Official WOTLK Thread

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Do you think that me, being a lowly lvl 37 right now, will miss anything without the WOTLK expansion, or do I still have a ways to go before it even matters?

Ethaniel, with such a busy realm, do you find you have any latency issues? I have never had to wait in a queue in my realm. Is it possible to change realms? They say you can't, but then recently they had what they called "free" realm moves for people in really busy realms. If they were "free" moves, can you pay to move at other times?

The guild I am in is alright. There are some nice people, but there are select few who are pretty tight and they stick to themselves - and they are the officers. It's hard to get help leveling. I also got in crap for taking something from bank without asking, which I thought was lame because I give way more to the bank then I ever take. To make it worse, it was a locked box that I took and the only reason I took it was because I thought I was doing a favour for someone by opening it and putting the loot back in the bank.

You won't need wotlk until level 55 at the earliest.

I've been in a few guilds. The last fell apart over the summer. I always end up back in a small guild that I started in. Only 10 active members. It means we can't do much besides 5-mans as a guild, but I know everyone pretty well and it is pretty easy to get help, and even when soloing there is usually a couple people on vent chatting. Even for raiding, the people who want to do the big raids switch their toons to those guilds but leave their alts in the small guild.

There is actually a quebequios guild on Lothar. Some people get downright indignant when there are french posts in teh trade chat that they don't understand.

And yes, you can move to a new server, but they charge you to do it unless they are offering a free move (like they were at the start of the month for a few servers).

[Bobblehead]

I haven't run across it yet, but I guess the "phased" changes are pretty neat. Although I've read it can may grouping with friends confusing if they aren't in the same phase.

[Ethaniel]

So far during the Weekend I realized something fantastic about this game. The new quests and Vehicles are absolutely amazing. After playing Classic and TBC this new Expansion and the leveling process is both tedious and fun (didn't know this was possible). Kudo's to Blizzard for making this game please the masses. Everyone I have talked to is thoroughly enjoying themselves (except the extreme hardcore guys).

[Lithium]

I have a mage and rogue at 70 when WotLK was released.

Took my mage up to 71 which was very easy to do, fun quests to boot!
I haven't been to the Howling Fjord yet, and I heard that place is even better than the Warsong Hold I've been at now.

Friend wanted to try out death knights, so off we went to make those.
I went frost dps spec and my friend unholy, and the starting zone for death knights is by far the best place in the game thus far. Probably the best thing Blizzard has ever made.

Now that I'm a 61 death knight, I fear my rogue I leveled once upon a time to pvp with will be left in the dark and at 70 for quite awhile.

EDIT: I can't believe how many of you are Alliance, gross.

[Bobblehead]

I took a few long breaks this weekend, and not that the initial rush is starting to wear off it is WAY easier. It was nasty trying to get first tag on bosses as they spawned. At one point there were shammy, pally, druids, mages all spamming their aoe trying to get the first tick. I finished up the Tundra, then went over to the fjord and it is reasonable over there now.

[Flames Draft Watcher]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

kk good, I think I am going to leave work early today to go pick it up.

What class/race/faction server is everyone here?

I have a:

70 Dwarf Priest
70 NE Warrior
60 NE Huntard
59 NE Drood
59 Draeni Shammy
and an army of bank alts. I rocked the refer-a-friend program to get the last 3 chars to the level they are at in 1.5 days played since I am pretty sure my Fiancee would leave me if I played enough to level all of them individually.

All on Dethecus.

Hilarious you're Dethecus Alliance? I'm Dethecus Horde and so are a bunch of real life friends of mine. Perhaps we've had a battle, heh.

I will be lvling my Protection Paladin however I will level as Retribution. So far I've been pwning AF like mad, in the war of Kilthanas vs the Alliance, I'm winning I think.

You can ask what is OP? Well retribution paladins of course. However I do have major, major problems with locks and mages, usually no problems with the others. Haven't really battled any death knights yet.

Pre-expansion we managed to down illidan and archimonde after they were nerfed. Hopefully my guild gets a quick start to raiding, we're one of the better horde guilds on the server.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher

Pre-expansion we managed to down illidan and archimonde after they were nerfed. Hopefully my guild gets a quick start to raiding, we're one of the better horde guilds on the server.

We got Archi down pre-nerf and up to Reliquary of Souls. What guild? I saw the other night that ######ed geared Tauren Warrior, Ranuvin or something, got the server first to 450 BSing.

I am sure you have ganked me before, but that is nothing new, I suck at PvP.

Oh, and everyone has problems with mages. Arcane mages are the bane of my existence...

[Resolute 14]

Bronzebeard hit it's first level 80 deathknight yesterday afternoon.

Meanwhile, my deathknight is level 58 and just finished questing in Elwynn Forest.

Yes, Elwynn Forest. 7000 rep in about an hour and a half. What was even funnier than my starting-area-blued out DK questing in Northshire Abbey was that I wasn't the only one doing it.

[llama64]

Originally Posted by Lithium

Now that I'm a 61 death knight, I fear my rogue I leveled once upon a time to pvp with will be left in the dark and at 70 for quite awhile.

Welcome to the light. If only all rogues would follow your lead. (Yes, I'm that biased )

EDIT: I can't believe how many of you are Alliance, gross.

/agree.

I've done a few of the Instances now (Nexus, Utgarde Keep, the spider city ones). Blizzard learned how to properly design dungeons! For a decent geared party of players (who have brains), it takes about 30-45 minutes to do a full run. And each of them is a visual feast.

Very impressed by Blizzard's work this time around. Way more of a treat then Outlands was.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

Oh, and everyone has problems with mages. Arcane mages are the bane of my existence...

[Flames Draft Watcher]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

We got Archi down pre-nerf and up to Reliquary of Souls. What guild? I saw the other night that ######ed geared Tauren Warrior, Ranuvin or something, got the server first to 450 BSing.

I am sure you have ganked me before, but that is nothing new, I suck at PvP.

Oh, and everyone has problems with mages. Arcane mages are the bane of my existence...

KBS. what's yours?

and I'm up to 74 and a half now. can't wait for 80.

[Bobblehead]

I need a new box. my processor is pinned while I play.

Although I was reading that this expansion introduced some new shadow effects, so perhaps I need to go back into settings and see if I can scale stuff back again.

[GreenLantern]

I hit 74 yesterday, tried that new BG man it was horrible. We took the "relic" the first round, then the second round the horde gets it as well and we lose? I don't get that. So the first round means nothing?

I am playing on Kel'Thuzad, Alliance side with a few RL buds, anyone else on my server?

I also have a 70 Druid on Horde side, Illidan that I retired to come play on KT.

[Lithium]

Arcane Mages aren't OP, they can just do PVP now.

I went arcane from frost for that very reason, will be switching back to frost spec shortly though for leveling to 80.

And a frost mage will match my frost death knight.

[Lithium]

Originally Posted by llama64

I've done a few of the Instances now (Nexus, Utgarde Keep, the spider city ones). Blizzard learned how to properly design dungeons! For a decent geared party of players (who have brains), it takes about 30-45 minutes to do a full run. And each of them is a visual feast.

Very impressed by Blizzard's work this time around. Way more of a treat then Outlands was.

Hmm 30-45 minutes doesn't sound bad at all, unlike some old world runs that would literally take hours.

I tanked ramparts on my death knight last night, start to finish was probably half an hour. AOE tanking is pretty fun, I recommend everyone drop their main character and at least do the starting DK zone.

[FanIn80]

I have to say... on the topic of OP... My enhance shammy is incredibly unstoppable.

I rolled him to be a healer (and raided as such), but now that I'm back doing quests again, and switched back to enhance... holy cow do I ever tear sh*t up.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

I have to say... on the topic of OP... My enhance shammy is incredibly unstoppable.

I rolled him to be a healer (and raided as such), but now that I'm back doing quests again, and switched back to enhance... holy cow do I ever tear sh*t up.

My shammy is only 60 and I haven't played him since the the release. I thought I read there were some minor nerfs?

And I want to roll a death knight, but I'm waiting for the initial rush to subside a bit.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

My shammy is only 60 and I haven't played him since the the release. I thought I read there were some minor nerfs?

And I want to roll a death knight, but I'm waiting for the initial rush to subside a bit.

Might have been, I'm not sure. All I know is my AP is over 2200 without outside buffs, and I'm seeing multiple windfury (WINfury!) crits of 2k... plus insta-heals (5/5 Maelstrom talent) and +haste lovin' from the new windfury totem.

It's crazy how fast I can tear through stuff now. Absolutely zero downtime, too. Oh and love the spirit wolves!

...Ghost Wolf is instant now, too (with the 2/2 enhance talent) and water walking works in Ghost Wolf form. This is good, since there's a few quests I've had to do so far that involved getting to islands. Much nicer being able to run across the water in Ghost Wolf than having to walk in normal form.

Edit: Here's the build I'm currently working with: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00000000000000 So. Much. Fun.

Edit again: I'm such a geek.

[Bobblehead]

That instacast Ghost Wolf has been that way for a while. I know I got in a discussion with someone who made the point that if Druids can shape-shift instantly then why should Shammy's need to spend 2 talent points?

Although you can ghost wolf on the water now? Excellent. Better save up lots of fish oil.
But Underwater breathing is almost useless now, since your breath lasts for a huge length of time.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

That instacast Ghost Wolf has been that way for a while. I know I got in a discussion with someone who made the point that if Druids can shape-shift instantly then why should Shammy's need to spend 2 talent points?

Although you can ghost wolf on the water now? Excellent. Better save up lots of fish oil.
But Underwater breathing is almost useless now, since your breath lasts for a huge length of time.

The last time I played my shammy as Enhance (read: when I was leveling the first time), the 2/2 Imp Ghost Wolf talent just brought the cast time down to 1 second. Now, it's literally an instant cast, so you can do it while running etc. Although, I have no clue when they brought that in, so it might have been like that for a while now.

Oh the other thing... Water Walking and Water Breathing don't require reagents anymore.