Ramparts: DKs Take Zero Skill

[Zerocool2024]

Ok, so here is my DK video of Ramparts.
Quality is decent, still trying to figure out Vegas to make better quality without making the File size overly big.

All Dk's are blood specd.
Quality - (D) Youtube ('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8TfpsqHjU')
Quality - (C) Vimeo ('http://www.vimeo.com/2913397')
Quality - (C+) WeGame ('http://www.wegame.com/watch/Ramparts_DKs_Take_Zero_Skill/') Now this one is a little odd.. When I play it, there is no sound... But it could just be me...

Could someone give me some info on getting the best out of Fraps and Vegas for Quality/Size?

Also, Blood, Slave Pens, Underbog, ManaTombs are recorded.
So as soon as I sit down and throw them together, I will post them up.

[muffe]

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i use these settings in vegas platinum 9, when uplaoding videos hd 720p to vimeo. should work for hd youtube also.

[muffe]

+1 for deftones

[Zerocool2024]

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i use these settings in vegas platinum 9, when uplaoding videos hd 720p to vimeo. should work for hd youtube also.Sweet, thanks, will use that on the Blood video and see how it works out :)

BTW, did the Wegame stream have sound, or did you have to DL it?

[d0z3rr]

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i use these settings in vegas platinum 9, when uplaoding videos hd 720p to vimeo. should work for hd youtube also.

Only thing I would change would be the audio from 128 to 192. I can tell a big difference between the two, and 192 has more clarity in audio.

This of course does not matter if the source song added to the video is <128.

[Zerocool2024]

Muffe, that Vegas setup came out pretty good with the Blood video (size jumped about 3 times more, but that's fine), I will try the Audio change in the Slaves Pen video and see what it does. Last night I also cleared Auchenai Crypts (by accident, walked into it and was like "woops... oh well, might as well...")

I hope that I will have Slave, Underbog, Mana, and Crypt out by the weekend and by then, I should be 70. If anyone wants to see a specific Dungeon that is in my level range, I can run it and fraps it. At some point, I’m going to fraps some BG’s. However, it will be in the 70 brackets and then I will start leveling up again.

[Multibocks]

No sound on the WEGAME video.

Pretty impressive, I run 4 DKs and a druid and havent wiped to any boss yet in outlands. Curious for your attack macros, do you include a /follow command in them? Also what is that UI, particularly the health bars. I need a new UI =)

[Furystrike]

Hmmm couple of pointers I could make for you just because I too run a 5-DK Blood setup:

1) Dont post a video anywhere saying "DKs take zero skill" - You will get the class nerfed and that will just piss off a lot of people, including myself. The recent change to blood aura stacking and giving double health (20% for a 5-box group)is even better, but as you go up in levels and eventually hit the Heroics, you will need as much healing as you can. Dont judge the 5-group setup this early.

2) You have good mobility with your guys, which isn't easy to do, but you are not making use of pestilence properly. On the first mob of a large group, put on your Icy Touch and Plague Strike. On one of your guys, in place of Blood or Heart Strike, replace that attack with pestilence. This spreads the disease on the main target to all other targets, which saves you some time and starts the dmg flowing on the group.

3) Get Improved Rune Tap and get the Glyph for it. That is 60% healing to all DKs every 30 seconds. 20% for yourself and 10% from each of the other DK's helps out a lot.

4) May want to convert party into Unholy and spec deep enough to get AMZ and bone shield while keeping 2/2 of Blood Aura. Later on casters will wreck your group with AOE.

Nice touch on Death and Decay however. You are dropping it efficiently and with all guys. What setup are you using to do this?

I will be posting some new vids myself, but will only post on here. I don't want Blizzard stopping the stackable blood aura effect or nerfing us - I am having too much fun with the guys. They own.

[Zerocool2024]

No sound on the WEGAME video.

Pretty impressive, I run 4 DKs and a druid and havent wiped to any boss yet in outlands. Curious for your attack macros, do you include a /follow command in them? Also what is that UI, particularly the health bars. I need a new UI =) Yeah, not sure why the WeGame one has no sound… Right now, the Blood vid is uploading to Tube, Game, and Vimeo, so when I get home from work in 3 hours I can post them, I promise it will have better quality…

Wiped once, (Black Stalker) I wasn’t paying attention to my button spamming (I use my left hand with my 58-Xkeys for all my macros as you can see by my UI, “that said hand got Phuked up in a motorcycle accident so it randomly spasms..” I was saving Run tap for the end with his nasty AOE dot and I pressed it at full health… he hit me with Chain lighting, dropped the AOE and I was WTFpwned.

As for the Macros…
I think it went something like:

/jamba-follow strobeonme all <-- this macro right here tells the toon to keep following and don’t stop. Even if they get snagged on a corner or something random in the world, the second you get in range of the /follow command, they will atomically starting following you again.

Delaka post ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=15769&pageNo=6') talking about it in the Main InnerSpace Forum.

Ctrl+1
Main Client Macro
/focus Rêihêalita ('http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Durotan&n=R%C3%AAih%C3%AAalita')
/jamba setmeasmaster all
/jamba-follow strobeonme all
/script SetView(5);SetView(5);


Ctrl+1 (slave 2, 3, 4, 5)
Slave Macro
/focus Rêihêalita ('http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Durotan&n=R%C3%AAih%C3%AAalita')
/script SetView(5);SetView(5);

Ctrl+2 (Now slave 2 is focus)
Main Client Macro
/focus Suxalittle ('http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Durotan&n=R%C3%AAih%C3%AAalita')
/jamba setmeasmaster all
/jamba-follow strobeonme all
/script SetView(5);SetView(5);


Ctrl+2 ( slave 1, 3, 4, 5)
Slave Macro
/focus Suxalittle ('http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Durotan&n=R%C3%AAih%C3%AAalita')
/script SetView(5);SetView(5);

Ect…

Using IS and Jamba, so with that setup, they are on constant follow, works very good with melee groups, this setup will allow for me to run any melee group I can think of.
Can use Keyclone, or any other program/hardware you want, as long as you have Jamba.

Attack macros go something like this.

/assist focus
/autoattack
/cast reset=target Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Death Strike, Death Strike

/assist focus
/autoattack
/cast reset=target Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Obliterate

Death Coil when I get any Rune power and keep on spamming Attack one, or attack two. Have two of them because I was not 62 with the other 4 yet, so I could not use Obliterate.

I don’t much use Attack One anymore, though it does wonders with the Death Strike. But with 5 Blood DK’s 20% health per hit and Coil… You don’t really need it. Better off with harder hitting attacks.

With the recent patch Heart Strike hits multiple targets, so it’s good to spec it.

As for the Units display, I can’t remember, I can look it up when I get home from work.

[Multibocks]

Ah ok I use the FTL system with Keyclone and I just put /follow focus at the beginning of my castsequence macro and it seems to work well enough. However when I spam it I notice my toons dont do their white hits much (/follow must turn off autoattack). They will swing when an ability becomes available again, but I imagine I lose a few white swings. Was hoping for a better system but it sounds like yours would have the same problem with Jamba constantly spamming /follow.

[Zerocool2024]

I don't think I have noticed any swing losses "Don't quote me" but I think they just keep following with autoattack on, or maybe not, it seems that while I run around in circles with them attacking mobs (like the last boss in Ramps) they keep attacking, "Though, I am spamming attack". I will double check it when I get home, but I had the same setup you had and it didn't work all that well, I couldn't do what I'm doing now. This setup it’s a constant attack and they don’t “pause”…

If I remember correctly, I was using a Warrior/ Rogue/ Paladin combo, and it kept making my two melee toons, Rogue/Warrior skip beats with attacking and they would follow, but not attack, or something along those lines. I might be able to resurrect that group and test out my new (or the new, not actuality “my” new method).

I will get back to you with what I find out…

[Multibocks]

Well I used to put /follow after my attack sequence and that would make them pause, but I dont think they pause now as when I hit the macro they all swing. Also I dont have any problems with a mobile fight either as spamming the button ensures they are always following.

[Zerocool2024]

This is in answer to your question about the follow in the macro. No, it does not stop attacking when I have them move. I have them press ctrl+1 (Focus Main), they start attacking mob, then I press LEFT which makes them run around in circles around me. What the macro does is keeps saying that It has lost follow, and starts spamming FOLLOW. during that, they kept Autoattacking the mod and killed it while running in circles while I sat there.

Also, the Unit frames I believe are Perl Classic Unit Frames.. I think, lol.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Nice video. I had a hard time following what was going on with the speed up but it looked powerful. The only 5man group ive run those instances with is a priest and 4 mages. I wouldn't call it 0 skill seeing how you died at the end. Also the fight with the demon boss looked like it took a lot longer to kill than it should. I recall killing him before he gets his pet summoned or getting that shadow damage aoe/dot spell off. He goes down in like 12-15 seconds the last time I went there. But hes easy mode for casters as he just stands there and wont engage in melee if you dont.

Good Job.

[Zerocool2024]

Lol I have died more time than I can remember, mostly do to the fact that I Bite off more than I can chew, Or my spamming presses the wrong button and I use a CD that I need in the next few seconds. If you time everything right, You can't die to anything, Hell, I was doing that place a level 59. Some times I kill bosses really fast and I'm like oh? And others its like I missed every other hit. Prob would kill him faster if I had DPS gear, but I mostly went Defense and not for damage. If you do DPS, you die, you go Tank with all, you wont die less you do something stupid, like when I wiped in Blood when I had used my Rune Tap and aggored those stupid Bomb guys and they killed me before I could react... Nothing I could do about that. Also, in my frist attempt at Crypt, I pulled one set up mobs, aggored another set of mobs, then just before I almost died pulled another set, poped rune, IBF and lived, its all about timing with DKs.

[Zerocool2024]

Hmmm couple of pointers I could make for you just because I too run a 5-DK Blood setup:

1) Dont post a video anywhere saying "DKs take zero skill" - You will get the class nerfed and that will just piss off a lot of people, including myself. The recent change to blood aura stacking and giving double health (20% for a 5-box group)is even better, but as you go up in levels and eventually hit the Heroics, you will need as much healing as you can. Dont judge the 5-group setup this early.

2) You have good mobility with your guys, which isn't easy to do, but you are not making use of pestilence properly. On the first mob of a large group, put on your Icy Touch and Plague Strike. On one of your guys, in place of Blood or Heart Strike, replace that attack with pestilence. This spreads the disease on the main target to all other targets, which saves you some time and starts the dmg flowing on the group.

3) Get Improved Rune Tap and get the Glyph for it. That is 60% healing to all DKs every 30 seconds. 20% for yourself and 10% from each of the other DK's helps out a lot.

4) May want to convert party into Unholy and spec deep enough to get AMZ and bone shield while keeping 2/2 of Blood Aura. Later on casters will wreck your group with AOE.

Nice touch on Death and Decay however. You are dropping it efficiently and with all guys. What setup are you using to do this?

I will be posting some new vids myself, but will only post on here. I don't want Blizzard stopping the stackable blood aura effect or nerfing us - I am having too much fun with the guys. They own.Lol, you know, I never saw this post till now, sorry Furry, was not trying to ignore you on this subject, I don't know how I missed it.
Even though this is later rather than then, just posting because I didn't want you to think I just excusd it as "nothing" but you being helpful.

1) Your right, I only post my videos here, and one on Youtube. Name only came to me because of my starting days as a Rogue. Live as a Rogue, die as Rogue. And because of Mute "Rogues take zero skill" ('http://roguecraft.com/')

2) At the time I was using it wrong. I was playing the class wrong for the most part (and by wrong, I mean, I was not using the spells in the correct order, or using certain ones that I needed to).

3) Check, did some research before I jumped into it.

4) Was going to try this spec down the road.

Using Lax Innerspace/repeater/windowsnapper. But you already know that from my videos. Just stating the obvious.

Btw, new video link coming soon...