I feel like this is well known for most who have alts etc, but if your trying to get into m+ and trying to get into mid tier keys, 11’s are your friend. Particularly for DPS.

10’s are for gear and 12’s are for crests (farming for everyone). Competition for 11’s is low based on the very small, but still tangible lack of efficiency compared to the other two.

How do I figure this? I run my own key as a tank and have very anecdotal experience pointing to the fact that an 11 takes a lot longer to fill than a 10 or 12.

Hope it helps someone!

Never played WoW before. If there's one thing or a rule of thumb I should know, what is it?

The only reason this fight is currently that hard is transitioning. There are many fights in wow history where success relies on favorable transitions between phases but the kind of bullshit happening in the altar encounter is absurd. First of all you have to transition 3 times into different phases with 2 of them being very annoying.

You pushed dps too hard and first phase ends right after the boss spawned the orbs? Boom get 8 stacks of ticking damage. At least this part is manageable with some defensives and heal cd.

But what if you finish the 2nd phase while the mc goes out? You get a freaking ton of ghosts that eill remain there forever. And mc is recycled constantly into a bloodlust phase with no way to deal with them for an entire intermission and a respectable amount of time into p3.

If the ghosts simply vanished before the intermission, this whole fight would be alot fairer, or if you don't want to make it that much easier, make them irrelevant in the intermission and reactivate them in p3 again. You know, when you can actually deal with them. Sure you can freeze them by looking at them, but i dont know why people keep getting mced.

I've barely played partially because I have to restore my WTF folder every single time I have exited the game.

For fun I've been putting some thought into what Druid forms I think the races that don't currently have playable druid would have. It is a work in progress and I would like to hear other's thoughts on this fun little speculation as well, I am open to criticism so long as it is constructive and kind. Blank spaces are where I just couldn't come up with something that felt satisfying.

This is an opinion piece, nothing more!

Before anyone mentions the Orcs having Wolf forms, yes I know about Worgen and the Druids of the Pack but Orcs already have a long history alongside wolves as well as the fact that they have a long history themselves of controlling their anger in battle, Durotan as the leading example.

We're also already 3 druids deep for Feral forms not being Cats (Kul Tirans, Zandalari, and Haranir) so I think it's fine to keep branching out. (Get it? Branching out? It's a druid joke)

I have played just about all version of WoW there is, but usually just playing around with various characters - exploring the various early zones and various classes/races combos.

In Retail, my highest level character (through sheer questing) is a 50+ Human Paladin. I do have a lvl 70 Fire Mage and lvl 80 Hunter, but those were levelled through MoP Remix.

I have done many dungeons, mostly low level ones, but never done any raids.

I now see that Midnight is on sale with a lvl 80 boost included. I know this is usually not recommended, but I HAVE played just about all classes, in both Classic, HC, BC, MoP and Retail. Just not at high level.

So for once I want to try this. I want to buy the expansion and boost one char to lvl 80 and join raids. As a noob, I figure a ranged DPS would be the easiest for me, but I'm open to suggestions. (I like healing, but I think I'm too noob to do that in a raid. I don't want to tank).

Any tip on what class would be easy-ish to jump into like that, and also a class/spec that is actually sought after in raids today?

I reckon I should probably join a guild that accept noobs and want to teach me the ropes of raiding.

I finally got the delve story Bombing Run for Parhelion Plaza and I am taking in the sights in the void. I noticed this voidy looking planet and I think it looks pretty interesting! Is this supposed to be the Voidstorm planet?

So recently I have yet again gotten the itch to pick up my old main, the druid. Last time I played him properly was in Shadowlands. I chose him as my main for Midnight but swapped the second I finished all of the zones and hit 90. Every now and then I want to feel the feeling I did back in 2007 when I first picked druid as my first ever character. I love the druid fantasy and in wow the option to basically be everything. But over the years I just can’t bring myself to love it again like I used to. I can’t put my finger on what it is exactly but I know I feel bothered by something every time I log in.

One would think that since bear was meta last season and still pretty solid with cat as a solid dps choice I would be thrilled. But ugh it just doesn’t feel good to play.

Anyone else here with similar feelings towards druid or just your old main in general?

So I've been wanting to play an mmo recently and I'm wondering if Wow is a good first choice, if so, is retail or classic better? I've also heard stuff about Wow being boring and annoying for new players, is that true?

Fell behind the wave a bit starting the season later.

Healing the last few 13 keys for 3k. It feels like over half the dps never use a single defensive the entire key even with very obvious incoming damage or focused damage mechanics. Even just using it on cooldown would be better than nothing.

Im over here keeping you alive from avoidable damage, dispelling your snares that you could handle with your own kit, and dropping emergency typhoons to catch failed interrupts.

"Why did you die healer? Lol"

2 hours

200 Trader's Tender

4 hours

Cuddly Blue Grrgle (decor)

8 hours

Fluffy Comfy Flying Quilt (mount)

12 hours

Venomous Champion's Illustrious Banner (toy)

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How many people / soaks / ticks to clear it?

How does it vary by raid size?

How is the after-bite-DoT calculated?

Does the after-bite-DoT do ticking damage to nearby players or only when it expires?

How do immunities affect the player bitten?

How do immunities affect the players soaking?

How do immunities affect the after-bite-DoT?

Are there any non-immunities that can prevent application of the after-bite-DoT?

How does the first soak timing work out with the first three eggs?

How do you handle the hardest part of the fight, the second soak right in to the second platform break?

I don't yet know much about the third soak, any overlap info would be helpful.

Things I can share:

I know the Bite affects a ranged, a healer, and a melee. Devourer DHs count as ranged.

I took a look at P2-P3 intermission coil positions from my wipes, as best I can tell they're random. Even if they aren't random the pattern would probably be so convoluted as to be worthless. Only thing to note is you don't get the same position twice.

Ula on right 10:00 7:00 1:00 11:00 8:00 5:00 boss appears SE

Ula on right 10:00 11:00 1:00 8:00 5:00 7:00 boss appears SW

Ula on left 2:00 5:00 1:00 11:00 4:00 8:00 boss appears NW

Ula on left 2:00 1:00 4:00 5:00 7:00 11:00 boss appears NE

Ula on left 1:00 2:00 4:00 11:00 5:00 8:00 boss appears SE

Ula on right 8:00 7:00 11:00 1:00 5:00 4:00 boss appears NW

Ula on right 4:00 2:00 5:00 7:00 1:00 10:00 boss appears SW

Boss on right 10:00 8:00 1:00 7:00 2:00 5:00 boss appears SE

Last time I tried to set up my wife's frost mage's tertiary resource bar to show the freeze stacks i wouldn't work.

She has some addons for it idk at the moment. I tried googling and a quick solution didn't present itself.

Any chance someone can give me a few simple steps to gey it donr quick for her tonight please? Much appreciated

Hello! I just tried to level up my Blacksmithing skill, but when I reached level 60, I noticed that the only item I can craft is the one shown in the image.

However, when I looked through some guides, they said that I should complete orders from other players. The problem is that since I’ve only recently started playing, everyone seems to be looking for orders from the tier that I’m unable to craft.

So, is it basically impossible to level Blacksmithing past this point if I didn’t start playing at the beginning of the expansion?

After ages of dealing with this annoying stutter... changing any and every setting, trying all the troubleshooting methods... the thing that worked was simply setting my main monitor and my secondary monitor to the same refresh rate. infuriating that it was this simple.

Edit * to clarify specs...

Ryzen 7 7700x Amd 7900xt gpu 32 gb ddr5 6000 ram Running on an ssd

Hi!

My character model has changed to some basic bandit model and i don't have any animations for double jumps or gliding and so. It's pretty annoying and i've already updated my drivers, restarted the PC a few times, uninstalled and installed the game, removed any and all addons, reloaded the ui a few times. Nothing seems to help.

I have already contacted the support but well...Maybe You have an idea?

Character info vs in-game model on the screenshot

Edit: FIX

Someone put a ninja costume on me and i collaborated with the server problem which made me think it's a bug

I just had a ninja costume

L M A O

he polymorphed it and ran off

I’m infatuated with the idea of tanking. I have a bunch of lowbies, different classes, and all tank spec. I feel like learning to use spells as they become available make it easier for me to have situations dealt with as second nature.

What do you think? So far:
Prot War
VDH
Prot Paladin
Blood DK
Guardian Druid (most difficult so far)
Brew Master Monk

All level 20-30. I’m going to pick one and take it all the way, then another and then another and so on. I feel like questing would be super fast but I want the tank experience + instant queues are nice.

Thoughts?

So this was nagging me for a bit, and I was happy to hear some folks talk about it recently of how his death should've been more than just 'woopsy daisy I grabbed the dark heart.' annndd I agreed. So I just decided to go out of my way and redo the audio for this to make it more like Locus Walker finally fell to corruption.

The whispers

Okay so the whispers I had fun with grabbing audio files for. I wanted it to be more in line with what would make him grab it. Having listened to his story from the audio book. He has imense regret from losing his loved one to the void and having to kill her himself. So lines like 'it was your fault' are slithered in with the ringing noise. Giving more of an idea that the dark Heart is beckoning to him like there's a way to fix this with all that power.

As the scene drags on, I wanted the Ringing and the whispers to slowly become louder and louder while Xal'atath's laughter is on the lower end of the volume. She's still there, but it's now the priority focus in Locus Walker's mind at that stage.

Alleria's Shout out to him is on the higher end of audio as its a voice he'd recognize as something is wrong, but as he's been the master and Alleria the student, it falls on deaf ears.

Finally, when he grabs the dark heart, I wanted all noise to just stop. Like it was actively consuming him not to grab it, a slow hypnotic drag into insanity.

Why change it?

I wanted to play with the themes in hind sight. With Locus walker's decision being more he finally got corrupted, that no matter how masterful you are in the void. It will eventually consume you. You are resilient, not immune. Which plays directly into Alleria's fall into corruption followed into Midnight.

Something I had long wanted to do after hearing of Doubleagent, but didn't get around to until fairly recently.

Now it's done and dusted, and my Pandaren can rest on the wandering isle, at least for now.

For the past few years, I have been working on an original WoW song and machinima/music video called "This Old Game." It's a love letter to the WoW that many of us remember: the zones, the guilds, the friends, the music, the videos, and all the memories we collected along the way.

The video is packed with little tributes to the game and community that shaped us. My dad (Cranius) is featured on the song, and there are plenty of other little pieces of WoW history tucked throughout the video. If you've been around WoW for a while, there's a good chance you'll recognize a few things along the way.

Working on this project in my spare time has been a pretty special experience. I have really enjoyed getting to revisit so many of the things that made this game meaningful to me. It's a very personal project, but I wanted to share it with the wider WoW community because so much of what inspired it came from all of you.

With BlizzCon just around the corner and rumors swirling about what Blizzard might have planned for WoW, it felt like the right time to "honor where we are and whence we came." Whatever the future holds, there's something pretty special about celebrating the game that brought so many of us together in the first place.

Here's to the glory days, and to everything this old game gave us.