[quote="Invisible;26405871"]Would leveling blacksmithing on a monk be worth it? There's no high level BoP anymore, right? Any cool BoP weapons I might regret not having on my warrior?
Right now my monk and priest are the next two I have slated for 90 and BS is the only profession I don't have at 600. [/quote]
Blacksmithing is one of the best professions for Monks. Especially if you are a Brewmaster.
edit: Bah, should have read the thread more, but yea, i'll reiterate it.
Any advice on how much to sell stacks of linen and wool for on the Auction? Or copper ore? I just threw them on initailly and they sold in seconds but I had put the buyout at 1 and 2 gold because there weren't any others up. Now I'm hearing like 10 or 20 gold is better.
Any advice on how much to sell stacks of linen and wool for on the Auction? Or copper ore? I just threw them on initailly and they sold in seconds but I had put the buyout at 1 and 2 gold because there weren't any others up. Now I'm hearing like 10 or 20 gold is better.
Thanks, but I don't want to research it; I was just wanting some quick numbers. I'll just throw them up for 10g.
Go to the site, click on your server. Put "Copper Iron Ore" in the search box and you will get a mean price. It's not research, it's basically as fast as looking something up at wowhead.
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[quote="Magic Pink;26411965"][quote="Grobian;26411193"][quote="Magic Pink;26411163"]Any advice on how much to sell stacks of linen and wool for on the Auction? Or copper ore? I just threw them on initailly and they sold in seconds but I had put the buyout at 1 and 2 gold because there weren't any others up. Now I'm hearing like 10 or 20 gold is better.[/quote]
The aforementioned https://theunderminejournal.com/ is your friend for stuff like that.[/quote]
Thanks, but I don't want to research it; I was just wanting some quick numbers. I'll just throw them up for 10g. [/quote]
Unfortunately the prices tend to vary pretty wildly from server to server based on your faction's population (ie. Auction House supply) and current availability of the item in question on the AH. I've seen stacks of Copper Ore sell for 90g pretty regularly on my server, but that's largely due to the fact that I'm on the much-less-populated faction on my particular server, so I'd hate to suggest that number for you without knowing your server/faction's situation.
That said, I'd advise not to just throw things up without doing a bit of research; low-level mats are a fantastic way to make some gold early on, and believe me you'll need the gold once you get level capped and decide to start enchanting/gemming/reforging your gear.
So I was thinking about the WoW economy earlier this morning and two things occurred to me:
#1. There's no innovation in the World of Warcraft economy. Everything you can produce is found in the world. A clever entrepreneur can't create a new epic chestpiece that's better than any other chestpiece ever created -- that would break the rules of the game.
In the real world, innovation is the reason our economy works at all -- new companies spring up that create something novel and amazing. And that's how the economy grows. Plus, it's actually quite enjoyable to participate in the creation of novel products. I don't think I'd be happy churning out a product that was dictated from the top. I want to make new things.
#2. Wait a minute, I thought to myself earlier, there is one product that is player created and truly innovative: UI addons.
I wonder if that's the real profession I should invest in. I'm a programmer by trade, so why not leverage that in WoW? I could make an addon that folks find useful, and ask for a gold donation to one of my characters.
That would get your account banned so hard. You aren't allowed to get gold for anything that occurs outside the game. Even the TCG cards, you can only trade or sell the item created by the card, not the card itself.
Bah, just my luck. Second Primal Egg gave me another black raptor.
Oh wells. Too bad it's BoP, bet that'd sell for a decent chunk.
EDIT: There isn't an 'economy' in WoW. It's, at best, a flea market; and without some serious revamps and retooling, it'll never be anything more. It's a completely consumption based market that wouldn't be functional at all in the real world. But unless they implement some overarching infrastructure that players have to support both with time and gold, in order for the game to function, the in-game 'economy' will always be a slave to inflation and gold sinks.
Making money on the WoW auction house is basically about knowing when the times of high/low demand are, and being willing to buy in bulk.
For the most part, stuff's cheap on the weekends because the raid/pvp week is over for most people, but a lot of people are playing because it's the weekend. So the market gets flooded with materials at the same time demand for materials is dropping. Then on tues/weds that trend inverts, because people are getting new gear and have to spend the day at work/school. So you buy materials on the weekend, and sell finished goods (enchants/glyphs/buckles/whatever) during the week.
Buying in bulk is just a better way of bargain hunting; if I see trillium at less than 55g/bar, I buy it. I don't care how much there is at that price, I buy it all because I know I can sell living steel for 450 or so. I have spent 10k on trillium bars on a sunday, because I know I can transmute it all and sell it at effectively 75g/bar (before transmute procs) over the next few weeks. You can do the same thing with enchants or glyphs if you have the front money and the willingness to do some minimal market observation.
I have a guild member who is apparently making bank in the cross server battle pet market; if you're willing to trawl different servers AHs (easy enough with the armory web interface) you can potentially make a lot of gold moving pets from low demand realms to high demand ones. That's kinda more trouble than I'm willing to go to, though.
I wonder if that's the real profession I should invest in. I'm a programmer by trade, so why not leverage that in WoW? I could make an addon that folks find useful, and ask for a gold donation to one of my characters.
not to burst your bubble, but I'm almost positive this is a violation of the ToS
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I wonder if that's the real profession I should invest in. I'm a programmer by trade, so why not leverage that in WoW? I could make an addon that folks find useful, and ask for a gold donation to one of my characters.
not to burst your bubble, but I'm almost positive this is a violation of the ToS
That would get your account banned so hard. You aren't allowed to get gold for anything that occurs outside the game. Even the TCG cards, you can only trade or sell the item created by the card, not the card itself.
Aw, really? That's fucking lame.
It wouldn't be a transaction though. You wouldn't be charging X gold for an addon. You'd just say, "Hey I coded this, it's totally free, but if you like it feel free to toss my character some gold if you happen to be on my server. I'm a better programmer than I am auction house broker."
GC: We might let "bad streak protection" apply to duplicate items as well but we haven't decided for sure.
My bagful of Sha crystals says "please god yes".
I can't believe in all earnest that there's even a question on if it should apply or not. Come on Ghostcrawler.
I'm telling you, they are scared to death of what happened with Cata where people ran out of shit to do and quit en-mass. So in other words, if you let people gear up too fast, they will run out of reasons to run raids and then quit.
I'm pretty sure the people who made (make?) Carbonite got into trouble over it back in the day, but I don't remember the details. They were requiring a 'donation' to update to the wrath version or something and iirc got told to quit it.
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I'm pretty sure the people who made (make?) Carbonite got into trouble over it back in the day, but I don't remember the details. They were requiring a 'donation' to update to the wrath version or something and iirc got told to quit it.
That was real money. It's against the EULA or whatever to charge real money for your addons. I don't know if gold would fall under that or not.
The odd thing about the "healers seem to be the bottleneck for LFR" thing is that I have been queuing for each wing as tank/heal for the last couple weeks, and more often than not I get put in as a tank.
So, I ran the 2nd and 3rd part of the the Throne of Thunder LFR last night. I won my tier pants token and 3 other pairs of pants as well, including two of the same pants from Dark Animus (loot + roll). /sigh. For all the loot won, I get to use so little of it. With the way the 522 loot from the Shado Pan Assault works, I'm thinking I'll probably go with LFR set pieces to get the 4 piece druid guardian bonus, and then 522 armor for the rest.
After the LFR, I went with a guild group and took down several Zandilari Warbringers. I won one of the dino mounts, so I'm pretty happy about that.
One thing I miss from vanilla and BC is interesting loot that does different things. There's a bit off a few mobs, but most of the stuff is pretty formulaic. Weapons don't seem to have proc effects anymore, if a trinket has some sort of interesting effect, the other stats make it so horrible to use, you'll never actually want to use it, and you never see some of the more interesting click-type effects on slots that are not trinkets.
As a protection Paladin, I have a ton of things to focus on -- my combat cooldowns, my own health, the threat of the mobs in the encounter, and the status of my party members. Sometimes I lose focus on my own health, perhaps to investigate why a party member is suddenly losing health, and when I glance back at my health bar I notice that I've lost a fair bit of health in the last 3 seconds. And I wonder, "What the heck happened?" Did I get hit with one super hard-hitting ability? A bunch of small abilities? Was it magic damage or physical damage? Did I just not get healed for a long time? What gives?
It would be cool if there was a graph that I could glance to right there in the game that could help me better understand what just happened to me.
I imagine it as sort of like a heartbeat readout for a patient in critical care: The X axis would be time, measured in seconds, and the Y axis would be your health (or perhaps the health of a target of your choosing). I'm unfamiliar with the addon API, but presumably it could update off every damage or heal event -- and could even perhaps allow you to hover over the graph and see what specific events happened to you.
The odd thing about the "healers seem to be the bottleneck for LFR" thing is that I have been queuing for each wing as tank/heal for the last couple weeks, and more often than not I get put in as a tank.
yeah for some reason tanks seems to in shortage in ToT, in the 5.0 raids I still just mostly wait for healers, but ToT is tanks, did a late night run once and had to wait 20 mins before the last boss for a tank, while healers and dps that droped got replaced quite fast
when MSV came out I had 2h wait times on my DK, now on my paladin the tank wait times are from 15 mins to as low as 30s (usually something in between those two), got an instant one once and thought I accidentally pressed the LFD not LFR ^^
ToT harder to tank? more tanks want dps gear and just sign up as dps? more abuse towards tanks in tot and they just rage quit?
One thing I miss from vanilla and BC is interesting loot that does different things. There's a bit off a few mobs, but most of the stuff is pretty formulaic. Weapons don't seem to have proc effects anymore, if a trinket has some sort of interesting effect, the other stats make it so horrible to use, you'll never actually want to use it, and you never see some of the more interesting click-type effects on slots that are not trinkets.
Aw, that is disappointing. I'm sort of sad to see the trend in trinkets -- they all seem pretty bland for the most part. Increase of some stat, plus a chance on hit to increase another stat by some amount. Kinda lame.
As a protection Paladin, I have a ton of things to focus on -- my combat cooldowns, my own health, the threat of the mobs in the encounter, and the status of my party members. Sometimes I lose focus on my own health, perhaps to investigate why a party member is suddenly losing health, and when I glance back at my health bar I notice that I've lost a fair bit of health in the last 3 seconds. And I wonder, "What the heck happened?" Did I get hit with one super hard-hitting ability? A bunch of small abilities? Was it magic damage or physical damage? Did I just not get healed for a long time? What gives?
It would be cool if there was a graph that I could glance to right there in the game that could help me better understand what just happened to me.
I imagine it as sort of like a heartbeat readout for a patient in critical care: The X axis would be time, measured in seconds, and the Y axis would be your health (or perhaps the health of a target of your choosing). I'm unfamiliar with the addon API, but presumably it could update off every damage or heal event -- and could even perhaps allow you to hover over the graph and see what specific events happened to you.
Most of what you're describing is already done in Recount in the damage taken tab. EDIT: you can click on players and it'll show you graphs and such.
Man, I didn't realize Warscouts were so easy to solo.
I don't think I'll be doing dailies for any alt again, ever!
EDIT: That one had a big bag, with a lol-worth amount of enchanting mats. good lord.
EDIT2: and you can use klaxxi enhancements on them. Nice. Dread Wastes Warscout farming it is! EDIT3: I wonder if I got one of those dreadwhatevers, if I could solo the warbringer with my blood dk.
The odd thing about the "healers seem to be the bottleneck for LFR" thing is that I have been queuing for each wing as tank/heal for the last couple weeks, and more often than not I get put in as a tank.
yeah for some reason tanks seems to in shortage in ToT, in the 5.0 raids I still just mostly wait for healers, but ToT is tanks, did a late night run once and had to wait 20 mins before the last boss for a tank, while healers and dps that droped got replaced quite fast
when MSV came out I had 2h wait times on my DK, now on my paladin the tank wait times are from 15 mins to as low as 30s (usually something in between those two), got an instant one once and thought I accidentally pressed the LFD not LFR ^^
ToT harder to tank? more tanks want dps gear and just sign up as dps? more abuse towards tanks in tot and they just rage quit?
I still have to wait like 15 - 20 mins to Tank in ToT, no diffrent from when MSV/HoF/ToES was current. Could be that I usually do LFR on the weekends I don't know.
One thing I miss from vanilla and BC is interesting loot that does different things. There's a bit off a few mobs, but most of the stuff is pretty formulaic. Weapons don't seem to have proc effects anymore, if a trinket has some sort of interesting effect, the other stats make it so horrible to use, you'll never actually want to use it, and you never see some of the more interesting click-type effects on slots that are not trinkets.
Aw, that is disappointing. I'm sort of sad to see the trend in trinkets -- they all seem pretty bland for the most part. Increase of some stat, plus a chance on hit to increase another stat by some amount. Kinda lame.
The rune of reorigination is pretty unique. Sure it's "just" +/- secondary stats, but the actual effect of it can be pretty significant.
Any advice on how much to sell stacks of linen and wool for on the Auction? Or copper ore? I just threw them on initailly and they sold in seconds but I had put the buyout at 1 and 2 gold because there weren't any others up. Now I'm hearing like 10 or 20 gold is better.
Thanks, but I don't want to research it; I was just wanting some quick numbers. I'll just throw them up for 10g.
Go to the site, click on your server. Put "Copper Iron Ore" in the search box and you will get a mean price. It's not research, it's basically as fast as looking something up at wowhead.
Again, none of what I'm selling is on the Auction House apparently. Either it's selling like crazy or I'm searching wrong.
As a protection Paladin, I have a ton of things to focus on -- my combat cooldowns, my own health, the threat of the mobs in the encounter, and the status of my party members. Sometimes I lose focus on my own health, perhaps to investigate why a party member is suddenly losing health, and when I glance back at my health bar I notice that I've lost a fair bit of health in the last 3 seconds. And I wonder, "What the heck happened?" Did I get hit with one super hard-hitting ability? A bunch of small abilities? Was it magic damage or physical damage? Did I just not get healed for a long time? What gives?
It would be cool if there was a graph that I could glance to right there in the game that could help me better understand what just happened to me.
I imagine it as sort of like a heartbeat readout for a patient in critical care: The X axis would be time, measured in seconds, and the Y axis would be your health (or perhaps the health of a target of your choosing). I'm unfamiliar with the addon API, but presumably it could update off every damage or heal event -- and could even perhaps allow you to hover over the graph and see what specific events happened to you.
Most of what you're describing is already done in Recount in the damage taken tab. EDIT: you can click on players and it'll show you graphs and such.
You know, now that you mention it, I do remember that Recount had some pretty interesting graphs. Cool! Thanks for the reminder.
There's some interesting trinket effects, like the Jade Raccoon one you get from the quest in Jade Forest, where the Raccoon will take a hit that would otherwise kill you, but it's a green trinket and the actual stats on the trinket aren't all that great. Or the new Alchemist stone, which increases the effect of normal potions and has a good amount of mastery on it, except its a ilvl 463 trinket and you can only use a single potion in a battle, so it's going to be quickly replaced.
One thing I will give some credit for, is that by and large the tier set bonus effects are actually significant and more than just + stats.
But having 3 different leather agility pants with pretty much the same stat layout and only minor changes to the secondary stats, plus the tier pants (all at ilvl 502) seems like a bit of a waste in itemization, when they could have done something different with these.
Mounts are rarer than I expected from the Warbringers.
That or my little party is having terrible luck. Killed 7 now, nada.
Loving the tokens though.
I had a guildie who could solo the warbringers (Blood DK, and he got very good at it too). Took him several days of camping spawns, stealing spawns, etc to get all 3. I have 2 myself and I only got them because he offered me to tag along so that if he got a duplicate mount spawn, it wouldn't go to waste (also, because it takes him about 10 minutes to kill one by himself).
He's boasted about having a level 40 something monk that's exalted with the panda reps already thanks to the BoA tokens >.>
Also Skada's Graphs adds, yes, graphs to the addon, which probably does some of that. Haven't tried though.
Though I don't know of any addon that does all that in one view. Not sure if it would be useful either, except so tanks can blame healers
Just add in tank cooldowns as well; we can blame the tanks right back!
So far I'm seeing less tanks overall for ToT. When I get into a T14 queue it's usually 2/2, 2/6, 17/17, and ToT is 0/2, 1/6, 17/17. I would have to assume some of that is due to the level of shit they have to deal with, bad healers can slide by as long as they put up numbers on the lolmeters.
Seriously, having herded entire raids and, more specifically, always been a healer lead since vanilla - I fucking hate healing meters. Oh look, the Smite Priest is putting up great numbers! The tank fucking died because he couldn't be bothered to toss out a bubble/penance after a big hit, but thank god that Rogue got topped off from your Holy Fire. (Smart heals are NOT smart)
More tales from LFR: Resto Shaman on Prim got called out for being lower than a Rogue on healing. "But I'm a good healer usually, idk what's wrong!" Then we get to DA, and we're using a strat where the raid is stationary in the center of the room, "See I'm a good healer!" Um dude, being able to cast Healing Rain on a spot where the entire raid is standing stationary and topping the meters doesn't make you a "good healer." Especially when you can't figure out how to push your buttons on an encounter where people are constantly moving... %^&*(
Now that I'm done digressing! Yeah I don't think I'd ever want to tank LFR. I love tanking 5 mans!
Seriously though, who the heck has time to commit 2-4 nights/week, 3-4 hours at a time? Come on, really? Raiding as a thing has... Inherent issues in this sort of model.
I raid two nights a week for 3 hours per night. Am I missing something?
Also: lol @ 10M ToT nerfs. I asked my GM if I should feel like a Hipster since my raid got through Horri and Council pre-nerf. I think I need to go buy some tight jeans now.
Mounts are rarer than I expected from the Warbringers.
That or my little party is having terrible luck. Killed 7 now, nada.
Loving the tokens though.
I had a guildie who could solo the warbringers (Blood DK, and he got very good at it too). Took him several days of camping spawns, stealing spawns, etc to get all 3. I have 2 myself and I only got them because he offered me to tag along so that if he got a duplicate mount spawn, it wouldn't go to waste (also, because it takes him about 10 minutes to kill one by himself).
He's boasted about having a level 40 something monk that's exalted with the panda reps already thanks to the BoA tokens >.>
Yeah, I think I could do it pretty handily on my DK, particularly the Dread Wastes one.
Even doing it in the trio I am, it seems rare enough that I doubt I'd ever see any of them this way.
EDIT: holy shit, I just want to say again, those Big Bags. So much loot.
Seriously though, who the heck has time to commit 2-4 nights/week, 3-4 hours at a time? Come on, really? Raiding as a thing has... Inherent issues in this sort of model.
I raid two nights a week for 3 hours per night. Am I missing something?
Well, sort of, yes.
One of my old guildies was the on-call IT guy for his company, so when things broke, he had to bail. Single parents of young kids frequently have to leave at the drop of a hat. Our Rogue with the highest maintenance GF ever would constantly have to go. And take his dogs out mid raid. And go have a cigarette. (Seriously fuck that guy) Sometimes I just have a shit day at work and I just don't want to raid.
So yeah, sometimes life puts you in a position where 3-4 hours 2-4 days a week isn't something you can commit to. Unless you're that asshat rogue that didn't mind letting 24 people constantly wait around for him, but would throw a tantrum if we took 30 seconds longer than he thought we should to rebuff...
Seriously though, who the heck has time to commit 2-4 nights/week, 3-4 hours at a time? Come on, really? Raiding as a thing has... Inherent issues in this sort of model.
I raid two nights a week for 3 hours per night. Am I missing something?
Well, sort of, yes.
One of my old guildies was the on-call IT guy for his company, so when things broke, he had to bail. Single parents of young kids frequently have to leave at the drop of a hat. Our Rogue with the highest maintenance GF ever would constantly have to go. And take his dogs out mid raid. And go have a cigarette. (Seriously fuck that guy) Sometimes I just have a shit day at work and I just don't want to raid.
So yeah, sometimes life puts you in a position where 3-4 hours 2-4 days a week isn't something you can commit to. Unless you're that asshat rogue that didn't mind letting 24 people constantly wait around for him, but would throw a tantrum if we took 30 seconds longer than he thought we should to rebuff...
Word. Mid-20s, I could burn 9 hours on a Sunday of original Naxxramas attempts; I had nothing else calling on me. Now? I just can't.
As a protection Paladin, I have a ton of things to focus on -- my combat cooldowns, my own health, the threat of the mobs in the encounter, and the status of my party members. Sometimes I lose focus on my own health, perhaps to investigate why a party member is suddenly losing health, and when I glance back at my health bar I notice that I've lost a fair bit of health in the last 3 seconds. And I wonder, "What the heck happened?" Did I get hit with one super hard-hitting ability? A bunch of small abilities? Was it magic damage or physical damage? Did I just not get healed for a long time? What gives?
It would be cool if there was a graph that I could glance to right there in the game that could help me better understand what just happened to me.
I imagine it as sort of like a heartbeat readout for a patient in critical care: The X axis would be time, measured in seconds, and the Y axis would be your health (or perhaps the health of a target of your choosing). I'm unfamiliar with the addon API, but presumably it could update off every damage or heal event -- and could even perhaps allow you to hover over the graph and see what specific events happened to you.
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Right now my monk and priest are the next two I have slated for 90 and BS is the only profession I don't have at 600. [/quote]
Blacksmithing is one of the best professions for Monks. Especially if you are a Brewmaster.
edit: Bah, should have read the thread more, but yea, i'll reiterate it.
Thanks, but I don't want to research it; I was just wanting some quick numbers. I'll just throw them up for 10g.
Go to the site, click on your server. Put "Copper Iron Ore" in the search box and you will get a mean price. It's not research, it's basically as fast as looking something up at wowhead.
The aforementioned https://theunderminejournal.com/ is your friend for stuff like that.[/quote]
Thanks, but I don't want to research it; I was just wanting some quick numbers. I'll just throw them up for 10g.
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Unfortunately the prices tend to vary pretty wildly from server to server based on your faction's population (ie. Auction House supply) and current availability of the item in question on the AH. I've seen stacks of Copper Ore sell for 90g pretty regularly on my server, but that's largely due to the fact that I'm on the much-less-populated faction on my particular server, so I'd hate to suggest that number for you without knowing your server/faction's situation.
That said, I'd advise not to just throw things up without doing a bit of research; low-level mats are a fantastic way to make some gold early on, and believe me you'll need the gold once you get level capped and decide to start enchanting/gemming/reforging your gear.
#1. There's no innovation in the World of Warcraft economy. Everything you can produce is found in the world. A clever entrepreneur can't create a new epic chestpiece that's better than any other chestpiece ever created -- that would break the rules of the game.
In the real world, innovation is the reason our economy works at all -- new companies spring up that create something novel and amazing. And that's how the economy grows. Plus, it's actually quite enjoyable to participate in the creation of novel products. I don't think I'd be happy churning out a product that was dictated from the top. I want to make new things.
#2. Wait a minute, I thought to myself earlier, there is one product that is player created and truly innovative: UI addons.
I wonder if that's the real profession I should invest in. I'm a programmer by trade, so why not leverage that in WoW? I could make an addon that folks find useful, and ask for a gold donation to one of my characters.
Oh wells. Too bad it's BoP, bet that'd sell for a decent chunk.
EDIT: There isn't an 'economy' in WoW. It's, at best, a flea market; and without some serious revamps and retooling, it'll never be anything more. It's a completely consumption based market that wouldn't be functional at all in the real world. But unless they implement some overarching infrastructure that players have to support both with time and gold, in order for the game to function, the in-game 'economy' will always be a slave to inflation and gold sinks.
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My bagful of Sha crystals says "please god yes".
For the most part, stuff's cheap on the weekends because the raid/pvp week is over for most people, but a lot of people are playing because it's the weekend. So the market gets flooded with materials at the same time demand for materials is dropping. Then on tues/weds that trend inverts, because people are getting new gear and have to spend the day at work/school. So you buy materials on the weekend, and sell finished goods (enchants/glyphs/buckles/whatever) during the week.
Buying in bulk is just a better way of bargain hunting; if I see trillium at less than 55g/bar, I buy it. I don't care how much there is at that price, I buy it all because I know I can sell living steel for 450 or so. I have spent 10k on trillium bars on a sunday, because I know I can transmute it all and sell it at effectively 75g/bar (before transmute procs) over the next few weeks. You can do the same thing with enchants or glyphs if you have the front money and the willingness to do some minimal market observation.
I have a guild member who is apparently making bank in the cross server battle pet market; if you're willing to trawl different servers AHs (easy enough with the armory web interface) you can potentially make a lot of gold moving pets from low demand realms to high demand ones. That's kinda more trouble than I'm willing to go to, though.
not to burst your bubble, but I'm almost positive this is a violation of the ToS
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Aw, really? That's fucking lame.
It wouldn't be a transaction though. You wouldn't be charging X gold for an addon. You'd just say, "Hey I coded this, it's totally free, but if you like it feel free to toss my character some gold if you happen to be on my server. I'm a better programmer than I am auction house broker."
I can't believe in all earnest that there's even a question on if it should apply or not. Come on Ghostcrawler.
I'm telling you, they are scared to death of what happened with Cata where people ran out of shit to do and quit en-mass. So in other words, if you let people gear up too fast, they will run out of reasons to run raids and then quit.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
That was real money. It's against the EULA or whatever to charge real money for your addons. I don't know if gold would fall under that or not.
After the LFR, I went with a guild group and took down several Zandilari Warbringers. I won one of the dino mounts, so I'm pretty happy about that.
One thing I miss from vanilla and BC is interesting loot that does different things. There's a bit off a few mobs, but most of the stuff is pretty formulaic. Weapons don't seem to have proc effects anymore, if a trinket has some sort of interesting effect, the other stats make it so horrible to use, you'll never actually want to use it, and you never see some of the more interesting click-type effects on slots that are not trinkets.
What about a dynamic combat health graph?
As a protection Paladin, I have a ton of things to focus on -- my combat cooldowns, my own health, the threat of the mobs in the encounter, and the status of my party members. Sometimes I lose focus on my own health, perhaps to investigate why a party member is suddenly losing health, and when I glance back at my health bar I notice that I've lost a fair bit of health in the last 3 seconds. And I wonder, "What the heck happened?" Did I get hit with one super hard-hitting ability? A bunch of small abilities? Was it magic damage or physical damage? Did I just not get healed for a long time? What gives?
It would be cool if there was a graph that I could glance to right there in the game that could help me better understand what just happened to me.
I imagine it as sort of like a heartbeat readout for a patient in critical care: The X axis would be time, measured in seconds, and the Y axis would be your health (or perhaps the health of a target of your choosing). I'm unfamiliar with the addon API, but presumably it could update off every damage or heal event -- and could even perhaps allow you to hover over the graph and see what specific events happened to you.
when MSV came out I had 2h wait times on my DK, now on my paladin the tank wait times are from 15 mins to as low as 30s (usually something in between those two), got an instant one once and thought I accidentally pressed the LFD not LFR ^^
ToT harder to tank? more tanks want dps gear and just sign up as dps? more abuse towards tanks in tot and they just rage quit?
Aw, that is disappointing. I'm sort of sad to see the trend in trinkets -- they all seem pretty bland for the most part. Increase of some stat, plus a chance on hit to increase another stat by some amount.
Most of what you're describing is already done in Recount in the damage taken tab. EDIT: you can click on players and it'll show you graphs and such.
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I don't think I'll be doing dailies for any alt again, ever!
EDIT: That one had a big bag, with a lol-worth amount of enchanting mats. good lord.
EDIT2: and you can use klaxxi enhancements on them. Nice. Dread Wastes Warscout farming it is! EDIT3: I wonder if I got one of those dreadwhatevers, if I could solo the warbringer with my blood dk.
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I still have to wait like 15 - 20 mins to Tank in ToT, no diffrent from when MSV/HoF/ToES was current. Could be that I usually do LFR on the weekends I don't know.
Though I don't know of any addon that does all that in one view. Not sure if it would be useful either, except so tanks can blame healers
They do; but it's over in SE++ on ChogDall (sp?). It's a PvP server, sadly.
Again, none of what I'm selling is on the Auction House apparently. Either it's selling like crazy or I'm searching wrong.
Oh yeah, I don't think my mod idea is especially useful. Just to be clear, haha.
The only reason I was interested in it was to get a better sense of the rate of incoming damage over the last few moments.
Googled Skada's Graphs -- looks like it's super out of date.
You know, now that you mention it, I do remember that Recount had some pretty interesting graphs. Cool! Thanks for the reminder.
That or my little party is having terrible luck. Killed 7 now, nada.
Loving the tokens though.
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One thing I will give some credit for, is that by and large the tier set bonus effects are actually significant and more than just + stats.
But having 3 different leather agility pants with pretty much the same stat layout and only minor changes to the secondary stats, plus the tier pants (all at ilvl 502) seems like a bit of a waste in itemization, when they could have done something different with these.
I had a guildie who could solo the warbringers (Blood DK, and he got very good at it too). Took him several days of camping spawns, stealing spawns, etc to get all 3. I have 2 myself and I only got them because he offered me to tag along so that if he got a duplicate mount spawn, it wouldn't go to waste (also, because it takes him about 10 minutes to kill one by himself).
He's boasted about having a level 40 something monk that's exalted with the panda reps already thanks to the BoA tokens >.>
So far I'm seeing less tanks overall for ToT. When I get into a T14 queue it's usually 2/2, 2/6, 17/17, and ToT is 0/2, 1/6, 17/17. I would have to assume some of that is due to the level of shit they have to deal with, bad healers can slide by as long as they put up numbers on the lolmeters.
Seriously, having herded entire raids and, more specifically, always been a healer lead since vanilla - I fucking hate healing meters. Oh look, the Smite Priest is putting up great numbers! The tank fucking died because he couldn't be bothered to toss out a bubble/penance after a big hit, but thank god that Rogue got topped off from your Holy Fire. (Smart heals are NOT smart)
More tales from LFR: Resto Shaman on Prim got called out for being lower than a Rogue on healing. "But I'm a good healer usually, idk what's wrong!" Then we get to DA, and we're using a strat where the raid is stationary in the center of the room, "See I'm a good healer!" Um dude, being able to cast Healing Rain on a spot where the entire raid is standing stationary and topping the meters doesn't make you a "good healer." Especially when you can't figure out how to push your buttons on an encounter where people are constantly moving... %^&*(
Now that I'm done digressing! Yeah I don't think I'd ever want to tank LFR. I love tanking 5 mans!
I raid two nights a week for 3 hours per night. Am I missing something?
Also: lol @ 10M ToT nerfs. I asked my GM if I should feel like a Hipster since my raid got through Horri and Council pre-nerf. I think I need to go buy some tight jeans now.
Yeah, I think I could do it pretty handily on my DK, particularly the Dread Wastes one.
Even doing it in the trio I am, it seems rare enough that I doubt I'd ever see any of them this way.
EDIT: holy shit, I just want to say again, those Big Bags. So much loot.
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One of my old guildies was the on-call IT guy for his company, so when things broke, he had to bail. Single parents of young kids frequently have to leave at the drop of a hat. Our Rogue with the highest maintenance GF ever would constantly have to go. And take his dogs out mid raid. And go have a cigarette. (Seriously fuck that guy) Sometimes I just have a shit day at work and I just don't want to raid.
So yeah, sometimes life puts you in a position where 3-4 hours 2-4 days a week isn't something you can commit to. Unless you're that asshat rogue that didn't mind letting 24 people constantly wait around for him, but would throw a tantrum if we took 30 seconds longer than he thought we should to rebuff...
If anyone wants to run LFRs (we can crossrealm LFR, right?), I'm up for it.
I'd be happy to do some realid Warbringer slaying though.
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Word. Mid-20s, I could burn 9 hours on a Sunday of original Naxxramas attempts; I had nothing else calling on me. Now? I just can't.
world of logs?