Comments for Mystic Chicanery

Comment on Slow leveler by koalabear21

koalabear21 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:24:30 +0000

I know that Psynister has a ton of guides up on heirlooms and the relevant info. You might want to check it out.

Comment on Slow leveler by Grimmtooth

Grimmtooth — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:34:46 +0000

That’s some awesome ansi art from that WoWHead BBS.

Comment on Woe to be a lowbie by Elkagorasa

Elkagorasa — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:10:32 +0000

at level 15, my priest went Discipline and hit the dungeons. Next thing I knew (2 months later), she was level 85 and having to run quests to reach the ilevel requirements imposed with Cata. She had 0 rep with any of the BC or Wrath factions, but it didn’t matter because she was well beyond their rewards.

Comment on Sneaking into Thunder Dome by Elkagorasa

Elkagorasa — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:04:01 +0000

I know I picked up about 600 SPA rep from a quest reward.

You won’t be able to raid LFR until your gear improves, but if you can get into a 10/25 man raid, there’s no ilevel requirement. (average ilevel 480 I believe)

Comment on Sneaking into Thunder Dome by Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:55:06 +0000

I think the Raid Finder will also give the correct rep, so you don’t need to find a raid.

Comment on Woe to be a lowbie by Draigon

Draigon — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:28:15 +0000

I’m one of those people who people who happens to love a particular class in WoW. In my case that class is Shaman. In addition to rolling shaman alts just for the fun of it, I tend to roll shaman alts whenever major class changes happen. I feel that the gradual addition of abilities to a character makes it easier to pick up the play style of whatever spec you’re playing. Unfortunately the gradual addition of power means that right at the very beginning some classes run into walls.
I think it’s particularly a problem for hybrid classes like the shaman. Once you get past the bump of your blue bar draining to empty on every fight, you’ll find that both Elemental and Enhancement have mechanics that nearly eliminate the need to look at your blue bar ever again. Generally the only thing that will drain your bar at that point will be the heals you toss out in an emergency or after a fight.
If you’re planning on going resto at endgame, I’d actually recommend leveling primarily as resto until lvl 30 and then picking up elemental as dual-spec for when you’re not healing. The gear used by resto and elemental is close enough stat wise that you wouldn’t really need to worry about separate sets until endgame.

Comment on Just for the perks by Celendus

Celendus — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:35:00 +0000

10% of the gold you loot gets copied into their gbank, and you’ll probably also support the guild by occasionally grouping with people near your level, right? It’s not like guild perks are something precious to be carefully metered out

Comment on Just for the perks by Elkagorasa

Elkagorasa — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:01:11 +0000

if it means you play, I don’t think they’ll mind.

Comment on What’s old is new again by AliPally

AliPally — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:38:26 +0000

I levelled 2 pandas through the beginner zone; with the first one I had similar issues to you with the tedium of the turtle-saving part of the story. Second-time around, there was another player there by chance, and the healing-up and killing lizards bit went by very fast, and was a lot more fun.

What I really did not like was the ‘choose a faction’ part of the story. There was no real incentive to choose either faction in storyline terms bar the somewhat dubious ‘friendship’ for the npcs I teamed up with.

Blizzard no doubt thought that you would already have decided what faction you intended to play at this point, so yes, writing an involved story could have been a waste of time, but hey, as we were supposedly making an in-game decision based on almost no knowledge of who the Horde or Alliance were, it would have been nice to have something a bit more in-depth lore-wise to go on.

Having chosen Alliance on my first panda, I was horrified by Varian’s order that I was now ‘of the Alliance’ and I must slaughter all Horde I came across, even my own friends if they had chosen to join the Horde. Hmmm, like I’m going to slaughter my friends because of a random decision I made whan asked to choose sides – no thank you, Mr!
Joining the Alliance was the wrong move after all, and yet those Horde guys seemed no better. But, I didn’t have a ‘remain Neutral’ option!

Comment on I can haz Epic Neck? by Elkagorasa

Elkagorasa — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:17:08 +0000

The neck is a nice upgrade. Pushed me into the 470 range and can start queueing up for the next level of LFR.

The QM is found easily when you do all the quests for the zone. I also managed to grab a key during the quests and you can turn it in at the guy standing right there as well.