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Hi, any suggestions for my Druid ? Here's my Armory. My guild won't be raiding until (at least) next week, and in the mean time I'm not sure how to make any progress. Any advice on my enchanting/gemming ? Some gear that I can get before starting raids ? (I'm working on the TB One-Hand right now) or any suggestion to make my DPS better ? (I'm standing at 14-15k on Bosses, 22k with Heroism and 18k burst on trash)

I'm either dumb or my very long break since last playing WoW is showing...

Just logged in as my mage, who is level 48, and I have no idea where frost armor/ice armor or any of my buffs are?

Not played WoW in about 7 months or something, so much has changed!

edit: Frost spec and my spells book looks like this

WoWScrnShot_011311_135441.jpg

It's intended to be a PVP buff (use it to block a counterspell or kick)

Yea, I don't like PVP I did it for a bit, got bored of it, would rather strategize with 25 people about how to down a monster than how to kill a 13 y/o kid.

In PVE it's got some use as well. Holy priests have more potent instant cast abilities so they are less effected by the mechanic.

Yea, holy priests don't shield much from what I can tell, their heals are more than strong enough to cover that. It has it's uses yes, but it's in a limited kinda way. It's definitely a PVP Buff.

As for levitate, I guess I just haven't experience that, however yea I can see the use, but any damage is going to instantly remove it.

Yep, I misread the patch notes, my bad.

Well, as disc I see that whole use slower more mana efficient spells (ie: heal) I never used heal in WoTLK, was always FH, but now I never FH.

Lastnight I got kicked out of a group on the last boss in H SFK. The tank was a drood bear with 160k hp buffed. He would get mad when I couldn't heal him through the damage of 6 mobs at one time. I tried to explain the CC is needed, that when he gets hit for 10k per mob (so 40-50k damage every couple seconds) it is quite difficult. I also tried to explain that Leather armor != plate armor which made him mad.

He also had a tendency to run ahead and start pulling before I had mana or before I was with him to heal. So with that, I begin to wonder am I too weak to heal? Like should I be able to heal through that? Or am I okay and it's not my fault..

Lastnight I got kicked out of a group on the last boss in H SFK. The tank was a drood bear with 160k hp buffed. He would get mad when I couldn't heal him through the damage of 6 mobs at one time. I tried to explain the CC is needed, that when he gets hit for 10k per mob (so 40-50k damage every couple seconds) it is quite difficult. I also tried to explain that Leather armor != plate armor which made him mad.

He also had a tendency to run ahead and start pulling before I had mana or before I was with him to heal. So with that, I begin to wonder am I too weak to heal? Like should I be able to heal through that? Or am I okay and it's not my fault..

There are more details to be accounted for to come to an accurate conclusion. The bear seems to have enough health equivalent to our bears in raids (well maybe 20-30k less) but how is he accomplishing this? Stacking stamina? If so, he's a scrub. The real question though, is how does your gear stack up? It is quite easy to go oom on one pull like that without CC when you are not raid geared. If you are raid geared, then I would say you need to work on maintaining mana

Honestly, though, any good tank will look at his healer to see what to expect. If he's not open minded enough to look out for the best interest of the group, then he's just a jackass.

The tank was a drood bear with 160k hp buffed. He would get mad when I couldn't heal him through the damage of 6 mobs at one time. I tried to explain the CC is needed, that when he gets hit for 10k per mob (so 40-50k damage every couple seconds) it is quite difficult.

That should be survivable even in quest greens and blues.

I also tried to explain that Leather armor != plate armor which made him mad.

It's not the same, but the damage reduction of a druid in bear form is pretty similar to that of the plate tanks. A mix of epics and heroic blues puts a shield tank at around 35k armor, a DK tank at around 25k. A feral druid sits in the middle. The mechanics are slightly different, our paladin tank never takes a full hit due to the amount of block/dodge/parry pushing hit off the table. A druid is going to be taking simliar amounts of damage due to savage defence + slightly higher avoidance. DKs take more damage than other tanks, but they also self heal for exceptional amounts so their less of a drain on healers than others. If you pull up world of logs and poke through 'tank and spank' encounters you'll see that holds up easily enough.

So with that, I begin to wonder am I too weak to heal? Like should I be able to heal through that? Or am I okay and it's not my fault..

If you've got round 2000 spirit, ?10% you should be able to go a few trash pulls without drinking but stopping every 3 or 4 is pretty normal and drinking before the boss is perfectly reasonable. The last guy in SFK should be trivial, you certainly don't need to CC the mobs for that encounter. Did you check his death log? If he was getting blown up it's probably because he was standing in bullet barrage.

He may have had a point or two but it also sounds like the guy was a jerk. Just vote kick him, it's easy enough to get a replacement tank once you've made it through the queue.

i have a DK tank (lvl70) and a drood tank (lvl54)

what i want to know is as DK tank what rotations should i use? atm i just randomly use spells and bloodboil when its cd done, if others have aggro i just use command/taunt. (for future ref ;) )

(ima shammy dps/healer :) at 85 )

I'm either dumb or my very long break since last playing WoW is showing...

Just logged in as my mage, who is level 48, and I have no idea where frost armor/ice armor or any of my buffs are?

Not played WoW in about 7 months or something, so much has changed!

edit: Frost spec and my spells book looks like this

Check your arcane tab

That should be survivable even in quest greens and blues.

Yea, except that my heals are for 9-10k I'm 10% haste un buffed so if he gets hit for even 40k in the time I heal 10k... It's kinda hard to keep up.

I dunno I just found the warrior tank I had been with the night before was far easier for me to heal than the druid.

I don't drink much, on a nice CC Pull I use 15% mana (maybe) on a big pull no CC 40-60% mana because I pop things such as barrier and have to do my AOE Heal. I have a 90k mana pool buffed.

The last guy in SFK should be trivial, you certainly don't need to CC the mobs for that encounter. Did you check his death log? If he was getting blown up it's probably because he was standing in bullet barrage.

They kicked me in the room before that boss. Keeping in mind we had only wiped on one of the bosses once. We didn't have many wipes but there was quite a few times where the tank would die [because my heals weren't strong enough] and I'd rez him after.

He may have had a point or two but it also sounds like the guy was a jerk. Just vote kick him, it's easy enough to get a replacement tank once you've made it through the queue.

Ahwell, it's no biggie, I don't care, I've never like drood tanks though.

Check your arcane tab

I don't have any castable buffs under arcane either, just mage ward/mana shield.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Frost_Armor

Says I should have it at level 1, and a year back when I last played my mage I'm sure I did have it!

Druid shapeshifting not breaking roots anymore makes me a sad panda :( That was like a highlight of being a druid. I get it, a blow to Ferals being imba but wtf Mages can blink out of the ****. I get that i can dispell it as Resto but WTF chuck about Boomkins? Trinket when all other classes get two ways of getting out of that ****. pfffft.

I don't have any castable buffs under arcane either, just mage ward/mana shield.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Frost_Armor

Says I should have it at level 1, and a year back when I last played my mage I'm sure I did have it!

Look at your screenshot.

Frost Armor: Available at 54.

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=7302

I don't have any castable buffs under arcane either, just mage ward/mana shield.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Frost_Armor

Says I should have it at level 1, and a year back when I last played my mage I'm sure I did have it!

Yeah they completely changed all the buffs you get as a mage. I mean you don't even get Arcane Intellect/Brilliance until really late in the game, and its the same spell now and uses no reagents :)

Just wondering how many people play World of Warcraft with Ubuntu? I'm thinking about coming back to the game, but don't own a 64-bit version of Windows and would prefer to keep it off my mac :)

I used to run WoW under Wine and it worked for the most part without issue. It was VERY playable just make sure you enable OpenGL

I play WoW using PCLinuxOS 2010 using wine....and the opengl flag. It runs well but since patch 4.0 you are limited in how much you can turn the settings up. This is because the opengl used in the game for Windows is an older version and has not been updated. When the game detects the opengl flag being used it hard sets your graphic settings to lower end. I am able to still customize many of the settings and the game still looks very good so it really is no big deal to me anyways.

I get very good frame rates...usually between 50 and 60. Busy areas will dip down but that really is the case for everyone.

Just make sure that you are using the latest graphic driver as this made a big difference to my setup.

Yeah they completely changed all the buffs you get as a mage. I mean you don't even get Arcane Intellect/Brilliance until really late in the game, and its the same spell now and uses no reagents :)

Yeah I've come to understand that now, I just panicked yesterday as I haven't played my mage in about a year, so much has changed laugh.gif

Thinking of rolling horde for a proper go, I've never had a horde character above about level 12. Decided I want to stay as a caster, and the only two caster classes I haven't seriously played are Priest/Warlock.

Now to choose!

Here, I'll link to the thread.

imo, waste of time.

I have 109 days /played on my hunter.. there has always been some variation of your "bug". It's not a bug... it's how the game works. Having pets trail or what have you is not going to happen.

What in your guys opinion is the best EU Realm, for Alliance PvE/PvP?

It's hard to beat auchindoun for number 12/12 or better guilds in PVE. With raiding only requiring 10 players it doesn't matter where you play, it's who you play with. Find something in a time zone that matches when you play (prime-time is about 7:00, so pick a server where 7:00 server time happens when you play most often).

If you're looking to be 'the best' then you'll be going wherever you can find 9/14/24 other people to play with at the vey high end. The top guilds in the world are

scattered around on different servers. The server you transfer to will be the one with the people you're going to play with.

Finally reached Outland for the first time ever. Looks quite cool, lookingforward to my flying mount more though. Whats the best way to find guilds that are recruiting? I'd like to get into some end game content at some point and pugs can be quite frustrating. I play on EU Magtheridon, I would class myself as a casual player, I usually play about 4-8 hours a week.

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