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  1. alavaz

    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    My first toon was a troll and anyone who started in Grobb remembers the insane Froglok trains you could amass. The funniest part was b lining it to the guards and alternating between the near death slow walk and regening enough to run again.
  2. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    HotFix for the levelling dungeons confirmed. 6.0.2 Stat Squish Leveling Concerns - Forums - World of Warcraft I'm hoping they nerf SoO too. At this point I'd never do that bullshit again if I didn't want my loom. Garrosh is all sorts of fucked as he, his adds and empowered MCs have like...
  3. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Rotation wise I think ret pally is about perfect. It's the same as it was you just don't have to refresh inquisition which I felt was a rather clunky mechanic. A couple of cooldowns are gone (including devo) so they have less utility than before. Their DPS is still weak comparatively at lvl 90...
  4. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Is Ordos proper fucked? I tried out two different pugs and the fire aoe was one shotting a good portion of the raid. We doing it wrong? I'll be honest I don't know the "intended" strategy because its always been stand still and roll face...
  5. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm guessing the new 30 person cap for sub-mythic raiding is to allow more gradual scaling but we'll see.
  6. alavaz

    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    Yeah my guild leadership circle was akin to a hippie commune. People gave them money, access to accounts, hell accounts even got donated when people quit playing and they pretty openly sold massive amounts of platinum on ebay. I purposely avoided getting loot first so that I wouldn't be...
  7. alavaz

    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    Ted crub! They landed on Saryrn though I don't remember them doing much. They may have had some contributing members to saryrns team Japan though I mostly remember Divine Winds being the main guild. They used to chat in say and it literally looked like they were just mashing the keyboard. I'm...
  8. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm on sen'jin horde side - which I suppose isn't exactly helpful haha. We raid pretty casually on Weds and Sundays (8:30 - 11:30 CST) right now. Will be farming looms until WoD and then doing the heroic tier. Alavaz#1973
  9. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    the flex master -Stimulated @ Stormrage - Community - World of Warcraft
  10. alavaz

    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    Fiends actually had a few of the best MMO players I've ever met. They also picked up a lot of garbage who had been blacklisted everywhere else. If anything though, I'd say that it's actually a testament to their leadership core because they've actually taken some folks who were shit on by the...
  11. alavaz

    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    You can beat Don Flamenco (1) in like 14 seconds if you get a frame perfect star from a late hit after his first swing.
  12. alavaz

    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    Time does not equal skill, but all skill is gained with time. We can all throw and catch a ball. Can we all play in the NFL? To me, what separated EQ from it's predecessors was that EQ made it very easy to put in a lot of time and accomplish absolutely nothing. Would I ever do it again? Fuck...
  13. alavaz

    Fires of Heaven - The good, the bad, and the whatever else.

    EQ raids were just generally chaotic and in hindsight probably doable with raid sizes that were half or even 2/3rds the size if that force had stable hardware and sufficient knowledge of their class + the encounter mechanics. Even understanding aggro in EQ put you above and beyond the pack in...
  14. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm on senjin horde. We have two dps wars that regularly raid but could use healers. There are a few that play quite often but most of us are on Wednesdays and Sunday's from 8:30 until 11:30 CST when we raid. Most of us are geared so our new recruits are pretty much guaranteed a spot. Come 6.0...
  15. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    He says he has a cold, but we know the truth.
  16. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Something I figured out a while ago: If you have capped valor and have the buff, you can camp out in Timeless on Monday night and still have it all day Tuesday. It doesn't seem to go away for death, but I have had it disappear for using the trinket as a shortcut back to the quest givers and it...
  17. alavaz

    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

    The hot new shit: Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Cliff Notes Joell Ortiz - House Slippers
  18. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The balls out hack and slash is definitely the coolest looking, sucks though when you are at range doing no damage while you hack away. The tank one, I feel like is the most utilitarian though in that it literally will save your life from time to time.
  19. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I honestly don't think they ever said that. The goal for removing abilities has always been to A. reduce the amount of compulsory keybinds for highly situational abilities and B. to get rid of redundant and synergistic abilities that were never used separate from each other (i.e. rotational...
  20. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I lol'd. More than I should have. I am a turrible racist
  21. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Aren't fantasy races supposed to be blatant stereotypes of real world races? I think the only thing that could even be considered as slightly racist is the hoshi toshi pandaren accent but that's a huge stretch. It wasn't like they were buck tooth slant eyes exchanging Ls for Rs or anything.
  22. alavaz

    Health Problems

    There is some very nasty viruses going around. I've managed to be lucky so far but my wife, son and mother in law have been laid out for almost 7 days. My wife has an upper respiratory infection, conjunctivitis and ear infections in both ears. My son has sinusitis, upper respiratory...
  23. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well if you want to play WoW between now and WoD what else are you going to do? Especially if you want to get heirlooms from Garrosh which absolutely will not be replaced by any greens in the first couple of zones. xzi: The quest takes probably 6-7 weeks for most people. There is still a hard...
  24. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I take you read the first line and replied to that? It's pretty marginal as in it's not something you absolutely have to have to do good DPS. Read the rest of my original post on it. To add to that, I see people blowing their whole rotations on DS procs during single target fights and...
  25. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I enjoy ret, but the 4 piece bonus is in all actuality pretty marginal. Once you are 40-50% haste you'll almost never get a chance to use the free DS in a single target fight because it is pretty much the lowest priority in your rotation. However, it can fill in as a healing mechanism when you...
  26. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The 5 minute thing is new.Upcoming Deserter Hotfixes for Rated PvP - Forums - World of Warcraft. For normal BGs it will go up in 5 minute increments until it tops out at 20 minutes. At any point it will reset back down to 5 minutes after 20 minutes elapses. I didn't have so many bad randoms that...
  27. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Just doing random BGs and bailing on the obvious losers I could usually get like 2k+ honor in 2 hours or less. The queues are generally instant even for DPS.
  28. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I had to do the same thing. Weekends generally were better for my server. I also finally just accepted the fact that I wasn't going to be able to just show up and win like I did on the horde side. I did random BGs for a couple hours per night and got close to a full set of 522 pvp gear. Then...
  29. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    I remember BR from EQ. They had it spelled Rain at first. I think they splintered off into The War Council and Heaven and Earth somewhat early on. Did Kahma play wow? I remember him from the early Grobb days.
  30. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    Can't forget the hill giants and Lake of Rathe. Man we spent a lot of time around there too.
  31. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    While I had a lot of fun in Velious doing NToV and Kael and what not (still some of my favorite raiding ever) I think the funnest I had was leveling up. I was in this all Troll guild and we used to run around with a pack of 5-10 trolls at any given time and we'd travel to crazy places like Halas...
  32. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A lot of people keep Garrosh locks on alts and stuff just for the sole purpose of farming heirlooms. You see a lot of farm runs on Sunday and Monday on openraid.us
  33. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah it's one shot per boss on any difficulty. So you could do like the first two bosses of a raid in LFR and then if you went and did flex the first two wouldn't drop, but subsequent ones could. If that makes any sense.
  34. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Now that you can buy valor with timeless coins I'd way rather save them for valor later on. That 483 weapon from the Sha I think is guaranteed (at least I've never NOT gotten it the first kill on my alts). ToT weapons also seem to be pretty forthcoming.
  35. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Look around for the Dread Wastes 450 boa weapons too.http://www.wowhead.com/guide=1751#lost-weapons I don't think many people look for these anymore. I found 3 in one night when I went out looking for them a couple of months ago.
  36. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    double post... I should add that the dread waste boa's are useable at 86. Nice for alts when the normal looms stop working.
  37. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    yep once you have a cloak you can hit ordos on any toon account wide.
  38. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That 500 stat gem only goes in the sha touched weapon from terrace so you may as well just destroy it if you have anything later on. The extra slot thing can go on a ToT weapon but not an SoO weapon. The legendary gem isn't too bad to replace at 5 primal diamonds so it's not that big of a...
  39. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My guild pugs a person or two pretty often these days. If you are on Fridays and Sundays (or aren't saved by then) 8:30pm until Midnight CST add Alavaz#1973