World of Warcraft: Current Year

Miele

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Kreugen_sl said:
I guess I'm about 70/30 on my QB controversy now. Hunter vs rogue. Enjoying both, and each has their downsides but man, is it nice to not have to treat every trash pack like a goddamn raid boss. That's probably the biggest deciding factor right there.

I like rogue on the bosses mostly because of all the tricks to avoid mechanics (cos, feint, shadowstep, etc) while watching other melee die in whatever I'm purposefully standing in. There's just more tricks to use that make me feel more smarter. Catalyst: Red casting? Yeah, I'll just go ahead and COS so the retards who don't move don't kill me. And it's fun to level because of the talent combo of boosted stealth damage + cloak and dagger for 40 yard teleport nuclear ambushes. (if you haven't tried that combo, holy shit you are missing the best part of rogue. Sadly, useless on bosses) But it still sucks on bosses with lots of low HP adds that for some fucking reason aren't being killed by ranged faster than you can even move to melee them.

But hunter for the most part is what I imagine a good bidet splashing after a sloppy dump on a hot day must feel like. Sure, you are constantly made to move out of crap or handle some dumb mechanic - but at least you aren't ever stuck staring at the boss from just out of range while the goddamn tank has it planted in a sea of bullshit.

I guess it's a question of choosing a difficulty setting. One that changes with each boss.

Example: Malkorak, Blackfuse. Rogue? Tunnel boss. Hunter? Loads of bullshit. But the opposite is true more often.
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I'd pick hunter every day and twice on Sunday, just because melee is a pain in the ass most of the times, due to drunk tanks that won't stand still even when they can and when they move mobs out of shit, they do it so that *they * are out of said shit, but the other melees get to sit in it if they want to keep dpsing. Of course it's LFR and crap, but damn... ranged is a lot less annoying when playing with strangers.
 
Argarth

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Tichondrius(US) ping ~ 180 ms. New Dreadmaul(OC) ping = 30 ms. Amazing, thank you Blizzard, and fuck you at the same time for taking so long.

/sniff ~ 'later Tich, it's been fun!
 
Lambourne

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They reduced the needed xp 85-90 by a lot it seems, it's very quick now. Did 84-90 in two evenings. Did candy buckets and archeology until 89. Did the WoD pre-quest 5 minutes after dinging 90, some nice 200 ilvl upgrades there
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Kreugen

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I imagine they adjusted the curve again to offset the loss of the guild XP bonus.

So last night after the 12th or so lootless Ordos/Celes for my rogue alt I joined a heroic raid and it was a ton of standing around while they filled up spots and summoned and re summoned and afk'd and suddenly I thought "what the fuck am I doing here?" and logged off. I think I've done all I'm willing to do in SoO, short of someone looking for a 570 mythic noob stand-in. (is that even crossrealm now? I know WOD Mythic won't be, at least at first) All my specs are set up, addons fixed, gold is who cares, etc.

More time to burn out on Destiny, I guess.
 
Daidraco

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Kreugen_sl said:
I imagine they adjusted the curve again to offset the loss of the guild XP bonus.

So last night after the 12th or so lootless Ordos/Celes for my rogue alt I joined a heroic raid and it was a ton of standing around while they filled up spots and summoned and re summoned and afk'd and suddenly I thought "what the fuck am I doing here?" and logged off. I think I've done all I'm willing to do in SoO, short of someone looking for a 570 mythic noob stand-in. (is that even crossrealm now? I know WOD Mythic won't be, at least at first) All my specs are set up, addons fixed, gold is who cares, etc.

More time to burn out on Destiny, I guess.
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Well you can spam run anything from LFR to Heroic now with Bonus Roll Tokens that can be infinitely farmed at frogs. So honestly, your average player is only looking for specific bosses that drop the shit that they want. Or they are in Mythic already, and since Mythic is nerfed.. theyre clearing that. Cant tell you much more than that except that yea.. no ones really putting a lot of effort into the next two weeks lol.
 
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There was a dude on twitch powerleveling people 1-75 in like 20 minutes... i guess they removed the exp gain cap per kill? he just brought a lvl 1 to pandaria via summoning stone or portal, used a passenger flying mount-flew them to Sra'Vess (klaxxi area in townlong steppes) and proceeded to kill everything for them.
 
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Needless_sl said:
There was a dude on twitch powerleveling people 1-75 in like 20 minutes... i guess they removed the exp gain cap per kill? he just brought a lvl 1 to pandaria via summoning stone or portal, used a passenger flying mount-flew them to Sra'Vess (klaxxi area in townlong steppes) and proceeded to kill everything for them.
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Someone hook me up with this. Fuck the 90 boost, I can do 75-90 on my own.
 
Ukerric

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Lambourne_sl said:
They reduced the needed xp 85-90 by a lot it seems, it's very quick now. Did 84-90 in two evenings. Did candy buckets and archeology until 89. Did the WoD pre-quest 5 minutes after dinging 90, some nice 200 ilvl upgrades there
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Original XP for Pandaria:

85-86 -> 8.5m XP
86-87 -> 10m XP
87-88 -> 12.5M
88-89 -> 15.25m XP
89-90 -> 18.37m XP

Current: 520 to 570k xp per level.
 
Lambourne

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Damn that's a huge difference.
With the candy buckets in the old world and archeology giving 6k per artifact I didn't even zone in to Pandaria until 89, the candy buckets there and ~20 quests (to unlock the Hozen town and the Kunlai summit town) was enough to ding 90.
 
Malkav

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Sooo, looking to get back into the game a nth time.

Still don't know on what character I'll spend my boost.

What's better in the "I want to melee dps in raid setting but I want the option to tank in dungeon/heroics" category? Warrior (dps as fury) or Monk?
 
Miele

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Malkav_sl said:
Sooo, looking to get back into the game a nth time.

Still don't know on what character I'll spend my boost.

What's better in the "I want to melee dps in raid setting but I want the option to tank in dungeon/heroics" category? Warrior (dps as fury) or Monk?
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Currently warrior is better in both roles, monk is a little bit better at soloing after the changes to second wind (pre-patch monk was an amazing soloer, now self heals are shit, but it's still better than having almost nothing to self heal reliably and often enough, see warrior). In addition, personal opinion, prot warrior is more fun than bm monk, but ww monk is a lot more fun than fury (which is braindead stupidly easy).
DKs and druids tanks are better soloers, not sure how good they are as tanks at 100. Paladin is always paladin, which means it's always very good.
 
Qhue

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They are still making some pretty hefty 'balance' adjustments considering we are only a couple weeks from the expansion going live and the 6.02 game system is live currently. I want to say that usually by this point we are seeing a few % here a few % there...but many of these numbers are 20%+ swings in bread-and-butter spells and abilities.
 
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Kreugen_sl said:
I imagine they adjusted the curve again to offset the loss of the guild XP bonus.

So last night after the 12th or so lootless Ordos/Celes for my rogue alt I joined a heroic raid and it was a ton of standing around while they filled up spots and summoned and re summoned and afk'd and suddenly I thought "what the fuck am I doing here?" and logged off. I think I've done all I'm willing to do in SoO, short of someone looking for a 570 mythic noob stand-in. (is that even crossrealm now? I know WOD Mythic won't be, at least at first) All my specs are set up, addons fixed, gold is who cares, etc.

More time to burn out on Destiny, I guess.
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Mythic (heroic) has been cross-realm for months now.
 
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Anyone else watch the Ashran livestream yesterday? Ive been out of the pvp scene since Cata hit but this zone looks like way too much fun to not play it
 
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Dumb question, but what's the easiest way to make gold? I've been flipping shit on the auction house and getting rid of my reagents when they are price nicely, but I still feel like I'm poor as hell.
 
Bruman

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Ao-_sl said:
Dumb question, but what's the easiest way to make gold? I've been flipping shit on the auction house and getting rid of my reagents when they are price nicely, but I still feel like I'm poor as hell.
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A few months ago I looked into it, and the main methods the internet suggested were:
-Flip on the AH (my server is dead, so no-go there)
-Farm golden lotus (although this close to the next expac, not sure if that makes it better/worse, but again, my server was pretty dead so it wasn't like I could make tons that way)
-Get a luck potion and find a good spot to grind mobs (some spot on Windward Isle in Jade Forest was recommended)

I found them all too boring to give a shit.

Edit: Most everyone that has one of those toons with gajillions of gold is either someone who can just play the same game forever doing mindless shit (so they're always farming raw mats, or grinding mobs, etc) or someone who is really good at playing the AH and has a really active server.
 
Elerion

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I've just played the game normally over the last 6-7 weeks since resubbing, which has netted me around 25-30k gold after normal expenses for gems, enchants, consumables, etc.

Main sources of cash:
- Some dailies, including Halfhill farm shit. I haven't really done much of this in the last 3 weeks or so, but I did 20+ dailies every day for the first few weeks.
- Used daily Tailoring cooldown
- Raiding/dungeons/timeless isle, disenchant epics

Then I've just taken all tradable shit I've gotten from the above and mailed it to an AH alt, and logged on that toon every other day to post everything. Generally undercutting the lowest auction by a copper, but not bothering posting if the current lowest price is below 50% of market value (unless I just want to sell it ASAP).
 
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