***World of Warcraft : Warlords of Draenor***

oh all my chars are on a dead server...

see maybe a handful of people an hour :S guess blizzard really want to sell those char transfer.... cos they should have closed this crap down...

population 2000 according to one of the stat sites
 
Things are definately calming down on silvermoon. Not seen a queue myself for days. Still the odd garrisons problem and realm stability, but again they have both are few and far between.
 
Had the most vile LFR heroic group I've ever been in earlier. Abusive numpties (all 4 of them, 2 from sylvanas and the other 2 from outland) from the very start and doing daft pulls and wondering why they died. The group after that though was the absolute opposite and a pleasure to heal for.

Speaking of healing, its still a very mixed bag. Auchindoun heroic for example is an absolute cakewalk due to the very obvious and simple boss mechanics leading to players taking very predictable damage. Skyreach heroic has some truly awful trash packs that make the bosses seem like wimps in comparison. The two packs of birds before the 3rd boss put a debuff on the tank that increases damage dealt to them the longer you fight them. Tanks never seem to realise that theres a debuff in the first place, so either pull both packs at once or pull the other immediately without the debuff fading, resulting in some lovely 100k per strike hits from trash...

I've pretty much sorted out my mana regen now with rougly 5900 regen in combat or over 6k with a flask. Blizzard lied though when they said that they wanted healers to focus on mana and that fights wouldn't have such spikey damage, as they most definitely do. Nearly every boss has an ability the tank has to soak that hits far harder than others and its not even casted, instead an instant ability. Then you get the periodic aoe targetted damage were a random dps will get hit for 80k or something daft like that, meaning you have to shift focus to them instead of the tank for a few seconds instead of simply hot them and move on. Seems like blizzard designed WOD encounters with MOP mechanics in mind, instead of actually sticking to the "sustained damage" BS they shoved down our throats early on.
 
Running an fx8320 and r9 280 and gpu averages at about 70%. I feel amd cpus/gpus are kind of bottlenecks in wow. So much better to run it on intel/nvidia.

Here's something that pickles me, when I run my laptop on high performance mode wow maxes temps of 80+ degrees on the cpu (4700) but when in battery saver mode it doesn't pass 56 degrees, even when giving me the same fps on a 740m on ultra 1080p bar shadows on low.

Intel 4700 / nvidia 740m

BTW bar the server issues I was having last week, this has been my best expansion to date, I loved every zone, 4 bars from 100 and I've been taking my time.
 
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completed the Nagarand storyline last night and wont spoil it for anyone but damn what a great ending to that zone.

Think thats cleared up all the Draenor chains now, think im missing a few bonus objectives but theres a ton of achievements demanding attention :)

Still loving the expansion, will be interesting to see long term. Looking forward to the raids opening
 
completed the Nagarand storyline last night and wont spoil it for anyone but damn what a great ending to that zone.

Think thats cleared up all the Draenor chains now, think im missing a few bonus objectives but theres a ton of achievements demanding attention :)

Still loving the expansion, will be interesting to see long term. Looking forward to the raids opening

I've done the same but aren't interested in achievements so it's gonna get boring quickly unless the raids are released!
 
level99 and 597 item level from quests not even finished nagrand yet.
game seems easy as hell to I am unable to pull more mobs than I can handle just running around putting dots on everything.
void tanks like hes already geared up from raids and has become a raid boss himself or something.

also every loot I got from dungeons so far is worse than the quest loot :S
 
Going to try this out but still have all my characters on my EU server. Living in NZ now do I have to buy all the expansions again before buying WOD or can I just grab WOD?
 
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