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  1. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    This does not (as far as I can tell) work for Runestones - only for secrets.
  2. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The titan runsetone droprate is significantly higher. Go get your last secret from the first two ToT instances (Runestones don't drop here so you won't blow any chances). Finish up the Nalak and scenario BS then run all 4 eligible instances for runestones.
  3. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    Ah yes AotS I remember them as well. I actually raided with some of the original DW in wow for a brief period and they thought the American EQ guild drama was funny. They weren't all that great in WoW. My guild had dissolved in AQ and they were still struggling with BWL when I was running with them.
  4. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    yeah yeah yeah, the other one then that does drop in that wing. Anyway, I got my last one threw the lance at Nalak, did the solo scenario shit and still have Lei Shen left this week for an actual Titan Runestone this time. I think I can finish it up in two weeks if runestones drop anywhere...
  5. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    I tried the very very first EQ progression server with a bunch of people from fiends... Everybody quit when some guild (insidious somethingwrather?) killed nagafen by the time we were in our 30s.
  6. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    lol. oh no, I mean normal. My guild is about as casual as it gets.
  7. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I encountered a fun little bug on my warrior in LFR where I died to Horridon trash and when I release I transported back to the door as a ghost with no body. Everytime I tried to run more than a few yards I would just transport back to the GY point. No other option but to disband which was...
  8. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    damn SoO heroic is way nerfed since Tuesday. Aside from Garrosh MCs happening like 3x as fast as usual, we never hit an empowered whirl or even had an intermission before p3. And this is from a guild who took 200 wipes back in July to get him down.
  9. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If it's a class you plan on playing as your main or even one that gets heavy use as an alt, the free 600 points in professions is nice to have.
  10. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    In all honesty it doesn't matter too much. It would probably be hard to catch up on something like jewelcrafting (daily recipe RNG thing to get the useful cuts) or enchanting (rep with august celestials for the good enchants) in the few weeks we have left so I don't know if there is any short...
  11. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    "Good" as in progression oriented, Mythic guild? Or good as in not retarded, play to have fun, normal/heroic mode guild?
  12. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Mog set that actually looks good with the cloak: Alavaz @ Senjin - Community - World of Warcraft
  13. 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.
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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.
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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
  21. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    the flex master -Stimulated @ Stormrage - Community - World of Warcraft
  22. 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...
  23. 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.
  24. 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...
  25. 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...
  26. 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...
  27. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    He says he has a cold, but we know the truth.
  28. 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...
  29. alavaz

    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

    The hot new shit: Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Cliff Notes Joell Ortiz - House Slippers
  30. 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.
  31. 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...
  32. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I lol'd. More than I should have. I am a turrible racist
  33. 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.
  34. 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...
  35. 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...
  36. 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...
  37. 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...
  38. 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...
  39. 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.