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j0sh

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Grats Adam!

I'm not looking forward to the prices of Elementium ore (or bars for that matter) once I finally get my left binding. Might try to convince some guildies to run BWL for the hell of it. Few people want the legendary 2h mace so it shouldn't be too hard to get some people to tag along.

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But mine does more damage and has more Intellect which I'm told I need for a mage.

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=7713

Yes but the first one listed adds to spell power, which you'd want as a mage. Losing 5 intellect over the spell power increase, that would be up to you I guess.

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trag3dy

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Maybe someone can help me find what I'm looking for. Before (about 10 or 11 months ago) when I was playing, there was an addon that gave you very distinct visual cues for triggers you set up. The triggers could be just about anything like for example, as a mage I had one set up for clear casting. So when clear casting was active it would put a giant white ! above my characters head. The images weren't regular old icons, but special graphics and you can use any combination of them.

Anyways..going by my horrible description I'm hoping someone knows what I'm talking about and can point me in the right direction.

Edit: I found it. It's called Power Auras Classic encase anyone is interested.

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Spacce

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Grats. How long between bindings? Mine took around 362 days between them back when we were raiding MC.

congrats..

we're talking old school here, but I remember back in the day that a guildie got it first on our server

a little pink hair female gnome named lilboo

we weren't even a raiding guild heh, but both binding dropped for him in 2 weeks and 2 high end raiding guilds "loaned" us the mats so we could complete it

I took video of the thundarian?? boss

first time around he got bugged and had to fight him again.. quick fight

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Noveed

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Its hard to find a decent group to pug with on my server and at the moment with not everyone nax ready in the guild we are not to doing guild runs. So when a friend of mine from another guild invited me to a guild run of Nax heroic i just could not turn it down! Ill be honest on nax normal i have only ever seen Patchwerk, the first pug i was with couldnt get past grobb whatever. The second pug i was with only got upto the 4 horsemen in the other quarter and called it there. So really going into a 25 man heroic i was not sure what to expect.

Overall it was really good We only did the The Arachnid Quarter and wiped once unfortunatly on the second boss due to a mess up with tactics, but second try all was resolved and it was a clean kill. Unfortunatly no hunter drops Boo!

At the time i was not specced in BM 50/21 Which is the Over powered readdiness build and got joint top dps (if not top dps by 21) alongside a hunter with a Strange MM Spec (0/68/3 i think). He did have better gear than i did but i was still suprised that i could keep up with him. Im confident that if he was using the norm 11/53/7 spec then he would have left me for dust. At the moment i have Badge/Heroic gear and still have 3 pieces of level 70 gear (2 rings and 1 trinket, been really unlucky on rolls :( ) I think we might be going to a different quarter tonight so just for fun I have specced 50/21 to see how that will effect my DPS. I thought i would give it a go just before the nerf bat hits.

Few Screenies.

Nax Readings before i reset them for the 25man VoA run.

wowscrnshot011709230705ui7.jpg

Then we did VoA.

Heres VoA with my highest recorded killshot yet of 11.6k

wowscrnshot011709232611eg3.jpg

Link to my armory : http://armory.wow-europe.com/character-she...&n=Bruvanav

please dont laugh its still a work in progress. :p

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Slane

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Tryed to do a VoA run last night. Ended up 22 manning it, because the other two dps wanted a summons if though there isn't any (how do people not now this about VoA yet?). Ended up wiping as soon as it said "Server rest in 1 minute", at 20k health, when he enraged and hit me for 120k with shield wall up. So spent the next 30 minutes attempting to protect Wintergrasp, ended up losing with 4 minutes left. So just did Sarth instead.

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Noveed

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Noveed: I love your interface! What addons are you using?

its basically this interface

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7975-HalsUIv8.html

but i have modified it ever so slightly i have a 1280x800 monitor and not many interfaces support that size. All i done with my own is just move and adjust the bars about a bit to make it look like in the screenshots. It is still a work in progress there are aspects i still dont like about it.

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Noveed

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Did nax 25 man again, continued from last night and it was a shambles from my own end, Lag was so unbearable the server would constantly kick, my fps would also drop down to 1 and i would disconnect again. This so called fix that will come in patch 3.0.8 better do the trick. What makes things worse is Virgin Media Network problems in my area which only affect ME. No one else in the street has reported slow speeds apart from me and according to them if 50 people do not report an issue then there isnt one. Not happy about it either way.

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Yusuf M. Veteran

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its basically this interface

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7975-HalsUIv8.html

but i have modified it ever so slightly i have a 1280x800 monitor and not many interfaces support that size. All i done with my own is just move and adjust the bars about a bit to make it look like in the screenshots. It is still a work in progress there are aspects i still dont like about it.

Thanks! I've been looking for an interface like this for a long while.

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Spookie

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Did nax 25 man again, continued from last night and it was a shambles from my own end, Lag was so unbearable the server would constantly kick, my fps would also drop down to 1 and i would disconnect again.

Join the club, we did a join 25 man naxx due to a couple of people falling ill it was f-ing horrific. We were getting 800ms pings while one shotting the bosses there would be large pauses and a tonne of button mashing afterwards to keep the raid up. The worst was the ice blocks in Kel. Lost 4 people to them!

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