So hey, have you guys seen the new bloodthirst? 1.5% health regen every time you use it? o_O
Does anyone else think this is going to get nerfed? I certainly hope it doesn't, but 1.5% of your health back every 6 seconds sounds pretty damn godly.
It's... all the little things in Fury that makes me think us fury warriors will finally be able to compete in PvP. Heroic Leap works well as a way to catch a fleeing target or to escape, one can take a nose dive off a cliff and as long as you have the rage it can be used to save your ass. The whole new way Bloodthirst heals is nice too, since it's our #1 ability.
Oh I guess I should put this in here since I was planning to already and it's near the top.
You guys remember when I got Gorehowl and went for PvE Arms spec, yes? Well it seems to me that my guild wont have much of a use for it really, and since my gear has gotten far better, and all that's left of my blues are my trinkets, ranged weapon boots(Which hopefully can be replaced by Ogri'la ones or the ones from normal MgT) and Chestpiece(Got everything for my Breastplate of Kings, just need the primals transmuted). My biggest problem I think was that my gear just wasn't all that good overall, but now I've got the armor to actually support fury. I consider myself rather well versed when it comes to the in and outs of fury, I know my rotation by heart and have always known about the 95 soft hit cap... but something has been confusing me lately.
From one source, TankSpot, I get information that gemming for hit as a fury warrior is something that is bad and should make you feel bad, that your gear should have enough for you. And then there is my friend who says that the more hit the better. I know hit doesn't benefit warriors the same way it does for rogues, we don't have any sort of proc talent that'd require massive hit. However more hit means your white attacks will land more, which equals more rage, but at the same time I've heard that most of my damage as a fury warrior would come from my yellow attacks.
Perhaps it's all just opinion, and in the end some of the things only matter if you're trying to push out that last one or two dps for Black Temple, but I'd still like to get some opinions here to set things straight. I've accomplished my goal of getting Gorehowl, and my Epic Flying Mount so all I have now is gear, and I'd like to make sure I go for the proper stuff. Currently I think I know what I need in terms of upgrades, and am eager to replace my gladiator gear for something more appropriate. Though it would be my weapons that are the biggest problems. I have the Gladiator off-hand axe, and the Big Bad Wolf's Paw. Both I want to replace since I'll be looking for two slow weapons. A rather obvious choice might be the Merciless Axes, two of the slow ones. Although possibly one of them and the axe that drops from Kael'thas in Heroic MgT could work well too.
It's... all the little things in Fury that makes me think us fury warriors will finally be able to compete in PvP. Heroic Leap works well as a way to catch a fleeing target or to escape, one can take a nose dive off a cliff and as long as you have the rage it can be used to save your ass. The whole new way Bloodthirst heals is nice too, since it's our #1 ability.
Oh I guess I should put this in here since I was planning to already and it's near the top.
You guys remember when I got Gorehowl and went for PvE Arms spec, yes? Well it seems to me that my guild wont have much of a use for it really, and since my gear has gotten far better, and all that's left of my blues are my trinkets, ranged weapon boots(Which hopefully can be replaced by Ogri'la ones or the ones from normal MgT) and Chestpiece(Got everything for my Breastplate of Kings, just need the primals transmuted). My biggest problem I think was that my gear just wasn't all that good overall, but now I've got the armor to actually support fury. I consider myself rather well versed when it comes to the in and outs of fury, I know my rotation by heart and have always known about the 95 soft hit cap... but something has been confusing me lately.
From one source, TankSpot, I get information that gemming for hit as a fury warrior is something that is bad and should make you feel bad, that your gear should have enough for you. And then there is my friend who says that the more hit the better. I know hit doesn't benefit warriors the same way it does for rogues, we don't have any sort of proc talent that'd require massive hit. However more hit means your white attacks will land more, which equals more rage, but at the same time I've heard that most of my damage as a fury warrior would come from my yellow attacks.
Perhaps it's all just opinion, and in the end some of the things only matter if you're trying to push out that last one or two dps for Black Temple, but I'd still like to get some opinions here to set things straight. I've accomplished my goal of getting Gorehowl, and my Epic Flying Mount so all I have now is gear, and I'd like to make sure I go for the proper stuff. Currently I think I know what I need in terms of upgrades, and am eager to replace my gladiator gear for something more appropriate. Though it would be my weapons that are the biggest problems. I have the Gladiator off-hand axe, and the Big Bad Wolf's Paw. Both I want to replace since I'll be looking for two slow weapons. A rather obvious choice might be the Merciless Axes, two of the slow ones. Although possibly one of them and the axe that drops from Kael'thas in Heroic MgT could work well too.
Hit + Haste is a nice combo, and is supported by new badge gear. Other than that, hit is of secondary (or even tertiary) concern. With windfury (which you should have), your rage generation will be through the roof, even with 95 HR (+3/3 Precision). White damage ends up being around 30-35% of your overall damage, where, as a rogue, it's closer to 60%. I would focus on AP, then crit, and hit where it's offered. Don't gem for it, unless you're after a heavy Haste+Hit combo.
On weapons, the Axe out of Heroic MrT is good, and it's not unique. Obviously the badge fists are amazing (2.5 offhand), and Heartless out of ZA. Merciless 1h are good, Vengeful are better, and Gladiator are meh.
Also, your guild doesn't have a need for 4% increased physical damage? What?
Yeah I asked about this in the chat thread, and was basically told by most Warriors to shoot for around 95ish hit, and then don't focus on it, but you can get up to around 142 and still get a benefit from it.
Basically I would just do that, make sure you are around that 90 mark and then focus on things like AP/Crit and stuff.
I keep debating on Bloodsurge, but I honestly think i'll have more than enough rage dumps with Bloodbath and H-Strike, also with 1.5% health back from Bloodthirst, I think I would rather have the additional 6% stamina.
Man, a lot of our abilities have "blood" in them, very confusing.
Well the reason being is we are just starting to go beyond Karazhan. Trying to work into Gruul's and doing attempts at Zul'Aman. We also seem to be caster heavy, in one Gruul's run there was me, two rogues a hunters and an enhancement shaman. Pretty much the rest of the DPS were casters. But yes! The whole get to 95 and just soak up hit as you go thing has been known to me, it's just hard to really know who's feeding you bullshit, especially when one of the people giving you advice is an actual in-game friend. Though he doesn't gem for hit like mad, he's got a few mixed in with strength gems. I've got 101 hit rating right now, and I'll have a lot more come my new breast plate, yet I also got a good bit of everything else. It seems that if I were to equip the weapons I said I had now, I'd have an insane amount of crit, 28% in zerker. My AP doesn't look so good, though, 1540. Since the Breastplate of Kings, along with it's upgrades will have a lot of crit already, I may put nothing but strength gems into it.
This should be standard, other than meeting Meta requirements. For blues, there's Sovereign Nightseye (4 STR/6 STA), and for yellows, Inscribed Noble Topaz (4 Crit/4 STR).
Well I don't really think... anyone in the guild puts out that much. Of course unlike some my eyes aren't glued to recount. I know that I was averaging 540 with my current gear as PvE arms, not sure if that's good, or bad.
Well I don't really think... anyone in the guild puts out that much. Of course unlike some my eyes aren't glued to recount. I know that I was averaging 540 with my current gear as PvE arms, not sure if that's good, or bad.
It's fine in Kara gear with Gorehowl. I may have estimated a bit high on overall DPS though. I really don't remember being a hunter in Kara gear. My rogue always had shit gear, and my warrior is in mostly ten man gear, doing around 700 sustained w/o Windfury (850 or so with). Certainly nothing to write home about.
So hey, have you guys seen the new bloodthirst? 1.5% health regen every time you use it? o_O
Does anyone else think this is going to get nerfed? I certainly hope it doesn't, but 1.5% of your health back every 6 seconds sounds pretty damn godly.
Uhhh it's actually 1.5% of your health back per swing for 5 swings.
Wow. Looks like it was done mainly for Titan grip specs. Now you can save 3 points and get Impale, get the full 5% bonus on 2 handers, and if you skip Heroic Leap you can take Sweeping Strikes or even a minor weapon spec (1% sword spec is still 1%). Cool beans.
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Yeah I asked about this in the chat thread, and was basically told by most Warriors to shoot for around 95ish hit, and then don't focus on it, but you can get up to around 142 and still get a benefit from it.
the friend is right that 'more is always better'
BUT AP(from str) and crit, in that order, outweigh hit rating after 95.
You need 9% hit to not miss specials attacks (yellow damage) on raid level (or ??) bosses, You get 3% from precision, so you need 6% from gear. 1% hit is equal to 15.77 hit rating, therefore you need 95 hit rating to "soft cap".
the 142 is without precision to hit 9%
you will always benefit from hit, until you hit like 400 with precision. The only reason you would ever gem for hit rating would be because you are out of rage often. f you can not hit 95 with just gear, you should not spec fury. If you are running out of rage, switch some gear to that with hit rating untill you have enough rage.
Anecdotally, I was worried about going from 200 hit rating down to 170 hit rating in the transition from T5 to T6 but I am more often threat-capped rather than rage-capped. I heroic strike way too much but the alternative is letting my rage go to waste.
I have the Gladiator off-hand axe, and the Big Bad Wolf's Paw. Both I want to replace since I'll be looking for two slow weapons. A rather obvious choice might be the Merciless Axes, two of the slow ones. Although possibly one of them and the axe that drops from Kael'thas in Heroic MgT could work well too.
get the badge fist weapons.
they look goofy but the best 150 badges you will ever spend.
One hopes they have the sense to delink it from Retaliation and Recklessness now too.
Seems obvious, but you never know with these people.
I'd be pretty happy if they gave Retalliation (which is currently useless anyway, needs improving) and Recklessness the same treatment and gave them all a shared 5 minute cooldown.
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actually it could help in Battle Stance for warrior tanks to semi-mimic Retribution Aura, to help with aoe tanking. I don't know the exact numbers on Retaliation though
Your next 0 special ability attacks have an additional 100% to critically hit but all damage taken is increased by 20%. Lasts 12 sec.
Instant, 5 min cooldown
Retaliation was only ever good if 3 more more things were hitting you. Ironically though, 3 or more things hitting you typically kills most average geared warriors.
Now that I have the weapons and armor to survive, I usually use it if I get knocked off my mount via running through a group of mobs, just to end the fight that much quicker and get back to where I was going.
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Retaliation was only ever good if 3 more more things were hitting you. Ironically though, 3 or more things hitting you typically kills most average geared warriors.
Now that I have the weapons and armor to survive, I usually use it if I get knocked off my mount via running through a group of mobs, just to end the fight that much quicker and get back to where I was going.
Retaliation is great for fighting rogues in BG's. If they're smart they will stop attacking thus giving you the initiative to start the fight over on your terms.
At worst they'll just blind you and run away.
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I'll be hitting 70 on my Warrior tomorrow, what should I look at in terms of minimum specs for tanking heroics?
At 69 I am hitting about 11.9k HP (with commanding), dodge/parry/block hover between 8% and 13% each.
I am not Prot, btw.
I'm still not sure what I want to actually do. I may go prot for a while just to sharpen my tanking skills on the high end and then just BG it up.
I'll be making my Master Hammersmith 2h mace ASAP
Try getting to about 13-14k unbuffed health while at the defense cap (490 defense).
This will allow you to be successfully tank most heroics. Useful obtainable items include the sword at SSO revered, the shield at SSO exalted (or the pvp shield). the belt from obtaining the arca key (i think that's where it's from, some TK quest anyway). The boots from the mana tombs escort Q, the chestplate from altruis's quests in nagrand.
That said be prepared for pugs to bitch at you for being too hard to heal or not holding aggro well enough because you're not a t6 geared prot pally. Tell these people to get stuffed and work with the tank they have not some mythical supertank they want to have do all the hard work for them. If you can find a stable group of people to run the daily heroic with, stick with them even if they're not the awesomest ever, good communication and understanding of other group members is the key to getting heroics working.
The very best way to get tank gear for heroics is ironically as an offtank in kara, once you have some quest items and dungeon blues you can off tank stuff in kara and get badges (some of the badge tanking loot is good right up into BT) and tank drops other people don't want far faster than you would doing heroics. I've had a just dinged 70 prot warrior in his levelling greens tank in there just to have someone to press taunt every 8 seconds to occupy a trash mob or off tank a boss add.
That's prot, the other specs are also viable but expect starting out as a pve dps warrior to suck enormous dong, it's almost impossible to get groups as a dps warrior because you have no CC or other utility. Unless you have an understanding guild and access to alt-kara runs you will be left out in the cold a lot. Arms pvp spec is a lot of fun, once you get decent gear, but boy does the grind to weapon + full S2 suck.
overall advice : - if you have access to alt-kara spec prot and do that. If you don't go the PvP route but be aware it will take a while before you are a force people will respect.
I'll be hitting 70 on my Warrior tomorrow, what should I look at in terms of minimum specs for tanking heroics?
At 69 I am hitting about 11.9k HP (with commanding), dodge/parry/block hover between 8% and 13% each.
I am not Prot, btw.
I'm still not sure what I want to actually do. I may go prot for a while just to sharpen my tanking skills on the high end and then just BG it up.
I'll be making my Master Hammersmith 2h mace ASAP
Unless you have an understanding guild and access to alt-kara runs you will be left out in the cold a lot. Arms pvp spec is a lot of fun, once you get decent gear, but boy does the grind to weapon + full S2 suck.
Oh god this. Now that my arena teams are actually winning more than they are losing my teams expections of me have risen accordingly. I havent done a BG in weeks becuase every time I grind out 17k honor to get an offset epic (the last one was the S4 belt) I get sick at the thought of doing another BG. The S2 weapon was a bitch too but since you're probably gonna craft yourself a stormherald then you dont have to worry about that. Just get your offset epics (boots, wrist, belt, rings and neck) and ride those rep blues into the arenas and start building up points.
If all you want to do is tank than ignore everything I just said :P
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Has Retaliation been nerfed recently (recently being within the past... year?) or does its usefulness just drop off at high level play? It saved my warrior's ass many times while he was leveling.
That usually makes me dead when it's a whole lot of things instead of one strong thing. Recklessness will just get you killed quicker with 10+ enemies hitting you.
I would be willing to bet they intend it as a raiding talent, being as high up in the fury tree as it is. So... I can't see why they would do that. [Make it do less DPS than a 1h Fury Build]
The design is for Titan's Grip to be a dps increase. It's easy to make it too much of an increase, and we may be being too cautious with the numbers at the moment. But when we talk about Lich King, we are assuming most Fury warriors are using two-handers. It's not supposed to be hard decision.
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Does anyone else think this is going to get nerfed? I certainly hope it doesn't, but 1.5% of your health back every 6 seconds sounds pretty damn godly.
Oh I guess I should put this in here since I was planning to already and it's near the top.
You guys remember when I got Gorehowl and went for PvE Arms spec, yes? Well it seems to me that my guild wont have much of a use for it really, and since my gear has gotten far better, and all that's left of my blues are my trinkets, ranged weapon boots(Which hopefully can be replaced by Ogri'la ones or the ones from normal MgT) and Chestpiece(Got everything for my Breastplate of Kings, just need the primals transmuted). My biggest problem I think was that my gear just wasn't all that good overall, but now I've got the armor to actually support fury. I consider myself rather well versed when it comes to the in and outs of fury, I know my rotation by heart and have always known about the 95 soft hit cap... but something has been confusing me lately.
From one source, TankSpot, I get information that gemming for hit as a fury warrior is something that is bad and should make you feel bad, that your gear should have enough for you. And then there is my friend who says that the more hit the better. I know hit doesn't benefit warriors the same way it does for rogues, we don't have any sort of proc talent that'd require massive hit. However more hit means your white attacks will land more, which equals more rage, but at the same time I've heard that most of my damage as a fury warrior would come from my yellow attacks.
Perhaps it's all just opinion, and in the end some of the things only matter if you're trying to push out that last one or two dps for Black Temple, but I'd still like to get some opinions here to set things straight. I've accomplished my goal of getting Gorehowl, and my Epic Flying Mount so all I have now is gear, and I'd like to make sure I go for the proper stuff. Currently I think I know what I need in terms of upgrades, and am eager to replace my gladiator gear for something more appropriate. Though it would be my weapons that are the biggest problems. I have the Gladiator off-hand axe, and the Big Bad Wolf's Paw. Both I want to replace since I'll be looking for two slow weapons. A rather obvious choice might be the Merciless Axes, two of the slow ones. Although possibly one of them and the axe that drops from Kael'thas in Heroic MgT could work well too.
Hit + Haste is a nice combo, and is supported by new badge gear. Other than that, hit is of secondary (or even tertiary) concern. With windfury (which you should have), your rage generation will be through the roof, even with 95 HR (+3/3 Precision). White damage ends up being around 30-35% of your overall damage, where, as a rogue, it's closer to 60%. I would focus on AP, then crit, and hit where it's offered. Don't gem for it, unless you're after a heavy Haste+Hit combo.
On weapons, the Axe out of Heroic MrT is good, and it's not unique. Obviously the badge fists are amazing (2.5 offhand), and Heartless out of ZA. Merciless 1h are good, Vengeful are better, and Gladiator are meh.
Also, your guild doesn't have a need for 4% increased physical damage? What?
Basically I would just do that, make sure you are around that 90 mark and then focus on things like AP/Crit and stuff.
God I can't wait for WotLK... It's killing me! This is probably how i'll be speccing.
I keep debating on Bloodsurge, but I honestly think i'll have more than enough rage dumps with Bloodbath and H-Strike, also with 1.5% health back from Bloodthirst, I think I would rather have the additional 6% stamina.
Man, a lot of our abilities have "blood" in them, very confusing.
Assuming all of those people are doing 800 DPS, that's still a 160 DPS boost to the raid. It's not bad.
This should be standard, other than meeting Meta requirements. For blues, there's Sovereign Nightseye (4 STR/6 STA), and for yellows, Inscribed Noble Topaz (4 Crit/4 STR).
It's fine in Kara gear with Gorehowl. I may have estimated a bit high on overall DPS though. I really don't remember being a hunter in Kara gear. My rogue always had shit gear, and my warrior is in mostly ten man gear, doing around 700 sustained w/o Windfury (850 or so with). Certainly nothing to write home about.
EDIT: NVM. Pauldrons of Gruesome Fate win by a fair margin.
Uhhh it's actually 1.5% of your health back per swing for 5 swings.
Nothing much, but Impale is now the pre-req for Deep Wounds and I think is a tier earlier now.
the friend is right that 'more is always better'
BUT AP(from str) and crit, in that order, outweigh hit rating after 95.
You need 9% hit to not miss specials attacks (yellow damage) on raid level (or ??) bosses, You get 3% from precision, so you need 6% from gear. 1% hit is equal to 15.77 hit rating, therefore you need 95 hit rating to "soft cap".
the 142 is without precision to hit 9%
you will always benefit from hit, until you hit like 400 with precision. The only reason you would ever gem for hit rating would be because you are out of rage often. f you can not hit 95 with just gear, you should not spec fury. If you are running out of rage, switch some gear to that with hit rating untill you have enough rage.
Anecdotally, I was worried about going from 200 hit rating down to 170 hit rating in the transition from T5 to T6 but I am more often threat-capped rather than rage-capped. I heroic strike way too much but the alternative is letting my rage go to waste.
get the badge fist weapons.
they look goofy but the best 150 badges you will ever spend.
edit!
Seems obvious, but you never know with these people.
You're not thinking outside the box!
Your next 0 special ability attacks have an additional 100% to critically hit but all damage taken is increased by 20%. Lasts 12 sec.
Instant, 5 min cooldown
lol, pvp.
Also http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/wotlk/professions/jewelcrafting/metagems/metagem_03.jpg + new blood craze + new bloodthirst imo.
Now that I have the weapons and armor to survive, I usually use it if I get knocked off my mount via running through a group of mobs, just to end the fight that much quicker and get back to where I was going.
At 69 I am hitting about 11.9k HP (with commanding), dodge/parry/block hover between 8% and 13% each.
I am not Prot, btw.
I'm still not sure what I want to actually do. I may go prot for a while just to sharpen my tanking skills on the high end and then just BG it up.
I'll be making my Master Hammersmith 2h mace ASAP
Retaliation is great for fighting rogues in BG's. If they're smart they will stop attacking thus giving you the initiative to start the fight over on your terms.
At worst they'll just blind you and run away.
Try getting to about 13-14k unbuffed health while at the defense cap (490 defense).
This will allow you to be successfully tank most heroics. Useful obtainable items include the sword at SSO revered, the shield at SSO exalted (or the pvp shield). the belt from obtaining the arca key (i think that's where it's from, some TK quest anyway). The boots from the mana tombs escort Q, the chestplate from altruis's quests in nagrand.
That said be prepared for pugs to bitch at you for being too hard to heal or not holding aggro well enough because you're not a t6 geared prot pally. Tell these people to get stuffed and work with the tank they have not some mythical supertank they want to have do all the hard work for them. If you can find a stable group of people to run the daily heroic with, stick with them even if they're not the awesomest ever, good communication and understanding of other group members is the key to getting heroics working.
The very best way to get tank gear for heroics is ironically as an offtank in kara, once you have some quest items and dungeon blues you can off tank stuff in kara and get badges (some of the badge tanking loot is good right up into BT) and tank drops other people don't want far faster than you would doing heroics. I've had a just dinged 70 prot warrior in his levelling greens tank in there just to have someone to press taunt every 8 seconds to occupy a trash mob or off tank a boss add.
That's prot, the other specs are also viable but expect starting out as a pve dps warrior to suck enormous dong, it's almost impossible to get groups as a dps warrior because you have no CC or other utility. Unless you have an understanding guild and access to alt-kara runs you will be left out in the cold a lot. Arms pvp spec is a lot of fun, once you get decent gear, but boy does the grind to weapon + full S2 suck.
overall advice : - if you have access to alt-kara spec prot and do that. If you don't go the PvP route but be aware it will take a while before you are a force people will respect.
Oh god this. Now that my arena teams are actually winning more than they are losing my teams expections of me have risen accordingly. I havent done a BG in weeks becuase every time I grind out 17k honor to get an offset epic (the last one was the S4 belt) I get sick at the thought of doing another BG. The S2 weapon was a bitch too but since you're probably gonna craft yourself a stormherald then you dont have to worry about that. Just get your offset epics (boots, wrist, belt, rings and neck) and ride those rep blues into the arenas and start building up points.
If all you want to do is tank than ignore everything I just said :P
Retaliation I'll use when getting ambushed by a group and it's improbable to run.