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[WoW] Druid Thread: Lock it up, Chief.
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Staff of trickery (HVH) is a great stop gap till you can get a better one. Right now I'm using the essence of the gossamer and the 245 badge armor trinket. I tried for a while to get the black heart, but I never saw it and gave up.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I thought it was HoR.
HHoR: feet, chest, shoulder, polearm, neck (has parry), ring (str/stam/crit/expertise)
PoS: belt, legs, 2h mace (strength)
HPoS: wrist, legs, trinket (dodge)
FoS: shoulder, staff
HFoS: head
ToC: hands, legs, shoulder, waist (low stam), trinket
HToC: wrist, head, feet, polearm, neck (block), ring (parry)
Argent Crusade Exalted: feet
Champion's Seals: staff, feet (blue)
LWer: Durable Nerubhide Cape, wrist (crusader orbs), chest (crusader orbs), belt (runed orbs), feet (runed orbs), legs (primordial saronites), feet (primordial saronites), frost resist chest/waist/feet
JCer: Titanium Earthguard Ring, Titanium Earthguard Chain, frost resist ring
There's your shopping list, run the above instances every day keeping an eye out for the pieces you need. The JC ring/neck and LW cloak should probably be the first things you get crafted, and the runed orb and crusader orb pieces shouldn't be too difficult to acquire. If you can buy the primordials for the crafted boots you should do so, but don't spend badges on them. If you have a profession that can make a bop stam trinket (JC, Eng, Alch?) you should definitely do it. Remember the icc 5mans drop 219s, heroics 232s, toc5 drops 200s, heroic 219s. You'll usually want to go for higher item level gear because it has more armor and sockets and usually better stats, but sometimes a better itemized lower level item (ex: LW cloak) will be better for you.
The same goes for the the crusader-orb crafted chest: It has hit and armorpen. You need very little hit for heroics, so the set chest (crit and haste) is better, imo. At least it's not worth the cost to craft the higher level chest to just get one more socket.
Remember that the Ulduar crafted stuff (boots, belt) is much cheaper in 3.3.3, so I'd wait for those and just get the Polar (frost resistance+stamina) stuff for those slots.
I think I'm good on trinkets for the time being. I forgot I had both brewfest ones.
Also, HHOR is a festering pile of terrible.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Another topic: I think it's hilarious that my lol-trash-dps glyph choice for my Moonkin spec is becoming the best setup for raiding moonkin in 3.3.3. I have both Starfall glyphs (+ a supoptimal spec) and that let's me top the damage meters with still some blue gear and no enchants whatsoever. I can't even imagine what Starfall damage will be like in the next patch.
Are there any trinkets worth having that I can get through heroics? I have the Abyssal Rune and Darkmoon Card:Death currently and will try for the Nevermelting Ice Crystal (If I ever get a group without a caster that rolls on it). Anything else?
I'm glad I got it because it is a way better weapon for me than the harpoon, it just really sucks that it came right after I gemmed and enchanted the thing. It is pretty annoying that the best enchant for us comes from the last expansion making the mats fairly ridiculous to buy, and annoying to farm.
Anyway here is my druid, think I'm ready to take on ICC10? A pug didn't think so last night and then spent another 30 mins looking for a tank. The leader then whispers me and asks if I can heal it. Wtf?
You appear to be geared as intended for Lower Spire. PuG leaders are often paranoid and ignorant, though, so I'm not surprised they wanted someone who outgeared the content.
I guess I'll try and get the first 4 bosses in a guild alt group. I'll try and hit up ToC25 too while I'm at it.
Pisses me off that my DK was doing ToC5 with family and it dropped 4 times while my DK was in a group but waiting for a group for my Warrior to tank takes 15 to 30 minutes and that thing never drops.
edit: The family group thing isn't happening right now because our schedules aren't meshing very well.
I might get to try it this week, as we're able to rotate our Shadowmourne people through as OTs on the wing bosses and I'm able to DPS.
All three weapon enchants were very close to each other, though (within 13 dps of each other in my current gear). Close enough that I'm not sure you could tell the difference between them empirically.
Also, is that the heroic version of Sindragosa's neck? There's a better version off Sindragosa 25.
I think you're also overestimating how many badges normal people get per week in order to get 4t10 and all the other stuff.
So yeah. Never really played a druid much before now. The fool I was.
Blizzard should take some time to learn trinket balance.
Worth pushing for 4pc for both, or are the offset triumph items better? Any pieces that are must-have?
4T9 Cat is pretty meh. Don't bother with it as there are higher level and/or better pieces you can get in at least 3 of those slots.
I have zero ambition to get T10 untill I can get 4pce, and even then I really don't know. I'll let someone that does maths figure that out.
SW:Tor - Tao - Kryatt Dragon Server
Are boomkin just gimped?
Moonkin might suffer the whole way though. But I do know they are considered nearly last if not last.
But I thought they locked at 101. This wasn't part of the deal, Munkus.