My paladin and druid are both decently leveled and geared now (around 640. Not bad for alts). Both are tanks, primarily. I'll take the paladin all day over the druid. The damage profile is much more consistent, and the party cooldowns give me a lot of control over encounters. As a druid, I have a lot less responsibility because so much is just out of my hands.
@Dhalphir I also have to say that giving my leveling DK a 630 weapon is the most overpowered I've ever felt in this game. I was standing toe to toe with lvl 100s as a blood dk. It's so good it's actually boring after a while.
If the DPS is bad, I run Seal of Truth. If the healer is bad, I run Seal of Insight. Divine Purpose + WoG can be funny at times, being able to just tap WoG over and over or SotR on a boss sometimes gets some laughs. I got 5 or something one night on Grimrail's second boss and the healer after wanted to know how I popped LoH twice. As ret, it's great to unleash the big whirling hammer of Final verdict 3 or 4 times in a row with it.
Interesting that you say this. Granted that my one perspective is anecdote and not evidence, but I feel like my bear druid has pretty insane self-heal and damage mitigation. My own perspective doesn't include any experience with other tanks at this time, so it's very probable that bear tanks are in a bad place, but I don't feel like I'm weak or hard to heal.
I'm actually really liking tanking with him and I like the bear's defensive cooldowns more than my 91 Warrior.
Yeah my bear tanks fine. I have to use cooldowns and such that didn't matter before WoD but I'm fine with that. Gives me something to do other than spam Mangle/Thrash.
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So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
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So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
Log in, send followers on missions, wait for subscription to run out.
So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
I've been leveling alts. I have 6 garrisons going now and just getting all my missions going and checking the different buildings out is keeping me pretty damn busy.
I've been trying to get through all the Inn quests on my hunter since it's a good excuse to play through heroics again, but damn, these half hour queue times are making it tough. I also really like playing around in Ashran, but the queues for that are even worse. I had a 2 hour queue yesterday that I missed since I was in the bathroom when it finally popped.
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I was being anal about keeping up 4 or 5 PCs and their garrisons, but the only thing I do now is click the buttons for missions using master plan on my alts and hit up their herb gardens, burn their daily tradeskill cooldowns for the most part. Trying to keep them all going was a hassle and its only a game. On the paladin main, I do my dungeon daily, apexis daily, missions, trapping, etc, run old raids for cash and that goddamn Armageddon that only drops for my hunter alt. I mail a fair bit of resources around to keep daily cooldowns going cleanly, keep the tradepost fed. Every couple of days the alt goes out for lumber. Too bad you can't stockpile 2000 of it.
I've not seen a single heroic drop (outside the end boss, which is guaranteed) in about the last half-dozen heroics. Do they just stop dropping loot when you get to a certain ilvl? Because this is just kind of silly. Not that I need the items, but they sell for a semi-decent amount. I've got no reason to do it beside the BoA bag and Glory of the XXXXX Hero, but you need some fairly specific groups for those.
I think my guild (just a small guild of friends) is pretty close to fielding a full 10-man, but I think we're still missing a DPS. Hopefully we can get that going soon, since LFR doesn't really cut it for the challenge.
I've not seen a single heroic drop (outside the end boss, which is guaranteed) in about the last half-dozen heroics. Do they just stop dropping loot when you get to a certain ilvl? Because this is just kind of silly. Not that I need the items, but they sell for a semi-decent amount. I've got no reason to do it beside the BoA bag and Glory of the XXXXX Hero, but you need some fairly specific groups for those.
I think my guild (just a small guild of friends) is pretty close to fielding a full 10-man, but I think we're still missing a DPS. Hopefully we can get that going soon, since LFR doesn't really cut it for the challenge.
I've not seen a single heroic drop (outside the end boss, which is guaranteed) in about the last half-dozen heroics. Do they just stop dropping loot when you get to a certain ilvl? Because this is just kind of silly. Not that I need the items, but they sell for a semi-decent amount. I've got no reason to do it beside the BoA bag and Glory of the XXXXX Hero, but you need some fairly specific groups for those.
I think my guild (just a small guild of friends) is pretty close to fielding a full 10-man, but I think we're still missing a DPS. Hopefully we can get that going soon, since LFR doesn't really cut it for the challenge.
Pug a tenth if you're doing a Normal.
Yeah that's the plan for now. We'll see what happens. We also need to hammer out a set schedule; we've only been in there on Normal once, but the Holidays have made it a bit problematic to set something up. Hopefully we get something going this week or next.
I'm really glad it's not a pushover like LFR is though.
I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong with a Marksman hunter. 634 geared but barely holding 17k at best. I mean I'm not really going to blow flasks and potions in an LFR... but maybe I'm overestimating how much my DPS should be?
I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong with a Marksman hunter. 634 geared but barely holding 17k at best. I mean I'm not really going to blow flasks and potions in an LFR... but maybe I'm overestimating how much my DPS should be?
The best bet would be to log some raids and have a look. Also don't underestimate potions now. A pot is like 1/3rd-1/4 of your agility now. They are a huge boost in damage especially at the start of a fight.
Looking at a log of one of our casual runs the retired MM hunter with ilvl 640ish did 20k on butcher normal with 2 potions. Hero was at 30%.
I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong with a Marksman hunter. 634 geared but barely holding 17k at best. I mean I'm not really going to blow flasks and potions in an LFR... but maybe I'm overestimating how much my DPS should be?
Lone Wolf? Using Chimera on cooldown?
I do use Lone Wolf, and I'm sure I've got the rotation about as locked down as I can. I guess it pots are that important, I'd probably be dealing something closer to 20k in a serious raid. Not entirely settled on who I want my 'DPS' character to be, especially with how much fun I'm having with Shaman.
I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong with a Marksman hunter. 634 geared but barely holding 17k at best. I mean I'm not really going to blow flasks and potions in an LFR... but maybe I'm overestimating how much my DPS should be?
Lone Wolf? Using Chimera on cooldown?
I do use Lone Wolf, and I'm sure I've got the rotation about as locked down as I can. I guess it pots are that important, I'd probably be dealing something closer to 20k in a serious raid. Not entirely settled on who I want my 'DPS' character to be, especially with how much fun I'm having with Shaman.
Pick the class you have the most fun with. Hitting 20k DPS isn't worth it if you're not having fun while doing it.
I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong with a Marksman hunter. 634 geared but barely holding 17k at best. I mean I'm not really going to blow flasks and potions in an LFR... but maybe I'm overestimating how much my DPS should be?
What's the situation? Is that LFR, 5-man, or target dummy without raid buffs? And are you enchanted / maximized for secondary stats? The key to MM is making sure you have just enough focus to cast Chimaera Shot as soon as it is available and making sure to keep your Sniper Training up at all times. Pretty much everything else is just "use on cooldown".
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LFR, so I had all the raid buffs. Might just be my secondary stats really. My multistrike isn't all that high, though my crit is 30% buffed. Makes me wish we still had reforging.
My paladin and druid are both decently leveled and geared now (around 640. Not bad for alts). Both are tanks, primarily. I'll take the paladin all day over the druid. The damage profile is much more consistent, and the party cooldowns give me a lot of control over encounters. As a druid, I have a lot less responsibility because so much is just out of my hands.
@Dhalphir I also have to say that giving my leveling DK a 630 weapon is the most overpowered I've ever felt in this game. I was standing toe to toe with lvl 100s as a blood dk. It's so good it's actually boring after a while.
I just finished up my second 630 weapon for my level 91 shaman I am looking forward to showing NPC's the hammers of justice!
So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
I have been making sure to do my apexis daily to keep invasions spawning at least once per week and working on some side stuff like getting my shatt'ari defense rep up for the trading post and working on some alternate large and medium building achivements. Currently banging out the stables now which seems like it would have been a good leveling up option given how much GR you get from doing the bunch of dailies you get from it.
I have not even dipped into PVP much yet which is typically my go to bored with nothing to do option. Also want to work on the brawlers guild but keep getting side tracked by other stuff.
So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
Followers getting sent on missions, and using the resulting resources (I have a bunch of scavengers) to fuel sim-garrison so I can farm achievements.
Going on Apexis dailes for much the same reasons.
Occasionally dipping over to Nagrand to tag along on rare farm groups to get rep and hope for the Clefthoof that drops a mount to spawn.
Occasionally looking for mount camp groups while working my way through DVDs and Blu-Rays I got for Christmas.
Otherwise, working on alts
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So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
Log in, send followers on missions, wait for subscription to run out.
This exactly, actually. Most other folks here run Normals and Heroics but I've been a strictly LFR raider since its inception due to my schedule. With the changes to LFR this expansion, you're done with it (or at least I am) after the first clear. With the gear coming from follower missions and professions, there's pretty much zero reason to run it apart from the legendary stones (and with the hilariously small amount you get per boss kill, I've lost the motivation to continue on that treadmill). Dungeons are equally pointless anymore since they don't drop any currency, with the guaranteed item from every end boss you can expect to get 630 geared very quickly and there isn't any unique gear to speak of that would compel me to continue running them.
So I've just been logging in, collecting the follower goods & sending them back out, doing the apexis daily and then logging out. Hopefully there'll be some more compelling reasons to come back for this expansion but thus far it's just not doing it for me.
Normals are easially 6/7 puggable, people in my guild do them every weekend on their alts in 2ish hours. Which makes sense as it's filling that Flex slot from MoP.
TBH I love that the new LFRs are faceroll because LFR has been some of the just absolute worst content Blizzard has produced in ages. Fights like Durumu made me want to stab myself in the eyes as we try to 10 man a 25 man boss over and over because 2/3rds of the raid dies to the first maze every time. I had zero alts in MoP because I could barely stand to do that stuff on my main when content was new.
So different strokes I guess. I also raid with a guild during the week, so I guess LFR has never been my sole raiding experience.
Normals are easially 6/7 puggable, people in my guild do them every weekend on their alts in 2ish hours. Which makes sense as it's filling that Flex slot from MoP.
TBH I love that the new LFRs are faceroll because LFR has been some of the just absolute worst content Blizzard has produced in ages. Fights like Durumu made me want to stab myself in the eyes as we try to 10 man a 25 man boss over and over because 2/3rds of the raid dies to the first maze every time. I had zero alts in MoP because I could barely stand to do that stuff on my main when content was new.
So different strokes I guess. I also raid with a guild during the week, so I guess LFR has never been my sole raiding experience.
I have been doing normals and getting 6 bosses down is pretty consistent now peoples DPS is high enough and the tanks and healers have the gear for it. Getting the end boss down is less common but another week or so for people going 6/7 for bosses that will start being more trivial as well. Really doing flex is much closer challenge wise to the pandaria LFR. The new LFR is really a pure do it for the lulz and some boot strap gearing it is stupidly easy at the moment which is fine.
In pandaria about all I did was LFR as I was not around for most of the expansion and if you did that and enjoyed that I would recommend trying LFR normals about the only major difference is you don't get the scaling you suck buff if you wipe on bosses.
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I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong with a Marksman hunter. 634 geared but barely holding 17k at best. I mean I'm not really going to blow flasks and potions in an LFR... but maybe I'm overestimating how much my DPS should be?
What is your talent build? Imo thrill of the hunt is absolutely necessary for marks. A few procs of that early and your near guaranteed crit aimed shots flow like the Nile. I think its best to save rapid fire till after the boss is below 80% unless you think it will be 2 minutes until that happens.
Otherwise your dps should be over 20 easy. I float around 20k as survival at 636ilvl. I can beat those pesky marks guys till kill shot range then I sadface. Also doing lfr today the tectus fight really let's them shine because they get all those kill shot opportunities.
I wish like lock and load had a higher chance to proc at lower target health.
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Normals are easially 6/7 puggable, people in my guild do them every weekend on their alts in 2ish hours. Which makes sense as it's filling that Flex slot from MoP.
TBH I love that the new LFRs are faceroll because LFR has been some of the just absolute worst content Blizzard has produced in ages. Fights like Durumu made me want to stab myself in the eyes as we try to 10 man a 25 man boss over and over because 2/3rds of the raid dies to the first maze every time. I had zero alts in MoP because I could barely stand to do that stuff on my main when content was new.
So different strokes I guess. I also raid with a guild during the week, so I guess LFR has never been my sole raiding experience.
Yeah, I can understand that perspective. I was a guild raider since Vanilla up through the release of Dragon Soul, but Cataclysm just decimated my guild. I briefly considered finding another group to raid with but my schedule just wouldn't permit it, and even if it would, I just don't have it in me to find yet another group to become familiar with from the ground up. So LFR was a great solution to my concerns. Now it's honestly not even worth the time to me.
The few times I've looked at the groups in the Group Finder for Normals it's been the usual "please have as good or better gear than the stuff dropped in this raid in order to participate" or "have the boss kill achievement or gtfo" or Master Loot (hah, nope). But that's not a surprise, I figured it would shake out like that. I'm sure there are plenty of folks using it successfully and that's cool, it's just not for me.
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You need to abuse Divine Protection as a Paladin tank and recognize that it's okay if you spike really low occasionally because you have Lay on Hands.
Paladin tanks always feel like they are taking insane damage but from a healer perspective they are probably the second easiest tank to heal (after Warrior) because they take pretty consistent damage. Monk and DK are harder to keep track up because of their spikey health and bear just sucks right now.
You do need to keep in mind that while DK health is spiky, a lot of the spiking is smoothed by their own healing. Their health spikes down and then up, and they did that themselves.
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That was my biggest gripe about tanking in WoD, cooldowns aren't for oh shit moments, they're part of your rotation now.
That's the thing though - my DK does not use his cooldowns on cooldown (heh). I use them, as they should be, for oh-shit moments, or to allow me to pull 3-4 trash packs. Death Strike is more than sufficient to deal with periods of high damage from trash because of Resolve. On high resolve levels it's not uncommon to see a 200k+ Death strike with the accompanying 80k absorb shield, and a DK can death strike about as often as a paladin can ShoR.
So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
Log in, send followers on missions, wait for subscription to run out.
This. I know a lot of it is my fault. I can't let that stuff go, and I have 4 characters with garrisons, and I have to keep them all farmed properly. Every improvement in an alt just makes my maintenance even worse. Between the missions, salvage, mining, herbs, and farming elites for blood, I'm spending a ton of time not actually playing the game I want to play. Because I hate the invasions, there is literally nothing about the garrison I enjoy doing. It's just a very elaborate UI to tie up my time.
So what have folks been doing at 100 once you're sort of "done" with the initial content? That is to say you're in highmaul dorkin' around, and you've got your followers and garrison buildings to a pretty solid state. I can't tell if I'm intedned to go out and grind rep or apexis crystals or just play garrisonville then work on an alt. The one thing it seems is not particularly useful is spamming heroic dungeons, which is kind of a shame, because that's always been my favorite content.
What's your new "daily" routine?
Log in, send followers on missions, wait for subscription to run out.
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This. I know a lot of it is my fault. I can't let that stuff go, and I have 4 characters with garrisons, and I have to keep them all farmed properly. Every improvement in an alt just makes my maintenance even worse. Between the missions, salvage, mining, herbs, and farming elites for blood, I'm spending a ton of time not actually playing the game I want to play. Because I hate the invasions, there is literally nothing about the garrison I enjoy doing. It's just a very elaborate UI to tie up my time.
I only really worry about that on a couple of characters. The rest, eh, I'll log in occasionally to craft or collect garrison resources.
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The worst thing about the garrison is that it really needs some kind of outside app to manage it. It's something that if you're trying to get most of out of, you want to check it every hour or so and send out followers and that just doesn't work if you're not in game 24/7. It cries out for a mobile app so you can fiddle with it for 5 mins while on break at work or whatever because it doesn't actually take long to send them out, and it wouldn't be that bad if that was the case. But it's not.
eh, the missions at level 100 take long enough for that not to be a big deal really; missions repopulate on a timer anyway, so as long as you can send all your guys out every 8-10 hours you'll stay on top of anything new that pops up
I wish there were more long missions for low level followers though, if only to make leveling them a bit easier
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eh, the missions at level 100 take long enough for that not to be a big deal really; missions repopulate on a timer anyway, so as long as you can send all your guys out every 8-10 hours you'll stay on top of anything new that pops up
I wish there were more long missions for low level followers though, if only to make leveling them a bit easier
the problem with the low level long missions is that they don't give appreciably more xp than a short one.
Right now, for example, my paladin has three missions available. One is a lvl 92 mission for 1000 xp + 1000 xp bonus. It's an 8 hr mission
She also has two lvl 93 missions, one 45minutes and one 1hr 30 min. Each of those is 700xp base, with one of them rewarding 60gold as a bonus and the other rewarding an extra 700xp.
It is in NO way worth putting those followers on the longer mission except if its overnight.
It really is easier to raid then anytime in the games history. It's super easy to find a guild that raids about any day/hour combo and you can use the raid finder or O queue add on and raid alone. I came back after a 2 year absence and raided hard core previously. Now I am in a guild that raids 8-10 on Thursday and 8-11 on Saturday. Super casual.
The achievement progress for every single garrison achievement reset.
That's just fan fucking tastic.
EDIT: nevermind. several reloads/restarts didn't help but teleporting to the garrison did. :rotate:
Carry on.
Yea, that happens to me every once in a while. I think it's just some phasing shit exploding on the back end. First time I was like 2 barn crates from level 3 and almost had a panic attack until I got the achievement anyway and figured out it was just the display being stupid.
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@Dhalphir I also have to say that giving my leveling DK a 630 weapon is the most overpowered I've ever felt in this game. I was standing toe to toe with lvl 100s as a blood dk. It's so good it's actually boring after a while.
Yeah my bear tanks fine. I have to use cooldowns and such that didn't matter before WoD but I'm fine with that. Gives me something to do other than spam Mangle/Thrash.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
What's your new "daily" routine?
Log in, send followers on missions, wait for subscription to run out.
I've been leveling alts. I have 6 garrisons going now and just getting all my missions going and checking the different buildings out is keeping me pretty damn busy.
I've been trying to get through all the Inn quests on my hunter since it's a good excuse to play through heroics again, but damn, these half hour queue times are making it tough. I also really like playing around in Ashran, but the queues for that are even worse. I had a 2 hour queue yesterday that I missed since I was in the bathroom when it finally popped.
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I think my guild (just a small guild of friends) is pretty close to fielding a full 10-man, but I think we're still missing a DPS. Hopefully we can get that going soon, since LFR doesn't really cut it for the challenge.
Pug a tenth if you're doing a Normal.
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I'm really glad it's not a pushover like LFR is though.
Lone Wolf? Using Chimera on cooldown?
Looking at a log of one of our casual runs the retired MM hunter with ilvl 640ish did 20k on butcher normal with 2 potions. Hero was at 30%.
I do use Lone Wolf, and I'm sure I've got the rotation about as locked down as I can. I guess it pots are that important, I'd probably be dealing something closer to 20k in a serious raid. Not entirely settled on who I want my 'DPS' character to be, especially with how much fun I'm having with Shaman.
Pick the class you have the most fun with. Hitting 20k DPS isn't worth it if you're not having fun while doing it.
What's the situation? Is that LFR, 5-man, or target dummy without raid buffs? And are you enchanted / maximized for secondary stats? The key to MM is making sure you have just enough focus to cast Chimaera Shot as soon as it is available and making sure to keep your Sniper Training up at all times. Pretty much everything else is just "use on cooldown".
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I just finished up my second 630 weapon for my level 91 shaman I am looking forward to showing NPC's the hammers of justice!
I have been making sure to do my apexis daily to keep invasions spawning at least once per week and working on some side stuff like getting my shatt'ari defense rep up for the trading post and working on some alternate large and medium building achivements. Currently banging out the stables now which seems like it would have been a good leveling up option given how much GR you get from doing the bunch of dailies you get from it.
I have not even dipped into PVP much yet which is typically my go to bored with nothing to do option. Also want to work on the brawlers guild but keep getting side tracked by other stuff.
Followers getting sent on missions, and using the resulting resources (I have a bunch of scavengers) to fuel sim-garrison so I can farm achievements.
Going on Apexis dailes for much the same reasons.
Occasionally dipping over to Nagrand to tag along on rare farm groups to get rep and hope for the Clefthoof that drops a mount to spawn.
Occasionally looking for mount camp groups while working my way through DVDs and Blu-Rays I got for Christmas.
Otherwise, working on alts
This exactly, actually. Most other folks here run Normals and Heroics but I've been a strictly LFR raider since its inception due to my schedule. With the changes to LFR this expansion, you're done with it (or at least I am) after the first clear. With the gear coming from follower missions and professions, there's pretty much zero reason to run it apart from the legendary stones (and with the hilariously small amount you get per boss kill, I've lost the motivation to continue on that treadmill). Dungeons are equally pointless anymore since they don't drop any currency, with the guaranteed item from every end boss you can expect to get 630 geared very quickly and there isn't any unique gear to speak of that would compel me to continue running them.
So I've just been logging in, collecting the follower goods & sending them back out, doing the apexis daily and then logging out. Hopefully there'll be some more compelling reasons to come back for this expansion but thus far it's just not doing it for me.
TBH I love that the new LFRs are faceroll because LFR has been some of the just absolute worst content Blizzard has produced in ages. Fights like Durumu made me want to stab myself in the eyes as we try to 10 man a 25 man boss over and over because 2/3rds of the raid dies to the first maze every time. I had zero alts in MoP because I could barely stand to do that stuff on my main when content was new.
So different strokes I guess. I also raid with a guild during the week, so I guess LFR has never been my sole raiding experience.
I have been doing normals and getting 6 bosses down is pretty consistent now peoples DPS is high enough and the tanks and healers have the gear for it. Getting the end boss down is less common but another week or so for people going 6/7 for bosses that will start being more trivial as well. Really doing flex is much closer challenge wise to the pandaria LFR. The new LFR is really a pure do it for the lulz and some boot strap gearing it is stupidly easy at the moment which is fine.
In pandaria about all I did was LFR as I was not around for most of the expansion and if you did that and enjoyed that I would recommend trying LFR normals about the only major difference is you don't get the scaling you suck buff if you wipe on bosses.
What is your talent build? Imo thrill of the hunt is absolutely necessary for marks. A few procs of that early and your near guaranteed crit aimed shots flow like the Nile. I think its best to save rapid fire till after the boss is below 80% unless you think it will be 2 minutes until that happens.
Otherwise your dps should be over 20 easy. I float around 20k as survival at 636ilvl. I can beat those pesky marks guys till kill shot range then I sadface. Also doing lfr today the tectus fight really let's them shine because they get all those kill shot opportunities.
I wish like lock and load had a higher chance to proc at lower target health.
Yeah, I can understand that perspective. I was a guild raider since Vanilla up through the release of Dragon Soul, but Cataclysm just decimated my guild. I briefly considered finding another group to raid with but my schedule just wouldn't permit it, and even if it would, I just don't have it in me to find yet another group to become familiar with from the ground up. So LFR was a great solution to my concerns. Now it's honestly not even worth the time to me.
The few times I've looked at the groups in the Group Finder for Normals it's been the usual "please have as good or better gear than the stuff dropped in this raid in order to participate" or "have the boss kill achievement or gtfo" or Master Loot (hah, nope). But that's not a surprise, I figured it would shake out like that. I'm sure there are plenty of folks using it successfully and that's cool, it's just not for me.
You do need to keep in mind that while DK health is spiky, a lot of the spiking is smoothed by their own healing. Their health spikes down and then up, and they did that themselves.
That's the thing though - my DK does not use his cooldowns on cooldown (heh). I use them, as they should be, for oh-shit moments, or to allow me to pull 3-4 trash packs. Death Strike is more than sufficient to deal with periods of high damage from trash because of Resolve. On high resolve levels it's not uncommon to see a 200k+ Death strike with the accompanying 80k absorb shield, and a DK can death strike about as often as a paladin can ShoR.
This. I know a lot of it is my fault. I can't let that stuff go, and I have 4 characters with garrisons, and I have to keep them all farmed properly. Every improvement in an alt just makes my maintenance even worse. Between the missions, salvage, mining, herbs, and farming elites for blood, I'm spending a ton of time not actually playing the game I want to play. Because I hate the invasions, there is literally nothing about the garrison I enjoy doing. It's just a very elaborate UI to tie up my time.
I only really worry about that on a couple of characters. The rest, eh, I'll log in occasionally to craft or collect garrison resources.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I wish there were more long missions for low level followers though, if only to make leveling them a bit easier
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
the problem with the low level long missions is that they don't give appreciably more xp than a short one.
Right now, for example, my paladin has three missions available. One is a lvl 92 mission for 1000 xp + 1000 xp bonus. It's an 8 hr mission
She also has two lvl 93 missions, one 45minutes and one 1hr 30 min. Each of those is 700xp base, with one of them rewarding 60gold as a bonus and the other rewarding an extra 700xp.
It is in NO way worth putting those followers on the longer mission except if its overnight.
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The achievement progress for every single garrison achievement reset.
That's just fan fucking tastic.
EDIT: nevermind. several reloads/restarts didn't help but teleporting to the garrison did. :rotate:
Carry on.
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Yea, that happens to me every once in a while. I think it's just some phasing shit exploding on the back end. First time I was like 2 barn crates from level 3 and almost had a panic attack until I got the achievement anyway and figured out it was just the display being stupid.