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Rime

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Plenty of specs are told to ignore t21 or to mix the two sets. 2p t20 and 4p t21 or 4p t20 and 2p t21. It is really disheartening to have to go back and farm last tier in hopes of getting a titanforge.
 

Fyff

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I'm in CT, haven't raided this weekend but put in over 20 between Friday, Saturday and Sunday and had no lag or issues logging in.
 

Khane

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Only southern CT near NY has Cablevision so most of us in CT aren't really affected. Hurrah for Comcast I guess?
 

Fyff

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Only southern CT near NY has Cablevision so most of us in CT aren't really affected. Hurrah for Comcast I guess?
I didn't click through for the link, mostly because I am lazy. I have Charter and it's hard to believe there is something worse in CT.
 

Khane

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I stumbled across this video while trying to find a better multiboxing setup and thought some people here would like it. This suite of addons makes the game look much, much better from a UI standpoint (not suitable for raiding though)

 
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Argarth

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Just started leveling a new monk, partly to experiment with the scaling, and partly because the class suddenly seems to have "clicked" with me. (have another on an old server, untouched for ages)

I stumbled across this video...

Only lvl 16, questing in good ol' Westfall, and am I glad you posted that video! Only really interested in the "Immersion" mod, and wow what a difference. Don't think I want to play without it from now on. Great find!

Too early to say how I feel about the changes to XP, mob HP etc. I am running full heirlooms and enchants (minus rings) and it feels really good, but I doubt I would be enjoying it at all with bog standard quest gear.

Got a surprise when I thought it was high time to get into Deadmines, and discovered it now scales to 60, nice.
 

Khane

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I just went from 90-98 in about 3.5 hours on a warlock in full heirlooms but with no pots/boosts. Some interesting things about WoD:

  • Bonus Objectives/Treasures/Garrison Resource Caches do not scale. For instance if you go to Nagrand before level 98 you will not be able to loot any of the treasures and you won't be able to to get any of the bonus objectives.
  • Because all mobs scale a level 110 character will see all level 100 mobs anywhere in WoD. Level 100 mobs are still green to a 110 character. This means you get full experience when grouped with a 110 character. Some of the rare named give almost a full quest's worth of experience and they do not seem to scale down to the level of character below their "standard" pre-7.3.5 mob level.
  • I assume running dungeons with a 110 would be a very fast way to level in WoD now due to the fact that the lower level characters will still get full exp. I didn't do any dungeons however.
The fact that you can have a 110 drag you through the entirety of WoD and still get full exp is very, very nice. You can go from bonus objective to bonus objective and just murder everything + get exp as if you were in a normal, level appropriate group.

My route as Horde was (making sure to kill every named I came across + loot any treasures I saw, handynotes is good for this):

  • Intro scenario that unfortunately you still cannot skip to set up garrison + first couple of intro quests after garrison is built.
  • All bonus objectives in Frostfire Ridge
  • All bonus objectives in Gorgrond
  • All bonus objectives in Talador
  • All bonus objectives in Spires
  • At this point I was about 45k away from 98 and didn't realize I wouldn't be able to do bonus objectives in Nagrand so when in Nagrand I just killed named to get the last bit of exp to hit 98
 

BoozeCube

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I stumbled across this video while trying to find a better multiboxing setup and thought some people here would like it. This suite of addons makes the game look much, much better from a UI standpoint (not suitable for raiding though)



Goddamn the sheer number of videos Bellular puts out is crazy. He goes over UI addons often but this is definitely different and interesting. At this point I really thing Blizzard would benefit a great deal by doing an overhaul of the base UI to include a fair number of what is considered must have or very common addons. I know the community can customize how they like and Blizzard doesn't seem to want to spend time on it but thinking about it from a new player experience which is something they obviously care about given they just revamped leveling I would think the base UI update would be equally as important.
 

Kyougou

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They are making some changes to the UI with BfA, but definitely not a big overhaul.

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BoozeCube

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So given Blizzards track record with this shit. I know they have stated that using the 1000 essences to buy a lego wont reset your BLP but I almost feel as if I should wait to get one and then spend the essences just in case. The level of shit coding that has been legos this xpac has me paranoid enough.
 
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Khane

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So given Blizzards track record with this shit. I know they have stated that using the 1000 essences to buy a lego wont reset your BLP but I almost feel as if I should wait to get one and then spend the essences just in case. The level of shit coding that has been legos this xpac has me paranoid enough.

Speaking of that I started playing some of my forgotten 110s and have been doing emissaries on 8 different characters every day for the past ~10 days. None of those 8 characters had a legendary and none have received their first one yet. I've also done quite a few argus invasions including 2 greater invasions on all those characters. Could just be rotten luck but it smells like they did indeed fuck up BLP code again.
 
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BoozeCube

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Speaking of that I started playing some of my forgotten 110s and have been doing emissaries on 8 different characters every day for the past ~10 days. None of those 8 characters had a legendary and none have received their first one yet. I've also done quite a few argus invasions including 2 greater invasions on all those characters. Could just be rotten luck but it smells like they did indeed fuck up BLP code again.

Basically the same thing on my fresh 110's, I just started tinkering with a druid, pally, and lock all doing argus stuff emissaries and LFR and nothing so far. That first lego coming super fast seems to be missing. Again anecdotal evidence but I certainly wouldnt put it past them.
 

Sumdain x

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They recommend for brm having t20 for defense and ignore t21 entirely unless the stats are good. That's how bad blizzard fucked up t21. I'm told to ignore the set.

i've swapped to using Ilevel gear instead of T20 now, i lose too much hp/armor/stats swapping to last raid tiers gear. so there is a break point at least. difference is about 2 million hp for me. (955 ilevel vs 967)

a c i d.f l y a c i d.f l y boomkin is always going to sim higher with 2pc20 single target unless you can get mythic level 21 with other mythic level gear. most classes have a break point where the extra item level for mythic tier sets push it over the t20 bonus. rogues are the same way, it even effects the legos they use if they dont have mythic level t21.
 

Chancellor Alkorin

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Took quite a while for my new 110s to get their 1st/2nd as well. The problem with measuring this is there are too many variables from one character/account to the next.
 

Noodleface

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i've swapped to using Ilevel gear instead of T20 now, i lose too much hp/armor/stats swapping to last raid tiers gear. so there is a break point at least. difference is about 2 million hp for me. (955 ilevel vs 967)

a c i d.f l y a c i d.f l y boomkin is always going to sim higher with 2pc20 single target unless you can get mythic level 21 with other mythic level gear. most classes have a break point where the extra item level for mythic tier sets push it over the t20 bonus. rogues are the same way, it even effects the legos they use if they dont have mythic level t21.
Yeah while not having tier sucks, it's actually liberating too

Khane Khane anecdotal of course but both my warlock and dk took awhile to get their first Lego.


Best place to Lego farm is do the 3x lesser invasions 2-3x a day
 

kaid

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Overall I really am liking the changes for leveling but I did hit one funny broken mob type. The rams in howling fjord seem to be bugged. They have this hoof stomp attack that currently does like 2/3 of my HP. I saw a bunch of people grouping up to do them because everybody was getting curb stomped trying to solo them on this one quest.
 

Zhro

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Best attempt on Argus last night was around 43%, so we're getting there but there is still weird server desync issues with death fog and people dying long after they drop their puddle and are far away. Buff orbs are desynced as well and can sometimes take a few strafes to grab the buff. Read p3 red orbs are the same way, but we're far from that portion of the fight, so might be fixed(?) by the time we start seeing them.