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[Meresgi]

Shaman would be a good choice, OP as shit right now and one of the best pvp healers. Druids are pretty gimp right now imo, you can train them and kill them very quickly. Warrior would be a good choice too, they didn't lose any damage from the nerf really, they still hit hard as hell if you can keep someone close to you with CS up on them.

[Boyiee]

I've been dpsing in arenas since glad days on rogue back in tbc, going to be so weird to play a healer I just hope sham is a fun one to play.

Since I'll be giving up WLD to prob run Sham war/dk or hunter/war/sham, guess it gives me the opportunity to find a better an actual team for my lock to push 2200+ with. The druid that never logs on has a rogue we can run PMR with too, but fuck are we terrible at it. Easiest fucking comp there is and we're bad, lol. I'm probably playing mage too much like lock and trying to control more than I need to outside of blind/sheep/fear cc chain.

[The Stig]

Thank you Boyiee. I'm glad to see by your comments i'm not really doing anything wrong.

I'm sticking to demo for now. I just love my pets. Will read up on others later when I'm 85 probably.

[Elesirdur]

So, what are people's opinions on the native DX11 setting with 4.1? I've been running it and don't honestly see much difference except that the world has a soft glow filter applied to it. Textures almost look less detailed (or less sharp perhaps), but I feel like it's hard to tell.

[Guitarman]

I'm looking for an auction house addon that will let me cancel auctions in bulk, so i dont have to click > cancel every single item, and allow me to "take all" from my mailbox without having to click every single item. Anyone have or know of an addon like this? Auctioneer doesnt seem to do either, at least not that i could see.

[Meresgi]

For heroic Halfus, how many tanks are you guys using/how many drakes are you letting out? We tried to let out 4 drakes but Halfus enraged at around 55%, granted we lost a dps early in the fight. We only had 2 tanks and the massive damage seemed an issue for our healers. We broke out Time Warden,Scion, Storm Rider and Slate all at once to try to mitigate raid and tank damage slightly.

[Katlan]

So, what are people's opinions on the native DX11 setting with 4.1? I've been running it and don't honestly see much difference except that the world has a soft glow filter applied to it. Textures almost look less detailed (or less sharp perhaps), but I feel like it's hard to tell.

DX11 is mainly for reflections and lighting effects, it's not meant to be a graphical overhaul for the game. If your GPU supports DX11 the game will run better though

For heroic Halfus, how many tanks are you guys using/how many drakes are you letting out? We tried to let out 4 drakes but Halfus enraged at around 55%, granted we lost a dps early in the fight. We only had 2 tanks and the massive damage seemed an issue for our healers. We broke out Time Warden,Scion, Storm Rider and Slate all at once to try to mitigate raid and tank damage slightly.

We used 3 tanks. 2 tanks for whelps and a druid tank for Halfus. One of the drake tanks would switch w/ the druid w/e I (the druid) got 9~ stacks of the debuff. We just found druid the best because of OP dodge for the fight. I could get lucky and go on a dodge streak and have all stacks drop off before he hit me again. On average I would initially tank Halfus for 1-2min+ before I'd have to switch for the first time. and that was ample time to kill 2+ drakes

I forget the order we released drakes in.. but whelps and 2 others where in the first wave, then after 1 drake died we released the other 2.

[aurik]

10 or 25?

In 10 we use 2 tanks 3 healers. 3 drakes released initially, release the 4th when the first dies, release the whelps when the 2nd dies.

[Rhyis.]

Yeah in our 10 we use 2 tanks 3 healers. Healers initially pretty much ignore anybody that's not a tank. Get hit by a fireball? Use that lightwell fool.

[LidenbokValour]

Spoiler: show

Has that always been there?

Any lore whizz know what exactly it is or there for?

Bumped into it whilst doing loremaster, don't think I've ever seen it before, does it have some connection with the lore or isit just something blizzard added for aethetics?

[aurik]

Been there forever. It's where the beholder spawns for the long group questchain at 70, coming from Nagrand.

[Correction]

Has that always been there?

Any lore whizz know what exactly it is or there for?

Bumped into it whilst doing loremaster, don't think I've ever seen it before, does it have some connection with the lore or isit just something blizzard added for aethetics?

It's part of the Varedis quest chain, an extremely neglected bit of WoW lore about the training of new Demon Hunters under Illidan's watch, the most dangerous of which was a Blood Elf Varedis. It was pretty epic, you wound up doing a bunch of favors for a Demon Hunter in Nagrand but the questline was a bitch because you had to do fly all over Outland, clear the 2nd boss of Shadow Labyrinth (you know, the one dungeon nobody cared about enough to do in regular mode and the one nobody could be assed to do in heroic mode), then clear a fairly challenging 5-man level 70 quest in SMV. Good lore associated with it, but with so many things in TBC, it was tough to get help for the last few bits due to the strength of the mobs involved. I'm kind of sad that so few people saw the awesome 5-man quest chains in SMV/Netherstorm.

[LidenbokValour]

Ahh right, feel kinda silly now lol.

[Mortilox]

As the only spell caster dps in my raid group, I'm planning for the new legendary. MMOchampion pretty much confirmed that there will be 25 crafting mats taken from Firelands to make the first stage or so of the staff and so I have a few questions.

I didn't bother with shadowmourne but it followed the same sort of plan. How much did Primordial Saronites cost 3 days/week/2 weeks after ICC was released?
I know no one really knows the answer to this question and realms aren't all the same but.. how much money should I set aside to fund the first stage? Thus far I've conjured up 105k and make more each week.

[aurik]

They will cost a lot at the beginning. But don't worry, until you can kill whatever boss drops the branch thing it's not a priority.

Edit: probably 20k each or something.

[Tomino]

What would you suggest me to pick between an already Lv85 Blood DK and a lv81 Prot Paladin, given that I'd come back to enjoy some heroic tanking?

During the early months of Cata I had hard times doing heroics on DK and i remember missing the days of my prot Paladin, tho it could be related to the fact LK was easier (especially in ToC days) and not about DK being weaker or more complicated that Pally.

[The Stig]

They will cost a lot at the beginning. But don't worry, until you can kill whatever boss drops the branch thing it's not a priority.

Edit: probably 20k each or something.

In this case, back when Primordials were first available, was it possible to buy them with Frost Badges? Or was that only introduced sometime down the line.

[Gilanth]

You could buy them from the start but only something like 10 badges a week if you raided and they were 25 badges or something, Hope you leveled your alts

[Correction]

You could buy them from the start but only something like 10 badges a week if you raided and they were 25 badges or something, Hope you leveled your alts

Not only that, primordials were themselves currency for high-level crafting patterns (that in turn required primordials to craft). ICC also had separate 10/25 lockouts so you could double up on your badges. Better have cash.

[Tajin]

What would you suggest me to pick between an already Lv85 Blood DK and a lv81 Prot Paladin, given that I'd come back to enjoy some heroic tanking?

During the early months of Cata I had hard times doing heroics on DK and i remember missing the days of my prot Paladin, tho it could be related to the fact LK was easier (especially in ToC days) and not about DK being weaker or more complicated that Pally.

I suggest what you enjoy the most, all 4 tanks are p. much the same for heroic tanking, bear AoE is a tiny bit behind still, and I cant keep threat for shit on warrior vs. decked out people, but eh, all 4 perform well.

My main is paladin but I enjoy DK / druid more, druid because its 'harder' and DK because death grip makes for interesting mechanics.