tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post8958955572174387758..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Monday Random ThoughtsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-90069796231787134182013-04-02T09:33:22.699-04:002013-04-02T09:33:22.699-04:00If they ever sold gear for 10 bucks I would buy it...If they ever sold gear for 10 bucks I would buy it. I agree 535 gear for 60 bucks is a bit out of line but look at the item selling places, they are selling the 522 gear for over 200, so 60 is actually good in comparison.<br /><br />One of the pets I saw on the market on my server that sold for 200K I bought on amazon for 3.85 last week. I messaged the guy offering him 20K and he said, no way, I've sold three this month at 200K why would I sell for 20K. Makes me want to put mine up for 199K and buy a few more. :PTheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-39642753146063057182013-04-02T09:26:28.709-04:002013-04-02T09:26:28.709-04:00Looked up the Spectral Tiger on eBay... The card g...Looked up the Spectral Tiger on eBay... The card gives both mounts apparently. Ebay $540... US AH avg (for both) about 1M G.<br /><br />So about 1000g is worth about 50 cents at that level.<br /><br />So that 535 neck for 125K gold on the BMAH, is about $60... nope, no thanks...<br /><br />And that new vendor mount yak for 108K gold is about $50... nope, too much.<br /><br />Now, I kind of wish I hadn't looked up the prices...Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-86524522815105197142013-04-02T08:25:33.503-04:002013-04-02T08:25:33.503-04:00I follow the gold making community and I've of...I follow the gold making community and I've often heard it said that it would be more cost effective to spend hours working minimum wage and buying gold than actually spending those hours earning gold in game. Pathetic but probably true.<br /><br />I've never really paid attention to TCG items, but I might do some price checks now just to see the $:G ratios.<br /><br />I was hoping I could say I hit the 1M mark in Monday random thoughts... but I'm only at 997K...<br /><br />I've noticed some 535 items popping up on the BMAH... they're going for over 100K... That just seems crazy. I'd consider 20-30K maybe... but not over 100K for an item that will get replaced next tier.<br /><br />I did a bunch of the Isle of Thunder achievs over the weekend. At least most of the ones that are unlocked so far. Still need to kill one rare. I've found it's easier to kill most of the rares solo than in groups.<br /><br />I also went out and killed a bunch of dinomancers to get my Tome finally. I was inspired by the PTR notes that we're getting more stable slots.<br /><br />Tamed Skoll on Sunday morning. Was trying to see if I could find any rares for Frostbitten/Bloody Rare since it was early Easter sunday, but didn't find any that I needed. Found Skoll though. So I have 4 spirit beasts now.<br /><br />I forgot that a new LFR is coming out... ugh... it's basically the only way I get to see the content and I have to do it if I want to gear up, but it's such a pain.<br /><br />It really seems that with each new LFR, the encounters get harder and less rewarding. DS was the easiest and most rewarding. MoP LFRs seem to get progressively harder but without having increased rewards. Now we can get 502 fear instead of 522 valor/normal gear and the only way to get rep for valor gear is to raid...<br /><br />Speaking of that, I still can't understand Blizzard's excuses why the iLvLs have to increase so much with each tier.<br /><br />The gear this tier just has too much secondary stats... I cannot get rid of all the hit/expertise. Sitting at 8.85% hit... Just another reason why they need to get rid of hit/expertise and the equivalent stats. Having caps on certain stats is stupid when the gear scales up so much with each tier. At the beginning, we couldn't get enough hit/exp to cap, and now we're wasting stats because we have too much. It'll be even worse with the next tier.Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-38399544895325362692013-04-02T07:12:59.086-04:002013-04-02T07:12:59.086-04:00There are a few good places to buy pets. Ebay is ...There are a few good places to buy pets. Ebay is one, I buy from amazon as well whenever I am there buying stuff. I find it better to spend a few bucks then to waste gold on a vanity item. My gold would be better used for things that help my character and as much as I have always liked collecting pets it really does not help my character any.<br /><br />Same for me. I raid 2 hours when I raid. I've had multiple raids over 2 hours in the LFR recently and now a new one is coming today which will be harder than the first two this tier and people still can not do them. It scares me.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-41369418979391163012013-04-02T00:39:52.934-04:002013-04-02T00:39:52.934-04:00The last lfr I did took longer than a raiding nigh...The last lfr I did took longer than a raiding night...<br />The tanks really do make a difference. I was lucky and we had some patient tanks but we still wiped a lot but they said it's Ok, we'll get the buff so we will kill it faster. It was an interesting idea and worked. <br />I also think similarly about game gold and outside money... It is a lot easier to earn money outside a game than to get it in game. I often have friends showing me the bargain pets they got on the ah or bmah and it's more gold than I own. I would much rather get the tcg on ebay than pay gold. ..Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-2080651750189073712013-04-01T17:59:18.424-04:002013-04-01T17:59:18.424-04:00Yup that's what I meant. It was forcibly broug...Yup that's what I meant. It was forcibly brought home to me recently that it's dps that kills the bosses. So I wasn't sure whether I could draw a cause and effect conclusion between having 2 guild tanks and no wipes or not.<br /><br />5 characters?? 5! Wow, I knew you had a couple of alts but 5! You are just like my friend, he has at least 5. I don't know how you manage it. Well actually I said that to my friend and he said that I could as well but a) I'd have to want to do it. b) I'd have to spend less time achievement hunting, mount farming etc. c) I might have to play more and I already play a lot anyway. Well either way it's beyond me now. In Cata I kept 5 characters raid ready, my main and 4 alts, but in cata particularly at the end it was so easy. I got one of those 4 alts geared in one day, not a days played time, but just playing one day. That was too easy, I said it at the time, but I did like the convenience of it. My raid needed a ranged, so I got one ready and I managed it at short notice. Convenient yeah, but that was too easy. I would have personally liked some more of a middle ground, and a gearing model that didn't make LFR (which I loathe, I may have mentioned that several dozen times) practically compulsory on the ladder. Maybe the new heroic scenarios will help, they apparently are supposed to drop LFR level loot.<br /><br />I like tanking and for LFR it's what I prefer as I always go with my co-tank friend. Going as dps when you're a tank at heart is kinda painful. However, my problem is the dps gear is much better than the designated 'tank' gear on the first 6 bosses. I can't get any good upgrades really going as tank, but I don't want to go as dps as I want a smooth run. So I'm really pleased they are apparently going to add some way for you to choose which spec you get gear for, irregardless of what role you are currently playing, in 5.3. It'll be a bit late unless my current luck streak continues (zero drops so far) but for the next raid tier, and for the future I think it would be great. The only problem is the queue takes a while with double tanks, but you are pretty much guaranteed a fresh run, so swings and roundabouts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-40878376610079050662013-04-01T13:54:46.899-04:002013-04-01T13:54:46.899-04:00I've never had a wipe going with guild tanks a...I've never had a wipe going with guild tanks and even one guild healer to make sure they stay up. Leave it up to random and it becomes wipe city.<br /><br />You are right however that tanks do seem to be amazingly important in the LFR. More so then normally. Not trying to put down the role of course as I play one too, but in the real raid with real raiders tanking, for me at least, seems to be the easiest job. In the LFR it is completely the opposite.<br /><br />Just take the first boss. One tank that should not have the boss has the boss and it is a wipe.<br /><br />But the responsibility goes all the way around. Same first boss, on my priest, healers were healing their asses off, more HPS from everyone than I had ever seen in an LFR, can you ever remember when the lowest healer was doing 60K HPS? We had to make up for DPS standing in everything, tanks not switching, etc. And we wiped. All thanks to DPS that sucked ass, excuse my language.<br /><br />Or the sixth boss, where I was the only one that knew nests and no other healers wanted to do it. Okay, send the top healer down there, not the brightest idea, but lets roll with it. We wiped 3 times before the healers up top got enough of a buff to handle it and me, just healing the nests, was still third in healing done. How sad is that?<br /><br />But in the end, tanks that do not know what they are doing is wipe city. 5th boss, face a head the wrong way and it is a wipe. Forth boss, do not grab the bets before overzealous DPS get to them, wipe. Etc. You get the idea.<br /><br />Like I said, when I go with guild it is no problem, when I go random it is a huge problem.<br /><br />I think my issue is more that I have 5 characters I am currently running through them and only one can go with the guild tanks and my tank runs as DPS because I do not have another tank to go with me and I would never in a million years do them with a tank I do not know because it is pot luck on what you get. And to be completely blunt, 95% of the people in LFR are not smart enough to know where the issue is, and if the other tank screws up and blames it on me they would not be smart enough to know it was not me that was the problem.<br /><br />I am in the same place with valor gear. I am buying things just to buy them now, not because they are really great. They need more valor options and better ones. Even more so if they are going to restrict it to only raiders can get it.<br /><br />I've been saying that since the get go. Once you get exalted on one character all characters get shop access for that faction. It would have been the best design if you ask me.<br /><br />Same to you, happy bunny day.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-23515870858914035322013-04-01T11:17:30.295-04:002013-04-01T11:17:30.295-04:00I'm starting to think that either I must be ve...I'm starting to think that either I must be very lucky with my LFR groups, or that having 2 geared raid tanks on vent makes all the difference. I've run LFR however many times for weeks there have been. So that's what three for first wing, two for second? I haven't wiped once, not on any boss, not on trash, not on anything. Oh people have died, many many people have died, but I haven't and we have never wiped. Well we can't wipe if one person is alive at least and I've never died, though I've never been the only person left alive either. Sometimes there's just been like three of us, but that's enough.<br /><br />So yeah grab your two guild tanks and have them go LFR with you. Maybe then you'll one shot every single boss. I mean I'm not the worlds best player, but I am an actual raider, just like you, and unlike most of whom queue for LFR. We don't flood the LFR with guildmates, the least I've run with is three, myself, my co-tank and a dps. Still we one shot everything, maybe we've just been lucky, perhaps that's it. After all it isn't tanks that kill bosses, it's the dps. The tanks can keep themselves alive but the healers are needed for the dps, so the healers need to be good to keep the dps alive so they can kill the boss. Perhaps I'm wrong then in drawing the conclusion that having coordinated tanks is what makes LFR a non-wipefest.<br /><br />As for gear on alts I gave up my alts as it took too much time. Perhaps now with the rep commendations it might be easier, but with my loathing of LFR, and the fact that it still requires a fair bit to cap, I just can't be doing with it. I cap my main really easily because I'm getting valor while doing stuff I need to do, but I don't have the time or inclination to repeat the same content multiple times. However, did you hear that they were putting in bad luck insurance? I thought of you when I read that.<br /><br />I like my gnome monk, he's sort of my main alt, I've even raided on him a bit. I've never had trouble with the height difference, hadn't really noticed one in all honesty. My main is a human though, and yeah that rep bonus is good. I'm honored with Shado Pan Assault already, wish their gear was a bit nicer though. I have valor to spend but don't much like the stat itemisation.<br /><br />Yeah for current raid gear there isn't any options outside of raiding, or at least going in LFR to get the rep, to then buy the 522 gear from the raid faction. Maybe they should have put a piece or two with Kirin Tor, but given how easy it was to get exalted, that wouldn't have been much of a gate and they seem fond of those this expansion. It personally doesn't affect me but for those with alts rep gates really suck. Maybe they should make you only have to get exalted on one character and then you can access the quartermaster on any of them.<br /><br />Happy easter :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.com