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Forum: Public Discussion 02/23/09, 5:06 PM
Replies: 989
Views: 251,087
Posted By Aszhalinde
Wowprogression doesn't look accurate at all. How...

Wowprogression doesn't look accurate at all. How is it weighting achievements? It doesn't say.

Guildox looks great.
Forum: Public Discussion 01/12/09, 12:15 PM
Replies: 989
Views: 251,087
Posted By Aszhalinde
You say there's a difference, but you don't say...

You say there's a difference, but you don't say what the difference is. An accomplishment is an accomplishment. What is it in your mind?



I'm not sure what you're implying by your example, since...
Forum: Public Discussion 01/11/09, 8:38 AM
Replies: 989
Views: 251,087
Posted By Aszhalinde
Yes, they should. I'll use the AQ example again,...

Yes, they should. I'll use the AQ example again, what you're suggesting is like saying "well, my C'thun guild didn't feel like doing bug trio for x reason, but we should still be rated the same as...
Forum: Public Discussion 01/07/09, 10:48 AM
Replies: 989
Views: 251,087
Posted By Aszhalinde
I think the one-attempt-per-week thing is one of...

I think the one-attempt-per-week thing is one of the *best* things about these raid achievements. The fact that you can't raid 7 days a week, 6 hours a night, and stay up until 5am doing some of...
Forum: Public Discussion 01/06/09, 4:09 PM
Replies: 989
Views: 251,087
Posted By Aszhalinde
I really dislike the assumption that it's okay to...

I really dislike the assumption that it's okay to de-rate stuff because some people for whatever reason decide to skip it. Viscidus was still a boss in AQ progression even though most guilds skipped...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/23/08, 4:12 PM
Replies: 683
Views: 355,524
Posted By Aszhalinde
You wouldn't lose 5-8 seconds positioning the mob...

You wouldn't lose 5-8 seconds positioning the mob or 6-7 seconds on flame tsunami or get hit by whelps unless you aren't trying. But yeah, Gift of Twilight would add about 10 seconds to zerg the...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/22/08, 4:23 PM
Replies: 683
Views: 355,524
Posted By Aszhalinde
Sartharion has 9,587,188 HP with 3 drakes. ...

Sartharion has 9,587,188 HP with 3 drakes. Tenebron lands at 30 seconds, Shadron lands at 75 seconds, and Vesperon lands at 120 seconds.

9,587,188 / 120 = 79,893 raid dps

Assuming 3 tanks, 3...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/22/08, 2:08 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Group setup for the 10-man 4:16 kill was 1 resto...

Group setup for the 10-man 4:16 kill was 1 resto druid, 1 feral (tanking, not rooting), 2 balance, 1 elemental, 1 warlock, 1 mage, 1 shadow priest, 2 death knights.
Forum: Public Discussion 12/19/08, 12:34 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Both, really. It requires control and execution,...

Both, really. It requires control and execution, but you still have to have some pretty substantial ranged dps, though that does not preclude bringing melee. We have no problem bringing melee to...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/16/08, 4:22 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Yes, we did it last night. The kill time was...

Yes, we did it last night. The kill time was 4:29 according to WWS. Unfortunately for us, the achievement bugged and we didn't get credit. We think it's because we started our kill attempt while...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/11/08, 2:39 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Sparks appear to move during vortex now, as of...

Sparks appear to move during vortex now, as of last week.
Forum: Public Discussion 12/10/08, 2:44 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Shocks, yes, Barrage no. If you're having...

Shocks, yes, Barrage no. If you're having trouble with gibs between shields though, Shock is only a five yard range, so it would be a good idea to stay away from the Nexus Lords while you're...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/10/08, 1:43 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Again, grounding totem will not absorb bolts in...

Again, grounding totem will not absorb bolts in phase 2.
Forum: Public Discussion 12/09/08, 11:49 AM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
This is untrue, Grounding Totem will not absorb...

This is untrue, Grounding Totem will not absorb the arcane barrage from Scions in phase 2. Unsure if this is working as intended or not. Unsure about phase 1 as well, we didn't try it there.
Forum: Public Discussion 12/02/08, 9:51 AM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Pretty sure this was mentioned already, pretty...

Pretty sure this was mentioned already, pretty recently... =P

And no, the kill wasn't 4:44. That was just phase 1.
Forum: Public Discussion 12/01/08, 5:07 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
Specifically three moonkins on the first three,...

Specifically three moonkins on the first three, myself (resto) on the fourth, and we just killed the fifth as soon as it was in position. Our fifth druid was actually tanking. Getting them where we...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/01/08, 4:31 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
We used druids to root them. Entangling roots...

We used druids to root them. Entangling roots should last through vortex if you refresh it right before, as long as nothing is damaging them. Even if the roots don't last, the sparks don't move...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/01/08, 3:57 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
We had a bit of fun with him last night trying to...

We had a bit of fun with him last night trying to get the 5 minute achievement in a unique way. I was looking through our log parse from our first kill and happened to notice that spark puddles are...
Forum: Public Discussion 11/25/08, 3:06 PM
Replies: 405
Views: 182,106
Posted By Aszhalinde
I don't know why you need so many people healing....

I don't know why you need so many people healing. I could see it being done with 1, with a stacked up raid, just to keep the healing buff up. As long as you aren't taking Malygos's 30 yard aoe, the...
Forum: Public Discussion 11/21/08, 4:34 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 17,279
Posted By Aszhalinde
Posted this a couple weeks ago, figured it would...

Posted this a couple weeks ago, figured it would be relevant here:

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Debuffs are a problem again...
Forum: Druids 09/05/08, 4:51 PM
Replies: 653
Views: 188,413
Posted By Aszhalinde
WoW Forums -> Please change Gift of the...

WoW Forums -> Please change Gift of the Earthmother (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9658355920&sid=2000)

Would this be a good solution to the haste problem? We'd end up...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/24/08, 4:10 PM
Replies: 775
Views: 224,099
Posted By Aszhalinde
The only thing I absolutely hate is shamans. ...

The only thing I absolutely hate is shamans. We've had such amazingly bad luck with shamans, I've come to loathe the general principle of Sunwell because of it. Maybe it's because we're alliance, I...
Forum: Public Discussion 04/18/08, 1:50 PM
Replies: 429
Views: 170,087
Posted By Aszhalinde
This isn't really the case from my observation,...

This isn't really the case from my observation, as long as the tank stands close to where he lands when he comes down and you are a decent distance away he will follow the normal melee/range aggro...
Forum: Public Discussion 04/15/08, 5:08 PM
Replies: 1,119
Views: 358,874
Posted By Aszhalinde
So can a shaman.

So can a shaman.
Forum: Public Discussion 03/31/08, 11:43 AM
Replies: 269
Views: 54,869
Posted By Aszhalinde
Killed Brutallus last night, and honestly I think...

Killed Brutallus last night, and honestly I think the fight is great. Call me old school, but I actually like fights that require you to go back and farm some level 60 pots. I think the culmination...
Forum: Public Discussion 10/29/07, 3:05 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 15,861
Posted By Aszhalinde
On the other hand, I can't help but remember the...

On the other hand, I can't help but remember the post-MC days, and the long wait between Ragnaros and the release of BWL. A lot of people outright quit from boredom just because we weren't doing...
Forum: Public Discussion 08/16/07, 11:50 AM
Replies: 724
Views: 174,277
Posted By Aszhalinde
Started attempts on the lady last night. We...

Started attempts on the lady last night.

We seemed to have a contrary experience to every other guild currently in existence... I filled their head with horror stories about the upcoming encounter,...
Forum: Public Discussion 08/02/07, 3:25 PM
Replies: 1,680
Views: 523,172
Posted By Aszhalinde
Best thing to use back in the day on Frogger were...

Best thing to use back in the day on Frogger were snowballs, when they knocked people down. =]
Forum: Public Discussion 06/20/07, 3:19 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 7,791
Posted By Aszhalinde
Haha, our TK bug of the night was on Al'ar. We...

Haha, our TK bug of the night was on Al'ar. We got the dumb bird to 2%, she flew up into the air for her meteor, and promptly meteored directly into the wall and respawned on the second floor. I'm...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/01/07, 3:46 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 23,021
Posted By Aszhalinde
You said "If there , the average age of the guild...

You said "If there , the average age of the guild is either 12 or they're probably a group of people more focused on screwing around and having fun together than raiding." Maybe I misunderstood, but...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/01/07, 3:32 PM
Replies: 1,274
Views: 383,815
Posted By Aszhalinde
This is what we discussed doing for our future...

This is what we discussed doing for our future kills. It'd probably be better all around, not just for elementals (nothing like melee getting rooted in spore bat splooge next to a static charge to...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/01/07, 3:21 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 23,021
Posted By Aszhalinde
I would love to see what evidence you base this...

I would love to see what evidence you base this statement on. I think that if we took a tour of some sites of the top guilds in the world, we would see that a good portion of them don't exactly...
Forum: Public Discussion 06/01/07, 2:36 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 23,021
Posted By Aszhalinde
Curiously, what does that have to do with...

Curiously, what does that have to do with anything?
Forum: Public Discussion 05/25/07, 2:26 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 4,240
Posted By Aszhalinde
We've kind of decided just to loot council them,...

We've kind of decided just to loot council them, starting with the main tank. Right now they're DKP free for one person at a time. Working well for us and everybody is fine with it, maybe we've...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/16/07, 3:33 PM
Replies: 103
Views: 20,297
Posted By Aszhalinde
I'm sure your friendly <black bamboo pavillion>...

I'm sure your friendly <black bamboo pavillion> gold farmer guilds would scamper about in glee if that happened.
Forum: Public Discussion 05/14/07, 2:25 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 5,574
Posted By Aszhalinde
They're very situational, but definitely not...

They're very situational, but definitely not worthless. I used to use the Sporeggar cloak and jewel of charismatic mystique on Morogrim when we were learning it, as I would occasionally get heal...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/03/07, 11:23 AM
Replies: 95
Views: 19,918
Posted By Aszhalinde
I guess I was unclear. I know all the backstory...

I guess I was unclear. I know all the backstory concerning BWL, my major issue was that they did all this building up, and then our entire interaction with the place was just walking in and fucking...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/02/07, 1:49 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 19,918
Posted By Aszhalinde
Isn't that for the AQ gate opening questline? ...

Isn't that for the AQ gate opening questline? That's where you summon Maws for the blue shard. I don't think it has any relation to the real Maelstrom, between the continents, that hosts Nazjatar...
Forum: Public Discussion 05/01/07, 5:34 PM
Replies: 145
Views: 51,815
Posted By Aszhalinde
Remember that you will have Jaina, Thrall,...

Remember that you will have Jaina, Thrall, Malfurion and Tyrande as well as the bulk of their armies fighting alongside you =)
Forum: Class Mechanics 04/25/07, 5:27 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 21,070
Posted By Aszhalinde
Big heals only heal as much as they have to as...

Big heals only heal as much as they have to as well, in terms of aggro... overheal doesn't generate any additional aggro.

I've not found subtlety to be needed in the expansion so far. With the way...
Forum: Class Mechanics 03/29/07, 4:49 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 35,465
Posted By Aszhalinde
I'm not sure I agree. I would say the resto tree...

I'm not sure I agree. I would say the resto tree is far more bloated than balance, balance feels about right on with the amount of points it has. If you wanted to get everything useful (my opinion)...
Forum: Class Mechanics 03/29/07, 4:15 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 35,465
Posted By Aszhalinde
I'm not sure how often you would want to cast...

I'm not sure how often you would want to cast wrath in a raid environment anyway. Without the benefit of a warlock curse you'd get hit pretty hard by partial resists, unless you were stacked on...
Forum: Class Mechanics 03/29/07, 3:04 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 35,465
Posted By Aszhalinde
I think the balance tree is still a work in...

I think the balance tree is still a work in progress. We still have our mana-for-melee mechanic (which, admittedly, could have theoretically almost been useful in some cases depending on how many...
Forum: Public Discussion 12/19/06, 9:35 AM
Replies: 102
Views: 11,549
Posted By Aszhalinde
It's possible, but we've still been "around," so...

It's possible, but we've still been "around," so maybe we dropped below the requisite number of raid bosses killed per week or something :P Although we have since unexploded, and since they are...
Forum: Public Discussion 09/21/06, 5:05 PM
Replies: 953
Views: 116,325
Posted By Aszhalinde
Consider the two current top ranks of HT and...

Consider the two current top ranks of HT and Regrowth.

Regrowth 9: 880 mana
HT 11: 800 mana

Treeform mana reduction brings Regrowth 9 to 704 mana, vs. 800. Throw in Imp Regrowth which makes you...
Forum: Public Discussion 09/21/06, 3:05 PM
Replies: 953
Views: 116,325
Posted By Aszhalinde
There was a screenshot floating around of a druid...

There was a screenshot floating around of a druid in treeform. On his bars, healing touch was grayed out to mark it unselectable, but regrowth was not.

Taking into account the other benefits of...
Forum: Public Discussion 09/20/06, 4:53 PM
Replies: 290
Views: 49,407
Posted By Aszhalinde
That's true, but feral attack power is the only...

That's true, but feral attack power is the only "free" stat in the game. +100FAP or +10000FAP, it doesn't matter, but all the stats we're talking about here have (theoretically) known values. Even...
Forum: Public Discussion 09/20/06, 3:31 PM
Replies: 290
Views: 49,407
Posted By Aszhalinde
That state of your character doesn't matter at...

That state of your character doesn't matter at all to itemization; shifting between forms takes a miniscule amount of time plus some mana. Unless the itemization formula is changing in the expansion...
Forum: Public Discussion 09/20/06, 2:53 PM
Replies: 290
Views: 49,407
Posted By Aszhalinde
Removed the same stats. To encourage hybrid...

Removed the same stats. To encourage hybrid playing (which a good feral druid fufills the spirit of a hybrid), you can get a spread of stats cheaper than just a few stats, so that explains the more...
Forum: Public Discussion 09/20/06, 1:01 PM
Replies: 290
Views: 49,407
Posted By Aszhalinde
That's a disparity of 21str/14agi/46healing vs....

That's a disparity of 21str/14agi/46healing vs. 37dmg/6mp5 for the chest, and 25str/22agi/55heal vs. 44dmg/9mp5 for the legs. It does seem to be a startling difference, but it's only two pieces of...
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