World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Morrow
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Man this server I am buying cheap battle pets on is so bizarre. You can get 101 BoE epics with really badass appearances for transmog for 500 gold. Like this one guy has hundreds of BoE 101 epics for <1k. Stuff like Welded Hardskin Helmet or Gorrog's Serene Gaze or Cyno's Mantle of Sin or Fists of Thane Kray-Tan or Treia's Handcrafted Shroud. The list goes on. If it's a 101/110 BoE epic, there are dozens on the Ah for under 1k lol.
Merrith
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200 pet charms isn't that crazy to get, especially if you've had some on your mission board and have been able to bonus them. There was also roughly ~70 you could get through normal questing and looting of specific treasure locations. Certain days every battle pet WQ gave the charms as well, and if you knew about the level 1 scaling early on, very easy to beat every single one.
I recently swapped my contract from CoA to Tortollan trying to catch up the rep I missed out on not being 120 the first night (although I'm going to switch back now as 8600/12k with them being an emissary and 3 more days of their WQ should hit revered without contract), but my CoA is already 6,225 into revered using their contract for all but the last 2 days or so, and getting a good amount of their rep missions on my board.
Basically someone could easily have those pets without exploiting. Multiple ones might be pushing it, but again no idea what missions people were getting on their mission board. Bonus on one of those and you're getting 30 of the charms at once. Also not sure how far back revered for Champions would have been. It was a couple of days ago for me at least.
I recently swapped my contract from CoA to Tortollan trying to catch up the rep I missed out on not being 120 the first night (although I'm going to switch back now as 8600/12k with them being an emissary and 3 more days of their WQ should hit revered without contract), but my CoA is already 6,225 into revered using their contract for all but the last 2 days or so, and getting a good amount of their rep missions on my board.
Basically someone could easily have those pets without exploiting. Multiple ones might be pushing it, but again no idea what missions people were getting on their mission board. Bonus on one of those and you're getting 30 of the charms at once. Also not sure how far back revered for Champions would have been. It was a couple of days ago for me at least.
Morrow
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This was a week ago though. I guess if they level'd multiple characters on the same account to 120? Because you can mail the charms to your other characters. 200 charms is a lot. And anyways, this was Revered Champions of Azeroth a week ago, so definitely a no regardless of the charms. Beating the trainers isn't the issue at all though, they made them super gimped easy.
Sure made me a pretty penny though.
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Nola
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I did that with my DK cause I don't see any reason to keep it on. Some WQs have you 10% extra bonus for completing them in war mode but other than that why bother? Now granted some WM PvP abilities are pretty nice like the BM dire eagle which is great for AoE with and dire basilisks for single target damage for WQs. But sadly they can't be used in dunegons or raids.
Wtf happened with Stormsong Valley? First half or so of it was great, but the next half of it was shit tier. It was like being timewarped back 10 years for a huge chunk of it with the design.
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As has been mentioned, we are not planning to do any Mythic raids as a guild this time around. Most of those who are interested have left and gone elsewhere at this point.
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Ukerric
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The gold coins aren't on the mounds with the signs. They're the sparkle spots around the mound. If you use the magnet on a spot rather than the mound, you get 4-7 coins.
Still cannot decide what I want to play got my 3rd charecter to 120 now, I know I want player but Priest and Paladin I got bored with so trying Monk now
The bags were fine except putting mounts in them. Fuck RNG loot bags that give you a small chance at something for several days' worth of WQ's.
I'd much rather have the coliseum method of daily rewards, where there's a lot of shit to choose from and you know exactly how much work you need to put in to get what you want.
I'd much rather have the coliseum method of daily rewards, where there's a lot of shit to choose from and you know exactly how much work you need to put in to get what you want.
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Qhue
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Paragon was indeed a nice little bonus as there was precious else to do once you had 'finished' the reps involved. Chances are you were sitting on a giant mound of Class Hall resources and didn't really need anything the WQs could offer...yet they provided some entertaining background noise.
I'm actually a little surprised at the lack of a Suramar-equivalent in BfA. Moreso than the WQs themselves the constant slow progression of abilities and storyline as we helped the rebels and 'saved' Suramar was a great chunk of end-game content, especially for non-raiding types. Because of that quest sequence I felt much more involved with Suramar than I did with most any other faction equivalent in the game to date... made it extra salty when that skank decided to go Horde after spending so much time saving her and her entire race from extinction.**
** As a consequence when we get the Nightborne as the opposing team in Island Expeditions I thoroughly enjoy slaughtering them.
I'm actually a little surprised at the lack of a Suramar-equivalent in BfA. Moreso than the WQs themselves the constant slow progression of abilities and storyline as we helped the rebels and 'saved' Suramar was a great chunk of end-game content, especially for non-raiding types. Because of that quest sequence I felt much more involved with Suramar than I did with most any other faction equivalent in the game to date... made it extra salty when that skank decided to go Horde after spending so much time saving her and her entire race from extinction.**
** As a consequence when we get the Nightborne as the opposing team in Island Expeditions I thoroughly enjoy slaughtering them.
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They ran out of time and half-assed all the missing stuff. They did the horde zones first, and it shows.
Noodleface
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Hit 344 last night, 3rd ilvl Monk on my rinky dink server (with my neck lagging seriously behind at 16). I guess I'm going to run all the M0 today, but kind of pointless. I guess I can hunt for better secondaries. I've been getting crazy lucky with WQ and dungeon drops titanforging to 350/355.
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I do get the general impression that they really were lacking a coherent vision for the Kul Tiras half of the expansion.
Drustvar is nice and atmospheric and the whole Drust plotline is a good take on gothic horror mixed with some Game of Thrones type ancient misdeeds but it is otherwise completely unconnected to the rest of Kul Tiras.
Tiragarde is nominally about Lady Ashvane yet she really doesn't appear in it at all and half the zone is spent on extensive Pirate fantasies and the other half with some sort of class warfare labor union / downton abbey pastiche.
Stormsong is set up like a Lovecraftian mystery, but the ambiance is all wrong and then it misfires on several points. Then just when you think you are getting to the point of understanding what happened to the Kul Tiran Fleet (which is the whole plot of the zone) you run into a random Horde attack and then a quasi-random Naga attack and it all kinda goes south from there.
Two of the primary plot elements of the whole opening act of the expansion are the Kul Tiran Fleet and Lady Ashvane's rebellion and both are largely ignored until the PVE campaign is over and you have the Siege of Boralus which has a Deux Ex Machina ending that sets up Jaina as a real faction leader and closes out both plotlines.
In fact the Siege of Boralus makes no fucking sense since the cinematic shows Jaina going super saiyan before Ashvane even gets to the harbor whereas in the Siege itself you are fighting from building to building and the whole city is in flames. At the end we get the cinematic and then... everything is back to the way it was. No damage whatsoever... no nothing.
During the Siege zone itself I was actually thinking 'wow... no wonder Boralus seemed so half-assed, we blow the fuck out of it during this zone and I bet when we get out we go into a new phase where we get the REAL Boralus'. NOPE. Completely ignores that it ever happened and Boralus is as shitty after as it was before.
Drustvar is nice and atmospheric and the whole Drust plotline is a good take on gothic horror mixed with some Game of Thrones type ancient misdeeds but it is otherwise completely unconnected to the rest of Kul Tiras.
Tiragarde is nominally about Lady Ashvane yet she really doesn't appear in it at all and half the zone is spent on extensive Pirate fantasies and the other half with some sort of class warfare labor union / downton abbey pastiche.
Stormsong is set up like a Lovecraftian mystery, but the ambiance is all wrong and then it misfires on several points. Then just when you think you are getting to the point of understanding what happened to the Kul Tiran Fleet (which is the whole plot of the zone) you run into a random Horde attack and then a quasi-random Naga attack and it all kinda goes south from there.
Two of the primary plot elements of the whole opening act of the expansion are the Kul Tiran Fleet and Lady Ashvane's rebellion and both are largely ignored until the PVE campaign is over and you have the Siege of Boralus which has a Deux Ex Machina ending that sets up Jaina as a real faction leader and closes out both plotlines.
In fact the Siege of Boralus makes no fucking sense since the cinematic shows Jaina going super saiyan before Ashvane even gets to the harbor whereas in the Siege itself you are fighting from building to building and the whole city is in flames. At the end we get the cinematic and then... everything is back to the way it was. No damage whatsoever... no nothing.
During the Siege zone itself I was actually thinking 'wow... no wonder Boralus seemed so half-assed, we blow the fuck out of it during this zone and I bet when we get out we go into a new phase where we get the REAL Boralus'. NOPE. Completely ignores that it ever happened and Boralus is as shitty after as it was before.
People were complaining about the quality difference between the two faction's zones & quests shortly after all the way back in March. So I doubt It's a matter of being unfinished, and is likely just poor design ideas in the first place. I'd guess the zone creation B-team got the alliance ones.