Thread of Ultimate Stupidity - Page 225

Zaythi · 04/13/09, 6:15 PM

So, here is my UI. It's pretty basic, nothing too special. I use most of the standard mods that people have:

SCT
SCT Damage
Grid
TotemTimers
Recount
IceHud
NurfedUI
TinyTip
FuBar
DeadlyBossMods

I have a few mods that don't show always, and don't affect game play too terribly much. I'm not a huge fan of Blizzard bars, but I find that come patch days, I tend to get up and running quicker then others seem to, and have less hassle if a UI happens to start erroring.

Grid and Omen sit below Recount a bit, in pretty much that line. Weather issues atm, and it seems I deleted all of my SS's of my shaman, so it was difficult to get a good one today.

Damphair · 04/13/09, 6:21 PM

nephalae:

I don't think this is the right thread for it. But don't worry too much about leveling spec, if you ask me. Do a spec that helps you finish quests faster. That's what makes leveling go faster. I was down in the Demo tree to 45 points up until Level 78. Then I switched to Afflic and finished a lot of dungeons to get used to boss fights as affliction for the last 2 levels.

Spell hit at pre-raid isn't that important. Most stats at pre-raid aren't that important, to be honest. Just level fast, get to 78, and then start thinking about gearing.

For gearing, you have some easy-to-get options.

You will want the Ebonweave Gloves and Ebonweave Robe. They will give you a big boost in spell hit, which is the most important stat for someone starting to raid. Depending on your guild and your server's Auction House, you can get these two items relatively cheaply. Some other purchase-able gear include the Deathchill cloak and the Titanium Spell Ring.

Next, you can spend the first 25 badges on Ward of the Violet Citadel, which you won't replace until you get to Nax25. The next badge purchase should be either the Encircling Burnished Gold Chain or the Plush Sash of Guzbah. That's over 100 badges for 3 items that you will be using for a while, so they're well worth the investment.

As soon as you can get into Heroic VH, you'd want to start hunting for Mark of the War Prisoner. There's also a crafted trinket with very similar stats that you can get while grinding for the Mark. That'll be your trinket of choice until you get Dying Curse from Nax25.

In the mean time, grind rep (championing is a lot easier for Kirin Tor) for Kirin'Tor for the head enchant. Along the way, pick up the Flameheart Spell Scalpel from their rep reward, too. Another faction to grind (other than Hodir) is the Wyrmrest, for their boots.

That should get you started on gearing.

You might also check out the excellent site Kaliban's Class Loot. You can click the heroic dungeons and your class and see which one you need to pick up.

wazuke · 04/13/09, 8:48 PM

Hi. Im using basic combat fist/dagger with heroic gear, 200hit/30crit, atm using titansteel shanker in offhand and i though if papercutter is better for that? losing much stats but is energy/poison advantage so big that its worth of using? what about sword of jin with new patch? which one is the best, and for pve ofc.

hps · 04/13/09, 9:26 PM

How do you add Doomguards to the wws' parses, a lock in my guild was asking, and the old link that it give on here was to the wws forums, which are no longer around. Thanks.

hps · 04/13/09, 9:33 PM

How do you add Doomguards to the wws parses, a lock in guild was asking. Thanks.

apoptygma · 04/13/09, 10:09 PM

Thankyou for posting

vanok · 04/13/09, 11:05 PM

What will be the new "frost tank" specc?

and which rotation will generate the hightest Aggro?

kronchev · 04/14/09, 2:30 AM

Originally Posted by Bullspat

#showtooltip
/cast kill shot
/cast explosive shot
/cast [modifer:q] serpent sting
/cast [target=pettarget, exists] !Kill Command
/cast !steady shot

anyone know why steady shot never casts with this macro?

Perhaps you should step back from trying to do this because you are not understanding what ! means.

Before I get yelled at...that's only for toggle attacks like Autoshot.

Bullspat · 04/14/09, 2:35 AM

ah i see and thanks for the tips. Might I ask how do I approach writing a macro for 3.1 then or do I have to go back to a castsequence?

Stankyleg · 04/14/09, 3:11 AM

what are the new specs for 3.1. highest dps and the rotations. Please and thank you

pomus · 04/14/09, 4:50 AM

1st i would like to say this is a great post.

i do have a question though:

Originally Posted by supplicium

From above:

Begin Casting SB1
finish cast SB 1
begin cast of SB 2
Incin 1 hits Decimate procs
finish cast of SB 2
Cast soulfire 1
finish casting soulfire 1 decimate clears
incin 2 hits decimate procs
Cast SB 3
cast soulfire 2

So you start 2xincin 1x sf 1x incin 1x sf repeat.

this is from the rDPS spec rotation part.maybe i am wrong, and i fail to understand something,but i think you have SB1 and incin 1 mixed there.

anyways, my question is, with this spec , would u weave using SB or incin? incin has shorter cast time, while SB may be required for the crit buff.(not all raids will have an afflilock i'm afraid, and mages want us to take this duty away from them)

ButterzzDrenden · 04/14/09, 4:57 AM

Just a quick question about TotT. I raid with another rogue and I tried setting up a focus macro to use TotT on him. The macro works fine, but everytime he uses killing spree I lose my focus target on him. If I use a macro that targets him and used TotT will i miss a swing or two on the boss when the macro switches to him to cast TotT and then i switch back?

Broode · 04/14/09, 5:08 AM

Your best bet would just be to make a macro with:

/cast [target=*NAME*] Tricks of the Trade

If you're having problems with the focus target.

Javadocs · 04/14/09, 5:18 AM

Originally Posted by Broode

Your best bet would just be to make a macro with:

/cast [target=*NAME*] Tricks of the Trade

If you're having problems with the focus target.

Actually, you could add this line in the current focus macro with a slight modification, if you wanted to condense it all into one. Here is my focus macro, which works rather well.

/cast [help] Tricks of the Trade
/cast [target=*NAME*,exists] Tricks of the Trade
/cast [target=focus,exists,help] Tricks of the Trade

This macro should tricks the person you are targetting. If you're targeting an enemy, it will tricks *NAME*, otherwise your focus gets tricked.

Beefyfife · 04/14/09, 5:38 AM

I find this works pretty well

/target NAME
/use Tricks of the Trade
/targetlastenemy