Gadzooks
09-28-2009, 04:42 AM
Just a clearing of the head, some mental notes I can come back and review...
Spent the weekend questing in Icecrown, and doing dailies - i have all my 80's doing all of the Icecrown dailies, and am following the dailies FAQ - I think I made about 5-6 grand yesterday and today - and spent it. :)
I'm stuck on Banshee's Revenge, but I think I have it figured out. A couple more tries, I should get it. I'm blasting through all of the other 5 man quests in Icecrown, they're easy, and good money at 22g per. The one just south of The Shadow Vault, where you have to get the 4 pieces from the chests, is drop dead easy, I can take him out in 30 seconds. I cleared him twice in a row - once for the quest, then the daily. During the second run, a lone mage came along, and since I could'nt group with him, I let him tag it, and burned him down. Easy. :)
I am now finishing up with crafted gear - I need a titansteel shanker for the rogue, 2 more rings, and then the Titanium necks - my JCer needs 9 more token, and I can get the patterns. I'm upgrading blue gems for epics, and upgrading enchants.
My group is doing well. I got tired of dailies, so I finished with a test run of Gundrak, normal and heroic.
Normal, I blasted through - wiped on the snake, so I need to sit down and get some macros for poison. The golem fight was interesting, because I did'nt know what to expect, and I took the Mammoth down fast.
Heroic...I just went in the south entrance as a test. Trash is fine, i just have to go slow, and the Mammoth boss I got down to 10% before wiping. So close...it's a healing issue, I need to work out some more macros, and add the Boomkin into the healing pool. I'm encouraged by how far I got, I just need to tighten things up and keep trying.
Numbers:
Prot Pally 39k health, 41-something defense. Low dps, but she survives a long time. She got some serious gear upgrades, next she needs her Hodir enchants and others. Pretty happy with her for now. Some mana issues, but I read up on it and am improving, I'm using Seal of Wisdom and Sanctuary to keep mana building, and I have innervate on the druid hotkeyed to the Pally.
Combat Rogue; doing serious damage, high survivability, if a boss/mob aoes I just kite with the pally away, and don't hit interact with target until it's clear. She rarely dies. Needs some more gear (shanker), but she's averaged 1600 dps in Gundrak.
Boomkin: She's the real star right now. I was thinking this morning she needed some serious gear upgrades, but she was averaging 2k dps in Gundrak, after she got her Titanium rings today. She needs some epic gems, and I might get her the Windripper pieces. Pretty pleased with her so far, and her mana pool is big enough to contribute healing, that's my next project.
Holy Priest: Working on gear and jewelry. She's surviving fine, but I'm learning to slow down the button mashing, or the latency means working through the keyboard buffer until I get to the heals. I need to pay more attention to her, but so far, solid.
Arcane Mage: AWESOME DPS still, she peaks at 2300dps, but the little so and so is still stealing aggro from the pally, and is always the first to die. Needs her titanium neck, and is done for now. I need to look at her macros and see if i can get rid of the peakiness of her dps and grab less aggro, but pretty happy with her. Plus, mana bisquits! I need to put together some alternate macros to throw some Ice spells in there for the slowing effects. She's next for dual spec, i want to play with an Ice build for running instances that will focus on crowd control and slowing.
Pretty good weekend. I overindulged because I have a lot of freelance work in the next two weeks, so I may only be able to get on for short periods, maybe some dailies. I know some of you might scoff, thinking "Gundrak? Normal? That's easy!" - but I'm pretty happy considering I'm running a mixed team, I've never tanked in the years of WoW I've played (Melee only), and I've never healed instances.
If anyone reads this, and you're new, let me share the most important thing I'm learning: learn to slow down on mashing your buttons! Slow and steady, i know it makes no sense, but my DPS goes way up when I keep the beat steady: 1.....2.....3.....4.....5 I freak out because I'm not used to tanking, I have to keep reminding myself that she'll be fine, and I can peek at other things going on, and if I spam the buttons, the lag monster hits and my keyboard buffer fills up, and then, it's a wipe. Keep the beat. Your macros should be set up to take advantage of a certain beat. It works!
Spent the weekend questing in Icecrown, and doing dailies - i have all my 80's doing all of the Icecrown dailies, and am following the dailies FAQ - I think I made about 5-6 grand yesterday and today - and spent it. :)
I'm stuck on Banshee's Revenge, but I think I have it figured out. A couple more tries, I should get it. I'm blasting through all of the other 5 man quests in Icecrown, they're easy, and good money at 22g per. The one just south of The Shadow Vault, where you have to get the 4 pieces from the chests, is drop dead easy, I can take him out in 30 seconds. I cleared him twice in a row - once for the quest, then the daily. During the second run, a lone mage came along, and since I could'nt group with him, I let him tag it, and burned him down. Easy. :)
I am now finishing up with crafted gear - I need a titansteel shanker for the rogue, 2 more rings, and then the Titanium necks - my JCer needs 9 more token, and I can get the patterns. I'm upgrading blue gems for epics, and upgrading enchants.
My group is doing well. I got tired of dailies, so I finished with a test run of Gundrak, normal and heroic.
Normal, I blasted through - wiped on the snake, so I need to sit down and get some macros for poison. The golem fight was interesting, because I did'nt know what to expect, and I took the Mammoth down fast.
Heroic...I just went in the south entrance as a test. Trash is fine, i just have to go slow, and the Mammoth boss I got down to 10% before wiping. So close...it's a healing issue, I need to work out some more macros, and add the Boomkin into the healing pool. I'm encouraged by how far I got, I just need to tighten things up and keep trying.
Numbers:
Prot Pally 39k health, 41-something defense. Low dps, but she survives a long time. She got some serious gear upgrades, next she needs her Hodir enchants and others. Pretty happy with her for now. Some mana issues, but I read up on it and am improving, I'm using Seal of Wisdom and Sanctuary to keep mana building, and I have innervate on the druid hotkeyed to the Pally.
Combat Rogue; doing serious damage, high survivability, if a boss/mob aoes I just kite with the pally away, and don't hit interact with target until it's clear. She rarely dies. Needs some more gear (shanker), but she's averaged 1600 dps in Gundrak.
Boomkin: She's the real star right now. I was thinking this morning she needed some serious gear upgrades, but she was averaging 2k dps in Gundrak, after she got her Titanium rings today. She needs some epic gems, and I might get her the Windripper pieces. Pretty pleased with her so far, and her mana pool is big enough to contribute healing, that's my next project.
Holy Priest: Working on gear and jewelry. She's surviving fine, but I'm learning to slow down the button mashing, or the latency means working through the keyboard buffer until I get to the heals. I need to pay more attention to her, but so far, solid.
Arcane Mage: AWESOME DPS still, she peaks at 2300dps, but the little so and so is still stealing aggro from the pally, and is always the first to die. Needs her titanium neck, and is done for now. I need to look at her macros and see if i can get rid of the peakiness of her dps and grab less aggro, but pretty happy with her. Plus, mana bisquits! I need to put together some alternate macros to throw some Ice spells in there for the slowing effects. She's next for dual spec, i want to play with an Ice build for running instances that will focus on crowd control and slowing.
Pretty good weekend. I overindulged because I have a lot of freelance work in the next two weeks, so I may only be able to get on for short periods, maybe some dailies. I know some of you might scoff, thinking "Gundrak? Normal? That's easy!" - but I'm pretty happy considering I'm running a mixed team, I've never tanked in the years of WoW I've played (Melee only), and I've never healed instances.
If anyone reads this, and you're new, let me share the most important thing I'm learning: learn to slow down on mashing your buttons! Slow and steady, i know it makes no sense, but my DPS goes way up when I keep the beat steady: 1.....2.....3.....4.....5 I freak out because I'm not used to tanking, I have to keep reminding myself that she'll be fine, and I can peek at other things going on, and if I spam the buttons, the lag monster hits and my keyboard buffer fills up, and then, it's a wipe. Keep the beat. Your macros should be set up to take advantage of a certain beat. It works!