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

[Aikouka]

with the exception of ToC/ToGC, Wrath progression felt perfect to me.

easy heroics (especially once you out-geared them), average raids, and hard hard-modes... my only major complaint is that I wish hard mode drops had totally different graphics than normal mode, so that they stood out more and made their wearers look more bad-ass.

Sounds about right to me. Blizzard is sort of adding "heroic hard-modes" now with the new timed system (Challenges) for people wanting more of a challenge.

 

[lupi]

If anyone hasn't logged recently, the monk pet is on d0% sale right now.

Also they published something about previous accounts being eligible for a 7 day pass right now too.

 

[Sixguns]

Last night, me and some friends went and cleared up the the Lich King with just a 4man group. I was surprised how easy it was up until LK. Tried once and got destroyed so if anybody needs to kill him on 10man, we are going to try again tomorrow night. PM me for my realID if you wan to join.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Last night, me and some friends went and cleared up the the Lich King with just a 4man group. I was surprised how easy it was up until LK. Tried once and got destroyed so if anybody needs to kill him on 10man, we are going to try again tomorrow night. PM me for my realID if you wan to join.

Make it a heroic kill and Im there. I still need my Bane title.

 

[Aikouka]

Last night, me and some friends went and cleared up the the Lich King with just a 4man group. I was surprised how easy it was up until LK. Tried once and got destroyed so if anybody needs to kill him on 10man, we are going to try again tomorrow night. PM me for my realID if you wan to join.

I wanted to note that you don't need to give out a Real ID anymore. The Battle Tag (i.e. username#[four digit number]) is pretty much the same as Real ID, but without releasing your e-mail address and real name. Diablo III has had it for awhile now (it was released with Diablo III), but WoW finally added it with 5.0.4.

EDIT:

Out of curiosity, what problems were you having with The Lich King? I'm guessing the disease in phase 1 was not that easy to manage given the normal strategy has the off-tank pulling all ghouls and big ghouls over to the side to be taken out by the disease. As a Paladin tank, it was also my job to cleanse the disease off people running over to me.

 

[lupi]

Had an intereesting niight. Trying to get my pally finished through the caata levels even though he's already an 85, and mostly subpapr geared.

Saw an 83 priest on the airship in the deeps but was doing quest so didn't care. Later he tried to jump mee so I engaged and he ended up jumping down the hole in the ship at about half life.

Later he came back and started a fight again but this time I had to run as I couldn't put even a small dent into his health pool. Assuming he swapped specs/talents as he just kept doing holy fire and kept himself almost continually shielded.

So nerf priest!

 

[nageov3t]

I usually don't bother engaging other healers on my priest... we seem to always end up at a draw, unless I get lucky with CC (but most are smart enough to run away when I try and get them in range of psychic scream)

 

[Sixguns]

Out of curiosity, what problems were you having with The Lich King? I'm guessing the disease in phase 1 was not that easy to manage given the normal strategy has the off-tank pulling all ghouls and big ghouls over to the side to be taken out by the disease. As a Paladin tank, it was also my job to cleanse the disease off people running over to me.

That its. Only got him to about 75%ish but this was the first time for me being there. I quit raiding midway through ICC and never made it to him. Ive read the strat on how to do it at 85 now since we went in there kind of blind.

 

[ky54]

Why do I get that sinking feeling that MoP is going to be more TBC than Wrath? This constant restarting and patching for things that should have been worked out in beta isn't giving me a lot of confidence that when the EX rolls it will be anything but fun.

 

[lupi]

Somewhat to be expected. First you have them making many more changes than normal, both for their benefit and at player request, and you have them trying to put this out a couple months shorter than the "normal" cycle.

 

[nageov3t]

oomph.

just ran into a premade in AV... wiped us on Galv and they're now proceeding to GY farm us... we're about to lose, 0 reinforcements to 600

edit: Horde finalllly won. didn't cap any towers, didn't kill Balinda even, just GY camped us until we ran out of reinforcements.

 

[lupi]

Lol, haven't seen that in awhile.

Except forr saturday during the day ill be home on online most of this wweekend if anyone wants to try old boss farming or something.

 

[Sixguns]

Lol, haven't seen that in awhile.

Except forr saturday during the day ill be home on online most of this wweekend if anyone wants to try old boss farming or something.

Me and a couple of friends have been doing this all week. Tonight we are going to go after LK and maybe sunwell after that.

 

[cronos]

It seems like Theramore scenario will be up today!

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

still kinda stumped on which class to play for pandaria...(have 85's of all classes except shaman). I was just recently really stoked on my druid, love him...love instant flight form...but I feel that the feral DPS rotation is just unnecessarily complicated and difficult. I mean, its not *actually* difficult at all, but in comparison its by far the hardest dps rotation of any class.

i believe ferals are the only class forced to spam an ability with a positional requirement as well (shred). yes, rogues have positional requirement abilities but they arent forced to use them. they could spec hemo or combat for example. but shred is a crux...and that along with the complicated rotation is kinda annoying. i'm really surprised blizz hasnt done anything about this yet, as they have dumbed down all other classes to ez-mode rotations pretty much.

edit: just had a thought...I could go boomchicken to avoid the difficult rotation. never have considered that though, I've just always been a feral druid. hmm...

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

It seems like Theramore scenario will be up today!

omg nice!

edit: will it actually be up today? I would think they'd bring it up on an update day, like tomorrow

 

[cronos]

omg nice!

edit: will it actually be up today? I would think they'd bring it up on an update day, like tomorrow

Already out for EU, and they said 'afternoon' in the US. I won't be home for a few hours so I won't be able to check

 

[Aikouka]

i believe ferals are the only class forced to spam an ability with a positional requirement as well (shred). yes, rogues have positional requirement abilities but they arent forced to use them. they could spec hemo or combat for example. but shred is a crux...and that along with the complicated rotation is kinda annoying. i'm really surprised blizz hasnt done anything about this yet, as they have dumbed down all other classes to ez-mode rotations pretty much.

edit: just had a thought...I could go boomchicken to avoid the difficult rotation. never have considered that though, I've just always been a feral druid. hmm...

The positioning problem is what made me go Combat for Ultraxxion in Dragon Soul. It's impossible to get behind him, which meant that I couldn't use Backstab (my sub-35% finisher). Our Feral Druid still did rather well even though he couldn't use Shred, and it doesn't usually create an issue for him that I know of... because all melee should be attacking from behind anyway!

However, while playing my Enhancement Shaman, I always felt that my rotation was far more annoying than people realized. I can't recall the exact numbers anymore, but my priority list usually involved about 8+ entries. I also had to keep track of about 3+ timers, and even consider whether to use Maelstrom Weapon prior to reaching 5 stacks (3-4 stacks + LB was an entry in the priority list).

That doesn't even include ensuring that my totems were still providing proper coverage and my DPS totem is in range. Heroic Shannox was a huge pain when it came to totem range. Fortunately, all totems with long buff durations have been shifted to the shaman similar to Unleashed Rage.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

ha! it figures the one class that could prove my blanket statement incorrect is the only one i havent gotten to 85 yet.

I still stand by my statement, druids of the world need to uprise and whine about our annoying rotation! I want a CLC-DK or CLC-Ret rotation. (for those that dont know, those addons show you exactly which button to mash to maximize your dps for those specs)

edit: and I want those for my druid. because I can instantly fly with my druid.

 

[Aikouka]

ha! it figures the one class that could prove my blanket statement incorrect is the only one i havent gotten to 85 yet.

I still stand by my statement, druids of the world need to uprise and whine about our annoying rotation! I want a CLC-DK or CLC-Ret rotation. (for those that dont know, those addons show you exactly which button to mash to maximize your dps for those specs)

edit: and I want those for my druid. because I can instantly fly with my druid.

I don't mean to indicate that the Druid rotation isn't overly complex, but I do think that the Shaman one can be fairly comparable. There were also encounter things to consider such as interrupts, which Enhancement has the best one. It has a short cooldown and doesn't really affect your resource. Retribution Paladins are fairly similar. I always hated using Kick on my Rogue because it required me to ensure that I always had 15 energy pooled.

 

[Sixguns]

Already out for EU, and they said 'afternoon' in the US. I won't be home for a few hours so I won't be able to check

It is up and Ive run it once already. Kind of lame but oh well.

 

[lupi]

how often can you run it to try for the loot bag?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Just got my hunter to 80 and realized how horrible this is gonna be to get my monk up to 85.

 

[nageov3t]

I'm surprised at the LFG queue times for Theramore.

you'd think, with a bunch of people doing it and the only requirements being "warm body with ilevel +353," queues would be pretty short... but the wait time on my Horde Shaman last night was 30 minutes.

I got a guild group to get the achievement, but I really want to farm it for the caster staff for transmog.

 

[lupi]

Even though I've seen a lot more people online the last week or so, think most people were happy to do the achievement then haven't touched it.