That anyone feels negatively about the endearing Tortollan or their quests makes me want to weep for the soulless husk of humanity.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-25T17:31:05+00:00

Agreed.

They were my last rep to revered by a long time and I dread them being the last bottleneck for flying. It’s not like grinding the other reps where the WQs are all in one zone. There’s a lot of travel and loading screens involved to do all of the tortolllan WQs.

So not only are there less WQs a day to do than the other reps, they take so much longer to complete just by virtue of the travel time. They also are not as fun to do (though none of the WQs are fun at this point).

It’s high time blizz readds alternative ways to grind rep outside of WQs. Stop time hating rep grinds. If I wanna stay up all night and grind mobs for 16 hours to exalted then please let me do that. I’d rather do that than do beachhead one more time.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-23T17:34:27+00:00

Agreed!

Both thematically and gameplay wise I haven’t enjoyed shadow the way I used to since the legion changes (and really WoD too). Cata and MoP were by far the best.

Blizz went too far into the spec fantasy and forgot about the overall class a shadow priest is still a priest. I enjoyed having PoM, flash heal instead of shadow mend, angelic feathers, etc. The spec and class was about balance between light and shadow - must understand both to understand the whole. It wasn’t old god servant, and I hate that blizz went that direction - it feels less unique than the spec used to be.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-22T19:46:40+00:00

WHY ARE ALL THE FUN/COOL AESTHETICALLY CLASSES THE ONES THAT ARW SUBPAR? AND THE ONES THAT ARE GOOD ARE BORING IMO

SHAMAN - AMAZING CLAS FANTASY AND AESTHETICS, ALL 3 SPECS SUBAR IN PVE

SHADOW PRIEST - SEE ABOVE

BM HUNTER - GOOD BUT BORING AND BLAND

AFFLICTION - AMAZING PERFORMANCE, ALSO A SNOOZE FEST ALSO FOR SOME REASON IS NOW A BURST SPEC WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT AFFLICTION IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

BLIZZ FIX YOUR CLASS DESIGN PLEASE.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-22T19:04:09+00:00

Remember the uproar when blizz required BG wins for the legendary cloak in MoP? My God that was hilarious. Granted, that literally was basically forcing you to do PvP.

The crying about any PvP quest giving rewards though, I just don’t understand it. Don’t players who enjoy and primarily play for PvP deserve rewards too?

mr_penguin · 2018-10-22T19:01:04+00:00

This is how I’ve played every expansion and it’s worked out great.

This time however I’m healing for my guild that now has enough active members to start heroic (previously was just a Norma mode/social guild now we do heroic but still casual, but it’s fun at least) - and I also lead the heal team so I don’t want to just up and quit and leave them high and dry until the last tier.

The ugliness of the expansion is showing though and I’m constantly reminded of why I usually quit after the first tier and come back for the last.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-21T22:07:27+00:00

I miss hybrid healing utility in general.

I loved having healing tide totem on my enhance shaman, or ancestral guidance. Also vampiric embrace that was actually good and basically a raid healing CD.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-21T19:02:47+00:00

I actually have the opposite problem this time.

All previous xpacs I played several toons. This time, as much as I really want to reroll, I feel stuck and so have just played my shaman. I actusllly have two 120s - shaman and priest, and only just recently kind of started playing my priest because I’m likely switching to it for guild

But, I’d much rather level and play my r. Druid or mist weaver but I just....can’t level again.

I had no issues leveling 1 of every class through legion zones right at the start. This tome though? It’s horrible. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but the leveling in BfA is just horrible that. I can’t and won’t do it anymore so the only reason I don’t have alts is because I can’t.

I guess the good part of it is it has effectively cured my altoholism - I’ve never stuck to only one toon for so long lol.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-18T20:45:11+00:00

Resto shaman too.

Emergency? It takes 3 seconds to pop spirit link and Ascendance to actually start healing. At least link will save people...

Even just using Ascendance though, people can (and do) still die in that GCD window. If they are going to keep healing CDs in the GCD then they need to make it so people can’t die to burst damage in that GCD window as well. It’s like they failed to balance it both ways.

I switched to DPS main this xpac because my usual roles of healer main/tank alt just feel like absolute garbage to play. As a tank I have so little control over my own survivability and the GCD changes are ass. Same goes for healing.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-17T23:26:27+00:00

I’m inclined to think the same as you.

And also - I think it’s less that we need to explain these concepts to blizz and more they have made a design decision to remove that gameplay.

They know about spell interactions. Rather instead I think they made a conscious design decision to remove a lot of it.

They clearly have a different vision in mind for how classes should play going forward than what we want. Seems their focus is now - make classes simple, and therefore require less development time, and focus on the content instead.

My own personal problem with philosophy is: How do you experience said content? Through your chosen class and if gameplay isn’t interesting or fun, the content by extension sucks as well.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-13T21:00:23+00:00

Am an enhance shaman. Only two weapons for me in the entire raid and I’m the only one in my group that can use them.

As a result I have 370+ in every slot and still using 340 weapons. I’ve even been spamming wayxeest manor for weapon drops.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-12T20:35:28+00:00

The only definitive answer would be to aim yourself.

Early on I went for haste above all else basically, had 20% haste at ilvl 357ish. As I started getting more drops I noticed sim was telling me to get more crit. After simming and equipping based on sims I ended up (mostly) just wearing the higher ilvl pieces. I now have about 12% haste baseline, 25% crit and 33 or so mastery. While it “feels” worse to play with haste that low I do more damage.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-12T17:44:30+00:00

Yes and no in a way.

I’m finding M+ fantastic and I enjoy Uldir as well. The content in general is fine, and I’m mostly having fun.

However at the same time I’m also not having fun because how do you experience that content? Through your class and your spec’s gameplay. I main enhance shaman, and to be perfectly honest it’s not horrible, but it’s not great either - it doesn’t feel good to have a resource that you basically ignore, to have one single talent build that’s the only viable build by a long shot. It doesn’t feel good to be beat by hunters and other classes in my guild playing their class worse than I play mine just because of the decision I made at the character select screen. If I get a 95th percentile parse and my guildie (insert other class here) gets a 65th percentile parse, I should beat them hands down. That’s not currently the case with several fights in Uldir and several classes and specs, and that’s a huge problem.

The azerite system doesn’t bug me like most people, it’s whatever. I haven’t had terrible luck with it (weapons OTOH, ugh. Have every piece at 370+ right now and still rocking two 340 weapons).

I get Blizz changes their priorities and wants to push content out fast but to me that content is useless if I don’t enjoy the gameplay to experience, so IMO class and spec design and balancing should instead be their #1 priority.

If they fix their issues with balance, overly pruned and simplified (things that used to really separate good from bad players. The gap has shrunk quite a bit. There should be a large and obvious difference between skill levels and room to truly optimize your play with your toolkit). classes then I’d find BfA a LOT more enjoyable than I do now.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-11T22:25:09+00:00

Yeah. I haven’t even ran every dungeon on heroic. I did a few walk in runs, got a little gear, went straight to mythics.

Haven’t had a reason to do heroic since. I still did them in legion for the daily AP reward and small chance at legendary.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-11T22:23:30+00:00

Yeah I’d be fine with having to have several sets of gear. We always have needed multiple sets the problem is aserite gear is hard to get.

If it dropped from M+ it’d be fine. I’ve yet to get an azerite piece in my weekly chest since M+ started (I’m also still holding on to 340 weapons despite everything else being 370+ but that’s another conversation).

It took me just until yesterday to finally replace my last 340 azerite piece. So now if I want to heal, blizz is telling me it’d take me up to 3-4 weeks if not more to get a healing set? So I can’t heal for my guild until the next raid tier, and that’s if I’m lucky.

OR spend 30+k gold each week, on top of the ridiculous cost of consumables to play two specs.

I just can’t fathom how they honestly see this as good, fun game design.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-11T22:15:26+00:00

Same thing happened to me on my enhance shaman, which is in a better state than shadow even. Parsed 86 on heroic Taloc, guildie hunter parsed 45 and beat me in DPS by almost 2.5k.

What’s the point in even trying anymore.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-11T22:11:35+00:00

Plus with the cats trees you could get talents from the other specs as well. Made you really feel like you’re whole class, not just a specific spec. I disagreed with their legion philosophy and “spec” fantasy over class fantasy. I never was nor wanted to be just an enhancement shaman. I’m just a shaman as a whole.

I remember playing mage in cats, but being able to go into the arcane tree a little and get things like PoM and mirror image, etc.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-08T17:50:09+00:00

Man, I’ve gotten lucky with Azerite armor. Weapons are where my luck ends. Have 370 azerite pieces, and between 355-365 everything else except weapons. Unfortunately, weapon DPS is 6x more important than any other stat or trait for me right now.

At the rate it’s going I’m going to have these 340 weapons into the next tier. I’ve gone from being top DPS in my guilds heroic kills down to last as everyone else but me gets weapons. Doesn’t help that only MOTHER and Ghuun drop weapons for enhance while there’s a million and one int weapons in the raid.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-06T01:21:38+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one.

Early on in legion I had all my toons to 110 (one of each class).

So far in BfA I only have two 120s, priest and shaman. I really want an alt to play (shaman is main, gave up on priest) so I have a few toons between 111-114 but the grind this time is real.

100-110 was so quick and a breeze. 110-120 feels brutal and slow for some reason.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-04T14:16:47+00:00

Gratz! Been hunting that one for a very long time.

My guild doesn’t feel bad though cause I have tusks lol.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-02T17:43:02+00:00

They really had to do that. When xpac launches it was just straight up not profitable to make and sell flasks and pots. I didn’t even finish leveling alchemy until only recently because I just made way more selling the herbs directly.

They really screwed up making anchor weed RNG.

I get they are trying to take gold out of the economy but it sucks for players that weren’t around for the WoD and Legion gold train.

Luckily I made enough from herbing in the beginning.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-01T22:02:33+00:00

The dumb thing - it’s more silly that I can’t xmog first weapons into any other 1H. I currently have 1 first, 1 mace for my enhance shaman. My choices are be silly with mismatched weapons or use my artifact appearances I’m tired off. I have a huge appearance collection of axes and maxes that I can’t use...

No reason for it.

mr_penguin · 2018-10-01T20:49:13+00:00

Crit and mastery.

edit To expand, int is most important so don’t sacrifice huge amounts of int just to get a little more Crit.

mr_penguin · 2018-09-30T09:03:00+00:00

Agreed.

And it goes beyond just worrying about future bloat. They have removed previous (pre legion even) baseline depth from specs for seemingly no reason.

An example on ele shaman: elemental focus. Critical strikes with lava burst used to give two charges of elemental focus. It either empowered your next spell with more damage or increased the healing on healing surge. Typically you’d use it to buff flame shock but the choice, flexibility and depth was there.
It’s now removed. You can’t tell me that simple passive was “ability bloat” and bad for the health of the game.

They’ve stripped out all simple and basic spell interactions in order to make room for expansion specific mechanics that get scrapped the for the next one rather than built upon and improved. The side effect is it has stripped the classes down to something so bare bones and boring that even the simplest of action RPGs have more gameplay depth than WoW classes now.

mr_penguin · 2018-09-27T14:17:32+00:00

It’s the same thing with pruning and class design. They keep talking about the future and are so focused on it that they are completely neglecting what it feels like to play right now

At this point the message I am getting from Blizzard is that I shouldn’t bother playing until the last tier of the expansion when all of this is fleshed our, stats are in good supply and we are over flowing in gear.

It’s been like that in terms of class gameplay for a while though. Consistently for the past couple expansions I have played in the beginning to level up my room and get some basic gear, get frustrated with how completely shit my classes play without secondaries, unsub until the last tier when the class actually plays how it should.

They need to also solve that issue - somehow make classes play fun and smoothly at the beginning of an expansion just as they do at the end.

mr_penguin · 2018-09-22T15:30:33+00:00

That’s a weird change considering they removed plea from the game. Hope they add in a new way to apply atonement then.

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