I have removed all movement keys from my keyboard. I use the mouse to move with the center wheel side tilt bound to strafe left and right and the wheel down to go backwards. This puts my thumb close to alt as my prefered modifier and i can feel for keys 1-5 and the keys below witthout looking. When i had my movement keys bound I rarely ever used them anyway.

Actually, there's nowhere good to post that.

I've never been able to use the buttons around WASD effectively. I just use ` and F1 in addition to 1 through =

1: SB
2: Haunt
3: UA
4: Immo
5: Corruption
6: SL
7: Drain Life
8: Fear
9: Seed
0: Drain Soul
-:Soul Shatter
=: Health Stone
F1: Curse of Agony
`: Life Tap
Control `: Dark Pact
Alt `: Flying Mount
Alt Mouse 5: Land Mount
Alt C: Searing Pain
Mouse 4: Vent push to talk!

I have bigger size bars in my bar layout for the things like potions, Demonic Circle, Shadow Ward, PVP Trinket, Death Coil, Howl, and Banish. I don't PVP much, and won't until Dual Specs go in.

1. Haunt
2. Shadow Bolt
3. UA
4. Immolate
5. CoA
6. Siphon Life
7. Corruption (since it only needs to be cast once per fight in theory)
8: Drain Soul
-: Death Coil
=: Life Tap

Backspace: Healthstone
\: WoTF

Q and E are strafe keys.. i've never been able to get used to having them as anything else.

V: SoC or RoF
G: Banish focus macro
`: /focus macro

G1 to G4 (G15 keys): Utility Curses
G6: Shadow Ward

My point was that they shouldn't be posting it anywhere, not posting it here because there were no alternatives.

Hi all!

I am wondering, in the chest piece listings I have seen, Deadly Gladiator's Felweave Raiment is not included as a recommended part of our armor. Why is this? The lack of hit?

Thanks in advance.

The Felweave Raiment seems like it would be the next one down on the list if it went any further. While it has two sockets (which would best be put towards double spellpower since the stam socket bonus), it has mediocre spellpower overall and the only other stat is crit which scales the lowest as far as on equip stats. These stat rankings can be found at the top of the first post in this thread.

the pushback mechanic changes the tick placement on the cast bar, and if you were to completly avoid taking damage it would be fine but the second you take damage, having the fifths texture there would be off, while the Forte bars have a tick display and show you exactly where the next damage tick will be including knockback.

Also, on the cast bar note, I'm very very anal retentive, and to be honest I don't want a different texture on my cast bar than everything else.

Then again I use forte for it's timers all together not just the drain soul so it's a bit cleaner that way.

To free up a bit of space, I use two castsequence macros to save two buttons:
/castsequence reset=target/14 Unstable Affliction, Corruption
/castsequence reset=target/22 Curse of Agony, Siphon Life

The reset thing means that when you switch target, the marco resets and start's from spell 1, no matter what. And the number reset means it resets after X seconds as you obviously never want to cast Cor again if you don't switch target.

As you only cast Cor once in most fights anyway, having a fast to reach key bound to that is a waste kinda. The big drawback of using this is of course that if you get a full resist, which happens sometimes as there might be no spellhit debuff on the mob yet, you need a secondairy keybind for the 2nd spell of each macro as backup. I am used to clickcast from healing anyway and I have most spells bound again on clickcast so in case something fails, that's a backup.

First, thanks to all for their contributions to the Affliction tree. There's a tiny error in the first post.

The greatstaff of the nexus drops from Malygos in both 10 man or 25 man raids. I don't know what the drop rate is for 10 man raids, but can confirm that it does drop as I'm lucky enough to have it. My WOTLK raiding experience is all available ten man content (naxx, OS, Arc), plus Sartherion and Archaevon in Heroic content.

I know I rely on this thread for "gear checks" as do a few of our raid leaders, and thanks again for everybody's hard work.

Regarding Drain Soul ticks:

I recommend that you guys try using MSBT or similar with a custom event notification for Drain Soul damage. I use a text warning coupled with a decent sound. This i think is vastly superior to bars with tick displays because it actually listens for the damage event and is therefor 100% accurate.