My second solo 80 on KJ

So a few weeks ago I xfered my 71 Paladin and leveled her and geared her. While I was leveling, I was *constantly* qued up for instances as DPS. I always had great runs and it was a breeze. I ding'd 80 having only completed 3 full zones and parts of Icecrown. I think a lot of my extra XP was from so many quick and easy dungeons.

My Priest just hit 80 yesterday, and every dungeon run was an absolute nightmare. Terrible groups beyond belief. People who had no idea how to do the instance, people who had no idea how to play their class (not that this is any different at 80, lol) but wow. from 74-78 I was getting ONLY reg VH as a "random" dungeon. I just started leaving them because I was getting 6-8% XP from the entire dungeon. It was crazy. I could have spent the same amount of time and done twice as much XP via quests. So I ended up at 80 and the filler difference between the 2 toons was I did the Sons of Hodir quest chain to make up for the much fewer instances.

This weekend: Heroic Dungeon bender. Hopefully the groups will be a lot better and I really hope the idiots I was running with haven't made it to 80 yet. heh.

I'm really starting to believe that the "wave" of "good pugs" we all experienced were good players just getting there mains T9. Now that that grind is over with, we're stuck with the mouth breathers.

At least the queues are fast and the ability to leave a dungeon is instant.

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Originally Posted by Fursphere

I'm really starting to believe that the "wave" of "good pugs" we all experienced were good players just getting there mains T9. Now that that grind is over with, we're stuck with the mouth breathers.

At least the queues are fast and the ability to leave a dungeon is instant.

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My new "bad pug check" system is if I'm off Dungeon Finder CD and we haven't killed the first boss /leave

Thats a good idea. lol

You want to experience painful pugging, go start a new toon and try the first few instances. It's painful. I had 3 in a row where the healer didn't know he had signed up to heal and then didn't know which spells were healing spells.

Maybe people don't perform well when they are grouped with a SATINWORSHIPER!!!

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Originally Posted by Kicksome

Maybe people don't perform well when they are grouped with a SATINWORSHIPER!!!

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lol I'm such a terrible influence.

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Originally Posted by Svpernova09

lol I'm such a terrible influence.

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For all of you fortunate enough to have NOT been swayed by the bear, this is quite the understatement. Just sayin...

I found the groups get better as my gear level goes up. So say Im low 4k gs (I know I KNOW!) I tend to get people from 3500-4kish that suck with maybe one super high gs person. When I got closer to 5k most of my group was actually close to 5k with one low gs and again a high gs. Weird how it does that.

The system is setup to carry at last one member of the group.

Your low = everyone else is high
Your high = you've goint to have at least one low person

Blizzard actually confirmed this.

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Originally Posted by Fursphere

The system is setup to carry at last one member of the group.

Your low = everyone else is high
Your high = you've goint to have at least one low person

Blizzard actually confirmed this.

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I've done 2 or 3 runs today. 2 runs, I was actually the BEST geared (lol2.8kGS) the other, the 5400GS warrior QQed about carrying me the entire run. I told him to votekick me or leave. someone from the group told me after we killed the last boss, the vote to kick me came up 3 times over the run. I never got kicked. lol

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Originally Posted by Svpernova09

So a few weeks ago I....blah blah blah I'm so cool I can level faster than Fenril blah blah blah and now I'm 80!

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The Ding Thread is ----T---H---A---T----> way!

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Originally Posted by Fursphere

The system is setup to carry at last one member of the group.

Your low = everyone else is high
Your high = you've goint to have at least one low person

Blizzard actually confirmed this.

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Good god the CoS Qwiggles and myself were in the other day. With a Healer being undergeared it's easy to compensate because I'm a pro Warrior...naturally. But when the trash was taking like....a minute to down I checked out Recount and 2 of the DPS were doing sub1200 DPS. One eventually DC'd and we got a decent Mage. We actually made it to the extra boss in there...with 2 minutes to spare...but I think I gave the Resto Shaman a heart attack by pulling that entire 'gauntlet' area.

I like mass pulling, when i have a competent group that holds off on aoes....

I think ill lvl up my DK solo, just cause queueing as tank is way faster... and hes already 70.

here are the macros for my shadowpriest, just tested and got 4k dps sustained, never ran oom, and has way less gear than my other toons, who have full T9, while my spriest is in fail T7 and T8...


/Assist focus
/stopmacro [channeling]
/Click MultiBarBottomRightButton4
/Click MultiBarBottomRightButton5
/Click MultiBarBottomRightButton6
/Click MultiBarBottomRightButton7
/Click MultiBarBottomRightButton8
/use 13
/use 14

#show Vampiric Touch
/castsequence [target=focustarget,exists,harm] [target=raid1target,exists,nodead] [target=party1target,harm] reset=combat Vampiric Touch,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

#show devouring plague
/castsequence [target=focustarget,exists,harm] [target=raid1target,exists,nodead] [target=party1target,harm] reset=combat devouring plague,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

#show Shadow word: Pain
/castsequence [target=focustarget,exists,harm] [target=raid1target,exists,nodead] [target=party1target,harm] reset=combat Shadow Word: Pain,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

#show Mind blast
/castsequence [target=focustarget,exists,harm] [target=raid1target,exists,nodead] [target=party1target,harm] reset=combat Mind Blast,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

/assist focus
/stopmacro [channeling]
/cast [target=focustarget,harm] [target=party1target,harm] [target=raid1target,harm] [] mind flay

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Originally Posted by Fenril

The Ding Thread is ----T---H---A---T----> way!


Good god the CoS Qwiggles and myself were in the other day. With a Healer being undergeared it's easy to compensate because I'm a pro Warrior...naturally. But when the trash was taking like....a minute to down I checked out Recount and 2 of the DPS were doing sub1200 DPS. One eventually DC'd and we got a decent Mage. We actually made it to the extra boss in there...with 2 minutes to spare...but I think I gave the Resto Shaman a heart attack by pulling that entire 'gauntlet' area.

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The druid that "DC'D" was in boomkin gear.. dpsing as kitty.. and couldn't break 700 dps.

I don't mind carrying people.. I don't mind being 50% of the damage done. But some things are just flat out STUPID. I can carry you through heroics if you have the skill to compensate for your lack of gear.. but if you are just an all around idiot.. I can't do anything to help you. AT. ALL.

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Originally Posted by Fiddlesticks

The druid that "DC'D" was in boomkin gear.. dpsing as kitty.. and couldn't break 700 dps.

I don't mind carrying people.. I don't mind being 50% of the damage done. But some things are just flat out STUPID. I can carry you through heroics if you have the skill to compensate for your lack of gear.. but if you are just an all around idiot.. I can't do anything to help you. AT. ALL.

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So that means you won't be doing heroix with me?

If I'm around - happy to help out however I can.

If you want to practice healing under-geared tanks (i.e. not as tricked out as Fen/Zod/David) - I can dust off Kasy and we can go run a few heroics for some "oh shit" practice (she's in some Ulduar gear)

You don't need uber gear for heroics... my pvp undergeared tanks can do heroics fine (with 0 uldaar gear, just a few crafted ilevel200). And when I was playing my resto druid; I healed VOA25 with doing top heals (and lowest overhealing) with blue gear and maybe 1200sp

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Originally Posted by Svpernova09

So that means you won't be doing heroix with me?

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Keep spelling it with an 'X' and see how far that gets you mister.

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Originally Posted by Fenril

Keep spelling it with an 'X' and see how far that gets you mister.

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lol


well, I bought my 2nd piece of T9 today. I'm not having any mana issues, I'm really liking disc healing. I qued all day so far today as healer so I've gotten a lot of practice. Already got a bronze drake too :D

Bronze drakes..... I have 13 80s, 5 bronze drakes, and 5 toons with epic flying.... Only one drake is on a toon that can use it......

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Originally Posted by daviddoran

Bronze drakes..... I have 13 80s, 5 bronze drakes, and 5 toons with epic flying.... Only one drake is on a toon that can use it......

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Slacker!


9 80s, 9 Bronze Drakes, 9 Epic Flying.














































wtb life.

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Originally Posted by Svpernova09

Slacker!


9 80s, 9 Bronze Drakes, 9 Epic Flying.

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Hah! That's nothing!! I have....oh wait. nm.

*sulks back in the newb corner*

yeah i have 6 bronze drakes but only 2 epic flying skillz hehe. I'm saving my goldz till i'm done with the insane grind then i'll get the epic skill on all my toons.