WoW Projects

[Belgarion213]

Just hit 85 on my shaman alt, and decided that danmit, this expansion I'm actually going to learn how to heal. So I got the spec, ive got some starter gear (not heroic level yet but...), I have the glyths, I have the food and the gems/chants for most of it. I've read up on the 'starting a resto' threads on mmo champion, elitist jerks, etc.

It's now time to try a couple normal dungeons with some guildies to get used to it. Never actually healed before so this should be a learning experience. My main is staying dps, but I want some utility I can bring and it seemed easier than trying to turn around and get a tank set.

Will be about three weeks I think before I hit 525 fishing.

And yeah Graduation quest is hilarious.

 

[akun50]

Finally getting back to the Argent Tournament to complete the last faction, Orgrimarr.

Before Garrosh took over, I intentionally set my order up like this out of sincere respect for Thrall. After all, "save the best for last", but now I'm going to be ending it with Thunder Bluff.

I wanted them to be the ones to push me into the last of the achieves that I'm aiming for with the Argent Tournament and considering I'm already EXALTED champion with three of the other factions, the only things left for me at the tournament would be the dungeon and raid achieves and I don't think I'm up for those. At least not until I've got an actual raid group.

I wouldn't mind raiding, it's just that I've got relearn tanking AND healing thanks to blizzard fucking with how both my dk's runes and mana costs. I know the pro healers "NEVER" ran out of mana (yeah, bullshit, I was CONSTANTLY running out of mana even when I was in damn good gear. It's why I picked up cooking, just so I'd have food buffs and drinks to get us back up and running again. >_> )

 

[Juubi]

Mostly I've scrapped WoW for the moment, until I got an email earlier stating my account had been banned because of attempting to trade in-game goods for real currency. I made no such attempt. I haven't played WoW for a few months now. So I did what was necessary to get that bastard out of my account.

 

[akun50]

Finished Argent Tournament's rep-based achievements, though I'll probably stick around the area to grind up some more gold and items for my enchanter to DE.

I'm at a little bit of a stumbling block with the dungeon achievements.

Specifically, I kinda wanna do all of the early raids, but I'm unsure of how to go about it and I'm more than a tad worried that I'll run into enemies, like in Zul'Aman (or was it Zul'Gurub? It was the one where Hakkar the Blood God was the end boss) that can mind control you and fuck solo attempts up.

Any of these raids still solo-able or two-mannable? Or did they get buffed up to "don't bother without at least 5 people" levels?

I know I've heard Onyxia used to be solo-able, but that was before they buffed her up, so I know I'll need to get people on that one.

 

[violinmana]

Finished Argent Tournament's rep-based achievements, though I'll probably stick around the area to grind up some more gold and items for my enchanter to DE.

I'm at a little bit of a stumbling block with the dungeon achievements.

Specifically, I kinda wanna do all of the early raids, but I'm unsure of how to go about it and I'm more than a tad worried that I'll run into enemies, like in Zul'Aman (or was it Zul'Gurub? It was the one where Hakkar the Blood God was the end boss) that can mind control you and fuck solo attempts up.

Any of these raids still solo-able or two-mannable? Or did they get buffed up to "don't bother without at least 5 people" levels?

I know I've heard Onyxia used to be solo-able, but that was before they buffed her up, so I know I'll need to get people on that one.

Still soloable.

 

[akun50]

Got frustrated fighting Baron Geddon (falling damage from Living Bomb fucked me over more than anything else), so I'm going to put the raid achievements on hold for a bit.

So I'm leveling my Tauren Druid to 80 and upping my Warlock's Netherwing reputation.

 

[blackkyuubi]

After finally getting the Pre-patch notes for 4.2 to load I found out about the new Staff quest. Finally something that I has a balance Druid can do. Problem it that I my guild imploded and I never got my armor score up to snuff since my three month leave of absence from wow........ SHIT!!!!!! Now I need to both learn all the new dungeons/old ones again for better armor since I didn't do any after Cat and find a Guild that is okay with me and my bad internet connection. :headbanger:

 

[akun50]

Got my Druid to 80 and my warlock to Exalted with Netherwing.

Also ran most of the BC instances with my Death Knight on heroic for kicks. I'm mostly shopping for content I haven't completed now, and though I suppose I should hit the higher level Cataclysm areas sometime, I'm more interested in the content I simply never managed to get to due to other distractions (like grinding up professions).

Hell, I've never even done Pit of Saron. I never managed to get geared enough during WotLK.

I should also get my rogue to 80 and start leveling my poor level 21 hunter.

 

[endev8003]

I've finally decided to get into heroics. I haven't done any yet, but I've been using my Shaman to run the dungeons on normal so I can learn the fights. Hopefully I won't look like a complete noob when I start heroics.

 

[akun50]

I'm finally getting my hunter up in levels. She's gone from 21 to 46 in the last week or so, though I'll fully admit to letting myself slack more than a bit and try to level her leatherworking and skinning while I'm dropping foes and quests like a rapper with a mad beat.

I'm in Tanaris running quests right now and I think I'll probably need to swap pets.

While my vulture Pecky is nice, I think my play style requires a more tanky pet. Or I need more patience and let my pet actually get aggro. I blame the fact that I've found that I can down 90% of all enemies before they can reach me so long I use Steady Shot twice, and then rapidfire Arcane Shot on 'em.

Unless I've pulled two enemies, they're usually dead before I would probably need to Disengage or Feign Death.

Of course, last time two times I was through the areas I'm in, I had either a Rogue or a Druid, so stealth was an option, hence certain enemies (the strongarms in the pirate area) weren't so annoying.

 

[endev8003]

I'm finally getting my hunter up in levels. She's gone from 21 to 46 in the last week or so, though I'll fully admit to letting myself slack more than a bit and try to level her leatherworking and skinning while I'm dropping foes and quests like a rapper with a mad beat.

I'm in Tanaris running quests right now and I think I'll probably need to swap pets.

While my vulture Pecky is nice, I think my play style requires a more tanky pet. Or I need more patience and let my pet actually get aggro. I blame the fact that I've found that I can down 90% of all enemies before they can reach me so long I use Steady Shot twice, and then rapidfire Arcane Shot on 'em.

Unless I've pulled two enemies, they're usually dead before I would probably need to Disengage or Feign Death.

Of course, last time two times I was through the areas I'm in, I had either a Rogue or a Druid, so stealth was an option, hence certain enemies (the strongarms in the pirate area) weren't so annoying.

I also pushed my hunter a couple of weeks ago. Went from 20 to 72 in about 2 weeks. I managed to push through Outlands in two days, but I'm not going to do that again soon.

Are you playing BM? From your description, I'm assuming your the type to just start firing at the enemy while leaving the pet on auto. When I was playing like that, I used Survival, although MM should also work.

For BM you just have to get in the habit of sending your pet in first. Also use your Kill Command as soon as the pet reaches the target. The threat it generates go to your pet and not yourself. When I'm chaining mobs, I send my pet to the next target while I'm looting my current one.

 

[akun50]

I also pushed my hunter a couple of weeks ago. Went from 20 to 72 in about 2 weeks. I managed to push through Outlands in two days, but I'm not going to do that again soon.

Are you playing BM? From your description, I'm assuming your the type to just start firing at the enemy while leaving the pet on auto. When I was playing like that, I used Survival, although MM should also work.

For BM you just have to get in the habit of sending your pet in first. Also use your Kill Command as soon as the pet reaches the target. The threat it generates go to your pet and not yourself. When I'm chaining mobs, I send my pet to the next target while I'm looting my current one.

Thanks, I'll try that out. For the most part, it's been entirely trial and error and fucking around with trying to get leather to up my leatherworking.

I am indeed going beast mastery, just like my 'lock went Demonology.

I figure if I'm going to have an automated ally/pet helping me, I should take care of them just as much as they take care of me. When hunters still needed to feed their pets for increased DPS, mine was always at max happiness.

 

[violinmana]

I also pushed my hunter a couple of weeks ago. Went from 20 to 72 in about 2 weeks. I managed to push through Outlands in two days, but I'm not going to do that again soon.

Are you playing BM? From your description, I'm assuming your the type to just start firing at the enemy while leaving the pet on auto. When I was playing like that, I used Survival, although MM should also work.

For BM you just have to get in the habit of sending your pet in first. Also use your Kill Command as soon as the pet reaches the target. The threat it generates go to your pet and not yourself. When I'm chaining mobs, I send my pet to the next target while I'm looting my current one.

Thanks, I'll try that out. For the most part, it's been entirely trial and error and fucking around with trying to get leather to up my leatherworking.

I am indeed going beast mastery, just like my 'lock went Demonology.

I figure if I'm going to have an automated ally/pet helping me, I should take care of them just as much as they take care of me. When hunters still needed to feed their pets for increased DPS, mine was always at max happiness.

Probably going to have a toon go Skinning/Herb, and then Alch/Inscrip, and then LW/Tailoring for the last few.

 

[akun50]

Buddy of mine and I two-manned Molten Core. SO much easier with another person.

Seriously, I think two of the mobs might've driven me batshit insane without another person to help me out with the DPS, considering my Death Knight has largely tanking gear.

Like the panks of core hounds. If you screw up on them and don't get them all down at the same time, you pretty much have to wait for all of them to finish rezzing themselves. That mechanic is SO frustrating when you don't know about it beforehand. :headbanger: I'd initially thought, in my first solo attempt, that I needed to be a certain distance from the others to keep them from reviving. :no:

Then again, I have to say, "good god, well done Blizz". After all, these raids truly are worthy of their status as one of the toughest places to go.

Still didn't stop me from farming the old Zul'Gurub raid for "teh lootz". The only boss I had to avoid or get a second person to stomp was the one capable of mind-control (stupid Jin'Do and his stupid Brain Wash Totem :sweat2: ).

 

[akun50]

Ran the Thrall restoration questline and good gravy that was both EPIC AS ALL GET OUT and ANNOYING AS SHIT.

To be fair to the quest chain, at least one issue was entirely due to my internet deciding to be a complete whore halfway into the first part of it; but really, having to choose between taking down five of the obnoxiously powerful level 85 elites to finish each leg of the quest chain earlier or twenty of the level 85 normals... it's a pain in the ass, especially when you get to the earth section and the fucking enemy is either hitting like a truck or HEALING THEMSELVES.

And you essentially repeat the SAME DAMN QUEST FOUR TIMES.

The first and last elemental elites were the biggest pain, as they had buffs that increased their casting speed. Though I will also be fair in that I should've expected them to be tougher. They are ELITE after all.

However, I felt I should've at least gotten freaking loot off of them.

I will forgive it since I got a VERY nice item level 359 purple cape out of it (I haven't been gearing up lately, as I've been more focused on alts, so this is a nice upgrade).

Also

Face is off to me, but otherwise, :cumdrool:

 

[Juubi]

I quit WoW a while back, but before I did, I leveled my Undead Death Knight, Omin, to 85. Wearing Tier 9 armor, for the most part. Because I don't know how gear properly. One of my friends, a WoW Pro, reprimanded me because of my familiar to keep my gear up to date and expressed his amazement that I made it to level 85 on my Tier 9 gear, since in that, the Cataclysm mobs should have killed me into poverty.

 

[violinmana]

I will forgive it since I got a VERY nice item level 359 purple cape out of it (I haven't been gearing up lately, as I've been more focused on alts, so this is a nice upgrade).

You mean ilvl 365.

 

[akun50]

I will forgive it since I got a VERY nice item level 359 purple cape out of it (I haven't been gearing up lately, as I've been more focused on alts, so this is a nice upgrade).

You mean ilvl 365.

It is. Damn, that's weird. I could've sworn the in-game tooltip said 359. Ah well, I don't care. It was still better than my item level 305 cape.

 

[Shirotsume]

Just got a sulfuras and a heroic zoid's. I've yet to meet anyone who can even touch me in DPS now, which is pretty sad since I'm like... the 80th best geared warrior on my server, and warrior is supposed to get trashed by ranged.

Guess my server sucks.

 

[Shirotsume]

Just more random shit happening.

So I'm currently 377 ilvl, while wearing 353 troll shoulders.

So we go to do hDomo, and I'm hoping he drops the heroic shoulder tokens so I can finally switch to my greathelm of the abyssal maw without losing 4pc and basically it's a huge ass fucking upgrade.

So, I'm told to stay in for hDomo. Aight, cool. The other warrior, who is 381, with 378 tier shoulders that give him 4pc(lucky bastard), is told to stay out.

Here's where it starts getting stupid. I have a history of blowing this other warrior out of the water first off, no idea why he's to stay out.

Oh well. Anyway, we do the fight, oneshot it. Final tally, I do 33k dps (fuck yeah cd chaining), the other warrior (who was out) does 30k.

So I quite handily beat him. Anyway, I check loot. Crap, crap- ooo.

hDomo warrior/hunter/shammy token drops. Cool, I finally get to replace my shitty shoulders-

[Other Warrior:85] has received Token.

...Fucking what.

FUCKING.

WHAT.

Arrghlkgsfjngfnjgsd.

 

[Shirotsume]

Annnd just to add onto what I just posted... it turns out that the warrior used said token to buy tanking shoulders.

He's not MS tank.

 

[Dubrichius]

wow, if I was the suspicious type (and I am) I would say that other Warrior was blowing the raid leader.

 

[akun50]

A friend and I duo-ed Karazhan and AQ20 with a Resto Druid and a Blood-spec Death Knight respectively.

Karazhan is interesting because most of it is easy enough to solo. The only bosses that would fuck up any solo-ers looking for a full clear is the optional boss Nethersprite, mostly because the mechanics; and probably the Opera Boss, depending on which one you get. (Romulo and Julianne need to be killed within 10 seconds of each other or they're rez each other; Big Bad Wolf will turn you into a helpless Little Red Riding Hood for 20 secs or so; and the Wizard of Oz one has six bosses, five of which you may have to fight at once)

Nethersprite is actually quite easy if you make sure to stand between him and the green beam to stop him from healing back up, but because you can't block the beam after a certain amount of time after you've been in it, you definitely need at least one other person to help you. Or you have to have a shit ton of DPS.

Interestingly, while physical attacks won't work on Nethersprite when he phases, I was finding my DK's magical abilities, like Icy Touch, Outbreak, Death And Decay, Blood Boil and Death Coil still worked just fine. In fact, I ended him with a Death Coil while he was phased.

Oddly enough, the end boss of Karazhan is actually safer being taken on solo since he has a nasty little ability to reduce health to 1 and prevent healing for a few seconds, and he'll toss this on up to 5 different people in one go.... but he will never use this ability on the main tank for obvious reasons. (i.e. even Blizzard aren't THAT big of dicks).

BTW, I feel like a fucking idiot for not noticing the massive change to Death Knight's Raise Ally ability. As of 4.1.0, Raise Ally is now a battle rez for Death Knights. I didn't realize this until we did Karazhan.

Also, we couldn't find the urn that lets you summon the second optional boss, Nightbane, so we had to leave that one unfinished, but we cleared the rest of it, including the chess match (only took us two tries). Is the urn spawn bugged or something? Anyone know? Or does it disappear if you kill the end boss before tracking him down?


In any case, afterwards, we did AQ20.... the only real boss that frustrated the SHIT out of me is Ayamiss the Hunter.

Why?

Because the boss flies high for Phase 1 and one can only hurt it with distance attacks.

Death Knights don't have much in terms of ranged attacks, and I had to jump in order to be able to hit the boss with Death Coil, Outbreak or Icy Touch. And nothing else I had seemed to hit it at all in Phase 1.

And I have no idea how, but my friend was quickly swarmed and killed when he tried adding his DPS to killing the boss, and again after I used my battle rez on him, leaving me to solo this EXTREMELY aggravating boss.

 

[Shirotsume]

To help you with your endevour of soloing karazhan- Little read riding hood. Run diagonally to the edge of the stage, then follow the stage in a large square clockwise. He won't hit you.

For Netherspite, you need to time it so that you hit you maximum number of stacks RIGHT as he phases out, so your stacks reset by the time he unphases. That gives you enough time to kill him.

Or you could just burst him down, but I don't think you have the gear for that.

For Nightbane, try a soft reset of the instance, then try to click the urn again. I'm able to use it on my warrior, but I also completed the original quest to get the urn, which may be required.

 

[violinmana]

To help you with your endevour of soloing karazhan- Little read riding hood. Run diagonally to the edge of the stage, then follow the stage in a large square clockwise. He won't hit you.

For Netherspite, you need to time it so that you hit you maximum number of stacks RIGHT as he phases out, so your stacks reset by the time he unphases. That gives you enough time to kill him.

Or you could just burst him down, but I don't think you have the gear for that.

For Nightbane, try a soft reset of the instance, then try to click the urn again. I'm able to use it on my warrior, but I also completed the original quest to get the urn, which may be required.

You don't need the original quest, I've solo'd the entire instance using a Frost DK Shadowfrost spec, which is nearly pure spell damage.