Holy shit. Tactical Mastery moved to Tier 1 Prot?

God, that pretty much destroys DPS specs. =\

EDIT: Whoa. I'm looking at the shammy talents.... YES.

A fire totem that increases spell crit by 10%? YES. 10% of our intellect converted into mp5? YES. A chance to throw an extra lightning bolt instantly on casting (dunno if it's free or not)? YES. 6% hit from talents? YES. A totem that increases spell damage by 101? YES.

And that's just Elemental (although the last one is baseline, but still).

Then we have Enhancement: Dual Wield, with the spec giving 10% melee hit. YES. Shamanistic Rage giving us mana back based on our strength. YES. And good old Unleashed Rage. A 10% increase in attack power to members within 20 yards on a melee crit. YES.

And Resto... well, Mana Tide is still 31 fucking points, but the rest is pretty good. I like the 30% intellect converted into +damage, and Earth Shield looks nice.

When the expansion comes out, though... I am SO speccing 41 points in Elemental and picking up both +hit talents. <3

Jesus the stuff i'm seeing in these talent trees. It's gonna fuck everything up. Duels will look a LOT different when that shit hits. Everyone has new moves that can slow/daze, etc I saw some pretty nasty abilies as well like a rogue ability that has a chance of not dying and 90% of dodging spells.

The balance will shift alright.

Have to admit that I'm glad I quit. I don't have to deal with this shit anymore. I can only imagine the chaos this will cause.

And once again TM is nice but hardly something you need. If your raiding you should never get out of berserker stance anyway. for pvp it matters I suppose but you'll be getting impale/deep wounds so it's a good sacrifice.

So I join a group running LBRS tonight. About a half hour later, we FINALLY find a mage and a hunter (had me, a warrior, and a druid), and we head over. Eventually, the mage says "Hey, my GM wants to come along as well to help us out, but if he comes we can't do any quests." Meh, I figure. I'll get them done another time. He joins up, and a shadow priest (<3 shadow priests) comes along as well.

Smoothest. Run. Ever. Literally 3 deaths in the entire run. Not a single wipe. And on top of that, two pieces of the Elements dropped (the boots and the cord; boots are... meh. Very, very, meh), and like 3-4 Valor bracers dropped as well... but I didn't win a single one. :(

Aside from that, though, not much dropped for me. I'm stoked about getting the Elements drops, though. Now I can actually continue my Tier .5 quest. ='D

Holy shit I'm glad I've been leveling my warlock. Those talents are just insane, especially in Affliction.

Wait...Smooth run is 3 deaths? LBRS is pretty easy, even with just 5 people going along. I think the only challenging part is the Firebrand people if you pull more then you can handle.

Ditch the .5 stuff and just try to do some ZG or AQ20 runs, the tier 0 and .5 stuff is really lame and definatly not worth what you have to do to upgrade it (although doing it the first time is fun as Lord Vathalak is one of my favorite fights).

Not everyone can be in an uber-l33t guild that has everything on farm status. Some people still have to rely on pugs to do stuff with.

heh, I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm just saying that sometimes people still have to rely on PUGs to get shit done. :P

Hey does Galen play a female human rogue? If so I saw him in some cross battleground shenanigans one day, I dotted him!

I'm looking for a mod that records the rolls done. It sends a whisper to each person of their roll and says somethine like "Your roll was recorded as a 42" or something like that. Then after all the rolls happen there's a phrase done that say something like "dagget has won with a 42!" I tired to find something like that on curse-gaming, but no luck. :(

ahhh.. least you all get to play *today*

My server is getting new hardware.. so its gonna be offline all day, and some of tomorrow

SO much love for warlocks. To be honest, there's nothing bad added in that tree, and I will be very happy when the expansion is released.

Fucking Nefarian..

drops double Wrath BP and double

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=19363

what a bitchface...

rofl. Happy warriors make happy tanks. :P

A) My server is from January of '06. And an RP server. The top Horde guild is just starting BWL, and working on AQ20. Tier 0 and Tier .5 is literally the best stuff I can reasonably get without joining a raiding guild (which I don't wanna do because it would mean leaving my current guild, which isn't large enough for 5-mans, much less raids, not to mention the strict raid schedules and likely requirement of speccing Resto).

B) I'm still 59. My chances of getting in a ZG run, especially geared as I am at the moment, are next to nil.

C) Those 3 deaths are compared to a Scholo run I'd done earlier, which had multiple wipes, around 6-7 people joining and leaving at various parts (by the time we finished, the only people left who were in the original group were me and the tank), and it was my first run of the place ever. So yeah, it was pretty damn smooth.

One of each piece was sharded though...the first Nefarian kill where we sharded half the loot. We have about 8 warriors in guild, I would say 5 are geared up to tank the others for DPS. I would personally take the wrath gear even if I was DPS in that one offchance that I might have to tank something one day.

Warriors using that axe for TANKING need to learn2play or better yet quit the game. I did BWL for like a year and never saw nef drop that axe...ever. If I had to see that go to a warrior who is protection i would cry.

We only have one full protection speced warrior, all others have enough points in protection but have talents allotted elsewhere. 2 people in guild have that axe now, no one else wanted it for some reason. Just about every warrior has a decent tanking weapon (Quel or better) and our maintank usually tanks with Thunderfury (unless on fights where the proc aggros nonaggressive adds ala Twin Emps). I would of taken the axe if rogues could use axes, its a pretty sick weapon.

Warrior week continues as just about every drop in AQ last night was something for a warrior.

http://www.thottbot.com/?i=52780

Three fury warriors are now MHing these, its pretty ridiculous because one of our rogues who transferred said he did AQ for two months and never saw one drop and we have seen 5.

Damn. That's a pretty nice Hemo weapon there... shame that no rogues were able to pick one up.

Of course, hemo is a "meh" raiding spec at best... but still.

Picked up that Dungeon Comp. guide at Best Buy today. Got the last one they had. It's up-to-date as of Patch 1.10, no Naxx map but T3 armor is listed. They really should have done a better job of organizing the drops from the bosses in the instances, but eh. It looks to be a pretty good sit-down-and-glance when the power's out, or waiting on raid time. It lists all the set pieces that fall in the instances like the main sets as well as the secondary sets (Like Deathbone and sets from AQ/ZG)

My Shaman hit 55 this morning, and probably will hit 56 coming up today. The grind is tedious but for some reason it's going a lot smoother now. If I can hit 60, he'll be my 3rd 60 and I'll be able to either work on my Mage or Hunter (haven't decided which to level yet)

hemo is pretty shit for raiding, i've tried it myself. Probably nothing beats good old blade flurry/adrenaline rush.

That weapon is nice alright. Seen it drop twice.

Our raid leader in ZG was a rogue and she popped open a hoodoo pile for the doll, got MC'd, popped blade flurry and adrenaline rush and managed to tear apart 3 mages, a priest and another rogue who was unfortunate enough to be in the area when she opened it.

Then once we've cleared all the bosses and mobs up to the temple, rolling server restart. o.O

I had to log but the managed to down Hakkar later on after the reset.

Awesomeness! We finally managed to down the Twin Emps last night, which turned out to be surprisingly easy based on how our last attempts before was. You know, as much as I hate AQ40 trash pulls some of the boss fights are awesome. The Twin Emps fight was actually fun, which I guess makes up for how f'n lame Skeram and Sartura are. We are making a serious attempt at C'thun this Saturday but I have my doubts about being able to do it.

I wouldn't classify twins as easy even if you mastered the tactic. You still need 100% focus of a lot of people. If DPS stay too long it's over, if tanks don't move it's over. If tanks die it's over.

C'thun is even harder to learn. That stupid phase 1 eye beam gets so many people...your going to have to be patient for a while.

Wait until people get thrown into his stomach and flip the fuck out, then die.

YES. I have FINALLY hit 60 on my shammy.

About. Fucking. Time. ='D

I decided to finally quit the game tonight for good. I'll be logging back on Thunderhorn one last time to pay a little homage to my characters, tell everyone what I'm going to be doing, and that'll be the end of it. For the reasoning behind it, I'll simply leave it as what I typed in the "explain why you're leaving" box.

"The reason I'm quitting this time, for the last time, is quite clear. I don't have months of my life to throw away obtaining an online PVP rank or rough data that could be all be gone from me in a moment's notice. Life has become much more precious to me than getting my next epic drop, and I'm done. I thank you for your game being around to teach me that I don't want to be stuck in front of a computer screen any longer playing in an online world when the real world is infinitely more expansive.

Thank you."

The friends I've made in the game will never disappear even if I disappear from the game. I'm a fool for not realizing that up to now.

This shall be the last time I post in this thread even though I didn't post much, everyone enjoy the expansion to the best of your abilities. :p