I picked up a random lockbox this weekend, so I sent it to my dormant rogue to pick. I realized that I’ve played her so little in the last year that she still has 48 minutes left on her “ghost” costume buff from last year. So I’ve played her exactly 12 minutes since last Hallow’s Eve festival.
Pretty bold for an unsupported generalization. My raiding MM lost about 1/3 of his boss target dummy DPS, even after figuring out the amazingly fidgety shot prioritization. I suspect I’ll have to reforge; I haven’t figured out proper balances of ranged characteristics, so I’m using whatever’s default for T10/10.5 and ICC25 gear.
Maybe they’ll fix the MM nerf the same time they rebalance mages to not be instant unmitigated death.
BM hunters had been reduced to useless except for leveling for much of Wrath; now they’re super-useful again. So, you may have a long wait…
Alternately, do what I did - respec to what works. I changed my hunter to MM when BM got changed to a leveling spec only, and now she’s BM again.
I ran one heroic on my mage yesterday. DPS-wise, I was 2nd (2382), behind the hunter (2826), though of course I don’t know how he was specced or whether he greatly outgeared me. I was ahead of the paladin (2043) and the DK (2019). DK was the tank.
Still no response on my GM ticket (regarding my Explorer achievement), but I imagine they’re even busier than usual.
Well, it wasn’t unsupported… it was supported by my experience on my MM hunter, in full 264/277 gear reforged to mastery (out of crit).
Dummy DPS is down a little bit (although I don’t have a pre-patch dummy parse to compare), likely due to the lack of some supporting buffs (sunder in particular - haven’t leveled my raptor yet). Around 8k on the dummy, sustained, only self-buffed, with a wolf and cat (both about the same DPS-wise). That should translate to around 11-12k in ICC, about 1k (7-8%) lower than where I was before the patch. Maybe you were pulling much higher numbers than that before…
Ran ToGC25 last night and on the only “non-gimmick” fight we did, Jarraxus (which requires a lot of target-switching), I was still top-5 below the mages, warlocks, and a shadow priest (the buffed classes I was referring to).
Possibly running ICC10 tonight, so that’ll give one more data point. I’ll try to take a log and post it as well, so my conclusions will be supported. 
Since the patch, I’ve had a couple of tanks ask me “how was I to heal? Did my health drop fast? Did I lose aggro to much?”
Look, when the worst DPS in the group is doing 3.5k, things aren’t living long enough to damage you. Honestly, I’m barely paying attention to you; I’m trying to figure out which Chakra to use and if I should reforge all my +crit into +haste (can you do that?) so I can speed up my Prayer of Healing cast. With the HPriest mastery bonus (Echo of Light or whatever it’s called), I can cast CoH-PoH-PoH-PoH-CoH-PoH-PoH and lose sight of everyone in the massive wall of little (and big) green numbers floating up the screen.
Crit can reforge to haste, yes.
Bonus for spriests and boomkin: never have to worry about hit rating again.
Holy pallies, too! I’m going to burn all my +hit gear!
That cracked me up when we ran Forge of Souls. I haven’t run a dungeon as Cat in a long time and my gear is all slanted toward Bear, so I was a little worried about not holding up my end. I did the worst DPS in the group, but 2k is still just fine for Heroics, and things melted like butter anyway.
Oh, and my Druid hit 80 yesterday! Got carried through a heroic (something like 1.8k overall, and 3k on a bosses) just fine. Once I get a little gear I’ll build up a tank spec and blow through some heroics like that (or maybe make my 10-man group carry me through ToC or ICC or something!).
Either way, nice to have another option for Cata (as my second toon - the hunter will likely stay my main unless our group really needs a tank…).
With the caveat that you can only reforge to a stat not on the gear already. So if you have a crit/haste piece you’ll probably want to reforge to mastery or something (or leave it alone).
Well, they’d better fix this instance freeze bug pretty damned fast. I tried to do the Headless Horseman, and froze up/DC’d when I simply hovered my mouse over the pumpkin. Tank and healer also DC’d and didn’t come back.
Wait…what? I missed something here. Boomkin don’t need +hit? What about mages?
Same. I kept spamming in /party what the problem was so finally we got 4 in, and one person didn’t crash so we had them start it. Since it wasn’t scaled at all from last year, it was very easy to do with only 2 DPS.
The bug really needs to be fixed - I got booted out of a raid yesterday too when using a Soulwell.
I ran in to a bug yesterday where I froze up when I was trying to grab the flag in EotS. Happened twice in a row—with me getting the 15 minute deserter flag both times–then I quit trying to pull the flag for the rest of the night.
Boomkin gain +hit from Spirit as part of one of their talents. That way Blizzard can put in a single leather caster piece that works just as well for a Balance Druid as it does for a Resto Druid. That’s been a constant problem plaguing loot tables for a really long time; they have to add in loot for one tree of one class which is useless to everyone else.
I don’t know if they’re getting rid of +hit on caster gear entirely, though.
Boomkin have a talent that converts Spirit to Hit (Balance of Power). At level 80 that is likely enough to get capped (whether this is still true at 85, /shrug). Shadow Priests have the same talent (Twisted Faith). I don’t think Mages have anything similar.
And based on the reasoning give by Bosstone it makes sense that Mages don’t have that talent. Basically all +hit cloth gear is Mage and Warlock gear. Cloth without hit is priest gear. Leather with Spirit is Druid gear.
Based on the raid loot posted on mmo-champion today there is definitely still +hit caster gear.
Thanks for that…exactly what I needed to attach my Rebuke (free mana instant spell) before each other spell so it will trip each time after the 10s CD finishes.
Auctioneer…grumble…will not be updated. Can’t find a suitable replacement.
Will give this a try.
Saw it…loved it…And the game was pretty good too.
Other notes:
I totally lagged in VoA25 to where my screen froze for the entire fight against Torovan and not until the fight ended, the loot divided, and players dropping the group was I able to get control of my toon…to Release. I am suspecting that I either have heavy memory chomping add-ons or my video settings are way too high after I installed my new video card last week. Hopefully, things will run a little smoother tonight after I pare down a few add-ons and settings.
Reforging. I was able to tinker a bit with my stats to get my haste up. Once I get the one glyph that grants 10 Expertise…then I can reforge more expertise into haste. I kind of got my bars set to be able to fight a single or multiple targets effectively. I actually have to think a little more and think quickly when using my Holy Points (and the generation of HP)…no more button mashing.
That’s exactly what happened. Cloth, Leather, and Mail were all given additional durability to bring them into line with Plate. However, their current durability remained at pre-patch hard numbers, not percent.
Hey, with the number of dailies out there, it’s possible to hit the cap! The wording was put together when your total was much smaller, though. For a while in TBC, you could only do 10 dailies a day. IIRC, they bumped it up to 25 when they opened QD (that island north of the Eastern Kingdoms).
Well, what you focus on at 80 is a function of what you want to do with your time. Most players will gradually improve their gear, but with a greater or lesser focus. Since you’ll be mostly soloing content, gear isn’t as big a deal for Wolkie as it would be for a character that was going to raid or do Arena PvP.
Since you don’t do a lot of instances, the best way for you to upgrade Wolkie’s gear would be through the Auction House. There’s no new section, but there is BOE gear that requires Level 80 to use. The best stuff will still be pretty expensive. Alternatively, if you have a friendly group of people (e.g., guildies), you could try running some instances, which is the fastest and easiest way to get gear. Instances will both drop gear off of bosses and give you Justice Points, which can be redeemed for the current top tier of gear.
Farming materials just means focusing your time on gathering it, versus questing or something like that. There is a recipe to create Heavy Borean Leather, but it’s only available to Leatherworkers.
That’s farming!
It’s funny how different servers have different economies–from what I remember when leveling my Mage, you were better off vendoring that spider silk than trying to sell it, because no one was buying.
Looks like you answered your own question. 
Not really. Herbalism is good because it’s straight income. Making money off of Leatherworking, especially while leveling it, would be much more complicated–you’d have to balance which recipes would give skillups, which ones would be vendored versus sold, which you could have someone DE and then auction the enchanting mats, etc. Then, at max level, you’d probably be making your best income off the recipes that can only be obtained through raiding.
Depends on the key. If you want to know what something does, you can ask here or look it up on Wowhead. But your keyring is an expandable bag–you’ll almost never have to worry about running out of slots. (I think there’s a theoretical maximum, but I have almost every permanent key in the game plus a number of temporary ones kicking around and I still haven’t hit it.) Hanging on to a key will never hurt you–deleting one might.
Inscriptionists or Scribes use (a) paper that is bought from vendors and (b) inks that they make from herbs. A Scribe will turn a stack of 5 herbs (of the same kind) into pigments, and then turn the pigments into inks. Because you can’t predict the number of pigments you’ll get out of each 5-stack of herbs, you can’t give a solid number of raw materials needed to make a given glyph, so you have to overshoot.
Honestly, the whole market is wonky right now, which includes herbs, pigments, and inks. If a glyph needs ink made from an herb that Wolkie can’t harvest himself, there’s no guarantee that buying mats would be cheaper than just buying the glyph. But as a side benefit, this is a really great time to work on leveling his Herbalism–you can probably make a lot of money selling herbs right now.
Correctamundo. “Your mats” means that you can’t count on the person to have anything on hand that’s necessary to make the item, other than a professional tool (like a Blacksmith’s hammer). That includes things that are purchased at a vendor, like the paper that Scribes use.
You have one wheel of glyphs for every spec you have. The sidebar shows you all of the glyphs that you currently know and can therefore swap into the wheel. Adding a glyph to the wheel doesn’t remove it from the sidebar; once you’ve learned it, you know it forever.
If you want to remove a glyph or swap it for another one you know, you have to use Vanishing Powder. This can be bought from NPCs that sell Inscription supplies. Don’t buy it on the Auction House, unless you’re very careful about the price–people right now are taking advantage of the fact that a lot of people don’t know where to buy it and are jacking the price way above what you’d pay a vendor.
Yeah, this is making me very sad.
I’m using the 5.9 “Preview” version and it’s working fine. IMO, you should be able to use that without any issues. If you’d like to do the same, let me know and I can get you detailed instructions on how to manually update the addon.
You probably only filled out one of your specs. I’m having the same problem–I’m holding off on putting together my offspec until I can figure out if Fury or Arms will come out ahead, and my Talent button keeps blinking.
Is it simultaneous across all capitals? If not, why not just travel to another city?
I disagree, as do a lot of other people. From our perspective, we were really disappointed that it got cut short because of people who would apparently rather be playing a single-player RPG. 
Emailed to myself! Thank you!
1.) Push the shield button until you have a stack of three (you’ll see a buff with a 3 on it, and your orbiting shields will be green).
2.) Target the NPC and talk to them to start the joust.
3.) Start hammering on your melee attack (key 1) and turn to follow them as they ride into the ring.
4.) Keep hammering in the melee attack (key 1) the whole time you’re on top of them.
5.) When they start moving away from you, hammer on your charge ability (key 3).
6.) As soon as Charge goes off, start hammering on your shield breaker (key 2) and ride back up close again (don’t worry if it doesn’t go off–it’s a nice “in case” but not necessary).
7.) Repeat steps 4-6 until they’re dead. Keep an eye on your shields–if your stack falls under 3, or if it only has 10-20 seconds left, hit the shield button again until you’re back up to 3 at full duration.
Gone, gone, gone, thank god. And only a Hunter could enjoy leveling weapon skills. It’s much more annoying when you’re a melee class and suddenly a weapon you haven’t ever used is a good upgrade, and you can’t do shit with it until you spend an hour hitting random things with it. (Yeah, yeah, ranged weapons used skills, too… but on a Hunter your upgrades rotate among the three types enough that you’re generally keeping them all at a reasonable level.)
Woohoo! You’re well on your way to hitting your goal of making 80 by the expansion. At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re 80 in time for the weekend.
I appreciate what they were trying to do, but really, there’s not nearly enough customization there. FFS, you can’t even adjust the alpha, and even the “shortest” width is ridiculously wide, so there goes a huge block of your screen real estate.
Woohoo! And that’s the one meta drake that still grants 310% flying, too.
Added on preview, after having to walk away for a while:
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Pretty bold for an unsupported generalization. My raiding MM lost about 1/3 of his boss target dummy DPS,
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From everything I’m hearing, BM is now the top Hunter spec and MM is at the bottom of the pile. This doesn’t mean Hunters are broken, any more than it was broken the other way around, just that you need to switch specs if you want to min-max. If you want to see “broken,” talk to a DPS Warrior. Or, hell, a Warrior period–AFAICT, my threat generation is fucked right now.
ETA: Yeti, go check out the 5.9 Preview version of Auctioneer on its official site. It’s working fine for me.