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New expansion time is the best time. You get to see new examples of how no-one knows how to develop Boomkins:
* Starfall - You summon a flurry of stars from the sky which strike targets within 40 yards of you that you're in combat with. Deals [ 25.3% of Spell Power ] Arcane damage to up to 2 targets every 1 sec for 10 sec5 sec for until cancelled. Triggering a Lunar Eclipse resets the cooldown of this spell. Shapeshifting into an animal form or mounting cancels the effect. Any effect which causes you to lose control of your character will suppress the Starfall effect. Druid - Balance Spec. 32.6% of Base Mana. Instant. 1.5 min cooldown.Instant. 1.5 min cooldown.
Yeah, a brief skim through, tells me that I'm better served to wait for them to have something cleaner up in the way of data mined patch notes. It's not just messy, but it seems like they might have screwed up with some of the mining.
New expansion time is the best time. You get to see new examples of how no-one knows how to develop Boomkins:
* Starfall - You summon a flurry of stars from the sky which strike targets within 40 yards of you that you're in combat with. Deals [ 25.3% of Spell Power ] Arcane damage to up to 2 targets every 1 sec for 10 sec5 sec for until cancelled. Triggering a Lunar Eclipse resets the cooldown of this spell. Shapeshifting into an animal form or mounting cancels the effect. Any effect which causes you to lose control of your character will suppress the Starfall effect. Druid - Balance Spec. 32.6% of Base Mana. Instant. 1.5 min cooldown.Instant. 1.5 min cooldown.
Wat. So it just keeps going until you hit Solar or something?
Speaking of Balance druids, if anyone plays one I'd like to know;
Can you do timeless isle easily as one as well as old raids?
I tried timeless isle once as Balance (I'm resto but timeless isle as a healer sucks) but almost died a LOT. When I'm bear tank, I'm all but invincible. Takes a little longer to kill something but there's no worry behind it and I can do all old raids as one. That being said, especially with the new models coming out and them not updating animals forms (so they'll look old and hideous compared to everything else) I'd like to learn Balance and I love the idea of just conjuring storms and stuff.
But either it's bad or I'm bad at it, and all bets point to the latter.
You have to have decent gear. I didn't have much trouble when I was boomkin but I also used the 3 consumables for elite killing. And you do often need to use your cooldowns, Typhoon, vortex, roots, etc.
Hurricane is pretty much useless there along with Astral Storm and mushrooms. If you have enough elites on you to make them more DPS, you are dead anyway if you stick around.
Alright so trying to rely on my mostly healer set is kind of just tying my hands behind my back. I thought the spirit wouldn't make that much of a difference since it transfers To Hit but obviously that's wrong.
Thanks then, I'll start looking into farming timeless isle later for a new set.
I resubbed last night and went playing around on the timeless isle on my boomkin/resto druid. Got all of the chests on the island (thanks, TomTom!), and got really lucky and got a ring, so I used my eternity essence thingy on that for a nice boost to 498 ilvl.
Tonight, I do my first siege of orgrimmar LFR. I haven't played since 9 months ago, so I missed a lot of stuff that I'm just catching up on.
I'm gearing up quickly on my Arms Warrior (527 yay!). I've decided that the gap between him and my Enh Shaman isn't as big as I once thought. I also feel like I'm making a mistake by loading my red gem slots with pure strength gems when really i should be doing the 80str/160crit orange gems. I eventually want to get to a fury level.
Speaking of the fury vs arms debate. Very capable fury warrior with similar gear to mine (he was probably 536ish - less pvp gear than me which really only affects gem slot stats). On single target fights he'd beat me. On fights with adds I'd win. Purely anecdotal of course....but man did it look cool walking around with 2 two handers.
Finally - Oqueue. Raid leaders put a minimum ilvl on there and I've wait listed myself 3-4 times per night. As a raid leader, do they see my gear as well as my ilvl when I ask to be wait listed? I was wondering why i suddenly have blue/red highlights on my pve/pvp gear. I definitely feel a bias towards my ilvl with 4 slots filled with pvp gear!
"Look out here comes"..."Susan"..."Suuuuuuuuuuuuusan".
"Woah, I just scared myself!"
I wish they'd come up with a minor glyph that turned off the druid shapeshifting visuals, I'd be down for playing one if I didn't turn into a fat owl etc.
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the real time ingame day night cycle is baffling as hell
I'm pretty sure it was thrown in for immersion's sake. Off the top of my head, I can think of one actually gameplay function of the day/night cycle, and that's just a village in an early leveling zone.
I'm gearing up quickly on my Arms Warrior (527 yay!). I've decided that the gap between him and my Enh Shaman isn't as big as I once thought. I also feel like I'm making a mistake by loading my red gem slots with pure strength gems when really i should be doing the 80str/160crit orange gems. I eventually want to get to a fury level.
Speaking of the fury vs arms debate. Very capable fury warrior with similar gear to mine (he was probably 536ish - less pvp gear than me which really only affects gem slot stats). On single target fights he'd beat me. On fights with adds I'd win. Purely anecdotal of course....but man did it look cool walking around with 2 two handers.
Finally - Oqueue. Raid leaders put a minimum ilvl on there and I've wait listed myself 3-4 times per night. As a raid leader, do they see my gear as well as my ilvl when I ask to be wait listed? I was wondering why i suddenly have blue/red highlights on my pve/pvp gear. I definitely feel a bias towards my ilvl with 4 slots filled with pvp gear!
OQ is kind of a shit hole. I've vented here before about all the terrible OQ groups I've been in, but maybe I'm just unlucky. Some people get those awful LFR groups and I never see those so maybe I just have terrible OQ luck. It's alright if you can get in on a guild run that's just pugging a 10th member, but a full pug group (especially by someone who has no idea how to lead a group) is very hit and miss. Mine are almost all misses.
the real time ingame day night cycle is baffling as hell
I'm pretty sure it was thrown in for immersion's sake.
yeah, one of my most distinct memories of vanilla is when I stayed up all night leveling once. playing for hours in the true night in desolace then having the in-game sunrise happen in the actual early morning
the real time ingame day night cycle is baffling as hell
I'm pretty sure it was thrown in for immersion's sake. Off the top of my head, I can think of one actually gameplay function of the day/night cycle, and that's just a village in an early leveling zone.
I vaguely recall certain fish showing up at specific times of day or night, but it didn't really matter unless you were going for fishing achievements
the real time ingame day night cycle is baffling as hell
I'm pretty sure it was thrown in for immersion's sake. Off the top of my head, I can think of one actually gameplay function of the day/night cycle, and that's just a village in an early leveling zone.
One of the proposed Night Elf racial changes supposedly functions differently depending on the day/night cycle.
I'm not sure we know yet how that's being implemented; most of the speculation so far has been that it'll just obey the server clock, as opposed to whatever time the individual zone thinks it is.
also I don't think balance is any more gear dependent than any other spec really; it can do timeless island well enough, but you'll struggle with soloing some things until you get up to 540 or so
it was the smallest on the list but
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
the real time ingame day night cycle is baffling as hell
I'm pretty sure it was thrown in for immersion's sake. Off the top of my head, I can think of one actually gameplay function of the day/night cycle, and that's just a village in an early leveling zone.
One of the proposed Night Elf racial changes supposedly functions differently depending on the day/night cycle.
I hope it's better at night because that's literally the only time I can play and Blizzard insists on forcing us into a realtime day night cycle
yikes leveling from 86-90 on timeless isle is stupid, here's my results
- total leveling time 5 hours 40 minutes
- 12900 timeless coins
- 2 535 upgrade tokens
- 1 piece of 553 gear from celestials
- 340 gold (barely covers repairs)
What class? Were you with friends? I joined a group once of an 87 and a 86 and they couldn't really kill the elites there. I've captured enough pieces to fill out most alts, but getting a jumpstart on those burdens would be huge!
"Look out here comes"..."Susan"..."Suuuuuuuuuuuuusan".
"Woah, I just scared myself!"
yikes leveling from 86-90 on timeless isle is stupid, here's my results
- total leveling time 5 hours 40 minutes
- 12900 timeless coins
- 2 535 upgrade tokens
- 1 piece of 553 gear from celestials
- 340 gold (barely covers repairs)
What class? Were you with friends? I joined a group once of an 87 and a 86 and they couldn't really kill the elites there. I've captured enough pieces to fill out most alts, but getting a jumpstart on those burdens would be huge!
solo, elemental shaman
making the rounds on the 5 grub packs and burning them with chain lightning, no grubs up kill birds, when a rare spawns go kill it (got like, 7 huolon kills and 3 dread ships)
I made a video, Ill throw it on youtube when I get home from work
I went from 89 to 90 out there on my guardian druid, took about an hour without rested. Unless you have some buddies to summon you'll have to swim out, although you can get the FP for use later.
the grubs and the packs of smaller birds are the way to go; they don't hit too hard and have low enough health that you can aoe them down. Tagging random rare spawns when you get the chance is a bonus.
You might struggle at 86-87 though
it was the smallest on the list but
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Dataminers are getting good looks at the new models that are in the Beta. Here's a compilation of female gnome emotes and how they compare to the old model
Do you have gathering professions? I've noticed one can make reasonable bank off of those. It certainly isn't "the best" source of gold, but IIRC it's pretty good and doesn't require the amount of time that the better money making options require. Also if you want to put a little more work into it, there is always the option of going back to older content for trade mats, that others are too lazy to gather and earning good money, provided you sell when the market is looking for that stuff.
Can't really comment much on the trade professions, but I wouldn't be surprised if those were possible going down since we're in a long lull for the final tier of the expansion. So most people may already have the stuff they need or have leveled a crafting alt to take care of the needs of all their alts.
I dunno how it scales with the changes since they made that enchanting change, but crusader was always pretty awesome on the Arcanite Reaper. That heal with the str buff was just pretty awesome for the first 60 or so levels.
So I downloaded Vuhdo and did the first wing of SoO LFR yesterday. It was fun healing, but people really seem to enjoy standing in things. Half the fights were 10 minutes of me being totally OOM while trying desperately to keep the raid alive. Ahhh, healing.
In other news, nothing dropped and I even used a reroll. Huzzah!
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
Wat. So it just keeps going until you hit Solar or something?
Can you do timeless isle easily as one as well as old raids?
I tried timeless isle once as Balance (I'm resto but timeless isle as a healer sucks) but almost died a LOT. When I'm bear tank, I'm all but invincible. Takes a little longer to kill something but there's no worry behind it and I can do all old raids as one. That being said, especially with the new models coming out and them not updating animals forms (so they'll look old and hideous compared to everything else) I'd like to learn Balance and I love the idea of just conjuring storms and stuff.
But either it's bad or I'm bad at it, and all bets point to the latter.
Hurricane is pretty much useless there along with Astral Storm and mushrooms. If you have enough elites on you to make them more DPS, you are dead anyway if you stick around.
Thanks then, I'll start looking into farming timeless isle later for a new set.
Tonight, I do my first siege of orgrimmar LFR. I haven't played since 9 months ago, so I missed a lot of stuff that I'm just catching up on.
Speaking of the fury vs arms debate. Very capable fury warrior with similar gear to mine (he was probably 536ish - less pvp gear than me which really only affects gem slot stats). On single target fights he'd beat me. On fights with adds I'd win. Purely anecdotal of course....but man did it look cool walking around with 2 two handers.
Finally - Oqueue. Raid leaders put a minimum ilvl on there and I've wait listed myself 3-4 times per night. As a raid leader, do they see my gear as well as my ilvl when I ask to be wait listed? I was wondering why i suddenly have blue/red highlights on my pve/pvp gear. I definitely feel a bias towards my ilvl with 4 slots filled with pvp gear!
"Woah, I just scared myself!"
I wish they'd come up with a minor glyph that turned off the druid shapeshifting visuals, I'd be down for playing one if I didn't turn into a fat owl etc.
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OQ is kind of a shit hole. I've vented here before about all the terrible OQ groups I've been in, but maybe I'm just unlucky. Some people get those awful LFR groups and I never see those so maybe I just have terrible OQ luck. It's alright if you can get in on a guild run that's just pugging a 10th member, but a full pug group (especially by someone who has no idea how to lead a group) is very hit and miss. Mine are almost all misses.
I vaguely recall certain fish showing up at specific times of day or night, but it didn't really matter unless you were going for fishing achievements
This just reminded me of Winter Squid/Summer Bass. And then it reminded me of raiding at level 60 on my hunter.
Now I feel like I need a drink.
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- total leveling time 5 hours 40 minutes
- 12900 timeless coins
- 2 535 upgrade tokens
- 1 piece of 553 gear from celestials
- 340 gold (barely covers repairs)
You'd think that the Worgen would be particularly suited to a daytime/nighttime effect, wouldn't you ?
One of the proposed Night Elf racial changes supposedly functions differently depending on the day/night cycle.
also I don't think balance is any more gear dependent than any other spec really; it can do timeless island well enough, but you'll struggle with soloing some things until you get up to 540 or so
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
as long as you don't need the gold it's not only super fast but it's a gear jumpstart
I mean I do need the gold so it might have been legitimately stupid for me, I have no idea how to earn gold in Pandaria
I hope it's better at night because that's literally the only time I can play and Blizzard insists on forcing us into a realtime day night cycle
What class? Were you with friends? I joined a group once of an 87 and a 86 and they couldn't really kill the elites there. I've captured enough pieces to fill out most alts, but getting a jumpstart on those burdens would be huge!
"Woah, I just scared myself!"
That glyph is why I was okay with playing Balance.
Also why my druid's name is Sparklekin
solo, elemental shaman
making the rounds on the 5 grub packs and burning them with chain lightning, no grubs up kill birds, when a rare spawns go kill it (got like, 7 huolon kills and 3 dread ships)
I made a video, Ill throw it on youtube when I get home from work
the grubs and the packs of smaller birds are the way to go; they don't hit too hard and have low enough health that you can aoe them down. Tagging random rare spawns when you get the chance is a bonus.
You might struggle at 86-87 though
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
I'm sorry, but this links to the ability Slam. I'm assuming you are referring to the glyph that changes moonkin form into astral form.
She's adorable!
I wanna play a gnome now. THAT'S how good it looks. A frickin' gnome.
Can't really comment much on the trade professions, but I wouldn't be surprised if those were possible going down since we're in a long lull for the final tier of the expansion. So most people may already have the stuff they need or have leveled a crafting alt to take care of the needs of all their alts.
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Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
What's the best enchant for an Arcanite Reaper? What about the Valor set?
I'm sure there's better choices now but I dunno!
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Wow, I have no idea how that occurred. maybe I didn't C/P correctly and the site defaults to that ability.
http://wod.wowhead.com/item=44922
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That glyph is the main reason I hope we never see blood elf or human druids
In other news, nothing dropped and I even used a reroll. Huzzah!