I've always been a bit confused about the following, though:
Block Value and Block Rating. Anyone want to explain that? Also, should Dodge ever be taken into consideration with itemization?
Block rating increases your chance to block. Just like dodge rating increases your chance to dodge. Shield block value is the amount of damage that is shaved off when you do block. So if you have a 20% chance to block, when you do block, you will take damage minus SBV. Warriors have a 60% chance when we block to critical block, which makes you block double your shield block value, and of course Shield Block makes you 100% chance to block any attacks you don't avoid while it's up.
Long story short, you only want block rating when it's on a piece that's good because of the other stats and it's pretty rare now, and you want as much block value as you can get from pieces that are good otherwise. Again, you don't stack for it.
I keep two sets of gear. One is my SBV set that I use in heroics for max shield slams and pulling 2 or 3 packs at a time. The other is my main tanking set which has much lower block value but much higher HP/avoidance.
O.K. this is probably irrelevant to everyone but it really annoyed me yesterday. In the 5 man heroic toc how relevant is it for DPS to be following marks and/or switched to the add? I have only run it a few times since I started playing again and the first 5-6 times we ran through (same tank with me healing) with zero issues. I mean I could've gone and made a sandwich it was so simple. Yesterday I had a warrior, a lock, and a mage all taking big hits left and right and I don't have the foggiest where from. We limped through and managed to finish but it pissed me off because I can only assume I was screwing up the healing.
I had the same tank I usually do, but holy crap I actually went oom from spamming heals all over the place. My friend who tanked it claimed that they kept attacking the chick that summons the nightmare and messing stuff up (despite tremor being down people would go 100% --> 0% during a fear). I am not so sure.
I just don't know what the hell went wrong and it's frustrating. If I'm screwing it up I'd rather know that I got carried the first half dozen times and fix whatever the hell is going wrong.
SenshiBALLING OUT OF CONTROLWavefrontRegistered Userregular
edited October 2009
Certain faction champs are bitchier than others, and if you're not doing the little trash there is right (or the ghouls), there's huge potential for group-wide damage.
O.K. this is probably irrelevant to everyone but it really annoyed me yesterday. In the 5 man heroic toc how relevant is it for DPS to be following marks and/or switched to the add? I have only run it a few times since I started playing again and the first 5-6 times we ran through (same tank with me healing) with zero issues. I mean I could've gone and made a sandwich it was so simple. Yesterday I had a warrior, a lock, and a mage all taking big hits left and right and I don't have the foggiest where from. We limped through and managed to finish but it pissed me off because I can only assume I was screwing up the healing.
I had the same tank I usually do, but holy crap I actually went oom from spamming heals all over the place. My friend who tanked it claimed that they kept attacking the chick that summons the nightmare and messing stuff up (despite tremor being down people would go 100% --> 0% during a fear). I am not so sure.
I just don't know what the hell went wrong and it's frustrating. If I'm screwing it up I'd rather know that I got carried the first half dozen times and fix whatever the hell is going wrong.
I'm pretty sure Paltress is invulnerable while the shade is up. It's easy for softer classes to die during a fear just by catching 2-3 smites in a row. I don't know enough about shaman healing to say what you could do to deal with it other than the tremor totem you're already using. As a disc priest I just keep a shield on everyone to absorb the smites and then throw the tank heals as necessary.
There's a lot of chance involved in 5-man ToC with faction champ composition, who gets smited when you get Paltress, who gets marked on Black Knight phase 3, etc. It doesn't sound like you were underperforming.
O.K. this is probably irrelevant to everyone but it really annoyed me yesterday. In the 5 man heroic toc how relevant is it for DPS to be following marks and/or switched to the add? I have only run it a few times since I started playing again and the first 5-6 times we ran through (same tank with me healing) with zero issues. I mean I could've gone and made a sandwich it was so simple. Yesterday I had a warrior, a lock, and a mage all taking big hits left and right and I don't have the foggiest where from. We limped through and managed to finish but it pissed me off because I can only assume I was screwing up the healing.
I had the same tank I usually do, but holy crap I actually went oom from spamming heals all over the place. My friend who tanked it claimed that they kept attacking the chick that summons the nightmare and messing stuff up (despite tremor being down people would go 100% --> 0% during a fear). I am not so sure.
I just don't know what the hell went wrong and it's frustrating. If I'm screwing it up I'd rather know that I got carried the first half dozen times and fix whatever the hell is going wrong.
I'm pretty sure Paltress is invulnerable while the shade is up. It's easy for softer classes to die during a fear just by catching 2-3 smites in a row. I don't know enough about shaman healing to say what you could do to deal with it other than the tremor totem you're already using. As a disc priest I just keep a shield on everyone to absorb the smites and then throw the tank heals as necessary.
There's a lot of chance involved in 5-man ToC with faction champ composition, who gets smited when you get Paltress, who gets marked on Black Knight phase 3, etc. It doesn't sound like you were underperforming.
She is a bitch. That smite can sometimes come out so freaking fast and it hits rediculously hard. If it targets the same person 3 times in a row and you werent healing them at least by the second they will die. It sucks. Sometimes a death happens but thats what happens in random spike damage encounters. I hate her because of that. Id rather have retards not turning around on the paladin dudes light shit than that fight.
But also playing a shaman, thats pretty much all you can do. I personally put earth shield on myself so I can completely ignore me and have 0 interruption, cause the tank usually has enough health that I can get a quick Healing wave on him and hes set for like 10-15 seconds.
Also- My engineering is kinda up there...I was buying mats for it until WOTLK and then the prices went NUTS and I got bored and gave up.
I actually don't know why I'm gonna level mining...I guess to...sell...stuff? I can probably afford to buy all the mats I will need to at least get enough skillups to make the rocket launchers, cloak enchant, and boot enchant.
yea only need a max skill of 405 for all those, and I am at 365
O.K. this is probably irrelevant to everyone but it really annoyed me yesterday. In the 5 man heroic toc how relevant is it for DPS to be following marks and/or switched to the add? I have only run it a few times since I started playing again and the first 5-6 times we ran through (same tank with me healing) with zero issues. I mean I could've gone and made a sandwich it was so simple. Yesterday I had a warrior, a lock, and a mage all taking big hits left and right and I don't have the foggiest where from. We limped through and managed to finish but it pissed me off because I can only assume I was screwing up the healing.
I had the same tank I usually do, but holy crap I actually went oom from spamming heals all over the place. My friend who tanked it claimed that they kept attacking the chick that summons the nightmare and messing stuff up (despite tremor being down people would go 100% --> 0% during a fear). I am not so sure.
I just don't know what the hell went wrong and it's frustrating. If I'm screwing it up I'd rather know that I got carried the first half dozen times and fix whatever the hell is going wrong.
I'm pretty sure Paltress is invulnerable while the shade is up. It's easy for softer classes to die during a fear just by catching 2-3 smites in a row. I don't know enough about shaman healing to say what you could do to deal with it other than the tremor totem you're already using. As a disc priest I just keep a shield on everyone to absorb the smites and then throw the tank heals as necessary.
There's a lot of chance involved in 5-man ToC with faction champ composition, who gets smited when you get Paltress, who gets marked on Black Knight phase 3, etc. It doesn't sound like you were underperforming.
I was having some problems healing during Paletress on my shaman, and then I started dropping grounding totems whenever I could. Made a world of difference for me.
YMMV
When I'm tanking Paletress with my DK I keep her as a focus target so I can interrupt something every time Mind Freeze is off cooldown. DPS that are worth a damn should be doing the same thing.
having a pvp trinket equipped can help a bit with the H ToC fights. gets you out of one of paletress's fears, eadric's stuns, DK's stun-knockback, that sort of thing.
Wow, apparently you CAN install WoW from scratch with just the Wrath dvd. That's handy.
I had a fun little time reinstalling after getting back into the game. I only played at launch and again like a year later so my discs are originals.
I installed off all those discs and then found out that the install is seen as so out of date as to be useless. The blizzard downloader launched and decided that I had to just go the entire digital download route, 4.something GB later and I still had a bunch of patches to install too. Blech.
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Block rating increases your chance to block. Just like dodge rating increases your chance to dodge. Shield block value is the amount of damage that is shaved off when you do block. So if you have a 20% chance to block, when you do block, you will take damage minus SBV. Warriors have a 60% chance when we block to critical block, which makes you block double your shield block value, and of course Shield Block makes you 100% chance to block any attacks you don't avoid while it's up.
Long story short, you only want block rating when it's on a piece that's good because of the other stats and it's pretty rare now, and you want as much block value as you can get from pieces that are good otherwise. Again, you don't stack for it.
I keep two sets of gear. One is my SBV set that I use in heroics for max shield slams and pulling 2 or 3 packs at a time. The other is my main tanking set which has much lower block value but much higher HP/avoidance.
Looks like the exact same model with a different face texture to me. He's still got baseball gloves for hands, etc.
I had the same tank I usually do, but holy crap I actually went oom from spamming heals all over the place. My friend who tanked it claimed that they kept attacking the chick that summons the nightmare and messing stuff up (despite tremor being down people would go 100% --> 0% during a fear). I am not so sure.
My gear isn't bad I assume: armory
I just don't know what the hell went wrong and it's frustrating. If I'm screwing it up I'd rather know that I got carried the first half dozen times and fix whatever the hell is going wrong.
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On my server it'd be hard enough convincing most PUGs you need defense plate for avoidance purposes.
Yeah that's what I meant! I want my Dwarf shaman now :!
There's a lot of chance involved in 5-man ToC with faction champ composition, who gets smited when you get Paltress, who gets marked on Black Knight phase 3, etc. It doesn't sound like you were underperforming.
She is a bitch. That smite can sometimes come out so freaking fast and it hits rediculously hard. If it targets the same person 3 times in a row and you werent healing them at least by the second they will die. It sucks. Sometimes a death happens but thats what happens in random spike damage encounters. I hate her because of that. Id rather have retards not turning around on the paladin dudes light shit than that fight.
But also playing a shaman, thats pretty much all you can do. I personally put earth shield on myself so I can completely ignore me and have 0 interruption, cause the tank usually has enough health that I can get a quick Healing wave on him and hes set for like 10-15 seconds.
Sadly, I think I'm the only one on my server who knows how to click an "Interrupt" skill.
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The only heal she has is Renew, and it's dispellable. You'd be hard-pressed to make a group composed entirely of classes with no dispel.
DK, Rogue, Druid Healer, Paladin, Hunter.
Don't hunters have a dispell?
I actually don't know why I'm gonna level mining...I guess to...sell...stuff? I can probably afford to buy all the mats I will need to at least get enough skillups to make the rocket launchers, cloak enchant, and boot enchant.
yea only need a max skill of 405 for all those, and I am at 365
They do. http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=19801
Couldn't remember if it was in arcane shot or tranq shot now, been a while since I huntered
I was having some problems healing during Paletress on my shaman, and then I started dropping grounding totems whenever I could. Made a world of difference for me.
YMMV
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correct. the other thing is technically an incapacitate.
you can have the 1st stun dispelled, but if you don't have a defensive dispeller in your group...
Yes, you can interrupt the Smite.
Whatever. The point is like half the classes lack dispells. It's not hard to end up in a group without one.
:P
I had a fun little time reinstalling after getting back into the game. I only played at launch and again like a year later so my discs are originals.
I installed off all those discs and then found out that the install is seen as so out of date as to be useless. The blizzard downloader launched and decided that I had to just go the entire digital download route, 4.something GB later and I still had a bunch of patches to install too. Blech.