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In another news, the guild I am finally beat Sinestra down, after 3 days worth of attempts on her. I participate in most of them, but was replaced yesterday by some other people. We had 3 Moonkins in the raid and the raid leader wanted to attempt some other configurations. As I am the newest Moonkin in the group and the less geared, I was the obvious choice, though my dps wasnt so behind (was in top 10 most of the time). Anyway, they eventually killed after changing some people in and out, changing healers, bla bla bla. Hopefully, I will be able to kill her next week with them. IMHO, it's not the hardest fight, but it's the more punishing one. You simply can't fail, not even a little bit. Everyone has to be near perfect, otherwise it's a wipe. But it's not the harderst one just because it doesnt have so many things going on and is quite repetitive. Phase 1 and phase 3 are pretty similar, phase 2 is pretty stupid. Once you get how phase 1 works, phase 2 is a cake and phase 3 will need some minor adjustments.

After we killed her, we went to some farm content before the end of the night and I did Heroic Omnotron for the first time. My opinion? It's way, way harder than Sinestra. So many things going on that there were sometimes where I was pretty much running around like a headless chicken, haha. A fun fight, but man, so many **** going on. I caused one wipe on it, because of freackin Starfall hitting the shield (I was used to GoFocus, but had it changed to GoInnervate for Sinestra). In the end, I ended up with 17k dps on that fight. Not so bad for the first night seeing it, I guess.

And when I saw the combatlogs of the fight, I finally figured out why pigtails decided to go shadowpriest. The top dps was a shadowpriest with 40k dps. He`s pretty much a beast dpsing, never saw anyone dps like he does, it`s pretty amazing, actually. He is always, in every single fight, the top dps and by an enormous margin. In this fight, the second top dps was a hunter and the third was a moonkin. They both had around 36k dps.

It's a doomsday story about a comet hitting the earth.

I can't remember what the movie about the super intelligent sharks was called, but I firmly remember that it absolutely sucked. Oh, and the sharks weren't just super intelligent--they also had super strength.

And they developed both because they were being used in cancer treatment testing or something ridiculous like that.

Deep Blue Sea. And it was awesome.

DEEPEST! BLUEST! MY HAT IS LIKE A SHARK'S FIN!

Since we seem to have a few gun experts here, I hope one of you can answer this question:

Let's say I'm at a shooting range and I'm handing a gun off to someone else (and let's assume that person is near enough that unloading the gun would just be impractical). In what direction is it the safest to point the gun to avoid harming anyone else if it were to discharge accidentally? Up? Down? Angled? Away from Harry Whittington if it's a 20-gauge?

Up and down range. Down might cause a ricochet, and down range/towards the targets because if there is an accidental discharge at least its where you know people aren't.

Okay, how about in any other situation - not in a shooting range or in training, but a hypothetical combat situation - where there may be other people present (I.E. there could be someone ahead of you but it's not completely certain)? Is pointing it up in the air just as dangerous?

Edit: And I promise, this is the last hypothetical question I have.

Edited, Jun 17th 2011 10:43am by Davejohnsan

I can't think of any situation during combat you'd hand off your weapon. However, if it did happen then you'd be more concerned with speed, so you'd hand it off as safely and quickly as possible.

Also keep in mind a rifle in combat is uniquely sighted for the soldier and aren't exactly easily exchangeable.

Also that a 9mm is accurate to a thousand feet

So...I think I have only 2 options. The devs behind moonkin are trolls or drunk. Well, a third would be drunk trolls.
They say they are changing a talent to prevent there and what will actually happen is people dropping the talent to actually stay in solar. So...how this solve the problem? Wouldnt it be easy to make Hurricane a Lunar thing, nerf Eclipse and buff unEclipse spells to some extent?

How the hell Blizzard has to do everything in the more complicated way? Argh!

/rant

The damage will still be high enough and their change to innervate actually kill the "high cost" of it. So....nothing will change, other than me doing a bit less dpsing and doing **** crap dpsing while moving. Imagine a fight like heroic omnotron with that talent change. Or, hell, atramedes. The difference between being in solar in Atramedes while he flies away and being in an uneclipse state is freacking huge!

I'm not mad because of the change in itself. Solar aoe damage and mobility is too high, I get it and I actually agree. But they are not targetting the issue, they are targeting the way we have to actually play the class to be at least competitive in fights with high aoe and high mobility.
You want a real example? The guild I am just killed Sinestra. I participate in a lot of attempts. On the earlier attempts I did craptastic damage, being in between the 13th and sometimes even below the tank. You know when I went to top 10, even top 3 on some attempts? When I only casted Sunfire to stay in Solar so I could do dps in AoE phases and while moving. You know what would make me not want to stay in solar? An effective way to do AoE damage while in Lunar and and effective way to actually do damage without losing so much dps while I move.

What I'm trying to say is, the difference is too big, is HUGE! It's in the 10k dps range! TEN FREAKIN THOUSAND! I can't believe they are not seeing this, is too obvious! Every freakin Moonkin know this! And yet, what they do? Ignore the obvious and do something that wont change about anything.


blergh! sorry about the rant, I needed to vent a bit.

Innervate on others, now, will be so useless that the difference of receiving an Innervate from a Druid and not receiving is almost 0, not less. So, it will make me use my own Innervate, wich was spent with other people. So, now I will have a reason to pick Dreamstate and use it on myself. So, the difference in cost that Sunfire has with and without the talent pretty much wont matter.
Every moonkin will leave GoInnervate behind, take Dreamstate, use Innervate in itself and still walk around in solar. Yay for not changing anything that matters!

And I'm talking about PvE, here. In PvP, Innervate will be pretty much dispelled anyway and this change will actually have an impact. So, yet again, yay for pvp changes that break my class!