A new player's thoughts on this game

[Rilota-moon-guard]

Do you know any dps shams

My enhancement loves that fight lol. Maybe it worse on mythic though

[Brewa-hyjal]

MYTHIC CHANGES

• Ultimates now overlap. You will always have to deal with two different ultimates at the same time.
• There are three different ultimate combos that rotate: First Urctos and Aerwynn, then Aerwynn and Pip, and then Pip and Urctos.
• Players poisoned by Aerwynn need to move out to get dispelled. Dispelling it now deals massive damage to nearby players.
• Pip launches tornadoes around the room while channeling Emerald Winds. Dodge them.

From mythictrap - an amazing resource!

Council of Dreams Guide - Amirdrassil

[Life-bleeding-hollow]

@Brewa-hyjal

Ultimates now overlap. You will always have to deal with two different ultimates at the same time.

this sounds disgustingly awful
is it always the same ults or can you get some degenerate stuff like winds with vines while trying to aim the charge?

[Brewa-hyjal]

There are 3 combos of 2 each, always in the same rotation. You can’t get all 3 at once.

But vines while aiming charge, while Pip is doing winds? Sure.

(I hate that fight…)

[Rilota-moon-guard]

Oh I probably wouldn’t even be able to run poison cleansing totem without trolling rip.

Idk I think I’d still enjoy it because enh sham is designed very well for that fight.

[Brewa-hyjal]

Mythic is all about duck management.

• You need a duck to break Ursoc’s channel. (his ultimate)
• You get ducks from Pip.
• Pip won’t create ducks while he’s doing his ultimate.

You need to have designated “nobody eat this” grass puddles so people can get safe during Pip ultimate… but you also need ducks to break Ursoc ultimate, which means either timing out the ducks (since they duck nearby people when the duck expires, even if you ate no grass)… and… and it just makes my head hurt, on Mythic.

[Awkward-frostmourne (Awkward)]

@Vorn-durotan

The combat part 3. I’ve only done the base level raid difficulty, but it just feels like a a wagon of chaos. There is so much going on, and very little is clear. I don’t know boss names, but there are so many that have matching colors for mechanics as the floor similar to a few of the dungeons. There’s a boss that looks like she’s part of a tree or a flower. The ground is green, and there are green swirls all over the place that you have to avoid. While there are dozens of players running around & abilities going off. That same boss has a teal line that falls from above that nearly blends into the floor that stuns you if you touch it. Extremely frustrating to get hit by mechanics you can’t really see. There is a boss with reddish floors and red swirls, etc… The game feels like it’s being hamstrung by immersion, or perhaps the people making the art don’t understand what they’re making it for? It just feels really disjointed from being a “game” first.

Generally speaking Blizzard tend to go for abilities looking somewhat thematic instead of say, FF14 where all the abilities are very clearly outlined and coloured regardless of how it’d look for the bosses aesthetic.

Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but Nymue and Smolderon are…yeah. Not Blizzards best work on the spell effects department.

Though WoW’s raiding difficulty curve in general is a little weird. Normal tends to be pretty significantly easier than LFR, simply because Normal has to be manually organized so groups by default have a plan, whereas on LFR the only time people don’t just kinda zerg stuff is on bosses where zerging will explictly wipe you, like on Raszageth earlier this expansion.

[Fuzzbutt-zuljin]

That boss has too much green.

[Padgarre-lightbringer (Padgarre)]

Welcome to the first month of the next 10 years of your gaming life Also, if you managed to take on the Mage Tower as a newer player and beat that then you’re probably a much better player than most. Hell I must’ve tried Havoc 150 times and never got to phase 2, perhaps it’s lag or my older computer on a 1080 monitor tho who knows.

[Rilota-moon-guard]

Lol getting grass starved or w/e was even a problem early weeks in heroic pugs. You’d have a total pumper group but wipe constantly cuz no one wanted to give up uptime xd

[Vorn-durotan]

Sent a friend’s request. Would totally enjoy playing with an organized group for mythics. Just using the group finder is fine, but really random too…

[Ornasse-wyrmrest-accord (Ornasse)]

Ahh a fellow swtor player! I hope it continues, I adore my Trooper tank. I’ve been gone from wow for several years but I’m just messing around leveling. What kinds of things are you interested in? That might help us make suggestions.

[Beaupeep-dentarg]

@Sendryn-sentinels

@Vorn-durotan

My previous MMO of many many years is being sunset

Which one?

I am curious about this as well.

@Vorn-durotan

@ Sendryn: I played SWTOR since it launched. It’s being handed off to a “life support” developer and it breaks my heart.

Ah, well that’s a shame. I had considered taking another look at it. Guess there’s no reason to bother now.

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

@Pigzig-nagrand

retail is really hard to get into, classic is actually a better introduction because retail is a thousand bandaids over older content. even though I ultimately prefer retail

Classic is easier for beginners because less additions have been added to the WoW universe and there are less less currencies, powers, races, etc. etc.

[Nickaeladin-thrall]

Welcome! I’m glad you’re enjoying WoW. I hope you continue to make friends, memories and fun! Good luck wherever your journey in WoW takes you.

[Vulkova-illidan]

Now that you have tried all the pve stuff come and join us in the pvp side for a bit

[Tanaralas-bloodhoof]

@Moofurìon-bleeding-hollow

You want to stand in the little bushes with circles around them. They deal damage to the whole raid but if you stand in them long enough (or more people stand in them with you) they disappear.

@Moofurìon-bleeding-hollow

For lines watch little orbs falling from the sky these will indicate where the lines will appear and than run around them.

@Moofurìon-bleeding-hollow

You are correct that this boss (and this raid in particular) is a problem with mechanic colors matching the environment.

I highly appreciate this reply, Moo.

My first time through that raid resulted in a rather amusing internal argument between me and DBM.

DBM: “Stay away from lines”
Me: “What lines!?? … oh THOSE lines”

DBM: “Help soak”.
Me: “Soak what??? Oh …soak THAT”

Would have been a little easier to discern if everything wasn’t such a springtime colored mess.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Vorn-durotan

I played SWTOR since it launched. It’s being handed off to a “life support” developer and it breaks my heart.

It’s not dead nor going into maintenance mode. They’re still developing new content for it.

@Beaupeep-dentarg

Ah, well that’s a shame. I had considered taking another look at it. Guess there’s no reason to bother now.

See above. I have no clue where people get this info from when we’ve already gotten new content and they said they’ll still be developing.

[Vulkova-illidan]

@Sendryn-sentinels

It’s not dead nor going into maintenance mode. They’re still developing new content for it.

EA Bioware has abandoned it and handed it over to some no name dev, sounds dead to me.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

Another company is developing it. EA still owns it. They just want Bioware focused on new games. No, it isn’t dead. There’s literally new content right now.

The most current article outlining what’s been added and done since Broadsword took over— and what’s to come. They even added a new server.

It’s nowhere near dead.

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