Well… the only DPS spec for a priest is Shadow. Trying to DPS as Holy or Discipline will not work.
I would say spec-wise your top priority should be getting Shadowform, which you can get at level 29 I believe. AFAIK, all DPS’ing should be done in shadow form. Other key talents in the first tiers would probably be Darkness, Twisted Faith, and Improved Shadow Work: Pain (?).
Someone more versed in the dark art of mind flaying can fill in specific spell combination you should be using, as well as simple gear priorities (although I think with the Spriti->Hit conversion any cloth gear is probably useful for you).
You’re also just not going to pull very high dps on trash in instances as a low level shadow priest dps; too much of your damage is from DoTs and you have no AoE to speak of.
Kings still have to deal with politics. Piss off one too many nobles and instead of the Defias, suddenly he’s facing insurrection of other kinds. Very well funded insurrection, specifically.
One of the problems spriests have at low level is lack of AoE damage and a lot of DoTs. (I guess that’s two problems). In a trash pull, you can go around and hang DoTs on everyone, but if the other dps are killing them before your DoTs finish you won’t be topping any damage meters.
Do you have Mind Flay yet? I don’t know what level that is (it used to be 40) but that makes priest DPS a lot more fun.
Yup, there’s no evidence he actually could force the to pony up the dough. It’s not incompetence. He’s a skilled military leader, possibly the single greatest warrior in the world, and a noble and commanding king. But he’s not invincible and the noble’s treachery was… unexpected. Onyxia is very subtle, and laid the seeds very quietly.
Shot From Guns, in theory Stormwind is a feudal state or something, not a centrally-controlled absolute monarchy. Wrynn can command armies in Northrend more easily than he can control lazy nobles in Stormwind. C’est la vie.
I can’t link because I’m at work, but I’m Kivrin on Eitrigg. I was trying out Holy last night, so that’s what shows now. (I’m dual spec’d, but I like Discipline healing better than Holy right now, so the Discipline’s my main healing spec). I was using this, basically, before (Link). Mind Flay comes automatically with Shadow spec, now.
I know that Shadow’s really the DPS spec, but I’d heard you could make Holy work at low levels. That may have been before 4.0.1, though.
I think I might need to use Shadow Word: Pain more on the trash; some sources say to place it on everyone before focusing. My boss DPS is okayish, but still not great. I feel like I was getting better numbers on a level 25 hunter than as a level 31 priest.
And I’m saying, a king who has no means of forcing his nobles to pay for projects they’ve commissioned, which he is also benefitting from, such that his subjects suffer, is a king in name only. In-com-pe-tent.
Yes, SFG, I left Vash’ j (whatever) and I can’t catch the boat anymore. (It no longer arrives after the Kraken leaves the last northernmost dock in the harbor.) Also had to look up what a “lask” was. So there’s a pool of diarrhea behind the keep?
But I know where you mean. I think I got sent to the maelstrom from there once.
Politics in Azeroth is an interesting subject. There are large swaths of it that don’t get covered by the game at all.
For instance, there are (were) apparently three human kingdoms: Stormwind, Gilneas and Lordaeron. I’m not familiar with the background material in the paper RPG, so people who are, correct me if I’m wrong…it seems like Stormwind controls/controlled Elwynn, Westfall, Redridge, and Duskwood. I’m assuming that the Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge have been that way for a long time, prior to the wars with the Horde.
I assume that Gilneas once controlled more than that postage stamp of a peninsula…I would guess Silverpine, Hillsbrad and Arathi, at least.
And Lordaeron was apparently in control of Tirisfal and the Plaguelands prior to the Plague.
I’m not sure I have a point, per se, but I just think that trying to piece together the geopolitics antebellum is interesting. One thing about Stormwing (at least) being feudal…I know there are various (if rare) nobles running around the place, but there don’t seem to be any actual baronies, or counties or duchies, unless Westfall, Redridge and Duskwood are divisions of that nature…and if they are, they don’t appear to be titles that are occupied, anymore, since none of them seem to have anyone in charge “high up”…
Think of the quest and storyline possibilities if Blizzard ever actually populates the nobility!
Does the portal to Vash appear to you (it should be back near that pond where you went to the Maelstrom, near the seashell)? If so, you can just go through that to get back to where you were.
It’s one of those more-progressive-than-realistic things that comes with the devs being white men looking to make an action story. And I suppose you can still label this as incompetence if you want, but he did get fucked over by Onyxia.
Seven kingdoms, but I’ll be damned if I can remember them all. Dalaran counted as one, and Arathi was another (think of Stromgarde Keep). The very first Alliance was human-only and comprised all those kingdoms.
I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, but if there were seven human kingdoms, they were MICRO kingdoms…that’s a basic problem with the physical scope of the game, though. Despite the fact that it sometimes feels like you’re running forever to get from your starting area to your capital, the zones are way too small for what they’re supposed to be. I think someone once calculated and figured out that the planet EK, Kalimdor and Northrend are on was something like less than 100 miles in diameter, taking a standard human-size character stride as 3 feet.
OTOH, if it were as big as an actual world, even in your toon’s scale, you’d spend days getting from place to place. It’s practical to have everything squooshed, but it does make some things absurd, even within the rules of that world.
Speaking of Gilneas, what’s going on there? I finished up a quest within the chapel (killing 8 of those frenzied guys - level 5 quest) and couldn’t get to the questgiver to get my reward because there were too many of those frenzied critters and they kept killing me and my pet, so I hearthed out of there back to the the merchant center and the whole place is dead. PLUS, I cannot now get back to the cathedral because every available avenue to that destination is barricaded up.
Exactly. We’re looking at it at a macro scale. There’s no freaking way only the four farms in Elwynn can feed Stormwind, even if Stormwind was only the NPCs in it. The world is in an IC sense way, way bigger than it is in a gameplay sense, because the designers cut out everything irrelevant to the player. It’s sort of analogous to the way movies will show the protagonist leave one area then jumpcut to another. It took us 5 seconds, but it could well have been 30 minutes to get crosstown that we didn’t see. The trip was simply irrelevant.
Lordaeron was by far the biggest kingdom, and their influence only stretched to Stratholme, I think. That’s a 10 minute walk in-game, but it’s supposed to be a giant swath of land between the two cities.
A “lask” is what you get when I mistype “lake” and don’t catch the error. :smack::smack::smack:
More than that. I’d suggest checking out the wiki if you’re curious about the lore.
Oh yeah, I’m pointing to this as a problem with the storytelling. I definitely think it’s a *writing *problem more than an intentional character flaw. They think “HURR THIS WUD MAEK TEH GOOD STOREE!!!” and then don’t follow through to the only logical conclusions you can make about the people involved.
SFG, I kinda thought that was what happened, but you’re such a brilliant person I felt like I really needed to search for a definition. Oddly enough there IS a yachting/boating bulletin board where someone actually asked if anyone knew what that word meant.
According to what we both found, it means diarrhea or “flux”.
Know that old joke?
“I wanna flux you in the worst way!”
Reply: “The worst way? What IS the worst way?”
“Standing up in a hammock”.
That wasn’t really the word THEY used in the joke. Just made me think of it.
Oh yeah. What’s up with all the WoW “help sites”. I went to all I could think of looking for the Sea Legs quest and NONE of them had ANY tips about how best to run it. Just had that “E” guy you have to see to get it. (Somewhere in The Earthen Ring).
I’ve been down with the flu for the past few days, so I haven’t really been able to play. I even logged in last night, but the cooking dailies were about as complicated as I could handle without my brain melting. Fortunately today I’m feeling more functional.
It looks like I’ll be replacing my badass Hand-Mounted Pyro Rockets with the Tazik Shocker. Sigh. The animation is apparently a small white Wrath-type thing. WTB Lightning animation, that’d reconcile me to losing rockets* that come out of your hands. * (And yes, I see what they did there with the name)
The Earthen Ring is actually the faction the NPC belongs to. The reason that they aren’t giving details about how to pick it up is that they’re expecting that everybody would have done the quest as soon as they got it. I’m going to spoiler this for anybody who hasn’t been to Vashj’ir yet…
See, the idea is that the first time you go, you ride the boat. Then the monster attacks and destroys your boat. But that NPC from the Earthen Ring saves you. You are then, IIRC, immediately given the quest to get your Sea Legs. Because the quest is so easy (just collect a few things from the sea floor right outside the boat), almost nobody is going to leave the zone without completing the quest. So they dont’ have to give directions for how to get back there–everybody should have been there already.
