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

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Anubis

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tbqhwy.com
for UI if you don't want to do it all your self

ElvUI and TukUI (vry similar) basically set it all up for you and then you can add in things like boss mods and other specific things if you want
 

Phoenix86

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While I'd recommend elvui I'd hardly say it does everything for you. I still spend a couple hours setting it up...
 

lupi

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Natives are restless today. Patch notes for the expansion starting to tilt heavier on the side of things removed from the game than added. Latest result in the thunder king treasure room will no longer be able to be accessed.
 

Anubis

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I can see them taking it out for lvl 100 so you cant just cheese it and make money, but taking it out now seems a bit silly
 

AznAnarchy99

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Got the legendary cloak on my second toon.

Time to go back to leveling something to 60 to boost. Still undecided but I am thinking my warrior or my rogue..
 

lupi

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In general the most hate blizz gets is over stuff they keep taking out, not sure why they keep doing it.
 

Phoenix86

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In general the most hate blizz gets is over stuff they keep taking out, not sure why they keep doing it.
They need to stop announcing details on things they can't ensure will be completed.

Take garrisons for example, you can announce they are coming without all the details. Then, when the details change, or get removed no one knows.
 

Gryz

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I know that when you pre-order WoD, you get 1 free boost.

But what happens when you buy WoD after the expansion is released ? Say 1 week later, or 4 months later. Do you still get 1 free boost ? That's not explained on Blizzard's website.
 

alkemyst

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I know that when you pre-order WoD, you get 1 free boost.

But what happens when you buy WoD after the expansion is released ? Say 1 week later, or 4 months later. Do you still get 1 free boost ? That's not explained on Blizzard's website.

Most of the freebies don't happen after pre-order for free.
 

Gryz

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That's not an answer.

I understand that the one boost is an appetizer to seduce players to pre-order. However, everywhere where I read about the boost, they are vague about the time-frame. You could call the boost a freebie. You could also call it a service included with the product.

The rationalization of the boost-service is that new players who want to join their friends in WoW nowadays have to spend days or weeks leveling their character, until they catch up. With the 1 char boost, a totally new player can join his friends right-away when WoD starts. Or a few weeks later, they only need to level 90->100 until they can join their friends. The idea is that this makes it easier for new players to get into the game. This reasoning is still the same after the release of WoD. So I wouldn't be surprised if buying the expansion after release still gives 1 boost included.

I've seen websites that sell the expansion-pack. The product will be sent on the day of release. They say it includes a free boost. Those are different from Blizzard's pre-order.

I would just like to be sure. Something on Blizzard's websites would be nice.
 

JujuFish

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The boost has never been referred to as a pre-order bonus (to my knowledge). I would be surprised if it isn't permanent.
 

lupi

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you are incorrect. you get one boost with a WoD game key. If you order from blizz, they are allowing you to have the boost prior to the release date to entice people to buy directly from them since that gets them a higher % return per product sold.
 

Gryz

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But you agree that if you buy WoD from someone else, you still get a free boost. Only you get to execute it only after WoD goes live ?
 

Phoenix86

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Correct. The offer of a boosted toon early was a benefit of buying directly from Bliz, at least that was my understanding.
 

lupi

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Finally got the stupid blob pet from AQ40 completing leashes 1. Just need 2 BC pets to complete II.

Got spoiled off the damn account wide stuff. Went and killed a rare in panda land last night thinking it would add him on my acount kill list...but those stupid things are per char and while I have over half killed on my main, that one wasn't one and I didn't get credit.
 

JujuFish

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I started off last night by finishing CMs on my mage and finished it by getting Mimiron's head. I'm pretty happy.
 

SithSolo1

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I gave in and re-subbed the other day to prep for WoD. Mainly capping out professions and scraping up some extra gold. I've managed to cap out all the primary profs except Tailoring and Inscription.

By the end of the week I should have seven 90s on my main server. Planning to level my pally first in WoD but I'm gonna try to have the others running garrisons.

I'm on Kul Tiras - Alliance side if anyone else happens to be there and needs help with anything.
 

Rhezuss

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I bought WoD but didn't logged in a long while. I feel the WoW tickle again, might as well log back in tonight and start a new toon for fun!

Dwarf Paladin here I come!
 

lupi

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Blizz finally admitted the wrath rep item token have been removed from the game come 6.0. No real reason given though.
 

Rhezuss

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Hey guys...i'll ask again :p
Is there an AT guild or a server most of you are playing?

I just started a new toon yesterday but on TN where no more friends of mine are playing. I'm in "elitist" guild with my ilvl 525 Lock that never see raid time...

I'd really like to start fresh on a new server or anywhere with some of AT people. Guild or no guild I don't really care but questing alone can get really boring...
 

Slacker

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Was an awesome bug in the beta a couple days ago where equipping PvP tournament rings and trinkets then swapping them from slot to slot made their stats stack infinitely.
I got to 100 million hit points, 1 million intellect and spell power and easily nuked anything in the game.