AT World of Warcraft Thread (Cataclysm, Where do you play, General BS and all that)

[RedArmy]

"We will be performing extended maintenance on Tuesday, October 12th. Maintenance will begin at 12:00 AM PDT and conclude at approximately 12:00 PM PDT. During this time, all realms and many web services will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience."

So I'm guessing it'll be more like 16ish hours total when it's all said and done.

As a side, anyone have any suggestions as to this build for my fire mage? There isn't much variety to be had with the new talent trees...but I thought I'd just check to see if I'm missing something obvious.

http://wowtal.com/#k=ZINNKB92o.a5o.mage.q5SB_I

Thanks!

 

[lupi]

Knew that patch would mostly likely be tomorrow, but still haven't even spent more than a couple seconds looking at talents. Should be interesting though being able to fill a tree and get the majority of another.

Hmm, maybe I can find a strat page for the new talents.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Guess its time to open up my subscription again Lol

 

[Aikouka]

Knew that patch would mostly likely be tomorrow, but still haven't even spent more than a couple seconds looking at talents. Should be interesting though being able to fill a tree and get the majority of another.

Hmm, maybe I can find a strat page for the new talents.

I've been poking at pretty much all of the trees and I'd say that some classes/specs are easier to talent than others. Some trees simply have a lot more filler talents or talents that don't scream "I bringin' the deeps!", so you sit there wondering, "is this actually good?" Or there are talents that seem somewhat unorthodox... like the healing talents that return mana when you use a damage spell, which I've heard are actually quite nice.

 

[jhbball]

"We will be performing extended maintenance on Tuesday, October 12th. Maintenance will begin at 12:00 AM PDT and conclude at approximately 12:00 PM PDT. During this time, all realms and many web services will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience."

So I'm guessing it'll be more like 16ish hours total when it's all said and done.

As a side, anyone have any suggestions as to this build for my fire mage? There isn't much variety to be had with the new talent trees...but I thought I'd just check to see if I'm missing something obvious.

http://wowtal.com/#k=ZINNKB92o.a5o.mage.q5SB_I

Thanks!

Do all servers go down at the same time typically?

 

[rivan]

I haven't been playing in earnest in about 6 months and only barely been keeping up with Cat stuff.

Where's the best warlock discussion going on these days? I guess I'll be needing a new build next time I log in.

 

[lupi]

When they are doing a full scheduled maintenance they will all go down within a few minutes of each other.

 

[jhbball]

When they are doing a full scheduled maintenance they will all go down within a few minutes of each other.

Sigh, looks like I have to stay up until 3am eastern to make sure my title is safe ;/

 

[nageov3t]

any DK's lurking around?

I've got a level 60 death knight that I've been leveling up on my friend's server and I'm a little at a loss as to what my post-4.0 build and rotation should be.

I'm currently blood and anticipate staying blood.

 

[Aikouka]

For build info, you can check out places like MMOC or EJ, but you may not find specific builds but rather if talents are good or not.

As a side, anyone have any suggestions as to this build for my fire mage? There isn't much variety to be had with the new talent trees...but I thought I'd just check to see if I'm missing something obvious.

http://wowtal.com/#k=ZINNKB92o.a5o.mage.q5SB_I

Thanks!

I noticed that you took Pyromaniac, but isn't that talent somewhat limited in its use? Most boss fights involve one enemy at a time, so it won't even be active. Also, which DoTs count? If Flamestrike is considered, it might work well, otherwise, you'll have to try for ignite procs. I'm not sure if Flame Orb works either since it's not a standard DoT.

I've seen a few people use Improved Flamestrike though. In a way, it provides another instant for you to use.

EDIT:

I'm currently blood and anticipate staying blood.

Don't forget that Blood is the new tanking tree, so if you want to be Blood, you'll have to tank ( you could probably DPS but it'd be odd ). Blood Presence is also the new tanking Presence where Frost and Unholy are both designed for their respective trees.

My DK isn't super geared, but I did more DPS as Unholy than I did with Frost.

 

[rivan]

For build info, you can check out places like MMOC or EJ, but you may not find specific builds but rather if talents are good or not.

Right on, thanks.

 

[nageov3t]

Don't forget that Blood is the new tanking tree, so if you want to be Blood, you'll have to tank ( you could probably DPS but it'd be odd ). Blood Presence is also the new tanking Presence where Frost and Unholy are both designed for their respective trees.

My DK isn't super geared, but I did more DPS as Unholy than I did with Frost.

bearing in mind that this is 100% for leveling, the survivability in blood just seemed too good to give up... though I suppose that with the dual spec cost being lowered as well, there's no reason not to pick it up.

so now I need 2 leveling builds I guess

 

[Worthington]

if you're on a pvp server might want to consider a pvp build for leveling. Killing monsters might take an extra 3 seconds (maybe), but being able to deal with any opposite faction is hugely helpful.

 

[nageov3t]

if you're on a pvp server might want to consider a pvp build for leveling. Killing monsters might take an extra 3 seconds (maybe), but being able to deal with any opposite faction is hugely helpful.

any suggestions? because I am on a pvp server. not looking forward to 70-80 in Northrend without a flyer :/

 

[Wordplay]

bearing in mind that this is 100% for leveling, the survivability in blood just seemed too good to give up... though I suppose that with the dual spec cost being lowered as well, there's no reason not to pick it up.

so now I need 2 leveling builds I guess

The guys from Yogscast had a few good videos on youtube about how the DK talents work. Pretty funny to watch as well.

 

[Worthington]

Wish I could help, but I never leveled a DK so I wouldn't even know where to begin

I think I might be the only one. lol

 

[rcpratt]

Wish I could help, but I never leveled a DK so I wouldn't even know where to begin

I think I might be the only one. lol

Only class I haven't leveled. Playing a prot warrior made me hate them.

 

[jhbball]

Only class I haven't leveled. Playing a prot warrior made me hate them.

Prot warrior is one of the most interesting specs to play. You have tons of control, partly because you can be creative with your charge/intercept/intervene. You're also not bound to using (mostly) clunky stance mechanics.

 

[lupi]

I pretty much never played with a "leveling build". I hated wasting points on respecs so always planned my points with end level gaming in mind.

As far as DKs go, did mine as unholy before, hopefully that stayed as the top dps spec as I like the utility/gadgets they had compared to the others.

 

[nageov3t]

spend all day waiting for patch notes and the first MMO-champion update is about Jack Black.

/fail

 

[Dominato3r]

I can't wait to raid with frost. Never thought I'd be able to do that.

 

[Josh123]

I can't wait to raid with frost. Never thought I'd be able to do that.

Why can't you raid with frost now?

 

[Pens1566]

Why can't you raid with frost now?

I assume he's talking about a mage. If you tried to do that currently, you'd probably be laughed out of any serious group.

 

[Josh123]

I assume he's talking about a mage. If you tried to do that currently, you'd probably be laughed out of any serious group.

Lol oh ok, thought he was talking about Frost DK. I don't know anything about mages or DKs though so that's why I was curious.

 

[Dominato3r]

Why can't you raid with frost now?

My bad, meant mage.

From a few videos I've seen Frost looks to be the most intense out of all 3 specs, with comparable damage to Fire.