Brain Wrinkles

Saving Roanauk in Icemist village. I'm going back to Dwarf in two days but planning to do a few epic Horde quests before.

I've been having fun DPSing on my warrior lately. He's usually a tank but with all the badge gear his off spec has caught up quite a lot recently. :)

He is Arms spec and one thing I'd like to be able to add is to efficiently be able to do an interrupt. Am I better off taking the rage loss and stance dancing for to berserker stance for pummel or swapping in a shield and shield bashing then swapping back to my 2-hander? Any help with a macro to do either of those would be appreciated, there is a lot of stale macro info out there.

Hmmm, while I'm on the subject, my understanding is that fury at some gear level overtakes arms. I like Arms a lot but willing to give fury a whirl, pun intended :P I have the 232 i-level 2-handed axe from one of ice crown 5 mans I could add in for a second weapon.

Is my understanding on fury/arms DPS correct? Is my guy, Didymus on Garrosh server, at that gear level? I've been doing 4.5-5K in 10 mans, I could probably tighten my rotation a bit and I need to set up a DOT notifier to better track rend. Any pointers would be welcome.

From Blue: The Oculus had some additional changes made. The Planar Anomlies during the Eregos encounter will have a shorter duration and do reduced damage, some of the drakes above Varos’s platform have been removed, and the drakes controlled by players will move a little faster.

Yesterday I was thinking, "you know they keep nerfing it and trying to make it idiot proof, but if the nubs don't move away from Eregos's orbs they're still gonna die". And now this. Goodness gracious!

I'll admit that Oculus is not my favorite instance and I have avoided a bit in the past. I don't hate it though, and I've never dropped group when I was given it as my random. I still let out a hearty "UGH" out loud and in party chat. With all of these nerfs I think I'll feel less "ugh"ish when Oculus pops up as my random. Especially considering the EIGHT Triumph Badges and chance at the Reins of the Azure Drake.

What about you guys?

Lobster is impressed with Arthas' keen sense of interior design.
Bet I can guess his favorite color.


Adventure is just around the corner!
Also death.


Ketcha with her padawan in Festergut's room lol.

Escaper put the word out that Putricide was bugged so we did not attempt him. Hopefully he'll be hotfixed by tomorrow.

I keep seeing guild announcements saying that they are looking for all classes/races but wait, oh noes, they are full on Death Knights...

And I keep seeing people saying 'lol @ DK tanks' and stuff like that, so I'm wondering, are DK tanks actually worse than Pally/Warrior/bear tanks?

I'm thinking purely in terms of class mechanics *not* skill/gear...

I've always been a caster (Mostly healer), but was thinking of levelling a tank just to see how the other half lives...

I remember when BC came out, and Pally's were dreadful tanks, but it turned out that it was just that not many actually knew how to tank with pallys and I regularly dropped groups if the tank wasn't a warrior or a bear.
I loved being on a realm with, apparently, almost no healers :-D

So anyway, DK tanks, yay or nay?

Should I just keep on farming emblems for my pally heirloom set and wait for Cataclysm so I can get a holy cow?
Thanks in advance ^_^

Tonight was leading an alts/mains 10man Icecrown Citadel to poke at the new bosses. This is the second floor of the Citadel. So pretty. I have an obsession with valk'yr.


Yours truly, the mage!

Festergut's room after we killed him.

( Spoiler Lore under here )

Ok yeah, I totally slacked off today >_> I had to go shopping for um...things.... and was out until after 9pm because my mom wanted to stop at every damn store in the mall. >=[ Most of my ingame time tongith was spent in fligth on a REDICILOUS quest chain that sent be half way across the worl and back FOR EVERY QUEST. I didn't think you guys want another shot of a windrider's ass.. so yeah. Loremaster hit a wall and has been very slow going due to travel time. WILL POST TOMORROW I PROMISE!

[The Master's Glave: Darkshore Jan 5th]
**again, pic tomorrow, I need sleep for work**

In the mean time, have a cat--

Roszfianna & her trusty devilsaur Merrimac check out plans aboard the Bombardment in Icecrown.

I'm a very casual and mostly solo player, my main, a NE druid, dinged 76 yesterday and I'm finally nearing the 80 mark after more than 1,5 years of playing. I have a friend at 80, she has helped me in low level dungeons a lot and I actually haven't gone to that many dungeons with a proper group. There were three main reasons for that - I never had any RL friends of my level on the same server to group with, our server has very low population and I always levelled as dps (cat first and Moonkin from mid-60s), so everyone who asked me to join their group were expecting a healer or a tank from a druid.

The thing is, back on low levels when you can fill any role with remotely appropriate gear (which I had from the runs with my friend) I tried tanking only once and it was a disaster and I never tried it again. I think that it is the most stressful role and you have to know the instance very well. I'm not up for that. I tried healing a couple of times on lower levels and I always was a healer for my 80 friend and her pet when she ran me through the instances. I liked it but I still had the dps spec and I like my boomkin more anyway=) When the double spec option came out and I realised I did have enough money for it, I had Restoration as my secondary spec. I read up a lot on the mechanics of Tree healing and tried healing a group once, partly successfully.

Then I had to drop playing WoW for 2 months. When I came back there was the new PUG system. I started getting used to my Moonkin again and doing random dungeons. I have to say, I love the system, it's just perfect for a solo player like me who was too lazy to LFG in the chat channels and too wary of waiting in the old LFG system, considering the population on our server. I got used to the rotation, had some very successful runs with great groups, my dps is around 800-900, according to someone posting recount results, no idea whether it's good or bad for my level generally, but I felt it was ok.

Today I thought - why wait 20 minutes in the queue as dps when I have a secondary healing spec and thought it was high time to try it out. I was a bit afraid of responsibility and failure, but you learn by doing, practice makes perfect and so on, so I adjusted the Healbot settings, remembered all I've read on Tree healing (it said mostly "HoTs are your friends. Ignore HT except for the macro you should make when it makes HT an instant cast") and joined LFG as healer. A minute later I found myself healing VH, successfully. Then it was Gun'Drak and we had such a great group - the damage was great, the tank held aggro well and I got a comment that I did nice healing, so I was exceedingly pleased. Then was the double wipe in VH - honestly, the first time I had problems there, one dps was afk half the time and it reflected on our whole performance poorly and I felt responsible because I think the healer has the most responsibility and it sucks. The last healing experience of today was VH again, I seem to get it as random 2/3 of the times. We had 2 almost-but-not-quite-wipes, when I managed to heal the tank when he was just about to drop dead. On the whole it was a pleasant new experience and I want to perfect my healing along with dps.

The whole point of this narrative is to ask you about some tips on tree healing. What spells are best from your PoV? When do I use Wild Growth and Tranquility, as I never used them before? What macros do you use? What addons? (I'm pretty satisfied with HealBot right now, but haven't tried out any others)
And, more importantly, a question of gear for healing as a secondary spec. I'm sort of confused as to the difference between caster and healer gear. And when I hit 80 and start gearing up must I collect 2 sets of gear??

This is a tradition for me. I always do this quest when I get a new toon to Northrend, and always take a screenshot. This guy was my main in BC before I moved servers. I later moved him to my new home and faction changed him to where he is now. ♥

Still working on Loremaster. This was taken a few hours before I decided to go crazy and explore things Horde side. Yeah, let's just say I'm glad I'm gonna be back in Ironforge in three days. ;)

I've been tanking off-and-on for over a year now. When dual specs came, it became my main spec. On my Death Knight. He's been 80 since November 2008. Aside from new raids and crazy achievements like Loremaster, I've accomplished everything I want to on him.

So last week I was staring at my character selection screen, and I noticed my Druid, abandoned long ago at a pitiful level 27. Huh. Forgot about him.

Bear form has always been the most interesting to me. I'm weird like that. I gave him up because I didn't like Cat, and I don't really enjoy any casters. But that was before the new cross-realm LFG. So I dusted him off, borrowed some cash from my DK, and changed his gear and spec from a DPS focus to a tank focus. It's definitely different, which is awesome. I think I'm getting a pretty good feel for it, but I'm getting mixed reviews from my groups. Today I had 3 people saying "get aggro faster" and "stop whining." I was "whining" about the fact that the mage launched a Pyroblast before I even reached the mob, but whatever. The next group, I had two people say I was the best bear tank they've ever seen. Of course these are PUGs, so the 3 "experts" who said they had 80 druids could be just as stupid and inexperienced as the 2 who said I was fantastic.

And that's where LJ comes in. I googled, and I read. Big Bear Butt, WoWwiki, Wowhead. "Thedailydruid" won't load. Nothing I saw made me feel smarter or better prepared, or convinced me that I'm doing anything wrong so far... But of course all that stuff is aimed at level 80. I'm currently 30 and 90%.

0/21/0 is my spec. I have BoA shoulders (PVP) and chest. Four blues, two of which are random dungeon rewards. I'm shooting for stamina above all else, and then Strength or Agility. I haven't decided which I should go for more, so I'm taking the cheaper of the two if I have a choice. I have no +Int or +Spirit.

Pull with FF, Maul as my rage dump. Swipe if there's more than 3 targets (tab-target glyphed Maul if 3). Demo Roar for AP reduction. Bash casters when in range, Feral Charge - Bear if I'm too far away. As the fight goes on, I spread FF to as many targets as possible, as much for the high-threat-no-rage as for the armor reduction.

Anything I could be doing better? I'm tired of feeling like I can't hold aggro without a 15 second lead.

So! Last week I was asking advice for my healy pally. This week, I ask again.

As of.. well, a few minutes ago really, I finally got fully epic'ed out from badge gear/new instance drops, so I'm looking good. Just mainly need to change the helm and boots which are crafted epics.

If I wanted to raid, however (pugs, weekly raids, etc), would you recommend a spec change? Some of my guildee pally mains think so, I figured I'd double check what you guys thought :)

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormrage&n=Gloire

(also any advice on gems/enchants etc too, though I think i've gotten that right for the most part)

I'm a tree :D




The alt hit level 10! :O

After I buffed up for heroic Beasts, I mounted my tiger toy. What I didn't realize is that sometimes Bartender bugs and doesn't show vehicle bars. So the ready check went up, I clicked yes, tried to dismount, and couldn't. My raid leader was not amused. Luckily, a really quick re-log fixed it.

TUESDAY MAINTENANCE REQUIRES ACKNOWLEDGMENT

COMMENCE WITH CATURDAY PROCEEDINGS

Anyone know of any good in-game gear/costuming to give your character a steampunk-like look?

Obviously goggles from Engineering (or the Junior Technician goggles from Netherstorm or the Beer Goggles) will provide the goggle look, but anyone know of other costuming that's stood out in their minds as being rather steampunk-like?

(I originally posted this to wowrp_nubcakes.)

Hi, I'm a Scribe and I am going to roll need on all Books of Glyph Mastery.

I can't link to it from work, so confirm on World of Raids or with a Blue Post, but to dissuade people from dropping group if Oculus is the Heroic Random dungeon, new loot will be added to the Ley Guardians chest, including a chance at the same mount Malygos has in his loot table.