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Works in raids too. Esfand cleared MC twice back to back on his stream this week. Accidentally while getting the UBRS fire resist buff and then reforming the raid, but still.

He cost himself a Rag kill his first raid because literally zero of the forty people present had any of the aqual quintessence quests or items... there’s no facepalm big enough.

Normal mounts are 60%. Epic are 100%. When you include the 3 second cast time, it does actually take a rather substantial amount of time for the level 40 mount to be faster than Cheetah, especially if you have the improved talent to make it 136%. So you honestly won’t use it much while grinding...

Boy is your face gonna be red!

Well it’s not 50k concurrent players, it’s closer to 10k concurrent. Which is still higher than you’d like when layers are removed. Nost had 10k and shit was a mess. In Classic currently the riding skill is cheap and the mount is expensive (this was reversed in actual 1.12) so you’ll just have...

Apes barely used the raid dungeon grind strat, most of them were in static 5 man groups which was better exp/hour than 10 manning if you had a very good group. They mostly just 10manned LBRS to get UBRS key faster. Also the various census sites/trackers are indicating that Blizz has decreased...

He was an enhance shaman. Once we got to BRD we had a priest guildy catch up and start healing (while specced shadow) and do fine while helping to DPS a bit. But we ran ZF numerous times and when we didn't have a stacked AOE group and were just chain pulling one pack at a time the sham did fine...

If you are actually needing to spam heals on your tank to keep him alive in a Classic 5 man, either your tank is grossly underleveled/undergeared, or you are trying to tank way too many mobs at a time rather than keeping them CCed/kited. All the way through to BRD the shaman healer I leveled...

I’ve been level 60 for a week.

Healing in leveling dungeons is a joke and you should be able to hande chain pulls if you know how the five second rule works and aren’t using incorrect spells/ranks/gear.

Siphon isn’t worth casting when you’re grinding single target mobs that die in ~12 seconds but it is great for multiple target pulls. You do want to beeline to Dark Pact because drain tanking with a succubus is much better than using a void walker at 30+ and draining her mana with a DP or two...

Horde or Alliance? What guild?

I just dinged 60 on my warlock and have slightly over +200 shadow/spell damage. It’s very different from when people were originally raiding MC in vanilla but most private servers have had the same itemization/stats we have in Classic. Back in vanilla casters just had huge mana pools and their...

Yeah the Kael'thas fight blew my fuckin mind when everybody got thrown up in the air and you had to fight in 3 dimensions, plus the legendary weapons you use during it, etc. TBC/WotLK servers have been smaller than Nost/LH but they have still be very popular so the demand would definitely be...

Bliz has been coy and stayed away from saying anything with certainty so the possibility of new vanilla content is technically still out there, but I’d be extremely surprised if any of that happens rather than just doing TBC + WotLK.

I checked last night and in my guild of ~400 unique players there are like 125 people that are level 30+ currently. And every single one of them had been logged in within the last day. The highest burnout in the guild is level 28. Compared to all the private servers I’ve played, it’s looking...

I don’t think they’re available yet. Not sure what phase they will be tied to.

I hit level 50 at 4 days /played with minimal rest XP, 250 tailoring, and a decent amount of idling in town following Zygor’s so no complaints here. I do think it could be tailored to your class a tad bit better since as a warlock I don’t have trouble soloing orange quests when necessary so I...

Do you have the actual Classic guide that was redone recently or an older version? I’ve found it to be similar to Joana’s overall, some level ranges were better and some were not as good.

Zygor’s has been flawless so far, ingame addon is very smooth other than occasionally not updating your travel route between objectives. Level 51 atm so it definitely does not end at 40.

Apes did mostly 5 mans, until like the very end in LBRS. More loot and higher exp/hr with 5 as long as everyone is good at the game.

That happened to me in ZF with the troll tempers, but every other dungeon I’ve completed everything in one run. Next time I’m in Tanaris I’m going to solo a few trash pulls just to get the last tempers I need. Being a warlock owns.

Getting wars, pals, and priests to 60 in under 4 days /played is the real impressive thing.

That’s why you don’t pug dungeons. They are stupidly easy if the tank is appropriately leveled and pulls at a good rate and the dps don’t do stupid shit but in a pickup anything goes.

Trial and error. I’m on one of the smaller originally announced servers and there’s only like 8-10 people higher than me, so most out-of-the-way rares haven’t been killed, or maybe were only killed on one layer. I ask my guild for invites when I’m trying to switch layers and if it’s successful...

Yes, as long as they themselves are on a different layer. Blizz claimed they added an increasing timer each time you switch layers but so far I haven’t seen that. I’m 42 atm and have hopped 3-4 layers in a row for certain quests and to grab rare mobs that have static spawn locations.

No you can’t.

Neither will most players. Plus I have a hard time believing if a server would have 10k+ people online in phase 2 Bliz would just let it ride rather than do something to make it playable.

Nodes in starter zones had dynamic respawns just like mobs in the last stress test. Doesn’t mean you’ll be able to farm a dozen black lotus in an hour with 4 buddies sitting at other spawn points, but it also isn’t the same as vanilla. Plus each layer has its own spawns so you’re not competing...

That’s about 6 hours a day, every day.

One popular method is having a warlock send his VW to aggro a bunch of trash packs in a dungeon, a feral druid tosses a HOT or some heals on it to draw aggro, and 2 mages blizzard/nova the pack of 20+ mobs to keep them grouped and then kill them. It requires a lot of experience and coordination...

I’d argue that beating the speed run record by 20% is shattering it. It’ll happen though, if you watch Joana’s speedrun video from his 4d20h run he really is not nearly as minmax as you would think. Speedrunners today are a lot more efficient in regards to moving towards an objective while...

East servers are located in Chicago iirc

There will be enough people that just can’t help buying upgrades and tradeskill mats from the AH to be able to sell shit. You won’t get full value if you get a warden staff or something on day 4 and try to auction it but for standard things it’s fine. I made 3 gold before level 10 last stress...

Hence "semi-competent". If most of your guild is at all familiar with the fights, via watching a 2 minute video or playing private servers in the last few years, there's really no surprises at all in the first few raids and no fights with more than a couple mechanics that anybody needs to worry...

This isn't Mythic, it's Classic. Raid leaders are barely necessary at all and any class/role can handle it just fine if your guild is at least semi-competent.

Ele sham will also be fine for a decent chunk of boss fights if they’re popping mana pots and runes. Tranquil Air totem for 4 mages/locks makes up for their mediocre personal dps on the longer fights.

Tauren and NE will have a slightly easier time but yeah every starting zone is gonna be a zoo. As an orc warlock I will be beelining directly to the familiars for my imp quest while most people do the boat quest. If I wasn’t a warlock I would instead try to run to the orc that gives the Sarkoth...

The final stress test is August 8th at 11:00 AM PDT and is supposed to last a day or day and a half.

I’m hoping for some fun bugs in the higher level zones that nobody tested. Some private servers had things like being able to spam click an outhouse in plaguelands to spawn dozens of copies of a quest npc and then AOEing them all down to get 55-60 in an hour, shit like that.