[PC] World of Warcraft

Considering the state of shamans in PVP right now, I fully expect to be given a pet warlock in our class review. *nodnod*

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Tell me about it. It took me 10 seconds to cast freaking EARTH SHOCK, much less actually use Stormstrike or do any white damage.

That BG was literally the FIRST time I ever AFK farmed honor in a battleground.

How ya doing, buddy?

I dunno, but I personally enjoy every one of the changes. Lord knows it'll make getting a raiding group easier together for me, although it might make it harder for me to join an already-established group.

Besides, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they start adding 40-mans by the second expansion patch.

As for PVP, anything that lets me get good gear at a pace I want to without forcing me to put in more time than I have can be nothing BUT a good thing. Hell, I would've been immensely happy if they'd just removed the honor decay and DK's, keeping everything else the same.

That said, I think that they would've been better off keeping several things for the expansion pack, like the level 65 guards. THAT alone killed what remained of world PVP and city raids, because at least before you only lost rank, which not many people cared about. Now you can't even kill the largest force of opposition unless you're Naxx-geared, and you also have to deal with enemy players, and that Naxx gear doesn't help you resist that Soul Fire or that Aimed Shot.

Also, I freaking hate the Enhancement sets for Tier 4 and Tier 5. Spell damage on a melee set? WTF, Blizzard.

For those wondering, that spell damage adds around half the DPS that AP alone adds, while only adding 50 to your bread-and-butter heal as Enhancement: LHW. So, in essence, you're gimping your damage to heal somebody with 10K HP.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well, I feel a little guilty, but I ran UBRS yesterday, and I picked up this little toy off of Rend: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=20470

I replaced my Cold Forged Hammer with it (finally!). And it's amazing. When the proc goes off... UNF. Toss in a Stormstrike, and if I'm lucky, a Windfury proc or two... my DPS goes through the roof with that up. I think I'll be keeping it for quite some time, and when I save up enough honor for the HWL axe, I'll offhand that and mainhand the HWL axe, keeping my current Bonescraper to pop Shamanistic Rage with.

I'm gonna be having some fun with this baby, though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Hah, there were actually two rogues in there that rolled need. There was surprisingly no drama though. We wiped so much near the end, though. The warlock that came along got two-shotted by Drakk's guards, and the poor hunter who had never kited Drakk before didn't make it past the bridge.

We surprisingly didn't wipe on him though, even though we only had enough time to burn down one of Drakk's guards and we couldn't CC the other because we didn't have a mage, and we didn't bother with the last group of trash so we couldn't fear him.

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Well, he might've been Horde, which has its own unique buffs (i.e. Unleashed Rage for another 10% AP... so he'd need a base of around 2800 AP to break 3000... and there's also improved SoE which gives 176 AP alone).

I think though that he might've done a tribute run and got some of the buffs from there, and possibly other world buffs. Who knows?

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True... but it's definitely world buffs that pushed him over 3K AP.

Oh, and anybody who cares one whit about itemization needs to kindly "suggest" that Blizzard take the Tier 4 and Tier 5 enhancement shammy sets and shove them up their ass.

Here's the Tier 4:

http://www.thottbot.com/beta?set=633

Note the spell damage on it. Now, spell damage isn't too bad, right? It increases your shocks AND your healing!

...Wrong.

The only offensive spell that enhancement shamans will use are shocks, instant cast spells which receive 43% of your spell damage. The same with heals: you will mainly use Lesser Healing Wave, which also receives 43% of your damage.

Now, keep in mind that Enhancement shammies require crit, hit, and AP to DPS. They get more mana back with AP, and keep up Flurry and Unleashed Rage more with crit, and hit allows them to do both reliably. Yet, the only crit and AP on this comes from agility and strength, and there is no +hit at ALL. And instead of these vital stats, we get an extra 50 on a 1.2k heal going to a tank with 10k HP, in exchange for over half the DPS we could get if we had JUST AP instead of damage.

Ugh. If this goes live, I will tell every shaman, enhancement and otherwise, to just pick up the Resto/elemental set, and to ignore the enhancement set. *sigh*

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I know that feeling, Kaelin.

Whenever I tanked with my warrior alt, and something would go wrong, and I kept EVERY mob on me, allowing everybody to DPS each down perfectly while I was healed, for accidental continuous pulls of up to 10 or more mobs... UNF.

It was like I was king of the whole god damn WORLD there.

How ya doing, buddy?

He would be a night elf rogue.

How ya doing, buddy?

No Improved Firebolt?

That is an excellent talent for adding DPS. Especially when you're in a tank group for the stamina buff. And it's somewhat handy in PVP too, although the Felhunter is admittedly much better for what it's intended (i.e. interrupting caster spells).

Oh, and I did the tabard quest in under 5 minutes. RP-PVE servers for the win.

Just tagged one or two felguards (nobody was spamming the portal itself so it was easy to do this), and kited them to the guards and healed myself.

And I am now officially LOVING Enhancement for PVE. I had a competent tank in Live Strat today, and I could literally go balls to the wall DPS with spamming Earth Shock and almost never got aggro so long as he had a second or two to get a sunder up.

PVP, though... well, let me put it this way. I fought a level 60 pally last night. He killed the 52 druid I was with, and then turned to me at about 80-90%.

I did everything right. I trinketed out of the stun, used rank 1 shocks to interrupt his heals (he could NOT heal unbubbled because my attacks interrupted him long enough for my shock's cooldown to reset), and kept myself at reasonably high health. I got him down to about 300 health, and he bubbled and healed to full. I did as well, and quaffed a mana potion.

By this time his stuns were back up and he stunlocked me to death, with me being unable to do anything at all.

It sucks when the only thing that makes you even remotely viable is a blue trinket that has no stats and a 5-minute cooldown.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, I went to the Caverns of Time too. Oh GOD how beautiful it is... it was like being a newb Tauren Warrior stepping out of Camp Narache into the wide plains of Mulgore all over again... <3

Speaking of which, two more days until TBC, and a 3-day weekend to boot. Hopefully we can get my 53 druid friend levelled to 58 so that we can actually friggin' level to 70 together...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

When I head the female draenei talking, the first thing that pops into my head is a quote from the WoW forums:

"But Boris, vat ve do about Tier 2 Druid and Mechanical Squirrel?"

I'm still waiting on my copy, too. Friggin' UPS is probably gonna send it late after I paid 10 bucks for 2-day shipping. =\

Even after I install the expansion though, I probably won't see much, 'cause I'm waiting until my friend can level to 58 (she's 53 right now, about halfway to 54) and has the expansion herself so that we can do it together.

How ya doing, buddy?

I haven't even seen Outland or done a single speck of levelling myself, simply because I'm waiting for my friend to level her druid high enough to go to Outland and her copy of the expansion to arrive.

And then we're going to take our sweet time with it, savoring every bit.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You're gonna be pissed when you fight him then.

Blizz reps have said that they won't let Illidan be killed off by 25 schmoes named "Legomyeggolas" the Blood Elf Hunter with his trusty pet "PrettyPwny" (recently changed from the name "CumLord") united under the banner of "Less QQ More PewPew."

I was speaking idiomatically.

You misunderstand me. Blizzard won't let Illidan get killed by any schmoe named "Pewpndoodoo." Not 25, not 40. If Illidan gets offed, it'll be in the next Warcraft RTS that comes out... assuming one ever does.

How ya doing, buddy?

So... to summarize:

Warriors got buffed in both PVE and PVP, and will have another PVP buff coming as soon as they can figure out the mechanics.

Shamans got buffed in PVE, and in PVP... so long as you're fighting a complete retard. But hey, no more totem-kill mods ('cause I'm preeetty sure that checking for stoneclaw totem and not killing it is prohibited in the new UI mod interface).

Priests got nerfed. WTF?

Feral druids got the nerfbat lovin'. Armor is a minor nerf (not really, since apparently people were getting near the damage reduction cap in greens and blues), and HP changes are either a minor nerf or a buff (not sure which)... but the mangle changes and Savage Fury affecting white attacks are a MAJOR nerf. Like a 10-20% DPS nerf. So much for feral druids being good tanks... although it WAS rather unfair to warriors that a druid could tank about as well as a prot warrior (for far less effort) and DPS VERY competitively by speccing into a single tree.

Overall, though, I hope that's not all the changes for shamans they're doing. I sorta wish that the stun applied to all totems except Grounding and maybe Earthbind... although what I'd like more is an anti-CC in the vain of The Beast Within.

FELIPE NO

http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#s...searchType=all

I am quite proud of the fact that out of 8 million players, I'm the only Megahedron.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

41 Marksman or 41 Beast Mastery, either one works.

BM if you want to farm more, Marksman if you want to PVP.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

...ZG bracers at 70?

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And I want a pony.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah, I took one look at the shaman notes and... well, let's just say that my shammy is stuck in Silvermoon City for a loooooooooooong time.

Got a 31 warrior with Whirlwind Axe. Go go new main. =\

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Kinkatsu, Level 38 Troll Warrior, Thorium Brotherhood, and Megahedron, Level 65 Troll Shaman, Thorium Brotherhood (retired).

Would quit if it weren't for the fact that my best friends can only be reached through this game =\

I was speaking idiomatically.

My warrior hit 40 last night. Got a mount using the funds I transferred over from my main (about 400 gold, give or take), but now I'm at a conundrum.

My current spec is 0/28/3, or to be more accurate, this: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=TZVVzV0gRbZc

My question is whether I should stick with this build, starting on Flurry and getting Bloodthirst at 43, or if I should respec to full Arms and get MS. Here's my warrior's gear: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#c...ood&n=Kinkatsu

How ya doing, buddy?

Patch is confirmed to be tomorrow.

...Woo?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Guru

If your guild doesn't raid with the same 25-30 regularly, Serpentshrine is basically not going to happen for you. Hydross is probably the 2nd hardest boss in the zone, and he's the first boss you fight.

Serpentshrine is what made me quit the game, and the guild I was in was, at the time, ranked in the top 10 in the world. Right now I think they've slipped down to 15-20. But, the amount of time and gold and effort it took to learn Serpentshrine simply isn't worth it for any guild, in my opinion.

So that could be why they're skipping SSC.

Was this pre-2.1? You might want to try again, then. They made raiding a LOT easier to maintain... something along the lines of about 500G a week (which is easy to farm). They also lifted a lot of the attunements too.

Anyway, my warrior's 61 now. I'm having trouble tanking Vazruden the Herald, though. No Fire Resistance set sucks.

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