World of Warcraft: Current Year

McCheese_sl said:

I do think they made the Tanaan gear progression a bit too fast. I came back as a level 90 right after the release of 6.2 and it didnt take long at all for me to get full 695 gear with my preferred secondary stats purely through doing Tanaan. Between the apexis dailies, random purple upgrade from baleful gear, and killing rares in Tanaan, I was getting a 695 item every few days once I got into Tanaan.

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I have 9 alts (in addition to the main, who doesn't need apexis gear), so it's a lot slower. But if you're running only one char, you should get geared insanely fast. The only reason to run LFR is if you don't have time to do the dailies and play only during weekends (and, of course, for your 3 tomes of the week because most bosses have lost their library card, apparently).

Also, what is it with tanks in LFR who have 10% less hit points than my priest? (and keeping aggro, so they are, indeed, in tank spec)

Also, the teleport to rares item is stupid.

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At prime time, you click, and it tells you there are no targets "in range" (i.e. anywhere)...

Is that me or are the CM becoming deliberately obtuse, sadistic, and avoid answering questions?

Apparently, the switch on PTR from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2 isn't because flying is done testing and the patch is going live and now they're working on the rest. It's because they could not add all those Legion-related strings and stuff in the patch, and now they can, and they just threw the 6.2.1 away and they're now working on more fluff and we'll have to wait until they've finished their halloween stuff. But the renumbering was done "to reassure us that they're on track to testing all those extraordinary features" (aka AH-able tokens for character upgrades, so people can purchase overpriced character increases to attempt to sell for gold on the AH)...

DavivMcD_sl said:

To be fair, when you have to answer thousands of raving lunatics who obsess over a PTR build number changing, you might get a little cranky too.

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It's a bit more of a build number change. It's a bait-and-switch, compounded by absolute failure to communicate clearly, on top of what's obviously a bad production decision.

There is no reason to tag release a PTR unless you are reasonably sure you're going to release it, essentially because it's complete, ok, and maybe waiting for a couple of final Q&A issues. Notice what they didn't say? What little sentence would instantly defuse the whole mess? "No, 6.2.1 is indeed going live ASAP, while we're working on 6.2.2".

They didn't say that because someone decided to reset the clock, and, in the process, appears to have introduced a shitton of additional stuff for Halloween and later. All those features are requiring additional Q&A, meaning more time.

So yes, when people say flying is getting delayed by unrelated features, they are right.


And suddenly, people go back to the interviews on Legion and notice the mention that they LIKED how flying was in Draenor (i.e. not at all, and apparently delayed until the latest possible time).

Draegan_sl said:

That sounds like something a raving lunatic that needs to go outside would really care about.

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Well, at the moment it's raining, so meh

Dandai_sl said:

there's like 5 different variants of the artifact's appearance.

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And up to 4 recolors per appearance.

Basically, they've put as much effort in making those artefacts as they usually do for "normal" weapons. The only difference is that, when they add new raids... ahem, when they'll add THE last raid, you won't have new looks in it. Or maybe you'll unlock a new base appearance, who knows.

For me, the main problem is if my specs don't have a staff. Because I'm not going to be able to transmog my standard staff appearance if I'm forced to use a mace or a dagger... My current thinking is that shadow will probably have a dagger (+offhand), holy a staff and disc a mace (+book), but the latter might be swapped...