The amazing thing about a full afflic build is that I could use a full spell rotation with just Life Tap and no Dark Pact and still have an infinite-mana/health cycle, with Dark Pact there as a backup if I get injured and don't want to life tap... Also, since they changed the Mana-per-5 mechanic to a constant increase, it made Dark Pact a little bit better. Also, I think they buffed demon stats, so the imp still has a disgustingly high amount of spirit.

10/17/2008 12:09:30 PM

lawl

10/17/2008 3:04:57 PM

50 mounts?

10/17/2008 4:14:37 PM

what a loser

10/17/2008 4:41:03 PM

Quote :

"what a loser"

that's especially funny coming from you

10/17/2008 4:52:10 PM

was trying to be ironic!

10/17/2008 5:13:31 PM

the brewfest boss has way better drops than the headless horseman

10/18/2008 1:50:50 PM

a flying horse that can be ridden in org isn't better than some shitty ilvl 110 trinket?

10/18/2008 11:04:44 PM

mounts, tabards, pets...meh! give me gear

10/19/2008 12:16:36 PM

Coming back for WOTLK. I want to PVE Raid and PVP heal. Holy Pal or priest now? Want mostly large single target heals; WAR has made me love clicking all over a healgrid.

10/20/2008 2:18:00 PM

paladins are still the best single target healers. priests are a close second but have more utility in terms of being able to heal a group, hot, and bubble. shaman is the ultimate utility and chain heal is pretty hard to match as far as raid healing efficiency. druid is nice for rolling hots on targets taking steady damage.

10/20/2008 3:08:29 PM

Think i'm going to go priest. My 2 friends who will be raiding with me are resto sham and resto druid already; wanted some diversity.

10/20/2008 3:14:24 PM

I joined a scrub guild just to try and steal some glaives before xpac. Man, they're horrible but BT is even worse. With like 5 contructs in the middle of the raid of people in badge, kara, and maybe some ssc epics, we still destroyed gorefiend. shadowmoon destroyers cape to a druid in t4? wtf, b

10/22/2008 10:43:06 AM

^lol nic, reroll alliance on LB!

10/22/2008 10:58:52 AM

fuck alliance, b. their racials are trash now anyway. I'm not happy playin wow unless my char looks mean and angry and is wailin on a cow, BE, or any alliance race. for some reason the look of these races makes me extremely angry and I want to kill them on sight.

[Edited on October 22, 2008 at 11:24 AM. Reason : .]

10/22/2008 11:24:12 AM

The exp nerf 60-70 is nuts. My rogue is halfway through 65 and I've only done about 10 quests thus far in Zanger. Granted about 1 1/2 levels were rested exp but still. Although after having already leveled five other characters to 70 this is a welcomed expedition.

10/22/2008 11:28:20 AM

I've been stuck in the broken char transfer servers for a few days now. =(

10/22/2008 11:54:00 AM

diplomacy > all. also, the new human racial is hax.

10/22/2008 12:05:02 PM

we cleared BT in 2 hours and 30 minutes last night.

10/22/2008 12:46:01 PM

I must admit after getting my warlock to 70 (my 8th) and getting her in decent gear I havent logged in now for a month and I actually dont feel too bad about it this time. I should probably cancel my accounts for now until the expansion where I may pick it back up more casually. Definitely wont be hitting up the midnight event and taking off work this time.

10/22/2008 2:43:33 PM

that's.... sad

10/22/2008 9:20:03 PM

Our main rogue picked up his OH Warglaive tonight to complete the set. A 3 hour BT clear feels so nice after having farmed it for the past month or so. I could have been 2 1/2 hours but we didn't push too hard. Even with the new druid AoE HoT I am still getting stomped by CoH priests in BT who can just spam one button the whole night and crit heal 5 people for 1800+ while my ticks are only like 300-400. Thanks Blizz. . .

10/22/2008 11:00:31 PM

Quote :

"WotLK World Event - Zombie Invasion There are many ways to get infected by the plague : * Pick up one of the Suspicious Crate in Booty Bay, trying to loot one will instantly infect you. * Stay in one of the poison cloud used by zombies * Get damaged by a zombie. When you're infected, you can either run to a nearby Argent Healer or any player who can cure diseases to get it removed .... or you can turn into a zombie by : * Waiting for the end of the timer (10 minutes) * Getting killed by a zombie. * Dueling another player and letting him kill you * Using some of the existing "immunity" abilities like Stoneform, the paladin's bubble, or Ice Block for mages. After transorming into a zombie, you will only be able to using the following skills : * Mangle! - Increases your next attack by 20 damage and reduces the target's armor by 3%. * Retch! - Retch on the ground! Humanoids in it are slowed and infected. Zombies in it are healed. * Lurch! - You and nearby zombies gain a temporary burst of speed, to help catch your food. Removes any move impairment or crowd control effect. * Beckoning Groan - Beckon up to four zombies to you. They must not be in combat. * Zombie Explosion! - Burst into pieces, destroying yourself but infecting those around you."

10/23/2008 9:30:36 AM

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41869.html

Such humble beginnings..... ( <3 gametrailers retrospectives)

10/23/2008 9:49:15 AM

Thought this was funny and worth sharing. Good points on Blizards knee-jerk to ret. And for a minute there I was thinking of renewing.

Quote :

"Yes, ret paladins are the suck again. Divine Storm does 500 damage a hit now, less than crusader strike and less than a normal melee hit. We tested it extensively last night to see how much of a hit it took. Against another plate wearing player with 376 resilience, my divine storm was hitting for 511-644 damage and critting for 740-840ish. Now, my paladin has 3/5 Vengeful Gladiator gear and 1/5 Brutal and is using the Shivering Felspine for his weapon. He has 2146 AP and a 35% crit rate. Right now, Divine Storm does less than a warrior's whirlwind while utilizing the same mechanics. With the nerf, the healing aspect of DS is completely useless. You can expect a return of 100-500 hp in a *full* group of people if you manage to hit them all. Oh, yes, now that it's physical, it can be dodged, parried and blocked. Keep in mind, DS also costs 100 more mana than CS does, while doing less damage and has less utility. Blizzard has promised a "buff" by putting in a dot to help make up for this huge loss of DPS, but like all buff faeries, this one hasn't made an appearance yet. However, as one of my friends at Blizzard has informed me, the dot will be dispellable. So, this magical buff to help equalize things again will be no more cumbersome to an opponent than a quick single-click to get rid of it. Another problem with DS as it stands is that paladin gear is not itemized around armor penetration, whereas a warriors is. And yes, I realize that paladins are not warriors, however, the skills (whirlwind, rend) are *directly* comparable to what they have given paladins, except the 51 point retribution talent does *less* damage than a L35 warrior talent. Rend, of course, is not dispellable, unless you're a rogue with HfB, whereas the paladin one will be by any class with a dispel. Was there a problem with burst and paladins? I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Blizzard has already stated that the game is NOT balanced around L70 pvp right now, but skills and abilities are suited for L80. That's how they manage to make the argument that Boomkin druids doing 7-11k starfire crits are balanced. And there are plenty of screenshots of these on the druid forums. That's also how they explain how mages are unloading massive amounts of up front burst as well, although there are rumors that Mages are next ones up to get ass-raped by the Nerf Bat, as Ghostcrawler has posted on the official forums. Ret paladins are 80 were balanced when comparing to the DPS/Burst and survivability at the classes at that level. Now, they're a complete joke at 80 on beta and they will be on live once WotLK hits. If Blizzard is going to just give paladins more warrior skills and abilities, then get rid of the INT on the itemization of their gear and give them something worthwhile, like armor penetration or a new ability called 'Fling shit' so they can at least have something useful to bring to a raid while they're looking like monkeys."

10/24/2008 9:24:29 AM

Lets face it, paladins should stick to healing, if you wanted to play a melee dps class you should have rolled a warrior or rogue

10/24/2008 9:35:21 AM

What's going to get nerfed for the mages? I just started and while I'm enjoying my mage, I haven't decided on Arcane/Frost/Fire yet.

10/24/2008 10:22:00 AM

Very original thought you have there guy. That is the first time I have seen someone say that.

Druids should stick to healing and should stop trying to be mages warriors and rogues.

Shamans should stick to healing and stop trying to be mages and fury warriors.

10/24/2008 10:23:58 AM

I agree with those as well

10/24/2008 10:30:02 AM

So....got the guild together and took over Darkshire as zombies. It was hilarious. Talking to alliance was fun too.

from MMO-Champ:

Quote :

"WotLK World Event - New boss in Karazhan ? This is NOT active on live servers for the moment. It looks like one of the upcoming phase of the WotLK world event will feature a new boss located in Karazhan: Prince Tenris Mirkblood. Tenris is part of <The San'layn>. The San'layn is a faction of darkfallen, renegade elves from Quel'Thalas under the rule of the Lich King. The quest Chamber of Secrets The Argent Dawn Emissary wants you to search the chamber of Tenris Mirkblood within the Servant's Quarters of Karazhan. Description Excellent, an experienced adventurer. Precisely what we need. There has been talk from the Kirin Tor guarding Medivh's tower that something is amiss with Karazhan. There is a new power lurking within, one that answers neither to the Guardian's magic nor the Legion. From what they've scouted, it appears it is an elven prince called Tenris Mirkblood, and there is reason to believe he serves the Scourge. Go, my friend, investigate Mirkblood's chamber, and return with any information you might find. Rewards This quest is indeed in game and you can actually take a look at it by using the following command (but you won't be able to link it in chat until it's active on servers) : /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Murlocs are awesome, this quest too: \124cffffff00\124Hquest:12616:70\124h[Chamber of Secrets]\124h\124r"); Prince Tenris Murkblood is also in game but you can't spawn him for the moment (and won't be until it's "unlocked" in the event). According to the last datamining I did on beta servers this is how he looks : The quest seems to be given by an Argent Dawn Emissary near Karazhan. It doesn't look like this NPC is activated on live servers for the moment."

[Edited on October 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM. Reason : .]

10/24/2008 12:15:06 PM

Been stuck in PCT limbo since the 21st. Char dissapeared from transactions page and when I try to login it says I can't login during a transaction. The customer server on this issue is horrible. =(

10/24/2008 2:00:09 PM

Quote :

"Druids should stick to healing and should stop trying to be mages warriors and rogues. Shamans should stick to healing and stop trying to be mages and fury warriors."

i agree.

if you play a class that can heal you are a healer.

if you play a class that can tank you are a tank.

healing>tanking>dps

10/24/2008 3:31:29 PM

^you people

10/24/2008 3:58:44 PM

^^ Wait, what?

Druids can heal. Druids can tank.

Shamans can heal. Shamans can DPS.

Pallys can Heal. Pallys Can Tank.

10/24/2008 4:53:37 PM

I understand why blizzard is trying to give every character multiple play styles to keep people playing the game. I just have always been of the mindset that if you roll something like a priest you should be healing, a warrior should be tanking, etc. What really pisses me off though is when you do have these hybrid classes thinknig they should be able to do as much damage as a pure dps class. Nothing pisses me off more than seeing a moonkin blow the fuck out of someone or a paladin 3 shot me with 400 resilience and over 10k health. Any class that can heal should not be able to do more than 50% dmg of a dps class. The way things are nowaday if you are a class that cant heal you will almost always lose to a class that can 1v1 if they dont suck.

10/24/2008 5:06:40 PM

^^^agreed. i rolled a druid because i have ADD in games like this, so the idea of being able to do all roles intrigued me. then i got to 60 and realized 2 of my 3 specs were useless. then BC came out, and still had 1 of 3 specs that was useless. now we have the chance to have all 3 specs useful, and 4 different roles. its finally as good as i'd hoped it be when i made my druid way back when.

^dont worry, moonkins are balanced for 80. when everyone is 80, moonkins will blow. we can all go back to moonkins being completely useless in pvp and everyone can be happy besides the people that rolled druid to play moonkin.

and if you can convince raid leaders to bring multiple moonkins even though their dps sucks compared to other dpsers, then i'll settle for less dps. the problem is raid leaders were bringing one of each offspec for whatever aura or buff they brought, and that was it. min/maxing ruined raiding.

[Edited on October 24, 2008 at 5:15 PM. Reason : .]

10/24/2008 5:10:54 PM

^^People still think 1v1 combat matters in WoW?

I was unaware.

10/25/2008 6:35:56 AM

after having played this game for so long, all other RPGs seem boring. I can't even play the new fable.

[Edited on October 25, 2008 at 12:21 PM. Reason : .]

10/25/2008 12:21:30 PM

wow you are all a bunch of faggots

10/25/2008 12:22:19 PM

anyone want to trade me an account with an orc rogue? I have an undead rogue. pvp gear is fine, just gonna be leveling with it anyway.

10/25/2008 12:37:11 PM

Dang! The Zombies are gone.

10/27/2008 3:21:29 PM

Twins down and Muru @ 20% phase 2. TOO EASY.

10/28/2008 2:17:26 AM

sigh, i just watched the retrospective and wish they had stayed with RTS...those games were so good

but then again, i guess all you guys would have to find stuff to do with your time and find other ways to spend the hundreds you've dropped on monthly fees, so I guess it worked out for you

10/28/2008 5:10:14 AM

^hundreds over a few years or hundreds over a few trips to the bar?

10/28/2008 7:00:43 AM

^6

haha, i love when someone gets pissed off that someone else is enjoying a game. hilarious imo.

10/28/2008 7:39:54 AM

So, my guild finally got enough people together for a raid so we got frisky and tried Sunwell. This was previously a guild that was 4/5 MH and 4/9 BT. lol ... Moral of this story is that we were undergeared.

Went in and tried Kalecgos and got both levels to 17% but couldn't quite finish him off. Not enough DPS or wrong strat maybe.

Then, I got the bright idea of having a hunter MD him to another person in the back of the hallway and everyone else run up as far as we can go. Well, it worked like a charm... Kalecgos reset with all of us past him and there were no doors, so after the two trash pulls, we tried Brutallus. We got 3 tries in and never downed him cuz he owned me (as MT). I think its' because I'm just too undergeared and he was hitting me too hard (7-9k)

10/28/2008 8:52:18 AM

Sounds awesome, I wish my guild had enough people to try 10 mans right now but all we've got is our 70 alts and some nubs who have never been in a raid group before. Last night I got some of them into UBRS, Onyxia and BWL and they thought it was the coolest thing. Can't wait to see what they think about Molten Core tonight! Also looking forward to rocking out my Tier 1 set in Shattrath.

10/28/2008 10:58:09 AM

It's comical how easy M'uru is now. Kil'Jaeden is now a lot harder than M'uru. Even though he was nerfed there is still a lot of shit going on and he has a lot of HP (plus all his abilities are spell damage so his damage output is the same).

10/28/2008 9:37:59 PM

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/cas/881129809.html

from craigslist thread.

10/28/2008 11:21:18 PM

Started work on the Twins the other night. Our problem at the moment is getting the pull down and then having people pay attention to the conflag.

10/29/2008 1:59:08 AM