Arangom

On my Palladin alt I noticed that you can actually gain mana, if you critically heal during the 41pt Holy Talent (forgot the name), seems as if the mana return is calculated with the original mana cost, yet the spell only costs 50% mana at the time, so you gain 10% of the mana cost of the critical heal. I found it very useful to use the 21pt und 41pt holy talents together to get back some mana, but I fear for most paladins this is old news anyways.

 

mikebro

The effect doesn't remain unless this was changed recently. At least, the bonus AP is removed from the warrior when he removes the trinket. I'm not sure if it removes it from the rest of the party. My plan was to battleshout in arenas with the Sapphire equipped during the 1 minute preperation period, then switch to a more beneficial trinket right before that gates opened. Didn't work, though.

 

Wunlastri

Would divine shield protect a paladin from the damage? Also BoP protect a target?

 

levk

Dark runes are shadow damage - so divine shield would, BoP wouldn't

 

Ja7us

[Call of the Raptor]'s effect stacks with agility scrolls and other buffs, and it has 3 charges; once it's gone you can't replace it, however.

 

Tymir

[Faintly Glowing Skull] is a similar one time use quest reward. Apparently it scales with a 1.0 spell damage coefficient too. Also does anyone know if the seasonal items[Sweet Surprise] [Buttermilk Delight] [Very Berry Cream] [Dark Desire] [Elderberry Pie] [Fire-toasted Bun] [Midsummer Sausage] [Toasted Smorc] stack with food buffs? They aren't listed as food buffs by Wowhead and I seem to recall someone saying that they did stack.

 

Intoxify

The Valentine's chocolates definitely DO stack with the well fed buff. I have no idea about the others though.

 

Tymir

Has anyone tried stacking Midsummer and Valentine buffs with each other?

 

panny

That's what I said. The effect remains except for the Warrior.

 

Whistles

The Valentine's Day chocolates stack with Well Fed and they also all stack with each other. Nice little boosts.

 

◊ manly

Serious questions about [Eye of the Night] [Chain of the Twilight Owl].

1- Lets say you activate them in a raid, then swap group, what happens with the buffs ? Do they remain on the 4 teammates (and yourself) or re-applies to the teammates in your new group ?

2- Lets say you activate them in a raid, then you go offline, what happens with the buffs ?

In other words, is it possible to use the 26th/27th raid slot to buff players ?

[Kreeg's Stout Beatdown] [basic campfire] [Crystal of Insight] [Goldenmist Special Brew] [Very Berry Cream][Midsummer Sausage] [Dark Desire][Fire-toasted Bun] [Sweet Surprise][Toasted Smorc] [Buttermilk Delight][Elderberry Pie] stacks with everything else.
Please fix the ChatEdit_HandleChatType exploit.
Not Manly/Manlyy on PTR.

 

daia

Not specific to those necklaces but we have an alt divine spirit priest log on and buff the raid whenever we need the boost.

The buff doesn't fade unless the priest leaves the group. Its pretty handy if that nights Brutallus raid is borderline on the dps requirement.

 

nfw

Does basic campfire stack with other spirit buffs?

 

BulgarBG

Yes, you can have it in middle of your raid or at your Brut. spot

 

Xunwael

Pretty sure those are auras, though I've never been grouped with anybody who used the item except myself. And we all know how auras work.

"Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer??"

Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7, Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
Termination of specimen advised.

 

Saraya

I just remembered another item which isn't very useful for raid DPS, but can be helpful elsewhere. I quit WoW shortly after Dire Maul was released, but when I came back, I had a few of these which I used when having trouble in level 70 instances: [Thornling Seed]

They're kind of hard to use since they have a long cooldown, don't activate immediately, and pretty much die in 1 second when they draw attention... but if you dump it in front of healers or mages, it gives you an extra few seconds to react to any bad aggro/sheep breaks etc, or it can soak a few hits from trash on multi pulls, that kind of thing.

 

xiaoxin21

Some trick I learnt today. Spellhaste will affect the speed of enchants. So if you wear lots of haste and IV/drums/heroism/PI and the like, you can shave quite a few seconds off void shatter.

 

Setia

They work as auras. You need to keep the necklace on and it buffs whoever is in your group at the moment and within 30 yards. So offline buffing couldn't work.

Even with these restrictions, the necks are still worth it, though.

 

insi9nia

Yes, some of my guild healers slap on our Haste sets ressing after wipes on Kalecgos, although im sure resetting him
has been fixed now.

Maniq loves me.
That is awesome.

 

Dollar

We successfully had a hunter pull and FD yesterday, just have to make sure nobody is healing, buffing, eating or anything.

"You know what they say, fool me once, strike one and fool me twice...strike 3."

 

Macblade

Resistant pots are much better than heal pots for two reasons. One, if you know the damage is coming you can use them early and thus start the pot CD earlier (e.g. RoS nature damage at the beginning of P3-if you use the pot with 10 to 20 sec left in P2 the CD is up in time to pot again during P3. Two, resist pots block a lot more than heal pots heal, off the top of my head it's somewhere between 2 and 3 times as much damage.

Edit: That being said, they aren't useful all the time or in all fights. RoS is a good time for them, we've never really used them much in Illidan. I think we've used FR pots just for some extra insurance at the end of P2 if it looks like it's going well.

 

Soralin

This is a particularly nice tip. Any abilities that decrease spell cost don't affect Illumination. I was noticing on Kalecgos last night that when I got the -50% spell cost debuff, I would pop Divine Illumination and Divine Favor, and chain cast Max Rank HL and see my mana go up rather than down (due to a high crit rate). Definitely a useful trick, although without a high crit rate you might find yourself going down rather than up - HL11 is pretty inefficient.

 

Mideci

So I get it Mac, and I understand the mechanics. I just don't buy that they're actually useful. You can certainly do it on RoS for the start of P3. But that damage at the beginning of phase 3 was going to be healed easily by your healers. So yes, they saved a bit of mana, but were they going OOM? And no, it's not 2-3x as much damage. It's 1500-2500 vs. 2800-4000.

I made an initial push to use them on Illidan, but it just doesn't serve any real purpose I can come up with. And really it doesn't on RoS either. The resist pots stops damage that could well have been healed anyway. The healing pot heals you when you aren't getting healed. I can't see putting the latter on cooldown for the former. If your guild is rich, sure, use them on the early phase transition on RoS for some breathing space, but that space just isn't really required.

 

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