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Runnen

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How rare are the edge of reality portals? I just clicked one and my game crashed and now it's gonzo.
Very rare, but on a tricky timer and cycling through locations. If you really clicked it before crashing, you should receive the mount in your mailbox soon.
 

Khane

Got something right about marriage
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I might go buy some scratch offs. Go to start working on creating that 90% every mission fleet, dismiss my rare troll carrier, create a new carrier, delivered as epic goblin carrier. Exactly what I need.

Question: Theoretically wouldn't blood elf crew have pretty much the same effect on gold gains as goblin crew with the added benefit of also completing throwaway missions much faster?

EDIT: Unless oil becomes a limiting factor for BE crew.
 

Dalien

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Question: Theoretically wouldn't blood elf crew have pretty much the same effect on gold gains as goblin crew with the added benefit of also completing throwaway missions much faster?

EDIT: Unless oil becomes a limiting factor for BE crew.
I doubt it, because the ideal comp for every gold mission is goblin x2 and missions don't seem to respawn fast enough where completing them faster matters.

RE: oil. Assuming you're getting to Revered with Vol'jin's Headhunters to unlock flying, buy the oil rig plans from the vendor in Tanaan and you will have more than you need forever.
 

Khane

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Good to know the missions don't spawn enough for BE to matter. Just got the oil rig yesterday, definitely a nice thing to have. I hate tanaan jungle.
 

Khane

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Is the blueprint from Iron Reaver not a guaranteed drop or am I missing a pre-requisite?
 

Ukerric

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I doubt it, because the ideal comp for every gold mission is goblin x2 and missions don't seem to respawn fast enough where completing them faster matters.
Truth. You don't need speedup, even if you do shipyard once a day. Also, I'm almost certain that XP and chest missions are separate; I've tried clearing XP missions to see if that forced a faster respawn, and it doesn't seem to.

The only time I have more than 2-3 chests up (not including *that* chest) is if I had a blockade and didn't come back after it cleared, the next day is usually a bit more crowded.

Don't forget to clear bonus missions fast; they respawn after 24h and you get bonus gold ones more often.
 

Ukerric

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Is the blueprint from Iron Reaver not a guaranteed drop or am I missing a pre-requisite?
Guaranteed drop, even in LFR. Unless you did it with another char on the account.

(EDIT: need to loot the reaver yourself, I think you don't get it auto-delivered even with personal loot)
 

Khane

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Guaranteed drop, even in LFR. Unless you did it with another char on the account.

(EDIT: need to loot the reaver yourself, I think you don't get it auto-delivered even with personal loot)
It didn't give me it in LFR and I had no option to loot. Definitely have not gotten the blueprint yet. Maybe there is a pre-req after all.
 

Tarisk

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It didn't give me it in LFR and I had no option to loot. Definitely have not gotten the blueprint yet. Maybe there is a pre-req after all.
It should be 100%. You can double check the goblin vendor in your shipyard for it. If you've looted it at some point (on that char or another) it will show up as available.

I only say this because I had the same issue recently but with an alt. Didn't realize they unlocked for the account when you got them.
 

Khane

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That was definitely the first time I've ever killed Iron Reaver on any character. And the vendor does still show it as unavailable. I opened a ticket with Blizzard to ask them.
 

Noodleface

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Finally started getting back into this. Did 4 time walking dungeons in like 30 minutes with me as the tank. Definitely a let down in difficulty. I am 687 ilvl from when I quit,so maybe that helped. I don't know how the scaling works.
 

Tarisk

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That was definitely the first time I've ever killed Iron Reaver on any character. And the vendor does still show it as unavailable. I opened a ticket with Blizzard to ask them.
Try buying it, even if the vendor has it as red/unavailable. I had the same issue today on my main even (transferred him a couple of months ago) and all his previously unlocked items showed red. But went to buy something because im working on getting everything set for gold missions and it still let me get it.
 

Khane

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Finally started getting back into this. Did 4 time walking dungeons in like 30 minutes with me as the tank. Definitely a let down in difficulty. I am 687 ilvl from when I quit,so maybe that helped. I don't know how the scaling works.
Were any of them the Icecrown WoTLK dungeons? Because jesus have some of the groups I've been in had an impossible time in pit of saron once you get to the trash before scourgelord.
 

Noodleface

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One was pit of saron but I joined on the last boss so I lucked out. The last tank was kicked for sucking and wearing pvp gear or something. I did another 3 after that, but they were all face roll.
 

Amycus

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My last one for the quest was Saron, and we wiped on literally every trash pull going up the hill after Ick/Krik, or whatever their names are. Meh.
 

Noodleface

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Well duh man you didn't have me. Having flashbacks when I promised you We would kill heroic gruul so I set up the pug and we wiped a hundred times
 

Mahes

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The Pit of Sauron is not scaled like the rest of the lichking Time Walk dungeons. You will notice that 700+ gear does not do as well as you think it should do. I think Blizzard forgot to change some of the parameters around that particular dungeon and for whatever reason chose to leave it. If I get that instance, I will gear check the tank at the very least. Most of the time it just is not worth the hassle to bother going through it with a pug group.
 

kaid

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The Pit of Sauron is not scaled like the rest of the lichking Time Walk dungeons. You will notice that 700+ gear does not do as well as you think it should do. I think Blizzard forgot to change some of the parameters around that particular dungeon and for whatever reason chose to leave it. If I get that instance, I will gear check the tank at the very least. Most of the time it just is not worth the hassle to bother going through it with a pug group.
You have to pay attention to the mechanics as well and not just bull through them like you can in most of the timewalking stuff. Really in a lot of ways it almost feels closest to what the original heroic dungeon run feel of it was during LK death is quite possible for people screwing up.
 

kaid

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I am 300 timewalking badges shy of the 5k LK mount when my damn boot drive failed out on my gaming rig. Now I get to spend all day rebuilding/reupgrading and running updates /blah.
 

DavivMcD

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Am I missing something? I thought gear didn't mean shit in ANY timewalking dungeon. I wasted a couple afternoons putting together an ideal set of heroic ICC raid gear including set bonuses, the exalted ring proc, trinkets, and Shadowmourne, and it felt the same as if I were wearing level 80 shitty quest greens and blues.