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I've been denied from weekly runs of Patchwerk because I didn't have 6k GS. I did Naxx still with 2xt5 and a bunch of blues/70 epics.

Because GS is bullsh*t, and any good player knows that. Sadly, GS is a way, in addition to achievements, sort through inexperience TO AN EXTENT, though that raid leader had to be a dumb@$$ to not lower their requirement(s) for the tier of the raid you were forming for...6k GS for Naxx? lulz

Wow I haven't played this game in a while. I only have like 3k gold in the bank, trying to get the Battered Hilt to drop or buy it since I don't have time to play a ton anymore.

I am just playing very casually from now on until Cataclysm comes out because nothing you do now except get gold will really matter once the expansion comes out. Unless you count achievements.

Wow I haven't played this game in a while. I only have like 3k gold in the bank, trying to get the Battered Hilt to drop or buy it since I don't have time to play a ton anymore.

I am just playing very casually from now on until Cataclysm comes out because nothing you do now except get gold will really matter once the expansion comes out. Unless you count achievements.

Sad to think, by halfway through the first new leveling zone all the gear we've grinded for so hard will be meaningless. :(

And by hard, I mean lazily moving to the left or right slightly in pretty much every boss encounter in ICC and clearing it all in under 2 hours Tuesday night, then wasting away the week because no one logs on for heroics.

Sad to think, by halfway through the first new leveling zone all the gear we've grinded for so hard will be meaningless. :(

Gear was never valuable: the fun that you had collecting it with friends is what matters. The only thing I liked about having Tier 2 and

3, or TIer 6/6.5 to level with is that I didn't have to use the "mandatory leveling clown suit" that less progressed players get handed.

My gear looks pretty cool but I'm not going to miss it at all when I start to replace it.

And by hard, I mean lazily moving to the left or right slightly in pretty much every boss encounter in ICC and clearing it all in under 2 hours Tuesday night, then wasting away the week because no one logs on for heroics.

Have you got RS25h and LK25h yet? Sure the first 11 in ICC 25 are a joke now, even on hard mode but the two last encounters are pretty fun.

If you can't get people to log in for hard mode attempts just start by blowing your first day on an extended raid lock out and working on them.

Move "Free loot tuesday" to wednesday.

Wow I haven't played this game in a while. I only have like 3k gold in the bank, trying to get the Battered Hilt to drop or buy it since I don't have time to play a ton anymore.

I am just playing very casually from now on until Cataclysm comes out because nothing you do now except get gold will really matter once the expansion comes out. Unless you count achievements.

I wouldnt bother getting the battered hilt. People pug TOC everyday, I'm sure you can get a weapon from there and save the 10K gold.

Have you got RS25h and LK25h yet? Sure the first 11 in ICC 25 are a joke now, even on hard mode but the two last encounters are pretty fun.

If you can't get people to log in for hard mode attempts just start by blowing your first day on an extended raid lock out and working on them.

Move "Free loot tuesday" to wednesday.

It sucks being on a lesser populated server, we've pretty much siphoned all the talent pool we can.

Extending it just makes them never log in, we've even tried tricking them-but it just causes them to log in, then magically lose all internet access 5 minutes into the raid night. Wed has pretty much just become our alt 10M H night, because no one likes licking 25M LK Hs taint apparently.

We've even started selling runs to lesser guilds that still need Kingslayers, just because our own can't get their **** together and just log in and bite the bullet.

I'm trying to rally the troops (as it were) for the last of the "hard" achievements. Dedicated Insanity, Herald, and Immortality.

I think the last of those would be the most impressive as less than 10 guilds world-wide have it today and hardly anybody is motivated to try.

Hey guys I used zomgbuffs for my Paladin, but what should I use for my Druid for auto-buff casting (self/group)?

zomgbuffs said it works for other classes but for some reason I can't get self buffs working with my Druid.

Thanks

Hey guys I used zomgbuffs for my Paladin, but what should I use for my Druid for auto-buff casting (self/group)?

zomgbuffs said it works for other classes but for some reason I can't get self buffs working with my Druid.

Thanks

Omgz helped myself, SmartBuff works great (Y)

I know it's annoying, but what are the addons at the bottom of your screen? The frames, button bars, chat and some sort of general status that goes across the screen?

My own customization of tukui - http://www.tukui.org/

V11 is going to be more user friendly as you can see on the main page, quite a bit of manual user editing of files just now.

Bit busy just now but I'll list all the additional addons I use a bit later and probably throw my user directory up in a rar file if you want my settings.

My own customization of tukui - http://www.tukui.org/

V11 is going to be more user friendly as you can see on the main page, quite a bit of manual user editing of files just now.

Bit busy just now but I'll list all the additional addons I use a bit later and probably throw my user directory up in a rar file if you want my settings.

That'd be great. I've seen those frames before just never knew what they were called.

Incredibly lazy of Blizzard to change the caster skins for Druid but not the animations (using maul/etc)..... That's the kind of things you don't pay money for a month.

A WTF moment indeed, there's no end to complaints..

I don't know how long were you a Druid, but many of us were extremely happy with the new form skins, we didn't ask for much, now you want new animations ?

It's not lazy, it's redundant, why would they change something that works ?

You make it sound like you're disappointed by this, when you should be happy with what we got, how many years did they ignore our pleas ? Let's not be greedy here xD

We're not looking for a DK at the moment but the standard fair "exceptional players always welcome" applies. We have two regular DKs and one trialing as DW frost whom I expect will be accepted. If you've got gear on par with Fainn you'd probably be able to find a spot as a backup but a full time spot probably isn't open right now (we're casual but consistent so relatively few open raider spots).

You make it sound like you're disappointed by this, when you should be happy with what we got, how many years did they ignore our pleas ? Let's not be greedy here xD

If you've moved on from "We're crappy healers, worthless DPS, free kills in PVP, and only useful on one fight as a tank (soaking hatefuls on patchwerk at 60)" to "we should look even more cool when we're smacking things" then I think you've made out just fine.

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