World of Warcraft: Current Year
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This, 100 % this. I really enjoy attempting to joust a mob and throw in howling blasts every now and then.
bixxby
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Every game since WoW has sucked dick as melee. You can pretty much tell when the devs of these games stopped playing warcraft because every end game dungeon in a new game will have god damn trash or bosses with stupid fucking cleaves.
spronk
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Kreugen
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I have been hitting up LFR for the past two weeks. I hadn't raided at all and after a 7 year break I am glad LFR exists. I would say about 80% of the groups complete the raid. There are a few mouth breathers that ruin things sometimes, but I am not perfect either so I can deal with it. Just being able to see the content and storyline progress was fun. Trying to drill through the legendary cloak quest, but I just started so I figure it will take forever. Need 3 more seals of wisdom and then I can move on to the next steps.
I LFR as a Frost DK to try and get a LFR weapon to drop. Nothing off of Sha of Pride or General Nazgrim. I was then insta ported from one raid to another somehow who was right before Thok. Downed him and got jack, but used my last warforged seal and got his polearm. Being human, I would have preferred a sword but after some reforging that upped my character sheet dps by 4.5k. Hopefully that will let me put out over 100k dps consistently.
Playing melee DPS is definitely more obnoxious than playing my mage. I didn't know about the 50% valor point buff when one of your chars is valor capped until last week. That at least gives me a reason to break out the mage for a few raids to acquire valor gear or item upgrades.
I am absolutely terrified of being a tank in raids. I tanked all the way to 90 in instances, but there doesn't seem to be any forgiveness for 'new' players in LFR so I am just shying away from that for now. Perhaps when WoD comes out and everyone has to learn the fights it would be a better time. That or just change my loot spec to Blood and acquire tank gear through DPS.
I LFR as a Frost DK to try and get a LFR weapon to drop. Nothing off of Sha of Pride or General Nazgrim. I was then insta ported from one raid to another somehow who was right before Thok. Downed him and got jack, but used my last warforged seal and got his polearm. Being human, I would have preferred a sword but after some reforging that upped my character sheet dps by 4.5k. Hopefully that will let me put out over 100k dps consistently.
Playing melee DPS is definitely more obnoxious than playing my mage. I didn't know about the 50% valor point buff when one of your chars is valor capped until last week. That at least gives me a reason to break out the mage for a few raids to acquire valor gear or item upgrades.
I am absolutely terrified of being a tank in raids. I tanked all the way to 90 in instances, but there doesn't seem to be any forgiveness for 'new' players in LFR so I am just shying away from that for now. Perhaps when WoD comes out and everyone has to learn the fights it would be a better time. That or just change my loot spec to Blood and acquire tank gear through DPS.
Tmac
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So, I discovered this about three weeks into the cloak quest, but you can run Heroic Scenarios and hit your weekly cap for Valor tokens pretty easily.
It's the most efficient way I've found to generate the needed 3k Valor as part of the cloak quest. There may be better ways, I just haven't discovered them.
I tanked almost everything prior to SoO yesterday for the first time on my bear.
Hood @ Undermine - Community - World of Warcraft
Not the greatest gear but not bad. That weapon is making my threat suck on AOE fights but I still did just fine.
I haven't tanked since the first tier in Cataclysm and never done it before on Bear. Didn't get any complaints.
Hood @ Undermine - Community - World of Warcraft
Not the greatest gear but not bad. That weapon is making my threat suck on AOE fights but I still did just fine.
I haven't tanked since the first tier in Cataclysm and never done it before on Bear. Didn't get any complaints.
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Heeh, cry at the lack of tanks but then treat them like shit for trying to learn.
Tmac
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The ease of getting into groups as a tank is worth it, imo.
For perspective, you could watch a 30 minute video on the bosses you're about to tank, queue with your tank directly after watching them and get into an instance faster than you could on your DPS. So, the time invested in learning WTF to do in each instance is negligible.
After you learn them, then you've got quick queues forever. If you stick with DPS, you'll eventually learn the fights, but you'll still be sitting in 40 minute queues.
Also, download Oqueue.
Daidraco
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I just ran through everything in my head. Tanking in LFR is face roll easy. Garrosh is the only one in LFR you have to be on your toes. Thats not because Garrosh is hard, but because you have to drag all that shit into the iron star and then get the f'k out of the way. Tanking doesnt start to have a difficulty level, imo, till flex. Thats when things like Sha's wounded pride start to appear and can wipe the raid if you arent paying attention.
Tmac
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I'm playing healers for the first time in my 10 year WoW experience and I must admit...its rather...fun! I've given up my 90 Ret Paladin in exchange for an 86 Resto Shaman and an 83 Resto Druid.
I feel like I'm confessing a dark secret here.
I've got three big reasons why I feel this way which I'll go through:
1. Instant LFD/LFR queues
2. Healing is EASY
3. Healing is a mini-game
4. Instant LFD/LFR
So, instant LFD/LFR queues cannot be overrated. They're awesome. They're probably the best thing you could achieve in MoP. Even if you're using Oqueue, there's always a group looking for a Tank or Healer, but rarely for DPS. If I want to get into a group as DPS on Oqueue, I start my own group. If I want to get into a group on my healer, I cough.
Healing is surprisingly easy. I'm using VuhDu to heal and after you've setup your click-to-heals, everything is a cinch. You don't have to run around like a crazy person like you do with melee and there's no legitimate spamming. Every now and then you'll have a panic mode, but the pacing is nice so the hella heals does nothing to ruin the experience and everything to add to it.
Healing is a mini game. Following HoTs, Procs and combo-heals is a mini-game unto itself. I'm just OCD enough to enjoy it. I almost always keep Lifebloom (Druid) on my tanks during 85% of the dungeon and totems (Shaman) add a ton of versatility when things get hairy.
The value of instant queues cannot be overrated.
All-in-all I'm really enjoying healing. I mean, if you're good, there's nothing for people to blame. Also, if people are dicks, you don't have to heal them
. YOU HAVE ALL THE POWER!
I feel like I'm confessing a dark secret here.
I've got three big reasons why I feel this way which I'll go through:
1. Instant LFD/LFR queues
2. Healing is EASY
3. Healing is a mini-game
4. Instant LFD/LFR
So, instant LFD/LFR queues cannot be overrated. They're awesome. They're probably the best thing you could achieve in MoP. Even if you're using Oqueue, there's always a group looking for a Tank or Healer, but rarely for DPS. If I want to get into a group as DPS on Oqueue, I start my own group. If I want to get into a group on my healer, I cough.
Healing is surprisingly easy. I'm using VuhDu to heal and after you've setup your click-to-heals, everything is a cinch. You don't have to run around like a crazy person like you do with melee and there's no legitimate spamming. Every now and then you'll have a panic mode, but the pacing is nice so the hella heals does nothing to ruin the experience and everything to add to it.
Healing is a mini game. Following HoTs, Procs and combo-heals is a mini-game unto itself. I'm just OCD enough to enjoy it. I almost always keep Lifebloom (Druid) on my tanks during 85% of the dungeon and totems (Shaman) add a ton of versatility when things get hairy.
The value of instant queues cannot be overrated.
All-in-all I'm really enjoying healing. I mean, if you're good, there's nothing for people to blame. Also, if people are dicks, you don't have to heal them