I love my DH and DK because you just feel so damn powerful when you're playing them. It's a satisfying, visceral experience, and it doesn't hurt that they both look like they'll be really strong in BFA. If only they weren't so edgelord-y...
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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth|OT| War Mode Enabled!
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I love my DH and DK because you just feel so damn powerful when you're playing them. It's a satisfying, visceral experience, and it doesn't hurt that they both look like they'll be really strong in BFA. If only they weren't so edgelord-y...
I could see them adding a hub in BfA with rep quests to speed up the process.
Ah thanks. Is the mount account-wide or just character? Thinking of boosting to grab it to avoid the need to level in time if it also is available to use on other characters.
Got my 3 110s parked and waiting for BFA. DH alliance will be first to 120. The class is such stupid fun.
Until then I'm leveling a lowbie shaman, got to level 25 after 6 1/2 hours so far. Its a lot of fun in heirloom gear and I'm playing a bit of each spec in dungeons. Also happy to discover that I could transmog my dwarf into T1 earthfury gear already. I'll eventually race change this one, or buy a boost depending on what I get this one to until then, into a dark iron dwarf (along with my paladin).
I also installed my first mods thanks to Bellulars video. So I'm using the GW2 UI and the Immersion mods. Both are incredible and I love them. Feels like I'm playing a new game, they really are impressive. Immersion is just fantastic and now I'm actually reading and caring about the story.
Anyone taking time off next week for BFA? I booked Thursday and Friday off to get a long weekend and to try and avoid any technical launch issues.
Until then I'm leveling a lowbie shaman, got to level 25 after 6 1/2 hours so far. Its a lot of fun in heirloom gear and I'm playing a bit of each spec in dungeons. Also happy to discover that I could transmog my dwarf into T1 earthfury gear already. I'll eventually race change this one, or buy a boost depending on what I get this one to until then, into a dark iron dwarf (along with my paladin).
I also installed my first mods thanks to Bellulars video. So I'm using the GW2 UI and the Immersion mods. Both are incredible and I love them. Feels like I'm playing a new game, they really are impressive. Immersion is just fantastic and now I'm actually reading and caring about the story.
Anyone taking time off next week for BFA? I booked Thursday and Friday off to get a long weekend and to try and avoid any technical launch issues.
it's account-wide and doing it with an alliance character unlocks the horde one and vice versa.
I main DK as well and it will be the first thing I level next week, unfortunately Unholy just got the nerf-bat pretty hard which kind of killed it. Frost is middle of the pack-ish but at least Blood is still strong. S T O K E D for next week.
Man, Legion has felt like the longest expansion ever, even if it may not have been.
I'm really going to miss Legion, it's been such a massive upgrade over WoD for me. MoP and WotLK were always close to even in my eyes, but I think legion will ultimately be my favorite expansion. Like every expansion it has its negatives, but they really nailed it with the new additions for every type of player (eg world quests to mythic dungeons).
How are feral druids right now? I might jump back in, I'll have to check with my friends. I did some Legion stuff at launch but no raids or anything. My gear is probably a tad out of date. Also will I get to keep my artifact weapon druid forms cause I got the feather of the moonspirit.
I'm definitely excited overall. Class balance might not be at its best right now but I'm happy enough with class design, which is much more important. Demo and Survival are actually fun to play now, which is a big step up from Legion. I am a little concerned about Azerite armor- it seems fun enough in a vacuum, but as it's essentially a single, relatively simple system replacing 3 existing systems (armor sets, legendary items, and artifact weapons) I am worried that the max level itemization will feel a bit bland or shallow compared to where it was in Legion. I will hopefully be wrong about that though.
Also Sylvanas is a fucking mess but the alliance is still a bunch of dweebs so I'm still Horde 4 lyfe
Also Sylvanas is a fucking mess but the alliance is still a bunch of dweebs so I'm still Horde 4 lyfe
You need to turn War Mode on to see people in War Mode. Theres plenty going on in War Mode, believe me.
When you're out and in the world, war mode puts you in an instance with others who share the same status as you.
If you have War Mode disabled you'll only see people who also have it disabled.
Enabled and you only see people with it enabled.
I see a ton of people with it enabled.
WTF is their problem with making grouping easier in a MULTIPLAYER game!? I'm already terrified at the thought of Argus being dead from next week, making it hard enough to find groups for invasion points as it is. But now another nerf to group finder addons renders it all fubar. Going to have to wait until I hit 120 to continue the allied race rep grind solo I guess. Sometimes I hate this game. Argus is one of the worst zones they've ever created mechanically and visually (way too much visually fighting for your attention, and the colour scheme is a mess, even though the backdrops are gorgeous), the rep grind is ridiculously time gated, and now they make it even harder by nerfing group tools in an MMO. Grrrrrr.
My human Paladin, the same character I've been maining for the last 13 years :) It's tradition I break in every expansion with him first, no matter how good or bad Paladins are at the time, then move on to my alts.
World PvP basically died with vanilla and has never recovered, it's like a switch flipped. Though you could argue it started to die when Blizz introduced Battlegrounds, it was 1.12 that really signaled the end of that era of WoW's PvP. I genuinely think the only place you're likely to find a decently healthy community for it will be on the WoW Classic servers.
I understand where you're coming from, but that hasn't been my experience. There have been many servers, at least through MoP, where WPvP existed plentifully; it's basically all I played for, besides doing arena for elite transmogs.
WoD and Legion certainly had drastic negative impacts on that, partially because their class design has been extraordinarily shallow, but TBC-MoP had great WPvP, with a small dip in Cataclysm because guards were overpowered, so you had to be... cautious.
I'm hoping War Mode is able to revitalize it, but it'll be an uphill battle, and dependent on class design improving, such that PvP is enjoyable at all—which it wasn't in Legion, and we saw that in its historically low PvP participation in both casual and rated. Legendaries being removed will already be a huge improvement, since that made Legion's WPvP nigh unplayable, but it would also be nice if they found a way to reimplement the World Defense notification channel in a way that reconciled with phasing.
Damn them bearly daddy dudes and their sea witchcraft. Wait, that's my kink...why am I killing those again? I mean, FOR THE HORDE. (but i'm 100% creating a Kul'tiran when they come out)
Awesome. Cooking and fishing are activities I enjoy at max level, and I despised dealing with Nomi.
I'm going back to my Pally after maining a DH last expansion. As for wPvP, it pretty much died in 1.5 when BGs first showed up. Once you could queue from anywhere almost no one bothered to wPvP. Don't remember when that was.
Theres been world pvp all along but you had to look for it. The reason in Vanilla fighting happened all the time was because the entire playerbase was locked into just two continents with ground mounts and flight paths.
And it was just the only form of PvP at all.
From my experience, I would say WotLK and MoP have been the best WPvP expansions. WotLK's world defense and server communities were fantastic, although it introduced dungeon teleportation, which ruined summoning stone PvP. MoP had so many WPvP hot spots it was a paradise, with Timeless Isle being better than even Quel'Danas.
I thought for sure Legion would be because of WQs—which should be great for it—but its legendary system and simplistic class design made it one of the worst. Here's hoping BFA is better.
Reactivated my account about July 12th. I skipped out at the beginning of the expansion without doing anything. Stopped raiding during last raid in Draenor, in Legion, didn't raid, did one heroic dungeon and did Suramar up to getting the masquerade mask, before quitting. so not far.
Focused on leveling alts through invasions and Suramar rep to unlock Nightborne since coming back. 15 (12 Alliance all classes, 3 Horde H,Rog,DH) characters at 110. Restored my second hunter I made during BC that was sitting at 90, boosted to 110, faction transferred to horde, since my guild apparently started playing horde side as well while I was gone.
Demon Hunter Vengeance is a lot of fun, Blood Death Knight old main stay, still good, dunno if I wanna tank raids again after doing it for a decade and they already have established tanks on both sides. Outlaw Rogue is a lot of fun, never much was a fan of melee in raids though. Demo Warlock is a lot of fun but I haven't played a caster, beyond just leveling since BC.
So, it looks like what I'll be doing is what I started WoW with back in December 2004, BM Hunter on both factions this time.
So how do the islands work? There's an alliance island and a horde island and both factions ONLY level on their faction's island?
Pretty much. Horde level on Zandalar, Alliance level in Kul'Tiras, and but by 120 you have world quests and stuff to do on the other faction's area.
Yes, but then you unlock the other island for world quest and war campaign.
Man, I can't even do the Battle for Thorns as my mage. This named horde Orc is murdering me, and he's only a regular "quest boss" mob.
So I've played this game on and off over the last 10 years or so, only ever getting to level 40 something with a mage.
I resubbed the other day and have level 14 (aww yeah!) Warrior Orc.
What on earth should I be doing? Just grinding up?
I resubbed the other day and have level 14 (aww yeah!) Warrior Orc.
What on earth should I be doing? Just grinding up?
Keep chaining quests and moving from zone to zone as you clear them. Don't grind on mobs if they aren't part of a quests, you'll just be wasting time. When you're 15 you should also queue for dungeons as they'll provide better gear and good XP so you can speed up leveling. You'll also start learning how to play in a group so its helpful in the long run. I would also recommend that you level as Fury as a warrior, great spec and lots of fun.
This is wrong. I've been flagged for pvp and get ganked constantly and that takes 3-4 people usually I'm a guardian druid alliance. It's like a never ending tank fest and since most alliance seemingly run with pvp off I've been considering doing the same. I really don't want to though I've always played on a pvp server
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Yeah just keep playing, questing, etc. to level up to 110 (or 120 this coming week.) There's honestly too much to fully explain in one go to a new player on WHAT to do besides that. Feel free to explore different things. Most of the game really opens up at max level, so that should be your primary goal for now, but don't feel the need to rush if it's your first time through leveling -- you only get to experience it for the first time once ya know.
Don't be afraid to ask specific questions here or elsewhere. Just more general/open-ended ones are harder to answer -- WoW is the archetypal MMO with all that entails, and 14 years of content behind it.
For the horde!
Curious to see where the story ends up going - not a fan as it stands right now, but maybe, just maybe, Blizz can avoid repeating one of their older stories again.
Curious to see where the story ends up going - not a fan as it stands right now, but maybe, just maybe, Blizz can avoid repeating one of their older stories again.
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And yeah, War Mode is apparently pretty hopping, and we're not even in the new BfA zones yet with flying disabled. Just gotta make sure you turn it on yourself :P
I'm not giving the first post the full treatment like I would for a new game explaining systems and stuff, since I figured most people playing and posting here know where to look to get info on the game (e.g. Wowhead, MMO-Champion). It would be a not-insignificant amount of effort for potentially minimal gain. But since we're in the main forum right now, I should probably flesh out a few more things, especially the FAQ based on stuff I've seen people ask the past day since putting the thread up.
Probably include things like a basic "what do?" guide, recommended addons, etc.
I'm not giving the first post the full treatment like I would for a new game explaining systems and stuff, since I figured most people playing and posting here know where to look to get info on the game (e.g. Wowhead, MMO-Champion). It would be a not-insignificant amount of effort for potentially minimal gain. But since we're in the main forum right now, I should probably flesh out a few more things, especially the FAQ based on stuff I've seen people ask the past day since putting the thread up.
Probably include things like a basic "what do?" guide, recommended addons, etc.
6 years is JUST long enough that you missed all the good expansions so it should feel pretty good if you stick it outl.
This might actually be the first WoW expansion I won't buy (at launch atleast). The story doesn't seem all to interesting and the way that blizz has been messing up things like the leveling process and now with the group finder.... I don't know, it's like they haven't got a clue about what they're doing.
Mind you we still have a few days so who knows what might happen.
Mind you we still have a few days so who knows what might happen.
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