I forgot to thank you for this, Infovore, so thanks! Haven’t had a chance to get back there b/c I’ve been working my pally alt, BoyHowdy whom I finally got on warhorseback last night, but I’m gonna do that link in the quest chain tonight.
Also, all of the people who signed my guild charter for “Knights Who Say Ja”, have left as I told them they could (I just wanted the guild name anyway), but now that I’m the only guy in the guild, I am known as “Recruit of Knights Who Say Ja”.
Oh, I might have mentioned, either here or in another thread (or both) that D and I have moved into a very nice house, and as soon as Charter came out to hook up our cable and internet, my wife made sure I could get on WoW asap.
That woman loves me, I know she does and I know that while I’m playing my marathon sessions of WoW she’s not out running around on me - I know this as well.
I am a very lucky fellow indeed and I never fail to acknowledge it to her.
My new friend Josh (from Staples) is coming Wednesday to help me with hooking up my surround sound in return for German lessons, so I won’t need to use the headphones unless it’s late at night and D’s asleep.
Oh my god, you guys, you have no idea how tempted I was to do a *massive multiquote reply *to *everything *that’s happened since I left. But I’m not quite *that *cruel.
Congratulations on all of the new kills, gear, and acheivements!
Things have been very quiet on my end, since I decided to step away from raiding for a while. I was going nuts with our lack of progression (relative to where I felt we should have been, based on the original goal for the guild being serious hardcore endgame progression). It was getting to the point where I was constantly having to restrain myself from chewing people out over Mumble, and that’s just not fun. I’ve been spending a lot of time playing other games, reading, cooking, and other fun social stuff with friends, but I have picked up a few new goodies in game (such as hitting 150 total vanity pets in preparation for 4.2).
Nope. Hell, these days, I don’t think I could program my way out of a paper bag without at least a few hours of review of my old programs and textbooks.
Incredibly useful, depending on the purpose of your guild. Being able to share resources among guild members is, IMO, one of the main reasons to be in a guild. Banks are especially important for raiding guilds that can afford to subsidize or entirely provide repairs, consumables, enchant mats, and BOE gear for their raiders. Having a central location where farmers/buyers can deposit mats, crafters can withdraw them and redeposit finished items, and raiders can withdraw them before raid time is incredibly helpful.
Which stage of the quest are you on? I’m not sure how it shakes out for Alliance–I’ve only done it for Horde. For me, I know there were a couple of times where I had to stand around waiting for the NPC spirit following me to realize that I was where I was supposed to be, so be prepared to dismount and do some waiting, possibly.
**Infovore **covered most of what I would have said. My additional comments:
Phase 1: We tank Ony immediately underneath where we drop down and Nef directly opposite. The dragons are positioned so that they’re more-or-less parallel to the sides of the room (i.e., not facing into the center or to the outside). You should try to ensure that the heads are both pointed in the same direction to make things easier on the person picking up the Ph1 adds. We coordinate our Nef/Ony DPS so that Ony dies when Nef is around 72-71% (this usually means we stop pushing hard on him around 75%).
Phase 2: Note that healers can also be interrupters in a pinch, but they’ll probably be pretty busy keeping their pillars alive, so they should be your last choice. My guild doesn’t push an Elec during this phase. Oh, and a tip for getting onto the pillars: don’t start jumping until the lava has reached the top of the pillar. You won’t be able to reach it until then, and you’ll just stack the debuff faster by popping in and out of the lava.
Phase 3: The way we do this is Nef is tanked starting in exactly the same position as Ph1, including the way his head is facing. The Ony tank from Ph1 is in charge of the adds. He kites them in a circle around the outside edge of the room, going clockwise. Once the adds are about directly across from me (the Nef tank), I start backing up (i.e., also going clockwise) until I’m up against the ground fire. I repeat this process every time the ground fire fades enough for me to be able to move. Except for the add tank and his healer, everybody else (healers and DPS) is stacked on Nef’s side, next to the wall. It’s important that nobody be on the room side, because there’s a very good change (especially in your early attempts and kills) that you won’t have Nef down before the add tank needs to pass you. If you kite the adds past Nef on the room side of him and anyone is standing there, they will die in the fire. We Lust/TW ASAP in Ph3, as soon as Nef is in position and all of the DPS are in place. Threat carries over from the earlier phases, so there’s no need to worry about peeling off the tank.
As the Nef tank, it was my responsibility to keep everyone aware of his percentage. I’d call out the percentage at around X5%, X2%, and X0% (e.g., 95, 92, 90). When my Electrocute alert came up, I’d also call out the approximate time until it would hit (e.g., "'Lec in 4). I also called out his exact percentage at the transition to Ph2, and alerted people when he would be moving in Ph3. IME, this is a good fight for your tanks to learn to communicate their cooldown usage if they’re not used to doing it. It will help your healers a lot for your tanks to alert them to any Electrocutes where they will be using a minor CD (e.g., a trinket) or when they have no CD to use at all.
I know, isn’t that funny? The “recruit” thing is based on your reputation with the guild, so even though you’re the GM, everybody starts at that same level of neutral reputation. Great guild name, though!
Welcome back, “little sister”, missed you and your posts!
PROBLEM: Had to reinstall Vista when I found that the upgrade with D’s new 7 computer would not display the cursor for the game and kept the screen small and elongated.
The game is re-installing as I write, but it’s giving me a message that says “suitable display driver not found, exiting program”
I already went to Device Manager and the message there was that the standard SVG adapter is working.
Isandare’s kitted to the teeth in pretty much both specs thanks to troll heroics, and has 2pc dps T11 and 1pc tank T11 (just in time for Firelands! ). He tanks BHs when they come up, and they’ve gone reasonably well after I got sat for some come-to-jesus-confabbing by a guildie who redid my gemming and reforging.
I also rolled the world’s cutest gnome mage, named Nybble. Dat sheep button. You want sheep? I SHEEP U. ;A; She also has a schtick where her personal project is trying to get explosive sheep right. And doesn’t understand why people tend to get out of blast range rather quickly…
My priest, however. She still cries whenever Venoxis pops up. That boss is hell to heal unless it’s a superlative group.
Whoa SFG is back! I rarely play WoW thes days but I still lurk on the threads. It has been quite quiet and boring here without your input. Welcome back!
Aright, so everyone’s saying laserchicken DPS is OP… I can’t fathom it. I’m decently-geared (getting my first epics) and I -cannot- pull above 9k DPS no matter how hard I try.
My rotation:
Starfall (as long as it won’t pull additional packs)
Insect Swarm
Moonfire
Then kick whatever is in eclipse at the time, and Starsurge whenever the cooldown is up or it procs.
Top off the DoT’s when they’re falling off.
What in Azeroth am I doing wrong?
(At least my healing, which is what I originally made the drood for, seems to be working just fine for heroics).
Boomkins seem to be OP at certain gear levels, not necessarily in general (although 9k in mostly blues is not terribly shabby). For instance, the 4T11 boomkin bonus is so OP it’s getting nerfed in the next patch because it is so powerful that it would be a DPS loss to take T12 gear, even 4T12.
It may, in fact, just be a gear thing. I’m hoping that’s all it is. Don’t get me wrong; made Treemendus to heal (hence the name), but I like to be able to solo at times.
Hello everyone grats to all that deserve it. A code crunch at work has curtailed my play a bit recently so I’ve been doing the odd spot of mining or herbing on lower level toons only.
I did pop onto my Blood DK to sort out her gear and bags as I’m switching her from Alliance to Horde and when playing about noticed that the Blood Boil animation is only concentric circles on the ground, when did this change?? Is it a graphic setting thing? I’m on High.
Yard work
Emptying and re-building a 600 gallon pond
Getting a new Kitchen put in
Researching wedding venues
I hadn’t played WoW since late April. Finally coming back, and I have a bit of a dilemma. Previous to Cataclysm, my main was a mage…woo, plain old DPS. I switched to my paladin to tank just before Cata, and moved into raiding as a tank. And, I don’t feel that I’m good enough. Oh, on single target / 3-4 mob fights, I’m perfectly fine (including single-tanking Chimaeron) but, the more mobs you throw at me the harder time I have gathering, now. And the stress as a tank! I think I want to switch back to DPS, but, dammit, my guild only has 1.5 reliable tanks now (other tank prefers healing, I think). GRR!
Tired of still wearing boots below ilvl 200 (from regular Violet Hold) on my feet at level 85 (which was keeping me out of heroics) I finally went to Wowhead to see where I could pick up some decent mail footwear with caster stats.
It turns out there are only two blue-quality non-pvp mail caster boots available pre-raid in all of Cataclysm. One drops in Grim Batol, but I hadn’t seen it yet. The other one, fortunately, is a reward for what might be the most awesome quest in the expansion: Gnomebliteration. Also fortunately, you don’t need to complete a long chain of Uldum quests, it’s a short chain that starts from a random drop which dropped for me on my very fist kill when I started looking for it. My gear level shot up from 323 to 331 so now I can finally start queuing for heroics.
Thanks “big bro”! I see you solved your display problem, too.
Dawwwwwwwwwww.
Fury Warrior, Prot Warrior, Arms Warrior?
To be honest, though, there was a *seriously *depressing dearth of +Str ranged weapons at the start of Cata.
You mean Death and Decay? That changed a couple of months ago, as did a number of other ground spell effects. It was getting too hard for people to see important things (like ground AOE they needed to move out of) with all of the spell clutter, so they changed a few spell animations to be less obtrusive.
Oh, and of course, I completely forgot to mention my updates:
1.) I’d gotten back in touch with an old friend, and in talking about the character he’s playing now (a bear), I got the itch to play my own poor neglected Feral Druid Worgen. I pushed her from 55 to 60–hilariously, I’d completely forgotten about flight form! So awesome. I’M A FUCKING BIRD.
2.) Said friend has also extended an offer for me to come join his guild (his girlfriend, also a friend of mine, also plays there). While they’re not as hardcore as I’d like (currently 6/13 and working on Nef HM), they’re guaranteed to be good people if Nico and Cory like them, so I’m sorely tempted. However, it would be on a PvP server again, and the best guilds on the server are still only 10/13, which means if I burned out on semi-casual raiding again, I’d have no option but yet another transfer.
Yeah wand users were in a similar situation. Some of our mages and warlocks were still using the PVP wand well into heroic raids since their best in slot was the BOE wand that never dropped for us. At least in 4.2 you’ll be able to fill the ranged slot with valor gear.
Haven’t had a chance to get back there b/c I’ve been working my pally alt, BoyHowdy whom I finally got on warhorseback last night, but I’m gonna do that link in the quest chain tonight.
). He tanks BHs when they come up, and they’ve gone reasonably well after I got sat for some come-to-jesus-confabbing by a guildie who redid my gemming and reforging.