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

[lupi]

Yes, you buy the basic WoW key and you now have everything but WoD.

Speaking of WoD, hopefully when it launched they remove that annoying ass banner on your character select screen.

 

[Phoenix86]

That's all it's been for a while, except adding living bomb which you can still do through talents should you choose -- and then combustion on CD. I haven't tried Blastwave yet, but if it hits as hard as Supernova it might not be a bad idea to work in to your rotation.

I don't think they butchered/changed mages nearly as much as some other classes, the gameplay and rotation is largely the same.

A bomb every 10 seconds or gives you a bit of maneuverability between GCDs. Scorch does shit for damage, and while it's better than nothing on the move it won't be used nearly as often. I'll simply have to make the choice to eat environmental damage or stop casting to move 3 yards. Prior I'd stop hard casting, cast scorch and move. This means I'll only use scorch on longer movements, but not so far I wouldn't just blink.

I'm OK with that for now, just pointing out pretty much every spec will have this issue. The post I replied to made it seem like SV hunters were hit harder on the removal of buttons thing. Everyone in my guild was saying "well shit, I'm 3-4 buttons now". If you don't like that design, fine, but switch classes/specs won't fix it.

Healers -cannot- heal on the run like they used to. Required small changes on a couple normal fights in SoO, tanks were outrunning healers who had to stop to heal a little. Being out of heal range will be a major issue since a healer cannot afford to move to you to heal.

 

[Phoenix86]

@thread: What was your DPS and spec last night? Looking for something resembling a baseline...

 

[robvp]

A bomb every 10 seconds or gives you a bit of maneuverability between GCDs. Scorch does shit for damage, and while it's better than nothing on the move it won't be used nearly as often. I'll simply have to make the choice to eat environmental damage or stop casting to move 3 yards. Prior I'd stop hard casting, cast scorch and move. This means I'll only use scorch on longer movements, but not so far I wouldn't just blink.

I'm OK with that for now, just pointing out pretty much every spec will have this issue. The post I replied to made it seem like SV hunters were hit harder on the removal of buttons thing. Everyone in my guild was saying "well shit, I'm 3-4 buttons now". If you don't like that design, fine, but switch classes/specs won't fix it.

Healers -cannot- heal on the run like they used to. Required small changes on a couple normal fights in SoO, tanks were outrunning healers who had to stop to heal a little. Being out of heal range will be a major issue since a healer cannot afford to move to you to heal.

I'm thinking hunters will be brought to the raid for when the mechanics call for movility, they slapped us with aspect of the fox to help the casters do their thing while moving

 

[JujuFish]

Looking at the latest simcraft rankings, I would not be surprised if hunters get buffed. In BIS Warlords gear, BM is the worst of all specs and survival is only above ret pallies and shadow priests. Even MM is only in the middle of the pack.

 

[robvp]

I went into firelands just out of curiosity, instance appears to be bugged, i'm doing pre 6.0.2 damage but mobs have squished stats, I feel dirty

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I went into firelands just out of curiosity, instance appears to be bugged, i'm doing pre 6.0.2 damage but mobs have squished stats, I feel dirty

Did 25H FL last night for my cinders. We had a rather large group so we facerolled ourselves through the instance in 30 minutes.

 

[robvp]

Wait a sec, the extra damage is intended, did not know they did that, apparently you get a boost to damage, did not know it would be this huge

Either way, i cant get past shannox, my dps is still too low to outlive his rage and my pet gets wrecked

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Wait a sec, the extra damage is intended, did not know they did that, apparently you get a boost to damage, did not know it would be this huge

Either way, i cant get past shannox, my dps is still too low to outlive his rage and my pet gets wrecked

You can definitely do it with a group of 1-3. 5 man 25H easily.

I need to gear up my DK a bit more so I can farm ICC for Shadowmourne.

 

[BoberFett]

Will this damage boost persist after WoD launches, or do I need to get farming? I'm still missing so many pets and mounts...

 

[lupi]

Damage adjustment a permanent part of the squish process (was supposed to be a way for them to do a blanket fix for older ccontent without having to actually retune everything). It applies to all pre-mop mobs, although already several instances of mobs that do need individual fixing.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Every Ordos group last night was a shit storm lol. 40 man raids and could not get any farther than 50%.

 

[lupi]

Yeah heard several regular MoP dungeons having trouble points too. None of those fall under the damage multiplier/reduction and were supposed to be individually tuned.

 

[SithSolo1]

Started clearing Naxx 25 on my warrior during lunch. Arms - ilvl 494 overall w/ a 476 MH

So far I cleared Arach, Plague, and Razuvious. I didn't come close to dying but I felt like I was doing wet paper sack levels of dmg. Is the rotation now just Colossal Smash, MS, Rend, TC, spam WW and Execute on cool down? Just seems pretty lack luster.

Maybe I should try Fury..

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Started clearing Naxx 25 on my warrior during lunch. Arms - ilvl 494 overall w/ a 476 MH

So far I cleared Arach, Plague, and Razuvious. I didn't come close to dying but I felt like I was doing wet paper sack levels of dmg. Is the rotation now just Colossal Smash, MS, Rend, TC, spam WW and Execute on cool down? Just seems pretty lack luster.

Maybe I should try Fury..

How did you get past Gunship?

 

[SithSolo1]

Naxx not ICC

Haven't tried ICC yet but I'll give it a shot sometime this week.

 

[Malladine]

Going to try my Fury warrior tonight...played the holy/ret paladin last night. Felt OK, actually not bad as Ret. Without inquisition it flowed better somehow. Holy was different...fewer instant cast made it feel slower not quite as satisfying. I'll see how PvP is as I usually play pvp with the holy pal.

Gotta say the pre-launch event sucked. "Oh hey, yeah these guys are bad go kill em and blow up the cannons". "Good job, there's more there and there" "Nice, now collect these". "Here's your achieve". bleh. Hope that's not an indication of things to come.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Naxx not ICC

Haven't tried ICC yet but I'll give it a shot sometime this week.

Oops lol. I got up to Gunship and got stuck. I probably need 1 more person to help me out.

I wasn't doing as much damage as I thought the first two bosses then I realized I had Shadow's Edge equipped while I was doing my Feast of Souls and forgot to change it :awe:

 

[SithSolo1]

Gotta say the pre-launch event sucked. "Oh hey, yeah these guys are bad go kill em and blow up the cannons". "Good job, there's more there and there" "Nice, now collect these". "Here's your achieve". bleh. Hope that's not an indication of things to come.

Completely agree. Maybe I should have read the quests to drag it out a bit more but I felt absolutely nothing when I had finished. Ooo a title and a pet I'll never pull out....big deal. I just blasted through everything they put through the portal like a lightsaber thru butter. Why am I supposed to be afraid of going to the other side? What happened to the pre-AQ and wrath type events?

 

[Rhezuss]

Can you still complete the pre-launch event or was it exclusively yesterday?

 

[SithSolo1]

Afaik it'll be up until WoD launches.

Its more of a quest chain than an event, maybe 15mins worth of mob slaying for an Achievement, Title, and Pet.

 

[nageov3t]

been feeling so blah about the game lately... hard to really enjoy it when I don't have time in my life to hardcore raid anymore and my game-time is so limited. at that level of casual-ness, I feel like I may as well just be playing a F2P game like RIFT.

but I preordered Draenor, so now I have to play it. lol... worth trying to get into some flex/normal raids at level 516 as a dps shaman?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/proudmoore/Bioshocked/simple

pretty sure I could pickup the ele playstyle again pretty easily, but I wouldn't want to jump back into healing unless I was stupid overgeared.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

been feeling so blah about the game lately... hard to really enjoy it when I don't have time in my life to hardcore raid anymore and my game-time is so limited. at that level of casual-ness, I feel like I may as well just be playing a F2P game like RIFT.

but I preordered Draenor, so now I have to play it. lol... worth trying to get into some flex/normal raids at level 516 as a dps shaman?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/proudmoore/Bioshocked/simple

pretty sure I could pickup the ele playstyle again pretty easily, but I wouldn't want to jump back into healing unless I was stupid overgeared.

Not right now. With the patch, LFR and Normal got extremely hard for these uncoordinated groups.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

So they squished XP requirements too from 85-90. I wish I knew this so I could have put my alts on a fresh level so they could get an extra level.

 

[BoberFett]

Gah, I'm really looking forward to digging in and trying things out. Hopefully I'll have some time tonight. Gonna have to relearn how to play 5 classes... LOL...