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Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in news:cc2n0iFlsl1U1
@mid.individual.net:

> 
> So, 6 days to go, and as with every expansion, I'm asking myself the
> usual question: why did I get bored and barely play for months, yet
> now it's nearly over, I can think of tons of things I've not finished
> and I'm now in a huge rush to do them all (and won't succeed in time)?
> Every single time I do this! In fairness, not all were actually
> possible before the patch, but a fair number were... so now I'm
> working on:

[..,] lots deleted.

I've just got a couple things. 

My lock needs to finish the Green Fire questline - just the final 
boss is left, and at 562 ilvl I think its doable. Lots of good
strats on Youtube.

I finally pulled the trigger and used my 90 boost on the rogue. I
had a stockpile of Timeless items, so kitted him out in ilvl 496
immediately. Now up to 522. 

Frog hollow on Timeless Isle is now an absolute slaughterhouse,
with dozens of dead frogs on the ground at many moment. People
are farming Timeless Coins and Lesser Charms, presumably to buy
Burdens and upgrades.

My rogue farms it while waiting for UBRS to pop. It really is
a wipefest, because most of the players running it are alts
trying to get 550 ilvl gear, just like my rogue.

At the moment, the rogue gets 3k to 9k dps on the frogs, lower
in UBRS. It feels about like 80-90k pre-patch.

pt

On 11/6/2014 8:53 PM, Catriona R wrote:

> Val'anyr

I still remember the first one we built...

That cunt of a priest bolted for the the Horde side with two other 
officers less than two week after it was built.....

Haven't been in that raid since.

On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:18:36 -0600, Cryptoengineer
<pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in news:cc2n0iFlsl1U1
>@mid.individual.net:
>
>> 
>> So, 6 days to go, and as with every expansion, I'm asking myself the
>> usual question: why did I get bored and barely play for months, yet
>> now it's nearly over, I can think of tons of things I've not finished
>> and I'm now in a huge rush to do them all (and won't succeed in time)?
>> Every single time I do this! In fairness, not all were actually
>> possible before the patch, but a fair number were... so now I'm
>> working on:
>
>[..,] lots deleted.
>
>I've just got a couple things. 
>
>My lock needs to finish the Green Fire questline - just the final 
>boss is left, and at 562 ilvl I think its doable. Lots of good
>strats on Youtube.

Ooh, good luck! I should have a shot at that on my warlock actually,
forgot all about it, however as I'm at 496 ilvl and am frankly not the
most skilled of players, it won't work well, I think...

>I finally pulled the trigger and used my 90 boost on the rogue. I
>had a stockpile of Timeless items, so kitted him out in ilvl 496
>immediately. Now up to 522. 

Mine will be used on *a* rogue, just not sure which yet, can either
boost my existing troll, or racechange my 90 human to undead and boost
a dwarf instead - still holding out hope for model/animation
improvements before taking the racechange option, but I really can't
stand the human model as it stands, it's not becoming more tolerable
with time, either!

>Frog hollow on Timeless Isle is now an absolute slaughterhouse,
>with dozens of dead frogs on the ground at many moment. People
>are farming Timeless Coins and Lesser Charms, presumably to buy
>Burdens and upgrades.

Same on my server, totally mental, and very annoying as I still don't
have the pet from Bufo - who now has a life expectancy of about one
millisecond, and usually whoever killed him didn't have the addon so
the time isn't accurate. I'll just come back for him after WoD goes
live, I guess, there's a load of other things I need on that island
and won't get in time anyway.

On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:21:59 -0500, Polarhound
<polar...@comcast.net> wrote:

>On 11/6/2014 8:53 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>
>> Val'anyr
>
>I still remember the first one we built...
>
>That cunt of a priest bolted for the the Horde side with two other 
>officers less than two week after it was built.....
>
>Haven't been in that raid since.

Ouch, I bet that left every other healer in the guild absolutely
furious :-/ The legendary cloak questchain from MoP is a much better
way IMO, leaves guild politics completely out of it and it's just down
to personal effort now, far less drama when you're not fighting your
guildmates for a chance at something!

Den 07-11-2014 04:18, Cryptoengineer skrev:

> My lock needs to finish the Green Fire questline - just the final
> boss is left, and at 562 ilvl I think its doable. Lots of good
> strats on Youtube.

I tried most the strats found on youtube after 6.0.2 landed on my comp. 
  But as I seriously suck at pressing the right buttons and click the 
right spells in the right sequence while I move to the right position at 
the right time I ended up nuking/oneshotting the boss with all possible 
CDs incl. pre-potting.  Before I nuked him I had spent several hours on 
the strats...

I had chosen the grimoire of sacrifice talent here as I sacrificed my 
void tank for the extra spell damage when he lost aggro later in the fight.
This was done with a 571 destro lock.  But it was so easy that it should 
be doable by your lock too without too much hassle as this fight is made 
for 5.3 geared locks.  He was dead before the first swarm of imps.  Just 
avoid his rain of fire + remember to control the demon (set it to Assist 
as its set to passive once when you control it!) and you should be fine. 
  And save your second jade pot until you have 4 embers for 4 shadow bolts.

So...
1. Place your void where the boss starts the fight, let it aggro the boss.
2. Nuke.
3. Control demon, set demon to Assist.
4. more nuke.
Profit. :)

-- 
Peter T.

<https://www.elitedangerous.com/>

On 7/11/2014 12:23 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>
> So, 6 days to go, and as with every expansion, I'm asking myself the
> usual question: why did I get bored and barely play for months, yet
> now it's nearly over, I can think of tons of things I've not finished
> and I'm now in a huge rush to do them all (and won't succeed in time)?
> Every single time I do this! In fairness, not all were actually
> possible before the patch, but a fair number were... so now I'm
> working on:
>

Not bored, exhausted by choice.

Not much done here, so much choice, no time, so no choice really - do 
what is simple and interruptible.
Make sure all have the same size bags because the offsets annoy me.
Kit out the Forlorn Hope a bit better, grind frogs a bit for full 
upgrades on the 553, add a few crafted gear.

Spend a lot buying any mat sold at or near vendor price.
  Consequently a brief excursion into cut gems, and ran away screaming.
  Vermilion onyx, promoted from tiger opal with a lotus, fine, simple, I 
do that in batches to fill supply. Orange gems for pvp seem to be in demand.
    onyx has 22 cuts, multiplied by every gem type...just not worth the 
effort.
Seriously, people sell 50 stacks near or -below- vendor 4g, there is no 
risk here.

Same thing for other mats all the way down, vendor price at 6pm, 4x 
vendor at 7pm, buy/sell churn.

Get an Edward the Odd drop, vendor it accidentally, must have gone along 
with all the timeless junk vendors because I can't find it.

Plan for Invasion of Draenor :
Send in the warlock alchemist herb first, half 553.
Once scouted and secured a base of operations
   send is dk miner blacksmith some 553.
Grind grind grind, turn a lot of mobs into lootable.
   Find out about garrison.
   Make mistakes about garrisons.
   Spend a lot on garrison.
Send greens back to my more rubbish alts, all timeless but not upgraded 
beyond a smattering of 553.
Grind grind grind, turn a lot of mobs into lootable.

Get lost in choice, have a lot of DOH! moments
retreat to nice quiet ah.

Since the promoted 90 has a 383 2h equivalent to a 20k timeless 2h ,
I am hoping the initial 500-ish green will fill in gaps fairly quickly.
When it says go and nuke mobs for 10 bits of fluff, nuke 20 ,
assuming the mobs survive a tiny bit longer than a gulp frog.
   Maybe just take the week off and let things settle down.
If it takes a little bit longer, a bit more grinding, a few thousand 
more clicks this is no real problem.
  People are running around maximising their gear so they can level 
faster. Why in such a hurry to get the xpac content over and done with 
asap? If it was chocolate people are planning to down 6 family size 
blocks in a week :-)