Stormchops to Flares - The Winning Edge - Page 10

Zorac · 07/29/08, 5:48 AM

Originally Posted by Marroc

I didn't see this one mentioned yet, but rogues can use vanish to mitigate large predictable damage spikes. You essentially time the vanish so that it goes off the exact second the damage would hit you, and due to the coding changes made to vanish circa 1.10 (to fix vanish not working under all conditions) it now ignores all effects done to the rogue for approximately half a second after the vanish goes off.

This is very nice on some fights in swp, for instance on twins, you can vanish the conflag.

Tel · 08/05/08, 7:46 AM

On twins you can just vanish any time after she's started casting the conflag and it'll miss you. I do it all the time.

cryolithic · 08/28/08, 5:46 PM

Man of the Jewelcrafting items do not require JC to use. The BOP gems and trinkets such as Figurine - Seaspray Albatross do not require JC at all, and are decent items to make.

Captain Winky · 09/02/08, 1:18 PM

I've seen the Vanish trick work many times before; especially nice when you see a 30k or so crit pop up on your screen right as you Vanish. However, I've yet to get it to work on fall damage. Has anyone seen it work in such a case?

Maltese · 09/06/08, 10:54 AM

after being given two stacks of gnomish flame turrents to try out preventing node caps in AB I decided to use them last night in hyjal on the trash waves. We had a pally tanking all the adds so after opening up on my target I dropped one. WOW!

Each one did ~20k damage total before the 45 seconds was up. pretty nice dps for a rogue and all that threat is given to the turrent... not me

Oscarvil · 09/08/08, 10:01 PM

This isn't mentioned in the thread anywhere and I'm sure lots of people have noticed this themselves but Gouging caster trash mobs in most instances interrupts their spell, even ones immune to kick and other conventional spell interrupts.

This works best on spells with a long cooldown, such as the hunter mobs' Rapid Fire in BT before Akama and mobs which cast Blizzard/Rain of Chaos. It interrupts Shadowbolts as well but because they're not on a long cooldown the mob can just choose to cast it straight away so it's not as effective.

Ja7us · 09/09/08, 12:09 AM

You can also use incapacitate to interrupt the vanish that the rogues before council do (if you're quick) and the storm blink that the storm furies in akama's trash use, both of which save a lot of waiting around time. Likewise, incapacitates were one of the easiest ways to interrupt the arcane flurry used by Kael trash.

Hildegard · 09/09/08, 4:11 AM

Originally Posted by Swindley

Ok, I've read through this entire thing, and havent seen this mentioned.

Old ZG rep/quest. It requres Revered with Zandalarian Tribe so if you're a new character, it's a pain, but sometimes you can still get ZG runs going and hardly anyone needs the coins/Bijous, and I've been able to get most of them on some runs on my alt..

This quest gives you 3 guardian elixirs which are actually very usefull depending on the fight.
Especially the +20% runspeed and spellreflect ones are usefull and scale just as good if you're lvl 60 or 80

(unless the reflect one has any type of reduction at higher lvls, but runspeed wouldnt have at least)

They're unique, so you can only gather one, but you can have several of the mats to get one stored. I usually go and grab them when I'm bored, but the +20% runspeed one is actually the best buff in the game if you're farming

Spellreflect:
Sheen of Zanza

25 Spirit and 25 stam:
Spirit of Zanza

+20% runspeed for 2 hours:
Swiftness of Zanza

Oh and I saw it mentioned, but with no link. If you're alchemist, being exalted with theese can actually be an occasionall huge advantage as you can get immune to and out of stuns in emergencies.

Recipe: Living Action Potion

I haven't found an answer to that. Does [Sheen of Zanza] still work ? To reflect something like Grip of the Legion sounds fun.

Evil · 10/04/08, 8:00 AM

It's no great secret, but you can swap Shamen into a high DPS group from a low DPS group to give them bloodlust, at least until WotlK comes out. It's more use than some things there in any case.

EDIT: The Light of Elune ([Light of Elune]) is a Divine Shield in a bottle that is available to the alliance, and only to the alliance. You can only ever get one per character, so don't squander it.

Further Edit: I've read back and seen that the Light of Elune is mentioned before in this post. Sorry for repeating it.

Nephthys · 10/15/08, 12:02 AM

In beta/WotLK, death knights can pre-taunt critters before fights to get free rune strikes.

Edit: Free as in a free proc. Still takes runic power.

snape · 10/15/08, 12:26 AM

I'm SHOCKED no one's mentioned the Electromagnetic Gigaflux Reactivator: [Electromagnetic Gigaflux Reactivator].

You can put it on, use it to get the nature reflection buff, and put on another helm. The damage shield stays on you for the entire duration regardless if you have the helm on.

roquer · 10/17/08, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by snape

I'm SHOCKED no one's mentioned the Electromagnetic Gigaflux Reactivator: [Electromagnetic Gigaflux Reactivator].

You can put it on, use it to get the nature reflection buff, and put on another helm. The damage shield stays on you for the entire duration regardless if you have the helm on.

Unless they changed something, Thorns overwrites the gigaflex buff

Nayt · 10/18/08, 2:28 AM

Shadowfiend with Grace of Air (now Strength of the Earth) is bugged to where it always crits, yielding more mana return.

Russta · 10/18/08, 7:03 AM

Mad Alchemy potions are giving WotLK elixir buffs.

Also, I haven't had a chance to test this yet, but I'm told that you can buy high level poisons off Field Repair Bot 110G's that should only be available in Dalaran.

Starfire · 10/18/08, 9:42 PM

Originally Posted by Russta

Mad Alchemy potions are giving WotLK elixir buffs.

Also, I haven't had a chance to test this yet, but I'm told that you can buy high level poisons off Field Repair Bot 110G's that should only be available in Dalaran.

I can confirm there are level 80 poisons on the repair bot, I just don't see the relevance since you don't meet the level requirement.