WTB servers up NAIO

Guild is starting to shape up, just need to teach some of my members how to dps...what's the rotation for frost-fire mages nowadays? Mage in my guild is almost worthless.

[Edited on January 20, 2009 at 7:37 AM. Reason : 402]

1/20/2009 7:36:41 AM

Maintain Living Bomb, maintain Scorch, Frostfire Bolt spam. Pyroblast when Hot Streak is up (you can crit once after if you need to refresh a LB or something). Try to use Bomb/Streak/Fireblast GCDs to move around.

Also find decent timers. Scorchio2 rocks for Scorch/Bomb, Mik's SBT is a bitch to setup but can display Hot Streak procs (both allow sound warnings)

Something about moving and keeping 100% dps uptime confuses half my mages. Used to do literally 200-400k over other ranged on Felmyst in the day :p


Oh! If anyone futzed around with DBM, is there a way to create a timer when I gain a buff? I want cooldown timers for my trinkets (The hidden internal cooldown ones) so I can burn timers when they're both potentially available.

[Edited on January 20, 2009 at 8:36 AM. Reason : boobs]

1/20/2009 8:33:34 AM

PATCH CONFIRMED

1/20/2009 10:02:29 AM

so wtf.

6 second CD on wg

and now it looks like lifebloom is going to take over for rejuv as my #2 heal again.


1/2/3 was WG/REJUV/LIFEBLOOM

now it'll probably be

1/2/3 WG/LIFEBLOOM/REGROWTH


hmmm.

1/20/2009 11:09:06 AM

wtf realms

1/20/2009 2:30:27 PM

Why did the extended patch day have to coincide with a snow day?

1/20/2009 2:39:38 PM

...i had it in my head that we were getting dual specs today.... ughhhh

1/20/2009 3:40:00 PM

Well... assuming this is the DK-changing patch... Blood will continue to spank the shit out of leveling. Yay4Blood.

Also, holy shit, Blizzard Downloader is actually running at a decent speed and working how it's supposed to??!?? Never seen that before.

[Edited on January 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM. Reason : .]

1/20/2009 8:03:12 PM

I leveled from 55 to like 65 as blood and then went unholy and have had a lot easier time grinding. not sure if it's just more fun to me or if it is indeed faster. Plus i've been doing quests a level or two under me after finishing up both starting areas initial quest lines.

1/20/2009 9:17:03 PM

dangit still no dual specs

1/21/2009 7:01:16 AM

^Dual Spec should be out with 3.1, but your guess is as good as mine to when that's coming.

We had a crazy bug in Ramps last Saturday. Our third time through we were trying to teach a friend of mine how to tank it and somehow the entire instance "teleported" to us and completely wiped us. I've never seen so many enemies on the screen at one time.

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM. Reason : :]

1/21/2009 10:33:55 AM

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"I've never seen so many enemies on the screen at one time."

serverwide horde vs alliance in shimmering flats a few years back was ridiculous-multiple raid groups for both factions. I miss those parts of the game

1/21/2009 10:41:41 AM

Best bug or whatever that I remember was back in the days pre any expansion. The server had a hiccup and every raid group in molten core was instantly teleported out into Stonetalon Mountains where you would fall for a while and then land and die. Basically it created a towering column of bodies as high as you could see and of course the start of the tower was just far enough off the ground that no one could actually rez. Needless to say a fucking shit ton of repair bills were paid that night seeing as it was probably 8-10 raids of 40 people all having to spirit rez. Man that shit was hilarious and pissed us all off at the same time.

1/21/2009 10:48:53 AM

One time my character (and a few Undercity guards) were ported to Stonetalon after I fell through the UC elevator. I have some screens at home.

It was straight outta Jumper man.

1/21/2009 11:44:28 AM

So, how long would it take for a newbie to learn the ungodly amount of wow-speak?

1/21/2009 11:49:52 AM

If you just want to learn wow-speak (commonly used terms, locations, items) it would probably take a significant amount of time only because most of it won't make sense until your character(s) are higher level and in the thick of it.

1/21/2009 11:52:15 AM

i feel like if someone started playing and leveled legit from 1-80 right now, it wouldnt take too long after you hit 80 and start doing the low level instances to pick up on 90% of that stuff. I havent played wotlk so I am just basing this on stuff in the past.

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 12:35 PM. Reason : ]

1/21/2009 12:35:45 PM

How are you guys doing on the Heroic (5-man) achievements? Anyone going for the ruby proto in particular like I am?

1/21/2009 12:38:10 PM

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"We had a crazy bug in Ramps last Saturday. Our third time through we were trying to teach a friend of mine how to tank it and somehow the entire instance "teleported" to us and completely wiped us. I've never seen so many enemies on the screen at one time."

I got hit with this last night... it's the houndmaster or whoever... if you don't kill him quick enough, he calls in a few dogs, and the bug sometimes causes the dogs to aggro about 90% of the instance into a giant pain-train.

1/21/2009 4:26:11 PM

12/04/08 on the heroics. If you have a solid group they're all pretty tame nowadays. 5 Green Drakes was a pretty satisfying achievement :p

1/21/2009 6:05:01 PM

sarth + 3 drakes
my elem shammy was 4th in dps.
soooo gooooood

1/21/2009 10:10:59 PM

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"How are you guys doing on the Heroic (5-man) achievements? Anyone going for the ruby proto in particular like I am? "

I was down to 2 achievements from the red proto-drake when I got my twilight drake about a month and a half ago and just stopped trying since I got an even better mount. I just did one of them yesterday. Only need Make it count (20 minute occulus) now but I fucking hate that instance. I'm 4 away from the plagued proto-drake but now that they changed the fast Malygos achievement I don't know if that will be happening anytime soon.

Quote :

"12/04/08 on the heroics. If you have a solid group they're all pretty tame nowadays. 5 Green Drakes was a pretty satisfying achievement :p"

Most of the were easier the earlier you did them. There were so many bugs and little cheats that they fixed now. About a quarter of them are significantly harder now.

1/22/2009 12:30:20 AM

Yeah.. we did the bug on the one where you have to interrupt all the guy in Gundrak's transforms.

We did it last week so it might still work. Get a rogue to engage him while everyone is out of the room. Sprint out the other door. Vanish as he casts transform. Have tank run to center of room and pick him up as he Evades back to original position as a rhino. Kill and its done

Not counting the Oculus ones, I only need 2. I just can't find a guild tank to go there. They all hate it.

New record for me on 25 man Thaddius.... http://wowwebstats.com/ekzt1dumi2gwk?s=547125-594120
And that's after missing the fucking jump (as you can tell from my DPS time)... Don't try to make it as the flasked gnome... fucker was too heavy and I didn't come close.

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 7:47 AM. Reason : .]

1/22/2009 7:44:44 AM

Yeah we have been doing them as we find time, maybe one a week.

My guildmates were lucky enough to do the 2 min Herald kill when you could LOS insanity; I was not so fortunate.

I think all i have left in occulus is amber void. the 5 amber kill is probably one of the most fun and satisfying achievements we've done.

Make it count wasnt too bad. You can kill the first boss on normal mode and get your drakes. Make sure everyone dies in the instance (dont just fall off the ledge). When everyone is released switch it to heroic. You can kill 9 of the 10 constructs before killing the boss and starting the timer.(if you kill all 10 it will bug)

It still requires you move quickly and kill as few drakes as possible but it makes it worlds easier. Especially for those of us who mainly do 10nax and 10/25sarth.

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""We had a crazy bug in Ramps last Saturday. Our third time through we were trying to teach a friend of mine how to tank it and somehow the entire instance "teleported" to us and completely wiped us. I've never seen so many enemies on the screen at one time.""

Did you have a DK use gargoyle? That thing comes in from straight above you and we had it pull the entire instance on us.

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 9:04 AM. Reason : *]

1/22/2009 9:03:17 AM

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"Did you have a DK use gargoyle? That thing comes in from straight above you and we had it pull the entire instance on us."

Out guild leader did switch over to his DK before the last run. I saw the gargoyle at one of the earlier mobs, so I'll have to ask him.

Quote :

"I got hit with this last night... it's the houndmaster or whoever... if you don't kill him quick enough, he calls in a few dogs, and the bug sometimes causes the dogs to aggro about 90% of the instance into a giant pain-train."

The bug occurred before we could actually see the first boss.

1/22/2009 9:47:55 AM

^Houndmaster ("Beastmaster", maybe?) is not a boss, just an ordinary-looking mob in a certain spot who calls in adds if you take too long to kill him. He has a yelling emote... he's like the 8th pull or so in the instance.

1/22/2009 8:59:58 PM

Occulus is the worst instance ever, I'm never going back in there

1/22/2009 10:42:27 PM

^Worse than Gnomer, even?

1/23/2009 5:02:21 AM

^Nothing is worse than Gnomer

1/23/2009 8:25:47 AM

^^^ grats. I was able to finish off the Nexus achievements last night along with our first full naxx clear.

I agree it could have been done better, but I do enjoy the coordination and communication some of those amber/emerald/ruby void achievements require.

[Edited on January 23, 2009 at 9:23 AM. Reason : ^]

1/23/2009 9:22:38 AM

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"^Houndmaster ("Beastmaster", maybe?) is not a boss, just an ordinary-looking mob in a certain spot who calls in adds if you take too long to kill him. He has a yelling emote... he's like the 8th pull or so in the instance."

I was thinking of Watchkeeper Gargolmar when I mentioned the first boss.

1/23/2009 9:37:20 AM

Quote :

"Make it count wasnt too bad. You can kill the first boss on normal mode and get your drakes. Make sure everyone dies in the instance (dont just fall off the ledge). When everyone is released switch it to heroic. You can kill 9 of the 10 constructs before killing the boss and starting the timer.(if you kill all 10 it will bug)"

FYI this no longer works with the new patch.

1/23/2009 1:15:29 PM

@ resto shaman:
do you prefer to stack haste over crit? post your armory links I am curious about what gear to be farming.

1/26/2009 12:01:00 PM

Now Arcane is brutally wrecking Frostfire, especially in < 5 minute fights. Now our mages fight over who has to be Fire or Frost for the group debuff :p

1/26/2009 12:21:03 PM

So anyone else having problems with 25 man EoE?

We only downed him once before 3.0.8 and when we tried this week, we all died every time after he landed.

We made it a purpose of running the opposite way the tank was, but his breath still killed us halfway across the map.

1/26/2009 12:32:15 PM

Killed him just fine.

1/26/2009 2:03:17 PM

i believe we're trying malygos tonight, 25 man...i think it'll be the first time we've tried him at all. i'm interested in seeing the fight.

1/26/2009 5:44:33 PM

The lock summon spell got screwed too... The new cool down works just fine, but only one summon per spell use still seems to be the case.

1/27/2009 6:58:43 PM

^Fixed yesterday.

1/28/2009 10:56:42 AM

Malygos 25 is having some issues at the moment.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14498471686&sid=1

Make sure everyone puts thier pets away, etc....

1/28/2009 11:50:10 AM

we cleared all the 10man content this week for the first time, malygos seems so easy now that we've figured out phase 3

kinda want to do it all on heroic now

1/29/2009 9:59:38 PM

I went holy, joined a new guild, and am doing great clearing 25mans. It's so nice when everyone knows what they're doing and Naxx can be done in one night.

1/29/2009 11:37:44 PM

naxx 25 in one night? that must be a long night
eh, we only raid 3 hours a night so we need like 1.5

1/29/2009 11:50:33 PM

4.5 hours of not stopping, followed by a quick OS.

1/31/2009 1:08:03 AM

we do naxx 25 in around 3.5-4 hrs

1/31/2009 8:43:52 AM

unfortunately 3 drake is never quick

2/1/2009 11:21:44 PM

any tree druids want to lend me their keybinds and/or clique/grid mouse macros?

2/3/2009 10:51:33 AM

/cast [target=mouseover] spell (you can right click it from your spellbook so you don't misspell anything)

It works for everything including Swiftmend. I use Clique so I can bind heals to my mouse for when I need to use wasd for movement based fights and still heal. Also, if they ever broke Grid I would cry. But then again I am kitty now but I healed as tree for over two years until about three weeks ago.

2/3/2009 12:27:01 PM

its possible to do naxx in ~2 hours if you dont have to explain shit. if your set ups for each boss are something like


Tank 1 MTs, healers A/B on tank 1
Tank 2 tank Circle/Square healer C on tank 2
Tank 3 get X/Triangle healer D get Tank 3
Pally bacon 2 heal 3

Pulling in 5

2/3/2009 3:23:16 PM

our guild has too many (read: >0) women that have kids and are always afk'in and shit to be parents. parent or wow player, either or.

2/3/2009 3:37:42 PM