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Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in news:c9s7ccFa93aU1
@mid.individual.net:

> 
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:03:52 -0500, Cryptoengineer
> <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>For those curious, my pally completed The Thunder Forge this afternoon
>>(after being stuck there for what feels like a year). He soloed Nalak
>>easily, and is now on the hunt for Titan Runestones (as I type, he's
>>in queue for an LFR raid).
> 
> Yay, congrats!
> 
>>I'm concerned that when the patch drops on Tuesday, the 'Gaze of the
>>Black Prince' buff will go away. With it, you can get 5 or 6 TRs a
>>week. Without it, you're guarenteed 2, with a possibility of more.
>>I'd hate to be one stone short when the expansion drops, ending the
>>questline.
>>
>>Anyone know if I can double up by running both LFR and regular?
> 
> Afraid not, it's one chance a week, regardless of mode. It's possible
> that chance might be higher in higher difficulties, but I'm not sure
> even that applies, as I imagine Blizz wouldn't want people not doing
> their regular runs while waiting for a shot at a higher one.
> 
> Reached 100 yesterday with overall ilvl of 594, wearing a 575 cloak
> btw. Admittedly, that was by questing through each zone in turn, so I
> hadn't done the highest zone at that point, it'll presumably have
> higher lvl rewards! I believe it's fairly easy to get a 630 blue at
> 100, but likely down to personal preference if you replace your
> legendary with it or not, suspect I may not! LFR gear looks like ilvl
> 640 in Highmaul, 650 in Blackrock Foundry, from a quick glance at
> wowhead, that'll be the level where replacing is certain I reckon.
> 
> Sure hope the 40-50 ilvls makes a good difference btw, 2%
> haste/mastery/everything else and 9% crit (including the inbuilt 5%
> class buff) is paaaainful :-P Although at least now I got a personal
> tank from my garrison, that is just incredible the difference it
> makes, note to self, use the barracks to level with on live and stop
> trying to be clever by building something else!

If you could provide some hints on good use of the garrison for
levelling I'd be quite grateful - my pally tends to level as ret,
the holy spec is more background these days. My lock already has
a personal tank.

The Thunder Forge was a real playing skill check for me, by far the
hardest individual fight I'd had in game; I learned a lot about
boosting my dps on both toons from that, both from gearing, and from
better rotation. When I started I was probably pulling about 50k dps,
by the time I actually completed it, about 120.

One thing that really bugged me was how difficult it was simply to
*get* to the event; fly all the way west to Shado-Pan Garrison, 
portal to the island, ride overland to where Wrathion hangs out. 
Then fight several waves of nasty trash in the courtyard, followed
by a long tough fight in the first phase in the room. It took 15-20
minutes just to get to the point at which I was stuck - the final phase.

The only saving grace was that once I got there, there was a small area
just inside the door where after resurrection, I could mount, repair,
eat, and buff up before trying the final phase again. 

I really, really disliked this quest.

pt