So I just couldn't keep this feral druid alive in heroic PoS. I felt like the worst resto shaman in the world. My gear is pretty not great, but I'd never had a problem before. He was dying on the two trash packs before the PoS cave (the frost guys, not even the fire ones) even though I had ES up, riptide, and was spamming LHW/CH. I've never seen a tank drop so fast.
Could it have been him or was it definitely me? I don't know druids, but 37k in bearform didn't seem high.
He is wearing cat gear and is specced for cat. He's missing 6% dodge, 12% armor and 12% reduced damage through talents alone. Also no infected wounds, which would reduce the attack speed of mobs.
Tonight I dreamed that I was playing a Transformers MMO.
It had full customization for your robot!
But the catch was that you had to make it transform yourself, so the game was full of scrubs that transformed into lumpy cubes of modern art instead of something useful.
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Picassobots, roll out?
Transformers MMO would be so sweet, though. Especially if it was super violent like the Bay movies.
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So I just couldn't keep this feral druid alive in heroic PoS. I felt like the worst resto shaman in the world. My gear is pretty not great, but I'd never had a problem before. He was dying on the two trash packs before the PoS cave (the frost guys, not even the fire ones) even though I had ES up, riptide, and was spamming LHW/CH. I've never seen a tank drop so fast.
Could it have been him or was it definitely me? I don't know druids, but 37k in bearform didn't seem high.
He is wearing cat gear and is specced for cat. He's missing 6% dodge, 12% armor and 12% reduced damage through talents alone. Also no infected wounds, which would reduce the attack speed of mobs.
He also has resto glyphs, which I guess is neither here nor there in terms of survivability.
Hmm. So I bought Lil' XT yesterday morning, redeemed the code, and I still haven't had it show up in game. Is that unusual? I went back into account management to try again, and it says the code was already redeemed.
edit: Apparently my order status is "queued." Whatever that means. They took my money, and it told me that I was able to redeem the code.
I'm actually curious how many guilds just skipped Hydross in SSC rather than farm up two sets of tank gear.
From several pages back:
My and Decompsey's guild stopped killing Hydross way early on. Way too much of a pain.
Actually I think we stopped doing Hydross when the guild ran out of those pumpkins you throw at peoples heads. Me and Hurlly (I was the ice tank, he was poison) refused to don our resist gear without those pumpkins, because the graphics on those resist helmets was just THAT godawful. Still have that set of resist gear in my bank I think.
Wow, I had almost forgotten about Hurlly. He was a pretty nice fellow.
Reforging will be done by NPCs in cities, it will let you reduce a secondary stat by 40% and put those points into a different stat. Secondary stats are pretty much any "rating" stats, you cannot reforge primary stats such as Strength, Stamina, Intellect, etc ... The cost of reforging will be the vendor cost of the item, it can be done on any item from green to purple.
Second, we were concerned about making players feel at all dependent on reforging for income. Reforging is an unusual feature because it's never going to make a best-in-slot item. If we linked it to crafting professions, players would then rightly expect to make some kind of profit off reforging and in turn we might feel pressured to prop it up into a bigger part of the game than we really think it should play.
They were talking about reforging as part of a profession rather than an NPC vendor. As of now, an NPC vendor does it.
read up on this alittle. seems like it greys out the loot if you aren't 'high enough' to get it, not sure what the level is. It also appears to kill the fish. So don't know if this will work for farming pools.
And I thought it was just a joke that one of the quests in Booty Bay gave you 5 sticks of dynamite that were named something like "goblin fishing pole"
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Second, we were concerned about making players feel at all dependent on reforging for income. Reforging is an unusual feature because it's never going to make a best-in-slot item. If we linked it to crafting professions, players would then rightly expect to make some kind of profit off reforging and in turn we might feel pressured to prop it up into a bigger part of the game than we really think it should play.
They were talking about reforging as part of a profession rather than an NPC vendor. As of now, an NPC vendor does it.
When he used "best-in-slot" like that, he's using it how the people who make lists on websites do: the best-in-slot if you could pick and choose from every item in the game for every one of your slots. But since normal people are limited by RNG and badges for their gear choices, that reforged item may be your personal best in slot due to you having too much/not enough hit from the rest of your other items or whatnot for any of the stats that can be reforged.
So I just couldn't keep this feral druid alive in heroic PoS. I felt like the worst resto shaman in the world. My gear is pretty not great, but I'd never had a problem before. He was dying on the two trash packs before the PoS cave (the frost guys, not even the fire ones) even though I had ES up, riptide, and was spamming LHW/CH. I've never seen a tank drop so fast.
As well as in his DPS spec. No Protector of the Pack, Thick Hide, Infected Wounds, or Natural Reaction means he's taking a ton of extra damage and has less dodge compared to if he was in tank spec. It's pretty obvious this guy is one of those dps who queue as tank to get faster queues but instead of the normal "oh btw i'm not a tank" BS he's at least making an attempt to tank, even if it means his healer has a stroke trying to keep him alive.
So I just couldn't keep this feral druid alive in heroic PoS. I felt like the worst resto shaman in the world. My gear is pretty not great, but I'd never had a problem before. He was dying on the two trash packs before the PoS cave (the frost guys, not even the fire ones) even though I had ES up, riptide, and was spamming LHW/CH. I've never seen a tank drop so fast.
Could it have been him or was it definitely me? I don't know druids, but 37k in bearform didn't seem high.
Probably late on this, but I've done HPoS as a druid around 34, 35k HP buffed, using Cooldowns if I got nervous (Barkskin, Survival Instinct, Indestructible Pots, Lifeblood and Frenzied Regen). Of course, It may come down to other factors not related to you (Better DPS bringing them down faster, for example).
It's probably a moot point considering his spec and glyph choice.
+ points for the attempt, but it was pretty lame as parodies go. Way too forced with most of the jokes, and the chick singing the hook has an obnoxious voice. I laughed a couple times at least.
So now that the dynamite fishing has been discovered, I expect the fishing contests for the next two or three weeks will be hell where people ride by and detonate your fishing pools.
Then Blizzard will remove the ability to explode fish.
Then people will complain about a cool feature they didn't know about until recently having been removed.
Time to beg input.
I have an 80 warrior who's prot/fury and a lot of fun. I Love tanking, I enjoy jousting and am champ of 2 cities in as many weeks.
I have an 80 hunter who does decent dps, surv/beast 3pc t9 but I only bring him out if the weekly needs my ranged dps instead of me as an off tank/dps.
I want a healer. I have the following toons at between 10 and 20.
I have a 13 shammy, troll, currently leveling elemental because I have the caster heirlooms.
I have a 13 druid currently leveling balance because I want to be a boomkin in the worst way.
I have a 20 priest currently leveling shadow, because I thought I could level faster
I have toyed with the idea of making a holy pally, because I have the plate and 1h/2h sword heirlooms.
Help?! I want an alt for when I'm not running dailies/raiding and I want it to be a healer. I have the PvE caster staff/shoulders/dress in cloth and the staff has 30 spellpower on it.
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Time to beg input.
I have an 80 warrior who's prot/fury and a lot of fun. I Love tanking, I enjoy jousting and am champ of 2 cities in as many weeks.
I have an 80 hunter who does decent dps, surv/beast 3pc t9 but I only bring him out if the weekly needs my ranged dps instead of me as an off tank/dps.
I want a healer. I have the following toons at between 10 and 20.
I have a 13 shammy, troll, currently leveling elemental because I have the caster heirlooms.
I have a 13 druid currently leveling balance because I want to be a boomkin in the worst way.
I have a 20 priest currently leveling shadow, because I thought I could level faster
I have toyed with the idea of making a holy pally, because I have the plate and 1h/2h sword heirlooms.
Help?! I want an alt for when I'm not running dailies/raiding and I want it to be a healer. I have the PvE caster staff/shoulders/dress in cloth and the staff has 30 spellpower on it.
It just depends on the style of healing you're into. I can tell you from personal experience that disc priest is fun as hell, and so is Holy Paladin. I don't have one, but I like the HoT style of Druids. I don't like healing as a Resto Shaman at all, but some people love it. It's all about your own taste.
My 2 cents, go with either Priest, Druid, or Shaman because those 3 are going to be able to basically use the same gear as their DPS specs in Cata. My vote goes to priest because they have 2 healing trees with 2 totally different styles so you have double the chance of really liking one of those.
How would a disc priest play at 20/21? I have like 150sp or so at my level so it's kinda fun that way. I hit Hard with direct damage spells, so soloing's not tough. I have healbot, but I've honestly never tried disc. You sir have my interest piqued.
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I'm sometimes grumpy and random, feel free to overlook the strange man in the corner.
So now that the dynamite fishing has been discovered, I expect the fishing contests for the next two or three weeks will be hell where people ride by and detonate your fishing pools.
Then Blizzard will remove the ability to explode fish.
Then people will complain about a cool feature they didn't know about until recently having been removed.
Everything I find on it says it only works for characters 10-19.
I want a healer. I have the following toons at between 10 and 20.
I have a 13 shammy, troll, currently leveling elemental because I have the caster heirlooms.
I have a 13 druid currently leveling balance because I want to be a boomkin in the worst way.
I have a 20 priest currently leveling shadow, because I thought I could level faster
I have toyed with the idea of making a holy pally, because I have the plate and 1h/2h sword heirlooms.
Man I wish I could help you. I have 3 of the 4 healers at 80 with a priest at level 76 and I enjoy healing on all of them.
I say just try each one and hopefully one will stick. For me the shaman stuck as genuinely enjoyable to heal with and my priest has a disc offspec that I like.
Low level healing is way different than high level healing too so its not like the level 13 druid with 4 points in balance is going to show you what druid healing is like, but try it out, get to level 17 on each character and try out a Deadmines or SFK. And yes, you can heal fine with a 10 point dps 'spec'.
So another perk of leveling as frost mage (especially me with my blizzard aoe grind spec): you can gather and control all the trash mobs while your random instance tank figures out how to tank. :S
It seems like 75% of my early Outlands instances have been "tanked" by DKs who 1) have never heard of frost presence, 2) ditto with death and decay and 3) don't speak English (I play on EU servers). A couple of Blood Furnace runs boiled down to essentially tankless runs.
How would a disc priest play at 20/21? I have like 150sp or so at my level so it's kinda fun that way. I hit Hard with direct damage spells, so soloing's not tough. I have healbot, but I've honestly never tried disc. You sir have my interest piqued.
Discipline is only fun when you are high enough to get Penance. Before that it is a bit bland and you could do the exact same thing with a shadow spec.
Come Cata-time, I figure I'll place a big premium on fun playing a healer on trash pulls. Those are the the times when healing can be really boring. Fortunately, some if not all(nothing for resto druid yet) of the healing trees are getting new talents to incentivize doing some damage, like disc priests smart-healing with smite.
How would a disc priest play at 20/21? I have like 150sp or so at my level so it's kinda fun that way. I hit Hard with direct damage spells, so soloing's not tough. I have healbot, but I've honestly never tried disc. You sir have my interest piqued.
Discipline is only fun when you are high enough to get Penance. Before that it is a bit bland and you could do the exact same thing with a shadow spec.
Discipline is pretty fun in low level BG's though. Especially with heirloom gear.
You are a cloth wearing juggernaut.
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So another perk of leveling as frost mage (especially me with my blizzard aoe grind spec): you can gather and control all the trash mobs while your random instance tank figures out how to tank. :S
It seems like 75% of my early Outlands instances have been "tanked" by DKs who 1) have never heard of frost presence, 2) ditto with death and decay and 3) don't speak English (I play on EU servers). A couple of Blood Furnace runs boiled down to essentially tankless runs.
As soon as I was 58 on my DK I queued into a dungeon as DPS. The tank ended up leaving and someone in the party suggested that I tank. I was apprehensive because I didn't want to be "that shitty DK tank". They told me just to use frost presence, dnd, and spread my diseases with pestilence.
It is so easy I don't know how (it seems like) every other DK messes this up.
So now that the dynamite fishing has been discovered, I expect the fishing contests for the next two or three weeks will be hell where people ride by and detonate your fishing pools.
Then Blizzard will remove the ability to explode fish.
Then people will complain about a cool feature they didn't know about until recently having been removed.
Everything I find on it says it only works for characters 10-19.
The wow.com article implies that anyone can explode the pools, but only 10-19 can loot the goodies. But I could be wrong. I haven't tried it.
Also, anyone that can make dynamite or gathers the mats might be able to make a little money on the AH the rest of this week.
I dunno, Disc becomes really good for healing low level dungeons once you get to the talent where PW: S no longer has a cooldown so you can spam bubble on silly goose DPS who pull stuff off the tank.
For me, I really fell in love with healing on my shaman. You have a large toolbox for all occasions with chain heal being your duct tape.
I want a healer. I have the following toons at between 10 and 20.
I have a 13 shammy, troll, currently leveling elemental because I have the caster heirlooms.
I have a 13 druid currently leveling balance because I want to be a boomkin in the worst way.
I have a 20 priest currently leveling shadow, because I thought I could level faster
I have toyed with the idea of making a holy pally, because I have the plate and 1h/2h sword heirlooms.
If you want to get an impression (from a low level) of what healing can actually offer in terms of fun as a dedicated role, you can't run instances with five people. In that situation, the healing role is marginalized or completely unnecessary. What you'd want to do is 3-man instances, such that healing is actually needed.
I had all four healers at 70 and now at 80, but I hate PvE healing as it has been given to us in TBC's raids and all of WotLK, so I may not be the best person to advise you on the respective benefits of each class. However, I will say that druids have always seemed the most boring of all, with the other three slightly less so.
Question! And sorry if this was covered already and I missed it:
My BF is in Orgrimmar, and tells me to check it out. I look over his screen and there is a ton of lvl 1 orcs in the air spelling out some website. They are not dead, some are sideways (doesn't look like the "lay down" animation). Also, they would all occasionally move to another spot and reform the site name again... but still in the air!
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He is wearing cat gear and is specced for cat. He's missing 6% dodge, 12% armor and 12% reduced damage through talents alone. Also no infected wounds, which would reduce the attack speed of mobs.
It had full customization for your robot!
But the catch was that you had to make it transform yourself, so the game was full of scrubs that transformed into lumpy cubes of modern art instead of something useful.
Transformers MMO would be so sweet, though. Especially if it was super violent like the Bay movies.
It'd last a week before the world would get MICHEALBAYSPLOSIONOOIANSDNLKABLOOYEYASDMFIASMDLFJKLADSFBOOOOOOM!!!
He also has resto glyphs, which I guess is neither here nor there in terms of survivability.
edit: Apparently my order status is "queued." Whatever that means. They took my money, and it told me that I was able to redeem the code.
Wow, I had almost forgotten about Hurlly. He was a pretty nice fellow.
Fishing with Explosives
I want to know how long this was in the game before someone noticed.
They were talking about reforging as part of a profession rather than an NPC vendor. As of now, an NPC vendor does it.
*runs to test it out*
read up on this alittle. seems like it greys out the loot if you aren't 'high enough' to get it, not sure what the level is. It also appears to kill the fish. So don't know if this will work for farming pools.
EZ-Throw
Aren't Bears supposed to gem for stamina instead of armor pen? (I've never played a tank so I have no real idea)
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1937482
is a parody of
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVA-xTBeHyM
Enjoy the lulz.
Edit:
Maybe it'd help if I posted the correct video.
Probably late on this, but I've done HPoS as a druid around 34, 35k HP buffed, using Cooldowns if I got nervous (Barkskin, Survival Instinct, Indestructible Pots, Lifeblood and Frenzied Regen). Of course, It may come down to other factors not related to you (Better DPS bringing them down faster, for example).
It's probably a moot point considering his spec and glyph choice.
+ points for the attempt, but it was pretty lame as parodies go. Way too forced with most of the jokes, and the chick singing the hook has an obnoxious voice. I laughed a couple times at least.
Then Blizzard will remove the ability to explode fish.
Then people will complain about a cool feature they didn't know about until recently having been removed.
I have an 80 warrior who's prot/fury and a lot of fun. I Love tanking, I enjoy jousting and am champ of 2 cities in as many weeks.
I have an 80 hunter who does decent dps, surv/beast 3pc t9 but I only bring him out if the weekly needs my ranged dps instead of me as an off tank/dps.
I want a healer. I have the following toons at between 10 and 20.
I have a 13 shammy, troll, currently leveling elemental because I have the caster heirlooms.
I have a 13 druid currently leveling balance because I want to be a boomkin in the worst way.
I have a 20 priest currently leveling shadow, because I thought I could level faster
I have toyed with the idea of making a holy pally, because I have the plate and 1h/2h sword heirlooms.
Help?! I want an alt for when I'm not running dailies/raiding and I want it to be a healer. I have the PvE caster staff/shoulders/dress in cloth and the staff has 30 spellpower on it.
It just depends on the style of healing you're into. I can tell you from personal experience that disc priest is fun as hell, and so is Holy Paladin. I don't have one, but I like the HoT style of Druids. I don't like healing as a Resto Shaman at all, but some people love it. It's all about your own taste.
My 2 cents, go with either Priest, Druid, or Shaman because those 3 are going to be able to basically use the same gear as their DPS specs in Cata. My vote goes to priest because they have 2 healing trees with 2 totally different styles so you have double the chance of really liking one of those.
Everything I find on it says it only works for characters 10-19.
Man I wish I could help you. I have 3 of the 4 healers at 80 with a priest at level 76 and I enjoy healing on all of them.
I say just try each one and hopefully one will stick. For me the shaman stuck as genuinely enjoyable to heal with and my priest has a disc offspec that I like.
Low level healing is way different than high level healing too so its not like the level 13 druid with 4 points in balance is going to show you what druid healing is like, but try it out, get to level 17 on each character and try out a Deadmines or SFK. And yes, you can heal fine with a 10 point dps 'spec'.
It seems like 75% of my early Outlands instances have been "tanked" by DKs who 1) have never heard of frost presence, 2) ditto with death and decay and 3) don't speak English (I play on EU servers). A couple of Blood Furnace runs boiled down to essentially tankless runs.
Discipline is only fun when you are high enough to get Penance. Before that it is a bit bland and you could do the exact same thing with a shadow spec.
Discipline is pretty fun in low level BG's though. Especially with heirloom gear.
You are a cloth wearing juggernaut.
SW:Tor - Tao - Kryatt Dragon Server
As soon as I was 58 on my DK I queued into a dungeon as DPS. The tank ended up leaving and someone in the party suggested that I tank. I was apprehensive because I didn't want to be "that shitty DK tank". They told me just to use frost presence, dnd, and spread my diseases with pestilence.
It is so easy I don't know how (it seems like) every other DK messes this up.
The wow.com article implies that anyone can explode the pools, but only 10-19 can loot the goodies. But I could be wrong. I haven't tried it.
Also, anyone that can make dynamite or gathers the mats might be able to make a little money on the AH the rest of this week.
I swear I'm not addicted
Just one more quest
For me, I really fell in love with healing on my shaman. You have a large toolbox for all occasions with chain heal being your duct tape.
If you want to get an impression (from a low level) of what healing can actually offer in terms of fun as a dedicated role, you can't run instances with five people. In that situation, the healing role is marginalized or completely unnecessary. What you'd want to do is 3-man instances, such that healing is actually needed.
I had all four healers at 70 and now at 80, but I hate PvE healing as it has been given to us in TBC's raids and all of WotLK, so I may not be the best person to advise you on the respective benefits of each class. However, I will say that druids have always seemed the most boring of all, with the other three slightly less so.
My BF is in Orgrimmar, and tells me to check it out. I look over his screen and there is a ton of lvl 1 orcs in the air spelling out some website. They are not dead, some are sideways (doesn't look like the "lay down" animation). Also, they would all occasionally move to another spot and reform the site name again... but still in the air!
How is that possible?