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[Correction]

Probably because it takes knowledge of your class mechanics, i.e. reeks of effort. Unfortunately there isn't much help on how to use Rawr outside of forums that banninate you for asking. Trial and error works kinda.

[Rama]

My shaman is 80 now. Main spec resto. off: Enhance or Elemental? (main is a mage... so I was thinking enhance...but so far enhance feels pretty fail.)

[Cheerios]

Offspec both. If you're the new guy, just take all the shaman/hunter/rogue/caster gear that drops that nobody needs.

[Bardlet]

Anyone else having issues with Razorscale on 10-man? All of a sudden we're getting the same number of adds and fire as in 25-man. x_x

Did this get ninja-buffed, or is it bugged for anyone else? We've NEVER had trouble because of this.

[Jintu]

so, I'm using Dotimers on my warlock and I like what it does but something really urks me. You can see I have it set to show right about my hp bar, with the targets name, and the cooldowns of my pet above the pets bar. Now, whenever I add more dot's onto the target the addon moves down, ontop of my hp bar! (picture shows the problem) Does anyone know how I can make it not move at all and only compile the list of dots upwards from a fixed location, so it wont move down overtop of my bars?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...709_031847.jpg

[Tomino]

What are your feelings about Druids tanking?
I really didnt meet one since months, it's like they dissapeared so I was wondering why.

Also, what's the current state of Moonkins? are they hybrid dpsers like Retri paladins,a pvp focused spec or a good levelling one? I'm quite clueless on this

[Korietsu]

Druid tanks are going to be the new DK's in terms of OP PvE tanking with the 3.1 changes to DK's. Moonkins are broken terribly bad in all aspects of PvP/PvE/Leveling and are probably in need of a good overhaul.

Yeah but if you were disc and tank healing was covered would you cry like a little girl about being assigned to raid heal?

I actually am tempted to move to an IA + Warding build for arcane and have a Disc priest spam shield me. Unfortunately, I don't know any disc priests willing to do so. Also, healers complaning about being put somewhere else other than the MT or raid onry is fucking lol. Especially since the addition of glyphs and more AoE healing =(.

[Tomino]

Terribly broken like overpowered or simply too weak to be fun?

[SamanosukeShiva]

Anyone else having issues with Razorscale on 10-man? All of a sudden we're getting the same number of adds and fire as in 25-man. x_x

Did this get ninja-buffed, or is it bugged for anyone else? We've NEVER had trouble because of this.

I've had this problem before, it's a bug i think.

[Lordwafik]

What are your feelings about Druids tanking?
I really didnt meet one since months, it's like they dissapeared so I was wondering why.

Think thief in FFXI, 90% suck, 10% are omg awesome you'll suck their dick.

Personally in my bear form I have a problem with AoE tanking, I don't pull enough threat, monsters are always going back to casters, however on single targets I'm great, you can't rip it off me once I'm established (like every tank really).

I don't know if the AoE thing is a fault of my gear or a fault of the threat values of swipe, but it gets old having to taunt things off casters Pallies have it easier I swear

[Norellicus]

Personally in my bear form I have a problem with AoE tanking, I don't pull enough threat, monsters are always going back to casters, however on single targets I'm great, you can't rip it off me once I'm established (like every tank really).

I don't know if the AoE thing is a fault of my gear or a fault of the threat values of swipe, but it gets old having to taunt things off casters Pallies have it easier I swear

Needs moar Agility for crits, also get aoe to wait a little longer, also tab cycle with Maul to get a nice threat dump on everything, also get VC idol if you haven't yet. I've not lost an aoe pack to anybody unless they were focus firing something that was only getting hit by the Swipe spam, if it's one of my Maul targets too I generally don't have a problem at all.

Edit: I should clarify, I HAVE come close to losing it on occasion; I turn on enemy health bars (the individual ones over each toon's head, not unit frames) and watch for one of them to turn yellow, and immediately switch to that one and Mangle once, returning to Maul/Swipe spam as the pack continues. So far though I've never had to taunt one back unless it was being single target focusfired like I said. So that's something that may help if you don't already do it.

[Lordwafik]

I'll try that mangleymauley on multitargets, I currently keep up the nameplates more for the sake of seeing the nameplate run where it shouldn't

Before today I was really low on the agility imo, I've moved some stats around to make them more viable. Now self buffed I'm finally over 1000 agi and 1700 stam while maintaining a decent rate of other things.

I'm mainly geared in 10 man crapola with some 25 man / honour|token poop littered here and there. Despite all my upgrades I haven't had a chance to test them as I was on resto duty as usual. I have a feeling I'll hold threat better now and have more avoidance (hell the staff alone I got today was a 50 agi improvement).

[Boyiee]

Bear tanking is extremely easy and a little underpowered at the moment. I miss my armor and HP, but having over 50% dodge is fun.

As far as aoe goes I don't lose threat anymore. If you are specced into KotJ at all, enrage and you will probably pull 7-12ktps. If you are having problems with threat, your hit is low, but that seems to be the most difficult stat for me to pick up. Itemization ftw.

[brisk]

One thing I'll say as a Moonkin is I would like a spell that isn't part of the Eclipse rotation. I saw a blog that suggested a spell like lifebloom, but stacked with every arcane spell that hit.

[Resin]

It seems like there's a pretty short range for which tab will switch between targets. Is there any way to increase this range? Slightly farther distance where health bars show above target's heads would also be nice. Config file edit maybe?

[Norellicus]

I don't know that I'd call it easy; it seems like among the tanks bear has the lowest margin of error in their TPS output (KotJ aside, and if you're in an MT spec you really don't have the spare talents to get that). I can hit 5k if I'm on top of every GCD and every cooldown but if I miss a string of 2-3 hits or forget to cycle cooldowns that drops to sub 2k in a hurry.

This may happen with other tanks and it's just not as apparent since their abilities aren't as flashy, idk.

[aurik]

One thing I'll say as a Moonkin is I would like a spell that isn't part of the Eclipse rotation. I saw a blog that suggested a spell like lifebloom, but stacked with every arcane spell that hit.

Yea moonkin DPS is so dependent on eclipse these days, it makes fights with unpredictable DPS phases or movement terrible terrible terrible.

[Maguspk]

It seems like there's a pretty short range for which tab will switch between targets. Is there any way to increase this range? Slightly farther distance where health bars show above target's heads would also be nice. Config file edit maybe?

Hardcoded by Blizz, can't change. 15 yard max.

[Korietsu]

Terribly broken like overpowered or simply too weak to be fun?

Boomkins are in a sad state of raid DPS atm, because of the amount of RNG in their rotations. Worse than fire, which is saying something.

[Tricen]

So I traded 1k +10abyss crystals (80~g/e) + 10 frozen orbs (70~g/e) for Shawl of the Shattered Giant - Item - World of Warcraft . How bad did I get fucked over? Pretty sure it doesn't drop a lot, and I am not geared enough for ulduar. Still on Naxx25 and stuff.. The emblem of valor cape isn't as good (imo), and I don't think a better cape drops in naxx25.. So I would assume I would be using this for a while... Any thoughts?