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[Guitarman]

i'm leveling a prot war, and was wondering if i could get some help with macros since i'm reeeeeeallly bad at making them in this game. How would i make a macro that would use charge, then victory rush afterwards? I'd just like to cut down on how many buttons i'm pressing.

[Onorgul]

Victory Rush as a Protection Warrior? That would require stance-dancing. I've been leveling a Protection Warrior and I simply do not bother, as it is generally a waste of Rage and time to swap from Defensive to Battle and back again.

[Guitarman]

oh i level in battle stance, just gear and spend talents in prot mainly. works really well and i barely take damage. i was tandem killing 20+ pirates outside ratchet without resting.

[Norellicus]

Yeah, leveling as prot doesn't mean leveling in defensive stance. You play offensively, you just have the talents to reduce the hell out of the damage you take.

I've done some macros like that before, I'll have to think through that one.

[Onorgul]

I suppose it depends on your level. I'm 75 now and have only been Prot since 70. Between Warbringer and several abilities requiring Defensive Stance, I just stay in that all the time. At lower levels before you get some of the really fun talents, a mixed Prot/Fury build would probably work better in Battle Stance. At which point, I can't help you, I've never figured out the macro system for WoW. To be honest, I've never seen the need unless you're a two-button wonder class.

[Guitarman]

yeah try battle stance and use victory rush. at 15 it does 100 dmg in my gear, and most mobs have only 270 or so hp, so i'm taking off damn near half their health with charge + vr.

[Zeh]

Feels good to be back in!!! Undead, new side, heroics to grind through, PUGS to find, and a raiding guild to join! Reminds me of when I first hit 80, I felt so overwhelmed but that's the fun of it. It'll all come with time :D UD FTW

[Norellicus]

i'm leveling a prot war, and was wondering if i could get some help with macros since i'm reeeeeeallly bad at making them in this game. How would i make a macro that would use charge, then victory rush afterwards? I'd just like to cut down on how many buttons i'm pressing.

Does Charge invoke the GCD? If it does you'll have to use a castsequence-

/castsequence [stance:1, harm] reset=15 Charge, Victory Rush

if it doesn't you should be able to do something like this-

/cast [nostance:1, harm] Battle Stance; [stance:1, harm] Charge
/cast Victory Rush

You can drop the first bit about Battle Stance if you want but it's useful to save you the extra press if you happen to not be in battle stance.

[Guitarman]

it does, so ill try out the first sequence, thanks for the macro.

[Plow]

Couldn't you just do

/cast Charge
/cast Victory Rush

and spam it as you charge?

[Falaras]

Hey everyone, so I've come back from a little break and was wondering if I could get some tips on upgrades for my Protection Paladin. I don't have a raiding guild btw.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...sin&cn=Falaras

[Plow]

ICC BiS is

t10 head
heroic festergut 25 neck
t10 shoulders
badge cloak
badge chest
heroic Deathbringer 10 bracers
badge gloves
badge belt
crafted (primo saronite) legs, "Pillars of Might"
not sure about feet or rings
heroic putricide 10 trinket
heroic satrina's/JV

yes, there's a pattern there lol... badges badges and more badges... oh and a few more badges helps with the saronite for legs

if you do decide to get the badge trinket, it should be absolute last thing

there's only 1 shield from 10 and another from 25, so bis there is obvious

basically, you need a shitton of badges, crafted legs, bracers from saurfang 10, neck from fester 25, rep ring, and whatever rings/shield/weap you can get


oh also this is all bis outside arthas, we dunno what he's dropping yet but it'll be 277 in heroic 10 and... 290? I guess in heroic 25


edit: only upgrade I see for you outside frost badges and raiding would be the crafted legs and the triumph armor trinket

[Falaras]

Yeah was mainly looking for things outside of ICC. The triumph trinket wasn't an upgrade during TOGC so I doubt it is now? Sounds like I need badges that I can only get 2 of a day, awesome.

[Plow]

The triumph trinket is basically an upgrade whenever you have enough EH from raw hp that the loss in switching to armor doesn't get you killed.

With a bunch of frost badge shit and festergut neck I'm using double armor trinkets and sitting at about 43k hp with well over 34k armor, unbuffed. Enough hp for anything in game atm, and over 72% reduction fully buffed as opposed to the not even 70% I was at when we were still doing togc (and only had like 1k more hp then... can pass 47k unbuffed now in hp gear).

[Norellicus]

Couldn't you just do

/cast Charge
/cast Victory Rush

and spam it as you charge?

Macros stop on errors. The first line will error out if Charge is on cooldown, and the 2nd will error because of the GCD if it isn't.

[Dareus]

So I've just started up wow again after 5-6 months of being AFK, I quit before Uldar was released. Coming back now there has been a huge amount of changes and it appears all my old friends have quit so I'm feeling a bit like a fish out of water. Could anyone give me some tips on what would be pro for me to work on at the moment? I'd like to access/ unlock whatever new dungeons and raids there are, if their is anything that actually needs unlocking.

[Kaylia]

So I've just started up wow again after 5-6 months of being AFK, I quit before Uldar was released. Coming back now there has been a huge amount of changes and it appears all my old friends have quit so I'm feeling a bit like a fish out of water. Could anyone give me some tips on what would be pro for me to work on at the moment? I'd like to access/ unlock whatever new dungeons and raids there are, if their is anything that actually needs unlocking.

Both ToC and ICC can be accessed by anyone, but you're definitively undergeared for them. To get gear asap, spamming random heroic dungeon (using the dungeon finder) is the way to go for now.


Heroic Trial of the Champion (5men): ilvl216 (not very useful anymore, but they can serve as filler)
Normal Furnace/Pit of Saron/Hall of reflection: ilvl216 shield
Heroic Furnace/Pit of Saron/Hall of reflection: ilvl 236 weapon/neck/trinket/feet
Dungeon Finder (for badge): Tier 9 complete set (ilvl236) from argent dawn badge vendor, or ilvl245 shoulder/head, ilvl236 trinket/ring from dalaran vendor.


It should takes 2-3 days to gear you up to a point where pug will invite you to Onyxia 25 (ilvl 245), ToC 10 (ilvl236), ToC25/ToGC10 (ilvl 245), and icecrown 10 (ilvl 254).


If you have some money, ToC bracer are sold on AH for ~2k (ilvl245), and offer you a decent upgrade at cheap cost usually. Icecrown crafted gear is better, but get ready to pay a ton for any piece.

[Lordshin]

A few Questions About Holy pally:

Should all my Gems, besides those used for meta, be +20 Int. I'm going to be using HL. Just wondering if there would be any reason not to gem just 20 int.

also,

How does one practice healing? I've never really healed in WoW any tips?

[Kaylia]

A few Questions About Holy pally:

Should all my Gems, besides those used for meta, be +20 Int. I'm going to be using HL. Just wondering if there would be any reason not to gem just 20 int.

also,

How does one practice healing? I've never really healed in WoW any tips?

What I was told was int only unless there was a good bonus like 6int.

Get a decent UI for healing (personally, i was using decursive, grid and clique), and do a few heroics. Try to get used to beacon of light and keep judgement up. You should get the hang of it relatively fast.

Hall of reflection is probably a good test if you just started. The first part is a pain to heal.

[Dareus]

Both ToC and ICC can be accessed by anyone, but you're definitively undergeared for them. To get gear asap, spamming random heroic dungeon (using the dungeon finder) is the way to go for now.


Heroic Trial of the Champion (5men): ilvl216 (not very useful anymore, but they can serve as filler)
Normal Furnace/Pit of Saron/Hall of reflection: ilvl216 shield
Heroic Furnace/Pit of Saron/Hall of reflection: ilvl 236 weapon/neck/trinket/feet
Dungeon Finder (for badge): Tier 9 complete set (ilvl236) from argent dawn badge vendor, or ilvl245 shoulder/head, ilvl236 trinket/ring from dalaran vendor.


It should takes 2-3 days to gear you up to a point where pug will invite you to Onyxia 25 (ilvl 245), ToC 10 (ilvl236), ToC25/ToGC10 (ilvl 245), and icecrown 10 (ilvl 254).


If you have some money, ToC bracer are sold on AH for ~2k (ilvl245), and offer you a decent upgrade at cheap cost usually. Icecrown crafted gear is better, but get ready to pay a ton for any piece.

Thank you so much! What kind of Gear score should I be aiming for to do the more recent stuff? I hear that term thrown around alot so I downloaded an add-on that shows gear score, mine is currently at 4044.