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

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: rh71
The thing is, CoD won't be cast (it's already ticking down from 1min) if I do the amp within its last 30 secs. I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure if the amp will apply for the already-cast CoD. For instance if the amp is done with cooldown within a CoD countdown and I want to amp it.

So...
1) only amped on whatever is cast in the next 30 sec?
OR
2) amps the curse even if already casted (CoA, CoD if completed in the next 30 sec).

I guess I could test that with CoE.

That's why I compared it to Arcane Power as Arcane Power raises the damage done only by spells cast during the duration. Amplify Curse will only amplify one of the listed curses that is cast during its duration. So once you cast AC and then cast CoD, AC will dissipate and you will have an amplified CoD on the enemy (note that it will not actually SAY it is amplified).

Originally posted by: lupi
Today we opened the Wrath of the Lich King Beta Opt-In program, which gives players a chance to win an invitation to the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King beta. For The Burning Crusade beta, we randomly invited players from the entire World of Warcraft community. With the Opt-In, our goal is to strengthen the beta-testing process by inviting only those players who have expressed active interest in participating.

Keep in mind that opting in doesn't guarantee you'll be selected for the beta. And players who've previously been promised beta access through a promotion or contest (such as by purchasing the Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition notebook) don't need to worry -- you'll still be entered into the beta automatically when the time comes.

To opt in to the Wrath of the Lich King beta, visit the Beta Opt-In page.

Ohhh my pants...! I wonder if they'll let me in if I mention my fairly well-rounded background in software testing. It's like getting professional testing for free!

EDIT:

Yay, just submitted both of my accounts .

 

[Xavier434]

Those with a beta key from BlizzCon who are interested should go here:

Beta Key People

Guess who has a key? Oh ya! It's yours truly. I had to rub it in. :laugh:

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
Those with a beta key from BlizzCon who are interested should go here:

Beta Key People

Guess who has a key? Oh ya! It's yours truly. I had to rub it in. :laugh:

I'd laugh if they make you beta test something lame... like StarCraft 2!

...

Bah, looks like you can't even get stuck with something lame.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Well guys, I'm in the mid 20s with my little Orc warrior and have now tanked 3 instances. I love it! WTF did I not roll this class from day 1? Of course I have already run into every tanks annoyance, 'Hey dude, do you mind waiting for me to at least get more than 0 rage before you freaking use a SHOCK?'

 

[rh71]

I would definitely not want to beta test... doing something twice is not my idea of fun... experiencing everything for real for the 1st time is the way to go. I had the same thoughts when TBC was released. You mean people went all the way to 70 and then had to do it again but for real this time? What wasted effort.

Unless you just beta test for an hour and explore without going through everything as if it's for real (not likely as you can't get far that way).

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: rh71
I would definitely not want to beta test... doing something twice is not my idea of fun... experiencing everything for real for the 1st time is the way to go. I had the same thoughts when TBC was released. You mean people went all the way to 70 and then had to do it again but for real this time? What wasted effort.

Unless you just beta test for an hour and explore without going through everything as if it's for real (not likely as you can't get far that way).

I would to play a DK.

 

[Aikouka]

Ugh doing the honor grind... someone keel me.

Originally posted by: lupi
I would to play a DK.

Same.

 

[rh71]

AV weekend brings out the worst... "rush RH" ... and then everyone follows, leaving all of 5 guys to get galv, tag & defend IBT/TP towers. Meanwhile, everyone else is scratching their @$$ on the hill down south. Kill Drek now!... with 3 towers still up... yeah, genius.

<At Least We Have RH>

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: rh71
AV weekend brings out the worst... "rush RH" ... and then everyone follows, leaving all of 5 guys to get galv, tag & defend IBT/TP towers. Meanwhile, everyone else is scratching their @$$ on the hill down south. Kill Drek now!... with 3 towers still up... yeah, genius.

<At Least We Have RH>

I love AV weekends, it's like free honor points

 

[rh71]

what addon will tell you when a spell is ready after a cooldown expires?

"Shadowstep is now ready"

Currently using dotimer that times cooldowns but I keep it too small to see it quickly.

 

[lupi]

I use Omni to give the countdown timer over the action bar button, but that doesn't give a chat window warning.

 

[rh71]

^ looking for something that will be an in-your-face popup warning, rather than just a chat-box warning. Seen it in pvp videos.

 

[StrangerGuy]

AV holiday weekends tend to be huge turtle fests. 30 min AVs? /wowquit

 

[BenSkywalker]

My mage... I just want to get the S2 staff on him. I've ran Botanica a ton of times trying to get the staff of Warp Splinter and it just hasn't dropped yet.

What staff? Arcanum? In all honesty, that garbage isn't worth running Bot once if you know for a fact it will drop. Terrok's Staff off of Ikiss is way better, the staff off of Curator is way better, the mindblade off of Prince, the Jaded Crystal Dagger off of Selin Fireheart- all of these are clearly superior to Arcanum and take less time with any remotely decent PUG group(well, Prince's blade may take slightly longer).

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
AV holiday weekends tend to be huge turtle fests. 30 min AVs? /wowquit

I rarely had one last more than 15 minutes. And on the few the allies won, they held so little of the towers that we still got the same or more honor

 

[exdeath]

@$(*@#@#$ M'uru #$*#(*@!#&

 

[invidia]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
AV holiday weekends tend to be huge turtle fests. 30 min AVs? /wowquit

In BG9, AV weekend means 10-15k honor a day from having AV premades going in for 500-600ish honor every 15 minutes. It's also the best time to get honor since we lose the majority of battlegrounds, which makes it more painful than kidney stones to farm more than 500 honor an hour.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: rh71
AV weekend brings out the worst... "rush RH" ... and then everyone follows, leaving all of 5 guys to get galv, tag & defend IBT/TP towers. Meanwhile, everyone else is scratching their @$$ on the hill down south. Kill Drek now!... with 3 towers still up... yeah, genius.

<At Least We Have RH>

Strange, we always get half the people going to kill Galv. The usual thing is always 1-5 RH+ FW Towers, 6-8 Galv + IBT + TP. What's funny is that it only takes 5 Horde working together at IBGY to completely shut out the Alliance.

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
AV holiday weekends tend to be huge turtle fests. 30 min AVs? /wowquit

That only happens when one side refuses to let the other side past. This happens a lot when Horde stop Alliance at IBGY and all Alliance are sent back to SPGY or DB. I don't think the Horde realize that 30 minutes to win AV and you only get 500 honor is not better than taking 11 minutes and getting 300. People need to stop being stupid and trying their damndest to be John fucking Rambo and just let it be a race game! We do AV for honor points, not to actually PVP ~_~.

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
What staff? Arcanum? In all honesty, that garbage isn't worth running Bot once if you know for a fact it will drop. Terrok's Staff off of Ikiss is way better, the staff off of Curator is way better, the mindblade off of Prince, the Jaded Crystal Dagger off of Selin Fireheart- all of these are clearly superior to Arcanum and take less time with any remotely decent PUG group(well, Prince's blade may take slightly longer).

Psst, I need spell hit. The only weapon you mentioned that has spell hit on it is the Staff of Infinite Mysteries off The Curator. Also, how am I supposed to even get into a raid instance without having proper spell hit amounts? I could gem a bunch of spell hit, but I refuse to gem a bunch of crap with expensive gems to only have to regem it when I hit the cap through natural means. Although I say that and my mage has already been to Kara and didn't have the proper amount of spell hit by far .

Also, damage > crit. In fact, everything is better than crit except hit once you max it out.

Originally posted by: invidia
In BG9, AV weekend means 10-15k honor a day from having AV premades going in for 500-600ish honor every 15 minutes. It's also the best time to get honor since we lose the majority of battlegrounds, which makes it more painful than kidney stones to farm more than 500 honor an hour.

The worst part for me was getting the 20 EotS tokens on my Shaman to get the S2 Axe =\. I eventually got it, but it was incredibly painful just watching myself die and die and die. At one point, I was literally running my warrior in AV and my Shaman in EotS at the same time. I just acted lively enough in EotS that people actually thought I was paying attention.

I ended up getting the staff on my mage and enchanting it with +40 spell damage. Amusingly enough, that raised my spell damage by 50% . All I need to do is get Scryer revered, switch out some gear and I should easily hit the spell hit cap for a mage.

I think I'm going to get the pants next on my warrior though. They give quite a bit in terms of an upgrade as I'll gain about 300 hp, 50 ap, .28 crit and .80 hit. But I still haven't made up my mind as to whether I want to be fury or arms. Arms can be fun but frustrating when you get into fights like this: You miss, Opponent dodges, Opponent parries and this of course takes around 10 seconds as you have a slow weapon. I could probably also get into some PVE group as a fury warrior... so maybe he won't be my only 70 without the Kara key .

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

People need to stop being stupid and trying their damndest to be John fucking Rambo and just let it be a race game! We do AV for honor points, not to actually PVP ~_~.

This is why WoW PVP sucks.

Oh how I long for the old days of TM vs. SS.

 

[Aikouka]

Oh, I actually did more kara this weekend too! I joined my guild's "progression group" in defeating a worthy adversary... Attumen. The sad part was, the group kept wiping on him and they had to bring in people that knew what to do (read up on fights plz?) just to beat him. Of course, I'd like to say it was my Shaman's DPS that did it :laugh:.

I also did it on my priest as we did Aran and up to Prince. I died twice during Aran, as after the elementals spawned (we had one lock), Aran just went ballistic on me firing frostbolts and anything else he could muster at me. I should've hit Desperate Prayer, but I kinda forgot about it . Then I used my soulstone and I kinda didn't watch my surroundings at first and ended up resurrecting right in a Blizzard!

We couldn't beat Prince though... it was always a wipe during phase 2. The other priest and I (as well as a druid, but I had no idea what he was doing as I don't recall seeing hots) got used to conserving our mana a bit better after a time or two. It wasn't hard (or at least I thought it wasn't) and most of the fights I could grasp after just being in them for a couple minutes. One thing... our main tank was a Paladin and let me tell you, I can't stand healing Paladins half the time. They always take so much more damage than warriors since some of their item points are spent on spell hit and spell damage rather than avoidance. Never had a good time healing one.

Oh and best yet... I was doing the midsummer stuff up until the fires went away. Well, I went to go turn in some flowers and the vendors were gone too. Thanks Blizzard.

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
This is why WoW PVP sucks.

Oh how I long for the old days of TM vs. SS.

You enjoyed fighting swarms of level 55 guards that much? :Q Or the immense lag that ensued whenever people clashed on the field in between.

It reminds me of this one time... I was there on my Alliance rogue and I was pretty much behind the group of Horde. They were all running toward Southshore and were passing the broken down tower and I saw this level 28 cross the road running with them. I just made a nerdy little giggle and ambushed the 28 obviously killing him immediately. I swear to god, Horde must have had their gankdars on, because they just stopped, turned around and beat the living crap out of me :Q.

Heh, I remember when the honor system came out... you did not want to be in Hillsbrad regardless of your level. Tarren Mill was being camped by Alliance rogues.

 

[Chimley]

ooooooweee, back from a week off work. And what did I do during my time off??

Rolled new toons. A few guildies and I decided to try the Dark Side of WoW and roll some Horde toons. It's nice seeing the game from a different POV so to speak. It's kind of funny though.. we have no resources available to us for leveling up. We have no mains to help Powerlevel through instances or use our gold to twink out our gear. Every green/herb/cloth/gnoll spittle is put up on the AH to try and get money so we can afford to even buy our skills. Fun, though frustrating knowing my warrior+alliance toons has over 18K gold that I can't touch

L30 BE hunter on Blackrock. We named our guild "Stuck on Muru"

Funny story that kind of reminded me of Aikouka. Our little band of Horde munchkins were rolling through Hillsbrad when our warrior decided to go charging into random bears/lions while we were making our way past the Yeti Cave. All the sudden we heard this "OH SHIT" on vent, and I saw his life just go from 100-0 in like 2 seconds. Of course, I thought it was a 70 alliance.. so I bust out Aspect of the cheetah and run over there to see what destroyed him. It wasn't a 70 alliance. What I saw was funny as hell actually:

2 Drae. Hunters with Boar Pets
2 Drae Shammies

All male too (space cow moo).. and all run from the same PC. Dude was quad boxing. It was funny watching him obliterate bears and such. The boars would charge almost at the same time, with the shammies pew pewing and the hunters pop shotting. Nothing lived for more then a second.

Needless to say, I hightailed my ass outta there. Gotta formulate a plan to one-up the quad boxer for tonight

 

[ViviTheMage]

ahh, man..me and my friends and brother created a guild called midnight meat train, wooo...on emerald dream, the RPPVP realm, soo many remarks. Everyone either thinks its a great name, or a horrendous name.

haha, our ranks go as follows : side of salad, meat juice, 12 oz sirloin, pork chop, new york strip, and me (guild master) meat master.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Chimley
Needless to say, I hightailed my ass outta there. Gotta formulate a plan to one-up the quad boxer for tonight

A quad boxer should have poor mobility... it's like bringing a tank and trying to turn it around in the middle of a fight.

I actually purchased a third copy of WoW this weekend (the WoW chest from Gamestop for $30) and set up my third account. I moved my priest over to it because I was tired of being unable to enchant my other character's gear. The nice part is... I can finally use my Paladin Tank's tankability to help people on my DPS account do their harder quests. Like when I want to do Durn on my mage and shaman, I'll just use a paladin+mage+priest combo and a warrior+shaman+priest combo. The latter will probably be the easiest as my warrior and priest can duo Durn with ease (the hardest part is the possibility of adds... Durn himself is a pussy).

I may also attempt some of those 5-man quests by myself soon... I'll have to get better at having my priest on my laptop.

Frankly, those quad boxers ain't got crap on me trying to dual-same-box two characters of completely different attack styles in a BG at once... then there's being in two completely different BGs and all control being manual. Now that's skeelz ( or actually it's usually a lot of death :laugh: )

 

[ViviTheMage]

I have seen a lot of 'boxers' lately....5 shamens running in a pack, 5 locks....I guess this one kid even has 10 characters for kara...that he 10 boxes with.

 

[Aikouka]

That just seems a bit excessive . I've thought about doing 3 elemental shamans now though.

EDIT: Or i could do 3 Demo locks that Fel Intercept people until I keel them with my spells !