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[Eaglestrike]

Works like bone shield. Can only dissipate "charges" so fast. However, I did H-PoS on my Paladin. My paladin is mostly in blues, and still crittable. Was much easier than my DK in full epics when I came back that was uncrittable and with more avoidance.

There's only one place in PoS where there's a large number of mobs causing block to be really powerful against, the final gauntlet through the cave. There's no reason for there to be a difference otherwise and really, DK's should take less damage where it matters because of AMS/interrupts/strangulate/death grip and such.

[Plow]

Yeah I read that and was like wait a second pos wut?

[ravbane]

Ask a healer what the easiest tank to heal in a heroic 5 man is. Giving it a 50% chance that they mention one with a shield.

[viperlasson]

Hey guys, im a fresh 80 spriest. My first real 80, other was a DK, but soon quit due to school, so never got to end game activities. Since I've been 80, all I've been doing is running random heroics with the lfg tool to get frost and triumph emblems, with questing in between groups. I've bought two pieces with my triumph emblems so far, head and shoulder piece. Gonna get two rings and two trinkets with the rest of triumph emblems. So... What do I do after those? My guild is just a group of friends that play off and on, I want to advance a bit more, but don't know other instances besides the ones I get into with random lfg.

[Jodwahh]

Ask a healer what the easiest tank to heal in a heroic 5 man is. Giving it a 50% chance that they mention one with a shield.

Considering 50% of tanks have shields that's probably a good guess lol.

[Mugekuge]

Hey, i recommend to take a look to this forum sections: www.shadowpriest.com
That forum is awesome.

In this topic you can have an idea on what gear you could aim to upgrade:

http://shadowpriest.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=24134

This thread has very nice basic info too:

http://elitistjerks.com/f77/t84746-s...lp_my_friends/



Get only Sundial trinket with badges, other trinket farm Trial of the Champion Normal (Abyssal Rune).

If you can do Onyxia for 245 helm, is a really good upgrade, also save all your frosts emblems for Tier10 gear, if you are only doing heroics will take a while but if you start doing icc raids and voa shouldn't take that long to get 4pc.

[Akumaronin]

I've decided to drop prot warrior because it's just too fucking frustrating in raids. Picked up druid now, on the path to 80.

I'm currently 64 resto/moonkin, and I was wondering about the proper usage of Lifebloom. It seems like a god damn amazing spell, but I hear it's crap in most situations.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...cn=Moorawroink
Glyph/gear/talent help would be awesome. I'm currently stacking the crap out of spell power where I can, with a secondary focus on Spirit for resto. Spell power out the ass with INT secondary on Moonkin.

[viperlasson]

what kind of dps should i be doing right now? I have about 3 purples and the rest blues, giving me a gs of about 3500. I pulling 2000-2300 depending if I can AoE 10+ mobs, then its 3000+. All the groups I've been getting is people with 5000+ gs so I can't really compare my dps to theirs haha.

[Eaglestrike]

I haven't done any end-game raiding on my druid yet, but my understanding of lifebloom is that you keep it on the tanks and that's it. It's not useful on anyone else because by the time it blooms it's almost entirely overhealing.

I use it in 5-mans all the time though, it's a great spell for there.

Edit: 3500 gs is pre-Naxx levels of gear, 2-2.5k dps is fairly solid there, you're hitting most of your buttons correctly but could use some fine-tuning for maximizing. It really depends on the class how quickly they ramp up the dps though.

[Lexa]

This is me: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...cn=Itsnotlupus

Now, since elemental shaman tier 10 is crap (also known as COMPLETELY FUCKING USELESS HORSESHIT), I was going to spend the frosts on the blizzard keeper's mitts and the meteor chaser's raiment's, have the 264 cloth pants crafted, and then keep tier 9(.5) head and shoulders for the 2p bonus.

However, while the mitts and the crafted pants are sexytime, I'll lose 150 hit (whereas currently, I'm almost to the point where I can ditch my hit trinket completely and use something else - maybe Muradin's Spyglass + hopefully Dislodged Foreign Object soon as it drops).

Any suggestions? Should I go back to the original plan of 2pt9 and 2pt10? Should I go back to actually gemming with spellpower/hit ametrines? Find more hit elsewhere? Seems everywhere I check for hit, I'll somehow lose haste. >.<

[Acturus]

what kind of dps should i be doing right now? I have about 3 purples and the rest blues, giving me a gs of about 3500. I pulling 2000-2300 depending if I can AoE 10+ mobs, then its 3000+. All the groups I've been getting is people with 5000+ gs so I can't really compare my dps to theirs haha.

I don't think there's an easy corrolation between Gear Score and expected DPS levels.

Following the last patch update where SP was buffed some, I can reasonably hit 3K dps without really trying in 10-man fights like Ony. I guess my GS was around 4900, but again, I'm a healer, I don't DEEPS all that often.

[Keria]

I've decided to drop prot warrior because it's just too fucking frustrating in raids. Picked up druid now, on the path to 80.

I'm currently 64 resto/moonkin, and I was wondering about the proper usage of Lifebloom. It seems like a god damn amazing spell, but I hear it's crap in most situations.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...cn=Moorawroink
Glyph/gear/talent help would be awesome. I'm currently stacking the crap out of spell power where I can, with a secondary focus on Spirit for resto. Spell power out the ass with INT secondary on Moonkin.

http://laserchicken.blogspot.com/200...1-pve-dps.html
http://druidheal.com/

^ good for an overview

lifebloom is awesome at 1 stack for boosting nourish, if you need to do some burst healing you can stack it to 3, just be sure to let it drop rather than rolling it (refreshing the 3rd stack) so you get your mana returned when it blooms.

this is my druid http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...Halls&cn=Vrtra

i don't really play her much, if anyone sees anything glaringly wrong please let me know (apart from unenchanted body, which i keep forgetting to get done)

[Askari0]

I'm halfway expecting to get flamed for asking this, but here we go:

A friend of mine is dead set on buying gold, I'm not partial to the idea, but since it's not my account I'm not bothering to argue with him about it. Does anyone know of the -best- place for him to do this? I emphasize best meaning safest/cheapest place.

[Mugekuge]

what kind of dps should i be doing right now? I have about 3 purples and the rest blues, giving me a gs of about 3500. I pulling 2000-2300 depending if I can AoE 10+ mobs, then its 3000+. All the groups I've been getting is people with 5000+ gs so I can't really compare my dps to theirs haha.

Link your armory to have an idea, and if you are hit capped or not, but if most of your gear is blue and considering we aren't a burst damage class, i think you are doing fine atm.

[Tricen]

From other players imo.

[Eaglestrike]

It's easy, you get a whisper about it all the time, just go where they tell you.

That's all he deserves.

[Knyghtmayre]

How the hell do we get past Faction Champs on 25? -_- We throw out loads of people to interrupt the other 2 healers, and we still wipe on the 3rd healer or even after that. What's a good timeframe for the first 2 healers to go down in? Keeping in mind this is the 264th ranked EU server.

[Correction]

I always run wound/mind-numbing on Faction Champs, 10 or 25 man, stopping the big heals is an overall gain for your rDPS. If the first champ isn't dying within 5-7 seconds take a good look at whether or not people are themselves getting CC'd or debuffed too long. Blowing CDs very early is important as is offensive dispelling. If your current target has any buffs on him at all for any duration you're doing it wrong.

[Knyghtmayre]

i was indeed running wound/mind numbing but wow at 5-7 seconds, the best we did was at least 1minute... this fight seems the most disproportionately hard in comparison to it's 10man version so far.

[Correction]

It can take longer depending on how well you corral the remaining champions and make use of your tanks. If I'm the only rogue for a particular run I'm sometimes assigned to the 2nd champ healer and keep him locked down while the raid pummels the main target. Stopping/reacting to things like fear bombs/hand of protection are the key to not taking too long to kill the first champ. Getting the healers to pick stupid targets (i.e. pets) is also handy.