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Post by Office Ninja on Dec 10, 2009 2:38:01 GMT -5
Check out the new engine! They FINALLY made real environmental shadows!!!! i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/kikaro/WoW/ScreenShot_120909_023814.jpgI finished the 5 man Icecrown Instance. I LOVE IT! And oddly enough the new PUG thing freaking rocks. I already got 30 emblems today. Got a shiny new wand. And my item level 219 shoulders dropped of trash mobs >.< I love this patch. Hort is rocking the house now!
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Dec 10, 2009 2:47:56 GMT -5
I noticed that the new LFG window doesn't allow you to LFG for raid instances. Its all 5 mans. I know raiding with a guild is more effective than PUGging but there are still several people who PUG when their guild is on break or if they are doing the opposite manned version their guild does. Such as people who 25 man raid with their guild but PUG the 10 man or vice versa. And this seems extra strange now that raid bosses are part of the Daily Heroic it seems. Today's daily boss is Anub'Rekhan in Naxxramas. The daily boss was never a raid boss in the past it was always a heroic 5 man boss. So it seems strange to take away raid LFG when they add raid bosses to the daily quest.
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Post by Office Ninja on Dec 11, 2009 21:20:05 GMT -5
They actually took out the daily heroics. the quest guy now gives weekly raid quests. the first random heroic you do a day is considered the daily and gives you frost emblems.
Norfy, i need help. i can heal heroics and raids just fine with Hort. but i havesuch a hard time healing a deathknight tank. do you have problems? is it still because i dont have the best gear? i dont understand how i can heal 10 man ulduar but be unable to heal a deathknight tank in a heroic. paladins and druids are cakewalk. warriors really just depend on if hes a good tank. what am i doing wrong here?
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Post by Caller on Dec 13, 2009 2:34:00 GMT -5
Got the Superior achievement tonight which apparently means I'm allowed to play according to the new PUG thing's rules. Pisses me off, kept telling me my gear sucked, and I've done ToC Heroic before thank you very much <.<
Ahem.
Ben wants us to do more heroics, we tried that Halls of Reflection. Yeah didn't happen. <.< We got to the last part where Arthas is dramatically chasing you down and made it through two of the ice walls but the third just destroyed us over and over, and we gave up.
But to be honest, that's the first hard heroic I've done. I've done Trials of the Champion, that one under the Wyrmwrest tower (forget the name), Culling of Stratholme, Nexus (I think it's Nexus? In that closed off cold area?) and a couple others. Beat them all easily. I dunno. <.<
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Dec 23, 2009 23:23:15 GMT -5
Heroics were hard back when people were first hitting 80. Back when Lich King was still new. People were still working out how bosses fought and everyone had shit for gear. Heroics, even the harder ones like Azjol-Nerub are super easy now.
Kik, I don't heal DKs often in raids cause we don't have any in our guild. And if we ever do bring a DK he isn't tanking. As for healing em in Heroics, I do notice they are the hardest to keep healed. Honestly, I don't know why that is. They wear plate and Frost Pressance increases armor for them. Sorry I can't help you more with that.
Gonna play tonight now that I have internet again. My guild is probably like wtfRaylu???
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Dec 25, 2009 16:47:15 GMT -5
I love the new updates. The Dungeon Finder works great. It makes Summoning Stones obsolete. These new updates also make the concept of "if your gear sucks you can't play" less of an issue. All bosses in Heroics drop Triumph badges which makes Tier 9 gear super easy to aquire. Hell, once my Warlock is level 80 I can have her geared for Icercrown pretty fast.
I know some people don't like that Tier gear is so easily obtained cause they like the game being super hardcore. But you know what? I fought and killed Thorim a shitload of times and I never got my Tier 8 shoulders. I think Blizzard understands this now. I think they are thinking that so long as you can kill raid bosses then you deserve atleast something.
These new updates are making me interested in the game again.
EDIT>> Know whats great about Warlocks? As a demo, you can go afk and still level up, albeit slowly. But slowly is better than not at all. I went afk in a field of green enemies with my FelGuard on Aggresive and he killed any enemy that got too close to me. Its slow but atleast you can gain exp while eating lunch or taking a dump or whatever. ;D
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Post by Office Ninja on Dec 25, 2009 18:51:01 GMT -5
If a pet kills something by himself you shouldnt get any EXP. Did they change that?
I swapped Alexanich to Demo and am having a much easier time questing. I kept afflicion for instances though. The odd thing is I get about the same DPS on both specs.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Dec 25, 2009 18:58:09 GMT -5
Yeah you are right. I noticed that actually. I guess its to avoid sneaky people like me.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jan 4, 2010 3:43:35 GMT -5
DKs make shit tanks cause they can't equip shields. Obvious, but I never thought of it. One thing my guild says that compensates for the lack of shield is that a lot of tanking gear has Dodge. But it doesn't seem to be good enough. Maybe they need to start gemming and enchanting into dodge? Iono. They'de miss out on Stam which is pretty useful too. I got my Warlock to 80 tonight. I had a few purple BoE's in the bank and I'm gonna do those crappy ToC dailys to get some gear before I do Heroics. Death Kight is also coming along nicely. I have two pieces of T9 on that. The new raid dungeon is pretty fun so far. I like the four bosses they released for it and can't wait till they bring out more. The three 5 man dungeons are fun too. Halls of Reflection is hard as hell though. Fun cause Arthas is chasing you but.....hard. XD
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Post by Office Ninja on Jan 4, 2010 14:49:11 GMT -5
Hortario officially outgears Almuhan. Kind of sad. What is even more sad is that I ran regular CoS and got a blue trinket that I snatched up. WHen it procs, and its fairly often, it makes my next healing spell cost 800 less mana. Holy bejebus! So i replaced my purplez with it.
I also made the Royal Moonshroud Robe finally! Now I need to get the recipe for the bracers and make those suckers. That robe is insane. I love it.
Hort can heal any heroic just fine. WEll, except Halls of Reflection. If I am pugging it doesn't matter, I cant heal that place. I HATE going into the corner. THey forget that Priests can shackle undead. Hello? Use me!
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jan 4, 2010 19:40:30 GMT -5
Its been a while since Priests have been used for CC. Last time I CCed anything was in Karazhan in Burning Crusade. Naxx never required it, even though it was undead city, and Ulduar and ToC didn't have any undead there. Heck, I had to remind my own guild to use me for CC in Icecrown Citadel. XD
That robe IS insane. I can't make it unfortanatly. Never even saw the drop for the Pattern. In any case, gonna try and get Glassonion geared a bit tonight.
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Post by Yvondith on Jan 8, 2010 15:46:25 GMT -5
World Of Warcraft Pushing "Care Packages" Over Restoring Hacked AccountsEr... for some, yeah that might be better. Like for me, who was always broke. But for someone like Kikaro? That sorta like a rip off. Of course, I'm not really sure what Emblems of Frost and Emblems of Triumph do. Still, strikes me as a real dickish move. Something like Square-Enix would do.
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Post by Caller on Jan 8, 2010 20:05:41 GMT -5
That's an utter ripoff unless they've had you waiting 2-3 months, and even then, still ripoff.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jan 8, 2010 20:15:36 GMT -5
The value of the package depends on how long you've waited and how good/bad your gear is at the time of the hack. A person with, say, Tier 7 (or even blues and greens) who is hacked and waited the 2-3 months like you say will have instant gear upgrades. So for them the deal is worth it. For the rest of us that package is a step back and would be better waiting for a restoration.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jan 24, 2010 1:41:04 GMT -5
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