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Finally got enough druids in my guild for a 10 man OS (well, 9 man) last night. It was fun to see all of the Wrath spells being launched. And 5 moonkins with treants....pretty sick!

sounds like national guard work. maybe it means "active time" or something.

anywho, 28 aint so bad, but its exacerbated by the fact that i work with kids. nothing makes you realize your age like playing dodgeball for an hour with 12 year olds and wanting to pass out immediately after. conversely, nothing makes you feel quite as young as beaning said 12 year olds in the face during said dodgeball game.

but mostly it just makes me feel old lol.

So....since "The Undying" wasn't good enough...we went and got "Of the Nightfall"last night.

Cause that's just how I roll. /flex

Oh, also...Footpads of Silence....BiS anyone? :P

Lol Quor.

I can't do distance running anymore. After 3 years of college football where you focus purely on fast twitch muscle enhancement... Yeah, I'm good for about 100 yards. When I work out and want to run I just hit the eliptical machine and pretend I'm running.

I can't understand how kids like running laps, it blows.

I finally got DS, may have mentioned before I forget, and also finally got my gears enchanted and whatnot for said enterprise.

Yes, Galen I am getting all whacky with ArP , aka 'The Dark Side.'

Well I finally got around to hitting the dummies to take it out for a test spin and start working on the rotation. Also wanted to test Rip vs Shred Idol, they were virtually identical for me so I would go what the fight prefers.

I realized I hit Mangle to much as a hold over from my Mangle spam days, especially for Clearcast procs. I probably could work in more FBs and need to work on it. Was doing fairly ok with not overwriting Rip/Rake. Still to used to bear/Mangle spam w/o TF and using every GCD. Need to work on waiting occasionally, to both pool energy and for greater efficiency as well.

Anyway was sustaining, 3 minute tests, over 3k DPS with both Idols. Which is decent. I need more practice I think.

That's just hawt Gutler....also up to almost 200 armor pen just on gear now Horse.

I'm still rocking that agility though. My rips critting for 2/3rds of a shred during movement fights is incredible. I apparently logged out in my failpvpgear though.

I'm averaging 4-4.2k self buffed on heroic target dummy over a 5 minute cycle. (I typically do 5 minutes since that's how long faerie fire is and I can keep track of it, also I'm noticing a lot of our fights are in that range lately)

We did a sarth3d 10 man zerg the other night just to say we did...I did 6.1k dps and was the one who taunted tenebron off and ran away at the end. :P

1 tank, 1 healer and 8 dps. Good time :P

Utherius (DK tank)
Talthias (Enhance Shaman)
Sadrian (Rogue)
Guran (Rogue)
Uleo (Kitty Drood)
Galenmoon ( MEEEEEeee)
Coolhndmik( DK)
Tbalpha (Arms Warrior)
Lyndria (Pally Healer)
I forget the other dps Dk's name :P

Averaged just over 5k dps per person the whole fight. The Blood dk's were popping hysteria on both myself and the other feral kitty who was just below me at 6k dps.

Anyway, was fun. Took us about an hour and a half to get it down, though we had him below 20% 3/4's of the attempts.

Edited, Jul 12th 2009 10:53pm by Galenmoon

A little late, but AT = Anual Training. The two weeks in the summer when you see just how out of shape and undisciplined the baddies in your Reserve/National Guard unit are. I mean seriously, I was in a hospital unit, our AT was in WISCONSIN, and we had freaking HEAT CASUALTIES. The only good part was watching the 20 or so Canuk reservists do twice as much work as the 150 guys from my unit.

Man, I'm getting all nostalgic and sh!t. I wish I hadn't hurt my back before I re-uped and went Active Duty.

Former Weekend Warrior, Combat Medic.

Horse. I just want you to know that I hate you. That headpiece dropped our first night getting all the keepers down. A rogue won it. It hasn't dropped since... :(

I'm still wearing T7 hat :(

course I still <3 the 2pcT7 bonus too though...Meh

Annual training. You Nasty girl nubs :P

I was only national guard long enough to not get pulled back into active from Inactive reserve.

NTC in the damn Mohave Desert...talk about heat casualties... If it wasn't that, it was 20 degrees with 5 degree wind chill in February...

I miss the Army some days.

Brah.

I mean brah just da kine.

No worry, beef curry.

Arex, what buffs do you prioritize for Hodir? I'm having a lot of trouble pushing past mid 3k DPS (with essentially no useful Boomkin buffs) and I'm not sure if it's a problem with what I'm doing, or if we're just not getting the singed debuff up fast enough.

i heard echoes of the wookie in these words arex. this pleases me.

I must have been projecting my thoughts really well yesterday, after my random/minor complaint about not getting to tank much anymore cause I don't have gear I got a new ring (BiS) and new gloves (#3 in set).

Kitty ring too.

I'm a happy drood.

Edit: What's feasible for a druid in Uld anyway? I was kind of comparing to our MT Pally just to get a rough idea; he has like 40-42k health buffed, I have 33k unbuffed; he has 27k armor (unbuffed, I think), I have 29k; he has about 46% avoid (also unbuffed, split about 28/17 dodge/parry), I have...38%? Armory is dps gear so can't check.

Obviously I'd have to convince my guildies more than I'd have to convince myself, just not sure what I need before I can reasonably approach them about it and not get laughed at >.>

Edited, Jul 15th 2009 12:53pm by Norellicus

Hehe if you think arex has to much hit dont even look at my druid, it seems the only things i can win rolls on have hit and i need haste badly .

Yeah I need better chest and head pieces - I'm still using a @#%^ing polar vest, can't get anything else to drop :(

Essence of Gossammer too. Stupid spider whoremonkey.

I still have those wrists too haha, I just feel less bad about it because there aren't as many replacement options.

Some of the Coliseum drops have no spirit AND no hit rating.

I got a hard-on for a bit.

w00t Ulduar-25 trash was good to me tonight go go Awesome Chest

AMG, loot! 8.5 gloves and pants last night, puts me 3/4 on tier stuff, just need chest and/or shoulders. Apparently I have a new ring coming to me as well, as the DK who rolled against me Tuesday already had one and didn't notice/forgot/whatever, so he ticketed it to be sent my way.

3shotted 25 mimiron on our very first night of ever setting foot in his area too (some of us have seen it on 10, but by and large it was rookie season). The speed of improvement was rather amusing, on the first try we lost like half the raid on the first lightning nova, and the other half to the first laser barrage.

CBD, if you link your profile I'll nerdrage over it and tell you what you can do to make it better.

I'm good at nerdraging.


Side note, peaked out raid buffed at 3107 spell power. Uh Uh Uh UNSE UNSE UNSE UNSE YEAHHHHHH <--- Message Board Techno for you folks.

Lol, its all good with that trinket.

What I can see though is you should replace your off hand with Ward of the Violet Citadel. Its from badges so run a couple heroics and you're golden. That'll help with your hit rating and allow you to drop some of the hit gems.

Also, enchant your chest with 8 or 10 stats whichever is easiest for you to afford. You'll want 23 haste to your cloak but it's not the most imperative thing at the moment.

For your trinket here are some viable alternatives that aren't too terribly hard to get. Titan Forged Rune of Accuracy and Battle Master's Accuracy. Yes both are from pvp but thats going to free up quite a bit of hit rating so you can gem more spell power or haste.

The rest really will just come with general upgrades from raiding. You're on track.

As for this, make sure you have squawkandawe downloaded and running that will help you track your eclipse and if you don't have it now, you're going to see a nice increase in your dps.

Other than all this, find a practice dummy and go to town. Don't clip your dots, don't clip eclipse. Profit from practice.

Arex with an OT spec?

Is the world ending soon????

edit: why the mangle and barkskin glyphs?

Edited, Jul 19th 2009 4:46pm by Horsemouth

Get Maul, SR and Rip or I will fight you.

OS with crap gear (PVP ring and trinket anyone?) and making guildies come with you is fun.

Also on the pieces of gear that should have been replaced far too long ago...

Even someone as simple as Noth seems to hate me.

Edited, Jul 20th 2009 2:03pm by slightlysober

This doesn't really compare to what most of y'all have done, but it was pretty neat from my perspective. In an effort to hurry up (don't laugh) and get my 70 druid to Northrend, I had it in my head that I wanted to do the Nesingwary quest line in Nagrand. Nobody in my small guild was on, so I took it upon myself to solo it. Mind you, I'm wearing gear that is half vanilla WoW and half easy Outland gear (low level instances, quest rewards). The one exception being my staff from the Arena of Blood event in Nagrand. Me likey the staff.

The first and second sets were just regular mobs, and I am level 70, so I use a combo of cat and bear to knock them down in quick order. Then comes the three archetype elite mobs. I have a good go at them and take them out without dying. Woot!

Finally, it's time for Tusker the big elekk. I test her immunity to root and sure enough she is immune. I run away and reset aggro. After a good fight that is nip and tuck I take down Tusker solo. It was one of the more fun fights I've had as a druid. I felt like I was using the tools at my disposal.

Flushed with the success from that, I tried to solo the demon forge camp quests, and found I could. I even soloed the demon in the tavern in Lower City. I want to try to solo the big demons at the center of the forges, but I have a bad feeling about them hehe. Still, I intend to try. Wish me luck. Go, druids!

EDIT: Woot! 100th post!

Edited, Jul 20th 2009 5:01pm by Dosgamer

Brah epic fail...

No log feral gear.

Arex made maka a sad bear. :'(