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Lets see, I have around 45 stacks of firebloom stockpiled for AQ/Naxx consumes, one friend has 68 stacks, and my other friend has 94 stacks of firebloom stashed for AQ/Naxx consumes. Fact is Firebloom is ~15g a stack atm and used for a best in game consumable for fire mages. You really think we are going to turn in this stuff for level 35 greens? To complete the firebloom war effort thats 318,000 gold at current prices. No thanks

At current prices thats 318,000 gold in firebloom. GL with that

Taladril you are insane if you dont think 10% will effect the mount race. The fact is the humans will go "full tilt" regardless of what day it starts.

The fact is that Anathema is doing this non blizzlike change to make this a sprint race to the finish instead of a marathon. The fact is that before this NON BLIZZLIKE CHANGE this was a race against yourself and your sanity ergo are you willing to farm these bugs for 72h+ while begging/bribing friends to help you. This was still a hard feat to accomplish because it was such a time sink and you are vulnerable to pvp. Now you are racing against the entire server, and it just so happens that one race has a 10% advantage over everyone else. When you factor in the sheer amount of time this saves (~7h) it comes out to an unfair advantage that wasn't intended. Every single other reputation grind in vanilla wow is a race against yourself, with the sole exception of this non blizzlike change to the bug mount. Another thing about this NON BLIZZLIKE CHANGE that I find great issue with is making the Fragments BoP. Before if it looked like you wouldn't get the mount in time you could at least recoup some of your time spent by selling your fragments for a fairly hefty amount of gold. Now if you aren't in the top 6 all your time is straight up wasted.

Firebloom is going to be a nightmare. Why would people turn that in when it will be very valuable soon.

Interesting changes to the scepter quest. I'll be pretty damn upset if its all humans abusing their 10% advantage

I'm more worried about hearthstone and team 5 catering to their casual playerbase than I'm worried about Elysium making $ off people dumb enough to buy gold and likely getting banned shortly afterword. One directly influences my gameplay and has ruined a game I spent $100 on, the other has had ZERO effect on my in game experience that I've paid $0 for. Drama people are insane, and at this point there's no reason to put up with you.

Dude even at 5% its still a 10% white dmg modifier, ergo 10% more rage generation. That being said viskag and CTS are the same thing for a warrior for dps. The viskag proc generates rage + uses your phy crit for the proc crit. I used it for a couple of raids and the proc came out to ~6dps according to DPSmate, and that's not including the extra dmg I did from the rage generated. Keep in mind this is horde side with WF so the proc will be a bit weaker for ally.

Firebloom and Purple Lotus are generally the hardest to complete by a long shot, please don't make these numbers too high. I want to raid AQ and don't give a rats ass about people getting their bug mounts.

Bump for AQ! Still looking for a solid mage/warlock to round out our raiding squad.

I dont think Anathema has ever used post nerf bosses anywhere. They just keep in the prenerf

I played retail from week 2 of release through aq, and in pubs it was fairly common for people to let people grab an item they would equip on the spot over themselves selling it in the event of a blue/purple boe dropping. The key word I used was "let". Many back then were super into the game and community and just happy to be there playing this insanely fun game that was literally blowing apart our minds with how fun it was. This led to many players being generous because they weren’t there to min max, they weren’t there for that one prebis upgrade, they were there primarily to kill a mother fucking dragon with strangers that shared our love of the fantasy genre. While that was the prevailing mindset at the time, it also wasn’t frowned upon for others to need as well on valuable boe for them to sell, or give to a friend/guildy. The person who may have equiped that item would generally be disappointed, but generally would get over it. The fact of the matter is in the current private server mindset is very different from the retail vanilla mindset, where people here are more about getting their pre-bis and progressing their character, and less just for the content itself because for the most part we have cleared these instances 50+ times each so a lot of the magic is lost. This has led to a flipping of how valuable BoE’s are dealt with, with the most common scenario being many rolling need so they can sell, and the minority being willing to pass to someone who will equip. This mindset is further reinforced due to having played this game for so long, almost everyone has had a very bad experience with being generous. A personal example of mine was when I first hit 60 on Nost, during a strat UD run a Skull Flame Shield dropped which was an obvious huge upgrade for our tank. He said he would equip the item and could we please pass so he can have this upgrade. We all passed and he received the shield, then refused to equip the item, hearthed out, and sold the damn shield on the AH. This kind of story is not rare these days, and is one of the driving forces behind it being common for people to need on BoE’s.

The Q & A specifically talked about that they would consider opening transfers if the population of a server gets low. As someone who experienced the decline of Kronos 1 NA first hand, it doesn't truly become an issue until NA pvpers are unable to compete with EU/Asia rankers due to slow queues. Once that happens is when you guys should be sounding the merge alarm, because that event is what caused the NA pop to begin to plummet on K1, even before Elysium/Nost was announced to be returning. Quite frankly I loved my time on K1 when we had roughly ~9 NA raiding guilds (horde + ally), was just enough to have some competition and shit talking, and low enough server pop to farm herbs.

The ony we have is the prenerf version, the one you are seeing is post nerf.

MC gear, very simple to do especially with consumes as long as people don't eat deep breaths

lol and the idiot award of this hour goes to......

Looking for a mage/warlock, we have a core spot available.

Good stuff, keep up the good work.

Hisana I love you

I'm in favor of removing warlock alts soulstoning an entire raid. World buffs are good though and should remain.

Really the only way you can farm devilsaur for a length of time is to bring half + of your guild and be prepared to fight. Quite frankly I think the Mafia/Cartel are one of the most interesting parts of the server. Why shouldn't they be rewarded for being organized?

I agree with Charbs with the logic behind the loot, but that's the kind of thing that needs to be mentioned if there's pubs involved beforehand. Loot Prios beyond MS>OS need to be outlined before the run starts, like completing ring sets, hakkar MH/dagger being hunter prio since they are BiS in game for them, how enchants will be done ect ect. I would say the way Earth Walkers dealt with the issue was horrible though.

Its the prenaxx patch 1.10. They wanted to add strong items to prebis so that people could actually contribute in aq/naxx without farming mc/bwl for months.

On the cloak you may very well have a point since all those stats on draconic benefit from heart buff, however I have to disagree on the neck when world buffed. When world buffed even with full bis you are over the crit cap, so that 1% hit from neck turns directly into 1% crit to white hits, and then you have the 13agi (when world buffed) which amounts to roughly 2/3 a crit. So for that gear comparison you have 40ap vs 1% hit, 1% white crit, and .65% yellow crit. To me I give the advantage to the ony neck.

In an ideal situation you would be running what 11% hit? 2% lion, 1% ony neck, 1% zg cloak (only when world buffed), 1% bracers, 1% onslaught, 1% chromatic, 1% master dragon, 2% dft, 1% strikers