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Sonikku

Lifer
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Firemage, dps DH, and marks hunter seem to be clear top of the list. DPS monk was in that area but think they are getting most of the nerf, they may have been better for PvP anyway and several of the changes seem pvp initiated that also effect pve. Can't say for sure there though as monk is my least experienced class.

Guess PvE nerfed for PvP is back.
 

Aikouka

Lifer
Nov 27, 2001
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I've been mostly playing my Assassination Rogue, and the changes are interesting. The increase in Deadly Poison damage doesn't just raise our damage, but it also affects the worth of mastery, which increases our poison damage. Right now, mastery is essentially tied with haste as our worst stat (about a .3 AP) where critical strike and versatility are close to each other (versatility is still higher though). Although, I'd have to do some number crunching to figure out if this really does shuffle the priority around; however, I doubt it will. I'm guessing we'll see mastery go from a .29 AP to about a .40 to .50 AP, which is still below critical strike (.61) and versatility (.69). Although, I have yet to see how much this affects Bag of Tricks, which also got buffed, since I only just got that trait.

EDIT:

...and now that Frost DKs are getting buffed, I'm definitely hoarding my artifact points until I hit 103 and going through to get that artifact instead. Ugh... I hate Unholy.
 

JujuFish

Lifer
Feb 3, 2005
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What's the easiest rogue spec to level? I need to get a skinner out there, so that means my rogue.
 

Worthington

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probably comba,,, err Outlaw. I haven't leveled as Sub but Outlaw is far far easier than Assassination to level with.
 

Sonikku

Lifer
Jun 23, 2005
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Outlaw is also close to being the top dps spec in the game. You'll spank mobs.
 

Linflas

Lifer
Jan 30, 2001
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Quick question I can't seem to find the answer to. When in combat in addition to the health and mana bar in the upper left of the UI I have one that appears centered above my action and bar. I have searched through all the UI settings trying to find out how to turn it off or at least move it elsewhere. Is there a way to do this that I am missing?
 

Tweak155

Lifer
Sep 23, 2003
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Yes you can turn it off. If I remember correctly, it's under Interface -> Names? I can verify later but I'm sure someone else can look at it in the meantime. I know for a fact you can turn it off though!
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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So, I played during vanilla, then quit after we had BWL & MC on farme We had progressed 1/2way through AQ40, and wiped on trash in Naxx.

I started playing again with BC came out, but got bored in a few months.

I started playing when Lich King came out, loved northrend, enjoyed the raiding again, but real life got busier and I gave it up

I played approx 1 month when Catacalysm came out, but got bored instantly.


Just logged back in a week ago, on a new realm, with nothing, no gold.
The woman gave it a go, and shes having fun with it so now she has her own account ..


So, now im sitting on a level 40 something priest, 60ish death knight, and a decent pile of gold from selling misc crap..
of course i have 85 warlock & 74 druid on another realm, and then I have 80 lock, druid, hunter, death knight along with 60 warrrior and 70 paladin on another realm ....

liking a lot how they have redone the lowbie zones to be less boring, I do miss the tough fights that the old elite mobs used to present. Seems like everythig has been tuned for solo combat, full parties of 5, or raids ...

I usually team up with the fiancee and/or a friend ... so typically have a party of 2, sometimes 3 ... quest chains with long dependency chains and such make leveling as a party cumbersome ... but its a LOT better than it used to be, especially since the woman is new to keyboard + mouse gaming
 

Tweak155

Lifer
Sep 23, 2003
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Yes you can turn it off. If I remember correctly, it's under Interface -> Names? I can verify later but I'm sure someone else can look at it in the meantime. I know for a fact you can turn it off though!
Wow, good memory I have... just checked and it is indeed Interface -> Names... checkbox is "Personal Resource Display".
 
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lupi

Lifer
Apr 8, 2001
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Changes going in today., They've lessened some of the DH nerf and further buffed SP.
 

Dannar26

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Mar 13, 2012
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Took them long enough.

Something good for Ret? I'm at work, so I can't view that link...

So, I played during vanilla, then quit after we had BWL & MC on farme We had progressed 1/2way through AQ40, and wiped on trash in Naxx.

I started playing again with BC came out, but got bored in a few months.

I started playing when Lich King came out, loved northrend, enjoyed the raiding again, but real life got busier and I gave it up

I played approx 1 month when Catacalysm came out, but got bored instantly.


Just logged back in a week ago, on a new realm, with nothing, no gold.
The woman gave it a go, and shes having fun with it so now she has her own account ..


So, now im sitting on a level 40 something priest, 60ish death knight, and a decent pile of gold from selling misc crap..
of course i have 85 warlock & 74 druid on another realm, and then I have 80 lock, druid, hunter, death knight along with 60 warrrior and 70 paladin on another realm ....

liking a lot how they have redone the lowbie zones to be less boring, I do miss the tough fights that the old elite mobs used to present. Seems like everythig has been tuned for solo combat, full parties of 5, or raids ...

I usually team up with the fiancee and/or a friend ... so typically have a party of 2, sometimes 3 ... quest chains with long dependency chains and such make leveling as a party cumbersome ... but its a LOT better than it used to be, especially since the woman is new to keyboard + mouse gaming

Being an old timer I too want to take a toon from 1 to 110. I don't have the time for it...but I'd like to see how much has changed, and how much hasn't.

So they made leveling more fun than you remember?
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
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eing an old timer I too want to take a toon from 1 to 110. I don't have the time for it...but I'd like to see how much has changed, and how much hasn't.

So they made leveling more fun than you remember?

The leveling speed from 1 -> max level is faster now that it's ever been, every expansion they've actually reduced the relative time it takes to max out a character.

I remember in Vanilla a dedicated player, not using any weird strats other than what they remember for quest chains and whatnot, and ignoring professions for the most part, could probably hit max in about 10 days /played. Each expansion it's been reduced despite the level requirement for max going up. Last time I leveled anything (which admittedly was last expansion) I couldn't do but a quarter of the quests in a given zone before outleveling it, and it wasn't even worth leaving Orgrimmar if I was going to queue for a dungeon, as each dungeon would give you like 3 levels with no leveling gear on.

Basically they've ruined half the content of the game (pre-max questing) by increasing the leveling speed so high. Honestly they could just do level scaling across Azeroth and have everyone start at 110 and it wouldn't make a difference. In fact that'd get people out into those zones. I'd love to go quest in Feralas or something if there was a reason to do it.
 

Linflas

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Jan 30, 2001
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Something good for Ret? I'm at work, so I can't view that link...



Being an old timer I too want to take a toon from 1 to 110. I don't have the time for it...but I'd like to see how much has changed, and how much hasn't.

So they made leveling more fun than you remember?

I was pretty much in the same boat when I started with the 30 day returning players freebie back in May. I had leveled a mage to 60 then quit when EQ2 released. I ended up rolling a new mage just to learn the ropes and the leveling was pretty quick and it really was useful to learn what essentially was a new game from what I had left.
 

lupi

Lifer
Apr 8, 2001
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Mail Call!

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Aikouka

Lifer
Nov 27, 2001
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One nice thing is that the movie actually comes with digital content too. It includes the Medivh hero for Hearthstone, Gul'dan for Heroes of the Storm and a free copy of vanilla World of WarCraft, which I think technically includes up to Mists of Pandaria by default? I think we both got in on Target's deal, which was something like $10-13 for the UHD version (includes normal and UHD discs), and the Medivh hero and Gul'dan alone cost close to that.

Anyway, I found something that kind of bummed me about WoW last night. So far, I had been playing my Rogue and Monk, which are played solo; however, last night, I decided to push my Death Knight to 102 so I could get the Frost artifact. My Death Knight is a dual-box with my Resto Druid, which means I had to play both. So, I decided to go to Azsuna, which I figured would be the easiest to do with two people since Highmountain has a lot of verticality and Stormheim's grapple hook would be a pain.

Unfortunately, the game seems to have become a lot more dual-box unfriendly. Usually in the past, when you collected some sort of non-item quest reward, it would count to both players. In fact, if two players did it in a group, it would count twice! So far, I've had to actually do it on each character to only get credit on the individual character. It's always a bit of a pain to swap between them, so I prefer just sticking to the main one. Also, I've had to deal with a few escort quests (like the ghost prince guy), and each character has to have their own escort and quest completion doesn't share if one finishes.

What's probably the worst aspect is the rare mobs. The mob scaling isn't just by level, but it will also scale depending on the number of people in active combat with the mob. So, if my Death Knight is fighting a mob with 1.3 million health, and my Druid casts a single Rejuvenation, the mob's health will jump up to 2.6 million. Honestly, you get credit for simply being in the group, so I make sure to never do anything with the second character, but it's definitely a pain if I ever need to heal.
 

clok1966

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Jul 6, 2004
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Question for the hunters: I play too many (4 on 3 accounts) and i am dealing with some questions I hope somebody can answer. Beastmastery spec in all cases, i'm using the 10% damage per guardian cobra shot skill, so you have your pet and Hati, then you have follower (mission guys) I have 2 trinkets that spawn 2 mobs each. So i have a total of 7 pets/guardians (does stampede count for this too? doesnt seem to). My question is when all 7 are up is that 70% boost in Cobra shot/ do they count them all. Also i got my mastery up to 65% (increases pet damage by 65%) again this should effect all 7 pets i assume. Of course all the pets are not up all the time but they are steady enough. This hunter seems to really be head above my others.. I have one all haste and crit and in PvE (I did my time in PvP arenas etc to get a title that was stripped later, the time sink was unreal and the reward was blew away, not doing it again) the one with mastery and all the pets is blowing it away. I keep telling myslef they cant be such a huge margin difference, but as i play the same content on all 4 at same level often same day, this one is standing out in a major way.. and all i read it shouldn't. I know, just measure DPS.. simple.. and i will, but to be honest sometimes a feeling is as good as the real thing, i keep believing taht i cant be right and an actual DPS test would prove it.

But im more interested in if those 7 pets count for both the cobra shot skill and mastery, or are those trinket ones not counting? Is the follower (body guard) counting? Oh my artifact is built for pet damage for the most part.
 

Slacker

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Oct 9, 1999
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Got the artifact fishing pole last night.
Was way more difficult, complicated and time consuming to get than my "save the world(of warcraft) weapon.
And now to power this ultimate weap... Err, fishing pole, just go catch the same rare fish, over and over again.
 

lupi

Lifer
Apr 8, 2001
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Almost done with stormheim, have done a decent amount of fishing on each pool I run across. First two zones I got all the baits for the Rares rather easy. Last two I've gotten almost none. Not sure if there's been a change but it seems odd.