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[WoW Classic] Launching on August 27th.

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  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    It's been a while maybe, so here's the link to Pagle Alliance PvE discord: https://discord.gg/k6FvH8v

    We're trying to ensure all guildies use the discord. Once you're in-game, request a /ginvite in #ginvite and one of us will throw you one. Also check out #welcome where we're tracking classes, professions, and organized pvp interest.

    Also Bowen tricked me into playing with one of his alts and thinking I had made a new friend. Don't be me. Always check if you're playing with a Bowen.

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    i'm noticing all these leveling guides i'm looking at should be titled "How to grind to 60 in as utilitarian a means as possible without having any fun"

    maybe i should skip the guides

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Fairbanks is also alliance, it's the dark iron folk from the Penny Arcade Alliance back in the day. Names I recognize from 15 years ago keep joining the guild (Startlingly Retro) and it is just a blast.

    Also I'm continuing to try and corner the wool bag and magic wand markets and slowly making money, or at least breaking even with a lot of skillups for my trouble. If you want to make some bank right now, I would recommend it!

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  • PriscaPrisca Registered User regular
  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    Unless you're racing for server first I don't see the point of a levelling guide

    Just go with the flow of the game. If you can't figure out where to go, just google

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  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    I'm sure eive told this story before, but back in vanilla I started on pvp server. When they released the honorable kill patch everything devolved into a murderfest everywhere and I rolled on PVE server, not knowing that it had just been opened like the day before, so fresh start for everyone.

    There was a hunter that was clearly ahead of everyone in the leveling curve, like 5-10 levels at all times, then another group of us behind. Most of us were just questing and doing dungeons. But there was one warlock who swore the most efficient way to level was just grind mobs out in the wild, all day every day. Which might have been the most utilitarian way, but finding a field of whatever level mobs and just dropping dots and fears and life tapping for hours on end? Yeah, uh, no thanks. I'd rather just play the game.

    Though the level imbalance did give them a monopoly on the gurubashi arena chest until everyone caught up, so I guess they had that going for them.

  • ThawmusThawmus +Jackface Registered User regular
    Pellaeon wrote: »
    I'm sure eive told this story before, but back in vanilla I started on pvp server. When they released the honorable kill patch everything devolved into a murderfest everywhere and I rolled on PVE server, not knowing that it had just been opened like the day before, so fresh start for everyone.

    There was a hunter that was clearly ahead of everyone in the leveling curve, like 5-10 levels at all times, then another group of us behind. Most of us were just questing and doing dungeons. But there was one warlock who swore the most efficient way to level was just grind mobs out in the wild, all day every day. Which might have been the most utilitarian way, but finding a field of whatever level mobs and just dropping dots and fears and life tapping for hours on end? Yeah, uh, no thanks. I'd rather just play the game.

    Though the level imbalance did give them a monopoly on the gurubashi arena chest until everyone caught up, so I guess they had that going for them.

    It was legitimately fascinating to watch groups of people slowly separate via leveling over time on Day 1 of Classic. There were 100's of people trying to murder the same 10 animals, and then after a couple of hours there was a spreading out.

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Turambar wrote: »
    Unless you're racing for server first I don't see the point of a levelling guide

    Just go with the flow of the game. If you can't figure out where to go, just google

    yeah i was more looking to just make sure i wasn't missing anything and ending up at level 40 with people going "lol you didn't get the level 25 doodad? you idiot"

    just because i know how obfuscated some essential things can be in games that are 15-20 years old

    i'm definitely not hitting any server firsts heh

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    lol...isn't vanilla WoW leveling basically, grind in the area with the most human enemies so you can get cloth drops to keep the grind going?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    lol...isn't vanilla WoW leveling basically, grind in the area with the most human enemies so you can get cloth drops to keep the grind going?

    only if you have no imagination

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  • fRAWRstfRAWRst The Seas Call The Mad AnswerRegistered User regular
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous

    yeah the meme is Day 7 Ragnaros kill.... multiple guilds are going for it

    kind of gross

    i really hope blizzard completely and totally ignores these people when they start bitching in 2 weeks about how Phase 1 is played out and Phase 2 should be released ASAP

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  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous

    Christ, pretty sure I hurt my back just thinking about sitting that long.

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  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous

    Is that Thi3n?

    I can't imagine how any group thinks they'll be able to Ragnaros in 7 days. Even with modern knowledge, you still need X amount of stats on gear (a lot of which will come from/be accelerated by MC drops) before you have the numbers to clear MC.

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  • GnomeTankGnomeTank What the what? Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    There are a couple of DPS checks on the way to Rag, and Rag himself is a DPS check. 7 days? Im not saying it’s impossible, but I’m skeptical.

    GnomeTank on
    Sagroth wrote: »
    Oh c'mon FyreWulff, no one's gonna pay to visit Uranus.
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  • Element BrianElement Brian Peanut Butter Shill Registered User regular
    wiped so many times in dead mines last night that by the time we got to VC every piece of my gear was broken and i just had to call it for myself

    ahhh classic

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  • fRAWRstfRAWRst The Seas Call The Mad AnswerRegistered User regular
    Rius wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous

    Is that Thi3n?

    I can't imagine how any group thinks they'll be able to Ragnaros in 7 days. Even with modern knowledge, you still need X amount of stats on gear (a lot of which will come from/be accelerated by MC drops) before you have the numbers to clear MC.

    Alkaizer

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  • nusunusu Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    There is also a rep grind to even be able to access Ragnaros.

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  • pyromaniac221pyromaniac221 this just might be an interestin YTRegistered User regular
    Out of curiosity I just looked up the onyxia attunement quest for alliance and wow.

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  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    The last bit in Stormwind itself is so good though

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    nusu wrote: »
    There is also a rep grind to even be able to access Ragnaros.

    Yeah, the math doesn't work unless you're farming lava packs until you get... I think all the way through friendly.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    Skeith wrote: »
    nusu wrote: »
    There is also a rep grind to even be able to access Ragnaros.

    Yeah, the math doesn't work unless you're farming lava packs until you get... I think all the way through friendly.

    any time you say the word "unless", just think about who we're talking about here.... of course that's what they would do

    although I was doing a little channel flipping today through some of the poopsockers, and unless the pace picks up like 3-fold today, I'm doubting whether Method will even be able to zone into MC this week

  • RiusRius Globex CEO Nobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
    Plus if you're going to hyper-rush Ragnaros like that you need tons of consumables, which means you need time to farm the consumables, which means you need time to get people leveled up to 300 Enchanting, Alchemy, etc.

    I'm sure the first Ragnaros kill will be much, much faster than I would have guessed but lol @ 7 days. That's gotta be based on 3rd party vanilla server leveling.

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    Skeith wrote: »
    nusu wrote: »
    There is also a rep grind to even be able to access Ragnaros.

    Yeah, the math doesn't work unless you're farming lava packs until you get... I think all the way through friendly.

    any time you say the word "unless", just think about who we're talking about here.... of course that's what they would do

    although I was doing a little channel flipping today through some of the poopsockers, and unless the pace picks up like 3-fold today, I'm doubting whether Method will even be able to zone into MC this week

    What a bunch of wannabes. Poopsocking? They think they can get there with poopsocking? Gonna need at least a pillowcase. Fucking amateurs.

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  • PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
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    Rius wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous

    Is that Thi3n?

    I can't imagine how any group thinks they'll be able to Ragnaros in 7 days. Even with modern knowledge, you still need X amount of stats on gear (a lot of which will come from/be accelerated by MC drops) before you have the numbers to clear MC.

    You also have to get the aqual quintessence
    Which requires you to kill MC trash
    then
    Earn Honored reputation with Hydraxian Waterlords.

    then get
    Hand of Shazzrah
    Hand of Lucifron
    Hand of Gehennas
    Hand of Sulfuron

    MC trash gets you 20/mob or you can farm in silithus at 5 rep/mob. You need 9000 rep to hit honored so you'll have to kill ~450 trash mobs in your first MC run before doing any of the 4 key bosses (or farm 1800 mobs in silithus). You can shave off the last little bit by killing bosses (@ 100 rep per). Most trash respawns pretty slowly too, so the MC run itself will take a long time, which if you have a hard deadline you may run up against...

    Ideally you have a human do it so you only need 8181 rep or 410 trash mobs

    Phyphor on
  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    I had this wave of nostalgia and memories I didn't even know I had watching a streamer play classic. I'm really really tempted. Even if it's just to have a successful run of Strath or Scholo and remember how good it felt to nail the boss fights when they were difficult. SM always felt like the first true skill-check and was very rewarding. Ugh. Talk me down.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    I am really in no rush to get to 60. Just playing 8 to 10 hours a day now is well not for me.
    It's not the nostalgia but this was when the world was fresh and new. the walk to Sepulcher on my undead rogue was just so amazing to see that graveyard is so cool. the Son of Argul was out I said hi in stealth as he ate yet another afk player


    I was freshly 60 about 2 weeks before Zg opened I think? And the fact I was up at night I just goofed off and farmed stuff in a vain chance for gear. So I had earned Honored with the Hydraxian before I went to MC {yes I was farming rune cloth off the mods in Slithus before I hit up farming country of EP and Felwood

  • InfidelInfidel Heretic Registered User regular
    If you're looking to roll Alliance, you probably want Fairbanks for PVP or Pagle for PVE.

    What's out there for horde actually organized so far?

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Infidel wrote: »
    If you're looking to roll Alliance, you probably want Fairbanks for PVP or Pagle for PVE.

    What's out there for horde actually organized so far?

    Ded Boyz on Fairbanks is going to be the pvp guild. Only 5 of us.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous
    at least my self destructive tendencies are cooler than that

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  • eelektrikeelektrik Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    dispatch.o wrote: »
    I had this wave of nostalgia and memories I didn't even know I had watching a streamer play classic. I'm really really tempted. Even if it's just to have a successful run of Strath or Scholo and remember how good it felt to nail the boss fights when they were difficult. SM always felt like the first true skill-check and was very rewarding. Ugh. Talk me down.

    Same here, I would love to get in on Classic, suddenly feeling like being nostalgic. It is tempting, but I know I shouldn't. I need to finish this last year of college and actually graduate now that I have gotten this far. Plus I have young kids, so not like I have time to game these days anyway.

    edit:

    I still remember some of the most fun I had was in the 40-49 bracket of Arathi Basin with some really decked out gear. I was a Paladin and a friend of mine was a Warrior and we would charge into battle both wielding flaming Kang the Decapitators and all the best dungeon drops that bracket could have. So many runs through Maraudon to get some plate pants out of there, can't remember the name.

    This was the second time I played WoW, after taking a break for about 6 months I came back with my friends and we rolled on a new RP server that just opened(Thorium Brotherhood). Having already played the game, leveling from 1 was much easier, as was making money. I played the auction house on that server. Buying up low level battleground twink rares that people would put up for 1g not knowing their worth and I'd turn around and sell them for up to 100. Sometimes buying all the materials of a type available, and putting them all back up at the same higher price. Some would sell before people started undercutting me and I would eventually lower my prices back to what I bought them for, but profit was made. In hindsight I was kind of a dick, but where my first time I played I struggled to buy my mount at level 40, by the time I hit 40 on TB I was already up to 3000 gold. Also I was a Paladin so I didn't even need to buy a mount anyway. Sure makes a difference knowing how the game works versus being brand new.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    i'm noticing all these leveling guides i'm looking at should be titled "How to grind to 60 in as utilitarian a means as possible without having any fun"

    maybe i should skip the guides

    I find the guides useful in a "Okay I'm underlevelled for doing this zone I know I like, so where do I go now?" and it'll point me towards a place with decent questing that I can play around in for a while. The ones that are like "FOLLOW THIS EXACTLY" are definitely not for me.

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    one of my favorite PoE streamers is lvl 45

    he did 41 hours from launch, took a 20 minute nap, then did another 24+ hours

    he slept for 4 hours last night, and is going hard again currently

    his teams goal is ragna within 5-7 days

    outrageous

    yeah the meme is Day 7 Ragnaros kill.... multiple guilds are going for it

    kind of gross

    i really hope blizzard completely and totally ignores these people when they start bitching in 2 weeks about how Phase 1 is played out and Phase 2 should be released ASAP

    Those people are the entire reason Blizzard is implementing release phases to begin with.

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  • themightypuckthemightypuck MontanaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Stragint wrote: »
    Infidel wrote: »
    If you're looking to roll Alliance, you probably want Fairbanks for PVP or Pagle for PVE.

    What's out there for horde actually organized so far?

    Ded Boyz on Fairbanks is going to be the pvp guild. Only 5 of us.

    Invite me. I'm on Fairbanks and it is very lonely.

    Edit: actually very lonely since I'm in a queue for the next hour or so.

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  • KrieghundKrieghund Registered User regular
    Honestly, the only reason I haven't gotten in on this is that my WoW account is locked for some reason. I use that as my way of never taking that crack again, lol.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    I thought Ore stacked to 20 not 10

  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    I fear what the server queues will be like in the weekend. I had a 6 hour queue today.

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  • BullheadBullhead Registered User regular

    Shit, even one. It's funny seeing lots of skeletons laying around from people who died and had to spirit run back. Hell I've done it a handful of times, it's really amazing how quickly a 1v1 fight can get away from you at early levels if the mob is +1 or +2 over you.

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  • InfamyDeferredInfamyDeferred Registered User regular
    You think it's in the bag, then MISS, DODGE, PARRY and oh shit, I'm getting rolled by a plainstrider

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