You need to be a bit careful with Mr.Robot, because while it is a useful tool it is only as accurate as the numbers you give it. It doesn’t actually calculate stats weights for your particular character. If your character has much lower gear level than the one used to generate the default stat weights it may very well be off.
If you want to truly optimize your character need to run it through something like Simcraft to generate stats weights, reforge with those stats weights and run Simcraft again and then repeat until the weights stop changing.
This of course would be overkill for most people. 
There’s an [del]app[/del] glyph for that: Glyph of Shadow. You spriest will just look a bit darker than he/she does when not in shadowform.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention: I discovered that there’s a benefit to power-leveling gathering professions at max level. Dugramm (skinning and mining): 2 days played, 8000+ gold. Some of those lower-level leathers and ores sell pretty damned high.
I finally have my Pandaren Kiteflying mount! My human rogue, Theloise, finally reached Exalted with the Tushui Pandaren, the last Pandaria rep she needed, and which also earned the [Pandaren Embassy] guild achievement for the <Knights Who Say Ja>. Funny thing was, I had no idea there was a personal achievement with a mount reward. I was just doing it for the guild achievement, to unlock the guild shirts. So … bonus!
She got the Tushui rep by soloing WotLK heroics while wearing a tabard. I thought the timing of getting the achievement was pretty cool, too. She was chaining the three ICC heroics - Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron, and Halls of Reflection, and killing Marwyn, the last boss of HoR (well, before running away from the Lich King), was the one that pushed her over.
Question for those in the know: Can somebody recommend some lower-level raids that might be somewhat easily soloed by a fairly well-geared Subtlety Rogue (Theloise) or Retribution Paladin (Eilyssana)? Eilyssana wandered into Kharazan yesterday just to see what it looked like, and killed that female Titan-looking boss, but I couldn’t figure out what to do with the opera event (couldn’t even figure out how to start it).
Oops, make that 1 Day, 12 hours, 47 minutes
You need to kill Moroes before the Opera event becomes available, once you have you start it by talking to Barnes who is standing next to the stage.
And don’t forget to visit the stables, Attumen can drop a mount.
All Vanilla and TBC raids should be soloable by just about any level 90 character, though you might actually need to pay attention to mechanics in some cases, in the Wrath raids it depends on the difficulty setting and specific boss(some of them are a bit gimmicky which can cause problems).
Thanks so much for mentioning this! I had no idea there was a glyph that helped. I really enjoy the style of Shadow priest.
Flame Leviathan is still not soloable on 25-man. Just found that out yesterday. 
But I think the rest of Ulduar should be pretty easy.
Haven’t tried 25-man Ulduar myself. I take it that FL’s health pool is just too big for the usual 10-man solo strat of “my demolisher is absolutely badass because of my gear level, so I’ll just lob Pyrite barrels at you until you asplode while futilely trying to ram me to death.”
My headache with Uduar is that some of the achieves you need for the Ulduar meta achievment are a massive PITA to solo. Disarmed seems to have an RNG element of not getting grabbed by Kologarn’s right arm long enough to do a controlled burndown of both arms and his body, and I’ve never managed to have the dice come up right. And Use Your Illusion is based on the Thorim fight, the mechanics of which explictly require splitting the raid. There is a pull-and-reset exploit that seems to circumvent the split-team mechanic, but I’ve never gotten the timing to work.
Feh. Those are the only two I need for my Rusted Proto-Drake, too. :mad:
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I was mistaken about needing Use Your Illusion. I guess I got that with my guild back when it was still current content. But I still want to solo Thorim, and that can only be done HC, and only if you can pull off the exploit timing.
And, apparently, I still need One Light in the Darkness. That’s just going to be a matter of getting better at the Yogg-Saron fight. Starting with which keeper to take. I recall my primary problem was actually the stupid Corruptor Tentacles, since as a hunter I don’t have cleanses, and the stupid disease debuffs crush your DPS (since you lose control of your character for seconds at a time) and make you vulnerable to insanity losses (you can’t avoid insanity loss if you’re staggering around puking). Maybe I should ask for Keeper Mimiron?
Yeah, aside from the +agi it gives I’m fairly certain my active dodge trinket is useless on my Windwalker spec. The thing with Brewmasters is their wonky mechanics rely a lot of things like crits, so +Agi and +Crit are valued rather highly. By a happy coincidence, Mastery happens to be good for both classes, and of course expertise and hit are necessary for both. Of all tank specs, Brewmaster has the worst stamina scaling, and the stagger mechanic (among other things) heavily encourages damage avoidance and mitigation over taking a huge blow.
This evens out to other than a few low-priority stats here and there (like dodge), the stat weighting is almost identical. It was actually bad enough that they gave Brewmasters a flat 30% damage nerf because Brewmaster tanks were out DPSing similarly geared Windwalkers. To be fair, Icy Veins says there are two ways to build a Brewmaster: the “safe” way which is more traditionally tanky and highly values stamina, but is generally less effective, and the “like a crit-focused DPS way” which can get more dicey if you’re not paying attention to your cooldowns, but is generally way more effective.
After that, the only real difference is that Windwalkers almost always want to dual wield one handed weapons while Brewmasters ever so slightly prefer two handed weapons, but since for Brewmasters it’s so slight it’s almost personal preference, you can honestly just use 1h weapons and not even care. Of course, the real kicker is that reforge and gemming is a lot different, but that has very little to do with what drop spec you have yourself set to. I’m not kidding when I said that equipment vendors generally list exactly the same loot when you set your spec to either.
Aha! I did find and speak to Barnes, and he mentioned something about Moroes not allowing them to perform. That should have clued me in.
My only prior experience with trying to solo a raid boss was back in Cataclysm. I walked into … whatever raid that is underwater in Zangarmarsh. The only reason I went in there was to fish up that big whatsit, the final task I needed to complete for my “Salty” title. Simply fishing up that monster was all that was required, but I decided to try to kill it. That didn’t go well. 
Given that I easily clobbered that one boss in Kharazan, I suspect I might have an easier time of it if I went back there now.
The only other raid bosses I’ve killed were the bosses in one wing of Naxx, when it was “current” during WotLK — I was persuaded to tag along on a Burning Dog Legion run, and the “gimmicky” nature of the fights did nothing but convince me that I wouldn’t enjoy raiding. I’ve also killed Hakkar, with a group, in Zul’Gurub when it was still a raid. The only reason I did that one was that I needed to fish up something there, also for my “Salty” title, and some friends agreed to group with me so that I could enter the raid (back when you still had to be in a raid group), if I would agree to help them kill Hakkar. Fair tradeoff.
It’s quite true. Even a mediocre-geared 90 is light-years ahead of even heroic-raid-geared 85s at the end of Cat. I take my hunter into some Vanilla raids and chuckle that I have more health than the bosses. Hell, even my non-tanking-mode pets often have more health than some of the low-end bosses.
Talking, for instance, about Serpentshrine Caverns (SSC, the BC raid you were mentioning), most of the bosses are pretty tank-and-spank (and susceptible to just brute-forcing down), but some have mechanics that used to be impossible to solo, but have since been patched to be soloable. Of course, they’re mechanics, so they’re non-combat gimmicks, but they’re still soloable if you’re willing to try them. Some can kill even a strong 90 if they go wrong. For instance, the end boss of SSC is Lady Vashj. She becomes practically invulnerable to attack at 70% health; you have to do this gimmicky mechanic to break her shield, and while you’re doing that constantly-spawning adds are applying a stacking damage buff to her that means that if you take too long to drop her shield, you’ll be squashed like a bug once you do. That’s one fight you can expect to die on the first solo try, just because the encounter is nearly overwhelmingly busy until you get a feel for it.
Still, soloing old raid content can be a lot of fun, if you have the patience to learn how to do it. And if you care about World of Pokemon, pre-Cat raid bosses can drop outstanding battle pets. About 1/2 of my pet battle daily teams feature at least one of the raid-drop bosses (special shout out to Anubisath Idol… totally worth the frustration of farming Twin Emps in AQ 40.
Huzzah! My human paladin, Eilyssana, finally wields Quel’Delar!
Like my rogue, she finally got a Battered Hilt while running ICC 5-mans for Tushui Pandaren rep.
Unlike my rogue, my paladin can actually use it for transmog.
ETA: And whoa, this thread had dropped to the second page.
Congratulations! Was she running in a five-man, or soloing? I know nothing about such things.
Just so you folks know, that Gaze of the Black Prince buff that’s running until the 30th is the real deal. I ran 3 LFR wings today and got the final seven Titan Runestones I needed for the legendary questline. I know wear the legendary cloak Xing-Ho, Breath of Yu’lon.
Just soloing old content
I am jealous–my friend got into the Alpha, and he’s been regaling me with stories of what life post-squish is like. He says he feels like he’s back in Burning Crusade again (wow, a 2,000 point crit!) and that the new models that have made it in so far (of which there aren’t many) look good. Except the female dwarf, which he says looks “weird.”
Dear Abby:
A very attractive young woman at work (much younger than myself) found out I play World of Warcraft. She asked me to “show me your paladin”.
How should I respond to this?
Sincerely,
Pics or It Didn’t Happen
Grats!
I’m waaay behind on the legendary cloak line, but the buff is helping (I think). I’m still gathering sigils.
The imbalanced drop rate is pissin’ me off. I have like 20 wisdoms in the bank, and until last night I had only seven power sigils. (Now I have eight, but that breaks a cold streak of 8 LFRs in a row without one dropping. :mad:)
Sartre had to have been playing WoW (and LFR’ing) when he wrote “Hell is other people.” :smack:
Don’t forget to mention that he wields a two-hander.
rofl!