Flight form is great fun. Some of us like to “play chicken” with it. We climb straight up until we can’t see the ground. Then we shift out and drop like a rock. The idea is to come as close as we can to the ground before hitting flight form again.
As to the bird>bear>charge, that rocks if you can get the timing and distance right. I never did get the hang of it but I still keep trying. We call it the RawrBomb
Side note: My priest just hit 80 (my third 80), and now I will be bringing up the next toon on the list.
Jump to Northrend and do some of the early quest chains. The gear rewards are probably far far better than what you have now, and will make it easier to “clear out” your “old world” quests. I’m in the process of doing that with my “baby” warrior.
PVP engagement does not put you “in combat” like PVE does as I understand it. I’m a mage so I don’t battle rez but I would swear I have seen for example preists rezzing in WG or AV.
It doesn’t take that long to get out of combat, well before you’ll hit ground. (ETA: drachillix, PvP puts you in combat, but you get out of it quickly, and without having to kill anyone (see drinking in arenas))
You’re thinking in terms of fighting someone, and getting honor, I’m talking about killing afkers with falling damage. You never have to get close to the ground doing this, which is what makes it OP.
Dive bombing bears is an awesome thing to watch, don’t get me wrong, it isn’t the attack in from flying, it’s that you don’t need to hit ground before you’re in the air again.
At this rate, it’s going to take me forever to get very far, though I am enjoying the game a lot. My main is a (as of last night) level 22 night elf hunter. I was playing with the SO last night and inspected his main, which he was using. His rogue carries Librarian’s Paper Cutters, which amused me greatly, as he actually is a librarian.
Ah, ok, so you’re talking about a druid using typhoon’s knockback to dismount a flying player. That I could see. Still, half the time I have engaged a flying player(mostly Halaa since I play on mostly carebear servers) I hit the ground before I can shift back to flight form.
/goes to respec boomkin
So, how many people have completed Heroic OS, with 3 drakes up?
It’s been a stumbling block for my guild this past week (we can one-shot 2 drakes), because we always seem to have one healer who doesn’t know when to use the cooldown. Outside of the typical “use it now now now now now NOW NOW NOW DAMMIT!” screaming on Vent, does anyone have any tips / reminders?
And, for the record, most, if not all, use DBM. A lot of the issue seems to stem from us always having a few of the “experienced” ones absent and so we pick up others who aren’t familiar with the flame walls / void zones…
Speaking as a never-having-raided-or-even-done-99%-of-high-end-instance-content…how does one “use” a cooldown? A cooldown is something that happens to you…you’re locked out of your ability use until the cooldown is over. So how do you “use” it?
“Using a cooldown” or “Blowing your cooldown” is using the ability(s) that trigger a cooldown. For instance, at a certain point in a boss fight the leader might call out “Blow all your cooldowns!” to tell everyone to pour on the damage.
May I second this question? The concept of “use the cooldown now now now now!” makes no sense to me at all.
On that note, may I politely ask the raiders/PvPers/well, everybody - could you define the abbreviations and jargon the first time you use a term? A lot of us just haven’t been playing all that long.
That seems really counterintuitive. Wouldn’t “Hit him with everything!” make more sense? “Blow all your cooldowns” sounds like “throw your spent cartridges at him”.
Which reminds me of the old Superman TV show where the bad guy would throw his empty gun at Superman.
Well, yes, it does sound counter-intuitive, and it sure tripped me up the first time I heard. However, in the high-end boss fights certain actions have to occur at certain points. Since abilities that trigger cool-downs are not continuously available you have to hold back until the point they are most useful. These abilities are also distinct from other capabilities that don’t have a cooldown (well, not beyond the standard 1 second global cooldown). So “blow the cooldowns” doesn’t mean “hit him with everything” it means “hit him with the stuff that has a long cooldown” after which you keep churning out stuff with your other abilities.
“Hit him with everything” is usually said as “burn him down” or even “Blow cooldowns and burn him down”.
Also, certain boss fights have periods of time where you can’t use a cooldown ability, so the raid leader might say “blow cooldowns” with a “use 'em or lose 'em” flavor.
That’s all said from the perspective of a damage dealer - healers also have abilities with cooldowns.
If things get really hairy these will be abbreviated to “Cooldowns!” and “Burn him!”. Which is quicker than saying “Hit him with everything you’ve got!”
Yes, it’s still an odd sort of terminology, but it’s been enshrined in WoW for better or worse, like the Barren Chat, Chuck Norris jokes, and “PWNED!”
To me, blowing cooldowns means the same thing. On my mage it means icy veins-elemental-trinkets-mirror image. In short, pop every ability NOW and start nuking. On my hunter, it would mean trinkets, Big Red, intimidation, everything. Each class has their own cooldown abilities. Some races (Orcs are a good example) have a racial ability that acts like an additional trinket.
So when the raid leader tells you to blow cooldowns, it means pour on the coals, and start blasting.
Just as an aside: for anybody here with a priest main, can you point me at any online resources that will give me good (and timely–that’s the problem, trying to find info that’s not three patches out of date) information about specs, rotations, gear, priorities, etc?
My main is a raiding mage, and I’ve got him down pretty much cold. But I’m leveling this priest–he’s up to 63 now, and 60 of those levels were gained insanely fast using a combination of triple-boxing and the Refer-A-Friend bonus (so he and his buddy basically were on perma-follow behind my mage who blew away all opposition while they collected XP). So essentially what I’m looking at right now is the equivalent of buying an Ebayed character–I haven’t a clue what the hell I’m doing now that he’s mostly on his own. A kind and very knowledgeable priest in my guild has helped me set up a Shadow spec for leveling (I’ll be Holy when I get to 80–that’s why I did this, so I’d have a healer) and I’m sure he’ll help me with the Holy stuff as well, but I don’t want to impose too much on him. I’d rather have an online resource I can consult to help me make sense of it all while I’ve still got a few levels to do it.
winterhawk, try the class mechanics forums at Elitist Jerks. It’s probably the best WoW theorycrafting site around with lots of good tutorials, specs, explanations of mechanics and whatnot.
