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[etelosbo]

As a Druid, does swift flight form count as a mount? Does it receive the bonus from the guild perk, or will I fly faster if I buy some actual mount? I like the druid form more than other mounts I could get right now.

[Tajin]

receives the perk and the highest you can get is 310% with the master license, dont think it counts toward the mount total if you're going for achievement though.

[Guitarman]

What would be your guys' best way to assign healing to dps eating shards in baleroc 10N? The way our guild leader is explaining who heals who seems convoluted and they're just not getting it. Any of you happen to have a bonehead-proof healer strategy for that fight?

[Siniroth]

Two healers swap on healing tank and healing shards, one healer is on shards 100% except for decimation blade, so most of the time shard person has two healers and tank has one, during decimation blade tank has two and shard has one, was brought up in another thread, can quote in a minute or two when I find it~

I would imagine solo healer for shards uses cooldowns if necessary to heal through shard while solo

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Pretty sure most people consider the 2 tank method to be harder now (though it was popular the first week). In addition to it being slower, by the end of the fight it makes the fire blades significantly more deadly. If you're having trouble with a 1tank strategy, your healers are doing something wrong. The simplest/easiest way to solve this with 3 healers is as follows:

2 healers are "normal" healers. They alternate constantly, 1 is healing the tank, 1 is healing the shard target.
The 3rd healer is a decimation healer only. He stacks his buff until a decimation blade starts, then switches off and heals until decimation ends, then goes back to stacking until the next decimation blade.

The key to 1 tanking, in a 3healer setup, is there should be 2 healers on the tank during decimation, and past that if you do as I said above, you'll have one with a shit-ton of stacks to help heal it much faster. If there's still problems, tell your healers to pre-cast/cancel (and realize absorbs[PWS] do work on decimation, just -dmg don't work).

[Guitarman]

awesome thank you very much for digging that up.

edit: just a bit of a clarification on the shards; how often are the tank/shard healers switching? we have 2 groups of 2 dps taking shards, 1 group with one person taking 12 stacks, the other person taking the last 12 stacks until the shard disappears, then the other group takes next shard. Are the healers switching from tank > shard and vice versa switching at 24 stacks? 12?

[The Stig]

Was in a partial guild BWD run, I was on Paladin with my guild friend who's Druid, we're both tanks.

Shield dropped on Nef. I claimed on Vent I wanted it, because it looks badass/additional parry. So raid leader (also in guild) gave it to me without rolling, as I was the only eligible person to wear it.

Some cloth shoulders were rolled next, a guild priest won it over the pug priest. Loot rules for the last 5 bosses were MS>OS, so this was no different.

Healer Paladin in raid, started raging. He kept saying why the priest got the shield and why we didn't roll offspec. Then proceeds to rage more and says he'll raise a ticket. We realised it was a mistake rage as he was literally blinded by it, he thought priest got shield and we ninja'd it. Anyways, he said he's gonna raise a ticket.

Being paranoid, would that accomplish anything? GM should be able to see the fact it's been like this (loot rules/style), and that priest didn't get any shield (if he was still raging while raising ticket). I was wondering what a GM would do in this scenario.

[Meresgi]

Weapon question for DK pvp. Doing DW frost right now but I have the axe off Shannox for pve, i'm contemplating going UH pvp with that axe since I only have Tier1 S9 weapons..then again though I know Frost scales more with weapons then UH so I might try Frost 2h with the axe. I have 4010 resi with all my resi on so I can spare to drop a pvp weapon for something better to get a little more burst and power. Any opinions?

[Siniroth]

Was in a partial guild BWD run, I was on Paladin with my guild friend who's Druid, we're both tanks.

Shield dropped on Nef. I claimed on Vent I wanted it, because it looks badass/additional parry. So raid leader (also in guild) gave it to me without rolling, as I was the only eligible person to wear it.

Some cloth shoulders were rolled next, a guild priest won it over the pug priest. Loot rules for the last 5 bosses were MS>OS, so this was no different.

Healer Paladin in raid, started raging. He kept saying why the priest got the shield and why we didn't roll offspec. Then proceeds to rage more and says he'll raise a ticket. We realised it was a mistake rage as he was literally blinded by it, he thought priest got shield and we ninja'd it. Anyways, he said he's gonna raise a ticket.

Being paranoid, would that accomplish anything? GM should be able to see the fact it's been like this (loot rules/style), and that priest didn't get any shield (if he was still raging while raising ticket). I was wondering what a GM would do in this scenario.

AFAIK, they won't do anything if it was stated MS>OS and it was won in that manner anyway, if without rolls

[shinoniken]

Weapon question for DK pvp. Doing DW frost right now but I have the axe off Shannox for pve, i'm contemplating going UH pvp with that axe since I only have Tier1 S9 weapons..then again though I know Frost scales more with weapons then UH so I might try Frost 2h with the axe. I have 4010 resi with all my resi on so I can spare to drop a pvp weapon for something better to get a little more burst and power. Any opinions?

Depends on what kind of PVP and your setup, but generally 2H frost with the 291 will do you solid.

[The Stig]

AFAIK, they won't do anything if it was stated MS>OS and it was won in that manner anyway, if without rolls

Thanks. It was not stated that clearly but it was made somewhat clear per boss when raid leader went ms roll, os roll, etc - I'm just having a case of paronia settling in then

[Tajin]

GMs can check chatlogs for everything, plus can see who got what, wont be a problem.

[Boyiee]

How fun are death knights right now in pve and pvp? For both tank and dps.

Couple friends may faction+server xfer and it would save me money to just reroll a dk instead of transferring something with them.

Not even sure what I'd want to transfer anyway. Probably the lock or warrior.

[Boyiee]

Never mind, looks like I'm paying to transfer a toon since friend is transferring his dk already. We have about 8 people interested in transferring, all thats left is for me to pick the toon I want to play.

This is our comp so far: http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/?c=...00000000000000

I have hunter, lock, war, rogue, druid, shaman all over 80, dk in 70s. Friend has a druid or dk he can transfer, but would consider rerolling entirely. Not sure which class I'll play. Could go prot war and force the pally to go ret. Pretty sure I don't want to be lock.

edit: How important is the bleed damage debuff (blood frenzy mangle etc) to fury war in 10man

[The Stig]

Another oddball one:

I randomly inherited a "levelling" guild, which is more or less dead but has about 300 members. It's a level 7 guild with 1 bank tab.

I simplified permissions to make sure no one but the GM can get stuff inside bank, etc. Now I've noticed people do randomly login to do some stuff so I thought I'd leave it there for now. I've begun filling up the bank with mats to use as a bank char.

I remember reading before it's possible for someone to make a GM petition for the transfer of guild leader, but I forget the exact criteria. Does the Guild Master not have to login X number of days before anyone can do anything about it? I don't want to randomly come back from work one day to find my leader status got moved and all my mats disappeared lol

I want to bide time to see if the random people in guild can make the Guild Level 8 for 15min hearthstones, but if it's proving too long I'll just purge them all eventually.

[Tajin]

@Boyiee, remember to xfer some heilrooms just in case
@Stig: You'd have to not log to that toon in forever for that to happen, not to mention its unlikely a guild so big (and probably full of loads of low level casuals) will get organized enough for something to happen. You're covered as long as you log everyother moon.

[darkepyon]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...n/Zeota/simple

Any input on a next JP purchase? Looking at t11 body most likely. I wanna start stockpiling more VP but I seem to have had horrid luck with dungeon groups lately.

[Tajin]

Body -> ring /shoulders would be the best improvements. Body alone is a huge boost in dps with gems and enchant.

[Boyiee]

Yeah I'm goon on heirlooms and such, everything is over 80 anyways.

But still, How important is the bleed damage debuff (blood frenzy mangle etc) to fury war in 10man

[aurik]

Each group buff is strong enough that it is important to have.

Warrior would bring fortitude and mangle, but you will need to be building your offtank with str dps items for one-tank fights. In that comp nobody wants agi mail or agi leather yet. Feral druid will bring mangle and take leather, I'd look into that.

Also consider that you have 2 already on the S/W/H token, and you probably want a hunter to take the agi mail, so I'd think you want to fill out the comp with feral, hunter, priest, and then perhaps a rogue?

[Boyiee]

fury war doesn't bring mangle, only arms which is the problem.

We almost need to bring hunter+rogue+lock so we get 8% spelldamage, phys debuff, and bleed debuff. Of which I could play all 3... getting kinda tired of lock now so not sure which i'd switch to since they are both at 80 and haven't played since early wrath.

Final comp looks more like http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/?c=...00000000000000 with hunter running bleed pet