[WoW] Thinking on coming back, how much has it changed?

[Needless]

Originally Posted by Xequecal

Also, if you're looking to jump right into things at 70, don't want to slum around in blues, and have a lot of gold for twinking, a Warlock is a really good bet. As soon as you hit 70 you can make and equip a Frozen Shadoweave set and Spellstrike set. Buy up exalted Scryer for that rep ring and trinket. A few days of dailies and you can add in Sorcerer's Alchemist Stone and Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen.

If you've really got gold you can add in a Belt of Blasting and BT-crafted bracers. Then if you've got ridiculous amounts of gold you can buy some Sunwell gloves. The only slots you can't fill with an epic straight up are your weapon and wand slots.

Yeah, you can also do this with a Mage but using the tailored set limits you to one spec, as a Warlock you always want to be Shadow. Also I think the Warlock class is just straight up stronger than the Mage class right now, more DPS and more effective AE. If you go 0/40/21 and pick up the Succubus talents you'll top DPS in 5-mans and bring amazing crowd control to boot. (Don't raid with this spec)

I actually did a lot of that for my lock, didnt bother paying anything though i farmed the primals in a matter of a couple days as affliction, had my full shadowweave / spellstrike + belt of blasting in a couple days. then got wand from UB gloves ftom MGT.. couple peices from kara that same week..


class was extremely easy to equip, starting to do it on my priest now but a lot slower heh

[Duppin]

What if you don't have gold to burn like that?

Does a lock have to be twinked to be reasonable to level?

[Needless]

Originally Posted by Duppin

What if you don't have gold to burn like that?

Does a lock have to be twinked to be reasonable to level?

not at all.. if you can level tailoring while youre leveling him. all i did was make shadow weave armor i think it is.. and then fel weave i believe? bah whatever the green shadow damage armors are.. and was absolutely dominating my way through the grind.

[rinthea]

I'm going to resub.

First person to send me a PM gets my username and can cast 'scroll of resurrection' on my account and will get a free month.

[Shinrai]

I've done the "fresh slate" start, a good chance to try a new class. Playing a priest for my RL friends as we tour some the instances.

I also started a Shaman as a potential farm/pvp character and must say I'm finding it very underwhelming. At level 39 now and the character has poor defenses, limited mana regeneration so if I go shock happy there's downtime and most of the combat abilities are passive. Sometimes everything will crit/proc and the mob melts, other times its nothing but autoattack.

I'm hoping 40 will change that, but I can see why a lot don't stick with it. Especially with the insane power hunters offer a new player (server is something like 40% hunters).

[r3probate]

Yeah, Enh shaman begins to shine first at 30 with Windfury Weapon then at 40(41) when you get Stormstrike and dual wield. The proper weapon is very important too for DW enhancement, make sure you read the theorycraft thread over at EJ to optimize your gear.

[Needless]

How efficient is a 70 paladin AE grinding SM cath for a lvl 33? Im about 45 minutes into lvl 33.. take about 15 away from that for having to sell and repair the 70.. and im just under 50% through.

This rate is awesome, im just curious on how long this rate will last if anybody has done it yet?

Also.. 2 pulls to clear an instance owns TT

[Brikker]

You could probably do Cath to maybe...40? Maybe more.

*Edit
Until it gets too slow to be worth it, that is.

[Zehn - Vhex]

It's pretty good until about 42. At that point though the monks/chaplans/sorc's start only giving about 50-70 xp per. At that point PL'ing on quests is almost a better option. High level STV quests and then Tanaris/feralas/hinterlands can be done all in a few hours and will get you to 46~48. Can then start doing Strath reps until low 50's, then the BRD/WP/EP/Strath/Scholo quests will take you to 60.

[Brikker]

Random question:

Does anyone use maxdps.com?

If so, how accurate is it?

[Zehn - Vhex]

It's got the math. There's still stuff you can't account for (random procs etc...) but it's a decent way to benchmark what you should at least be doing.

[Brikker]

Okay, cool. Quite a few more upgrades for my warlock than I thought with the current content I run, then.

[Deathwing]

Why use that website? It's like using a paring knife to filet a fish. Sure, it can get the job done, and it probably a better choice than the mallet you were using earlier(i.e. guessing which gear is better). But why not just go over to EJ, get the spreadsheet you want, spend 30 minutes understanding it, and in the process, really learn to filet that fish.

There are a lot of secondary benefits to spreadsheets other than just knowing which gear to use.

[Zehn - Vhex]

What a terrible analogy. I mean just awful. God I hate you.

Anyways...

The site is quick and easy. To get the EJ spreadsheet you'd have to actually go to the EJ forums and...well...you know that one episode of South Park with the hybrid cars and how Eric needs an oxygen mask to survive all the smug covering california?

Yeah....

[Deathwing]

I picked that analogy just for you Zehn.

I didn't say read the forums. God, do anything but that. Just go to the combat mechanics section, find your thread, hopefully the person started the thread with [your class], and bam, you got your spreadsheet.

Most of them are easy enough to use that you shouldn't need to read the thread anyway.