World of Warcraft: Current Year

kaid said:

Yup when my next main spec option costs around 12k AP and my off spec is at 300 per I figured it was time to give some love to my resto staff. Now I just need to find another couple damn relics for it.

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I'm at the point where the next point is 24k and I figure it is crazy to not toss at least a few points into something. I might do Frost though since me and Fire just do not seem to get along. I did my first full Mythic yesterday and think Arcane was good enough to get the job done. I spent a lot of time actively dodging stuff and casting Ice Barrier / Ice Block and generally trying to avoid death rather than staying still and DPSing. As a result my DPS wasn't burning up the chart by any means, but on a couple bosses I was the only one left alive at the end and had to kite-solo the damn thing for the last couple of percent.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/icecrown/Qhue/simple for reference

Started doing achievements in mythics last night, holy shit some of those are a pain in the ass.

Maw of Souls first one is pretty easy, you just need to leave up a seacaller and have him use defiant strike on the adds that ymiron spawns got it on the first try. the second one requires after you escape the cages to make it to engage the next boss in ~4 minutes. even with 3 dps pulling 180k+ we didn't make it by quite a bit. its definitely possible but i would need VERY high hps to chain pull that much stuff, this will be a lot easier with heroic gear.

the final achievement "poor unfortunate souls" is an entirely different animal, it requires you kill the final boss in BRH, to get a buff, then run through maw and kill Helya with that buff active. it reminds me of the ZG timed runs.

TJT said:

Yeah that really is quite nice. Tanking is lazy mode. Dodge shit when you can, otherwise just keep attacking the boss and grabbing adds when necessary!

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The transition from normals to heroics was laughable in tanking. The only heroic dungeon that gave us any problems was the Maw of Souls and that was due to the players. People kept dying to Helya breath and for some reason they couldn't figure out how to avoid it. She clearly states when she's about to do it and I kept telling this one dpser to stand in the middle of her as much as possible when attacking her. It will give you enough time to position yourself to avoid her breath. But nooooooo.... what he does!? Stands on either of the far left or right side. She goes to that side and he doesn't have enough time to move away and dies. He doesn't even bother to pop any defensive CDs either to mitigate her damage. Hell I even had this huge marker over my head saying follow me and they still die to her breath. After 4 tries we finally kill. I never had any issues killing her on heroic. Was a nightmare.

Anyway my warrior is almost at ilvl 830 and I'm going to start doing mythics. I think that's a good enough state to start doing them. Plus I want to see how Ignore OPain does in mythics.

The achievement for Cordana in vault is going to be a PITA.

I'm assuming you can still do achievement runs even after you've done your loot clear in a particular Mythic for the week?

Blitz said:

Agree, still really enjoying this expansion so far.

I started as Fury and was annoyed at making the switch to arms because A) It's not that exciting B) It's way better dps C) Artifact Power. I know those fuckers are going to bump Fury and I am gonna be fucking annoyed I worked to get the traits into Arms...

Soeaking of Arms, which version are people playing: Mortal Combo or Focused Rage? Seeing any huge difference? I know Focused Rage is supposed to be the better dps option, but not sure by how much. It's so fucking button mashy. It's pretty unsatisfying. Haven't even tried Mortal Combo which is supposed to be more "natural".

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I really hope Blizz does something with fury. It's in a very bad state. Hopefully they will do some class rebalancing before Emerald Nightmare opens. Fury wars and some other classes really needs it. I barely see any rets, locks or fury war in any of the dungeons I run. That's saying something.

I'm mainly prot but sometimes I like to dps and arms is not for me. Yeah I like seeing those big damage dealing numbers but I would prefer fury. Honestly the only time I use fury now is to farm legacy raids for mounts, gold and xmogs. I just spam whirlwind and mow down everything.

Just checked, I've done 283 World Quests and there is still no end in sight.

Shoot me now.

Wait till you do your Suramar quests 4 months from now.

I was thinking to myself I wouldn't have to when I hit exalted, but then I remembered how much AP they were giving.

Shit gets real in the spider pit on my pvp server.

Nola said:

I really hope Blizz does something with fury. It's a a very bad state. Hopefully they will do some class rebalancing before Emerald Nightmare opens. Fury wars and some other classes really needs it. I barely see any rets, locks or fury war in any of the dungeons I run. That's saying something.

I'm mainly prot but sometimes I like to dps and arms is not for me. Yeah I like seeing those big damage dealing numbers but I would prefer fury. Honestly the only time I use fury now is to farm legacy raids for mounts, gold and xmogs. I just spam whirlwind and mow down everything.

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Fury is in a terrible place at the moment, taking 20% extra damage is not a good thing (it also completely eliminates it from being a pvp spec) especially when your heal is only 4% and your emergency heal is on a 2 minute cooldown and heals 30% (you can usually get off 2-3 of them for a full heal however if you aren't moving around or switching targets) i dumped 13 points into Fury as my offspec just for speed questing and i think prot has a faster clear time when you take into account healing/number of mobs you can pull. In raids hopefully with the juggernaut talent and with legendaries maybe it will balance out? the clearing for older content is still faster as prot since thunderclap when talented has a much larger radius and one shots most things.

Arms on the other hand feels okay, it "feels" like youre doing something (probably personal preference) i think im going to drop 13 into arms and make it my new offspec over Fury unless it gets tweaked. I dont think arms feels good in pvp until you get echoslam, but pvp is a steaming pile of garbage right now anyway.

I've been doing the pvp world quests which usually involve zero pvp just to rank up to unlock the skins, there are some classes that are completely unkillable 1v1 for warriors (mistweavers), and every pvp BG ive done usually boils down to who has more stuns on their team, its the only thing in the game i feel like is a chore instead of fun. I'm sure sub rogues/ havoc DH are having a blast at it though.

TJT said:

Oh man Suramar must be a kind of fun kind of aids on PVP fighting over world quests and ancient mana nodes.

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There isn't much fighting that happens. Sure you have areas where sometimes you'll get some actual PvP but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I think PvP servers are filled with people like me. People who rolled PvP way back when and enjoyed it for a while but have stopped caring as it became monotonous and tiresome. But instead of rerolling we stick on the servers where we've amassed our stable of characters over the course of 12 years and mostly ignore PvP.

Shit I have a second account I tote around with me that is on a low pop PvE realm and use those characters to invite my main and realm hop over to the PvE server when PvP starts getting annoying.

Qhue said:

I'm at the point where the next point is 24k and I figure it is crazy to not toss at least a few points into something. I might do Frost though since me and Fire just do not seem to get along. I did my first full Mythic yesterday and think Arcane was good enough to get the job done. I spent a lot of time actively dodging stuff and casting Ice Barrier / Ice Block and generally trying to avoid death rather than staying still and DPSing. As a result my DPS wasn't burning up the chart by any means, but on a couple bosses I was the only one left alive at the end and had to kite-solo the damn thing for the last couple of percent.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/icecrown/Qhue/simple for reference

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Yup I am getting to the point where some of the AP tokens I am getting are enough for a full point into one of my off specs things. I figure I may as well dump some of them into it over the next few days and at very least unlock the first gold elite node.

I'm really loving this expansion. Hopped on my Legion app to check WQs. I filtered the world map for gear only and saw 3 WQs that grant gear that are upgrades for me. A 830 helm, epic 840 ring and a epic 835 neck.

Nola said:

The transition from normals to heroics was laughable in tanking. The only heroic dungeon that gave us any problems was the Maw of Souls and that was due to the players. People kept dying to Helya breath and for some reason they couldn't figure out how to avoid it. She clearly states when she's about to do it and I kept telling this one dpser to stand in the middle of her as much as possible when attacking her. It will give you enough time to position yourself to avoid her breath. But nooooooo.... what he does!? Stands on either of the far left or right side. She goes to that side and he doesn't have enough time to move away and dies. He doesn't even bother to pop any defensive CDs either to mitigate her damage. Hell I even had this huge marker over my head saying follow me and they still die to her breath. After 4 tries we finally kill. I never had any issues killing her on heroic. Was a nightmare.

Anyway my warrior is almost at ilvl 830 and I'm going to start doing mythics. I think that's a good enough state to start doing them. Plus I want to see how Ignore OPain does in mythics.

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I've had the same Helya problem even in normal. She turns her head in the direction she's going to breathe like ten minutes (well a few seconds anyway) before she does it and you have plenty of time to run to the other side. I kept telling people to pan up a little bit so they can see her face but I guess looking up in WoW is unheard of.

TJT said:

Oh man Suramar must be a kind of fun kind of aids on PVP fighting over world quests and ancient mana nodes.

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Special kind of free honor farming dummies is more like it for me. Sometimes there's AP and gold rewards too for hitting higher pvp ranks.

The amount of people that I kill that don't even hit their pvp trinket is just unreal. Most people would rather give up before trying to learn even the first most basic thing. Why they don't move to a PvE server is beyond me, because it must be hell for them like you say.

I get a good fight once in a while though, gets the blood pumpin'.

Khane said:

The achievement for Cordana in vault is going to be a PITA.

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She is easily the hardest boss our guild group dealt with on mythic. The succession of walls caught us off guard and was tricky until we got used to what you have to do to avoid them all.

Khane said:

Just checked, I've done 283 World Quests and there is still no end in sight.

Shoot me now.

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Heck, already up into the 600's

PSA: The Armory is starting to work again. Praise be to Allah: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/area-52/Kreu/simple derka derka jihad.

We have groups of full 840+'s now that are just fishing for warforged and trading shit around for better stat combos. A million thank yous for the new loot system that cuts down on wasted drops and gives more incentive for guilds to organize groups rather than leaving everyone to fend for themselves in shit pugs.

I made at least 100k on 3-star dreadleather bindings just to get to 800. I bought mountains of leather and made about 50 of the goddamn things to get the last two points. I even made the ugly mount. I was helped out greatly by people constantly trying to reset the price to three times the cost of the leather.

EDIT: Just noticed how many things are still broken on the armory, meh. Also, I love how I have far more of my worst stat (haste) than my best (versaility.)

Tantrik said:

She is easily the hardest boss our guild group dealt with on mythic. The succession of walls caught us off guard and was tricky until we got used to what you have to do to avoid them all.

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That was pretty rough, haha. I don't even want to ever try to PUG it. Ever. It's a really fun fight though imo and feels like a fight designed for a raid.