The AT World of Warcraft Thread (Where do you play) and general BS

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Anubis
are you allread in phase 3? we are 80% of the way to the armory but only have the shat > QD port

there was no QD-> shat port

however one of the dailys gives you a scroll that ports you to shat once

Nah, we're still phase 2... can't remember how far we're in though, but you need to do "Know Your Ley Lines" to get the portal back if I remember correctly. That's also the quest that gives the port scroll.

Hmm I'm looking at a guide and it doesn't mention a portal back... maybe some mage just created a portal to Shatt right up there :laugh:.

lol

yea the ley lines Q has the scroll, but a perm port would be nice

this is a nifty site for monitoring realm progress

http://us.gorgonnash.info/

GG RP PVE servers

on PVP servers you have to do dailys as a 5 man group to stand a chance of getting it done during peak hours lol

 

[Aikouka]

I might have to start doing them on all 6 70's on Alleria then :Q!

Yeah... RP people are weird. They think up reasons and stuff to act a certain way >_>. The one girl at work plays on a RP server and tells me how her character is happy yet sad to fight in Magister's Terrace 😕.

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
Argh, so there is a argument going on in my guild's forum atm.... we are 4/6 SSC and 3/4 TK, and we can down all of those besides tidewalker consistently (we have some grave problems because they refuse to let people fend for themself and always has a healer down there who eventually pulls murloc aggro). But the argument is that some people want to stop SSC and TK and just do Hyjal and BT. I posted about how even if our gear is good enough, that we dont have the required experience. People argue back that we can down those bosses, and our MTs have between 17k-19k health and we have awesome DPS.

I don't care though, I want to finish SSC and TK then move on... argh...

Having a dedicated grave healer is fine. However, where most people screw up is the positioning of that grave healer. Most position him within range of most/all grave points. This is a bad idea due to murloc aggro even when taking into account aggro reducing abilities. What you want to do is keep the grave healer close to the rest of the raid, but remain a little farther back. He will still be taking quake damage but that is ok. This allows the graved people in your raid to run about half way to Tidewalker (still out of quake range).

At this time, the grave healer AND THOSE WHO ARE GRAVED will start healing with spells and bandages. Once they are healthy again, they can rejoin the raid and continue the fight. The advantage to this strat is that murloc aggro on the grave healer is no longer an issue since they will be close to the murloc tank(s) and can move accordingly. The only con is that the grave healer will get quaked but that is negligible in comparison to the murloc threat. It also requires those who get graved to understand the range of quake and to stay beyond that range, but if your guild is not capable of mastering that then they can forget about MH/BT.

Speaking of which, your guild can probably clear all of MH with exception of Archimonde, but they will have a lot of issues in BT. I support killing Vashj/Kael first, but I can understand if they want to try and move on considering that it is nice to experience Illidan before the next xpack....assuming they can make it to him without the experience of mastering Vashj/Kael. One option to consider is to spend one raid night a week in MH and use your others to continue with SSC/TK but go straight to Vashj/Kael since you can skip the other bosses now. That will get you the experience, the variety, and the gear.

 

[Anubis]

i agree with what Xav has said, 3.5 if MH is pretty brainless, 4/5 is harder but not that hard, i recomend killing vashj and kael tho mainily for your tanks, 4 parts of T5 is nice for all of them, necks from kael are amazing for most classes till well into BT

as for BT, raid HP is the only thing that will hold you back on Naj, you really want EVERYONE to be over 10K and more = better
Supreamus is a joke and so is akama, gorefiend is a DPS race/minigame we still have people who fail on the game 🙁

the "expirence" gained for doing vashj and kael IMO is over rated you dont need it for most stuff in either of the next instances, council is prob the only one as its like kael phase 3 for 10 min and no kael at the end of it
the rest are basicially tank and spanks with really easy position rotations,

bloodboil you need a soak rotation, this requires people to just run back and forth in a certian order, need good healing and tanks also
Souls - you need a tank/enrage rotation and a kick rotation for phase 2, and some DPS
mother you need SR and the ability to run away from people
council i stated above
illidan needs alot but its not that hard

archi requires people to run away from fire

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Anubis
gorefiend is a DPS race/minigame we still have people wo fail on the game 🙁

I'm pretty good at the flash mini-game 😀. Take me!

"You must show the proper respect!"

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Anubis
gorefiend is a DPS race/minigame we still have people wo fail on the game 🙁

I'm pretty good at the flash mini-game 😀. Take me!

"You must show the proper respect!"

You know, I tried the flash game and I have issues because when I hit Tab to switch targets after 3-4 tries it will start highlighting things in my browser that allow me to type which screws me up lol. I imagine it will be easier in game but at least the flash version taught me the concept. For those who wish to give it a try, you can find it here:

Gorefiend Flash Game

 

[Anubis]

i cant even kill 1 in the flash game
in wow i kill them before they get 1/2 way to the stairs :/

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Anubis
i cant even kill 1 in the flash game
in wow i kill them before they get 1/2 way to the stairs :/

It took me about 5-6 times to not fail at the flash game. It's really just about teaching you the *proper* order of moves and such. AoE Freeze->slow all 4->attack one for a little bit->slow all 4 again->etc. It's kinda fun 😀.

 

[Anubis]

i never AOE before shackel in WoW its much easier to just spam shack right before you die so none move

you dont ever have to use the AOE

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Anubis
i never AOE before shackel in WoW its much easier to just spam shack right before you die so none move

you dont ever have to use the AOE

We are probably going to try him for the first time on Monday. My plan was to use the AOE followed by shackle and then I would just rotate through the targets using spirit lance until I can AOE + shackle again or until they are dead. Considering that there will be a learning curve involved, would you say that is the most productive roatation to handle them or is it worth ditching the AOE in favor of an easier rotation?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Anubis
i never AOE before shackel in WoW its much easier to just spam shack right before you die so none move

you dont ever have to use the AOE

I think I'm referring to the shackle then... I have no idea what the moves are called, all I know is I use it and the dots stay in place for 6 or so seconds 😛. You use that so you can stop them while you slow them down, then you DPS them and make sure the slowing effect doesn't wear off. I usually only use the AoE move when they're all slowed.

I'd try the game again, but it seems to be malfunctioning or something?

 

[Xavier434]

Works fine for me.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: Anubis
i never AOE before shackel in WoW its much easier to just spam shack right before you die so none move

you dont ever have to use the AOE

We are probably going to try him for the first time on Monday. My plan was to use the AOE followed by shackle and then I would just rotate through the targets using spirit lance until I can AOE + shackle again or until they are dead. Considering that there will be a learning curve involved, would you say that is the most productive roatation to handle them or is it worth ditching the AOE in favor of an easier rotation?

if you have any people with a higher latency its much better to do this


spam AOE Shackle before you die and as you are dieing to hold them in place (you cast it as soon as you can this way)- spirit lance each one like this 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 so they all get hit twice and DO NOT skip one or hit one twice in a row, after that the shackle CD will be almost up and you can do the damage AOE then reshackle then repeeat

some people make macros and bind them someplace some people tab some click some use the action bar as it "should" auto swap to the gorefiend buttons, special action buttons 3,4,5 IIRC

some bar mods DO NOT swap over so people shoudl be aware of that

i made macors and i tab

 

[Xavier434]

I guess what I am really trying to figure out is what works best for the average player in the raid. I know that I will be doing whatever it takes to maximize my dps on the constructs which includes using the AOE so that I have time to use the other abilities such as Spirit Strike on Gorefiend and Spirit Shield on a healer. I am confident I can do that without increasing the learning curve for the raid even during the first couple attempts. However, I was wondering what your opinion is when it comes to suggesting a rotation to the guild when taking into consideration the performance of the average raider in your guild during your learning curve period....or is it just not that big of a deal and I am trying to optimize this too much?

 

[Aikouka]

I used tab and clicked in the game, although tab was a bit funky in the flash thing, but it got the job done eventually.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I guess what I am really trying to figure out is what works best for the average player in the raid. I know that I will be doing whatever it takes to maximize my dps on the constructs which includes using the AOE so that I have time to use the other abilities such as Spirit Strike on Gorefiend and Spirit Shield on a healer. I am confident I can do that without increasing the learning curve for the raid even during the first couple attempts. However, I was wondering what your opinion is when it comes to suggesting a rotation to the guild when taking into consideration the performance of the average raider in your guild during your learning curve period....or is it just not that big of a deal and I am trying to optimize this too much?

you are trying too much, you will have people that suck at it, we basicially NEVER attack gorefiend with any of the other abilities, if you finish your adds go and help the next person in case they F it up

 

[AntiFreze]

well, the wotlk beta site went from a 404 error to 403 forbidden today (sorry no link, info from my cousin, blocked at work). So I guess its on its way.

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
well, the wotlk beta site went from a 404 error to 403 forbidden today (sorry no link, info from my cousin, blocked at work). So I guess its on its way.

Ya I read about that today. I hope I get to use the beta key they gave me at BlizzCon. 😀

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Ya I read about that today. I hope I get to use the beta key they gave me at BlizzCon. 😀

I wish I'd get to beta test 🙁. You think if I told them that I have real software testing knowledge that they'd let me? 😛

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Ya I read about that today. I hope I get to use the beta key they gave me at BlizzCon. 😀

I wish I'd get to beta test 🙁. You think if I told them that I have real software testing knowledge that they'd let me? 😛

I'll be lucky if they allow me to use my key for WotLK. Most of TBC's testing was done by Blizzard's "friends and family" and I have a hunch that is how they will start beta with WotLK too. One of my friends got into TBC's beta. He is also a guildie. It was pretty sweet because he hooked us up with all sorts of screen shot requests.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Ya I read about that today. I hope I get to use the beta key they gave me at BlizzCon. 😀

I wish I'd get to beta test 🙁. You think if I told them that I have real software testing knowledge that they'd let me? 😛

I'll be lucky if they allow me to use my key for WotLK. Most of TBC's testing was done by Blizzard's "friends and family" and I have a hunch that is how they will start beta with WotLK too. One of my friends got into TBC's beta. He is also a guildie. It was pretty sweet because he hooked us up with all sorts of screen shot requests.

you know i figured that seeing as i was in the orig closed wow beta i woudl have gotten into the TBC beta, but nope 🙁

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I'll be lucky if they allow me to use my key for WotLK. Most of TBC's testing was done by Blizzard's "friends and family" and I have a hunch that is how they will start beta with WotLK too. One of my friends got into TBC's beta. He is also a guildie. It was pretty sweet because he hooked us up with all sorts of screen shot requests.

Maybe I'll have to talk to the one guy I know that went to work for Blizzard and tell him about my 1337 testing skeelz. I've tried to beta test other games... Tabula Rasa... Granado Espada... Mythos. They're all just so boring I can't actually play them, but I love playing WoW when there's new stuff to see (especially a whole new continent!)

Anubis, Closed beta was just a random drawing among all the hopefuls that registered 😛.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I'll be lucky if they allow me to use my key for WotLK. Most of TBC's testing was done by Blizzard's "friends and family" and I have a hunch that is how they will start beta with WotLK too. One of my friends got into TBC's beta. He is also a guildie. It was pretty sweet because he hooked us up with all sorts of screen shot requests.

Maybe I'll have to talk to the one guy I know that went to work for Blizzard and tell him about my 1337 testing skeelz. I've tried to beta test other games... Tabula Rasa... Granado Espada... Mythos. They're all just so boring I can't actually play them, but I love playing WoW when there's new stuff to see (especially a whole new continent!)

Anubis, Closed beta was just a random drawing among all the hopefuls that registered 😛.

i know but it made me fee special

 

[invidia]

I've applied for Warcraft 3: RoC, Warcraft 3: FT, vanilla WoW, and WoW: TBC betas. I've only gotten into the Frozen Throne beta in the 2nd or 3rd wave of invites. I applied using my home's and school's addresses. Getting into a Blizzard beta is a feat, unless you happen to get hooked up by either: Blizzard employee or a professional gamer (whom Blizzard usually hands out to with no questions asked). I would say that getting into WoTLK would be much harder than any betas out there. At least +1 million people will apply and only 1-5k will get chosen for the initial wave.

TBC beta had around 750k people app'd if I recalled. War3 FT had roughly 150k with only 1k-3k getting chosen.

 

[Sentrosi2121]

Recently resubbed because a lot of my oline gaming friends went back to WoW after being burned out on other games. Resubbed last week as a 54 Druid. Now I'm 59, halfway to 60, making a decent living in Outland, and loving the game again. I've basically replaced all of my gear from Azeroth.

Kytella
59 Druid (Feral)
Dragon Wolves
Agrammar (Alliance)

Been starting to look at good Druid Feral gear, as I think this is what I'm going to level up the fastest with. The last time I played this character was over 2 years ago. So I have almost no idea what good Feral gear would be for my character. I'd like a solo set and a tanking set. Any ideas where to go?