The AT World of Warcraft Thread (Where do you play) and general BS

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Jax Omen
YAWoWT? the hell?

Noob.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Hi, my name is SpunkyJones. I've been WOW free for 3 months.

 

[lupi]

Like the changes to c/ds, really way overdue and the shatter is nice. Don't mind changes to mount speed items, as now you don't have to worry about equipping them.



The reason windowed eats some FPS is that in windowed mode the gpu is also keeping up cycles on refreshing the desktop while in full screen all the gpu goes to wow.

 

[Aikouka]

Good to see you back... make sure to check out our prize winning WoW thread at the top *gleams*.

 

[Anubis]

come in and say hello
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2117995&enterthread=y

 

[Jax Omen]

No, seriously, why is he referring to WoW as YAWoWT?

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: Jax Omen
No, seriously, why is he referring to WoW as YAWoWT?

lol

 

[chorb]

Yet Another WoW Thread

Is there something grammatically wrong?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: chorb
Yet Another WoW Thread

Is there something grammatically wrong?

no i think he hit his head or something

 

[Anubis]

yea the void shatter change is cool, will see less spam or WTB SHATTER CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jax Omen]

Oh, that makes sense.

I was just trying to figure out what the hell YAWoWT meant. Sorry I'm not down with all the latest AT lingo.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: Jax Omen
Oh, that makes sense.

I was just trying to figure out what the hell YAWoWT meant. Sorry I'm not down with all the latest AT lingo.

Welcome aboard, we'll get you up to speed quickly, or humiliate you into leaving, one or the other.

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
we went to hyjal last night. Winterchill went like this:

Attempt #1: wave 6 wipe
Attempt #2: got to Rage but 50% were dead
Attempt #3: killed him

I switched out before the next boss because i was too tired. Are all the bosses this easy?

Rage is the easiest, but the next 2 are still easy. Azgalor gets tougher and Arch is a pita.

Kind of odd, but last night, I switched out which is rare for me. I was so excited to see hyjal and now that I stepped inside of it. I'm left with a very lacking feeling.

I might be growing tired of WoW...

If I recall you guys were on Vashj and decided to bypass her after the patch. Skipping things tends to do that for players who want to see everything in order and not just guild hop and get free loot. It also demoralizes guild members with the feeling that they failed on a pivotal sink or swim encounter that is generally considered to be the one that separates casual guilds from competent raiding guilds.

I know I wasn't too excited to be in Hyjal/BT until we went back 2 weeks after that patch and just killed Kael and got it over with, I almost lost interest and felt like we just didn't belong there. I just slumped in my chair clicking the heals off, "yeah... heal... *yawn*...*click*... yay -_-"

Now that Kael is dead, I'm not bummed and I'm back in the game and more excited than ever.

We had killed Vashj a few times, and was just about to move on to Kael and only got one night of attempts before the patch. It created quite a rift and shook up the guild quite a bit when we skipped him to go to MH/BT the next day on patch day.

It took about two weeks for that bummed feeling to start infecting the leaders, and finally two weeks after the patch we just decided to go back to TK until Kael was dead and wash our hands of it. Took two days to get that out of our system, now we are back to hyjal and black temple full steam.


But yeah, first 4 bosses of Hyjal and Black temple are pretty much a joke compared to the climax that SSC and TK built up to.

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker

Whatever you do with your HoTs, keep spamming direct heals also...

I tanked H Ramps this weekend trying to get more 11 heal/4 crit gems... I died with no heals to Nazan like 3 times... I had received nothing but lifebloom ticks for the whole fight -_-

Unless you have a seriously undergeared tank a druid's hots should be more then enough to keep you up through that fight. Now, that doesn't mean just throw a lifebloom stack and forget it, but if a druid has all 3 hots ticking on the tank that should easily cover the dmg you will take on that fight.

Druids aren't build for direct heals- they take way too long and chew up an obnoxious amount of mana. What's more, the only real direct heal we have- Healing Touch- can't be cast in tree form. Only time I ever use HT is when Nature's Swiftness is up and the tank is in trouble(mainly when I'm on party heal assignment in 25 mans and the priests/pallies are having to move/silenced whatever) so it becomes an insta cast(even then, with two shape shifts required and the cost of HT you are giving up about ~10%-15% of your mana on one cast).

Prot is my off spec, but it is an all epic set and I do have 15k unbuffed health, 495+ defense and 103.x avoidance.

My life bar would just go down and down and down and just sit there at 5% for all eternity. I looked through my combat log and amongst all the red damage incoming I saw like two or three life bloom ticks for 600 and that was pretty much it.

I'm not familiar with druid healing, but I know better than that.

 

[AntiFreze]

Originally posted by: exdeath

Originally posted by: AntiFreze

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
we went to hyjal last night. Winterchill went like this:

Attempt #1: wave 6 wipe
Attempt #2: got to Rage but 50% were dead
Attempt #3: killed him

I switched out before the next boss because i was too tired. Are all the bosses this easy?

Rage is the easiest, but the next 2 are still easy. Azgalor gets tougher and Arch is a pita.

Kind of odd, but last night, I switched out which is rare for me. I was so excited to see hyjal and now that I stepped inside of it. I'm left with a very lacking feeling.

I might be growing tired of WoW...

If I recall you guys were on Vashj and decided to bypass her after the patch. Skipping things tends to do that for players who want to see everything in order and not just guild hop and get free loot. It also demoralizes guild members with the feeling that they failed on a pivotal encounter that is generally considered to be the one that separates casual guilds from raiding guilds.

I know I wasn't too excited to be in Hyjal/BT until we went back 2 weeks after that patch and just killed Kael and got it over with, I almost lost interest and felt like we just didn't belong there. I just slumped in my chair clicking the heals off, "yeah... heal... *yawn*...*click*... yay -_-"

Now that Kael is dead, I'm not bummed and I'm back in the game.

We had killed Vashj a few times, and was just about to move on to Kael and only got one night of attempts before the path. It created quite a rift and shook up the guild quite a bit when we skipped him to go to MH/BT the next day on patch day.

It took about two weeks for that bummed feeling to start infecting the leaders, and finally two weeks after the patch we just decided to go back to TK until Kael was dead and wash our hands of it. Took two days to get that out of our system, now we are back to hyjal and black temple full steam.

that very well could be it. We have tried Vashj on 2 nights so far. I really want to get that fight done. Havent seen Kael yet. We raid 3 nights a week and I think we are doing hyjal on Tues and Wed to get more gear so the sunday night Vashj attempts become easier and easier.

Could also be that our GM stepped down, and our MT was promoted to GM. (who happens to be my girlfriends older brother). I get along with him great, just feel kind of odd about the whole situation. Especially since his first announcement was to disolve our "officers". So we went from 1 GM, 3 on High Council, and 3 Officers. To 1 GM, and 2 Raid Assistants.

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze

Originally posted by: exdeath

Originally posted by: AntiFreze

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
we went to hyjal last night. Winterchill went like this:

Attempt #1: wave 6 wipe
Attempt #2: got to Rage but 50% were dead
Attempt #3: killed him

I switched out before the next boss because i was too tired. Are all the bosses this easy?

Rage is the easiest, but the next 2 are still easy. Azgalor gets tougher and Arch is a pita.

Kind of odd, but last night, I switched out which is rare for me. I was so excited to see hyjal and now that I stepped inside of it. I'm left with a very lacking feeling.

I might be growing tired of WoW...

If I recall you guys were on Vashj and decided to bypass her after the patch. Skipping things tends to do that for players who want to see everything in order and not just guild hop and get free loot. It also demoralizes guild members with the feeling that they failed on a pivotal encounter that is generally considered to be the one that separates casual guilds from raiding guilds.

I know I wasn't too excited to be in Hyjal/BT until we went back 2 weeks after that patch and just killed Kael and got it over with, I almost lost interest and felt like we just didn't belong there. I just slumped in my chair clicking the heals off, "yeah... heal... *yawn*...*click*... yay -_-"

Now that Kael is dead, I'm not bummed and I'm back in the game.

We had killed Vashj a few times, and was just about to move on to Kael and only got one night of attempts before the path. It created quite a rift and shook up the guild quite a bit when we skipped him to go to MH/BT the next day on patch day.

It took about two weeks for that bummed feeling to start infecting the leaders, and finally two weeks after the patch we just decided to go back to TK until Kael was dead and wash our hands of it. Took two days to get that out of our system, now we are back to hyjal and black temple full steam.

that very well could be it. We have tried Vashj on 2 nights so far. I really want to get that fight done. Havent seen Kael yet. We raid 3 nights a week and I think we are doing hyjal on Tues and Wed to get more gear so the sunday night Vashj attempts become easier and easier.

Could also be that our GM stepped down, and our MT was promoted to GM. (who happens to be my girlfriends older brother). I get along with him great, just feel kind of odd about the whole situation. Especially since his first announcement was to disolve our "officers". So we went from 1 GM, 3 on High Council, and 3 Officers. To 1 GM, and 2 Raid Assistants.

It took us about 2 weeks in total to get our first Vashj kill once we got SSC to a 5/6 clear in 4 hours. We use the start of the week to do 5/6 3/4 clears for gear and to build moral and confidence, then spent Sunday and Monday nights wiping on Vashj.

It's really a big weight off your chest to get Vashj and Kael down. It's a rite of passage. Skip them and people will always have them in the back of their mind and not be able to focus, especially if they see other guilds running around with Hand of A'dal and their Band of Eternity. I know that drove me absolutely nuts and made me feel like a n00b. And god forbid you accomplish something in MH/BT without someone trying to discredit you by asking you why you don't have a scale of the sands ring.

As for the restructure, hopefully it was the MT running raids anyway so there won't be problems. I know we have bad vibes just with something simple like when our main MT and raid caller sits out and our second MT and guild leader runs things, just because we all aren't use to it.

 

[Xavier434]

ruh-roh!

 

[Anubis]

in my expirence its best to have more then 1 person who can lead raids, we have a bunch, for when people cant make it and all that, hell our MT hardly ever talks on vent.

 

[BZeto]

I've been WoW free for over 2 months and loving it. Friends are trying to get me into AoC but my resistance is strong!

 

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: Anubis
in my expirence its best to have more then 1 person who can lead raids, we have a bunch, for when people cant make it and all that, hell our MT hardly ever talks on vent.

:thumbsup:


We have 3 regular raid leaders in our guild even though we only have the two nights a week. Granted, we mostly use the same person but the others get enough chances to lead the raid so that the absence of our main leader does not hinder performance. Never put all your eggs in one basket!

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: Anubis
in my expirence its best to have more then 1 person who can lead raids, we have a bunch, for when people cant make it and all that, hell our MT hardly ever talks on vent.

:thumbsup:


We have 3 regular raid leaders in our guild even though we only have the two nights a week. Granted, we mostly use the same person but the others get enough chances to lead the raid so that the absence of our main leader does not hinder performance. Never put all your eggs in one basket!

Yeah, we're working on it. It's the only reason the MT even steps out is to make someone else raid lead and get confident at it. In fact a few of our progression kills were done in his absence, so it's getting better.

We actually have a hunter calling all the shots in Hyjal because he's been through it on a horde toon.

It's just a people thing, you know how people cling to a familiar voice.

 

[BenSkywalker]

My life bar would just go down and down and down and just sit there at 5% for all eternity. I looked through my combat log and amongst all the red damage incoming I saw like two or three life bloom ticks for 600 and that was pretty much it.

I'm not familiar with druid healing, but I know better than that.

LB 3 stack at 600 per tick, his rejuv and regrowth should both be ticking for 800ish each with a start heal on the rejuv around 2500(trying to remember based on a gear level that would tick for 600 on a lb stack- should be around 1550 healing with the trinket IIRC).

With all three hots up you should have been regaining about 1400health per second(600p1, 800x2p2), plus a rejuv pop of around 2500 about every 8 or nine seconds. That's just using the hots, hit absolute peak heal throughput on the hots and you can push about 1500hps with that gear level without ever using HT. In all honesty, I find it extremely unliked you would require anything close to that given your gear level on that boss, he really doesn't hit hard at all, probably around 700-800hps should have had you absolutely fine(of course, building a LB stack takes bare minimum 4.5 seconds and then arond 600 you would run out of life about a minute into the fight- by the way you described it though the drood was very slow rolling the hots up- I get LB stacked before the pull for most boss fights in heroic). Party healing can make it bit rougher, people not knowing when to get out of the big balls of flame surrounding them can make it so your healer is quite busy, but if I need more then an occasional hot on a dpser in that fight I usually let them die then laugh at them after(not to be a dick, just because they all know better ).

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker

My life bar would just go down and down and down and just sit there at 5% for all eternity. I looked through my combat log and amongst all the red damage incoming I saw like two or three life bloom ticks for 600 and that was pretty much it.

I'm not familiar with druid healing, but I know better than that.

LB 3 stack at 600 per tick, his rejuv and regrowth should both be ticking for 800ish each with a start heal on the rejuv around 2500(trying to remember based on a gear level that would tick for 600 on a lb stack- should be around 1550 healing with the trinket IIRC).

With all three hots up you should have been regaining about 1400health per second(600p1, 800x2p2), plus a rejuv pop of around 2500 about every 8 or nine seconds. That's just using the hots, hit absolute peak heal throughput on the hots and you can push about 1500hps with that gear level without ever using HT. In all honesty, I find it extremely unliked you would require anything close to that given your gear level on that boss, he really doesn't hit hard at all, probably around 700-800hps should have had you absolutely fine(of course, building a LB stack takes bare minimum 4.5 seconds and then arond 600 you would run out of life about a minute into the fight- by the way you described it though the drood was very slow rolling the hots up- I get LB stacked before the pull for most boss fights in heroic). Party healing can make it bit rougher, people not knowing when to get out of the big balls of flame surrounding them can make it so your healer is quite busy, but if I need more then an occasional hot on a dpser in that fight I usually let them die then laugh at them after(not to be a dick, just because they all know better ).

Thanks for the info.

 

[Cabages]

Ive been wow free for 2 days now. I was running a character through with a friend. Got up to 62 and I just couldnt take it anymore. I dont see how anyone plays this game constantly.

 

[legoman666]

I've been WoW free for 1 year, 4(?) months now. Several friends are trying to get me back into it. I must say, I am tempted..