World of Warcraft: Current Year

Noodleface said:

It's better than WOD

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Hell the fact that there clearly is another raiding tier past 7.2 puts it pretty head and shoulder above wod. Compared to wod after the tomb came out you would have nothing coming until the next expansion. They seem to be holding to a reasonable pace so far at least hope they can keep that up.

kaid said:

Hell the fact that there clearly is another raiding tier past 7.2 puts it pretty head and shoulder above wod. Compared to wod after the tomb came out you would have nothing coming until the next expansion. They seem to be holding to a reasonable pace so far at least hope they can keep that up.

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Not just any raid tier

ARGUS

I have to say this has been one of the best expansions so far for keeping me playing my main and not alting it up like crazy after the first couple raids come out. There are still a bunch of things I am actively working on with my main for skin unlocks and artifact stuff just did the archeology thing to get my ghostly moose mount. I really do like the way they are doing the rares this go round for that if you want the item you can get it without being totally at RNG mercy.

The artifact talent stuff is at least some carrot to look forward to as well to unlock for some sense of progress which is nice. I think its a decent AAXP type design where they can have it specific to an expansion and then introduce something like it again with expansions as we go forward to keep them fresher and allow them to do different things pretty easily.

Palum said:

Why, just due to account wide tracking of some items?

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Apparently the 110 achievement it uses to track WQ emissary completions and Weekly M+ Chest is account wide. So it uses the date the first char on your account hit 110 to calculate that stuff.

Just a friendly reminder for anyone who cares to think about saving WQ emissary caches for 7.2/Tomb opening.

kaid said:

I have to say this has been one of the best expansions so far for keeping me playing my main and not alting it up like crazy after the first couple raids come out. There are still a bunch of things I am actively working on with my main for skin unlocks and artifact stuff just did the archeology thing to get my ghostly moose mount. I really do like the way they are doing the rares this go round for that if you want the item you can get it without being totally at RNG mercy.

The artifact talent stuff is at least some carrot to look forward to as well to unlock for some sense of progress which is nice. I think its a decent AAXP type design where they can have it specific to an expansion and then introduce something like it again with expansions as we go forward to keep them fresher and allow them to do different things pretty easily.

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Archaelogy is only vanilla area's right. I was lead to believe zero reason to do it, but theres some cooler high level mounts etc from it now? I should be 100 by now but got slowed down trying to keep with wife and being bedridden for a week with my broken and now surgically fixed back. Still trying to understand wtf things work with legion.

Like I get grinding AP, but there's kill points too or something? Legendaries random, is it based on loot spec at least so you don't level your main and get some shit for the wrong spec?

What is the void storage in stormwind? Is that like across character bank?

I'm sure you can solo BWL, but I saw a bunch of people turning in .... fuck forget the raid with Algalon in dalaran. Is that kind of thing able to be done from 2 exacs ago with like a 5man or still need a pug raid? I would really love the transmogs for some of the stuff from cata and lich king.

Sludig said:

Archaelogy is only vanilla area's right. I was lead to believe zero reason to do it, but theres some cooler high level mounts etc from it now? I should be 100 by now but got slowed down trying to keep with wife and being bedridden for a week with my broken and now surgically fixed back. Still trying to understand wtf things work with legion.

Like I get grinding AP, but there's kill points too or something? Legendaries random, is it based on loot spec at least so you don't level your main and get some shit for the wrong spec?

What is the void storage in stormwind? Is that like across character bank?

I'm sure you can solo BWL, but I saw a bunch of people turning in .... fuck forget the raid with Algalon in dalaran. Is that kind of thing able to be done from 2 exacs ago with like a 5man or still need a pug raid? I would really love the transmogs for some of the stuff from cata and lich king.

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Kill points are imaginary points we use to determine how close we are to 100% drop rate on our next legendary. Certain activities are proven to drop them so Everytime you do one it increases your chances. This is because blizzard stated they have "bad luck" code so that everyone will get legendaries eventually. They use your loot spec but there are some awful legendaries, most notably are ones that everyone can get like sephuz secret.

You can solo every old raid, although some mechanics can still wipe you. Some from the end of mop might be harder and probably cant solo WOD unless you're an OP solo class I'd imagine. For stuff cata and prior it's really simple stuff.

Worthwhile really though? Imagine wowhead or something would have a list of any "good" rewards? Nothing to do with actual legendaries or anything important right.

I don't know if they changed arch but when it launched it was so fucking dumb. Putting down stupid surveyor shits to find items. No thanks

Khane said:

Anyone's guild run Heroic NH today or tomorrow before 9pm EST? Missed the first 4 bosses because of Valentine's day and don't feel like pugging it.

Sick Frost DK dps.

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Booze plays again, can just have me and xzi heal and you can tank again with him. I know you miss him.

everyone misses my cute ass don't deny it

also cup adding you on bnet

How does being cross server and guilds work? Is it a limited pool of servers that are grouped, or ?? I'm on icecrown but I swear I see more of other servers than my own. Not sure how to shop for guilds when I'm ready when I have a larger pool than just icecrown?

Only a few servers actually have cross-server guilding available. Generally very low pop servers are connected to another realm or two which all act as ONE server, meaning you can join a guild if your server is connected.

However this is not the same as cross-realm instancing, which is basically a huge clump of servers can be in the same areas, the same dungeons, etc, but they're not technically all one server.

Blizz admitting they fucked up with the AP grind, ah!

MMO-Champion - Artifact Power and Patch 7.2

I don't think they fucked up with the AP grind at all. If the system they are proposing for 7.2 had been in place at release the situation would have been exponentially worse because then you literally would be locked into a character. Could you imagine going through an exponentially increasing grind and getting close to cap only to have your current spec get fucking wrecked by the nerf train?

This longstanding idea that Blizzard holds about power difference needs to die. In that blue post they are literally saying "It's not fair that someone who plays twice as much is 10% more powerful". Enough with that shit already, they are NEVER going to be able to keep people who play 5 hours a week from falling behind people who play 50 hours a week. It's absurd that they think they can or that they think it's good practice. The linear progression of the 4th golden trait was nice. It gave us all something to work towards without feeling like insurmountable.

The AP rewards based on dungeon timers is a nice change though. Definitely should get more AP for completing a HoV than a Maw.

Their numbers aren't even correct, it's 5.5 million AP to get the first 35 then 60 million for a 10% difference. So in the new system if someone that plays twice as much is going to have a 1.5% advantage it will end up the same.