PTR Spoiler/Discussion Thread (Part 3)

They will never know the apex state of the pandaren gait

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Directed by Quentin Tarantino

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I am actually quite hyped for the next patch, even if only for the HD T2 sets!

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How does one acquire the sets?

Do you need to do one specific content type, or?

Dracthyr squadron, go!

You can buy it with currency gained during the celebration!

Takes a few weeks to get all the sets, I think!

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You know, whilst its nice to see a big talent tree filled with illusion of choice, I actually kind of donā€™t like that every other patch now features half of every classā€™ talent tree getting remade in some way or changed. Especially not when the changes are so incredibly uneven.

If only we had some kind of pre-release period before launching live. Things could be tested during that period, numbers could be adjusted, mechanics redone when they donā€™t work well and so on. People could give feedback. We could even give this period a greek letter for a name.

Itā€™s good that things change, but why they change basically halfway through the season when many of those things were pointed out so long ago is beyond me.

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Can they fix Pack leader now ?

What needs fixing? If youā€™re talking about the Survival Kill Command issue, that was solved a while back.

Or is it just that the spec does miserable amounts of damage compared to Sentinel (Survival) and Dark Ranger (Beast Mastery) and the only reason to pick it is to make your pet a borderline immortal tank in delves?

Or is it the lack of any aesthetics at all?

For me, as a goblin surv hunter, itā€™s that thematically Iā€™m pidgeonholed into pack leader if I want to have a ā€œfitting themeā€. Goblin dark ranger or sentinel just feels and looks silly to me and the fact the spec kind of underperforms and is visually dull only rubs more salt on the wound.

Iā€™ve just given up on fitting themes and accepted that the hero talent system has done significant damage to the thematic consistency of gameplay.

Itā€™s particularly bad for me, since my orc hunter who grew up on the Ashenvale border with a healthy fear of all things night elven now summons a sentinel owl to aid him every fifteen seconds, but themā€™s the breaks.

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I can relate to that. My hunter experienced the events of Drustvar first hand, so he has a deep loathing for anything resembling dark, ritualistic magic. So I canā€™t envision him using the same abilities as a dark rangerā€¦

The damage being in the drain is pretty lame.

Iā€™m just very lucky that my two mains have very thematic Hero Talents. Nerathion as Wildstalker Feral Druid (melee spellcaster whose main theme is offensive vines) and my Night Elf Warrior as a Mountain Thane warrior (pseudo-warrior mysticism and latent Druidic themes summoning lightning in battle).

Iā€™m also really lucky that for my main, the hero talents are very equal to eachother in powerlevel. Just give ferals a +15% aura buff now and weā€™re gucci. :weary:

Had to already swap to Guardian to be able to pug +10s. Oh well, at least I always enjoyed the Moonbear archetype. :person_shrugging:

Its easy, I just choose what fits my characterā€¦ So my Druid is a Druid of the Claw IC, so now he also has the Druid of the Claw Hero talents lmao

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Where do you get the currency?

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Caverns of Time daily and weeklies I think???