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I have no idea how to even start Brawler's guild. I skipped MoP for the most part, but I found an item that gave me a quest to the Brawlers guild. Now I have a card to fight a Rank 6 something or other (Argh! I think is his name) and the guards keep telling me to go find an invite.

 streamdragon wrote:
I have no idea how to even start Brawler's guild. I skipped MoP for the most part, but I found an item that gave me a quest to the Brawlers guild. Now I have a card to fight a Rank 6 something or other (Argh! I think is his name) and the guards keep telling me to go find an invite.

Yeah, I got that item too.

There are a few different ways to join the Brawlers.

1.) You get an item from the black market that costs quite a lot of money. I'm not sure whether the black market is still around, though, so this might not be an option.
2.) You get the same item as a drop from one of the rare mobs in Pandaria. It apparently has a 4% drop rate from any named rare in MoP. There's also a guy who sometimes spawns at the old black market location on the Veiled Stair who has a 100% drop rate.
3.) Anyone who reaches Rank 7 in the guild gets an invite that they can dispose of as they choose.

Note that you only need one invite for all of the characters on your account.

Also, bring a group for the Rank 6 ticket fight. The first mob that spawns (I suspect there's more than one) has over 6 million hit points. Unfortunately, the quest doesn't mention that you'll need a group. The guild has always been intended as a group thing, though I don't know if the mobs introduced in MoP have had their level updated to match WoD. So it might be possible to solo some of the low ranking fights now.



Edit - You can find both of the invite items on the AH with a little luck.

I'm halfway to level 3 with the brawler's guild. I just bought the invite and cleared the first 6 bosses. I'm not sure you're allowed to group for the Brawler events now but I might try it out. The first 6 bosses are pretty soloable. I just want to get to level 5 for the follower

Also got my Core Hound mount for the Anniversary over the weekend so that was a plus.

Are there really only 3 groups to get reputation with in this expansion so far?

 Catyrpelius wrote:

How were attunements down to RNG? Most of the early ones required that you just complete a chain of quests that usually just took you into dungeon somewhere. There was the server unlocking event for Temple of Ahn'Qiraq, but I don't think thats what you were talking about. Its something I really wish they would bring back. It's something that I saw occur on several servers and it was really interesting to be a part of.

Way back at the begining of the game not every class had acess to mounts... They changed it with either the first or the second major patch, I can't remember exactly which.

There used to be quest lines for all the really major abilities, the Paladin Resurection quest line was interesting.

The first step to vanilla endgame was UBRS and it needed a key, a key that was very hard to come by. You were lucky to be in a guild with more than one person to have one. If you didn't have one or no someone who did, you were reduced to standing by the instance begging people for runs. That was probably the worst offender, but half of the quest chains made you travel across the world just to hand in an item. They were poorly designed and pointless, which is why they got axed.

I was there for AQ and luckily I was on a populated server... If you weren't it totally sucked because it took forever.

There were always mounts available for everyone and there was never a time when there wasn't. You had to buy apprentice riding skill at 40 and journeyman skill at 60; journeyman skill was ridiculously expensive because there was no easy way to make money because no daily quests and quests didn't award money at max level like they do now. Warlocks and paladins had their quest lines for their special mounts, which while cool, ended up costing more in mats than to buy the skill from the trainer.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
There were always mounts available for everyone and there was never a time when there wasn't. You had to buy apprentice riding skill at 40 and journeyman skill at 60; journeyman skill was ridiculously expensive because there was no easy way to make money because no daily quests and quests didn't award money at max level like they do now. Warlocks and paladins had their quest lines for thief special mounts, which while cool, eneded up costing more in mats than to buy the skill from the trainer.

And the hunters whined and whined and whined...


Still, at level 60, the final fight for the warlock mount was *awesome* with a good group.

I'm not sure you're allowed to group for the Brawler events now but I might try it out.

You are. I was down there yesterday, and there was a group in the ring. And let me be blunt - there was no way in the Twisting Nether that my Mistweaver monk was going to solo that bear for the quest being referenced. I tried and I lasted for a few minutes, but I got worn down by what was more or less a straight up normal fight. And I didn't even see the bear's hp bar move (because over 6 million hp, after all). Soloing him would have taken a *very* long time.

Wait, what the fel are you guys talking about? O.o

You can't group for Brawler's Guild fights - you can group up to share buffs, but all fights are solo.

It was the same during MoP. I completed all of the MoP fights, they were all solo.

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 Hulksmash wrote:


Are there really only 3 groups to get reputation with in this expansion so far?

Frostwolf Clan (H)/Council of Exarchs (A)
Laughing Skull Clan (H)/Sha'tari Defense (A) (requires level 2 trading post)
Arakkoa Outcasts
Steamwheedle 'Preservation' Society

Four.

 Ashiraya wrote:
You can't group for Brawler's Guild fights - you can group up to share buffs, but all fights are solo.

It was the same during MoP. I completed all of the MoP fights, they were all solo.

Weird. I saw multiple characters in the arena yesterday. Must have been a multiple NPCs vs one player fight, then.



And after looking up the Bear fight, apparently it involves jumping on a bunch of trampolines that I didn't notice in the arena.

Eumerin wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
You can't group for Brawler's Guild fights - you can group up to share buffs, but all fights are solo.

It was the same during MoP. I completed all of the MoP fights, they were all solo.

Weird. I saw multiple characters in the arena yesterday. Must have been a multiple NPCs vs one player fight, then.



And after looking up the Bear fight, apparently it involves jumping on a bunch of trampolines that I didn't notice in the arena.

Yeah, sometimes people DC and glitch into the arena too, but they can't contribute to the fight in any way if that happens regardless. Otherwise it's just NPCs. No group fights.

Also, yes, the Bear and the Lady Fair - when you bounce 3 times you get a HUGE damage buff which is how you beat the fight.

I'll race you guys to rank 8! I just beat Battletron earlier tonight.