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1) Doing it wrong (ret paladins, hunters, mages)
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2) You are too undergeared even for a heroic. I'm looking at you ret paladin in all spell power gear.
I'm a little bit spoiled in that I can focus the healer and innervate him when he's at 50% so that he never has to drink, but overall if you don't have the mana regen for 10 trash pulls and 3 bosses you probably don't belong in a heroic for all 8 minutes of its duration.
HAAAATTE!: I play a shadowpriest. I didn't have the Epic achievement for a LONG time because decent trinkets are hard to come by. I actually got it using healing trinkets for offspec. I still use iLevel 200 trinkets (Sundial, Abyssal Rune) so I was pretty pleased to see that the Pit of Saron contains a very nice upgrade, worth almost 100dps over the Sundial. Duly I have been running this daily. Yesterday I get into a group and the trinket drops. Group is me (healing as disc at the time) a DK tank, a hunter, a warrior and a feral druid. I generally make happy noises in /p and people say grats but the item isn't coming through. Other items are rolled for but the trinket report hasn't come up yet. We start discussing if we are going to carry on and do HoR or not. Still no trinket. I get a bit worried and start scrolling through the chat to see if I can figure out what is going on. Then the feral druid (who I had to res earlier because they couldn't find the instance entrance after they died) without any discussion rolls need, wins the roll and quits the group. I raged; oh yes I did. Fair enough he might have had a boomkin offspec, that its totally understandable, but to roll without saying anything and then quitting afterwards is a prime indicator that he was being a dick and knew it. Unfortunately he wasn't on my server either so I couldn't blacklist him or generally give him shit over it. So Toms(sp?) of Stormreaver, if you are out there, FUCK YOU BUDDY!
My minor HATE regarding the /lfd: I can't queue for different stuff as different specs. Like /lfd as healer for ICC5man normal and /lfd as dps for ICC 5man heroic at the same time. Both have a long wait associated (nobody does Pit of Saron normal apparently) and it would be nice to just get whichever pops first.
Someone that's freshly 80 still has ways to regain mana. Hunters have viper, Mages have evocation and mana gems. Rets and ENH get it back through doing their rotation correctly and having the proper spec. I don't think it's extreme to expect people to come into a heroic knowing their class instead of being 23/23/25 with level 74 quest greens. I know I sure as hell didn't do that when I started heroics. I may seem harsh but I come from a line of work where not knowing what to do gets people killed which is very similar to what not knowing what to do does in this game. Also, it's a video game. It's not rocket surgery.
Also, hahaha at idiots: Did my random pug for the day in the morning and got OK. I knew I'd have to rush the place if I wanted to finish before having to go to work. So I'm tanking, pulling pulling pulling, a couple DPS die in the beginning to the shadowcasters hitting them for 30k. Oops, oh well. We get to the chick that has the acolytes or whatever and they go "Let's do it without killing them!" Erm....okay, you're all doing like 1800 dps. This will be a nightmare. So of course she flies up the first time at 80%, they don't kill the acolyte and she comes down. 1 cyclone strike later the pally and DK are dead, so now it's a 3 man race to finish. Thank god I'm awesome geared and can tank through her weak enraged hits these days. All 4 of them got the achievement and I was like "Yeah that's why I didn't want to do that, I knew you two would die immediately."
Also, hahaha at bosses: I spell reflected every one of the last bosses Mind Flays and made him look like a silly bitch.
No, I don't get mad at them for running out of mana. I get mad at them when they run out of mana and expect me to wait for them when they do.
edit: for dps
Really Happy: I finally got that stam trinket out of ToC normal. Don't have to go to that hell hole again unless I want the int trinket.
Confused: Ran some of the new instances and I got more plate healing gear than dps/tank gear that I'm specced for. I think the game is trying to tell me something.
They almost came close to me doing 8k ;p
The only thing I completely dislike is the final boss. If they just kept him a tank and spank without the dumb mechanic it would be better and more of a learning to not stand in things again.
Happy: GDKP run netted me my final t9.25 piece for the 4/5 bonus and the belt of the merciless killer! Woo!
Un-Happy: Guild wiping on deathwhisper for a couple hours because adds dps is too low. The rogues get put on her for the shield. So 3 melee getting her shield to 50% in 5 minutes. If they take one other person off and put them on the boss they always get overrun.
Hate: Absolutely nothing useful dropped from any of the bosses for anyone in our 10man raid. What dropped was either outright useless to anyone in the group or was offspec/sidegrade sort of stuff.
Hope: That we can concentrate on trying to do the achievements in our 25 next week.
-- Gnome mage enchantress and inscriptionologist... er scribbler --
You can enchant them now.
The exalted enchants from Sons of Hodir can now be applied by a level 80 to heirloom shoulders and then sent back to the alt.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Scrappy kills, but just good enough each time. It's a rare treat to actually oneshot Faction Champs, for one thing.
Also: Love the changes to Divine Sacrifice. It's awesome to be able to use it without needing to pop a bubble.
I asked my guild about that and was told that none worked. Is there any option other than Sons of Hodir or Scryers/Aldor?
Really? Do the stats on the enchants scale too?
Also Happy: Gear coming along nicely.
Hate: My pet seems to be dying, a whole lot.
Hate: I'm poor because of all the new gear needing to be enchanted/gemmed. Gosh.
Happy: I've only been in like, 3 bad PUGS. For example, in OK, we wiped twice before getting to the first set of stairs where those guardians for the daily are. Awesome. Deserter debuff go! But other than that and a couple others, everything has been super smooth.
Hate: I have met some real jerks though. Like the arcane mage trying to make everyone feel bad because he blew all his cooldowns on a boss in CoS and out-dpsed everyone. I'm sorry that me and the warlock were only doing 4k each. Sorry for holding you back. Keep in mind the boss was dead so fast I couldn't even get stacks of Vengeance up. Then the druid healer (in that same run) would not let up on the lock. Saying he wasn't going to heal life taps, how much he hates locks, blah blah blah.
Happy: Only a ring left to get with Triumph badges, then I can work on my tank set.
Hate: Realised I'm probably never going to raid again, at least in this expansion, which makes gearing up kinda pointless. So I may just level alts to 80 instead.
Is there a chance that this latest patch reset your pets talents?
I got the achievment and a new belt!
Whaaaaaaat? This is news to me. My alts shall enjoy it.
Ayliana Moonwhisper Ecksus Cerazal
Didn't work for me, but maybe it's Exalted only, I'm not quite there with them yet.
Gives the stat listing, then (Level 80), so I'll see in a couple of days.
Happy: Ashen Verdict ring!
Hate: Chain pulling heroics with dps that likes to tank. If I see that death grip go off again I will let you die.
Hope: The servers will get more stable. Damn instance servers being all crazy.
Hope: Blue proto drake and ashes of a'lar have a higher drop rate.
They do not work on BoA shoulders, because the ilevel of the shoulders is 1 and you need a higher ilevel than that. The only enchants you can put on BoA shoulders remain the ZG ones and those don't even take effect until level 55.
Hope: Everyone shows up for the friggen raid.
Happy: Still loving my instant dungeon groups.
Hate: Despite years of trying and hundreds if not thousands of kills, Gyth still refuses to give me a Chromatic Caripace.
Happy - Didn't get any loot out of ICC25, but at least I hit friendly for the ring - I have to admit I'm damn tempted to join a trash farming group to hit honored at least (friendly -> honored is only like 6k right?)
I am a freaking nerd.
Super happy: FINALLY won a roll for the Yogg10 tentacle trinket. Also managed to finally get the Algalon regen trinket to drop. Had lots of fun with both while finishing the perky pug grind, yay lolsmite.
Happy/hate: Got some nice new tanking legs, 10 man healy boots, and the new ICC rep tanking ring for my Paladin. The hate part: I don't know what ring to get on my Priest, I'm swimming in too much Haste as it is and I can't force myself to like Mp5, so the healing ring is meh. I don't want to DPS. Gah.
Happy: I can't love the new LFG more. Playing exclusively tanks and healers it takes about a billionth of a second to get into a group. Most of the groups (even Oculus, more on that in a sec) have been painless. Thinks I've learned this weekend though:
Random dungeon is random. And by random, I mean you'll end up in the ones you hate 75% of the time. For me, that would be Old Kingdom.
Oculus is great if you're leading it as a healer. I managed to get 2 full pugs Amber/Emerald void and make it count: Everyone go red, I'll pull and kill my drake then heal you from the platform. Group on my dot after the kite. Mash 2 when it lights up, otherwise mash 1. "Wat does 2 do, I never been red bef...." YOU WILL MASH 2 WHEN IT LIGHTS UP THEN MASH 1 DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS DO NOT DEVIATE FROM THIS ROTATION I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE TAUNT IGNORE IT "But..." NO 'BUT' JUST DO WHAT I SAY. Yep, we one shot it both times.
90% of random groups will have a DPS Warrior and DK. 90% of tanks are Paladins. Every healer I've grouped with on my Paladin has been a Priest.
NOBODY has a god damned clue how to activate the Strath event. They'll run to the front gate and stand around for well, the amount of time it take me to throw in a load of laundry and make a sandwich, bitching the whole time about how long the RP takes. Zap the crates and talk to the gnome people.
Everyone is terrible at jousting.
My Druid is apparently a beautiful and unique snowflake with her green punk rock cat/bear; All Druids are white or badgers I guess. Also, all cat Druids use 2 buttons to DPS, and they're the WRONG 2. You're specced into backstab, try standing behind the boss and mashing that button. (I did run into one that knew what he was doing, and he did 6x the damage of everyone else)
No matter how promising the pull starts off, every group will manage to aggro 3 trash packs at a time in those spots in HoS and OK. You know the spots I mean.
Nobody will ever interrupt the shadow cast thing that hits for like 20k in OK.
A Disc Priest can out damage the majority of pug DPS with Holy Nova spam.
No matter how terrible my alts are, I'll be able to get them full T9 in a weekend.
Hope - that I can get into a 25 man rep grind sometime this week. That exalted ring is just tooo good.
Our guild MT still manages to do this every time we do OK. Of course now all that happens is that we AoE all 3 packs down in 10 seconds, but we used to have at least one trash wipe every OK run when wrath launched.
I am a freaking nerd.
THERE ARE BADGER DRUIDS??
I gotta roll one now.
I get crap from mages about my lock dps vs. gearlevel in heroics all the time - I'm sorry dickwad, it must be nice to be able to unload all your CD's at once, but if the boss only lived for 18 seconds, I'm just getting my rotation going. As for taps, fel armor is awesome - unless you are taking outside damage, fel armor should regen faster enough to cover lifetaps.
I am a freaking nerd.
Anytime I get shit from a healer I tell them not to heal me then. Seriously, if I'm lifetapping myself to death we have bigger issues in the group.
Fel armour more than heals enough, but heals are always apprecaited
SW:Tor - Tao - Kryatt Dragon Server
Anub is pretty much the only fight I have ever had to ask for a heal to tap (or a shield
I am a freaking nerd.
I never really understood what lifetap did (does it exchange health for mana?), but isn't that a fight where you would just, i dunno, not do that?
Hate: Damnable amount of wipes on Marrowgar left most of the raid unwilling to go on after we finally downed him. We two shotted him in 10 man eariler in the week. Most of the wipes were from the tanks getting gibbed after the whirlwind phase.
Hope: I can find a rep grinding group after the reset, and people show up for our next 25 run.
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I do not know. I have not tried yet because my hunter is wearing BoA shoulders.
I would imagine the answer is yes, though.
Also, Ish, I don't interrupt those shadowbolts in OK either.
I reflect them.
For 50k damage.
Hahaha, suck my warrior nuts spell-flingers.