how is the 85 bracket?
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Nodoka
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hey, i might try the 85bracket so id like to know a bit about the it..
how are the random battleground queue times? EU-english realms
till which rating do you get regular 2v2 pops?
are there random oneshots like in the 70s bracket?
do you meet more than 1-3 fotm specs?
thanks
didnt u make a thread about 70's or 80's a week ago?
imo 85 bracket is fairly unbalanced I assume they are still shamans at 87 or whatevr level u get asendance and rogues are just crazy. I could be wrong thou.
Used to be a active 85 twink guild on AD 6-7 months ago at that time they had insta que up til 5 min que for random bgs pretty sure they still had AV pops at that time.
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madhombre
Legend
i made a thread about 90, thanks for your response tho
inoobupro
Banned
No idea about EU, but US queue times are 10 mins -1 hour( it fluctuates).
You dont necessarily get one shotted'( except in arenas when vs'ing double combat or MM/rogue) its mostly dying in 2-4 global CDS with the main culprits being rogues,(they gain even more tools than at 70 or 80) hunters, rets, in that order
I have no idea about EU, but alliance is always stacked with fotm agility classes and only 2 races- humans and night elves.
I used to get pissed about it but now kinda just accepted it. US alliance stacks classes like rogue, hunter, feral, monks
Casters- players only play warlocks and mages sometimes boomkins. Shaman and spriest are almost non existent( especially alliance side they stack mages and warlocks-the better of the two casters)
Melee-Aside from every agility class, (except ench shaman) , Rets and DKS own and warriors are meh
You dont necessarily get one shotted'( except in arenas when vs'ing double combat or MM/rogue) its mostly dying in 2-4 global CDS with the main culprits being rogues,(they gain even more tools than at 70 or 80) hunters, rets, in that order
I have no idea about EU, but alliance is always stacked with fotm agility classes and only 2 races- humans and night elves.
I used to get pissed about it but now kinda just accepted it. US alliance stacks classes like rogue, hunter, feral, monks
Casters- players only play warlocks and mages sometimes boomkins. Shaman and spriest are almost non existent( especially alliance side they stack mages and warlocks-the better of the two casters)
Melee-Aside from every agility class, (except ench shaman) , Rets and DKS own and warriors are meh
shanker
OG
bracket is a exaggerated mirror image of 20-24 bracket.
F2P's feed the 20-24 bracket
CATA capped players feed the 85-89 bracket. CATA capped 85s however can build a serious competive twink and is in a good scaling zone, however most 85's are broke and very ill geared
if or when MOP is added to the basic game package, this bracket will die, and 90-99 will be the next live bracket
F2P's feed the 20-24 bracket
CATA capped players feed the 85-89 bracket. CATA capped 85s however can build a serious competive twink and is in a good scaling zone, however most 85's are broke and very ill geared
if or when MOP is added to the basic game package, this bracket will die, and 90-99 will be the next live bracket
shanker
OG
my 85 only has gems in a helm and in belt due to buckle. MOP gear is easy, you can fill near all slots with drops farming rares and doing archaeology during a MOP 10 day trial. get your arch to 525 and do not train to go past that. there are alot of BOA weapons thru out MOP and there are guides where to look. last 10 day trial i did, i got near a set of doubles on all of them due to the expansion being done
Stale
Legend
Well thanks, but I don't want to gear with MoP gear
What gems did you gem in those 3 slots? Crit and plain Strength?
Flamable
Legend
Just a warning, you will pretty much do no damage without mop gear in pvp. I understand that most people like to twink for that reason but the damage without lute or mop gear wont be as good as you think. You will also most likely get bursted down in a few seconds with that little health.
Stale
Legend
So far PvP has been okay and I'm running around in ~380 gear, there's a lot less twinks in the battlegrounds than there are at any other xp-frozen levels.
But I'm mainly doing it for PvE and to collect gear, apparantely I should gem crit on everything, but I like going for socket bonuses so I'll go for Strength and +hit as well.
But I'm mainly doing it for PvE and to collect gear, apparantely I should gem crit on everything, but I like going for socket bonuses so I'll go for Strength and +hit as well.
Flamable
Legend
Hit gems for melee aren't worth it at 85 for pve and pvp imo and everyone is lvl 89 in bgs anyway. Since you are going for Dragon Soul gear, Creche of the Final Dragon - Game Guide - World of Warcraft is going to be where you get the majority of your crit from since the DS gear will give you little to no crit in bgs
Jonqui
Legend
I like this bracket, and yes I play fotm rogue and a hpally for arena's I am 2400 on both and I have to say that most of all classes in this bracket are very viable (besides a select few). I've seen warriors, dk's, priests, even a shaman all at 2200 in this bracket - which did not win-trade to get their rating. Anyone with a bit of skill and half a brain can make it in this bracket easily, even this guy up here who complains how there's no spriests, he runs one himself and a lot of times ends up coming top of the charts 20-0 (unless ppl focus him)
Oh and yes I'd stack crit! Or Str/crit, plus with full DS H gear you can do very well in BG's... Your HP gets raised to about 300k (maybe a little under) but your gear is still scaled up to about 440-450 gear.
Oh and yes I'd stack crit! Or Str/crit, plus with full DS H gear you can do very well in BG's... Your HP gets raised to about 300k (maybe a little under) but your gear is still scaled up to about 440-450 gear.
Stale
Legend
I don't get it, looks more like the hordes graveyard camped so much that alliances won't show up anymore.
The reason that it's easy to get 2.2k rating is ofcourse because there are people playing that haven't bought Cataclysm yet, it's the reason I got 1.8k during WotLK as 70 while running around in PvE-gear as Fury, winning like 30 fights in a row because there was no competition up until higher ratings.
The reason that it's easy to get 2.2k rating is ofcourse because there are people playing that haven't bought Cataclysm yet, it's the reason I got 1.8k during WotLK as 70 while running around in PvE-gear as Fury, winning like 30 fights in a row because there was no competition up until higher ratings.