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

Lol, technically Nefarian is a badass because his father Deathwing is a bigger badass in WC2.

BTW, your post really melt faces in this thread

But how many shadow priests are actually going to spec into affinity and resolve together just for raiding? And Horde side doesn't get BoS. Good luck at getting shaman tranquil air just for yourself. You have to pretty great to manage mana on nonstop trash pulls. Even if you somehow don't oom in your dps gear, consider the mana to dps conversion of throwing a SWP vs renew on a warlock.

My opinion: raiding is not the time to have fun. It's hard to actually have fun in a raid, regardless of class. Do your job, and you get your phat dps loot to melt faces in PvP, now that's the fun part.

Aggroboy and perhaps to many other wow players outside may have bias perceptions against shadowpriest well i am here to answer a few questions. I've started WoWing approximately 14 months ago during the xmas/pre new year rush, but i wasnt constantly playin my toon due to sucky pc specs and i level myself from mid 50's to 60 last year nov. i respec from shadow to holy/disc to help out my new guild as they were startin to clear ZG and so. Later, i respec to shadow/disc when my guild was up to domo and we have quite a number of healers so no problem and everyone was cool with my decision. DKP wise wasnt really FFA, but i was shadow so i was able to bid on + DMG and Healing.



I feel that its not the matter of how many are going to spec into affinity and silent resolve. I feel that it's a responsibility and learnIIplaytheirclass honestly. IF ure a shadowpriest and considering to PvE this both talents are a must, again i stress the word must That's what i said in the previous post i believe leveling a toon to 60 is simple, but understanding and mastering the full potential of ur toon is hard.



Sadly, my shadowpriest is not on the horde side so i am not too sure about the BoS thingy on the horde side. But to be frank, most of the time i dont get the BoS buff, i always ask for kings and BoW with the -45% aggro talent imho its totally sufficient to control ur aggro, just watch ur DPS and also fade when necessary? Besides that as a shadowpriest PVE spec, u have to know ur roles u dont just DPS all the way, u also have a fole of decursing,VE healing, DPS and also not too mention emergency backup heals. If a priest is topping the damage meters u have to know somethin is not wrong.

DPS role: Shadow Priests CAN be number one in the damage charts, but a good SP almost NEVER will, because that means he has been A) focusing too much on upgrading his damage gear at the expense of his healing gear, B) being risky with agro, C) been neglecting his other duties of keeping up the tanks (even in full DPS mode you can still bubble if theres trouble), or D) some combination of the above. Shadow Priests have no unique DPS abilities persay, but their three damage spells are more than adequate. 1. SWP, the best DoT in the game. 2. Mind Blast, a high damage burst spell on an 8 second cooldown (though for most SPs this is reduced to somewhere between 5.5-6.5 seconds) that causes high agro (though for many SP builds, they have 45% aggro reduction. Add in the 30% from Blessing of Salvation, and aggro becomes almost negligible). 3. Mind Flay, arguably the most mana-efficient damage spell in the game, 3 second channeled no cooldown. Based on these 3 spells you can probably guess that your raids SP will focus on slapping down his DoT, and then blast away at a single target. Vampiric Embrace only strengthens this trend by giving the SP all the more reason to focus on a single target. At this, the SP is amazing, just dont expect him to bust out an AoE anytime for you, and dont expect his mana pool to last as long as a mages or warlocks despite MFs efficiency, as they just dont have the gear or talents to compete (not to mention the SP will most often be interspersing his damage with bubbles and/or heals) taken from the wow forums.



Again, its all about to learnIIplay and speaking from experience allthough during my 14 month play time ive never been up to nefarian or even pass broodlord only up to vael i've no problem with my mana raiding as a shadowpriest really. u have 40 ppl raiding if the 39 other members wipe because of one shadowpriest OOM and drinkin i think u shud /gquit imho. I 've around 6.2K + buff in MY DPS gear approximately +350 Damage and healing. Yes i do run out of Mana during the continious pull, so what i do is just be alert drink quickly asap durin the interval of each pull works fine for me.

My opinion: raiding is not the time to have fun. It's hard to actually have fun in a raid, regardless of class. Do your job, and you get your phat dps loot to melt faces in PvP, now that's the fun part.

Why do u raid if u're not having fun? Nevertheless as a healer or shadowpreist melting face in BWL i am still havin lots of fun, especially ure guild is in attempt of trying a new boss and remember the continious death and try finally u get to kill him and the phat loot? priceless.

and u guys can read this link for my details, for any more question about SP and concept ill try my best to answer

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...mp=1#post794184

^ can those with international accounts play in taiwan server??

Nope...TW servers run on different gamecards

personally i'd go with rod of ogre magi and stick with it unless i get AB exalted, bloodfang or azuresong mageblade. already have bloodfang so threw away the rod. mages should go fo more damage instead of stats, excluding stamina....they need that a lot.

shadow priests run out of mana pretty fast, especially when PVPing. not every shadow priest gets the 45% aggro reduction. well i don't. so to compensate for that i only use mind flay when in instances or when farming with a group. i still grab aggro. but the mobs usually die before reaching me or i just fear it away. IMO SPs have the highest dps in the game. but their mana pool doesn't last long enough to be considered a proper dps class in raids.
i've done the Dukes in silithus once with just 3 people; 2 SPs and 1 mage. we didn't succeed but got it down to 10%. just played with aggro the whole fight. one of the reasons we died was because we aggroed 5 mobs with fears .......excluding the sheep wandering around.

benediction ftw!

if ure in darkiron...meet me outside orgrimmar...i will pwnjoo wtfbbqpwnsauce.

Started in Feb 2005 with a friend. Got my first mount at lvl 55... was so happy...

Joined a small-sized guild of barely 10 people, we did combined MC raids with other guilds... cleared all the way and downed Majordomo before the combined raid split up...

Our guild swelled to 200, downed Onyxia and then Ragnaros...

Guild drama, some split off to make their own guild, losing nearly half our ranks and geared people. They too progressed fast on their own, but we recovered and continued farming Ragnaros... Our numbers grew back to 200 again...

Got my epic mount from AV... Found out I have now at least 20 epics on my main... I basically stopped PvE at this point due to work, but my guild went on.

Downed Razorgore after 3 weeks, downed Vael 2 weeks later...

Downed Broodlord in another 2, then the 3 drakes in the same week...

and yesterday, Chrommagus went dead...

Now I've completely quit the game, giving my account for a friend to play PvP with since his main is on a RP server with full tier 2 and bored of PvE. He has now made rank 10 with my char, and with his drive, might get rank 13 soon...

Lots of things happened while I was in WoW. Some fun memories, some pleasant, some made me laugh, some made me cringe and others made me wanna strangle people.

I should be missing this game a lot, but strangely... I don't feel much.

hey hey, i have a lv18 shaman. i wanna know if shamans are useful for endgame raids. what are the usual roles for shamans? for now i plan to invest my talent points in elemental and restoration.

Fret not, you will be useful in End Game. It's the Rogues who have to worry about their usefulness.

I started together with friends near Nov/Dec 2004...

Due to my work commitments (I'm in the design/advertising industry) I've off and on WoW.

But one of my friends has gone surpassed and done MC, BWL and now conquering AQ40 and the 4 outdoor green dragons.

Anyways, I'm on Spinebreaker (Alliance) with a few other fellow malaysians.

This post has been edited by kawaii74: May 17 2006, 03:41 PM

Yeah i noticed alots of Autosurf(ss15) players play on Spinebreaker

Hey, u are from blackrock? Emi or Inq?

Well I do notice others as well... I've only met a few... some from Dragonmaw and Stormscale.

Which server are you from?

any luxurious cc in kl got tis lui play geh

i am inq. Are u from BR?

I must say, i'm the only one who truely finds the joy in healing and being the silent numbers that keep the raid together.

It's true i miss my shadow days. It's also true us priest melt faces one on one in a given scenario.

Then again, i always knew what the priest was meant for.

I envy you for being one of the remaining strong shadow priest/priestess around. Its a joy to have that fun doing dmg.

While i may never make a video of myself showing big heal numbers and countless victories over a duel or a horde encounter. I can only hope that your resolve will last till version X.XX for a full fledge video of your abilities in and out of the field.

Enough to keep people from yappering away from you being too shadowy, and not being what you are "suppose" to be.

I suppose we can't do justice with the heals and dmg all together. Phat loot blurs the faces of the men and woman who heal their way to conquest.

I would love to play on WoW but sadly TMNET is kind of screwing up our connectionn lately except for Autosurf which always looks like they have good latency. I live in the same area and always bad latency. And, the last thing I heard WoW is based on XML data streams not freakin' p2p.

I talked to one of the owners of autosurf that play WoW as well, seems like they have a special broadband connection the the US. Thats why their connection is always good. RM10k a month connection if i remember correctly.

thats a kickass connection.. o_o good thing i live nearby. hoho.. shall try it out one of these days.

Yeah.. i just went over the weekend coz my home connection was all screwy, prolly due to the cable bocor like what tm.net.my said. Anyways, autosurf's connection was between 300-500 on average with so many ppl playing. z0mgwtfhax..


Cheap also.. took a 3 hour package for rm5. Theres 6 and 9 hours package too..and dont have to restart PC after time runs out.. just go to the counter to top up the normal rate or another package.

Edit: Also found out that they sell top up cards at RM115...Pro

This post has been edited by Bogardan: Jun 5 2006, 12:55 PM

Autosurf has been the cafe I've been playing at since... Diablo 2 (LAN game) days LOL.

Yeah they are always upgrading which is good.

If you go there often, u might get a VIP rate. Yeah, I have a VIP rate.

Wheee, finally a place selling topup cards near my lepak area.
No need go all the way to kl to find.

I lost my VIP card.. i got it in 1999. Ah.. those were the days.. CS for 12 hours straight. I grew up in Autosurf.

gamers.com.my in ss2 sell Rm 105 oni the top up...just bough it 3 days ago

LOL I used to Starcraft and WC3 12 hours too. Those were the days.

oh thats cool.. but autosurf is like 5 mins away for me.. so gg.. not gonna drive all the way there for a rm10 discount.

Yeah, autosurf is excellent. What is the rate like with an VIP card? Will be much nicer if autosurf uses headphones because I mostly play at home. I love to play it quiet with WoW volume turn off and with vent and soft background mp3 music. The lagging issues can be so frustrating sometimes. To be honest, WoW and streamyx was even better when I was on 384kbps line and I hardly drop back then and have never drop in 40man raids. With 1Mbps, I drop more often. I can't wait for the government to open up the lines for competitors, kind of blows right now.

started in late may i guess...all my friends started 1 year before me...and now i join in...

lvl 33 orc hunter currently ...

realm spirestone