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[S00N3R FR3AK]

Druid tanking is pretty simple and doesn't really have problems with threat, even if you're slightly outgeared by people in randoms. All you really do is macro Maul into your Mangle, Swipe, FFF and Lacerate abilities and you're set. Trash is just swipe fest and boss tanking is just using Mangle and FFF on CD and keeping lacerate up. Then swip/maul in between then. I've only tanked on a pally on the PTR but it was made easy with 2 macros and I didn't find it all that fun. I enjoy druid tanking more than tanking on my DK,

Does everyone use macros now to do everything? Also is druid tanking easy to level with 1-80 through LFD? my hunter did it t he old way and I really rather not do that again lol.

[j0sh]

Does everyone use macros now to do everything? Also is druid tanking easy to level with 1-80 through LFD? my hunter did it t he old way and I really rather not do that again lol.

Well since you'll be able to queue as a tank, your queues will be instant, which should make leveling easier. As far as macros it just makes tanking easier for me. Maul causes a huge amount of threat so having it macro'd into some of your other abilities is nice for threat gen. As a pally tank you can pretty much make 2 cast sequence macro's: one for your 6 second CD abilities and one for your 9 second CD abilities and tank like a mad man from 60'ish on.

[the evn show]

I don't know what exactly is involved with 'uploading my ui'. Is there an easy way to export settings etc?

Here's the same UI on my TV from tonights clean up of ICC. There are still some minor issues but the old "make profiles and keybinding to switch" works somewhat well.

I've been playing with an addon "reflux" to replace my old macros that switched profiles.

Here's what I've managed: same UI but running on a large-screen television.

For the most part everything "just worked". The only things that needed weird hacks was quartz and pitbull - which were minor things.

[Elliott]

I don't know what exactly is involved with 'uploading my ui'. Is there an easy way to export settings etc?

Here's the same UI on my TV from tonights clean up of ICC. There are still some minor issues but the old "make profiles and keybinding to switch" works somewhat well.

I've been playing with an addon "reflux" to replace my old macros that switched profiles.

Here's what I've managed: same UI but running on a large-screen television.

For the most part everything "just worked". The only things that needed weird hacks was quartz and pitbull - which were minor things.

That's a really great setup. Two questions if you don't mind: what are all the addons involved in the minimap area and what buff tracker (upper right) are you using?

You really helped me out with that Reflux addon that you mentioned. Should let me switch between my iMac and my MacBook pretty easily.

[the evn show]

That's a really great setup. Two questions if you don't mind: what are all the addons involved in the minimap area and what buff tracker (upper right) are you using?

The minimap is Squeenix with the trackers for finding a group, tracking, mail, etc. provided by statblocks (and the appropriate pluggins).

Buff/debuffs and the timers under the cast bar (and one you can't see: purgable/clensable buffs on my target) are provided by Satrina buff frame.

To square them up I'm using ButtonFacade with the Apathy theme.

[Elliott]

The minimap is Squeenix with the trackers for finding a group, tracking, mail, etc. provided by statblocks (and the appropriate pluggins).

Buff/debuffs and the timers under the cast bar (and one you can't see: purgable/clensable buffs on my target) are provided by Satrina buff frame.

To square them up I'm using ButtonFacade with the Apathy theme.

Thanks! I had never even heard of Statblocks before.

[Elliott]

The minimap is Squeenix with the trackers for finding a group, tracking, mail, etc. provided by statblocks (and the appropriate pluggins).

Buff/debuffs and the timers under the cast bar (and one you can't see: purgable/clensable buffs on my target) are provided by Satrina buff frame.

To square them up I'm using ButtonFacade with the Apathy theme.

Another question: what are you using to hide the raid difficulty flag? I know the /script command, but I have to keep typing that in (or clicking on a macro) every time I zone in or the difficulty changes (from, say, Normal to Heroic and back).

[the evn show]

Another question: what are you using to hide the raid difficulty flag? I know the /script command, but I have to keep typing that in (or clicking on a macro) every time I zone in or the difficulty changes (from, say, Normal to Heroic and back).

I don't have one that hides the difficulty (ie: raid is now set to heroic mode in chat): I just have that garbage filtered out in the standard chat window settings. I do have one that hides the "50 attempts of 50 remaining" for heroic mode end bosses: it's one I whipped up myself that hides a frame (I just edited EError which hides the "you're out of range" / "that ability is not ready yet" error text box). I've since moved to having it display just "45" for ICC and "50" for Algalon (showing the number of minutes left). I'll post some code when I get home tonight. It's not very complicated and I know I just hacked up somebody elses addon but I can't remember for the life of me what the original was.

[Elliott]

I don't have one that hides the difficulty (ie: raid is now set to heroic mode in chat): I just have that garbage filtered out in the standard chat window settings. I do have one that hides the "50 attempts of 50 remaining" for heroic mode end bosses: it's one I whipped up myself that hides a frame (I just edited EError which hides the "you're out of range" / "that ability is not ready yet" error text box). I've since moved to having it display just "45" for ICC and "50" for Algalon (showing the number of minutes left). I'll post some code when I get home tonight. It's not very complicated and I know I just hacked up somebody elses addon but I can't remember for the life of me what the original was.

I was actually talking about the little raid difficulty flag that pops up on the upper left hand side of the minimap, but it looks like Squeenix just added a way to hide it.

I still appreciate your post though. That "attempts" frame is getting in the way sometimes.

[MikeFu84]

Finally got these after weeks of failed Fire Fighter attempts.

[CoLdFuSi0n]

Finally got these after weeks of failed Fire Fighter attempts.

Congrats, but personaly to me with the current lvl of gear now and etc... these drakes aren't really impressive anymore, and the server i'm on they pug and successfully do 25 man uld HM's every sat or sunday to get everyone ironbound drakes

[j0sh]

Few months behind, but our guild finally got LK down in 10m today. Time to work on the frozen bone chicken mounts.

[the evn show]

Time to work on the frozen bone chicken mounts.

You'll probably beat me to it. I've been sitting in a rather pathetic situation for a few weeks now.

I'm not much for achievements, but come-on.

[Elliott]

You'll probably beat me to it. I've been sitting in a rather pathetic situation for a few weeks now.

I'm not much for achievements, but come-on.

Sad part: I've Gone and Made a Mess is one of the few achievements I do have towards my 25m drake.

I'm very close to my 10m one though (and I prefer the look of it, fortunately). Just Full House and All You Can Eat left since they took Neck-Deep in Vile off of the requirements in a hotfix.

[Got3n]

Finally got my paladin to 80, did alot of instance grinding as dps and it went well. my first weekend 80 with randoms I got lots of good stuff. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Blackhand&cn=Holykow

[Dark Ride]

I don't know what exactly is involved with 'uploading my ui'. Is there an easy way to export settings etc?

Here's the same UI on my TV from tonights clean up of ICC. There are still some minor issues but the old "make profiles and keybinding to switch" works somewhat well.

I've been playing with an addon "reflux" to replace my old macros that switched profiles.

Here's what I've managed: same UI but running on a large-screen television.

For the most part everything "just worked". The only things that needed weird hacks was quartz and pitbull - which were minor things.

Just put your Interface, WTF and (optionally) Fonts directories in a RAR/ZIP file and upload them somewhere. I'll take care of the rest.

[Lord Nite]

Finally got in to a guild that likes to raid regularly. We did ICC10 tonight, and got to Blood Princes. Unfortunately, we wiped at 4%. :pinch:

The plus side is I'm finally getting my rogue upgraded like I want, and bring her DPS up big time.

[Elliott]

One more achievement for my 10m drake. :pinch: All You Can Eat is the last one, and it's been frustrating as hell.

[Elliott]

Woo! Got my 10m drake last night. :happy:

[ylcard]

Oh hell, I might give this a shot here..

I tried to install WoW again as I wanted to play it once again, lately it's been boring :)

I can't, for the life of me, to install WoW any way I try, I have the vanilla box (5 CD's), the BC expansion (3-4 CD's ?) and LK expansion (1 DVD).

I insert the first CD and begin installing, 99% of the times I've tried to install it goes on fine, the second CD gives out an error about "can't verify file X" or something like that, either my CD is corrupted or my C/D drives are (I tried installing to both drives), I checked my HDD's and there were no errors reported, I checked my RAM and no errors were reported, I checked my CD's and they're fine.

This is not even my main issue, I can easily download the game, I'm in no hurry to play, but the exact same error pops up when downloading the game, at first I chose "WoTLK" installation and it gave out the error, then I tried the vanilla installation and it gave the same error again.

So it's not the CD's, it looks like it's the HDD's, but they don't report any problems !

I also re-installed my OS like 3 times to see if I messed up with some updates or programs that interfere with WoW, but it didn't help, no difference at all.

The only plausible explanation is that my HDD's are dying, is there another way to test them ? Like a third-party utility to see if it loses data periodically ?

Perhaps the cabling is faulty ? I've opened my case and re-attached every cable (SATA2) and even placed them away from each other so less heat affects them, I even swapped the HDD's and I now install the OS on the other one.

It ****es me the **** off, I simply don't know what's up, I don't want to buy a new HDD only to find out that the error will keep haunting me even with the new one.

I decided to post here because you're technically adept and you play WoW, so you might have some information about WoW specific installation errors.

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

It may just be bad cds. I had a similar problem, all I did was copy the contents of the cds (the installer mpq files) and ran them straight from the HD. It seemed to of worked then.

[ylcard]

I have tried to download the game as well (not illegally mind you) and it gave the same error, in addition to error 2 which went away after I deleted all traces of WoW's installation and started it all over again.

I have also tried to copy the contents of the CD to the HDD and it copied just fine, indicating that the CD's were fine, generally.

It still gave the same error when run from the HDD.

I also had some bad luck with archives when downloading them with Chrome, downloading the same archive with IE8 fixed all CRC errors, I attributed the problem to Chrome, not my HDD's.

I also have a problem with Adobe Reader, for the 2nd or 3rd time I can't download it properly, when I download it, it appears to be finished, 26mb~, the installation gives an error that I cant find any information about.

I try to download the file again and it finishes in 1-2 seconds, like it's from a cached copy or something, it's obviously just as corrupted..

It's not relevant to WoW, I know, but perhaps it could shed some light on my situation..

[Redacted]

Out of curiosity, is the guild mentioned on the first page of this thread still active with people from Neowin on it? I used to play this game (Tried to anyway) for about a month or so. I actually did enjoy it, however my friends who got me on the game (Across 2 different servers might I add) never played with me, they were all high level and too busy doing their own stuff to even care. So I kind of got bored as not only was I questing alone, but I didn't have anyone to talk to either.

I have been interested to start playing again though, never played as horde, and knowing that there are like-minded people in a guild could just be the incentive I need to play once more.

[ylcard]

Out of curiosity, is the guild mentioned on the first page of this thread still active with people from Neowin on it? I used to play this game (Tried to anyway) for about a month or so. I actually did enjoy it, however my friends who got me on the game (Across 2 different servers might I add) never played with me, they were all high level and too busy doing their own stuff to even care. So I kind of got bored as not only was I questing alone, but I didn't have anyone to talk to either.

I have been interested to start playing again though, never played as horde, and knowing that there are like-minded people in a guild could just be the incentive I need to play once more.

http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-info.xml?r=Quel'dorei&gn=Neowinian

It's not really active as I see it, it's also in the US, you're from the UK, so...

[Slane]

Out of curiosity, is the guild mentioned on the first page of this thread still active with people from Neowin on it? I used to play this game (Tried to anyway) for about a month or so. I actually did enjoy it, however my friends who got me on the game (Across 2 different servers might I add) never played with me, they were all high level and too busy doing their own stuff to even care. So I kind of got bored as not only was I questing alone, but I didn't have anyone to talk to either.

I have been interested to start playing again though, never played as horde, and knowing that there are like-minded people in a guild could just be the incentive I need to play once more.

Other than the whole region issue, the guild is pretty much dead. I've leveled a few toons to the low 20's there, but never had someone from the guild to invite my toons. It was a cool idea, but it requires alot of work and leaving behind friends/progressed toons to make it worthwhile, unless everyone transfered a toon there (cha-ching) and we managed to set-up raid times/days and all that other goodies when it comes to being a guild.