Oh man. I paid good money last night to get a mage to port my 70 warlock to Dalaran. Just so I could fish in the fountain.
My guild has DPSers coming out of our ears compared to tanks/heals - what guild doesn’t? - so she’s not going to be getting much EXP any time soon. But I’m almost ashamed to admit how many coins I got out of the fountain in a couple hours last night and one hour this morning. Plus with all the goodies out there, forget leveling my DK’s tradeskills, all my gold is going to buy toys in Dalaran!
Oh, OK - I need 3 more gold, and about 4-6 more each of the silver and copper. I’m getting a title one way or another, dammit.
I’m really enjoying mine, I’m up to 60 now. I basically went straight to Hellfire Peninsula from the DK starting stuff. They throw you a bunch of abilities that a 55 should have without you getting the chance to learn them one or two at a time as you level from 1 to 55, and on top of that, DKs really rock for DPS so you can pretty much just button-mash at first and stuff still dies. Not too much later on, and you’ll need to know what all that stuff does and figure out what skills you want to use in what sequence (tip: start with Icy Touch and Plague Strike, those are the two that put diseases down that some of your other skills benefit from). Once you have some skills and have tried yourself against mobs that are 1 or 2 levels higher than you, then you’ll have an idea of a Death Knight’s playstyle.
I’m afraid DKs are gonna meet the nerf bat, possibly in the next patch or two.
Took my 58 DK to Outland last night. While doing one of the “kill a bunch of orcs” quests, I hit one of those rapid respawn/big aggro radius newbie killers. It tickled. A little. I had to fight at least 5 orcs, and 2 of their worg pets…and my health never dropped below 75%…even with up to 3 mobs hitting me. I’m blood spec and I do not even have rune tap (will be getting it). On my DK, I’m pretty much an unstoppable killing machine. Haven’t tried tanking an instance yet, so I dunno how good the threat generation is, but the durability is definitely there.
That’s partially the gear, look at it, they’re level 70 blues (presumably so you can level fast and hit the new content). We won’t know their place in the balance tree until they’re similarly geared with other level 80s. However, I have heard that they ARE nerfing shadow of death, because postmortem ghoul form IS overpowered.
I ran my DK up to 61 pretty quickly – they are crazy-hard to kill! In fact, I’ve died only twice: once was a lvl 70 Horde Paladin who jumped me in the Eastern Plaguelands, and the other was fighting a bunch of undead who knocked me down repeatedly (stalling my Death Strike utterly). Considering how completely inept I am at WoW, that’s pretty impressive. I’ve taken on Elites a level higher than me and finished the battle above 75% health. I’ve only tried out the Blood talent tree so far.
The gear isn’t that great. I think my mage was comparably geared when he hit Outland. On the DK, I already replaced my blue pants with a green quest reward that had more armor and stamina on it.
Funnily enough - mine. We’re an end-game raid guild that often comes up short on DPS (and borrows from another end game guild when we do). Tanks and heals we have aplenty. We generally run two main tanks (my paladin and a warrior) with a druid OT. I sent our others to respec fury/boomkin because except for very limited circumstances there really isn’t a need for more than three in most 25 man raids. I’ve sent priests to spec shadow for the same reason.
I think we’re the only guild I know of with that particular issue though
We have that problem too, they call our guild: Rent a tank/Hire a healer
If you need a tank or a healer just wisper one of our members and they will set you up
I see a team from SK Gaming/Nihilum have completed Naxx already, We’re not quite at that level
Just hit 75 and am still dressed entirely in my old T6 gear. No upgrades for tanks! It’s hurt my defense and hit rating a lot though. Very little in the way of tanking drops in the early instances or as quest rewards. A little disappointed in that. But T7 isn’t far off now I guess (and some of the rep rewards are great).
I don’t think one has been made yet. I saw something in trade chat about recycle time for some items going into the making of one taking 12 days (?) to complete enough parts/metal bars/whatever.
I got the coin fishing quests done last night, and realized I’d misread the achievement - you don’t get a title for it, but you do get a coin to toss. Actually, in my case, I got 4 in the mail and they appear to be identical. It does this big emote with a nice link to the blue coin, and announces the result. Cute, but probably useless, like much of the stuff available in Dalaran.
The patch 3.0.2 (pre wrath, but getting ready for it) boosted most classes dps, dropped a lot of mobs health down 30% (definitely raids and heroics, could also be non elite mobs across outlands) and dropped the XP needed to level, so it became much much easier to level after that…
Some specs became much more viable and one even godlike. I took my level 60 ret paladin into 5 orcs and took them down in 10 seconds in an attempt to get my mana below 80%… It got there and 15 seconds later I was at full mana again…
Was in middle of fighting 3 mobs and a 62 elite mob started on me. Finished with 60% health. No heal or bubble needed.
Well, looks like I’m poking along well behind the bleeding edge of the leveling curve. Dinged 71 on my mage last night. My sheer joy at having my beloved Pyroblast back in my build knows no bounds. Deep arcane with PoM Pyro. I bring da hurt. Yes I does.
The DK is 59.5 now. He’s replaced two pieces of his Blue DK armor with Outland greens. Pants and Boots, both with more armor/stamina and defense rating. Thinking I want to try to tank something…like Ramps, see how that goes.
I’m not getting the expansion yet. First, I have no room on my hard drive…I’m already having some issues with virtual memory because of the less-than-stellar amount of HD space I have left.
Second, I’ll never be able to play it on this computer anyway. I have 1G of RAM. I have an OLD NVidia MX graphics card. The computer itself is something like six years old now. I’d be stuck immobile in Ironforge or something, with a framerate of 2 FPS. It would take me an hour to get from the griffonmaster to the Deeprun Tram.
So…I’m going to just chug along in vanilla and TBC for now. Which kills me because DKs sound like SO MUCH FREAKING FUN! Grrrrrr…
I don’t know what your financial situation is, but go on Dell’s web site and check out some of the system available there…they are practically giving the things away right now (probably because of the state of the economy). I was looking at getting a laptop and you can get a pretty kicking laptop gaming box for under $1500 (or even an Alien Ware one, who is partnering with Dell, for around $1900…and we are talking a full blow gaming machine here). Desktop system are even cheaper…I configured a gaming box with Vista 64 and 4 GB of RAM, a decent processor and a good video card for under a thousand bucks…with 19" flat panel monitor.
HP also has some really good deals on both gaming laptops and desktop systems…in some cases even cheaper than the Dell boxes. If you have the means you should definitely check them out…I haven’t seen prices this low in a long time. I’m seriously pressuring the wife into letting me get a gaming laptop for when I’m on the road and I think I’ve got her to cave in to get one after the first of the year.
I’m considering getting a laptop. Could you reccomend what specs I need for a gaming rig? I know gigawhatsits are good, and I need like 2-4 of them, beyond that, I know very little…primary games will be WoW and CoH
Well, it would all come down to price. While I won’t recommend a system for you I’ll tell you what you should look for:
Display: Myself, I’d go with a 15.4" HD display at a minimum…something in the (minimum) 1280x800 but higher if you can afford it.
OS: Vista Home Premium 64 (so you can take advantage of the RAM I’m going to recommend). You could also look to get the 64 bit version of XP, but I think Vista makes a decent enough gaming platform.
RAM: 4 GB (don’t worry about the type, just go with the standard RAM available when configuring unless you are really trying to tweak things…and you want to spend more). If you decide to do 3 GB of RAM to save some money then you can go with a 32 bit version of the OS…perhaps XP in that case.
Processor: Intel Duo core processor…I don’t think the processor is as important
Video Card: Either the G-Force (NVidia) or newer ATI mobile card…and I’d go with the 512 MB version upgrade.
Here is a link to the laptop I’m looking at atm (this one of course is more expensive than either the XPS Dell gaming boxes or the HP laptops so if price is a concern go look at those). The nice thing about the AlienWare box I’m looking at is that you can buy it using Dell’s financing which is pretty easy to get and doesn’t have too ridiculous of a rate on it. I think HP also has financing options and their systems are a lot cheaper than either the Dell or AlienWare boxes.
The AlienWare box just LOOKS way cool too and I love the display and some of the other features.
It does this big emote with a nice link to the blue coin, and announces the result. Cute, but probably useless, like much of the stuff available in Dalaran. 