Author Topic: World of Warcraft: Episode 3: A New Patch (Read 102568 times)

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #660 on:** November 06, 2009, 03:55:06 AM »

I'm not elitist! But yea, scrubs need to gtfo of my raidz

Tonight was pretty awesome, and a break rebound from the Mimiron disaster. We started ToC 40min late which obviously isn't a good thing...but wound up finishing it in record time. After that we sprinted to Ony and for another 1 shot. By that time it was 11:11pm and our raid schedule for the day was already finished. We had enough core folks on to head to H ToC (10). Got to the Worms pretty easily on first try, and for a second I thought we were going to 1 shot it before we wiped. We wiped about 12 more times, some dumb, but many more close calls. One person in particular kept fucking up by getting hit by Icehowl's charge, causing enrages. First time it occurred when Icehowl was at 30%, second time at 5%. UGH. Shortly after that our raid leader DCd and we had no one else to replace him....

So we headed to OS and zerged 3 drakes; first time I've ever done it.

Shortly after that the raid leader came back and we went back to H ToC and killed Northrend Beasts; 22 wipes total. I figured Lord Jaraxxus would be easy but got stuck on him, and eventually called it. OT couldn't keep adds under control (mainly because dps wouldn't give him enough time imo). I wanted to do them, but I had to stay on boss for interrupts (warrior tank ftw). We had a shaman and DK who could interrupt but they were sucking pretty bad, so raid leader didn't want to risk the druid taking my place on the boss.

Fun night, huge repair bill but I'm not complaining. I hope we put Ulduar hard modes on the backburner (maybe once a night), and start focusing on H ToC whenever we can.

CurseoftheGods · « **Reply #661 on:** November 08, 2009, 04:32:34 PM »

I cleared TOTGC10 with a pug (even got Tribute to Skill with 44 tries remaining). I think I'm gonna quit WoW until Icecrown hits. I don't feel like I can get any better gear right now (except for Death's Choice maybe):

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Al%27Akir&n=Kristie

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #662 on:** November 09, 2009, 12:14:39 AM »

holy shit @ yer gear. welcome back btw

also I fucked up: we did it with 12 wipes, not 22

BlackMage · « **Reply #663 on:** November 12, 2009, 04:06:00 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on November 09, 2009, 12:14:39 AM

holy shit @ yer gear. welcome back btw

also I fucked up: we did it with 12 wipes, not 22

PD can i join your guild?! I'm coming back after a ~3 month hiatus

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Skywall&n=Zegai

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #664 on:** November 12, 2009, 07:36:04 PM »

I'm on Ravenholdt. Dunno if you'd want to transfer here. Horde are like 70% of the server, and the raid situation isn't great.

BlackMage · « **Reply #665 on:** November 12, 2009, 07:51:30 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on November 12, 2009, 07:36:04 PM

I'm on Ravenholdt. Dunno if you'd want to transfer here. Horde are like 70% of the server, and the raid situation isn't great.

oh

im so lonely now. everyone i know either quit or doesnt come on much anymore

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #666 on:** November 12, 2009, 09:17:05 PM »

:'(

Are you on a good server?

BlackMage · « **Reply #667 on:** November 13, 2009, 12:31:50 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on November 12, 2009, 09:17:05 PM

:'(

Are you on a good server?

i dunno. It seems alright. I just joined a raiding guild as an app. I quit before patch 3.2 and have never done TOC/TOGC so I guess it's time to research some new encounters.

BlackMage · « **Reply #668 on:** November 13, 2009, 12:00:05 PM »

I don't think I like this guild. They aren't very nice to me. They kind of treat me like im 2nd class since I'm only a lowly app. Listen bitches, you guys never even got past Mimiron so don't act so high and mighty!

ManaByte · « **Reply #669 on:** November 13, 2009, 01:28:55 PM »

Roll Horde on Tich, gank noobs. Have fun.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #670 on:** November 13, 2009, 02:20:28 PM »

A bi-polar Blackmage ragequit would be a sight to see

BlackMage · « **Reply #671 on:** November 13, 2009, 08:12:23 PM »

so im sitting here at the entrance to ToC and the raid decided not to invite me cause I'm useless melee DPS. Get this: Not a single rogue in the raid and I'm the only one logged on. Every other class is represented. :'(

BlackMage · « **Reply #672 on:** November 13, 2009, 10:42:48 PM »

so they finish the raid and form 2 10-man raids.. 21 people logged on, I'm the only rogue. Guess who got left out again. seriously...

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #673 on:** November 14, 2009, 01:29:00 PM »

That sucks; have you done the fights before? A rouge would be pretty helpful on Jaraxxus (if you don't have warrior or DK tank) and definitely Faction Champs

Last night was pretty cool. We did 3 drakes (I got the achievement last week), then many of us joined with a couple other guilds for a ToC 25 man run. It went very smooth, although members of my guild fucked up a couple times (ie getting hit by Icehowl's charge lol) and we 1 shotted everything. I got to OT thankfully and won some boots, a blacksmith plan and a trophy

Definitely saw a difference in raid leadership on display. The host guild's raid leader was calm and explained stuff even though everyone knew the fights. Who knows, maybe things would have been different if we were failing but it was definitely different from our guild leader who's pretty uncaring and obnoxious at times.

CrystalGemini · « **Reply #674 on:** November 27, 2009, 05:13:51 AM »

Started playing again. Leveling a mage. $:-\$

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #675 on:** November 27, 2009, 01:26:00 PM »

i just started an alliance pally. SNORE. ran to the drainy area just to keep from falling asleep.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #676 on:** November 28, 2009, 01:56:46 AM »

Pallies are hard to level, good luck

I'm taking a break from the game. Tired of drama and the raid grind. I'll probably resub after a week but I'm definitely chilling for now

Ganhyun · « **Reply #677 on:** November 28, 2009, 10:00:23 PM »

Just did the entire WrathGate quest chain. Nice. Just freed the Undercity as well. Running around with Thrall and Sylvanas was pretty cool.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #678 on:** December 02, 2009, 06:05:21 PM »

MMO-Champion is saying 3.3 should be out on Dec 8th

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #679 on:** December 04, 2009, 02:41:03 AM »

Quote

Let's project this out: For the sake of argument, say Icecrown comes out Decemeber 1st, just to make the math easy. On Dec. 1, we get Wing 1. Now, Blizzad's wording on the release of new wings is "several weeks." To me, several weeks means more than 2, so I'm going to say 3 weeks between release of each wing. That puts wing 2 at December 22nd. Three more weeks puts Wing 3 at January 12. Finally, Wing 4 comes out February 2nd. If your billing cycle starts on that same December 1st, you pay for December, January, and February--three months--just to *see* Arthas, provided you and your guild are good enough to get past the extremely limited number of attempts you will initially get in Icecrown. Then, you kill Arthas that week, let's say, because you're that good. The week of February 9th is when you can start hard modes. Start. A raid initially released on Dec. 1 will allow for hard modes to begin on February 9th. My powers of prognostication and experience as a guild leader / recruiter say that many, many guilds will not survive hard modes.

http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/Fives-the-Paladin-Hates-the-Blues/Six-Words-that-Terrify-Blizzard

That article goes overboard at times but I have a feeling many people will be parroting those arguments in a few months. I have no problem with gating in general, I just wonder how I'll feel about rehashing the same content just to get to new content two months from now.

Limiting the amounts of tries sounds like more of a problem than gating to me.
The article goes overboard at times (especially the last paragraph) but I have a feeling many people will be parroting those arguments in a few months. I have no problem with gating in general, I just wonder how I'll feel about rehashing the same content just to get to new content two months from now.

CrystalGemini · « **Reply #680 on:** December 06, 2009, 03:26:19 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on November 28, 2009, 01:56:46 AM

Pallies are hard to level, good luck

I'm taking a break from the game. Tired of drama and the raid grind. I'll probably resub after a week but I'm definitely chilling for now

No wonder I haven't seen you online!

My pally was easy to level. I thought it was the most enjoyable too. May be personal preference.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #681 on:** December 07, 2009, 02:35:43 PM »

Doing some research on the first ICC wing in preparation for ~~tomorrow lolol patch day DCs~~ Wednesday. I had watched the videos and briefly read the descriptions before, but I'm actually paying attention now...and wow, some of these fights sound fun. I can't fucking wait for the Gunship fight. Sounds epic. Imagine a 40 man version of that fffuuuuuuu

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #682 on:** December 07, 2009, 02:39:28 PM »

Yeah Paly is ridic easy to level and also my favorite so far. He's level 66 but its been so much fun to get ap ack of 10 enemies and just rape them all at once.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #683 on:** December 07, 2009, 08:48:19 PM »

pallies are easy to level now that you don't hafta watch yer seals

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #684 on:** December 07, 2009, 08:58:23 PM »

ya that sucked ass, seal, judgement, seal, judgement, seal, judgement, smh

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #685 on:** December 07, 2009, 09:22:54 PM »

pallies have enough work to do with their threat rotation, anyhow

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #686 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:06:20 AM »

well i guess i musta sucked on my pally then. it was hard/boring.

I really like my shaman tho. Lv76 and it's sooo obvious I'll be doing crazy dps once I get to 80 and geared. Shame I didn't get it to 80 in time for tomorrow.

Tomorrow should be badass though. Got a test and study session to attend, then I'm free. I doubt the servers will be stable enough to do anything meaningful in ICC but we're gonna try. Plus I wanna see what the weekly raid is; would be fun heading back into Naxx to kill some shit.

etiolate · « **Reply #687 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:07:02 AM »

speaking of which I got black heart trinket on my prot pally

edging a little bit by bit to the 30k hp mark I want

People a little wary of new tank in blues for heroics, mainly due to threat I would feel. I managed to hold threat in heroic VH in blues. Need to do heroics for badges to get the prot libram.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #688 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:19:40 AM »

I definitely want a lv80 prot pally...I just doubt I can will myself to get there. My pally is on another server, and horde...meh not paying for faction change/server transfer. If I get serious I'll make another one on my main server.

I doubt I'll take another character 1-80 until Cataclysm. In the meantime I'll probably make a DK; definitely want to try tanking as a DK

cubicle47b · « **Reply #689 on:** December 08, 2009, 09:43:54 AM »

Blizzard needs to hurry up and release the Fall of the Lich King trailer.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #690 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:08:30 AM »

is today paatch day?

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #691 on:** December 08, 2009, 11:20:04 AM »

FUKKKKK I was not ready for this patch, I still had some AV grinding left to do fuck

Ganhyun · « **Reply #692 on:** December 08, 2009, 03:45:37 PM »

Currently sitting at level 73 with my Lock. Need to get to 80 so I can do some of the high level dungeons at least.

Guy on GAF recommended doing alot of AV (Alterac Valley?) battlegrounds for those epic items via honor.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #693 on:** December 08, 2009, 03:47:46 PM »

Guy on GAF is a fucking idiot as it's pointless to do AV after this patch.

Ganhyun · « **Reply #694 on:** December 08, 2009, 03:50:22 PM »

Quote from: MyNameIsMud on December 08, 2009, 03:47:46 PM

Guy on GAF is a fucking idiot as it's pointless to do AV after this patch.

So what do you recommend I do then to level and get better gear than the ragtag stuff i currently use?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Korialstrasz&cn=Tyllanis&gn=Dawn+of+Shadows

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #695 on:** December 08, 2009, 03:51:51 PM »

Yeah it's not hard to get groups as a lock as they're severaly underpopulated. Just man up to 80, then run some regular ToC, as that pretty much gives you Naxx equivalent gear.

Granted I have no idea how hard the new 5 mans are so I could be lieing.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #696 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:10:24 PM »

Can anyone else log on? I'm stuck at 100% not loading.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #697 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:30:30 PM »

I got into a random group for the new instance (on normal). Got dc'd with the first boss at 10% health. Still can't log back in

Ganhyun · « **Reply #698 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:39:42 PM »

cant check really, im at work. sorry.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #699 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:40:52 PM »

Game sux won't let me get past server select.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #700 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:46:30 PM »

I'd imagine the multi-server LFG stuff could cause some problems for the rest of the day. It might be the most exciting thing in 3.3 to me. Playing on a small to medium sized server makes it hard to find groups for lower lv characters, so random server searches will be a godscend. Plus using this, you can do heroics multiple times and not have to worry about lock outs.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #701 on:** December 08, 2009, 04:48:59 PM »

Yeah it'll be awesome for 1-60.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #702 on:** December 09, 2009, 02:25:18 AM »

Shitty patch day for me. I joined a group for the new instance, but we got dc'd on the first boss. Couldn't get on for a few more hours, at which point I realized I got saved to the instance boo.

Then my computer started acting up right as my guild entered ICC. I left raid to deal with it. Wasted an hour and a half taking things apart before realizing the problem was pretty simple (loose fan was making a shit-ton of noise). Luckily the guild didn't do the raid without me, but at the same time it sucked that my computer problem caused them not to be able to raid (I'm MT).

Oh well. The LFG thingie is very nice; I'm about to test it on my lv76 shaman

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #703 on:** December 09, 2009, 10:21:49 PM »

im not that impressed with new patch, the new dungeons are mediocre (but provide a decent challenge on heroic, for now), and they made all my gear obsolete again. What happened to the Blizzard that was able to introduce new dungeons and 5 mans in vanilla wow and not completely fuck up old loot?

Ganhyun · « **Reply #704 on:** December 09, 2009, 10:42:59 PM »

have done 2 group finders, both are the same dungeon, lmao. We pugged it easily twice. Its the Violet Hold instance. Alas, no drops for my character yet. just a buncha mail for the tanks and such.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #705 on:** December 10, 2009, 01:22:21 AM »

We cleared the first ICC wing tonight. Marrowgar wound up giving us the most trouble surprisingly; had 5 wipes lol. Mainly due to people not paying attention to the aggro wipe, or fighting in front of the boss even after being yelled at.

Lady Deathwhisper: 1 wipe. I expected this fight to be tough, but we breezed through. The adds weren't a problem at all, and eventually I stopped paying attention to their casts. P2 was a breeze

Icecrown Gunship Battle: 3 hilarious wipes. First time I was being a dumbass and forgot to jump off the ship; Saurfang beat the shit out of me. Second wipe I wound up rocketing off the horde ship to the very edge of our ship, then falling off lmao. Third wipe wasn't my fault! Very fun fight, and I'd kill to see a 40 man version

Deathbringer Saurfang: No wipes. Surprisingly easy. He only reached the Mark of the Fallen Champion cast twice so we got the achievement

Overall I like the layout, and some of the trash fights are fun. The Gunship fight is my favorite raid boss in ages and I'd imagine Deathwhisper will be a nice tanking challenge on heroic, whenever it comes out. Marrowgar is fun as well. Saurfang was pretty meh, probably because we stomped it so easily lol

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #706 on:** December 10, 2009, 09:27:41 AM »

I'm still stunned as to why the Gunship battle isn't a PVP encounter.

etiolate · « **Reply #707 on:** December 12, 2009, 04:59:32 AM »

Quote from: MyNameIsMud on December 09, 2009, 10:21:49 PM

im not that impressed with new patch, the new dungeons are mediocre (but provide a decent challenge on heroic, for now), and they made all my gear obsolete again. What happened to the Blizzard that was able to introduce new dungeons and 5 mans in vanilla wow and not completely fuck up old loot?

eh I rather like the new 5mans. Haven't tried the raid. Was not a fan of Ulduar, felt too big and bloated. Pit of Saron is one of the better five mans in wotlk now that I think about it.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #708 on:** December 12, 2009, 10:25:33 AM »

Yeah i've grown to like the 5 mans since that.

I got my pally up to 69, will hit 70 later. How bad did they nerf XP Gain in AV?

Ganhyun · « **Reply #709 on:** December 12, 2009, 07:39:44 PM »

Quote from: MyNameIsMud on December 12, 2009, 10:25:33 AM

Yeah i've grown to like the 5 mans since that.

I got my pally up to 69, will hit 70 later. How bad did they nerf XP Gain in AV?

still seems to be alot of exp gain honestly. and its still the easiest pvp battleground to do.

I'll do one later and make notes of what i did and how much exp i got. or try to.

Edit:

Did one, came in towards end.

Capped one graveyard.

got 8 honor kills

587 bonus honor

got around 18-20k exp

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #710 on:** December 13, 2009, 12:06:14 AM »

coo so still should be decent for 70-80 levelling

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #711 on:** December 13, 2009, 04:09:20 AM »

Got to lv78 tonight, pretty quickly with the lfg system. I've basically given up AV because the instances are so much faster, plus you get gold; I made 100g doing instances lol. I think I can hit lv79 tomorrow, although I'll probably be hamstrung studying for finals

Trying to decide what to do once I hit 80 though. Right now I'm leaning towards getting my resto tier stuff before enhancement. Should make me more valuable, plus it'll be pretty easy to get decent dps gear through instances; from what I've seen it seems like a decent geared enhancement shaman can do lots of dps, assuming they know what they're doing.

etiolate · « **Reply #712 on:** December 13, 2009, 06:08:53 AM »

PD, have you been getting emblems of triumph from random dungeoning? My druid gets 2 embels at lvl 71 every time he does a random dungeon. I figure leveling like that you'd be able to buy a piece of t9 by the time you hit 80.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #713 on:** December 13, 2009, 10:24:10 AM »

I thought its 2 triumph per day.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #714 on:** December 13, 2009, 11:46:05 AM »

Ok so either:

A. I lost all my healing skills overnight
B. The tank sucked
or
C. Is there a severe difficulty curve in healing Utgarde Keep over something like Sethekk? I got destroyed in my mana and couldn't keep the tank up at all. It sucked and was embarrasing.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #715 on:** December 13, 2009, 11:55:07 AM »

Quote from: etiolate on December 13, 2009, 06:08:53 AM

PD, have you been getting emblems of triumph from random dungeoning? My druid gets 2 embels at lvl 71 every time he does a random dungeon. I figure leveling like that you'd be able to buy a piece of t9 by the time you hit 80.

I get 2 emblems a day from the first random LFG I do, like getting 2 frost emblems a day for the first LFG at lv80. If you're getting 2 each time that's a bug. Right now I have 10 on Daeny; the most you could get this week without the bug is 12 (tues-sun)

A few people were getting 2 frost emblems for every dungeon they did this week, hence people already having 50+ frost emblems, and not even stepping into ICC

CrystalGemini · « **Reply #716 on:** December 16, 2009, 04:55:22 AM »

MERRY CHRISTMAS, FELLOW EB WOWERS!!!

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #717 on:** December 16, 2009, 11:12:26 AM »

Merry Christmas, Im still undecided if I want to do the christmas stuff yet

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #718 on:** December 16, 2009, 01:35:48 PM »

The only holiday thing I ever did was do the brewfest thing to get loot

Shaman is lv79, half way to 80. I probably won't get home from school/library until around raid time for my main (ICC at 9pm), and after we roffle the place I'll jump back on my shaman and hit 80.

I heard they nerfed the dmg Marrowgar does to tanks. Our healers will be happy

OptimoPeach · « **Reply #719 on:** December 16, 2009, 02:17:57 PM »

Friends keep harassing me to resubscribe and cool young dude at 60, and right on cue Blizzard gave me a free month of play time for no reason. I'm tempted, but this game is such a disease

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Author Topic: World of Warcraft: Episode 3: A New Patch (Read 102568 times)