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Re: 5.4 first impressions

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I'm really liking flex, an easy way to get geared up on an alt without having to live in LFR. Fill in the 535 pieces and it's about time finally blizzard has done something right with alts. (this expac)

"I've only looted one 535 upgrade token while my wife has already looted 6... WTF"

Find out what kind of luckydo she is using, and get one, immediately.

While you are at it, let us know too!

I got one on my warlock after blowing 10K coins on the monkey's chests, and my DK got one from the pirate ship, but that's it, with 11 alts running the Isle.

Wow. Really? That is horrible luck. Have you been looting the chests on the island? You can use the map on mmo-champions that shows you were all the chests are; make sure to get the weekly and dailies at least.
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Well I've only gotten 2 burdens of eternity
one from the blazing chest and one from the weekly quest to kill that 93 rare that you summon, oh wait maybe 3 I think I got another somewhere.
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I've only received one on my DK from the Blazing Chest in Ordo's island. Need to fly my other characters up there to see if I can get it on them too. People on my server say it drops a lot from there.

I’m a little bit jaded with 5.4 already which isn’t good but the majority of my issues again stem from the lack of life on my server.

The Timeless Isle gets old, fast. Whilst it’s superb for gearing alts, there isn’t actually much there for toons which are already geared. I’m not going to play my other alts at max level, so it’s kind of pointless. Still there’s the rep grind and the pets/cheevos to farm. Now I don’t mind a grind, I really don’t but the Emperor rep is a real pain to farm. I’m rocking ilevel 527 with a legendary cloak, and I have a blueberry to tank for me, yet the mobs still go down so slowly, and one error/mob spawning on you and it’s a trip to the graveyard. I join some rep grind groups, we did about 300 rep then the group fell apart and I’m all alone in Ordos’ place except on my realm they are all still up and I die. I then rez, and die again to the group of Alliance on my server as the realm I was on was PVP. Cue 5 minutes waiting at the courtyard so I don’t get owned. The easy to kill mobs are all being farmed by the Alliance so no chance there even.

Raiding wise it’s all a bit of a pain too. As a DPS player your chances of pugging anything are next to nothing, all groups on Oqueue want healers and tanks. I pre-empted this so got my shaman to a decent level before 5.4 dropped. The issue is all the decent groups seem to have ilevel restrictions which you can’t whisper the leader to talk about first. Last night I tried for one which was 510 ilevel but was declined as I was 507. Doesn’t matter that I’m probably the only person whose read the tactics, and would have been more use than a 510i level healer. In 3 “fresh” runs I’ve killed the first boss twice, and failed both times on the second before the groups fell apart. It’s now got to the point where I’ve given up trying to find a group this week.

If only I had people on my realm to join with it would all be so much easier.

This is normal for early patch activity. Once things calm down it'll be much easier to get into groups as DPS.

Welcome back gearscore!

3 more weeks and I will be back to my desktop and reliable internet. Hopefully things will have calmed down by then. I have all 4 tanks lvled and decently geared, but only two for SoO. Might try LFR this week and see the fights. It's frustrating when you are the only one who read ahead/watched videos and everyone else became decapitated chickens.

I'm still almost 2 months til i can play again on computer/internet where I won't have a single trouble at all. I really, really, REALLY hope by then that the groups have calmed down.

If I remember correctly, my hunter is right at 500 ilvl or a tad up/down from there. I should be fine to get into LFR's and gear up a lot from there (still using a blue weapon, horrible RNG gods...). As this is my only max character, or even close to max character, I'm screwed if DPS/hunters are still in a long line waiting to be selected I feel like I'm back on the playground at kickball!!

You can get into LFR from 496 and the Timeless Isle makes it easy to get your toons to that level.

In all honesty I cannot see the groups getting better for casual players. DPS players are always going to be low in demand anyway, and any "alt guild runs" will be filled with mostly DPS players anyway. These groups will still want a stupidly inflated min ilevel requirement or linked acheivements, neither of which you can easily get without doing it in the first place.

The other side of the coin are the groups which don't require ilevels, or ones you set up yourself. The issue in either case is you are bound to have to deal with poor quality players, with no real way to know until it's too late.

The only way flex really works as intended currently is with guild groups / real life friends. You just can't trust a cross realm PUG. In WotLK however raids were much harder than flex, yet I was able to PUG ICC fairly easily. I know Gearscore got, and still gets a bad rep, but it was rare anyone had a inflated minimum item level, and very few groups actually wanted linked acheivements. It help of course that everyone knew who was and wasn't a good player. Maybe when connected realms launch it will go back to how it was, but it will take time.

Personally I am close to cancelling my subscription as I just can't face casual only content for much longer.

I'm at this point as well. While a major part of me wants to continue playing cause of my past experiences in WoW and all the good memories, I've traveled that path and basically at the end now. I'm giving it another shot when I get home, mainly to see how SoO is (in LFR anyway), but after that, it will most likely be over for me, at least til next xpac comes out.

I'll probably go over to FFXIV ARR since so much good is being said about the game.

I'll end up on GW2 if I quit.

I did the first wing of SoO LFR night, and had probably the best group I've ever had on the day an LFR wing opened. The main tank had done the bosses before (I'm not sure on what setting), as had several other people, and gave fairly good instructions before each boss on what to expect. More surprisingly, the majority of the raid actually listened to those instructions, and we one shot everything. I can't remember that ever happening until several weeks in to the raid being available.
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that's awesome! I hope to get mine done late tonight... hopefully I get a good group... but I'm not holding my breath, lol.
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I did SoO LFR yesterday, the dps was poor (on boss #3 there were only 3 dps over 100k) we wiped once on boss #2 and #3.

people kept pulling trash in-between 2/3 and wiping us for a bit.
and got 2 bits of loot that were useless for me, really a back? I have the best back in the game why does the RNG want to give me some lfr back?

later went and roflstomped ICC25H for some fun (wow only one real healer on dreamwalker and still it went fine.)
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Ya but more than 3 should have been pulled in by 50%
the gap from those 3 and #4 was huge.

and someone poped hero at 80%, when we had said 50%, we only barely beat the enrage timer.

something about that fight seems odd, in flex I was able to hold over 100k before getting cleansed, maybe that was just trinkets and stuff procing. (I've seen some peaks lately of 350-400k early in fights)
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Yeah that fight is bugged. One thing is though, if the person that gets pulled in does not clear their challenge their corruption does not reset to zero. If enough people do not clear the challenge thing, there wont be enough people to soak the dark orb thing left by the big guys. And that = wipe.

Also that fight has a different realm mech so your dps meters will be all screwy.
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