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[shinoniken]

Spoiler: show

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast Lichborne;
/cast [@player] Death Coil

Is mine, has never failed.

[The Stig]

Spoiler: show

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast Lichborne;
/cast [@player] Death Coil

Is mine, has never failed.

Odd, so the ";" did something? I looked at mine, saw the ";" in it, thought it was a typo, and got rid of it, but didn't test it after.

In that case, yeh add a ";" after Lichborne lol

[BadKarma]

Mine originally had the semicolon, still wasnt working. Ill just make a new one when i get home from work

[Leashedragon]

www.theincbear.com is a good place to start for bear druid information. As for reforging ... you are probably looking at reforging haste > hit > expertise/crit >... Remember you have to actually land crit hits to get savagery to pop up so those should be the last things you reforge. Luckily more all of our agi leather normally gives us an extremely easy choice to reforge. The choice between crit and expertise is purely a personal one imo, but others may disagree. You seem like you have everything reforged pretty well already. Oh yeah, at this point that http://www.wowhead.com/item=71640 is extremely affordable. I bought mine for 2k a long while ago. The belt should be easily purchased for cheap since basically its a total crap piece of equipment for everyone save for bears.

Here on Skywall those belts are still running 7-10k. I was thinking about getting one but I figured I'd hold out for trash farming and get the rep one. I just looked at the rep one and it's.. well.. crappy. Think I might try and grab one when I can catch it cheap.

[shinoniken]

You're not the first person I've known who couldn't get a Lichborne macro to work at all, I haven't spoke to the last guy in some time so I don't know if he ever resolved it, my guess would be some addon that fucks with macros or casting targets.

[Kaylia]

Any ideas if truegold are going to up or down next update? I guess its a little early to say, but I dont know what i should do with my huge piles of gold.

[The Stig]

Did they disable the "Tower" achievements for today?

Freshly dinged 85 Warrior, destroyed 3 towers in TB, no achievement flagged up lol

Understandable, of course, but was just curious.

[Aravil]

I hate that achievement. In order for it to unlock YOUR siege engine has to deal the killing blow to the tower. So, chances are someone else sniped it from you.

[The Stig]

I hate that achievement. In order for it to unlock YOUR siege engine has to deal the killing blow to the tower. So, chances are someone else sniped it from you.

Aw damn

Nevermind, the day's gone past now.

[etelosbo]

I have a few questions:

1) Could anyone help me out with two macros? I am looking to set two up that will use the correct form depending on what form I'm in. Stampeding Roar, and Feral Charge.

2) I just started tanking as bear, changed from moonkin to cat and now trying out bear. What is the best way for me to interrupt bosses, what abilities are best?

2.A) Is there a recommended add on to help me determine what needs stunned in fights? Being new to the game I don't know what a lot of the moves do and any raid that I might join will be new to me.

3) Is there a way for me to move the casting bar of my target? I can see the casting bar up by it's nameplate but that has me watching up top and down below on my CDs and I think it would be easier to watch the casting bar if it was lower.

4) Using healbot, with the default set up when someone is dead left click will revive them. I would like to set up the option for rebirth as well but cannot find an option of "If dead" like is set up for revive. Can anyone help me figure that out?

[Positive]

1. You don't have to make the Feral Charge/Stampeding Roar macros complex. They're both different spells but you can only use one based on which form you're in, so:

#showtooltip Feral Charge(Whateverformyouusemost)
/cast Feral Charge(Cat Form);
/cast Feral Charge(Bear Form)

The #showtooltip line tells the game what tooltip to show when you mouseover the macro on your bars. It also replaces the default question mark icon with the icon of that particular ability. This also shows the cooldown of the ability.


2. For interrupting as bear your only options are Skull Bash and Bash. Skull Bash is an actual interrupt and you should have the talents for lowering the cooldown on Skull Bash. Bash is just a stun, most bosses are immune to Stun so it's not really useful as an interrupt.
As far as what to interrupt: If you're doing normal/heroic 5 mans just interrupt when in doubt. If you're doing raids you'll have to do some research on the bosses anyway during which you'll probably have it spelled out for you what to interrupt.

3. The addon MoveAnything will let you move parts of the original Blizzard UI.

4. Someone else will have to help with healbot, I'm not familiar with the addon.

[etelosbo]

Thank you for those tips, I'll look into the move anything. I've heard of deadlyboss something, will that help me out alot in tanking and interrupting?

Edit: I took a quick look at the Move anything, and there is an option for "Focus Casting Bar". This sounds like it would help what I am looking for. Is this the mob I am targeting or do I have to actually set a focus? If I have to set focus, is there an easy way to do that?

For now I have just been tanking za/zg, I haven't done any raids, but was having a hard time stunning healing by Hex Lord Malacrass, I was trying bash, I'll set up skull bash.

What consumables would be recommended for a bear to carry?

[Kaylia]

#2a Skull bash with 2 talents point in it. It should be 10sec recast
#2b E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. No, but seriously. If you see a cast bar, use it. Keybind it for easy access (something like Q, alt 1, or w/e). The rare time where you wont want to interupt something will be become obvious (fight specific mechanics)
#3 Many addon exist for that. MoveAnything will do that (as the name implies). Quartz lets you add additional cast bar. Personally, I just use the one included in pitbull, and put my target in the middle of the screen right above icon.

#4 I dont remember on top of my head, i can look it up on my macro bar later today. Personally, I just keybind everything on different click using grid (right click, middle click, shift right click...etc)

[Positive]

Your focus is a separate target so you can essentially target two mobs(or people!) at once. Your abilities all cast on your target but you can see the health/mana/buffs/debuffs/castings of another target which would be your "focus" target. To set something as your focus type /focus.

DeadlyBossMods is a mod that gives you timers/warnings for important boss abilities/phases, so yes it can help with interrupting. DeadlyBossMods (or another boss mods addon) is considered essential by most raiders.

As far as consumables: you generally don't use consumables in five mans, at least I wouldn't unless you really feel you need them/really have the money to burn. In a raid you'll want to flask and carry food/potions. Bears generally use Flask of the Winds, but you could also use the stamina flask if you really wish to. Armor potions are the potion of choice most of the time. Potions can only be used once while in combat, some DPS classes will pre-pot (that is: use a pot right before the pull so that the cooldown starts and you can use one more potion while in combat) but generally prepotting on tanks is unnecessary.

[Kaylia]

Thank you for those tips, I'll look into the move anything. I've heard of deadlyboss something, will that help me out alot in tanking and interrupting?

Edit: I took a quick look at the Move anything, and there is an option for "Focus Casting Bar". This sounds like it would help what I am looking for. Is this the mob I am targeting or do I have to actually set a focus? If I have to set focus, is there an easy way to do that?

For now I have just been tanking za/zg, I haven't done any raids, but was having a hard time stunning healing by Hex Lord Malacrass, I was trying bash, I'll set up skull bash.

What consumables would be recommended for a bear to carry?

Deadly Boss Mods (or anything equivalent) is pretty much a requirement . It gives a lot of visual/auditive cues when you have to move out of something or interrupt something. Experienced players can play without it just fine, but it's definitively an useful crutch if your awareness is not perfect


/focus to set your focus target (or right click on the target and select set as focus). It would require you to set a new focus everything, which might not be very useful for stuff like interrupt outside PvP. Also, in raid environment, your focus is most likely going to be the other tank (not mandatory, but its a great way to keep track of the other tank's debuff/hp)


Consumable food...just scroll throught the list and pick the one that boost your best stats and best secondary stats (agility/mastery?)


And for interrupt, set it on a keybind. It's the only way to react fast enough, unless you camp it with your mouse (which is probably going to result in missed global cooldown)

[FailureMidgard]

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:3]Stampeding Roar(Cat Form)
/cast [stance:1]Stampeding Roar(Bear Form)
/cast [nostance]!Hurricane

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:3]Skull Bash(Cat Form)
/cast [stance:1]Skull Bash(Bear Form)
/cast [stance:5]Solar Beam
/cast [nostance]Solar Beam

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:3]Skull Bash(Cat Form)
/cast [stance:1]Skull Bash(Bear Form)
/cast [stance:5]Cat Form
/cast [nostance]Cat Form
/cast [stance:2]Cat Form
/cast [stance:4]Cat Form
/cast [stance:6]Cat Form

There's a few ways to do it, the last is what I used as resto for pvp. The general idea here though is you can save macro space (though matters significantly less for feral IMO). Like on that first macro, as a boomkin or resto that may want to hurricane now and then, if you only have 1 bar that switches (which is how my UI is setup), you can still have odd buttons here or there that will switch based on form.

[etelosbo]

Thank you all for the help, I'll look into all of it.

[Mortilox]

Does a rogue help a lot in 10man heroic shannox to disarm the immolation traps?

having a couple of issues where rageface will jump to someone and get the treading carefully buff cause he stepped on an immolation trap.

[FailureMidgard]

Does a rogue help a lot in 10man heroic shannox to disarm the immolation traps?

having a couple of issues where rageface will jump to someone and get the treading carefully buff cause he stepped on an immolation trap.

We don't use it at all...no idea if it helps or not?

[SamanosukeShiva]

i guess it does if your melees keep stepping on them, but it's really not needed and probably a waste of DPS