Well, I can GET on one, I reckon, SFG, but if you or some of the others don’t mind reading about Mr. Wolk’s trials and tribs here every now and then, I’ll just write it all down here for your (I hope) amusement!
Also, thanks Oakie! I’ll have to check that game out, though they’ll have to go some to beat what WoW’s got!
Thanks
Q
Yes, but when the tank decides to hit every boss: Jesus, it’s long.
Lord have mercy! That “Kill Ragnarock” (may not be the correct title) dungeon run with some in-game buds liked to have cost me my marriage the other night!
Kept going from place to place, at least 2 instances, and I don’t know what all, and I couldn’t just LEAVE!!!
Meanwhile, my wife is calling from the other room, “Hey! You gonna fuck me, or what???”, and I didn’t know WHAT in the hell to do, given dungeon etiquette!
So I told her I’d be there in a few minutes and to play the Richard Simmons’ “Sweating To The Oldies” dvd to keep herself moist and stuff.
I wish I hadn’t 'a said that. 
(“Quasi-humor” - y’all didn’t believe I’d really do/say that, didja???)
Q
Well, one keypress is always quicker than two, but if you’re fast enough for it not to matter (still GCD-locked regardless), then it’s really a moot point. Whatever works for you 
To go with your particular example, my bar 1, 2, 3, etc would all be mapped to a single or modified keypress instead of using shift-1-2-3 to switch bars first. Instead of shift2-5 for polymorph, I’d have something like ctrl-5, and all my AoEs would be mapped to alt-# or something like that. That also frees up my shift modifier to keymap even more craziness.
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A question for the melee toons amongst you. How do you have your UI’s set up? How do you manage to run around after a mob/boss, dodging whatever AOE’s they’re dropping on the floor, whilst also keeping an eye on what they’re casgting so you can interrupt/jump/run away at the right time, whilst all the while trying to keep up a rotation to get some good DPS in?
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Well here’s my UI: http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/8689/wowscrnshot031611125955.jpg
Granted I was tanking at the time, but it stays the same when I DPS.
I use:
DeadlyBossMods: Boss mod, yells at you when things happen.
Mikscrollingbattletext: To show me all the incoming/outgoing damage/heals and whether or not I interrupted that REALLY BAD thing or not.
Gnosis: Shows my targets, focus, players, etc cast bar. Plopped right in the middle of my screen so I won’t miss it.
ClassTimer: Show me the timers on not only myself, but my target, focus, etc. You can see it flanking Gnosis. Buffs on me are on the left, and my targets are on the right.
Pitbull 4.0: For my party, raid, and player frames. It’s a pain to setup, but I like it and it works for me.
Bartender: I run with 4 Bars. My main bar between my player frame and my target, shows me all the “important” skills that I need for my rotation. 1-6, then Middle Mouse, R, Shift+R, Shift+F, F. The two on the bottom are for extra skills that come in handy every now and then, though I have the far left skill slot bound to my 4th mouse button. The far right is just for mounts, trinkets, misc junk.
Skada: Damage meter.
Omen: Threat… thingy.
MarkingBar: Just for when I’m tanking, easier for me to click the icon than it is to remember where the heck I keybound said icon. Also puts down the world markers and can do a readycheck if I have assist in a raid.
My UI is usually hated by most that see it, but I have a smallish monitor and prefer bigger fonts/icons. I also click, YES I CLICK!, certain skills/spells. If you’re wanting to redo your UI to make it easier for you to DPS, heal, tank, pick flowers all I can really say is sit down and figure out what you want and what will help you the most. Grab some addons and don’t be afraid to take some time to just play around.
Go hit a target dummy to get your battle text to scroll the way you want, invite a friend, guildy, or hop in a BG to see how your playerframes are setup and try moving them around so that you can see what you need to see. If you want to do keybinds, figure out which buttons are easy for you to reach and go from there.
What works for us may not work for you, but don’t be afraid to sit down and play around and have some fun with it.
Absolutely this. Whenever I go about overhauling my UI, it’s easily a 2-4 hour project of testing, moving, configuring, testing some more just to get it to the point where I’m ready to try it in a dungeon, BG, or raid. And then I tweak it little by little over the course of the next week or so. It takes a good deal of time, trial, and error. Experiment! It’s actually more fun than it sounds
Rogue here..
I really dislike using shift- or ctrl- combinations, so my main abilities are mapped to keys 1-6 and the number key-pad. The “second tier” abilities that I don’t use quite as much as the main rotation are also on the number pad, like recup, kick, and feint. I almost never touch the mouse during a fight.
I’ve tried a few different add-ons, both for rogue and general dps, and have never really found one that didn’t do much more than confuse me. I like as little as possible on the screen. During a fight I’m mainly looking at the top left for spell-casting, combo points, and my own health. In the dungeons I run the most often I know when and where to expect the AOE stuff, but otherwise I’m usually alerted when my health suddenly takes a beating, and when that happens I hit feint and gth back to size up the situation and see what’s going on.
1.) I don’t use Bartender.
2.) I do have all of my extra bars turned on.
3.) I don’t use any other bars that I can scroll to (and, in fact, I have that shortcut turned off).
What you’re doing now certainly isn’t “wrong,” it just makes it take longer to activate abilities than using a shorter keybind. It also means you can’t keep an eye on the status of those abilities (cooldowns) without swapping to that bar, which will also slow you down.
If it’s RDF, there’s no reason you have to stick around once you have credit for the dungeon, which will happen after you kill the first second-floor boss. After that, all you have to say is, “Thanks for the run!” and drop group.
Dungeon etiquette: It is always acceptable to politely bow out of a run to go get laid. 
You did, Quas, you did.
Oh man, how could I have forgotten ClassTimer! Love this addon. Also one of my essentials for getting all of my important information somewhere that I can easily see it.
Only if Rajh is the first boss you kill on the second floor.
Thanks, Ms. Tanker - trainer!
By the way, when y’all finally got him (Wolkie) “graduated” to level 80, how many of you lowered the .38 held against your foreheads and went, “Whew!”?
Come on and 'fess, now…:)
We may have to create a whole 'nother thread for this one, me thinks?
I really do (fill in the blank) y’all and thanks for all you do!
Q and the Alts!
I’ll start the scandal:
I have one keybind. Everything else I click on the icon. audience gasps in astonishment
Never learned touch typing. I’m using WASD right now for movement and my keybind (macro for Hunter’s Mark + pet attack) is on E. I could probably integrate Q, F and C but beyond that my fingers would get confused and it would end up taking me even longer.
Question! Does Hunter’s Mark mark the target as yours? Like, if I found a rare spawn and popped Hunter’s Mark on it before anyone else could get to it would it be marked as mine? Or do I need an actual attack?
Archaeology gets a lot more fun after you get to 75 skill points and can actually do something other than dig.
Man…WoW is a completely different game when played with a decent internet connection. I’m in a hotel tonight and tomorrow night on a business trip. The hotel has wifi, and so far tonight I did the quest for the seahorse mount like it was nothing. Did it on both my 85s. I’d tried and failed umpteen times before on my home connection. About to log back in and either get my pvp on to pwn some ass, or maybe run a heroic on my mage (the druid is not quite geared for heroics yet—ilevel 328)
You still need an actual attack. All Hunter’s Mark is doing, AFAICT, is simulating you concentrating on your target and aiming more carefully so that you hit vital areas and do more damage.
Also allowing you to visually mark a mob so that polite players won’t tap it before you get a chance.
Sometimes you get a few of those kind.
You don’t really need any macros until raiding or high-end PvP, and even then you can still manage with jsut the basic 1 through = keys if you macro wisely. I often do this simply because the confusion of trying to use complex keybinds makes more than that too complicated. You can be a bit faster and smoother using such keybinds, especially for repetitive parts of your rotation (I recall so much 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5… going on in dungeons).
And even then, I often find it’s easier to mouse over some keybinds than actually hit the button. The reason is not that it’s actually faster (about the same), but that if I move my hand to the keybind, I then have to move it back. Doing that can be fatal if done at the wrong time or if I put my hand back on the wrong position and start running straight at the boss or strafe through the fire.
What can you do? I’m at 150 ish what am i missingout on?!?
Downloaded Omni and that little boss one. Didn’t have any time to play my main yesterday so had no time to try them out, and play with my key bindings and bar position yet
I hate the trash packs leading up to the first boss in Vortex Pinnacle. I can’t get them to concentrate on only me and they knock back at the most unfortunate time. I haven’t died to them yet but each pull is very messy so if anyone has any tips would be appreciated so I can avoid comments like I this which I got from a DK last night: “I don’t know who is tanking this the paladin or the mage”…
Weird BRD run on my baby worgen hunter last night. Priest heals, mage and shammy dps plus me. Pally “tank.”
“Tank” because he was a ret paladin using a two-handed weapon to “tank.” No AoE - he wasn’t even using consecrate. I’d pull aggro on almost every trash pack unless I carefully targeted only the tank’s current target (and even then sometimes). We tried to kick him, but couldn’t - I kept getting a message that I had already kicked too many people from the party, even though I hadn’t kicked anyone.
Thanks to good heals and my dps (I was doing 42% of all damage according to recount) we got to the temple near the end, where you light the braziers. We all warn the tank “light one at a time” but he goes and lights them all, can’t collect all the adds, and we wipe. We did manage to finally finish the instance though.
Had a weird display glitch though - throughout the instance, my worgen remained in human form through all the fights. Never reverted back to wolf form. And after I teleported out and went into my “mounted” form, I still stayed in my human form but running at vehicle speed. When I stopped, I would drop to all forms but still looking like a human. It was weird.
Now these guys could teach the Nigerians a thing or two.
Just checked my junk folder on hotmail, and noticed some purportedly from noreply@Blizzard.com with the title Battle.net Account - Account Change Notice
Having beenhacked in the past, this immediately concerns me
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Now, to be honest this looked OK to me, but being a paranoid SOB I didn’t click the link, I instead went to eu.battle.net to check out my account. Couldn’t see any changes but changed my password anyway to be safe.
Then it occurs to me. My primary email address is no longer the one linked to my WoW account. I changed it after I got hacked a while back. Knowsing I was looking at a phishing attempt now I looked at it again. Note the link, whilst it begins battle.net, it then continues
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I bet this email gets them a fair few accounts to raid. Is there somewhere at blizzard I should forward it to.
I came this close to logging in through their link…
