I can stand playing a gnome for my main. Theyre just too goofy and gear doesnt show up well on them. Since I've played 1-60 this would be more of an end game character, but if the cool loot doesnt even show up like it should, well why bother? Anyways the solution would be just play a human, but #1 I think they look a bit goofy too, #2 boring, and #3 they arnt the "best" race (in my mind) so it bothers me a bit. An undead might work, except I want to play with my alliance guild. Plus theres all that money my main has that would be wasted if I went to another server (on pvp so I cant make horde on the same server). Then theres the annoyance of having to level again on a pvp server, and I think I'd just be better off without it..but again i'd be leaving my guilld, a decent guild I finally found after all this time. Well I'm surprised if anyone is still reading this...just rambling really.

Made a movie the other day. Screenshots just get a little boreing to look at sometimes. This is just the opening to whats going to be our many episodes. So its kind of a teaser. Im premiering it here on TFP! Didn't directly link it, i have two types of formats and sizes. Hope you enjoy it.

L I N K Y

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Yes we're Alliance and we NEVER exploit in any way. So blame it on BoS if you like I can accept that. Neverthless, we did just fine pre-nerf on the first two bosses.

--jaded

I found this thread long after I began playing WoW.

I'm a 49 human mage on the Archimonde server.

Anyone else play there?

I havent bought it yet, but i've got friends sending me screenshots, enticing me. I'm afraid. I get addicted to games. I'm just ordering a $3000 system with everything full out, so the game should run seamelessly (I plan to do a lot of video editing).... but man, i'm scared. It's as addictive as they say, isn't it?

It's actually not nearly as addicting as other MMORPGs, but it is way funner. The only reason the game isn't as addicting as other games is because it's way easier than other MMORPGs. A lower difficulty means you don't have to play as much to level up, hence the lowered addiction factor. :) I played WoW a lot, but only because there wasn't much else to do. I played EQ even if there was other stuff to do, nonstop, all the time. I woke up early in the morning to play EQ and stayed up late playing. That hasn't happened with WoW even though I have a 60 warrior and a 51 priest. I cancelled because the end-game is solely about extreme luck in instance running. I don't mind instances, but I hate when the item you want has a 1% chance of dropping, and even if it does, there are others that want it as well. There should be some type of system in the game that lets you put in time and gets you a promised reward instead of a reward based on pure luck.

I'd play for the PVP alone (I LOVE the combat system in WoW) but the PVP system is fucked up due to Battlegrounds right now. :( It's impossible to gain ranks on my server.

-Lasereth

Are there mmorpg's that use a different system than this?

Also, can someone explain what a hero class is that I keep reading about on the forums?

I played MUSH's before.... those that go for highest levels... I'd have to guess that there's more player-character interaction than just going for the highest level - else it wouldn't be a good 1000 player game, right? I dunno.

Lasereth, were you involved with any guilds that used Dragon Kill Points (DKP) as the method of loot distribution? They're far from random.

Basically you earn points by showing up for raids on time and killing bosses. Once you've accumulated enough points, usually over the course of several raids, you can use them to 'buy' an uber-drop and get it without having to roll on it (unless more than one person has the DKP required to buy it, but even if you lose in such a situation then the winner will be weeks behind you if you were roughly equal going into it).

You need a consistent raiding group to pull it off but a DKP system is a good way to ensure that everyone at the same level of participation gets roughly the same rewards. I can't imagine random-rolling vs. the other 5-odd shamans that are regularly in my guild raid for my MC gear.

I was on the server of the guild that invented DKP. :) My guild does currently use it. I'm talking about instances before the 40-mans though...it's unreasonable to use DKP in UBRS, Scholo, LBRS, Strath, DM, etc. My brother did UBRS 38 times and never got the Magister's Robes. That's bullshit and there should be some way to prevent 200 hours of wasted gametime.

I know there are no other games that offer this, but it doesn't change my opinion that it is needed. DKP is a good system, but it benefits the freaks, not the average player. The average player will NEVER be able to get a drop in 40-man raids because the people who go everytime will have more DKP than them.

-Lasereth

Why would you use DKP in any other instances than MC/BWL?

My response was towards the last post. I didn't mean to give the impression that my guild used DKP in the lower-end instances. :) They only use it in MC/BWL right now.

-Lasereth

Ahh ok, sorry for the misunderstanding. I'd never heard of using DKP in pre-MC/BWL, so was curious. :P

Man, Lasereth be glad you guys quit. PR had a falling out and ALOT of people have left. It's almost not worth it to find another guild. Anyway, My rogue is about to hit 60 and so far PVP is so much more fun than it ever was with my pally or priest. I just hope the ranking system gets some much needed work.

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Does anyone here know where the EPL's flight path is...I can't find the damn thing!

If i remember right, IF --> HInterlands --> EP

Hope thats correct, its been a few months since I've played.

It's at Light Hope's Chapel at the very eastern border of EPL.

-Lasereth

Oh one place I didn't make it to...LOL

my mage is only lvl 52 and the horse can only go so fast!

Greetings All,
In short, how does an Alliance Raid beat the first room in BWL? I was invited as a fillin for new raiding guild (a merger). We tried three or four times went and repaired and tried it again. We divided into four groups (at the corners) and a warrior was trying to train the mob. Is there another way? I didnt really appreciate the 3g repair bill so if I do this again I would like to offer a different strategy. Thanks

I asked this same question a few pages back and got mixed results. I'm interested in hearing any current explanations (post patch, etc) as well.

I agree 100% with laserath's above posts. I have a 60 mage and a 60 warrior, and my mage is in a MC guild, but they do DKP and I am too busy living life to devote 6+ hours to a MC run, 2 hours for Ony, and who knows how long in BWL. For that reason, I barely make raids, which isn't a big deal, but whats the point of raiding if not for loots? Also the pvp is really fun, but it is so hard to gain ranks because of the people getting 3, 4, 500k contribution points each week. It's rediculous.

Not to entirely threadjack, as I don't play WOW..

But DKP was definitely not invited in WOW.

The earliest existance I know of was in EQ1..

well i've purchased the game. here goes..

its patch day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woot

/sigh's at the wait to actually come back so i can play .. darn servers

Nothing like the overwhelming patch-day instability either! Can't wait until peak times.

So much going on in WoW recently. Many guilds finishing BWL, ZG comes out, links of new purples galore in guild chat..... :crazy:

Our guild had two full groups run ZG for the first time non-test server tonight. G1 got through three bosses and G2 (mine) only through the Bat-Princess lady. It was a really good time all in all.

Time to farm Hakkar more than MC :hmm:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...p=1#post569585

Random fact: Elitist Jerks (EJ) is on my realm and was the first to down Hakkar on the test server. Wonder if they've killed him since the patch yet.

Man I was suprised my server had few problems last night or at least didnt see any on the forums. All the changes and now seems like the waits for any of the BGs are less. So all in all I think blizzard is doing a better job. Still need to test out all my chars just to make sure. But gotta give it up to blizzard for this one.