Comments on: You Say Zul’Aman, I Say Zula, Mon

By: Wilz

Wilz — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:56:15 +0000

Welp, I have already leveled 9 characters to 60 about two months BEFORE patch 2.3 hit. Heh. My levels currently :

70 70 70 66 63 62 61 61 61

Althras, Beltek, Ordanil, Xastar, Mizar, Xalastar, Xiona, Swaard, Lenick – all on Suramar US server.

I guess I lose out on the speeded up leveling thing eh? I fully intend to have 9 70s before WotLK. 🙂

By: Stern

Stern — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:00:25 +0000

@Daeric

If you have had Kara on farm for some time (and you are mostly if not fully Kara equipped) then there’s a good chance you’ll at least get bear and eagle down. I would suspect that most guilds farming Kara should have 3-4 bosses farmed by Christmas.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:02:00 +0000

wowpanda: I’m in the middle of leveling a mid 20’s pally, and I can assure you that despite all the hype, there are quite a few low level quests that didn’t get dumbed down.

Generally, ones with multiple elite mobs (Dun Mordor) for example are now all non elite, but single targets (like Mord’lam) are all still elite and bitchy.

By: wowpanda

wowpanda — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:53:15 +0000

chicogrande, I am still in a bad shape. Because I don’t that much time to play, so my gears are all +heal and +dmg to make sure I can play solo. I will check my toon again to make sure.

And this is to Dearic. Agreed. I am still far from heroic stuff, just regular stuff is giving me enough headaches. Good thing Blizzard is making the pre 60 quests solo able. They should do the same to TBC. So far dungeon runs has been huge money sinks for me.

By: Dearic

Dearic — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:05:16 +0000

So where does ZA fit on the difficulty scale?

I assume it’s harder than Kara, but is it now the “next” raid instance you take your 10 man raid to after Kara, or do you have to bulk up to 25 raiders to get the gear to survive in the new 10 man raid?

I’m not sure how I feel about the Heroic key requirements honestly. Sure it makes it a lot easier to get geared up from the position I’m in…. But it’s also likely to encourage many people to do Heroic dungeons who are just not ready for them. Leading to an overall downgrading of the experience from a few wipes per run to a wipe every 5 minutes. Like yesterday, when some idiot thought the solution to the tank shortage we were experiencing was to bring in a fury / arms warrior with 9k hp to be our tank. (My connection got extremely unstable all of the sudden when the idiot shaman announced that.)

By: nordee

nordee — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:52:26 +0000

Heroic keys now available at Honored?

That’s a big change that no one seems to have mentioned.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:47:49 +0000

I’m sure the healers will enjoy their inner demons alot more with this change lol

By: chicogrande

chicogrande — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:03:24 +0000

@wowpanda

From the patch notes:

Healing: Almost all items and enchantments that provide bonus healing now also provide a smaller number (approximately 1/3) of bonus spell damage. There are a few items and enchantments where this was not possible, such as random-stat items and Zul’Gurub enchantments, but this is now the case on virtually all other items.

In my case, my priest has about 1830 +healing, which is currently translating to around 698ish spell dmg, without the need to don a patchwork set of dps gear. Smite baby, smite.

By: wowpanda

wowpanda — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:51:47 +0000

Holy priest are able to do some damage now? Where did that come from? I didn’t see that from the release notes. Thought Blizz only care about reducing our powers instead of increasing them (that is their rep).

Fishing is not too bad as long as you are not doing that on your time lol.

By: chicogrande

chicogrande — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:34:51 +0000

Maxing fishing on multiple characters is insane. One is bad enough as it is. My Magical Crawdad Box is my badge of honor. Of course now that holy priests got all this uber-spell-dmg I can actually go kill some stuff vs. fishing all the time.