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3.1 isn't out yet. It is only on the Public Test Servers.

[gigapixels Veteran]

3.1 isn't out yet. It's still in the works. The latest version is 3.0.9.

You should be able to get the latest patches, but you just won't be able to access any WotLK content until you buy the expansion.

[Xilo]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.x...;n=Touchymcfeel - Isn't that your priest Evn? Believe that's the name that was on the statue you posted a picutre of.

Addon request:

An addon that annoucnes when you get a buff or something. For example when I get Bloodsurge (Slam is instant cast), it'll announce in the middle of my screen or something, same thing would apply to Sword and Board (free SS). Anyone understand what I'm saying and if so any addons?

There are definitely mods like that. I think Mike's Scrolling Battle Text does it. I'm not quite sure exactly because I have too many addons, but there are definitely some that do this. Give the WoW Curse website a look.

@gigapixels:

Howling Blast is now the Frost 51 point talent. Bonus frost damage has been reduced. Another Frost talent was moved. Gargoyle was also moved to a 51 point talent. Pretty much 32/39 and variants are completely dead. It seems Blizzard is pigeonholing DK into using cookie cutter builds like all other classes suffer from.

[gigapixels Veteran]

If you use something like SCT, you can set up custom events and make certain things like that appear exactly when and where you want it.

Mine always tells me when I have Howling Blast (well, not anymore, since I switched back to DPS with an Unholy build) or Rune Strike available.

There are definitely mods like that. I think Mike's Scrolling Battle Text does it. I'm not quite sure exactly because I have too many addons, but there are definitely some that do this. Give the WoW Curse website a look.

@gigapixels:

Howling Blast is now the Frost 51 point talent. Bonus frost damage has been reduced. Another Frost talent was moved. Gargoyle was also moved to a 51 point talent. Pretty much 32/39 and variants are completely dead. It seems Blizzard is pigeonholing DK into using cookie cutter builds like all other classes suffer from.

Well I've been doing an almost complete Unholy build (with the exception of enough points to get Nerves of Cold Steel and a couple leftover points in Subversion). Would my DPS be affected much?

[Xilo]

As much as I'm looking forward to 3.1, I love my DW and I really don't want to have to give it up.

Any idea on how much it has been affected?

Hmm... Nope not really. 45/26 I think it is might not get affected much either. But, the two proc on hit talents in unholy are getting nerfed too. Main hand only and changed to procs per minute.

[gigapixels Veteran]

Yeah, I saw those as well. Quite a few changes are being made. I might just install the PTR client and try it out myself.

[_neutrino Veteran]

i never said that i was going to do ulduar in lvl 70 pvp gear i just said that is all i have at the moment i intend on replaceing it with heroic gear or what not before i tread into ulduar im not stupid.

[Slane]

App'd to a 25 man guild actually wanting a prot warrior. Invited me to guild and I was whisked away to do Malygos. First time ever seeing Phase 3, and **** those drakes.

[Xilo]

App'd to a 25 man guild actually wanting a prot warrior. Invited me to guild and I was whisked away to do Malygos. First time ever seeing Phase 3, and **** those drakes.

Gotta love gimmicky vehicle battles... Gotta pray half the raids UI isn't screwed up so the abilities actually work.

[Dotdot]

Anyone got any tips for sarth3d as 10man im told its harder than 25man. Weve done 25man Sarth few times now so im just wondering how you guys have found it. Seens how we got a few folk in s3d guilds :)

[ANON86364]

Anyone got any tips for sarth3d as 10man im told its harder than 25man. Weve done 25man Sarth few times now so im just wondering how you guys have found it. Seens how we got a few folk in s3d guilds :)

A few pages back Spookie was kind enough to give some info on how he and his guild accomplished it.

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[Slane]

http://www.stratfu.com/strats/Sartharion3D

:p

[Spookie]

NOES!

"Plagued and Black Proto-drake rewards to be removed"

3.1 will remove these rewards from the "Glory of..." Achivements. Damn it. Better crack on if I want that plagued mount! :(

[Kussie]

I finally got around to taking a few more slightly updated screen shots of my UI.

I've gone for a strict minimalistic feel with most things either hiding or showing themselves whenever I am in combat and other such triggers.

It also makes heavy use of macros especially along the bars in the bottom panel of the screen. I have created macros that will cast both Arcane Intellitect and Arcane Brilliance if i left or right click. A mana stone button that will either use a mana stone on left click and conjure a new one on right click. An armor button that will cast Molten Armor on left click, Ice Armor on right click and Mage Armor on alt left click. And an eat/conjure/table button that will eat some food on left click, conjure a stack on right click and cast a table on alt + left click. All of the teleport buttons along the bottom left will teleport me on left click and create a portal on right click.

Since these screenshots were taking i have moved the money line over to the right with the durability line and centered the stat line in the middle above the center bar.

All of my buffs are shown up next to the minimap and debuffs are shown next to my unit frames. I also have it set so the raid frames and party frames will be highlighted with a purple border when affected by a curse, which works well in addition to Decursive.

I also have the quest tracker over on the top left, there is also an auto-hide fubar panel on the top right which mostly deals with PVP related things, like BG scores, honor scores and BG Queues.

Recount and Omen only show themselves when in a party/raid and in the case of omen only when in combat

Images:

http://i43.tinypic.com/14448et.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/mb70nn.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2i8akl.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/2ex1mz4.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/261evjs.jpg

[Slane]

Heroic: Twilight Duo

Good way to prove my tanking skills for a guild first kill.

[Prosidius]

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you...Hodir, the first boss to be tested on the PTR.

Easy fight I must say. :p

[Bawx]

Finally got WOTLK. I bought my flyer yesterday, get to Northrend today, can't use it. Sweet. Seriously is flying that much of an advantage Blizzard doesn't allow it til 77?

[Slane]

Finally got WOTLK. I bought my flyer yesterday, get to Northrend today, can't use it. Sweet. Seriously is flying that much of an advantage Blizzard doesn't allow it til 77?

They want you to enjoy the scenery and **** first. It's really not a pain as all the zones you will be leveling in are built for ground mounts.

@Adam - I totally want to get on the PTR but the lag of the few times I attempted it, have told me not to.

[Spookie]

Easy fight I must say. :p

el oh el :p

I'm looking forward to it, I guess I'll have to wait till it comes out on the realms though the PTR is as stable as a fat person on a diving board holding two handfuls of jelly.

[Minifig]

Ding. 70 on my Gnome DK. :)

[ANON86364]

Last night my guild got down Heroic Obsidian Sanctum with 2 drakes up (Tenebron and Shadron) with yours truly main tanking Sartharion. I must say it was very fun to tank Sarth as a DK - maintaining all my cooldowns and communicating to the healers when I had no cooldowns available for a breath. Very fun indeed. My tanking gear is not up to par with rest of the guild due to the fact that it's not my main spec. I'll be in need of a few more Heroic Naxx pieces before going for 3 drakes. If I remember correctly Vesperon is the drake which lowers health by 25% and I need more gear/health to compensate at the moment. All in all its one awesome fight.

[(Spork)]

I finally got around to taking a few more slightly updated screen shots of my UI.

I've gone for a strict minimalistic feel with most things either hiding or showing themselves whenever I am in combat and other such triggers.

It also makes heavy use of macros especially along the bars in the bottom panel of the screen. I have created macros that will cast both Arcane Intellitect and Arcane Brilliance if i left or right click. A mana stone button that will either use a mana stone on left click and conjure a new one on right click. An armor button that will cast Molten Armor on left click, Ice Armor on right click and Mage Armor on alt left click. And an eat/conjure/table button that will eat some food on left click, conjure a stack on right click and cast a table on alt + left click. All of the teleport buttons along the bottom left will teleport me on left click and create a portal on right click.

Since these screenshots were taking i have moved the money line over to the right with the durability line and centered the stat line in the middle above the center bar.

All of my buffs are shown up next to the minimap and debuffs are shown next to my unit frames. I also have it set so the raid frames and party frames will be highlighted with a purple border when affected by a curse, which works well in addition to Decursive.

I also have the quest tracker over on the top left, there is also an auto-hide fubar panel on the top right which mostly deals with PVP related things, like BG scores, honor scores and BG Queues.

Recount and Omen only show themselves when in a party/raid and in the case of omen only when in combat

Images:

http://i43.tinypic.com/14448et.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/mb70nn.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2i8akl.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/2ex1mz4.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/261evjs.jpg

looks good but the full screen glow effect sucks :/

[Slane]

Last night my guild got down Heroic Obsidian Sanctum with 2 drakes up (Tenebron and Shadron) with yours truly main tanking Sartharion. I must say it was very fun to tank Sarth as a DK - maintaining all my cooldowns and communicating to the healers when I had no cooldowns available for a breath. Very fun indeed. My tanking gear is not up to par with rest of the guild due to the fact that it's not my main spec. I'll be in need of a few more Heroic Naxx pieces before going for 3 drakes. If I remember correctly Vesperon is the drake which lowers health by 25% and I need more gear/health to compensate at the moment. All in all its one awesome fight.

I did also, except we left Tenebron and Vesperon up. I think next week we may do Tenebron and Shadron to see how DPS does in burning Tenebron down before Shadron comes down, and start working on a CD rotation for the Sar tank.

[ANON86364]

I did also, except we left Tenebron and Vesperon up. I think next week we may do Tenebron and Shadron to see how DPS does in burning Tenebron down before Shadron comes down, and start working on a CD rotation for the Sar tank.

Leaving Tenebron and Vesperon makes the most sense - giving the most time between drakes. We were trying that for a while. Then we singled out Vesperon as being the real show stopper. With Vesperon's aura where everyone is basically killing themselves it seemed to be the harder combination for our raid. We even had a hard time downing OS with only Vesperon up. When Vesperon comes down was Tenebron way past dead at that point and you merely cleaning up adds until he dropped?

[Slane]

Leaving Tenebron and Vesperon makes the most sense - giving the most time between drakes. We were trying that for a while. Then we singled out Vesperon as being the real show stopper. With Vesperon's aura where everyone is basically killing themselves it seemed to be the harder combination for our raid. We even had a hard time downing OS with only Vesperon up. When Vesperon comes down was Tenebron way past dead at that point and you merely cleaning up adds until he dropped?

Killed Tenebron about 10 second after heroism faded (probally need to be faster for 3D), then we would have roughly 20 seconds or so to AOE all the elementals and whelps up. By the time they were all dead, I would charge to Sar and keep Demo/TC up to help with the increased melee damage, the add tank (pally) would continue to pick up any elementals while the 4th tank (all we had on for a 25th) would pick up the other drake. After that everytime a portal went up myself, all meleee, and one holy pally would go in and take out the disiple who would only take about 10 seconds to kill, sometimes 15.

After that it was bursts of damage on Vesperon, and about every third portal, instead of melee booking it to Vesperon they would kill of some adds on the add tank to lower his incoming damage. I'm sure it's far from perfect and we would need a fair amount of work to be able to do 3D but we managed.