World of Warcraft: Current Year

TJT said:

I'm loving everything Monk. Brewmaster is supposedly "high skill" but I don't believe that. The entire class rotates on managing your purifying and ironskin brews in between Keg Smash, Explosive Keg, Fire Breath and Rushing Jade Wind (in dungeons), while waiting to use Expel Harm for sustain when needed. Although spawning the healing orbs is a little bit of RNG. You have the benefit of not being able to really take huge spike damage if you use ironskin brew right before an ability. But that does take SOME knowledge to do at the right moments.

Some healers aren't really aware of the nature of stagger where you sit at 75% health or so most the time if you manage brews correctly. The only way you can really fuck it up is by say, using one of the brews at the wrong time or using 2 charges by accident without your Black Ox Elixir up to refill your charges.

I find it a ton of fun. WW is an absolute super-cleaving skullcrusher and MW is incredibly stronk right now.

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I feel like both brewmaster and blood DK fall into the UI watching trap though. Watching brew charges / bone armor stacks and managing them appropriately with default UI is fucking dogshit. Currently using elvUI and when I need to I add in tellmewhen for certain classes/specs but why do that when classes like guardian druid, prot warrior and prot paladin have very natural feels to them? Simple 4-5 button rotations with obvious tellls when the priority changes. Burst reaction abilities (frenzied regen, ignore pain, light of the protector)?

And yeah, bone armor stacks suuuuck D=

edit: Also, waiting patiently for the hammer to drop on ignore pain and possibly iron fur (or bear rage generation in general, galactic guardian too stronk)

Nola said:

Speaking of prot has anyone got the infos on the prot hidden artifact skin? I read some theories but nothing solid. I'm starting to think its linked to raids or world bosses since no one has found anything.

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I did a lot of random shit trying to get the Prot hidden appearance to spawn, currently the warrior Discord consensus is that its gated behind Artifact Knowledge level. We dont know what AK its gated behind but its somewhere between 5-11. when you go into the Neltharions cavern (not the instance) and run the quest string you get a "true or false" which tells you if you are eligible for the quest. a warrior tested it at AK 11 on beta and got true, and a warrior tested it at 4 and got false. once you get a "true" in the cave you are eligible to do something to make the quest spawn. the shield does show up from a world quest but we dont know the requirements other than the artifact knowledge for the world quest to show up for you.

common theories are that it involves drops called "elementium armor scraps" which have an unknown drop location possibly from kobolds in the cave, the grey one statue, and shadowice which also has an unknown drop location (shadowice tool type says it is used by servants of the grey one).

Damn, right now I can't get the motivation to play my Vengeance DH (ilvl846, 3,4k revered Nightfallen).
Currently not in an active guild to run things as a group, and I absolutely despise tanking in PUGs (between shitty players or people that want to rush when you don't even know the instance yet).

I'd love to play an alt, but god damn if the idea of doing the whole AP and reputation grind again puts me off. Did the artifact/order hall intro quests on 3 or 4 alts already, but can't really get in the mood to continue.

ZyyzYzzy said:

Really wish Artifact Knowledge was shared for all characters on 1 realm or something.

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That or if you could just unlock it at lvl101 or something. You could at least start working on it for alts straight away and not have to level them to 110.

i feel like my guild is woefully unprepared for raids.

we are a very small guild ~20 players some of which are socials. plan was to be fully geared and ready to raid tonight, we have people who were designated as raiders that are under 840 that haven't logged on in two days. myself and one of the geared healers have been offering to tank/heal any mythics people needed but haven't gotten much response.

i generally dont equate player skill to Ilevel, but what level are people saying no to folks undergeared? what is an appropriate guild ilevel for normal EN? how about heroic? i think we were thinking 835+ is okay for normal and 845+ for heroic?

I plan on leveling a blood DK to 110 and then just parking him until his AK is at 4-5 prior to doing all the Suramar shit. it sucks to wait 20+ days for an alt but it also sucks having to run all the same shit over and over. then again i have never been very alt friendly, i prefer to dump all resources into 1 char.

I admit im a rusher in pugs on heroic. i can tank 2 trash packs and still be full hp at the end. as long as the dps is semi-competent and does 150k+ you can non-stop pull. I generally take my time and explain things on mythic pugs unless people know what they are doing.

Sumdain x said:

I did a lot of random shit trying to get the Prot hidden appearance to spawn, currently the warrior Discord consensus is that its gated behind Artifact Knowledge level. We dont know what AK its gated behind but its somewhere between 5-11. when you go into the Neltharions cavern (not the instance) and run the quest string you get a "true or false" which tells you if you are eligible for the quest. a warrior tested it at AK 11 on beta and got true, and a warrior tested it at 4 and got false. once you get a "true" in the cave you are eligible to do something to make the quest spawn. the shield does show up from a world quest but we dont know the requirements other than the artifact knowledge for the world quest to show up for you.

common theories are that it involves drops called "elementium armor scraps" which have an unknown drop location possibly from kobolds in the cave, the grey one statue, and shadowice which also has an unknown drop location (shadowice tool type says it is used by servants of the grey one).

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Can you link the true or false string or have a link to it?

Nola said:

Can you link the true or false string or have a link to it?

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shoot me a PM and ill send it to you when i get home, i'm at work at the moment and cant access the Discord its on, or message me in game Battletag is Kraken#1677

Sumdain x said:

shoot me a PM and ill send it to you when i get home, i'm at work at the moment and cant access the Discord its on, or message me in game Battletag is Kraken#1677

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Thanks. I'll hit you this afternoon. I'm at work also

yep, the fury artifact skin involves a rare drop off Skovald and 2 drops off world bosses, we haven't found the Arms skin yet.

DH's get theirs from class halls bosses, Rogues have to kill things in dalaran sewers, DK and a few others are from the withered scenario, resto shamans drop from the first boss in EoA. Outlaw rogues/paladins/warriors seem to have the most convoluted appearances. the entire system is a mess.

Im also not happy with the way Blizzard is handling the Legendary bug that was going on, only 1 person in my guild has a legendary and he has 3. increasing the drop rate for people who dont have one? there is supposedly an algorithm in place for that but it is scaling slowly apparently. i'd be okay with allowing a massive drop % for people to gain legendaries and then a very very low increasing drop rate for your second. speaking from a warrior perspective of our 8 legendaries 2 are mediocre, so what if that is your drop ? what if you get one of the shitty ones that dont matter while several other players have gotten 2+? also a messy situation.

on another topic; the Balance of power quest line
step 1: get the heart of azshara
step 2: get a random potion, and kill another mythic dungeon boss
step 3: give kalecgos 30 blood of sargeras
step 4: wait till emerald night to open
step 5: ??
Step 6: ??
step 7: get artifact skin

does anyone from more extensive beta experience know what you need to do after the raids open tonight? is it just kill xavius? or is it farm emerald nightmare seeds for 8 weeks? seriously tired of the shitty base warrior artifact appearance.

ZyyzYzzy said:

Really wish Artifact Knowledge was shared for all characters on 1 realm or something.

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Supposedly over time the stuff should ratchet up globally as a catch up mechanic. Right now we are in the start of the expansion stage though so basically paying full retail price for AP gains at the moment.

Has anyone gotten the cooking recipe "The Hungry Magister" which is for the 375 stat crit food?

It's the only recipe I haven't gotten and I am starting to believe it's not in game or is bugged. The 300 stat crit food is currently bugged (the mob doesn't drop it, you have to petition a GM after killing it to get it) and all I've been giving Nomi is ley blood and bearsteaks which supposedly give that food recipe and getting nothing but burned food.

Sumdain x said:

I admit im a rusher in pugs on heroic. i can tank 2 trash packs and still be full hp at the end. as long as the dps is semi-competent and does 150k+ you can non-stop pull. I generally take my time and explain things on mythic pugs unless people know what they are doing.

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I have no issue with that. The issue I have as a tank is when it's the first time I'm tanking the dungeon and people expect me to rush it.

kaid said:

Supposedly over time the stuff should ratchet up globally as a catch up mechanic. Right now we are in the start of the expansion stage though so basically paying full retail price for AP gains at the moment.

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It already does. Right now though you have to be 110 to start.

Ao- said:

I've gotten 5 recipes from him so far... so maybe you're getting the shitty RNG that I have?

Also which mob is it? I'll farm that up and start giving him food.

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Myonix. A mana sabre named in Suramar.

Palum said:

It already does. Right now though you have to be 110 to start.

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Isn't the catch up mechanic something like "AK will only take 3 or 4 days instead of 5 for each rank until you catch up"? Meaning it still takes weeks to catch up reasonably with this system.