Brackle
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Ashes of Alar? That's awesome. Congratulations!
Thanks man Been drooling over that mount since I use to raid Tempest Keep....Best Xmas present this year I tell ya!
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Ashes of Alar? That's awesome. Congratulations!
Transmog has kept WoW alive for me. I love going after a certain armor set, or specific weapon. Keeps the game fresh and fun farming for mog gear.
I still like most the Wrath era gear, stuff in ICC, Uldar, Naxx looks the best to me. The Tier 10 plate sets for DK's, Warriors looks awesome, most of that gear drops in ICC, plus some killer looking Shields and Swords in there as well.
I like the older gear as well -- but I go for TBC or Vanilla stuff, I don't think think the sets now days look anywhere near as cool as the older ones. For example, I have the following sets for various characters:
Tier 1
Felheart (warlock) with Staff of Dominance transmog
Earthfury (shaman) with Drillborer Disk transmog
Tier 2
Bloodfang (rogue) with ZG dagger transmog, Glaives if I'm just hanging out
Judgement (paladin) with Drake Talon Cleaver transmog, Hand of Rag if just in SW
Tier 5
Corruptor (warlock) with Brutal Gladiator's Battle Staff transmog
Tirisfal (mage)
I actually don't have my mage transmogged right now because she's in a mix of MSV and HoF gear and I actually like the way it looks quite a bit.
MoP Raid and Dungeon gear blows, style wise. I would never run MoP Raids in future expansions, for mog gear, there is nothing whatsoever I would want in any MoP Raid or Dungeon to Transmog.
Gearing up both my Tanks during the holiday, got them both to an average of i525, with unbuffed 700k health. Not super Epic at all, but not fresh 90 either. Some of the Tanks in my Guild have 1.1 million base health unbuffed, not Druids but DK's.
I am pretty happy with my mog gear, this has kept the game alive for me really. I love running old Raids hunting for specific gear.
Tankadin;
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Death Tank;
/spit. [H]orde. bleh
I hope WoD release is going to be the rumored May / June release, two months after Diablo ]l[ expansion release, as most are saying. Typical time from beta to release for WoW has been on average 4 months. So they'd need to start the beta no later than February to get a late Spring release, which has been rumored, and seems very possible, if the beta starts in the next month or so.
Thing that pissed me off, was the crazy long delay of zero new content, at the end of Cat 4.3 patch in December, to MoP release in October. A solid 10 - 11 months of nothing new, that really did damage on having people leave the game.
The last MoP patch was 5.4 released in September, and nothing new is being released, until WoD itself. I sure hope it's not another 10+ months of only 5.4. I can only take a few more months of this, before I quit. Will run weekly mog Raids for the few pieces of gear I really want, Firelands DK helm, and Dragonsoul Plate shoulders. Once I got those, I am done until WoD.
I bet it'll come out around August/September. Right at the start of the Holiday season. The content has been dry but if they really invest lots of resources into this new expac then I'll for it. I'll just farm/pvp/raid when I feel like it
I've been playing on/off since November 2005. In those eight years, never have I done anything as difficult as the warlock green fire chain ... and that includes wiping on Vashj for 10-12 nights before we downed her.
My warlock is my alt, I've never raided on him, I hadn't even done LFR (including Cata) on him until this past week. Basically, I'm not very good at warlock-ing. So! I dug out buttons from my spellbook I didn't know I had, made some macros for things based on the various guides, respecced some talents, and got to work. Item level 492 (mostly timeless isle gear) with an unenchanted 463 weapon.
Four hours and 650g later (repairs -- I farmed for the jade serpent pots, purification pots, and flasks), I'm lying dead on the ground and the boss is at ~1m hp. I right clicked my demon to dismiss so I could release and try again ... but I wonder. Yes, I can continue to control my demon from the grave! 1-2 minutes later, my demon disappears, some dialogue starts. BOOM. Green fire!
Now, I know I died so it's kinda cheating, but I would have gotten it within the next 2-3 attempts anyway. I had the felhunters down, and I only died because I got impatient. Tried using the imps for infinite embers and just shadowburning the boss. Didn't work out so well, wouldn't have made that mistake again. Now that it's done, I feel like it'd be pretty easy to do again. I do wish there was an achievement for doing this before 550+ ilvl where he doesn't even live long enough to summon everything, but oh well.
I also finished the transmutes for my Sky Golem on Sunday. That thing is awesome! I love being able to herb without dismounting. Hopefully they add one like it for mining, that'd be more useful to me.
I did it at 515, hard fight but the entire trick is to get off 3-4 chaos bolts when Karenthad is stunned because he takes double damage. At 515 mine were hitting him for over 1 million.
Blizzard needs to do something with these long stretches of nothing new for 10 - 12 months. It's damaging the fan base. Seems like last few expansions have been the same in this regard, with the final patch release at the end of an expansion, and then nothing new at all for 10 to 12 months, until the release of the next new expansion, just tumble weeds blowing, and crickets chirping for close to a year.
Why doesn't Blizzard plan one more Raid and content patch, maybe 6 months before the next expansion. For example, right now Blizz should have planned to release a new 5.5 patch in March or so, with a new smaller Raid, and maybe 2 new 5man dungeons.
Just started trying for this classic flying mount, 'Ashes of Al'ar'
http://www.wowhead.com/item=32458/ashes-of-alar
I am a Level 90 i530 Paladin Tank, and breezed right through the Tempest Keep - the eye Raid solo, except the final boss fight.
I was killing the boss trash easily no problem, but they would keep casting dizzy spells on me, and kept doing it non stop. I could only do one attack or spell like once every 30 seconds, sometimes not even that. And my health slowly kept going down, took awhile, but they killed me after 5 minutes non stop whacking me, and I was pretty much stuck, couldn't do anything, expect like one attack every 30 seconds.
Yeah, I tried that fight as well, no success. I do like though that even now at MoP this fight can give quite a bit of trouble. It's a good way to keep a challenge even several expansions later.
I believe you can pick up one of the weapons you destroyed earlier in the fight to give some immunity against spells but it's a bit of a hassle.
Another tactic is to run out of the room before Kael'thas finishes his opening speech and the room is locked. Then lure each sub-boss that is send after you away before killing them. (First two toward raid entrance (not too close to entrance though), the female mage in first hall were Alár is flying and finally the engineer near the entrance to Kael-thas room. This way you can kill them one by one before their spells become a problem. It's quite tedious though.
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I'm now on the hunt for the Drake of the Northern wind. After around 70 tries the last few weeks, I'm now farming for scuttler shells so I can bypass most of the trash in Vortex. If working well I could do around 12-15 runs on one scuttler shell. (logging off when reaching the hourly limit). Currently have 8 shells, it's a bit of a good thing my server is not very crowded.
Just started trying for this classic flying mount, 'Ashes of Al'ar'
http://www.wowhead.com/item=32458/ashes-of-alar
I am a Level 90 i530 Paladin Tank, and breezed right through the Tempest Keep - the eye Raid solo, except the final boss fight.
I was killing the boss trash easily no problem, but they would keep casting dizzy spells on me, and kept doing it non stop. I could only do one attack or spell like once every 30 seconds, sometimes not even that. And my health slowly kept going down, took awhile, but they killed me after 5 minutes non stop whacking me, and I was pretty much stuck, couldn't do anything, expect like one attack every 30 seconds.
Kael fight is a joke now... If your having trouble just kill the 3 of the adds in a corner behind kael and kill the fire Mage female at the entrance of the room. When they resurrect pop CDs and kill her first. If your a pally it's a joke you can just bubble through all the cc. Even a prof pally should have plenty of damage if you have current gear if not just go ret.
The problem I was having, was kept getting spells cast on me, kept me from casting any spell, or doing any attacks, except like once a minute. I would just sit there, dizzied couldn't move, couldn't attack, maybe get one move off every minute.
What if I bring my brother in to help ? He's just a level 85 Warlock, and I am a Level 90 i530 Tankadin.
There is free character migration right now??? For how many toons??? For how long???