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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Well, it was 10-man and only two tanks, but it seemed like fully half of the impales ended up on the healer for the other tank. And we had no bacon healer, just me (disc), a holy priest, and a tree.

    We probably could have theoretically done it eventually, since our best try was down to 35% before someone finally died immediately after a whirlwind and things derailed from there, but it was just getting everything done for several phases in a row with no mistakes that eluded us. And people were starting to pull out the old "I can't pay attention, it's 5 AM here and I'm falling asleep on the keyboard" excuse.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited December 2009
    Happy: leveling enchanting by buying mats for 150 gold, turning it into a scroll and selling it for 538 gold.

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    Preemptive answer: AuctionProfit.

    Echo on
  • BloodshedBloodshed I smoke my friends Down to the FilterRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Happy: Finally got the dagger off Heroic Devourer of Souls, can't remember the name, I'm at work.
    Hope: 2 days off that I can spend random dungeoning up a whole mess o' Triumphs.
    Hahaha: Wiped on our first attempt for Devourer today, after which the Shadow Priest threatens to kick all the DPS if he gets killed by Mirror again, til the healer points out that he did, in fact, kill himself :winky:


    -Bloodshed-

    Bloodshed on
  • formatformat Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Bloodshed wrote: »
    Happy: Finally got the dagger off Heroic Devourer of Souls, can't remember the name, I'm at work.
    Hope: 2 days off that I can spend random dungeoning up a whole mess o' Triumphs.
    Hahaha: Wiped on our first attempt for Devourer today, after which the Shadow Priest threatens to kick all the DPS if he gets killed by Mirror again, til the healer points out that he did, in fact, kill himself :winky:


    -Bloodshed-

    shadow word death during enfeeble on prince in karazhan

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited December 2009
    format wrote: »
    shadow word death during enfeeble on prince in karazhan

    Seal of Blood. Been there, done that.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    SabreMau wrote: »
    Well, it was 10-man and only two tanks, but it seemed like fully half of the impales ended up on the healer for the other tank. And we had no bacon healer, just me (disc), a holy priest, and a tree.

    We probably could have theoretically done it eventually, since our best try was down to 35% before someone finally died immediately after a whirlwind and things derailed from there, but it was just getting everything done for several phases in a row with no mistakes that eluded us. And people were starting to pull out the old "I can't pay attention, it's 5 AM here and I'm falling asleep on the keyboard" excuse.

    The tanks should save their tanking CDs for when he impales someone. The way it worked out is that I was able to use one of my CDs every time a healer got impaled.

    The fight is just as important for tanks to be on the ball as it is healers.

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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I've noticed this about a lot of the IC10 fights.

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  • quaigyquaigy Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Fuck yeah :
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    That run also gave me enough emblems to buy 3 pieces of whatever is the PvP gear you can buy with emblems.

    quaigy on
  • JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2009
    Joeslop wrote: »
    http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Black+Dragonflight&cn=Lupius&gn=SRP

    Found in the comments of the Greedy Goblin.

    What kind of backwards ass raid let him have iLevel 258 pants with the rest of his gear? He has a Molten Core amulet for fucks sake!

    He has more Spellpower than my Moonkin does!

    While I'm not Hunter expert, the spec doesn't look TOO bad, so my guess is he has a "Fuck with people" set of gear that him and his buddies put together, giggling to themselves like schoolgirls, that he logs out in.

    The fact that his specs are correct tells me that this gear is for fucking with people.

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Joeslop wrote: »
    http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Black+Dragonflight&cn=Lupius&gn=SRP

    Found in the comments of the Greedy Goblin.

    What kind of backwards ass raid let him have iLevel 258 pants with the rest of his gear? He has a Molten Core amulet for fucks sake!

    He has more Spellpower than my Moonkin does!

    While I'm not Hunter expert, the spec doesn't look TOO bad, so my guess is he has a "Fuck with people" set of gear that him and his buddies put together, giggling to themselves like schoolgirls, that he logs out in.

    The fact that his specs are correct tells me that this gear is for fucking with people.

    I just loaded it up and didn't see any weird gear choices. He's now wearing 5/5 245-level T9, several ToGC items, and about the only odd aspect is that his belt has a +34 agi gem, a +20 agi gem, and a +16 agi gem in it.

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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    SabreMau wrote: »
    Joeslop wrote: »
    http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Black+Dragonflight&cn=Lupius&gn=SRP

    Found in the comments of the Greedy Goblin.

    What kind of backwards ass raid let him have iLevel 258 pants with the rest of his gear? He has a Molten Core amulet for fucks sake!

    He has more Spellpower than my Moonkin does!

    While I'm not Hunter expert, the spec doesn't look TOO bad, so my guess is he has a "Fuck with people" set of gear that him and his buddies put together, giggling to themselves like schoolgirls, that he logs out in.

    The fact that his specs are correct tells me that this gear is for fucking with people.

    I just loaded it up and didn't see any weird gear choices. He's now wearing 5/5 245-level T9, several ToGC items, and about the only odd aspect is that his belt has a +34 agi gem, a +20 agi gem, and a +16 agi gem in it.

    When I checked him out last night he had 2 pieces with Attack Power and everything else was Spellpower. And his necklace was some Spellpower piece from Molten Core.

    Seg on
  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Marrowgar can wreck the tanks if healers can't get their brains around "He's targeting one tank, but all three are getting hit pretty hard."

    yeah saber lash is a brand new mechanic that we've never seen in a raid encounter ever, not even in TBC twice so people are really inexperienced with dealing with it

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited December 2009
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Marrowgar can wreck the tanks if healers can't get their brains around "He's targeting one tank, but all three are getting hit pretty hard."

    yeah saber lash is a brand new mechanic that we've never seen in a raid encounter ever, not even in TBC twice so people are really inexperienced with dealing with it

    Much like dragons and them being dangerous in both ends.

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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Hate: I really want the tank mace from regular FoS, but it never wants to drop. At least the normal version drops triumphs, or I'd never really go there.

    Oh my: So I queue for FoS and then get in. Start doing my tank thing, get to Bronjahm, and trouble starts. People aren't killing the soul fragments, so he heals like 5 times. We finally kill him, and the mace doesn't drop. We move on, and kill the Floaty Head guy. This is where I'm surprised. I get the achievement for clearing out the heroic version. I thought I had queued for regular, but I guess not. He drops the plate boots, which I get, and then the caster sword.

    Upgrades be upgrades.

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  • CokebotleCokebotle 穴掘りの 電車内Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Happy: The sword dropped from ICC-10 on Wednesday and I did a shitton of damage during the 25 man this past weekend.

    Hate: For the legendary, we had the people who could use it roll off and if we get to the dragon and if it drops, they automatically get it. I lost the roll to the loot whore DK :x

    Happy: The tradeoff is that you cannot get trinkets or weapons with your "weapon DKP" (we're doing a really odd system this time around) if you win the roll for the legendary, so I can get stuff as it drops (potentially, my roll still sucks) :)

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    HATE: The summoning stone outside ICC is part of a phased quest area, so sometimes you can't find your raid members to assist the portals.

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  • omega71omega71 Too old for a title, too ornery to care. Sacramento, CaliRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Hate- People who use GearScore. I dinged 80 on my Warlock a few weeks ago and apparently my gear score was sitting at 3951 before EZMODE welfares came out (I now have a full four piece t9, one or two pieces of loot from the new regular five mans, and a few Ilevel200s), I get into a group for HToC, which I have ran plenty of times on the Warlock before.

    The tank, and healer both were saying "Nice gear score noob, you wont be able to keep up, we should kick you" etc etc.

    4k dps later on most of the fights, and topping recount on not only boss fights, but overall, I proceed to tell them "Nice tanking, oh and learn to keep aggro, and learn to remember that a lock has to Lifetap before each pull mister healer who never healed me during a major lifetap" and promptly leave.

    I swear people are pretty stupid when it comes to that addon.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Hate: I really want the tank mace from regular FoS, but it never wants to drop. At least the normal version drops triumphs, or I'd never really go there.

    Oh my: So I queue for FoS and then get in. Start doing my tank thing, get to Bronjahm, and trouble starts. People aren't killing the soul fragments, so he heals like 5 times. We finally kill him, and the mace doesn't drop. We move on, and kill the Floaty Head guy. This is where I'm surprised. I get the achievement for clearing out the heroic version. I thought I had queued for regular, but I guess not. He drops the plate boots, which I get, and then the caster sword.

    Upgrades be upgrades.

    if people odn't kill the soul fragments, just kite the boss. they move slower than he does.

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  • BikkstahBikkstah Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Yep. I kite him in a slow circle in anticipation of bad DPS.

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  • Beyond NormalBeyond Normal Lord Phender Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I did, but we had an all melee group except for the healer, so they hit him almost instantly. I got lucky when he did it to the healer and I actually had time to drag him around. But you guys are forgetting the moral of my story: I got new boots.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I have a question first
    If I do the lfg random on any of my characters that are 70+ do the bosses drop Triumph? or do you just get the two for the instance?


    It's amazing that I log on my warrior enter the lfg and the longest I have waited was 2 minutes
    My rogue mage and warlock wait 10 minutes or more

    A hate is the asshole from Old kingdom
    He would not shut up about how he was 80 for two weeks how he has been lucky with drops and how my dps on my rogue sucked

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    HATE: Gunship battle is bugged. The ship stops before the dock, so we have to die to get off. Furthermore, our Masterlooter died on the enemy ship (along with me) so when the fight ended, we got teleported to the Saurfang area, and couldn't get back to open the chest. So we have to submit a ticket to get our loot.

    Edit:
    On the plus side, I hit friendly with Ashen Verdict, So I got my healy ring. Back up over 500 haste again, finally.

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  • XynnXynn Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Hate: Cocky tanks. Randomed Gun'drak today. Bear tank says "I dont want this to take all day", which all of us are ok with. Only the tank doesnt pull adds off of people if they aggro on them, nor does he stop to allow the healer to rez the people. At Moorabi the tank gets pissed off because the rogue has died and the healer wants to rez them, so the tank leaves. Which causes the healer to leave. We were in the instance MAYBE 10 minutes.

    Happy: Found random tank and random healer to fill in the empty spots, finished up anyway.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    thats not really a cocky tank, just an incompetent one

    i've had DPS tell me to stop pulling when they were out of mana. how about, fuck you, sit down to drink and catch up when you can.

    healer being out of mana, maybe, but that healer better have expended every single mana return ability as well as those of the party members too (innervates, hymn of hope, shadowfiends, divine plea, mana tide). thats what those abilities are there for.

    unless running with an undergeared tank, no healer should ever need to drink in a heroic if they use those abilities.

    it was so fucking annoying last night running with a druid healer. he was out of mana constantly and never used innervate. when I asked him to stop wasting my time and use innervate, he said "I'm saving it for when I need it!". Oh really. Well, you're out of mana, so I guess you need it.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    that seems like a BIT much. I mean yeah dal he certainly should have used innervate in your example but sometimes a dudes gotta drink.

    do you seriously say "fuck you" when a dps says they have to drink?

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    no, i just ignore them and continue pulling.

    the fuck you is an internal one.

    helll, even if all three dps are sitting and drinking, i'll go pull the next pack with the healer. tank's do enough aoe dps these days t be able to whittle down a pack of mobs to at least 60-70%.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    okay, that I can deal with :D

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    An example of this happened today to my brother's mage a few minutes ago and to me this morning

    The Old Kingdom run I did on my rogue was awful
    The elitest paladin telling people on and on about how he has been 80 for two weeks and been really lucky with drops we had little excuse for our lack of dps{the mage had better gear than he did but I thought they are a bot program}
    The healer had just picked up dual spec's and was learning to heal again {they said it had been 9 months since they last were heal spec'd}

    The druid who tanked Heroic Hos for my brother has voiced his opinion about how the dps was lacking repeatedly over the entire run
    The hunter was being a gung ho grandpa pulling everything even when they took a afk break to argue

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  • CharusCharus Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I actually prefer dps that's undergeared when I random heroics. Makes tanking the trash less stressful since I can hold everything with swipe and take off for the next pull earlier. Running with top-notch dps will down bosses faster, but I actually have to work at holding aggro on trash, which means I can't run around circus-pulling as much as I could with random pugs I know I can out-threat. As long as the healer is there I can kill everything myself if I have to, so it doesn't matter how terrible they are.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I agree 100% Charus. Trash dies pretty fast regardless of DPS gear, especially with melee dps.

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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    On my 77 mage I have only had to sit and drink a few times. And that would be in groups where I didn't end up getting some form of replenish from the others.

    A few times I have found myself having to evocate at the beginning of a boss fight because the tank pulled pretty shortly after finishing off 4 or 5 groups in a row.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    thats not really a bad thing, you having to evocate at the start of a boss fight. your DPS is lower for the fight but overall the instance is done quicker.

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  • EWomEWom Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I am constantly having to viper aspect on my hunter in heroics lately, and its annoying as fuck. But on the other hand at least I can pull for the tank when they're being a douche and thinking we need to stop and rest after every pull, and LoS pull everything. Instead of that I pull for the tank.

    <3 misdirect, especially now that it's timed not charged if its a group I can just misdirect an entire volley round onto the tank, which is handy.

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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    thats not really a bad thing, you having to evocate at the start of a boss fight. your DPS is lower for the fight but overall the instance is done quicker.

    It didn't bother me at all, gave me a lot of freedom as far as not worrying about threat. (Every now and again I would string crits and have to back off for a smidgeon unless the thing was within 10k of dying.)

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  • GrobianGrobian What's on sale? Pliers!Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Happy: The /LFD tool.

    I'm pretty late with this but it is seriously good. When I logged in for the first time after 3.3 I queued for a random heroic and got Forge of Souls (as healer). We cleared it easily (one wipe because DPS didn't know to stop on Devourer of Souls), went to Pit and cleared that without problems. Went to Halls and wiped twice, because I couldn't keep them up. Also we were dumb, because we just stood in the middle and the Warrior tank couldn't pull the mobs and the dps wasn't countering enough and the altar in the middle gave me LoS issues etc. Then the priest respecced to healing (he had T9ish gear compared to my ilevel ~219) and I respecced to dps and we did it.

    The group stayed friendly all the time, nobody was complaining about the wipes. Best part: The chest at the end had the Mace, which is great for my Enhancement set. The Rogue won it and when I said something like "damn, but grats anyway" he opened trade and gave it to me. In a random cross-server pickup group. I never would have thought this could happen.


    Of course I now have met some idiots, but I don't think any group can change my opinion of /LFD after this first experience.

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  • Redcoat-13Redcoat-13 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I joined the LFG tool, and 1 min later, found myself in HoL. The first thing that is said, is the DK telling the group

    "This is my first time tanking an instance, so I might make mistakes"

    I tell him this is fine, and that it shouldn't be a problem. We complete the place fine, but there's a rogue in the group and he dies twice. Once due to taking agro off the tank on the 2nd boss, and once due to pulling a patrolling pat on the way to Loken.

    Is any of that is his fault? For outgearing the tank and not paying any fucking attention to his agro on a boss, and not hitting vanish the second the boss turned around? Or standing in a place and pulling a group that proceeded to kill him?

    Oh no, it's the healers fault, because apparently I should have forseen him tanking the boss and healed him through it, in addition to throwing him a heal, and thus get a fresh group head towards me due to the agro.

    Also, lets totally ignore the lock that is on auto-follow unless it comes to bosses. I called him out on it, asked "are you ok?" to which he said he was fine, at which point I then said "I'm only asking, because it seems you're not doing anything at all on the trash, and that you are auto following the mage".

    "oh yeah, I got lag"

    Yes, lag caused you to put on auto follow.

    I also did a UK, and I got shit from a tank because he died on trash. He did shut the fuck up when I asked if it was something new in the patch, that I was unable to see Frost presence in his buffs.

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  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    ololol: got into a spat with a guildie who was tanking the ICC 5-mans, I was healing. She plays a hunter main and has a fairly geared warrior, so I assume that it'll be fine and dandy since I've healed all three without incident in pugs.

    not so.

    turns out hunter players make awful warrior tanks. I called her out on it when she tried to blame my healing, and she goes into a hissy fit. Best thing is, nobody takes her seriously because she's a mediocre hunter at best, and has already ragequit the guild once because she didn't get to sit in on Celestial Defender.

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  • SegSeg Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Senshi, that reads like a bad player who is a bad warrior tank and her being a hunter isn't the reason she is bad as a warrior.

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  • SenshiSenshi BALLING OUT OF CONTROL WavefrontRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    that's pretty much it

    but I don't like hunters so I threw that in there too

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  • SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Happy: Tankless heroics.

    Some guildies and I were doing some heroics for badges, and since as the tank I'm way overgeared for them our healer had basically nothing to do. After the first boss in H VH I decide to just go DPS and see how it worked, and we downed the rest of the instance with no issues. We then go on to do H HoS and blow through the place like a hurricane. I had to log for the night, but I'm sure we'll do more later on.

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