Yep. Just want to emphasis for the original guy:
A rogue will really only ever need 3 boots for PvE. Fel Leather, Edgewalker and Shadowmaster. Any other boots are just not an upgrade. Its sad that there are 2 pairs of Karazhan boots for rogues and 1 is T6-comparable, the other is worse than BoE crafted... AH -> Moroes -> Mother Shahraz.

It looks like Negergy is trying to be a crit-based Affliction warlock. This is just... weird. I mean, yes, he should be casting shadowbolt and of course it can crit, but he really needs to regem and regear some of his slots. He may be wearing PVP gear at the moment, but from what I can see he's just got some very odd gear choices. I don't know why he's not wearing his FSW robe, but if he hasn't made it yet... get him to make it. In several places he has nice epics with green (quality, not color) gems in them, which always makes me cringe. His trinkets are really for crit-based casters, so again, that's weird. His gloves and bracers don't have the greatest enchants for a warlock and his weapon, rings, boots, and pants are not enchanted at all Although he should get Spellstrike pants instead of wasting an enchant on the Incanter's, I think.

Or, I suppose if he's really in love with the crit idea, you could just have him spec Destruction.

Honestly, I don't know enough about druid dps to comment.
/Stopcasting Macros and Quartz casting bar. No one should have problems with it.

Also Negergy's dps was horrible. All his gems and enchants are Spell Crit, and should be switched for Spell Damage and Spell Hit. Warlocks need to hit the Hitcap too, but just compare him to Spindle who's not hitcapped either and the DPS disparity is vast. He should be cast Corruption more. I'm guessing he's stacking crit cause he's got TLC which is just ridiculous. I'm not all that well versed in locks, but send him Spindle's way, see if he can straighten him out.

Stonaria needs to work on getting an Icon of the Silver Crescent. [Terokkar Tablet of Vim] is not that great; he's exalted with the Scryers, he should pick up the [Scryer's Bloodgem] instead. Both Kyrule and Stonaria should drop The Lightning Capacitor for another trinket, preferably [Darkmoon Card: Crusade] if they have the funds or drop luck. TLC is a bad trinket for fire mages, due to the long periods between fireball crits. [Quagmirran's Eye] is also a decent substitute (which Kyrule has but for whatever reason wasn't using on your Gruul kill.)

This may longer be true. With the new interaction between [Mystical Skyfire Diamond] and arcane missiles, deep arcane using arcane missile spam with MSD may be viable as early as Gruul/Magtheridon. May being the operative word - JOW and/or a shadowpriest definitely help such a build, and none of the mages had a shadowpriest.

Something happened to kyrule's outfitter, because when i asked her about it, she thought she was wearing quags.

Eskadar is a balance dru btw.

Oh and, i did some research on quartz and stopcasting, looks like it might just take them a while to get used to but, is worth it in the long run.

Just worried that people concentrating on their cast bars and hitting the button at the right time might not pay as much attention to things like "move away from the orb".


edit: btw as i was researching quartz/stopcast.
I found a post from Blizz saying they're going to have a fix for the stopcast server lag thing come 2.3, so you wont have to worry about /stopcast any longer.

They say its not a 2-deep server side que, although that seems to be the easiest fix for it either way honestly.

I have recently started using /stopcasting macros and my dps increase has been huge, it took a few days to get used to it though. I used Dr.Boom or heroics and even 5 mans to help me make the switch from blindly spamming buttons to actually timing my spells. I think it would greatly help all your mages (and other dps casters) boost their DPS. Making a stop casting macro and stepping into an instance isn't a good idea, have them practice before zoning in. I would highly recommend it (Unless its gruuls lair and you are farming illidan :> )

And I believe my guilds balance druid is similar to yours in spec and gear. I would like to see some feedback, mostly to learn about them more and also to tell if ours sucks =D

Faroth seemed to be receptive to the idea of tweaking his shot rotation, we'll see how things change with his new one.

I'll talk to them about both things, thanks.


Thank you for the feedback.

We have two 1% wipe on leo yesterday.

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Appreciate any feedback for it. Thanks =)

we did void reaver tonight, and here is the parse.

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i'm concerned that our stats against void reaver AFTER all the work we've done to change everyone around are still lower than the stats against gruul.

I can only hope its because he's a harder fight, and there's a lot less "stand and deliver" for VR.

Thanks in advance for the feedback

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he could push his hit cap to max if he replaced his pvp boots with fel leather, and replaced a good amount of his gems with +8 hit rating.

Will there be a subtantial boost to his damage with this change in his hit rating? I'm really excited about getting our first rogue hit-capped

are the +8 hit rating gems going to be better than the 4agi/4hit rating gems until he caps? From everything i've read/understand i believe so.

Possibly just a log of p2? Not sure why it wouldn't be 3.1M then, but I could see it.

JR's most recent Gruul kill

I am wondering how we fare looking to go to Lurker, we've been farming gruul (tonight was sloppy) and we've killed VR. I am new to arcane and I am using a MSD, I would really like some help with my gems, I kinda did it sloppily and just would like some feedback.

Rhomi, Revik, Natalaya and Jimtech - Their DPS seems low to me. Any input on them would be appreciated.


I know the other mages need more +hit and are going to work on it. They are regemming.

Any other input would be awesome.

edit: I guess what I am asking is, how can I squeeze every possible bit of DPS out of this raid group.

Yeah, we were a melee heavy group so the whole idea behind having the two resto shamans was to allow the melee to stay in the whole time.

We had terraferma switch from enhancement to resto just for that reason.

Unless the shaman in your group was elemental I think you are slightly under the hit cap (for arcane) as well. The CE exalted ring should get you there, something to consider.

You really need to pull aside Grimbane and help him out. Gems choices are extremely suspect and he could really use spellstrike in a bad way. At his level in gear, MSD really isn't an option because fire needs the +hit gems and MSD req's makes this near impossible.

Thanks for the feedback,

Yes, I am using the netherspite OH (Jewel of infinite possibilities) instead of the arcane heroic badges OH and replaced a gem, I am now at 15.95% hit with 1170 arcane damage.

Grimbane is mostly a DPS 'oh shit we're short' sub, he is making spellstrike and is also farming rep for the hit/dmg on use trinket. He is also regemming.

Hey people, we recently decided to try a moonkin in raids and want to get an evaluation of his performance if anyone is up to it.

Here's teron and gurtogg deaths, hunterk is the moonkin:

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We know his gear and gemming is kinda poo, what I am mainly looking for is whether he is utilising a proper dps cycle and generally anything out of place in his damage done and debuffs kept up.

Any other moonkin dps for comparison would be great.

Your hunter, Eladar, only used Steady Shot 3 times during a 10 minute fight. The fact that his cat was only 100 dps away from being half of his total dps should throw up a red flag At the minimum, he should be using a 1:1 Steady/Auto shot rotation (throwing Kill Commands in will be even better). Have him use a macro from the forums here, and he will see his dps increase by a lot. He needs to drop Aimed Shot unless he is using it for a Misdirection pull. Also, maybe have him put Bite AND Claw on the cat?

I'm trying to figure out why Kyrule was taking melee hits? Were your tanks having trouble keeping aggro/transitioning? Was he pulling off the tanks? Or was he just standing to close?

Also Stonaria is using Fireblast as a part his rotation. Once the Scorch Debuff is stack, he should be able to fireball 8 times, then renew scorch again. Probably less with Kyrule in the raid since he's fire too. He should only fireblast if he's doing one right before he has to move for an Orb. It's no wonder he was out of mana halfway thru the fight and had to evocate. Which brings up why he wasn't with 1 of your 2 shadow priests? In Ravenn's group you had a pally. Your pally shouldn't need a shadowpriest and it would be much better used by your mage.

Eladar needs to stop using Aimed Shot, and start using Steady Shot. He was also hit by 6 arcane orbs. Tell him to wake up and pay attention.

kyrule's omen got bugged for some reason and wouldnt show her threat meter, and i couldnt see her on mine either, so she ended up pulling aggro and getting hit with melee.


I'll make sure stonaria is using the same cast rotation as kyrule, which is 8 fireballs and 1 scorch.

Eladar is a marks hunter that just switched to bm, i hadnt thought about asking him about his shot rotation but, using steady shot makes sense. It's the fastest shot right? so more shots = more crits = more focus for your pet = more kill command = more damage?

It doesn't matter what spec the Shaman is to the Mage's +hit value - all [Alliance] Shamans provide +1% spell hit aura.

With the +1% spell hit aura from a Shaman, the effective hit cap for Arcane is 63 - so yes, he is definitely under the hit cap for Arcane at 31.

Edit: You may have been referring to Totem of Wrath - but it's easy to see that neither Shaman in that raid was Elemental...in fact, Seatoo got mana from Mana Tide.

I haven't done the Kael'thas fight, so I can't answer your exact question. But is there a reason neither of the hunters in this parse are using pets? Very well could be a parsing/uploading issue, but if they just aren't using them this is a mistake. Even on the VR fight I can easily keep my pet up. Hell, one of these hunters even has 2pc T5. Their pets will easily provide another 100-150dps if not specced BM. If they aren't using their pets as Beast Mastery, then shoot them in the face (or kick them from the raid, your choice).

Straight off the top - why are 3 of your Mages Frost and 1 Arcane? Is it because of Al'ar? If so, great, that's an....okay decision. If that's their normal spec, that's not so okay. 10/48/3, learn it, know it, employ it.

Even on Al'ar, we take Fire Mages - we just take 2 of them, or 1 if we can get others in. No reason to make your Mages respec if there are others around who can fill their spots (and to be quite honest, Al'ar really is a Spriest / Warlock fight anyway).

Kyrule shouldn't have been pulling off the tanks anyways, unless he started in too early.

I took a look at Sakean's parse and he's not generating as much threat as he could/should.

He only used revenge 8 times. He had 233 melee hits and only 49 shield slams and 23 Heroic strikes.

When I'm MTing (in general) and have no problems with rage, once my 5 sunders are up, I pretty much use the standard threat rotation: Shield Slam, Revenge, Devestate x 2, with 4 Heroic Stikes (it should be queued up with every ability). Shield block is still used whenever it's up, which is usually between every 2 abilities. So it's typically Shield Slam, HS, Revenge, HS, Shield Block, Devestate, HS, Devestate, HS, Shield Block (an approximation, this naturally adjusts with actual play).

Now if he's 2nd on the aggro, that changes things a bit. He'll want to Devestate Spam More. Revenge won't be coming up as much, but you get the point.

Take a look at the following parse:
Warrior from another VR kill:
Twicky - WWS

If you examine the breakdown of their abilities, you'll see where Sakean's lacking.

On the other hand, your druid tank seems to know what he's doing.

Have Sakean work on it and it'll help the DPSers not have to worry so much about the threat ceiling.