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My PVE Retri gear is gonna see some mad increases, at present im at 1850AP / 25.4% crit unbuffed. Can see it reaching 2k Ap easily with some gear swaps, and with the 3% crit increase coming im gonna balance my gear down so im at the 25% (dont care for 28% crit) and use the off set crit to boost ap and hit rating up.

At mo im threat capping like a freak when I go ret for anything be it Kara or 5 mans, so its gonna be nice to be able to push my full dps cycle without "You Have Aggro" flashin up all the time and having to use my bubble as a **** aggro reset.

PIMP MY RET PALLY!!

Btw if you have a retadin then http://cromfel.battlefield.fi is your safe haven :)

Thanks for the heads up! :)

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Dotdot

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As with any large patch to any game there is always bugs and probs. Even when tested on a PTR there are many more things that come out of the woodwork cme patch day when its applied to live servers.

Theres only ever half a dozen PTR servers compared to about 100 live servers. A PTR will see maybe a few thousand people play on it, whilst yet again on the live servers your talking maybe a few million.

Personally 2.3 has been good so far to me, lags been fine, got my ui working reasonably well and grabbed some new gears etc.

However I do share the pain, Im unable to vendor anything in stacks of more than 1, meaning I have to split stacks of say Netherweave cloth up into 1 piece at a time and vendor it that way. Its really annoying when u have 5 20stacks. Sadly its not caused by my addons instead seems to be a bug affecting people, hopefully with a hot fix coming soon.

But hey its to be expected, these things always happen with patches. In any game!

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Dotdot

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Count yourself lucky guys, I woke up this morning fired up the PC played Crysis for 5 mins then my gfx card thats only 4months old packed in, cant play wow, cant play nowt.

No ZA / SSC / 5 man nothing all i get is a bsod after about 10mins playtime

Grand Master

Argi

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Apparently the bear mount is a 100% chance to drop from the 4th chest in the timed event so knowing that we're going to have a go at it this week. Give the time to clear (2 hours), the quality of rewards (tier-5 iLevel but very well itemized) and the badges/hour ratio (better than farming heroics, and more fun than karazhan) its a good way to kill an off-night.

You also make pretty good coin in there. I'd estimate I made about 50-60g for the full clear + shards/dust

That doesn't sound right. ?I'd assume it's the same drop rate as the ZG Raptor/Tiget mounts and the Karazahn horse. ?The only difference is that you get more than 1 chance at it dropping in a given instance. ?(A guildy got it from a vase)

I'll have to check tomorrow if they've done a full timed run though.

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gregb0b

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Season 3 starts today :). My alt is finally going to become my main once I get enough honor for some gear.

What guild are you in adamb10?

My raiding guild was <Sold Out> on arthas/mal'ganis, if you scroll down here our the kill dates for us: http://www.so-guild.com/pages/information.php. We did end up killing Kel'thuzad but TBC ended our reign and we decided to go casual. Now I'm back to my horde characters which i started in 2004 :p

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Prosidius

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As of recently I've been guild hoping. :p The first 3 guilds I was in when I first hit 70 disbanded so I hopped over to Critalin which at the time was attemping to kill Kael. Right now there in BT, there on teron gorefiend I think. I left because my gear wasnt good enough for SSC at the time. I've been in crappy guilds since then but now I found a new guild I like.

The progression on my server sucks(hakkar) as no one on it has killed Illidian yet and only recently has the horde ventured in BT. The guild is "reign", we just started trying to kill the loot reaver in TK on sunday(got it down to 60%), raiding gruuls tonight. :)

BTW yeah thats Bartender 3 in the screenshots.

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