Depends on the fight.TomServo said:So if you're an honest to goodness tank, your health meter isn't doing an impression of a crazy ass yo-yo the way mine is when I range tank as a warlock?
No, your health fluctuates a lot, but it's hard for me to be worried about it because tanks have tons of survivability tools now. I mean I play the least survivability-equipped tank in the game (pally) and I still don't feel like I'm really in danger unless I have like 5k hp and healers are oom and LOH is on cooldown.TomServo said:So if you're an honest to goodness tank, your health meter isn't doing an impression of a crazy ass yo-yo the way mine is when I range tank as a warlock?
wow.com said:Is "Cataclysm" the name of Blizzard's next-gen MMO? This Tumblr blogger has uncovered trademark applications filed by Blizzard in the fields of computer games, paper-based products, and online entertainment services. Those trademarks are on the USPTO's website, and we can confirm that Rod A. Rigole has been employed by Blizzard as legal counsel previously, so these trademark applications, all filed late last week on June 26th, are all real.
Of course, that doesn't confirm that we're actually talking about the next-gen MMO, or that Blizzard is planning on releasing a game called "Cataclysm" at all (StarCraft: Ghost was also trademarked, and we all know what came out of that). It could be another WoW expansion (though you'd think that WoW would be in there somewhere if that was the case), or it could be a completely separate game. Not that we know of one, but Blizzard certainly is working on all kinds of projects that we haven't yet heard about officially.
So. "Cataclysm." Trademark Blizzard Entertainment. Keep an eye out for it at BlizzCon this year.
Thanks, Ryan!
Update: We noticed the domain wowcataclysm.com expired on June 26th, 2009. The domain was previously held by what appears to be a domain squatter out in Australia. June 26th is the same day the trademark was filed with the US Patent & Trademark Office. The domain is also now held by GoDaddy, who we know handles Blizzard domains. That's just a little too much coincidence for us to stay quiet about. It's entirely possible Blizzard just acquired the domain name.
Worldcarver drops off Ignis. Or are you talking about Earthshaper?Epix said:Anyone here have a Worldcarver off of Yogg yet? I recently joined an EPGP guild and I'm already at the top of the list for 2h DPSers. I think I'm going to forgo any minor upgrades and be ready for when this bad boy drops.
Fixed, meant Earthshaper.cubicle47b said:Worldcarver drops off Ignis. And yes, we've gotten about 6 of them. Our Fury Warrior has 2 and we don't even like him (loot council guild).
Consistently halfway through or thats your best? Basically make sure you can get through p2 within 3 portal phases or its really rough.Epix said:Fixed, meant Earthshaper.
Our guild is about halfway through Phase 2. He should go down this week.
I don't have it... and I do want it.Epix said:Anyone here have a Earthshaper off of Yogg yet? I recently joined an EPGP guild and I'm already at the top of the list for 2h DPSers. I think I'm going to forgo any minor upgrades and be ready for when this bad boy drops.
We get into P2 pretty consistently although our success there is mixed. Usually we can make it through a few portal phases but we're having trouble getting ALL the necessary personnel into the brain room so we can do the dps we need.offtopic said:Consistently halfway through or thats your best? Basically make sure you can get through p2 within 3 portal phases or its really rough.
firex said:Honestly the only difference between tanking and dps (at least with an actual tank class, and not gimmick raid fights where a mage or warlock has to range tank something for some retarded reason) is when you tank, you do less dps but you have some buff/stance up that makes it so all your dps abilities cause way more threat and everyone else's does less.
The amount of sheer threat you put out makes it really unlikely to "lose" aggro unless you happen have some kind of uber-DPS with you. I brought some mega DPS guildie of a buddy of mine to a heroic once, and it was annoying; he never considers grabbing aggro and just pumps out 4000 DPS, and dies and then gets mad that I didn't heal him, even though the one time I tried the tank died.Puncture said:I dunno, now the last time I tanked was back just out of beta at release. But back then tanking was fucking hell. I remember sundering and tabbing and sundering like all FUCK to maintain aggro on multiple mobs, it was an absolute clusterfuck and I havent tried tanking since. From what I hear, everything from threat and threat transfer to threat generation has changed alot in the last 4.5 years, but if its anything like I remember it before the days of threat meters it was easily the most difficult role to play in the game.
Flib said:
Back before 3.0, tanking was harder, but after 3.0, tanking is essentially dpsing with a bunch of defensive stats and a threat buff of some sort. It's actually pretty fun because it's like a dps race even if you aren't doing real dps. I mean it's almost literally like being a dps except you go all out, don't have to worry about your dps #s, and obviously you want to steal aggro. So it's pretty fun for the hardheaded bash things to death people like myself, although I also still like dpsing without tanking, too.Puncture said:I dunno, now the last time I tanked was back just out of beta at release. But back then tanking was fucking hell. I remember sundering and tabbing and sundering like all FUCK to maintain aggro on multiple mobs, it was an absolute clusterfuck and I havent tried tanking since. From what I hear, everything from threat and threat transfer to threat generation has changed alot in the last 4.5 years, but if its anything like I remember it before the days of threat meters it was easily the most difficult role to play in the game.
Yarp...getting everyone in every time is the key: We assign specific people to specific portals. People are told to be at their portal 5 seconds before it pops. We have two backup people assigned...one north and one south. If someone can't make a portal they call it out and the backup takes it. Basically have to stun the brain within 20 seconds or so or more crushers are gonna spawn above and its gonna be a wipe.Epix said:We get into P2 pretty consistently although our success there is mixed. Usually we can make it through a few portal phases but we're having trouble getting ALL the necessary personnel into the brain room so we can do the dps we need.
Hope there are alot of rules for the BOP trading.Angry Grimace said:On PTRs a new feature called "Extended Raid Lockout" now exists. You can now (presumably indefinetely) extend the lockout period of any raid, so that bosses stay down and you can work on one for progression. Of course, the tradeoff is that raids still reset on tuesdays and you get no loot from the previous bosses for that lockout period if you opt to employ the extension.
Also, you can now trade BoP items to others that are eligible to loot the item for a 2 hour period. The purpose of this is to stop tickets about "accidental" need rolling or ML assigns loot to wrong guy, etc, greed rolls on Heroic Purples when a DEer is in group, etc.
Epix said:Fixed, meant Earthshaper.
Our guild is about halfway through Phase 2. He should go down this week.
firex said:damn, I wish there was an actual "heroic" testing dummy in addition to the ?? dummy. I get like 1300 dps on my shaman on the ?? dummy, and closer to 1600 on the 80 dummy, with my shaman (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kilrogg&n=Omgarsh) so I think I might be capable of doing heroics, even if I'd be lowest dps. once I get new weapons and some other upgrades I'd be better.
It's either that or heal, and my heal set is 1544 bonus healing, 252 mp5, 239 haste and I forget how much crit. so I guess I can run heroics now, but I don't really know.
It depends which race you are for a shaman, but if you don't like enhance but want to dps, that pretty much leaves elemental as your only option. elemental's not bad, either, but you have to use a lot of cloth gear or hit rings/trinkets/neck pieces to get the hit rating you need, because there is no mail you can find with spell power and hit rating.ILOVEASIANS said:Got my shaman to 80 today. Took about 6 days in game, much faster than my other two 80's. Think I'm going to take a little time off. I'm pretty burnt out after playing for a good chunk of the past few weeks.
Still haven't decided if I want to go resto or elemental. Excluding enhancement because I'm not a big fan of melee dps. Resto does look pretty fun though.
Any one here have any preference one way or the other? Gots to do some research.
Epix said:Anyone here have a Earthshaper off of Yogg yet? I recently joined an EPGP guild and I'm already at the top of the list for 2h DPSers. I think I'm going to forgo any minor upgrades and be ready for when this bad boy drops.
Angry Grimace said:On PTRs a new feature called "Extended Raid Lockout" now exists. You can now (presumably indefinetely) extend the lockout period of any raid, so that bosses stay down and you can work on one for progression. Of course, the tradeoff is that raids still reset on tuesdays and you get no loot from the previous bosses for that lockout period if you opt to employ the extension.
Also, you can now trade BoP items to others that are eligible to loot the item for a 2 hour period. The purpose of this is to stop tickets about "accidental" need rolling or ML assigns loot to wrong guy, etc, greed rolls on Heroic Purples when a DEer is in group, etc.
TheExodu5 said:Friggin guildie Rogue in my group last night rolls on an ilvl 219 offhand sword, when he already has an ilvl 232 mainhand dagger, and a Webbed Death offhand. What an idiot...he spent his points on gear worse than what he had and now I'm stuck with my crappy ilvl 213 offhand 1.8 speed. I hadn't noticed he had a far better offhand, and was already mutilate prior to the drop. =\
He refused to give it to me afterwards through a ticket, so screw him!
Good thing is, I'm still out dps-ing him with almost all ilvl 200 gear, while he's mostly Ulduar geared. I think I'll be replacing him as a main raider soon. :lol
Oh well...other than a few selfish people, and a few generally terrible players (especially our fully Tier 8.5 Warlock who can't do more than 2200dps), our guild is shaping up nicely. The 2nd top guild got assimilated by the top guild about 2 weeks back, and now the top guild on the server transfered, so we're near the top now. We actually got 3x 10 man Ulduars going last night, which was a first for us.
Macattk15 said:What sword was it? Did he want to try combat swords or something? Or is it a fast sword that he can replace Webbed Death with?
I would but the thing is that I'm already the #1 dps in the guild, despite not wearing any Tier 8/8.5 gear and a Naxx weapon. I'm in no real NEED for marginal upgrades. I'd rather get the rare weapon and go back and start picking up smaller upgrades (especially after everyone already has them).TomServo said:Using EPGP for a while now, I'd recommend that you take upgrades as you get them, especially if your guild decays EP/GP. There's a good writeup about the system if you search on Google, and it's set up to discourage DKP-style hoarding.
I was holding onto my top spot for weeks in Naxx hoping for TTT. I learned my lesson, now I bid on anything that's an upgrade.
EDIT: Have to share this one. Last night I get ganked on my 70 priest my an 80 mage. I PW:S, hit him with horror, then fear him. I'm expecting to die now, but a frost mage allows himself to be kited into the huge pack of Horde NPCs in the Howling Fjord starting area. It didn't work out so well for him when they all came after him.
Epix said:I would but the thing is that I'm already the #1 dps in the guild, despite not wearing any Tier 8/8.5 gear and a Naxx weapon. I'm in no real NEED for marginal upgrades. I'd rather get the rare weapon and go back and start picking up smaller upgrades (especially after everyone already has them).
Ret Pally, rofl.Macattk15 said:Feral Druid or DK?
Epix said:Ret Pally, rofl.
They're all pretty well geared. I think we're somewhere around #13 Alliance guild on the server. We are making Yogg25 attempts after all. I'd love to roll on Aesir's Edge if given the opportunity.Macattk15 said:Oh. Well is the rest of your guild geared or pretty much the same level as you?
They suck or you're awesome ... probably a combo of both if you're #1 DPS without any tier 8 / 8.5.
Kudos to you, Divine Storm your heart out!
I still recommend trying to get Aesir's Edge from 10 man hard mode XT-002. ilevel 232 sword with 2 sockets and 1005 top end? Neat.
Even Rune Edge is nice ... ton of crit on that.
Macattk15 said:Oh. Well is the rest of your guild geared or pretty much the same level as you?
They suck or you're awesome ... probably a combo of both if you're #1 DPS without any tier 8 / 8.5.
Epix said:I'd love to roll on Aesir's Edge if given the opportunity.
I just started with these guys 2 weeks ago. We tried XT hard mode a few times last week, killed the heart easily but we didn't have the healer makeup to keep everyone alive after that.Mr. Bunnies said:I have Aesir's Edge on my DK, love it. You guys do 10man hardmodes? Some pretty sweet loot drops from 10man hardmodes, a few BiS. Hardmode XT isn't all that difficult, early in the instance and drops arguably the 2nd best 2hander.
TheExodu5 said:You should see the main Lock in our guild...it's hilarious. He has full T 8/8.5 (besides the shoulders), and the rest of his gear is pretty much all Ulduar. He does about 2.2-2.5k dps. :lol
My buddy watched him play the other day...apparently he'll chose one target, go through his rotation, and then just sit for a few seconds before choosing another target and doing his rotation again. He's not doting up all the mobs at all.
this makes me miss schooling the rogues and stuff in my old vanilla WoW guild in AQ40. doing top damage on Huhuran vs way more overpowered melee with superior gear = lulz. especially since the melee always shit talked in that old guild (honestly, that old guild was a pile of shit and not worth the hassle just to do raid content).TheExodu5 said:You should see the main Lock in our guild...it's hilarious. He has full T 8/8.5 (besides the shoulders), and the rest of his gear is pretty much all Ulduar. He does about 2.2-2.5k dps. :lol
My buddy watched him play the other day...apparently he'll chose one target, go through his rotation, and then just sit for a few seconds before choosing another target and doing his rotation again. He's not doting up all the mobs at all.