Oh, and they also released some Enhancement changes for 2.3:

-Shamanistic Rage now has -30% damage taken for the duration (woo PVP viability!)

-Focused Mind now gives 30% of your AP in spell damage (woo non-windfury Enhancement scaling!)

-2H weapons replaced with a talent that reduces the cost of your next shock by 40% after a melee crit.

Woah woah.. woah.. WOAH. No more 2h weapons for Shaman? ;_______;

Also, Zul'Aman looks interesting.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Zul%27Aman

Actually, people are speculating that it'll be a trainable skill.

40/0/21 shamans with Stormherald. ;_;

Anyone like Cannibal Corpse? Well here a hilarious video (probably only for the Horde players).

Check it out.


Give it a few minutes to get to the WoW stuff.

70 Night Elf Huntard (Falcore)
70 Gnome Mage (Sorceror)
and a few 50's, and 40's, and a few others around the 20 mark.

All on Aerie Peak - EU

So, I hit 70 on my warrior recently =o

Here's his armory at the moment. I think I logged in my usual DPS gear: The Armory

...ack, okay, so I didn't log. Replace a green plate helmet with the X-52 Rocket Helmet. >.>;

Anyway, in my tanking gear I have 462 defense, 10K hp, and around 15-20% avoidance unbuffed (as a guesstimate). Here's my gear list for tanking:

Felsteel Gloves - Items - World of Warcraft (Felsteel Gloves)
Felsteel Helm - Items - World of Warcraft (Felsteel Helm)
Shield of the Void - Items - World of Warcraft (Shield of the Void)
Junior Technician 3rd Grade Bracers - Items - World of Warcraft (Junior Tech. 3rd Grade Bracers)
Breastplate of the Warbringer - Items - World of Warcraft (Breastplate of the Warbringer)
Mag'hari Warlord's Legplates - Items - World of Warcraft (Mag'hari Warlord's Legplates)
Burnoose of Shifting Ages - Items - World of Warcraft (Burnoose of Shifting Ages)
Slayer's Waistguard - Items - World of Warcraft (Slayer's Waistguard) <---REALLY need to replace this
Band of the Victor - Items - World of Warcraft (Band of the Victor) <---REALLY need to replace this too
Pauldrons of Brute Force - Items - World of Warcraft (Pauldrons of Brute Force)
Iron Band of the Unbreakable - Items - World of Warcraft (Iron Band of the Unbreakable)
Regal Protectorate - Items - World of Warcraft (Regal Protectorate)
Charm of Alacrity - Items - World of Warcraft (Charm of Alacrity) <---REALLY need to replace this
Mark of the Ravenguard - Items - World of Warcraft (Mark of the Ravenguard)
Sethekk Feather-Darts - Items - World of Warcraft (Sethekk Feather-Darts) <---REALLY need to replace this
Crystalblade of the Draenei - Items - World of Warcraft (Crystalblade of the Draenei)
Bloodguard's Greaves - Items - World of Warcraft (Bloodguard's Greaves)

So, any good suggestions for upgrades?

Funny story about that tanking sword. I was 69, just finished the fucking Access Shaft Zeon quests (NEVER FUCKING GO THERE EVER TRUST ME), and my gear was pretty beat up, so I figured I'd do this questline and repair, then hit 70 (which was like half a bar away). Well, the questline didn't let me repair, so I figured "Eh, it'll last me until I ding." So, I went down to the ridge with all the netherdrakes by Manaforge Ultris, and I was in the middle of fighting this drake when OH SHIT MY SPEAR BROKE. So, I whipped out this sword, put it in the offhand, put some green 2.6 axe of agility in my mainhand, and as an MS 2-hander spec, I dinged 70 dual-wielding a tanking sword and a green axe. :tpg:

You have wayyyyy too much defense. You only need 490, no less, no more. Your hp is also far too low. The tanks I raid with, hell even the new tanks who are undergeared have at least 14k life. Once you have 490 def, you want to focus on stam and then avoidance...that will get you far as a tank. Id use solid star of elune in almost every gem slot if I were you.

Well I must be doing something wrong, cause my def is about 509 (round abouts) in tanking gear with about 14K life buffed. *shrug*

I don't care anymore, I was supposed to be a Frost Resistant tank for Hydross, but I'm thinking of actually calling it quits for good, now.

509 isnt bad, alot of gear overcompensates...just so you are above 490 you wont ever get crushed. Having over 600 is just overkill though, since you are most likely losing out on alot of stamina that youd need.

The game is now either hit or miss, people are sick of raiding Karazhan and Gruuls. You really have to be on the ball to kill Magtheridon or even to stand a chance in SSC/TK. However, if your guild manages to make it through SSC/TK...the game really picks up fun. Raiding BT and Hyjal brought me back to how I used to enjoy raiding...I guess its just a slow bumpy start. They should of put in a big entry level raid dungeon for 25 man...I think that would of helped keep interest going.

Naxxramas as the first 25 man raid in the new expansion is going to be a huge step in the right direction...I just hope Naxx will still have the same appeal.

Naxxramas was the last good dungeon in WoW. They're making it 25-Man?

Sorta. Blizzard was disappointed in how many guilds got to go in there (like they didn't know how many would actually make it in there) so they're toying with the idea of retuning Naxx and making it a raid instance for Northrend so that "more people can see the lore behind it" which will result in probably 10 more guilds going and the rest are SOL again.

I'm sure Zul'Aman is going to be fun on public test realms, but then uber guilds like Nihilum and D&T will bitch about it being "too easy" like with ZG and it'll get beefed up and not be worth the rewards (much like ZG was)

The game is turning into EverQuest, has been for sometime I guess. I just find raiding boring anyway. I got into a guild that did it as something fun and not a job, but it was slowly turning into a job and that was draining the fun out of it for me. *shrug*

As someone told me one time, they need to put in alternates to end-game raiding other than the horrible grind of PVP and 25 man e-peen fests. Like make more 6-10 man dungeons sorta like (as they said) Final Fantasy XI has. Just something other to do than what's end-game now.

OH SNAP

Make that 462 defense. ><;

I have to agree with this statement.

Even with the very few times I've been in KZ, I just end up kinda bored with it. A few of the events are interesting/cool, but for the most part, it's ridiculous.

And PVP has killed 5-mans, which I actually liked doing--and still do. No one does the shit, though, cause arena gear is 50x easier to pick up.

TBC is a steaming pile. Out of those 6 Outland zones, I could only... "feel?" Nagrand and Netherstorm. I just hated everything else. SSC and TK are boring and droning raid instances. All fights are mind-numbing, even when tanking Leotheras, Capernian and/or kiting Striders on Vashj. Hyjal gets fun once there aren't wipes pre-Archimonde. BT though, from the start is actually fun. I dunno, I like the trash there and most boss fights (except Teron Gorefiend). Right now we're up to Reliquary of Souls... well, I'm not. I'm still waiting for my new desktop to arrive later this week. Then I can play, and hopefully by then we'll be on Mother Shahraz with enough Hearts of Darkness (or close).

I really can't wait to get over this crap and start anew with WLK, even if it means not looking like a Gremlin with a popsicle suit anymore (yeah I'm an orc warlock) by the time we clear Illidan. I hope that can happen before September is over, since people tend to clear the Illidari Council the first night they get to that fight.

Blizzard themselves stated how "bland" TBC has been, in their interview with Windows Game Magazine (spelling?). It's just... a little half-assed, come on. Kael'thas is a guild cock-block and I always see guilds fall apart there. People who only PVP quit faster than others because seasons, well, take only 3.5 months or so and then it's farming the next armor set but doing the same thing.

I'm really interested in Naxx. Blizzard had originally intended on making this a 25 man instance, but kept it at 40 with the proper tweaks. Now it'll be a 25 man, and the first one so... sure, it's going to be easier than anything else. So newcomers might wonder "what was so hard" while vets might go "meh." Who knows, right? Weeee. Just think about how bosses like Saphirron and Four Horsemen will accomodate 25 men.

Not sure what to say about the hero system yet. Those classes won't be more powerful than regular ones, so no QQing about death knights especially if you remember how blademaster can cast "Mirror Image"x3 and "Bladestorm." It'll definitely be interesting to see how these new "classes" could affect raiding balance and progression.

Too bad all has to go in one thread. No locks around here?

I just wanted to RUN in and say, MAN does it feel good to detox from this game for three weeks. I am finally free. And you can do it too, JESSY!

I havent played in like a year. It doesnt run good on my system anymore.. dont know why. Im tired of trying to fix/upgrade the problem. So, if it comes to the 360, ill come back. if not, want my stuff? lol

I quit for about a month.. well retail anyway. Played on a private server for a bit, then stopped too. Reactivated and just bullshitting around now. I'm done with raiding, don't care if I do it anymore or not. I've actually been playing D&D online more often now, and I really enjoy the way some of it is set up. Especially the fact that everyone can loot something from a chest and there's no "ninjaing" items.

No I can't!

I played a warlock for 2 years, in Deus Vox. We were competing for world firsts in Naxxramas, and actually got the world first on Loatheb. Naxxramas is the best dungeon in the game, bar none.

I quit about halfway through our progress into SSC, because that was the shittiest dungeon I'd ever seen and the game really just got boring at that point. Best thing I ever did, to be honest.

I got addicted to WoW, just a month ago.

Sad to say i'm playing on a pserver (Not that i cant afford retail. its just that i can't invest that much time since i know i'll be forced if i did)

Anywho i play at a server called WowLegion, i play at the blizzlike server, its like 3x/3x/3x (even for reps and stuffs) The game is pretty fun, although time consuming.

Best thing i loved about it was the whole interactivity and sad to say i'm fairly interested in the whole Warcraft Lore.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...607_122004.jpg

My current char, I love how battleground doesn't actually work in our server, although it'll be this weekend :)

(Yeah i know my UI is messy, i haven't had the time to arrange and fix it yet)

I was about to say, you have what appears to the T6 warrior helm but T5 paladin shoulders plus the shield off Illidan. Gear and class inconsistencies aside, all in a month? Was about to ask who on ebay did you buy it from or what kind of in-game contacts did you know before joining.

Oh the helm is practically for any plate users, Its called Helm of Illidari it drops on Illidan in the retail. I know Pserver sucks but bah =p

If there was one thing i would really like is to make Script end game instances work, Unfortunately Gms tried it and took us as the testers, it didn't work crashed the whole server.

Is that private server PVP or Normal? Most I've ever seen are PVP and while I enjoyed my time playing on one, I didn't like looking over my shoulder each time I tried to level. Even moreso when they made corpse camping "legal" (as in you don't get banned for it anymore) that and plus all the damn towns would get decimated all the time (no one would fight back :|)

Its Pvp, but its not as if they always try to hunt you, There's one area thats always dangerous to be in, Tanaris.

I've never enjoyed staying there, in the end i always end up getting killed, and they cant really invade towns here that much, We don't have custom items,and its not as if the other side is pretty weak, Although our common target is usually SW.

I remember we raided SW (only 15) people, they've had a hard time dealing with us, since we have 5 priest, 3 paladins, 2 hunters, 5 rogues.

It was fun for awhile until the brigade came in and kicked our sorry ass.