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Chie Satonaka
Member
It's fine. That's not where the real damage comes from.
Heroic Imperator. An exercise in frustration for how long this fight is. Guess will get it down next week considering how under geared we are for heroic. 30% with our 2 main healers absent.
So true it hurts.
unknownstranger
Member
Frost Mage buff makes me laugh because it points out how boring our rotation is.
at least you have procs, try playing an arms warrior--25% dead GCDs where you just auto attack with a 3 second 2h
Make a weak aura to do a spin in your chair during down time.
phoenix296
Member
Arms is so terrible to play. I'll have to respec fury asap.
those downtimes where you dont press buttons as melee are fucking strange coming off years of playing ranged dps. I noticed it in both ret pali and unholy DK, it doesnt happen often but now and then when everything is on cd and theres no procs activated, you just stand there...waiting. its weird
youre on ED? /brofist
one would assume BM
TatteredHat
Member
It didn't take long for Mages to get buffed out of the wazoo again, I don't want to believe that Blizzard is biased when it comes to class balance but seriously? Meanwhile Rogues get nothing at all, I'm tired of playing this neglected class.
I assume BM because your pet is tanking for you.
What ranged class has the toolkit to be effective on the widest range of fight types? I.E., they don't plummet down the meters if they have to move every once in a while.
Hunter is the only answer.
I've only gotten up to Butcher, how much movement and stuff is there in the rest of Highmaul? And BRF for that matter, if you know.
unknownstranger
Member
Mages were pretty bad. I was getting killed by Hunters in dps with worse gear than me.
Honestly they are really good on kargath because starfall hits everything.
Also, if anyone is running a horde pug for normal or heroic highmaul get me in on that. My ww needs gear. 6/7h on my shaman.
Lanrutcon
Member
Oh boy. The first 2 bosses in Highmaul are the ones where you can turret. The rest? It only gets worst as you get deeper.
Tectus has a LOT of running from the dust, especially during motes. Bracken has a fair amount of maneuvering according to the mushrooms. Twin Ogrin has those fucking fire waves, plus you need to avoid charges and whatnot. Ko'ragh actually isn't too bad. Mar'gok needs you to be ready to move at almost any given point,
Nah, I meant balance as in 'look at all those fucking windwalkers' not the actual druid spec
Nah, I meant balance as in 'look at all those fucking windwalkers' not the actual druid spec
Blizzards fault for making other classes have horrible multi target class mechanics. Twin ogron was made for WW.
So it sounds like Hunters are still gonna be the ranged DPS kings for most of the raid even with the nerfs?
I think Affliction is parsing the highest.
Lanrutcon
Member
Destro is easiest to play, but performs poorly. Gets worst if the fight requires mobility. Dat RoF nerf just made a bad situation worst. Afflication is boring as batshit, but it's got the best numbers right now. Demonology is...um....well, all of the problems destro has with none of the simplicity. I'm not sure who actually plays Demo in raids.
Bunch of people do. It's the only lock spec i can tolerate for more than an hour.
I was in a heroic Slag Mines at the weekend with a ret pally ding 3.5k
One problematic side effect of the profession changes I noticed today. My feral druid is 96. After I finish my DK I'm going to be leveling her next but I want to switch to Balance. This isn't a huge problem. My armour switches to int/stam and my trinkets will get replaced in time (For leveling who cares) but I needed to find a caster weapon. I can't craft one, I'm not willing to pay for a 630 crafted one when I'm not sure I'll be sticking with the spec and crafters don't have any leveling greens they can craft anymore. I checked the AH and there was a single caster staff below 2k. A level 94 green so I had to grab that.Bit of a pain. I'm saving up my war paints for my mage and warlock and can't really spare any for my poor druid.
TatteredHat
Member
Everyone was getting killed by Hunters in dps, though.
(except maybe WW Monks)Rogue is just so dull to play and delivers mediocre damage, I really only have 3 buttons to press in rotation (Mutilate, Envenom, Rupture - with Dispatch replaces Mutilate below 35%) and the majority of my damage comes from poison and auto attacks. I don't even have to keep my Slice and Dice up because it's a passive now. So exciting.
You get a weapon for completing Proving Grounds. Unless you're looking for one to level up with? In that case just do quests, you'll come across one eventually.
Yeah. She's 96 and needs one now. From what I've seen though weapons are few and far between as quest rewards (They seem to come at key points in the plot) and I didn't want to level with an agility polearm until I hit a quest reward. Seems a shame that crafted leveling greens aren't a thing anymore. Ah well. I have one now
I like the astral glyph thingy for boomkin form. Means I can actually see my armour on my druid for a change and leather armour is totally badass this expansion. My monk just looks awesome
Lanrutcon
Member
I stand corrected. I find the rotation to be...odd.
Never liked the style of demo since MoP rebuild, and the 100% crit trinket made me hate it. It always feels rather awkward to me.
Hell, there were two men still kicking while rest of pug wiped (including me) while nearing the kill.
We got lucky in killing him. I almost thought we weren't gonna make it.
I'm not sure on this, but from what I hear, Imperator Mar'gok isn't much of a frustrating as much as you need to handle the mechanics smoothly to defeat him.
Though his 4 phases makes it a bit intimidating for me.
Only got a cloak from Twin Ogron. Matter of fact, I intend to do full Highmaul normal again just for a small (and I mean small) chance to get gear.
RNG owes me the loot and the bonus rolls that he took away from me. ;_;
If only I got enough free time to join raid runs with my guild.
Lanrutcon
Member
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Imperator isn't that bad once you have a grasp on it. It's all the same abilities throughout the fight, just with a special twist in each phase.
RandyBobandy
Banned
Wait so they're nerfing MM so more people will play BM? Why would you even admit that lol
I've never liked MM tbf though