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Kruegen, what is CPM? And one thing to investigate is iLVL and then specific equipment. I womped on tanks hard a few weeks ago because I had three 3/3 crafted pieces which was substantially better itemized than HM. And once you're pursuing 95+ percentile, even minor changes in latency can...

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As a Sona main, you either have to hard engage me in tandem with your AD or farm under tower and wait for jungler to punish us for being cocky. Cait/Morg, played correctly, doesn't give me many opportunties to put poke down so it ought to be decided by the jungler. It's easy to fall prey to...

Where are your priorities?!?

Its hard for me to separate out the broscience regarding those assist devices but I have seen credible arguments that it interferes with upper back/core tightness. The bar is slightly further away from your body so its harder to "pull the bar into your back" (which is a common cue to keep your...

I know, right! I see friends returning to the game weekly now and its like a damn popularity contest since their horde/alliance friends have to argue which faction they pick. rabbling intensifies

I'm fucking tired of not being able to group with the opposite faction. Rabble rabble rabble.

You're right man, I apologize. My friends are bombarding me with the same complaints and its just perplexing to me that their (and yours) experience do not match my own. I've had a wholly great experience pugging, but I do recognize that there are many who have not.

Haha I know man. That's what MY twitter-of-shame would look like while I'm stressed out learning new content. Or, you'd see me hamfist ALL my cooldowns in a panic.

If you're referring to that post from the D1 coach I linked, you're definitely closer to his advice than how I started off. The popular beginner routines emphasize sets of 5 which is naturally more dangerous than sets of 8.

10:48 @Noodletank has died to Gruul. Personal cool-downs used: 0 // Potions used: 0 // Rank %3 10:55 @Noodletank has died to Gruul. Personal cool-downs used: 1 // Potions used: 1 // Rank %6 11:03 @Noodletank has died to Gruul. Personal cool-downs used: 1 // Potions used: 0 // Rank %5...

I agree completely -- what I meant is I got out at 28 and am going to school so I can compete better. Many of my peers got out and jumped right into lucrative MIC contracting, but I feel like one can end up "trapped" in a sense. Get complacent and accostomed to the lifestyle, then should the...

I disagree. I don't understand what your complaint is -- start your own raid and require 665 for H.BRF. Complaining about the requirements that complete strangers ask for seems pointless and inane. Your problem won't be ilvl it'll be that most raiders aren't very good. RLs try to get around...

I kinda like the idea that Heroic needs a full Normal completion to enter, but I'm not sure how well-received that would be by the much larger demographic of players. I very much like that a casual guild of mediocre to decent players can (for example) do 1-6 Highmaul Normal, and then go farm...

This was the prime reason I chose to go to school after leaving the military even though contract work was available (and lucrative). I'm terrified of turning forty and seeing doors closed due to lack of degree. Figured it'd be better to bite the bullet, live lean and grab a degree. I'm wary...

My friends say the same thing, but honestly, its all strangers man... who cares. The primary responsibility you're accepting is understanding how to build a raid force and who you need to recruit (and who you need to kick). Grab a Warlock asap, have an ideal in mind of the raid comp you want...

Good post, Fawe. An important consideration is the math involved in ranking. Technically you'll gain rank with a 50 percent win rate, but preferably (so we aren't banished to the end of a normal distribution by RNGesus), we want 55 to 60. Every win in a series of 10 is extremely important...

Seriously man, stand up your own -- highmaul is pretty fucking easy at this point in time and if you run your own raid you can put anything you want on reserve (or stack the classes so you get free rolls). There are TONS of people out there who need a RL!

Well -- remember, every week brings iLvl inflation AND people catching up on their legendary ring quest. I ran H Highmaul at 672 ilvl yesterday with low ilvl friends just to help out, and we recruited a handful of 665+ people who also didn't really care about gear and were just along for...

I'm not sure if you're implying that Gruul's difficulty shouldn't scale, or asking how he does. All bosses have a DPS breakpoint; the point at which adding a DPS helps the raid. Think of Heroic Butcher and how easy that fight is if a few 30k+ dps show up and womp him. More people gives the...

I ran a highmaul pug yesterday. I very likely wouldn't take a 643 monk. It's not that a RL is averse to melee, its that you're competing with the many many many other dps who have higher ilvl than you. Without looking up your logs, I'd have to assume that ilvl = damage. Try it yourself...

I was talking about this with a friend yesterday. Blizzard has a vested interest to see fights grow progressively easier as a raid leader adds more people. The "leader personalities" are a valuable commodity for Blizzard -- their endgame and product are completely reliant on some people...

Hotfixed yesterday. 6.0.3 Hotfixes: February 9 - World of Warcraft

Just pugged H.Kromog -- 3 tanks made that fight substantially easier. We put two on the left side, one in center, and rotated in/out so stacks didn't get too high. Easy enrage timer.

I hear you man. I had a pretty good experience overall with pugs. I got better at filtering out which raid was going to do things and which were going to fail-cascade. I got AOTC before my guild was 2/7H. It is probably worse now as you're working with the slower crowd, but I'm going to put...

Why not stand up your own raid and make it 665 AOTC-required?

Eh this type of shit just makes the run take longer. On rare occasions I feel like going to Trolltown, but for the most part, I just do what I need to do to wrap a 5 man up as fast and clean as possible.

The flip side to this is that tanks assume the group will flip out and pull themselves if you don't. I do take a few seconds at the start to drop a feast and ask if anyone's new... but *shrug*.

When you say "not having a single person read shit about the encounters" you're implying that the entire raid force did zero research (??) and you still 1 shot two bosses? Your tanks just dynamically figured out Gruul on the fly? I consider myself a good tank and that seems downright impossible.

I am but I have no idea if the crates will now contain BRF gear or not, I've just been too lazy to open them.

Was Dumar right all along? Sorrows betabux?

Strange you'd say that when heroic BRF boes (680 ilvl) are 30-50k on my AH. Not to mention 6.1 bringing the stage 4 of crafted.

I'm no economist but I suspect the BMAH selling the occasional item for 1 mil gold helps a ton. Talk about a gold sink.

Vimeseh's point was that most people quite evidently aren't gods at Lee Sin. You can say "If you are a god at [any champ] you can win every single solo queue game" but that doesn't make it good advice to pick up a non-scaling high skill-ceiling jungler and pray to find some God Skills.

The ideal progression route for someone like Draegan is get whatever ilvl needed to get into pug raids and practice practice practice. I'm not saying Ashran is bad -- capping conquest is a huge boon to a new player. I've suggested that to a few RL friends that are starting back up but they...

Dood you don't have to do any of this shit. Just show up to raids and practice playing your class well. You'll be skill-blocked (either yourself or your crew) regardless of if you min-max gear/garrison or ignore it completely. The number one most important thing someone who wants to raid...

I'm hearing that Furnace/Maidens are miserable endurance fights on Heroic. We're doing Heroic tonight but I, too, have enjoyed the bosses I've seen thus far.

I did a test-run with a guild last night and we 1-shot Hanz; it was my first time seeing the encounter and we had a heavy carry paladin. The environment obviously requires some movement sense but I think if you as the RL make sure to specify to people that there is no tight enrage timer on...

That's because a melee DPS accidentally soaked one shot of Acid Torrent. The tanks should only take the physical hit. For a rogue to have taken it, it means the rogue was in between the ranged group and the boss, and in front of the tank. Likely explanation, mDPS rotating around the boss to...

Any particular reason this guy uses zero pots? His percentiles for DPS are all over the freaking place; makes me think some nights hes tryharding other nights hes phoning it in half-drunk. I don't know how tank paladins work but for protection warriors, our mitigation is closely correlated...