Give yourself a second between jumping/double jumping and trying to glide. There needs to be something like a half or full second break in between for some reason. As far as the dash, I usually only use it for movement - I don’t spec Momentum, thus there’s little reason to be dashing about, and it’s really useful for high movement fights. It’s possible to use it for damage if you’re trying to extract every bit of DPS by running out during the GCD and dashing straight back in. Also, using vengeful retreat puts you at the perfect dash distance. If you can get it all sorted out and maintain a decent priority system on top of it, you can get crazy DPS. I just don’t have the patience to do it. I’m still working the kinks out of my subtlety rogue.
If I remember correctly, the X’era quests aren’t required for the order hall campaigns. But there’s dungeons for everyone, moving up to heroics. I detest X’era anyway, and I’m glad for what happened to her on board the Vindicaar. Then again, I’ve thought Malfurion and Tyrande have needed to untwist their panties since WC3. They’ve driven Illidan to darker shit than he did himself, and they need to own up to it. I THINK I finished the Illidan questline on one toon - that’s enough for me.
Preach! This is the first expansion since the Lich King got pwned that I’ve WANTED to stick around. I think the artifact weapons are my favorite part, as long as I consider my character to be a singular hero. I mean, come on, I’m using Garona’s favorite shivs and the fangs of Sargeras’ bestest puppy! If I ignore the fact every other rogue is using the same weapons (easier with all the different appearances), I feel like a badass. It’s far more rewarding than “Dagger of Doom 1”, “Dagger of Doom 2”, “Dagger of Doom (EVEN BETTER)”. I’m afraid how things will change in BfA.
This part of the xpac has been exceedingly cool, I’m not gonna lie. I’m the Huntmaster of the Unseen Path (the only Huntmaster, these other player character hunters aren’t I assure you) and I’m “borrowing” Alleria’s best bow. (I’ve promised to give it back, so I guess I know how the transition to Battle for Azeroth will go. No idea how the other classes are going to lose their artifact weapons, but there’s angst among some classes.)
I’ve enjoyed being able to keep my weapon more or less up to par without being a raider. Especially since my gearing method in MoP - farming Honor via Isle of Thunder PvP dailies and putting my toons in PvP gear - is no longer viable (those quests stopped rewarding Honor Points with the launch of WoD).
Due to my non-dungeoneering ways, I haven’t unlocked any alternate appearances beyond the “gimme” color changes in the first tier. And I usually mog my ret paladin’s Ashbringer to something more visually appealing to me. I don’t care for the look of Ashbringer (or square-tipped swords in general), and it also, unfortunately, clips through her tabard tail when she’s wearing one. Likewise, I don’t like the look of Strom’kar, so my male draenei arms warrior has his transmogged to Armageddon, which goes nicely with his 25-man Naxx tier mog. Not to mention he’s my only Alliance character big enough to not look completely ridiculous holding the thing. My destro 'lock is currently using a small, simple staff transmog just because it looks better with the rest of her current mog. My other classes are all currently using their artifacts unmogged.
Since I love transmog, I am happy to have just discovered that the PvP WQs occasionally reward Marks of Honor, and doing them is stunningly easy since nobody actually seems to come defend the towers and I only have to kill NPCs (I’m staggeringly bad at PvP). Then I can spend 12 Marks to purchase the appearances of a complete “legacy” PvP set. My paladin just picked up a couple WoD PvP sets that way, and I really like the look. My warlock also just picked up the Cataclysmic Gladiator’s set, though I’ve hidden the shoulders. I’m also going to fill in the missing pieces to a bunch of the old palading PvP sets I had collected before the “sets” feature was added to transmog. I had vendored all of the bracers to free up bank/void storage space, because they usually don’t show anyway. Ret paladins also used to have to share PvP belt and boots models with warriors and DKs, so I always had to additionally purchase the Holy paladin pieces to get stuff that actually matched the rest of the set, and it looks like I didn’t get around to that on some sets. So, once the “sets” feature was implemented, there were all those PvP sets missing bracers, belts, and boots. Boo.
My next thing is to track down a bunch of missing 2h sword models. It seems I only have 102 out of the 248 different 2h sword appearances. Looks like I’ll be spamming a lot of old 5-mans …
12 Marks lets you by the appearances of a full set, for transmog. It won’t get you equippable gear. For that, you can still spend Marks, but you’d need to purchase each piece individually, and that will add up to more than 12.
ETA: You can’t spend Marks for actual current-expansion gear pieces, as far as I can see. Only the set appearances. But you can buy individual pieces from WoD and earlier.
Anyway, I just added two more set appearances for Legion PvP gear.
On another fun note, yesterday my mage picked up the hidden appearance for Felo’melorn:
Are folks still playing and having fun? I’ve really enjoyed this Expac. Especially the mythic+ system. With the different affixes each week it always feels like there’s something different to do. Last night I finally did a +15 (and we beat the timer) so I finally got the Key Master achievement and the artifact appearance that goes with it. Hopefully the piece of 960 ilvl gear in my chest tonight will be something useful.
At first I was a little disappointed with how easy the Antorus raid was (especially normal), but last week we had a really fun night of progression on Heroic Coven. We slowly got better and better and got it down on the last pull of the night. Crazy fight, a bit chaotic, and different every pull depending on the order of the titan abilities. Looking forward to raiding tonight, hopefully we get some work on Heroic Aggramar this week.
Really happy with my T-Mog right now too (the shaman set from heroic Heart of Fear/Mogu’shan/ToES).
Still playing, but not a raider. I’ve enjoyed Legion. I’ve been able to keep my ilvl decent (currently 933), capping professions has been adequately challenging, and there’s enough to do that over a year later, players still have things to do. Zones aren’t deserted like they seemed to be in WoD.
Lately, my attention’s been split between my rogue main and new Panda monk… which is me not being reluctant to drag an alt through Legion rather than avoiding Legion content.
I’ve been unsubbed for a bit now. I couldn’t shake the feeling that Legion was designed to retain subscribers more than it was designed to be fun. I personally disliked all the RNG and there are too many loot treadmills between the legendary system and the titanforge system.
Despite that, I might still be playing if I was playing with friends, but everyone I know in RL has quit the game. My last guild imploded due to drama, and I just felt done for a while. I’ll probably come back for BfA, or maybe the pre-patch.
I know what you mean. My best time in WoW (and other MMOs) was playing in a guild with friends. I was in one guild for years, spanning multiple games. We were pretty close and I still stay in contact with most of them via FB. But the only guilds I have now are random strangers, and I’m only a member for guild perks. It’s not the same.
I’ve been sort-of casualing WoW of late, and today I was working towards some artifact appearances… Then I realized we’re gonna lose the artifacts, and my heart sank. Why even bother for the extras now if we’re never gonna see 'em again?
Also, quick querry - can anyone tell me, lore-wise, what the raid end-game is currently? Do we finally ‘win’ against the legion somehow? The endlessness of the battle, while baked into the lore, is making it all feel even more grind-y than usual for me.
All of the artifact appearances you earn will be available as transmog in your wardrobe. If you earn the Mage Tower appearance before 8.0 comes out, you’ll be able to use that, too. But if you don’t earn that appearance before Legion is over, you won’t be able to earn it after.
You go through Antorus. The final boss is the world soul of Argus. After you kill him, the Titans summon Sargeras, who tries to escape to Azeroth through Illidan’s big rip in space, but gets pulled back. As a final act of revenge, Sargeras throws his gigantic sword at Azeroth where it sinks in in Silithus. The Titans imprison Sargeras, Illidan stays behind as his jailor, and we all go home. The artifact weapons will be drained to heal Azeroth of the corruption that Sargeras’s sword has done.
Sooo…7.3.5 is (almost) live (we’re just waiting for the servers to go active again), and after 7.3.5 downloaded, something then downloaded to the PTR account. Do we know what’s going into PTR now that the (supposedly last) patch is downloaded to live accounts? Anyone heard?
Hooray! Now every zone scales! Now there’s no such thing as newbie zones! Character progression is a lie! WOOHOO! NOW WE ARE ALL THE SAME ALL THE TIME!
:mad:
Fucking bullshit is what it is.
I can’t believe I’ve been part of the birth of RPGs and, apparently, the death of them but here we are.
Newbie zones still exist. Now the other zones just scale in difficulty with your level, so quest rewards and mob XP aren’t outleveled halfway through. Now you can finish all the questlines in a zone without doing the last half for little or no experience. You can level wherever you want, or do things in a different order. Leveling from Hillsbrad to Arathi to the Hinterlands no longer makes Ashenvale to Stonetalon to Desolace pointless. Why are we crying about MORE options again?
Come now! If Bo actually researched what’s really happening to leveling, he’d have nothing to fuel his unceasingly negative attitude toward the game! And then he’d have to go find one he thought was actually GOOD to play! Pish-tosh…
I was a smidge worried that scaling, applied to old instance and raid content, would make soloing for transmogs and rare drops (looking at you, Mimiron’s head) more difficult.
As an experiment, I took my main into Ulduar 25. Trash died just as easy as always, and Flame Leviathan needed two seconds longer than my recorded historical best kill. So I’m going to say “nope, not really a problem.”
(I don’t solo current content, and WoD content – even raids – was never challenging after getting into ilvl 900+ territory, so even if kills take a little longer I don’t feel threatened.)
