Kreugen
Vyemm Raider
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5 dps over 90k is an exceptionally good ToT lfr. Call me when the tanks at 60k are in the top 10 of every boss.
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Gorehack
Lord Nagafen Raider
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Dude tell me about it. Sometimes I'll instinctively hit my shield block for the first one, then someone dies because they take too long to come out. Or after Skeer dies I'll randomly miss one because people are talking about dippin' dots or some other bullshit. At least you can reset this fight though!
Crone
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Signed a guild charter a couple days ago on my alt Hunter for a guild called "The Night Shift", which you may surmise has intentions of building a raiding guild for late night raiders. Took a couple days to actually form up, but it finally did.
With as crowded as Hyjal is Horde side, I'd think it'd be easier to find people raiding after 8-9pm PST, but it's really not. Everyone be looking for flex, but no one actually wants to raid during that time. Weird.
What cracks me up more is all the guild advertisements going off in Org or Shrine at 10pm PST, looking for raiders 6-10, or whatever. I'd think advertising for peeps during the time you actually want them would be more productive.
With as crowded as Hyjal is Horde side, I'd think it'd be easier to find people raiding after 8-9pm PST, but it's really not. Everyone be looking for flex, but no one actually wants to raid during that time. Weird.
What cracks me up more is all the guild advertisements going off in Org or Shrine at 10pm PST, looking for raiders 6-10, or whatever. I'd think advertising for peeps during the time you actually want them would be more productive.
Falstaff
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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yeah that's painful. I've never seen anything remotely that bad in 3 months of LFR.
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Dandai
<WoW Guild Officer>
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Well, the silver lining is that you don't need to rush. 12/20/2014 is still 9 months away.
Ran a LFR with my 535 monk, was at about 140k. 2nd place was 75k. However sad that was, I did find a great sadistic joy in watching people on Durumu in ToT. Holy fuck you will think your raid frames just crashed, just instant multicolor life to a sea of grey dead motherfuckers. Then the chat shit talking? Pure gold perfection. If I believed half of what I read everyone had a 580 main that had never died on this before and that it was bugged and people were going to submit error reports.
kitsune
Golden Knight of the Realm
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Two of my friends used their 90 booston a warlock (because fotm pve dps I guess) and I didn't have much to do sunday so I dusted off my ol' undead. Craptastic 480 itemlevel gear but I had a lot of coins and shit, went and got megalucky from ordos, and celestials, plus had some honor saved up so suddenly I had 509 itemlevel. Why not boost 30 itemlevels in two hours, good game design =P
At any rate, I found destruction way more fun than I remember it (pre-embers) and just kept shooting things. Went to the isle of thunder and killed a rare, obviously it dropped the tome. So I set out to do the green fire quest and boy, that shit was annoying. I feel like the walls in the 'maze' are bugged because even though neither me or my pet touched it at times, it still spawned a buttload of ghosts. Worked my way up to the tower and tried the end boss for about an hour. Went horrible and I went to bed angry. Figured I had some time this morning though and did a nice one-shot so now I cast the greenest of fires. Overall, I must say that questline was really cool and I wonder why they don't do more class stuff like that, instead of crap content no one likes (all the starting scenarios of MoP, for example)
At any rate, I found destruction way more fun than I remember it (pre-embers) and just kept shooting things. Went to the isle of thunder and killed a rare, obviously it dropped the tome. So I set out to do the green fire quest and boy, that shit was annoying. I feel like the walls in the 'maze' are bugged because even though neither me or my pet touched it at times, it still spawned a buttload of ghosts. Worked my way up to the tower and tried the end boss for about an hour. Went horrible and I went to bed angry. Figured I had some time this morning though and did a nice one-shot so now I cast the greenest of fires. Overall, I must say that questline was really cool and I wonder why they don't do more class stuff like that, instead of crap content no one likes (all the starting scenarios of MoP, for example)
Somehow, somewhere, they are getting feedback telling them that people really do enjoy that shit. A blue mentioned that long, epic quests for each class was on the drawing board for MoP, and they scrapped them in favor of Townlong Steppes. I kinda liked Townlong, but I still think they made a horrible fucking decision there. Especially now, you can hit 90 without setting foot in Townlong, and thinking of doing that entire zone of quests at 90 just for fun makes me shudder. It's mediocre, redundant leveling content vs. challenging, well-tuned, semi-personalized quest experiences. It should be a no-brainer.
Back when MoP launched, before they reduced amount of exp required for level 86-90, you usually had to do townlong and some dread wastes. If you levelled purely off questing.
kitsune
Golden Knight of the Realm
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This is correct, however if you look at it from this perspective - they can scale the exp from quests, mobs etc so that you don't need all the zones. In fact at the start, I did like 1/3 or less of jade forest to 86, most of cookieville to 87, half of mountains to 88, all of it to 89 and most of it to 90 on my first character. Tons of stuff isn't really needed, they could cut down on it a bit, add a main questline for the zone and then have a questline your class follows, like in swtor. I don't need to receive mega epics for doing my quest, it'd just feel cool to do something paladin-y if I am on my paladin rather than just whack the same rats everyone else is
Anybody interested in doing a 10 man for WoD? I have my 90 boost still available. I am on malganis horde atm, and a 2 day a week thing could be fun. Red panda pirates anyone? 
bixxby
Molten Core Raider
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Well, every other expansions dungeons have been good. MoP wasted time with stupid lore bullshit. You spend 5-10 minutes in half the dungeons because of NPCs yelling. Protip Blizzard, the npcs plans don't matter when they're going to be dead in 5 minutes.
Kirun
Buzzfeed Editor
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I figured Blizzard would've learned to knock that shit off after Culling of Stratholme. I guess not..
kitsune
Golden Knight of the Realm
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dungeons are horrible in mop yeah, bossfights at least. Fish guy in jade serpent? shittiest encounter ever designed
But they were horrible in cataclysm before. Or did you really enjoy all the bosses that had "dps me for 20% then WE TAKE A BREAK LOL" built in? Look at deeadmines. Ripsnarl and Vancleef, both had annoying as fuck break phases where you stood around with your dick out not doing anything. Those kind of mechanics get old really fast