What is the playerbase from M'sia on US servers now (about 14 months after release)?

Anyone still around or just started recently?

BTW, feel free to ask any questions about anything related to WoW (Alliance side preferrebly).. weapons, tactics, farming areas, boss strategies etc.. I will try my best to offer some advice.

I have a lvl 60 paladin on Blackrock which i have raided with in one of the top guilds of the server (alliance side). We clear MC with 35ppl in 3 hours and 15 minutes, BWL in 3.5 hours on a good day and Ony in 7 mins average (4-5mins fastest).

Basically, i have seen all the end game content up to c'thun stage 2, so i might b able to help with some issues that anyone might be facing.

Started work, so taking a break indefinetly from WOW. Might transfer to a server with more Malaysians when open transfers are imlpemented for a fee. Changed my mind about selling account, sorry admin/moderator, didnt read forum rules b4 posting.

I started in January but didn't play much after my initial 14 day trial.. (Got to limit level 20 within 6 days)..Activated the 30 day but barely logged on since alot of schoolwork..
Anyway..
Spinebreaker level 20 mage (Horde)
Tichondrious level 6 druid (Horde)
Doomhammer level 17 paladin (Alliance)

But din play much beyond that xD

I intend to continue WoW, but later la.. when II've more free time ^^

Well, i've started playin wow during it's initial release christmas 2004, didn't really started playin untill last year october last year, my guild is currently only at vael, i'm a shadowpriest, and having no problems with it. i've a question i've read numerous posting of shadowpriest in high end guilds but yet to see any high end guilds in my server, proudmoore taking any, what about blackrock?

This post has been edited by nVidiaFX: Apr 28 2006, 01:00 PM

I'll be honest with u, holy priests can contribute much more in terms of healing in endgame dungeons. Therefore, u will find that being flexible in respeccing to holy will make u much more marketable to better guilds. However, generally priests are well accepted and sought after by all guilds big or small. Should u choose not to respec holy, it will be advisable to never be in shadowform while learning an encounter, or while raiding a dungeon that the guild is not consistent at clearing yet.

If u enjoy being a dpspriest, imho, do it on ur own time, and not at the expense of a few raid members or the entire raid.

PS. Dwarf priests are > than any other alliance race priest coz of fearward in pve.

This post has been edited by Bogardan: Apr 28 2006, 04:33 PM

I started playing this early Feb (late starter... LOL) and have gotten my Mage to 50 and Warrior to 28 so far with work commitments and all. I had my eye on the Glowing Brightwood Staff but recently it seems no one is selling it. My question is... should I save my hard earned gold on something else if I do happen to stumble upon this fantastic staff on sale?

Thanks in advance! Oh btw I play on Aggramar with 6 other Malaysians all of which are my RL friends. Kinda got each other hooked on WOW. Hehehe!

glowing brightwood staff was the best staff during the time i was playing (which is like a year ago)
now don't even bother with it
there are much better staves

Oh yeah, during BWL encounters even i've not told to do so i'll be always off shadowform but in MC is a diffrent story nuke all the way. I guess so holy or disc priest are much favour in all guilds, well i'm happy with what i am doing atm just lookin for the right guild as my guild only raid every weekends and weekdays for 20man, i'm lookin forward to raid daily.

on the contary...for my guild in Dark Iron, we do MC with pretty much a full squad for shadow priest.. which is 5 pure shadow spec priests and 1 disc priest. i have no idea why this is so, and i believe holy priests are better in raids cuz they got more mana...we only got 1 warrior as our main tank and our other 2 off tanks are feral druids....and we still manage to complete MC in about 4-5 hours.....

so...i think the way u play ur respective characters is more important. just having a cookie cutter character doesnt make u a good player .

right now im in jubei thos...

That's just through, well i'm not tryin to be a lil arrogant or wat, but atm i can truely say i really know how to play my class, whenever i do mc/bwl i'm always on the top 10 of both damage and healing which my vampiric heals 30% of my shadow damage done my SWP: ticks for 2400 over 12 seconds, continious mindflay+mindblast heals like 1000 per 8 second.

Hmmm...maybe thats why shadow spec priests are more in demand for high end raids in my server....the only reason priests go holy is so that benediction is quest is much easier (well as far as when i played my old priest in dragonmaw is concerned).

nevertheless, a shadow priest is invaluable in scholomace and blackrock spire now...their ability to silence casters is very useful...especially when the mage in ur party is sleeping .

one word of advise though...if u want to heal..heal all the way...if not...dps all the way...dont change ur style halfway cuz mindblast gets u tonnes of aggro...

Well, you can afford to use a full squad of shadow priests for MC because its not hard. I assure you that u wont go far with a full squad of shadow priests in BWL or AQ40. The healing that ur MT will be needing is insane.

Good guilds will know that priests, pallies and druids role in raids is strictly healing and cleansing (decursing, blessing etc..). DPS will be left to DPS classes = rogues, warriors, mages, hunters. So, theres no need really for any of the healing classes to 'help' with dps. 1 or 2 Shadow priests out of 6-8 priests during a raid might not have much impact on healing in MC or Ony, but will be in BWL and AQ40 content.

The best way to make a decision on whether its alright to be in shadowform for a raid is to see how many people are dead after each raidboss. IMO, if its more than 5, you need to heal more than dps.

AQ40 pretty much needs BWL or at least MC gear. Priests without 10k+ (or close to 10k) mana buffed will find that they will not have enough mana to last the encounters (TwinEmps specifically). Also, if your MT isnt topped up at all times at 10k hp during 2Emps, its GG (unbalancing strike hits you for 6000+ damage with 9k armor).

This post has been edited by Bogardan: Apr 29 2006, 08:58 AM

GBS was good in its day, but as someone said, dont waste gold on it unless its a bargain. Go with Rod of the Ogre Magi (DM North), raid with a good guild to get something to replace.. Azuresong Mageblade etc. Just my 2c.

This post has been edited by Bogardan: Apr 29 2006, 08:59 AM

another good staff to replace GBS is trindlehaven staff from LBRS.

have a 60 priest + 60 hunter on cenarius, famous guilds like, the sundering, heist and afterlife are there... all are awesome in end game raids... as a matter of fact afterlife and heist were one of the 1st to down nefarian and ragnaros when the dungeons came out...

im playing with like 8-10 malaysians on this server... very nice enviroment... pvp sux for the alliance side.. alliance:horde = 4:1... horde pvp haven ...

Played like for 1 year and yet never got a chance to get super high end game epics (stop during 1.5-1.7 patch...A-lvls exam and searching for freaking gamecard)

I have a lvl 60 Shaman in Zuljin currently rank 10 and pvping full time. Guild is quite casual and have lots of funny people. We are doing all sorts of idiotic things in the game.

i have a lvl 60 Gnome warlock in Magtheridon. Lol, he is hibernating for a very long time. Regretted choosing gnome, model animation looks like crap, IMO. (But gnome warriors look damn funny, especially when they charge)

Theres other alts too...all around lvl 20-40.

Shadow priest is one heck of an aggro machine, and they oom pretty fast. Having a priest tossing renews to warlocks is more efficient in mana/dps conversion, keeps raid dps going during nonstop trash pulls when mages are nearly dry.

That's show that u dont know how to play ur priest or evenshadowpriest well and certainly dosent know the mechanics of the game, only noobs go oom even i have to say that. It would be only take a retard to get aggro with talent help - 45% aggro talent + 30% (salvation) thats -75% aggro management not too mention with help of fade. sigh. QFT

Lol, shadow priest is famous for MELTING FACES in battlegrounds.

ARGHHH, my face is melting..

Lol, this thread is turning into a shadow priest thread

Shouldnt PvP rock for alliance? Short bg queues.. lots of horde to kill...

Dear friends,

Priests have a hard life. Day in, day out, we spend so much of our time trying to keep you up in battle. Back when you were duking it out with Morgraine in the monestary, there we were in the back, feeding you health so you we could clear the instance. And then there we were in Mauradon. You insisted that you didn't need a shield to tank the princess, my mana bar begged to differ, but nevertheless, I kept you up, and did so thanklessly.

And now we raid- it's no different, except now I get to use dispel more frequently. While you're distracting Onyxia, there I am, silently sitting in the back, casting away so the raid doesn't wipe.

So you see, we priests have a hard job, and every once in a while we need a break. This is warcraft, after all, a game all about killing things, and even we, yes, we, the healbots, enjoy killing something every now and then. At level 60, the best place to do this is in Battlegrounds.

I understand when you get frustrated at the idea of me not healing you in battlegrounds. Really, I do. When you say "Lern2playurclass," however, I start to get upset. Lern2play, indeed. Have you ever seen the shadow tree? Not a whole lot of healing there. Why did blizzard create the tree, then? It seems to me that if blizzard didn't intend for us to kill stuff, just like you, then they wouldn't have included shadow at all. But there it is, right in front of our faces, plain as day but dark as night, and there you are nagging me to heal you.

Warcraft lore is also full of shadow priests, as well, and boy, are they nasty things. Take Nefarian, for example. Nef's a shadow priest. Well, actually, he's technically a dragon, but for all intents and purposes, he's a shadow priest when he's in human form. He mind controls, turns purple and stuff. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But anyway, how the hell do you think Nef got to where he is today, by quietly sitting in the back and tossing a flash heal every now and again to his chums? No, Nef got to where he was by MELTING !&$%ING FACE AND DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN HIS PATH, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I INTEND TO DO. I'M NOT YOUR PERSONAL !&$%ING HEALBOT, YOU UNGRATEFUL #@%$!. PLEASE, AFFORD ME THE LUXURY OF NOW HAVING TO BE AN EXTENSION OF YOUR HEALTH BAR FOR ONCE. I'M HERE TO KILL STUFF, JUST LIKE YOU, SO STEP OFF. THIS ISN'T BRD.

AND LEARN TO SPELL IT RIGHT. PRIEST. P-R-I-E-S-T. "I" BEFORE "E," MOTHER!&$%ER!


rofl. true in a way

This post has been edited by nVidiaFX: May 1 2006, 07:04 PM