I love how five minute buffs are still a painful note for all pre-TBC paladins.
The suffering is universal.
We all hated it. Our time in raids was decursing and buffing. And nothing worse then getting all of your buffs done and someone goes "Wait I need to go do reason #9438 for going afk". So you get to do it again.
I mean.....how??? I never did pre-TBC stuff, so I can't imagine. Did raid bosses take < 3 mins to complete? Or was it like you say -- pallies just spent the whole encounter running around buffing.
I mean.....how??? I never did pre-TBC stuff, so I can't imagine. Did raid bosses take < 3 mins to complete? Or was it like you say -- pallies just spent the whole encounter running around buffing.
Some did and sometimes we rebuffed. Or you specced prot and did Salv. Back then Ret Paladins were a raid requirement. Cause the bastards had kings.
I love how five minute buffs are still a painful note for all pre-TBC paladins.
The suffering is universal.
We all hated it. Our time in raids was decursing and buffing. And nothing worse then getting all of your buffs done and someone goes "Wait I need to go do reason #9438 for going afk". So you get to do it again.
I only raided once or twice before they fixed that shit, and it was horrible. By the time you finished buffing, you had to start again, because the buffs were 50% done on the first guy!
Yeah I cannot imagine raiding with only five minute blessings. I remember waiting for like Amplify Magic in the safe spot before Fankriss and the whole "by the time they finish buffing the first ones are running out" thing. Ugh.
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It was hell. Almost every paladin I knew back then hated their guidies.
Very, very glad I never had to deal with that shit when I was raiding pre-bc.
Hell, I hate paladin buffs NOW. Some asshole is always bitching about his buffs, some paladin isn't buffing at all, Pallypower is bugged, etc etc. Many times I've said "Look the buffs aren't going to make or break the fight. All the dps has salv, and that's all that matters."
And then I pulled the fucking boss.
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At some point we're going to have to start putting onions in our belts around here.
i'm not a raiding pally, and even I get pissed at the numnah (or is it numbut now?) dps that go apeshit over blessings. Some pug hunter was all pissing and moaning last night to get put in with the feral druid & get wisdom over might last night in gruul so that his dps won't be gimped. He got his wish -- and dumped out 500 dps. It was SO worth it.
Very, very glad I never had to deal with that shit when I was raiding pre-bc.
Hell, I hate paladin buffs NOW. Some asshole is always bitching about his buffs, some paladin isn't buffing at all, Pallypower is bugged, etc etc. Many times I've said "Look the buffs aren't going to make or break the fight. All the dps has salv, and that's all that matters."
And then I pulled the fucking boss.
The best is people who bitch about not having full buffs for trash. TRASH. Yes, buff classes should be rebuffing, but it's not going to make or break a trash pack if you don't have AI. The only thing I'll bitch about on trash is Salv and that is a given. I pull aggro enough even with it. ;__;
Death Chicken? Laser Chicken? I'm usually up on all the lingo, but these are phrases I've never heard before.
Boomkin or Balance Druids.
Ohhhh. Yeah, Boomkin and Oomkin are the only slang words I've heard for Balance.
Pre-TBC I would laugh when I found an Oomkin in a BG. Wait for moonfire, pop bubble, watch moonfire continue to empty their mana pool and apply hammer to their face while they run around without mana.
Death Chicken? Laser Chicken? I'm usually up on all the lingo, but these are phrases I've never heard before.
Boomkin or Balance Druids.
Ohhhh. Yeah, Boomkin and Oomkin are the only slang words I've heard for Balance.
Pre-TBC I would laugh when I found an Oomkin in a BG. Wait for moonfire, pop bubble, watch moonfire continue to empty their mana pool and apply hammer to their face while they run around without mana.
I had one of them go completely oom trying to stop me in wsg with moonfire. They ran out of mana before I ran out of life.
That said, there were some good balance druids back then, they just wore cloth armor.
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
Death Chicken? Laser Chicken? I'm usually up on all the lingo, but these are phrases I've never heard before.
Boomkin or Balance Druids.
Ohhhh. Yeah, Boomkin and Oomkin are the only slang words I've heard for Balance.
Pre-TBC I would laugh when I found an Oomkin in a BG. Wait for moonfire, pop bubble, watch moonfire continue to empty their mana pool and apply hammer to their face while they run around without mana.
I had one of them go completely oom trying to stop me in wsg with moonfire. They ran out of mana before I ran out of life.
That said, there were some good balance druids back then, they just wore cloth armor.
I have to say I never really found a good scary one. It was almost a universal rule that they would empty their mana pool against DS.
Death Chicken? Laser Chicken? I'm usually up on all the lingo, but these are phrases I've never heard before.
Boomkin or Balance Druids.
Ohhhh. Yeah, Boomkin and Oomkin are the only slang words I've heard for Balance.
Pre-TBC I would laugh when I found an Oomkin in a BG. Wait for moonfire, pop bubble, watch moonfire continue to empty their mana pool and apply hammer to their face while they run around without mana.
I had one of them go completely oom trying to stop me in wsg with moonfire. They ran out of mana before I ran out of life.
That said, there were some good balance druids back then, they just wore cloth armor.
I have to say I never really found a good scary one. It was almost a universal rule that they would empty their mana pool against DS.
When I say some, I mean more like "I saw one". He had all AQ40 spell damage cloth, heh.
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Dark days of before greater blessings;
Five minute single target blessings for a 40 man raid, BoK being the 31 point Ret talent...
on our first Onyxia kill, the paladins didn't heal, they simply ran laps around the room re-buffing.
You should have been there for the days of 5 minute blessings. Horrible.
PallyPower was a different mod back then, but it was all that got me through those dark days.
Pfft, just imagine five min buffs. Prot was awesome cause you could get 15 min salvation.
The suffering is universal.
We all hated it. Our time in raids was decursing and buffing. And nothing worse then getting all of your buffs done and someone goes "Wait I need to go do reason #9438 for going afk". So you get to do it again.
Some did and sometimes we rebuffed. Or you specced prot and did Salv. Back then Ret Paladins were a raid requirement. Cause the bastards had kings.
Edit: Man I miss Ragnaros "Too soon, you have awakened me too soon Executos"
I only raided once or twice before they fixed that shit, and it was horrible. By the time you finished buffing, you had to start again, because the buffs were 50% done on the first guy!
Fixed.
They should have been reckoning bomb spec and doing pvp back then, like I was! :P
Actually, I think I was pure ret back then. Not as good one on one as reck, but you could rack up killing blows in AV better.
Naw, we just specced Prot and snickered at the Holydins. Or we did Tri-spec for Illumination/DF/SoC/HS.
Didn't do him until after the change. But I believe Chromaggus is a longer fight, and you can't stop to buff during that one.
The fixed the 5 minute buff deal at least a year before burning crusade.
Annoying. But by the time the guild I was in got there it was 1.9 and we had greater blessings.
Hell, I hate paladin buffs NOW. Some asshole is always bitching about his buffs, some paladin isn't buffing at all, Pallypower is bugged, etc etc. Many times I've said "Look the buffs aren't going to make or break the fight. All the dps has salv, and that's all that matters."
And then I pulled the fucking boss.
I don't really raid anymore, though, and I never call for buffs before making sure I've done all mine, that'd be rude.
The best is people who bitch about not having full buffs for trash. TRASH. Yes, buff classes should be rebuffing, but it's not going to make or break a trash pack if you don't have AI. The only thing I'll bitch about on trash is Salv and that is a given. I pull aggro enough even with it. ;__;
Also, page 102. Hmm.
Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
Pretty much the only blessing they can agree on is kings (and even that is only if the deathchickens can get salv too).
We don't have any Laser chickens so shamans fill that role for us.
Boomkin or Balance Druids.
I just call them fatass chicken.
All I'm sezzin is they need to lose some weight.
http://www.wowhead.com/?search=moonkin#npcs
Ohhhh. Yeah, Boomkin and Oomkin are the only slang words I've heard for Balance.
Pre-TBC I would laugh when I found an Oomkin in a BG. Wait for moonfire, pop bubble, watch moonfire continue to empty their mana pool and apply hammer to their face while they run around without mana.
I had one of them go completely oom trying to stop me in wsg with moonfire. They ran out of mana before I ran out of life.
That said, there were some good balance druids back then, they just wore cloth armor.
I have to say I never really found a good scary one. It was almost a universal rule that they would empty their mana pool against DS.
When I say some, I mean more like "I saw one". He had all AQ40 spell damage cloth, heh.
Are you in the Ruin battlegroup? There is a high chance it was me.