Random Question Thread

[Plow]

I've always played with it in a maximized window, the functionality of alt-tab with it in full screen has been terrible every time I've ever tried.

[Norellicus]

Am I missing something on Taldaram, or did they change something? Three times now I've tanked him, facing the wall, and every time he does a 180 and Glittering Sparks the rest of the raid. I never ONCE get the sparks debuff.

[Plow]

And I'll still post ya a good overall one when I get a good one heh.

sigh.. another shitty one today, HoS, which again wrecks dps by having shit coming at random times and all the different sized groups early on, but I had a pve spec, and socomm

fully random cept healer, group was "ok", mage was over 5k overall before event, war was at about 5k on last boss itself, lock was worthless



I was around 6.5k on trash before event, which has some 1-2 pulls and some that connect in weird ways.

I'm just gonna wait til I get a good one to post more, and I'll put it in the thread that's for this stuff heh.

[Kaylia]

Is it really worth it to unlock Seal of command (if you take into account the 200str libram that proc with vengeance)? Outside pug trash/daily, there isnt many situation where I would use it.

I tried using my ret gear again yesterday, but the result was similar (probably because it barely improved since last time). I was pulling around the same dps as I normally get on prot. I will have to get t10x2 and better ret gears (and new enchant) before HotR scale to a point where it's worthwhile to dps.

[Plow]

No, it's not worth it, but I knew exactly what I'd be main tanking the last couple days and have no threat or dps race concerns on any of it, so grabbed command over the 1% crit.

It's fun in heroics, it's outclassed by SoV even on early icc trash, basically anything that lives 15 seconds or more.

[Norellicus]

Am I missing something on Taldaram, or did they change something? Three times now I've tanked him, facing the wall, and every time he does a 180 and Glittering Sparks the rest of the raid. I never ONCE get the sparks debuff.

Quoting myself for a bump of sorts since I'd like to avoid this happening again tonight in 10s...it's not a make or break thing at the moment but it's unnecessary raid damage and the debuff doesn't help when you're dealing with Valanar/Taldaram's empowered effects. Plus god knows what implication this could have whenever we get to heroic.

I should clarify that when I say I never get the sparks debuff, I'm just using that as proof that it's not just him graphically turning around but hitting me anyway, he's literally got to be sparking the rest of the raid.

[Tricen]

Never really had that happen. Maybe once in a while, but not often. Just something you have to deal with.

[Plow]

Glittering sparks targets whoever the fuck it wants and catches everybody in a cone from when he casts it.

The only reason to face him away really is in hopes he targets you, which he like never does for me.

[Norellicus]

mkay. Just making sure I understood the mechanic lol

[Dein]

I've got a question for those of you that are familiar with how retribution paladin works about my DPS. I know about the FCFS priorities (I follow Judge>HoW>CS>DS>Cons>Exo>Holy Wrath since I have the t9 two piece) but my single target DPS seems to be lacking. According to Rawr my current gear should put me at 4k DPS with all the buffs I can give myself alone but when I go and mess with the heroic training dummy I'm only pulling 3.6k-3.7k dps on average. Am I missing something here that's causing me to lose dps or is ret's single target dps its weak point?

(Here's my armory if it helps any.)

[Norellicus]

If you're getting 3.6-3.7 on a dummy you're probably not far off, if at all. Dummy dps will never equal raid dps, because you have extra buffs on yourself and debuffs on the mob that make everything more effective.

[Dein]

Right I understand that and Rawr says my raid dps on a single lvl 83 mob with SoV should be 5.3k dps but I just don't seem to hit that amount when I'm in ICC. Should I look at the dps Rawr tells me as the max I could hope to get in perfect conditions for a fight rather than what I should be averaging?

[Norellicus]

Yes, Rawr assumes absolutely ideal conditions. You'll also want to look at Rawr's settings and make sure the buffs you have enabled are the ones you're actually getting, which may help bring it more in line. Setting the fight length can help too, as the longer the fight potentially the more time you spend in HoW range and that tends to inflate numbers at least a little bit.

Either way I doubt you're doing anything wrong, your actual results rarely if ever line up 100% with what a spreadsheet or simulation tool will tell you.

[Plow]

yeah if you're solo on a target dummy and within 10% of what rawr says, you're fine, chalk up the difference more to latency than anything, really

[Boyiee]

Since the frozen orb change coming, some guy right now is buying orbs for 15g/per...

I have 60, should I make a quick 900g or save them?

[Tricen]

Frozen orbs have been going on my server for 8g for the past month

[Kaylia]

What's the change to orb?

I must have vendored 50 at 5g over the last few weeks

[Norellicus]

1:1 exchange for frost lotus and eternal elementals, 6:1 for crusader orb, 4:1 for runed orb

[Plow]

sigh I vendored 40 within hours before that announcement

[Thuronn]

Got my tier mark from Saurfang this week, but have some questions. I've heard the hunter 4 set isn't so great.

So would it be better to get the 264 frost body? and then upgrade my shoulders or head with the mark, and then get the frost hands. Have 80 badges now.