The World of Warcraft Thread

[mtsgsd]

The wife and I just bought this two nights ago in our search for a substitute for DiabloII.
This is way cool! Looks like we'll be spending way too much time on the computer again.

[seretogis]

BGs are so ridiculously laggy. Sigh.

[Cynthetiq]

Originally Posted by mtsgsd

The wife and I just bought this two nights ago in our search for a substitute for DiabloII.
This is way cool! Looks like we'll be spending way too much time on the computer again.

this is why we were given this too... because of the similarities to D2's simple but fun interface....

skogafoss and I were hot into it but recently got stuck in the lvl 40something glut...

it's still lots of fun.

[MrFlux]

Being stuck in level fortysomething is annoying ~_~

Living on the opposite side of the world to my guild certainly doesn't help, it's pretty damn hard to find a group at the times I play and nearly all of my quests are elites or dungeons ~_~

[boredom]

The mid 50's is pretty hard from around 52-54

[Halx]

I seem to have rocketed all the way to 56. There doesn't seem to be any slowing up. The key? Quest like a mofo.

[00111000]

Originally Posted by Nuvdar

The mid 50's is pretty hard from around 52-54

Go to Felwood, I did 50-54 there fairly quickly in the Demon camps. If you have a demon slaying enchant you'll cut through em like buttah! Well, that is if you melee.

[-Ever-]

Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

this is why we were given this too... because of the similarities to D2's simple but fun interface....

skogafoss and I were hot into it but recently got stuck in the lvl 40something glut...

it's still lots of fun.

Best thing to do is make an alt. Rotate playing your main and your alt depending on who's got the most rest experience. I rarely play with non-rest exp, it's just too slow! (BTW, my main is 45 )

[Redjake]

Originally Posted by Nuvdar

The mid 50's is pretty hard from around 52-54

run Sunken Temple over and over, I went from 51-57 doing Sunken Temple with Double XP, got 1/4 or even 1/2 a level per run

[boredom]

Originally Posted by Redjake

run Sunken Temple over and over, I went from 51-57 doing Sunken Temple with Double XP, got 1/4 or even 1/2 a level per run

shudder i hate that instance, but i was just relating my experience
(i have 2 60s on diff servers on diff sides)

[Cynthetiq]

Originally Posted by -Ever-

Best thing to do is make an alt. Rotate playing your main and your alt depending on who's got the most rest experience. I rarely play with non-rest exp, it's just too slow! (BTW, my main is 45 )

barely have enough time to play the primary let alone an alt....

[bookerV]

I cancelled my account last night. I just haven't had the time to play lately. I haven't logged in for more than about 3 hours in the last 3 weeks. It sucks to leave, but at least if I get some more time in the next couple of months I know that my char and my gear will still be there. Oh well, I guess I just don't have the time for MMORPGs anymore =/

[Lasereth]

Finally got to 60!! Took me way too long. I got majorly stuck at 58. I just stopped leveling and went PVP'ing all the time.

Razerwind, 60 NE Warrior

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My priest is up to 50 now. He looks like a tall, lime-green popsicle with his armor right now. I'll post some pictures if I get around to it!

-Lasereth

[k-von]

Nice Arcanite Reaper you've got there. My paladin is 59, heavily retribution specced, and probably going to hit 60 tonight. Swinging one of http://thottbot.com/?i=35869 those babies around too.

I'll throw up a picture when I get the chance.

[Rawrr]

LBRS and Strath are awesome exp with a 5 man

[Scorps]

Up dates:

This is my lvl 27 Human Mage(almost 28-2 bars to go)


Her before the 27 lvl up just though it was a cool shot


And my NE Priest lvl 36
(he hasn't lvled up much in the past month because I havn't been using him a lot, I want to get my Mage to lvl 30 then put her on hold)



And my new Horde
A lvl 8 Tauren Warrior

[-Ever-]

Your char looks ill Lasereth! Congrats.

A shaman in my guild got this lately. How freakin jealous:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=18803




And a pic of me:

[MrFlux]

Lykaios, Lvl47 Hunter, Cenarius.

[k-von]

Woot.

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[Scorps]

Originally Posted by k-von

Woot.

Congratz on lvl 60, I can't wait to get one of mine characters to lvl 60

[alansmithee]

Originally Posted by Lasereth

I really, REALLY hope they don't do this. I paid 750g for the materials for my Reaper. The reaper is pretty damned good, but it's not overpowered. The only thing that can be named powerful is slow weapons in general. My Kang the Decapitator hit for 80% as much as the Reaper did it and it's for a level 44. It's all about slow, hard-hitting weapons...the Reaper isn't overpowered.

If they do change how instant attacks are done, that will eliminate every single 2H weapon past 3.0 speed from being useful. Honestly...there's not one single reason to use a slow weapon besides instant attacks. If instant attacks aren't based on weapon damage then there's gonna be a lot of weapons floating around on the AH not being bought because they're over 3.0 speed.

Hunters, Paladins, and Shaman use fast 2H right now...warriors use slow 2H. Why change it? Warriors have sucked up until the patch before last, why nerf them now? We're just where we need to be. Making instant-damage abilities not based on weapon damage will RUIN the warrior class, end of story.

-Lasereth

Some pallys prefer slow 2h, as was stated above. Shaman do use fast 2h. And the reason hunters use fast 2h is cause the melee classes all get first dibs on the slow 2h :P

But honestly, it's not just the reaper that's the cause of the potential changes (which are of course currently wild speculation, but some things before speculated about have come true). The reaper is just one of the flavor of the month targets for the WoW community to call for a nerf. But rogues also rely heavily on instants, especially with daggers. They also rely heavily on poisons. But daggers are all for the most part all ultra-quick, even the high-end daggers. One of the best daggers for a rogue is a barman's shanker, even better than felstriker or some of the higher drops. And that's just because it's the slowest dagger. IMO, it's silly that the godliest weapon for a rogue would be a dagger with 1-2 dmg and 10.0 speed. Based on the current blizz system, something like that would be hitting for 4-5k WITHOUT critical hits when you backstab or ambush.

[Zeraph]

The system is odd, but I think you might be exaggerating a bit. Mostly it's balanced, you really only see it when you get weapons like the AR.

Its funny, I remember in the old EQ days, basically it was the opposite. There was something called "the moss covered twig" put in as something of a joke. But it was so fast (less than I sec I think) per swing (and most melee classes had something called double attack, which gave them an extra attack most swings) that it did tons of damage since there was a general flat out damage add. So with double attack you'd be swinging like 4 times per sec + a flat out base dmg add = a lot of dmg.

[Frosstbyte]

[rant]
I got completely fucked over tonight. I was doing my first UBRS run with another guild. There were two hunters, me and one other, and we agreed that I would pass on painweaver if it dropped and she would pass on the beaststalker tunic since I wanted the tunic more and she wanted the band more. We do the whole damn instance and then RIGHT before the throneroom one of our tanks logs. And what do they replace him with? A hunter. And what happens? He is around for all the 20 minutes more it takes us to kill Drak, BS tunic drops and he wins the roll. Fucking ridiculous. I REALLY want the rest of my guild to hit 60 so I can stop doing this pick up bullshit. It's so frustrating to have done the whole instance only to have this random jackass summoned from the beginning after we've done most of it and get the ONE GODDAMN THING I wanted from the run.

Ugh
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[Jadedfox]

Originally Posted by Frosstbyte

[rant]
I got completely fucked over tonight. I was doing my first UBRS run with another guild. There were two hunters, me and one other, and we agreed that I would pass on painweaver if it dropped and she would pass on the beaststalker tunic since I wanted the tunic more and she wanted the band more. We do the whole damn instance and then RIGHT before the throneroom one of our tanks logs. And what do they replace him with? A hunter. And what happens? He is around for all the 20 minutes more it takes us to kill Drak, BS tunic drops and he wins the roll. Fucking ridiculous. I REALLY want the rest of my guild to hit 60 so I can stop doing this pick up bullshit. It's so frustrating to have done the whole instance only to have this random jackass summoned from the beginning after we've done most of it and get the ONE GODDAMN THING I wanted from the run.

Ugh
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I feel your pain but this isn't exactly uncommon. But I don't see how he would not be allowed to roll on it unless you agreed upon that beforehand. Pick-up raids are what they are.

--jaded

[Frosstbyte]

Well, yeah, I understand that pick up raids are what they are and there's nothing to stop him from rolling. It's just annoying to have spent 2+ hours of your time getting to a boss with the rest of the group and then have Random Guy X get warped to the boss and get the thing he wants when he didn't do most of the work it took to get there. Clearing the throne room and killing Drak with a good 15 man group is pretty easy. Had the other hunter wanted it, since she'd been there since the beginning, I would've been disappointed, but I wouldn't have felt like I got screwed.

[Redjake]

Originally Posted by Frosstbyte

[rant]
I got completely fucked over tonight. I was doing my first UBRS run with another guild. There were two hunters, me and one other, and we agreed that I would pass on painweaver if it dropped and she would pass on the beaststalker tunic since I wanted the tunic more and she wanted the band more. We do the whole damn instance and then RIGHT before the throneroom one of our tanks logs. And what do they replace him with? A hunter. And what happens? He is around for all the 20 minutes more it takes us to kill Drak, BS tunic drops and he wins the roll. Fucking ridiculous. I REALLY want the rest of my guild to hit 60 so I can stop doing this pick up bullshit. It's so frustrating to have done the whole instance only to have this random jackass summoned from the beginning after we've done most of it and get the ONE GODDAMN THING I wanted from the run.

Ugh
[/rant]

I've did UBRS in full 31 times now and haven't got the Magister's Robes. I wouldn't worry about losing it once even worse the robe have only dropped ONCE out of the 31 times and I of course lost. it's seriously making me hate the game. people who have been that many times like me should be put to the front of the line or something and automatically get it.

[Stompy]

Originally Posted by Frosstbyte

[rant]
I got completely fucked over tonight. I was doing my first UBRS run with another guild. There were two hunters, me and one other, and we agreed that I would pass on painweaver if it dropped and she would pass on the beaststalker tunic since I wanted the tunic more and she wanted the band more. We do the whole damn instance and then RIGHT before the throneroom one of our tanks logs. And what do they replace him with? A hunter. And what happens? He is around for all the 20 minutes more it takes us to kill Drak, BS tunic drops and he wins the roll. Fucking ridiculous. I REALLY want the rest of my guild to hit 60 so I can stop doing this pick up bullshit. It's so frustrating to have done the whole instance only to have this random jackass summoned from the beginning after we've done most of it and get the ONE GODDAMN THING I wanted from the run.

Ugh
[/rant]

Yeah, blizzard needs to add more control to the looting system... like a permission system as to who can loot, and who can't... or even a "who can loot what".

For example, set a time limit and contribution percentage limit that newcomers must pass before they can roll. If someone comes in late in the raid and is only there for 10 mins, they really have no place rolling on it. If I was the party leader, I would boot em out before they had a chance to snag someone else's item.

The "who can loot what" could be set up so that you can set certain rules.. like mages have first dibs on epic mage-related drops or something. If there's 1 mage, then they automatically get it. A rogue or warrior really has no place rolling on those.

It boils down to giving more control on a detailed level to party leaders. Party leaders set the rules, the rest in the group must follow. If they don't agree, they know where the "leave party" option is.

[sailor]

Originally Posted by Stompy

Yeah, blizzard needs to add more control to the looting system... like a permission system as to who can loot, and who can't... or even a "who can loot what".

For example, set a time limit and contribution percentage limit that newcomers must pass before they can roll. If someone comes in late in the raid and is only there for 10 mins, they really have no place rolling on it. If I was the party leader, I would boot em out before they had a chance to snag someone else's item.

The "who can loot what" could be set up so that you can set certain rules.. like mages have first dibs on epic mage-related drops or something. If there's 1 mage, then they automatically get it. A rogue or warrior really has no place rolling on those.

It boils down to giving more control on a detailed level to party leaders. Party leaders set the rules, the rest in the group must follow. If they don't agree, they know where the "leave party" option is.

Agreed. It shouldnt be hard to implement, and would really solve a lot of problems. My highest character is only a 22 priest, and I've already experienced problems like this (though obviously not epic drops )

[Ustwo]

Its a shame blizzard put so little thought into the honor system and rushed it out.

It makes leveling on a mature pvp server pretty painful and I get no thrill killing people with my rogue.

I'm not sure how they could screw up such a great game, but they seem to be trying really hard. Patches introduce bugs that arn't fixed, lag is still a factor on many servers, and end game turns into EQ. At first I was pretty forgiving, but I expected improvements by now.

[snowy]

My 44 warlock poses for your benefit near the waterfalls in STV. Some 41 gnome rogue was giving me the eye as I was concocting these screenshots. I think he wanted to know what the hell I was up to.

The one thing I don't like about the honor system is the ability to lose rank, and lose it so quickly. I'm a private now, I'm sure by tomorrow I'll be back to nothing. C'est la vie.

[rat]

i have to say that my experiences with parties are rather interesting. over the last 6 months, over a dozen of my friends in the dorm picked up WoW, and the last month or two, they even had their own guild. if something like the "rolling on shit you don't need" issue came up, the other members of the party from the guild would go to that person's room and threaten their health (not horribly, but a good "you ever do that again, i'll beat your ass" mean's a WHOLE lot more in person ). it actually made their guild rather sought-after to party with as time went by, as the rules established in the dorm went for ALL guild members.

of course, there were bad times as well. i.e., the time my friend John (a sophomore) was taking a lower level party through SM. the pali in the group, Kevin (a freshman), kept pulling/getting aggroed by 3-4 of the NPCs at once, making it much tougher to rush the party through as they wasted time dying/resing members. John starts to power trip, and tells Kevin to sit the fuck still. So for the following three engagements, Kevin would let John pull, then go dance in the middle of the NPCs during the battle. That argument lasted for 2 days

[cyclone]

I've played WoW since closed beta, but the lack on content progression has me getting bored, but im an avid warcraft fan, so ill stick around.

[Lasereth]

Originally Posted by onesnowyowl

The one thing I don't like about the honor system is the ability to lose rank, and lose it so quickly. I'm a private now, I'm sure by tomorrow I'll be back to nothing. C'est la vie.

YES!! I'm a Knight now and I'm starting to realize that if I ever go on vacation, my rank is going bye-bye. I think that it should take at least two weeks for a rank to decay by default. Two of my friends lost their rank last Tuesday. That's BS that they lost it by being absent for one week. The good news is that it only takes a minimal amount of PVP to keep your rank. The downside to that is that if you're on vacation, you're not gonna get ANY PVP in so you will lose your rank. That's why I think the two-week thing would be perfect.

Anyway, I should be Knight-Lieutenant today.

-Lasereth

[Frosstbyte]

Originally Posted by Lasereth

YES!! I'm a Knight now and I'm starting to realize that if I ever go on vacation, my rank is going bye-bye. I think that it should take at least two weeks for a rank to decay by default. Two of my friends lost their rank last Tuesday. That's BS that they lost it by being absent for one week. The good news is that it only takes a minimal amount of PVP to keep your rank. The downside to that is that if you're on vacation, you're not gonna get ANY PVP in so you will lose your rank. That's why I think the two-week thing would be perfect.

I kind of get the feeling that the honor system is needlessly complicated, but here's just something to think about. I'm on Shattered Hand, which is a relatively high population PvP server that has a whole lot of PvP going on. I see knights literally all over the place and no shortage of knight-lieutenants. I wouldn't be too surprised if we have a knight-champion or lieutenant commander after this update.

Anyway, the fact of the matter is that I've been corporal for about 4 weeks now and not have PvPed at all since I got that rank. That is to say that when the rank is still close to the highest that anyone on the server has, it's going to be a lot harder to maintain. It's easy to keep corporal without work since there are a lot of us and it's a low-end rank. It's hard to keep knight because there are currently very few knights and it's currently a high-end rank. In a month or so when there are high officers, getting and keeping a rank like knight or knight-lieutenant's going to be a lot easier, because the system is set up to allow for more of them to be in play and not be as competitive as the high officer positions.

I think once BG comes out in live, the ganking will go down, making it more possible for leveling to occur even on mature PvP servers. I think Blizzard's only real mistake was not releasing PvP honor and BG at the same time. The honor system, while needlessly complicated (in my opinion), seems to be doing ok.

[Stompy]

The only thing I don't like about the honor system is the fact that I'd have to devote a good portion of my life in order to get a somewhat high rank.

[seretogis]

This is a little late, but behold, Sulfuras!

[Cynthetiq]

OMG this is why you have to be careful with who you party with....

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=1666

LEEEEEROY!!!!

[snowy]

HAHAHA...I passed that along to all my guildies. Yeah, that's definitely a What Not To Do. Silly Leeroy.

[lindseylatch]

Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

OMG this is why you have to be careful with who you party with....

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=1666

LEEEEEROY!!!!

That has set-up written ALLLLLLL over it...

[Lasereth]

Well of course it's a setup. It's a video made to make fun of the irony associated with many WoW raids. A huge plan is always set up to kill a boss and then it never works because someone screws up.

-Lasereth