World of Warcraft: Take 2

[Craig]

So far we've killed the following bosses in Naxx...

Spider: Anub, Widow, Maex
Deathknight: Instructor
Necro: Noth
Abom: Patchwerk, Grobbuous, Gluth (most recent)

Gluth is basically Magmadar's surreal asshole cousin. He eats Zombie chow '

If I have to fight Patchwerk one more time I'm going to gouge my eyes out. Its like an epic encounter every week. Every time we kill him its like just as exciting as the first time ever.

[VirtualPlay]

Updates:

Ranking: I am currently 75% through rank 10, and if I can PvP well this week I'll make it to 11 next week. I'm in luck, too...it's Arathi Basin weekend. Best place for honor (in my opinion, anyway). Then I can buy the mount and be done with forcing myself to PvP so much.

Darnassus: 74% through Revered...I need 99 more stacks of Runecloth to hit Exalted. I want that kitty! (I really wanted a Mechanostrider, but only Gnomes and Dwarves can ride those...)

[Last Exile]

I'd kill to know how to kill Patchwerk!!!!!!! I hate his warped emotes!

Got my first loot in a long time - Gloves of the Hidden Temple from Twin Emps. Now I just need to either get WSG Exalted Pants or Dark Heart Pants from Lethon and I'll be settled in the feral lineup for a while. Wanted to put +15agi on the gloves but the mats for it are so ridiculous. 150g to do +15agi, 7g to do +17agi. O_O That just doesn't make sense.

Good progression, Craig. Which server are you on?

Keep it up, Virtual. How much honor are you getting per week? You doing it in a planned group or pugging it?

[VirtualPlay]

Well, last week I only got 61k honor and went down from 80% to 75%, though last week I wasn't really trying. If I really try and push myself to go into BGs, I can easily get over 100k in a week. I think my highest was like 180k one week of really pushing everything; jumped a whole rank that time.

As for grouping, I typically go PuG'ing, though sometimes when a group does well and most people stay in the group, I stay with it for another round or more (depending on whether we win or not, usually). I did do a week of planned-group BG once, which got me 120k for the week. However, especially during AB weekend, PuG'ing typically gets more honor since you get into more BGs (joining as a group you can only get in when there's space for the whole group), and even if you don't win in an AB, you still get a fair amount of honor depending on how long you hold the other side off.

[Last Exile]

I can't agree with that.

My highest in a week is 280k, from just 2 days of running with a PvP group. A good PvP group can farm 800k-1200k honor in a week. That's the amounts you need if you want higher ranks. Find a PvP group, the token turn ins, honor for winning, etc. all stacks up much faster.

[VirtualPlay]

Yeah, well...our server is low-PvP...the week I got 180k I was in the top 30 for honor for that week.

It's all the Horde's fault, they don't queue enough. PATCH 1.12 CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH!!

EDIT: Tonight is case in point. I have been in AB queue for 3h 18m, AV queue for 3h 52m, and WSG queue for 40m at time of editing.

[Razola]

1200k? Haha, not likely.

On my server the top ranked people agree on honor caps of around 500k. People get their rank and nobody goes insane.

[Last Exile]

I kid you not Raz.

Blackrock is a VERY PvP intensive servers. The bar is set at a minimum of 800k a week in the top groups so the 1 million mark gets broken a lot. You need to get 250k on my server just to reach the top 100. After that it goes WAY UP.

[Razola]

Screen shot.

[Last Exile]

I can't take screenshots. We went over this a few months ago.

[Leon-IH]

The highest I've ever seen in a week by a person -playing thier own char- was about 900k

[VirtualPlay]

Well, I have finally completed one of my two big goals: I got Exalted with Darnassus and learned Tiger Riding! Now I just need to get to rank 11 and buy the epic tiger mount. Hopefully this week will see me up to rank 11. We've actually been doing fairly well in Arathi this weekend.

[Last Exile]

I can give you some names though.

Gaea (Paladin), Karluo (Priest), Alandalf (Priest), Andren (Mage), Htos (Paladin), Morphicas (Priest), Dervel (Mage), Asheal (Priest), Pi (Priest), Xinhuan (Mage)

I have done PvP groups with these guys before and they all cracked 1 million at some point. Gaea and Karluo both reached 1.2 million in the last couple of weeks because they really wanted to make sure they didn't have to do an extra week.

Finally got to see a Noth kill on the weekend. That has become my favourite fight of all time. It is so intense and thrilling. The music in the Plague Wing is absolutely divine and the Noth fight is a brilliant mix of cleansing, positioning and timed zerging. You only get 3 transitions to beat Noth before his platform waves become too much to handle. Plus if just one curse isn't cleansed in time, it's game over because a third of your raid will be dead from the resulting explosion. Every time he yells "Rise my soldiers! Rise and fight once more!" it just kicks up the adrenaline a notch. I've had the Plague Wing music in my head for the last 72 hours, it is so damn good! As is the Portal music when you clear a wing, so soothing.

Apparently my Naxxramas seed has caused like most of the guild to tag me for membership within the next week. Widow's Embrace dropped from Faerlina, Wraith Blde dropped from Maexxna. We've had 5 epic drops from trash as well including that insane dagger (think it's called Harbinger of Doom). The other ones were 2 of that mega armor+stam+spelldmg cloth chest, Misplaced Servo Arm and Ring of Eternal Flames. That and I did all the wall healing on the successful Maexxna attempt which really pleased the leaders. It is so annoying, all the healing ranges get carved down to 5 yards, you have to literally stand right below then to heal them in time. The target mod for Web Wrap and the chance of seeing which direction they fly really helps.

Time for some serious attempts on Patchwerk.

[VirtualPlay]

Just a small note: Patch 1.12 is out now. As a result, I am still waiting for most of the realms to come up because they needed to keep the realms down for an extra 2 hours to deal with issues with the Cross-Realm Battlegrounds.

I'm just really hoping I made rank 11 today so I don't want to have to try and adjust to the new battleground schedule to finish ranking up...

EDIT: FOUR PM PACIFIC TIME?! /cry
These cross-realm battlegrounds had BETTER be FREAKIN' worth it...

EDIT2: I'm so glad they're finally updating the PvP board on time again, because now I am so happy: I am now Commander Tarieen.

[Hatake Kakashi]

I can't take screenshots. We went over this a few months ago.

Because then the burden of proof is no longer on someone else believing your server is totally hardxkore.

[Razola]

I have hit Honored with Frostwolves on my Hunter. The rep grind was easy as hell and I got three blue items out of it (the ammo kicks ass, but not worth spending 8g to fill my quiver).

I'm 55 and a Grunt right now. I aim to be Stone Guard by 60 and work my my to 11.

[Leon-IH]

AV Rep is so damn easy to grind now.. my shaman wants a TUF (almost heh).

[Last Exile]

Easy for you guys....

In my group bracket (Group 10) for lvl 60:

Horde PvPing = 24,000 -> Instant queues
Alliance Pvping = 44,000 - >10 minute+ queues

I can hardly get a match for my 60s. I can only pvp on my 36 hunter, who bloody owns everything.

Whoever made group 10 is a bloody idiot. A 2 to 1 ratio for the two sides is a joke.

I got Stormrage Bracers, Idol of Longevity and Book of Starfire VII this week so decent week lootwise for me. Just want to get a Patchwerk attempt. Thursday killed 5 Naxx bosses in the one night. Server lagged to buggery for the next 2 days so couldn't do crap. ><

[Leon-IH]

In my group bracket (Group 10) for lvl 60:

Horde PvPing = 24,000 -> Instant queues
Alliance Pvping = 44,000 - >10 minute+ queues

Given alliance seem to win AV more than we do in Group4, it's of a muchness.

[Last Exile]

Yeah, that's the problem. I don't want AV exalted, there's nothing for a Druid to get if you're in decent PvE guild. Arathi Basin exalted gave me the shoulders and I need to grind Warsong Gulch Reverred to Exalted to get the pants.

The upside is in all brackets, the Alliance are winning more in PUGs. I was in a good PvP group a few nights ago, we went 6-0 for the time I was in it for WSG. 5 wins were quick, but 1 match was planned group vs planned group. They were from a guild on Kil'Jaedan called Attrition and they were insane. They had 3 fire specced mages and 3 fire specced locks nuking the hell out of everyone. I got flag 1 very early but after that I kept getting picked off once I crossed midfield. After they got ahead 2-1, we changed our strat to have Warriors in FR gear take the flag once it got past midfield and it really screwed them up. Was a really thrilling victory.

[Razola]

PUG vs PUG seems a lot more balanced now. Been getting some close games with good players, those two druids in Stormrage/Cenarion laughed at me as I stealthed at a AB node. I value the elemental of surprise regardless of my spec...and I guess they will learn the value of catform even as resto spec once they lose a node via rogue sap.

[Leon-IH]

X-Server hasn't made a whole lot of difference, PUG's are still noob (though now some horde one's have non-shitty gear), the only difference is you don't know exactly how crap some folks are.

Did have a good experience with a druid and shaman from another server the other night, was getting lots of heals in WSG (ended up running the flag at druids request due to having much better gear, I think he also felt running along and healing me would be better than him outrunning the shaman and dying if a warlock caught him up) ended up smashing a bunch of alliance from the same server (though different guilds) into the deck.

<3 druids with heal buttons, and shamans who dont run around in resto gear with some crappy 2h trying to melee things to death.

[Craig]

I'm on Illidan. http://www.warpath-guild.com if you go to our forums general forum you can download the kill videos a guy in our guild made.

Me and Virtualplay got to play an Xserver AV together for a little bit on the patch day It was fun seeing eachothers main with our mains. I drank some of his water :O

my equipment has improved greatly. We started to work on Thaddius a little, but we've really just been working on keeping up killing 8 bosses in Naxx each week consistently. We've gotten a bunch of each trash thing.. I wouldn't really consider harbringer of doom that "amazing" I could have taken it last time it dropped, 8 agi, 8 stam, 1 hit and 1 crit isn't that bad for a hunter but I passed on it because it would have cost toooo much dkp.

Noth is easy mode! If you want an intense fight, wait until you fight Gluth. You have to run in to fight him through a tube all at once, and he decimates the raid, dropping everyone to 5%. He tries to eat zombies!

My druid is level 55, a friend of mine runs an MC pug every week and is going to make sure i'm the only druid in there that needs any cenarion drops I want to get Aurastone hammer, then go to AV and get the Lei of the Lifegiver offhand hell yeah. I was originally going to spec 0/30/21 for healing/ bear tank, but I said screw that. Going full resto..

WTB NEW HUNTER TALENTS. Make them not suck so I just don't spec 0/31/30 and be e-mazing ranged dps.

edit: cross server isn't my fav thought. Horde outnumber us on Illidan so it used to be nearly instnat queues.. pretty long now.

[VirtualPlay]

Did a PuG UBRS tonight, just got out in fact. Zipped through the place with only one wipe (just as we got to Drakk's room, we couldn't make a clean pull of the first group in that room) but no respawns. I got my Magister's Bindings finally! So now I have two of the three BoE pieces of Magister's, just need to run Scholo a bunch for my gloves. But first, off to collect blood to upgrade to Sorcerer's Bindings...

[Last Exile]

Well, there's simply nothing I like about the Abomination wing at all, Craig. It's the one wing that lacks any atmosphere with its design, the music, the bosses' personalities. It just bores and disgusts me. Spider wing has a lot of nice verbal slings flying around, Razuvious is just hilarious as as the ever spamming voices of the 4 Horsemen so Deathknight is alright. Plague wing has sensational music and Noth is just a very well concieved fight. Most guilds are probably gonna lose a lot of sleep over Noth once they reach Naxx because they won't know how to manage DPS and crowd control and cleansing all at the same time. It's a fight that forces everyone to do their job and has a very fine line as to the chance you get to nail him. Abom wing is just a lot of things being spewed up all over the place.

I think my lot can kill Patchwerk, Craig. It's just we've only got 3 active Priests and that's just not enough. From what I hear Priests and Paladins are on the 3 off-tanks that cop Hateful Strike, like about 5 healers for each of them, while Druids are on the main tank because they don't have fast enough heals to do OT healing. If we get hold of some more Priests and get them up to speed., he should be down.

Btw, you may want to avoid the WoW forums for a while. Apparently there are some bugged threads that hackers may be using to hack into accounts.

Because my account got hacked on Monday.

Some bastard sold off/destroyed every item on every one of my 8 characters.

An investigation team is examining my case. I've already proved that it is my account so they reset the password so I could access it, which is when I found out someone stripped my characters of everything. Now they're gonna determine what was sold off and destroyed and where all the gold I had was sent to. They reckon they'll be able to restore all my stuff but not enchants. >< And hopefully they find the bastard who did this and ban his account.

Change your password regularly and be careful on the WoW forums, guys. They're out there.

[Razola]

No discussion on the new talents?

[FTorchicX]

Dual-wielding as a Shaman is going to be.. interesting..

Though with no Dual-Wield Specialization like the Rgoues/Warriors, I don't know how good it will really be.

[Asilynne]

This topics too big and busy lol
I love the new crossrealm battlegrounds and rather than sift through this topic to try and find out whos in my group, Ill just ask XD
My main is in Aggamaggan and for 2 more lvls Ill be in the 30-39 group, anyone have a character that can play with me? ^-^ If so my char name is Wolfinhowler, Im a night elf hunter ^-~ And dont ask my spec, I need to fix myself lol

[Leon-IH]

No discussion on the new talents?

I punched a wall when I saw the new warrior ones, so hard my hands couldn't type until today.

Well not really but you get the picture.

[Craig]

No discussion because everyone on this forum plays a druid! Figures both classes I have (hunter and druid) are not released.

We killed Thaddius tonight. You were complaining about boring abomination wing, well Thaddius is not boring. Its probably my favourite fight When we finally downed it, everyone ran up to loot the corpse and see whats on it... but we forgot we all polarity charged.. BAM. Good thing someone had a soulstone

[Last Exile]

Nihilium became the first guild to kill Kel'Thuzad. They're a Horde guild on Magtheridon, they were also the first to kill C'Thun. Their loot was awesome. The 1h tanking sword, the mega caster dps staff, 2 mage set rings and the phylactery for epic version of +dmg vs Undead.

[Leon-IH]

I find it funny that a Euro guild has outprogressed all the US ones...

[Last Exile]

It's not surprising at all. They get the most play time in a day, plus they get first crack once maintenance is over. Plus Euro servers cater for a lot of the European and Asian players. I.e Hardcore players.

My guild finally killed Patchwerk and Grobbulus last weekend. Wand of Fates and End of Dreams dropped so morale is a lot higher. Aiming for either a Gluth or Heigan kill.

I noticed there's 18 hour maintenance scheduled for all servers. Apparently it's major hardware upgrades. Perhaps latncy and repsonse times will improve.

[Leon-IH]

It's not surprising at all. They get the most play time in a day, plus they get first crack once maintenance is over. Plus Euro servers cater for a lot of the European and Asian players. I.e Hardcore players.

I just find it quite amazing guilds like Nihilium have managed to outprogress the hardore US guilds, that said, if BWL and AQ40 were not incredibly buggy it may have been different.

[Razola]

D&T would have beat Nilhilium on both C'Thun and Kel if not for BS downtime and random bugs.

[Last Exile]

Yep, exactly Raz. I know two of their members, Carfel and Rezguise, TF holders who used to play on Blackrock in a guild I used to be in. The listings on World of Raids shows that the US server guilds are the dominant ones in Naxx. 3 US Alliance guilds have cleared Naxx, Eminence downed Sapphiron last night and are in 4th spot. Nihilium are the only Horde guild to have cleared Naxx.

Seen the Outland map? There's like close to 20 instances out there! What the hell is in store for the 60-70 grind? It looks very complex.

[Leon-IH]

Seen the Outland map? There's like close to 20 instances out there! What the hell is in store for the 60-70 grind? It looks very complex.

Looks like 60-70 will be as long as 1-60 to me.

[Last Exile]

I got Noth's Frigid Heart last week with virtually no competition for bidding. This is such a sexy item, statwise and graphicwise. I keep getting checked out so much now that I have this. Noth's heart actually still beats inside the lamp, it's bloody awesome.

[Crazy Elf Boy]

I am so happy I got my first 60

But i am not so happy cause i cant play him cause i hit 60 the day before i went to japan.

And i cant play WoW here


(btw i dont care what you guys say,I just started)

[Waves_of_Darkness]

Anybody watch the South Park episode the other day? It was about World of Warcraft, and how it takes over lives. lol.