Welsper Report post Posted September 25, 2019 (edited) So much for the "epic" conclusion of the war campaign.. does anyone at blizz even give a damn anymore. mind you, ignore the lore, my only real complaint is: why are the cutscene models so godawful? every single major lore charactor looks better as their ingame model, the rendered drenai, NE and sylv specifically look like horrid abomination. i mean, alright, sylvs a rotting corpse, so maybe justified, but why NE and drenai? Edited September 25, 2019 by Welsper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 8, 2019 Alright, 8.3 confirmed! and with it: nyalotha - the old god raid, which kills the very last threat left on azeroth, good times. wow over? vulpera for horde confirmed! and, the thing youve all been waiting for!! Additional infinite progression slot!!! so more ap grind for your all new legendary cloak, you didnt think you were done just because your neck was 70, did you! hurray for blizzard! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kryton Report post Posted October 8, 2019 3 hours ago, Welsper said: and, the thing youve all been waiting for!! Additional infinite progression slot!!! so more ap grind for your all new legendary cloak, you didnt think you were done just because your neck was 70, did you! hurray for blizzard! I love the way that is actually flagged as a positive feature. Occasionally I think about logging retail to do the 8.2.5 content and start leveling my neck to 70 now AK is maxed out and then I realise it is entirely pointless and of no benefit to me at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 8, 2019 (edited) hey, theres a quest at 70 to unlock your bigger azerite-fireball animation (rank4) in which you get to kill not-sinestra. because there must always be a... chromatic flight dragon consort for deathwing who died quite a long time, sister to ultraxion, who just figured nows the perfect time to get put down. also quite fancy: "corrupted" rings in 8.3, those give an flat 2% dmg/healing in addition to their base stats, but also come with a downside, such as: (edit: see picture) apparently they also want to "change" titanforges due to old gods assaults on the literal titan-forges out in the world, i.e. old.god-forged, madness forged, or hell, cursed. given the above, id wager you get those (or similar effects) as a trade-off for the increased power of the item.. so your new loot can be +15 ilvls, but completely unequipable instead! people are gonna love that! Edited October 8, 2019 by Welsper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gragneth Report post Posted October 8, 2019 (edited) So its the end of the expansion throw everything at the wall patch. Time for fun! Edited October 8, 2019 by Gragneth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 8, 2019 Im still looking for the "fun" part on all of that ptr stuff.. theres some tank nerfs, mostly brewmasters, no gcd changes, MORE ap grind, and uh.. oh yes, more island expeditions in the "nightmare visions of nzoth" - but those seem to scale with player count.. all the way down to 1! so ill just solo em i guess. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dangphat Report post Posted October 8, 2019 Won't all 5man tanks want the masochists ring? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 9, 2019 id imagine, but which curse you get is apparently random, and we dont know if those curses are all there is so far. given that you could just as likely end up with the 25% heal absorb on overheal (better not have any leech on gear/azerite traits on pull! 100dmg overheal = 150k healing gone) , the mechanic seems more worriesome than anything. the curses in general seem badly balanced, the "focus 1 target or -10%!" or any of the killing blow effects are non-issues on raid bosses, but will ruin your m+ runs. the fear seems completely unusable unless you have a fearbreak (with a lower cd than its internal proc rate), as does the 50% slow. The "spawn a thing from below" seems intresting mind you.. how will the dmg work? is it ignoreable? does it scale with m+ modifiers? are the spawns targetable? use two so you can always have 3 target aoe and let the healer deal with dmg you take but do crazy aoe dps even on single target fights! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nacey Report post Posted October 10, 2019 Overconfident is also complete Fuck You to Disc Priests who cannot control overheal even if they wanted to. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sharp Report post Posted October 10, 2019 l2p Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 10, 2019 im sure itll work great in combo with grievous! heal em over 90%, but be careful not to hit 100.00001%! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nacey Report post Posted October 10, 2019 Actually it makes no difference to Grievous because it's impossible to remove Grievous with Atonement, you have to spam Shadow Mend at each individual target. As such we mostly end up removing it out of combat so the leftover heal absorb from this new thing doesn't matter. The problem is that Atonement itself, which we maintain during all fights, will now build heal absorb and then absorb the incidental healing even if you've taken damage. This is a problem on all weeks. The existing problem with Grievous has nothing to do with this new bullshit, it's simply that our per-design in-combat healing doesn't work in a way in which we can remove Grievous. Have I mentioned how bullshit Grievous is for Disc? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 11, 2019 never mind grievous, im sure the new seasonal affix will be way better than void-emissary week at least. Ofc, given its the last content patch they might just go all out.. and simply combine the last three seasonal affixes into one. so you get reaping waves + ghuun infest emissaries at the same time! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kryton Report post Posted October 11, 2019 I'd like them to do a seasonal affix that hits you on boss fights rather than trash. Like something happens for every 25% HP the boss losses or something. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 11, 2019 Should be up on ptr soon as they already have the nlyalotha isles and boss models and everything... also datamined: DK assets for all allied races -> next xpac wrath of the lich king (banshee queen) 2.0 ? and a personal favourite: Spoilers! Spoiler Ashara dialogue suggest a redemption arc in the raid -> we free her from nzoths torture chamber and she helps us vs him by giving us xalathoth while being all tsundere about it. love it, shes so goddamn sexy, way too good looking to be killed.. still mourning for elisandre T_T Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sharp Report post Posted October 11, 2019 3 minutes ago, Welsper said: Spoilers! Reveal hidden contents Ashara dialogue suggest a redemption arc in the raid -> we free her from nzoths torture chamber and she helps us vs him by giving us xalathoth while being all tsundere about it. love it, shes so goddamn sexy, way too good looking to be killed.. still mourning for elisandre T_T Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) Hey, the dialogue and the torturer boss are ingame, just probably.. subject to change.. for shame. Also: the final pet battel dungeon: BRD! Edited October 11, 2019 by Welsper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gragneth Report post Posted October 14, 2019 On 10/11/2019 at 11:03 AM, Sharp said: Sorry but I'm with Welsper on this one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gragneth Report post Posted November 10, 2019 While we have the anniversary ( think it runs till ~8th Jan 2020) you can get a lot of Exp doing the AV event. Just from being in there you get exp that scals based on your level. With one loss (more exp) included I got a level in about 20 ish minutes. Not sure what the minimum is required to get in there but if you wanted an easy way to get several characters up to 120 this is definitely it! I am definitely gonna run a few classes up on horde and get my alliance paladin up as well. Then I can finally access dark iron dwarves! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted November 10, 2019 it is indeed quite nice, about a lvl or more for a single AV regardless of what you actually do in there. everyones scaled to 60 so even alts can perform perfectly well. as azerite traits are completly worthless anyways. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Welsper Report post Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) Heads up for all of them engineers who were looking foward to your new INFINITE PROGRESSION ITEM: the stupid legendary cloak cant be equipped with a goblin glider. im contemplating to just keep on using my 450 and whatever upgrade i get from mythics instead, given that the loottables still have 50% cloaks anyways. great design blizz! also: anyone with a max lvl alliance (and horde) character willing to help me get the "servant of nzoth" quest done? gotta kill 10 allies and then 10 horde for the good ol' "hostile to everyone"-item of this xpac (i.e. censer in mop+wod, feather in legion) and im too shit to actually kill ppl in a real fight as prot or arms. Edited January 16, 2020 by Welsper Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brynneth Report post Posted March 10, 2020 Some useful Corruptions stuff for Sarah (or anyone confused as fuck by the current gear): Ranked list for absolute best corruptions for Fire Mage: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html#mage_fire?data_view=corruptions Re-ordered list for best corruptions per point of corruption for Fire Mage (useful for min/max): https://bloodmallet.com/index.html#mage_fire?data_view=corruptions&repr=dps_corruption_rating Simcraft mod link (download this if not already installed): https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/simulationcraft Easy to use online sims: https://www.raidbots.com/simbot I would recommend whenever you get a new piece of corrupted gear, typing /simc and copy/pasting the resulting window of gobbledegook it produces into the Raidbots Top Gear option. Keep Max Corruption to the default of 39 unless you know you can deal with a Thing From Beyond. Select the items which you want to find how effective they are and click the Find Top Gear button. "Copy and Purify" can be useful if you don't know whether an item would be useful to Purify if it would let you equip a different corrupted item. Looks something like this for me: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fyria Report post Posted March 11, 2020 Thanks for all of the useful links Gaz. 👍 Edit: This may help clear out my bags a bit as I have a bunch of gear I'm like, hmm, is that better, probably not, but I'll keep it for now just in case... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brynneth Report post Posted March 11, 2020 Corruptions have, if anything, made my bags more bloated since I'm now keeping extra gear for min/maxing around certain corruption values and swapping out for Single/Multi-target. Though you'll definitely be able to prune any stuff you've been unsure of which turns out to be definitely shite. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Report post Posted March 12, 2020 I carry 3 specs worth of azerite already + trinkets - so not too much extra burden to me lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
