I had recently gotten Earth Elemental on my shaman and last night, was looking to use it to solo some of the Bone Wastes quests. I remembered that Terokkarantula was quite a hard hitter but I had heard really good stuff about the Earth Elemental so I decided to give it a shot. So I pull, throw down Earth Elemental, then Stormstrike/Fire shock. Throw down a searing totem to help out, and mana spring. I notice that the Earth Elemental is taking a little more damage than I thought so I threw him a heal and a Stoneskin totem to help reduce some damage...
Oh come on, all you shamans have done this at least once, right?
I did sorta the other day actually. Was doing some group stuff in SMV and since there were only a couple of us I told the warrior to dps while I let my elemental tank the elite (Ruul). Dropped the ele, all was well until in order to maximize the dps I "helpfully" dropped strength of earth for the warrior. It half dawned on me what I was doing as I clicked the button but not in time to stop myself. Fortunately the warrior picked him up but I was in such shock at what I had just done that I barely managed to pull off a nature's swiftness heal before Ruul flattened him. >.<
Started playing the game and asked a friend what class I should pick. He told me to go rogue to start so I could get a feel for the game and they were easy at lower levels. He then shows me a web site with some general information like talent trees, etc. I see throw weapon specialization, I think to myself heck yeah I'm throwing daggers! I made it to lvl 18 by gouging, running to max range, throwing three daggers, gouging, running the other way, throwing three daggers, repeat. I even beat a few people in duels like that. When my friends asked why I was taking so long to level and I explained my "elite strat" I was laughed at for a good long time. I then asked what the guild needed as far as classes go, rerolled druid at the request of the GM and rogue officer and never looked back.
So, when your running Karazhan with some pvp spec guys on an offnight, remind your rogue to not Shadowstep Nightbane for the hell of it during his air phase. It leads to some... interesting and humorous results.
On Archimonde, at one point, one DPS warrior suddenly goes from 80% to being dead in one leap. As we were wiping (used the soul charge immediately, meh), I look at the combat log "X gains Air Burst, Archimonde hits X for 12k". He managed to explain... He had doomfire, went into defensive stance to get less damage. Warriors apparently intercept Archimonde when they get airbursted, a nice strategy... if you're not in defensive stance and if you don't have intervene on the same button.
It was the funniest wipe, maybe second only to the first time we got to him and somebody goes to pull him and suicide (he wanted to go repair anyway). How bad an idea that was became evident when he dealt 100k damage to the entire raid of people already happily dying when practicing their tears shortly after one shotting the guy. He was naked. We weren't.
Our guild's first attempt at the Illidari Council. Remembering reading on wowwiki that you can get in at 35yards to get your first spell in, I happily start moving forward slowly, trying to find the spot where I can cast a frostbolt (36 yards). Obviously, you cannot pull with a frostbolt, as proven by the whole Council aggroing on me.
In a heroic PUG in Ramparts, on the demon boss. I tell the shadow priest: "You tank him" "okay". He runs in... and runs... And doesn't stop, goes into melee range and starts meleeing it.
It was the funniest wipe, maybe second only to the first time we got to him and somebody goes to pull him and suicide (he wanted to go repair anyway). How bad an idea that was became evident when he dealt 100k damage to the entire raid of people already happily dying when practicing their tears shortly after one shotting the guy. He was naked. We weren't.
Heh, the first time my previous guild ever killed Azgalor (and everyone was excited about getting to try Archimonde) one of the mages ran jumped off the cliff and used slow fall to drift gently all the way to Archi's feet. Everyone was incredibly confused when they started getting one-shot from a mile away. It would have been pretty funny if two or three players hadn't then fallen through the terrain after being killed, and we'd had to wait for 30 minutes for a GM to res them. ;<
Heh, the first time my previous guild ever killed Azgalor (and everyone was excited about getting to try Archimonde) one of the mages ran jumped off the cliff and used slow fall to drift gently all the way to Archi's feet. Everyone was incredibly confused when they started getting one-shot from a mile away. It would have been pretty funny if two or three players hadn't then fallen through the terrain after being killed, and we'd had to wait for 30 minutes for a GM to res them. ;<
That night, on one attempt (which ended up being the best that night, got him to 58%), on the first fear, I started falling through the terrain myself. After everyone was dead, I magically appeared at his feet and died.
I have been playing this game for over two years, and I still can't believe that I did this only a few months ago...
I was farming motes of water in Nagrand, in the lake below the Throne of the Elements. I'm farming away, in my own little under-water world, swimming deep so I can get the elementals at the bottom. After about 5 minutes, I start getting hit for around 1k damage, and I can't figure out why; I die, and run back. I am mystified, what in the world could that have been? I briefly mention it on Ventrilo, and say, "gee guys that was weird..." Brushed it off as a fluke of some sort and continued farming.
Five minutes later, I am getting hit for 1k damage AGAIN, and I died. This time, I say in vent "Guys, I think there is some kind of invisible mob in here killing me!! This is ridiculous!" Everyone sympathizes and says man that is strange. Run back, repeat, die AGAIN, complain in vent a third time, and finally someone says to me, "Adra...are you per-chance...drowning?" Sure enough, I am drowning myself repeatedly.
Every once in a while one of my guildies mentions this incident, like when I die, "Oh Adra, are the invisible mobs getting you again?" Or, when I farm primal water, "Careful of those invisible mobs!" I doubt I will ever live it down.
That night, on one attempt (which ended up being the best that night, got him to 58%), on the first fear, I started falling through the terrain myself. After everyone was dead, I magically appeared at his feet and died.
And, to res them? Couldn't they just zone in? :-P
Nope, they couldn't release, and while people could find their bodies lying on the ground (and cast res spells on them) they weren't able to accept them, and saw their characters as being way below the terrain. Was fun times :>
Nope, they couldn't release, and while people could find their bodies lying on the ground (and cast res spells on them) they weren't able to accept them, and saw their characters as being way below the terrain. Was fun times :>
Just have anyone affected by this drop raid. They will be teleported to their hearth destination in about a minute and a half, and I don't know about the rest of you, but I can make the Shatt-CoT trip n under 30 minutes
Ok, so on-topic. We made our first night of attempts on Vashj tonight (got her to 3/4 P2 after 4 attempts, woo!.... but we're still stuck there after #8), and there are three items to share.
The first is my first time seeing a tank accidentally BoP'd (pally meant to throw a Freedom... oops).
The second is during Phase one, I got electrified and backed away from the other DPS. Worked great, until a hunter standing 4 just our of blast reach directly i front of me gets electrified as well, and backs up... towards me. We actually survived that one, but there were Healthstones involved.
The third? Well, let's just say that our Hunter leader found out that you need to keep an eye out for Striders before saying that you're open to recieve a Core. He got feared a half-second before someone passed it to him, and he ended up stuck basically INSIDE of Vashj until someone stepped by a generator.
To teach and to learn, to laugh and make others laugh. This is my purpose, and any day in which I don't wasn't worth the time it took to get through.
Nope, they couldn't release, and while people could find their bodies lying on the ground (and cast res spells on them) they weren't able to accept them, and saw their characters as being way below the terrain. Was fun times :>
The first is my first time seeing a tank accidentally BoP'd (pally meant to throw a Freedom... oops).
Sounds similar to when one of our Paladin's BoP'd the MT on Illidan this last week. It was near the end of the fight, 15% or something as he came out of Demon phase, back to Human. The tank didn't have aggro on him as he stood up - he started running after a dps. By time the paladin hit his /assist Illidan /cast BoP type of macro, the tank had landed a shield slam and was now the current target. Took a second for someone to yell "you're bopd! click it off!" To make matters more interesting, this was essentially our Paladin class lead guy.. on the first night we brought along a new recruit.
Our Supremus offtank put the main tank on follow and went AFK to kill a spider.
Would've been funny if we hadn't already wiped 7 times on Supremus that night after we'd been farming the boss for a few weeks.
This reminds me about that time I had to kill a rat while I was healing on my toon shaman in SM, despite the fact I own a cat...
Originally Posted by XI-
In summary, TBC raiding is easy. 9/10 encounters can be summarized with 1 phrase. Stay out of the fucking fire. If this is too difficult BWL was still there last I checked, so go have at it for some practice.
Our destro lock of moron-itude (nicknamed X, literally):
Vent: <X> Hey guys, I just got a 16k Shadowbolt. WTF?!
Vent: <me> uhm ...
Vent: <X> Oh crap, another one! I'm dead!
Vent: <everyone> You're an idiot. How many times have we killed RoS?
Yeah, I decided to roll my mousewheel while watching TV during RoS this week and splattered myself in quite similar fashion.
Sadly, its really only locks that can do this, or at least do it with such ease.
You're probably lucky they didnt drop the elementals.
There is a bug with that pack.. whenever shamans drop Elementals the entire raid's clients lag up for a good 5 to 10 seconds, unlag, and possibly lag again.
We've only ever seen it on that pack, and only ever happened when shamans dropped an Ele. Strange I know, just reporting what we observed.
It's actually a problem with a few addons -- Recount is one major culprit and needs to be disabled if you're doing that. Try running AddonSpamFu and see who are the culprits at sending too much data.
Yeah, I decided to roll my mousewheel while watching TV during RoS this week and splattered myself in quite similar fashion.
Sadly, its really only locks that can do this, or at least do it with such ease.
I'd say a retadin can do it easier, this week our retadin Crit, Seal of Command which crit, got a Windfury proc, while at the same time he had used Crusader Strike which also crit, did 26k damage, just dropped from full health to 0 in less then a second
I play two 3vs3 arena teams and respec regulary for raids and arena. Well this time I played the fun team (rogue/rogue/paladin) and we are mostly between 1650 and 1800 depending on which combos we meet.
Anyways we keep dropping and we just don't get it. I feel like I don't do damage at all. When we have 1520 as rating I suddenly realised:
I respecced from combat daggers to Mutilate but didn't change the interface. So I attacked with the unimproved backstab, the buttons for ColdBlood and Renataki were empty. I don't know why I didn't spot it earlier... We won the next 10 games, but remained around 16XX this week.
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My own dose of stupidity happened after we 3-manned normal Shattered Halls and felt like Gods.
I hearthed to Shatt for repairs, then we had a little discussion about capping the Hellfire Towers for some rep since our healer was 250 short of Revered.
I put on my healing gear in anticipation for some PvP action, but find that we hold all the towers right now. Since we don't want to wait for Ally to take them back before recapping for the daily, we just decide to run SH again.
So we zone in and buff up. I wait for the Legionnaire to get to the front of the corridor, shield toss, and pull the 6 Shattered Hand Reavers.
2 seconds later, I drop harder than a box of rocks.
During one particularly long 2v2 match against a hunter/druid, every time I sat down to drink I would stand right back up again, so I would basically never get to drink. I was complaining to my partner (a warrior) the entire time, while relying on innervate for mana, and having to sit in form when I got imp. wing clipped or rooted.
Last night, I realized it was because instead of left mouse click targeting the other team, I had right mouse clicked them, so I kept on trying to auto-attack them each time. This right/left mouse button difference has also led to me auto-attacking some guy right from the start while stealthed. So embarrassing.
Last night, I realized it was because instead of left mouse click targeting the other team, I had right mouse clicked them, so I kept on trying to auto-attack them each time. This right/left mouse button difference has also led to me auto-attacking some guy right from the start while stealthed. So embarrassing.
I feel your pain there -- on our first Brutallus night I ended up autoattacking him and getting parried a ton of times because I was selecting him with right click instead of left. Normally I'm nowhere near melee range.
Apparently "don't stand in the fire" means "stand and stare at the pretty colors."
Originally Posted by Ghostcrawler
If everything else is truly equal (gear, skill, etc.) then the pure dps class should beat the hybrid. If a raid chooses to run without rogues, mages, warlock or hunters, they should expect their overall dps to be lower. You can quote me on that.
Haven't seen anything too stupid recently, but a couple of days ago on RoS, another warlock managed to kill himself with CoD in P2, and with no combat resses availible, we went into P3 without him and wiped at 7%. Seeing as he was one of the highest DPS'ers in the raid, we probably would've killed it if he didn't manage to kill himself (and it would've been a 1-shot, too).
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