AQ season recap

[Zinke]

Originally Posted by DisgruntledOrangatang

What they should do is offer a quest from the hydraxian waterlords where if you can get 5 people to exalted, you can use some summoing portal shit in MC to summon in an army of hydraxian warriors that in about 5 minutes clear everything out (including bosses, and no loot drops of course) minus domo and rags.

That would be cool to watch, for sure. It sort of defeats the purpose Blizzard had in mind though, that the BoEs and mats get trickled down from higher guilds to lower guilds. Not that I mind that, they need to remove that idea from their brains. They do it with all the lower level stuff being needed for higher level stuff, under the pretense that lower levels can sell them on AH. But, there are never enough lower levels relative to the lvl 60s that are beyond that, it's where we keep getting these ridiculous bottlenecks on mats. Arcanite, librams, etc..

[Bixxby]

Move the TF bindings to random bosses in MC & BWL too while youre at it. No Geddon binding since release sure is a fine example of how fucking dumb WoW's loot system is.

[Quineloe]

What we did was organizing weekly twink runs in MC with another top guild, T2 legs and stuff remained main character priority, that's how I got my T2 legs a month after we abandoned MC as a guild raid. 2 weeks later we finished our second TF the same way :P

[DisgruntledOrangatang]

To further my example, you could even have Rags army then lay a 'counter attack' destory the Hydraxian Army, then you have MC up with maybe 30 minutes worth of trash at BWL difficultly (30 minutes if you have BWL trash lvl shit on farm). This would assure that the guild who are only really done with MC can get this done (as if attaining exalted wasn't enough, who knows maybe youre guild sucks and youve been in MC for over a year and still haven't killed rags!)

[Quineloe]

if you're exalted with hydraxian waterlords you should be able to turn in any T2 legs for a those of your class.

[Phred]

Originally Posted by boy-

The difference is that by in large previously, the previous zone still gives decent upgrades which helps progression significantly.

This is definitely not true for AQ40 due to the extremely wierd itemization -- no doubt there are some upgrades, but by in large most of it are extremely off-spec and/or wierd items (feral druid loot, oracle set, striker's, etc).

I don't think anyone will argue that you should clear AQ40 a couple times so that you learn strategically what there is to learn, but without clear gear progression (and honestly by in large in AQ40 there is not), there doesn't seem to be much if any reason to actually go there. Why farm a place when you're going to disenchant 80% of the drops?

Strikers isn't just wierd, it's totally retarded. A total of 16 agi upgrade over gs and a grand total of 42 healing/dmg, probably the most retarded bonus to give a hunter since the ZG set, which at least added flat dmg to arcane shot, not normalized because it's an instant. Whoever designed this set should be forced to go back to customer service for a few more years until they learn how the game works.

[Dyvim]

We skipped AQ this week for the first time since early February, and I've never felt better about playing this game ^^