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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No, but then neither is LFR required to unlock normal raid missions. When they explained a bit the raid missions, it seemed like you would need to do some LFR, but apparently not. First raid popped the day after my followers started hitting 645.
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea, and once you all have maxed epics except the one, Master Plan will happily put the fastest XP gain for that one up top.
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Last Highmaul raid mission (Jan 1st! New year start!), I had all 6 counters, 1 racial bonus, Blook's bonus, plus 1 High Stamina. At the moment, I'm finishing my lineup (half my staff is 645), then I'll push them all to 655. To be sure. (got lucky with my only two followers with Massive Strike...
  4. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    What's happened for me is that, basically, I'm considering tearing down the Barn due to aggravation. Elites are camped all day long, and once you get into prime-time, the trap-stealing starts. As a source of savage blood, it's probably getting worse than simple primal spirits across a couple alts...
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you're going to pay for server hopping, what's a few RMT purchases for your gold?
  6. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    I see more and more people camping the riverbeast spot. While the initial wave of ravenous high-end guilds gearing themselves fast has gone. More offer, less demand = falling prices.
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    However, the 95-99 missions have a, ahem, mediocre drop rate of crates.
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Need to kill 15 normal mode bosses for heroic caches (or 15 heroic for mythic ones). Plus actually getting the raid mission to pop. (only one so far, but that was 8 days ago)
  9. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    Actually, no. You really replace your items fast during leveling, you don't get that many per zone, and epic upgrades you get with an extra +10 would basically mean having one or two items per zone not replaced during the next zone. And each zone is about 2-3h of /played tops if you take your...
  10. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    Nope, it's a bonus counter that counts as half a "normal" counter. You'll have to wait for the legendary follower for a real 3-counter one.
  11. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    It's 95. On the "below 95" pool missions, you only get small sacks regardless of your Salvage Yard. 95 and above, you get max whatever bag/crate your level yard can give.
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Highmaul caches come from ilvl 645 missions, which pop if you have at least 2 ilvl 645 followers (my first and so far only popped while I was gearing my third follower, which I managed to finish). You need 6 counter-attacks with 3 followers, which is quite hard. Usually, that means you have 5...
  13. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    I think each mission pool is separate and individual. Theory: Looks like there's 7 different pools: "Base pool": which pops the level 90 mission (you know which mission I'm talking about) by default, except when you get one of the rare missions for things like Halaa tokens, reroll books...
  14. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    That's a weird one. Because the green "(+525)" indicates the amount of % ABOVE 100% converted into extra XP, which makes no sense if you only have 99% (you countered every threat and every enemy, with added bonus, and extra ilvls).
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I assume that, like every expansion before, your weapon ilvl is more significant than any other piece by a large margin. The spellpower on it is basically 25% of your entire spellpower. There's also a vast disparity in effectiveness if you have the wrong secondary stats. If your main stats...
  16. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    Saw on the forums (yes, I went to the official forums. I was bored, ok?) a good analysis of the way missions' chances are calculated. Basically, a mission has 3 penalties per attack, plus 1 per enemy. You get 3 advantages per countered attack, 1 base advantage per follower, 1 advantage per...
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's the same for every profession, EXCEPT maybe alchemy. All your professions' demand is capped by the daily cooldowns+6 WO, which the mine or garden is enough. The bodyguard is always of your current level, and gets no bonus from its follower level or ilvl (except a cosmetic one at higher...
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You are supposed to get any of the three rewards once a week. I.e., if you do silver, you get green and blue bags, and you get gold later, you're supposed to get the purple bag, but not the other two. But given the number of bugs that pop everywhere, it might not work.
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Brackenspore's strategy is pretty much dictated by your healer's capacities. Good healer team? Do whatever. So-so healer team? You need to move the raid to living mushroom and heal the shroom once Brackenspore starts his spores.
  20. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    There appear to be a specific order to some of them at least. There's at least two parts of Socrethar storyline for Alliance Garrisons, and the first one basically sets up the second one (which I'm waiting for). Of course, I'm mostly interested in the druid-related one, where I can get Thisalee...
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's a Garrison Campaign mission, which is independent from invasions. Not sure why you don't get invaded then.
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's the thing. You need to do 3 heroics, and that's over. Your 615 followers give you the same gear, your 630 followers give better (but less often) same as your invasions also give you 645. Why would you need to run heroics? Ah, because there are a handful of slots that you do not get gear...
  23. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you accepted it, but did not launch the scenario, it's locking you out of the "real" invasions. You don't need to complete it though. Just drop it, and the real invasions will pop. I've got 3 invasions pending, seeing as I always go help a friend first, get gold, and thus don't need...
  24. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    Yep. Meaning if you spammed low-level missions, you got rolling in crates.
  25. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    It is. I get a follower token every 7-8 crates. People complain a lot about level 3 being useless because, instead of having a lot of grey crap, with an occasional level 90+ green and an occasional follower token, they get grey, an occasional level 90+ green, an occasional follower token, but...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    He'll sell you the DPS ring, not give you. You can have both, but (despite having different names) only equip one.
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Obligatory relevantcomic.
  28. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    I wouldn't be surprised if this updated when you actually finish a quest. If you have more than 10, but don't complete a new quest, it's going to stay there.
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They should bite the bullet and move to GW2's transmog system. Each time you get an item in bound form (if it's BOE, you need to bind it first), it unlocks that skin account-wide. You then pay transmog as usual from any valid unlocked skin. Problem solved. (you might need to rework slightly...
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You don't have every slot in missions, at least until raiding missions (we'll see how they work when they unlock). What rest of the game? At high level, there's exactly three activities: raids, pvp and garrison. Four if you count Vitality playing the AH under you.
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's the usual thing. In the end, it is not going to be relevant to Mythic raiding. But, as a stepping stone, it is.
  32. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    I can confirm it's account-wide, as I unlocked mine using 3 chars working their barns.
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you go on the Armory site to look at that achievement, it... looks complicated. No, in fact, it looks like a mess. I would not be unsurprised if the shared-account counter of WO didn't start ticking until you unlocked the character-specific one. Or something.
  34. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    It's one of the fixed traits, like Bodyguard. You're not supposed to lose or gain those traits (see comments onwowhead). People have used their full reroll on him, and he keeps the trait. (of course, as Blook also has Timed Battle as its base, and that's the most useful counter at high level...
  35. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    It's supposed to happen randomly but very rarely. That's why the level 3 mine bonus is having guards in it.
  36. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    He has fixed increased mission success; can't lose it due to reroll (and no other follower can have it).
  37. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    It's supposed to be a bug, and they've told us they're going to fix it, i.e. only the WO that occur while your follower is assigned get their bonus. But that's not happening yet. For garden, there's already a bit of that, in that you get the plant you specify only if the follower was assigned...
  38. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    I don't think so. I usually launch missions in the morning, and I have 7 or 8 available; I get back from work and I have about 10-12 missions waiting. On Monday, I skipped the morning login (due to issues related to my lack of activating the alarm clock, and the subsequent rush when I wake up...
  39. Ukerric

    [WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

    Well, good to know. Note that you get at most one bag per level per week, but you can get it during any invasion (not just your first), and you still get the GR/Apexis for all invasions. If you're GR-starved, do invasions.
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's called randomness. In theory, you could have a 30 man raid, with 30 loots. (we had an heroic dungeon in which everyone looted off the first and second boss, nothing on third, and "normal" full loot on last)