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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yeah, 3K was the lowest I'd seen it; bought it off some kid in trade channel.Tamanon said:
Nothing is quite as sad as winning the roll on Death's Verdict, even though I knew I wouldn't be able to get it. I'd already won a belt in that run, and I pressed /roll, hoping to roll low so that I wouldn't be thinking "WHAT IF I HAD WON?" later, and of course my roll was like 94.
VaLiancY said:
That's like my last ToC25 pug and Reign of the Unliving.
Me: #1 Damage at about 5400 DPS.
Person that won it: wearing 2/5 Resto ilvl232 T9, using a staff with a spell pen gem, like 13th on damage with 3500DPS. Oh, and turns out their main spec is resto but came to the run as Elemental.
:|
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The only thing I'd say is that you probably should drop the Sphere of Red Dragon's Blood, given that you're about 70~ over the melee hit cap, and capping spell hit isn't really all that relevant/necessary. That Expertise trink (Victor's Call) from ToC-10 would fit pretty nicely in there, since the on-use proc is better and you're pretty far under the Expertise cap.VaLiancY said:
(I know you weren't asking, I just noticed it)
Wrekt said:
I believe if you play good, you should be rewarded. I MD'd, purge and CC. If that Warrior had tank gear and offered to off tank an add in Factions Champs, I wouldn't be flustered about it If you don't have ability to put up numbers in certain raid environment such as a 25M, try a 10M where your contribution might be more bigger.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Expertise is a stat all melee players hate and tend to disregard, but it's not really any less valuable than hit cap imo. I hate the stat, but it's still a nice stat to have since a dodge is no different than a miss in terms of DPS. I personally wish they'd just make Dodge and Miss on the same table so that you could consolidate it into hit and/or move Expertise into Mastery next expansion. It's simply a pain in the ass having to cap two separate stats just to not be flailing at air.VaLiancY said:
Another thing I personally wish they'd redesign is Trinket statistical imbalance. What I mean by this is that for the most part, there aren't very many trinkets for any given class type, but any one that doesn't provide a straight out Spell Power or AP bonus is below par, but the ones that DO, i.e. Death's Verdict or Reign of the Unliving are SUPER competitive and overpowered compared to every other trinket. I guess it just conflicts with my idea of what trinkets are supposed to do; give you some weird effect or trigger you can use, not give static stat bonuses like all your other gear slots.
The Lamonster
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haha exactly. This is why I'm not geared.Wrekt said:
jim-jam bongs
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Eh it's the nature of the end-game though. If you want to progress effectively then you need a strong raid. Rewarding big contributors is part of that.Wrekt said:
My guild uses karma (dkp 2.0) which isn't perfect and can be frustrating for newcomers. Overall though it will balance out over time if people come to raids and make an effort. It's not ideal by any means but I've been in a massive RNG slump the past few months and I still got some gear that helped me (and by extension my raid), so I'm fairly comfortable with it.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
In reality the 25 and 10 man versions of CC are Loot Pinatas on Vault of Archavon levels. You can comfortably gear like 4 guys at once now.
Actually, it's people who expect to show up to groups undergeared and get items just because they are undergeared that annoy me the most.Wrekt said:
Example: Some random 2k DPS DK won the Dual-blade Butcher from me. He was still in greens and everything. How is that fair? Especially because that guy raids incredibly less and won't even show up at all to raids more than me.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It could be worse. My guild has this chick that plays Paladin-tank and occasionally, she is the only tank on. She is bad. Terribad. Her gear score is quite high. We wipe on TOC10 because she fails to pick up adds, ALL THE TIME.Maxrpg said:
Every day with this idiot is like "HOW DO I SHOT WEB" over and over, but the guild leader doesn't want to be mean and tell her she sucks. Our normal way of coping is forcing her to main tank things like Anub that don't require you to do anything other than hold Aggro (which she can't do against my priest so I have to keep VE off).
Xabora said:I lost mine to a DK that gquit the guild about 2 weeks later.
my last guild, this pally decided he was going to be ret main spec instead of prot because the GM's brother went Prot.
Death's Verdict dropped, he had the most DKP so he won. 2 days later him and a bunch of people gquit. :lol
Wrekt said:
There's a difference between being outgeared, didn't do good enough numbers, blah blah blah and just not knowing your class and coming to the raid improperly specced and geared.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
There's a mage in my guild that I think underperforms, but she and her husband are just so nice I don't have the heart to tell her she's clearly doing something wrong; a mage that outgears me should be doing 6K dps, not 4. :lol
As for losing gear to players that are worse than you, frankly, them's the bricks.
As for losing gear to players that are worse than you, frankly, them's the bricks.
Tamanon said:
The removal of level requirements on Meeting Stones (well, you still have to be level 15, but...) is a welcome change, especially when so many alts and re-rolled characters are on the horizon.
No kidding, but at least for future holidays that require instances (um... Flame Festival?), we'll have that option. Of course, with the new LFG system, it really seems like 'getting there' isn't supposed to be a problem anymore.Tamanon said:
As for the Paladin updates, I see they've dragged Forbearance out yet again as the sole solution to every paladin problem ever. How completely expected and still as creatively inept as always. Would not expect this change to last long, given how ineffective it really is in the long run.
The only thing this changes is the order in which Paladins will use their cooldowns; it is very unlikely that a Paladin will be blown up in the two minutes it takes for Forbearance to fade (unless they're getting gang-raped, and then why blow the cooldowns at all?), at which point they can just Bubble and Heal. All it really does is reverse the order Paladins use it in now (most blow DS first since the CD is shorter).
Other than that, I see a shortened cooldown on our suicide pill, the potential for Sacred Shield to lose the FoL HoT effect entirely (it may just be awkwardly worded), and the expected change to Aura Mastery.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I personally think the hullaballoo over the LoH change is totally overblown. It's just a manner of saying if you put enough burst on a Paladin, it's only fair he should die. There's nothing wrong with having two CD, but two comparatively overpowered ones used twice in a row is relatively imbalanced. You still have them, you just can't use them one after the other.Retro said:
I dunno Grimace. Dont holy paladins sometimes LoH your pally tanks in raids in emergencies?
Now doing so will lock out their defensive cooldown right? Someone else clipping my tanks ability to tank an enrage on Icehowl because some RETARD didn't move out of the way kinda rubs me wrong.
Now doing so will lock out their defensive cooldown right? Someone else clipping my tanks ability to tank an enrage on Icehowl because some RETARD didn't move out of the way kinda rubs me wrong.
Angry Grimace
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I've never really known LoH to be used on the tank. The problem is, it's an emergency heal, but a Holy Paladin has a lot of other heals already.Puncture said:
Furthermore, what's the chance you'll ever step foot in ToC after 3.3 drops anyways
Angry Grimace said:
I can't think of any paladin worth his salt who blows his Bubble and Lay on Hands one after another; even using the bubble to break CC so you can use LoH is pretty much retarded. There are basically two situations with the same result;
1. Paladin uses Lay on Hands, has full health. Has to last a mere two minutes until he can bubble.
2. Paladin uses bubble, heals himself up to full health. Has to last a mere two minutes until he can use Lay on Hands.
If you're getting obliterated in under two minutes, you probably shouldn't be using your cooldowns in that situation anyways; it's much better to just rez at the graveyard and come back stronger. The only case I can think of to the contrary is when you're trying to defend a flag from a zerg in AB or AV, and on most cases it won't make that much of a difference.
The way I see it, LoH is an "Oh Shit" button for Holy and Prot, but is being used as a PVP tool for Ret to simply last longer. Unfortunately, Blizzard loves to balance around PVP, so guess who's going to lose another defensive cooldown?
My biggest concern, now that LoH seems to be on Blizzard's mind for the first time in forever, is that they're going to consider nerfing the class based on the potential that Paladins have 'three lives' while other classes have one. Thus, are paladins going to be 'balanced' around their cooldowns, and we'll see paladin DPS lowered significantly to where it takes a paladin 'multiple lives' to defeat an enemy, just because he has them?
In that case, let's take a look at Shamans using their Self Rez and Locks using Soulstones. They're not exactly the same, but close enough to considering (especially since they're tweaking the cooldown on shamans).
Puncture said:
I've been in a few raids (Ulduar 10, when it first came out) where Holy Paladins have used LoH to emergency heal unexpected damage spikes. It's much more often a Prot Paladin using it (I know I keep it handy if things start to look dicey, especially if Ardent Defender has gone off), but it's not unheard of for Holy to make use of it too. (Edit: I remember a holy pally using it to bring back a fellow healer who got nailed by a loose add during KT on 25, and because it's instant didn't significantly affect spamming the tank.)
Puncture said:
The only cooldown it locks out that a tank would actually be using is Divine Protection (Our "Shield Wall"), as Divine Shield and Hand of Protection drop aggro, so most Tankadins don't bother with either.
There really shouldn't be ANY situations where the beneficial actions of one player limits the actions of another, and I can't think of any that exist off the top of my head.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Well to be fair, that was his point; but I've seen it much more often used as an emergency bit of mana for a fellow healer that's OOM in the last 5% of a fight.Retro said:
Since the patch that introduced the ToC 5 man I have been trying to obtain a spellblade with 550 spellpower or more.
My latest loss a few minutes ago:
Even people on the server I play on know about me and losing any weapon I roll on (the lol's from a few people in the raid that knew me followed that screenshot). Mage that won did like 2k dps on Ony 10. Its frustrating as fuck. They drop in ToC25 ToC10 Ony 10 Ony 25 and I ALWAYS fucking lose them. Its getting ridiculous. I really wish I had screenshotted the priest that got the blade over me last week. Rolled a 1 on it also. The luck is getting worse, lately its been impossible for me to outroll anyone with these 1's.
My latest loss a few minutes ago:
Even people on the server I play on know about me and losing any weapon I roll on (the lol's from a few people in the raid that knew me followed that screenshot). Mage that won did like 2k dps on Ony 10. Its frustrating as fuck. They drop in ToC25 ToC10 Ony 10 Ony 25 and I ALWAYS fucking lose them. Its getting ridiculous. I really wish I had screenshotted the priest that got the blade over me last week. Rolled a 1 on it also. The luck is getting worse, lately its been impossible for me to outroll anyone with these 1's.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I sincerely hope the Priest didn't win that Sword over you :lolPuncture said:Since the patch that introduced the ToC 5 man I have been trying to obtain a spellblade with 550 spellpower or more.
My latest loss a few minutes ago:
Even people on the server I play on know about me and losing any weapon I roll on (the lol's from a few people in the raid that knew me followed that screenshot). Mage that won did like 2k dps on Ony 10. Its frustrating as fuck. They drop in ToC25 ToC10 Ony 10 Ony 25 and I ALWAYS fucking lose them. Its getting ridiculous. I really wish I had screenshotted the priest that got the blade over me last week. Rolled a 1 on it also. The luck is getting worse, lately its been impossible for me to outroll anyone with these 1's.
Tamanon said:
Im not certain but he is arcane, the only thing I could think was that he was using a lower rank of blizzard or something by accident. And nah it wasnt the priest it was a mage that won it. I dont have a problem with folks getting an upgrade even if they arent exceptional players, its just mounting frustration as Ive lost so many.
Got frustrated so I went an joined a TOC10 PUG and no usable cloth loot dropped the whole run (not even stuff for priests or anything) I figure tonights just a bad night for me so Ill hold the rest of my raid saves for the weekend and do them then.
Angry Grimace
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Everything in 10 is hit+ gear. It's infuriating for priests.Puncture said:
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
OMFG Professor Farnsworth reference FTWTamanon said:
Tamanon said:
WOoooooooooooooow thats going to get old SO fast. :lol
And also I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE2yzIx9K6o
Apparantly Varian will be MUCH more liked after this. I hate the character they have given him so far, seems like a hotheaded idiot. Him and Garrosh both. But this is a good look.
Puncture said:
wow. I never opened the wrathgate alliance side, but I did horde side, and I swear to god Saurfang's entire tragedy made me cry. I called my dad that night after everything was said and done to tell him how much I loved him. Yes, Blizzard moved me that much.
I want to know the horde side of this so bad. It's crazy, but I couldn't care less what is in ICC gear wise. I just want to know the story.
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Honestly, this just looks like a way to make sure there are still quests to do around the world once the Lich King is dead, since it seemed like common belief that the Scourge would just disappear once their master died. Mind you, there wasn't really any other way they could have done it well.markot said:
markot said:
I don't know. Sure, it'd be interesting to have a new LK, but what Uther says leads me to believe that there may be some way to allow Arthas control over the other presences inside his body again. In other words, there is no way of ever fully redeeming him. He MUST remain the Lich King, but would hopefully be able to keep the Scourge from overrunning the world at the same time.
Also: :lol at the Professor Putricide/Farnsworth parody.
Angry Grimace
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You can blame low meter numbers on anythingmcrae said:
Tamanon said:
We recruited a mage because she was a friend of a friend. She did 1.5k on Ony. She had 70 points in fire and one in arcane, refused to get on vent, and zoned in after we cleared the trash because she was too busy leveling dagger skill outside.
We kicked her that night, to her surprise. She had no idea why we'd want to kick her.
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