They’ve got an updated Tankard of Terror. ilvl 470, upgradable with VP I think twice. That’s nice for my enh shammy, since there are no craftable epic agility 1h weapons that aren’t swords. :mad:
Ran Coren Direbrew at least once on all my toons. Actually got two tankards out of it, so my shammy is set.
Also discovered the power of a suitably-geared beastmaster hunter. My main’s finally cracked ilvl 500. I usually run marksman, but have gotten addicted to the greater survivability and damage output of BM.
On this guy’s first Direbrew run, he clocked 103kdps. :eek:
Yeah, that’s a personal record. But maybe that’s a fluke. So I queued up again.
110kdps next run.
I’d like to know when Blizz will fix marksman. Because that’s what I’d really rather run. But I’ve never gotten higher than 80kdps in MM, and I just can’t leave 20% damage output on the table. Frankly, I shouldn’t have to.
Huzzah! My human paladin, Eilyssana, reached Exalted with The Anglers last night, and up popped the achievement notification, “40 Exalted Reputations”, which grants her the title, “The Exalted”
gnoitall, I think I just saw something on WoW Insider that said they’ve recently adjusted hunters so that all three specs are roughly on a par with each other now, DPS-wise.
Ran the first part of the new LFR yesterday on my mage. Four bosses in this wing. Immersus, Fallen Protectors, N-something, and Sha of Pride. Two-shotted the first two bosses, one-shotted the third guy, and took about four tries to get the Sha. Not a big fan of encounter mechanics just for the sake of adding complexity. No loot until the final boss, but got my tier chest from him…burned a bonus roll and got…another tier chest token.
I’ve been running Frost for most of this expansion. Switched over to Arcane after the raid and goofed around on Timeless Isle. Seems to have considerably more burst dps. I was dropping elites faster than I do with Frost. Need to try a raid as Arcane to compare the numbers…
Just defeated the last battle pet master, getting the “Taming Azeroth” achievement. As a reward you get mailed a “large bag of gold”. Turns out they aren’t kidding, I got 3000 gold from that bag. That’s a lot of gold, even now that they’re handing out gold like candy from quests.
Ran the first part of the new LFR myself Saturday morning with my human DK. Joined an in-progress group apparently after they’d wiped on the Fallen Protectors, as that was the first fight.
Did pretty well out of the whole run; got new shoulders of the first boss fight, new belt off the second boss fight (or the other way 'round), and finally the tier chest off of the Sha.
Then of course, I had to spend money to re-buckle, re-gem and re-enchant everything that I’d just acquired.
Congrats to everyone on their recent accomplishments!
Happy to report that I got the Swift Brewfest Ram mount off Coren Direbrew. The Ram was my favorite Alliance mount, the one I truly missed when I rolled Horde.
Also happy to say I got 5 more Burdens of Eternity and now have upgraded everything possible to Timeless gear. Hoping I can get to ilvl 525 after I upgrade everything with VP.
Wow. I’ve gotten only two burdens, total. One each for my mage and hunter. Damn things just won’t drop for me, even when I farm rares for hours.
Did half of the 2nd part of the new LFR today, joined in progress on the Dark Shammys. The boss fights keep getting crazier. Wish they’d got back to more tank-n-spank style fights. This whole everybody run counter-clockwise hopping on their left foot while patting their heads and rubbing their bellies thing is just annoying. No loot for me.
And speaking of taming, my nelf hunter finally managed to tame Arcturis, the rare spirit bear that lurks below Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills. I was amazed that nobody was camping the spawn point - there’s almost always another hunter there. The other amazing thing was that NPCScan didn’t go off until an instant after I boarded the taxi at Amberpine, and I was still able to come back and tame it. I was only flying one short hop, to clear my PvP flag before hearthing back to Pandaria. So the taxi landed at Wintergarde Keep. I immediately ran to the nearby Stable Master to stable one of my pets to open a slot, dismissed my current pet, then summoned my flying mount and made a beeline back to Amberpine, where I was astonished to find Acturis still waiting for me.
Of course, once the novelty wears off, my hunter will probably go back to using Gondria, the spirit cat from Zul’drak. He’s partial to cats. And my troll hunter already had the bear (and still uses it).
I’ve gotten two on my rogue, but none on any other toon.
The more I hear about raid mechanics, the more it reinforces my lack of desire to raid. Though I admit that’s largely because I like being immersed in the world, and when I encounter “mechanics for the sake of mechanics” it just ruins my immersion. Hell, even Naxxramas, the only raid I’ve ever genuinely participated in, and then only one wing (whichever wing it is that includes the Four Horsemen), ruined my immersion when we got to the boss in the room with the exploding floor. Who the hell builds an exploding floor into their workshop?
And still speaking of taming, my Troll hunter finally got his Direhorn pet. Just flew to the Isle of Giants (and get the fun “your flying mount just unequipped, into the drink with you”), sniped about 10 or 15 Zandalari Dinomancers and got one to drop the direhorn taming book. Some people on wowhead complained they had to hit more than 100 before they got the book drop.
Heh. My rogue collected about 17 Vinecracked Lockboxes before level 90, and just struck them in the bank until she could open them at 90. In that first batch of 17 boxes, she found the 476 Krol sword. Fewer than 30 lockboxes later, she found the 476 dagger.
I went on Wowhead and read complaints from people farming and opening more than (they claimed) 10,000 lockboxes before they found even one of those.
Tank and spank gets boring pretty fast, not that I mind the occasional Patchwerk fight, but having every boss like that would take most of the fun out of raiding.
Though this tier they did go overboard with the Paragons, nine bosses with 2-3 abilities each. Not really a hard encounter on normal, but it is a silly amount of abilities to keep track of.
I’ve been casually leveling up a Night Elf Druid - playing mostly with a friend when he’s on WoW and we want to play together. Hit level 58 last time we played, which gives Druids the Flight Form shapeshift ability. However it turns out you can’t use it until you buy your Flight Master’s license. Guess what level you have to be to buy a Flight Master’s license?
Flight Masters License is only to fly in the Old World (and that doesn’t even work in all zones…the night elf and draenei starting zones are still no-flight). I haven’t ever gotten a druid that high, so I don’t know for sure if you can fly in Outland at 58. I know for a non-druid you still have to be 60 to get flight training even for Outland.
Okay, downside to CRZ: I was (IRL) drunk and doing PvP quests … my Alliance rogue got attacked by a Horde warrior, and I fought him almost evenly, getting him down to around 60k health before I died. Alas, he was from another server, so I couldn’t roll a level 1 Horde toon to taunt him with, “you’d never have gotten me if I’d been sober!” (And for the record, I remember, from WarCraft 3, the Mountain King hero’s line, “Och, there’s nothing like going into battle with a bad hangover!”)
On another note, tomorrow (Monday) I finally get to give my stepfather a tour of World of Warcraft. My stepfather is the guy who finally got me turned on to computers and the Internet, when I was age 30 (1996). My stepfather (he’s like, 74-75 years old now) is a former Shakespearean actor, as well as being a Christian that mainstream Christians hate, because he questions their motivations. He believes that God is “the Light”, so I think he’ll appreciate the human/dwarven/draenei (and now, possibly, blood elf) adherence to the Holy Light.
If my stepfather hadn’t gotten me my first Mac, I’d never have played WarCraft 2 and 3, and I would likely never have ended up playing WoW.
It’s taken this many tiers of LFR for me to get fed up with people’s BS. The next person who attacks Rook, He or Sun while there are adds up is getting punched in the face. I haven’t even tried 2nd wing of SoO yet…
I finally broke down and tried SoO LFR. Surprisingly fun, but also an amazing number of people who have no F’ing idea how to raid.
“Kill the adds” seems like a foreign concept, it seems. So does “Don’t stand in the purple stuff” or “avoid the big death laser beam going around the room”.
In my LFR run, the healers were complete bawses, so more people stayed alive and fighting than deserved to. We one-shotted everyone but Norushen; the adds mechanic, and the entire “big death laser beam” thing caused a lot of deaths in the first try, including mine. (Ok, I had no pre-briefing about this boss, and the damn laser formed right over me, and when I realized I was taking damage, I ran the wrong way, staying under the beam. And then I got battle-rezzed, right under the beam as it fired the next time. So two deaths for the price of one. :p)
(Reading over this in preview, I can’t believe I’m complaining about having gotten a T16 chest drop on my first attempt. WoW is definitely different from the last time I did any raiding, endgame WotLK.)
Also got the first three tokens for Wrathion’s first quest chain. All of a sudden I don’t feel quite so chumpy.
I went in there at ilvl 506 ish, and was almost one of the better geared raid members. I guess some folks have no shame.
Loot was mildly disappointing. Got the LFR T16 chest token, but it turns out to be inferior to the Timeless Isle + Burden of Eternity chest I was already wearing. (At least by itself; maybe with set bonuses it may be better.) And Reality Ripper ring off of Norushen (Amalgam of Corruption)… twice. Since it was unique-equip, I guess I wasted my bonus loot roll by getting the damn thing the second time.
