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[Keria]

Logs of what?

I find their damage done to be identical 90% of the time and the same to within a few hundred the rest of the time, however the DPS calculations vary very radically and often get normalised after a fight in skada, which recount doesn't do (skada doesn't account for death/inactivity/movement time in dps calculation iirc), I think recount syncs with other people's recounts to maintain info on uptime, and such, however this means it uses more resources, which is why i use skada...

Anyway re buff bars I fixed my quartz problem hurrah. Cba with power auras!

[Plow]

Must just be the guild i'm in, but blazing skeletons are up for at least a full cast bar on their Blast Nova shit before they are dropped by dps. Then again i'm in a guild full of idiots who have no raid awareness what so ever and tunnel vision on every boss.

you should be concerned if your dps are letting them get off a single tick before shit gets really hectic at the end

just get your healers to 20-25 stacks, hero+gs and have them stay out, you'll be amazed how fast it fills up

[Jodwahh]

Mere, have every class with a pet make a macro with

/tar Blaz
/petattack
/targetlasttarget

then whenever a skele pops every pet class presses that macro and the dps on whatever side it pops burns it.

It all helps :D

[solsirt]

Although this will sound like it, I'm not really asking for a guild...

but anyone have a decent server where the top 4-5 guilds/faction are at least on LK or hard modes? PUGS can do first 4 of ICC reg? Most guilds clear two wings or more each week?

I'm on Lothar as horde, and so far only one guild has dropped LK reg. (and they are server swapping today). My lock, which is FAR from BiS or anything... (addon GS5800), and my cousins hunter basically take turns topping dmg meters... ToGC was cleared by one guild (maybe two...), but only one got Mad skill... and they're the ones leaving the server.

It's frustrating to continually lose b/c, at most, half of the raid is pulling their own weight.

This could probably go in the 'complaint' thread... I know.

[Eaglestrike]

Although this will sound like it, I'm not really asking for a guild...

but anyone have a decent server where the top 4-5 guilds/faction are at least on LK or hard modes? PUGS can do first 4 of ICC reg? Most guilds clear two wings or more each week?

I'm on Lothar as horde, and so far only one guild has dropped LK reg. (and they are server swapping today). My lock, which is FAR from BiS or anything... (addon GS5800), and my cousins hunter basically take turns topping dmg meters... ToGC was cleared by one guild (maybe two...), but only one got Mad skill... and they're the ones leaving the server.

It's frustrating to continually lose b/c, at most, half of the raid is pulling their own weight.

This could probably go in the 'complaint' thread... I know.

http://www.wowprogress.com/pve/us/cho-gall ?

My server is full of assholes and ninjas, but I think that's a fairly impressive bit of progression. wowprogress has us ranked 14th overall for realms...and our population is 100% horde unlike other realms which are closer to 50/50.

Oh and my guild is looking for ranged dps too.

Mal'ganis is the top US realm and massively horde too, might be a better idea. But I also think that server is "full", dunno if that means there's a queue or anything. Cho'gall never has any sort of issue with that. BG is on Mal'ganis.

[Onorgul]

Sounds like you're looking for Mal'ganis, Solsirt. There are lots of problems with MG, not least of which is the daily lag, crashes, and server overload when new content becomes available, but PUGs are able to get Insanity (partial PUGs, anyhow) and have downed more than 4 bosses in ICC 10 and 25 on normal mode. Heck, I was in a PUG that took down Putricide the week after he came out and none of us were in really spectacular gear. On the other hand, there are still PUGs that fail to Marrowgar, elitism is rampant, and you're just another cog in a huge machine rather than "OMG that 'lock who rocks!"

[Eaglestrike]

Sounds like you're looking for Mal'ganis, Solsirt. There are lots of problems with MG, not least of which is the daily lag, crashes, and server overload when new content becomes available, but PUGs are able to get Insanity (partial PUGs, anyhow) and have downed more than 4 bosses in ICC 10 and 25 on normal mode. Heck, I was in a PUG that took down Putricide the week after he came out and none of us were in really spectacular gear. On the other hand, there are still PUGs that fail to Marrowgar, elitism is rampant, and you're just another cog in a huge machine rather than "OMG that 'lock who rocks!"

Sounds just like Cho'gall, but we never have overload/crashes (we have lag on Tuesdays, but it's not that terrible most of the time). Unless you mean insanity for ToGC25, that doesn't happen. But Insanity happen in pugs all the time for ToGC10. Pugs will almost always get 4 bosses down in ICC, but elitism and GS obsession is rampant here too, people are dicks and you won't really make a name for yourself, ever.

I was in a partial pug a few weeks ago that got down the blood wing in ICC, but we also brought in half our guild (though one of those people was a 4600 gs warlock alt, lol) by that time.

But mentioning it again, my guild is just newly formed (friends finally decided to start up a guild to finish off the expansion) and presently we're pretty much capped on tanks, melee dps and healers, just need some ranged dps and we're set, fairly solid group.

[solsirt]

Thanks for the info.

MG sounds interesting, but if it's anything like the crashes, lag, overload on Lothar then I'm not so sure. I understand on content release days all servers have some lag, and I'm okay with that... getting 'additional instances' last night upset me a little though .

100% horde server sounds interesting. To put it in perspective, our #1 horde guild would be between #6-10 on cho-gall.

I suppose I could just go to recruiting forums on mmo-champ, but talk to me Eagle... website? current progression? I'm not so sure I can convince my cousin to swap servers, but I know he's getting frustrated as well... just a matter of time before I can convince him. I know you said it's newly formed, but are we talking sub-4000GS people or 5500+ (I realize gearscore is somewhat bullshit, save it... just gives a basic understanding of where they're at progression wise)

[Eaglestrike]

Thanks for the info.

MG sounds interesting, but if it's anything like the crashes, lag, overload on Lothar then I'm not so sure. I understand on content release days all servers have some lag, and I'm okay with that... getting 'additional instances' last night upset me a little though .

100% horde server sounds interesting. To put it in perspective, our #1 horde guild would be between #6-10 on cho-gall.

I suppose I could just go to recruiting forums on mmo-champ, but talk to me Eagle... website? current progression? I'm not so sure I can convince my cousin to swap servers, but I know he's getting frustrated as well... just a matter of time before I can convince him. I know you said it's newly formed, but are we talking sub-4000GS people or 5500+ (I realize gearscore is somewhat bullshit, save it... just gives a basic understanding of where they're at progression wise)

Everyone is geared and ICC25 capable, we just don't yet have the full 25 of solid players. We had our first full guild run last week and now we get to start weeding out the bad players and the flaky people who won't be consistent. Website and progression is nothing amazing, resolution.guildlaunch.com We're only 6/12 in ICC25 because like I said, we've had one week of a full guild, and we had healers DPSing because we're seriously that lacking of ranged dps, and had a ret paladin pulling less dps than me because he has no gear (he's a casual player, won't be raiding with us again unless we really have no one else). My priest alt runs with guildies in ICC10 and we got to Sindragosa this week(in one night), half that group has been working on LK. My mains group is plagued with only being a group of 5 (our officer crew, basically) and not yet filling it out with guildies.

We have about 15 truly solid players, both attendance and capability, working on getting the remaining 10 and we should be a solid group to get to LK after a week or two of progression, no idea how long it'll take to down him.

[SamanosukeShiva]

I guess I was pretty far along with arp gear when I got the trinket. iirc I'm about 150 arp short of hard cap right now.

edit: Actually, I have a question for any hunters on the boards here about my talent spec. I have been debating about fixing a few things in my talent spec but I'm really not all that sure how much of a detriment it would be for me to change up some things.

My spec: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-t...Falisa&group=1

I have been trying to decide whether or not I want to take some points out of other things to fill up that last 3/3 for Improved Steady Shot. I really love that buff that improved gives and a 5% more chance to get it seems like it would do me some good, but I'm really not too sure where I would pull that point from but I guess I would go 1/2 on Survival Instincts.

Also, I'd like to see hear any other opinions on if I fucked up anything you think would improve my dps by alot. I made this spec up on my own with my own experience so lemme know if theres any glaring flaws. :D

you would be better off with classic 7/57/7 spec as MM, bonuses from aspect mastery is nice but really not needed and not as good as things that you'd get from 7/57/7, hunters dont get hit very often and 90AP may look good on paper but it's not that big of a dps boost compared to 3 min rapid fire. You'll basicly be popping at least 2 rapid fires in a 3 minutes fight if you pop em at the beginning.

try http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#cxbZ0eVoRuzGIsguAox00b

with your current gears, in spreadsheet this spec give 185~ dps more.

[Plow]

Thanks for the info.

MG sounds interesting, but if it's anything like the crashes, lag, overload on Lothar then I'm not so sure. I understand on content release days all servers have some lag, and I'm okay with that... getting 'additional instances' last night upset me a little though .

100% horde server sounds interesting. To put it in perspective, our #1 horde guild would be between #6-10 on cho-gall.

I suppose I could just go to recruiting forums on mmo-champ, but talk to me Eagle... website? current progression? I'm not so sure I can convince my cousin to swap servers, but I know he's getting frustrated as well... just a matter of time before I can convince him. I know you said it's newly formed, but are we talking sub-4000GS people or 5500+ (I realize gearscore is somewhat bullshit, save it... just gives a basic understanding of where they're at progression wise)

Are you horde or ally?

Blackrock and Mal'Ganis both have the top 9 guilds at least 3/12 on heroic.


On Mal every single one of those is horde. On BR, about half and half.

[Tricen]

What is the quickest VDW you've guys(meaning anyone) had? I think 3mins 40seconds is mine. I wonder how fast you could get it done. If you have like, 1 tank 4 amazing dps and 5 healers. Have 4 go in and 1 stay out and raid heal or something. Would be interesting :O

[Plow]

More healers =/= better. It's all about proper stack usage.

I think our heroic this week was about 4:15-4:30 with 3 healers, me (pally) and a shaman going in portals.

Remember all the aoe shit going around hits VDW too, and suppressors are a huge deal.

I very nearly lost stack (like, 1-2 tenths of a second nearly) at 20, came out of that portal with 24.

She was at like 7.5m.

Hero + wings + gs healed her to full (12m) without going in the next portal, before buff wore off.


Theoretically if your dps could handle it, you could possibly cut that a fair bit, but your healers would have to have pretty much impeccable connections in order to share as many orbs as possible.

[Slott]

something something holy paladin are OP that fight because of beacon and beacon glyph double dipping or some shit? our holy paly pulled 30k hps last week -.-

[Takie]

I use Paladin Warnings & Clique for my hands while tanking which allows me to Shift/Ctrl + Click people on grid for hands and it'll send them a whisper "Hand of Blah Blah Blah" cast on you. Well, I also tank on my Death Knight so I set Clique up for Hysteria, Raise Ally, etc. But I can't find an addon that'll whisper said person that they now have Hysteria for example so they can pop their cooldowns and such to do tremendous DPS. I thought about making a macro that'll do that, but I don't want it spamming them with whispers if I'm clicking their name repeatedly waiting on GCD. Any ideas for the macro?

Appreciate any help

[Norellicus]

#showtooltip
/script local u,pi="YOURCASTERNAMEHERE","Power Infusion";if IsSpellInRange(pi,u)==1 and GetSpellCooldown(pi)==0 then SendChatMessage("You just got "..GetSpellLink(pi).."!","WHISPER",nil,UnitName(u)) end
/cast [target=mouseover] Power Infusion

Change Power Infusion and the castername bits to Hysteria and yourself and it should work.

[Falaras]

I thought I read somewhere on EJ that with mage 2 piece T10 ABx4 -> Mbar was the best DPS rotation during Bloodlust/Cooldowns as opposed to AB spam till you run dry, is this true or am I making it up? I can't find it anywhere on EJ so I think I might be making it up...

[[Cookies]]

I thought I read somewhere on EJ that with mage 2 piece T10 ABx4 -> Mbar was the best DPS rotation during Bloodlust/Cooldowns as opposed to AB spam till you run dry, is this true or am I making it up? I can't find it anywhere on EJ so I think I might be making it up...

I'm fairly positive AB*4 -> Mbar is better than AB spam regardless of cooldowns with 2PT10.

[Izzy]

I'm fairly positive AB*4 -> Mbar is better than AB spam regardless of cooldowns with 2PT10.

This is true. As long as you keep 2pt10, always AB*4 -> Mbar. The only time AB spam MIGHT be better is if during BL, your cast time drops under 1 second with the 12% haste buff.

[solsirt]

I've decided to move to win7.

I'm pretty sure I can't just copy my WoW folder to an external and back, but while files/folders do I need to copy to keep my addons/UI/macros/... all my personal settings?