World Of Warcraft

Oh great so my hunter can visibly reek from his armpits in HD. /s

But srsly fuck the hunter T6. T5 is way cooler.

Druid tier 6 is one of the few tiers that are actually ok.

Big fan of priest T6 as well but the off color was the best, it took me months to gather.

edited 20th Jan '17 3:59:25 AM by Memers

I'd murder someone for HD Mage T5/S2.

Murder Mobs, true, but murder nontheless

Luckily for me, Paladin tier 6 looks good, though it always bothered me that the headpiece was a floating circlet instead of a helm.

Compiled the icons for the tier 20 paladin set.◊ You can tell the belt and boots are different, and I imagine that the cloth on the chest and legs will be given 3D models, since Blizzard have started doing that. Also there's a matching cloak.

As for differences between difficulties, the Warrior set at least has different helms in normal◊ and mythic◊, so we will probably see more of the sets have notable differences.

EDIT: Tier 20 armor sets are up on mmo-champion, though some of them are unfinished, like the Paladin set lacking 3D armor on the boots and gloves. Really loving the Warrior and Priest sets, especially the mythic variants.

edited 21st Jan '17 8:42:09 AM by StormKnight

Call of the Scarab was fun, but three days a year is miserly. I was only able to do anything on one character.

And the Horde was about 13/11 ahead last I looked. They have the more dedicated players.

It had the effect of bringing a lot of elemental crafting reagents into the economy. I hope they circulate for a while, they became very expensive now that completionists like me are collecting the appearances of old crafted gear.

Clarification on the new 7.2 artifact traits. After you complete a quest to unlock the new traits, all the artifact power you've spent on the 35+ trait will be refunded, so you can redistribute as you like.

Also in case it was missed, mmo-champion uploaded the tier 20 sets, though some of them (like the Paladin set) are unfinished.

edited 25th Jan '17 4:03:22 PM by StormKnight

Interesting. So, if you've unlocked your 35th trait or higher, you'll get all the extra AP you spent refunded, and can immediately spend it on new traits. AP tokens earned before 7.2 won't work after 7.2 drops, so there's no point in hoarding them.

Wowhead has found a number of awesome NPC weapons in 7.2, including this amazing Silver Hand sword◊. Really hoping they somehow find a way to give us that sword as a transmog despite artifacts.

Wowhead is also posting tier 20 armor, including the Paladin set with 3D pieces (which were missing on the mmo-champion version).

Also new creature models, including an updated abomination. Also new tabards.

edited 2nd Feb '17 4:33:04 AM by StormKnight

Uh, why does the Draenei Hunter guy have seagulls chasing him? :S

Did you ever go to Eye of Azshara?

Not yet.

About time the Abomination was updated. Still I don't think I'll use it on my Death Knight because it feels thematically wrong for a knight to have a bigger, stronger-looking sidekick. It would suit a necromancer fine. And I have glyphed my ghoul to be a geist since Cataclysm because they are higher-resolution and since the knight is a male troll, the two crouching figures fit right besides each other.

Though looking at the official art for abominations, I find it strange that nearly all have two bulky arms with a cleaver and chain and an appendage with a hook. Surely the point of such monsters is that they were cobbled from mutilated corpses, so each would have a different plan? Obviously in the game animations and models need to be cloned but the artists should not feel so restricted. It's not the only case where I feel artists, including fanartists, are adhering too closely to game models, but it is one of the most glaring.

Just like all generic dragons use palette swaps of black dragons even though all greens have long heads like the nightmare dragons or all blues have bat-like wings as Malygos and Kalecgos have them.

So it looks like they are letting players spend Wo W Tokens on Battle.net balance. They talked about doing this at the last Blizz Con, and the game has technically been able to support this since 7.1.5 went live, but they didn't activate the feature until today.

This has caused a massive shortage of the tokens and the price is spiking way up. They had been hovering around 60k for most of the expansion, but they've shot up to about 74k since the update went into effect.

Might buy a couple myself if the price stabilizes at a semi-reasonable level. I've got a gigantic pile of gold at the moment and not a whole lot to spend it on and I've been thinking about race-changing an alt or two. Or I could use it to funnel my Wo W gold into Overwatch loot boxes.

You can see the exact time the prices started rising.

I spent about half my gold to buy Star Craft II Legacy Of The Void and the Nova DLC pack hehe.

Hmm, it's a good thing I'd already bought my account time out to June or so...

Some are predicting that the price will likely hit 200k per in a month or so, good thing I am paid up through August.

From the data I'm seeing, it looks like the cost has actually peaked already. It's already starting to crash on the European realms, and there's signs it's about to in the Americas.

There's a (non-Blizzard) site that tracks the cost across all regions that I'm using.

I'm guessing it'll stabilize somewhere in the 80-100k range in the Americas region.

Edit—-

Definitely starting to crash on the American realms. Dropped about 2k since it peaked at about 115.5k in the past hour.

edited 7th Feb '17 10:24:37 AM by Falrinn

Never Mind that, the price is back to 66K. That's just crazy.

Sweet, that's where I'm willing to pay gold for it again.

They're going back up (and then down) again. Probably going to fluctuate a lot before it finally settles.

edited 9th Feb '17 12:28:22 AM by stingerbrg

Some pretty spoiler-y voice lines from Patch 7.2 have been datamined.

The biggest takeaway for me is that Bolvar has "plans".

edited 9th Feb '17 5:21:09 PM by LordVatek

He wouldn't be the lich king if he wasn't spending his moments plotting. It's part of the job.

Honestly, the idea that anyone, even/including Bolvar Fordragon, could resist the Lich King for too long is silly. Fordragon's sacrifice did end the Northrend War, but I doubt he ever expected to hold it back forever.

Also, this is making me wish I could experience the story without going back to the game. It's just not fun to play anymore.

edited 9th Feb '17 5:42:34 PM by RedSavant