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[Dr. Gonzo]

I'm a little tired of all the **** people talk to others who don't have the top tier gear. I have been working my tank Death Knight and trying to accumulate the best gear I can in the normal (non-heroic) instances and sure enough I went into Halls of Reflection and someone called me out for having bad gear. But guess what, it was the healer that called me out and he only decided to call me out after he let me die on the first encounter. We were doing perfectly fine until he decided to hide behind a pillar and didn't have LOS to heal me. Now I was tanking the boss with no healing for a good 10-15 seconds and the stupid healer blamed my gear for the fact that I died. A) Being a healer doesn't give you an automatic pass for being a dick and B) Who the hell was born with epic gear in this game? It's kind of hard to get good gear if every time you try to take a step up and get better gear you are shot down for having lower gear.

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I know what you mean. I had an account that I canceled about 6 months ago, and sometime in there, it got hacked and everything on it was deleted. Got it recovered and had them restore my 80 warlock, but his gear and everything was gone. So I bought him some crap gear and have been using him as a mining alt. Haven't touched his talents, bought him some crappy 80 crafted gear, and it does its job. He mines, sends ore, goes to AH. That's it. Some random person in the AH the other day, sends me a tell, telling me my talent build looks ineffective for my gear, and my gear is ****. Then they log out two seconds later. Why they felt the need to slag on me, I'll never know. But that sorta mentality, although I've rarely seen it, is there.

[_neutrino Veteran]

I have done all three of the Frozen Halls instances almost every day since the dang thing opened and have NEVER seen the stupid Battered Hilt Drop. WTF :p seriously its stupid low drop rate or just bad luck. Also there is never one on the AH to purchase. I have the gold i just want the item lol.

[The Angry Bunny]

Well, after week or so of debating I finally switched mains. I went from an Elem shaman to a Fury warrior, and while I do miss the Shaman (was my main from Vanilla on) I LOVE raiding on my warrior.

He's not quite as geared as my shaman, but I still put out more dps. I just got tired of working my butt off to gear myself out and stuff on my shaman, just to come in dead last on dps ALL THE TIME (Elem is the worst scaling spec in game... it actually doesn't scale AT ALL).

Anyway, the days of Halorl are over... let the reign of Smashhulk begin... (yeah yeah... I know I need a name change).

Oh, and littleneutrino... I know exactly what you mean... I've ran all three instances every day since patch and have yet to see a hilt OR a needle incrusted scorpion... I have the crappiest luck with them...

[Shaun N.]

Battered Hilt dropped last night in the Halls of Reckoning ( I was the tank), We all needed on it and the healer won it. I then sent a message to my guild saying I had one drop and they all went mental lol - They haven't had one drop either

[Shaun N.]

For 5-man content an arcane mage is hit capped even when naked. 18k mana plus evocate, endless mana potion, and gem gives a naked arcane mage the same effective manapool that a full Tier 10 geared mage would have if they neglected using regen cooldowns. In this specific case having judgement of light and replenishment also helped.

I might be screwing with people but I'm not clueless: that's kinda the point.

Right -_-

[I am Redbeard]

Got into Festergut and Rotface's rooms on Tuesday night. Relatively easy so far. We had some trouble communicating on rotface, but we're going back in there tonight to clean it up. :]

[troGGers]

Downed Festergut and Rotface 25m pretty easily Tuesday. 2 shot Festergut and 4 shot Rotface. I wish Festergut's enrage timer was a little less to push guild's harder, but other than that they were a little entertaining. Putricide is really tough and we didn't manage to down him...only a few in the world have though so not too disheartened by it. Some goofy mechanics on the slimes he drops with their targetting, and lag spikes intermittently, didn't help much but it was actually fun to see a new fight. More fun than Patchwerk 2.0 and Grobbulus 2.0. Creativity is certainly lacking when you just reuse game mechanics from raids 3 tiers prior, even more if you take into account the 40m Naxx prior to WoTLK. Putricide will be where pugs stop for now at least, though he's much simpler in 10m and our guild did manage to down him there.

[the evn show]

I did 2 of the 3 new bosses.

Festergut is a gear check: can each raid member do roughly 5,000 DPS? Can your tanks taunt every 1.5 minutes? Can your healers pick the right target. It requires less thought that most of the crap in naxx-10 and so it's extremely dull (though my mage did get some pants for her trouble). I didn't heal it, but I expect it'll feel almost identical to bloodboil: spam the raid, spam a target, spam the raid, spam a target, spam the raid, collect loot.

Rotface has a bit of running so it's a much more enjoyable fight. I ended up healing this one and found it pretty enjoyable because I had to pay attention to what was going on around me. I'm hoping I'll be allowed to kite the adds on my mage for a bit of Vashj phase 2 nostalgia. Healing it was pretty dull.

My mage's uber-casual 1/day week guild has used up their 4 hours and probably won't tried Putricide until next week. If it's too cold to go out (70% of the raid is real-life friends within driving distance) we might have a raid day instead of a pub night this weekend.

My priest's guild is holding out until monday before anybody attempts him on mains or alts: Nobody wants to waste any of our limited attempts on a fight that could be 'fixed', 'buffed', 'nerfed' or otherwise altered. From the stuff posted it looks like a combination of illidan Phase 3 and "don't stand in the fire". The majority of the difficulty seems to be on the abomination tank. I can imagine they're trilled about yet another vehicle fight.

I installed the game on my mac and tried the video recording Proof of concept: testing out dps on my mage and pulled just shy of 3k on a target dummy for just over 250k total damage (heroic bosses have between 350k and 900k hp).

Quality wasn't great so I'll have to tweak things a bit before I do the proper "class > skill > gear" run. I haven't forgotten.

Edited January 9, 2010 by evn.

[Minifig]

Good journey Lady Liadrin!

And with that, I've done Sunwell.. finally.

[Krockett]

Finally after two weeks of being grouped with nubs i found a group that suprisingly had a few braincells on my server. VoA25 downed without any problems.... Just a niggle tho... Arcane Mages!

Why are they only using 2 Spells and Topping meters... surely thats wrong! Hunters were easy to play and were called huntards due to steadyshot spam, but now this is not the case. I checked recount and the mage in the group was getting a serious amount of DPS only by using 2 Spells. Arcane Blast and missiles i think. This cant go on at all why on Earth they are that easy to play and end up with extreme dps is beyond me.

The mage started off from 0-15k dps in a matter of seconds, at the same time i only managed 0-4.6k... Eventually with the help of kill shot i ended up on top tho :p but still 2 freacking spells! surely that is wrong.

Posting this just to prove you don't need to be ranked 14th or whatever on some list to achieve good dps, Skill > Gear all the way. Not my personal highest on this, but its been a long time since i was in a half decent raid setup.

Hey i was just Wondering...what addons are you using there for that whole interface...I just now got back into WoW after about a year break...and Not in the loop about alot of things....show if you could please list those for me I'd like to check them out...thanks

[Noveed]

Hey i was just Wondering...what addons are you using there for that whole interface...I just now got back into WoW after about a year break...and Not in the loop about alot of things....show if you could please list those for me I'd like to check them out...thanks

I havent updated my version to version 2 yet, just cant be bothered. However this is the interface im using, i have edited a bit but most if it is the same

http://wowinterface.com/downloads/info14130-LUIv2.0.html

[spikey_richie]

Is it sad that I spent ?10 on the Kung-fu Monk pet?

[Krockett]

I havent updated my version to version 2 yet, just cant be bothered. However this is the interface im using, i have edited a bit but most if it is the same

http://wowinterface.com/downloads/info14130-LUIv2.0.html

Thanks Man it looks very user friendly ...Im looking forward to checking it out..At work right now but..when I get home my wife is going to hate me...she has never been around me when I play wow... and though she has been understandable so far Im sure she will get tired of it sucking all my time...lol :laugh: jk my wife and child comes first..

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

I'm surprised Sethos hasn't been in here kissing my ass for helping him level (I'm only at 56, helping him up so we can so BC together). Tut tut.

I have some big ass speech to do to try and invite some of you guys over to Anachronos (EU PVE) to play with us. We're just doing it for fun and casual play, and to bond outside of Neowin (awwww soo sentimental... boke). Maybe it will progress into a guild or joining one, I don't know but right now stress free play for fun at times that suit.

Anyway I'll be back later to try persuade some of you more with a more convincing speech, right now I'm hungover and have a GF coming over at 5 for family meal so I need to shape up. Yes I mentioned GF, girlfriend, in a World of Warcraft thread, go nuts guys.

[spikey_richie]

I'm surprised Sethos hasn't been in here kissing my ass for helping him level (I'm only at 56, helping him up so we can so BC together). Tut tut.

I have some big ass speech to do to try and invite some of you guys over to Anachronos (EU PVE) to play with us. We're just doing it for fun and casual play, and to bond outside of Neowin (awwww soo sentimental... boke). Maybe it will progress into a guild or joining one, I don't know but right now stress free play for fun at times that suit.

Anyway I'll be back later to try persuade some of you more with a more convincing speech, right now I'm hungover and have a GF coming over at 5 for family meal so I need to shape up. Yes I mentioned GF, girlfriend, in a World of Warcraft thread, go nuts guys.

Alliance or Horde?

[Slane]

Anachronos (EU PVE)

Wrong side of pond guy. :(

[Sethos]

Alliance or Horde?

We're playing Alliance. While I am a Horde man myself, I'm quite happy with playing an Alliance character again. Horde cities and areas are so bland, it kills the experience a bit. As for the marvellous Gavin ( Audioboxer ) - Thank you so much sweetheart :wub:

I love when you have a friend to boost you through all the decent instances, helps to get a bit of gear and the XP boost from both the run and quests - Stops you from getting sick of the game when you're on the 150th Alt character or whatever :laugh: Though as he said, it's all just casual. He has a lot of stuff to do on the side and so do I - Mainly I go crazy on weekends.

So anyone, feel free to join us for a bit of Neowin fun - Hopefully we might be able to do some proper instances as a group soon and I really can't wait to go through Outlands with Gav, can't remember the last time I actually levelled with someone.

[spikey_richie]

Is it an English speaking server?

[Sethos]

Yeah

[spikey_richie]

PM me your char name, i'll roll something on there for the crack.

[Noveed]

Thanks Man it looks very user friendly ...Im looking forward to checking it out..At work right now but..when I get home my wife is going to hate me...she has never been around me when I play wow... and though she has been understandable so far Im sure she will get tired of it sucking all my time...lol :laugh: jk my wife and child comes first..

No probs, i think with the new version 2 you can hide certain things the UI like Recount, Omen, etc etc so it looks a bit more minimalistic or so.

[I am Redbeard]

Started leveling a Druid not too long ago. Thanks to the LFG system I'm going to level Resto so I can be sufficient at 80. I have to admit that healing although easy, is kind of boring. Perhaps its the dungeons, or the group. I do like some of the talents so far though. Swiftmend is really nice, and nature's swiftness is helpful as well. For funsies I let the tank get really low and then pop both of those.

Sure is a nice change from my Hunter, though. :]

[Noveed]

Started leveling a Druid not too long ago. Thanks to the LFG system I'm going to level Resto so I can be sufficient at 80. I have to admit that healing although easy, is kind of boring. Perhaps its the dungeons, or the group. I do like some of the talents so far though. Swiftmend is really nice, and nature's swiftness is helpful as well. For funsies I let the tank get really low and then pop both of those.

Sure is a nice change from my Hunter, though. :]

Healing is boring most of the time if the grp has very good dps and a Decent Tank with a nice health pool (40k+) in randoms. My undergeared pally with an off spec as holy enjoys getting carried by uber pugs haha, sometimes i even dps. Prefer to DPS though, i only heal if healer leaves and we cant find a new one.

[obiwong]

i've been away from WoW for well over a year and i'm finally back as a prot war (used to play a Rogue)

the game a changed so much since i left

the biggest... "improvement".... seems to be the upgrade to the LFG utility

at first i was very impressed by it, i could find a group in less than a minute

then i remembered all the problems with pugging instances

now with dual spec everyone wants everything. DPS rolling on tank gear, tanks rolling on DPS gear. healers rolling on DPS gear. DPS rolling on healer gear.

it's madness

if you want prot gear come to the instance as a TANK

in the 4 years i played before i quit i NEVER rolled on off spec gear. if i came as combat rogue i don't touch daggers for the dagger rogue. if i'm there as a healer i don't touch DPS gear.

tl;dr

"i'm rolling for off spec"

kthxbye

/QQ

[Treemonkeys]

i've been away from WoW for well over a year and i'm finally back as a prot war (used to play a Rogue)

the game a changed so much since i left

the biggest... "improvement".... seems to be the upgrade to the LFG utility

at first i was very impressed by it, i could find a group in less than a minute

then i remembered all the problems with pugging instances

now with dual spec everyone wants everything. DPS rolling on tank gear, tanks rolling on DPS gear. healers rolling on DPS gear. DPS rolling on healer gear.

it's madness

if you want prot gear come to the instance as a TANK

in the 4 years i played before i quit i NEVER rolled on off spec gear. if i came as combat rogue i don't touch daggers for the dagger rogue. if i'm there as a healer i don't touch DPS gear.

tl;dr

"i'm rolling for off spec"

kthxbye

/QQ

You can complain about it but new LFG brings new loot methods, as a tank you can really tank advantage of this because of your lower queue times, why complain? Heroic loot is nothing to get upset over anyways. Personally I would rather play with people who are using their best geared spec to gear up their alt spec than play with a ****ty geared alt spec as they gear it up, this makes faster runs for everyone. You still have to win the roll so it's not like everyone who wants the loot isn't getting a fair shot. Give it a few weeks and everything you want will be getting DE'd anyways.