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  1. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    mrrobot get a little unreliable when you have an abundance of hit or exp to get rid of. It wants to try really hard to get you right at cap, but often advises sub-par reforges to do so. I think the thing that really bugs me about it, is that it will always try to fill a blue with a +hit green...
  2. alavaz

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Nah to them EQ was their neighborhood and they were the old guy sitting on his front porch rocking chair. All of the other games are new neighborhoods with too many kids and people they don't recognize.
  3. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you set up an OQ for Throne on normal you'd be surprised how quick it fills up. A friend and I did one for shits and giggles a couple of months ago and got to Dark Animus before people started getting tired and dropping.
  4. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Some tanks are more gear dependent than others, but all things equal I don't think tanks are at such a premium that people are going to be picky about class for a flex or a normal pug.
  5. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I tried that out and I guess maybe I just made shitty selections... but they never sold.
  6. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    He got hit by the beam. Try it for yourself the maze ticks barely hurt.
  7. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The stupid thing about it is that people don't even have to find the path to live. The purple shit does so little damage they should be able to live through it with just their own cooldowns. They just have to avoid the beam. Which if you have a DK, stand in purple shit, use AMS on cooldown...
  8. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you want to start a new toon on the opposite faction or a new server you can send them timeless pieces through the mail. They will be able to sell them for 5g a piece and while it's not a fast track to riches it will at least get you some necessities like bags and glyphs. I had so much...
  9. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    With cross realm grouping you don't really need to be on the same server unless you want to get into a guild and raid together. You can group up for anything besides the current tier of raids. Even then you can still do flex together so I would wait it out and see how serious you and your friend...
  10. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I prefer the spot with the guards because I like the stationary post to drop a guild banner for extra rep. I also try to get the Darkmoon Fair tilt-a-whirl buff and then stack on any other holiday/event type buff that may be out there. I did this during thanksgiving on my DK and with guild...
  11. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    From the oQueue interface you can clear all OQ friends. I usually log out to disable it after I'm done using it.
  12. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The cruel Irony is that the Thok trinket is BiS for str melee.
  13. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    SoO is ok for melee aside from Thok. I don't know why anyone would even bother bringing melee for Thok.
  14. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Most people that under cast are usually either afraid to stand in shit or are afraid of running out of mana. Have her purposely try to heal as hard as she can without worrying about mana for a couple fights so she can get a feel for her limits and have her double check she's using mana regen and...
  15. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you look at the top left corner of the loot window it will have your spec icon to show you which spec you are rolling for. If there is no icon, then it is set to current spec. I don't know why, but even if I am say ret specced and want ret loot, I still hard set it to ret instead of using...
  16. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Looks like Blizzard gets the ever elusive concept of "improving" character models.
  17. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I don't get it... You'll pay to level to the previous cap and then not play the expansion?
  18. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Meh, so you can save a weekends worth of time in exchange for money. WoW's 10 years old and still the dominant MMO on the market, because my like my homie DOC, no one can do it better like this, that and this and uh...
  19. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The helm was awful. It looked ok from up front but when you see the ginormous lightning brain attached to the back it completely ruined it. The rest of the set was good though. I have the same issue with Pally t16, the wing head look is just not a good one.
  20. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Rogues seem to have the most consistently decent looking sets. I think with shamans they said hey what kind of bulbous and off-putting item can we attach to the shoulders this time?
  21. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    When Runestones were actually the current part of the quest all I got for eight weeks straight was the single freebie from Lei Shen. I actually didn't get the rest until patch 5.4 was released and got my final 4 in a single week. I'm currently getting RNG'd to death on Secrets for my DK. I...
  22. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm of the opinion that LFR is a shit fest , in part, because a lot of people think they are somehow above gemming and enchanting transitory gear. I mean seriously, green gems exist solely for that purpose. It will cost you less than a hundred gold to fill all your slots with appropriate green...
  23. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The dominance point trinkets are 496 and can be bought with JP. Need to at least do the unlocker quests and it requires some rep (don't know how much off the top of my head). All the JP bought stuff can be upgraded with JP as well.
  24. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah ret is really weapon dependant. The cloak, tier bonus and trinkets really up dps as well. So 80k for a 502 weapon isn't that bad. I dunno what spec you took but for lower gear levels id say you can do better dps with holy avenger over sanctified wrath.
  25. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Are you using oQueue for this? You should really run your own groups. That way you can at least kick and replace people who suck. I usually run them with a few guild mates and we just announce that we expect everyone to know fights, no voice chat, do it right or be kicked. Usually we have at...
  26. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    True. What I meant was hopefully it will be made less tedious before you reach the (very) tedious parts.
  27. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'd work on the cloak. There is no reason not to and if you are lucky it will be nerfed before you get to the harder parts.
  28. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Most classes have a few key pieces of gear they can get from Flex 1 so it's worth running at least that every week until you have a weapon, a trinket, a shield, tier BP, etc. Celestials should be able to quickly fill in at least 1 other normal iLvl tier piece (2 pieces if you are lucky) for 2...
  29. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'd actually say for a new player it's not so bad because you don't start out with the whole array of abilities so as you level you get exposed to them gradually. Coming back at say the previous expansions level cap when the current expansion is end of life however does completely suck.
  30. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you did the quest from the beginning of the expansion you basically got 1 reward each patch culminating with the legendary cloak in 5.4 so it wasn't exactly a continuous cockblock then. At this point though, I don't see why they don't just make it another account unlock and allow alts to...
  31. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Finally got the Galakras trinket in normal mode. Now I'm just confined to running the shittiest wing on other modes for the Thok trinket, of which I will get in normal mode a day or two after getting it in Flex or LFR.
  32. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Resilience is baselined as of 5.3 (65% regardless of gear) and most +resil on pvp gear was removed. So now, the PvP Power stat is the main PvP stack stat, though I guess it hasn't kept up with PvE stat inflation.
  33. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Dumar was the only one that derped it this time around, I was just speaking from a historical perspective. I see it all the time where someone will say "Playing X is like bashing yourself in the face," and random fanboy / hater jumps in and says "You just compared X to your face and that's not...
  34. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    To quote James Hetfield "Nothing else matterrrssssaah."
  35. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Why does everyone suddenly become so fucking dense regarding analogies? It wasn't that hard - you didn't use car to full potential just like you didn't play WoW to full potential. I know Dumar's excuse, what's everyone elses?
  36. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The funny thing is that you are so completely off base regarding the "single-player experience," that it is laughable. I mean seriously 90% of developer resources go to designing raids and it's a "single player MMO." There are plenty of things to criticize WoW on, but the batch of people who...
  37. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'd be happy if after say you've done a full clear of LFR or Flex you could queue for just the boss you want. Flex would of course require at least ten people to agree but at least your guild could cherry pick fights that dropped needed gear. That or up the chance of the item I actually need...
  38. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    True I don't NEED to, but when certain key pieces are just stupid better from SoO on any difficulty than the normal difficulty gear that I have from the previous tier, it makes it hard to want to leave that on the table. Yeah sometimes RNG cooperates and I don't have to worry about running LFR...
  39. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have nothing against the gear treadmill, I have everything against doing the exact same encounters 3-4 times per week because I need to have the gear from the slightly lower version of the encounter for the slightly higher version of the encounter. It's like XZibit is designing this shit.
  40. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I don't get it... Are you trying to make a min/max joke? Are you one of those "I play to have fun, bros," type of guys that doesn't do guild raiding?