Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 1746

Elge · 05/03/11, 2:42 PM

I am currently in BWD and have no problems spreading LB, Pyro or Combustion.

Nephyx · 05/03/11, 2:56 PM

There's an issue with the training dummies not spreading Combustion/LB. I've heard sticking a blast wave under them solves it, but regardless it's not the ideal situation to test to see if your dots are spreading. For the record, mine spread fine in raids.

Lìchkìng · 05/03/11, 7:26 PM

Hello Elitist Jerks !

Is it only me, or does frost dk's generate more tps then tanks ?

I noticed it the first time at Ascendant Council when i overaggroed Ignacious, so the next try we had, i let our warrior tank get his threat up on Ignacious for about 5 sec, hunter using MD on cooldown and paladin using salvation on me, after 5-7 seconds i had 90% threat while the rest of our dps had about 30% threat.

I got clueless so i just slow dps'ed the entire encounter

Are there anyone else that feels the same, that we do way to much threat ?

It would be good if they could introduce an ability that reduce threat like rogues,warlocks,mages,hunters have

trevest · 05/03/11, 10:23 PM

so since strength is half as good now(on the ptr) will we go with mastery to gloves?

rohanette · 05/04/11, 4:18 AM

I did a quick test on glyph of hemo to see what sort of dmg it did and on chimaeron heroic, glyph of hemo did 650k dmg through the whole duration of the fight. Which i think is quite alot don't u think?

Zedrak · 05/04/11, 8:36 AM

Originally Posted by Asphyxialol

I haven't noticed anything to that effect. I ran 2 bear runs last night (didn't kill the last bosses on 1 of them) where myself and the 3 dps were over 20k dps on every pull (except bosses, I was only roughly 12-15k there) and had no issues. We did not have a Tricks or MD in the group, but we did have a mage (invis). The only times pickups tend to be difficult is with Fury Warriors, Frost DKs, or Hunters who seem to have misplaced their MD macros.

Well, my team consisted of a Fury Warrior, a Hunter (though his macro absolutely isn't misplaced) and a Cat (Feral) who were at about 25-30k bombing-dps.
Sometimes a Mage is in the team and replaces the fury, but since he's at about 20k singletarget and doesn't always have threat-reducing abilities ready, it's not easy to tank either.
I should probably go and look for some more moderate DPS. :P

solidkjames · 05/04/11, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Macloud

It's already been established that that new option isn't the problem. The problem is some new Keypress and GCD delay that has only come up since this new patch was released on live servers. As of this morning with rolling restarts, the issue is still quite present, and it's been documented on a few bug threads on the official WoW forums on both the US and European servers. It's something on Blizzard's end that they have yet to acknowledge and/or fix.

Yeah it is a pain in the butt. The place it hurts me the most is when trying to fire traps. I am having to press the key several times to make the actual trap launch at times.

Silmeria · 05/04/11, 11:32 AM

Can you guys relocate this to a more relevant thread?

Skellum · 05/04/11, 12:00 PM

Iirc, the piracy goes in the Gaming industry thread.

pahurs@doomhammer · 05/04/11, 12:54 PM

Ok I am thinking about getting the Amani Headdress off of the last boss in H ZA, but i'm not sure if it beasts my current cluster of stars. I would lose haste with the Amani Headdress but gain some mastery, intellect, and crit.

Emenai · 05/04/11, 1:29 PM

At the moment my trinkets are License to Slay and DMC: Hurricane, I have 28 expertise (reforged away where possible) and my question is:
Will Heroic HoR give me a dps boost ?

I would probably swap it with License to Slay and hence loose hit and have way too much expertise.
I'm using SoT glyph, though, so it could be a possibility to use another glyph instead.

I'd also like to know whether the Cho'gall or Maloriak helm is better.
Maloriak has less Strength, but a lot of Mastery, so I'm not sure which one I should equip.

H0mez · 05/04/11, 1:43 PM

This might be a really STUPID question, but whats the reason we are all putting 3 points into Natural and Master Shapeshifter? As much as like Tree of Life, its only a 3 min cooldown(meaning one use per fight), but all I use it for is hitting more Wild Growth targets and trying(if i have the GCDs) to hit more people with lifeblooms. Let me know what the reason for this is. I am just starting heroics on my druid so im not sure if it becomes vastly more important later.

Couldn't those 3 points be spent elsewhere?

Wait just saw it also stated Caster Form, my bad

Playered · 05/04/11, 1:56 PM

Originally Posted by H0mez

This might be a really STUPID question, but whats the reason we are all putting 3 points into Natural and Master Shapeshifter? As much as like Tree of Life, its only a 3 min cooldown(meaning one use per fight), but all I use it for is hitting more Wild Growth targets and trying(if i have the GCDs) to hit more people with lifeblooms. Let me know what the reason for this is. I am just starting heroics on my druid so im not sure if it becomes vastly more important later.

Couldn't those 3 points be spent elsewhere?

Wait just saw it also stated Caster Form, my bad

We get a 4% global healing bonus for the 3rd point on top of the duration boost of ToL from the first two.

AnarchyAo · 05/04/11, 1:57 PM

Hello all,

So what we're seeing is that haste is the worst stat, and that it's best to reforge from it whenever possible. Assuming haste is as terrible as what others say it is, does this mean that it is possibly beneficial to use some protection gear that doesn't have haste, but rather has dodge or parry that you can reforge from?

The reason for doing this is that some of the prot gear that I've seen/own has more strength on it (some pieces have 20 or more strength, and an additional socket). Is 40 strength worth giving up the minimal amount of haste you're gaining after reforging from it, and being provided with a reforged-away-from dodge/parry stat?

I've been doing this for some pieces of gear that I have available to me. The only exception I've made is if the retribution piece has mastery and crit on it, I use it, even if the prot item has more strength or additional sockets.

Items that I have done this for quite often are pieces I own for retribution that have crit/haste. I'll go to a dodge/mastery piece that has 20 or more strength on it, possibly an additional socket, and then reforge from dodge.

Thoughts?

AnarchyAo · 05/04/11, 2:05 PM

Also, quick follow up question -- a bit random but I've been thinking about this lately.

Have any of you contemplated or attempted to use the retribution T11 2 piece alongside the protection T11 2 piece, while also using the vicious retribution pvp gauntlets?

Assuming this isn't restricted in any way, you would lose the 4 piece ret t11 bonus for inquisition, but you would receive +15% damage to crusader strike and +10% damage to templar's verdict.

Is it possible that these two bonuses being stacked could result in higher dps when compared to using the 4 piece ret t11?