fragi, rakez, ilo and arx

DREAM Paragon had a question-a-thon the last few days where the fans asked them, well, questions. Wow, what a bad intro that was... In any case the answers are in and there's quite a lot of them from various Paragon players, so ler's pick out some highlights and then you can head on over to their site and check them all out!

What has happened to Paragon, especially after clearing DS?

rinku: "It's been quiet. We've been focusing on raiding as little as possible, but still raiding. Plenty of people took few weeks completely off from WoW after the progress. By now most are back and we starting to prepare for the pandas. And getting site up and running again, and some kill videos done and and and.."

And whats up with Arx stopped playing or? I heard Arx state before that many of the members of Paragon only continue playing the game because they are number 1, now that that has changed are more members going to pursue other interests outside of WoW or does this tier make everyone want to stay and put in more work for Mists of Pandaria?

Arx: "I haven't quit WoW. I haven't been on every raid either though -outside progress I have to let some real-life obligations have precedence, so that I can devote 100% of my time to WoW during it. The intent behind what I said back then is that many members play for the competition. If our level dropped so much that we couldn't compete for #1 anymore, I wouldn't be terribly interested in devoting as much time to the game as I do now. However, our current ranking and delay in kills has nothing do with a drop in ability, and everything to do with an 8-day suspension. It's clear that we would have been able to at least compete for #1, if not reach it, so I doubt the competitive players are too bruised by the results of this tier."

How much time does raiding take during progress?

rinku: "all of it. For example: the Wednesday our 8d bans were lifted we woke up 5:20am to do half an hour raid before server maintenance and as soon as it ended we woke everyone up again to finish the raid, thus managing to finish one full normal 25man clear for the "ban reset" - shiny 10 minutes before raid lockouts reset. Sadly EU servers were unplayable for most of the day, but our raid day didn't end till 3 to 4 am. "

So, who has quit since t13? Anyone because of the "LFR ban"?

rinku: "gone are: Jubeto, Cevi, Lazeil, Yuzka. However, none have quit because of "LFR ban" -- it was inconvenient to get banned, but we always knew there was a risk. "

top tank class

If lazeil has stopped playing, who will take over his role as a tank?

rinku: "Our new tank Fraggoros (fragi)"

Hows SW:TOR and how many of you play it?

Rakez: "leveling was fun, but we didn't have enough people to start raiding. Around 10 people bought the game."

Ilo: "I played for 2 weeks, crap game."

lappe: "deleted already. it was really bad, just a copy of vanilla wow with extra cut scenes during leveling."

Whats going on in the guild really? I saw a few days ago Sejta had left Paragon and figured out that he changed server to Ravencrest aswell as Lappé and maybe some more of you, why that? And now atleast Sejta is back in Paragon? Im getting confused.

Baltha: "We're bad boys like Exodus, just wanted to cause some forum drama...just kidding, we're all back now, so you can prolly figure it out yourself."

Do you feel that all classes are good enough to do 8/8HM or is class stacking still helping?

Diivil: "Certain classes are always better in special situations than others but after the recent nerfs all classes are good enough. Class stacking is obviously always helpful but that doesn't mean it's required and it has most effect during progress raids anyway when you have to get the absolutely best performance out of the raid."

To Kruf and Devai, how has the hunter class changed this tier in terms of relevance to progression and now, farms?

deva: "I think that hunters should have been buffed from the start, everybody knows that hunters doesn't scale that good with gear and all the melees got 10% AP buff including rogues and warriors who was already doing insane damage. And all the casters in our raidcomp got legendaries. Blizzard overlooked hunters cause they were strong on t11 and they weregood in t12(but not strong), and they actually tought that hunters could magically do fine in this instance too while buffing other classes, well they were wrong. If you have checked worldoflogs you know hunter wasn't that strong in the end of firelands and i dont see any reason why they didn't buff hunters too... This tier was only time i felt that i didn't want to play my hunter and all, because i felt like i wasn't carrying my weight and that gives me feeling that i just wanna vomit. The beginning of the "farm" of Dragonsoul i actually tought just quiting cause my class was absolutely shit and it wasn't fun to play at all, but then 1 month late my prayers were answered and we got buffed. Was actually fun to play on first farm raid after buffs cause i could actually compete on dps!!"