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Ahundredbux posted:1k needles is a very neat area I think you will enjoy it it's definitely unique! Scaly Haylie fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Nov 12, 2016 |
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1k Needles for sure. I liked the atmosphere of the pre-cata version, and the current one is just as good. You also get a cool thing I don't want to spoil so I'll shut up in case you haven't been there before |
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Ofecks posted:1k Needles for sure. I liked the atmosphere of the pre-cata version, and the current one is just as good. You also get a cool thing I don't want to spoil so I'll shut up in case you haven't been there before Mists is the only content I haven't played, but I'm not 100% sure what you're referring to. In any case, yes, don't spoil 
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I cannot say it was unexpected, but my cat of 19 years had to be put down today due to illness. Suffice to say no update tonight. Potentially tomorrow. |
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 So! One thing I had forgotten about inscription was that it has ~research~. Essentially you gently caress around with one of the tiers of inks to discover a glyph recipe. Note the 3 with an arrow next to it - it gives three points of skill! This is mostly to compensate for the fact that it's three times as expensive as crafting, say, a scroll with said ink. We get caught up in pretty short order galloping around and collecting herbs.  Of particular note is the fact that we can craft Darkmoon cards. The first set we got access to is Rogues, and each time we craft a Rogues card (or a card of any set!) it's entirely random.  In any case, we managed to complete the set, so...   Unfortunately the stats on Darkmoon Vest are randomized, so it's not great compared to our current armor.   Thousand Needles isn't too far from Southern Barrens, so good thing I set my hearthstone to one of the questing hubs there!   Nice view.  We glide through the water to our destination, gathering  ...and when we arrive, it's to see this bogus scene.  We do that.  Then we get a lovely boat ride.    Welcome to Fizzle and Pozzik's Speedbarge. This is a neat little area - gnomes and goblins have banded together in a marriage of convenience to make a technological marvel of a boat that combines both of their styles.   Goblins are conspicuous consumers and don't know the meaning of the word OSHA, which kind of owns.   ANYWAY QUESTS. The head gnome gives us a list of parts.  We salvage said parts from the flooded ruins of the raceway, which is what Fizzle and Pozzik used to operate pre-Cataclysm.  While we're down there we find someone in a, uh, lovely situation.  We free the gnome.  Our work done, we go back to the barge and start a bar fight because why not disrupt this tenuous peace for fun and profit?  After turning in the parts, we get a boat, which we swiftly use for some firefighting as the barge is under attack by pirates.  Then we fight back.   As you can imagine, it's now time to take the fight to the pirates themselves.   We also get the quests for the other questlines in the area: bilking natives out of their oil, and ice cream business stuff. We're going to deal with the more pressing matter first, though.  I get a bit drunk and proceed to go about loving up pirates.  ALSO THIS. THIS IS A THING AND I DON'T GET WHY. ...ahem. Sometimes instead of ore or herbs you get tenths of ore or herbs, which you then combine into ore or herbs. I'm not a fan.  The place is swarming with pirates, but we manage.  We also find their prisoner.  He has a cunning plan involving chests of loot, and as such asks us to go get some.  We do that.  Now we have the perfect tool to make those ogres a non-issue.  Which of course is sneaking past them instead of doing what the quest wants us to do because we can. Don't mind the thing on our back, by the way - that's the cryo-thingy for the ice cream fellow.  Tony Two-Tusk has something of a gimmick involving cronies popping out of treasure chests...   ...but he's not really an issue.    Well, this is a spooky twist for certain, but my bags are full, so we'll see where this goes next time! |
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Lizard Wizard posted:I cannot say it was unexpected, but my cat of 19 years had to be put down today due to illness. Suffice to say no update tonight. Potentially tomorrow. I'm sorry for your loss of friend  Lizard Wizard posted:
This was a new thing in WoD where you can mine or herb any node regardless of skill, but until you reach the proper skill level for that node type, you only get crumbs. So two expansions ago you wouldn't have been able to pick that Sungrass at all. It's kinda weird that it would give you 10 crumbs instead of one whole, but 
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 Today, I fly into Darnassus to sell off some stuff and check with trainers to find that I have mail. Mail!  It's WoW's 12th anniversary, you see, and as such we get some goodies. The timewarped badges are fairly self-explanatory, and the letter just sends us on an exciting quest to answer a lore question about WoW and get a few more.   Slightly more interesting is the celebration package. As you can see, it dresses us in a tabard. What you aren't seeing, though, is that it grants us 12% more XP and reputation gains from kills for an hour. And we can use it as much as we want during the 12th anniversary event, which lasts...a fortnight.  If you're wondering what reputation (or "rep") is: essentially, certain factions like it when we kill certain monsters or do certain quests. For example, we got some Cenarion Circle (read: druid guys) rep for doing that quest to get our druid staff a while back. The purpose of rep is mostly to buy sweet stuff from faction-specific vendors.  ANYWAY we go find his ex-wife, who begrudgingly agrees to help us rez him.  Along the way I get pretty banged up by pirates. I'm not really digging the whole feral skillset anyway so, hell, why not try something new?  Bird. Yes, we now take the form of a moonkin, or "boomkin" as many players call them.  We'll want to start off combat by calling down some astral fury in the form of Moonfire and Sunfire. They both cause damage over time, and Sunfire has a bit of splash damage. Basically what I'm taking way too long to say is that we start by stacking DoTs.  We then want to cast Solar Wrath, our sun hadoken technique, at the afflicted mob. Moonfire, Sunfire and Solar Wrath all generate a resource called Astral Power. When we have enough Astral Power we can spend it to cast Starsurge, a more devastating blast that empowers our next Moonfire and our next Solar Wrath. We've got a few AoE spells, too, but we're rarely going to be using those outside of dungeons in a group setting.  We can also heal ourselves, a positive change because we won't be snacking so often to recover health.  And oh yes, we can call upon roots to hold our foes in place, though any damage we deal after is liable to break them free. In any case, we kill these pirates and harvest their organs. It's a bit of a slow once since all of our gear is for stabbing instead of magic, but we manage to find a sweet wizard belt that helps the process a bit.  Next the ghost's ex-wife has us go scoop out whatever gore we can find from animals who were killed during the flood because gently caress it, we're gonna need a lot of filler parts and a lovely ex-husband isn't worth that much people entrails.  Lastly, we kill an insane and powerful wizard so we can use the very mojo of his soul in the ritual.  A little scene was supposed to play out here, but it's bugged. Here's how it would've gone:    Right, time to go help a guy with some ice cream. We board our boat. Did I mention that we got to keep our little boat? It only works in Thousand Needles, though.  The ice cream gnome's a bit touched in the head, though, and wants us to bring him Silithid guts with which to make ice cream...  ...and do some tune-up work on the gross fleshy underwater Silithid hive which he's been using as a refrigerator. No, I don't know either. We also kill a big Silithid but who cares.  We managed to hit level 42 off the back of today's shenanigans, and our pauldrons and belt display our slow metamorphosis into a fully-geared wizard. |
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 Today: we try and take oil from the local natives.  Centaur natives, as it were. We meet one who begrudgingly gives us a quest to deal with an elemental so we can get some kinda cool flame for him?????  A little herb gathering. They sure weren't kidding about that oil.  And a bit of research! We've already learned all the glyphs from this tier of ink, but I'm all about those GAINZ so we're doing it anyway.  I then  knock out this Horde guy so we can steal his documents for reconaissance purposes I guess. Aaaaaaand this is where the quest chain gets a little problematic.   We go grab the pyrite...  ...which is conveniently near the labyrinthine cave containing the Ancient Brazier. We can't use our sick kitty claw moves in balance spec, but we can still stealth, so that's great.   Turns out the sun works really well underwater.  Hm yes this plan will not fail.    Yeah, idiot.  Our mission now is to slaughter some of their people and drill up some of their oil whether they like it or not. But first, a small correction! I said that Sunfire, the attack seen here, has "some splash damage". It actually applies its damage-over-time effect to anyone near the target, so whoops! Also, one of our AoEs is worth casting even on a single target at the start of combat because it generates a LOT of Astral Power.  Anyway, they put up a pretty good fight.  Then we go toot the horn which calls their pet air elemental, AKA their entire air force, so we can kill it.  Having successfully crippled a society that dared get mad at us for trying to hoodwink them out of their natural resources, we return to the Speedbarge, victorious, with our singular barrel of oil.  Cool vest though. |
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I may be lurking, but I'm still following your LP, I appreciate ya LizWiz 
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Nov 23, 2016 08:55
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WoW is five bucks right now!! The "base game" purchase includes everything but the latest expansion, so if you feel like giving it a try there's no better time! |
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Nov 23, 2016 21:36
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Remember that huge lore post I made? I talked to someone still playing the game and they told me what's going on with the current story and holy poo poo I'm so glad I quit.
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Nov 24, 2016 20:21
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i've always liked the goofy minor poo poo more than the lore anyway.
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 Today, while in Darnassus to receive Herbalism training, we find ourselves embarking on an errand of humble fantasy-Thanksgiving.  Off to Stormwind we go, across the sea again. What a familiar scene this is.  Upon arriving, we're directed to buy a cookbook of recipes specifically for fantasy-Thanksgiving so we can help feed all the revelers. We'll be able to use these recipes until Monday.  You may also notice that they sell quite a few ingredients! Everything we need, in fact, save for the turkey. This makes the fantasy-Thanksgiving recipes an absolute godsend for leveling up cooking. We end up whipping up some stuffing as well as pumpkin pie, a local delicacy due to the fact that they only really grow these fine-rear end pumpkins in the Stormwind region. We're also tasked with making cranberry chutney and sweet potatoes, but you may notice that the vendor here sells neither yams nor cranberries.  Those are the delicacies of Ironforge and Darnassus respectively, so it's time for us to take the fantasy light rail shuttle system that runs between Stormwind and the dwarven capital. Suffice to say I go between the two cities a number of times during this whole home cooking brouhaha.  I take a brief moment to hunt herbs so I can mill them down into enough ink to make a very special glyph.  Behold! Our moonkin form has been replaced with an astral version of ourselves, so we can admire our armor now.  I then go on to kill a shitload of turkeys with the power of space itself so I can jack up my cooking skill even further. We legitimately won't have to worry about grinding up our cooking skill until we hit the third expansion, it's nuts. Maybe next update can be cooking some food that won't vaporize after Monday.   Happy Thanksgiving y'all |
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Nov 25, 2016 06:45
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Warcraft tricks millions of European children into learning about Thanksgiving every year. Please, talk to your children about the dangers of accidental Thanksgiving exposure.
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Jenner posted:Remember that huge lore post I made? I talked to someone still playing the game and they told me what's going on with the current story and holy poo poo I'm so glad I quit. Pandaria was pretty good, but the moment they introduced time trave/alternate universes in WoD, they lost me on lore. Oh hey the Deeprun Tram. I have a story about this. When I first started playing in 2005 on my freshly-built first gaming PC, I rolled a human and wandered about the lands adjacent to Stormwind. At level 10 or so, I picked up a quest to deliver something to a dwarf in distant Loch Modan. I had no clue about the Tram. Consulting the map, I figured I'd need to run through Redridge, Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge, and Badlands to get there. I embarked on my journey, but I ran into a problem on the Redridge/Steppes border - a level ?? (I used to call that "level gently caress") earth elemental blocking the pass in the mountains who reflected my frost nova when I tried to run past him. After many attempts and a full set of broken gear, I went back to Stormwind to regroup. I hadn't yet joined my guild so I asked for help in General chat, and amidst a few "lol noob" responses, a higher-level player invited me to a group and offered to escort me to my destination. At first I was suspicious because of the stories I've read about other MMOs and free-for-all PvP (I didn't know how this worked in WoW yet) but I quickly learned this person just wanted to help a clueless newbie. I put him on follow and he lead me through the Tram, Ironforge (it was absolutely packed with people compared to SW), snowy Dun Morogh, and finally the goregeous green-blue palette of nighttime Loch Modan. All on foot at running speed and I constantly swung the camera around, taking in every detail. Seeing all this awesome stuff was goddamn mind-blowing for someone who almost exclusively played console and handheld games before. When I reached the dwarf and turned in the quest, I reflected on my journey and that was the moment I became hopelessly addicted to this silly game. I added my kind benefactor to my previously empty friends list and I would whisper him from time to time during my leveling process, telling him of all the awesome places and things I had seen. THE END Ofecks fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Nov 25, 2016 |
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Nov 25, 2016 21:13
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can't really play the game for the over-arching lore cause, lmao it is very dumb
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Ahundredbux posted:can't really play the game for the over-arching lore cause, lmao it is very dumb I used to follow the lore but then some changes and rumoured anger from Mermen told me that the marketing people can overrule the lore guys on lore. So if the guys in charge don't care why should I? Not at all a shot at the writers but the marketing dudes.
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For a long time I really liked WoW. I'm still fond of it now but I just don't enjoy playing it anymore.
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I don't begrudge anyone liking the lore and having fun. I just can't bring myself to invest in it personally for that reason.
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 Today! We return to Thousand Needles to stop the Grimtotem, a group of very evil Tauren, from taking over Freewind Post, a place full of just regular Tauren, because every race needs to have an evil faction version.  We stem the flow of invaders,  strike down a traitor who murdered the Loremaster,  get our blood sugar back up,  and uncover a powerful artifact, its purpose unclear. All the while we spill Grimtotem blood.  We encounter one of their most powerful shamans, who calls us "the chosen of the elder crone" and proceeds to juice up on elemental spirit power, kicking off an epic duel of nature magicks.  As he falls, a wind serpent descends. Before retreating, it speaks: "Have I chosen wisely, Thedayelf?"  The plot thickens.  We gain a mask, far more suited to spellcasting than our old helmet. What a powerful and mysterious boy we are now.  We recover more artifacts, and the serpent appears once more, congratulating us clear as day with the voice of the crone herself: Magatha Grimtotem. She has one more challenge for us.  Yeah sure can do  We kill Armak fairly easily, despite his legion of dudes.  Nearby is imprisoned Armak's unwilling bride-to-be. She sheds some light on the matter of the artifacts, and we have new purpose.  We bring the artifacts to the ritual circle, and...  Well, by now you can probably guess the result.  Oh. That's not good. |
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Time to hammer some twilight nails or uh... strike some twilight hammers and uh... wait, i'm gonna work on this a bit
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 This guy doesn't know poo poo about poo poo, but he is right that Twilight's Hammer is, in fact, bad. They're essentially a bunch of nihilists who worship the old gods and want to literally destroy the world.  Why this involves trapping local wildlife I'm not too sure, but as a druid we can't have that! We hit 45 while stopping all that nonsense, and get our choice of some exciting talents that will give us abilities from one of the specs we aren't using along with a sweet passive! I'm not sure if the feral one makes the abilities scale off intellect, otherwise I would've gotten it for SURE. Instead I go with the bear one, which gives us some bear moves but also provides some flat damage reduction. The restoration one gives a passive constant heal-over-time, maybe that's good??? Please advise!  Along with killing trappers that are picking on the local lion-bats or whatever, we free baby lion-bats. Bat-lions? Anyway, we gain quite the entourage!   Five minutes later, our baby army totally dunks on this overconfident miniboss by swarming over him.  WELL HOW CONVENIENT.  I don't know why there's a screenshot of my warrior in the middle of my LP screenshots, but here is a screenshot of my warrior. His name is Bobhuggins. Hi Bob.  Anyhoo, this leg of the quest chain apparently calls for some subterfuge.  Murder murder, kill kill.  Perfect. Our goal now: covertly assassinate some important guys.    Also we need this guy's codes to free Magatha.  Hmmmm.  Sure Maggie, we'll get right to it nnnnnnnnnnnext time |
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 So! The Twilight's Hammer are combining the four elements to make a super-concentrated elemental called Animus with the goal of blowing the gently caress out of a good chunk of the world.  So our attack will be two-pronged:  Gee, thanks.  Now that we have a way to get at Animus, we are to retrieve the Doomstone from Animus' corpse and bring it to one of the most unambiguously evil Tauren in existence.  Pretty.  We of course destroy Animus as we would any other enemy.  Magatha now has several powerful magical artifacts and a few less enemies than before, and she lets us live with what we've done. The questline is now over. The end! No moral. |
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Ahundredbux posted:Have you considered going in to a random battleground and only fight in the middle I've never touched PvP, but I cannot imagine that being an interesting update. |
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Lizard Wizard posted:I've never touched PvP, but I cannot imagine that being an interesting update. Don't get entangled by the trap that is WoW PvP, Lizwiz |
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Ahundredbux posted:Have you considered going in to a random battleground and only fight in the middle lol
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Can someone explain what the joke here is please and thank you. |
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Lizard Wizard posted:Can someone explain what the joke here is please and thank you. battlegrounds have objectives (i.e. flags or capture points) and if you stand in the middle just to fight, which is what a lot of new people do in random battlegrounds on both sides, you're more likely to lose since you're not doing anything useful for your team |
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While you wait for the next update, look upon this video and know that I have truly mastered World of Warcraft. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfWBVWSRo2w |
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Lizard Wizard posted:While you wait for the next update, look upon this video and know that I have truly mastered World of Warcraft. lol |
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 Our time in Thousand Needles is done, and it's time to set off to new lands.  Somewhat dryer lands, if I'm being honest.  Arriving in the goblin town (neutral goblins, not Horde goblins) of Gadgetzan, we are enlisted in retrieving supply crates from the ocean as well as keeping elementals at bay.  While we're here, though, we simply must sample a Noggenfogger Elixir. Bottoms up! :guiness:  Spooky!  With a greater appreciation of the power inside of our body, we take up a quest to gather ingredients for a clam omelette. Sounds...kinda dubious. Can I get a culinary expert's ruling on clam omelettes, please? Also, we agree to help harvest meat from the local wildlife with something called a Butcherbot.  I can't imagine basilisk meat would be very nice, but it's what's on the menu.  Also, did I say elementals earlier? I meant giants.  After liberating enough crates from the ocean and giants from this mortal coil, I set about hunting more basilisks. I'm getting better at smiting them, I feel.  I really hope Druid Jesus isn't looking.  Overall, this has been a promising and profitable start to our time in Tanaris.  As the sun sets, we fondly regard the ocean, softly contemplating the meaning of life and appreciating a moment of relaxation. |
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Fight some pirates! Well you used to be able to, I hope you still can.
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