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You do know Armory is an official part of World of Warcraft?

Here's the EU site; http://armory.wow-europe.com/index.xml

You don't even have to log in, you can just search for your character and link it from there.

Sorry, just being cautious. :)

Anyway, here's the link: http://armory.wow-europe.com/character-she...&n=Ethernet

whats the benefits of installing burning crusade in the early stages of the game? i'm only lvl 15 at the moment. i was in town over the weekend so i thought i'd buy it for future use...

i believe the real benefit is the advance from level 60 to 70... but since i'm way off, and will be for along time, should i wait?

whats the benefits of installing burning crusade in the early stages of the game? i'm only lvl 15 at the moment. i was in town over the weekend so i thought i'd buy it for future use...

i believe the real benefit is the advance from level 60 to 70... but since i'm way off, and will be for along time, should i wait?

Install it. Well, don't if you don't have free space. But there is no other reason why you shouldn't install it.

Sorry, just being cautious. :)

Anyway, here's the link: http://armory.wow-europe.com/character-she...&n=Ethernet

You claim you haven't played in over a year, yet you logged in 2 months ago.

The gear looks junky though, you do have some nice reputation in desirable factions though.

If it were me, and the Warrior was on a seperate account i'd sell it for $70-90, so 51-66 Euro?

The reputation drake is nice, but you're barely out of blues.

Now, off topic:

The way you are going about this, leads me to believe you bought that account if you do not know about WoWArmory, yet it shows you have been active in the last 2 months and you are 70.

And the terminology you used to describe the account, "(Has elite flying mount including dragon)" sounds like e-bay.

You would think after grinding that reputation mindlessly for a month or two you'd notice that it is called "Netherwing Drake"/"Netherwing" reputation, it is no easy thing to overcome in that gear to grind out completely exalted with Netherwing.

You'd be surprised at how oblivious people can be as well as how lucky. I've seen a guy running around with a piece of t6, and almost all greens. He told me he didn't know where he got the piece and said he had friends in a "higher guild that kills guys."

You'd be surprised at how oblivious people can be as well as how lucky. I've seen a guy running around with a piece of t6, and almost all greens. He told me he didn't know where he got the piece and said he had friends in a "higher guild that kills guys."

hahahaha

my guild kills guys too!

hahahaha

my guild kills guys too!

It was like a slap in the face, really.

Some poor chum running around aimlessly gets dragged into a relatively easy fight, like Azgalor, rolls on the gloves and for whatever reason wins. It makes me mad almost that good things happen to undeserving people, haha. I've downed Azgalor a bunch of times, yet I'm still in my t5 gloves. I'd bet the guy never even had t5, or t4 gloves for that matter!

Ah well, to each his own.

You'd be surprised at how oblivious people can be as well as how lucky. I've seen a guy running around with a piece of t6, and almost all greens. He told me he didn't know where he got the piece and said he had friends in a "higher guild that kills guys."

When we start seeing this, is when we know an expansion is coming soon. (WotLK Nov.13, as you know.)

I would see the same thing Pre-BC about a month or two before it is actually released.

People running around with T2 chest off Nef, and the rest completely greens, same story "Yeah my friend's guild needed help, so I got some loot that i'm not even sure what it does." Not in they're own words of course.

But I mean come on... Specifically flying over to the remote Netherwing isle in the corner of SMV to do dailies without even knowing what you are grinding / grinding for? It just sounds too... Unreal.

Crappy screenshot of the twins after we killed Felmyst the first time(which I was not present for the kill and prolly never will be).

I see you haven't downed the ledge boss ;)

Twins will stay a fairly hard encounter in 3.0: 90% of their damage is magic based, and for the most part it's either "fix it now or you die".

30% less health means much fewwer conflags and healing will be easier, but reverse strategy should at least have the same feeling. It's such a boring encounter when you use the reverse strategy, hopefully you'll be able to get past it quickly and see see M'uru while he's still fun.

I've downed Azgalor a bunch of times, yet I'm still in my t5 gloves. I'd bet the guy never even had t5, or t4 gloves for that matter!

For my chest slot, I went form level 58 blues, to AQ40 spell damage gear. After giving up on getting any healing gear I level tailoring.

I wore that level 58 epic until I had cleared Karazhan and Killed Magtheridon. I leveled tailoring to cap so I wasn't completely out-of-date.

We were farming Illidan before I got Tier 4 (and I picked up Tier 6 the day I gemmed Tier 4).

I lucked out and got the Sunwell pattern a few weeks ago so I guess I'm pretty much set until Tier 9.

If it weren't for crafting, I'd have worn a level 58 PVP reward until we killed Satura, and then I'd have worn

that for for weeks of Illidan farming. Another priest in my guild wore his Tier 2 robes just as long, meanwhile

mages had 2 or more full sets of Tier 4, 5 and 6.

The ledge boss owned us twice. Somebody falling off the ledge accidentially and pulling twins, not fun. We're doing the reverse strat where you kill sacrolash first I think(because it's the easiest) and from watching a video it doesnt seen that hard. Then again watching a video and actually doing the encounter are 2 different things.

For my chest slot, I went form level 58 blues, to AQ40 spell damage gear. After giving up on getting any healing gear I level tailoring.

I wore that level 58 epic until I had cleared Karazhan and Killed Magtheridon. I leveled tailoring to cap so I wasn't completely out-of-date.

We were farming Illidan before I got Tier 4 (and I picked up Tier 6 the day I gemmed Tier 4).

I lucked out and got the Sunwell pattern a few weeks ago so I guess I'm pretty much set until Tier 9.

If it weren't for crafting, I'd have worn a level 58 PVP reward until we killed Satura, and then I'd have worn

that for for weeks of Illidan farming. Another priest in my guild wore his Tier 2 robes just as long, meanwhile

mages had 2 or more full sets of Tier 4, 5 and 6.

AKA, Random is random. :p

The ledge boss owned us twice. Somebody falling off the ledge accidentially and pulling twins, not fun. We're doing the reverse strat where you kill sacrolash first I think(because it's the easiest) and from watching a video it doesnt seen that hard. Then again watching a video and actually doing the encounter are 2 different things.

Using the reverse strategy turns it into Barron Gheddon round 2. Assuming your healers aren't AFK and you have an appropriate number then you move all of the difficult work on to your tanks who are probably used to carrying the raid by this point.

The only skill required is "run away when you're going to kill everyone" and "don't fail at the ledge boss".

I'm not really sure if the reverse strategy is intended or not. The nonsense required to position correctly is pretty dumb, it makes the fight ridiculously easy for its place in progression, and it depends on a 'pathing exploit' to work. On the other hand: Firemaw (? the first drake in BWL) was one big LOS game and I don't think there was any other strategy used to kill him.

Instructor had a bit of an line-of-sight/range component but it was more of a "run away every 30 seconds" thing, rather than cheesing the whole fight with it.

I'm also reasonably convinced that the "run around in a field not standing in a fire" strategy wasn't the expected way to do Archimonde but I've never been able to get my hands on a cleared instance to try it.

You claim you haven't played in over a year, yet you logged in 2 months ago.

Now, off topic:

The way you are going about this, leads me to believe you bought that account if you do not know about WoWArmory, yet it shows you have been active in the last 2 months and you are 70.

And the terminology you used to describe the account, "(Has elite flying mount including dragon)" sounds like e-bay.

You would think after grinding that reputation mindlessly for a month or two you'd notice that it is called "Netherwing Drake"/"Netherwing" reputation, it is no easy thing to overcome in that gear to grind out completely exalted with Netherwing.

Yes, it's my account. I stopped playing it just over a year ago when I hit lvl 70 and done all the sinlge quests I could find, I just simply didn't have time for the group quests that last hours. I then let my eldest kid take over and have some fun (aswell as spunk all the gold I earnt along the way!).

how do i send 1 of them global messages or whatever they are?

they appear in red...

i got one the other day, someone asking if anyone wanted to help with a quest, i replied, and he invited me to group... but we were miles away, met up, and completed the quest..

how can i send those messages?

how do i send 1 of them global messages or whatever they are?

they appear in red...

i got one the other day, someone asking if anyone wanted to help with a quest, i replied, and he invited me to group... but we were miles away, met up, and completed the quest..

how can i send those messages?

/1 Bla Bla

Says Bla Bla in General (Entire zone).

/y Bla Bla

Yells Bla Bla, visible to everyone within an increased range when compared to /s

/w <username> Bla Bla

A private message to <username>; knows no boundaries except horde/alliance/realms.

/bg bla bla

Says bla bla to your entire battleground group.

/r woohoo

Replies to the last person who sent you a private message (Note : just pressing R is enough to open the reply box too :))

/p bla bla

Says bla bla to your party

That should pretty much clear all your doubts regarding tells.

I tried Kalecgos my first time today. Cant believe how easy it was from a tanking stand point. I got the whole portal rotation thing on my first attempt. The Demon did roflstomp me tho on the last attempt.

Heres a screenshot of damage taken from the demon using recount:

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