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Every raid/phase so far has been at the same pace or slightly ahead of the corresponding vanilla timing. TBC launched 7 months after Naxx in vanilla so I really doubt it’ll take any longer than that for Classic.

Most raids would happily let the MT use it once or twice pre pull if it meant they could stack max defensive gear instead of tps stuff. Apparently it worked like that in Vanilla according to a couple posts but it’s one of those things that Blizz will change despite #nochanges.

I was really hoping they would leave the Ectoplasmic Distiller alone, it would make the rest of vanilla pretty nice to have tanks wearing shields again instead of being stuck with the dw furyprot build that puts more stress on healers, wbuffs, etc.

My BWL raid got its 10th DFT tonight. Meanwhile we’ve gotten 1 claw of chromag and 2 nelth tears and I’ve been next in line for both for weeks and weeks. Yay rng loot.

Spell upgrades, you can buy them but they will be expensive at first. CE rep gives some very good items. Also there are a handful of good drops for some classes, like the warlock set ring, black blizzard leggings for mages, etc.

They don't stack with pally resist auras, shaman resist totems, priest shadow resist buff, or motw. If you have a pally or shaman in your group they are worthless for fire resist fights.

On the one hand, I hope they do, because I (a warlock) would shoot back up to one of our top dps spots and feel like a bigdick again. On the other hand, my guild would struggle mightily without them, and AQ/Naxx are going to cause headaches since we're unlikely to maintain world buffs on key...

I'd argue it's still rather hard, since many of the tryhard worldfirst guilds failed or decided to kill Panther and then Hakkar. 99% of guilds still do full ZG clears regardless.

That was one thing (amongst many others) that TBC vastly improved. I’m still sitting on half of my lotus stockpile from the server launch, and since my raid no longer has a shadow priest or a third lock for CoS I don’t bother flasking and trying to improve on any parses at this point. Should...

Sounds like each location just spawned dragons a second time, that's it. We got a Ysondre kill but once every portal had spawned 2 dragons, no more showed up on our server.

Yeah seeing so many "classic" streamers/youtubers praising shadowlands to such extremes really seems overblown. Originally I had thought about picking it up again, having not played retail since wotlk (although I did a cata p server) but with classic ZG+BWL that's honestly enough WoW for me, and...

Got any evidence of LH having more concurrent players than Nost? I played/raided on both and afaik Nost had more players even counting all the asian bots on LH.

I don't believe Nost ever hit 18k concurrent except possibly on the shutdown night? Typical concurrent pop during primetime was 10-12k. In any case, if you actually played there you would know the extreme sacrifices to draw distance and latency they made in order to accommodate that pop. Retail...

Tuesday is the highest pop day of the week, what would you expect?

ZG and Green Dragons coming April 15. About damn time.

Even moonkins are pretty good if you go tailoring and are willing to minmax crafted gear, consumes, etc. Although I think they fall into the same category as ele sham and don't scale as well into late TBC compared to locks. Ele sham are still legit all through TBC though thanks to totems and...

Either way they do it, they will need to reintroduce layering or break some servers up. Outlands with even 5k players is a total shitshow for both the leveling rush and for farming at 70.

Classic has fucked up exp sharing calcs. If a low level tags mobs and then a 60 AOEs them all down, the low level only gets a tiny percentage of the exp.... UNLESS the mobs are level 48+, in which case the lowbie gets FULL exp. It’s stupid and not at all how it worked in vanilla or at any other...

There was 2 months between BWL and ZG in vanilla, this is the same, even though a higher portion of the playerbase (by far) is already farming BWL.

Right but the flat -mana cost on Spirit of Aquementas was nerfed fairly early on in Vanilla and that's what he was referencing. Honestly with how fast the fights have been so far in MC/BWL due to the dps people are putting out, downranking is not as great as it used to be. I'd rather have a...

I've never seen any moonkin stat weighting that backs this up. All that int on 5 pieces of t1 adds 1.5% crit, and blue preraid gear in those same slots would get him about 1% from int plus like 120 spell damage. His average starfire hit on Nef was 1000, spell power contributes to Starfire at 1.0...

That moonkin is wearing 5pc tier 1 just to get the 2% crit set bonus lol. If you’re gonna be tryhard at least gear correctly. Nature’s Grace is a good talent but it does not mean gearing solely for crit at the expense of everything else is optimal.

Looks like we ended up with around 60 guilds in BWL on Mankrik, 14 of which cleared it. But I know of at least 2 guilds that cleared it with two raid groups and are only counted once, plus numerous others with 2-3 raid groups at various stages. So your estimate should probably factor that in...

lol you guys claiming "most" guilds will do X need to check warcraftlogs. On my server, 3 guilds cleared BWL opening night out of 17 that raided it. There are now 7 that have cleared it out of 37 total, and 4 of the 7 required two raid nights. "Most" guilds will absolutely not clear Naxx the...

And with a black lotus node.

AV full premades are getting removed next week but people will be able to group queue with 5 people. Pretty good compromise.

Bracers are 1.3, pants are either phase 5 or 6 unless Blizz decides to bump them up to p4 for some reason.

I averaged around 2000 honor from kills per AV over the last week. Against a very fast alliance premade it was lower and in some games it was quite a bit higher. If you hit 0 honor for somebody, that means you already got 500+ from them for a few solo kills or 100-200 from group kills. It adds...

How does DR factor in to this? Every NA server is lumped into one battlegroup so it's unlikely to face more than a few people multiple times a day, and most 15-20 minute AVs you only kill people a few times.

If you are focused on maximizing honor, you can earn more per game than the people fishing or AFK in the tunnel by going to places on the map where actual PvP kills are happening, or somewhere you can pick off people from the other faction yourself. It’s not enough to overcome people playing...

We actually have the early version of HK diminishing returns (100% 75% 50% 25% 0) rather than the later one which was 100 90 80 etc. I’m not really sure why. The 10% decrease was implemented in 1.12.

It’s just people all queueing at the same time manually since the autoqueue feature in Vanilla is not a thing in Classic. But if you have a discord channel with a bunch of people that are all level 60, have their epic mount, and are capable of at least the most basic coordination, it’s night and...

People in capital cities especially have been unable to see each other until joining groups. There's no way servers are over crowded currently so it's probably just a temporary bug.

Random, low percentage drop from dungeon bosses. Possibly from anything in the game too but I've heard conflicting info.

R10 Helm + Shoulders are better than anything else ingame for warlocks so that’s why I’m pushing for rank now. R14 weapon is marginally better than Nef’s staff but that staff will be highly contested and doesn’t drop often. Too early to tell how hard it’s going to be to get r14 on my server though.

If you want to pvp in AV just go to where the other faction is and start fighting them, it's not hard. Or sit mid and kill rezzers trying to get back to the front line.

If you have 20 and finish a game, the mark(s) you were supposed to get are mailed to you instead. The old strat used to be to fill your mailbox with AV marks since AV only ran during AV weekends on many servers, and then as you do AB and WSG you turn in 3x3 marks since it’s more honor than doing...

It’s all relative to the rest of the faction on your server, the actual honor numbers don’t mean anything. You need to be in the top 0.3% of your server to be in the highest rating bracket for the week. The only way to progress from R13 to R14 is to be in that bracket for ~3 consecutive weeks...

Have you ever played an MMO before? The number of people who actually do research outside of the game, show up to raids in optimal specs and with consumes, etc is pretty small. There’s nothing wrong with telling a tank to turn certain mobs away from the raid for the first time, but if they...

Thanks, Furor.