World of Warcraft: Current Year

Bruman

Golden Squire
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Way too much effort for gear that will all get replaced by greens in the first couple zones! I can't believe that people are still grinding Legendary Cloaks for their 18th alt.
FWIW, cloak will most likely last until level 100 dungeons. And shit, if people are still playing WoW right now, not like they have anything else to do but do some gear grinding.
 

kaxfenix

N00b
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I have 11 titan Runestones to get and I will be done with all the BS.. I hope I can get the majority of them before the 16th.... One of our guildies go his legendary last night, milestone for our fledgling guild
 

Rime

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When 6.0 hits 'live' servers, they are removing the Valor portion of the Legendary quest, so that 3 week time-lock will be gone.

Estimates have 6.0 on live end of this month.
 

Needless

Toe Sucker
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They better up the drop rate on all runes too or nerf the amount you need.. or both. Even if 6.0 were to hit on october first thats 5 weeks to get ~2 or 3 weeks of secrets/runes if you're lucky lol.
They clearly want people to get their cloaks before the expansion hits, so they may as well make it even more accessable.

the cloak will definitely last until heroics/lfr considering dungeon ilevel is like 598 or something? and doesn't have gem sockets/proc to make up for.
 

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>
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They clearly want people to get their cloaks before the expansion hits, so they may as well make it even more accessible.
I don't know that the valor change is to make it more accessible so much as the fact that valor is not possible to earn any more.
 

Kreugen

Vyemm Raider
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I assume MOP dungeons will reward lesser charms then? Since otherwise geared players running dungeons would drop to 0 overnight.
 

Dandai

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I assume MOP dungeons will reward lesser charms then? Since otherwise geared players running dungeons would drop to 0 overnight.
I hadn't even thought of that. I don't think they've mentioned old sources of valor giving lesser charms.
 

Palum

what Suineg set it to
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Aw yeah, AOC, 4 piece, leg meta gem = 200k dps on week 4 of rogue. Just runestones left to do.

Now I just need 40 more ilevels so I can get invites to flex3/4 and watch most people do sub 150k.
Bleh some classes just scale way faster. Because I'm a masochist decided to play my druid as balance. 540 ilvl (including cloak) and I can barely pull 70-100K depending on fight mechanics. I can't get below 20% hit completely reforging out of spirit.

On the bright side, no one noticed today when my druid got 'A Test of Valor' despite having the cloak on...
 

Kreugen

Vyemm Raider
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ilevel should be scaled by slot like the way gearscore worked, so weapons count for more towards your average than rings etc. Instead of the arbitrary number gearscore spit out, a full set of 550 ilevel items would still add up to a 550 ilevel. Then it might have a chance of being less worthless of a metric.
 

Palum

what Suineg set it to
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Yea, that's true. I still have a 502 weapon on my druid. Meanwhile my hunter got assisted through SOO 10 second week after hitting 90 and got warforged Kor'kron hand cannon and has been pulling retarded dps ever since.
 

Flipmode

EQOA Refugee
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Bleh some classes just scale way faster. Because I'm a masochist decided to play my druid as balance. 540 ilvl (including cloak) and I can barely pull 70-100K depending on fight mechanics. I can't get below 20% hit completely reforging out of spirit.

On the bright side, no one noticed today when my druid got 'A Test of Valor' despite having the cloak on...
How do you have the cloak already if you didn't do that quest? I got a few alts that could use the hax...
 

Palum

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How do you have the cloak already if you didn't do that quest? I got a few alts that could use the hax...
I don't know if it still works, but if you alt-f4 on one character and log on another and flip to 3k/3k, you got the achievement on both because of the bnet account propagation of achievements.

I'd guess it only works the first time you get it though when it propagates.
 

kitsune

Golden Knight of the Realm
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Way too much effort for gear that will all get replaced by greens in the first couple zones! I can't believe that people are still grinding Legendary Cloaks for their 18th alt.
you probably won't replace the cloak until you're level 100 or close to it. Seems like a good investment if you can be arsed
 

Miele

Lord Nagafen Raider
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Artificial cockblocking aside, it may be worth doing to stay busy for another 2 months. If it lasts 1 week or 3 into the xpack is not going to make a big difference in the end.
 

kitsune

Golden Knight of the Realm
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Artificial cockblocking aside, it may be worth doing to stay busy for another 2 months. If it lasts 1 week or 3 into the xpack is not going to make a big difference in the end.
well, good thing about this expac is that you won't replace all your gear immediately like you did in wotlk > cata. Apparently you can keep your high end raid epics until you're starting normal dungeons at max level which I think is the superb design. If you remember vanilla, technically you could have ivl 95 weapons (dropped off kel'thuzad) and you started replacing these with ilvl 93 weapons at max level. Way better design like this instead of the bullshit where all your work is nullified the second the level cap increases.

I can't wait to murder everything with my 588 monk, to be frank!
 

Ukerric

Bearded Ape
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FWIW, cloak will most likely last until level 100 dungeons.
And even then, it doesn't make sense to have it as a major objective "for the expansion". The only difference between your quest blue cloak and the legendary cloak is whether it's going to be replaced after 1 hour or 1 day of /playing. Ok, maybe 2 days.

It's core design for WoW that no gear of an expansion is remotely relevant for the next one.
And shit, if people are still playing WoW right now, not like they have anything else to do but do some gear grinding.
Truth. Which is why I'm only resubscribing probably one or two days before expansion, to shift characters around, clear up bank clutter, and that's all.
 

bixxby

Molten Core Raider
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Who cares you pretty much finish the cloak while gearing up. it's not like you're going out of your way to do 6 6 hour camps and then fighting mini bosses or something. If youre playing its worth grinding the cloak just for shits & gigs.