Random Question Thread

[avelle]

I had a problem where I wasn't getting my buffs even going through the rings, and they seem to disappear pretty fast.

I thought it looked like the person I was up there with was going through them and then they would disappear but I guess it was just me genuinely fucking up, such an odd mechanic though, pain in the ass for me trying not to clip my dots and going through rings and not getting to close to her hahaha. It's not hard it's just really weird and took some getting used too.

I don't think it helped having my dot tracker at the bottom of the screen cause I had to keep looking down, i'll sort that out for next time.

I'm the only person up in the air when my guild fights Alysrazor and I occasionally don't get the buff when flying through the rings either. The rings are only up for a few seconds so they can be easy to miss at times, but it also seems like you can fly through them too early and miss the buff as well. It's probably just latency related or something though.

[Slott]

You don't even have to go "through" the ring, just touch the area where it is. Makes it a lot simpler when you approach it that way.

Next: The rings have a pattern. The first flight will be 3 sets of 3, and the 2nd set has 10 rings.

For example, if the first ring is at his middle on the right side, the next two rings will be in the middle on the right side

If the next ring is on his top left, the next two will be...top left!

Last set of 3...then she dives. Rings will still spawn above her, then when she flies up the same pattern applies except its like 3 3 4

This makes it much easier...not sure if that was documented anywhere but its the pattern I noticed last week.

[LidenbokValour]

Thanks for that, keeping my rotation going so I actually do decent damage makes it worse, I think mage/boomkin are a little better seeing as they don't really have as much to worry about and they are both leauges ahead in DPS right now. Warlock are pretty horrible these days ;-;

[Guitarman]

it should be ranged doing alyrazor's air phase, right? melee would have a hard time? or could i handle it as a frost DK? Since haste is frost's #1 secondary stat i was wondering if i should go up, or our shadow priest or mage. probably between us 3.

[aurik]

Mage or SP would be better.

[Arcana]

We have our marks hunter + someone else going up, our hunter is usually top on meters and benefits alot from the haste & crit bonus from 25 rings.

[SamanosukeShiva]

I just stopped being lazy and respeced my two Improved Serpent Sting points into Pathing. I've been meaning to do that forever but it just seemed like such a hassle for two points.

Currently at 1253 Haste Rating with 13.08% Haste. Would it be a waste to continue putting on Haste at this point?

yes, and good call on the talent respec, imp. serpent sting is worthless for MM, since serpent sting only account for roughly 5% of our total damage.

[Leashedragon]

yes, and good call on the talent respec, imp. serpent sting is worthless for MM, since serpent sting only account for roughly 5% of our total damage.

I'm lolBM spec, but I believe Improved Serpent Sting is about the same for BM damage. It sounded pretty good with the 30% damage on hit and all. Sorry, guess I should have mentioned my spec.

[SamanosukeShiva]

BM spec only use 1/3 pathing, 1235 haste rating is for MM lol

[FailureMidgard]

it should be ranged doing alyrazor's air phase, right? melee would have a hard time? or could i handle it as a frost DK? Since haste is frost's #1 secondary stat i was wondering if i should go up, or our shadow priest or mage. probably between us 3.

Fire mage is best...no other class is anything special afaik (Fire mages can do something like double anyone else afaik?). You could prob do as well as the spriest though.

[SamanosukeShiva]

best dps for alysrazor flying phase is either boomkin or shadow priest

[Arcana]

Sorry to tell you all, arcane mages blow them all out of the water.

[aurik]

Arcane is kinda crappy because the haste buff pushes their casts below the GCD.

Fire mage has been putting up the best numbers on ranking sites.

[avelle]

What Aurik said, but sites like worldoflogs are currently misleading because only a section of the fight is being posted. Most of the top rankings have kills at less than 1 minute which is obviously bogus. Fire should be able to make use of the ridiculous haste though and make spamming Pyroblast worth it, especially in the burn phase with the crit buff up from flying through the rings. Those two combined make for really impressive combustion numbers which should easily top any other class. I think a guy on Elitist Jerks posted that he did 6million damage with one combustion. I've been "doing it wrong" the last two weeks and plan on switching to Fire for Alysrazor next week and see if it works as good as people say.

[Guitarman]

not to mention I just found out if you lose your buff in the air you're fucked. GG blizz for not putting in a slow fall mechanic. Might as well send the mage up.

[aurik]

Don't lose your buff.

[FailureMidgard]

Losing your buff is pretty bad anyway, if you're not hitting a ring for 20seconds when they spawn like every 4-5sec...well....you're not gonna be pulling great numbers...

[Mortilox]

Should I sacrifice T11 4p for T12 2p? I play fire mostly, but the 2p T12 seems very underwhelming. Appears have a 20% chance to pop a mirror, with a 30s(?) icd.

Pet does roughly 7k fireballs 4 times, has 4k health and does around 27k a proc.

just appears very underwhelming.

[Viq]

Is it 359 T11 or 372 T11?

[Thuronn]

359 is T11. The 378 is the T12.