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[Bawx]

Yeah I didn't get anything from her, did it after about a month on WoW. :]

Kara friday. No idea what it's like, no idea what to expect. Harder than Molten Core? I'm 70 Frost Mage, I'll be okay?

[I am Redbeard]

Yeah I didn't get anything from her, did it after about a month on WoW. :]

Kara friday. No idea what it's like, no idea what to expect. Harder than Molten Core? I'm 70 Frost Mage, I'll be okay?

Should be fine. It's nothing to worry about.

Used to be so fun though, just clearing it for fun, helping guildies.

Really great instance, great design.

I was friends with some people who would clear it just so they could RP in it, haha.

[Slane]

Really great instance, great design.

Truth. Though now nobody sees and understands that.

[Lord Nite]

Did something I never really thought I'd get to do..

Onyxia.

First time, ever. In 3 1/2 years.. I finally did Onyxia.

I did Onyxia on my Death Knight for the second time (first was on my rogue) and received the bag, the head, and a few others spoils.

I have to admit, I wish I could have done the run when it was a raid instance.

[bokajinn]

I did Onyxia on my Death Knight for the second time (first was on my rogue) and received the bag, the head, and a few others spoils.

I have to admit, I wish I could have done the run when it was a raid instance.

You might rethink that if you had to do the attunment.

None the less. Me and my buddy thought of an excellent idea.

I am goign to use the recruit a buddy feature and send him and e-mail. Then he will use the code to create a new account and create a lvl 1 preist. Then on my acocunt i will create a lvl 1 druid.

Then since we will both get 300% xp as long as we lvl together, i will sign on to both chars and he will get on his DK(on his main account) and run the 2 lvl 1 chars through instances until we hit 60. We figure that after about 1 day of play time we should be 60 with little effort. All in All we will each get a 60 for 27$ (we split the cost of a cd-key, and 1 month subscription and one transfer from the secondary account to the main).

[KZWings]

Did something I never really thought I'd get to do..

Onyxia.

The sad thing is.. I didn't get anything from her.. :(

Why is that sad? content > loot

And the Onyxia fight is fun.

[Art3x]

Did something I never really thought I'd get to do..

Onyxia.

First time, ever. In 3 1/2 years.. I finally did Onyxia.

The sad thing is.. I didn't get anything from her.. :(

Ouch, you only did 450 or so dps.....

Edited February 25, 2009 by artex

[the evn show]

My favorite Onyxia screenshot: back before daily quests we used to kill

her 5-man for gold to help pay for consumables (~60g each!).

3-years of killing her and I still never got a shard of the scale.

Ouch, you only did 450 or so dps.....

Level 69, leveling axe skill, and wearing gear from as far back as level 55.

I don't think that's unreasonable.

[Art3x]

Level 69, leveling axe skill, and wearing gear from as far back as level 55.

I don't think that's unreasonable.

Just seems awful low, and why gear from 55? I'm mostly just curious, and a little confused

I did notice your spec is not at all conducive to dual wielding.

I should have tried to ask it constructively so that was my fault.

[Slane]

Well I dunno as I'm only about to start leveling my DK. Got both professions up to 230, plan on hitting 250 tonight with mining then start questing in WPL/EPL to mine Thorium as I go, but I've heard alot of people didn't replace the blue gear from the starting zone until 70. I haven't bothered to look into it, but that's what I heard from other DK's.

[Xilo]

You might rethink that if you had to do the attunment.

None the less. Me and my buddy thought of an excellent idea.

I am goign to use the recruit a buddy feature and send him and e-mail. Then he will use the code to create a new account and create a lvl 1 preist. Then on my acocunt i will create a lvl 1 druid.

Then since we will both get 300% xp as long as we lvl together, i will sign on to both chars and he will get on his DK(on his main account) and run the 2 lvl 1 chars through instances until we hit 60. We figure that after about 1 day of play time we should be 60 with little effort. All in All we will each get a 60 for 27$ (we split the cost of a cd-key, and 1 month subscription and one transfer from the secondary account to the main).

Questing also gives MASSIVE experience. I dual boxed a paladin and mage and mostly did quests and got some runs through instances for the quests. I made them to 60 in about a day play time too. Now they are stuck at 64. I haven't played since lol.

[Art3x]

The bracers and legs are the hardest to replace, as most quests dont give you great versions of either.

I would highly recommend going to borean at 68 and doing the first quest to get the sword reward, its a massive upgrade over anything you'll have at that point.

[Xilo]

Well I dunno as I'm only about to start leveling my DK. Got both professions up to 230, plan on hitting 250 tonight with mining then start questing in WPL/EPL to mine Thorium as I go, but I've heard alot of people didn't replace the blue gear from the starting zone until 70. I haven't bothered to look into it, but that's what I heard from other DK's.

I replaced stuff as soon as I hit outlands from quest rewards. If you haven't noticed though, most DK's are crap.

Edited February 25, 2009 by Xilo

[_neutrino Veteran]

im lvl 80 and except for a few things i am still wearing lvl 70 gear because its still better than the drops that i found on the way to 80 then again teh 70 gear i have is the top pvp gear from 70 its still good at 80 but the next set of armor i am going to work on is the Tier 8 stuff when Uldaur comes out. The Warlock set looks freaking sweet.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?auto...;showentry=2744

[Art3x]

@Xilo: Indeed! I've only grouped with one other dk who could even remotely get close to my dps, and most have no idea what they're even doing

You're saying that you plan on doing Ulduar in lvl 70 pvp gear? I find that next to impossible to believe, because your dps will be soooo much lower than it should be.

Littleneutrino, would you link your armory please? I want to try to be optimistic.

[the evn show]

I replaced stuff as soon as I hit outlands from quest rewards.

I've found the same. My main is an enchanter an enchanter and so is one of my closest real-life friends (we also have a jewel crafter) so our alts are always well equipped that way. The difference between the starter gear without enchants and a collection of quest/dungeon rewards with cheap gems (<2g/each) and cheap enchants (<15g) at level 67 is:

• Strength: +220
  
• Agility: +118
  
• Stamina: +120
  
• hit/crit: 0
  
• Attack Power: +642
  
• Defense: +15
  
• Avoidance: +5%
  

The starter gear is good, but if you really want to replace it then you can do it.

im lvl 80 and except for a few things i am still wearing lvl 70 gear because its still better than the drops that i found on the way to 80 then again teh 70 gear i have is the top pvp gear from 70 its still good at 80 but the next set of armor i am going to work on is the Tier 8 stuff when Uldaur comes out. The Warlock set looks freaking sweet.

I find it really hard to believe that you weren't able to find PVE upgrades to PVP loot. At level 70 I had 14/16 best-in-slot items and could still find upgrades for everything in Tier 7.

EDIT: correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this your character?

If so: you really need to reconsider what you consider an upgrade. Granted you're not wearing a weapon, but your stats are only marginally better than level 60 endgame loot and isn't even remotely close to what warlocks in my guild are wearing.

I'm going to assume you logged out in "RP gear" or that this isn't your character.

Edited February 25, 2009 by evn.

[Art3x]

@Evn: I was checking your armory and you should have the axe in your MH and sword in OH. Even though your spec isnt good for dual-wielding, that should up your dps

@littleneutrino: If that is your profile, then no one is going to even take you to Uldaur. Even with a top end weapon, you're going to have less than 1k spell power. Also the enchants are not exactly the best either.

Edited February 25, 2009 by artex

[trag3dy]

The bracers and legs are the hardest to replace, as most quests dont give you great versions of either.

I would highly recommend going to borean at 68 and doing the first quest to get the sword reward, its a massive upgrade over anything you'll have at that point.

Not entirely true. If you want to drop the gold you can get Blade of Misfortune off the auction house and use that until you can get the Honed Voidaxe. Then use that until you get Axe of Frozen Death. Honed Voidaxe is better than any green quest weapon you'll get until Frozen Death. Which you can get fairly early if you really want to.

Next in line after Frozen Death is probably the De-raged Waraxe.

[Art3x]

Not entirely true. If you want to drop the gold you can get Blade of Misfortune off the auction house and use that until you can get the Honed Voidaxe. Then use that until you get Axe of Frozen Death. Honed Voidaxe is better than any green quest weapon you'll get until Frozen Death. Which you can get fairly early if you really want to.

Next in line after Frozen Death is probably the De-raged Waraxe.

Actually Sword is quite a bit better overall than Honed Voidaxe. Much more top end and crit.

Ingvar's Monolithic Cleaver is also better overall for dps than Frozen Death, although some would argue that. The 11.1 dps increase offsets the crit, and supplies more dmg overall. Its pretty close though, and I swap between the 2.

[the evn show]

@Evn: I was checking your armory and you should have the axe in your MH and sword in OH. Even though your spec isnt good for dual-wielding, that should up your dps

Are you sure you were talking about mine? I play a priest/mage and generally don't dual wield ;) I haven't posted my DK because he's nothing special: just like all the other sub-70 DKs running around.

EDIT: I see: I tried to excuse Anderews DPS and you likely thought that his character was mine.

Edited February 25, 2009 by evn.

[Art3x]

Are you sure you were talking about mine? I play a priest/mage and generally don't dual wield ;) I haven't posted my DK because he's nothing special: just like all the other sub-70 DKs running around.

EDIT: I see: I tried to excuse Anderews DPS and you likely thought that his character was mine.

Oh yeah, I think you're right. I looked up Minifig, so that's my bad man.

[Slane]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.x...;n=Touchymcfeel - Isn't that your priest Evn? Believe that's the name that was on the statue you posted a picutre of.

Addon request:

An addon that annoucnes when you get a buff or something. For example when I get Bloodsurge (Slam is instant cast), it'll announce in the middle of my screen or something, same thing would apply to Sword and Board (free SS). Anyone understand what I'm saying and if so any addons?

[the evn show]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.x...;n=Touchymcfeel - Isn't that your priest Evn? Believe that's the name that was on the statue you posted a picutre of.

It is, though lately he's been largely abandoned: traveling, work, and real-life in general have gotten in the way of playing.

The nice thing about leveling a death knight has been the complete lack of commitment to even 1 night per week.

I'm half-looking forward to raiding if Uldar gets positive reviews.

[gigapixels Veteran]

As much as I'm looking forward to 3.1, I love my DW and I really don't want to have to give it up.

Any idea on how much it has been affected?

[Bawx]

Why hasn't WoW asked me to update 3.1? I need WOTLK?