For the moment, yes…I’ve been playing Lord of the Rings Online for the last week and haven’t touched WoW. I’ll be back, don’t worry. Probably a couple of weeks.
Okay, I had to go to alla and refresh my memory. I haven’t done that area as Alliance in a long time. Yes, there is one quest to kill mammoths. But it’s only one. Just finish that one, then the last of the airport quests (I think there’s only something like 2 more after this, maybe 1). Then go to the camp and atone for your sins! 
Apparently, 84 of them…including 1 human…AND…1 orc.
It also can mean a bloke who has sex with gnomes.
No I will not pay your psychology bill.
Got Halls of Reflection for my first random Heroic of the day… Zoned in to find the whole group dead, and immediately got a vote-to-kick the healer in my face. Well, since I’d just gotten there and had no idea if the healer was at fault or not, I voted “no”. So I waited for everybody to come back and heal up, and then we went at it. The healer actually wasn’t bad, and we finished the dungeon relatively easily (well, I died fighting Marwyn, but that was probably my own fault). So I’m guessing either DPS fail (on the part of the DPS I replaced), or just bad luck for the wipe that occurred before I got there.
No I don’t have Aura Mastery which saves me from a further dammit. Maybe I should pick it up or have a second holy spec, currently I have prot as my dual spec but I hardly ever use it.
My first real Tanking experience yesterday. Aside from the facerolling, the stupidity, and three deaths it was a blast.
Normal Nexus, of course - the four quest blues you get form a very nice reward even if, like me, you get no gear off the drops.
We got past the first boss, then came close to wiping when I accidentall fell off cliff mid-fight. Two people escaped, only to die later because one decided to try and kill an elite trash mob (yes, it was really funny to hear the shock in his voice when he said “But I thought I could kill one…” Haha, he really had no idea how tough they were. I think he was levelling an alt and may have never done the dungeon before having incredible gear (before the dungeon finder, of course).
We then went off to that big weird arcane spirit boss. Nasty bugger, though mostly because it’s shape and the light flashing around mean I can’t see a damn thing during the whole battle. This whole time, I was thinking how odd it was that I couild hardly keep aggro.
Yep, you guessed it - while running back I’d turned on Unholy Presence. :smack: I need a way to remind myself of this, because there’s almost no feedback about what causes that until I realize I can’t keep aggro, and even then I might think it was just well-geared DPS 5 levels above me.
My second death came at the stupid giant. He hit me with the AoE bounce and I don’t know any way to see it coming, so I didn’t have Vampiric Blood up. Even with Vamp blood, I don’t think I would have lived, though. We won that fight, since he was already down so low. Other than that, good fight.
The Keri battle went pretty well, except for one thing: While I realize Shaman Chain Heal doesn’t require the same kind of line-of-sight as most spells, it’s a bad idea for the healer to stand on the opposite side of the boss from the DPS. Of course, he got buffeted back during the fight and couldn’t heal me and then I died. Still, I’d tanked Keri well anough that nobody else had any significant damage and they burned the last 5% off of her.
I think I need a better health bar. I use Acherus Runes so I don’t have to glance up to my health bar to know what’s on cooldown and what’s coming off.
However, I can’t see my health bar while clicking buttons (I’m working on better macros) and watching the fight.The natuer of the screen is that I need a better HUD.
Right now, I’m wondering if I should go after (normal) Utgarde Keep. I’m honestly terrified to face Shadow Smash to the face, and some of the fights in there are just weird.
Grats on the successfuly tankage, Bandit.
I tried to squeeze in a quick random heroic yesterday – I only had about thirty minutes, but I thought “Hell, I usually get AN or HoL, so that’ll take 15-20 minutes tops.” So, of course, for only the second time ever, I get dropped in Halls of Reflection :smack:
Fortunately, both the DK tank and I are very well-geared (over 5400 gearscore). The DPS, though… not so much. The advantage to lowish DPS is that the the tank had no trouble at all holding aggro, and I was able to keep everyone healed and we got through all the ghost waves and the first two bosses without a single death – I’m pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve ever seen that happen (in my limited HoR experience).
Unfortunately, though, we just couldn’t get through the LK gauntlet at the end. We’d get through the first two waves, but the DPS just couldn’t burn through the third wave fast enough. After two tries the tank dropped, and I was just about out of time myself so I had to quit too.
Burning Dog Legion – As a reminder, I won’t be putting together a BC dungeon run tonight. I still have houseguests. Back on schedule next week for Steamvault.
Yeah I’m a button clicker too. I could use a big health bar that’s more in my face.
We were trying Obsidian Sanctum with 3 drakes up last nite and had Sarth down to 100K health when I died. I had some cooldowns left but didn’t know I was in trouble. I was busy at the time trying to pick up an incoming drake. If I had popped Survival Instincts and Frenzied Regeneration right then we coulda taken him and got the achievement. Instead we wiped for like the 4th time. We gave it a few more tries but never got as close. I see from reading here the 25 man is easier. Maybe try that next time.
God, I know exactly what you mean; for a while, I kept getting Nexus as my random, and I had the exact same problem. Everything’s all shiny, see-through cool colors. Pretty. And ugh.
I use MetaHUD for this, and set it up such that my health+other (mana/energy/power) bar is on the left side of my target kind of like a left parenthesis, and the target’s health+other bar is on the right. That way you’ve got them right there in your face during the fight, and they’re pretty large so they’re hard to miss. At the bottom of each is a raw number of health and the percentage. You can customize how far apart the bars are, or even swap them so that your + your target’s health bars are next to each other on the left, other on the right.
When you’re playing a DK, a set of rune indicators pops up underneath the HUD’s parentheses, which shows when they’re on/on cooldown.
You can customize the alpha level of the bars and when they’re on - mine are off if I’m full health/mana, but turn on when I target something/I’m aggro’d/I’m not full up on health/mana.
For him, the bounce attack starts about five feet away from him; if you stand RIGHT under his legs you’ll be okay. (One legitimate tactic for that fight is for everyone to stand directly on top of the tank, who tanks the boss from zero distance). Also, smaller ice crystals sprout just before the bounce - if you watch out you can step to an area without any ice crystals before they grow up. But generally standing right under him does the trick.
I guess Keri is almost the first dragon you’ll fight if you’re levelling up normally (there’s a few in Sunken Temple, and I guess the guy in Ramparts, but that’s about it), but really, who stands BEHIND a dragon?
IME, it only looks that way when you’ve set your own data in an addon like Gatherer. If you have a database installed, you can see that the nodes are usually pretty evenly distributed through a zone.
In my first guild, “Gnomer” was a dirty word.
Any section you want to appear in a box should have its own [****quote][/****quote] tags. So when you get to the part of the post you want to reply to, just add in a [/****quote] to close it off before you start typing your reply. That’s assuming there’s already a [****quote] in the beginning, which a post will automatically start with, although it may have more information in there, like this one I’m replying to from you, where the opening tag is [****QUOTE=Quasimodem;12391293].
Then, after you type in your reply to that part of the post, you can start the quote box again over the next part of what you’re quoting by putting a [****quote] at the front of it. Or, if you like, you can just highlight a piece of text that should have its own quote box and hit the quote button (looks like a speech bubble).
Preview is a good way to play around with this to make sure you have the formatting right.
Don’t fuckin’ swear, god dammit! 
There’s no way to make your character actually do a full-on kiss animation with another, unfortunately. The best you can get is blowing a kiss at them.
Sometimes. But my first twink was entirely self-funded. (And not by begging, either.) The defining aspect of a twink is that they are overpowered for their level by having BIS gear and enchants, as well as focused specs and rotations.
Personally I can’t stand her new model. She looks so trashy. And her voice doesn’t bother me as much as Sylvanas’s new one–which isn’t bad, per se, just not as good as it used to be.
I believe you mean how *awesome *is that. That was one of my favorite Wrath changes; it’s saved my ass more times than I can count.
Yeah, I always feel kind of guilty about those kinds of quests, too. I wish they’d let us get a bit more picky-choosy from an RP perspective about what our characters will and won’t do.
FYI, that just means the game hasn’t loaded the name yet. The name would show up eventually.
Gnome 'er? I hardly know 'er!
I’ve never used it, personally, but I know a lot of people who swear by Power Auras. It’s nigh-infinitely customizeable. You could set it up, e.g., to pop up an icon when you’re not in Frost Presence. (You could probably even customize it to pop up an icon only when you use a tanking-specific ability but aren’t in Frost, so that you wouldn’t have to change profiles for when you’re not tanking.)
I strongly recommend IceHUD. Here’s an old screencap where you can get an idea of what it looks like. The outside bars are my target’s health (on the left) and Mana (on the right) and the inside ones are my health (on the left) and Rage (on the right). In the middle (under the Swarming Shadows timer) you can see a “5”–that’s a Sunder Armor counter because I’m a Warrior. For a DK, that would be displaying Rune CDs.
I really love IceHUD because it gives me a big, chunky bar for my health right in front of my face, in addition to both solid numbers and a percentage.
Oh, and I’m sure you’ve been told this before, but stop clicking abilities. You can get to be a decent player by clicking, but you will always be a better one if you learn to use keybinds, at least for your most commonly used abilities. IME and IMO, you cannot be a truly effective tank if you’re a clicker-and-keyboard-turner.
Oh, and a note about IceHUD: It’s very customizeable. There are a bunch of different skins for the bars (different widths, designs, orientations), and then each individual layout can be further customized to change what bar is where, how big it is, what numbers are displayed, how or if buffs/debuffs are displayed, how cast bars are displayed, etc. etc. almost ad nauseam. 
But in that screenshot, mine is pretty out-of-the-box.
It seems that mid-zone drops are a lot less likely to pop, however, and even then that’s not true for every zone. Sure, some have a lot, but many have no mroe thana central sprinkline, and even then are often pretty concentrated.
Eh, maybe. I like setting up macros for some of the really common things, but I’m unsure as to whether I shoudl do it. DK tanking seems very situational, so I need rapid choices. Of course, I’ve already dropped Rune Strike macros into all my other attacks. I might have to change keyboards to rely on my fingers more, because the one I use now has very fine keys.
Hey guys. So since I started playing I’ve been just kinda flailing around and picking items for my characters based on how much higher the stats are. The whole spec sheet thing is pretty foreign to me, I come from JRPG land where your biggest decision is ‘do I make him a White Mage or a Ninja?’.
Do you guys mind taking a look at Laemadras and giving me some hints? I want him to be more of a combat Rogue, I like having Vanish and that sort of stuff but I’m not a sneaky sneaky assassin. People say Rogues are one of the highest DPS classes but my DPS sucks. Same on my hunter too, so there’s just something I’m missing here.
Also, anyone notice people being flaky lately on random instances? Took forever to do Gnomer yesterday because people kept dropping out, only two of us were there from start to finish.
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It can also mean the character was deleted. I received some gold-seller spam in my mailbox the other day, and clicked the “Report Spam” button, but didn’t delete the mail. The next day, the mail was still there but it shown as being from “Unknown”.
Why on earth is there an invisible wall in ToC about ten feet in front of the big gate the opponents enter through? (The same kind of invisible wall that keeps you from going over the edges of platforms/ramps in places like A’K when you get knocked back). I finally had to say something after my visit there yesterday, because my tank had Paletress backed right up against it — and I don’t think he realized it was even there — and I simply could not get behind her, despite the appearance that there’s plenty of open space there.
The “invisible” wall functions exactly like a real wall with respect to the camera, as well, in that if I end up with it right behind me, my camera zooms all the way in and I can’t see anything.
Nothing to say you can’t keybind a macro, you know. Even things as simple as the 1 through = quickbar are actually keybinds.
You’re just stuck with shitty instances at the moment. The annoying and long ones are the kinds that people won’t always stick around through the whole thing of. (Gnomer, Mara, BRD, etc.)
Because it *is *a wall. It just *looks *like a gate. You can’t actually go through it. You can get weird LOS issues when you or a mob are right up against it, too.
For some of the longer instances (Mara and BRD that I know of for sure), the random finder will often give you your goodie bag for getting only part of them done - there are three separate winning conditions for Mara (the satyr boss, the spiky flower boss, and the farting princess), and two for BRD (the torturer and the whole damn thing); this has its good side (at least you don’t have to run the whole damn dungeon for your food pellet), but otoh it’s pretty hard to convince people to hang around and run more of the instance once they’ve gotten their pellets.
Don’t know if they’ve done something like that for Gnomer.
( :smack: I’ve really got to start remembering to say everything I want to say before clicking “Submit Reply”)
What is with this utter lack of high-level DPS plate boots and belts? There is an iLvl 264 plate belt (one for each pally spec) purchasable with Frost badges, but no plate boots or belts for any spec purchasable with Triumph badges. I’ve checked the Triumph and Frost vendors both in the building with the portals, as well as the vendors in Tanks For Everything, and also that cobbler gnome upstairs in Threads of Fate. Is there another Triumph vendor I’m overlooking? The only boots I can find are purchasable with Conquest badges (or whatever the badge below Triumph is), but those are downgrades from my existing, crafted, iLvl 226 boots.
I’ve checked the loot lists for the three Heroic ICC 5-mans (Normal drops iLvl 219 gear, Heroic drops iLvl 232), and there are a handful of plate boots and belts, but they’re all itemized for tanks or healers.
I’ve noticed that even the tier sets lack boots and belts.
And speaking of tier sets …
I’m looking at the T10 stuff I can buy with Frosts, and it’s all iLvl 251. To upgrade to iLvl 264, I apparently have to raid and hope for the tokens to drop. Since my schedule doesn’t permit raiding at this time, it looks like iLvl 251 will have to do if I want T10 gear. As it is, iLvl 251 is better than what I’m wearing in every slot except shoulders (iLvl 264 shoulders, and iLvl 232-245 everywhere else. Except belt and boots.)
At the same time, there are non-tier, iLvl 264 chest, belt, and gloves that I can purchase with Frosts (and they happen to match my shoulders in appearance, too, which is nice).
So here’s my question: Are the set bonuses from putting together the whole iLvl 251 T10 set going to be better, overall, than if I were to equip those three non-tier 264 pieces to go with my 264 shoulders? Of course, I’ll be buying the belt in any case. But I’m running out of things to buy with Triumphs.
Of course, the point may be moot. Since I can only obtain (as near as I can tell) 2 Frosts per day without raiding, and with the prices on the Frost gear, Cataclysm will probably be out long before I could complete the T10 set anyway. I spent my first 50 Frosts on a new iLvl 264 cloak, so now it’s going to be another month before I can pick up the next-least-expensive Frost piece (the 60 Frost stuff), and another month for the next piece, and more than a month and a half for the 95 Frost stuff…)
