Are the Prophets (the guys who fear) undead? If so, shackling the hell out of them is a good idea; if not, I can pull them off to the side and repentance them.
I actually got in a couple lucky hammers and interrupted some fears during our last run through the trash.
Also, Mordrin needs to learn him some self-preservation - in particular, use the time we’re hiding behind the pillar to heal yourself and him. In addition: if we had a plan of “tank him next to pillar A, everyone hide behind tank, then run around the pillar when he does his explosion thing”, that might help keep the dps alive a bit longer.
I’ve gotta say the Priest changes might be the most interesting from the first day of previews (although Healing Rain for a Shaman sounds pretty cool too) - and I don’t even play a priest (well, I have a level 7 one or something)…
I can already hear the stupid DPS saying “it’s not my fault I stood in the fire, Priest didn’t grip me out!”
But PW:Barrier sounds awesome, the “Chakra” talent sounds pretty damn cool (switching between tank and party healing “modes” by casting certain spells multiple times in a row).
Just good stuff… Here’s hoping I’m as happy about the hunter changes, but for some reason I’m not too confident of that.
My WAG is that if they make it once-per-combat, it’ll be a very substantial DPS boost. But they’ll probably keep it comparable to, say, a trinket effect, and make it a 203 min CD.
Hahaha, I’ve been known to have notes like that myself, though usually on index cards. When I’m leading raids (especially ones I’m not that familiar with), I’ll have an actual notebook filled with handwritten notes.
Meh, just scrub it. Looks like you have the same one I have at work–a couple of times a year, I just haul it to the sink, scrub it out, and leave it to dry on a vent. Good as new!
I won’t even tell you how groady my mouse at home gets, though. Eww.
Are you stocked up with mana pots, too? I know most tanks will carry HP ones instead, but for this fight mana might be better for you. Can you bring a Druid to Innervate you, too? (Can you even Innervate at that level?)
GAAAAHHHHHH! My account got hacked last night! The bastards locked me out and got the account banned for gold farming. I was thinking about taking a break anyway. Depending on how the conversation goes with Blizzard support it may have made the decision for me.
I’ve never heard of a case where the account was legitimately stolen (versus sold) and the original owner wasn’t able to get it back after providing the appropriate documentation.
Agreed. It really should not be a problem, might be a hassle, yes, but very doable.
Another guildie got hacked in the wee hours of the morning, and when the one guy on, an officer, told me about it, I suggested gkicking. He said no because the characters didn’t have bank access. I dislike leaving compromised accounts in the guild because gold farmer/scammer-type actions can unfavorably reflect on our guild. But, I’m not an officer. Hopefully my husband (second in command) gkicked the account today while he was enjoying his day off.
Yep, Innervate’s level 40. It’s one of those “thank GOD I finally have this again!” skills I missed when leveling the new Druid. I tend to prioritize it for the healer, but I keep an eye on Pally tanks too, especially when I’m the healer and I’m so mana-efficient that I only start suffering in raids.
They’ve psoted some abilities - most seem heavily PvP oriented. In fact, while they’d be handy in 5-man, the ones shown thus far seem meaningless in raiding. I’m not sure what this will mean, as warlocks are accepted but not usually beloved in raids as it is, mostly from a serious lack of utility and DPs that’s good, but rarely great, compared to the competition.
“Gold-Farming” = going after only those monsters offering the most valuable drops, yes?
Also, my longest guildie has been inactive for 14 days, the shortest has been 5 days. Other than jaejaebadlilsister and Henchi, no one has had any kind of interaction with the guild or the vault - delete 'em?
Really? I always love to have a lock in raid for the health cookies and the summoning stones. Also, the ones we have more than carry their own DPS-wise. Of course we’re not in 25-man ICC hard modes or anything, so maybe it’s different at uber gear levels.
I really don’t think there is a “don’t bring them unless you have to” class anymore - Blizz has gotten pretty good about that at least. Some specs are pretty bad, but no entire classes.
And soulstones – in our Mana-Tombs run last night I was pleased when the lock ss’d me right before the end boss (sometimes the lock ss’es themselves IME). Definitely saved our bacon, too, as the group didn’t burn down the adds (the balls plus at least one ethereal apprentice) until after the boss was dead.
Yes and no. There’s all kinds of gold farming. Some poeple farm resources, some farm the doprs rather than the money from monsters, and I would guess some tanks farm the random heroics (tanks usually have no downtime, so a good one can chain-heroics for the 25 g +whatever they get from drops).
I personally agree, but I’ve heard that the hardcore guilds take maybe one warlock. Sure, casual takes anybody, but the top raiders may opt for a more.. focused class. Warlocks are fun, I agree, but they are fairly limited. And sadly, soulstones and healthstones are things that take time to distribute and not every guild really uses them among the other fifty bazillion things. PLus, on trash and things which go down easily, warlocks often can’t pull their own weight
Now, I don’t agree with this viewpoint. But that’s what I see and hear people doing and saying. And it bothers some warlocks that for a spell-slinging DPS clas, they often play second fiddle to mages in raids and are only even with them in PvP. (Mage and 'Lock players seem to have a usually-friendly rivalry going on.)
The phrase “gold farming” means playing to get gold so you can sell it. Remember back when you first started and you bought gold from someone. That person was a gold-farmer. That phrase doesn’t mean anything other than that. Gold-farming in that sense is seriously frowned upon.
I would put a note in the Guild message of the day that any toon that is idle for more than 30 days will be kicked. Then follow up on that as each one’s idle time hits 31 days. That’s more than enough time to get back to the game.
I wouldn’t worry about people not using the bank - if they don’t need anything from it, that’s no big deal. I wouldn’t kick somebody unless it’s been a month or two since they’ve logged on. Lots of people (me, for one) make a lot of characters that only get played every now and then. Remember, “low-level toon” doesn’t necessarily mean “new player”. People with high-level toons make new toons all the time, to play when they want to do something different, or they’ll make a toon on a different server that they can play if their main server is down.
My new PC arrives today! I’m very excited; for the last year I’ve either been playing on my laptop or on a 5 1/2 year old desktop. This one has four times the memory plus a good video card, and a much better processor, so I can’t wait to play WoW with the video settings turned up for a change.
Unfortunately, of course, it means installing WoW, BC, WotLK, and downloading/installing all the patches. Are there any shortcuts to doing that?
If you can back up your WoW directory to a flash drive or DVDs, you should be able to just move it wholesale from one computer to another. AFAIK the game is entirely contained within the WoW directory itself and doesn’t touch the registry at all. I’ve had to do that often when getting it to run in Linux, and copying the directory straight works fine.
If your ability to move large amounts of data is limited, you can instead back up just the patches, the Interface folder, and the WTF folder. You’ll still have to reinstall WotLK, but as long as the patches are present in the root WoW folder they’ll just be applied instead of redownloaded. I have patches from 2.3.0 to 3.3.3 and they’re only about 700 MB total, so that should be much easier than moving 20 gig. The Interface and WTF folders will ensure that all your settings and addons transfer seamlessly.
Also meant to add that I keep an external HD for things like this; flash drives get expensive past 8 or 16 gig, and having a 500 GB HD you can plug in by USB to any computer you want is extremely helpful.
I have a real problem with remembering stuff AFTER posting and the edit window. Too used to IM-style chatting where I can just add on later.
Will the whole WoW folder fit on a DVD? I just realized I don’t know how much data a DVD holds. The computer being replaced does have a DVD burner so that might work.
