Please don’t make me /cry.
Yeehaw! Finished up my human pally’s Exodar Valiant chores today and I’m officially an Exalted Argent Champion of the Alliance 
That opened up the Crusader dailies, of course, and after doing those two quests I had 60 Champion’s Seals, which I spent on the BoA plate shoulders and sent them to my warrior. I’m suffering a bit of buyer’s remorse, wondering if I should have gotten the BoA robe for my mage instead.
Completely surprised myself while doing that daily off the flying ship to kill 20 vrykul in that village in the center of Icecrown. I got myself flagged for PvP after bumping into and killing a pair of NPC orc soldiers and a minute later, right after finishing off a group of three vrykul, I got totally ambushed by a tauren DK. First his ghoul appeared (I think he raised it from one of the corpses I was still standing on) and hit/stunned me, then the DK himself jumped in …
… and I kicked his ass! He even had almost 3000 more HP than me. I’m not sure if I got lucky or if he simply sucked. I know it wasn’t because of my being an uber PvPer 
I basically just ignored the ghoul, cast Consecrate, hit the DK with my Judgement, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, finally remembered to bubble, another Crusader Strike, and down he went. What’s really funny is that he got a few hits in on me while I was still stunned (I just get stunned so rarely in PvE that I don’t have an automatic reflex to hit any of my escape methods), before I could even start to retaliate/defend myself. I only had something like 830 HP left when it was over, but that was 830 more than he had 
Even with just the warrior himself as the entirety of physical DPS, Sunder adds more damage than equivalent attacks would do if you’re fighting a target that lives more than 45 seconds or so, as long as you don’t let the 5-stack fall off. I saw it get used in arena all the time in TBC. The rage and attacks spent on the sunder pays for itself pretty quickly in the way it makes all your attacks hit harder (which, itself, generates more rage…). The sunder debuff practically can’t be duplicated, either. Only rogues can also put it up, and it’s a much larger DPS hit for them, compared to the no-brainer it is for any spec of warrior.
Holy crap, I just spent a session in Un’Goro with my warrior … I don’t know if they increased the thorium spawn rate or what, but it was like mining saronite in Sholazar. I came out of there with four full stacks of thorium! I swear every time I turned around there was another node. Probably didn’t hurt that I also seemed to have the whole damn zone to myself.
OTOH, it’s just wrong when a Tyrant Devilsaur’s patrol route brings him stomping right over the questgiver you’re talking to … :mad:
This thread is making me want to re-up my subscription…
I used to raid in a top 30 world guild, but Trial of the Crusade just killed my interest (raiding the same instance 4X a week plus having to run the daily heroic when you’ve killed Algalon is absurd).
For the raiders in the thread, how is ICC turning out? Has the scene changed all that much or are you still having to collect badges to get tier gear? I ask mainly because I’m tempted to come back and raid with a strict 10-man only guild just to see Arthas die when I can. Oh, and if anyone is in such a guild (fairly casual 10-man raiding guild that goes after the Hard Modes) and needs a resto druid in Uldaman gear, let me know. Hah.
The problem with reading this thread (or rather, getting caught up on it), is that I want to run upstairs and sign onto my gaming computer immediately for some more WoW. But I’m sitting in the family room watching the Colts/Ravens game and I don’t wanna miss that either.
When I equip my skinning knife, my 2 H sword DISAPPEARS! Doesn’t go into bags, it’s just gone!
I’m riding around looking for bad guys with a SKINNING Knife on my belt.:eek:
Runestar, I know what you mean about the Colts!
Johnny Unitas (God, what a great name, huh?) ROCKS!
(old joke from an old guy)
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You don’t need to equip your skinning knife. It works just fine to skin with if it’s sitting in your bag.
Logged in to find that one of our officers’ accounts has been hacked, and they managed to loot out most of the guild bank. :smack: Our GM demoted all of the characters down to the lowest level after she logged in. Looking at his characters in the Armory, it looks like the hackers also sold anything that was vendorable.
In my forum post, I managed to avoid posting a message to the effect of, "goddamnit, stop clicking on links in your E-mail (what got one of our players last time) for ‘official Blizzard contests’, stop downloading every addon in sight, get some good anti-trojan software, and for the love of all that’s holy, get the Authenticator!
Christ.
FH, Blizz is selling their authenticator?!
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As opposed to…?
For $6.50. They’re selling it pretty much at their cost to make and ship it.
Yup. It’s totally worth it. If you have an iPhone, you can download an Authenticator program for free from the iTunes store, too. It’s just a one-time charge, no extra fee, and it protects your game account as well as the web-based game account management feature through the official WoW website. Plus you get a super-cute free in-game pet just for getting one.
After the last guildie got hacked, there was a period of panic whenever someone would be alt-swapping a lot and not talking to the guild. I had a guildie cross-examine me one morning, even. Then when people found out I have an authenticator, no one freaks out when I do my usual alt-swapping.
My husband posted a link to a wow.com (WoW Insider, not an official Blizzard site) article on how some scammers make fake WoW Armory webpages that they try to trick you into logging in to - especially since Blizzard said they were updating the Armory, I suspect more people got tricked into logging into the “new” (fake!) site after that. They highly encourage you to just go ahead and bookmark http://www.wowarmory.com/ to avoid problems.
Dude is freaking out, he’s really depressed and says he didn’t do anything different. I dunno.
ICC is wicked fun, and has some interesting and complex fights (especially in the second wing) - way more challenging than ToC (although nothing as tough as HM Anub25 yet). They put a real gear check in the 25-man second wing, which is causing some QQ but will actually make guilds gear up an entire 25-man team to get the clear. So, no complaints about the actual raid itself yet (it also looks a lot better than ToC - obviously - but maybe not quite as awesome as Ulduar, IMO).
However, some of the things you mentioned are still happening. You do have to gather badges to get tier - it doesn’t drop off bosses. The system is quite a bit better than for T9 though, IMO - you buy the basic entry-level piece for badges (which drop from all bosses in ICC, as well as a random daily heroic (which generally take less than 30 mins if you get a guild group) and a weekly raid quest (involving killing an early boss in one of the WotLK raids - either 10 or 25man). Then, once you buy the base gear you can upgrade it by exchanging the gear plus a mark that drops from the 25-man bosses (and likely 10-man HM bosses) for the better version. These tokens are like the Naxx/Ulduar ones - divided by class. So no more grinding out badges for the first level only to grind it again (and more) once you get a trophy for the upgraded version. You still need a lot of badges for full tier - 405 for the 5-piece.
If you have any more questions about the current raid scene let me know.
Sunder or some equivalent armor-reducing debuff is essential. Your DPS Warrior needs to learn to care more about the group’s DPS and less about his personal numbers.
The DPS hit for the sunderbot himself will depend on the encounter. Ideally, it will be five GCDs in the beginning, then one GCD every <30 seconds. The duration of the debuff is 30 seconds, so he’ll want to be sure to work another sunder in before it falls off, or he’ll have to reapply all five stacks. That’s why the DPS hit will vary–on a fight with a lot of target switching (e.g., Putricide), if your DPS isn’t killing the add(s) fast enough to get back to the boss before sunder falls off, the DPS will have to spend five GCDs to restack it, instead of one to refresh it.
Nope. There’s no way this Warrior is worried about threat–he cares about his personal numbers. Sunder is a high-threat ability, but nothing that should overrule what the tank is doing. If they’re at all concerned, they can wait a few seconds before starting the sunders.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. 20% armor reduction is absolutely worth it, especially with that much physical DPS in the raid.
Not sure where you’re coming from with this. A well geared DPS Warrior is almost never going to be Rage-starved. Because of their consistent damage output, they actually have fewer problems with “spiky” rage production (versus a tank who mostly has to wait to get hit).
Devastate is a deep-Prot ability. No Arms or Fury PvE Warrior should have even one point in the Prot tree. However, this is how a Prot Warrior applies and maintains sunder.
Your main and offhand slots are the only two things you can change in combat.
Woohoo! Those are always the most exciting fights, the ones that end on a sliver margin.
Come baaaaaaack to uuuuuuuuuuuus.
It’s pretty good. There are some challenging earlier bosses (Putricide, I’m thinking of specifically). IIRC, T10 is working like this: 10.0: Frost badges (drop off 10 and 25 bosses); 10.33: 10.0 plus a generic token (drop off 25 bosses and probably 10 hardmodes); 10.66: armor token (25 hardmodes, possibly only last boss–in TotGC25, only Anub dropped tokens).
Yeah, this is what I thought, and this weekend proved it. Although still no kill on Festergut (two of our best tank healers were absent so too many attempts ended at the third inhale phase), raid DPS was much better and very close to “good enough” for a kill. My personal DPS went from a best last week of 7.2k to a best this week of 7.9k. With almost no gear/buff differences other than sunder. This matches what the simulations predicted. There is simply no way that the DPS lost by the Fury/Arms warrior can match 500-700 DPS per physical DPS class (our rogues and other hunters all saw similar boosts).
Two-piece tier 10 by next weekend (should have it already but I’m impatient/an idiot and bought that tasty tasty cloak), so I should start breaking 8k soon - come on ranged weapon upgrade… 
Bah, I refuse to admit I was wrong to Guns because I’ve already done so. 
So it’s basically just bitch duty and the guy just didn’t want to do it.
Stupid PUG move of the night:
Got into a PUG with my druid-as-boomkin, we ended up in Heroic Violet Hold. We go through the first series of portals with no hitches, kill the boss, and people rebuff and stuff like that before the next portal pops.
I’m not paying too close attention, so as Deadly Boss Mods starts the “new portal soon” countdown and then announces the new one, we run up to where the single portal guardian has popped. Wait, we’re one short… tank? I look at my Grid setup. The “out of range” indicator is on for the tank. I mouse over his name - where the hell is the “Circle of Wills?”
The guardian moves on us, so the healer kicks into overdrive as we kite the guardian around. Someone asks in party chat where the tank is. He leaves the group. 
We keep killing and requeue, and get a tank almost immediately. A new portal pops. I say “our tank flaked on us” and the guy comes in and finishes the job.
What the hell was that about?! We had no deaths during the first part, and VH is a guaranteed 3 quick emblems plus bonus.
Grats to all on accomlishments, etc.
I chain-ran heroics yesterday (about 8) and confirmed that the random DF hates me: still no Icecrown dungeons. But I did earn enough Triumph emblems to get the dps +hit trinket, so now I feel a lot more confident queuing as DPS as well as healer (although I haven’t been picked to dps yet).
Had some problems with my addons that I think are straightened out now. Speaking of which, I installed Gear Score that everyone seems crazy about. I can see anyone’s gear score by mousing over them, but how do I check my own?
Click on your own portrait, then mouse over the “target” portrait instead. That should do the trick.
I use it as a rough idea of how geared-up the person is, which is about it for what it means. So if I’m the healer, I’ll note that one person might be extra-squishy or maybe less confident/experienced.
The people who sneered at how poorly geared my druid was in their Heroic Oculus run did shut up when I actually followed carefully to each new location, didn’t aggro extra drakes, and knew what to do - unlike the better-geared DK who got lost every time and showed up halfway through each fight. :smack: