Okay, I can relate to this:
Archimonde down. Got him in LFR yesterday after wiping 4 times. No loot for me, but he did drop a Tome of Chaos at least. This is the first time I’ve killed the Big Bad of an expansion on the first day he’s available in LFR. I think I win WoW or something.
Judging from the forums (which, I acknowledge, is usually a bad idea), LFR HFC Archimonde is some kind of epic wipe-fest that the filthy slack-jawed casuals that infest LFR cannot handle with less than 8 stacks of Determination.
:rolleyes:
Even without the hyper-whining-fest which is the Blizz WoW forums, the fight does seem surprisingly technical. I didn’t feel like I was up to trying it last night, so I may try tonight or later this week.
Grats on the win. And good that it dropped a Tome. I would be amazingly pissed off if I had to multi-wipe a long intricate fight and didn’t get the only loot that matters*.
*Thanks to the generosity of Tanaan, I only have one slot left that an LFR drop would help, and Archimonde doesn’t seem to drop any loot for that.
Wow. “Overtuned” is the first word to come to mind.
I don’t really know what differences there are supposed to be between LFR and normal, but that fight did not feel like LFR. It reminded me of back in my actual progression raiding days, except it wasn’t my guild leader ranting and raving about poor execution. :rolleyes:
I entered a raid that already had 4 stacks of Determination (3 wipes before).
When we finally cleared, we were at 10 stacks. :eek:
We had him down to less than 1.5% at wipe 8, but everyone got all excited and started focus-firing the boss… and the adds wiped us.
I got my achievement, and my Tome, and a drop which, though pretty nice, isn’t much use to me, so vend. I almost broke even on my repair bills, I think.
I don’t believe I’ll ever go back to that fight. I’m already pretty close on the final step of the legendary ring (only seven tomes to go; I can probably get those on the other “sane” LFR raid wings left this week, plus next week).
I finally did some exploring and a bit of questing in Tanaan, and got in on the end of a fight against a rare mob. It dropped some blue shoulders, and I got an Epic Upgrade to 675 
So based on the lore, it kind of looks like the WoW team are looking to wrap things up, if not this expansion then soon - they’ve played Sargeras up as the final boss of the universe, and look - the whole point here is that the bad guys are oh so close to resummoning him. Only so many times you can play that card before it gets pretty stale.
I agree. Although since this is Blizzard, “stale and reused” isn’t actually something that bothers them.
(Sometimes I wonder if Blizzard marketing is an extended exercise in the old joke “How do you keep a moron in suspense?”.)
The Archimonde fight in HFC is clearly the end-of-xpack fight. The few baddies who we haven’t dealt with in this iteration of WoW appear to carry forward to be in the rogues’ gallery of the next xpack.
Or, to put it more cynically, they split the content of one lore-complete xpack into two different xpacks to double [del]how much they can charge for it[/del] the amount of supporting gameplay content. (Yeah, that’s the ticket.):rolleyes:
Did 6.2.2 drop today? I haven’t had a chance to log in.
Can we fly in Draenor? (Assuming we jumped the necessary hoops to enable it, I mean.)
Yeah, flying is live now. Wowhead patch notes thread here.
PVP Mercenary mode is also enabled, and there’ll be some new stuff for this year’s Winter Veil and Hallow’s End. Also a new mount-collecting achievement.
Really wish there was some way of opting out of being placed in a LFR group that has already killed 2 bosses. It really sucks to wait out an hour long queue and then get screwed over like that.
At least you can queue for multiple LFR wings at the same time. Then when you finish one wing, another queue will almost always pop immediately.
I did not know that.
Got my legendary ring tonight. It’s the first legendary item I’ve ever finished in WoW—and sorta anti-climatic. Maybe it is cool when used in a raid for the empowered thing. Kinda doubt I’m going to kill Archi every week to improve it up to 795, but we’ll see.
Finally, finally finally! Ran my mage through Molten Core one more time, and her T1 pants and robe finally dropped to complete the set:
And my hunter had similar luck, finally getting those damned Giantstalker shoulders to complete his T1 set:
Sadly, my warlock still can’t seem to get her robe, the only piece she’s missing. But I now have five toons (paladin, priest, rogue, mage, and hunter) who have collected the full set 
Grats! I know (from personal experience) that the RNG gods of that place are cruel and fickle, and I salute your tenacity.
The T1 sets are iconic. I haven’t any toons transmogged to that, but for my arms warrior I think I will, because the Might Battlegear set is AWESOME. I also want the Obsidian Edge Blade for his sword transmog.
Even if I really don’t want to go back into that place.:mad:
Man, I hate all these hoops…and since I only play solo, I think it’ll be impossible for me to complete (I only glanced at the requirements, but aren’t some dungeons/raids required?)
What’s the harm in allowing flying. I only have a short timeframe when I can play–a half hour here, an hour there…and I don’t want to have to waste it looking for that one single pass in a mountain range or just plodding across the landscape.
Well, if you’re level 90+, you can pretty much run past all of the trash and they won’t notice you. You’ll have to kill some trash here and there, but you should be able to run through and kill all the bosses up through Golemagg (or whatever that molten giant’s name is) in about 15 minutes.
Here are the requirements:
I easily got the “Explore Draenor” and “Loremaster of Draenor”, and I’m pretty close to “Master Treasure Hunter” and “Securing Draenor”. The Tanaan rep grinds are going to be the big pain.
Fenris, I also only play solo and for limited periods, and I unlocked flying a couple weeks ago. No dungeons or raids required.
It just takes a little planning:
- Figure out your questing progressions through the zones,
- Do the Tanaan dailies,
- Watch your garrison questgiver for the assault quests,
- Hunt down the treasures (Wowhead has maps).
The Saberstalkers grind to Revered took the longest, but I’m working to Exalted on just the Tooth and Claw quest alone and I’m just 5 more repeats away from capping it.
If you’re not a stealthing class, you may have trouble with the Assault on the Pit. The Pit is full of 100+ elites. But if you can make it to the area with the ordinary level 100 orcs, you can grind it out slowly (they respawn quickly though). A party might be needed for this, but the Pit is by far the most challenging as it gets.
I highly recommend obtaining the Level 3 Trading Post in your garrison to give you a 20 percent bonus rep gains for Draenor factions. It not only affects the rep gained from completing the rep dailies in Tanaan, but also the Medallion of the Legion rep token.
If you’re ok with addons, I love Rarity with the Tanaan treasures module. It puts the treasures right on the zone map (and mini-map). (Or it gets the hose.) 
The Saberstalkers are the worst even after you ding exalted, if you care about achievements. I only got to 20% of the way to 5000 claws achievement before I dinged exalted with them, so the only real incentive I have now is the achievement itself, and buying the mounts-and-pets you can only buy with the claws. I’m not overwhelmingly enthused. :rolleyes:
The “Looking for custom group” tool has never let me down. The universe’s RNG has let me down by grouping me with the occasional stinker group, but that’s just status quo for any WoW “Looking for Group” mechanic. There are good groupmates and terrible ones. Circle of Life, man.
Highly endorsed. Damn near mandatory if you want the reputation parts of the flying achievement before losing your mind. Also, sieze full advantage of the further 10% rep buff from the Darkmoon Faire. At a minimum, it’s worth travelling to the Faire, hopping on the carousel for the 1-hour buff, and traveling back to Tanaan just to turn in quests, since that’s where you score most of the rep. (Not Saberstalker, except for the one quest.) And definitely, before popping any Medallions of the Legion. Since this upcoming Sunday starts a Faire week, definitely keep this in mind.
BTW, I just caught this. “Assault on the Pit” is one of the original group-only apexis crystal quests from the garrison. I think you meant “Assault on the Throne of Kil’Jaeden”, which is the area up on the mountain full of 100+ Elite Fel Orcs and Demons. This patch’s precise equivalent of the Pit, but more demonic. And every bit as demanding of a decent 5-man group to get through.
For me, it wasn’t too bad (DoT Warlock). It helps tremendously that the elites don’t tend to gang up on you–you can pick them off pretty easily one-on-one.
I got the Level 3 Trading Post just recently. Getting the needed rep took for-freakin’-ever. The Assualt quest was MUCH easier 
(I’m also a bit pissed to find out that the last part I need to build the auctioneer is one that’s apparently impossible to find unless you’re in that instance near Ashran. Bleh. )