Lyntha

Haha nah, just taking a break from games. Doing RL stuff. I certainly miss you guys though.

Are any of my WoW homies heading to Pax East this year? I'd love to meet up at some point and get drinks.

Hey guys, wont be there. Stuff to do.

DON'T GET UPSET ABOUT SHIT YOU CAN'T CONTROL OR LET IT STRESS YOU OUT It's a good lesson in life and also an exercise in logical analysis. If you can't control something, NOTHING you do will impact that something. Hence, stressing yourself out over it (Or bitching about it and stressing others out) will only cause negative repercussions without a single positive repercussion. There's nothing to be gained! So why would you do it? Do you just hate yourself? Do you just hate others? Are you just a dick and want to stress others out? Thank you for making this post Roqwell; it's amazing that this needs to even be said. We are supposed to be a mature gaming organization and we should be acting like it. Anyone not acting maturely shouldn't be in the raid group. I know that you guys want to be all lovey-dovey about and not single people out, but my experience is that there's only a few people generating 95% of the bitching about legendaries and they need to quit it. I have personally muted some of you, as this is something I CAN control. It's disappointing that I have to mute members of my own raid team because they are so immature, distracting and toxic. Grow up.

"Geez, you've been raiding with us for a day and you are skipping a day!" Yup, sorry. A buddy I don't hang out with much asked me to eat/drink with him tonight and I'm not going to turn down social opportunities for WoW. See you guys next week.

Seriously though, I'm playing some sort of ranged hunter spec, be it Marks or BM.

*Starts leveling a pally tank There you go

*Starts leveling a pally

Hey guys, gonna play my Demon hunter melee too. Just kidding, I'm playing my hunter. I'm done with priest.

We haven't even started raiding and you're already calling off. WHY NERITA WHY

I'm sure I'm not the only one. Right, guys? Guys? Hello?

Oh yeah, and here's the world quest preview. World quests will be super important in Legion: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/20252892/legion-preview-world-quests

Straight from Blizzard. Check em out, you gotta pick one to decide where you're leveling: Highmountain: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/20241588/legion-zone-preview-highmountain Stormheim: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/20243701/legion-zone-preview-stormheim Val-Sharah: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/20248569/legion-zone-preview-val-sharah Azsuna: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/20245588/legion-zone-preview-azsuna

It was the smoothest launch ever... when I said it. I played overnight and had 0 issues. When everyone logged on during the day, they had the spyglass issue which caused huge concentrations of players together which was then exacerbated by them fixing it and causing a huge concentration of players into private garrison instances. I'm pretty sure that if they didn't have the spyglass issue, it would've been smooth. Let's hope this launch is better though. Splitting people into 4 different zones should certainly make things a bit smoother than normal.

This is a great compilation of what you need to know for the legion launch. Lots of stuff changing: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4zhwn5/legion_launch_survival_guide/ What zone is everyone leveling in?

I'll see you on tonight. I usually get on around 7PM or so, EST.

You gonna be on tonight Jesseh? Run a timewalking dungeon with me, I will convince you.

Hunter Update: I take back what I said about Marks. While it definitely takes some getting used to, it does end up working out once you get used to it. It's all about abusing patient sniper and how it interacts with sidewinder. You basically always want the target to be vulnerable and pour as many aimed shots into him when you can. You can SOMETIMES go Procced Sidewinder --> Aimed Shot, Aimed Shot, Marked Shot, Aimed Shot, but it will usually end up just being Sidewinders --> Aimed Shot, Marked Shot, Aimed Shot. You throw in a barrage when it's up in place of the aimed shot. It actually eliminates the RNG of getting marked shot debuffs and makes the rotation feel much smoother. What a deceptive talent! I think that it will do when you can stand still and burn. On movement fights, BM will be better since you won't be spending more than half your time trying to cast aimed shots and needing to move.

Yup. It's comparison bias. When all we have to compare to is each other, it skews our view of each other to be lower. Think of the worst player on the US olympics basketball team. He's the worst player. Every other player on the team is better than him. He's still an all-pro that's better at Basketball than 99.99999% of the world's population. Same thing with our raid team. Even our worst raiders are far better than a good wow player.

You can never trust other people. Just remember how averages work. Think of how bad the average wow player is (Run LFR if you need a reminder). Half of all WoW players are worse than the average player. Try it yourself and let me know what you think. It definitely has a high skill cap but is super powerful.

One person's opinion. Atonement takes a LOT of getting used to, even for someone like me who atonement healed in the past. After I got used to it, it's insanely powerful. Atonement in the past was always a smart heal and would automatically heal the lowest hp party or raid member. You now need to heal someone first to put atonement on them, which only lasts like 10 or 15 seconds. You have this weird healing "rotation" where you get atonement on the people who need it then dps the target. Rinse/repeat every 6-10 seconds. When only healing one person (Tank), your healing is pretty weak but PW:S helps provide a buffer and some single-target oomph. When you're healing 3-5 people, it's absolutely silly. One good penance will do 25-40% of every person's HP bar. Atonement in the past was an excellent tank/burst damage healer. Now it's the complete opposite. The requirement to pre-heal people (Or heal then damage for additional healing) means that Disc cannot react to damage as quickly as other specs. If they are prepared for the damage however, the healing is insane.

Nah, BM is definitely pretty basic, I agree with you there. It's basic but it works. With a lot of haste and crit, dire beast will reset often, giving you more dire beast buttons to push. Even though Barrage isn't the best single-target talent, I switched to it for dungeons and the rotation feels a lot smoother. Any time I would be not pressing anything for a few seconds, I just barrage. It completes the rotation nicely and looks super sweet as well. Survival is fun. It's new enough and mongoose bite managing is fun. MM is the spec that needs the most work. Maybe I need to just abandon using sidewinders regardless of damage because it's the worst talent ever. Has anyone tried atonement healing? They really changed the hell out of it. I've been doing some timewalking dungeons and the 5-man healing potential with it just insane. Seems to struggle a bit with tank-healing but I've noticed that with all the healer specs I've been playing. Maybe I'm just bad?

I've basically spent the whole weekend playing hunter and have concluded that BM is my favorite spec. I love the class fantasy of having pets and beasts just EVERYWHERE. "You get a dire beast, you get a dire beast, you get a devilsaur, you get a hati. EVERYBODY GEEEEETS PEEEETS!!!!" The artifact talents will do some neat things too, like give you a second pet and have the second pet benefit from Bestial Wrath, Kill Command and Beast Cleave. Speaking of Beast Cleave, I love it. Make sure to multi-shot every 4 seconds and your pet does sick cleave damage. Barrage is great fun for AOE as well. I got a chance to try out the other specs some more and SV is still fun but you really have to love melee to love it. I'll love the change of pace. More importantly, I will gladly switch melee/ranged dps specs depending on whether melee is beast at a fight or not. Good melee fight? Go melee and top meters. Good ranged dps fight? Go ranged and top meters. Hunters are top. I still don't know what to make of MM. It just feels so awkward. I was enjoying it while leveling up but then I got the level 100 talents. Sidewinders is just the worst. Managing a core aspect of your gameplay around a random buff and having to use that random buff with an ability that has a cooldown feels so awkward. What do you guys think of MM?