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#552 Aug 25 2009 at 2:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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I just decided that our guild is short on tanks and healers so I'm gonna put away my leet dps spec/gear for awhile and go Tank/Resto dual spec. That'll give some of our guildies a chance to catch me on the dps meters :P


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#553 Aug 25 2009 at 9:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ok, so, switched specs, re-gemmed, re-glyphed, re-chanted and here we have it, completely unbuffed (not even motw) stats in bear form.

HP - 35,167
Armor - 27,556 (64.40% reduction)
Dodge - 39.98%
AP - 5346
Hit - 235 (7.17%)
ArP - 82
Crit - 41.76%
Exp - 26 (6.50%)

Procs - Mongoose, Idol of Mutilation, Darkmoon Card: Greatness Agility, The Black Heart

I'm pleased.

Edited, Aug 26th 2009 1:07am by Galenmoon
#554 Aug 25 2009 at 11:22 PM Rating: Good
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I see you have the scary hat. This is so ugly I had it showing when in caster form.

Thing is so ugly.
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#555 Aug 25 2009 at 11:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well, good night tonight.

Did 10 man ToC right before the raid and got lots of fun feral gear, also downed the new boss.

Did 25 man ToC and downed the new boss in that.

Proceeded to go to Ulduar to attempt 25 man Flame Lev with 4 towers. 3 shot that encounter for the first time ever.

Then I went to the 5 man ToC and geared up my dk with like 5 new pieces.

I got new boots though!

Edit: Totally forgot to mention this.

So we have this aussie feral druid in my guild who is cool ****. He asked if anyone had the 20 arp cut at all and I said I could get it for him. So I went and bought the cut and then proceeded to cut him 6 arp gems.

Guess how much arp he has? 834 Armor Pen. It's sick as ****. He's almost at full 100% armor pen.

Edited, Aug 26th 2009 2:37am by ArexLovesPie
#556 Aug 26 2009 at 12:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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That hat is fugly :) Only time I used to show it was when I was in CoS and my stupid human form made me bald :)

Gz Arex, busy night I see :) Our guild in 25 man are the slowest to loot in the world so we can't do so much in a night! So frustrating.
#557 Aug 28 2009 at 7:05 AM Rating: Good
So I've probably asked this before already but how far do you need to go to reliably tank T8/9 content? I know my tank gear is getting better but the sheer quantity of 200s that I still have makes me nervous about it. I'd like to be able to confidently tell my raid leaders that I can tank if one doesn't show and not have it **** up the raid because we didn't have another willing volunteer.

Armory has tank gear atm.
#558 Aug 28 2009 at 9:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well, I switched my bear to full tank spec and went out into the world to tank some heroics. Did fine, had a few different dps in and out and ended in H VH with 4 plate wearers and me.

Long story short, the warrior was riding my tail in threat the whole time and at one point had aggro on the boss. Which gave me the idea for Nith's Rule #2 for tanking - If a plate wearing class pulls a mob, he gets to tank it cause my mom taught me to share.
#559 Aug 28 2009 at 11:13 AM Rating: Excellent
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Norellicus, I'd say you're ok for T7-T7.5, maybe first few bosses in T8. Your stam is good, but you're low on agility. You're about 4% low on dodge imo before getting any further in T8 and that low agility will mean low crit so low uptime on savage Defense.

Replacing the Polar Vest should be #1 priority, then the shoulders and bracers.
#560 Aug 28 2009 at 11:55 AM Rating: Good
Yeah, those glare at me every time I look at them. Can't get upgrades to save my life though, never seem to make it further than spider wing in naxx with shout groups and the sheer badge cost of a chest token is just ughhhhh.

Just to check, are you basing the dodge stuff off my armory tooltips or running it through rawr/feralbynight? Cause in bear I think I have like 36% dodge. I dunno my crit. I know it's not a fix-all but I've got that darkmoon card coming soon too, so that'll at least give spurt boosts to my agility.

So are there rough values I should be looking at to be solid? You said health was good, dodge is 4% low, so if you were calculating in bear form I need to get to at least 40%...crit needs to be what, like 25%?

Edited, Aug 28th 2009 4:12pm by Norellicus
#561 Aug 28 2009 at 2:26 PM Rating: Excellent
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I judged your dodge by your armory, expecting you to take the two talents that combine for 10% dodge in bear form, which would put you at 36%. I like to stay at 40% as a minimum for tanking T8 and higher raids.

You can see where my stats are in the posts above.

HP and dodge are the priority, then expertise, then hit imo. The best way to get dodge though is agility, which will increase your crit to help keep SD up.

Edited, Aug 28th 2009 6:28pm by Galenmoon
#562 Aug 28 2009 at 2:50 PM Rating: Excellent
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You can get the T8.5 chest with badges just from running heroics for a week, and the heroic daily for 2 weeks will get you the lowest tier 9 shoulder. And I believe Trial of the Champion has a decent bracer on heroic. If armory was working, I could give you some more suggestions for upgrades.
#563 Aug 28 2009 at 3:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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Xenexia wrote:
Well, I switched my bear to full tank spec and went out into the world to tank some heroics. Did fine, had a few different dps in and out and ended in H VH with 4 plate wearers and me.

Long story short, the warrior was riding my tail in threat the whole time and at one point had aggro on the boss. Which gave me the idea for Nith's Rule #2 for tanking - If a plate wearing class pulls a mob, he gets to tank it cause my mom taught me to share.


Warriors and their lack of proper threat reduction is annoying the hell out of me, especially when paired with an Arms Warrior. Those guys just love Bladestorm, especially as an opening move after building up rage through Charge. Swipe can only do so much.

The most frustrating part is that you can't just tell them to watch their threat, because they'll counter it by telling you to increase your TPS.

Seriously hate some people.
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#564 Aug 28 2009 at 4:32 PM Rating: Excellent
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I top tps meters all the time.

I'm pretty god damn amazing because of it too.

On a side note!

Ran 10 man os zerg, with 5 alts! After a few fails people finally realized perhaps, mayhaps... We should be on our mains.

One attempt later with our mains the zerg was down, and to our wonderful great surprise...

A black drake was on the corpse!

Our ele shammy is the brand new owner of a black drake.
#565 Aug 29 2009 at 1:33 AM Rating: Good
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I got my priest frm level 52 to level 60 today. And spend 700g on keeping my profs up-to-par.

Which means I get a lot of time with the druid tomorrow for dailies, because now I need flying. I don't think I've ever been so excited to play a different class.

I really just wanna be level 80.
#566 Aug 29 2009 at 5:41 AM Rating: Good
AstarintheDruid wrote:
You can get the T8.5 chest with badges just from running heroics for a week, and the heroic daily for 2 weeks will get you the lowest tier 9 shoulder. And I believe Trial of the Champion has a decent bracer on heroic. If armory was working, I could give you some more suggestions for upgrades.


I was hoping to avoid mindlessly grinding heroics but at this point I no longer have a choice, guild stopped running 10s on the weekend and I can only come sparingly to the 25s during the week...heroics here I come!

And bracers drop in reg ToC, I didn't notice until now. Unfortunately it seems getting anything in particular to drop there is impossible (I keep trying to run it for the Banner of Victory, and now I guess I'll have to do it yet still for the bracers!) :F
#567 Aug 29 2009 at 8:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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Upgraded some of my tank pieces. Picked up Belt of the Twilight Assassin and Shard of the Crystal Forest

Way to OP

O.o
#568 Aug 29 2009 at 12:06 PM Rating: Good
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Lost Lupine Longstaff last night to a PuG Hunter. I died a little inside.
#569 Aug 29 2009 at 10:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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That, folks, is the reason people don't like hunters.
#570 Aug 29 2009 at 11:48 PM Rating: Good
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Its not so much that I hate the hunter, it's because we always seem to be a few short for 25 runs and PuGs always steal my gear. If it was someone from the guild Id be less crushed
#571 Aug 30 2009 at 12:07 AM Rating: Excellent
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But it's a weapon. It's basically the one slot that's itemized so outrageously well that an upgrade should be drastically noticeable, even to the players who have absolutely zero skill (particularly feral with their FAP). Hunters don't use weapons for this purpose and I really feel that unless it's a bow or gun, it should be considered a level between main spec and off spec for them. I only roll for a weapon on my hunter when I'm sure no one else wants it.

#572 Aug 30 2009 at 12:14 AM Rating: Good
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So true. It really is a Feral Staff. (I would link it if I knew how.)
#573 Aug 30 2009 at 7:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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Lupine Longstaff. I'll say this about the staff, for a marks hunter it's actually really good. Arp = aimed shot love.

#574 Aug 30 2009 at 11:54 AM Rating: Good
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Well my guild has too many melee so I've been made main healer spec, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I fought yogg-saron for the first time!
And I'm still freakin trying to get stupid anzu's reins to drop so i can take off all this fur and go into my feathers once again ;-; im tired of being a healer...

Unless they give me a shot at the legendary mace (needs 29 more) rawr

EDIT: Oh oh, forgot to mention I got Phaelia's vestments! (the armor from the now mom writer of Resto4Life) gawd I love the story of this item
And some other epics I cant remember

Edited, Aug 30th 2009 3:56pm by Manikku
#575 Aug 30 2009 at 3:24 PM Rating: Excellent
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fill me in mani, whats the story behind phaelias vestments?
#576 Aug 30 2009 at 4:32 PM Rating: Good
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I can't get my avatar to show up. What am I doing wrong.


edit:Grammer

Edited, Aug 30th 2009 9:24pm by DrunkDrood
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