Author Topic: Adventures of GOINIO: WoW (Read 271113 times)

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #840 on:** August 09, 2007, 06:41:49 PM »

PVP! PVP!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #841 on:** August 09, 2007, 06:48:34 PM »

Too much lag $:-\$

Plus I'm a protection spec warrior, which means I'm basically useless in PVP :'(

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #842 on:** September 23, 2007, 04:20:58 AM »

ELITE BUMP

I finally got to lv58 tonight. After a Stratholme group fell apart since we couldn't find a healer, I decided to head to the outlands. Eventually I made my way to the place where the portal is. Before going in I watched the huuge battle going on among NPCs, to the east of the portal. After awhile I noticed the enemies were all gone except this HUGE pit master or whatever. Naturally I decided to run down there and shoot him with my gun, but once the shot was fired a bunch of huge elites spawned on top of me and took me out with 2 hits lol

I must say I was confused inside the portal. I ran across these enemies who I would take down to like 10hp, then after that I couldn't hurt them anymore; it said something about a stone near them, but I couldn't touch it for some reason. MEH. I decided to just explore around and wtf I saw lv44 people. I thought it was just for lv58+? I was in the Blasted Lands btw.

Was I in the wrong place?

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #843 on:** September 23, 2007, 12:56:00 PM »

*shrug* I made level 43 and got my BIRD MOUNT. On my way to 44

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #844 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:01:01 PM »

thanks for the gold, maf! my eq is kickin' now. got some good deals on lvl10-13 eq in ah this morning, and now i can roll through these last eversong quests.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #845 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:04:12 PM »

haha, make sure you do the staff one, lemme know if you need help for it.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #846 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:05:01 PM »

i literally doubled my mana, which makes grinding ever so much less of a pain.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #847 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:06:16 PM »

Mana am important total. The AH has been better over the weekend in terms of low level gear. Kinda sucked for high level lol.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #848 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:13:08 PM »

Nothing worse than having a low mana healer. I've died so many times due to that

Skilly: I'm out of mana!
*Goinio has died*
*group wipes except the hunter*
Skilly: Whoops, lol I don't know how to rez either

cubicle47b · « **Reply #849 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:17:35 PM »

That's not necessarily why healers go out of mana. Sometimes it's an undergeared tank, not being at full mana on the pull, an overall lack of crowd control or just lack of control of the fight, pulling multiple groups, etc. Or they might just be bad healers who don't know what heals to use and when.

Have you started an alt on MAF's server yet, PD? I'm thinking about playing a couple hours this afternoon.

edit: If they don't know how to rez they're fucking idiots, though.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #850 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:31:09 PM »

i'm a belf priest named "medeane". belfs suck, but i hadn't seen their starting areas.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #851 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:45:57 PM »

Belf starting area > draenei starting area tho. Easier and nicer to look at.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #852 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:47:35 PM »

The blood elf starting area is fantastic. It makes it hard to start a character of any other race because vanilla WoW is so lacking in comparison. I'm trying to think of what class to play. I'm kind of leaning towards another paladin because they do everything well up until the mid-30s and are really fun to play because of it. A druid would work too but they suck until level 20 and I don't plan to play often.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #853 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:51:44 PM »

Mulgore is perhaps the worst starting area ever. Quests that start and end at opposite sides of the area, aggro mobs all over the place. Takes hours to get to level 10.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #854 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:54:45 PM »

I hate the Orc/Troll starting area the worst. Durotar is so fucking bland. At least Mulgore is pretty.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #855 on:** September 23, 2007, 01:56:12 PM »

Haha, its a pretty Hell.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #856 on:** September 23, 2007, 02:08:39 PM »

Alright I'll start today.

EDIT: Wait, I'd have to change servers? I want Goinio to stay on the server I'm at now $:-\$

cubicle47b · « **Reply #857 on:** September 23, 2007, 02:29:58 PM »

You don't change Goinio's realm by clicking the change servers button. I started a paladin named Ismaire. PD, roll a dps class.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #858 on:** September 23, 2007, 03:28:22 PM »

I figured it out, and rolled a pally before I saw your post. I'm already lv5; I'm assuming you'll go holy spec right? I'll just pick something else $:-\$

I'm Azelion.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #859 on:** September 23, 2007, 03:46:04 PM »

ill send you guys a couple gold each to help get the ball rolling, post yer name cub. Or are you guys alliance? I hope not cause the pop is already horribly skewed on muradin towards alliance lol.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #860 on:** September 23, 2007, 03:48:28 PM »

Blood Elf: they call me Azelion

Also don't send me moneys yet. I want to see how long it takes for me to make 1g this time around

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #861 on:** September 23, 2007, 04:54:11 PM »

Sure sure, just lemme know if you guys need help.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #862 on:** September 23, 2007, 05:06:55 PM »

man, the troll area in eversong was droppin' greens like mad -- i got like five decent greens. shoulda gone enchant after all. :'(

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #863 on:** September 23, 2007, 05:12:10 PM »

yeah 3 dropped for me right when I logged on, boggle

Candyflip · « **Reply #864 on:** September 23, 2007, 06:48:00 PM »

Still trying to sell my stupid account

cubicle47b · « **Reply #865 on:** September 23, 2007, 08:14:49 PM »

Omg dual wield.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #866 on:** September 23, 2007, 08:28:34 PM »

10 levels and nearly 2g in one play session. Not bad

Haven't picked a profession yet

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #867 on:** September 24, 2007, 02:50:06 AM »

Got to lv12; looks like I may be ready for an instance tomorrow night. We'll see though: I got homework and MNF

Being able to heal myself is soo awesome. I can take on multiple mobs and grind 2-3 times as fast lol. And skinning gives me an excuse to grind lol. I figured going leatherworking/skinning would be the best thing to do; I can sell the mats and make stuff for Cubicle's rogue.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #868 on:** September 24, 2007, 03:08:06 AM »

I'd prefer to keep my playtime to the weekends. I don't want to get into the habit of coming home from work and playing until I have to go to bed again. When you dream about your character at night and spend part of your workday on wowhead it's gone way too far and as Frag said, it's a dangerous game for me.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #869 on:** September 24, 2007, 03:11:07 AM »

I'll get around lv15 and wait a bit, for you and Drinky. In the meantime I'll get some homework done, and get Goinio to lv60

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #870 on:** September 25, 2007, 01:52:45 PM »

I'm at lv14 now. Right now I'm still getting a grip on the class. Being able to heal myself is pretty helpful, but you have to time it correctly - especially when fighting enemies who are higher levels. Once my health starts getting near the half way point I start the heal. I need to get faster but it's going good so far.

And damn, skinning is cool. It goes a lot faster than mining, and it gives me the perfect excuse to grind. Plus my health/mana regenerates as I do it, allowing me to skin and then run into battle immediately

cubicle47b · « **Reply #871 on:** September 25, 2007, 01:59:57 PM »

I'm now an overpowered level 7 warlock. Probably the only level 7 (or non-raiding) warlock on the server with a quartz cast bar and a /stopcasting /cast shadow bolt macro for bringing the pain.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #872 on:** September 25, 2007, 02:48:03 PM »

i'll try to get 14 tonight

cubicle47b · « **Reply #873 on:** September 25, 2007, 03:01:13 PM »

I'll play tonight and try to get to 13-14 since I have a couple books coming in this weekend that I need to focus on. Oh fuck, I wonder what the express edition of Oracle 10g is going to do to my framerate.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #874 on:** September 26, 2007, 01:57:53 AM »

I'm kinda bummed with both my characters. Since I renewed my account I've had a horrible time finding groups for instances. It's like no one does Stratholme, LBRS, etc. Instances keep my attention far more than grinding alone slowly, and it's the way I find gear. I hate asking my guild because some low level always wants to come, and if I say no the GM will be like "ahem!" $:-\$

Azelion is coming along fast, and is lv15. But the server seems so dead. I was in the LFG que most of my playtime today trying to do the Deadmines or something, and no one was looking. When I was this level with Goinio there were always tons of groups doing DM and having a great time together. And that was when the server was "low" in population.

The weekend has to be better

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #875 on:** September 26, 2007, 02:19:46 AM »

The new patch had a lot of backlash, its kept some people off I think. On the other hand I have a purple and a really good blue I cant sell to save my life. Its bullshit but AH is fucked and everyones hates it now, and that makes it hard.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #876 on:** September 26, 2007, 02:31:07 AM »

yeah, folks are real pissy about the patch. general chat was rage against the ah changes and the mage pvp nerfs.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #877 on:** September 26, 2007, 02:39:31 AM »

Yea the whole "someone is thinking about buying your item!" thing is dumb. I still made a good deal of cash on the AH today. I had the linen cloth market in a clear monopoly, and I capitalized on the high demand for light leather (90s for 20) before it dropped significantly (45s for 20) a few hours ago. Usually I undercut the accepted price in order to outsell the competition and redirect the market, but since I'm a poor, lowly lv15 I played ball straight up. AH is fun just for the economics imo

and omg, wtf does "nerfs" mean

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #878 on:** September 26, 2007, 02:42:26 AM »

nerf = a skill/class was softened, ruining its effectiveness. there's balancing, which is reducing the strength of an overpowered ability/class; and nerfing, which is reducing a class/ability nobody really considers to be overpowered

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #879 on:** September 26, 2007, 02:47:01 AM »

Someone made the INTELLIGENT suggestion to just list the item as SOLD in our Auction tab and remove it from the Auction List instead of sending us goddamned mails. Now we get mail spam for selling shit.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #880 on:** September 26, 2007, 02:53:34 AM »

VERY annoying, especially since I sell so much stuff on AH. I also like the idea of not sending it to the mail box

btw do you guys use macros? I played around with them for the first time today, and was wondering what are the advantages you guys see in them.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #881 on:** September 26, 2007, 05:40:08 AM »

Also, I'm guessing a lot of people played Halo 3 until 5 AM to beat the campaign instead of playing WoW.

I use a macro to cut down on the time between casts because I have high latency. I have a casting bar that tells me how bad my latency is at that moment and the macro uses /stopcasting (so I can send the server a new command without the client rejecting it because I'm already doing something) and then the spell I want to cast. By the time these commands reach the server I've already cast my last spell. This probably takes an average of .25 seconds off my shadow bolt cast times. I also had quite a few macros for communicating during raids. Most other things are taken care of by mods.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #882 on:** September 26, 2007, 11:13:47 AM »

yeah im hoping my stuff sells today, then again there isnt much I could buy. AH is a wasteland.

And no I dont use any macros.

Edit: Lol, it looks like the latest patch is causing even more framerate issues for players. Blizzard is still doing the Mods/Soundcard shuffle.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778045575&sid=1&pageNo=1

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #883 on:** September 26, 2007, 12:20:11 PM »

Whiney bastard! When I stand in Shattrath I get around 5fps, if not less

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #884 on:** September 27, 2007, 06:57:32 PM »

Just got out of the absolute worse group I've ever been in. Who would think that taking a freaking lv70 rogue to Stratholme would end in a two and a half hour disaster

cubicle47b · « **Reply #885 on:** September 27, 2007, 07:10:46 PM »

I'll be on tonight. I need to relax and grind for a while after work.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #886 on:** September 27, 2007, 07:27:42 PM »

I'll be on tonight. I made 13 last night and am in a good groove in the ghostlands. ping me if you wanna group and knock out some quests.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #887 on:** September 27, 2007, 09:02:08 PM »

So I was trying to finally get a group together for Stratholme earlier, and finally found 3 people to help. We were looking for a DPS class to come along when a lv70 rogue whispered me, saying he wanted to come. I'm always wary about doing stuff with 70s because you get far less XP. I said ok though because I figured hey, at least I should get some cool items with this guy helping. WRONG

When I'm group leader I stress very few things, but each is important. First, I go into battle first. Second, after battles I don't attack again until everyone is ready (I even ask). Most people understand this strategy and go along with it, but the lv70 seemed to think that since he was such a high level we could simply throw out the gameplay. WRONG

Right after we cleared a mob he'd run head first into another - not giving our healer enough time to build up mana. So often the healer would run out of mana causing major problems. To make matters worse the rogue couldn't keep arrgo, so after a few seconds the mob would run to the healer. I was able to fix this later by making clear that I'm the fucking tank, but the problems continued. Even when the healer went afk this lv70 tard would run into battle lol. OMG

All I got was this necklace:
http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=18728

Nice stamina increase

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #888 on:** October 01, 2007, 02:14:42 AM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #889 on:** October 01, 2007, 05:06:31 AM »

I finally spent some time in the outlands and damn, looks like people were right about its awesome-ness. Within that 1hr+ amount of time I started three quest chains and got these items:
http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=29945
http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=29919
!!

Both were huge upgrades in terms of my armor rating; the shield added like 600+ armor. I replaced blue items but hey.

No wonder I can never find anyone for Stratholme lol, everyone's in outlands.

btw I did Dire Maul last night with a lv70 and 69, as well as a lv60. The lv69 mage needed help to get his epic mount so he didn't refuse my entry into the group heh. Mostly I watched the high lv players own shit...

Amazing instance; I can't wait to get to lv60-61 so I can do it with similar leveled people. It reminded me of something straight out of greek mythology, even moreso than Uldaman.

Ellrick · « **Reply #890 on:** October 01, 2007, 09:21:16 AM »

Dire Maul was my favorite of the high end instances back in the day. Especially the ogre side, where you get a loot bonus for defeating all of the bosses before the final boss. Upper and Lower Blackrock Spire were terrible.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #891 on:** October 01, 2007, 10:55:38 AM »

Im almost level 47, the cold held me back quite a bit. Still boom fire mage crits omg

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #892 on:** October 01, 2007, 01:21:45 PM »

I'll get Azelion up to lv18 today but I'll be focusing on Goinio; today's far too rainy for me to go to school

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #893 on:** October 02, 2007, 01:01:36 AM »

New mage changes in 2.3 patch make MAF frown kinda:

Evocation: Return locked at 15% of mana every 2 seconds. Evocation is 8 seconds, locking return at 60% of total mana. Gay. If you cant figure out how to scale the skill at least let mages compensate by spirit dumping. Motherfuck.

No more detect magic: WHO CARES. Now I can automatically see crap I never needed to see in the first place. FIX OTHER STUFF!

Also: 47, booyah. Also respecced:

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

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #894 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:01:50 AM »

Wooo, new patch finally added two new GYs to Tanaris. No more insanely stupid walks to corpse.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #895 on:** October 02, 2007, 10:17:14 AM »

Nice mage. I'll get on Azelion later today hopefully but omg I'm distracted by the outlands.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Ravenholdt&n=Goinio
(you have to click on the helmet to see what it is; must be a glitch)

My armor rating is insane. Ever since I got the new shield/helmet/chest armor I've been able to take out 2-3 lv58 hellboars at the same time. On many occassions I'll have less than 50% of my health and still be able to beat the enemy without using a potion and/or running. I'm still using that axe; the Foe Reaver is much better but I need to get my sword rating up higher. By the end of today it should be high enough for me to capitalize on it. It's at 273/295 right now

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #896 on:** October 02, 2007, 11:05:44 AM »

Yeah, the mage forum talked me out of the frost/ice armor talent buff and convinced me to go as clearcasting in arcane then max out fire instead of dicking around with ice since fire mages almost never REALLY use ice. I guess fire/ice mages are pretty durable but lose a lot of DPS potential. Most mages argue that fire in end game PVP still isnt viable..in that you can't be one of the best. A good player can still do OK with fire spec, but not nearly as well as the usual ice/arcane builds.

Oh well ill give it a go anyway ;-)

Ive never been to the outlands. I have a level 60 character on Gilneas but like most of my early characters he's kinda busted. Each new character I make tends to be more thought out than the last in terms of professions, completed quests, equipment, and talent build.

Prost · « **Reply #897 on:** October 02, 2007, 09:19:26 PM »

Quote from: Cocky Funny on October 02, 2007, 11:05:44 AM

Yeah, the mage forum talked me out of the frost/ice armor talent buff and convinced me to go as clearcasting in arcane then max out fire instead of dicking around with ice since fire mages almost never REALLY use ice. I guess fire/ice mages are pretty durable but lose a lot of DPS potential. Most mages argue that fire in end game PVP still isnt viable..in that you can't be one of the best. A good player can still do OK with fire spec, but not nearly as well as the usual ice/arcane builds.

Oh well ill give it a go anyway ;-)

Ive never been to the outlands. I have a level 60 character on Gilneas but like most of my early characters he's kinda busted. Each new character I make tends to be more thought out than the last in terms of professions, completed quests, equipment, and talent build.

just level to 70 then raid with pickups (maybe the most frustating situation a person can be in).

get some good gear, then go apply to some high level guilds where the leader thinks he has a 12 incher and you just play bitch for gear.

then you're all maxed out, and if you want to make a name for yourself go camp some low level pvp area for days on end until someone on the forum bitches about you and then boom you're famous.

easy right

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #898 on:** October 04, 2007, 03:06:51 PM »

I got to lv60 last night

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

I'm surprised at how much I'm able to accomplish in the outlands, in short periods of time.

whiteACID · « **Reply #899 on:** October 05, 2007, 10:01:01 AM »

Quote from: Candyflip on September 23, 2007, 06:48:00 PM

Still trying to sell my stupid account

what character/class/race do you have? and what server? what level? how much are you asking?

i'm just curious...

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Author Topic: Adventures of GOINIO: WoW (Read 271113 times)