#World of Warcraft
tulip badger
hm
like what
its hard to add stuff into mythic encounters that dont make them either harder or easier
Especially if they want a lazy solution that works on every boss
elfin steeple
Why can't they be made easier?
It's a throw away season lol
Who cares
Elitists don't matter
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
the council fight?
atomic sonnet
Nah, the noblegarden event
elfin steeple
oh right
I hadn't paid attention. I just started tagging it, afking and coming back after doing it on alt #50.
they enabled dual spec for SoD early on US realms, not sure about EU
just got mine in org
apparently they had the guy in Tanaris, and dual spec would bug out if you bought it in combat so you wouldn't receive it. So rip 50g for those people.
so they moved it to the capitals lol
tulip badger
i guess they quacked under the pressure
atomic sonnet
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elfin steeple
Another one would yelling in a public area going: "LF3M melee for Walmart, full on range. MS > OS."
6 minutes until phase 3 SoD
elfin steeple
so sod gold is uh, inflated to hell
people are getting 100g an hour off of the new "Dream incursion" events. Which... is a lot. Like, a lot a lot.
And it encourages grouping up with 4 other people, so each group is getting 500g an hour
and on my small server the area was packed, so I can't imagine larger servers.
elfin steeple
sounds like they just nerfed it
tulip badger
exploit early 😎
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I got the Noblegarden flying mount. Just did it once a day and got lucky.
As usual. 
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
I kind of dig it actually
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atomic sonnet
Hoers
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grizzled parcel
Nice, what model is that?
grizzled parcel
Yeah, the mount is more what I was interested in.
elfin steeple
I believe that's Goldenmane
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
king
atomic sonnet
Aaaaaand my first ever plunder victory
(in a previous plunder match) taking camping to the next level
atomic sonnet
I got lucky with it because there were 3 others remaining then the storm shrank to a smaller space - the two stronger enemies got caught in the storm/killed each other, the third one I knew was somewhat weaker. Still was a bit too close for my liking but I got him 
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atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
very nice
Not too far away either (potentially, idk summer could mean August). I'm sure a lot of people are very happy to hear that
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
Um, fuck yeah
atomic sonnet
Ohh, *Panda*monium. Got it.
elfin steeple
grizzled parcel
Oh my god
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So, people can get to 70 without DF doing this event if they have a sub it sounds like?
virus!
grizzled parcel
... fuckin AVIF
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elfin steeple
Golden Astral Serpent!?
Sign me up!
And a recolor of Ji'kun or whatever his name is
a nice recolor
atomic sonnet
And transmogs
tulip badger
MoP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
atomic sonnet
Kinda like MOP with a sprinkling of season of discovery craziness, and more transmogs and stuff
And you can even bring this character to TWW too
elfin steeple
If this pans out well it could lead to a philosophy change when it comes to leveling
'cause leveling really is a major sore spot for every version of WoW
atomic sonnet
I'm all on board with them doing more experiments like this
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elfin steeple
Oh good, only a few more steps before I consider removing my addons that do that then.
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
MoP celebration event: a panda boss will spawn every hour in SW, Valdrakken and Orgrimmar. Kill him for a chance at this elusive 1% drop chance mount.
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Season 4: We heard ya loud and clear. 📢 Many of you felt that bringing back the Dragonflight dungeons for this season wasn't enough, and we agree. So, to spicen things up we're bringing back seasonal affixes! This time around we got a juicy one we can't wait to have you all do in season 4.
New seasonal affix: Meta. Gain a 10% buff for playing the correct class and spec. Choosing not to will lead to serious consequences. Playing an off-meta spec will have your character spamming in chat that you just love wasting everyone's time by playing such an awful spec. You'll also have a significantly lower chance at loot.
We feel that this new affix will shake things up a bit and add a new layer of fun. We hope to see you for this upcoming season!
tulip badger
meta is a demon hunter ability
tulip badger
anyone else waiting for the ashenvale event rn
elfin steeple
the pvp thing or incursion?
tulip badger
the pvp event
atomic sonnet
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Wow, those are some scary jpg toes
atomic sonnet
That's your focus? 
elfin steeple
Yeah! Look at those things! It's like the toes melted together like they've been sitting in the microwave too long.
That's some classic graphics
elfin steeple
Oh, I 'member...
I can never forget...
It's beautiful
They're in the shape of lamp posts
atomic sonnet
I think they leaned into the memery and at the next in-person ff14 con or something, attendees had square grape earrings?
https://www.thegamer.com/final-fantasy-14-fan-turns-the-low-poly-grapes-into-earrings/ oh, might've been a fan thing
elfin steeple
That's the best way to go about it. When something is beloved, even if it's really dumb, it's best just to lean into the dumbery of it all and appease the crowd.
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
Half a million games sounds so small? Maybe im wrong
elfin steeple
It hasn't been out that long, and a lot of people abstained from doing it because of pvp
so I'd so those are great numbers
probably more plunderstorm matches happened then all of arena / bgs done in the same amount of days.
tulip badger
would be a lot cooler video if they named who had the most win and most plunder instead of just saying someone has done it
(its me)
atomic sonnet
( 
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Legendary cloak appearances will be available, but not the questline.
The original legendary cloak questline will not be available. You’ll want to reach level 70 on a Timerunner and receive the legendary cloak appearances on your Cloak of Infinite Potential to enable access to Ordos for this event as well as the rest of your WoW account.
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I'm still proud I managed to get the cloak originally, but I'm glad other people will be able to do the jump to the Fire Temple now.
elfin steeple
I think I got the cloak? I can't remember
atomic sonnet
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ah yes, ye olde hyooge warrior hit
elfin steeple
I thought they were pretty good in pvp. Focus was a nice change, trap launcher helped with cc. You'd have your pet stun a target or you would scatter shot and then you would launch a freezing trap on them.
mm was pretty strong
like, I don't remember if it was aimed shot or steady shot, but I remember one of those being disgustingly good if you could get one off on a locked down target
tulip badger
my memory of what was OP in cata pvp was necrotic strike and triple dps in 3v3 (ret pala heals strong)
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elfin steeple
You can buy world boss, rare and raid mounts for bronze
I have a strong feeling we'll see them do other expansions. Not sure about WoD, but Legion for sure.
would be a good opportunity to bring back legion artifact weapons but with new skins
atomic sonnet
Almost...almost... 
elfin steeple
You've got this! Two more! Two more!
atomic sonnet
two or three matches and it goes fine, people avoid each other at the start. First match after that crying rarity, a ganking [BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP]er
elfin steeple
You're almost there, just wade through the jerks to finish.
atomic sonnet
40 is mainly titles but i might as well. 39 has the mounts
atomic sonnet
39!
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atomic sonnet
These fucking pieces of shit
mid game yeah but two of these pieces of shit chasing me and working together to hunt me down. Never touched each other, purely hunted me for like 3 minutes straight
It's far from the end and there's like 20 minutes remaining but why fucking waste your time with that
Assholes
There's opportunistic, then there's pure dick moves
grizzled parcel
These people don't care about the actual game they're playing, they just want to kill people. I ran into a couple of them on Reddit, upset that people were complaining about the ganking, and saying "It's PvP, the entire point is to kill other players." Like, they don't actually understand the game, they're just fixated on killing players to the exclusion of everything else.
atomic sonnet
850 xp needed and one of those assholes stopped me while i was at 680
atomic sonnet
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tulip badger
i like the simple saber or the rapier
atomic sonnet
I keep trying to do a thing or two for that giga achievement for dragonflight, then look at it again and see how many RNG garbage parts there are and give up again
atomic sonnet
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atomic sonnet
Honestly, this
grizzled parcel
Mhm. You're going to be focused on leveling and unlocking things, dailies will just distract you and cut into your time. You can always do Tillers once you hit level cap and transfer to Live.
Also, I just realized 90% of Pandamonium will be people thinking "I should try a monk." 
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
hehehe
grizzled parcel
hm. I might jump into that Friday when I'm off, then.
atomic sonnet
With the daily bonus, and trying to kill mobs until I died, i usually could get 1.1-1.2k plunder. So should be almost an entire level with double rep. I tended to try to go for 2, max 3 levels a day
Hopefully should be significantly faster
atomic sonnet
Belatedly getting around to that video, and it near immediately answers a question I had - you can play DH/Evoker in MOP remix
elfin steeple
looks fun
definitely going to snag the last few rare mounts I need
This would be soo good for SL
so many mounts
...but it's SL...
Maybe they could later. There were definitely some good things about SL and I'm sure they could take out all the bad and just leave in the fun bits
atomic sonnet
Too soon Executus for SL but yeah. A few xpacs down the line
They seem willing to faff about with mechanics a lot so if they remove a lot of the garbage ones that were in SL..
atomic sonnet
random twitch streamer's viewer commend: "4 plunder matches and 6 renown levels. Nice."
Oh and, it's time limited. https://www.wowhead.com/news/2x-reputation-in-plunderstorm-ends-week-of-april-30th-338744
elfin steeple
4 good matches or?
atomic sonnet
"just grinding the plunder like 90% of the others" so I'm not entirely sure. The best grind is do quest/die immediately
That probably includes the daily dubloon boost, which is normally 800. If that gets doubled, that's 1600 on its own
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atomic sonnet
I ain't testing since I'm done
tulip badger
someone just told me theres a 3v3 plunderstorm tournament live https://www.twitch.tv/twitchrivals
atomic sonnet
If you're trying for the dog at all, cataloguing the dragon isles for Nat Pagle/Abu'gar should both be up right now
atomic sonnet
Storms aren't too bad, if you're okay geared you can tear through stuff and there's groups int he custom group finder. Just killed 200 element infused mobs in the two storms currently up in about 40 minutes
tulip badger
i think war within alpha starts in 10 min
grizzled parcel
Now if we can get a mode that doesn't make wolves hostile murder machines...
elfin steeple
I second this but only if that becomes true for all foxes and cats too
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I second this but only if that becomes true for all foxes and cats too
While that's a good point, wolves are just stereotypical RPG villain mobs and it's horribly unfair. I rarely see cats & foxes used as vicious antagonists, just minor mobs that wander around which you can hunt.
elfin steeple
Fair for foxes, they usually are portrayed as one who just gets a bad rap and are just trying to get by. Cats on the other hand are often depicted as villainous.
I mean, I'm still waiting for "All Cats Go to Heaven" as a follow up to a cult classic, but uh... don't think that's happening.
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elfin steeple
oh cool
One day we'll get an expansion we don't have a new max level... One day...
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Ohh, what if after getting your first character to 80 you could bring an alt alongside with you that is constrolled by ai and you can get them exp by doing open-world content on the main?
That could feed into the warbands thing
atomic sonnet
Seems they're looking at allowing dracthyr to be other classes (not sure if for this xpac tho), but other races couldn't be evokers
grizzled parcel
That's fair, Evoker has a lot of abilities tied to the Dracthyr.
Also, I would adore playing a dracthyr mage or rogue.
atomic sonnet
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elfin steeple
just a couple epic mounts worth of gold an hour or so, nothing too gamebreaking
If they were smart they'd be doing this on another account because I imagine that's a very easy ban. Make the gold, buy consumes/trade goods from the market, send mail, and boom.
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
I really don't like those "I'm riding on something's shoulders" mounts, but I'm glad for people who enjoy them.
atomic sonnet
Some do look absolutely bitchin' tho
That top right elemental in the thumbnail
apparently you can fight in non naked dracthyr form in combat in tww 
"Dracthyr Class Restriction Removed Likely "Early" in The War Within"
Masque: as in, the visage form all the time rather than having it turn you to dracthyr in combat half the time
grizzled parcel
Oh. I was confused by the "non naked dracthyr form" comment.
atomic sonnet
I figured
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'cause the s1 TWW armor for evokers is absolutely awesome
You're basically wearing gucci Deathwing
Also this npc looks awesome
grizzled parcel
Supposedly they're working on that. Last I heard they had some sort of AI-training system taking old transmog sets and applying them to the dracthyr model, to try and streamline it.
elfin steeple
Ooh, neat.
atomic sonnet
Yeah, Ai stuff to eliminate the absolute drugework type of thing, I am on board with
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grizzled parcel
That is... spiky.
elfin steeple
Looks like they already handed out 2 week bans for this exploit. My guild has a few warlocks who got got.
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
Oh thank god, moving expansion Resources to other characters will save me so much grinding.
I've got craptons of Legion supplies I could send to an alt so they can get through their class hall faster.
grizzled parcel
Seems like they're fixated on Breath for Frost DKs.
At least they're considering an alternative.
atomic sonnet
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grizzled parcel
Catch up bags, nice.
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
I'll probably come back for S4 towards the end when we're getting close to pre-patch
but right now I'm not super interested in what they have to offer this season
atomic sonnet
I'd mostly do it to get the mount for doing the raids on 'awakened' or whatever it is
elfin steeple
I was thinking about doing that and just hitting ksm in m+ for the other mount too
atomic sonnet
yar
elfin steeple
It's SoD, but it's an interesting watch. The mage discord has worked out how to be able to teleport anywhere they want in the game using an ability brought into the recent phase.
atomic sonnet
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Hence the awakened raid change, it used to be 1 raid awakened for 2 weeks in a cycle. Now I think it's 1 raid awakened for 1 week, cycles. Presumably after the first cycle of all three it's all three awakened at the same time
After the 3rd week of awakened (so third raid), 10.2.7 and then remix happens
elfin steeple
I thought I heard something like the 7th week all awakened raids would be active
That they would cycle twice before then
atomic sonnet
That was the initial plan, yes. That's what got changed I think
elfin steeple
ah okay
elfin steeple
indeed
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlWFksH_zpI
Crud I'm working that day and the next, so I'll miss the initial rush of Pandamonium. In fact, I probably won't be able to play much that weekend, either.
atomic sonnet
The initial rush will probably crash the servers, so i'd say that's a good thing
I think it'll last until TWW prepatch so you'd have time, I imagine
grizzled parcel
I read that Pandamonium characters will be completely isolated from the rest of the game until TWW?
atomic sonnet
Yes, but unlike SoD or classic, once the event is done that character is then available on retail
grizzled parcel
Ah, good. Someone was saying you wouldn't be able to interact at all on retail until TWW.
atomic sonnet
That does depend on when the event ends. Might be TWW prepatch, might be launch, but I doubt it's the latter
grizzled parcel
Ah, okay. So you're locked in for the duration of the event, that makes sense.
atomic sonnet
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I'm thinking either vulpera, nightborne, or orc warlock.
Orc seems suboptimal, but damn they've got the lore reasons for it.
Or I could follow the crowd and try Orc Monk. 
"I hit things. A lot."
atomic sonnet
Reminds me of that D&D comic
elfin steeple
"Inner peace? I channel my inner RAGE. RAAAAAAAAAAWH!" Punches a hole in a wall.
atomic sonnet
Have you learned nothing of the Sha, young padawan
elfin steeple
"I punch them too..."
grizzled parcel
Joke's on you, my orc would find inner peace by beating the fuck out of things.
Huh. Orc heritage armor looks cool except for the huge fucking skull shoulder.
elfin steeple
but... but... that's like the best part... 
grizzled parcel
Which means I need to kill Garrosh a bunch for his shoulders. 
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atomic sonnet
And don't forget there's a skip to just garrosh now 
grizzled parcel
Oh that's right, we're getting open transmog again.
elfin steeple
If you wait until TTW you can do it on all your alts since appearances will unlock on everyone you play no matter the armor/weapon type.
grizzled parcel
Time to murderize Garrosh on all my high level characters...
atomic sonnet
There is a limit to that though. Class sets will only unlock in transmog for the correct char/class
But say non tier plate/mail drops while on your leather wearer, it'll unlock as long as it's not tier
atomic sonnet
Yeah kinda hoping they change that before TWW
elfin steeple
or at least make those tokens/pieces boa
to mail
annoying but better than nothing
Patch day. Woo! I'll hop on immediately eventually.
Did they add fun affixes yet?
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
I'm really holding out hope that they turn that around, even if it's halfway into the season.
Extremely unlikely, but here's hoping.
atomic sonnet
I don't really see anything rep based for them. Best comment I've seen is to use them to upgrade items you're going to vendor, to get more gold out of it. That or there was the thing about getting BOA stuff if you had min 1k rating
tulip badger
i have 0 rating
atomic sonnet
That would've been for s3, i'm guessing s4 might do the same tho
But yeah not really much else to spend flightstones on
tulip badger
Just cashed in 50 iskaara rep
grizzled parcel
Yeah, apparently anywhere that had the reset has already lost their flightstones.
atomic sonnet
RELEASE THE KRAKEN
atomic sonnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqn9wFqAlaU the alpha seems to include the start/end date of remix in the ingame calendar. August 20th, with the may starting date. So it's a good while
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atomic sonnet
I'd ask how people are even getting that many, but on SWTOR I saw people who had like 50+ chars on multiple servers, each
elfin steeple
Meanwhile on FFXIV I just have one character who is a Swiss army knife of classes and professions
atomic sonnet
And SWTOR is in wow style but warbands is basically SWTOR's legacy mechanic
grizzled parcel
I'm willing to bet the Bones are the equivalent of Embers of Fyralath, gathering them gives you increased chances of the drop.
atomic sonnet
Nice, black temple timewalking drops 493 items, and the cache from the quest is i think 506. Got a nice 493 sword and upgraded it to 506
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
Not too surprising. Blizzcon is basically one expensive advertisement for the games, and I think they've already announced all their big stuff for the year.
atomic sonnet
Indeed
They shot their shot in 2023 and it was a good one, not much else to announce this year that would warrant the cost
elfin steeple
I think I'm done with classic for now. I tried to be nice and offer free level boosts in trade for the fun of it since I learned how to do a dungeon pull and I immediately got swarmed by the most toxic unbelievable text I'd ever seen in my entire life. I even had one who had the audacity to accuse me of RMT even though I'm offering it for free through a trade service chat in game...
grizzled parcel
Yeah, that sounds about right.
elfin steeple
And from what I understand it's not a bannable offense to offer boosting services, but Blizzard has a "report boosting/deranking" option in-game, but after some research I found that pertains to pvp services and has nothing to do with Classic. But people are abusing the report system because they know it'll be an automated ban and likely an automated response for sending in a ticket about it and a lot of people got hit with that.
I'm on a low pop realm, which is likely the problem because "everyone knows everyone" whereas on a mega-server I see a bunch of boosting spam and nobody seems to bat an eye.
grizzled parcel
Yeah, low pop servers tend to have incestuous relationships between members/guilds, so if you're not "in" they'll abuse the hell out of you.
atomic sonnet
Generally, the ban happens if there's a threshhold of reports. A single one won't but several will
elfin steeple
based on the whispers and nasty comments I saw in chat and others saying to make sure to report me
yeah I wouldn't be surprised
That's the fun of automated systems : /
I reported the really nasty ones, but I doubt anything will come out of my one report against theirs
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
Ohh, nice! I know the raid one could, but I guess they're expanding!
That's fantastic.
atomic sonnet
I reported the really nasty ones, but I doubt anything will come out of my one r...
If it's anything like SWTORs, we see those and the GM behind it investigates and takes action (or not). The automated thing was more like a squelch than a ban and that one just had to be let go
elfin steeple
That does not seem to be the case for WoW. I've seen several posts with people taking screenshots after appealing and still receiving a very blatant automated "here's what you did" "we're not unbanning"
atomic sonnet
Yeah, wouldn't be surprised. The CS team for wow got cut down several times over the years
elfin steeple
It's frustrating, it's annoying, but it is what it is. It's the perfect shitstorm of a toxic community and a low-staffed GM position for classic
I fear the day when most/all GMs are replaced completely by AI
atomic sonnet
Not completely because some of our roles are going to cheap countries, but I think part of it is also because of some ai implementation. Definitely for some self-service stuff and easy replies to questions
atomic sonnet
Now at 74% of the way to Taivan mount... still some painful ones left
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I think I'm not going to touch WoW again until Pandamonium. And when I'm done with that, not until WW. I'm just burned out, and enjoying other games right now.
atomic sonnet
That's kinda what i'm doing. Not really touching it more than the raid for the season mount (awakened raids), maybe 1 M+ a week for gearing. MOP remix for cosmetics/mounts/etc, then ww
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
First rip?
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Ah
tulip badger
lmaooo
elfin steeple
first riptide
first death
first hit of something irl during the season
but yeah ruby life pools
atomic sonnet
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Shit, i wouldn't mind this now
elfin steeple
We wouldn't need that if we didn't have 10,000 new reagents to work with every new expansion.
atomic sonnet
In all three instances, I have gotten a two handed weapon
ON MY PALLY WHO HAS THE LEGGO
elfin steeple
can't wait for you to get Ashkandur from the cache
atomic sonnet
oh god i forgot about the cache
elfin steeple
forgot as in you don't have the quest?
atomic sonnet
as in that's why i was in there
elfin steeple
who would do raids for fun?
couldn't be me
loot pls
I miss the old heirlooms with exp % bonuses on them
like after working hard and/or spending a ton of gold on them, they're just kind of there
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2h weapon 2h weapon 2h weapon
atomic sonnet
Boots!
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I did a 6 on my DH, felt easy (with a streamer tho), did a 2 and a 4 on pally with the guild. 2 was fine, 4 kinda wrecked us (academy, the elemental boss) but the rest was fine
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It's so weird. So, I kind of like the idea of condensing it so you don't feel like there's as many steps to take to get to the higher m+'s. But now instead of steps it feels like climbing a steep mountain. It's weird in my head to think that a +4 could be challenging (I know it's the +14 equivalent this season but still).
atomic sonnet
To be fair, he's 470 and had the least health out of the rest of the group (480+) so i was dropping a bit more often
elfin steeple
I thought having the legendary gave you plot armor.
atomic sonnet
No, that's cheat death~
elfin steeple
and divine shield
atomic sonnet
doesn't help if you get one shot
Dangit. Was hoping world boss would give me a bullion. Don't really wanna do lfr on pally
atomic sonnet
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At least i got the bullion from first boss
elfin steeple
So nothing new then?
atomic sonnet
Actualy worse than when I did it in s1
elfin steeple
Wonderful. Hate to imagine what the higher difficulties are like them.
atomic sonnet
Easier, actually
LFR is more that well over half of the people in it are doing either abyssymal damage, or don't know the mechanics
And with Rasz's mechanics, that's actually a large issue
tulip badger
i asked my guild mates and they had no problems with hc rasz at least
atomic sonnet
https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/1784266263826415768 why do I get deep rock galactic vibes off of this pic
Twitter
grizzled parcel
Suddenly interested in Earthen
atomic sonnet
Yep, seems pretty easy to just do first lfr boss of an awakened raid to get the bullion
atomic sonnet
Dangit. Wanted to run my lock through it, but awakened needs 463 min
@elfin steeple so remember how my pally wasonly getting weapons
elfin steeple
yesssssss
atomic sonnet
Trying to get a final ilevel for my lock
13 of 14 slots I could get an item from Timewalking to get more ilevel
elfin steeple
oh no
atomic sonnet
Guess which slot i've gotten TWO items for
atomic sonnet
I have a 499 s4 cape
2 timewalking dungeons have given me two capes, until that last message. The last boss of second TW gave me ANOTHER. GODDAMN. FUCKING. CAPE.
It's unbelievable how it surgically targets the thig I need the least
elfin steeple
It's always a piece you 100% don't need, a piece that's an extremely minor upgrade or the best thing ever.
There is no in-between.
atomic sonnet
Those are the only two s4 ones so far
Queueing again. I just feel it in my bones, next will be boots because TW gives 467
A RING
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How many people leave after getting a bullion?
atomic sonnet
Not that many? Was doing first wing (eranog, council, dathea) and most stayed I think
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
Little bit of a loss here, is that bad?
atomic sonnet
The secret is complaining, popped a minute later
It's wing 1 of lfr of awakened raid, so it's unexpectedly long
elfin steeple
dps usually get the short end of the stick for que times though, but I suppose
atomic sonnet
The other two chars didn't take as long to get in
atomic sonnet
No loot (well, i did win one but it was boots on my evoker and that was a crafted piece combining power with another crafted, so i passed on it) and it took until the 2nd boss for bullion. Still, got my 463+ chars bullion'd
Rest would take too much effort
atomic sonnet
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elfin steeple
Awesome!
grizzled parcel
Very limited amount of currencies at first.
elfin steeple
Still, it's a good direction
atomic sonnet
One comment was asking "why can't you just share everything, smh"
Bitch, game's 20 years old, getting this probably needed a fuckton of backend work
So DF/SL stuff so far and they'll gradually add more, which is great 
grizzled parcel
Yeah, people think you can just flip a switch and get things moved over to a new system.
elfin steeple
Lol I can imagine what they think all Blizzard has to do in this case:
AllCurrencies_Transferable == False --> AllCurrencies_Transferable == True
jUsT tUrN iT oN
grizzled parcel
Yeah, these assholes cannot imagine anyone having a differetn perspective from themselves.
elfin steeple
Ain't that the truth.
atomic sonnet
Off with their heads! 
elfin steeple
Let's uh... let's start with their fingers first.
If they somehow continue, then maybe we can work towards that.
atomic sonnet
It is, and apparently yes
To be fair, better than more elves
If we're eliminating races that are duplicate of something else... the only really unique races are worgen (and you could eliminate it due to human form), undead (kinda human-ish?), vulpera, goblin, panda, dracthyr
Otherwise there's multiple humans, gnomes, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls, and tauren
grizzled parcel
Okay, that skitterfly mount is cool
tulip badger
I still cant be a paladin elf on alliance so yeah we need more
atomic sonnet
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I'm tempted to do a Lightforged Paladin during Pandamonium, even though I started one already. I just lost all motivation to level her the hard way.
atomic sonnet
I already have every class at max so i don't need anything. Not sure what i'm gonna level in pandamonium, because i do certainly want the rewards
I'm thinking BM hunter for easymode... probably alliance, to experience their side of the story
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I'm mostly looking at Lightforged because I need their transmog and want someone with +Smithing. Was going to do a Dark Iron Dwarf but, again, got burned out trying to level yet another character.
atomic sonnet
Hm, point. I am not sure which heritage armor I have
Ah, easy to check. Search "heritage" in the achieve window and click "see all results"
I am missing mechagnone, kul tiran, lightforged and void elves
Oh, hmm
Some other races flat out don't have achievements but still have heritage armor
Ah
Pretty sure i have tauren/undead one though
And dark iron...
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I've only got Vulpera from the new races, and regular Dwarves & Worgen from the old ones. I've got the quest for Humans, I just never did it.
atomic sonnet
Decided to use a randomizer. First one... dark iron dwarf, which I already have 
Second roll, dark iron dwarf (the opposite sex and a different class)
Third roll, normal dwarf
ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING, WEBSITE
...Acceptable.
grizzled parcel
Oh yeah, the classic Dwarf heritage armor is fucking badass.
atomic sonnet
https://www.wowhead.com/guide/transmogrification/human-heritage-armor human though, also an option 
grizzled parcel
I need to do it, but I never cared about humans.
I always want to play non-humans in fantasy games. 
atomic sonnet
Aye. I just have all the horde heritage and the human one does look badass
atomic sonnet
atomic sonnet
(probably not wrong)
elfin steeple
I have almost every addon they show on their graphs that suck up the most loading times
rip
atomic sonnet
same, got a good number of them
atomic sonnet
atomic sonnet
That left one looks really interesting
atomic sonnet
Servers aren't up yet
atomic sonnet
evoker got some veteran track boots or gloves but holding on to it for future catalyst
Pally's taking the ring
elfin steeple
Oh, nice!
atomic sonnet
veteran boots for hunter...
hunter, evoker, warlock only did LFR, pally did lfr and two small M+, DH did normal raid and a 6 m+
checking lock now aaaaaaaand i think i know what i'll get
elfin steeple
Rings and boots day
elfin steeple
That is a nice upgrade for a ring.
atomic sonnet
DH time....
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
A couple weapons I see
atomic sonnet
I'm almost positive it'll be the 515 weap, yeah
though that helm would be first tier piece (i have other pieces to catalyst but apparently it's best to just swap when you have 4, not 2)
elfin steeple
catalyst charges once a week at the start this time?
atomic sonnet
I'm not sure, doing a quick time rift for the weekly first then i'll check. If it's weekly then i think i should have two charges
As expected, weapon. Interesting that it's the lower level weapon as offhand (has proc) vs the other one that doesn't but is 506
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atomic sonnet
Ah shweet. So hopefully i can get 4 piece by next week unless lucky with drops
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atomic sonnet
Ah nice, time rift did also get updated, so that's easy 467 pieces
Oh, hmmm
And havoc dh does recommend the weapon (thorncaller claw) in awakened version, so it can be upgraded
elfin steeple
pfft you have to spend a bullion to upgrade your legendary so you have the privilege to spend currencies to upgrade it more.
"Hey, hope you had fun farming for the legendary and spending a whole day working on the quest chain. Here's more bs'ery to deal with."
Bullion, more like bullied out of getting a nice ring or trinket instead early on. 
atomic sonnet
Oh that's for my pally, my DH don't worry bout that and prob just gonna get that claw
elfin steeple
I know, I just think it's silly.
atomic sonnet
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What!? They don't recommend fury warriors get the weapon from Aberrus for the OH!?
atomic sonnet
Simming has the droptimizer for the bullion vendor
And it's putting the elementium anvil trinket massively higher than anything else
Though, that's while wearing the old weapn, gotta resim
ponders
...I might not have selected many offhand weapons on the first sim. Gonna resim with all my weapons and then sim the bullion vendor
atomic sonnet
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Ya know, it's strange. When I play now and I select the "wrong" choice I get upset, and I... don't like that feeling. I don't remember when exactly I started transitioning into that mindset but it feels wrong.
atomic sonnet
Probably because it's rng based and you're forced to re-farm or re-wait and hope for it to drop again, and you feel bad because there's tools that give you a concrete answer for what you should choose
And if you choose wrong, then you know you did
(righto, weapons equipped, resimming bullions)
elfin steeple
Right. It also doesn't help when some items are just so much better than others, compounding the issue further.
But that's because we live for big numbers, which means doing things faster, which means loot faster.
elfin steeple
wow, those are some high numbers for single then
atomic sonnet
switched to ST trinkets, resimmed ST for bullion, still the anvil but 4.4k
Now also simming dungeon slice for aoe for bullion
Which is taking forever
And the corrected ST trinkets option
elfin steeple
Hummm, probably anvil than for overall.
atomic sonnet
I'm thinking the same. THinking maybe add the numbers and see what the total is
elfin steeple
Anvil/Augury
Then later when you have extra bullions weeks later you can start aiming to have the best for each individual scenario.
elfin steeple
And augury you don't have to manage
soooooo
easy win for second choice?
grieftorch has an on-use, right?
atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
(they won't, but that'd be hilarious, not)
atomic sonnet
(doing a quick sark lfr to hopefully get the bullion...)
WHERE'S MAH BULLION
(sark didn't drop, will do more lfr later. For now, dinner n stuff)
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yus, ejaculating fire everywhere
That's really not the word you want mods being notified about.
elfin steeple
To play Devil's advocate it does have a dated meaning that is not explicit in nature and just means to "say something quickly." Dated, yes, but it was once pure.
(I know it doesn't work in this case, or well any modern cases now, but yeah)
grizzled parcel
I know, but for our moderating purposes it's... awkward.
elfin steeple
Understandable
atomic sonnet
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They have got to fix the Cauldron for this.
Make it a fucking toy, give it an hour cooldown or something, but don't make us build it multiple times at horrific expense.
atomic sonnet
I looked at the AH, it's 97k for the recipe and no actual cauldron in sight
grizzled parcel
Because you have to buy a 20k 7.5k item to craft it, it has I think three charges, and then it goes poof and you have to build it again.
Looks like they dropped the cost, but its still ridiculous.
After 3 uses it reverts back to the 7.5k ingredient and you have to get an Alchemist to re-craft it again.
atomic sonnet
I feel his pain cause i'm about to go do normal brackenhide to upgrade my own leather boots
atomic sonnet
Ah, yes
elfin steeple
Cata pre-patch has dropped and it feels weird to have witnessed this twice in my life, feeling that we've yet again, passed another classic era.
Wonder how quickly this crowd will die down. 
tulip badger
friend got cataclysmic signet brand 525 in vault
atomic sonnet
Straight to jail
atomic sonnet
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That's actually pretty cool looking
atomic sonnet
Ha ha ha
Doing orphan quests to see if doing a different one counts again for trading post. Am in silvermoon, press my random mount button
Out of all the mounts to choose, it goes for the Meat Wagon.
...And then a plaguebat
Hm, doesn't look like it counts
elfin steeple
They responded to feedback about legacy tier tokens! 
atomic sonnet
Oh that's awesome
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atomic sonnet
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Yeah, that might make Engies halfway desirable in some content.
atomic sonnet
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I love the look of Void Priests, I just can't stand playing one.
atomic sonnet
atomic sonnet
X_x getting there...
atomic sonnet
I was at 50% when I first started
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
Dark Heart out 🔥 🔥 🔥
tulip badger
ah its tomorrow..
grizzled parcel
Damn nice. I don't have the patience to grind that.
Maybe once I'm OP in the next expansion.
atomic sonnet
A trick is knowing that the elementals give shit
atomic sonnet
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elfin steeple
Very nice, very nice!
atomic sonnet
Servers up btw
Evoker just had one option (just did 2 lfr bosses) for a belt, took it
Pally.... I suspect I know the winner 😛
yep, grieftorch
Rip my Pip's 
Also serpent idol on my hunter
Warlock
Hm. Nothing to use immediately, taking hat to catalyst later
elfin steeple
Not a bad lineup overall
elfin steeple
That first ring was good for some classes in S1 IIRC
atomic sonnet
Yeah, sims suggest it for single target (bout 2k gain)
elfin steeple
Not bad!
atomic sonnet
Simming aoe for good measure but it's probably gonna be the ring
https://www.wowhead.com/news/voidtouched-weapon-appearances-from-hunt-the-harbinger-questline-339266
(yep, 5.5k for aoe)
atomic sonnet
Twitter
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
Wait, Panadmonium is up already? I thought that was next week?
atomic sonnet
It isn't as far as I know? Up I mean
grizzled parcel
Hm. Wowhead was implying it went up with the patch, but maybe I misread.
Okay, yeah, their other page is more clear:
WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria will start on May 16th, 2024, at 10am Pacific Time.
No, professions (apart from fishing) are disabled in MOP Remix.
Welp. Guess I'll be doing a lot of fishing.
atomic sonnet
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Which ones are these
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Ahhh
atomic sonnet
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Nice
atomic sonnet
Still a number left
atomic sonnet
https://fxtwitter.com/Wowhead/status/1788503174472716446 welp, that settles the race for mop remix
One one multiple fingered hand, the lunker achievement only requires that i use the conches to summon them rather than needing to harpoon (impossible on my own)
On the other hand with a single finger, there's a 60 sec cooldown on these conches 
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https://fxtwitter.com/Wowhead/status/1788503174472716446 welp, that settles the...
Wait, there's a hearthstone?!
atomic sonnet
Apparently! I just discovered it myself
grizzled parcel
sigh Guess I'm leveling a draenei and a Lightforged.
atomic sonnet
Patpat
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if I have time, probably a Nightborne as well.
atomic sonnet
Don't have that heritage yet?
(It is absolutely bitchin'. My warlock's a nightborne with heritage armor at all times)
grizzled parcel
No, I race-changed my only Draenei to Human, because I wasn't liking him.
May make a girl mage or something.
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
How is everyone enjoying the new DARK HEART patch
grizzled parcel
Is there anything interesting in it?
(I was planning on not touching WoW until Pandamonium)
tulip badger
its the epilogue story to dragonflight
grizzled parcel
I thought we already had that.
atomic sonnet
Not so much epilogue as it is one of those "here's a preview of my next book in the series" thing. Introduction to stuff that'll be relevant in TWW
Xalatath lore
grizzled parcel
Ah
atomic sonnet
Ugh. The forbidden reach part of the achieve is surprisingly grindy..
atomic sonnet
Oof. Not my screen, but happening to me too. bnet friend notifications popping in middle of screen
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atomic sonnet
elfin steeple
Very nice. Mythic Jaina I believe should be soloable too.
atomic sonnet
I think i posted the wowhead post about it a couple days ago, yes
grizzled parcel
Yeah, they had a previous patch for most of the BFA raids. This just is a hotfix to make those specific bosses soloable, because they weren't with that original patch.
grizzled parcel
Yeah, theres's still some DPS gating. And at least one comment mentioned that there's a boss which will nuke you if you DPS down one phase too fast.
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
i remember this, classic launch in 2019
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
Yeah, I've heard that areas bad for RNG.
atomic sonnet
RNG and moreso the amount that it requires
You have two achieves, one to find "small treasures" (expedition packs/dirt pile type) and the other to find "special" treasures, that you get from looting a scroll from a mob and using it to mark your map
Respectively, 20 and 10
...Except that's just stage one of the achieve. And the meta requires stage two. Which is 100 and 50
You'll generally miss out on the first type if you don't buy an item that gives a 1 hour buff to see them. And the scrolls for the second type have a low drop rate.. but you can buy an item that increases the chances, until you loot a scroll and the drop chance buff disappears
Best thing to do is to go in one of the caverns with a group and just farm the mobs that respawn near immediately
But yeah, gonna relax with hades 2 now after that
atomic sonnet
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doing the whelpling quests in valdrakken for the taivan achieve stuff - looks like it's two weeks of daily things to get it all done. You do help hatch a few eggs. So far it's been black and red ones, but the bronze hatching is pretty funny
atomic sonnet
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Vault time
atomic sonnet
So so. tier piece for pally but can't use it yet since he doesn't have 4 piece, random belt on warlock, and DH got a tier piece (hands) I already had, but hero track instead of champion
However, that makes 4 piece and allows me to buy the augury from bullions
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
its DK because im picking it
elfin steeple
atomic sonnet
93%, did the missing treasures of two zones
Daycare quests is something i have to do daily, the rest is rng and needs to spawn
atomic sonnet
!
Finished the timewalker one. Just need the one correct hunt and the whelp stuff and i'm done
elfin steeple
Ugh, why'd they add rng components to a meta achievement that takes forever already? Anyway, you'll get it!
atomic sonnet
Remix is out
grizzled parcel
Oh right, we have a Twitch drop today
tulip badger
im a lvl 14 remix DK
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atomic sonnet
I had no problems 
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atomic sonnet
I just tried a dungeon as a healer monk at level 12 and oh god panick
grizzled parcel
I think I'll start with a Nightborne Warlock, but won't get a chance to start until this weekend.
atomic sonnet
So the heritage quests are not available during the remix but once the event ends and your character becomes a real boy/girl retail character, you can do the quest
grizzled parcel
Yeah, apparently leveling during Remix counts as normal leveling, and you'll be able to do the heritage quest once the event ends & you're let into the regular Dragonflight content.
You'll be given a full set of ilvl 415 gear when released at the end.
atomic sonnet
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I'm quite sure he's max level, the wascout was one of the rares you could kill
grizzled parcel
Oh yeah, those guys are tough as nails
atomic sonnet
Oof, looks like you need millions of bronze if you want to get everything
atomic sonnet
First one is a timegate, stuff only appears in a sequence. Second is rng as it doesn't spawn the daily every day. Third is dependant on first, I think
atomic sonnet
Twitter
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atomic sonnet
Noice
grizzled parcel
Finally started my Remix character. I forgot Warlocks don't have an AoE ability at first and that's annoyig.
atomic sonnet
tulip badger
Yeah after Echo got their mythic Garrosh kill, the mage streaming went and soloed all of Mogu'shan vaults heroic
atomic sonnet
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grizzled parcel
This game has broken my brain. I've only played about an hour of Remix so far, but because I spent so long playing Pandaria back in the day, I woke up with the environmental music stuck in my head.
atomic sonnet
Yus
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atomic sonnet
From TWW alpha: "There are now 40 slots for talent loadouts, up from 10."
grizzled parcel
Oooh
atomic sonnet
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Crud, I just realized I never unlocked the Netherwing Drake dragonflying mount.
grizzled parcel
I think so, but there may have been other requirements I never finished.
Ah that's the one you do by talking with Wrathion. I never finished it. Better get to it sometime soon.
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atomic sonnet
I'm pretty sure they're on my server
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atomic sonnet
Was about to link that 😮
SWTOR has a story mode for 8 man raids - I think it's 7 other NPCs or just things nerfed to hell so you can solo it if you do the mechanics. Sounds similar
atomic sonnet
So some of the mounts for remix require some achievements - the golden star dragon thing in particular requires 2 of 4 achievements in vale of eternal blossoms
Story/campaign of the zone and a few others -there's also getting exalted rep with one of the factions
And here I thought I'd need to farm a lot (just one set of dailies)
grizzled parcel
Yeah, I hear the rep is insanely fast.
atomic sonnet
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Shiny
atomic sonnet
Woo
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A small number of players received an extreme advantage that has distorted the gameplay experience for some in WoW Remix. With hotfixes later today, May 24, we will adjust characters with an unreasonably large number of Gulp Frog kills prior to the loot bug fix, and those players will see the power of their Cloak of Infinite Potential reduced to an amount that a very engaged player could reasonably achieve. This change will have a larger impact on players who took advantage of the situation for longer.
For everyone that did not take advantage of the frog farming, we’re providing three additional quests with large Bronze rewards for reaching levels 50, 60, and 70.
atomic sonnet
"These milestone quests will grant characters an additional 3,000, 7,000, and 30,000 Bronze, respectively."
atomic sonnet
Still not enough, honestly. That's the price of like two items
I think someone calculated it's like 1.6 mill to get all items, and about 450k to fully upgrade your gear to get to like ilevel 500 something
grizzled parcel
Oh I won't be upgrading gear. It'll get replaced at the end of Remix anyway.
I'm only doing this to have an alt(s) and for the cosmetics.
atomic sonnet
You kinda do but not to that level, sure. Also, keep any blues or purples you might get, as the boxes seem to mostly be green. Once you hit 70 the gear is 346. You can upgrade the blues/purples to that level for fairly cheap-ish, but if you go beyond that, that's when it costs an arm and a leg. And you fall behind on damage if you don't upgrade to a certain point
Though part of that is also the balance being whack with level 30s outdpsing level 70s by two or three times
grizzled parcel
Well, I doubt I'll be running even Normal raids, because I'm not in a guild. So LFR is the best I'll manage.
atomic sonnet
But with a lot more elitists while forming groups demanding frog farmers
tulip badger
You can just join any group in the group finder and clear with no communication and no tactics
The only real bosses are Durumu and Dark Animus, both in Throne of Thunder, as far as I'm aware
grizzled parcel
The only real bosses are Durumu and Dark Animus, both in Throne of Thunder, as f...
insert Vietnam war flashback here
I never got through that damn maze effect alive.
tulip badger
hehe that boss is undoable on LFR in remix as well
atomic sonnet
That's all that's left
One fucking randomly spawning daily
(just finished Daycare Derby, which was also a random daily whelp dragonrace)
grizzled parcel
Apparently the bug is weird: you have to be exactly level 35 in Remix while doing the Theramore scenario to get the Tabard (Alliance) or Mana Bomb toy (Horde).
If you hit 36 during the scenario, no reward.
atomic sonnet
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raven mortar
The king is dead, long live the King
grizzled parcel
https://www.wowhead.com/news/mini-mana-bomb-and-theramore-tabard-added-to-vendor-in-mop-remix-342246
atomic sonnet
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I need to grind through Pandaria, but I've not been able to get up the energy.
atomic sonnet
ive been moving country so i have not been able to log in for a week ish too
grizzled parcel
Oh! Hope your move is going well.
atomic sonnet
https://x.com/Warcraft/status/1799169458469994943
(hunters, mages, warlocks)
Twitter
tulip badger
Grats!
atomic sonnet
Couldn't really play for a while, swapped out my 7 year old laptop for a new one (which I feel i got at an absolute steal), and then just had to wait on that last fucking quest to pop
(1299$ US. What.)
grizzled parcel
Congrats on the achieve!
atomic sonnet
https://x.com/lofibanshee/status/1799726298962489413 so at the end of seasons, the top .1% of scorers of M+ rating get a title. In season 2, it was 90% bear tanks. This is current status of s4 (season isn't over yet)
Twitter
grizzled parcel
I didn't know that title was a thing.
atomic sonnet
Been a thing since... I know SL had it, might be earlier tho
grizzled parcel
Probably never heard of it because I never got into M+.
atomic sonnet
I've never even come close. Generally these are for the groups that used to do +27s or something before the change
grizzled parcel
Welp, will have to work my schedule around that.
tulip badger
Early access ( 
) aug 22nd
atomic sonnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBEt8gfXks those elf/troll mix featuring in the trailer... allied race inc
atomic sonnet
remix priest with 556 gear (except trinkets/neck/rings that are locked at 342) doing carries for siege of org in remix... casual 15 million dps on one boss
atomic sonnet
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Oh hey. So I was gifted TWW a while back ( ❤️ ) and got beta access from that. I was later able to snack the collector's ed. Just got an email with a beta code, if anyone wants to check it out
(all i've done is do test dummy stuff to try out builds)
atomic sonnet
This seems... poorly thought out
grizzled parcel
Oh god, Thorned reminds me of Reflect enemies in Fallout 76. People are going to wind up killing themselves by nuking those enemies.
You'll want to skip that week, because the only solution is to DPS very... very... slowly... so the healers can keep up, which is going to make it a slog.
atomic sonnet
It's not so much that - having specific damage types get boosted means that people who don't do that damage just won't get invites during that week
grizzled parcel
True. Attuned means Rogues, Druids, and Shamans will be in demand, while Focus will be all Mages and Frost Death Knights.
People will have to respec or switch characters for some of those, whichis not ideal.
atomic sonnet
It's a meme but it sums i up perfectly
atomic sonnet
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oh my god, I love the flying horse
atomic sonnet
I like how the carpet looks
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that one gave me motion sickness.
atomic sonnet
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visual onyx
Any death knights here?
atomic sonnet
grizzled parcel
Any death knights here?
I have a DK but I haven't been playing lately.
tulip badger
im a death knight
elfin steeple
Looks like phase four for SoD is coming soon. And they updated the first legendary for the start. Wonder what they'll change for Thunderfury.
I like that druids have a solid reason to get it now, but I'm sure shamans will still cry about it.
atomic sonnet
atomic sonnet
Pfffffft
atomic sonnet
I still need to finish upgrades but once I got enough bones I got the tusks