Been gone since beginning of MoP. What changed?

Hurcules

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Since when can F2P's get gear and weapon enchants? And how to do so? Ive been playing my warrior since warriors couldnt even charge in combat lol and fury was the way to go because of piercing howl. Now I feel like warriors suck! Is Fury or Prot any better than Arms? Here is my armory Hercules @ Aerie Peak - Community - World of Warcraft
I have a feeling im no longer BiS... LOL!
and what does "VETERAN" mean?
 
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no. but i could be. is that how you do it?

Well. First off, class wise, arms warriors are still viable (with the addition of fury warriors), as the one you linked. But the classes to watch out for are rogues, druids (specifically ferals), BM monks, shadow priests (as always), and ret paladins.
Hunters and prot specs have been nerfed to the ground. But hunters are still viable if played correctly.

Pvp (along with the new arena feature) is now 20-29

Gearing wise:
all gear except gear that is over ilvl 34, will be scaled to ilvl 34. In many cases, low ilvl greens and blues may scale higher than others above it. See here.
Some of the BFD quests are no longer and the dungeon has been revamped. Many of the quest rewards are grandfathered. The remaining quests have the same rewards as the previous iterations, and can be completed even if you have the same rewards as before.
All boa is to be included into an account wide boa tab, allowing players to easily create boa on any toon once unlocked. Log into each toon with old boa to unlock them if you have any. Starter accounts can use this feature now.
Starter accounts who are also linked with subscribbed accounts can now use guild heirlooms if the paid account has added them to the boa tab by logging into each toon on the subbed account.
Necklace heirlooms are a newly added feature and can only be obtained through a subbed account and then linked to a starter account. Given you have the starter under the same email as the subbed account.
All heirlooms can be purchased with a relatively low amount of gold as opposed to justice points/honor in mop. Guild heirlooms still require rep to purchase. The honor boa vendor still sells pvp boa, but the prices have been more than cut in half. And pvp boa mostly favors haste, as opposed to their pve counterparts which rely mostly on crit.
Bonus armor gives additional attack power to tank specs.

This achievement below has been added. Once a player collects a total of 35 boa, which is possible unlinked, it unlocks this and grants the person an account wide mount capable of use at level 1 (apprentice riding speed)
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=9909/heirloom-hoarder

Veteran accounts:
This new feature adds another type of twink to the 20-29 playlist, and has been very favorable over the past couple of months. Veteran accounts are basically paid accounts that have ended their subscription. The toons that are over level 20 have been locked and the toons that are level 20 or under are playable. But players must be cautious as to not accidentally level any twinks below level 20, as experience is on until the player reaches 20, much like starter edition(with similar restrictions). The one major difference is the fact that you can twink out a level 20 similar to that of a p2p, max professions, and be in a guild. But most of this has to be done before unsubscribing. Once unsubscribed, that player can play this maxed out level 20 twink without having to pay again, unless he decides to resub and make another twink, make adjustments, or simply play at endgame. Examples.
 
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1. they've been around the game the for a bit, not much changed.

2. same old enchants just nerfed a bit to make people on par with people that don't have the same enchants.

3. furry is the bis atm, they can wield 2 two handers now.
Wagarim @ Earthen Ring - Community - World of Warcraft
kind of have mop gear on him but it shows the point.

4.people who bought the game but let time go far enough to need to get a repaid can now play still but with starter/trial restrictions and can't access their 21+ charaters until they pay up.
 
Well. First off, class wise, arms warriors are still viable (with the addition of fury warriors), as the one you linked. But the classes to watch out for are rogues, druids (specifically ferals), BM monks, shadow priests (as always), and ret paladins.
Hunters and prot specs have been nerfed to the ground. But hunters are still viable if played correctly.
Are shamans viable? Ele or Enh
 
Maybe you already tried everything out and know all this shit, but I already wrote it so what the hell.

Warriors definitely don't suck right now, imo they're at their best since wotlk. Basically arms is the cookiecutter spec. Rend is back and is easily the strongest dot in the bracket, thunderstomp applies a 50% snare to everyone it hits, and mortal strike does what it always did except now it costs rage to use, rather than giving you rage on use. All rage comes from charge and melee swings now, but the rage generation is so huge you can most of the time just sit def stance. Stance dancing of course works well too, but you really don't have to do it a lot due to the high rage generation and having nothing to dump your rage on. Most of your damage will come from spreading rend, which applies quite a bit of pressure to enemy healers. Your go-to spec most of the time.

Fury was buffed greatly in WoD, so it's a viable spec now too. You lose DoT, but gain a lot more burst damage. You can't sit def stance as much as a fury, and rely on RNG to get procs from bloodthirst (20% to proc, and the proc gives you 2x cost free wildstrikes with half the GCD). You can spam 4 wild strikes in a row with a proc and full rage bar (5 if melee swings hit at the right time I guess), and ws hits over 1k crits so it's definitely one of the burstiest classes there is right now. Fury is more about single-target damage and burst and more rng, but killing healers or EFCs might be easier as fury. Fury also has piercing howl back, which is spell amazing enough to not need any explanations. Fury is good, but lacks the sustained/spread damage that arms has, and is a bit less tanky due to not being able to sit def stance as much. The RNG also makes it weaker in 1v1s imo (vs healers however you might have more of a chance than arms, because you have more on-demand burst), and I prefer arms for solo queing but fury will do the job usually aswell.

I suggest you try both out and see what you like, or keep on playing both specs ;) Prot is really not even worth mentioning. Tank specs take additional 25% damage in PvP action now and shield slam was nerfed to shit (hits about 30, blizz logic I guess). You'll be more tanky as fury or arms FC due to not having to deal with the +25% damage taken debuff.

One more thing, execute hits like an absolute beast right now. For fury and arms, the tooltip should just say 'press button - receive bacon', because you're 99% certain to get a kb once you get an execute off.

Lastly, just leaving my armory here in case you're interested on updating your gear for arms. Str scales really well now and crit hardly gives any benefit for arms, hence the lack of it in this setup. (loom helm in bag)

Raínbowpanda @ Aggramar - Community - World of Warcraft
 
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We don't know what you last patch was.
But a LOT has changed in the last few patches. Integration of 20-24 and 25-29 brackets, scaling has changed at least twice, all sorts of heirloom changes, can't even begin to describe all the changes that have happened to enchants since 5.0, etc...
You are going to have to just have to hop in and get your feet wet or read some of the past patch changes that you feel are relevant.
Starter accounts can purchase up to MoP for as little as $5 and have access to nearly every enchant in the game and every viable heirloom. If you choose to let your 30 day sub that comes with the purchase lapse, then your account is considered "veteran".

/cheers
Sweetsidney
 
We don't know what you last patch was.
But a LOT has changed in the last few patches. Integration of 20-24 and 25-29 brackets, scaling has changed at least twice, all sorts of heirloom changes, can't even begin to describe all the changes that have happened to enchants since 5.0, etc...
You are going to have to just have to hop in and get your feet wet or read some of the past patch changes that you feel are relevant.
Starter accounts can purchase up to MoP for as little as $5 and have access to nearly every enchant in the game and every viable heirloom. If you choose to let your 30 day sub that comes with the purchase lapse, then your account is considered "veteran".

/cheers
Sweetsidney

is $5 still available? using the past promotion link http://enus.nydus.battle.net/WOW/enUS/client/upgrade-offer/PROMO2?accountRegion=US&accountName=WoW1 now says its $10
 
It is, when you log on your free to play account there is a pop up lich king where it shows you character list. Click the buy now thing and you can buy it for $5.

thats actually the same link. although when i click on it, it requires me to login to bnet everytime, even though i have already logged in on another tab. after logging in the link changes and thats where it shows $10
 
Somewhat. As vet, definitely.

Does lava lash still hit like a wet willy? Because that would mean they dont have very much burst and makes it a boring class for me to play. I had a level 24 enh in MoP and i was doing good in BG's but it wasnt much fun for me.

edit : and yes. I plan on going vet
 

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