World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

[epmode]

OK, yeah.

[Opaque]

Heroic Maly in 5:28 tonight.

So ridiculous.

[AstroBlue]

3 of our main healers and one of our rogues changed servers to be in an easier battlegroup (since Ruin is basically the most competitive) and guarantee themselves the Gladiator title. They say they'll be back for Ulduar (more than likely miss is it by a week or two IMO) but it leaves this week's raids in a shitty state as well as the next 4 weeks' worth unless I can find at least one other raiding priest in short order.

We were doing far too well, so here's the backlash. Just how it works.

I heard the battlegroup they moved to is ridiculous, there are keyboard turning teams in the 1700s, Sam and Biggie got 2000 in day, and Vstar and Inder got 1st on the server in 2 days.

[Mzo]

Yeah, it sounds amazing. I'd be more excited about if a) I cared or b) it didn't screw our raids.

[Curtis]

Fucking awesome Curtis.

The best chance we have at an Immortal run would also be the 20 man run, cutting out some of the people that always, always tend to mess up.

The only tricky part there is dps on Thaddius. I mean obviously it can be done, we've done it, but we tried it once on an Immortal and it ended in heartbreak. To be fair though, I wasn't on Storm (so melee was hurting for buffs) and was instead on Opaque to get him Shocking! and I had no idea what I was doing with an spriest. So maybe that was just me going about things in an entirely fail way. So nevermind.

But one thing to always, always, ALWAYS keep in mind is that you only have to be in on the KT kill to get the title. Someone has lag issues? They don't get to dance. Can't tell left from right? Log out while we do Thaddius, please - and there's why I was on Brett's character (lag, not failing kindergarten). If someone is guaranteed to fuck up a fight, just have them log while you guys take care of it, then resume the run.

Since wotlk came out I feel our general DPS is not up to snuff, which is weird since we've always had healer/tank issues and amazing DPS until now... it seems the situation has reversed itself, which makes progression possible but achievements like fast kills or kill something with a few people damn near impossible =[

Eh, worse positions to be in. I have no doubts that it sucks right now but your tanks and healers will always be your core. DPS will fill itself in. I had incredible luck, back when we were getting Dedicated Few just because we were new and couldn't recruit more than 18 people, just being honest when telling people about the guild. "All of the pieces aren't in place yet but we have incredibly strong healers and tanks and this should be thought of as a ground floor position in a core group that WILL go places." Not everyone responded but the people who did, at least I knew they weren't just after quick purples. And they're some of my best and most loyal still.

We only have ONE raiding healing priest (who is amazing, but still), no stable shaman and no competent DK DPS at all. Like at all. They all want to tank with their shitty gear and no reflexes, fuck them.

I have no words for the DKs on your server. I lucked out and got one good DK (I thought two but one decided to "take a break" from raiding the day of the first raid AFTER we got him a black proto - well aware that he was one of two DKs and needed for that night's 6 minute Maly to get others theirs. Needless to say, gkick) but I can see how a class that populated would have a lot of morons running around in the ranks. Good luck with 'em. I've had similar bad luck with pallys and I think it's just because the love affair with "I CAN BE THIS CLASS ON THIS FACTION" is over. Sucks.

[Thief Silver]

I'm back now and hopefully I'll get up to snuff, I had to relearn some stuff though but I should be putting up some somewhat respectable numbers next raid I'm in now that I switched to unholy again. Too bad there isn't a fucking enhancement shaman in the guild.

[George]

We have eravulgaris, though he's not always reliable.

In other news, on the PTR it looks like, unless they have something not yet implemented for SV, Marksmanship looks to be the most reliable DPS spec for hunters. There's some talk of making the TNT talent refresh immolation trap's DOT aspect, which would give it the DPS boost it needs to stay consistent and less bursty.

[JBNagis]

How can you be a idiotic dps dk. Thats all they are good for.I dont trust DK's tanking. My DK is strictly DPS. If i wanna tank ill hop on my Pally

[Thief Silver]

There's nothing wrong with DK Tanking. It's getting nerfed because avoidance tanking is too good. People always taught people to stack Health, but my friend who was an avoidance tank with 70% avoidance as a warrior in BT was better tha most tanks, he had 629 defense and basically took 40% less damage than the average tank, without losing DPS.

[youandwhosearmy]

How can you be a idiotic dps dk. Thats all they are good for.I dont trust DK's tanking. My DK is strictly DPS. If i wanna tank ill hop on my Pally

Eh it's an outdated belief. Way back I had a tank in Skull that was an avoidance warrior, to the point that he would gimp prot talents to get dps talents because his avoidance was so good. The problem of course being back then if you did such a thing and got hit there was a very good chance you could be one shotted. We wound up having to guild kick the fucker cause the game was simply not designed to accommodate such a thing and he refused to abide by convention.

It just isn't like that anymore. Defense is such an all encompassing stat now that even those on Tank spot recommend stacking quite a bit further than the diminishing returns cap would dictate, and dodge is far more useful than it used to be.

Thief is right, DK tanks are completely viable man.