World of Warcraft: Current Year

It's not even raids now. Even rare mobs and daily "bosses" are all about avoiding shit that will either one shot you, kill you in 3 seconds, or take off 75% of your health. The only challenge in that if you're not a keyboard turner, is in not allowing yourself to relax. Gotta always be on the move, gotta always react within a second etc... It's all twitch now, which completely takes away the value of preparation, thinking shit through, and clashes against the inherrant math basis of the genre.

I've gravitated to the casual shit in the game because at least I can relax and enjoy myself while doing it, which is why I game in the first place. But I need LFR gear for my old-raid soloing, so I'm stuck getting increasingly frustrated, and burning out at a faster pace than usual.

Feels bad man.

All they did was take a page from TERA's combat. It's fine, unless you're one of those players who pines for the days of staring at a wall and casting CH when it was your turn.

Take some perspective that most guilds had and have no hope of killing heroic Lei Shi, so you're well above the average. My guild took 120 wipes to kill normal Tortos. Were tied for 1st

Kuro_sl said:

The maze becomes very easy once you realize that you have to stack close to the start of the fog wall, wait for the first part of the maze to spawn near the eye-beam, then run into *that* maze segment's clear area so that you don't have maze shit pop up under you. After that, it's just walking where the easily identifiable purple isn't. Especially for ranged characters. You have enough room in the ranged part of the maze to play a game of racquetball before the laser reaches you.

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The giant hit box makes it pretty forgiving on melee as well.

Your description is pretty accurate. Guilds who are killing it in normal mode aren't full of insanely skilled players. There are cues and patterns like any other boss. Once you get used to it, it's not that big a deal.

It's the first night and I'm sure 99% of these LFRs had no idea what to expect.

The issue with that fight is that the cues comes extremely fast and without really any explanation; the entire fight is basically trying to make sense of the language of the particle effects. Even when I was fairly sure I thought I knew what was going on and where I had to be, it was so difficult to see it. And this is coming from someone who doesn't ever take damage to stupid shit, and still calls out timers and other shit to make sure others don't either. IE, I can watch myself and watch others.

But that fight...when I did it in LFR I was completely flabbergasted. I read how to do it, and was listening and watching, and yet it was so stupid. I still got clobbered.

Once I realized how to counter it (And it's just as they say, just wait and be on the edge) it's stupid easy.

People have *always* hated the binary way of raids; IE one way you die, and one way you live - there is no middle ground. I'm ok with it, but fuck, I mean LFR needs more time to react, and the colors should be changed. Because even when you see it and watch videos, you're still likely to be confused until you accidentally stumble into the safe zone and realize how to find it again.

I really hated that fight, for the most part because it's fucking faceroll easy until those few seconds when the fog + beam starts up and people just keel over. Then it's faceroll again. I guess it's not such a far cry from some of the other shit, IE be here or die instantly, but the way it's presented makes it very hard to figure it out.

Kuro_sl said:

The maze becomes very easy once you realize that you have to stack close to the start of the fog wall, wait for the first part of the maze to spawn near the eye-beam, then run into *that* maze segment's clear area so that you don't have maze shit pop up under you. After that, it's just walking where the easily identifiable purple isn't. Especially for ranged characters. You have enough room in the ranged part of the maze to play a game of racquetball before the laser reaches you.

If your machine has trouble on the fight, Texture Resolution has a larger impact on the clarity of the maze than Particle Density does, under settings.

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I figured out the maze after 3 wipes, as did probably half of the LFR group I was in. The maze itself isn't an issue, I was bitching about the graphic effects being used making it harder than it needs to be for the sake of visual eye-candy.

How accurate are the dps rankings on noxxic? I recently resubbed and leveled a new character and am looking for some sort of benchmark to how good my dps is relative to my gear, not necessarily what people in BIS are doing.

http://www.noxxic.com/wow/dps-rankings/maximum#468

Forbin_sl said:

How accurate are the dps rankings on noxxic? I recently resubbed and leveled a new character and am looking for some sort of benchmark to how good my dps is relative to my gear, not necessarily what people in BIS are doing.

http://www.noxxic.com/wow/dps-rankings/maximum#468

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The realistic DPS numbers look alright. Their 496 ret numbers are within a few thousand of what I do with 495 ilvl, and the spec rankings look to be pretty much what I see in LFR at least. Although the balance druid entry looks rather low.

I love my server



That's just my top resales for the past 4 days. My 77-79 greens, and MoP 81-84 green sales dwarf those.

G'damn. Nice.

level 78-79 cata greens are very popular for that bg bracket for obvious reasons

I thought the same thing until I learned that there are three types of greens that sell well:

1-70 greens for transmog
77-79 cata greens
81-84 Mop greens

The latter two types are in high demand as they have ilvl's from an expansion ahead of their targeted character level. A 79 cata green has an ilvl equal to ICC 25 heroic gear.

At my average prices, you could kit out your character with non-heirloom slot greens that will last you for 5-7 levels that will speed up leveling by a large amount for a measly 2k gold. People pay over a thousand gold just for boa friendly enchants.

They're also popular with levelers that hate questing and just do PvP or LFD as it's the only source of easily obtainable gear.

I buy each for 50 and under, and sell for 250-500, and I struggle just to maintain my stock.

If you try this market out, be sure to avoid suffixes that don't have primary stats (ie beast) and one handed caster weapons.

MoP "uber" 80-85 blues are even better. They can go for 1k all the way up to 10k. Their ilvl's are obscene for their minimum level required.

Edit - The green level ranges I mentioned are off by a few levels. I'm not at my PC, so I can't access my shopping lists. Should probably be 77-80 and 83-84.

Needless_sl said:

People are that stupid enough to pay for greens? da fuq

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Very common. Most people have thousands of gold now days, so anyone who wants a transmog will be like "Fuck it whatever, 300 for this piece, this this and this, woohoo got a great set." Best green I sold was somewhere around 6-7k.

Which types of greens actually move? SPI/STA would sell as well as AGI/STR?

pointyboot_sl said:

Which types of greens actually move? SPI/STA would sell as well as AGI/STR?

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For the cata and mop greens, avoid anything that doesn't have a primary stat like agil/str/int, plate caster gear, and 1h caster weapons. Everything else will generally sell. Plate and leather tend to sell the most. If you use Tradeskillmaster, just google for Cata greens shopping (or dealfinding) lists, and you'll come across gold blogs that will have more detailed info.

Needless_sl said:

So when i charge 75g per stack of embersilk cloth, that takes me like 10 minutes to get 10 stacks.. i could actually charge 150ish?

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It depends on the server. Small-medium servers are generally ignorant of the spot that you can get 1-2 thousand pieces of embersilk an hour, so you can dump them easily. You might also want to look into converting them into embersilk bags, or crafting cloth gear to DE depending on your dust prices.