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SimSimSalabim

SimSimSalabim

Molten Core Raider
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bixxby_sl said:
How hard are you guys finding it to find Flex pugs? Kinda getting the itch to play but Flex sounds like the only way to go for weekly raid shits.
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As you can probably expect, even using OpenRaid, if you play a tank or a healer you can find a group very easily at almost any time. But if you play a DPS, unless you start your own group, you keep your eyes open for people starting fresh groups and sending messages asap because DPS spots*** fill up fast. Sometimes you can get a group pretty quickly, especially during prime time hours, but other times it could take quite a while.

There is also an in game add-on called oQueue that people supposedly use to form groups for cross realm things, but I don't have any experience with it.


*** While one of the main points of flex raiding is that you don't have to bring a specific set number of people, I have found that more often than not groups try to form with exactly 14 people....because that is the most number of people you can have before mechanics take a step up (i.e. maybe 4 of something spawn instead of 3). So many groups form with 2 tank, 3 healer, 9 dps. Of course it irritates me because the difficulty of flex is not high enough that it should dictate group size.....but it does.
 
Sterling

Sterling

El Presidente
13,092
8,067
Openraid or Oqueue can get you a cross realm flex or world boss or basically whatever pretty easily.
 
GonzytheMage

GonzytheMage

Golden Knight of the Realm
627
102
having an even number of players on spoils has been our only roadblock with flex. we generally take 10-18 people and of those id say 4 needs to be carried.
 
Gorehack

Gorehack

Lord Nagafen Raider
1,534
40
GonzytheMage_sl said:
having an even number of players on spoils has been our only roadblock with flex. we generally take 10-18 people and of those id say 4 needs to be carried.
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I feel like we're cheating whenever we do spoils on flex. Even on reg it's easy as fuck if you have good dps cleave and a tank that knows how to open boxes in the right sequence.
 
Cybsled

Cybsled

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
17,086
13,608
Tailors can make normal raid quality loot this patch, mostly via the daily cooldown on celestial
cloth. Time investment takes a bit, but it's guaranteed income.
 
GonzytheMage

GonzytheMage

Golden Knight of the Realm
627
102
Gorehack_sl said:
I feel like we're cheating whenever we do spoils on flex. Even on reg it's easy as fuck if you have good dps cleave and a tank that knows how to open boxes in the right sequence.
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Our tanks have it down now, but when i say carried dps I'm talking 50-60k rage one warrior always gets out dps'ed by a hunter pet lol.
 
Kuro

Kuro

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
8,932
23,480
The correct sequence for Spoils is obviously smash everything immediately and listen to your healers shriek in terror. Gotta rock them Deeps charts!
 
Bain

Bain

Bronze Knight of the Realm
399
2
I also have resurrection scrolls available so feel free to send me a message if you need one.
 
Xexx

Xexx

Vyemm Raider
7,742
1,810
I was hoping that they would balance A/H with these server merges but it seems they aim to keep things unbalanced in favor of whoever already had the highest pop per faction. I think thats pretty dumb but seems players like the idea of out numbering the other faction rather than having large scale even battles. All this does it make me miss Tarren Mill brawls that much more.
 
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DavivMcD

Peasant
404
37
There was a blue mentioning why they didn't merge high Alliance servers with high Horde to balance it out. It makes absolutely no sense to do that. If you want a balanced server, roll on a balanced server. The majority of people that play on unbalanced servers like it that way.
 
Ronaan

Ronaan

Molten Core Raider
1,092
436
Cybsled_sl said:
Tailors can make normal raid quality loot this patch, mostly via the daily cooldown on celestial
cloth. Time investment takes a bit, but it's guaranteed income.
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Yeah... all I discovered so far are PVP patterns. Fuck my Luck.
 
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bayr_sl

shitlord
715
0
DavivMcD_sl said:
There was a blue mentioning why they didn't merge high Alliance servers with high Horde to balance it out. It makes absolutely no sense to do that. If you want a balanced server, roll on a balanced server. The majority of people that play on unbalanced servers like it that way.
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yep they had all sorts of reasons for why they neglect to do things when it costs $25 to transfer servers. About 25 reasons to be precise
 
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elvis_sl

shitlord
61
0
DavivMcD_sl said:
There was a blue mentioning why they didn't merge high Alliance servers with high Horde to balance it out. It makes absolutely no sense to do that. If you want a balanced server, roll on a balanced server. The majority of people that play on unbalanced servers like it that way.
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except, you know, back then your server was kind of balanced and then the horde side slowly died out and now it's one of THE most popular alliance servers.. what do you do then ?

funny enough they offered free character migration, since the server now has nightly queues of 800 or so.. the kicker is though, its only for alliance, because somehow in THAT case they dont want horde to transfer off since it would upset the A:H balance even more.
 
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bayr_sl

shitlord
715
0
I don't think people truly appreciate how much money they made off transfers back when this game as popular. At $25 a pop that's almost 2 months of subscription. I know I personally spent about $150 just moving characters around over the years. That definitely factors into their decision making, or did when they weren't desperate for players to stay
 
GonzytheMage

GonzytheMage

Golden Knight of the Realm
627
102
yeah I've paid at least that too. everytime my job schedule changed I've moved characters around and alot of times the guild churn caused a guild to die off which led to more transferring. now with a lack of passion and a newborn i don't see myself chasing a raid spot anymore.
 
Gorehack

Gorehack

Lord Nagafen Raider
1,534
40
Heroic Immersius...fuck you. That fight is fucking aids. Have a good phase 1? How about back to back swirls on the raid. Prot paladins feel so fucking weak on that fight. I have to target the adds while tanking so get up mitigation to reduce the damage they do...then I can't hit the boss more than once every 6 seconds or I get wrecked...THEN the DK MT drops an ill placed DnD and then blood boils and oh look, boss is breathing on the raid.
 
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