Tanking talent build - Page 20

Jishosan · 05/13/09, 6:06 PM

So are people just pressing two buttons at once to Maul + Lacerate or Maul + Mange or Maul+swipe? I thought they might have had them macroed onto those abilities to use constantly? Or are we only using Maul when rage > 50 (I think that's what I read)?

@Monedula: As for Barkskin, I believe it is off the GCD. I do have it in my current emergency button macro that pops barkskin + frenz regen + SI, and Barkskin activates along with the rest of it. I also have it macroed to my Wrath and Hurricane in boomkin mode to allow me to keep maximum uptime in Ulduar. As far as I know, any ability that is off the GCD can be attached to another ability and will activate just like a trinket would.

kalbear · 05/13/09, 6:34 PM

So are people just pressing two buttons at once to Maul + Lacerate or Maul + Mange or Maul+swipe? I thought they might have had them macroed onto those abilities to use constantly? Or are we only using Maul when rage > 50 (I think that's what I read)?

I have maul macroed to all my threat moves (mangle, lacerate, swipe, FFF) and do it constantly. Maul is no longer a 'nice to have' when you have rage; it does so much damage that missing basically any other attack or set of attacks is worth it if you maul. The only thing that comes close to beating it is lacerate when the stack could fall off, simply because the expense of a lacerate stack from start is fairly high. The reason I macro is simply that I don't like spamming two buttons when I can spam one.

I personally prefer barkskin, SI and FR to be separate. Barkskin is off GCD. Depending on the fight I'll use it arbitrarily when it's off CD immediately or I'll wait for some specific event or set of events.