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[Warudo Ecksu]

Depends if you're talkin 10man or 25man. 1 drake on both is easy. 2 and 3 are easy on 25man. 3 drake 10man is the hardest fight in the game right now, and even blizzard admits they overtuned that fight.

I'd recommend sticking with guilds on drake attempts. I know most pugs do alright with one drake but beyond that you're going to be wasting gold on repair bills.

[Lordwafik]

okay thanks, was planning to guild+pug the missing slots for 1 drake, and after we were planning to poke at 2/3 as time moved on and our gear got better and our dps increased.

[Jodwahh]

For one drake its fairly easy, if this

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Is saths island with the O being sath then fight as

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with sath pointing towards the portal out the instance. Easiest one to leave up is the eggy boss and he lands at x after 30 seconds. Burn the crap out of him and ignore his egg portal just deal with them when they phase into the main fight. Ideally you want the add drake dead before he starts hatching a second round of whelps. After that its the same as normal. Good luck

[Boyiee]

How many tanks/healers do you guys run for 10man 2/3 drake?

[Jodwahh]

Don't really do 10 mans to be honest but i think most use 2/2/6 with one of the 6dps as an ele sham to heal inside the add portals.

[SamanosukeShiva]

is there an addon that would:

warn me if there's a party invite while im browsing internet etc. w/ wow sound off @background?

[Norellicus]

Why turn off sounds? There are plenty of near-silent areas you could go to in the game (hell, in every CITY even) that would allow you to hear the "drumroll" of a party invite without the ambient noise interfering with your web browsing.

[Warudo Ecksu]

is there an addon that would:

warn me if there's a party invite while im browsing internet etc. w/ wow sound off @background?

get dual monitors

[Ishido]

I usually leave my chatbox at least partially uncovered by my browser screen, as it shows when you get invited and get whispers if you pay attention. Staying out of trade and general chat is probably a good idea while doing this so things don't scroll by too fast.

[Boyiee]

keep sound on in backround and use WOWIM if it's still around.

[Slott]

How many tanks/healers do you guys run for 10man 2/3 drake?

Ive found 3 tank 3 healer 4 dps (if they're good) to be the best setup. I did 3 tank 2 healer 5 dps last night....just didn't seem as smooth as 3 healer, but its doable.

[Tekoa]

Two quick questions:

Should I keep using curse to manage my addons or would it be to my benefit to manage them myself? I seem to have a hard time finding any good addons (only using quest helper at the moment).

Just wondering if anyone can suggest any essential addons for a mage interested in PvP and raiding?

[Falaras]

How many tanks/healers do you guys run for 10man 2/3 drake?

We do 3 tanks (Feral Druid, DK, Prot warrior), 2 Healers (Disc Priest, Holy pally), 5 DPS (Mage Mage Warlock Shaman Hunter)

[Guitarman]

Should I keep using curse to manage my addons or would it be to my benefit to manage them myself? I seem to have a hard time finding any good addons (only using quest helper at the moment).

Curse is useless clutter. Just do manual and download them into your interface > addons folder and unzip in there.

[Lordwafik]

Curse is useless clutter. Just do manual and download them into your interface > addons folder and unzip in there.

How is it useless clutter? Considering the amount of addons I have I'm happy they all update automatic, and I have a system to handle all of them at once.

[Guitarman]

It's not always wise to upgrade.

Case in point: i use carbonite for my quest addon. The newest version is bugged to all hell and back, so i keep the older one in use. Better to let them fix the bugs completely before you upgrade.

(carbonite is no longer available btw, /hate).

[Wizerd]

Always lie about your spellpower. Also, most pug raid leaders don't understand that different classes roll with different amounts of raw spellpower. "2k" is a pretty harsh target and even in tree-form I didn't have that until I was wearing a number of 213s with 200s in every other slot.

Even with fairly solid gear (missing a few 213, and I could improve my gemming but I'm OCD about socket bonuses ) my non-tree non-buffed spellpower is well below 2k on armory.

I just wanna emphasize this point a bit. I'm in BIS gear on my Holy Paladin for 10-man gear (with a couple 25 man Sarth/VOA pieces) other than about 3 items, which are also very up there, and I've been stacking Haste/Crit/INT (which is something a Holy Paladin does). I sit at about 1850 SP unbuffed, maybe 1900, I forget, and I'm very very capable of healing 10 man Malygos and basically all other 10 man content because of how fast I'm able to cast off my heals and the fact that I never run out of mana.

Raid Leaders that don't know class mechanics and don't look at all stats are retarded.

[Rokku]

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Even with fairly solid gear (missing a few 213, and I could improve my gemming but I'm OCD about socket bonuses ) my non-tree non-buffed spellpower is well below 2k on armory.

Should try and break that habit, unless you're gemming to hit a meta requirement or the socket bonus is worth it, you should always gem your most useful stats regardless of if it matches socket colors.

Or just do JC, then you can use Prismatics to get the socket bonuses on crappy colored sockets (I'm looking at you, blue).

[Plow]

I just wanna emphasize this point a bit. I'm in BIS gear on my Holy Paladin for 10-man gear (with a couple 25 man Sarth/VOA pieces) other than about 3 items, which are also very up there, and I've been stacking Haste/Crit/INT (which is something a Holy Paladin does). I sit at about 1850 SP unbuffed, maybe 1900, I forget, and I'm very very capable of healing 10 man Malygos and basically all other 10 man content because of how fast I'm able to cast off my heals and the fact that I never run out of mana.

Raid Leaders that don't know class mechanics and don't look at all stats are retarded.

Unfortunately if you were in BIS 25 man gear that would be 2k +heal while rocking 500+ haste and 45%+ holy light crit with around 22k mana, and people are retarded and think you need full 25 man gear to do maly 10 man.

Meanwhile I've done 8 man with me + resto shaman as the heals and I run ~1800sp with 480ish haste and massive shock crit on ~19k mana.

[brisk]

What Glyphs do you Resto Druids use? Time to buy them all instead of the day of 3.1.