LFG 3.3 First day experiences

Well i have to say it makes boxing alot more fun and less tideous. So here is my first 3 dungeons

1. HOL -- dammit i think, then realize i can easily kill the first 2 bosses by the time the debuff wears off so i go ahead and do that (for some reason i die alot on lightning guy so i leave as not to waste gold)

2 UK--hmm have not been here for a long time so give it a whirl and bam first two Emblems of Frost

3 ToC --nice i think get mounted up and server crashes --oh well try again later

Love instant teleports, love getting emblems and 26 gold and dont have to turn it in anywhere.

Hate servers after big patch day

How did your day go?

***Logged in same as before with team chose random dungeon, load screen went think it was UP but ported me back to dala and gave me 15 min debuff? weird

do you get 26 gold for every run?
and the frost emblems?

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Originally Posted by heyaz

do you get 26 gold for every run?
and the frost emblems?

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I believe you only get that for every FIRSt random heroic of the day that you do.

Yes, and 13g +2 triumph for every subsequent one in the same day.

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Originally Posted by Maxion

Yes, and 13g +2 triumph for every subsequent one in the same day.

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Which is still nothing to complain about. This is nice for normal people, awesome for heroic-capable boxers.

Additional Instances cannot be launched, Please try again later.

Well, my day was terrible, i was getting a patching error, i just got it to work :( and now i can't even play, how is that for bad?

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Originally Posted by Liamstriker

Well, my day was terrible, i was getting a patching error, i just got it to work :( and now i can't even play, how is that for bad?

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I've got to do a lab for my EE class and I'm still waiting on a replacement fuse for my ammeter so I can't take the necessary measurements. Trade you?

i was plagued with the inability to login. kept disconnecting me before itd even load the character selection screen. new patch days is one reason im glad i play opposite hours of everyone else...

guess my day isnt that bad i got logged in and able to do 2/3 of the new instances before being booted to dalaran. now its just instances full over and over i should just do the random heroic feature!

It's like the people that used to schedule raids on Tuesdays. The server isn't stable on Tuesdays, and if it's playable at all on a patch Tuesday you can count yourself ahead.

Basically updated all my addons and fixed all the weirdness related to those.

I did manage to zone into FoS normal (once I found the damn place!), but didn't do much due to instability concerns.

I tried the new LFG function and it sent me to Occulus and then crashed. Just wanted to try it out, never intended to run anything tonight.

Things look very promising so far.

I couldn't even get on my server until around 7:30est, and by then it was time for raid. So we cleared out what's available in ICC and killed XT for the raid weekly quest. But after that I was able to at least do one pug with my three box team.

I think it took less than five minutes til I got paired with a tank and healer for CoS. I got the loading screen, and then it sat there for like 3 minutes, and then I was back in Dalaran with the debuff and the tank and healer bailed. But the LFG interface popped up with a "A member has left your group, would you like to try and replace them?" so I said yes to that and it got me a new tank and healer in just a couple minutes and allowed me to actually port to the instance.

From there it was pretty much smooth sailing. They had never run with a multiboxer before, but seemed to accept it as an unusual but acceptable practice. And the DE roll is so convenient. I was honestly hoping for a greater reaction, since I still get people on my server who seem wary about grouping with me and then tank or heal one of my heroic runs and are absolutely blown away.

It's currently 1 am CST, and i STILL can't log in. I manage to get to the character selection screen and then get the "you have been disconnected from the server" message.

I am wondering if this is realm specific, or possibly location related.

Hopefully, it will be working when I get home from work later this morning.

Did daily random, a random heroic, and forge of souls. (would have done more but so many crashes and "too many instance errors".)

My day was AWESOME.

First, log in and do a random daily just on my tank. Halls of Stone. I chain pull the whole thing, I think Divine Plea falls off maybe once. Easy kill.

Next it's raid time with my guild. We kill the first two ICC 25 bosses, 1-shot then 5-shot, and save the other two for later in the week.

Then I scrape up 9 people for Malygos (the weekly raid quest) and we 1-shot it while getting the 6 minute achievement.

I fire up the 5-box team and queue for a random heroic and get Violet Hold. Easy bosses, the rest of my team gets all their free frost emblems.

Tomorrow I will attempt the new 5-mans...

My first draw was ... Oculus. Hrm. I'd only tried this on regular and failed badly, but gave it a shot on heroic and wiped at Eregos. I think I grasp the fight now, but I'll try it again some other time ... didn't wanna spend all of 3.3 Day One messing with Oculus macros, y'know?

Second was UtK. Nooo problem. First two Emblems of Frost, woot! Then UP, which always scares me even though Skadi isn't the brick wall he used to be. Got through it with only one almost-wipe. And persuaded Svala to kill a Scourge Hulk for the achievement.

Now I'm in FoS, having just completed my ten-minute corpserun. Finding the goddamn portal is MURDER when you haven't seen it outside of ghost-o-vision. Is there a way to turn that shit off, or turn it down? It's a very pretty effect except when it's frustrating the hell out of you because everything is light bluey grey on light bluey grey, with shades of light bluey grey for contrast. FoS itself is all right, but it's moving slowly enough right now that it's not exactly fun, just interesting to see something new.

Well, back to it ...

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Originally Posted by Malekyth

Finding the goddamn portal is MURDER when you haven't seen it outside of ghost-o-vision. Is there a way to turn that shit off, or turn it down?

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Video > Effects > Death Effect

You can also try Full Screen Glow, I don't recall if that did anything to the severity of the death effect.

Bless ye, Khatovar. :)

The new dungeon finder is quite nice. No more flying around to get to instances, free emblems for using the random option and some extra gold.

And to my surprise: The system isn't too picky with lockout timers. Ran 3 daily heroics with my main team and decided to use my healer to get emblems of frost with another team of mine. Even though my priest was locked to DTK, OK and HoL I got into another DTK. Well, easy heroic ftw. :)

had a group with 3 dps, and found a healer and tank within minutes of jumping on the system.

did 2/3 new heroics. they decided to reset right when we got to HoR. cleaned up some trash and got the first boss down. battered hilt dropped and i lost the roll miserably to the tank from another server. maybe tomorrow will be better for me (also need some weighted dice, mine dont roll for shit). while they seemed pretty easy, a bad group could easily fail in there. so far though i havent found anything about the heroics i dont like.

Once the servers finally came up and I fixed all the UI errors I drew Old Kingdom as my random. Not my favorite instance but competed it for my emblems. Next attempt random instance was not found and I still got the debuff, which was annoying. Waited it out pulled Gundrak which was easy enough. Third attempt instance not found again and got debuff again. Just ran H ToC instead of waiting for debuff and called it a night.

Overall I think this is a pretty cool tool. Having to find groups (before making my own) got old fast.

Well, the patch went off flawless, but I struggled with dungeons.

I did my dailies, was happy to see some rep increases for Frosthold and the Explorer's league from quests and heroic dungeons. That means I can take those two out-of-the-way daily quests off of my rotation.

I attempted to do the random heroic and was given Utgarde Pinnacle. I gave it a shot, first two bosses down easy-peasy. Skadi's trash then proceeded to wipe the floor with me.

I'm confident I could kill him no problem. But I just couldn't handle killing adds and launching the harpoons at the same time. I used my tank to launch the harpoons. I did it using the reset glitch, and to be honest, I think I may have better luck just going through the guantlet the normal way.

After a few deaths, I gave up and tried the random dungeon option again. It attempted to load CoS. I was pretty excited about that, but then I received an error message that it was, "Unable to find the instance." and I got kicked back out to the map and got the 15 minute "deserter" debuff. At that point, I basically said, "F it." and just ran Grundrak and went to bed.

At least Gundrak was easy :P

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Originally Posted by Javilon

Next attempt random instance was not found and I still got the debuff, which was annoying. Waited it out...

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I've been getting that every now and then too, but you don't have to wait (well, at least I didn't have to). My instance didn't open, but as soon as I've got back from the loading screen, I could choose to teleport to my instance from the minimap icon. Might need to use that teleport twice, but in the end it always worked for my group.

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Originally Posted by Klesh

I've been getting that every now and then too, but you don't have to wait (well, at least I didn't have to). My instance didn't open, but as soon as I've got back from the loading screen, I could choose to teleport to my instance from the minimap icon. Might need to use that teleport twice, but in the end it always worked for my group.

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Oooh, that's good to know. I'll be sure to remember to use that. I want to get my badges of Frost!

Thanks Klesh, I didn't actually try it after I got the debuff. That's good to know.

The instance not found thing is cause instance servers have been repeatedly going down since the patch.

I was lucky and got CoS for my random hero and blazed through it. Went to the new 5 mans on normal, got through FoS and PoS, doing the quest chain (with EoF rewards). Entered HoR and all 5 toons could move but nothing around them was moving. Could not zone out, could not stone, stuck button didn't work, and could not log out! As usual chat was working fine... someone said levitate was working to get up the last ramp in HoR to the flying boat, so if the bug is still there tonight I might grab my priest for the workaround to finish the instance.

I plan on going back to Heroic versions of the new 5 mans tonight if the stability is there.

Did anyone else who did the normal versions of the new 5 mans get badges off the bosses? I did and I thought it was wierd at the time. I remember thinking is this on heroic, then I looked at the ilvl on the drops and it was 219 (normal) not 232 (heroic). If this is true... Triumph badge farming just got yet another boost.

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Originally Posted by jettzypher

had a group with 3 dps, and found a healer and tank within minutes of jumping on the system.

did 2/3 new heroics. they decided to reset right when we got to HoR. cleaned up some trash and got the first boss down. battered hilt dropped and i lost the roll miserably to the tank from another server. maybe tomorrow will be better for me (also need some weighted dice, mine dont roll for shit). while they seemed pretty easy, a bad group could easily fail in there. so far though i havent found anything about the heroics i dont like.

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OMG! There is zero tanking rewards from the battered hilt! He's probably gonna sell it for 10k or transfer to an alt.

I just took my solo-box main toon (rogue) and did the first two heroics. All we could manage with the "additional instances cannot be launched" crap. I got the battered hilt, so my rogue will have a 251 MH sword soon. Also got a sidegrade 232 hat and an upgrade from my 213 thrown to a 232 crossbow.

yeah...but w/e. im gonna do heroics over and over anyways, ill get one soon...

blizzard locked my account after i tried to do a faction change for the second time.....

so my experience was...didnt play and i doubt i will be tonight either or the next few days after that. those who contact billing support will understand :mad:

bah....makes me mad if you ever decide to move your team 5x faction change 5x tranfer and then finally 5x faction change 15 tranaction = too many transactions could flag up up something which it did :(

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Originally Posted by boxblizzard

blizzard locked my account after i tried to do a faction change for the second time.....

so my experience was...didnt play and i doubt i will be tonight either or the next few days after that. those who contact billing support will understand :mad:

bah....makes me mad if you ever decide to move your team 5x faction change 5x tranfer and then finally 5x faction change 15 tranaction = too many transactions could flag up up something which it did :(

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Not trying to troll here... but seriously? You should have known that would be a red flag, called up billing or whatever and explained the situation BEFORE doing it.

Im living in a hotel right now with just a work notebook, but I has my wow! I logged in the other night on my paladin and tried the new dungeon finder. First run was Oculus. Great... However we smoked it and got the kill the ley guardian in under 20 min. Next up was halls of stone. easy. 3rd run and the healer and dps quit because I only have 27khp. 4th and 5th runs went fast. Last run was UK and again my paladin got crapped on because of my gear.

I havent soloed with other people in a LONG time because this exact attitude was the number one reason I chose to MB. However I found that I could tell quickly the quality of the group by what seal I had to use. If I had to use seal of light to outheal the healer, then it was going to be a rough run. If I had to use seal of wisdom because I was oom, it prolly ment the dps guys sucked and it took forever to kill things. But when I got to fire up Vengence and not worry about hp or mana, Things rocked hardcore. 27 badges the first night. in all I would call it a success. I give it less than 2 weeks before everyone is running around in full sets of T9 gear.