#beta-ptr-spoilers

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proper scarab
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uh!

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that's good! \o/

frozen stratus
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Mad world is going away

proper scarab
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ah, I'm not good enough for hard stuff like that 😄

frozen stratus
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its not too hard

proper scarab
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eh well, with my sanity and gear level and all I can barely reach mage quarter, win, and fight the final boss 😛

frozen stratus
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you need the titan thingy

mighty monolith
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what hunter spec shall I go for in shadowlands? which one seems to be the best option?

strange falcon
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We dont know,but unless they greatly buff it,surely not survival

cunning fossil
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F

terse anvil
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Marksman is really strong however that most likely means a nerf lol

frozen stratus
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I think a majority of the leveling paths end several zones before the expansion end

tropic trail
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Hopefully they wont nerf it like they did monk

frozen stratus
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like the last zone for that expansion

tropic trail
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I wish theyd just let us level through an entire expansion

frozen stratus
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it'd take too long

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because its all side quests that take fucking forever

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side bullshit

tropic trail
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True

frozen stratus
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they need to cull quests down if you want that

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taleisin (however the fuck his name is spelled) recommended a great fix

tropic trail
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Theres some expansions I still need to enjoy so I want to do them fully

frozen stratus
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where you basically play through a summary of the campaign

tropic trail
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Cool

frozen stratus
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but thats not how it works now

tropic trail
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I stopped playing during WOD and came back during BFA

frozen stratus
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so you basically just level through the zones till you hit 50

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then it teleports you back to orgrimmar

tropic trail
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So I missed my now favorite expansion Legion

frozen stratus
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if you wanna do loremaster you'll still be max level

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its actually technically worse now

tropic trail
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I'll just play the game

frozen stratus
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playing the game

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was ist das

tropic trail
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When you simp for bwonsamdi and get the turtle to the water

frozen stratus
tropic trail
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I'm mainly going to be playing a Zandalari Troll Mistweaver Monk in Legion and the rest of the new characters will be minor alts besides the human and Kul tiran I suppose

deep pawn
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so classic zone levelling is the same pace

frozen stratus
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is it?

tropic trail
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I'm so confused at what people are saying about leveling

deep pawn
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unless it slows down drastically at 10

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started in Mulgore cause why not

plain vigil
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It's paced a lot quicker. But because each level is impactful it makes you perceive it as even faster. It takes about 70-75% of the time it takes on live

frozen stratus
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you level in like 10 hr max

deep pawn
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if that based on my experience of exp per quest

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is exile's reach under an hour?

frozen stratus
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I would assume

deep pawn
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like right now level pacing in classic cata zones is the same as live. Based on that you're gonna be almost level 50 by the time you finish say Westfall and Redridge as Alliance

tight ferry
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Some people like to level.

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Some did it a bit too much.

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Having a fast 50 is pretty good.

deep pawn
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I guess I just believed them when they said you'd see the entire story of an expansion at least. If you aren't getting to Nagrand and the finale of that zone in WoD for example they kinda need to slow it down some. Or if you don't do Twilight Highlands.

fading girder
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hmm, but if each expansion takes a different # of hours to finish, then there's a conflict between scaling xp for lore exposure vs balancing xp per time for the levelers (not talking about the hardcore levelers that will always pick whichever is slightly faster)

frozen stratus
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They also sont want it to take 20~30 hours to level

deep pawn
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And doing 5 zones of WoD would be 20 hours?

frozen stratus
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Idk itd be some number

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They definitely want the average player to level in 12 or 15 hours

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Its hard to say what the average player would take

deep pawn
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I get being faster but I don't think you even do all 3 zones of BfA with the current tuning

frozen stratus
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Sigh without actually just culling quests

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I dont see a way to make it work the way people want

radiant ferry
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who's tested which zones are quicker compared to others? I was leveling in burning crusade, but I don't have a baseline for comparison.

frozen stratus
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Wod is like 6 or 7 hrs

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Maybe 8

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For speedrunners

deep pawn
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and WoD is primarily the fact the bonus objectives still exist I bet

frozen stratus
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They nerfed those hard

deep pawn
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interesting it's still so much faster

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Or is Gorgrond quest exp still higher than any other equivalent zone?

dense plover
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nerfed also

frozen stratus
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That last part is probably it

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Yeah

dense plover
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WoD is like 10-12 hours on beta currently

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at least

frozen stratus
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For fasty bois?

dense plover
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yeah

frozen stratus
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Wasnt legion 7 or 8

dense plover
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no

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legion was like 12-13

frozen stratus
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Whelp

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Please wod win

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I dont wanna do those other expansions

tropic trail
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Too bad, off to cataclysm with you

frozen stratus
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Nooooo

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I dont wanna

tropic trail
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To the twilight highlands with you

frozen stratus
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Cataclysm is like the brazil of leveling

deep pawn
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You mean an Indiana Jones parody zone isn't the peak gaming experience?

tropic trail
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Now, to banish you further to burning crusade

deep pawn
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Not even Sylvanas would be that evil

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and I say that as someone who picks TBC over Wrath every time cause screw ice and tundra

frozen stratus
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I do borean every time

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Do i hate myself?

tropic trail
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Howling fjord looks boring

frozen stratus
deep pawn
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I just threw up in my mouth a bit imagining doing Borean Tundra or Howling Fjord without flying

frozen stratus
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What i do it with flyinf

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Ohhh

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Ncn

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Nvm

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Oh fuck no

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No no no no no no

tropic trail
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When you're ground mount and get dazed by 10 enemies

deep pawn
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No flying until 30

frozen stratus
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Like i said wod all the way

tropic trail
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Spires of arak are annoying

frozen stratus
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Zones actually made with feet in mind

tropic trail
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I go to another zone and everything disappears

deep pawn
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I could probably do WoD and BfA no problems without flying even if I'll hate doing the Tanaan intro

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That or I'll just do classic zones since those usually flow very well

frozen stratus
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Ah fuck i forgot to put in my bug report

tropic trail
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Beta?

frozen stratus
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No

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Frost dk feels super bad early levels compared to other dk specs

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I was going to recommend changing when you get obliterate

deep pawn
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I also forgot to put a report in that the insanity bar doesn't show up at level 10 despite you gaining insanity

frozen stratus
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Oof

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Also the mobs by the dark portal are overtuned

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Like really overtuned

tropic trail
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Overtuned?

frozen stratus
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Yes they have too much health and melt you

tropic trail
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Ah

frozen stratus
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Like even in 1v1 they are hard

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But you usually cant 1v1v

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At least for dks it was that way

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So likely they just scale up wrong

fading girder
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TBC? weren't those always difficult mobs that you'er not supposed to fight?

deep pawn
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he has to mean the ones in the blasted lands used for some quests?

low grove
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How is shadow priest and holy pala in sl?

strange falcon
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shadow priest got totally reworked

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from bfa

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holy pala i dont think has got many changes other than getting abilities back

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@low grove

low grove
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Yeah i saw hpalas are still great in SL and heard sp gonna be imba

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I wonder about destro warlocks too @strange falcon

strange falcon
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destro warlocks were a little too high in the damage meters and they got smacked with nerfbat

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but i think they still pretty high up

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given expac just got delayed,we may see a lot of dps tuning still

low grove
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True that

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I will stick with pally then i will choose between sp and warlock. I dunno

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I was about to get 1 month off from work, im glad i did not. Now i have to wait till they announce new date for shadowlands...

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Its expected on mid november

strange falcon
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eh idk if they'd take a delay just to put it out like 3 weeks later

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given the problems in balancing

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that would be objectively stupid

low grove
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Well ofc. Its better to play with fixed stuff instead of buggy stuff

strange falcon
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imo the most likely date would be december 15th with HC raid 3 weeks later on january 5th

low grove
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Oh damn that is too much

strange falcon
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but i was wrong about "they wont delay it,the activision finance team wont allow it"

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so who knows

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speculating is kinda pointless

low grove
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YeAh

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I m very tired. No holidays since 2 years

strange falcon
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lol

low grove
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They better be release it in november haha

strange falcon
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nah lul

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they already offering refunds

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so i dont think they're doing a 3 week delay

low grove
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Fine. First week of december is acceptable then

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😂

strange falcon
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the emote of the guy with the happy mask but he's crying behind the mask

low grove
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Yes also inside

peak fern
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so the prepatch is gonna be a pretty damn long one

low grove
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Yeah

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At least we can try new stuff

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Are they gonna disable random bgs and dungeons during pre-patch?

strange falcon
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i think the devs wanted to delay months ago

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they even did the split prepatch

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and then finally they were allowed to delay it because the players were clamoring for it too

soft flower
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How long you guys thing prepatch will last? Hoping I can get a decent couple alts leveled in-between and finish my warfront set

strange falcon
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we cant know really

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but prob december

velvet violet
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If Pre event starts with prepatch it should be around mid/end november

strange falcon
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zombie event does not start

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on the 13th

low grove
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Daaamn!!! paladin

terse anvil
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I really hope shadowlands hits the week before Christmas.. then my vacation will line up👌

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Regardless I guess I’ll have 19 days off with the game

spark niche
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Same with the vacation

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would be great to have a lil time off to play release

low grove
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@terse anvil i dont think so. Because blizz also gets days off for christmas. They have to work a lot when launch happens. A week isnt enough in my opinion. Their responsibilites, customer feedback etc. idk

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Tickets, in-game issues

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Mid nov is ok thats what i pray for 🤣

topaz sparrow
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Whenever SL launches, it'll be 2 weeks before the raid opens, that's not gonna happen during christmas. Especially not mythic, so i'm not sure when they'll do it honestly. Feels like mid-nov is the most ideal launch window for it to be released provided they can get enough work done by then

soft flower
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I say just release it next year

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Seems silly to just release it two weeks from original date

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Might as well just release it and just patch it two weeks later if that was the case

tropic trail
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My money is on mid november early december, raid in January.

frozen stratus
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Early january febraury raid

soft flower
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I'm hoping January that's when I'll have more time off

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And have had my fill of new leveling system lol and warfront set

gaunt pulsar
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They wont wait 6 weeks to open raid wth

frozen stratus
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Launch in january raid in febraury

royal nebula
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I'm sure it was hard enough for them to say they're delaying it - they already said EOY so I really doubt they'd have put that in unless they were super for reals serious this time.

frozen stratus
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I doubt they actually know

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Id rather see a its ready when its ready approach

soft flower
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I feel like with the new leveling system most people will have lots to do until xpac release

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The fact that every xpac ends at 50 means you can do endgame for just about any xpac so you can work on getting mogs for xpacs you never had a chance too even more so now that I can solo most xpacs raids and dungeons

deep pawn
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you can still solo WoD content with ease and lots of legion at 50? Or is that gonna have to wait for us to be 60 to activate the scaling

soft flower
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You can solo at 50

deep pawn
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okay, I know legion caps at 45 currently.

soft flower
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Legion you might need to be 60 but even at 50 you should be able to solo some content

frozen stratus
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You should be able to solo a good deal

deep pawn
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like it is now, awesome. Wasn't sure how the scaling worked currently

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WoD scares me a bit capping at 40 which is a bit shorter than the traditional 11 levels to activate the scaling

frozen stratus
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Hmm they will likely change how that work

deep pawn
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perhaps it'll be 6 now

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no, can't be that

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odds are they'll just code an exception in for WoD at level 50

soft flower
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The xpac was likely delayed more so for scaling issues rather than the actual xpax

deep pawn
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Classic, TBC, and Wrath all capping at level 30 is gonna mess with those level cap guilds

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or give them a ton more content

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who knows

frozen stratus
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Level cap guilds?

deep pawn
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there's people on live who exp cap their characters at certain expansion caps and go through the content in that era before moving on

frozen stratus
terse anvil
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Now they don’t have to worry

deep pawn
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hah, don't portal to kun-lai as a monk

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streaming error

tiny stream
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@deep pawn My first time leveling I did that.

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But I wish I didn't have to stop my progress to play through content. That's why this is better

deep pawn
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I was just seeing what the buff is changed too, but I'm assuming the character is lost

dense plover
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yes - pandaria is still broken

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its been broken for about a month

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i THINK its fixed on beta and they just havent backported the fix to ptr

soft flower
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So can you go from 10-50 in outlands?

deep pawn
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yep

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in chromie time at least

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otherwise it caps at 30

meager badger
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@soft flower you can go from 10-50 in like pretty much anything

terse anvil
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I really look forward to this...

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replaying old expansions but having them be relevant

tiny stream
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How is Pandaria broken right now?

dense plover
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causes you to DC and locks your character

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you just cant go there

frozen stratus
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that is oof

tiny stream
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Weird....

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Pandaria is one of the best expansions to play through again too.

frozen stratus
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it probably has to do with a character state

dense plover
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^ something is broken

terse anvil
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they need to roll that fix over

deep pawn
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I'll enjoy doing more than 2 zones of a certain expansion

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but sounds like you get up to maybe 3?

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haha

flint orbit
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Do we get the scourge event on day 1 of pre patch or the week after?

deep pawn
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We don't know yet

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It'll be 3-4 weeks before expansion launch

terse anvil
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They will put it off till closer to launch

minor cove
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Anyone know if archeology and chromie time are fixed yet?

ivory meadow
tropic trail
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ope

deep pawn
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finally

upper lantern
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nice

bitter pewter
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Anybody know the required level to start the green fire quest for warlocks come level squish?

soft flower
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Shitt I need to make a hunter again

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I'm gonna piss off lots of rogues

tight ferry
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Well yeah you got a good matchup against one.

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Personally don't think being tracked is something I care about in pvp. Also cloak of shadows.

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Rogues don't get more than 2 opportunities to make impact in pvp

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So hunters mark has no impact on the outcome of matches.

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At least not as much as it suggests it has.

tropic trail
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How long does lvling take with heirlooms + the 100% buff + the 10% exp drink?

strange falcon
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the 100% buff wont be in the prepatch

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10% exp drink i think you mean the bfa potion

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people have reported the new leveling taking from 6 to 12 hrs

tropic trail
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But blizzard sayed the 100% buff will stay as sl is delayed

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through all oktober

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6 hours wow

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thats fast

strange falcon
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i think that may have been the repbuff

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the 100% is to account for how fast the new leveling is

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so if you have new leveling in prepatch

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you shouldnt have the 100% too

deep pawn
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I hope the 100% buff isn't in prepatch haha.

frozen stratus
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the rep buff?

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or the exp buff?

deep pawn
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Exp

frozen stratus
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thats going away im pretty sure

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its just supposed to make leveling time similar to what it is on prepatch

dense plover
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^

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only the rep buff is staying

deep pawn
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Since prepatch is still going to be faster than right now haha

frozen stratus
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yes

deep pawn
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I was going slow and still getting a level every 10-15 minutes.

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That doesn't include doing dungeons with their quests

tight ferry
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Yeah that slows down past 80

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Still gonna push see if I can hit 120 before prepatch

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Just need to do 36 more levels in 6 days.

sturdy bane
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10-50 is going to be fast? i hope it doesnt take like 4 hours to reach 50.

tight ferry
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It takes around 9

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But 50 is the current 120

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So 9 is perfectly fine

sturdy bane
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yep

dry junco
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the fastest a streamer did 1-50 was 3 hours i believe nad 1-60 was like between 7-9

tropic trail
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look forward to battling some dirty alliance this coming tuesday

errant wraith
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do we know what ilvl is going to be dropped during the event?

deep pawn
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Same as normal raid

soft flower
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any prepatch exclusive mogs?

upper lantern
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I think the mogs are variants of the Warfront sets, not sure though

soft flower
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i would love thatt

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the warfront sets are badass but such a pain to farm

tropic trail
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i heared you can transmog two onehanders on two handers in sl?

soft flower
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you mean for warriors?

tropic trail
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no for exampel for survival hunter . Transmog a onehander in a twohander

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*twohander in a onehander

dense plover
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No

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Whoever told you that is wrong

peak fern
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fake news

signal bone
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the mogs are the weaksauce version of the warfront sets from arathi

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but you can get the darkshore weapon appearences from nathanos

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which is good because those are a PITA to get

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still need the shields

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and staff

peak fern
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can't wait to kick his a$$ on all my chars 😩👌

terse anvil
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after losing power ?

signal bone
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blizz should add world-bosses that are mythic difficulty

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right now they're jokes

tropic trail
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I agree, current world bosses need to give guaranteed rewards and also be of actual difficulty.

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Right now there's no real excitement seeing one up

errant hinge
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It would be cool having difficult world bosses

terse anvil
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gotta make sure the lfr peeps can win lol

signal bone
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at the very least have heroic level difficulty - would be cool to see them bring back challenge mode stuff with world bosses using the environment.

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I think the problem is if you have 40 people zerging a boss, you can't really react to mechanics

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so they would have to find a way to limit it

terse anvil
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mop's world bosses were fairly strong for awhile

errant wraith
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Why don't the skills give off light with rtx on

tropic trail
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Because it's RTX shadows

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Not RTX lighting

errant wraith
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Do you get what you just said

tropic trail
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Bruh

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Ray tracing shadows

errant wraith
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It's rtx shaders this includes but not limited to rays... Ray tracing... Real time ray tracing

tropic trail
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Ray tracing is multiple things

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Its not a ray tracing shader

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Its ray tracing shadows

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That is the final answer

errant wraith
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Shadows also means there needs to be light shafts to form a shadow

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And there's no shadows anyways it's barely noticeable

tropic trail
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It means the existing lighting interacts better with the shadows engine

errant wraith
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So what shadows

tropic trail
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There is no enhanced lighting

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End of story

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Move on

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Or argue with Blizzard lmao

errant wraith
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Rtx is ray tracing which means one thing you can look up the technical definition

tropic trail
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🤦

errant wraith
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This is just a pony way to say they have rtx

tropic trail
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It doesnt mean one thing you dolt

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Ray tracing is a suite of features

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Many of which or one of which can be enabled

errant wraith
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Nvidia RTX is a graphics rendering development platform created by Nvidia, primarily aimed at enabling real time ray tracing. Historically, ray tracing had been reserved to non-real time applications (like CGI in visual effects for movies and in photorealistic renderings), wit...

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Yep

tropic trail
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Dude

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I cant even with you lol

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AI-accelerated features (NGX)

Asset formats (USD and MDL)

Rasterization including advanced shaders

Raytracing via OptiX, Microsoft DXR and Vulkan

Simulation tools:

CUDA 10

Flex

PhysX

errant wraith
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Even your argument makes no sense cause there's no new shadows

tropic trail
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Yes there are

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There are literal compare and contrast pictures on Wowhead

frozen stratus
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So do you know how light works

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in real life

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kid

errant wraith
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No there's not I've had live and rtx open at the same time in the same area

frozen stratus
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so heres the deal right

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you can use ray tracing to render a lot

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NOT just light

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light is SUPER intensive to render with raytracing

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we're just not there yet

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however you can use some tricks and get shadows to work very efficiently using raytracing

errant wraith
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Works in all other games saying the have rtx even battlefield

frozen stratus
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the new consoles

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use these tricks

tropic trail
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Study them cus ya wrong

frozen stratus
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they don't do full raytracing

tropic trail
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WoW didnt advertise ray tracing

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It advertised ray traced shadows

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Which it now has

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Ignorance doesn't make you right

frozen stratus
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which is raytracing lol

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like its just using it as a tool for one part

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they'll do lighting eventually

errant wraith
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Works in eso as well

frozen stratus
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probably when the 6080 comes out

tropic trail
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Ray tracing in the way people imagine is the entire suite of tools you have with it

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WoW only uses the ray traced shadows aspect of it

frozen stratus
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like the consoles advertise raytracing dont they?

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but they made it clear they're mostly using it for shadows and some lighting effects

tropic trail
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Yes

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@errant wraith

terse anvil
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the before and after make me not want to turn it on and hurt fps lol

tropic trail
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Ray traced shadows

errant wraith
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Looks like you took two of the same pictures

frozen stratus
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damn

tropic trail
frozen stratus
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its a huge diff

tropic trail
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Dude dyre i cant

frozen stratus
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it is though ano

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like the diff between rtx on and off is big

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lmao

errant wraith
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It isn't lol

tropic trail
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Are you blind

terse anvil
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she highlights this feature

tropic trail
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How blind are you lmao

frozen stratus
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the shadows are softer and more undefined

terse anvil
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I feel like you can notice it more on character faces

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like in the video lol

tropic trail
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You def can

frozen stratus
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ye

tropic trail
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Oh look he disappeared

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Cant even admit he's wrong after memeing on blizz and insisting we didnt know what we were talking about

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'They're the same picture!'

strange falcon
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"corporate wants you to find the differences between those two pictures"

frozen stratus
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@strange falcon

tropic trail
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Lmfao dafire

strange falcon
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i know my memes u.u

tropic trail
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Same dude who said dailies were bad game design though

terse anvil
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What would you do lol

errant wraith
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The pictures I don't see it at all but zoom in the video I did I also saw the animation frame drop

tropic trail
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Yeah frames drop in RTX

terse anvil
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it will take a few updates to get it better optimized

tropic trail
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That's the drawback of the suite

errant wraith
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This is only for pictures but lots of games came out with it and over time fine tuned it so it was better fps, it's not a noticeable difference and I bet sucks in dungeons and kills pcs in raids

tropic trail
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... okay?

errant wraith
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I like the eso add-on for ray tracing better it actually adds lights this is just focusing in on a shadow and from what I can tell just character model shadows

tropic trail
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That's what was advertised yes

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Give it time and lighting will probably be introduced too

terse anvil
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where is the I and S @frozen stratus

frozen stratus
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there

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fixed

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@terse anvil does that satisfy you?

terse anvil
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It actually crushed my hopes

frozen stratus
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does this help

foggy abyss
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Oh Void elves have the Belf DK skins

deep pawn
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it's going to suck during pre-patch not being able to get Azerite from m+

foggy abyss
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Good

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fuck Azerite

graceful echo
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Heyhey . Does anyone know if you can phase out of chromies lvling phase? As far as I know it exists.. and I'm curious because of RP purpose with low-level characters

meager pilot
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Last I heard is you can talk to her again and "switch" expansion phase. I don't know if you can opt yourself out mid-way

graceful echo
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Ouhouh. I'll hope.. because .. forcing ppl to do full lvl pve (12-24 hours playtime speedlvling) is.. well... Meh

strange falcon
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apparently fastest speedleveling in the ptr

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is 6hrs

graceful echo
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😆

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It's after the need?

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Nerf

strange falcon
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yes

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though he only reached lvl 50 in 6hr

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not lvl 60

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so nerf worked

upper lantern
#

hmm. how long is leveling to 50 supposed to take now, for people who aren't desmephisto?

strange falcon
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around 10hrs maybe

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prob 8

cedar seal
#

Hi there

I have a "dumb" question

At what specific hour will the pre-patch be launched on the 13?

strange falcon
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dont think it was specified,but it's most probably reset time

cedar seal
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Reset time is happening on wednesday where i'm living

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3AM CEST

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Then it would mean 3AM CEST on the 14th of October?

strange falcon
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possibly

proper scarab
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is it me or visions are easier on ptr? mmm

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I need them anyway, even after patch, I want the backpack 😛

strange falcon
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they probably nerfed them to account for corruption being gone

proper scarab
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I agreee

frozen stratus
#

anyone here up for minmaxing some powerleveling ideas on ptr

tropic trail
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Just play WoD

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Ez

frozen stratus
#

nah

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yes that does work

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but of course I wanna test other stuff

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to see if it need nerf

tropic trail
#

I think monks might need to get nerfed if Transcendence keeps being 50% exp

frozen stratus
#

like the quest buff?

tropic trail
#

Check out the Practice Makes Perfect daily at the Peak

frozen stratus
#

pretty sure it was 10%

tropic trail
#

[Practice Makes Perfect]

haughty houndBOT
frozen stratus
#

its rested exp now

tropic trail
#

Oooooo

frozen stratus
#

not very useful

tropic trail
#

That's nice tho

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Whenever you don't feel like leveling, just leave your character in town and when you come back, do the daily

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Ez ze

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It's free real estate for procrastinators

frozen stratus
#

true

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but I wanna test sped

random apex
#

hello every one

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is there any mistweaver monk availlable , i have a small question

strange falcon
#

Whenever you don't feel like leveling, just leave your character in town and when you come back, do the daily
that's literally what the new heirloom 6set is about

dense plover
#

I mean - rested xp is still worth something

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It’s just a lot less

deep pawn
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Rested exp with heirlooms is nice

fading girder
#

you do realize that your other alts all gain rest while you level one character? XD

dense plover
#

Yes, the main problem is that if you start an alt and level it to 50 without resting, the heirloom and monk changes are useless

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Also they were originally going to get rid of or reduce the number of upgrade levels and they reverted that, so now you need to upgrade them 4 times for 1-50 even though they also nerfed the stats of those pieces

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Heirlooms are very mediocre now

untold hinge
#

What's your opinion about ret Paladins? They gonna be good?

tropic trail
#

Same problem as they've had for years. Terrible mobility, no spell defense, and their damage outside of CDs is abysmal

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They do insane burst but that's likely to be nerfed

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But I'm still maining it in Shadowlands, so ;D

errant wraith
#

Paladins have better mobility then warlocks do though holy moly warlocks are slow... Or maybe I'm just so used to resto shaman with ghost wolf

untold hinge
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Warlock a think have teleport, gate but also root, fear, coil, stun and kinda hard to reach

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pala have lame horse, and hoj, also freedom(pvp talent) for short speed boost

tropic trail
#

Quick question about Chromie Time

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If a Character is already in a campaign leveling up and prepatch drops will they be in that campaign or will they be in BfA?

frozen stratus
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they aren't "campaigns" really

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like its not exactly a character state

tropic trail
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Ahh

frozen stratus
#

you'll just be wherever you are with whatever quests you have

tropic trail
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Cool

frozen stratus
#

you could and should go back to orgrimmar and talk to chromie for whatever

dense plover
#

Eh

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I wouldn’t

frozen stratus
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why not?

dense plover
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If you are an existing character, going to start chromie time will get you thrown around and you’ll spend at least an hour traveling back and forth between a bunch of different areas

frozen stratus
#

the zones don't scale unless you talk to chromie?

dense plover
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They scale to their expac, but chromie also flags some quest stuff and makes each zone scale different

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Let’s say you’re in the middle of wrath - level like 60-something

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Right now

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If you go talk to chromie once prepatch drops you might be locked out of some of the higher end zones that you were actively questing in

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IE stormpeaks or something

frozen stratus
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does it reset the questlines?

dense plover
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Which means all the quests you have are now worthless, and you have to do the storyline in a different zone which you might have possibly already finished

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I do not think it does

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That’s why you should not do it unless the character has not done the expac you are choosing, or is below current level 60 or ideally, below 20

frozen stratus
#

I think it just depends on what you wanna do

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cause like for me unless the character was already past wod or in wod i'd go and do wod

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but that's just me

deep pawn
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I have a bunch of chars that are 110 currently I'll just do half a bfa zone on each of them

frozen stratus
#

thats pog

deep pawn
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I mean they'll be level 45 on Tuesday

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it's alts from legion when I did 36/36 mage tower

tropic trail
#

These buffs to fire mages should've only gone through the beta not the PTR

frozen stratus
#

why wouldnt they have them on ptr?

tropic trail
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They're still very good without corruptions since we still have essences and azerite traits. No corruptions brings Fire Mages back to how they were in Eternal Palace but better because of these buffs.

meager badger
#

any midnight prepatch hypers in chat

fading girder
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better?

torpid pebble
#

Do we know when the pre patch will be live?

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So i mean with the server restart or the weekly reset

tropic trail
#

13th

severe gull
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3 or so days

strange falcon
#

Same problem as they've had for years. Terrible mobility, no spell defense, and their damage outside of CDs is abysmal
prot has "blessing of spellwarding" or something,but ye,after the burst dmg increase i havent heard any rets complaining

tropic trail
#

I certainly have. It's a brewing discourse in the class community as well.

meager badger
#

since f2p players can go to level 20 right now in retail, how far can you level without a sub in pre patch leveling?

tropic trail
#

That's a great question tbh

strange falcon
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apparently it's not getting changed from 20

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so far

dense plover
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Yep, still 20

strange falcon
#

ay peach is here

proper scarab
#

You playing only f2p, @meager badger ?

meager badger
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no lol

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just wondering

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some friends want to try it but dont wanna spend money on a sub

frozen stratus
#

I mean if you use gold to pay sub you are free to play

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its technically free

terse anvil
#

No lie. I took two weeks off at BFA launch.. and the gold I made on Darkmoon decks alone carried my sub for 6 months

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planning to do the same this go around lol

fading girder
#

@frozen stratus then the f changes to Farm

terse anvil
#

What is the word on using ICC to gear alts... I feel like they should open this up before the patch events...

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because greed

frozen stratus
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lmao

terse anvil
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I mean would it hurt anything lol

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heroic guilds can still get better loot... but common person can get norm raid gear via ICC

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its something to do

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without the scourge being little shits

dense plover
#

Prepatch event is NOT for leveling

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This is not the legion prepatch event

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Leveling is redone in the prepatch with the fastest you can go being about 6 hours and the average player getting about 8-9 hours using Warlords for alts

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BfA is about 12-14

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Legion prepatch leveling was around 10-14 hours so it’s not necessary to have a leveling “event”

meager badger
#

i mean

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the event isnt for leveling

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but people willl definitely play majority for leveling

terse anvil
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I would be doing it for gear not level lol

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gearing them alts

meager badger
#

why would u worry about gear in prepatch?

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when any gear anyone has now is going to become irellevant when shadowlands drops

frail sandal
#

Im about to try out Priest and want to have gear to try the Character and l2p mostly

meager badger
#

if u waqnna try a new class

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just wait for shadowlands

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and just level it to 50 within a day or 2

frail sandal
#

Isnt lvling the same with prepatch?

meager badger
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leveling will be like 60% faster in prepatch then it is currently

frail sandal
#

Ok i thought lvling is already exactly the same as in SL just with Max lvl 50

meager badger
#

oh wait

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im dumb

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i meant

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wait for prepatch

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to try a new character

frail sandal
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Ok thx then. Thats what im about to do

terse anvil
#

I can guarantee that having decent gear will make leveling much easier than hitting SL with a fresh 120

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that is like 280 il compared to 465

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my fresh 120 has 80k hp lol

frail sandal
#

Wont be funny to learn a healer when everyone is geared and bored

meager badger
#

i mean

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by level 52 ur gear will mostlikely be replaced

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also

#

if u need help leveling to 60 in general thats kinda yikes

#

its just leveling

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doesnt require much skill

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or good gear

royal nebula
#

leveling during the first few weeks is also going to be made easier thanks to open tapping. As a hpriest, I just run around holy nova'ing in dense quest areas.

terse anvil
#

This is true.

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rain of fire spam here

royal nebula
#

Follow a DH or DK - be like the tiny fish cleaning the teeth of the big sharks

meager badger
#

even if ur playing a spec that is bad solo and dont wanna switch there will probably be countless groups just for leveling

frail sandal
#

Open tapping?

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Im going to lvl disc

frozen stratus
#

imagine grouping up for leveling

meager badger
#

i can

terse anvil
#

I'll be alone

frozen stratus
#

im planning on leveling solo cause Idont trust anyone

meager badger
#

u share all xp from mobs and quest with party sync so

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4 people =

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doing quests 4 times as quick

frozen stratus
#

yes but I dont have 3 people I trust to not slow me down

meager badger
#

i mean

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they would have to be

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ccing you

frozen stratus
#

no

meager badger
#

to slow you down

frozen stratus
#

they can just be slower players

#

ive always run into that

meager badger
#

ok but how does that slkow u down

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u can still do the quest

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by urself

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and complete it

terse anvil
#

There is them slowing me down and I like to keep up on crafting and stuff so I can get in on that first launch gold making

frozen stratus
#

then im a zone ahead

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and I dont get xp fom them

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plus quests are the main source of xp

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not mobs

meager badger
#

all im saying is

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grouping up

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cant slow u down

frozen stratus
#

yes it can

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100%

meager badger
#

it cannot

frozen stratus
#

yes it can

meager badger
#

just not true

terse anvil
#

If you are waiting on people who afk

meager badger
#

thats u slowing u down

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if ur waiting

frozen stratus
#

yes but why would I be in a group then

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if Im always ahead ?

meager badger
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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im just syaing

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being in a group

frozen stratus
#

if im in ravendreath and their in fucking night fae shit

terse anvil
#

so eventually you out level the people you leave behind

meager badger
#

cant slow u down

frozen stratus
#

why even be in a group

meager badger
frozen stratus
#

cause you won't get xp from them anyways

frozen stratus
#

there's literally no point unless you are like right in line with eachother

meager badger
#

all i was pointing out was

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there is no wayu

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grouping

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can slow you down

frozen stratus
#

they are always a burden unless they are at your pace

meager badger
#

i mean

#

regardless of what u say

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u cant change facts

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:lelw

#

misspell Sadge

frozen stratus
#

you either be slower so you dont blast ahead or you're basically playing alone anyways

meager badger
#

are u delusional today or something dyre

frozen stratus
#

no fuck you

terse anvil
#

Riley trolling

meager badger
#

yall are trolling lol

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idk how this is so hard for u guys to understand

frozen stratus
#

no im not

meager badger
#

maybe saturdays are just not ur day

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go eat a snickers or something

#

lo

#

pepega as fuck in this chat rn

frozen stratus
#

unless Ihave people at my pace there is no reason

meager badger
#

ok i never said that wasnt true

#

literally all i said was

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grouping up

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cannot slow down how fast u level up

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it cannot make it slower

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thats legit all ive been saying KEKW

frozen stratus
#

then why be in a group at all

terse anvil
#

So basically you are saying... you can level in a group but it wont slow you down.. however once you out pace the group you are no longer grouping you are now solo. I understand that you are using the fact that being in a group is not slowing you down. Which is true if you are out pacing the group it is technically not slowing you down.

frozen stratus
#

^

meager badger
#

again idk im just pointing out

frozen stratus
#

its just pointless

meager badger
#

for u sure

frozen stratus
#

yes well I dont have anyone i'd want to level with in a quick way

terse anvil
#

I might be around Dyre if you want to give it ago however if you or I pause I expect you to carry on without me

#

lol

frozen stratus
#

lmao thats fine

#

ill be skipping all story though

terse anvil
#

ouch

#

Maybe I'll get beta before then so I can skip it too

frozen stratus
#

im just going to read it once things are calmer

#

so like much later on idk

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cause I know week 1 and 2 will be focused on gearing up for raid and earning money

meager badger
#

imagine caring about lore

frozen stratus
#

I do care about the lore

#

just gold and raid are important

tropic trail
#

imagine playing an RPG and memeing on the lore

meager badger
#

mmorpg

frozen stratus
#

well yes cause i play the game part of it

meager badger
#

imagine caring about lore when you can just watch a nobbel video in bed

frozen stratus
#

lma o

#

true

meager badger
#

cant wait to do the new raid with my guild

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we arent super try hard but were all fucking terrible

frozen stratus
#

I gotta start finding a guild

#

ill start applying to them on tuesday I think

terse anvil
#

It is the best time to get one

#

I have a schedule change before raid... and the options are : 1. What I want (keep the same raid times) 2. What the wife wants (a new weekend raiding guild)

meager badger
#

why are u even questioning what to do

#

what ur wife wants is always the right option

terse anvil
#

but but my very successful am guild...

#

you know how hard it is to find an AM guild.. and a good one at that!

#

I would have to server transfer for the backup guild I found for weekend raiding.. yes an AM weekend guild.. pretty sure it is the only on period.

limpid spade
#

I find myself with tons of Echoes of Nyalotha

#

will the only use for them on the prepatch be to buy vials?

#

and catch up essences

#

with the corruptions going away, should I just get tons of vials instead?

frozen stratus
#

vials of?

limpid spade
#

for visions

frozen stratus
#

oh

#

one second

limpid spade
#

I'm talking about the currency used for buying corruptions

frozen stratus
#

yes I know

limpid spade
#

from MOTHER

frozen stratus
#

Im just trying to remember if theres another use

#

probably just buy vials tbh

#

or save them

#

its not like they're being deleted

limpid spade
#

MOTHER gives vials, essences and corruptions

#

corruptions are irrelevant and if the essences sold there are catch up material, guess it's just vision vials xD

frozen stratus
#

just save them tbh

#

like use them for essences if you need on alts

#

and for vials if you need them

#

etc.

sharp wren
#

trying to launch ptr and i get this, does anyone know what i can do or just reinstall

fading girder
#

did you just install or update?

#

i had a different error when i copied wow onto this new drive, but restarting the computer helped the blizzard app figure out what it needed to do to accept the copied data

#

so maybe try restarting

sharp wren
#

there was update, need to try that

sharp wren
#

still same message

#

i try to scan and repair

tight ferry
#

Strange that it's only with ptr

#

Try checking for gpu driver updates

#

They did some shit in ptr that caused errors for me.

#

Until I installed the latest gpu driver that wasn't even recommended

sharp wren
#

well there was one strange thing when i upgraded my pc, before it the ptr didn't whine about my graphics card but after it it said it's outdated

tight ferry
#

Yeah.

#

I had good ol render issues an my gpu sounded like a jet

#

But they always forget to tell ya that's alphas,betas and ptrs tend to fuck up hardware.

sharp wren
#

mm... my pc is saying that 1,5T isn't enough space 'free some space' -.-

#

it seems scan and repair worked... yay, i can do my guild work again 🙂

tight ferry
#

Cool

minor cove
#

Can anyone link the covenant spreadsheet that’s best for each class / spec please ❤️

tight ferry
#

@minor cove

#

Take it with a good ol container of salt tho

minor cove
#

@tight ferry ty

rotund totem
#

That sheet is so out of date it is literally all wrong lmfao

tropic trail
#

any sv hunters here ? 😄

plain vigil
#

Ay

tropic trail
#

@plain vigil do you think that the bow does too less dmg in the prepatch to use the range attacks for avoiding meele attacks

plain vigil
#

Which ability ?

#

Cause arcane shot isn't supposed to be a survival spell past level 10

tropic trail
#

Yeah those ones . To jump back out of range and shoot with arrows

#

So useless spells for me

plain vigil
#

You don't have to jump out of range

#

They don't have a minimum range requirement

tropic trail
#

Yeah and that is the problem

#

Sv hunters get spells they don't need

plain vigil
#

It's a nonissue

#

The only ranged spells you have are serpent sting and kill shot

tropic trail
#

No

#

You have arcane shot and the other shot

plain vigil
#

Then just don't use them in your rotation

tropic trail
#

And that one's are useless while priest and warri get usefully spells but I think you don't get what I want to say have a nice day

plain vigil
#

You're just not being clear

#

"oh no I have abilities that I shouldn't use, whatever sh'all I do"

#

Just

#

Don't

#

Use them

strange falcon
#

but "USELESS ABILITIES REEE"

#

how are they going to survive

#

you could argue hunter's mark is "useless ability" now too xd

#

just dont use it

#

And that one's are useless while priest and warri get usefully spells but I think you don't get what I want to say have a nice day
i get it,it's the age old thing that used to happen literally every expansion before wod(including mop)

#

"they got ultra op fun abilities and i got shitty alter time bs that's useless"

tropic trail
#

"they got ultra op fun abilities and i got shitty alter time bs that's useless"
@strange falcon it is not the I totally dislike Hunter but for me it is difficult to see other classes getting strong abilittys and I just don't get anything usefull . :/ It is just not balanced . That is what I want to say . To say don't use the ability . Yes but why do I even have it than xD

#

But I think blizzard will rework the Hunter (sv) one day . Couse it is really sad how they don't care about such a class with such great potential

strange falcon
#

Yes but why do I even have it than xD
a lot of abilities coming back in SL,were initially removed,FOR THAT EXACT REASON,

#

but players wanted them back so bad

#

blizz gave them back

#

so

#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

terse anvil
strange falcon
#

tierlists,wtf is this

#

just go wherever you feel ez done,if people tell you "wtf are you doing on Kyrian rogue"

#

you just join another group ez

#

if you arent interested in mythic raids or m+20 there's no point to look at a tierlist

terse anvil
strange falcon
#

looks about right

atomic thorn
#

I want to jump to Affliction in Shadowlands, but I see that Dustro is the DPS king of the Warlock specs.

Will I not get groups if I'm not playing my best spec? 🤔

upper lantern
#

Tuning is still ongoing, I wouldn't be worried about it

atomic thorn
#

Awesome :)

peak fern
#

you can always play whatever you want and make your own groups

terse anvil
#

Aff is actually better for most the raid bosses its like 7-3 Aff Destro

#

But honestly I played Ret for every tier even though it was considered bad lol

strange falcon
terse anvil
#

lol

peak fern
#

I would react with this tbh

#

if I could

foggy abyss
#

Meh bad tier list

#

Doing more DPS still is meta Sadge

terse anvil
#

just wait for the guides a couple weeks after launch

#

switch

#

gg

strange falcon
#

just wait for the guides a couple weeks after launch
just change character every week

#

ez fix

terse anvil
#

easier fix.. 4 of each class

strange falcon
#

nah that would imply the base class is always top tier

terse anvil
#

true I mean.. 4 survival hunters... puke

dense plover
#

or - ya know, who cares about being perfect? im playing necrolords for my main - brewmaster undead

terse anvil
#

the great one is typing

#

30% more damage is why

strange falcon
dense plover
#

ah, see - thats what they are currently planning to fix

terse anvil
#

I need a huge Epeen

dense plover
#

ideally, if they fix it, itll be maybe 5% dps

#

not 30

#

they JUST started balancing

#

and they purposefully delayed because of this kind of stuff

terse anvil
#

Legion had pretty good balance

dense plover
#

lol

#

not at launch

terse anvil
#

true

dense plover
#

it was worse than SLs is looking to be

#

mainly because of the combo of legendaries and artifacts

terse anvil
#

More systems in SL

dense plover
#

eh

strange falcon
#

"pretty good balance" looks at fire mage's pyroblast bracers legendary

dense plover
#

but they now know the problem points for a lot of those systems

strange falcon
#

🤔

terse anvil
#

yeah that is why they are reducing the soul binds effects

#

reduce them down and beginning the tune

meager badger
#

ANY PREPATCH HYPERS IN CHAT

strange falcon
#

kommrade blob

#

i like

meager badger
#

i literally

#

cannot wait

#

for prepatch

#

i might be more hyped for prepatch than sl its self

errant hinge
#

I'm ready for the leveling changes it feels a lot better than it does on live

#

feels bad going 20+ lvls getting nothing new

frozen stratus
#

Im hype for cn and thats it

strange falcon
#

well it's nice to be hyped

#

just dont get too hyped for SL and get hit with expectations vs reality

frozen stratus
#

Well im only hype for cn

terse anvil
#

what is cn

frozen stratus
#

tier 26

terse anvil
#

ooohhh Nathria

#

I am a huge fan of the raids.

frozen stratus
#

yes

terse anvil
#

I wish I didn't miss out on the ones I have when they were relevant

last condor
#

Which do you guys think will be the go-to expansion for leveling with chromie?

frozen stratus
#

w o d

last condor
#

You think? How come?

frozen stratus
#

its the fastest

#

now

last condor
#

Ah, fair enough

frozen stratus
#

just quest density

#

ease of quests

#

navigation

last condor
#

I was thinking it'd be Legion or BFA just for the artifacts, but yeah that makes sense

frozen stratus
#

nah gear is never a problem

#

well

#

it is if you wanna do islands to level

last condor
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I mean bein stronger does lead to things dying faster usually 😛

frozen stratus
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you can always send alts gear

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I know des mephisto has been testing that iirc

last condor
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How does it compete with boosting strats?

frozen stratus
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a lot of boost strats have been stomped

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idk we'll see

last condor
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Wonder what level f2p accts will be locked at

frozen stratus
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ive been told its 20 still

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but idk

last condor
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hmm

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Twink boosting might still be a thing then

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lock someone at 20, get bis gear

dense plover
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its 100% still 20

frozen stratus
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aighty

dense plover
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but you also cant do LFG and a bunch of other stuff

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a lot of that has been moved to level 50 req.

frozen stratus
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do you think they'll push the mop fix to prepatch?

dense plover
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Ion replied

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he said its fixed

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read latest news

frozen stratus
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my bad

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I thought it was a dupe article so I ignored it

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lmao

shrewd glen
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Thank you

feral belfry
frozen stratus
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what level are you

feral belfry
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50

frozen stratus
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chromie is disabled at 50

feral belfry
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That is silly

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so now I'm stuck 1 shotting / god mode?

frozen stratus
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what

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what level is stuff for you

feral belfry
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Grey

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lol

frozen stratus
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so stuff still caps out

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so like TBC/Classic/Wotlk should be like level 30

feral belfry
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Yeah that is so silly

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they added this entire scaling system and you can't enjoy old content without 1 shotting it lol

errant hinge
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Think people were saying you’ve gotta turn off exp at 49 if you want to finish a whole expansions story

frozen stratus
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you can party sync

feral belfry
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hmm Thanks and Darn

errant hinge
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And have somewhat of a challenge still

feral belfry
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This a MMO not a MP Game 😛

frozen stratus
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MP?

feral belfry
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No one Teams up lol

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Multiplayer

frozen stratus
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MMO means massively multiplayer online...

feral belfry
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No Shit

frozen stratus
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you have to team up to beat its challenges

feral belfry
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And like I said no one teams up lol

frozen stratus
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I team up all the fucking time

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M+, raid, torghast

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etc

feral belfry
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Hi I like to do Lore Master more Legit please follow me the next 3 months lol

fading girder
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you can party sync
@frozen stratus i think PS won't actually work for the context

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it resets if the party changes at all

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so you'd have to do all of a zone in one go with no disconnects or party changes

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i thought i could get myself to do the suramar questline by using party sync so the xp would be an incentive, but no 😦

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(on a 111 on retail)

tropic trail
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And like I said no one teams up lol

Do dungeons or PvP. Questing is a single-player experience.

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Though can just as well be a MP experience.

deep pawn
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does Pre-patch finally remove Herald of the Titans?

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I have no idea where I read that residuum was going away with pre-patch but apparently that's not true anymore

final lily
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Can Ret Pally use a shield with all thier spells ?

tropic trail
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No

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They can't use Divine Storm/Blade of Justice/Templar's Verdict

tropic trail
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will fury warrior do more dmg with twohanders than onehanders? in prepatch?

torpid pebble
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@final lily They cant but it would be really cool

last condor
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HOA will be unobtainable, right? Getting my leveling gear enchanted now~

meager badger
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ANY PREPATCH HYPERS IN THIS MF CHAT ROOM

terse anvil
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Riley put your boner away

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still have like 33 ish hours left to go 😦

meager badger
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but its tommorrow

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and thats pog champion

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unfortunately my sleep schedule is so fucked it starts right as i would normally be going to bed but i will fucking fix that

upper lantern
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prepatch ftw

terse anvil
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I am excited.. hoping they finish early lol

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which is doubtful.

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My sleep schedule is unfortunately the opposite.. I will try to sleep in and will still get up at like 545am

last condor
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I'll probably stay up tonight & sleep through maint

terse anvil
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I wish my work would let me come in... instead I'll be watching that launcher lol

strange falcon
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i am still very confused if riley is a grill

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or a buoy

last condor
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Why would that matter lol

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How do you get heirlooms on the ptr? do you have to re-buy them?

terse anvil
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same way I believe

frozen stratus
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Ptr you got to copy account info

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If your heirlooms still dont show up on ptr then go rebuy them

frank fractal
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This is a dumb question, but just to confirm: in the 9.0 patch all pre-shadowlands content scales to level, so I could level what is currently 110-120 in old expansions instead of bfa if I wanted to, right?

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Or does it halt the scaling at BFA levels and force you thru BFA questing to hit 120/50

tropic trail
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The former

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You can do 10-50 in any expansion

frank fractal
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Lovely, thank you very much! 😊👍

deep pawn
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The scaling is only in chromie time which you enter in capital cities

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Odds are 45-50 will be an hour tops though

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And why would the heart of Azeroth be unobtainable. The levelling experience won't direct you to it, but my understanding is it's not being removed