Yeah, there's not much you can do with it, other than pickpocket the named mobs. I have like 14 of the new coins after doing the questline, but I'm not going to grind them out. All of the other mobs in Blasted Lands are pocketless.
I'm ilevel 514 and I soloed the Lich King on my MM hunter.
I'm not sure how I feel about that, I mean it's cool, it's great, got nice gear to use to transmogify and all but at the same time. It's Arthas, the freaking Lich King. Feels weird.
No one is trying to hold the changes up on a pedestal and say "Oh hey, this is WAY BETTER" I just don't think it's quite the end of the world scenario that some of you do, and I certainly don't think Blizzard is "fucking" anybody because of them.
The attitude is that with these LFR changes, LFR is just totally worthless and leaves people with zero recourse for any alternative. I also think this is a bit of an over reaction.
It's not. These changes are effectively Blizzard going "you're not being shut down but we're removing your funding." It's a complete gutting of LFR of how it is and removes a ton of incentives as to why people go there now.
This is the leap of logic that I cannot follow. That the looks on the gear and set bonuses are the major reasons that people enter LFR and without them it will just wither and die.
LFR will still give the best gear available to non-raiders and will still allow everyone to see and experience all the raid content. Those two features are the driving force behind LFR and nothing has been altered there.
The idea that somehow LFR will become too hard for the average player seems laughable to me. It will be tuned around completion stats like always, even if it means nerfing it to the point where 5 people who actually tries their best can kill the bosses themselves.
LFR will not give the best gear to non-raiders, Heroic Dungeons will.
LFR's difficulty will be getting easier, not harder. But they're barely turning the knob down at all, so people will still need to follow strats and wiping will still exist. So the difference in difficulty versus today's LFR compared to the level of neutering of loot compared to today's LFR is wildly disproportional, as they've barely lowered the difficulty but they've severely lowered the reward.
Someone told me about this and I had to test it out, but if you have a rogue you can go pickpocket one of the named mobs at Nethergarde in the Blasted Lands quests and you can start with the new pickpocketing stuff from WoD. You get this whistle that summons a fence who buys random junk you pickpocket from people for a special currency that can be handed in for gold.
Just in case people want to be surprised by the identity of that fence here's a spoiler:
Well, I guess when I'm wrong, I'm wrong: their auto-update tech kicked in, and Hallow's End stuff is 540 ilevel.
Also the new WoD stuff is in, which I guess isn't surprising. Now you can dress up your pug
One new item this year is some Arthas costume that costs more tricky treats than you can earn from all existing sources combined for the duration of the event. Weird.
Someone told me about this and I had to test it out, but if you have a rogue you can go pickpocket one of the named mobs at Nethergarde in the Blasted Lands quests and you can start with the new pickpocketing stuff from WoD. You get this whistle that summons a fence who buys random junk you pickpocket from people for a special currency that can be handed in for gold.
Is it possible to solo both the 10-man version and the 25-man version of a raid in the same week? I swapped versions outside after half-clearing ICC 10 and when I entered ICC25 it was half empty. Still don't have a lockout for ICC25 on my raid tab though.
After seeing the changes to flame leviathan and the gunship I went back to ICC 25-H and when I reached level with the gunship I shot off the built up number 2 shot and the ship immediately went down. . .
the vehicle damage is now based off your ilvl and if my gunship battle was any indication . . flame leviathan will just keel over. I can't do it again this week to check though.
As I have seen more info, I'm more than ok with how LFR will roll out now (aside from the even more asstastic aesthetics of the sets, but hey that's why there is transmog). My only concern is mechanics. I think the fact that over geared folks did run LFR skewed things horribly. To me, and this has been my issue with all queued content, is flat out the stuff should be tuned for people who will not be coordinating at all. I think it is unrealistic to expect a group of 25 random strangers to coordinate and work well together in an hour's time. That is what normal raids(less so maybe here) through mythic are for. Normal dungeons and LFR really should be at most just a step above tank and spank. I would love to tank and/or heal but I don't because frankly it's too much stress to worry about following a certain routine AND making sure 24 others are doing it as well, versus just running in wailing away on a mob(s), keeping agro, as the dps burn them down. Remember, this is not for the best gear in the game, so I'm not sure how that would be unreasonable.
Time once again to run Headless Horseman every day and not get the mount. This time I have a ton of 90's to run though. And I'll have more with this XP squish. Took me a little under two hours to get my monk from 81-85 and then a short while later to 86.5 before reaching the jinyuu village. Dungeons give a ton of XP now when you complete them.
I'm ilevel 514 and I soloed the Lich King on my MM hunter.
I'm not sure how I feel about that, I mean it's cool, it's great, got nice gear to use to transmogify and all but at the same time. It's Arthas, the freaking Lich King. Feels weird.
And yeah can solo 85 level stuff pretty good too.
Ok, so I tried Flamelands raid and was able to kill the bird but got roflstomped by Shannox and the dude whose legs you attack.
ICC is not giving me any trouble. I am not suffering from the inner conflict you are. It's the first time I have ever seen either and I am enjoying the fact that I can...enjoy them.
Is it not possible to get the Eastern Kingdoms trick-or-treating achievement this year because of the Iron Horde thing? There are two buckets (for Alliance at least) listed in Blasted Lands and neither of them are there. Nethergarde's been blown up and Surwich is completely depopulated.
Everything I've played of my Enh Shaman since I rejoined to try out 6.0 emphasizes how dumb Searing Totem is in the spec's current playstyle.
It's like, everything's very nice and dynamic and feels great now, but there's this steaming turd still sitting there that should've honestly been trimmed out before MoP. It doesn't even have the interaction with Lava Lash anymore (which is a good thing), it's literally just a button you press every minute or when you move to add a small amount of DPS. There's zero gameplay beyond that. Blurgh.
Is it not possible to get the Eastern Kingdoms trick-or-treating achievement this year because of the Iron Horde thing? There are two buckets (for Alliance at least) listed in Blasted Lands and neither of them are there. Nethergarde's been blown up and Surwich is completely depopulated.
Find Chromi, she can phase you back to normal Blasted Lands.
I love that, even after SoO's been out for like a year, the ThokBlock still exists in groups.
What's that?
Regardless of difficulty, Thok will one-shot anyone standing in front of him when he's chasing people. ThokBlock is when people refuse to pay attention to their surroundings and either lead the dino through the raid or get eaten themselves.
Blargh, not too happy with what's happened to some of my characters. Namely, warrior dps specs are both horribly boring now (well, Arms was even before, now it somehow got worse). And balance feels super clunky, just have to pray the eclipse meter matches up with whatever mechanics you have to deal with. Should be a lot better when Starsurge gets back to instant cast though.
Blood DKs got so much better now though. The super slow rune regen sucks, but the new Blood Tap is neat, and I like the new DS mechanic better too. Also damage feels rather solid.
Not that the currently shown set pieces look great, but the really poor look of LFR gear and removal of set gear + trinkets feels a little insulting. Then again, who cares, xmog!
I love that, even after SoO's been out for like a year, the ThokBlock still exists in groups.
What's that?
Regardless of difficulty, Thok will one-shot anyone standing in front of him when he's chasing people. ThokBlock is when people refuse to pay attention to their surroundings and either lead the dino through the raid or get eaten themselves.
Basically, although I use it sometimes as "Thok is a giant cock that'll cockblock the raid's progress."
Man, we were on him on Normal for like a couple hours before enough idiots cycled in and out enough that we got enough good people that we just destroyed him.
It was quite... delicious, though, being one of the ranged that was on the edge and working to herd him to watch him fixate on someone in the jailer group and slowly just plow through them all.
We eventually got a mage in there that was stupidly-high geared and was throwing around like 26k+ DPS and we just melted Thok and the rest of the bosses.
Yay, heirloom caster mace!
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So, the 81 monk I had this morning? Is now Level 90.
XP squish is insane combined with the much higher dungeon XP.
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Wow, how frustrating. Trying to do the Algalon encounter in Ulduar 25 and it bugs out and resets every fucking time he hits 10% and goes to the shadow plane or whatever. Six times in a row, doesn't matter how quickly I damage him it just resets right there.
this was some hilarious shit on yogg yesterday with my shaman
so i go in pull it, everything fine tentacle spawns dc
okay happens servers shit go again buff up, pull tentacle spawns DC
I'm like, what O.o
do this 3 or 4 more times same results
disable all add ons, same result
finally go and bother to just google it since the shit was fucking crazy and well, apparently there is a bug that if you have a totem down and/or lighting shield up you get dc-ed when a tentacle grabs you
that's the most bizarre and specific bug I have ever seen in this game
Is it not possible to get the Eastern Kingdoms trick-or-treating achievement this year because of the Iron Horde thing? There are two buckets (for Alliance at least) listed in Blasted Lands and neither of them are there. Nethergarde's been blown up and Surwich is completely depopulated.
Find Chromi, she can phase you back to normal Blasted Lands.
If you are trick and treating on non level 90's are you screwed and have to track her down?
this was some hilarious shit on yogg yesterday with my shaman
so i go in pull it, everything fine tentacle spawns dc
okay happens servers shit go again buff up, pull tentacle spawns DC
I'm like, what O.o
do this 3 or 4 more times same results
disable all add ons, same result
finally go and bother to just google it since the shit was fucking crazy and well, apparently there is a bug that if you have a totem down and/or lighting shield up you get dc-ed when a tentacle grabs you
that's the most bizarre and specific bug I have ever seen in this game
That...explains the disconnects I had! I died the first time, the second time I logged back in and had 30 sanity left and managed to take him down anyway.
The Store pets/mounts I wait til they have a half off sale - last time I bought something it was around Christmas time...maybe slightly after?
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Is it not possible to get the Eastern Kingdoms trick-or-treating achievement this year because of the Iron Horde thing? There are two buckets (for Alliance at least) listed in Blasted Lands and neither of them are there. Nethergarde's been blown up and Surwich is completely depopulated.
Find Chromi, she can phase you back to normal Blasted Lands.
If you are trick and treating on non level 90's are you screwed and have to track her down?
It's not actually Chromi, at least not for Alliance. She's located near the entrance to the Blasted Lands from Swamp of Sorrows and is named Zidormi.
So annoying. Been trying to get feral gear on my druid. Spammed UBRS lots for the weapon from the first boss.. and when I finally got it, it has str. On feral loot table. Blargh
I am baffled by this. Blizz has said Heroic Dungeons are going to be "hard again" so why are they giving rewards worse than LFR, something Blizz has specifically set out to neuter as much as possible?
So the Lich King is soloable? My hunter is in the 540 or so ilevel range as I recall, so I should be able to do it?
Anything ten levels under you just tickles now. Just make sure you don't get knocked off the ledge, and maybe having a pet changes things with normal mechanics (ie, plague) that otherwise disappear when soloing.
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I'm not sure how I feel about that, I mean it's cool, it's great, got nice gear to use to transmogify and all but at the same time. It's Arthas, the freaking Lich King. Feels weird.
And yeah can solo 85 level stuff pretty good too.
LFR will not give the best gear to non-raiders, Heroic Dungeons will.
LFR's difficulty will be getting easier, not harder. But they're barely turning the knob down at all, so people will still need to follow strats and wiping will still exist. So the difference in difficulty versus today's LFR compared to the level of neutering of loot compared to today's LFR is wildly disproportional, as they've barely lowered the difficulty but they've severely lowered the reward.
Just in case people want to be surprised by the identity of that fence here's a spoiler:
Is not just any fence, look closer.
People keep repeating that but its simply not true. LFR is 640 and later 650 ilvl. Heroic dungeons only give 630.
Here is an overview of WoD gear levels.
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Ok, so I tried Flamelands raid and was able to kill the bird but got roflstomped by Shannox and the dude whose legs you attack.
ICC is not giving me any trouble. I am not suffering from the inner conflict you are. It's the first time I have ever seen either and I am enjoying the fact that I can...enjoy them.
It's like, everything's very nice and dynamic and feels great now, but there's this steaming turd still sitting there that should've honestly been trimmed out before MoP. It doesn't even have the interaction with Lava Lash anymore (which is a good thing), it's literally just a button you press every minute or when you move to add a small amount of DPS. There's zero gameplay beyond that. Blurgh.
Aside from that, though, I'm liking it.
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Find Chromi, she can phase you back to normal Blasted Lands.
You should see what happens with Durumu still
(You don't want to see it).
Regardless of difficulty, Thok will one-shot anyone standing in front of him when he's chasing people. ThokBlock is when people refuse to pay attention to their surroundings and either lead the dino through the raid or get eaten themselves.
Blargh, not too happy with what's happened to some of my characters. Namely, warrior dps specs are both horribly boring now (well, Arms was even before, now it somehow got worse). And balance feels super clunky, just have to pray the eclipse meter matches up with whatever mechanics you have to deal with. Should be a lot better when Starsurge gets back to instant cast though.
Blood DKs got so much better now though. The super slow rune regen sucks, but the new Blood Tap is neat, and I like the new DS mechanic better too. Also damage feels rather solid.
Not that the currently shown set pieces look great, but the really poor look of LFR gear and removal of set gear + trinkets feels a little insulting. Then again, who cares, xmog!
Basically, although I use it sometimes as "Thok is a giant cock that'll cockblock the raid's progress."
Man, we were on him on Normal for like a couple hours before enough idiots cycled in and out enough that we got enough good people that we just destroyed him.
It was quite... delicious, though, being one of the ranged that was on the edge and working to herd him to watch him fixate on someone in the jailer group and slowly just plow through them all.
We eventually got a mage in there that was stupidly-high geared and was throwing around like 26k+ DPS and we just melted Thok and the rest of the bosses.
Yay, heirloom caster mace!
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XP squish is insane combined with the much higher dungeon XP.
So frustrated right now.
I have never survived that maze
Fuck that maze
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so i go in pull it, everything fine tentacle spawns dc
okay happens servers shit go again buff up, pull tentacle spawns DC
I'm like, what O.o
do this 3 or 4 more times same results
disable all add ons, same result
finally go and bother to just google it since the shit was fucking crazy and well, apparently there is a bug that if you have a totem down and/or lighting shield up you get dc-ed when a tentacle grabs you
that's the most bizarre and specific bug I have ever seen in this game
They occasionally put them on sale (not terribly often), and I believe for a while after something is launched half the profit goes to charity.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
It is such a good model
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If you are trick and treating on non level 90's are you screwed and have to track her down?
That...explains the disconnects I had! I died the first time, the second time I logged back in and had 30 sanity left and managed to take him down anyway.
The Store pets/mounts I wait til they have a half off sale - last time I bought something it was around Christmas time...maybe slightly after?
It's not actually Chromi, at least not for Alliance. She's located near the entrance to the Blasted Lands from Swamp of Sorrows and is named Zidormi.
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at 25 bucks it's not that hard to resist though
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I am baffled by this. Blizz has said Heroic Dungeons are going to be "hard again" so why are they giving rewards worse than LFR, something Blizz has specifically set out to neuter as much as possible?
CM daily quest rewards are at LFR ilvl, which is cool.
Anything ten levels under you just tickles now. Just make sure you don't get knocked off the ledge, and maybe having a pet changes things with normal mechanics (ie, plague) that otherwise disappear when soloing.