Author Topic: World of Warcraft: Episode 3: A New Patch (Read 102634 times)

pilonv1 · « **Reply #60 on:** November 12, 2008, 06:57:34 PM »

Quote from: dcharlie on November 08, 2008, 08:57:47 AM

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What's wrong with time cards? The only bad thing is that the Gamestop employees give me stares. Not that I care what they think - they work at Gamestop afterall

basically import tax on time cards :/

i have a credit card - it's how most people are surely paying, i just want to use it!

i have to call the australian hotline on monday, i'm going to get sorted out

couldnt you just get someone to buy a card for you and send you the code?

border · « **Reply #61 on:** November 13, 2008, 02:07:32 AM »

I got to Best Buy around 10:15 and there was a line of 50-60 people. They handed out vouchers for the Collector's Edition. I was #38 of 49 CEs that they had. More than enough regular editions were onhand to satisfy the crowd. Between 10:30 and midnight the size of the line easily doubled.

Once the store opened up around midnight we got out the front door by 12:15 AM. Played a couple rounds of Halo at my friend's hosue while he installed, and now I'm home and running the installation for myself. I live on the East Coast, but my characters reside on a West Coast server -- hopefully I'll have a couple hours to play before everyone on the West coast gets their game and everything implodes.

ManaByte · « **Reply #62 on:** November 13, 2008, 09:52:47 AM »

There were about 75 people (half in tents) at the Anaheim Fry's by the time it opened Wednesday morning.

ManaByte · « **Reply #63 on:** November 13, 2008, 10:02:44 AM »

I think the local BB has some CEs in stock since they didn't do a midnight, so going to run over there right when they open since I want the artbook and OMG the soundtrack.

ManaByte · « **Reply #64 on:** November 13, 2008, 01:59:58 PM »

#4 in line at BB. They had 12 CEs. One asshat at the end of the line ran up and tried to get in first. He was only there to scalp it on eBay too.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #65 on:** November 13, 2008, 02:17:50 PM »

I'm going to continue my tradition of downloading the trial first. Can't turn down 10 free dayz of anything

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I didn't even buy BC. Someone in my guild worked at BB and hooked us up for free

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demi · « **Reply #66 on:** November 15, 2008, 01:07:31 AM »

Damn look who I found

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/878989144.html

Yeah baby

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #67 on:** November 29, 2008, 06:33:22 PM »

Took forever to download the patches jeez. I don't have LK yet; I'll get it next weekend

OMG the game looks great on my computer. I see shadows now

I've played it on high at Showcase Cinemas before but never in the comfort of my own home.

I respec'd, but still prot
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Ravenholdt&n=Goinio

I want to get some better gear before jumping into LK

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #68 on:** November 29, 2008, 11:52:27 PM »

Got my first achievement (5 daily quests). Kinda startled me at first because I forgot the game had them now

Once I get back into rhythm I'll jump into some instances. Maybe run some lower levels; my fingers feel rusty

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #69 on:** November 30, 2008, 12:11:31 AM »

I might start my 4th account over this upcoming winter break

what server do you all play on and please say it's horde

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #70 on:** December 01, 2008, 04:02:19 AM »

Off tanking meh. On one hand it's quite relaxing not having to worry about everything, on the other hand it's booring

I'm in Magister's Terrace now; the tank has been afk for awhile. I'm really liking the design of the place

Edit: The tank never came back so I tanked the last two bosses. The first boss fight (where you go against a 5 man group of elites) was pretty easy. Kael wasn't bad either. Our healer almost died at the last second but we managed to kill Kael first.

I got this: http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=34807

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #71 on:** December 01, 2008, 05:00:29 PM »

fuuck I did all of the Shattered Sun dailies late last night and today and now I'm around 300rep short of exalted. Now I have to wait for the day to pass in order to reach exalted and get the badass shield I want

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #72 on:** December 03, 2008, 09:20:20 PM »

Blizzard wins: I bought LK today. Couldn't find anyone doing non-LK stuff so I had to join the party. Gonna install in a sec

Also I'm really digging these glyphs. I bought one that makes every Devastate I use sunder the target twice - great for tanking. I got another that sunders a nearby secondary target whenever I Devastate my primary target omg.

And on my alt: mounts @ 30

The worst thing about low levels is trying to do shit running everywhere. Having a mount really opens the world up

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #73 on:** December 03, 2008, 09:23:14 PM »

welcome to the party

I'm 76, the expansion is so fucking tight so far, every zone feels awesomely cohesive and cool the way Ghostlands did in BC. Zul'Drak is fucking Angkor Wat 3000

the Wrathgate questline is also ZOMG, Battle For the Undercity is God Epic

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fight alongside Thrall and Sylvannas in an instanced version of the Undercity against 20 mob waves while you and your party have uberbuffs to RECLAIM IT FROM THE SCOURGE BETRAYERS zomg so awesome you are Ultimate God Hero

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haven't touched Sholazar yet; hoping to hit 78.5-79 by the end of Sholazar and top the rest off in Icecrown, then get 5000g before going to Stormpeaks...

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #74 on:** December 03, 2008, 09:31:50 PM »

btw anyone know if there's a Quel Danas (Sunwell) type area for dailies in this expansion?

Akala · « **Reply #75 on:** December 03, 2008, 11:18:52 PM »

There are dailies all over the place in Northrend. You'll see.

re: Patel- Told ya.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #76 on:** December 04, 2008, 01:28:10 AM »

Ran Utgarde Keep, which I hadn't done since the beta during the summer. This time my group had no problems with the bosses, although the last one killed me shortly after he resurrected. It's a nice, quick instance. Very easy.

If I was able to breeze through it with my blue/couple purple gear I bet people like Etoilet were completing it with their eyes closed

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #77 on:** December 05, 2008, 04:05:46 AM »

I finished Nexus about an hour ago. Beautiful instance, and very well designed; I'm really loving that these new instances can be fully cleared relatively quickly. We had no problems with the trash mobs but 3 of the 4 bosses gave us trouble.

Grand Magus Telestra: We wiped a couple times before our healer looked up the fight online and found out Telestra's clones can be sheeped. After we learned that it was easy

Anomalus: Wiped the first time simply because this fucker has a TON of health (192k). He's not that hard, you just have to kill the rifts he spawns

Ormorok: Simple tank n spank, although he does throw you into the air if you step on the crystals he puts in the ground

Keristrasza: We shouldn't have wiped on her. You just have to move around a lot, making sure she can't aim her fire attack at casters.

Lesson of the day: don't do Nexus unless you have heavy DPS and at least one mage. DPS for the bosses since they have a shit ton of hp, mage(s) for cc mainly on Telestra

Stocky · « **Reply #78 on:** December 05, 2008, 07:14:12 AM »

Hit 80 on the 17th, have been doing more heroics than I've ever done in the past.

Killed Sartharion, Archavon, and Sapphiron so far. Going for Kel'thuzad tonight.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #79 on:** December 06, 2008, 01:35:23 AM »

fuck I was doing awesome in BG (AV) before my connection died. fuuuck

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #80 on:** December 06, 2008, 04:19:37 AM »

Goinio: King of Warsong

I got our last two flags

I also managed to do a good amount of damage. Shield Reflect

Akala · « **Reply #81 on:** December 07, 2008, 04:39:32 AM »

EPIC FLYER!

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #82 on:** December 07, 2008, 02:29:18 PM »

finally i am in NORFREND

T234 · « **Reply #83 on:** December 07, 2008, 02:46:08 PM »

I dunno what it's like for squishies, but man, Nothrend gear rocks my socks.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #84 on:** December 07, 2008, 02:47:55 PM »

i am seeing folks with obscene HP at level 80 -- like 24K unbuffed. is that norfrend eq itemization at work?

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #85 on:** December 07, 2008, 02:50:09 PM »

yeah, I'm at 16.5k at 77 (but I have been somewhat Stamina focused). I'd imagine that decent dungeon blues at 80 would push you over 20k without a problem.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #86 on:** December 07, 2008, 09:15:49 PM »

just ding'd 69, niccas

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #87 on:** December 07, 2008, 09:30:32 PM »

dinged 71 earlier today

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

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #88 on:** December 08, 2008, 01:06:51 AM »

I dinged 78 AND 79 today ... urgh ... think I'm gonna be sick

I'm at about 4000g and have a lot tied up in JC inventory - I may play the AH for a few days until I get enough to get my epic flyer

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #89 on:** December 08, 2008, 01:32:19 AM »

78 and 79 wtf? It took forever for me just to get from 70 to 71, I can't imagine dinging two high levels in a day

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #90 on:** December 08, 2008, 01:58:07 AM »

i got 66-69 in two days!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #91 on:** December 08, 2008, 06:17:07 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on December 08, 2008, 01:58:07 AM

i got 66-69 in two days!

By grinding, doing instances? I did a shit ton of quests today and now I'm half way to 72 $:-\$

Akala · « **Reply #92 on:** December 09, 2008, 08:13:02 AM »

Quote from: Forgotten Ancient on December 08, 2008, 09:35:14 PM

Question - I can't find my old discs for WoW or BC. Is there a client I can download them for free so long as I have my original account info? I'm downloading the expansion right now....

If you go to the official site, log on to your profile, and there are client download tabs.

On a side note, grats to Cocco, 2nd place will be mine on Saturday!

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #93 on:** December 09, 2008, 11:37:44 AM »

GUESS WHO HIT 80

Hint:

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ME

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Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #94 on:** December 09, 2008, 11:39:25 AM »

Quote from: Forgotten Ancient on December 08, 2008, 09:35:14 PM

Question - I can't find my old discs for WoW or BC. Is there a client I can download them for free so long as I have my original account info? I'm downloading the expansion right now....

yeah just login to Account Management and get the Universal Installer

cubicle47b · « **Reply #95 on:** December 09, 2008, 04:33:36 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on December 07, 2008, 02:47:55 PM

i am seeing folks with obscene HP at level 80 -- like 24K unbuffed. is that norfrend eq itemization at work?

Stats doubled from 70-80. It's practically a requirement if you're going to do a gear reset considering how powerful Sunwell epics were. Level 80 blues from heroics are item level 200 (blues and Molten Core epics at level 60 were ~ item level 60-70).

lvl 60 Tier 1 Warrior Chest - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=16865
lvl 80 Tier 7 Warrior Chest - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40544

Akala · « **Reply #96 on:** December 09, 2008, 07:05:35 PM »

goddamn it, I get home and see that Blizzard are about to nerf BM hunters into the ground.

Better follow through with 80 this weekend so I can spec MM.

/greek

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #97 on:** December 10, 2008, 02:59:59 AM »

lv73 now, after questing like a mad man. I really want to get revered with Valiance Alliance so I can get
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38455
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38453

I've done a shit ton of quests and I'm almost half way there sigh.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #98 on:** December 10, 2008, 05:16:01 PM »

Just finished Azjol-Nerub. I'm loving these short instances. With TBC instances I'd often have to turn down group offers because I knew I didn't have time to complete them. We just cleared Azjol-Nerub in less than an hour. Nice quest reward:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44362

The last boss (Anub'Arak) is pretty easy but he borrows a lot, which is annoying.

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #99 on:** December 10, 2008, 05:29:01 PM »

Quote from: Thanks But No Thanks on December 10, 2008, 02:59:59 AM

lv73 now, after questing like a mad man. I really want to get revered with Valiance Alliance so I can get
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38455
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38453

I've done a shit ton of quests and I'm almost half way there sigh.

dunno how distorted around all the stats got when lich king came out, but those items are fucking ace tanking kit. bravo to blizzard's itemization team, that's good gear.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #100 on:** December 10, 2008, 06:20:15 PM »

I want Revered with Kirin Tor so I can get

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44173 :O :O :O
and
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40698 (25 Heroic tokens)

daaaamn son that's some sweet ass DPS caster gear

ManaByte · « **Reply #101 on:** December 10, 2008, 07:53:29 PM »

I need exalted with Alliance Vanguard so I can get my fucking motorcycle schematics!

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #102 on:** December 10, 2008, 08:16:48 PM »

EPIC FLYER

woo

I am fucking quested out - I pretty much full cleared all zones except for 40 Howling Fjord, 50 Dragonblight, 50 Icecrown, and all of Storm Peaks. I am probably going to focus on instances and Heroics for the forseeable future.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #103 on:** December 10, 2008, 09:19:25 PM »

Finished Nexus and got a couple great quest items
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42768
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42765

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

I'm guessing Blizzard changed some stats a few days ago. I was slightly past 500def not long ago, then today I noticed I had been nuked down to 486 or so. After getting the two items above I'm at 499

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #104 on:** December 10, 2008, 09:47:41 PM »

Quote from: Thanks But No Thanks on December 10, 2008, 09:19:25 PM

I'm guessing Blizzard changed some stats a few days ago. I was slightly past 500def not long ago, then today I noticed I had been nuked down to 486 or so. After getting the two items above I'm at 499

That's probably defense rating scaling with your level

cubicle47b · « **Reply #105 on:** December 10, 2008, 11:47:09 PM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on December 10, 2008, 09:47:41 PM

Quote from: Thanks But No Thanks on December 10, 2008, 09:19:25 PM
I'm guessing Blizzard changed some stats a few days ago. I was slightly past 500def not long ago, then today I noticed I had been nuked down to 486 or so. After getting the two items above I'm at 499

That's probably defense rating scaling with your level

Yeah, you need ~2x the stat rating per point at 80 than you did at 70.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kael%27thas&n=Esmi
^ My armory. 0 raid items. Only crated, rep, and heroics/emblem gear. My flash of lights are 1.2 seconds (with judgments of the pure) and 1.05 seconds when my trinket procs. I healed heroic Utgarde Pinnacle tonight with a pally tank who had improved devotion aura and I was critting for 5K with a 82% crit rate when sacred shield was up (seemingly most of the time). Utterly ridiculous.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #106 on:** December 11, 2008, 01:39:32 PM »

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?tag=CRCFAQ

time for a sex change

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #107 on:** December 11, 2008, 03:06:14 PM »

lol heard about that today.

Got this today

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35661

This run was a bit harder than the previous one. Had a frost mage who was dps'ing like a god damn mad man.

Akala · « **Reply #108 on:** December 12, 2008, 11:21:12 PM »

LEVEL 80

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only took 313 hours! $:-\$

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etiolate · « **Reply #109 on:** December 13, 2008, 07:07:41 AM »

I finally got my epic flyer with a little donation from a guildie. I now have to return to maxing my LW so I can make the epic cloak. None of the LW epic gear is all that interesting for my Shaman, so I had sort of ignored it. Being JC/LW is nice as a caster, as I think you end up getting the most spell damage from profs out of it. The bop epic gems + 67 spellpower wrist kit.

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

I'm hoping the proposed Ele buffs work out and get to Live.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #110 on:** December 13, 2008, 08:33:13 PM »

Akala and I had some fun this afternoon. We ran Gun'drak and it was a romp, even though our fucking tank was like "lols what is pulling, I just AOE spam everything, oh wow we got two patrols, how did that happen"

then we ran Utgarde Pinnacle - much smarter group, but our tank was 78, our healer was 79, and our 80s (self included) were still mostly rocking 75 blue gear. we cleared the minibosses okay but the last boss was HOLY SHIT evil. we tried four times and improved greatly but he involved all sorts of weird abilities and techniques that none of us were greatly familiar with.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #111 on:** December 13, 2008, 09:28:21 PM »

being able to rebound after bad pulls is essential. Challenging Shout+Thunder Clap has saved me many times lol

worst thing is when hunters insist on pulling, then do it anyway after you explicitly tell them not to

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #112 on:** December 15, 2008, 12:47:22 PM »

Yesterday I tried to do Violet Hold...not a good idea. It's like Black Morass

After that failure I tried Drak'Tharon Keep which was pretty fun. Reminded me of the good ole' days of ZF. Only Novos the Summoner gave us trouble. First few times I was busy with the ads and he'd come alive behind the group and 4 shot the healer. So I just stayed next to the healer waiting for the boss to become active, then charged in and got the arrgo.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #113 on:** December 15, 2008, 01:11:39 PM »

i, uh, did mana tombs for the first time

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #114 on:** December 15, 2008, 01:18:24 PM »

and it was awesome!

I did like 6 heroics this weekend. 3 were run-and-gun fun and 3 were "uhh we're not quite ready for this yet"

the big problem was tanks/leaders who would describe a fight as a "tank and spank" because, well, for them alll they do is tank and spank. but they would neglect to mention "he has a ranged attack on the farthest caster" or "he puts up a reflective spell shield" etc. etc.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #115 on:** December 15, 2008, 04:49:51 PM »

Mana Tombs, yup. Not telling casters to stop attacking Pandemonius when his shield is activated=insta suicide.

Other than that it's a pretty easy instance. Nexus-Prince Shaffar is only tough if you ignore the ads

Akala · « **Reply #116 on:** December 15, 2008, 08:15:56 PM »

Quote from: Thanks But No Thanks on December 15, 2008, 04:49:51 PM

Mana Tombs, yup. Not telling casters to stop attacking Pandemonius when his shield is activated=insta suicide.

Other than that it's a pretty easy instance. Nexus-Prince Shaffar is only tough if you ignore the ads

lol that ponce didn't stand a chance.

FatalT · « **Reply #117 on:** December 18, 2008, 01:27:02 AM »

I've poopsocked my way to level 55. I can make a Death Knight now if I want to but I'm going to get my paladin to 80. 3 more levels and I can go to Outland! I've never been before.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #118 on:** December 18, 2008, 03:24:01 PM »

Yesterday people in trade chat were wondering what the next hero class will be. Any thoughts from you guys?

A Blade Master would be awesome

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #119 on:** December 18, 2008, 03:32:12 PM »

Quote from: Thanks But No Thanks on December 18, 2008, 03:24:01 PM

Yesterday people in trade chat were wondering what the next hero class will be. Any thoughts from you guys?

A Blade Master would be awesome

depends on where they go with the expansion pack. for example, if they ever decide to do something with the emerald dream stuff, expect to see archdruids.

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