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[Gulkeeva]

I like that 100% energy when ganking people soorta like...

Flying -> catform + prowl while still falling -> cat charge -> ravage all in about 1 second time frame...!
Or when being ganked, i like the 100% energy so I can just mash buttons like mad

Also I tend to be bear alot because I can just grab 10 mobs and claw the crap out it. AOE GRINDING!


Didn't get king of the jungle as I tend not to want to -25%? ish armor while tanking... I usually use it before a pull or just to keep rage up between pulls running around.

I haven't found myself rage starved UNLESS its on 1-2 targets, I'd have a shit ton from 3 just spamming swipe and maul or enrage n mangle spam.

Usualy If I'm going to solo fight an elite I'd just go smack something nearby -> enrage self as I run to the elite -> kill it with near 100% threat (or can form savage roar then pull) probably endsup the same in some way.

[Ishido]

Intensity is terrible, Predatory instincts is a must if you are spending any time in cat.

60/11 is a PvP spec usually, PvE DPS will always be 55/16, Tanking has some fudge room depending on what you want.

Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

Is "the" PvP build, though the points in PotP can go elsewhere if you so desire.

[Tomino]

on the topic of Druid speccs, could anyone explain me if there is a viable hybrid spec for Balance/Resto 70+ ?
I'd like to grind with Magical Owl Mode and be an average healer just switching to healing gear I kept from quest rewards. Would that be possible or it's Feral/Tank all the way?

[Pabst]

Heh I actually picked up KotJ mostly for when my guild wants me to dps. But most of the time I'm stuck in fat bear form.
Now I have a question since there's some ferals in here. Any one else having OoC proccing a lot for them or is it just my UI screwing with me. I know they buffed it a bit but. I actually had it proc when I made a Ice strikers cloak for some one. >.>

[Rama]

I've been levelling a Mage, currently 65. Most of my exp is coming from quest grinding, taking opportunity to AOE huge packs when they present themselves.

Currently specced fully frost, Looks like this: The World of Warcraft Armory

There are some things I'm going to change in my spec when I get 66 and Ice Lance. This will be my first respec in 66 levels. (i.e. I don't like throwing money away).
Thinking something like this: WorldofWarcraft.com -> Info -> Classes -> Mage -> Talent Calculator
will let me keep the control and the ability to AOE mobs when available but improve my single target damage and killspeed. (basically dropping imp CoC, finishing improved Frostbolt, -1 arctic winds, +2 empowered frostbolt).

Looking for any comments from the peanut gallery or advice on things I might be overlooking. Naturally, I would love to pick up Arcane concentration but don't see 10 frost talents I want to lose, and honestly I haven't run into mana issues since water elemental +3 with glyph.


On a side note, Is there a good Add-on that will give me a nice heads-up when Brain Freeze and FoF proc?

[Norellicus]

Nah it's been doing that since 3.0.

As for talent specs, Intensity is terrible for a feral build now with all the other talents we can get. You can powershift for rage (even with only 3 Furor, it really doesn't take that many shifts to get the 10 starting rage) or just wait the damn 8 seconds for Enrage to finish and you'll have enough rage to start a fight. Using it mid-boss is suicidal.

For PvE, a pure cat build should look like this and a pure bear build will look like this imo. Any other talents are for pvp slanting (Feral Charge, Primal Tenacity, etc).

Mine is a hybrid of sorts with a mostly bear lean, I take all those bear talents with two moved from Brutal Impact to Primal Instinct, but will probably move those now to Primal Gore and something else. Intent being that I tank first and foremost but can still mostly dps well (though losing those two points in PI will hurt...hopefully PG makes up for it; dual spec I want to put resto in the other build, I kinda like healing too ;/)

Edit: Rama- http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...tails/nao.aspx

[Boyiee]

The druid spec I was asking for was for a hybrid spec so I can tank instances on the way up and learn how to bear tank for 80.

And as said, sometimes I pull 3-5 mobs and have to switch to bear anyway.

[Norellicus]

Sorry, missed that; at 70 I would start here, taking Berserk immediately at 71, and then going back to fill out talents like Infected Wounds, Survival Instincts, Shredding Attacks and that last point in RnT. My build at 80 when 3.1 hits will look something like this (glyphs included, though pondering trading Mangle for Growl) with Resto being my alt dualspec.

Make sure one of your major glyphs at 70 is Maul, and one of your minors is Challenging Roar, both staples for rawrbeartank.

[Elesirdur]

Got a bit of a question about Glancing Blows:

I'm finding myself geared above the soft hit cap for 3/3 Precision Titan's Grip Warriors (361) and with over 3k unbuffed AP, and 28% and change crit chance (in Battle Stance). This seems to be pretty good for heroics and, depending on the instance and luck, is good for between 1.7 and 2.2 k dps.

However, I'm finding myself with a seemingly high percentage of Glancing Blows - my last H HoS run, which wasn't all that great by my own standards, parsed out with a 10.9% Glancing Blow rate. I find myself checking my stats against other DPS, usually DKs and Retadins given the groups I join, and my Glancing Blow percentages seem to be much higher, by usually about 50-75% (over their stat).

Now, I know that Glancing Blows are inevitableness when fighting mobs and bosses whose level is higher than yours. I just can't figure out why my Glancing Blows percentage is higher than other people, even when they do less damage/dps than I do.

I've searched the EJ forums and I haven't found much good information aside from "stack more crit rating", but no explanation as to why a TG Warrior might have a higher Glancing Blows percentage than other dps classes.

[Correction]

Ugh I hate the EJ warrior forum. Probably the most unreadable forum they have.

[Ishido]

All I can think of is RNG - no stats affect glancing rate as far as I know. The one thing I can think of is are you looking at all attacks or only normal attacks? If it is all attacks, it could be attributed to a difference in the ratio of white attacks to special attacks.

Looking over a few WWS from my guild for the past few weeks, our TG warrior's glancing rate looks normal, the same as everyone else's (within what variations the RNG will provide).

[Elesirdur]

Ishido, I was looking only at my Melee attacks as recorded by Recount - all my abilities are showing no misses. And what is RNG? I saw that acronym over at EJ and have never encountered it before.

[Rama]

Ishido, I was looking only at my Melee attacks as recorded by Recount - all my abilities are showing no misses. And what is RNG? I saw that acronym over at EJ and have never encountered it before.

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edit: Question of my own.

I'm trying to make a single macro to let me cast either Frostbolt, Fireball, or Ice lance.

so far what I've got looks like this:

#showtooltip [nomod]Frostbolt; [mod:ctrl] Fireball; [mod:alt] Ice Lance
/console Sound_enableSFX 0
/use 14 (spellpower trinket with 90s CD)
/cast [nomod] Frostbolt;[mod:ctrl] Fireball;[mod:alt] Ice Lance
/console Sound_enableSFX 1
/petattack

the tooltip and icon swap correctly when ctrl or alt are held, but in use Fireball fails to cooperate. Frostbolt and Ice lance are working fine. What am I doing wrong?

[Elesirdur]

Aaah, got ya

[Koul]

noobie question that I already know the answer to.

when trying to cap a flag or whatever in BGs, consecrate doesn't break focus, right?

I'm sure everyone has that fucking retarded dumbass in their guild and the one in mine INSISTS it does. I'm really really really sure it doesn't cause... it never did. But Death and Decay does... so mabye they changed it.

even if I'm wrong he's still a dumbass for not knowing what Beacon of Light did/NEVER using judgements on bosses/continually downtalking members in vent while the raid leader is explaining fights/overall being a complete asshat who doesn't know shit about shit.

[Rivero]

I think it does. I've seen several paladins do it to me while trying to cap a flag. I haven't done a BG in a long-ass time to confirm but I'm pretty sure it does unless they changed it.

[synistar]

Dots do not break caps. You have to hit them with a DD. This means Blizzard, Rain of Fire, Consecrate, D&D, Volley, etc do not work. Not sure about Fan of Knives. For sure wand, TC, Holy Nova, Arcane Explosion, Corpse Explosion, multishot, amongst other instant AoE DD will break a cap.

[Gulkeeva]

Sorry, missed that; at 70 I would start here, taking Berserk immediately at 71, and then going back to fill out talents like Infected Wounds, Survival Instincts, Shredding Attacks and that last point in RnT. My build at 80 when 3.1 hits will look something like this (glyphs included, though pondering trading Mangle for Growl) with Resto being my alt dualspec.

Make sure one of your major glyphs at 70 is Maul, and one of your minors is Challenging Roar, both staples for rawrbeartank.

I used aquatic form, thorns and unburded rebirth
Faster questing etc, the spec I posted was for fast lvling with tanking/dps ability.

Combined did both pretty well, had no problem with threat in instances. If you use omen, when fighting a group of mobs, just tab through if somethings low, mangle +maul+ swipe it and its yours.

Hell I was out dpsing most the group (not just total damage but dps!) against surv hunters, and frost mages using blizzard.

Almost day 8 played (2 weeks 3 days irl) and Lv79 and a half through the spec i posted 9and my own personal leveling method)!

[Norellicus]

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edit: Question of my own.

I'm trying to make a single macro to let me cast either Frostbolt, Fireball, or Ice lance.

so far what I've got looks like this:

#showtooltip [nomod]Frostbolt; [mod:ctrl] Fireball; [mod:alt] Ice Lance
/console Sound_enableSFX 0
/use 14 (spellpower trinket with 90s CD)
/cast [nomod] Frostbolt;[mod:ctrl] Fireball;[mod:alt] Ice Lance
/console Sound_enableSFX 1
/petattack

the tooltip and icon swap correctly when ctrl or alt are held, but in use Fireball fails to cooperate. Frostbolt and Ice lance are working fine. What am I doing wrong?

Check your self-cast modifier in interface options.

Edit for Gulk: I use Challenging Roar, Dash, and Aquatic Form. Thorns is more of a pain than not in my experience lol, and meh @ saving one bag slot >.>

[Gulkeeva]

Thorns gives alot threat, does decent damage (its like #5 on my recount sometimes!)
Love rebirth, especially if your in an instance and someone somehow dies, you can warstomp -> rebirth -> bear (like lokan fight) and stuff

Challenging roar... from 3min to 2min 30sec eehhhh...

Hit swipe
Crit everything for 1000+
mass aggro
????
profit!

Looking to do something like this
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
For tanking 10man/heroics maybe, just depends on how things are!

Although kinda just wanna go dps, not many get druids for dps, its usually tank or healer ;/

Guess when dual spec is around I can and probably use...
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
for feral dps maybe!