I agree with simonn.

1/30/2008 8:18:24 PM

i agree with DiamondAce

1/30/2008 9:09:35 PM

Anyone interested in a 67 Gnome Lock, 63 NE Druid, and 62 NE Rogue on the same PvP server?

I'm looking to trade for a 70 warrior, hunter, or priest (but will consider almost anything other than a mage). Gear doesn't matter too much, prefer horde - shoot me a PM if interested.

1/30/2008 11:32:16 PM

my s3 staff looks so badass

I think I'm the only warlock on the server with one

1/31/2008 12:51:29 AM

whats the best pet for BM instancing? I'm a new 70 so will do lots of instances...

Using a ravager right now and seems to be doing okay. wondering whats better

1/31/2008 4:52:24 AM

i think ravager is the goto pet for raid DPS.

I for one will be keeping a cat as the difference isn't significant enough to have that ugly pos by my side.

Check out petopia and play around with Cheeky's hunter dps spreadsheet.

[Edited on January 31, 2008 at 5:25 AM. Reason : .]

1/31/2008 5:24:03 AM

422 resil

Why is is it so hard to find a decent resto druid. seems like people want them for 3s because they are insanely OPed or something, weird.

1/31/2008 5:36:43 AM

Ravager+Gore+Bite (with go for the throat and focus insipration)

I get around 220-240 DPS out of him on heroics. Best I have seen off a pet.

1/31/2008 5:40:51 AM

Weve been waiting for months for the Belt of Blasting pattern to drop, and two finally dropped last night in SSC.

I finally got to make my belt!

1/31/2008 6:19:37 AM

^x6 bustabust/that other homo whose 3s team we lost to? or does he have MH/OH?

1/31/2008 3:12:19 PM

no reason to have bite on your ravager. gore does infinitely more dps.

1/31/2008 7:16:50 PM

^ k.. thats what i was wondering... i had bite on him before, but noticed a small dps drop. I have just gore on him now (and growl), but only use gore in raids...

1/31/2008 7:29:35 PM

with a decent crit chance, bestial discipline and go for the throat, i find i can use claw and focus dump on bite effectively. I assume it's the same with gore/bite, I can't remember the focus req. for it.

1/31/2008 7:54:40 PM

^^^^ he probably has both

His 2s team with Galice was #1 for a while, and it might still be

1/31/2008 10:34:53 PM

I recently started playing again a couple of months ago after taking a year off. I have a 60 feral druid and 48 frost mage on my old server, Eonar (as well as several alts), and my new main is a 53 affliction warlock on Elune. All are Alliance-cue the "Alliance sucks, Horde ftw" comments.

I saw a lot of posts early on about guilds but after searching for them on the armory, I couldn't find them. I'd be willing to transfer one or more of my toons to a PVE alliance realm or else start a new toon (in that case, faction and server don't matter) so I could get in a guild with people from NCSU.

2/1/2008 1:24:33 AM

My guild is PvE Alliance oriented on Bloodhoof, just entering SSC now. I think about 6 of the guildies work at the same place here in Raleigh including the GM and then a few more go to NCSU or live in the area.

I think most of the other guilds present in this thread lately are Horde side.

2/1/2008 8:07:02 AM

Quote :

"no reason to have bite on your ravager. gore does infinitely more dps."

gore is on 10 second cool down.

if your criting, your pet should be getting a lot of focus. Enough focus to use bite a few times between Gores.

2/1/2008 10:03:32 AM

Quote :

"Gore Summary: Gores the enemy, causing damage. This attack has a 50% chance to inflict double damage. Active Cost: 25 Focus Range: Melee Range Cast Time: Instant Can be learned by: Boars, Ravagers "

gore has no cooldown hidden or otherwise....

you can gore as fast as you regen the focus... and if you're spitting out more than 60 focus a global cooldown you are gods gift to hunters and you should buy a lottery ticket.

Quote :

"Bite Summary: Bite the enemy, causing damage. Active Cost: 35 Focus Range: Melee Range Cast Time: Instant Cooldown: 10 sec Can be learned by: Bats, Bears, Boars, Carrion Birds, Cats, Crocolisks, Dragonhawks, Gorillas, Hyenas, Nether Rays, Raptors, Ravagers, Serpents, Spiders, Tallstriders, Turtles, Warp Stalkers, Windserpents, Wolves Notes: Bite is a very straight-forward damaging ability. Because it has a 10 second cooldown timer, it is not as useful for dumping excess focus as Claw or Gore, and therefore isn't quite as popular. But Bite remains an essential skill for a large number of pet families, either as their primary means of dealing physical damage or as an additional damaging skill for use when the timer is up. In fact, Bite is the most widespread active pet skill: it is available to the vast majority of pet families. "

so I assume you're talking about bite. but! bite will take priority over gore so you'll waste focus on bite when they're both up

[Edited on February 1, 2008 at 11:58 AM. Reason : .]

2/1/2008 11:50:08 AM

Quote :

"My guild is PvE Alliance oriented on Bloodhoof, just entering SSC now. I think about 6 of the guildies work at the same place here in Raleigh including the GM and then a few more go to NCSU or live in the area. I think most of the other guilds present in this thread lately are Horde side."

PM Sent.

On another note, does anyone know if there's a way to install/play WoW on the Learning Commons computers or laptop loaners? I called them and they said you can't install things, but they didn't seem very sure of it. Since they have all sorts of videogames to play, maybe it's possible to install WoW?

2/2/2008 1:44:43 PM

you don't have to "install" WOW. Just put your entire folder onto a DVD-R and copy it to the desktop or something. If you have permission to run the .exe it should work.

Also, if anyone needs quick cash selling their accounts PM me, I just sold my UD mage to this dude and everything went swimmingly. Albeit, it's not what you'd get selling directly to a goon on SA or on CL, but it's quick cash nonetheless.

2/2/2008 4:06:19 PM

^Thanks, I'll have to try that. Only problem is my WoW directory is over 7.5GB and I don't have DL discs... So I'll have to split directory or something.

2/2/2008 7:26:25 PM

Quote :

"Quote from Blizzard staff (1) - 03 February update. General * Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers. (Source) * Spell Haste: Spell haste now reduces the global cooldown on spells, down to a minimum of 1 second. This change does not apply to melee and ranged abilities. (Source) * Patch 2.4 will remove the restriction for Ritual of Summoning that prevents you from summoning players into instances. Provided the player meets the instance requirements, you'll be able to summon them in from anywhere in the world. (Source) World * (1) Summoning restrictions in Netherstorm have been lifted. (Source - Elitistjerks) Items * Once every 24 hours, through Enchanting (not Alchemy) you'll be able to split a Void Crystal into two Large Prismatic Shards. This is through a new recipe that's being added in 2.4. (Source) * Gems obtained through Heroic difficulty instances are no longer Unique-equipped. (Source) * Players will now be able to purchase level 70 Superior quality (blue) PvP items from reputation vendors in Outland. (Source) * Items intended for Retribution Paladins have had their stats adjusted. Retribution Paladins should see an increase in dps as a result. (Source) * Players can now only carry 80 Conjured Manna Biscuits at a time. (Source) PvP Arenas * Shadow Sight in patch 2.4 is now going to increase damage taken by 5% rather than dealing damage over time. The duration has also been reduced from 21 seconds to 15 seconds. (Source) PvP * Players will now be able to purchase level 70 Superior quality (blue) PvP items from reputation vendors in Outland. (Source) * We've reached a point where we're now confident that applying diminishing returns to honor is no longer necessary, and we're currently planning to remove it with the 2.4 patch. (Source) * Players that have the resurrection sickness debuff will not be worth any honor, and if a player dies 50 times or more during a battleground they won’t be worth any honor for the remainder of that battle. (Source) * What the removal of diminishing returns means for you is that as soon as you defeat an opponent that rewards you honor, you will receive that honor, and you will be able to spend it right then. There will no longer be an estimate, and you will no longer need to wait until the next day until you can actually spend it. Your achievements through honor-based PvP will be instantaneous. (Source) Dungeons and Raids * All 25-player raid bosses that drop set tokens will now drop an additional token! (Source) * All 25-player raid bosses will drop more gold. (Source) * Gems obtained through Heroic difficulty instances are no longer Unique-equipped. (Source) * Loot dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker has been changed to Bind on Equip. In addition, the cash dropped by these bosses has been significantly increased. (Source) * Scale of the Sands reputation will now be awarded in Hyjal at a much higher rate. (Source) Professions * A new daily quest will be added for fishing. It's available from "the mysterious old man" near Silmyr Lake outside of Shattrath. (Source) Interface * (1) GM messages now appear with a Blizzard icon near their name. (Source) * (1) The profession UI search field has been improved and now allows for searching of more types of things. For instance you can search for items by socket color, by effect ("Critical Strike" for instance) or search gems by their effect ("Strength" for instance). In addition, the searching of items by level has been made more intuitive. You can now search for items by level with "15-20" to search for items that you can make that have a minimum level required of 15 to 20. (Source) * When you loot a Bind on Pickup item that only you can pick up (such as Heroic Badges) you'll no longer see the confirmation dialog. (Source) * When you loot a Bind of Pickup item the confirmation window is going to list the name of the item in the window/ (Source) Druid * The Feral bears will be seeing an improvement with Lacerate dealing additional damage based on your attack power. (Source) Hunter Mage * Spellsteal will no longer overwrite a longer duration buff. (Source) * Players can now only carry 80 Conjured Manna Biscuits at a time. (Source) Paladin * Items intended for Retribution Paladins have had their stats adjusted. Retribution Paladins should see an increase in dps as a result. Priest * Priests will now be able to use Fear Ward while in Shadow Form. (Source) Rogue Shaman * Healing grace will reduce the chance that all of your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%. (Source) Warlock * Patch 2.4 will remove the restriction for Ritual of Summoning that prevents you from summoning players into instances. Provided the player meets the instance requirements, you'll be able to summon them in from anywhere in the world. (Source) Warrior * Endless rage will now yields the correct amount of rage (25%). (Source) * Off-hand weapon can now critical hits from Whirlwind trigger Flurry and Rampage (Source)"

2/3/2008 11:11:08 AM

wow

good stuff for me

* Spell Haste: Spell haste now reduces the global cooldown on spells, down to a minimum of 1 second. This change does not apply to melee and ranged abilities. (Source)
* Patch 2.4 will remove the restriction for Ritual of Summoning that prevents you from summoning players into instances. Provided the player meets the instance requirements, you'll be able to summon them in from anywhere in the world. (Source)

* Once every 24 hours, through Enchanting (not Alchemy) you'll be able to split a Void Crystal into two Large Prismatic Shards. This is through a new recipe that's being added in 2.4. (Source)

* All 25-player raid bosses that drop set tokens will now drop an additional token! (Source)

* Loot dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker has been changed to Bind on Equip. In addition, the cash dropped by these bosses has been significantly increased. (Source)
-Guess they'll be farmed hardcore by guilds now

2/3/2008 2:49:57 PM

Yeah because you don't have to sacrifice all of your spell hit / crit to get like more than 60 spell hit or anything.

2/3/2008 4:11:54 PM

well i'm not sure how it will turn out, but as a shadow priest the change to the global cooldown interaction might make spell haste usable for me

2/3/2008 4:15:04 PM

thank god on that warlock fix though.

If you're doing ZA and someone's internet dies then you're fucked. hard enough to get more than one of the timed loot.

2/3/2008 4:17:44 PM

oh look. more druid buffs. didn't see that coming.

2/4/2008 1:14:02 PM

The spell haste buff is going to do wonders for affiction locks.

We might be able to compete with the 1200dps hunters now without having the holy grail for gear.

2/4/2008 1:21:43 PM

some good resto druid and hunter xfer to skullcrusher now, I want a good drain team

oh, I can't decide what to get next, save for s2/s3 MH, s3 OH tomorrow, save for s3 chest so I don't look like such a scrub. Any thoughts?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Skullcrusher&n=Sorostitute

[Edited on February 4, 2008 at 1:41 PM. Reason : .]

2/4/2008 1:37:57 PM

Quote :

"-Guess they'll be farmed hardcore by guilds now"

the guilds that can kill them wouldn't waste time on them. Epic gems sell for way more, and the gear they drop isn't that great. If you can kill them then you aren't far from downing just a few more bosses in SSC/TK with a little patience and weeks of attempts.

2/4/2008 1:45:12 PM

DING



60 feral drood.

2/4/2008 2:25:46 PM

Quote :

"oh look. more druid buffs. didn't see that coming."

heaven forbid they help druids hold aggro as their gear gets overmatched by the other tanking classes.

2/4/2008 5:14:08 PM

right because being able to play 3 classes isn't enough. You have to be able to play all three better than their intended counterparts.

2/4/2008 6:17:26 PM

Anyone have a hunter they want to get rid of? Horde pvp pref.

2/4/2008 6:37:27 PM

2nd night of kael attempts and....



and just for emphasis




[Edited on February 5, 2008 at 1:02 AM. Reason : ]

2/5/2008 12:56:45 AM

Horde hunter BE getting s3 weapon tomorrow. full geared pvp (I'll have shoulders in 2 weeks) and kara pve gear

wts

2/5/2008 1:11:50 AM

we just got kael down tonight.

fuck that mother fucker.

2/5/2008 2:43:06 AM

^grats! phat loots?

2/5/2008 3:09:35 AM

What is everyone's feelings on multi-boxing? Getting so very bored with the game I may as well have some ridiculously expensive fun before I finally move on.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HLDZ5IMz1jg

2/5/2008 4:14:37 AM

Quote :

"some good resto druid and hunter xfer to skullcrusher now, I want a good drain team oh, I can't decide what to get next, save for s2/s3 MH, s3 OH tomorrow, save for s3 chest so I don't look like such a scrub. Any thoughts?"

i'm a hunter there now.. just dinged 70 the other day... working towards S3 axe and getting geared up now.

2/5/2008 4:43:57 AM

i two box a lot, but nowhere near like those two mages farming runecloth in strat, or this 5x shaman aelli.

the most hardcore shit i've done is setup my old saitek programable 6-10 button pad on my laptop, set it next to my number pad and macro shit tons of heals to a druid account. then farm U/LBRS on my rogue when all those argent dawn parts dropped and the greater fire pot recipe still fetched a decent amount of gold.

Definitely gonna have to read this forum now though, thanks for the link.

2/5/2008 7:23:09 AM

best ive seen was 5 warlocks and a shadowpriest together

2/5/2008 9:05:54 AM

I actually got my T5 chest peice.

2 bonus for priests ftw. 100 mana back on every top off.

2/5/2008 9:54:05 AM

explain quad boxxing plz

2/5/2008 10:27:35 AM

^^^^ yeah the forum is awesome, all the info on how to do it is free and the people are nice as hell.

Duel/triple/quad/five boxing is where you have multiple instances of wow running on one badass or a few different computers. You then use either software or hardware and macros to link all of them to a single keyboard. It's hard to do but it seems like it would be fun. It requires a separate account for each clone so it can be a bit expensive but imo once i'm done ill sell off three and make my money back and then some. Typical setups are 4x lock and holy priest or 4x shamans. Melle doesnt work that well so any ranged would work. Id bet that 4 or 5 linked ice mages running around would put a dent in some shit.

Also, not illegal according to blizzard.


[Edited on February 5, 2008 at 4:34 PM. Reason : .]

2/5/2008 4:33:12 PM

^was watching JK in WSG yesterday and witnessed the 4x shaman iteration

totem forest was hilarious

2/5/2008 5:55:00 PM

Quote :

"right because being able to play 3 classes isn't enough. You have to be able to play all three better than their intended counterparts. "

ahaha...yea, mages and locks everywhere are losing their spots to moonkins.

rogues are losing their spots to cats.

warriors are losing their spots to bears (may have been true up to TK. you're hard pressed to find a MT druid in hyjal or BT)

forgive me if i dont delete all my other characters and stop wasting my time on alts because of a slight buff to lacerate.

2/5/2008 6:13:45 PM

I saw a pretty sick 2k rated all ele shaman team that was 5boxed. it was pretty nasty lol funny to watch

2/5/2008 6:26:34 PM

Just to play devils advocate: we take as few wars as we can. Just 1 MT and fill the rest with ferals if possible. Cat DPS is far superior to Prot dps on single boss fights

2/5/2008 8:25:10 PM

4 ele shamans was hilarious

McWrathy
McGreedy
McSlothy
McLusty

I think?

just had to wait til they were distracted, tossed some seeds of corruption on em from behind a bush, then ran in and shadowfury/feared.

Couldn't take em head on though, of course

2/5/2008 9:39:41 PM