World Of Warcraft Discussion Thread

[Xacual]

My poor alliance bank alt might have to go then, what a sad way to go allytohorde, I'll never forget you!

Or I could just remake my stuck at 60ish warrior that I'll never actually play.

[Ithekro]

Redoing an unused alt migt be fine since it wil be a "new" experiance. I sort of did that to make my Death Knight by deleting my low level warrior alt and used his name. Though that was because I really didn't enjoy playing a level 18 undead warrior when his next life as a 55 undead death knight in the second month of Wrath was awesome. So overpowered leveling compared to my warlock at the time. (It is my Horde primary now as oppose to my more often used Alliance warlock main).

[Hooves]

Death Knight leveling is sorta Overpowered still.. I leveled an alt DK on another server, and just breezed through the quests. Soloing 3 mans, but cant do 5 man.. I even used my raiding spec as my leveling spec..

[Skyfall]

Most classes are quite capable of soloing 3 man quests, though obviously tank classes have it easier than others, most notably Paladins and DKs. That said, i am having little problems soloing group quests, of both 3 man and 5 man variety, on my soon-to-be-80 lock. Stuff takes forever to die, but you can literally kill anything that can't outdamage your improved health funnel on felguard/void, no matter how much HP it has

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by Skyfall

Most classes are quite capable of soloing 3 man quests, though obviously tank classes have it easier than others, most notably Paladins and DKs. That said, i am having little problems soloing group quests, of both 3 man and 5 man variety, on my soon-to-be-80 lock. Stuff takes forever to die, but you can literally kill anything that can't outdamage your improved health funnel on felguard/void, no matter how much HP it has

Hmm that is true, it just depends on the class and if they have the ability of self-heal, since warriors have very little self-heal they basically rely on downing the bosses health before they die.

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Yeah, anything that can heal and wear plate is going to be good for leveling. Mages are pretty good at group quests too if things can be slowed, or be crafty with the use of terrain.

They want to get back a bit more to the group orientated quests in more Cata don't they? Since stuff does hit fairly hard. TBH im kinda looking forward to heroics that are a bit challenging again - though I do wonder how long that will last.

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by Mr Hat and Clogs

Yeah, anything that can heal and wear plate is going to be good for leveling. Mages are pretty good at group quests too if things can be slowed, or be crafty with the use of terrain.

They want to get back a bit more to the group orientated quests in more Cata don't they? Since stuff does hit fairly hard. TBH im kinda looking forward to heroics that are a bit challenging again - though I do wonder how long that will last.

I suppose Blizzard wants to aim for that. Since they want players to be more... "cooperative" to each other while we level in Cataclysm. Not attempt to solo things like we were able to do in Wotlk, or sometimes in BC. I suppose Blizzard wants to bring back the feeling of support and cooperation back to WoW (well raids provided that, but its mostly aimed towards questing)

[Ithekro]

The problem I found with health funnel (I don't believe had the improved version) is that my healing combined with dots (only COA and Corruption as a destro lock so as to like th e VW hold threat cause Immolate gets nasty as it could crit on hit and with three dots, one crit was enough to gain threat off the Voidwalker) generated more threat than the Voidwalker could handle. Of course I was testing this as a fresh level 80 on the Fel Reaver in a attempt at revenge and also to get the key quest done. It squished me as soon as it was able to land a hit...though it missed a lot due to the level gap.

[Kotohono]

So I've heard 4.0 along with new talents and stat changes are really being put into place next week after maintenance, anyone know if this is true?

[Tokkan]

Originally Posted by Konakaga

So I've heard 4.0 along with new talents and stat changes are really being put into place next week after maintenance, anyone know if this is true?

I doubt anyone knows for sure, but it does seem that way what with the build currently on the PTR being a release candidate.

[Clarste]

That seems very likely at this point. On the Test Realm they're at the "release" version of the patch so it's gonna be pretty soon, and the arena season ends next week on Tuesday. So that's basically the perfect time for it to happen.

That's just 4.01 though. 4.03, which also changes the 1-60 content is also due out some time before Cataclysm. Possibly mid-November or so.

[Skyfall]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

The problem I found with health funnel (I don't believe had the improved version) is that my healing combined with dots (only COA and Corruption as a destro lock so as to like th e VW hold threat cause Immolate gets nasty as it could crit on hit and with three dots, one crit was enough to gain threat off the Voidwalker) generated more threat than the Voidwalker could handle. Of course I was testing this as a fresh level 80 on the Fel Reaver in a attempt at revenge and also to get the key quest done. It squished me as soon as it was able to land a hit...though it missed a lot due to the level gap.

Hm, i can see why destro would have issues there - i level as destro in Northrend, but have a demo offspec for soloing group quests - didn't even attempt as destro (Ok, so i did once, but it didn't end too well). Being demo the pet is obviously stronger, and Felguard (i prefer him over void, unless stuff hits 'really' hard) usually doesn't have issues holding my 3 dots, unless i get lucky with crits. In which case i simply ease up on the dots and give the guy some time to build threat - soloing as a lock isn't a DPS race in any way. It may take a while to score the kill, but unless the mob can actually kill your demon (which doesn't happen too often through improved funnel, which transfers both more health and reduces the damage your funneled demon takes by 30%), it will die sooner or later.

[Clarste]

I remember way back in Vanilla I tanked Stockades at the appropriate level with a Voidwalker and Health Funnel. We three manned it actually, two rogues and a lock. The rogues would bandage me while I was funneling. That was fun.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by Tokkan

I doubt anyone knows for sure, but it does seem that way what with the build currently on the PTR being a release candidate.

I am looking forward to in someways, but on the other hand I am not really wanting to completely re-learn both my specs right now so, maybe I'll just take a break from my pally until cata actually comes out .

[GDB]

Originally Posted by Konakaga

I am looking forward to in someways, but on the other hand I am not really wanting to completely re-learn both my specs right now so, maybe I'll just take a break from my pally until cata actually comes out .

You'd probably be able to learn it better just by starting an alt and leveling it as your spec. It wouldn't be the same as cata-intensive groups and dungeons, but it wouldn't be a faceroll either. You'd at least learn the timings for Holy Power and how to manage it somewhat easily.

Or just save your money for a few months.

[Hooves]

Warlocks were extremely overpowered before some fixes went around. You could literally send your voidwalker to tank Sartharion, while your main/off tanks can just tank the 3 drakes taht come down. Since AoE is reduced against Voidwalkers, they dont take as much damage as we do, making it easier to heal them. But I dont know if that trick works anymore.

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by GDB

You'd probably be able to learn it better just by starting an alt and leveling it as your spec. It wouldn't be the same as cata-intensive groups and dungeons, but it wouldn't be a faceroll either. You'd at least learn the timings for Holy Power and how to manage it somewhat easily.

Or just save your money for a few months.

I'll probably just do some HCs on each to try to a feel for it, but ugh I don't know how I feel trying raid ICC or ToC/TOGC when I don't fully understand my class, plus starting to raid heal is going to be a fun[or terrible] experience , so if it's too confusing to get down, I'll just work on my druid alt since having mangle at a low level will be fun .

[Last Sinner]

If I told you it is confirmed that Warlocks are currently outhealing healing classes in BGs in Beta, what does that tell you about the state of their OPness?

[Ithekro]

Or the BG healers suck. I think I came in top healing once in a BG in December because of Fel Armor and Fel Healthstones. I usually come in somewhere around the middle and am usually the highest non-healer heals in raids and dungeons (unless the pally tank is forced to self heal or a priest dps is present)

[Xacual]

I hate to say it to make my guild look bad, but my prot paladin was routinely on top of healing meters because of Judgement of Light /sigh at my healers.