Get Uldaman, and I'm like, "Okay, sure, whatever" because I don't entirely hate it, and it's usually quick enough a run. We burn through a couple trash mobs, and I'm dotting, I'm Rain of Fire-ing, I'm lifetapping/lifedraining...
The shaman healer gets pissed off. "STOP LIFETAPPING SO MUCH AND DRINK."
The tank jumps in, and does the hunter. Okay, sure, fine. I can sit down and drink something with the others, if they're that angry about it, sure, I can do this. I don't care, I just want to do the dungeon.
So, we're going and going and we're killing more packs of mobs, and I see the healer letting the tank get dangerously low, so, I figure, "well, if the healer's lagging, better SS the tank!" So I do.
Again, the healer jumps my shit, "WHY DIDN'T YOU SS ME?"
Next thing I know, I'm sitting back in Stormwind, confused, and-
Happy: Level 40!
Double Happy: Levelling a Priest healer with my wife's Paladin tank - we're having fun, running about, questing, triple EXP-ing, and we got Westfall Chickens to run about behind us.
Silly: As much as I've gone on record singing the praises of tanking for really bad dps in heroics, it's nice to run with some good dps once in a while. I tanked a random for three guildies, two dps and a healer (picking up one pug dps, who turned out to be decently geared and not an idiot). We drew Violet Hold, and after a few trash waves I noticed that although I was still pegged at max health, the healer wasn't casting anything. After the first boss (Zuramat), Improved Leader of the Pack was outhealing the paladin by about a 2:1 ratio. So between portals, we both swapped specs - him from healer to tank, me from tank to DPS, and we did the rest of the instance without a healer (The only casualty was me pulling aggro and dying to Xevozz).
FUCK: Had been playing WoW most of the day, took a break, came back and as soon as I finished loading into Dalaran, my screen turned pinkish, locked up, and my PC rebooted. Huh. Weird lines across the screen on some of the bootup screens and Windows' loading screen before it blue screens again.
I screw around with it, run Memtest (with no errors), reboot it and the lines are gone, goes into Windows fine. Weird indeed. I chance getting into WoW, it comes up and I do some of my Argent Tournament dailies, then quit to watch some 24. I go to start WoW again after, desktop turns pinkish before WoW even comes up, computer reboots. Fucked around with it a while, left it off for a good half an hour, fucked around with it some more, can't get it to boot up without the corruption lines (though Safe mode runs fine). Uninstalling the nVidia drivers allows Windows to boot up normally, but it seems as soon as the drivers are installed, it starts failing again.
Near as I can figure, my video card is dying. As long as it's doing simple things (for the most part) with the standard Windows drivers, it's ok for now, but pending perhaps a few more tests in the morning, it looks like I'm going to have to buy a new one. Bah.
Happy: Got my warrior to 44 today, won't be long now till I'm in outlands.
Hhrm: Decided to give druid tanking another shot, after not having any fun on him lately. I've been going for the red proto drake, and have 2 left to go. Less-Fuck and a really easy one in UP, the one where you collect spears reset the event and then do it again without having to hope you get enough spears in time. But sometime, everyone manages to fuck up on less-rabi. We spend like 80 minutes standing in front of him making sure everyone knows when they are up for their interupt, then someone always goes "OH LOL MY BAD!" yeah.. fuck. As for the UP one I can't ever convince a group to just reset the fucking event everyone these days in their t9 thinks they can just steamroll it with their "uber" 3k dps, but never get it done.
Hate: Now I need to farm a shitload of temblems on my druid again for the t9 feral set oh well he's geared enough healer he can heal any instance pretty much with ease. And tank geared enough to easily tank all the old heroics. But a little squishy still for ToC and ICC5.
Hate: I queue for tank/healer, it checks my healer gear and goes "OH HEY TANK hHOR!" fuck you LFD.
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I got the timed Skadi kill without resetting the event (and without trying for it) so it definitely is possible.
The old strat for Less-Rabi that still should work is getting a Shaman with 5/5 Reverberation. That gives him 5s CD on Wind Shear. If he interrupts the first Transform after 50% and then just hits Wind Shear when it's up, he should get every cast. Or just get 5 dps, interrupt him once at 50% and then burn down the rest in the 5.5seconds you have left.
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sounds nice in theory the shaman one but in practise it never ever worked for our group
we just had five dps, and a mage counterspelled at 50%. if your five dps group can't burn him from 50% to dead in 8 seconds (counterspell lockout time) you don't deserve protos.
sounds nice in theory the shaman one but in practise it never ever worked for our group
we just had five dps, and a mage counterspelled at 50%. if your five dps group can't burn him from 50% to dead in 8 seconds (counterspell lockout time) you don't deserve protos.
Well look at them mages and their fancy eight second lockout.
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GrobianWhat's on sale?Pliers!Registered Userregular
edited January 2010
I didn't know that the school lockout works for this.
A hate my rogue tries less rabi at less than 2k hit points my kick misses!
Mind Numbing poison as I hear it makes this much easier.
Additional Hate: My friend and I go into the random system and we get pugged into H. HoS. There's this Warlock in the group with some deep seeded issues. During group pulls, as I'm spinning around trying to build aggro evenly, he's single targets whatever the fuck he wants pulling aggro. Then follows up with "You need to hold aggro better!". We have a druid healer who, for whatever reasons, was not in Tree form. Its a heroic so who really cares since his heals were spot on. Fucking Warlock bitches him out "I BETTER NOT DIE CUZ YOU WEREN'T IN TREE FORM." Additionally we had a Ret Pally that had never used the system before and didn't know how to teleport in. The warlock decides to inform him that "IF YOU DON'T GET IN HERE RIGHT NOW WE'LL KICK YOU."
At this point the Druid has dropped group and my friend and I are getting a bit tired of this, so I finally reply with "Lock, you need to get your panties out of twist." Thank the Gods, he finally shut up and continued to do his mediocre dps while we finished dungeon.
Happy - My faith in humanity has been restored. I've been RAF'ing a tank/healer combo with my wife. We haven't quested since we could queue RFC and are currently level 54ish. Over 39 levels of straight instances, we finally got queued with a competent rogue. He did proper damage, locked down casters and used proper rogue cool downs if he ever got aggro.
We've still yet to find a decent hunter.
Hate: A few more levels and we'll be breaking into fresh DK land. As someone who plays a rather competent DK, I'm not quite sure my faith in humanity will stay in tact through the early DK levels.
YAY!: Got my pug pet ^^ Though I feel bad for my bf. I woke him up sat morning and told him i wanted a new pet:
Me: "wanna run a string of heroics till i get my pug pet? pleeeeease?"
Him: "ok, how many do you have now?"
Me:"52"
Him:"....fuck..."
We did it in 18 runs I love how fast the Q is when he sets himself to tank. After all that I made sure to make him steak and potatoes for dinner
Hate: Out of all those runs we only ran into one person that was a complete jerk! This shaman was so full of himself (and bad dps) he would "assume" pull... meaning he would pull things he thinks my bf will be tanking, only he wasn't and didn't see it till him and the healer died. We ended up leaving the group after the guy kept going on how horrible of a tank my bf was being. We didn't need his crap, besides, he is a tank... he'll get another group in 1 min whilst they wait another 5-10 (sat was bad for tanks).
Hate - Pugging priests for our ICC10. Ours has missed our first two Friday nights and I swear priests that we are able to pug are either
a) just barely pulling their weight
b) doing fine healing, but ANNOYING AS FUCK.
Happy - Got past Lady Douchewhisperer after a few attempts, then annoying priest had to log. (looks like my praying came through). So we 9-1/2 manned Gunship. Brought our guildie who now has his hacked account back, but only his unsellable gear left. He did a solid 1500dps with his dalaran daggers and pilgrim boots.
Rude - Slowly levelling my up drood, and did Old Kingdom as healer. Everything went fine, no deaths till right at the end when I died moments before the last boss. So what does the ret pally do. Drop group imediately leaving my corpse lying on the ground. Thanks alot
Somewhat happy - Gave Saurfang a few attempts last night, and we are starting to learn the fight, people just have to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off and we'll be fine I think.
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besides, he is a tank... he'll get another group in 1 min whilst they wait another 5-10 (sat was bad for tanks).
I was gonna say, a whole minute? As a tank, I'm usually stunned if I'm not in a dungeon in 10 seconds or less.
Anyway...
Happy: Got to do Marrowgar last night.
Hate: We didn't kill him.
Neutral: One of our tanks didn't quite understand the concept of stacking together. Eventually he just kind of gave up and stood about 10 feet away from the other two of us.
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Somewhat happy - Gave Saurfang a few attempts last night, and we are starting to learn the fight, people just have to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off and we'll be fine I think.
The fight is pretty easy on 10 man as long as you get the two adds down without them hitting anyone. Have two people assigned to each add. Use any abilities to slow it down the whole time while burning it down quickly. It is best to have two ranged go at it, but if you need a melee to pull off the boss after the ranged get aggro, that's fine too.
You should only be two healing the fight so whichever healer has the best DPS set should be switching.
In fact, I recently pugged ICC10 on my hunter and we ended up 1 healing it. They refused to have a melee dps help me with one of the adds so I'd get hit once or twice.
The healing for that fight isn't very intensive until you have marks going out.
Somewhat happy - Gave Saurfang a few attempts last night, and we are starting to learn the fight, people just have to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off and we'll be fine I think.
The fight is pretty easy on 10 man as long as you get the two adds down without them hitting anyone. Have two people assigned to each add. Use any abilities to slow it down the whole time while burning it down quickly. It is best to have two ranged go at it, but if you need a melee to pull off the boss after the ranged get aggro, that's fine too.
You should only be two healing the fight so whichever healer has the best DPS set should be switching.
In fact, I recently pugged ICC10 on my hunter and we ended up 1 healing it. They refused to have a melee dps help me with one of the adds so I'd get hit once or twice.
The healing for that fight isn't very intensive until you have marks going out.
I thought we should have had it easy yeah.. had 2 hunters a mage and me (warlock) it should have been cake I though with good ranged dps.
Once the 2nd hunter figures it out, I think we'll be able to do it no problem though, he was moving around alot still and had his pet running around. (not sure if the pets were spreading the blood marks as well)
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Hate: People who abuse the LFD tool vote kick function.
Story: Got Halls of Stone for our random to get our frost badges. So as we're clearing trash our healer says that he wants all the bosses for the badges, but we don't answer him because we're chain pulling the entire way. Like literally, we never leave combat all the way to the gauntlet. So once we get there, we tell him, no we're just doing the two bosses and then we're out. So rather than doing the logical thing and staying in the group for the next five minutes it will take for us to do the gauntlet and kill the last boss, the healer runs all the way to the beginning of the instance (rather than just using the teleport function, no idea why) to go back to town.
So at this point we're pretty much being held hostage by a healer -- who is geared enough that we don't feel bad about badge-blocking him -- who would rather wait in town for the next 10 minutes than just finish up and get an instant pop healer queue. The thing is as the druid left, he started the event to spite us. Our group is comprised of a pally tank, me a rogue, a mage, and a DK. At this point we know that we can just vanish, invis, DI and not take a repair bill, but our tank just kinda says, "Nah man, we got this." So we proceed to do the gauntlet with no healer, the pally tank doubling as the healer and tank, and us dps using all our healing cooldowns available to us to live. By the end of it me and the mage die on the last wave and we finish it up.
After all things are said and done by the time we get to the last boss after clearing trash and healing ourselves the rest of the way, our debuff is almost gone. So we wait the last minute, boot the healer and requeue. We wait about 30 seconds before we decide, "Fuck it, we did the gauntlet with no healer, and we have ballin' DPS. Lets do this with no healer as well." So we start the fight and down him in 30 seconds, where we have a shammy healer join the group in the last 5 seconds of it. So he basically gets in to the instance and instantly receives three badges.
Hope: That the change the way vote kicking works so that it while the debuff is on, if someone vote kicks, it doesn't throw up the vote, but will at least register that you want them out. Then if everyone else votes that they want that person gone, it will boot them. It seems like a good enough way to do things.
Hate: Skipping bosses
Specifically, what do you skip in HoS that takes alot of time to kill? Maiden is a minute tops. The rock guy maybe 5? Two emblems in 6 minutes is a worthwhile investment I'd say.
If you could skip the stupid event boss, I'd do that every time though.
I have over 300 Triumph badges on my main. I don't need anymore, but I understand if other people do. When it takes over 15 minutes to que as a DPS, I am already sick of doing dungeons, I want that shit over with so I can get on with my life. Skip bosses? Always down.
I have over 300 Triumph badges on my main. I don't need anymore, but I understand if other people do. When it takes over 15 minutes to que as a DPS, I am already sick of doing dungeons, I want that shit over with so I can get on with my life. Skip bosses? Always down.
Then why queue? If you are just doing the first one of the day for frost, what's 5 more minutes when it's the only one you are doing?
Somewhat happy - Gave Saurfang a few attempts last night, and we are starting to learn the fight, people just have to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off and we'll be fine I think.
The fight is pretty easy on 10 man as long as you get the two adds down without them hitting anyone. Have two people assigned to each add. Use any abilities to slow it down the whole time while burning it down quickly. It is best to have two ranged go at it, but if you need a melee to pull off the boss after the ranged get aggro, that's fine too.
You should only be two healing the fight so whichever healer has the best DPS set should be switching.
In fact, I recently pugged ICC10 on my hunter and we ended up 1 healing it. They refused to have a melee dps help me with one of the adds so I'd get hit once or twice.
The healing for that fight isn't very intensive until you have marks going out.
I thought we should have had it easy yeah.. had 2 hunters a mage and me (warlock) it should have been cake I though with good ranged dps.
Once the 2nd hunter figures it out, I think we'll be able to do it no problem though, he was moving around alot still and had his pet running around. (not sure if the pets were spreading the blood marks as well)
The hunters might have to move a little. They should be putting traps down a few seconds before the blood beasts spawn. Once the trap wears off they should conc shot and kite it away from the other dps and possibly feigning if it gets too close. By that time it should be dead and you can go back on repeating that over and over.
The pets should just stay on the boss the whole time.
If you have still have problems with 2 ranged dps you may want a melee to pull off the boss and help out. Make sure the hunters use distracting shot on the blood beasts first so the melee don't take aggro.
The whole point is to not let the blood beasts hit anyone, which will prolong saurfang from putting out marks.
I have over 300 Triumph badges on my main. I don't need anymore, but I understand if other people do. When it takes over 15 minutes to que as a DPS, I am already sick of doing dungeons, I want that shit over with so I can get on with my life. Skip bosses? Always down.
Then why queue? If you are just doing the first one of the day for frost, what's 5 more minutes when it's the only one you are doing?
5 minutes I don't have to spend with a bunch of pugs doing 900 DPS. Seems to be the norm in my battlegroup. The faster I can get out of a dungeon, the better.
Somewhat happy - Gave Saurfang a few attempts last night, and we are starting to learn the fight, people just have to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off and we'll be fine I think.
The fight is pretty easy on 10 man as long as you get the two adds down without them hitting anyone. Have two people assigned to each add. Use any abilities to slow it down the whole time while burning it down quickly. It is best to have two ranged go at it, but if you need a melee to pull off the boss after the ranged get aggro, that's fine too.
You should only be two healing the fight so whichever healer has the best DPS set should be switching.
In fact, I recently pugged ICC10 on my hunter and we ended up 1 healing it. They refused to have a melee dps help me with one of the adds so I'd get hit once or twice.
The healing for that fight isn't very intensive until you have marks going out.
I thought we should have had it easy yeah.. had 2 hunters a mage and me (warlock) it should have been cake I though with good ranged dps.
Once the 2nd hunter figures it out, I think we'll be able to do it no problem though, he was moving around alot still and had his pet running around. (not sure if the pets were spreading the blood marks as well)
When my lot (a 10 man guild) did this with a lock, we just had him stun (shadowfury is it?) the 2 adds when they spawned. We had all dps switch (we were melee heavy) and burn one down before the stun had worn off, at which point the 2nd one was killed by the range.
Little to no kiting involved, and it had people back on the boss pretty quickly. Even with me healing on my resto shaman, I threw the odd frost shock to help the range kill the 2nd add before it reached them.
besides, he is a tank... he'll get another group in 1 min whilst they wait another 5-10 (sat was bad for tanks).
I was gonna say, a whole minute? As a tank, I'm usually stunned if I'm not in a dungeon in 10 seconds or less.
well it was instant, but see it was because of me it took longer. Selling stuff, repairs, mail check, etc You know typical woman taking her sweet ass time between Q's :P
We waited well over 8 minutes in que with 1 healer and 3 dps.
I waited over 15 minutes while wanting to get into normal ToC directly. (I want Black Heart on my Warrior. It is looking more and more like I am going to have to try to form a group with some friends to get it.)
I've run into the horror that is DPS queued as tank/healer for the faster queues. What the fuck is wrong with those people?
I've had what could be called the opposite problem; being told to use controlled DPS if we're going to try Split Personality because we're a four DPS group, when I had to gently point out that I am actually a tank; I just happen to be doing DPS on a par with the rest of them.
Somewhat happy - Gave Saurfang a few attempts last night, and we are starting to learn the fight, people just have to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off and we'll be fine I think.
The fight is pretty easy on 10 man as long as you get the two adds down without them hitting anyone. Have two people assigned to each add. Use any abilities to slow it down the whole time while burning it down quickly. It is best to have two ranged go at it, but if you need a melee to pull off the boss after the ranged get aggro, that's fine too.
You should only be two healing the fight so whichever healer has the best DPS set should be switching.
In fact, I recently pugged ICC10 on my hunter and we ended up 1 healing it. They refused to have a melee dps help me with one of the adds so I'd get hit once or twice.
The healing for that fight isn't very intensive until you have marks going out.
I thought we should have had it easy yeah.. had 2 hunters a mage and me (warlock) it should have been cake I though with good ranged dps.
Once the 2nd hunter figures it out, I think we'll be able to do it no problem though, he was moving around alot still and had his pet running around. (not sure if the pets were spreading the blood marks as well)
When my lot (a 10 man guild) did this with a lock, we just had him stun (shadowfury is it?) the 2 adds when they spawned. We had all dps switch (we were melee heavy) and burn one down before the stun had worn off, at which point the 2nd one was killed by the range.
Little to no kiting involved, and it had people back on the boss pretty quickly. Even with me healing on my resto shaman, I threw the odd frost shock to help the range kill the 2nd add before it reached them.
If you have a paladin healer, have him/her stand on the side opposite the add that gets killed last/is being kited by the guy having the most trouble. When it gets close to that person, pally can Hand of Reckoning it and the add has to slog all the way across the room to get to him while getting smacked by range.
besides, he is a tank... he'll get another group in 1 min whilst they wait another 5-10 (sat was bad for tanks).
I was gonna say, a whole minute? As a tank, I'm usually stunned if I'm not in a dungeon in 10 seconds or less.
well it was instant, but see it was because of me it took longer. Selling stuff, repairs, mail check, etc You know typical woman taking her sweet ass time between Q's :P
Let me elaborate on this post as I am said Boyfriend full of steak and tired of badge running!
We get into a H.UP. I tell the group when we start.
"Gonna try and make this quick, you guys cool?"
They all reply that yes indeed, they are cool with this.
We get to Madame Douchey Mcflyerson who has the 90 second RP scene... great, I'll clear the Abom and the first pack before the next stairs. My lovely girlfriend and I solo the Abom and the group starts to rage "WTF DON'T SKIP BOSSES!" to which I tell them we will come back in like 20 seconds, I just want to keep cleaning whilest she is in monolgue mode...
Needless to say I assume (my bad) that they will come help and clean one more trash pull up... nope...
Douchebag shaman decides to lightning bolt said boss and she WTFpwns everyone before I can get back to them...
Queue the WRST TNAK EVAH!" and "DO IT RIGHT FUCKFACE!"
"If you attack it first, congratulations, you're the tank!"
It's how I roll, and means I have 0 remorse about letting people (particularly ranged) get eaten alive when they unload early on something.
That said, hunters that MD extra packs onto me while my given character and the healer can handle it? Solid gold.
I mean, I FFF or charge into extra packs all the time, but, well, I'm lazy, and having to go back for cash/frostweave/etc slows me down. Having a big pile of corpses at my feet, however, is wonderfully convenient.
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First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
besides, he is a tank... he'll get another group in 1 min whilst they wait another 5-10 (sat was bad for tanks).
I was gonna say, a whole minute? As a tank, I'm usually stunned if I'm not in a dungeon in 10 seconds or less.
well it was instant, but see it was because of me it took longer. Selling stuff, repairs, mail check, etc You know typical woman taking her sweet ass time between Q's :P
Let me elaborate on this post as I am said Boyfriend full of steak and tired of badge running!
We get into a H.UP. I tell the group when we start.
"Gonna try and make this quick, you guys cool?"
They all reply that yes indeed, they are cool with this.
We get to Madame Douchey Mcflyerson who has the 90 second RP scene... great, I'll clear the Abom and the first pack before the next stairs. My lovely girlfriend and I solo the Abom and the group starts to rage "WTF DON'T SKIP BOSSES!" to which I tell them we will come back in like 20 seconds, I just want to keep cleaning whilest she is in monolgue mode...
Needless to say I assume (my bad) that they will come help and clean one more trash pull up... nope...
Douchebag shaman decides to lightning bolt said boss and she WTFpwns everyone before I can get back to them...
Queue the WRST TNAK EVAH!" and "DO IT RIGHT FUCKFACE!"
... I hate pugging.
A good technique for Madame Douchey Mcflyerson:
When doing that pull of 5 dudes outside the room (while still upstairs), if someone pops into the room before/during the pull, she will start the rp up. I always try to do this while healing, and it results in her being just about done by the time everyone gets down there.
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This goes hand in hand with the discussion of healing and hating it that was up in teh chat thread...
I queued up for a random dungeon, trying to push my babby lock (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Medivh&cn=Ilithia) through the old world dungeons to try and get to Outlands as fast as possible.
Get Uldaman, and I'm like, "Okay, sure, whatever" because I don't entirely hate it, and it's usually quick enough a run. We burn through a couple trash mobs, and I'm dotting, I'm Rain of Fire-ing, I'm lifetapping/lifedraining...
The shaman healer gets pissed off. "STOP LIFETAPPING SO MUCH AND DRINK."
The tank jumps in, and does the hunter. Okay, sure, fine. I can sit down and drink something with the others, if they're that angry about it, sure, I can do this. I don't care, I just want to do the dungeon.
So, we're going and going and we're killing more packs of mobs, and I see the healer letting the tank get dangerously low, so, I figure, "well, if the healer's lagging, better SS the tank!" So I do.
Again, the healer jumps my shit, "WHY DIDN'T YOU SS ME?"
Next thing I know, I'm sitting back in Stormwind, confused, and-
Happy: Level 40!
Double Happy: Levelling a Priest healer with my wife's Paladin tank - we're having fun, running about, questing, triple EXP-ing, and we got Westfall Chickens to run about behind us.
Happy: Off tanked ICC 25 because our usual prot pally didn't show up and did alright, overall, I think.
Hate: It's bloody cold here >.<
I screw around with it, run Memtest (with no errors), reboot it and the lines are gone, goes into Windows fine. Weird indeed. I chance getting into WoW, it comes up and I do some of my Argent Tournament dailies, then quit to watch some 24. I go to start WoW again after, desktop turns pinkish before WoW even comes up, computer reboots. Fucked around with it a while, left it off for a good half an hour, fucked around with it some more, can't get it to boot up without the corruption lines (though Safe mode runs fine). Uninstalling the nVidia drivers allows Windows to boot up normally, but it seems as soon as the drivers are installed, it starts failing again.
Near as I can figure, my video card is dying. As long as it's doing simple things (for the most part) with the standard Windows drivers, it's ok for now, but pending perhaps a few more tests in the morning, it looks like I'm going to have to buy a new one. Bah.
Hhrm: Decided to give druid tanking another shot, after not having any fun on him lately. I've been going for the red proto drake, and have 2 left to go. Less-Fuck and a really easy one in UP, the one where you collect spears reset the event and then do it again without having to hope you get enough spears in time. But sometime, everyone manages to fuck up on less-rabi. We spend like 80 minutes standing in front of him making sure everyone knows when they are up for their interupt, then someone always goes "OH LOL MY BAD!" yeah.. fuck. As for the UP one I can't ever convince a group to just reset the fucking event everyone these days in their t9 thinks they can just steamroll it with their "uber" 3k dps, but never get it done.
Hate: Now I need to farm a shitload of temblems on my druid again for the t9 feral set
Hate: I queue for tank/healer, it checks my healer gear and goes "OH HEY TANK hHOR!" fuck you LFD.
The old strat for Less-Rabi that still should work is getting a Shaman with 5/5 Reverberation. That gives him 5s CD on Wind Shear. If he interrupts the first Transform after 50% and then just hits Wind Shear when it's up, he should get every cast. Or just get 5 dps, interrupt him once at 50% and then burn down the rest in the 5.5seconds you have left.
we just had five dps, and a mage counterspelled at 50%. if your five dps group can't burn him from 50% to dead in 8 seconds (counterspell lockout time) you don't deserve protos.
Well look at them mages and their fancy eight second lockout.
Unrelated WTF: DK soloing heroic FoS (youtube)
o_O
Bronjahm is not as hard as you'd think, since he doesn't create Soul Fragments (never does it on the tank).
Armory link but that doesn't have the spec he uses in the video. Nice guild name, though.
Fucking aye, DK's are kinda nutso.
Mind Numbing poison as I hear it makes this much easier.
Additional Hate: My friend and I go into the random system and we get pugged into H. HoS. There's this Warlock in the group with some deep seeded issues. During group pulls, as I'm spinning around trying to build aggro evenly, he's single targets whatever the fuck he wants pulling aggro. Then follows up with "You need to hold aggro better!". We have a druid healer who, for whatever reasons, was not in Tree form. Its a heroic so who really cares since his heals were spot on. Fucking Warlock bitches him out "I BETTER NOT DIE CUZ YOU WEREN'T IN TREE FORM." Additionally we had a Ret Pally that had never used the system before and didn't know how to teleport in. The warlock decides to inform him that "IF YOU DON'T GET IN HERE RIGHT NOW WE'LL KICK YOU."
At this point the Druid has dropped group and my friend and I are getting a bit tired of this, so I finally reply with "Lock, you need to get your panties out of twist." Thank the Gods, he finally shut up and continued to do his mediocre dps while we finished dungeon.
We've still yet to find a decent hunter.
Hate: A few more levels and we'll be breaking into fresh DK land. As someone who plays a rather competent DK, I'm not quite sure my faith in humanity will stay in tact through the early DK levels.
Me: "wanna run a string of heroics till i get my pug pet? pleeeeease?"
Him: "ok, how many do you have now?"
Me:"52"
Him:"....fuck..."
We did it in 18 runs
Hate: Out of all those runs we only ran into one person that was a complete jerk! This shaman was so full of himself (and bad dps) he would "assume" pull... meaning he would pull things he thinks my bf will be tanking, only he wasn't and didn't see it till him and the healer died. We ended up leaving the group after the guy kept going on how horrible of a tank my bf was being. We didn't need his crap, besides, he is a tank... he'll get another group in 1 min whilst they wait another 5-10 (sat was bad for tanks).
a) just barely pulling their weight
b) doing fine healing, but ANNOYING AS FUCK.
Happy - Got past Lady Douchewhisperer after a few attempts, then annoying priest had to log. (looks like my praying came through). So we 9-1/2 manned Gunship. Brought our guildie who now has his hacked account back, but only his unsellable gear left. He did a solid 1500dps with his dalaran daggers and pilgrim boots.
Rude - Slowly levelling my up drood, and did Old Kingdom as healer. Everything went fine, no deaths till right at the end when I died moments before the last boss. So what does the ret pally do. Drop group imediately leaving my corpse lying on the ground. Thanks alot
Somewhat happy - Gave Saurfang a few attempts last night, and we are starting to learn the fight, people just have to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off and we'll be fine I think.
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I was gonna say, a whole minute? As a tank, I'm usually stunned if I'm not in a dungeon in 10 seconds or less.
Anyway...
Happy: Got to do Marrowgar last night.
Hate: We didn't kill him.
Neutral: One of our tanks didn't quite understand the concept of stacking together. Eventually he just kind of gave up and stood about 10 feet away from the other two of us.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I grouped with a guildie tank or healer (I forget which character he was on), and he was complaining I was making the queue take longer.
Longer being a minute instead of 10 seconds, of course.
I'll take a minute over 10-15 minutes, thanks.
The fight is pretty easy on 10 man as long as you get the two adds down without them hitting anyone. Have two people assigned to each add. Use any abilities to slow it down the whole time while burning it down quickly. It is best to have two ranged go at it, but if you need a melee to pull off the boss after the ranged get aggro, that's fine too.
You should only be two healing the fight so whichever healer has the best DPS set should be switching.
In fact, I recently pugged ICC10 on my hunter and we ended up 1 healing it. They refused to have a melee dps help me with one of the adds so I'd get hit once or twice.
The healing for that fight isn't very intensive until you have marks going out.
I thought we should have had it easy yeah.. had 2 hunters a mage and me (warlock) it should have been cake I though with good ranged dps.
Once the 2nd hunter figures it out, I think we'll be able to do it no problem though, he was moving around alot still and had his pet running around. (not sure if the pets were spreading the blood marks as well)
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Hate: Skipping bosses
Specifically, what do you skip in HoS that takes alot of time to kill? Maiden is a minute tops. The rock guy maybe 5? Two emblems in 6 minutes is a worthwhile investment I'd say.
If you could skip the stupid event boss, I'd do that every time though.
It's not like its hard either...it's just...boring and worthless. And oh boy, adds and adds.
It's like VH these days. The dead time you can't do anything is what kills me. Let me start the next portal as soon as the bosses are dead.
In HoS, don't make me wait 10-20s between each wave then they are dying in 5 seconds.
Then why queue? If you are just doing the first one of the day for frost, what's 5 more minutes when it's the only one you are doing?
The hunters might have to move a little. They should be putting traps down a few seconds before the blood beasts spawn. Once the trap wears off they should conc shot and kite it away from the other dps and possibly feigning if it gets too close. By that time it should be dead and you can go back on repeating that over and over.
The pets should just stay on the boss the whole time.
If you have still have problems with 2 ranged dps you may want a melee to pull off the boss and help out. Make sure the hunters use distracting shot on the blood beasts first so the melee don't take aggro.
The whole point is to not let the blood beasts hit anyone, which will prolong saurfang from putting out marks.
5 minutes I don't have to spend with a bunch of pugs doing 900 DPS. Seems to be the norm in my battlegroup. The faster I can get out of a dungeon, the better.
When my lot (a 10 man guild) did this with a lock, we just had him stun (shadowfury is it?) the 2 adds when they spawned. We had all dps switch (we were melee heavy) and burn one down before the stun had worn off, at which point the 2nd one was killed by the range.
Little to no kiting involved, and it had people back on the boss pretty quickly. Even with me healing on my resto shaman, I threw the odd frost shock to help the range kill the 2nd add before it reached them.
well it was instant, but see it was because of me it took longer. Selling stuff, repairs, mail check, etc You know typical woman taking her sweet ass time between Q's :P
I waited over 15 minutes while wanting to get into normal ToC directly. (I want Black Heart on my Warrior. It is looking more and more like I am going to have to try to form a group with some friends to get it.)
I've had what could be called the opposite problem; being told to use controlled DPS if we're going to try Split Personality because we're a four DPS group, when I had to gently point out that I am actually a tank; I just happen to be doing DPS on a par with the rest of them.
If you have a paladin healer, have him/her stand on the side opposite the add that gets killed last/is being kited by the guy having the most trouble. When it gets close to that person, pally can Hand of Reckoning it and the add has to slog all the way across the room to get to him while getting smacked by range.
Let me elaborate on this post as I am said Boyfriend full of steak and tired of badge running!
We get into a H.UP. I tell the group when we start.
"Gonna try and make this quick, you guys cool?"
They all reply that yes indeed, they are cool with this.
We get to Madame Douchey Mcflyerson who has the 90 second RP scene... great, I'll clear the Abom and the first pack before the next stairs. My lovely girlfriend and I solo the Abom and the group starts to rage "WTF DON'T SKIP BOSSES!" to which I tell them we will come back in like 20 seconds, I just want to keep cleaning whilest she is in monolgue mode...
Needless to say I assume (my bad) that they will come help and clean one more trash pull up... nope...
Douchebag shaman decides to lightning bolt said boss and she WTFpwns everyone before I can get back to them...
Queue the WRST TNAK EVAH!" and "DO IT RIGHT FUCKFACE!"
... I hate pugging.
i do the exact same thing, and it never fails that there's one guy, even after i tell them, that stands back at the boss and starts complaining loudly
"If you attack it first, congratulations, you're the tank!"
It's how I roll, and means I have 0 remorse about letting people (particularly ranged) get eaten alive when they unload early on something.
That said, hunters that MD extra packs onto me while my given character and the healer can handle it? Solid gold.
I mean, I FFF or charge into extra packs all the time, but, well, I'm lazy, and having to go back for cash/frostweave/etc slows me down. Having a big pile of corpses at my feet, however, is wonderfully convenient.
A good technique for Madame Douchey Mcflyerson:
When doing that pull of 5 dudes outside the room (while still upstairs), if someone pops into the room before/during the pull, she will start the rp up. I always try to do this while healing, and it results in her being just about done by the time everyone gets down there.