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[Tricen]

Could just buy the agi cloak from toc25

[Falaras]

Am I seriously the only person on earth who liked heroic shadow labyrinth? <_<

Normal Shadow Labs scared the shit out of me. I don't think I even did Heroic, not that I would want to. Then again I don't think I ever did half the heroics in TBC because "lolret" even when I had T6 and did more DPS than any pug I ever met.

[rithridan]

I've been trying to optimize my gear and trinket/cd use but am hitting a bit of a wall concerning haste mechanics. I've read that the conversion from haste rating => haste % is 32.78998947 => 1%. What I don't know is how do talent bonusses and cooldowns fit in?

I have 926 haste rating on my mage using the conversion that would give me ~28.24032632% haste. Now I'm not sure if the talent bonus (6%) would be give me ~34.24% haste or ~29.93% (28.24*1.06) or would it mean that the cast time would be reduced by an additional 6% like IV does (taking AB, 2.5 / 1.2824 / 1.06 = 1.83s).

From most online resources I read that at least Bloodlust and Icy Veins work on the latter of the 3 methods. They reduce the cast time by 30% and 20% accordingly. I'm trying to find out in a raidbuffed environment if I am under the 1s cast time on my spells or not but not knowing how the haste mechanics work exactly kind of makes that difficult.

[[Cookies]]

I've been trying to optimize my gear and trinket/cd use but am hitting a bit of a wall concerning haste mechanics. I've read that the conversion from haste rating => haste % is 32.78998947 => 1%. What I don't know is how do talent bonusses and cooldowns fit in?

I have 926 haste rating on my mage using the conversion that would give me ~28.24032632% haste. Now I'm not sure if the talent bonus (6%) would be give me ~34.24% haste or ~29.93% (28.24*1.06) or would it mean that the cast time would be reduced by an additional 6% like IV does (taking AB, 2.5 / 1.2824 / 1.06 = 1.83s).

From most online resources I read that at least Bloodlust and Icy Veins work on the latter of the 3 methods. They reduce the cast time by 30% and 20% accordingly. I'm trying to find out in a raidbuffed environment if I am under the 1s cast time on my spells or not but not knowing how the haste mechanics work exactly kind of makes that difficult.

Use this.
http://milamber.ch/spellhastecap.html

[rithridan]

That makes it a lot easier, thanks. It also confirmed that I don't get below 1s cast time if I pop all my cds without Bloodlust. During Bloodlust I should split IV and Berserking since thats the only time I get below 1s cast time.

[Ohaigaiz]

where is the best place to mine/herb?

[Norellicus]

where is the best place to mine/herb?

Get gatherer, gatherdb, and routes, run node search for what you want to pick up on, and then configure a route using only those nodes.

[Ohaigaiz]

Get gatherer, gatherdb, and routes, run node search for what you want to pick up on, and then configure a route using only those nodes.

i did. it works well in storm peaks for herb, but i'm lost for mining.

[Arcana]

That makes it a lot easier, thanks. It also confirmed that I don't get below 1s cast time if I pop all my cds without Bloodlust. During Bloodlust I should split IV and Berserking since thats the only time I get below 1s cast time.

pretty sure no cast can go below the GCD (1sec) no matter how much haste/cast speed you have.

[Correction]

i did. it works well in storm peaks for herb, but i'm lost for mining.

Sholazar for Saronite, Wintergrasp for Titanium.

[Ohaigaiz]

Sholazar for Saronite, Wintergrasp for Titanium.

I went around wg twice and didn't find anything and here were no people mining

[Cephius]

always liked icecrown better for titanium

[Ohaigaiz]

I went around wg twice and didn't find anything and here were no people mining

Just went around again(i devised a route for the entire zone going in 1 circle) and got 3 titanium nodes and 2 rich saronites in about 20-25 minutes.

[Norellicus]

Are you ignoring cobalt nodes/small saronite or is that all you've seen period?

Cause based on my experience herbing out there, I'm pretty sure any node can spawn in any one of the designated "spots" and it randomly chooses, much like how you can catch most any kind of recipe-usable fish there too. So if you're not hitting the cobalt/small saronite then nodes aren't getting a chance to move around and reroll.

[[Cookies]]

pretty sure no cast can go below the GCD (1sec) no matter how much haste/cast speed you have.

They do go below the GCD, that's why you don't want to pop all your cooldowns during Bloodlust as the GCD caps at 1 and any haste after that will be wasted.

[Ohaigaiz]

Are you ignoring cobalt nodes/small saronite or is that all you've seen period?

Cause based on my experience herbing out there, I'm pretty sure any node can spawn in any one of the designated "spots" and it randomly chooses, much like how you can catch most any kind of recipe-usable fish there too. So if you're not hitting the cobalt/small saronite then nodes aren't getting a chance to move around and reroll.

i saw 3 regular saronite nodes and i mined them. afaik titanium spawns from saronite / rich saronite so i have to mine them

[D44kpunk]

I went around wg twice and didn't find anything and here were no people mining

hope you didn't level mining to make money

[Siniroth]

hope you didn't level mining to make money

I don't know about your experience, but mining has always been good to me for money, not omgwtfsuperawesome like playing with the auction house, but it's easily not a dismissable source of income

[Ohaigaiz]

what constitutes playing with the ah? would it be something akin to buying out 3 245 bracers for 1300 and then putting them all back up for 1600-1700? or is it just seeing something cheap, buying it, then selling high?

[Siniroth]

Things like that, and buying cheap mats and using for crafting, I know at the start of WotLK you could make shit tons making stoneguard and shadowmight rings and disenchanting and selling the infinite dust