Random Cataclysm discussion

[Katlan]

The world in 4.0.3a is flying-ready, there is no reason you couldn't fly there, aside from not having flying enabled. There aren't anymore "optical illusions" in the landscape.

It's fly ready, but it's meant to be a specific cata feature. No reason they can't restrict ppl to ground mounts and have the ability to fly unlocked alongside side cata registration. I hope I'm wrong and we can fly in 4.03a (I have only played the beta, not ptr), but I am not expecting so

[Moosey]

It's fly ready, but it's meant to be a specific cata feature. No reason they can't restrict ppl to ground mounts and have the ability to fly unlocked alongside side cata registration. I hope I'm wrong and we can fly in 4.03a (I have only played the beta, not ptr), but I am not expecting so

Like I said earlier, I was on the PTR and there is nothing other than master riding available at flight trainers. I wouldn't expect flying until dec. 7.

[Katlan]

Like I said earlier, I was on the PTR and there is nothing other than master riding available at flight trainers. I wouldn't expect flying until dec. 7.

yeah i replied as I got into work and didn't realize I basically just repeated everything you said. first thing in the morning replies are awesome lol

[Correction]

Quick mage question: If you can wear gear that puts you over 17% spell hit, is it better to put it on, reforge it all to haste/mastery, then gem blue sockets with int/hit for the 7-9spellpower socket bonuses you can get out of it, or keep some hit on gear and forget about that 35-42 spellpower to gem pure int? Is 70 int from all red gems > 35 spellpower from socket bonuses + some haste/mastery?

Assume fire spec.

[schlomo]

Right now my Mage is arcane and i have according to thier system, a 5% chance to miss a lvl 83 mob, i still pull around 19-20k in icc, i reforged everything to mastery, i love 100k+ AB crits lol.

[Correction]

Disconnecting like a motherfucker lately on the new elemental bosses. Worst is during flamelash where 30 seconds offline is guaranteed death...

[vrumpt]

Elemental bosses were a joke and pretty in line with that i expected bliz to give us. First time i ran them our tank for Theradas and Flamelash just goes in and tanks all the adds and the boss for both encounters. I'm just sitting there telling myself "go ahead and try that in cata see how far you get buddy..."

/scurred

[Tricen]

There's actual strats for the bosses? I just went in and DPSed super hard and they died lol

[Norellicus]

Flamelash and Theradras you can't not pull the whole lot, at least not without a retarded amount of waiting.

[Moosey]

You can kill the theradras adds first without pulling her.

Flamelash was the only one that was slightly challenging.

[Norellicus]

You're almost guaranteed to pull Theradras if you pull while she's talking to the Image of Cho'gall, but yes you can avoid it if you wait for their conversation to end and allow her to start pathing on her platform.

[Correction]

I've been in groups where they pull her trash while cho'gall is still babbling and she doesn't pull. Seems to be random on whether or not she'll join the fight, unless the tank just autoruns into the pile.

[Tajin]

Only once I pulled theradaras adds, didnt knew you could pull adds at flamelash apart from him since they are incredibly close.

[Siniroth]

Wouldn't surprise me if the bosses only aggro, and don't link, but since people just charge in...

[jonahlinn]

sorry , l don't know it !

[The Stig]

I am finding regular blue posts rather entertaining, and how they treat Deathwing like a ... pet! :D

Will darnasus be re built to be a real tree or will it always look like a dead stump with trees at the top.
- ...but now that Deathwing is doing his thing it makes much more sense than it used to! ;]
- Deathwing hates trees.

One thing I am failing to understand, they say DW will fly around and zap zones/kill people until he is dead, does that mean expansion/story wise (so I'm guessing until the raid with DW as the penultimate boss is released he will continue raging for the lolz?) or does it mean until there's a group that can kill him?

[Norellicus]

I would wager that they mean until the first server kill of him in a raid.

[Katlan]

One thing I am failing to understand, they say DW will fly around and zap zones/kill people until he is dead, does that mean expansion/story wise (so I'm guessing until the raid with DW as the penultimate boss is released he will continue raging for the lolz?) or does it mean until there's a group that can kill him?

They have hinted that the Deathwing raid fight will be something very different from what we have seen due to him not staying in one place. But it seems like deathwing is going to be free roam until killed once on the server. Once killed, he won't roam anymore.

[vrumpt]

my assumption was based on the wording of the post that Zarhym gave there would be a lore/RP event sometime during the expansion that basically jails Deathwing and prevents him from flying around at will. It could be as the result of a raid before the final encounter with him or it could be the final encounter itself, hard to say right now since Bliz doesn't even know how many raids to put into this expansion.

[Correction]

Wouldn't surprise me if the bosses only aggro, and don't link, but since people just charge in...

Tested this theory this morning, it's 100% true.

The named Flamelash add needs to be silenced or LOS pulled, otherwise he'll just sit there casting on your tank from inside of Flamelash's aggro radius.