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You can definitely hit 1385 without a full set. It’s actually better to not level all items evenly if you are trying to hit high ilvls on a budget because of a quirk with how this specific tier of item gains ilvl. Saintone had a guide that showed the exact breakdown but you basically leave a few...

Horde Cities: 1 mailbox, nowhere near crafting areas. Silvermoon: Literally constructed out of mailboxes.

No, only Kara Gruul Mag are ingame atm. Progress had their first 5man hit 70 ~13 hours after launch and cleared all the content another 12 hours or so later. I ended up doing 10/10 Kara and HKM+Gruul this first week but no Mag. I was only expecting my guild to have 2 Kara raids so I was happy...

Mankrik had no queue up until about half an hour before the launch and then it got up to a ~90 minute queue fast. We had tons of layers. My group stayed on most of the night and I ended up at 64. Progress getting a group to 70 in 13 hours is absolutely insane.

Mankrik had 4200 when I got home last night, took under an hour though.

Pre patch is the new client though and is typically a bigger headache than the actual launch. June 1 will still probably have queues and some stability issues but with layering turned on again it should be playable.

They don’t lol

The hardcore vanilla fans will just use the free option to keep their character on the forever-vanilla servers. You only need to pay the $35 if you want your character on BOTH the tbc and vanilla servers. I am pretty surprised they went with that price point though honestly. I figured the survey...

My guild has 5 thunderfuries. E: 6, forgot one that was a xfer. EE: 7, we have a rogue with one but he doesn't even use it lol.

The big servers had transfers to them disabled for like a year, and had free transfers off them that they encouraged fairly often. TBC would be a good time to do some merges/splits but I doubt they'll do anything.

Yeah I am on Horde side, which is why it's a bit surprising how low prices are compared to other servers. Not that I'm complaining since my gold will have more buying power going into TBC vs the servers with more gold buyers which then spreads out to other players through inflated GDKP prices.

Mankrik has been anywhere from 2nd highest to ~8th highest overall raider population in the last month depending on when you check, and is #1 highest Horde population for all servers.

Funny how Mankrik is basically the same size as the mega PvP servers but GDKPs are so much cheaper and prices on everything have never been as inflated. More casual playerbase I guess.

It would surprise me if the boost is only 39.95 considering what it costs in retail ($60) and the time savings there compared to Classic but we'll see. The character copy will almost certainly be cheaper than $40 since there's no way their survey showed that as the most profitable price point.

They said it’s coming out before Burning Crusade Classic, it probably will be tied into the prepatch just like the batching change that’s been on the PTR for months. So most people will have it available for like 4 Naxx clears and that’s it.

Well it sounds like it’s just being implemented for the Forever Vanilla servers so who cares. It’s especially dumb though since the vanilla servers are going to be low pop and almost entirely Naxx raiders who have already turned in heart/head/etc so before long there won’t be any world buffs...

It’s on the PTR and they straight up said it’s not a joke.

They take the service offline literally every week even though they don't have to 90% of the time.

You can summon directly into instances on the beta but probably not the TK instances. We are also going to have the original Kara entry requirements rather than 1 person being able to open the gate and anyone zoning in, so every character you want to be Kara attuned will need flying.

Get the addon “Attune” and make your guildies get it too.

Nah there was a lot of TBC raid content available at launch. But very few people finished their attunements or had much luck against Gruul/Mag/SSC/TK at first since stuff was over tuned or straight up broken.

Elixir of Demonslaying Having 2 accounts with level 60 mages on each and knowing how to boost all the popular zones makes it easy to level additional alts and help guildies out or just charge random people. It takes under 2 days /played per level 60 for me.

In Vanilla I was soloing mobs in Tyr’s Hand and helped a fellow horde Chinese farmer that bit off more than he could chew and from then on he would occasionally mail me mana pots and other random shit. It’s like an organic world quest! I remember being ready to buy gold in TBC for epic flying...

All of the alliance speed clearing guilds get WCB. But pallies > shaman for clear times, that isn't even a question.

Maybe. Hopefully. Wouldn’t really consider this to be confirmation though.

I can hook you up with bags/gold on Mankrik if you want, what’s your dudes name?

Also shaman. 1 shaman per group in 25 man raids is the default, typically that's 1 Ele, 1 Enh, 3 Resto per raid. There will be plenty of guilds that still run several mages, warriors, or rogues despite them not being the meta classes and do just fine. Although since we're supposedly getting...

This is one thing I feel like they should change, even though I have no intention of rolling on one myself. Based on the ~10 various private vanilla or tbc servers I've rolled on in the last decade, fresh servers are absolutely a blast and I know there are literally thousands of classic players...

TBC Dev Q&A on Metagoblin's channel just confirmed that they are going to have a nerf to LW drums. They say they don't like guilds feeling obligated to run so many leatherworkers, so I'm betting they introduce the WotLK tinnitus debuff and you only want 1 LW per group. Overall probably a...

Pallies getting both seals at max level BE + Draenai being available in the prepatch One 58 boost for sale per account Paid character copies if you want to have a dude on both TBC + Vanilla classic servers Bug fixed but pre nerf raid bosses 5 content phases Overall I think it's about as good as...

TBC is similar to Vanilla where shortening fights is the easiest way to cheese them. Stacking shamans for bloodlust does that far better than stacking pallies or priests.

Well, that depends. Demo/Felguard is likely to be the actual highest DPS warlock spec in T4 and possibly even T5, but it requires a fair amount of minmax (swapping warrior into your group to battleshout, scrolls and food buffs for your pet stats, maybe even shaman swapping for melee totems...

The PTR has batching changed from 400ms to 10ms. This makes me think tbc arenas won’t suck as badly as I thought they would.

Yes, that is how you reset the world buff. If you mind control Runthak or Saurfang, or the alliance equivalents, and kill them during the MC, they respawn in a few minutes and allow you to turn in another head for the buff. Runthak is a lot easier to kill than Saurfang though which is why he's...

Saurfang has 650k health, the alliance equivalent has like 55k.

The Ony npc is easy to MC and kill to reset him, the Nef npc is harder to kill though, to the extent that you can basically assume a Nef head won't be dropped until the CD is up but the Ony buff can be dropped with pretty minimal notice.

You could stack vanilla consumes and tbc consumes until 2.1. There’s no way Blizz is going to give us true 2.0.x at Classic TBC launch though so I wouldn’t worry about it. TBC consumes still aren’t negligible since a flask or 2 elixirs plus food, enchants/oils, dps potions, Mr. Pinchy, etc are...

They literally have all of the code for every patch of TBC, unlike Vanilla. Transitioning from Vanilla to TBC will be a hell of a lot less effort than doing Classic was in the first place, and is very obviously what the bulk of the Classic playerbase will want to do after a while of doing Naxx...

Yeah there's a lot of bullshit like overheals counting for the pally mana regen etc that was way OP and was fixed before 2.4.3. But to this day I still miss season 1 of arena as an afflock where resil didn't affect DOTs yet. Me and my spriest buddy got gladiator in s1 and it was a million times...

Right. They claim to have every patch from 1.12 on, it was just vanilla where they didn’t keep copies of each version apparently. Idk if that’s just a cop out or the truth, but it does mean we might get progressive tbc instead of just time gated 2.4.3. The latter option is a lot less work on...