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I started raidlogging once i had 2 characters in pre-raid gear and nothing else to do. It reminded me of how I made so many characters back in the day across multiple servers, yet still felt like I had a "Main" and "Main Alt" all through Vanilla and into TBC. Then the Summer arrived and work takes me away from video games for months-on-end. Many people also are not too keen to sit inside sweating on a computer during the summer months and prefer spending their idleness outdoors. I enjoy being idle in the colder months and be outside and active in the warmer ones.

Kargath. Engineer teleport sorts out my Kalimdor needs. Even on my mage it's Kargath since so many dungeons/raids are there, might as well.

My first thought was to put Maladath MH but I noticed that the Brutality Blade actually has slightly higher top-end and is slower. So I would think to put the Slower, more top-end (and more low-end) in the MH? It causes my Weapon damage on the Character pane go to 320 top-end with Brutality MH, down to just below 300 with Maladath MH. But Maladath has a higher DPS though... so I am slightly split. I'll test it out both ways to test it out over the next days, just wanted to get you guy's input on what way you would go. Thanks!

Yeah man. Literally no one is saying that. You quoted someone saying to have patience, and that no $ obligation in fact means there should be less of a reason to be so uppity. You attempted to put words in someone's mouth and then got upset about that. I bet there are more important things out there for you to concentrate your life's energy into rather than this.

Yeah it's been going on for a while now. https://elysiumstatus.com

If you have Curse of Elements up on every mob, and have the AV ring, it's okay. You're not going to be pushing the DPS meters since there are mobs that are straight immune to fire so you'll be casting untalented Frostbolt or on Clearcasting - Arcane Missiles. There will be Mages who stay Frost most of the time too, and if your guild has 2-3 of each spec it can be just fine once you have the 16 debuff slots. It depends on how strict your guild is on min-maxing too. You will be able to do decent damage, especially early on with the imp groups, and dog packs, Fire has the potential to get in the top 5 in the damage in the first part of MC. You will then slowly slip down the meters and even with good gear you will be unable to compete for the top spots just due to most of your spells being partially resisted, or having to cast untalented Frostbolt/AM. I did it back in retail, with the AQ40 spell-pen proc staff and AV ring and it's decent, but you do always feel like you're fighting uphill since you're so dependent on CoE and untalented spells. But yea, as other people have said, once you have the place on Farm then min-maxing isn't going to be required when you'll be alright to keep yourself Fire for the progression raids. Most guilds would rather people to spend their gold on consumables instead of respeccing for farm raids.

I may be mistaken, are these recipes added later? like BWL? or even later? I'm already stockpiling my Wicked Claws and have the Arcanite ready.

Rawsteak was able to craft Lionheart Helm for me, thanks. Now we wait for the Titanic recipe!

When you said "better than mine" in chat it shows that it wasn't a mistake at all. You meant to click Need. It doesn't help Oscillation get the shield whatsoever by you clicking Need. It's BIS for Shaman man, you did a shitty thing. At least you apologized, but you didn't make a mistake by clicking - you ovisouly meant to do that. You made a mistake by outrolling someone for whom the item is supremely useful, as a Warrior. It's a shit shield for a Warrior, even the one from ST is better, or a multitude of others you can get. This is BiS for Shaman until Ragnaros iirc. Anyway, learn from your mistakes. Please be aware of items which are actually really terrible for you. It's a rotten thing to outroll someone for whom the item was extremely useful. Imagine being a Warlock/Mage in UBRS and have a Priest outroll you on a Briarwood Reed. Sure - it's useable for the Priest, but it's miles better for a DPS caster to get that, and only serves to sour others against you in the future if you dig in your heels.

Remember how great the official server forums were, and remain to this day? Oh wait. Nope. Greasy wheels man. Greasy wheels.

First game was the MS DOS game Oil's Well and original Sim City/Sim Earth and the first Civilization. Though since my dad was a computer consultant and bought us the original NES, I lucked out on my upbring; dad would upgrade his computer and allow myself and my brother to use it so long as we learned how to Reformat and Reinstall Windows so we wouldn't be bothering him if we messed up the computer. I always loved playing games once in a while. I had 400 wins in Starcraft and only a few dozen losses. I played Goldeneye 64 obsessively to get all the codes, would play One Shot One Kill against 3 of my friends and win 9-1. And of course Ocarina of Time exploration and Rogue Squadron medals. I was really into games, but I always thought of it as a past-time, like cards or going camping. Once in a while. WoW took some time to really sink in for me, but when it did, it really got me. It was the first game where I could just log-in to a world where there were hundreds of other people running around. In my earlier years I had enjoyed chat rooms, so this was kind of great in that way to meet people. I have also always keenly researched things, I love history and I soon realized this translated really well to researching game mechanics, loot drops, dungeon maps, etc. Lots of things we take for granted now, I remember leveling my 2nd or 3rd alt and people were amazed how much I knew, even though I just felt it was natural. It felt great to be able to enter this world, basically inhabit this virtual world and meet people from all over the place. I really felt a sharp loss when X-server shit began. I held on through TBC, but most of my dearest friends and opponents had been forged in dungeons, or on the battlefield. It was difficult to truly experience WoW with other people when they all became vapor after the BG or dungeon finished. I was done with WoW before Wrath, though I did return for ICC. I bought a three month subscription but I only used a month of it. By then Gearscore and LFD had taken the small fraying bits of yarn and torn the entire thing asunder. Anyway, I just started rambling there, probably would have written a book had I not stopped.

Yeah I took a look at the entire length Tanaris + Feralas the other day and after 2 hours of fishing had seen no schools of fish at all.

This post is alarmist bullshit. Or made by someone unguilded or unable to send messages to strangers. And as others has mentioned - most people are still leveling and those of us who were 60 before the shutdown have little need of dungeons besides gearing our guildmates.

I liked the way they did it for TBC with Fel Lotus. It would be interesting if they did this with "Black Lotus Zones", where each herb in the higher level zones has a small chance to proc a lotus.

I always go fire. It's wonderful. I played fire back in retail from 1-60 & then with TBC to 70. Only respecced for progression Rag/Nef nights. Since everyone goes Frost, I find most people are super stoked to have a fire mage in their group since it's a novelty and "how refreshing" as some have said.

I'm a big fan of this one: /run a="Arcane Intellect" b={1,4,18,32,47} c="target" d="(Rank " e=CastSpellByName if (UnitLevel(c) ~= nil and UnitIsFriend("player",c)) then for i=5,1,-1 do if (UnitLevel(c) >= b) then e(a..d..i..")") return end end else e(a,1) end It casts the correct level of AI on your target. So you can cast on random people without digging out your spell book for lower levels. Since I like to buff people in cities and as I pass them, it helps a bunch in these cases.

yikes.. I was about to log in but no thanks :( sad day

oh man... if i log onto my char and everything is gone I will have a really tough time convincing myself it's worth scrabbling back... here's hoping

+1

If you can, kill every mob in your way. For a while, anything that can give you XP is worth killing. For instance, in Tirisfal Glades killing all the Hounds and Bats between Brill and places you run to do quests is going to help you move onto new places sooner, instead of relying solely on quest XP and the mobs in them. Then if you need to skip a quest because it's over-camped you actually won't be losing time or XP since you have been mercilessly slaughtering even green mobs in your way. The extra gold is nice too, and if you're a skinner it's even better. Actually, always go Skinning until you get your mount, just respec later. You're throwing away heaps of gold you could make just by vendoring the hundreds of pelts from beasts you kill for quests, not counting the AH you can make on Heavy/Thick/Rugged later on.

I'm sorry you find it demoralizing when considering playing a game how it was designed. "Dear Nintendo, I like Donkey Kong a lot but why so many levels? Is there any way to remove the middle two so I can get to the Princess faster?" It's okay. The long patch cycles mean you will have less of a chance to miss out on seeing content. You have that much more time to level to 60 and gear up for raids, and then gear up in those raids for future raids. If patch cycles were faster you would be pressured to no-life it all the time or else fall drastically behind everyone who has the time to play hours upon hours every single day. Having a well-paced and lengthy patch cycles will allow you to stop playing for a week or two or even a month or two without returning to everyone miles away form you progression-wise. It's how the game was meant to be played - in order to keep the progression curve at least attainable by people who just fresh reached 60 during BWL or AQ40. If you don't want to wait 2 years for Naxx then you roll on the old PvP or PvE. Simple as that.

Yikes. Someone doesn't have enough in their life besides video games. And it seems that his subconscious is telling him "YOU SHOULDN'T CARE ABOUT PIXELS" which is finding a channel by lashing out at others for his own internal despair. His insults are the lowest common denominator ignorant troll phrases and yet he touts himself as a person who has risen above all of this anger that his fingers are unleashing. Fascinating. I hope he figures out something more worthwhile to do with his time. He's missing the forest for the trees.

Yeah they had some good stickied posts, BiS lists, and repositories for mods which were useful.

People forget too often that you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. It's really the golden rule at the root of it.

Pretty impressed with how well my chat is clean now from SpamThrottle without any customization at all. Manually ignoring people is not likely to be worth it. I tested with not ignoring the sellers, just to see how many whispers I would get before I had to ignore them. It was always one message and then never heard from them again. Even if I wasn't ignoring them. Pretty glad that by just installing the addon I don't see any messages besides the odd channel invite. Or I guess I saw one today that was multiple lines with a word or two per line which snuck past the filter, but again I only received a single message and nothing afterwards.