You'll want Pathfinder Part 1 still to unlock flying, but 8.2 content is where all the rewards are now. I'd focus on that, but don't shy away from doing the old emissaries or war campaign as they pop up.
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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth |OT2| Bless Your Heart
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Definitely focus on getting Pathfinder done first overall imo but start the wheels rolling on all the other gated Nazjatar and Mechagon stuff.
Just catching up on the thread here, but if you're looking for late-ish west coast players horde side shoot me a PM. I'm in a casual heroic/AOTC guild that runs T/Th at 10 PST. We're on Hyjal (same as Milo), but the raid group is cross-realm.
Hopefully we'll get going again in two weeks when things launch. Like others I'm quite frustrated with the state of raid rewards this expac. Raiding is where it's at for me with this game, but it's so hard to get people to stick with it. After getting Jaina down once our group basically pulled the plug on bfd, because there was just no point for anyone. I feel like that's a real shame because I enjoyed the raid quite a bit.
I think this is mostly loss of set bonuses, and maybe a bit of ilvl tuning issue. I get it that sets were difficult to design, but I'm personally feeling their absence in a pretty major way.
8.2 just came out and they already put out another Store mount with a 6 month subscription.
Patch 8.3 might not even arrive before December... They are just pushing the end of Q2 due to fiscal report.
Sadly it's more because people have moved on from the game due to how class design and how game mechanics are this days. At least that's what my 15 year old vanilla guild that just stopped raiding for the first time justified with.
Yeah not just that but splitting an already small player base after 15 eyears sea takes its toll on the game.
My problem with this is simple. Warcraft has always been about faction war, how do you move on from this to evolve a franchise which is still based on a game which is gonna be 15 years
Patch 8.3 might not even arrive before December... They are just pushing the end of Q2 due to fiscal report.
Sadly it's more because people have moved on from the game due to how class design and how game mechanics are this days. At least that's what my 15 year old vanilla guild that just stopped raiding for the first time justified with.
Yeah not just that but splitting an already small player base after 15 eyears sea takes its toll on the game.
My problem with this is simple. Warcraft has always been about faction war, how do you move on from this to evolve a franchise which is still based on a game which is gonna be 15 years
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If you've completed the first part of Flying with your main but decided to make an alt and finish the part 2 flying on an alt, would you still get flying achievement?
It's way too early to make any definitive assessments, but I'm pretty happy with 8.2 so far. Essences are a more interesting system than I was expecting, farming/grinding on mechagon is a nice change of pace, and while nazjatar itself is a fairly standard end-game quest zone, I enjoy the bodyguard stuff and benthic gear/manapearl mechanics. I'm looking forward to finishing pathfinder, Mechagon dungeon opening, and messing around with more essences.
I like how there's tons of possibilities in which this bodyguard system can involve.
My main complaint is that it's nazjatar-only. Let me bring my little gilgoblin buddy around to Zandalar or Mechagon.
Shout out to Poen, he of the AoE that is both healing rain and blizzard.
You won't want to ignore the 8.0 zones because of pathfinder and the various reputations, but you should probably focus on 8.2 stuff since it's the better gear and frankly more interesting content.
Focus on 8.2 and do daily emissaries/missions on table.
Continue the major war campaign / main chapter when you can... it will take time to unlock pathfinder 2 anyhow
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If they extend it to any zone or, hell, incorporate it into the mission table again but it works like a fleshed out version of 8.2's? I'm in.
omg, thank you for posting! This is gonna sound unintentionally rude but the other day I was deleting a potential guild recruit from my Real ID and my UI glitched and it deleted SOMEONE ELSE! I am so bad with names and I honestly could not remember who it was on here that was also on Hyjal. I'm a bad friend.
So if you see me missing from your friends list it was not because I hated you, lmao.
It's their solution to everyone just using the Water Striders 90% of the time. Now (almost) every mount has the ability to have water walking, daze prevention, and so on with equipment that you can buy from various reputations or craft via professions.What is this?
It's weird, but it is nice not to have to have a button dedicated to water striders.
man I never even got a water strider. I got that legendary fishing rod tho so i just turn into a fish thing when i swim. if you equip that thing and then mount you get to keep full mount speed in the water too. so i don't actually turn into a fish much i guess lol
I'm not actually liking bodyguards that much. They screw with stealth mechanics too much, especially shadowmeld and vanish.
It's part of it for sure, but most of the guild has stayed active in some capacity. Pulling the plug shortly after aotc is pretty normal for us. But with M+ gear generally being better, and no sets, the gear incentive for heroic raiding is basically zero. Half way through progression it was practically a transmog run.
Haha, no problem. Now that you mention it, I remember exchanging some messages a while ago, but not sure on what capacity I got you on my friends list actually... Although almost all my play time is pretty seriously late night for anyone not on PST though.
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I remember being Real ID and chatting periodically but I don't think we ever ended up running anything together. It was tail end of 8.0 when I went on a WoW Sabbatical and logged in only for like... 3 hours a week. Dark times.
Half of my guild is still PST and I'm an ex-PST so I can usually play a bit. But I am getting older. You can add me back (and anyone else who wants to suffer): prophetfive#1343 if you want lol
This question might seem really stupid, so sorry in advance but i don't get how we are suppose to hunt rares in Nazjatar and Mechagon? Am i suppose to just ride around and wait for it to randomly spawn? Everytime someone yells in general that someone is up, they are already dead before i can arrive there.
If i'm looking into killing rares my only option is to just ride around?
If i'm looking into killing rares my only option is to just ride around?
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So what do we want/hope/expect to see in 8.2.5 since it'll probably be a thing?
Obviously we're getting the new goblin and worgen models. I assume we'll get a heroic version of Darkshore. Maybe a war campaign thing. But is there anything else? I'm usually pretty up on WoW news but I don't think I've really seen any kind of talk as to what that may bring. idk - other than the new models, which wouldn't even really need a .5 patch I think I'd almost want them focusing on making 8.3 as big as they could since I think 8.2 is a great effort so far. And if we're going to Nya'lotha (I mean, it's the biggest and most logical guess) I'd want it to be huge and awesome.
Obviously we're getting the new goblin and worgen models. I assume we'll get a heroic version of Darkshore. Maybe a war campaign thing. But is there anything else? I'm usually pretty up on WoW news but I don't think I've really seen any kind of talk as to what that may bring. idk - other than the new models, which wouldn't even really need a .5 patch I think I'd almost want them focusing on making 8.3 as big as they could since I think 8.2 is a great effort so far. And if we're going to Nya'lotha (I mean, it's the biggest and most logical guess) I'd want it to be huge and awesome.
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Camping the spawn areas is the best bet, unfortunately. I think the events that put markers on the map count too, and those happen somewhat regularly, so if you're spending time in Nazjatar the quest should be simple.
I'm expecting it to be pretty light, yeah. Just some war campaign-type stuff to bridge the story to 8.3 I guess.
Thanks guys, I'm splitting my playtime between 8.2 stuff and getting Pathfinder 1 done as well. Getting all the Benthic gear from 8.2 has made things a bit easier and faster, so that's nice. Doing the 100 WQ's will take a couple days, but im dreading having to get all the races reps to revered. The Tortollan Seekers Im not even friendly with. Almost done with the War Campaign part of the achievement too, just need to get to revered with 7th Legion (almost there) and I can do the last War Campaign to knock that off the list.
Also I think I'm gonna faction change back to Horde (and server hop) after I'm done with this and join some of ya'll on Hyjal. Was a nice change of pace leveling up my first Alliance (always been Horde) but it never felt...right hehe.
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I will say that, despite my relative distaste of the Alliance (ESPECIALLY NIGHT ELVES - my hatred is well documented) I vastly preferred their leveling experience in BFA. Though I still like the zones of the horde. Weird.
8.2.5 wish list. New M+ dungeon. New heritage armor (night elf). New warfront. New battleground.
Me every time I've opened my bags since 8.2. I really need to take some time to figure out what all this shit is before It ends up lost in my banks.
And telling myself NOT to pull 6+ mobs is proving to be difficult. I've actually died a couple times not paying attention.
Me every time I've opened my bags since 8.2. I really need to take some time to figure out what all this shit is before It ends up lost in my banks.
And telling myself NOT to pull 6+ mobs is proving to be difficult. I've actually died a couple times not paying attention.
Yeah I went in 340 gear and had to pull stuff carefully
Honestly i'm not really sure but maybe a tune up to island exp and a new Warfront.
I'm more worried about 8.3 and how they want to keep people subbed for 6 months... I'm still questioning myself if i'm buying the virtual ticket this year even thou
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I've never bought a virtual ticket. I just haven't wanted anything they've offered with it.
I just picked up Mario Maker 2 and now have to balance that, 8.2 dailies, and finishing Midsummer and I don't know how I'm gonna find the time to balance them all. I guess I'll be playing Mario Maker in between flight paths, lol.
I feel old whenever someone calls it Candy Crush instead of Bejeweled.
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My RP obsessed friend plays on Wyrmrest Accord and loves it but that's the extent of my knowledge of RP
Already lost all the interest that I had in the patch.
No one that I know came back, server still empty, AH still garbage, didn't like the new main zone. I thought that this was finally going to be it, that I would be able to play an entire expansion without getting fatigued or leaving, but I was wrong.
It reached a point that I had some free time yesterday and decided to do some extra work instead of playing the game.
(At least Mechagon was cool though)
No one that I know came back, server still empty, AH still garbage, didn't like the new main zone. I thought that this was finally going to be it, that I would be able to play an entire expansion without getting fatigued or leaving, but I was wrong.
It reached a point that I had some free time yesterday and decided to do some extra work instead of playing the game.
(At least Mechagon was cool though)
All the 8.2 mobs hit very hard. My monk has kept up with everything and still gets smacked around a good deal if I bite off more than I can chew in Naz and Mechagon.
Finally decided to bite the bullet and do the quest for Blood of the Enemy & start grinding the honor for rank 2. I really dislike pvp, but this essence is just so damn good for Ret. Surprisingly first pug PvP island I queued for we ended up winning by about 3k. Don't think I'll bother with Rank 3 until the next honor week.
I can see where you coming from with this, I'm just casually going through the story and grinding rep
Good for you. Second day prices were already the same as last patch, a day later they fell even below that.
I managed to make money during the first 8 hours of the patch, then morons took over undercutting by 500g each time.
Each server is different, mine has a garbage AH so that is my experience.
Well if your server is empty and it has garbage AH, maybe consider leveling an allied race/alt on other server? A new start before the raid could renew your passion.
I've already server-hopped twice during the years I've played WoW. I don't see the point of doing that again without any of my friends (the previous hops were to group up).
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