drew
Reformation
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My satisfaction with WoW has gone up 10 fold in the last few days for one simple reason: I'm not playing really on my old server. I spend the $55 to faction change & server transfer over to Mal'Ganis. This was mostly to just hang with Archivis and casually play there on my druid.
Why I'm likely going to not be playing my warrior anymore: Gorgonnash sucks. No one pugs anything. You might have one or two Uld pugs per week, and those usually go through a couple bosses and fall apart. Take this in direct contrast to Mal'Ganis where there's always a couple groups going for Naxx10/25, OS10/25, EoE10/25 (Yes, people actually run that instance and pug it. I haven't seen or heard of a guild or pug running EoE on Gorgonnash since January.), VoA10/25 (Horde seem to OWN WG, so this is an almost guaranteed thing... I've gotten >125 marks in the last couple days w/o doing a single WG quest), Uld10/25 and tons of ToC10 groups.
This has raised my satisfaction so much. I have no idea if I can play WoW tomorrow or Wednesday, or Friday. I can't tell anyone "Yeah, I can make it 3x a week for 3 hours to commit to a raid." I can't do it. I don't want to do it and my family comes first. But when I DO have a free afternoon or evening, I can hop on and join in a pug.
If you're like me and might want to raid casually and enjoy more content that you can't get to see on your server, I highly recommend scoping out some of the genuinely High pop/Full pop servers where your faction is dominate.
This is my armory for the druid. I just got him to 80 on Thursday (or was it Friday?). 1 day 13 hours /played (with at least 6 hours sitting doing nothing in Dalaran, Orgrimmar or Argent Tournament or being 100% AFK)
»www.wowarmory.com/character-shee···n=Galain
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soldier
join:2009-09-02
Watertown, NY
| Re: [Servers] Why You Might Need To Transfer
that's funny..on our server it's about a 9:1 chance that we have WG at all times.. (thunderlord) seems that way anyways.. i have no issues with transfering realms.. but sadly don't know anyone else in rl playing right now so..no need. tryin to get one of my girl-friends playin..we'll see..maybe i can get that zevhra mount 
our realm (one of the oldest) seems to run alot of pugs..so i guess i'm lucky in that respect.. i haven't done any naxx yet though..as they're usually full and always only looking for tanks or heals.. wtb a group looking for dps.. lol (i can dream) i also have about the same amount of marks and i haven't done any wg yet.. it's nice. |
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Archivis
Your Daddy
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| reply to drew
Replace that Abyssal Rune man :P
That proc isn't gonna do anything if you're resto. He's right though. People PUG everything, including Algalon and ToC heroic versions.
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pwrtoppl
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| said by Archivis  :Replace that Abyssal Rune man :P That proc isn't gonna do anything if you're resto. He's right though. People PUG everything, including Algalon and ToC heroic versions. does that mean starcaller is worthless then?
cant say that impresses me if no one actually tries anymore
heroic toc though huh? let me guess, on your server anub is as good as dead on heroic lmao |
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Archivis
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| It all gets pugged, including heroic anub and nobody thinks anything of it. It's just the culture of the server. There are many guilds who run the content consistently, but there's an army of quality pugs that run all the content on Mal'Ganis.
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pwrtoppl
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clubs: | alright, by heroic anub i mean heroic mode (new crazy hard content stuff, NOT 25 man [well could be 25 heroic])
im gonna bring a druid over there and check this out, i want starcaller lol |
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Krisnatharok
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Sterling, VA | reply to Archivis
Damn... Now you got me thinking.. Only pugs on Grizzly Hills are Naxx10 and I doubt they finish... |
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Omega
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I doubt that Algalon gets pugged. Please provide screen shots of LFM - Ulduar Hard mode/Algalon.
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pwrtoppl
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| said by Omega :I doubt that Algalon gets pugged. Please provide screen shots of LFM - Ulduar Hard mode/Algalon. meh, pugged or just done, i would like to collect that title
the only thing that kills me about high pops is the wait time, i heard sometimes you wait like twenty minutes to play...no way i pay to wait lol |
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Pali
join:2009-09-02
| reply to drew
Our Server is pretty low pop.
Me and my brother started to pug Naxx10 about 6 months ago and we did pretty well. We used to pug it every week, then we got a regular team going. We built up to pugging Naxx25 and had a lot of the same members every week.
That's when I started my guild and we have 30 members and are gearing up fo toc25. 15 of us are ready atm I think.
The only pugs that go on on my server are people looking for 1-2 to fill their spots. There are never totally random 25 man pugs for anything. I'm jealous.
It would be awesome to log on and just join a decent Ulduar25 pug. If the guild does't last i'd definately swap servers |
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pwrtoppl
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clubs: | keep at your guild and make some progress, if it all works out, youll be in ulduar 25 and not worrying about pugging spots |
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Archivis
Your Daddy
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said by Omega :I doubt that Algalon gets pugged. Please provide screen shots of LFM - Ulduar Hard mode/Algalon. I would like to think that by now, I have some credibility on this site for not making shit up. Certainly, I've said crazier stuff than this and often times backed it up with screenshots. I even PM'd the guy, laughing about pugging such a thing, then he linked me his achievement for pugging the same stuff the previous week.
The next time I see it, I'll be sure to take a screenshot. I'm not joking when I say that all content gets pugged on this server. There are some bad players, but the majority of the raid PUG's are better on this server, than most of the better guilded raid members on my last server.
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Archivis
Your Daddy
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Drew pugged for all of his shit and he's been 80 for under a week. Go armory him and look at the gear he's gotten so far. |
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Krisnatharok
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| Yeah, I glanced at his armory this morning. Pretty decent.
I am very tempted to bring my DK over and be able to leave my pvp lock with my social guild--I've known them for over a year and are a cool bunch--I would hate to leave them behind entirely.
Do you need another DK? I could spec DPS blood/frost so we always have both buffs... (I really hate tanking with a passion nowadays).
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pwrtoppl
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1 edit | reply to Archivis
im not saying i dont believe you, but i dont think one guild cleared to heroic anub'arack since last week, i might be wrong on that, but 99.999% of guilds couldnt do beasts on heroic
i could understand pugs for ulduar or toc, but agalon requires people do hardmodes like mimrom, and getting to anub in a week on heroic is crazy
anyways, your on an older server, so i cant say otherwise that higher end pugs dont happen, im considering rolling a dk there just to see what it all looks like, and if it looks good, ill bring my holy pally too lol
far dreams
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heres what my friend was talking about a couple minutes ago:
"It's not just [insert new server] that fails. Lots of tiny servers usually do. Look for older servers. Some of the first. has the old hardcore eq'ers that came over.
They pug that stuff. " |
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Archivis
Your Daddy
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| reply to Krisnatharok
Kris,
I just started a guild up yesterday. It's one of those "take it wherever it goes" kind of things. People should play what they want. If a DK is what you want to do, that's fine.
As a DK myself, I know the utility that DK's bring, even if there are a ton of them in a raid. Ideally, I'd like to just have the guild full of quality people that is sort of like a pre-screened LFG.
Also, pwrtoppl, I haven't checked on the status of the heroic stuff, but I do remember hearing some folks in my old guild clearing out the 10-man heroic ToC and I know they had to PUG because they never have anywhere near enough people on at one time to run a guilded group.
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pwrtoppl
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join:2008-11-21
Broomfield, CO
clubs: | shit dude, im rollin on your server
you got street cred in my book |
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bTU
join:2009-04-22
Aurora, CO
| reply to drew
If it's horde dominated I might swap my lock over when it's available again. Brought him over to horde and spent some time gearing up. Just need to get a better trinket and wand and I'll be good. Got enough gear now that I don't have to raid or do heroics in demo anymore, full destro is more enjoyable. Only problem I would have is waiting to log on, it just irks me. |
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Archivis
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Drew's just an example. Right now, healers are in supreme demand. In so much demand, in fact, that people are willing to take the undergeared ones and toss a mountain of epics at them. Like he said earlier, he turned 80 on Thursday or Friday, ran a handful of heroics to replace his greens and blues so he could join a Naxx group, snag some epics and hop into ToC by the weekend. He did pretty well for healing too.
I ran him through a few heroics and he was healing H ToC just fine, while sporting only 1300 spell power. I think he's at the 2k mark self-buffed now.
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