Although I'm a bit confused how she would have died on so many fights.
I mean, even attumen?
She informed me she lived on attumen. Their abilities just hit so hard and she was only 69 when we started. Like moroes gouged me and then killed her, maiden hit her with a holy fire, juliet ranged her down, curator blasted her with arcane bolt, the sacrifice guy sac'd her and I failed on targeting the chains (so that was on me), Shade's water adds nuked her and then prince's axes finished her off.
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Following that DK guide I topped the damage in a Halls of Origination heroic run. I'm quite pleased with the results! Thanks guys.
Holy shit someone can learn and do better in cata heroics? That goes counter to everything on the wow boards!
I'd like to think that we're better than that here, Preacher! I'd say the Arcadians are much better at learning to improve themselves at this game than anyone else.
Following that DK guide I topped the damage in a Halls of Origination heroic run. I'm quite pleased with the results! Thanks guys.
Holy shit someone can learn and do better in cata heroics? That goes counter to everything on the wow boards!
I'd like to think that we're better than that here, Preacher! I'd say the Arcadians are much better at learning to improve themselves at this game than anyone else.
You're a witch honky, a foul temptress lying with your lies!
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My main since late in Vanilla has been an oft enh shaman, but I leveled my warrior to 85 last weekend as prot.
And solo, he is the most retarded fun I have had since leveling him through pvp in the 30s/40s with heirloom gear. Quests that routinely gave me issues are a joke. If I'm having a problem, I just pull an add or two. If I get bored of soloing, I just queue for a random and get into something instantly.
The only downside, as someone who tries their very best to "not be a bad". Tanking makes me feel like I am bad, but I think that is because being a good DPS is harder than being an ok tank. I'm going to keep at it and eventually try heroics. I suspect that will be sufficient to fully break my will.
Important to not being a fail tank is not having fail gear, fail chants, or fail strats. I know no one likes to read outside of playing the game, but taking a moment to watch a tankspot video or read a wowhead description can be the difference between success and sucktacular!
Most of the challenging boss fights are because of tank mechanics and tanks failing to be good at them, don't be that tank!
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Important to not being a fail tank is not having fail gear, fail chants, or fail strats. I know no one likes to read outside of playing the game, but taking a moment to watch a tankspot video or read a wowhead description can be the difference between success and sucktacular!
Most of the challenging boss fights are because of tank mechanics and tanks failing to be good at them, don't be that tank!
I'd say the opposite (although maybe that's just cause I'm a tank).
The hard fights are the ones where what needs to be done is outside the tank's control and thus they can't drag retards through it.
So often, when tanking on my main or healing on my alt, I look at what the other guys are doing and think "Dammit, if you just did X this would be so much easier!".
I won't. I've watched the raid boss videos (we're starting raiding tomorrow! I am sure there will be an H- in there), but luckily I've dpsed every instance on heroic except for ToT and GB, but I've dpsed them on normal plenty of times.
A certain panic grips me when the sheep is CCed before I can get AE threat. Which makes me start doubting having enough threat on other targets, which speeds up my decision making process. Luckily all the randoms I have tanked for have been understanding (I don't tell them I'm not normally a tank until the last boss), so that has been helpful.
However! Other (warrior) tank tips are most welcome!
Important to not being a fail tank is not having fail gear, fail chants, or fail strats. I know no one likes to read outside of playing the game, but taking a moment to watch a tankspot video or read a wowhead description can be the difference between success and sucktacular!
Most of the challenging boss fights are because of tank mechanics and tanks failing to be good at them, don't be that tank!
This so very much. As a tank myself it is vital to keep the boss positioned correctly as much as possible. This requires you to know what the boss is capable of, what the warning signs are, and how the fight progresses.
This is fairly impossible to do when you get to a boss you don't know. You can try and do it by reacting to everything but looking up the fights beforehand and preparing yourself accordingly will give you a much easier time of it and allow you to focus more on responding to events outside the normal course of the boss fight (healing aggro, DPS being stupid, etc)
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Important to not being a fail tank is not having fail gear, fail chants, or fail strats. I know no one likes to read outside of playing the game, but taking a moment to watch a tankspot video or read a wowhead description can be the difference between success and sucktacular!
Most of the challenging boss fights are because of tank mechanics and tanks failing to be good at them, don't be that tank!
I'd say the opposite (although maybe that's just cause I'm a tank).
The hard fights are the ones where what needs to be done is outside the tank's control and thus they can't drag retards through it.
So often, when tanking on my main or healing on my alt, I look at what the other guys are doing and think "Dammit, if you just did X this would be so much easier!".
I dunno a lot of people seem to wipe in BRC on the third fight which is entirely on the tank. My stonecore wipes have been the tank standing too close and getting raped by the aoe, or the tank not avoiding ozruk. Its not 100% tank fail all the time I'll admit, but a good tank can save a run, where as a bad one can doom one to "you suck healer, you suck dps, whats going on here?"
Preacher on
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I won't. I've watched the raid boss videos (we're starting raiding tomorrow! I am sure there will be an H- in there), but luckily I've dpsed every instance on heroic except for ToT and GB, but I've dpsed them on normal plenty of times.
A certain panic grips me when the sheep is CCed before I can get AE threat. Which makes me start doubting having enough threat on other targets, which speeds up my decision making process. Luckily all the randoms I have tanked for have been understanding (I don't tell them I'm not normally a tank until the last boss), so that has been helpful.
However! Other (warrior) tank tips are most welcome!
Why would this bother you? Other then a sheep pull starting it off? Honestly most of Cata heroics to start should be cc fests. And use god damn cc even in normal (for practice for everyone). If you can take a creature out of the fight do it!
As a tip Rogues can sap dragonkin, demons, creatures and humanoids. USE THAT!
Preacher on
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Important to not being a fail tank is not having fail gear, fail chants, or fail strats. I know no one likes to read outside of playing the game, but taking a moment to watch a tankspot video or read a wowhead description can be the difference between success and sucktacular!
Most of the challenging boss fights are because of tank mechanics and tanks failing to be good at them, don't be that tank!
I'd say the opposite (although maybe that's just cause I'm a tank).
The hard fights are the ones where what needs to be done is outside the tank's control and thus they can't drag retards through it.
So often, when tanking on my main or healing on my alt, I look at what the other guys are doing and think "Dammit, if you just did X this would be so much easier!".
I dunno a lot of people seem to wipe in BRC on the third fight which is entirely on the tank. My stonecore wipes have been the tank standing too close and getting raped by the aoe, or the tank not avoiding ozruk. Its not 100% tank fail all the time I'll admit, but a good tank can save a run, where as a bad one can doom one to "you suck healer, you suck dps, whats going on here?"
I agree with you that ozruk is like 100% a tank fight, but thats only 1 fight out of many. There are a couple other really tank heavy fights, but a lot of them not so much.
I agree with you that ozruk is like 100% a tank fight, but thats only 1 fight out of many. There are a couple other really tank heavy fights, but a lot of them not so much.
But the other fights don't really hold up a run. Roadblock fights are usually either on the healer or the tank, or the first boss of HHOO which is gods punishment on us all.
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I agree with you that ozruk is like 100% a tank fight, but thats only 1 fight out of many. There are a couple other really tank heavy fights, but a lot of them not so much.
But the other fights don't really hold up a run. Roadblock fights are usually either on the healer or the tank, or the first boss of HHOO which is gods punishment on us all.
Man why does everyone complain about that fight? I have never once wiped on that fight.
Important to not being a fail tank is not having fail gear, fail chants, or fail strats. I know no one likes to read outside of playing the game, but taking a moment to watch a tankspot video or read a wowhead description can be the difference between success and sucktacular!
Most of the challenging boss fights are because of tank mechanics and tanks failing to be good at them, don't be that tank!
I'd say the opposite (although maybe that's just cause I'm a tank).
The hard fights are the ones where what needs to be done is outside the tank's control and thus they can't drag retards through it.
So often, when tanking on my main or healing on my alt, I look at what the other guys are doing and think "Dammit, if you just did X this would be so much easier!".
I dunno a lot of people seem to wipe in BRC on the third fight which is entirely on the tank. My stonecore wipes have been the tank standing too close and getting raped by the aoe, or the tank not avoiding ozruk. Its not 100% tank fail all the time I'll admit, but a good tank can save a run, where as a bad one can doom one to "you suck healer, you suck dps, whats going on here?"
Ok yeah, that I can see. A bad tank will cripple you on alot of bosses.
I always cut the tank slack on the 3rd guy in BRC though. That ones a bit tough till you get the hang of it.
FYI, the best method in my experience is to run away from the boss and just put the edge of the fire pillar between you and him. He'll run through it to you and pick up a stack or 2 that way, without you having to worry about positioning and stuff and you avoid getting fucked over when the server decides to be a dick with his movement and just have him randomly stop and sit there in the fire murdering the whole party with AoE.
I agree with you that ozruk is like 100% a tank fight, but thats only 1 fight out of many. There are a couple other really tank heavy fights, but a lot of them not so much.
But the other fights don't really hold up a run. Roadblock fights are usually either on the healer or the tank, or the first boss of HHOO which is gods punishment on us all.
Man why does everyone complain about that fight? I have never once wiped on that fight.
If your healer or tank (or even your DPS) are retards and don't help with the jumping and the pulling of levers and the killing of snakes and the interrupting of the boss, it can be fucking painful.
Following that DK guide I topped the damage in a Halls of Origination heroic run. I'm quite pleased with the results! Thanks guys.
Holy shit someone can learn and do better in cata heroics? That goes counter to everything on the wow boards!
I'd like to think that we're better than that here, Preacher! I'd say the Arcadians are much better at learning to improve themselves at this game than anyone else.
You're a witch honky, a foul temptress lying with your lies!
I agree with you that ozruk is like 100% a tank fight, but thats only 1 fight out of many. There are a couple other really tank heavy fights, but a lot of them not so much.
But the other fights don't really hold up a run. Roadblock fights are usually either on the healer or the tank, or the first boss of HHOO which is gods punishment on us all.
Man why does everyone complain about that fight? I have never once wiped on that fight.
If your healer or tank (or even your DPS) are retards and don't help with the jumping and the pulling of levers and the killing of snakes and the interrupting of the boss, it can be fucking painful.
Well its mainly that people didn't understand they have a cast time on heroic (they were used to normal one person going down flipping both and running back up). And the snakes can murder a group if they aren't aoe'd down (death of a thousand cuts). Just a lot more coordination compared to every other boss in there, only other boss thats as hard maybe would be the purple dude where the dps have to burn portals and then the boss, while the tank just tries to stay alive (and thats a dps fight, so if your dps sucks I'd say kill rajh and consider yourself done).
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I won't. I've watched the raid boss videos (we're starting raiding tomorrow! I am sure there will be an H- in there), but luckily I've dpsed every instance on heroic except for ToT and GB, but I've dpsed them on normal plenty of times.
A certain panic grips me when the sheep is CCed before I can get AE threat. Which makes me start doubting having enough threat on other targets, which speeds up my decision making process. Luckily all the randoms I have tanked for have been understanding (I don't tell them I'm not normally a tank until the last boss), so that has been helpful.
However! Other (warrior) tank tips are most welcome!
Why would this bother you? Other then a sheep pull starting it off? Honestly most of Cata heroics to start should be cc fests. And use god damn cc even in normal (for practice for everyone). If you can take a creature out of the fight do it!
As a tip Rogues can sap dragonkin, demons, creatures and humanoids. USE THAT!
It only bothers me when someone/how the add ends up in the mix. The (good) dpser in me screams that the mob needs to be CCed again as soon as possible, but thanks to blood and thunder, it is often added to the stack of things that hate me.
Probably comes from my years as dps, when things that were supposed to be hitting me were, I was dead.
This is weird. I'm trying to log-in, and I keep getting stuck at the "Retrieving Character List" screen for Shadow Council. I can log into my characters on Kirin Tor just fine.
Server Status page says Shadow Council is just fine; anyone else ever have an issue like this?
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I'm getting a problem on my current main server where I can load up my character list, but trying to go in with a character just gets me stuck at the loading screen. :?
This is weird. I'm trying to log-in, and I keep getting stuck at the "Retrieving Character List" screen for Shadow Council. I can log into my characters on Kirin Tor just fine.
Server Status page says Shadow Council is just fine; anyone else ever have an issue like this?
Reckoning server group is down.
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Wait 12 minutes for a RANDOM Battleground. . .and it's a losing effort in Alterac Valley thats almost over. AV is easily most most hated Battleground, more so than TB - simply because TB isn't in the rotation constantly. AV is - and it has been nerfed so badly it's not even close to being fun anymore. Most people have leveled so fast they don't have trinkets so defending our keep is a joke; and thus the game is a mindless zergfest - a zerg that works. At least in the other BG's (except Strand) - the zerg can oftentimes be countered and the cause of a losing effort. Here it is the strat - otherwise you risk game going longer than needed and allowing some silly tosser to backcap and screw things up. Blargh. Awful awful BG compounded by ridiculous wait times.
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I loved the crap out of AV back in classic. Not the *very* initial, 12-hour-game form, but something pretty close after that. Even got exalted on a character before hitting 60. Nowadays, eh. Liked it better when it was inefficient but basically like being a foot soldier in someone else's game of WC3.
I am a level 38 mage. So, should I do the revamped Desolace zone or Dustwallow Marsh? Desolace seems more appealing with all of the demon stuff.
Desolace is pretty lame, even with the pretty stuff. It's by no means terrible, but one of the weakest of the revamps I've come across.
Dustwallow is largely unchanged from its 2.3 revamp.
I do have a Hero's Call for the Western Plaguelands. That sounds like the place to go. It seems like there is allot of turmoil there.
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WPL is actually really good now.
And as a general hint, if you want to level your herbalism from 150+, go there. There's four fadeleaf spawns really close to one-another at a farm that respawn quickly, and around those are kingsbloods and khadgar's whiskers.
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I'm trying to think of a boss she didn't die on, Chess event?
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Although I'm a bit confused how she would have died on so many fights.
I mean, even attumen?
She informed me she lived on attumen. Their abilities just hit so hard and she was only 69 when we started. Like moroes gouged me and then killed her, maiden hit her with a holy fire, juliet ranged her down, curator blasted her with arcane bolt, the sacrifice guy sac'd her and I failed on targeting the chains (so that was on me), Shade's water adds nuked her and then prince's axes finished her off.
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Holy shit someone can learn and do better in cata heroics? That goes counter to everything on the wow boards!
pleasepaypreacher.net
I'd like to think that we're better than that here, Preacher! I'd say the Arcadians are much better at learning to improve themselves at this game than anyone else.
You're a witch honky, a foul temptress lying with your lies!
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And solo, he is the most retarded fun I have had since leveling him through pvp in the 30s/40s with heirloom gear. Quests that routinely gave me issues are a joke. If I'm having a problem, I just pull an add or two. If I get bored of soloing, I just queue for a random and get into something instantly.
The only downside, as someone who tries their very best to "not be a bad". Tanking makes me feel like I am bad, but I think that is because being a good DPS is harder than being an ok tank. I'm going to keep at it and eventually try heroics. I suspect that will be sufficient to fully break my will.
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Most of the challenging boss fights are because of tank mechanics and tanks failing to be good at them, don't be that tank!
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I'd say the opposite (although maybe that's just cause I'm a tank).
The hard fights are the ones where what needs to be done is outside the tank's control and thus they can't drag retards through it.
So often, when tanking on my main or healing on my alt, I look at what the other guys are doing and think "Dammit, if you just did X this would be so much easier!".
A certain panic grips me when the sheep is CCed before I can get AE threat. Which makes me start doubting having enough threat on other targets, which speeds up my decision making process. Luckily all the randoms I have tanked for have been understanding (I don't tell them I'm not normally a tank until the last boss), so that has been helpful.
However! Other (warrior) tank tips are most welcome!
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This so very much. As a tank myself it is vital to keep the boss positioned correctly as much as possible. This requires you to know what the boss is capable of, what the warning signs are, and how the fight progresses.
This is fairly impossible to do when you get to a boss you don't know. You can try and do it by reacting to everything but looking up the fights beforehand and preparing yourself accordingly will give you a much easier time of it and allow you to focus more on responding to events outside the normal course of the boss fight (healing aggro, DPS being stupid, etc)
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I dunno a lot of people seem to wipe in BRC on the third fight which is entirely on the tank. My stonecore wipes have been the tank standing too close and getting raped by the aoe, or the tank not avoiding ozruk. Its not 100% tank fail all the time I'll admit, but a good tank can save a run, where as a bad one can doom one to "you suck healer, you suck dps, whats going on here?"
pleasepaypreacher.net
Why would this bother you? Other then a sheep pull starting it off? Honestly most of Cata heroics to start should be cc fests. And use god damn cc even in normal (for practice for everyone). If you can take a creature out of the fight do it!
As a tip Rogues can sap dragonkin, demons, creatures and humanoids. USE THAT!
pleasepaypreacher.net
I agree with you that ozruk is like 100% a tank fight, but thats only 1 fight out of many. There are a couple other really tank heavy fights, but a lot of them not so much.
But the other fights don't really hold up a run. Roadblock fights are usually either on the healer or the tank, or the first boss of HHOO which is gods punishment on us all.
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Well theres your problem!
Man why does everyone complain about that fight? I have never once wiped on that fight.
Ok yeah, that I can see. A bad tank will cripple you on alot of bosses.
I always cut the tank slack on the 3rd guy in BRC though. That ones a bit tough till you get the hang of it.
FYI, the best method in my experience is to run away from the boss and just put the edge of the fire pillar between you and him. He'll run through it to you and pick up a stack or 2 that way, without you having to worry about positioning and stuff and you avoid getting fucked over when the server decides to be a dick with his movement and just have him randomly stop and sit there in the fire murdering the whole party with AoE.
If your healer or tank (or even your DPS) are retards and don't help with the jumping and the pulling of levers and the killing of snakes and the interrupting of the boss, it can be fucking painful.
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Well its mainly that people didn't understand they have a cast time on heroic (they were used to normal one person going down flipping both and running back up). And the snakes can murder a group if they aren't aoe'd down (death of a thousand cuts). Just a lot more coordination compared to every other boss in there, only other boss thats as hard maybe would be the purple dude where the dps have to burn portals and then the boss, while the tank just tries to stay alive (and thats a dps fight, so if your dps sucks I'd say kill rajh and consider yourself done).
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It only bothers me when someone/how the add ends up in the mix. The (good) dpser in me screams that the mob needs to be CCed again as soon as possible, but thanks to blood and thunder, it is often added to the stack of things that hate me.
Probably comes from my years as dps, when things that were supposed to be hitting me were, I was dead.
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paladin's holy (it's TSG after all)
i'm betting the rogue just left the arena after his priest was killed in the duration of a deathgrip-strangle
Server Status page says Shadow Council is just fine; anyone else ever have an issue like this?
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But I was able to get on Dark Iron fine.
Reckoning server group is down.
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He is also 12 years old. For serious.
This is all because of that guy who posted a thread on the WoW forum titled "Wows downfall" or something like that. He jinxed it all!
Dustwallow is largely unchanged from its 2.3 revamp.
I do have a Hero's Call for the Western Plaguelands. That sounds like the place to go. It seems like there is allot of turmoil there.
And as a general hint, if you want to level your herbalism from 150+, go there. There's four fadeleaf spawns really close to one-another at a farm that respawn quickly, and around those are kingsbloods and khadgar's whiskers.