World of Warcraft: Current Year

McCheese said:

Flying doesn't take us out of the world. That's stupid. When I'm soaring around in the sky I feel amazing, especially with the massively increased view distance. It makes me feel like a hero and a bad ass, as it should.

Blizzard is stupid and anyone who works there and is reading this should feel bad.

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The reason I bitch about flying is because it was never a problem until Blizzard decided it was (sometime before/during WoD). TBC, WotLK, Cata, MoP were all designed around flying and it worked fine. No one complained about "muh immersion" or any of the other bullshit arguments being trotted out now. They've never had a problem designing areas with it in mind before, but after Ion and the fun police took over they determined that we're not enjoying the game correctly.

Before WoD they even advertised "Take to the skies on your raven mount!" to get people to buy the collectors edition. At the Blizzcon before WoD they announced flight would be unlocked with an epic quest chain. Alpha/Beta players asked them where the quest was, were told "coming soon". Then Blizzard says it's coming in a later patch, patch comes out, they say "didn't make this patch but it's coming". Eventually some interview comes out where they say "flying is not coming to WoD or any new content, ever". Shitstorm ensues, lots of subs cancelled, devs forced to do a 180 and say "fine, you can have flying, but fuck you, here's pathfinder".

Argus is small enough that you can run from one end of a zone to the other in like 90 seconds, and I don't think flying there would alter the experience much. Players are "skipping content" there regardless. Instead of flying over it everyone just trains everything around like assholes until they get to where they're going. I'll be just fine without it; what's rustling my jimmies is their condescending attitude towards the issue.

So how do these Greater Invasion points work? Do you need a certain amount of the Argus waystones to make one spawn? To zone into one? To hand into someone for a fancy rep token?

a c i d.f l y said:

You can fund several order halls with one character. Blood hunter is the best enchant and gives the most trade value. I have almost 1000 bloods and that provides an endless supply of order hall resources if I wanted. I need to level up two or three more characters and I'm sure I could have a steady stream, but man that sounds boring af.

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This is what I do as well. If you are only running gold missions, at least until the Argus patch, you dont bleed much GR. I use auto complete on blood missions, and hardly ever need to send over the BoA GR chests. My accountant addon was logging a steady 60k to 80k a week, just from the order hall, running missions on 8 toons, 6 of which have auto complete.

Argus patch may have screwed it all up, and I needed to actually play the toons to unlock the new missions. The new missions also cost more GR and are harder to get to 200% (at least until I upgrade their gear).

As for leveling up toons, I used the invasions to get 4 or so from 100 to 110. It is the fastest, slowest way to level. With heirlooms you can do 100 - 110 in 5-6 hours; it just take a week of catching the invasions when they spawn. You get about 1.5 levels per invasion with heirlooms or 3/4s of a level w/o them.

lindz said:

Yup, I can see it now. Couldn't see them last night for some reason. Maybe it had to do with the character boost or who knows. But damn that was like 3/4 of a level for doing the invasions in a single zone.

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If you have all your heirlooms on you should be getting 1+ level for every assault.

Greater Invasions require 15 Argus Way Stones to enter. You can have a max of 40 Argus Way Stones but only need 15 per week. You can only do one per week, regardless of the amount of Way Stones you have.

Everyone's all upset about no flying. I'm just sitting there on my Spider Mount, chilling.

Garrisons were cool but that 4k gold blingtron mission was a bit over the top.

Still with 12 chars at 110 and now with the BoA-880-follower gear it's still easy enough to 200% the gold missions on all chars.

Ronaan said:

Everyone's all upset about no flying. I'm just sitting there on my Spider Mount, chilling.

Garrisons were cool but that 4k gold blingtron mission was a bit over the top.

Still with 12 chars at 110 and now with the BoA-880-follower gear it's still easy enough to 200% the gold missions on all chars.

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How do you get the BoA Follower gear?

Crone said:

How do you get the BoA Follower gear?

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400 Nethershards for one BoA item that boosts a follower to 880, on the Broken Shore from Warmage Kathleen.

Ukerric said:

It's what replaced the nethershard sink. You can't buy 880 gear with nethershard, instead, you can purchase a 6000xp book that adds 2 pixels to your follower xp bar, or a 880 gear token.

Of course, I had the 7500 nethershards missions waiting for me on patch day, which meant that I had nothing better than open chests in the treasure cave to grab some AP and resources until I ran dry. But, eh, Ikr'regeed will be happy that I won't bother him anymore ever, I guess.

(there is currently no reason to ever do Broken Shore. If you didn't get the all-boss achieve for the Sentinax, you're not going to get them any time soon)

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I would agree with not going to the Broken Shore, except sometimes, they have the nice, big AP rewards. 100-136m AP right now and it will only go up. Other than that, the place is dead, save for people doing Class Hall mount quests or achievement farming.

Rime said:

I would agree with not going to the Broken Shore, except sometimes, they have the nice, big AP rewards. 100-136m AP right now and it will only go up. Other than that, the place is dead, save for people doing Class Hall mount quests or achievement farming.

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AP rewards are a joke and you're a fool if you think any rewards right now are meaningful. We're are 20,000,000% AK right now and in two months we'll be at 630,000,000%. That 136m AP token will be worth like 4.3 billion AP then.

It's another one of their time gates and there is absolutely no reason to pursue AP right now unless you're in a world first poopsock guild and you need that extra +1 to Concordance to push for that first kill.

Next week when the Netherlight Crucible comes out everyone is going to want their artifact at level 75 to unlock everything. With the way AK scaling works though you could probably just cancel for a month and when you come back you'll get it the same week as everyone who grinded their ass off for it.

finally got mistress, 358 pulls...which is about 200 more pulls than it should have taken.

At that amount of pulls avatar should take approximately 3,000 pulls