BreezyLimbo
Banned
Is there an easy way for mages to do the withered training?
Or are they SoL?
Or are they SoL?
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World of Warcraft |OT8| CITIZENS OF DALARAN
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Sigh, I wish the Bear hidden appearance was anything but a drop from Ursoc. Unclear if you get additional chance at the drop on LFR even if you've done normal (confirmed that it drops on LFR), so to get it I need to do LFR. But tanking LFR is on my list of worst experiences in game, get to be yelled at and berated for ~45 minutes because people don't understand how things work and its always the tanks fault. Or I could be a huge ass hole and leave after Ursoc each week... Few things tempt me more to be a jerk than that. I should in some minor way set up DPS or healing on my druid just so I don't have to tank this every week.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Eh, Ursoc is the first boss of the 2nd wing. Just leaving after it shouldn't cause problems tbh.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Arcway isn't very hard on Mythic +0...
The trash is significantly harder than any of the bosses and that's just because there's random die-to-AoE crap.
Just spend your first few runs getting the boxes and after a week or two the scenario is easy, just time consuming. I get full clears starting with 10 Withered (or even 6) on my Rogue without a problem, and I imagine I could do it with the starting 6 since I lose 0 guys on runs now - this morning I did a run starting with 10 guys and finished with 30+ guys on my team and no more mobs to fight.
Once they're powered up from the Glimmering Box treasures they do a lot of the interrupting and damage on their own and it isn't like you get anything from doing it other than toys and the stock 450 Nightfallen rep regardless of how well you do (you only have to get to like, ~500 before you get the max rep prize of 450 iirc).
Get the buff from Thalyssra to do the bubble when you get down to 0 hp, then go farm back to 2k mana and do it with 20 withered. When you get to Dro, he'll off you quick then fuck himself up on your shields, and you should be good.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You can stun him, pop CDs and turn your withered to ANGRY MODE and it shouldn't be a problem to kill him.
I haven't tried on a mage, but I can't imagine its that much harder to just burst him dead.
Roots also stop the Dro dash so it's really just a case of CCing him when he does that. Think of yourself, for any spec really, mostly as the puller and CC-bot rather than core DPS of the run.
380 Score for the max rep. Everything after that is ... uh ... I guess pointless? Honestly no idea, I've stopped pushing for 7-800+ score runs since it's not like they seem to do anything of note besides double how long the run takes.
Since hitting Exalted I usually just throw mana at it and make a straight rush to the end without really killing anything extra. I should try and see what happens reward wise if I just leave as soon as it starts...
380 Score for the max rep. Everything after that is ... uh ... I guess pointless? Honestly no idea, I've stopped pushing for 7-800+ score runs since it's not like they seem to do anything of note besides double how long the run takes.
Since hitting Exalted I usually just throw mana at it and make a straight rush to the end without really killing anything extra. I should try and see what happens reward wise if I just leave as soon as it starts...
On heroic Ursoc last night I tried moving my focus frame around a bit because I'd previously had trouble focusing on the ground shit he drops while staring intently at my offtank's debuffs. We taunt on every single debuff application but they come so fast it gets pretty crazy and you're constantly swapping.
What I didn't realize was that DBM's spammy bullshit was just barely covering up the bottom end of his buff/debuff list. So half the time I couldn't see what was on his bar. But the fight just gets into a rhythm and I didn't actually need it, we beat it on the first pull without screwing up the debuff. I actually feel a lot better about tanking it now even if that was pretty scary.
What I didn't realize was that DBM's spammy bullshit was just barely covering up the bottom end of his buff/debuff list. So half the time I couldn't see what was on his bar. But the fight just gets into a rhythm and I didn't actually need it, we beat it on the first pull without screwing up the debuff. I actually feel a lot better about tanking it now even if that was pretty scary.
I wish, I get the bug between my pally and druid. It is the most annoying thing on my druid since it is happening to my water. Makes it impossible to drink during dungeons.
Scan and repair works for me, but it takes a while even with an SSD. It also takes a few minutes after loading back in to update the item information fully.
Lanrutcon
Member
haha I wish
Cpt.Underpants
Member
"Her heart is a creater and we have filled it"
Jaina is that you?
Jaina is that you?
It's
Azeroth
Cpt.Underpants
Member
What's the backround story in this?
Read the Chronicles book (or look it up on the internet on Wowpedia or something). I don't want to spoil it.
I like in the
Exodar scenario. When you're about to confront Rakeesh and your order hall champions come running down the ramp to join you. So it's 2 warlocks, a demon, and Velen getting ready to fight. Velen says "Well, this is awkward."
Oh the chests are a one time thing?
Orochinagis
Member
Dammit Xera, stop with this Illidan is the savior stuff, He was an douchebag
They filled her quite easy. if you know what I mean
They filled her quite easy. if you know what I mean
It's rough the first couple times time because Dro is a pain. Save Time Warp for him and set your dudes to berserk. If you have a stun, i.e. Deep Freeze, then use that and just kite. Don't kite too far away though, or he will just teleport to you and smack you down.
You pretty much should be relying on your withered DPS. What you contribute yourself is minor compared with the zombies.
Cpt.Underpants
Member
Thanks
irfaanator
Banned
Just wait until you reach the end of that quest line.
Xe'ra scolds you for being full of anger and hatred and says you need to be redeemed for killing Illidan. That's right. It's not an Illidan redemption story. It's your redemption story! Ugh...
Brawndo Addict
Banned
How are you supposed to survive the endless spider staircase? Either my withered get obsessed with attacking everything at the bottom or I die trying to rush my way to the top.
Set your withered to under control, run up the stairwell, hit the big spider up there to stop the gauntlet, then kite her back to the top of the stairs. Pop withered mayhem. Your Withered should kill the lil guys, then you can focus on nuking the boss.
Yeah, Blood DK too, though I don't think the score (or reaching the end) matters for it? Would be nice if I can just enter-leave for maximum chance though since every other part of the rewards don't matter anymore.
one day it'll reward me, one day
Brawndo Addict
Banned
My problem is the little spiders stack so fast that they just annihilate my health by the time I'm trying to bring the big spider back down. I normally do the scenario as Shadow, so maybe I need to switch to Holy or something in order to survive the staircase. Dispersion + Shield just don't seem to cut it despite being 840+.
The shadow priest artifact likes to smack-talk bosses which is pretty neat. It will occasionally have dialogue for geographical areas as well such as Suramar City.
Best thing about the shadow artifact is talking to Odyn after Halls of Valor. And in terms of withered training, it really is funny how different of an experience it is on a tank class vs anything else. That spider staircase on my Guardian druid isn't even a thing, my first time in there I didn't realize how it worked and killed them as they came for like 2-3 full minutes and it was fine. Same with Dro, really a non-issue as a tank as long as you have some stuns/roots for the charge. As a tank I actually hate my berzerkers because they taunt, I would rather mobs attack me.
Man, doing Loremaster and Bloodmyst isle quests are hilariously bad. You get like 25 quests from the main hub sending you in every direction around the island, with nothing connecting at all, then you get sent back out as you return quests in the middle. Pretty much the dictionary definition of clunky and inefficient.
irfaanator
Banned
Orochinagis
Member
Welp, Dro spawned and killed my Whitered bros, no big chests for me for three days =(
Score matters for the reputation you get out of the chests. It maxes out at 425.
...fuck.
I'm paranoid enough to probably care.
380 Score for max rep, yeah. Just don't know how much score matters for every other part of your possible rewards.
This one makes me sadder:
"At the hour of her third death, she will usher in our coming."
Warchief turnover is getting out of hand
Orochinagis
Member
She literally lost her sense in stormheim
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Sounds painful.
When you berserk your withered, don't they like, run away more? I always end up losing a couple when I do that..
I think it's based on damage rather than berserk them all the time. They become scattered and aggro MUCH more than just following you however.
NumberThree
Member
Got my first great Titanforged proc, the tentacle trinket from normal Il'gynoth got upgraded all the way to 885. It's not the best trinket by any means, but definitely better than what I had. And I get cool tentacles on my shoulders!
Is there any point in getting a better score than 400 or killed bosses then? do you get anything for clearing the entire thing?
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
The only 'possible' (doubtful, but uncertain as of now afaik) benefit MAY be getting a better chance at the toys/fox mount with a higher score. or if you finish.
Other than that, once you reach 400 or so for the rep rewards, you can let your withered pick up chests (or run off if you've got them all), die yourself, or what have you.
All I'm getting from this right now is I should start doing max score runs again and documenting it. Goddamnit all.
Yeah, until I hit Exalted I basically did 6-800 full clear runs every time. No Fox or Blood DK weapon but I think I have every other reward so far.
Still holding out for these tokens also becoming BoA.
Not sure but I can say that the Soothing Leystone Shard upgrade makes it so they just don't ever run away as far as I can tell. Makes getting it in the spider gauntlet a pretty big deal imo for making the whole scenario less grating.
Yeah, until I hit Exalted I basically did 6-800 full clear runs every time. No Fox or Blood DK weapon but I think I have every other reward so far.
Still holding out for these tokens also becoming BoA.
Not sure but I can say that the Soothing Leystone Shard upgrade makes it so they just don't ever run away as far as I can tell. Makes getting it in the spider gauntlet a pretty big deal imo for making the whole scenario less grating.