Seriously. But my game time is so severely limited these days that I just can't find it in me to copypasta onto the PTR and try all these changes out. Between Hunter Kaliili, Zball, my mid- twenties mooshammy, the baby troll rogue, orc warlock and Orgaria, when can I actually get around to the PTR? I've got chatting to do, buddy!
One unfortunate side effect is the bite my income has taken. Kali has been sitting at 530g for the longest. Not even close to epic flier and about half what the going rate is for the Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer. This is bad as I desperately need a ranged weapon upgrade. Without the time to farm and do dailies, I'm having a hard time getting anything. And good luck on getting a Heroic group up and running. Le sigh. Seems like I'm boned for now.
I did, however, finally get my axe. Allow me to link it in it's great and glorious... umm... glory. That's right, I finally ditched my dual- wielding for something much more evil. Vengeful Gladiator's Waraxe now graces my lovely huntress' back. It's so evil and huge, nearly as big as the one who carries it. And it was done almost entirely with ten matches a week. 2v2 matches at that. Now if only my enchanter friends had not transferred or taken a break, then I could rock out the +35 Agi enchant. Or Savagery. Probably the Agi though. I could use the boost.
I rolled a troll rogue to stabbity-stab with my girlfriend's orc rogue. They're only level 6 but it's still a bit fun. I only want to stealth around all day. Can't do that though. There's no exp in stealthing. Same thing with Cora the mooshammy. She's 26 now and it's going much more quickly now that I specced enhance. I ended up healing my girl's moowarrior through some quests. Yeah. Shaman healing =/= priest healing. When that two- pull turned into a five- pull and then some, I was hard up for mana. We made it though, impressing the hells out of the group we had around us.
Maybe tomorrow I can get some farming in. I hope so. If I can't it looks like I might have to bug the people who keep putting my gun up to sell it to me for 500g and the random gems and enchanting mats I have around. Never hurts to ask, right?
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
I Kill Things. What Do You Do?
So Dag has put up a post about DPS being awesome. So what's the deal?
1) Tanks don' know what DPS does. Sometimes the tank takes too many. Sometimes they don' know what they're doing. What this means is that if you have to pull aggro off the tank, you do it and kite that mob until the tank and healer can catch up. This flies in the face of everything everyone says (including myself). But if you DPS, you have tools at your disposal to make things easy on the tank and hard on the mob.
2) DPS don' know what DPS does. You solo, you pewpew, things die. Who cares about aggro? Who cares about protecting the healer? Who cares about wipe prevention? You should. Pay attention. Know your class better than anyone else.
So I'm giving everyone (myself included) a little homework. Tonight, tomorrow, whenever, I want everyone to get themselves in over their heads. What is your record for the number of mobs you've killed at once? Kill one more. Go down to Nagrand and take out those elite demons in the Forge Camps. Kill a Wolf Rider running around Garadar. Do something crazy. Kite Anachronos to Thrall's chamber.
This kind of thing is going to get you thinking. It's going to get you practicing. You either do it right or you die. It's better for you to pay a repair bill before you end up causing a 5, 10, 25 man repair bill.
On another note, I was able to get my weekly 2v2 arena matches. We finished 8-2 and almost broke 1400 (I think we ended up as 1384). Remember, this is without voice chat and super gear. I really should start writing these down. They've been a lot of fun.
In between matches Iro and I talk about strategy and our basic tactics. With two physical DPSers, we're really limited on what we can do. Clothies are no problem but plate wearers are. The fundamentals we go by boils down to
-Priest/ Anything = Anything dies first.
-Clothie/ Anything = Clothie dies first (unless they're a Glad warlock, in which case we lose).
-Plate/ Plate = Umm... trap the one that doesn't heal and pray it sticks.
-Hunter/ Anything = Hunter pet dies first. We ran into a druid/ hunter tonight. A few times, actually. Hunter shadowmelds, kitty Prowls, drood stealths. Pull the kitty (silly hunter had his pet on defensive and we abused it thoroughly) and kill it. The rest is easy.
Everything else we just talk about as it comes. We talk about timing on totems (who knew Poison Cleansing Totem doesn't work on Stings?) and where we kite and place our opponents. We talk about pillar humping. We give each other high- fives when we win. I tell her how much ass she kicks. We pick out our mistakes whether win or lose.
Most importantly we have a good time. At the end of the day, making friends and having fun is so much more important than purples and ratings.
1) Tanks don' know what DPS does. Sometimes the tank takes too many. Sometimes they don' know what they're doing. What this means is that if you have to pull aggro off the tank, you do it and kite that mob until the tank and healer can catch up. This flies in the face of everything everyone says (including myself). But if you DPS, you have tools at your disposal to make things easy on the tank and hard on the mob.
2) DPS don' know what DPS does. You solo, you pewpew, things die. Who cares about aggro? Who cares about protecting the healer? Who cares about wipe prevention? You should. Pay attention. Know your class better than anyone else.
So I'm giving everyone (myself included) a little homework. Tonight, tomorrow, whenever, I want everyone to get themselves in over their heads. What is your record for the number of mobs you've killed at once? Kill one more. Go down to Nagrand and take out those elite demons in the Forge Camps. Kill a Wolf Rider running around Garadar. Do something crazy. Kite Anachronos to Thrall's chamber.
This kind of thing is going to get you thinking. It's going to get you practicing. You either do it right or you die. It's better for you to pay a repair bill before you end up causing a 5, 10, 25 man repair bill.
On another note, I was able to get my weekly 2v2 arena matches. We finished 8-2 and almost broke 1400 (I think we ended up as 1384). Remember, this is without voice chat and super gear. I really should start writing these down. They've been a lot of fun.
In between matches Iro and I talk about strategy and our basic tactics. With two physical DPSers, we're really limited on what we can do. Clothies are no problem but plate wearers are. The fundamentals we go by boils down to
-Priest/ Anything = Anything dies first.
-Clothie/ Anything = Clothie dies first (unless they're a Glad warlock, in which case we lose).
-Plate/ Plate = Umm... trap the one that doesn't heal and pray it sticks.
-Hunter/ Anything = Hunter pet dies first. We ran into a druid/ hunter tonight. A few times, actually. Hunter shadowmelds, kitty Prowls, drood stealths. Pull the kitty (silly hunter had his pet on defensive and we abused it thoroughly) and kill it. The rest is easy.
Everything else we just talk about as it comes. We talk about timing on totems (who knew Poison Cleansing Totem doesn't work on Stings?) and where we kite and place our opponents. We talk about pillar humping. We give each other high- fives when we win. I tell her how much ass she kicks. We pick out our mistakes whether win or lose.
Most importantly we have a good time. At the end of the day, making friends and having fun is so much more important than purples and ratings.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Places to Go, People to Do
Hunters rejoice! Or ignore it. Either one. Evidence now exists for a two- roll system for hunters. The basics of it is this: One roll determines hit or miss while the second roll determines if it's a normal hit or a crit. This link will take you there so you can see what I mean. More reason than ever for you hunters to be hit- capped.
On a slightly related note, I was able to hop on my hunter for an hour or two yesterday. Sadly my 2s partner was nowhere to be found, and I instead jumped into a normal SLab run. I love that place, especially now that I seriously overpower it. It was me, a Fury warrior, holy pally, prot pally and elemental shammy. Buffs galore. Since we had a pally tank, I figured I could do without Salvation.
Trap breaking, pet dying, bad pulls (because the pally wanted to), insistence that I CC on three- pulls that the pally could have dealt with. And the tank couldn't hold threat. Pally tanks are front- loaded. Lots of aggro generation off the bat because they have blue rage bars instead of red ones. So I wait five seconds and begin my rotation. Arcane shot crits, Multi crits, I have aggro. I Feign and go back to my rotation. I pull the mob again before it dies.
New tactic. Wait longer. Mob is half dead before I start DPS. I pull aggro before the mob dies. I don' get it. Because the tank can't hold aggro, I'm kiting and chain- trapping and pet- tanking two and three mobs every pull. I'm sure the party thought I was a nub. Click "Inspect" on the pally tank. Great. Greens and some quest reward blues. Great. Auto-shot city.
Sadly (or perhaps not?) I wasn't able to finish the run, instead stopping after downing Vorpil. I learned my lesson, however. No more instance runs with tanks I severely out-gear. And have a lot more HP than. At least until they make Blessing of Salvation stack.
On a slightly related note, I was able to hop on my hunter for an hour or two yesterday. Sadly my 2s partner was nowhere to be found, and I instead jumped into a normal SLab run. I love that place, especially now that I seriously overpower it. It was me, a Fury warrior, holy pally, prot pally and elemental shammy. Buffs galore. Since we had a pally tank, I figured I could do without Salvation.
Trap breaking, pet dying, bad pulls (because the pally wanted to), insistence that I CC on three- pulls that the pally could have dealt with. And the tank couldn't hold threat. Pally tanks are front- loaded. Lots of aggro generation off the bat because they have blue rage bars instead of red ones. So I wait five seconds and begin my rotation. Arcane shot crits, Multi crits, I have aggro. I Feign and go back to my rotation. I pull the mob again before it dies.
New tactic. Wait longer. Mob is half dead before I start DPS. I pull aggro before the mob dies. I don' get it. Because the tank can't hold aggro, I'm kiting and chain- trapping and pet- tanking two and three mobs every pull. I'm sure the party thought I was a nub. Click "Inspect" on the pally tank. Great. Greens and some quest reward blues. Great. Auto-shot city.
Sadly (or perhaps not?) I wasn't able to finish the run, instead stopping after downing Vorpil. I learned my lesson, however. No more instance runs with tanks I severely out-gear. And have a lot more HP than. At least until they make Blessing of Salvation stack.
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