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Palum

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Came to post it too! You win!


Yea good fucking call

(+41 exp Rested bonus, -41 raid penalty)

That's the fucking ticket I'll be 72 within the decade on this shit.

EDIT: Restarted client. In fairness soloing normal mobs is decent exp, but not great. Almost everything gets a raid tap still so it's junker exp only P3 is worth anything because you can find stuff to solo easily.
 
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Argarth

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On a completely different note!

The new quest line into Kara seems to be bugged, at least on my server (Barthilas) for Alliance. Can't get through the portal - message says I don't meet requirements -

On top of that, about 20 horde have been camping the entrance for over an hour. They seem a little salty over something... =)
Oh well, off to work soon so hopefully it'll be fixed later on tonight.
 

Dalien

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On the level 70 going to TBC dungeons for extra dmg, it seems to work but I get way more xp soloing demons at invasions than I would in a dungeon.

edit: I guess the above post explains why

Yeah I just tried Karazhan and the damage buffs worked but the exp sucks. Oh well was worth a try.
 

Burns

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If you go solo some mobs, the xp is rather large. I grabbed a vehicle and soloed some of the infernal elites. With rested, they gave 18,000 - 25,000 xp per kill at level 67.
 

Dalien

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After the hotfix the best way to efficiently shitlord these is to AFK at the farthest corner of the map away from the invasion point for phase 1-2, when phase 3 begins start killing any trash that spawns around you, for phase 4 if there's a portal up farm trash around it while everyone's killing the boss.

Laziest way is just AFK them all, phase 1 and 3 are going much faster now since everyone's trying to kill as much shit as they can.
 

Palum

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I just swapped to frost on my alt mage for S&Gs to see what legion redo is like and LONELY WINTER, what?

I can now play frost again after almost a decade I'm guessing. Good riddance you sad sack of broken-slushie-machine shit-ass pet with a retro 90s spritemap 16 bit render quality bullshit model.
 
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Mryd

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I just swapped to frost on my alt mage for S&Gs to see what legion redo is like and LONELY WINTER, what?

I can now play frost again after almost a decade I'm guessing. Good riddance you sad sack of broken-slushie-machine shit-ass pet with a retro 90s spritemap 16 bit render quality bullshit model.
Lmao I was the same way with my mage. I loved frost but god I hated that pet.
 

CaughtCross

Vyemm Raider
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Is lonely winter worth it for a frost mage? You have to pick it over ray of frost. Ray of frost + rune of power is really good damage.
 

Dalien

Registered Hodor
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Ray+rune is awesome burst except in groups and raids it will get interrupted by random stuff and your dps goes to shit after that. I've been diehard frost for years and I loved the idea of Lonely Winter and ditching the pet, but after trying both that and fire I would just spec fire instead. It's great damage and great fun and the artifact ability makes it even better.
 

Ukerric

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The new quest line into Kara seems to be bugged, at least on my server (Barthilas) for Alliance. Can't get through the portal - message says I don't meet requirements -
Had the same message, but it let me thru.
 

TJT

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After some late night investigating. Alt leveling through the invasions really not worth it.

The AFKers (non-dumbasses) are wise to it. They sit at the static locations that pop up during phase 3 and go HAM. Unless you're JUST AFKing and not doing anything else. Just grind dungeons is more efficient for the time it takes.
 

kaid

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Just posted.

"Thanks everyone for the feedback.

We agree that our initial change made Invasions too unrewarding for characters who weren’t at max level, so we’ve just applied a hotfix that increases XP gains from killing Legion invaders. Since Invasions are only around for a short period of time, we want them to feel lucrative, and provide incentives to actively participate in them.

You should be seeing a lot more progress on your XP bar for helping your fellow Azerothians fight the Legion now."

The clue has finally struck them. Increase the kill xp credit and not the stage complete credit to incentivize people actually killing demons and not just mooching. This seems like it kinda was obvious.
 

Malkav

French Madman
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The clue has finally struck them. Increase the kill xp credit and not the stage complete credit to incentivize people actually killing demons and not just mooching. This seems like it kinda was obvious.

The issue is that as soon as anyone else (even an NPC) tag the same mob you are hitting, the xp gained by the kill goes through the floor (like you don't even get 10% xp).

The only way to profit is to go in an isolated corner of the map and try to solo mobs there without anyone else coming near you.
 

Rogosh

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The buff to npc experience makes phase3 exp very good. At 73 i was getting anywhere from 3600 to 15k exp solo during phase 3 invasion. So if you participate you can actually get more exp now.


edit: lol for some reason I didnt see the previous 2 pages of posts about this same thing.
 
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TJT

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Not seeing it. Like I said. People are wise to it and are there waiting in most places. You need to be VERY fast at killing shit to get the full exp and ensure that nobody comes and moonfires anything you hit for it to be effective.

Leaves a lot to be desired. Steady dungeons give you more exp still.
 
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Rafterman

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The buff to npcs makes phase 3 very important to solo for exp. At 73 i was getting anywhere from 3600 to 15k exp solo.

Meh, it's not worth it. I did one invasion, that was basically dead, so I got a ton of solo kills and then the next there is so many people I got next to nothing. For a lower level that has to run around or use boats and griffins it's a crap shoot now and you're better off just running dungeons or even questing.

Here's the bigger deal that is coming out of this mess, is Blizzard's scaling tech even working? Like, when I'm in a zone as a level 101 and some 110 comes up and hits my mobs am I going to get shit exp then as well? And is the healing still going to be completely fubar as well? This Legion event is short lived, but if this stuff translates into the expansion zones that's just full on broken.
 
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