Random Question Thread

**Melchoir** · 2010-12-20 11:19

There seems to be an invisible box around my character that makes it difficult to loot/target mobs up close. In the pic my mouse is on the quest goblin but it isn't allowing me to click him.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x.../invisibox.jpg
Could this be addon related or is it something else? It is really annoying.

**Kurp** · 2010-12-20 12:35

Is Arms the hands down best leveling spec for Warrior now? I kind of want to learn basic tanking in nub instances, but should I just wait until dual spec to do that?

**Galkaeater** · 2010-12-20 12:41

well before level 30 theres not much between them so you may as well go prot if you want to tank low level instances

**Meph** · 2010-12-20 13:03

I leveled it as prot from the start, revenge with glyph is all you need

**Eaglestrike** · 2010-12-20 13:10

Originally Posted by Meph

I leveled it as prot from the start, revenge with glyph is all you need

You don't get revenge until 42 or something now. But you get shield slam at 10.

**Kurp** · 2010-12-20 13:14

Yeah, I leveled my first warrior in TBC and everything seems so different now. Victory Rush with a heal so early is huge though, so I can go without a lot of other skills early. :D

**Saxon** · 2010-12-20 14:50

8.6k HPS as Resto shammy on Magmaw. Lowest out of Holy Priest and Holy Pala, is that good or am I doing something wrong?

**Arvin** · 2010-12-20 15:01

that's right about average for that fight. you won't beat good holy paladins and priests. as much as people on this board and in general like to say 'omg pally heals are nerfed' really, they're still the most powerful healer right now.

**Saxon** · 2010-12-20 15:17

Originally Posted by Arvin

that's right about average for that fight. you won't beat good holy paladins and priests. as much as people on this board and in general like to say 'omg pally heals are nerfed' really, they're still the most powerful healer right now.

Yeah, I know pala is imba. But the guy is a retard so I feel bad. Do you even chain heal in those fight? I find that just using healing rain is much more mana efficient than spamming CH.

**Melchoir** · 2010-12-20 20:08

Originally Posted by Melchoir

There seems to be an invisible box around my character that makes it difficult to loot/target mobs up close.

Nevermind, I'm stupid. If anyone else encounters this, check your empty bartender bars and disable/move them. >_>;

**Correction** · 2010-12-20 21:16

Originally Posted by Melchoir

Nevermind, I'm stupid. If anyone else encounters this, check your empty bartender bars and disable/move them. >_>;

Or, stop trying to loot the new elementals in Cataclysm areas. I fucking hate trying to loot those things. You have like a 0.3 second window to loot the first few frames of the death animation, then you can't click on its corpse until the little 'ribcage' bits stop rolling on the ground.

**bigrougabagel** · 2010-12-21 00:02

Originally Posted by Correction

Or, stop trying to loot the new elementals in Cataclysm areas. I fucking hate trying to loot those things. You have like a 0.3 second window to loot the first few frames of the death animation, then you can't click on its corpse until the little 'ribcage' bits stop rolling on the ground.

^hate

**Arvin** · 2010-12-21 01:14

Originally Posted by Saxon

Yeah, I know pala is imba. But the guy is a retard so I feel bad. Do you even chain heal in those fight? I find that just using healing rain is much more mana efficient than spamming CH.

i only chain heal when i know there is incoming damage, and that is also after i make sure to have a fresh healing rain down. i generally always have HR up especially in aoe fights, generally on the melees but if the ranged are clumping for anything in any encounter i put it on the range.

otherwise i sit on a tank with riptide > healing wave > healing wave rotation until aoe heals are required. unleash elements usually before i know something bigs happening. but i weave it in on occasion in the r>hw>hw rotation.

**aurik** · 2010-12-21 02:15

Tried 2 fights today, both seemed bugged out.

For the Elemental Council, the fire guy several times didn't create his fire trails, so anyone who had the ice goop got froze. Otherwise the fight seems really easy.

For Chimaeron, he would cast his double attack buff right before the bunch-up phase. Then, following the bunch up he would massacre and immediately (2-3 seconds later) double-strike a tank, meaning we had to dump 100k+ healing on the tank in an instant, or pray for a parry. Seemed a bit harsh.

Is this how these fights are supposed to be tuned? Seems like the fire/ice guys should always pair their abilities (flame trail + ice goop, flame shield + glaciate), and Chim should either lose his double attack during the bunch phase, or alternatively don't massacre right after it.

**Arvin** · 2010-12-21 02:50

it's not bugged out, he just occasionally doesn't do it. you can avoid the water bombs easy, just have feludius focused and when he casts water bomb move out. raid healings easy enough where you can manage to run away for a bit.

and the chimaeron thing is working as intended, thats where 2 tank rotation is supposed to be used

**aurik** · 2010-12-21 02:59

Not sure you get what I mean, both tanks have 1 hp after massacre and we have about 2 seconds to heal 100k hp so that one of them will survive double attack. Seems kinda steep even with 3 healers in 10 man. We're definitely not trying to heal a Break'd tank up.

**Arvin** · 2010-12-21 03:02

what type of tanks do you use and who is the main and offtank?

**aurik** · 2010-12-21 03:05

Bear main, warrior soaking double attacks only.

**Arvin** · 2010-12-21 03:05

after massacre is over, nobody should be focusing on healing the raid and everyone should be healing the offtank who will be picking up chimaeron. once hes high and eats the double attack (have them rotate cooldowns to minimize damage) get to looking for the low health debuffs. too much raid healing is always bad, just focus on the debuffs.

we had a bear main, DK off. DK would deathstrike and help heal himself up while the rest of us would spam him after massacre

**aurik** · 2010-12-21 03:19

I think the deathstrike thing is the thing that makes it bearable, otherwise even 3 fat heals is only like 60-70k, kinda on the line. Rotating cooldowns as well would maybe squeak us by, we have wings, NSHT, and whatever paladin brings.

Still, seems a bit harsh for norm. It's the kind of coordination I'm used to in heroic modes.

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