This is the first World of Warcraft thread for ILG

Were they all super-epicc'd out? I heard that high enough epics can get you through to like... level 75 before you need to work on getting better equipment.

wrath of the lion king imo

They were needing blues from the instances, so I don't think they were super geared.

Yeah, but you heard tales from the TBC of people discarding their lvl 60 purples in favour of the greens from Outland. Is that no longer happening?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?forumId=10023&sid=1&topicId=12454665647

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Yeah, but you heard tales from the TBC of people discarding their lvl 60 purples in favour of the greens from Outland. Is that no longer happening?

It's not happening for me. I've been collecting lvl 73 blues that I'm still not sure I would use over my current epic gear, some of which still is from Kara.

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/13/nyhm-of-drekthar-eu-first-to-level-80/

holy shit

http://www.twentyfifthnovember.com/

some people are insane

congrats, enjoy grinding bullshit for a year before the next xpac/mmo.

http://www.destructoid.com/obama-appoints-tauren-shaman-to-fcc-transition-team-112345.phtml

Oh my!

When I played I used to have a ton of addons, and my screen didn't look like that. There are addons that make your WoW look nice and neat and shuffles everything to the sides. (Also, no threat meter? Clearly a non-raider!)

That's an incredibly bogus article.

Now now no need to get defensive.

terrible ui is terrible

UI with every interface popped open is cluttered, OMG ALERT TEH MEDIAS

I am still WoW-ed (lol pun!) at the number of add ons required tbh!

none of those are required, maybe vent since no one uses the in game voice.

Obviously voice communication has its downsides, though it's fairly easy to tell the complete idiots using their keyboard skills. I've been removing more and more add-ons after my return to WoW - the Titan Panel plugin that tells you what the least valuable thing in your bag is (and lets you click to drop/sell it) is the one that gets most of the use, I think. Well, that and Atlas.

Oh yeah: Atlas is an addon which maps out dungeons for you (because the regular map goes away have you have to make do with the mini map in the top right), and say which bosses are where, and Atlasloot is an addon which says what they drop, which has proved useful in persuading people to try optional bosses: "This guy over here has this loot on him, wouldn't you like that? (and also will be interesting to fight, which is what you're supposed to be here for, right?)"

Also I have been away for a while, and the Achievements section is having a disastrous effect on me. "Can't level up my unarmed skill to 400? I think you'll find I can!". But it is a lot of fun to EG go visit lvl 20 alliance instance The Deadmines as a lvl 50 horde, particularly when you get bored of killing everything and just stealth to the last boss. "That's some fine guarding you guys are doing there, keep it up!"

How's everyone's raiding going? My guild is going to be killing Malygos this week on 25-man ^_^

Still soloing, but I haven't even bought the first expansion yet.

How do the heroic level dungeons go? Is the easiest Lich King dungeon on heroic tougher than the toughest on regular?

http://i44.tinypic.com/2myqhix.jpg

hahahaha shdn't laugh but

hahahaha

ah is a fake :'(

it is? ;_;

they dont call it an expansion pack for nothing
wakka wakka wakka

so... it was a week late but we still killed Malygos ^_^

unfortunately nothing I needed dropped ;_;

You mean like your balls??? Ho ho ho etc etc (sorry didn't see this before now)

Was gonna say, it took you 48 hours to come up with that

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Deathwing&n=grinz

lookit the purty epics

all I need are some bracers and I get the Epic achievement!

(Epic)

no inner focus = fail

(The Twilight Zone)

^_^ ^_^ ^_^ not bad for a casual raiding guild

Nice work! That does kind of stand out as the most skill-based (as opposed to "Pick up 1000 Emblems of Valor because you have nothing else going on in your life at all") achievement.

I was coming to see if anyone had any views on the upcoming changes, where they let people Dual-Spec (for a sizeable price) and swap armor easily. It sounds like it'll be good to be a druid, and also good news for anyone who's ever found them selves in a party with a priest that can't heal or a warrior that can't tank.

I think the 10-man version has to be harder, what with only having 10 people.

Dual-spec is also going to be nice for those 25-man Naxx runs where you only have one shadow priest in the raid; it's kind of too bad they didn't implement it on release since it would have saved me about... 400 gold in respecs. (On the plus side, after one disastrous initial attempt, I am pretty good at tanking the Instructor encounter now; amazing how increasing yr hit keeps the mobs from breaking your Mind Control.)

outfitter add-on still trumps blizz b/c it can auto-max stats

orly

(lol like I need another add-on)

pretty handy. and if you are accessing your bank it can include pieces in there, especially nice to figure out if you can safely ditch old gear since it shows items not being used at all.

huh, that makes it sound like the inspiration for Blizzard's equipment manager

yeah, they've copped a lot from add-ons already, like scrolling combat text.

grats on Twilight Vanquisher, HI DERE. I can't believe your guild was cool with giving you the Illustration of the Dragon Soul which hasn't dropped for us yet and is, like, best caster dps trinket in the game. Just out of curiosity, what loot system do you guys use?

re: dual specs

I'm a DK and they are nerfing tanking so I'm not super excited about them myself. I'll probably end up with two PvE DPS specs or maybe a PvP spec, even though I hate WoW PvP.

I can't believe I haven't looked for I Love Games until now.

And just when I'm kicking the WoW habit, too... But then I'm on a LOLRP server, so I don't think I'd see any ILX folk there anyhow.

I'm on the brink of quitting myself. If it wasn't for a lot of RL friends playing, I would have quit ages ago.

Just out of curiosity, what loot system do you guys use?

Boss-based DKP, normally 10 pts per boss unless it's new content, in which case it's 10 pts per attempt and 15 pts for the first kill. I tend to hoard (lol) points so that I can get the items I really want, plus I'm AFK a lot so the other healers get their goodies before I do anyway.

(ps bnw, Outfitter has changed my life)

(I love that I have that trinket for the intermittent times when I have to go shadow, btw)

Our Naxx raids use a system that works like this. People roll on a main-spec item. High roll wins. The person who wins an item can still roll, but won't be able to win anything unless other rollers pass. If nobody wants an item for a main spec roll, it goes to off-spec rolls. Those are not governed by the said limit.

Theoretically, you could get kitted out in a night, if everyone passes or already has loot.

This has good and bad sides. If you get kitted, then there's not a lot of incentive to come back, unless you just like to get trashed and wreck content with friends (as we're basically farming Naxx now, killing time until the new raids.)

Yeah, we're basically doing achievement runs now (tonight is actually 20-man Sarth/Malygos)

I just looked up Je-Tze's Bell and WAU WANT along with the Forethought Talisman