Just a note that unless your are BM I wouldn’t really try for the 4-piece T9 - the bonus just doesn’t help that much for MM/SV hunters. The off-set Shoulders are very very nice though, as is the crafted Chest. I would grab your two-piece (from head/hands/legs) and then get the off-set 245 shoulders and grab orbs for the 245 crafted chest and shoulders. Just my experience/opinion.
There is a green eye-looking thing attached to your mini-map when you are in the dungeon finder system. If you right-click on it you get a “Teleport to instance” option. That should send you back to the dungeon.
I’m strongly thinking that for the Wednesday night dungeon run, we’ll get our group together as usual, and then use the DF to assign us to a random level- and gear-appropriate dungeon. The benefits to this are: I don’t have to decide which dungeon for us to do, and we get a free Satchel of Helpful Goods which will include a free blue item.
I agree on the experience issue. It does take a little bit of time to get used to tanking, especially in the new places where you have to grab several ranged npcs and hold aggro. I’m very forgiving and often try giving them tips, but there is a limit to that. If they’re doing the same thing over and over and it is causing a problem, then I would consider leaving. A lot of people are just farming emblems, but some are still genuinely learning to play. You should know how the group is going to be by the time you get to the first boss.
As a pally tank, the only thing that bugs me is dps who pull aggro. It’s damn near impossible to pull aggro away from me, but there was a hunter in one of my groups that insisted on not attacking marked targets and he would always pull aggro off and start taking hits. I told him I’d taunt the npc off him once, but if he keeps doing it I’m using the “You pull it, you tank it” rule.
I would be very interested in how the lfg system works. The first groups I got into were excellent and then I started to see some newer players (once a freshly dinged 80) that were thrust into the new dungeons. Although the new dungeons are pretty forgiving, it is frustrating at times if the group is impatient. and wants to rush through.
Gratz on your weekend success. Aces High used to be on my list of hardest dailies. Once you get the hang of it, you can fly through it no problem. It just takes a bit of practicing. Right now I’m still hatin’ on the Sons of Hodir dragon-spearing quest. I think I almost have it down!
I simply gave up on that one - I just don’t do it. So getting to “exhausted” with Hodir takes a couple days longer, big deal - the repair bills from dying while doing the daily was more annoying and painful.
I used to utterly hate it too, until I realized…you can hit the Open Jaws button more than once. I’m very good at avoiding damage in the first phase, but trying to land the killing blow drove me mad before I realized you only get 5% chance per Open Jaws. Once I realized that, it became success on the first try every time.
I think I tried Thrusting Hodir’s Spear maybe three times before I said “screw it”. For me it was mashing buttons to absolutely no apparent effect, and then falling to my death. I decided if the 100-foot-tall guys want the blue dragons dead, they can reach up and swat them out of the air their own selves
Also, once I got Exalted I kept doing the SoH dailies just for the gold and to farm relics/frostweave/crystallized fire & earth, but I stopped doing the one with the ghosty worg as well. That one is just boring: summon ghosty worg and then wait 2-3 minutes for it to find something for me to hit.
Just got word that the co-GM of my guild is leaving the guild. He’s the one who keeps the other GM in check. That means his SO will probably be leaving. I’m now wondering who else is going to be headed out the door.
My kid who plays horde said his guild is disbanded because they aren’t making progress in ICC.
Well that was the problem - I was doing all that and I couldn’t see anything happening except for yellow text yelling at me. I couldn’t even see the dragon actually attacking me - just damage numbers flying around. For that matter, I could never even see myself. Just where, exactly, on the dragon am I?
Kidding, honestly. I myself just ignored what was happening on the screen entirely and focused on the cooldowns at the bottom. The raid warning sound came up whenever you need to dodge, and when you’ve done enough damage the buttons swap out at the bottom. There’s really no need to watch the dragon at all.
Ran Stockades again last night with my lock. It’s fun to get ported in with folks who haven’t done it before: “Whoah! Stockades! We’re in Stormwind!” Heh. Less fun when the DPS Paladin leaves Righteous Fury on, but at least I wasn’t trying to heal.
On my main I joined a pug and face-rolled through heroic UP. I need to add some more offensive spells to my healing bar, because these groups are so overgeared I usually sit around during a fight waiting for someone to take damage. I’ve been keeping Shadow Word:Pain up to hurry things along but I might start tossing in some Smites for fun just to give me something to do.
It’s kind of fun tanking those groups. “Oh, damn, I’m losing aggro on that one… never mind, it’s dead.” I was in a Gundrak run and we took down the snake guy before he could get off his first poison nova. Sadly, I whiffed on the third interrupt on the turn-into-a-mammoth guy so I still need that achievement.
I got a lot more done last night skipping the Random Dungeon option and instead signing up for a bunch of heroics I like. Sure, Violet Hold and Nexus are pretty much facerolling at this point (even Xevoss doesn’t worry me too much), but it sure as hell beats getting dumped into Heroic Halls of Reflection constantly.
I’ll probably give H TOC a spin tonight, and maybe it’ll be worthwhile to run the regular Forge, Pit, or Halls, rather than Heroic. Either way, it’s amazing how quickly running two or three dungeons a night gets you geared up.
Oh yeah, bragged about this one on guild chat, but I’ve now successfully tanked H ToC, and with the three toughest guys up for the beginning (poison/whirlwind/heals). I think the heals and DPS were all pretty competent though, so it’s not like I was carrying them.
