Expansion news and stuff

Hallaer918 · Officer Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 204

To be fair, back in Wrath a holy paladin's job was to spam flash of light on the tank for the entire fight. Not exactly mentally taxing compared to how things are now. Still, dedicated tank healing is typically easier to do than our usual standard for the healers of everybody heals everybody. Maybe we can get everybody to recruit some friends to the guild so we have enough people to always have between 10-20 for every raid with at least 2 tanks. I suppose if you really wanted a better chance at not having to tank or heal you could try offering bribes when people start playing again to get someone to change roles.

GM Fright · Officer Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 2698

Yeah we'll see how it works out. Toxx just told me that the heirloom weapons will be dropping for I think everyone automatically on normal Garrosh kills once the pre-expansion patch comes out, so that will give us some incentive to get back in there and do a little warm-up raiding before things get busy with leveling, and let us work out who will be doing what maybe.

Hallaer918 · Officer Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 204

Heirloom weapons are a good reason to raid again. They are also going to make leveling from 90-100 much easier. I guess it'll also give us an idea of what they are doing to our poor characters too. I imagine that Garrosh is going to be almost impossible to beat though with the reduction in interrupts available. I wonder if Bliz thought about that.

Already there are some problems with the beta since the spells are completely based off of spellpower so spellcasters can't really do anything till they are much higher level... basically making spellcasters far more difficult to level. It also has the downside of making healers useless unless they have leveling gear (till they are high enough level to actually have gear with int on it).

Amminidab v2.0 · Raider Joined: 19 Sep 2012 Posts: 196

I'm thinking of going mage for this expansion. If it is needed, I'll level up my druid and go restoration. I would prefer to try mage instead and take a different pace from what I usually default to. On another note, I think I should be able to handle the raiding schedule and have enough free time to get some gear and be relevant if I put minimal effort toward PvE.

GM Fright · Officer Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 2698

Amminidab v2.0 wrote:

I put minimal effort

That's all we ever got from you, anyway, mini.

Amminidab v2.0 · Raider Joined: 19 Sep 2012 Posts: 196

Then I've already exceeded your maximum potential.

Junkr · Friend Joined: 10 Dec 2009 Posts: 333

Ima be here. I'll be maging. Fright haven't you done this bit before?

I'll be the first person to 100. Gif gold pls.

Amminidab v2.0 · Raider Joined: 19 Sep 2012 Posts: 196

Not sure if I really want to pick up mage after I've been messing around with it. I have a slew of classes that are at level 90 right now and I'm open to level up whatever is needed once the expansion lands.

Hallaer918 · Officer Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 204

Tanks are always good. And healers. We'll have to have backups of both if we end up with more than 10 people raiding on a regular basis. At the moment, as long as the disc priest talent that allows them to spam hard cast shields on people holds I intend to play a disc priest and focus on tank healing. Naturally, I expect them to nerf or completely change the ability either before or shortly after the expansion comes out so that disc priests don't have anything useful anymore.

Amminidab v2.0 · Raider Joined: 19 Sep 2012 Posts: 196

The classes I have at 90 right now are Druid, Shaman, Paladin and Death Knight. I'm open to leveling any of those up to 100 for the expansion. I know that Frightening is planning on a guild discussion before the new content actually lands. I'll wait for that to happen before I fully commit on something.

GM Fright · Officer Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 2698

Once the pre-expansion patch comes out, we'll see who we've got and what we've got, and we'll go from there. Probably another 3 weeks away, give or take.

GM Fright · Officer Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 2698

They announced the end of the PvP season a couple days ago, which means patch 6.0 will almost certainly be released on October 14th. Just a couple weeks left, start getting ready!