As was foretold, we've added advertisements to the forums! If you have questions, or if you encounter any bugs, please visit this thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/240191/forum-advertisement-faq-and-reports-thread/
We're funding a new Acquisitions Incorporated series on Kickstarter right now! Check it out at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pennyarcade/acquisitions-incorporated-the-series-2

[WoW] Chat and Discussion of the Whale

1151618202164

Posts

  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I geuss Tube wants that thread to go back to being just about the MMO forum.

    I geuss meaning no more talking about the WoW forum.

    Seg on
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited June 2007
    Found this guy at Firewing Point. All the bot signs: unnamed pet, armory shows mostly crappy BOE gear.

    So I think "Wooh, a bot to punch until honor stops coming out!"

    Got him once. That must have raised some kind of Bat Signal, because he suddenly turned un-botty and obviously had someone behind the controls.

    The next time I attacked he killed me - and then died from my poisons.

    Killed him one more time, and then kept on the other side of Firewing Point.

    Echo on
  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Do we have any casual hanging out on the Alliance side for RP-PVP?

    I miss Stormwind. Horde cities are so meh.

    Lewisham on
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Echo wrote: »
    Found this guy at Firewing Point. All the bot signs: unnamed pet, armory shows mostly crappy BOE gear.

    So I think "Wooh, a bot to punch until honor stops coming out!"

    Got him once. That must have raised some kind of Bat Signal, because he suddenly turned un-botty and obviously had someone behind the controls.

    The next time I attacked he killed me - and then died from my poisons.

    Killed him one more time, and then kept on the other side of Firewing Point.

    775 RAP


    WOW




    WOW

    PiptheFair on
  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I had to heal this Warrior through Prince Malchezzar. It was a NIGHTMARE. The first attempt, he ate a 15k crit during phase 2. I had to have two different innervates through the fight.

    korodullin on
    ZvOMJnu.png
    - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
  • khainkhain Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    korodullin wrote: »
    I had to heal this Warrior through Prince Malchezzar. It was a NIGHTMARE. The first attempt, he ate a 15k crit during phase 2. I had to have two different innervates through the fight.

    That guy looks like he has fine gear, and I'm not sure how he got crit since he has 500 def.

    khain on
  • korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I think it was more due to his dodge and block than anything else. He just could not mitigate enough damage during phase 2. When we got past the dual-wielding hurdle, everything was peachy.

    korodullin on
    ZvOMJnu.png
    - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    That guy's stats/gear is fine, if not completely optimal. His spec is dumb, though.

    Dehumanized on
  • KungFuKungFu Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Found this guy at Firewing Point. All the bot signs: unnamed pet, armory shows mostly crappy BOE gear.

    So I think "Wooh, a bot to punch until honor stops coming out!"

    Got him once. That must have raised some kind of Bat Signal, because he suddenly turned un-botty and obviously had someone behind the controls.

    The next time I attacked he killed me - and then died from my poisons.

    Killed him one more time, and then kept on the other side of Firewing Point.

    775 RAP


    WOW




    WOW

    He is also wearing the Hypnotist's Stopwatch trinket. A hunter. C'mon.

    KungFu on
    Theft 4 Bread
  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    KungFu wrote: »
    He is also wearing the Hypnotist's Stopwatch trinket. A hunter. C'mon.

    He has a trinket with spell hit rating. It's use effect is to increase damage and healing.

    Barrakketh on
    Rollers are red, chargers are blue....omae wa mou shindeiru
  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    That guy's stats/gear is fine, if not completely optimal. His spec is dumb, though.
    Either he changed it between then and now, or his trinkets are really, really meh. Timelapse Shard has 27 sta and a completely useless-for-a-tank Equip: and Use:. And Skybreaker Whip? I'm mostly sure that used to have some tanking trinket in there.

    But what I'm confused at is the low dodge percentage. Blocking doesn't do a tank as much good when stuff's hitting for 4k anyway, and my tankadin(who hasn't gone into a single raid yet) has almost 6% more dodge than that.

    SabreMau on
  • SabanSaban Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Sabre you and your pair of tankadins confuse the fuck out of me.

    Saban on
    371839-1.png
  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I hear Tube's doing something. Don't worry guys. I'll handle it.

    JAEF on
  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    JAEF wrote: »
    I hear Tube's doing something. Don't worry guys. I'll handle it.

    Nuke him from orbit. It's the only way to be sure :P

    Back to the topic of the hunter with crappy gear, how much RAP should a hunter who has done most/all available quests that reward you with gear upgrades have at level 70 without doing instances?

    Barrakketh on
    Rollers are red, chargers are blue....omae wa mou shindeiru
  • rizriz Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Someone lit the JAEF signal!

    riz on
  • ohoh Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    khain wrote: »
    korodullin wrote: »
    I had to heal this Warrior through Prince Malchezzar. It was a NIGHTMARE. The first attempt, he ate a 15k crit during phase 2. I had to have two different innervates through the fight.

    That guy looks like he has fine gear, and I'm not sure how he got crit since he has 500 def.

    They say that "uncrittable" is a misnomer, since you can still get crit by mobs while wearing 490+ def. Extremely rare, but people say it still happens. Also, could it be the tank got crushed, instead of crit?

    oh on
  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    oh wrote: »
    khain wrote: »
    korodullin wrote: »
    I had to heal this Warrior through Prince Malchezzar. It was a NIGHTMARE. The first attempt, he ate a 15k crit during phase 2. I had to have two different innervates through the fight.

    That guy looks like he has fine gear, and I'm not sure how he got crit since he has 500 def.

    They say that "uncrittable" is a misnomer, since you can still get crit by mobs while wearing 490+ def. Extremely rare, but people say it still happens. Also, could it be the tank got crushed, instead of crit?

    More likely it was crushed. I think only specific bosses can crit somebody over 490 def.

    Nobody on
  • KartanKartan Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Nobody wrote: »
    oh wrote: »
    khain wrote: »
    korodullin wrote: »
    I had to heal this Warrior through Prince Malchezzar. It was a NIGHTMARE. The first attempt, he ate a 15k crit during phase 2. I had to have two different innervates through the fight.

    That guy looks like he has fine gear, and I'm not sure how he got crit since he has 500 def.

    They say that "uncrittable" is a misnomer, since you can still get crit by mobs while wearing 490+ def. Extremely rare, but people say it still happens. Also, could it be the tank got crushed, instead of crit?

    More likely it was crushed. I think only specific bosses can crit somebody over 490 def.



    Those Emperors in AQ40 have a skill that reduces Def by 100. Thats the only one know AFAIK. Everywhere else you don't get crit with 490 def.

    Kartan on
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited June 2007
    Random brainfart of the day: write a mod that uses emotes to send morse code between factions.

    Echo on
  • grumthorngrumthorn Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Echo wrote: »
    Random brainfart of the day: write a mod that uses emotes to send morse code between factions.

    The spam, the horrible spam. Wouldn't be too hard to do though.

    grumthorn on
  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Yeah, with the proper defense, being crit by normal bosses is either extraordinarily rare, or impossible(I'm not sure anyone even knows, it could be that rare). There are exceptions, like the Malicious Instructors apparently, they have really high combat ratings or something.

    A crushing blow sounds more reasonable, but that is one hell of a crushing blow.

    Septus on
    PSN: Kurahoshi1
  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Septus wrote: »
    Yeah, with the proper defense, being crit by normal bosses is either extraordinarily rare, or impossible(I'm not sure anyone even knows, it could be that rare). There are exceptions, like the Malicious Instructors apparently, they have really high combat ratings or something.

    A crushing blow sounds more reasonable, but that is one hell of a crushing blow.

    The problem is that unlike druids who can just mitigate crushing blows (which will do the same or less damage than a regular hit on a warrior), warriors rely on Shield Block to push crushing blows off of the attack table. During phase 2 prince attacks fast enough that Shield Block will drop before a warrior is able to activate it again.

    EDIT: Not always, mind you. But it happens.

    Barrakketh on
    Rollers are red, chargers are blue....omae wa mou shindeiru
  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I realize that, put crushing blows are 1.5x damage, which means a normal hit would have been 10,000, which is still ridiculously high for a warrior tank to be taking on Prince.

    Septus on
    PSN: Kurahoshi1
  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I've heard of tales on the blizz wow forums where Prince has been one shotting tanks.

    I'm wondering though, if in this case it wasn't just a large normal hit followed in close succession by a crushing blow.

    Nobody on
  • KartanKartan Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Well, If I remember right the prince gets a special move in Phase two that gives him 2 extra attacks on the same target, which can mean he gets hit for 15k all together. So 1x normal attack +2 specials makes about 5k each wich is reasonable I guess.

    Kartan on
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited June 2007
    Wooh, the hunter is back at Firewing Point!

    Clearly manually controlled now. Killed him when he was out of mana.

    Echo on
  • GyralGyral Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Echo wrote: »
    Wooh, the hunter is back at Firewing Point!

    Clearly manually controlled now. Killed him when he was out of mana.

    I like how he only has Skinning as a profession.

    Gyral on
    25t9pjnmqicf.jpg
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited June 2007
    Clearly a manually controlled gold farmer.

    Echo on
  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2007
    Anyone gotten one of these yet?

    http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32660#z0z

    Wondering how much it's worth. Looks to be a pretty nice pally tank sword.

    Medopine on
  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Yup, but I haven't sold it yet. Put it up 3 times at 8 hours each, at 200/250. That's a lot higher than I'd normally post a blue weapon for, but the block rating seems to be fairly significant.

    Septus on
    PSN: Kurahoshi1
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited June 2007
    Sigh. Getting a group for pre-70 dungeons on this server. *shakes fist* :x

    Echo on
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Echo wrote: »
    Sigh. Getting a group for pre-70 dungeons on this server. *shakes fist* :x

    To be honest, its the same with most servers. Getting a semi-decent team to run Auch. Crypts for my Felsteel Gloves recipe took a lot of effort and bribery.

    Tav on
  • rizriz Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Briefly, for those who care but haven't been obsessively reading the thread, I feel much better about this proposed MMO/WoW merger now that there's been some official word on whether we'll have to condense all of our threads into a lot fewer to accommodate the MMO forum style (we won't).

    riz on
  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    It may give the CoH people a reason to post a few different AT guides. Which should be interesting. I haven't played the game in well over a year, but I still found certain aspects interesting.

    Seg on
  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I still say having a table of content sticky would help things a lot in the case of a merger but Thassatos acted like it would be a huge undertaking akin to alphabetizing the Library of Congress after an earthquake.

    Opty on
  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Opty wrote: »
    I still say having a table of content sticky would help things a lot in the case of a merger but Thassatos acted like it would be a huge undertaking akin to alphabetizing the Library of Congress after an earthquake.

    Lets see how things go once the merge happens. A ToC might be a good idea, but it may also be something we just don't require. As long as we keep threads labeled so that it is easy to find what thread you need there shouldn't be any problems.

    Once things happen, if you want to put together and maintain such a thread, the MMO mods may agree to sticky it. Talk to them about it after the merge though.

    Seg on
  • a penguina penguin Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    riz wrote: »
    Briefly, for those who care but haven't been obsessively reading the thread, I feel much better about this proposed MMO/WoW merger now that there's been some official word on whether we'll have to condense all of our threads into a lot fewer to accommodate the MMO forum style (we won't).

    Yeah, that was pretty much my only concern. The arguments for doing so were fairly uninformed. Imagine tring to keep up with a build thread for everyone. Why do you think the build sticky up top is dead? Because it's much easier to foster discussion on the nuances of a class in a separate thread. And these are...you know..discussion forums.

    angrier and bitterer indeed... :|

    a penguin on
    This space eventually to be filled with excitement
  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Septus wrote: »
    Yup, but I haven't sold it yet. Put it up 3 times at 8 hours each, at 200/250. That's a lot higher than I'd normally post a blue weapon for, but the block rating seems to be fairly significant.

    The block helps, but the biggest part is the +spell damage.

    Another frequently used paladin tanking weapon is Continuum Blade. It's a rep reward and costs about 44g.

    Barrakketh on
    Rollers are red, chargers are blue....omae wa mou shindeiru
  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    He really isn't worth getting up in arms about, I would be more worried about Tube, or the MMO/WoW moderators being negative about the idea. While he is a Super Mod, he probably won't be moderating the merged forum on a day to day basis.

    Seg on
  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Barrakketh wrote: »
    Septus wrote: »
    Yup, but I haven't sold it yet. Put it up 3 times at 8 hours each, at 200/250. That's a lot higher than I'd normally post a blue weapon for, but the block rating seems to be fairly significant.

    The block helps, but the biggest part is the +spell damage.

    Another frequently used paladin tanking weapon is Continuum Blade. It's a rep reward and costs about 44g.

    Right, there are tons of weapons with that much spell damage on them, and few if any other blue ones that have block as well.

    Septus on
    PSN: Kurahoshi1
This discussion has been closed.