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World of Warcraft |OT9| People still play this? Isn't it from 2004
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I got it the first week into legion
/smug
still my default mount and will keep it that way
HarryDemeanor
Member
About time. Finally get the chance to put Jaina down for good.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
so went back to this while I have my free days up, and I got more into it with my Hunter. I forgot how much I loved BM. Then I popped on my Pali, who was 100, and I also got into it as Ret (even tho I have the holy art sigh), I think all my time with mobas and recently Diablo have made me apreciate simple rotations more I guess (which both these specs clearly have).
I did a Invasion just now on the Pali and it gave me like a level and a half? I guess thats not bad, at least it gave me 102 so I could get my Ret art heh.
I did a Invasion just now on the Pali and it gave me like a level and a half? I guess thats not bad, at least it gave me 102 so I could get my Ret art heh.
That invasion popped just as I was heading toward the PvP WQ in Val for the relic on my mage. It made me sad and forced me to go to dinner.
Heh, for the first minute of that I was thinking "god, I'm so happy we're getting towards the end of Legion art" and then it gets very cool.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
More islands next xpac tho?
I think a shipfairing xpac would be fun and all sings point to N'zoth/Azshara (although who knows what the fuck will happen on Argus) but we are going to have to be seabound at some point, since the two largest remaining villains are down there
I think a shipfairing xpac would be fun and all sings point to N'zoth/Azshara (although who knows what the fuck will happen on Argus) but we are going to have to be seabound at some point, since the two largest remaining villains are down there
Looks cool as hell.
Some of the buildings and hallways past 1:30 mark remind me a bit of early Halo also.
Sax Russel
Banned
"RRRAAAHHHH!!!"
"HHRRAHHARRR!!"
"meh"
Yes but doesnt look like enough still.
It sounds logical as Jaina has been off the grid for awhile.
I'd groan if she's the next villain though, which is likely as she exhibited jingoistic attitudes since MoP. (Perhaps she will be a Garrosh for the Alliance and cause a "civil war" .. which will prompt a coalition against Kul Tiras.)
....and because Blizzard always enjoys showcasing corrupted villains in its stories. Metzen would be proud.
I'd groan if she's the next villain though, which is likely as she exhibited jingoistic attitudes since MoP. (Perhaps she will be a Garrosh for the Alliance and cause a "civil war" .. which will prompt a coalition against Kul Tiras.)
....and because Blizzard always enjoys showcasing corrupted villains in its stories. Metzen would be proud.
between the new Ass Creed and that ship combat game Ubisoft announced at E3, if WoW has a island expansion where the gimmick is you have your own naval ship, 2018 will be the year of the ship confirmed :3
Also the 2 pirates games, the MS one and the new one announced.
edit: Sea of Thieves and Skull and Crossbones or something?
Also the 2 pirates games, the MS one and the new one announced.
edit: Sea of Thieves and Skull and Crossbones or something?
Wafflecakes
Member
I quit the game right as the expansion hit, but I am feeling the itch to come back now.
Is it even worth trying to come back, or am I so far behind on artifact power that I will be forever uselessly gimp?
Is it even worth trying to come back, or am I so far behind on artifact power that I will be forever uselessly gimp?
jaundicejuice
Member
AP and AK aren't the problem with catch-up, Legendaries are.
Wafflecakes
Member
Same question then. Is it worth it if I don't want to feel gimp?
jaundicejuice
Member
It depends. If you're lone-wolfing it, are you going to play a hybrid class? Will you tank or heal? You'll have an easier time with Mythic+ content playing as a tank or healer, which will drastically increase the speed at which you gear and increase your chances at getting legendaries.
semi-related to what Waffle is asking, just a little report on the last couple of days since Blizz gave me the 7 day pass (which ends on monday):
- so I was leveling my Pali alt and got him to 104 but that wasnt really doing it for me and the prospect of doing all that shit at 110 again wasnt very appealing, especially when im not sure what ill do after monday. So I went back to my Hunter.
My Hunter started off as my expansion main, as I was going to go in fully casual, just solo my way through with the new world quests and tiers back in LFR. But then some old time WoW friends were playing and I started playing with them, eventually raiding with them (not in the guild tho, because I knew what would happen, ppl would stop or I would want to stop and feel bad...both things happened lol) as a healer, first as a Monk, and later as a Druid which was my de-facto "main" when I stopped 7 months ago, shortly before the Nightfal raid came out.
So now all those guys have stopped playing again as usual (as did I) so I thought "welp, maybe its time to go back to the original expansion plan, at least for a few days" and I did. And, well, I still love Beast Mastery (just tried Survival for a bit earlier, its still fun but seems like a lot more hassle for the same shit I can do safely miles away with my dinos eating mobs) so thats a good first step. I love the short rotation (like I said earlier, I think my months playing mobas and diablo have made me like few spell rotations), I love the look of the spec (I'm a big pet fanboy in any game), I love how mobile it is since nothign roots you in place while casting (big no no with most ranged wow classes for me these days, again influenced by other games), so yeah, its fun. Some thingies I noticed:
- Dire Beast has charges now, thats neat.
- You can change back Haty's look finally, so I can have my duo Thokk's out now without having to worry about ruining Haty forever.
- You buy artifact knowledge with 500 resources now instead of researching? Ok, thats cool, got it up to rank 19 quickly. Unfortunately all my art power things I got from world quests werent affected lol.
- Speaking of world quests, I see they are still great to gear up casually, as I quickly went from ilvl 550 to 554 from just doing the 3 emissary cache runs.
- Still no legendary, what else is new lol (my druid and monk both have legendaries, granted I played them a lot more)
- Shit dies fast out in the world even at just 550 (well 554 now) which is fun.
- Invasions are cool but I got disconected in the scenario, and when I came back it was over, it still counted for the invasion quest, but I later found out the scenario boss actually drops a lot of goodies and now im sad. Oh well.
So yeah, im enjoying myself, and I actually have a lot of things to do, so a resub if only for a month would be a no brainer, except for the fact that the Diablo season starts in 2 weeks, and I know for a fact that will be my go to "play for a few hours" or "play for a bit at work" game (speaking of, Legion is still a great expansion to sneak in at work, do a few world quests, no pressure, you can stop whenever, its cool... dont be jelly
), so now I'm thinking if subbing for 2 weeks is worth it.
And looking what I could do in the meantime Im thinking yes? Let's see:
- I still need to get flying
- I need my class mount (I lvoe the hunter one so thats another good reason to play it)
- I havent done Nighthold at all, so I could LFR that quickly just to see it. Same for Tomb which by the time Diablo season starts, should be in wing 3 so I would have seen most of it (and I mean, its not like I cant do wing 4 quickly to see kill jaeden)
- I see those Suramar dungeons and Khara are heroic dungeons now, thats neat, could do those. And there is a new (locked) dungeon also.
- I havent done any of Broken Shore
And of course I would be casually gearing up, nothing amazing obviously but certainly would end up much higher than I am now (Tomb LFR starts at 880 or something?). And how knows maybe a Legendary pops up.
So im thinking that is worth a 1 month sub, even if I end up just playing 2 weeks of it. Is 2 weeks enough to get flying and the class mount for example? Oh and also, did they change it so you can do those artifact quests in LFR or not so much? :/
edit: sorry for the long rant, and Waffle, as someone also popping back after a long absence, at first glance it feels like its worth it, as you can see from my post.
- so I was leveling my Pali alt and got him to 104 but that wasnt really doing it for me and the prospect of doing all that shit at 110 again wasnt very appealing, especially when im not sure what ill do after monday. So I went back to my Hunter.
My Hunter started off as my expansion main, as I was going to go in fully casual, just solo my way through with the new world quests and tiers back in LFR. But then some old time WoW friends were playing and I started playing with them, eventually raiding with them (not in the guild tho, because I knew what would happen, ppl would stop or I would want to stop and feel bad...both things happened lol) as a healer, first as a Monk, and later as a Druid which was my de-facto "main" when I stopped 7 months ago, shortly before the Nightfal raid came out.
So now all those guys have stopped playing again as usual (as did I) so I thought "welp, maybe its time to go back to the original expansion plan, at least for a few days" and I did. And, well, I still love Beast Mastery (just tried Survival for a bit earlier, its still fun but seems like a lot more hassle for the same shit I can do safely miles away with my dinos eating mobs) so thats a good first step. I love the short rotation (like I said earlier, I think my months playing mobas and diablo have made me like few spell rotations), I love the look of the spec (I'm a big pet fanboy in any game), I love how mobile it is since nothign roots you in place while casting (big no no with most ranged wow classes for me these days, again influenced by other games), so yeah, its fun. Some thingies I noticed:
- Dire Beast has charges now, thats neat.
- You can change back Haty's look finally, so I can have my duo Thokk's out now without having to worry about ruining Haty forever.
- You buy artifact knowledge with 500 resources now instead of researching? Ok, thats cool, got it up to rank 19 quickly. Unfortunately all my art power things I got from world quests werent affected lol.
- Speaking of world quests, I see they are still great to gear up casually, as I quickly went from ilvl 550 to 554 from just doing the 3 emissary cache runs.
- Still no legendary, what else is new lol (my druid and monk both have legendaries, granted I played them a lot more)
- Shit dies fast out in the world even at just 550 (well 554 now) which is fun.
- Invasions are cool but I got disconected in the scenario, and when I came back it was over, it still counted for the invasion quest, but I later found out the scenario boss actually drops a lot of goodies and now im sad. Oh well.
So yeah, im enjoying myself, and I actually have a lot of things to do, so a resub if only for a month would be a no brainer, except for the fact that the Diablo season starts in 2 weeks, and I know for a fact that will be my go to "play for a few hours" or "play for a bit at work" game (speaking of, Legion is still a great expansion to sneak in at work, do a few world quests, no pressure, you can stop whenever, its cool... dont be jelly
), so now I'm thinking if subbing for 2 weeks is worth it.And looking what I could do in the meantime Im thinking yes? Let's see:
- I still need to get flying
- I need my class mount (I lvoe the hunter one so thats another good reason to play it)
- I havent done Nighthold at all, so I could LFR that quickly just to see it. Same for Tomb which by the time Diablo season starts, should be in wing 3 so I would have seen most of it (and I mean, its not like I cant do wing 4 quickly to see kill jaeden)
- I see those Suramar dungeons and Khara are heroic dungeons now, thats neat, could do those. And there is a new (locked) dungeon also.
- I havent done any of Broken Shore
And of course I would be casually gearing up, nothing amazing obviously but certainly would end up much higher than I am now (Tomb LFR starts at 880 or something?). And how knows maybe a Legendary pops up.
So im thinking that is worth a 1 month sub, even if I end up just playing 2 weeks of it. Is 2 weeks enough to get flying and the class mount for example? Oh and also, did they change it so you can do those artifact quests in LFR or not so much? :/
edit: sorry for the long rant, and Waffle, as someone also popping back after a long absence, at first glance it feels like its worth it, as you can see from my post.
By artifact quests I imagine you mean the Balance of Power quest, in which case that's a no.
To get flying you need Revered with the Broken Shore faction (and the previous achievement I don't remember the name of) and that should be doable within two weeks, I think, since you have all the 1500rep quests available to do back to back now. Add the WQs, the turn ins at the table and the tokens from the followers missions and you can get it fairly quickly. The quest chain also gets you to start your class mount quest at the end so it's a win/win.
To get flying you need Revered with the Broken Shore faction (and the previous achievement I don't remember the name of) and that should be doable within two weeks, I think, since you have all the 1500rep quests available to do back to back now. Add the WQs, the turn ins at the table and the tokens from the followers missions and you can get it fairly quickly. The quest chain also gets you to start your class mount quest at the end so it's a win/win.
semi-related to what Waffle is asking, just a little report on the last couple of days since Blizz gave me the 7 day pass (which ends on monday):
- so I was leveling my Pali alt and got him to 104 but that wasnt really doing it for me and the prospect of doing all that shit at 110 again wasnt very appealing, especially when im not sure what ill do after monday. So I went back to my Hunter.
My Hunter started off as my expansion main, as I was going to go in fully casual, just solo my way through with the new world quests and tiers back in LFR. But then some old time WoW friends were playing and I started playing with them, eventually raiding with them (not in the guild tho, because I knew what would happen, ppl would stop or I would want to stop and feel bad...both things happened lol) as a healer, first as a Monk, and later as a Druid which was my de-facto "main" when I stopped 7 months ago, shortly before the Nightfal raid came out.
So now all those guys have stopped playing again as usual (as did I) so I thought "welp, maybe its time to go back to the original expansion plan, at least for a few days" and I did. And, well, I still love Beast Mastery (just tried Survival for a bit earlier, its still fun but seems like a lot more hassle for the same shit I can do safely miles away with my dinos eating mobs) so thats a good first step. I love the short rotation (like I said earlier, I think my months playing mobas and diablo have made me like few spell rotations), I love the look of the spec (I'm a big pet fanboy in any game), I love how mobile it is since nothign roots you in place while casting (big no no with most ranged wow classes for me these days, again influenced by other games), so yeah, its fun. Some thingies I noticed:
- Dire Beast has charges now, thats neat.
- You can change back Haty's look finally, so I can have my duo Thokk's out now without having to worry about ruining Haty forever.
- You buy artifact knowledge with 500 resources now instead of researching? Ok, thats cool, got it up to rank 19 quickly. Unfortunately all my art power things I got from world quests werent affected lol.
- Speaking of world quests, I see they are still great to gear up casually, as I quickly went from ilvl 550 to 554 from just doing the 3 emissary cache runs.
- Still no legendary, what else is new lol (my druid and monk both have legendaries, granted I played them a lot more)
- Shit dies fast out in the world even at just 550 (well 554 now) which is fun.
- Invasions are cool but I got disconected in the scenario, and when I came back it was over, it still counted for the invasion quest, but I later found out the scenario boss actually drops a lot of goodies and now im sad. Oh well.
So yeah, im enjoying myself, and I actually have a lot of things to do, so a resub if only for a month would be a no brainer, except for the fact that the Diablo season starts in 2 weeks, and I know for a fact that will be my go to "play for a few hours" or "play for a bit at work" game (speaking of, Legion is still a great expansion to sneak in at work, do a few world quests, no pressure, you can stop whenever, its cool... dont be jelly
And looking what I could do in the meantime Im thinking yes? Let's see:
- I still need to get flying
- I need my class mount (I lvoe the hunter one so thats another good reason to play it)
- I havent done Nighthold at all, so I could LFR that quickly just to see it. Same for Tomb which by the time Diablo season starts, should be in wing 3 so I would have seen most of it (and I mean, its not like I cant do wing 4 quickly to see kill jaeden)
- I see those Suramar dungeons and Khara are heroic dungeons now, thats neat, could do those. And there is a new (locked) dungeon also.
- I havent done any of Broken Shore
And of course I would be casually gearing up, nothing amazing obviously but certainly would end up much higher than I am now (Tomb LFR starts at 880 or something?). And how knows maybe a Legendary pops up.
So im thinking that is worth a 1 month sub, even if I end up just playing 2 weeks of it. Is 2 weeks enough to get flying and the class mount for example? Oh and also, did they change it so you can do those artifact quests in LFR or not so much? :/
edit: sorry for the long rant, and Waffle, as someone also popping back after a long absence, at first glance it feels like its worth it, as you can see from my post.
Also when your AK level is 40 you can buy it for 1000 resources in your order hall for your alts, so when they are 110 you give it to them and bam there level 40 instantly,saves a lot of time to get to that level.
Legendary's they can drop from raids,dungeons and emissary quests. It really depends on luck really.
This expansion has been great so far...broken shore felt a bit shallow on the other hand but those WQ and Mythic Dungeons and raids keep me occupied. But also PvP i want my new artifact appearance to be unlocked for my bear druid. Getting ever old set for transmogrification is a blast to get them.
When you do invasions and getting shards you can gear up a new char very fast at the broken shore in no time to around 855/860 ilevel when you deliver them. The other dude sells them also and those costs 5000 shards per item but you get around 900+ ilevel items.
jaundicejuice
Member
It isn't even funny how much faster it is to level PVE as a Windwalker versus being a Mistweaver. No AP, no relics and I just melt stuff versus the long drawn out fights as a Mistweaver.
I wouldn't even mind the fights taking longer as a MW if I had more abilitites to use. The feedback loop that Teachings of the Monastery gives Tiger Palm, Blackout and Rising Kick isn't enough
I wouldn't even mind the fights taking longer as a MW if I had more abilitites to use. The feedback loop that Teachings of the Monastery gives Tiger Palm, Blackout and Rising Kick isn't enough
Azzurri
Member
Looks like Legion ending datamind
http://www.wowhead.com/news=267182/patch-7-3-ptr-datamined-broadcast-text-dialogue-spoilers
Spoilers
http://www.wowhead.com/news=267182/patch-7-3-ptr-datamined-broadcast-text-dialogue-spoilers
Spoilers
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
hmmmmmmm
Appropriate way to end the threat of Sarg, I suppose. It would have been total nonsense for us to fight him directly.
AlimNassor
Banned
I hate my RNG luck. Did Jim and Apcron and got literally nothing. I even did a bonus roll on both and got nothing. I did Mythic NH and got nothing but a shitty 890...goddamn.
Mythic NH drops are 905. Are you thinking Heroic?
Join a casual raiding guild imo. That's what I run and it's a vey successful small guild. We have our raiders and then we have our social people. If you want to do a dungeon - cool. If not, you can quest and just shoot the shit with people. There's so many decent guilds out there. I'm sure you can find something.
Yep. My playtime is super erratic so I haven't joined a raiding guild since Cata.
AlimNassor
Banned
Musta been normal -shrug-
RandomSeed
Member
Finished up all the main story stuff in WoD, and I have to say I enjoyed the questing. It felt meaty, and told an interesting enough story for the solo/leveling player, unlike previous expansions, where the climax to everything was in a dungeon or raid. There should always be great stuff for those that raid, but don't leave me hanging all the time.
On the negative side, it looks like Tanaan is as much of a poop hole as Island of Thunder, but I guess I need to quest there so my alts can fly. I'm ready to start up Legion at the same time.
On the negative side, it looks like Tanaan is as much of a poop hole as Island of Thunder, but I guess I need to quest there so my alts can fly. I'm ready to start up Legion at the same time.
cartographer
Member
That info is usually based on what spec they log out in, not what they played during the encounter. Sometimes they switched to do something else, sometimes they do it intentionally to try to cast doubt on strats.
So maybe but also maybe not.
I'd be satisfied with this ending too. Would've been ludicrous to actually fight Sargeras. This also likely confirms Legion's main story ends in 7.3 and we can look forward to an expansion announcement by the end of the year.
Yeah, the WoD questing was great imo. Legion continues that, at least until the broken shore.Finished up all the main story stuff in WoD, and I have to say I enjoyed the questing. It felt meaty, and told an interesting enough story for the solo/leveling player, unlike previous expansions, where the climax to everything was in a dungeon or raid. There should always be great stuff for those that raid, but don't leave me hanging all the time.
On the negative side, it looks like Tanaan is as much of a poop hole as Island of Thunder, but I guess I need to quest there so my alts can fly. I'm ready to start up Legion at the same time.
Finished up all the main story stuff in WoD, and I have to say I enjoyed the questing. It felt meaty, and told an interesting enough story for the solo/leveling player, unlike previous expansions, where the climax to everything was in a dungeon or raid. There should always be great stuff for those that raid, but don't leave me hanging all the time.
On the negative side, it looks like Tanaan is as much of a poop hole as Island of Thunder, but I guess I need to quest there so my alts can fly. I'm ready to start up Legion at the same time.
To be fair, they finish storylines in dungeons and raids because you have to be literally allergic to even seeing another player to not be able to do them. With LFR and LFD you can just spectator mode everything relevant with 0 interaction wtih other people. WoD definitely doesn't 'end' if you don't raid, btw
but you'll want to level a bit more to be able to go solo the old raids on lfr or normal and see what goes on at this point.Also, yes, everyone was very high on WOD to start, it only got bad when they didn't release any content at all for the entire expansion basically. Even Garrisons were a lot of fun in small doses/on the PTR, it was only when it went live that you saw 'oh, this actually just means we sit in our garrison and never see anyone'
Sax Russel
Banned
Man, WoW in 2017
Some amazing looking stuff on Argus. Someone go show me this in 2004, haha, when I was looking at terrain tool rounded lump mountains in Redridge.
Some amazing looking stuff on Argus. Someone go show me this in 2004, haha, when I was looking at terrain tool rounded lump mountains in Redridge.
HarryDemeanor
Member
So then how do we move away from artifact weapons? Expansion pre-patch?
RandomSeed
Member
MoP still looks unreal. I don't care for Blizzard's art design usually, but they really know how to execute. WOW has some of the fucking ugliest armor and weapons I've ever seen, but I know that's subjective, and again, I can't complain about the execution of it.