The World of Warcraft Thread

[Frosstbyte]

My guild has dissolved into cliques and lacks any coherent leadership. I'm getting really tired of not being able to buy my way into any Karazhan groups. I've got all my heroic keys, but no one wants a hunter in a heroic group.

Having a lot of fun farming demons for Aldor rep, though. Right?

[intecel]

I'm sick of all the rep farming that's needed in this expansion... You need heroic keys for 4 places to get pieces to get into the final dungeon.

Not that I'll ever see the final dungeons on my warlock unless I get out of my guild. I'm one of 3 lvl 70s.. I've been 70 since day 9. I think we have another 10 people that are 60 to 69...

I haven't found anything to do over the past few days, so i dumped alch/herb on my shaman and got him from 0 to 350 tailoring in 2 days... Those new bags sell pretty good.

[evil_twin617]

Overheating, hmm. Never even thought of that. Thanks for the advice, I'll work on it this weekend and see if it helps.

[Scorps]

Woot hit 70 last night now I can get some sleep and fresh air

[Crack]

New Balance Druid Record Starfire Crit: 3890 (in PvP)
Record Wrath Crit: 2652 (also in PvP)

715+ damage
7120 Health
8340 Mana
21.83% chance to crit in Laser Chicken form

With Raid buffs (int and kings), I can pop both of my Trinkets at the same time and be well over 1100 + damage 4200+ Starfire anyone?

I 2-shot a lvl 69 "bird man" type mob the other day on a quest. I was grouped with a pally, and he went to attack it, before he even made it to the mob it was dead.
All he said was "w...t...f..." I just said, "oh, I crit. Twice"

[Reese]

Laser Chicken form FTW?

I havent gotten to go yet because the guild I want to raid with starts 30 minutes before i get off work and I'm the only one attuned in my guild.

I'm loving end game shadow priest. I have a little problems keeping up with mages on the DPS on the trash pulls but I make up for it with my sweet mana and health restoring dps on boss fights.

[Crack]

Originally Posted by cybermike

Laser Chicken form FTW?

that is a 4064 crit if you can't read it.

[Scorps]

Wow I still working on getting my Dungeon set finished then Im going to work on damage...highest crit with PyroBlast was just over 3.3K. not bad for what I was doing before.

[high_jinx]

lately my favorite thing to do has been using my mindcontrol hat in warsong gulch.

i love grabbing a hapless defender to help me out of their flagroom. my favorite targets are hunters because their teammates step in their traps by the flag or pallies because they slap blessing of freedom on me.

its fun on defense too. i'll be midfield and when i turn around and see someone runnin with my flag, i'll pop the hat on him and have him follow me back to my flagroom like a stray puppy.

finally the meanest thing i think you can do is grab a hunter and have him help you kill his own pet

[Reese]

We finally downed Moroes last night. Only took us 2 days I got Signet of Unshakable Faith woot!

I don't have a good mainhand to go with it yet so I'm using The Essence Focuser with a +30 int enchant on it. I'm definitely looking forward to getting a better mainhander from either Shattered Halls or Maiden of Virtue. Maybe tonight!

[Scorps]

Thats a nice set-up...I need a new dagger for my mage, but the green I got is better then some blues

[Orange]

70 Night Elf Rogue on Lightning's Blade. Fiery Warhorse's Reins dropped last night in kara... but no rogue loot .

Originally Posted by high_jinx

lately my favorite thing to do has been using my mindcontrol hat in warsong gulch.

i love grabbing a hapless defender to help me out of their flagroom. my favorite targets are hunters because their teammates step in their traps by the flag or pallies because they slap blessing of freedom on me.

its fun on defense too. i'll be midfield and when i turn around and see someone runnin with my flag, i'll pop the hat on him and have him follow me back to my flagroom like a stray puppy.

finally the meanest thing i think you can do is grab a hunter and have him help you kill his own pet

Bah Mindcontrol cap has lower chances of working at levels higher than 60... seems unreliable to me. But then again I am a rogue and prefer to sap one target and 30/0/31 combo nuke another... Two others :P.

[P-Naughty]

I had a 60 NE rogue main and a 60 Dwarf Priest. "Sold" my account for 300. Now I'm back, still on Detheroc.

Hunley - leveling Dranei Hunter

[MageB420666]

Who here as seen the not-so-dark underside of Stormwind?


What about seeing it from this side of a portal?

[Deltona Couple]

I have just begun to start looking at this game, and from what I can see, I would be wasting my time. everyone is level 70 or so, and me, starting as a newbie would just get wasted.lol. Not to mention that it looks like it costs about $20 per month to play? thats CRAZY.

[YaWhateva]

Originally Posted by Deltona Couple

I have just begun to start looking at this game, and from what I can see, I would be wasting my time. everyone is level 70 or so, and me, starting as a newbie would just get wasted.lol. Not to mention that it looks like it costs about $20 per month to play? thats CRAZY.

Well, there are a lot of new people that play all the time. While there are a lot of 70's there are still a lot of new lower level people. Also, about the getting wasted thing, if you join a non-pvp server you can be as free as you want. PVP servers are much funner though.

Mage: I used to love getting to SW and getting in through the underground and raping people. There is a spot underneath there that if you jump down, you will fall into the portal room, haha.

[-Ever-]

Yeah I cancelled my account today. Too much guild drama, too much of the same old stuff, too much real life stuff to take care of :\

[Redjake]

-Ever-, just don't start deleting all your characters. I've seen so many people do that. Why in the world would anyone do that? Blizzard will keep your character pretty much forever. I'm sure you know this, though - I remember you've been playing since the beginning

[Cynthetiq]

Originally Posted by YaWhateva

Well, there are a lot of new people that play all the time. While there are a lot of 70's there are still a lot of new lower level people. Also, about the getting wasted thing, if you join a non-pvp server you can be as free as you want. PVP servers are much funner though.

Mage: I used to love getting to SW and getting in through the underground and raping people. There is a spot underneath there that if you jump down, you will fall into the portal room, haha.

Yeah I guess if you count getting mugged as you walk down the street "fun"

as far as guild drama is concerned, it's always there since well other people are involved and that's what people like to do, create drama.

[Scorps]

Are guild has had 5 people go this week alone..a druid tank because the bear form nurf, and 3 priests but we are not short on priests thank god. And a rogue.

[Esoteric]

You had someone cancel over the Druid nerf? That nerf was 100% justified.

[Frosstbyte]

The nerf was justified. The severity of the nerf almost certainly wasn't. Blizzard has a habit of using a sledge hammer when all they needed to use was some sandpaper.

What's become obvious in the expansion is that a lot of druids really LIKE tanking in the endgame. While they were unquestionably too good at it-and also unquestionably better than warriors at AE tanking-the solution to the problem would've been to make 1 or 2 of the 4 changes they made to druids AND make warriors better.

The other major druid problem is that their trees are fucked up. It should've been cat/healer/tank and not caster/healer/kittybear. That problem is WAY to embedded to ever fix, though.

[Esoteric]

I think we can all agree though that Druids being able to take that much dmg while being able to dish about as much dmg as an Arms specced Warrior was a bit ridiculous. I think Blizzard needs to add a threat modifier to their abilities or something. They did go a little overboard with the nerfs, but we'll see if some get changed before going live.

[Scorps]

Originally Posted by Esoteric

You had someone cancel over the Druid nerf? That nerf was 100% justified.

Ya he just taking sometime to cool down, He was are best tank. he also bitched out blizzard on the forums and they banned him.

[YaWhateva]

So many priests are dropping out too. We have been ignored for so long and given so much feedback for possible changes to make our class something worthwhile, only to be told it will never happen...and then they take our ideas and give them to other classes. Oh well, I am still having fun.

[Lasereth]

I'm having a blast playing BC with my GF and brother. My priest and warrior are both 61 now. I'm not even out of Hellfire Peninsula and I'm still amazed at how much the game has changed. It's very refreshing to see totally new zones since I've been in the same ones since the beginning of 2004 (played closed beta up until release).

[MageB420666]

Originally Posted by Deltona Couple

I have just begun to start looking at this game, and from what I can see, I would be wasting my time. everyone is level 70 or so, and me, starting as a newbie would just get wasted.lol. Not to mention that it looks like it costs about $20 per month to play? thats CRAZY.

My highest level character is only lvl 37. As other people have said, new people start all the time. And even in a pvp server you don't get pwned all the time. It happens some, but there are also a lot of times where you come across the opposite faction when they are your level or lower.

P.S. The game costs about $15 a month if you buy it a month at a time, if you subscribe for the six month blocks its $13 a month. Consider how much you'd play the game in a month vs. how much you'd pay to spend an hour and a half in a movie theatre. The entertainment value gains perspective when you compare it to other activities.

[reconmike]

I am playing wow atm because I need somrthing till the release of Warhammer. My question is being I am a hardcore P V P player, but not in the sense in the PVE world more like BG's, what the hell is up with all that friggen dancing around and running in the bg's?
I mean come on if you attack someone square off and fight them not dance in circles then run to your little twink buddies.
I guess I was spoiled by the play style in DAOC where people actually stood and fought.
WOW seriously needs a /stick option so atleast you dont have to turn in circles and dance to fight someone.

[Crack]

Originally Posted by reconmike

...what the hell is up with all that friggen dancing around and running in the bg's?
I mean come on if you attack someone square off and fight them not dance in circles then run to your little twink buddies.
I guess I was spoiled by the play style in DAOC where people actually stood and fought.
WOW seriously needs a /stick option so atleast you dont have to turn in circles and dance to fight someone.

People do that because they are used to fighting casters, where if you go behind them at all, the spell they are casting fails. That and the wep speed. It works on melee as well, if you are slow at getting "squared off" with someone to take a swing, then they will get a free hit or 2 on ya.

[Redjake]

Originally Posted by reconmike

I am playing wow atm because I need somrthing till the release of Warhammer. My question is being I am a hardcore P V P player, but not in the sense in the PVE world more like BG's, what the hell is up with all that friggen dancing around and running in the bg's?
I mean come on if you attack someone square off and fight them not dance in circles then run to your little twink buddies.
I guess I was spoiled by the play style in DAOC where people actually stood and fought.
WOW seriously needs a /stick option so atleast you dont have to turn in circles and dance to fight someone.

it's either stand and get killed, or move and have a chance. I'm sure if you fought someone with a 5-foot battle axe with skulls on it in real life, you wouldn't just stand there and swing

I know if I stand still when fighting my brother (Lasereth) in WoW he will literally kill me in two swings. This is coming from a 61 mage with 3800 HP.

[Esoteric]

Originally Posted by reconmike

I am playing wow atm because I need somrthing till the release of Warhammer. My question is being I am a hardcore P V P player, but not in the sense in the PVE world more like BG's, what the hell is up with all that friggen dancing around and running in the bg's?
I mean come on if you attack someone square off and fight them not dance in circles then run to your little twink buddies.
I guess I was spoiled by the play style in DAOC where people actually stood and fought.
WOW seriously needs a /stick option so atleast you dont have to turn in circles and dance to fight someone.

I disagree with WoW needing a /stick option. To me strafing around makes the combat more fun and involved. In DAoC you could just /stick and then line up your attacks, and if you strafed just a little bit you'd miss your attacks. I loved DAoC PvP though don't get me wrong, but I always wished you could've strafed around.

[YaWhateva]

My guild just started guild runs of Karazhan this weekend and we cleared Attumen&Midnight and Moroes so far but we are stuck on the Maiden of Virtue. A pally would trivialize this fight but there aren't many on our server that are 70 yet (we have a 67 though). I must say though, Karazhan is extremely fun. The boss fights are very interesting and take a lot of coordination. This seems to have breathed new life into the game for me and some of my friends.

[Crack]

Originally Posted by YaWhateva

My guild just started guild runs of Karazhan this weekend and we cleared Attumen&Midnight and Moroes so far but we are stuck on the Maiden of Virtue. A pally would trivialize this fight but there aren't many on our server that are 70 yet (we have a 67 though). I must say though, Karazhan is extremely fun. The boss fights are very interesting and take a lot of coordination. This seems to have breathed new life into the game for me and some of my friends.

go to Strath first, get a disease that lasts for 10 mins, summon back, make sure not to cleanse the healers, there is one that does like 20 damage every 5 seconds for 10 mins, I can't remember the name of it, but that's how we killed her. Cheap, but effective

[YaWhateva]

Originally Posted by Crack

go to Strath first, get a disease that lasts for 10 mins, summon back, make sure not to cleanse the healers, there is one that does like 20 damage every 5 seconds for 10 mins, I can't remember the name of it, but that's how we killed her. Cheap, but effective

I will definitely do that! thanks!

[Lokus]

Actually, two shamans trivialize that encounter. With two grounding totems, no one ever takes a holy fire or the holy bolt. You can have a healer who's on top of their game to run into the consecrate for repentance or just HoT up the tank.

[ObieX]

once you learn her encounter she really isnt bad. As lokus says it does take healers to be on top of their game and know where to move and when to avoid that stun. Here's a tip you may find useful if you dont already know: Spoiler: The holy fire will usually hit the person who is closest to the outer edge of her melee range.

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[YaWhateva]

Originally Posted by Lokus

Actually, two shamans trivialize that encounter. With two grounding totems, no one ever takes a holy fire or the holy bolt. You can have a healer who's on top of their game to run into the consecrate for repentance or just HoT up the tank.

we have been laying grounding totems and me and another priest having been stacking Renews on our tank. I also tried the running into the consecrate for repentance and it helped a lot. We also tried having one person just out of melee range and everyone else spread out further away but she would still holy fire random people. Maybe she was just bugging out. We are going to try her again tonight I think.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[ObieX]

From what i hear they changed her around a bit this patch. We skipped her tonight and went strait to romeo and juiet (1shot their asses!) and curator (1shot his bitch ass too) .. actually we 1shot the first boss and didnt wipe on moroes either Which is badass considering they nerfed the Luffa this patch.

Then we proceeded to shade of aran and wiped 4 times before we ran out of time for the night (we did get him to about 10-15% twice tho.)

[reconmike]

Originally Posted by Redjake

it's either stand and get killed, or move and have a chance. I'm sure if you fought someone with a 5-foot battle axe with skulls on it in real life, you wouldn't just stand there and swing

I know if I stand still when fighting my brother (Lasereth) in WoW he will literally kill me in two swings. This is coming from a 61 mage with 3800 HP.

No I wouldnt, but if someone with a 5 foot axe swung it at me and i evaded it he would be so far out of position he wouldnt be able to run around in a circle before i stuck my knife in his chest.

Originally Posted by Esoteric

I disagree with WoW needing a /stick option. To me strafing around makes the combat more fun and involved. In DAoC you could just /stick and then line up your attacks, and if you strafed just a little bit you'd miss your attacks. I loved DAoC PvP though don't get me wrong, but I always wished you could've strafed around.

WoW needs it because there are so few attack options, it is a very basic game, most melee types have 2 or 3 styles and its rinse and repeat, the game was made imo for 12 year old caster boys, where range rules.
I see it in the styles rogues get where there isnt 1 powerful frontal stealth attack style,

[Deltona Couple]

I just have a hard time justifying the money considering how little I play. I might spend 3 or 4 hours a wekk MAXIMUM on any of my games. So 13 or 15 a month just to be able to PLAY a game?...I dunno. I guess if I actually PLAYED the game I might change my mind.