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Shaun N.

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Aye thought I had not seen you on-line for a long time. Coming back in time for Cataclysm I hope? :p

I'll be back for 4.01, ATM its the same old content we've had for too long and I have no motivation to do it anymore - I'm waiting for something new

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Noveed

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I'll be back for 4.01, ATM its the same old content we've had for too long and I have no motivation to do it anymore - I'm waiting for something new

Yeah I know what you mean, we seem to have 10 man icc on grind, 25 man icc on grind done a few RS 10s and 25s here and there but that's not my cuppa tea. Heroics are not my cuppa tea as its hard to find people on the same wavelengths as myself, most of the good players tend to have their heads shoved up their own arses on EU Stormrage.

Overall I am a bit bored too I shall be grinding for gold though until the expansion hits I reckon

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Olemus

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Dayum, everyone seems to either stop playing or do other stuff, I seem like the "lone warrior" lol Haven't seen much of kaii either :( .

You got a guild by the way?

Well to be honest the whole games gone a little stale for me now, I haven't even bothered raiding for almost half a year. I'm nearly finished with loremaster (110 to go) and then I won't be logging back in till the cata pre-release events start. I'm pretty much done with raiding for good now though, I really have completely lost interest in it and don't plan on returning to it in Cataclysm.

No I'm in Edge of Oblivion on my own atm just using it as a bank, the guild I was supposed to be joining and actually helped get up and running with some friends I've been playing with since back when WotLK released became somewhere I wasn't interested in because of certain decisions made. So i just made the decision to stay guild-less or join a PvP guild when cata hits.

Kaíí still plays occasionally, he's just bad at the game so no one notices him ;)

LM isnt going away....

It's changing slightly so that each zone is its own achievement making it a lot easier to do. I wanted to experience every old world quest I could before it all changed and tbh I've thoroughly enjoyed it so far and not long to go.

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lalalawawawa

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It's changing slightly so that each zone is its own achievement making it a lot easier to do. I wanted to experience every old world quest I could before it all changed and tbh I've thoroughly enjoyed it so far and not long to go.

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Eonar&cn=Elenna

Quests completed: 1823

/showoff :p

At least I don't have to worry about that. Although I will miss not being able to complete some of the classic raid quests (very hard to do if you don't have a guild).

Grand Master

Noveed

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What's the changelog for paladins for this patch, I cba finding it myself :p

Sooo I had a proper go on the PTR last night characters finally copied over afters years of waiting.

First thing is the Default UI, gosh it sucks bigtime! After having used a custom one for over 2 years going back to the default one felt really really weird almost unplayable for me.

As for the classes

Hunter:

Focus is the new resource and its weird really weird, this is going to take some getting used to, Rotation wise as well I currently am a bit clueless, I was button bashing and facerolling the keyboard recount was showing 9.8k Self Buffed as MM, and that was pretty much Sustained on the dummies in IF. Normally on live I peak at 8.5k ish and then drop a bit. I get the feeling that there is no "rotation" but a priority list a bit like the Frost DK Rotation. But still will take some getting used to. As for health I gained 7k hp on the hunter which is bizzare my pet is also at 29k too unbuffed.

As for BM well I have not fully tested it out pet alone is doing around 4-5k dps on the dummies, still using a wolf not 100% sure which one to tame yet will need to do some reading into this. The hunter itself was doing around 5-6k dps too so BM currently in my gear is around 10-11k, again not sure of rotation I was button bashing.

Currently non of my gear on ptr had mastery. I was under the impressions some of the ARP may get converted to mastery but it didnt, all my Arp gems got converted to Crit, I was getting /w on ptr asking why Am i gemmed in crit gems...

Reforged All of my gear for that reason to convert Crit to Mastery, Still have 60% crit and over 500 master now, i only lost about 10% crit from converting lol, as BM pet does 50% more damage(wow!) As MM the wild quiver thing is meant to proc more often but I do not see how that is better than the 50% more damage of a BM hunter, we'll see after a bit more testing.

Not found any decent blogs or posts on forums that streamlines this, also have not found any "cookie cutter" specs/rotations. In relation to specs, what the hell? some of the filler points are garbage, utter trash and its kinda lame you need to spend 31 points in 1 tree before going into another. If they wanted to streamline it and make it simpler well I do not think they have succeeded. Maybe for a new player but certainly not for some existing ones. Just hate the idea of learning to play the class every expansion it kinda gets old.

Paladin:

My Main spec on live is holy with DPS off spec, although 99% of the time I heal so will not go into much about the dps spec.

Talent tree wise again I feel blizzard want paladins to be melee healers? There is a talent where you judge and if gives you health back. Also talent in Holy tree that increases hit rating, is this pvp related? In addition to this Holy shock in addition to giving reduced cast of HoL can give instant exorcism bit like AoW on live does, I get the feeling blizzard want more holy utility in pvp.

FoL is Large and Expensive Heal, HoL is Medium and cheap heal, then there's a few others which I can't remember. Divine Glory? The cool one in my opinion is Light of Dawn i think the AoE cone heal a bit like the frost cone thing a mage does. Heals everyone in front up to 30 yard range but has a 30 sec CD. That feels a bit op to me :) (the mechanic itself not the actual amount it heals for)

Holy power is wierd also, not sure yet if i like the mechanic and the idea of another resource only time will tell, holy shock seems to give holy power back and there is a heal that you can cast that consumes holy power and costs no mana, usually heals for around 12-15k and crits for around 20k with my current gear.

Deathknight:

Tanking wise I have not tried Blood being the main and only tanking tree will be weird seen as though I have been a frost tank throughout the whole of the expansion, Have not looked into a rotation but I did see a new ability that we have at 80, its a new strike which does like 150% weapon damage and increases disease duration. Will need more tested to see how things are with this, blood also has the bone shield now and blood boil animation looks cool :) I gained 8k HP going from Live to PTR in exactly the same gear. Kinda crazy :o

DPS wise again not tested much I was frost DW by the looks of it the tree as space for 2H frost aswell rotation/priority still unsure of I assume it will be similar to live.

Overall PTR is good, what's annoying is the pre-event thing that shakes the ground, feels cool at the start, gets old very soon. I noticed that some of the textures in game have been update, they are certainly better looking than live I play the game on lowest settings on live and ptr but ptr still looks soo much better. spell animations, characters/npc buildings, mounts they all look much better.

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treemonster

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has anyone played frost mage on the cataclysm ptr?

basically i like to focus on world pvp and some BGs(mainly av), but during the last half of tbc and in wotlk the class just felt gimpy, along with crappy new spells and talents in wotlk. basically the last thing i heard about mages was their focus was going to continue to be mana per minute management, as opposed to dps or cc.

during tbc i usually ended arena matches with 0 mana against a ret pali or a resto druid and end up trying to melee them down or use my wand with them having at least half mana left. during wotlk the talent tree stuff added(liek the stun that could only be used on a frozen target) and the ****ty frost fire nuke were real disappointments to me.

still i've been discussing it with my bro, and if i'm going to buy cata i'm probably going to transfer my mage to a better server with more world pvp and less rp based qq, hit 85, grind for basic pvp set from bg's, and then focus on world pvp and quests in small groups.

i looked at the patch notes linked in the post above, and didn't find any pertinent info on overall changes to the class.

overall it felt like blizz was nerfing mages over and over again throughout tbc based on arenas for some reasons despite not being alot of them in high ranked teams because they annoyed fotm classes in OP comps with things like iceblocking twice in less than 30 seconds or w/e. alot of our utility spells were prohibitively expensive to use, and it seemed like other caster and hybrid caster classes could do pretty much everything we could do but other things as well, and often better than us.

but the class was great fun in world pvp, and had a decent mix of dps, including burst, utility, and survivability. in a duo with a healer i could take on a 10 man raid in karazahn epics during tbc. sadly i got bored of questing in wotlk and only made it to 78, and have tried a few different rerolls since, but there's no class that appeals to me more than mage.

so if anyone who has played a mage, specifically frost spec, on cata ptr can give some insight into changes to the class, would be appreciated. doesn't have to pvp only play, just a general idea of how the class has changed for better or worse, etc.

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Noveed

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Mate of mine played a Fire Mage and hes doing around 9-10k self buffed on a dummy with crappy gear. On his lock (about 5.9k GS maybe 6kGS) he pulled 14k dps in destro with no buffs, its sorta overpowered at the moment. He said Arcane is even higher on mage but I could not cofirm didnt have recount running when he was arcane.

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Shaun N.

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I transferred over to horde, but I want to go back to Alliance so badly.

Just cant get used to being on horde :p

Ha, I want to move all of mine to horde. however I have 8 80's and it would be a bit expensive. So I might reroll in Cata for the new questing experience etc

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Ha, I want to move all of mine to horde. however I have 8 80's and it would be a bit expensive. So I might reroll in Cata for the new questing experience etc

Being on horde is just rather depressing and grim in my books. I prefer the fluffy bunnies and rainbows of Alliance laugh.gif

Well, that and I absolutely cannot stand being a blood elf (required for my Paladin).

I wiped my Desire last night though for a fresh install and forgot about the authenticator, second time I've had to email blizzard about this laugh.gif

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Minifig

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I've been tinkering around with WoW Screenshots and making them a have a pseudo-HDR effect.

Original:

ss1453.jpg

pseudo-HDR:

barrenshdr.jpg

They won't all be this bright, but if you want any of yours done like this, let me know, and link me to your screenshot, and I'll be happy to fix it up for you. :happy:

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ylcard

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Any performance hit when using this method ?

I remember a HDR mod way back, but it was scrapped for some reason, I don't know if it was legal or not, but at the end of the day it didn't interest a lot of people as unofficial implementation of it can cause a lot of undesirable after-effect...

At least it did back then.

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MR_Candyman

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wow, leveling after level 70 becomes grindtastic.. currently in netherstorm, cant wait to move forward.

ya, I JUST dinged 73 with my second toon (ironically my main, my alt I got to 80 not long ago). Northrend is VERY irritating to level in. It just requires far too many quests. Not only that but most are uninteresting, and the zones are boring. TBC was much better

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