Well....I guess that's it!

[kate]

Kate.... what rotation are you using on your pally?

I am having issues with holding aggro on the pally, yet as you mentioned the shaman's DPS went up dramatically and are doing great (I see earthquake being nerfed in the future)

I also don't like what they did on the Druid tree form

I don't use Earthquake on my shaman - it seems to do 1950 DPS when on 3 targets, which is more than 1k DPS fewer than I do with my shaman rotation, and it seems a little fussy to use. I'm going to experiment more with it later, but for right now it seems kind of underwhelming.

Paladin tanking macro is:
#showtooltip
/casesequence reset=9 Judgement, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Crusader Strike
/cast Avenger's Shield
/cast Consecration
/cast Holy Wrath

I don't run out of mana, I have no problems generating and holding threat, and it looks like everything fires off as soon as it's ready. My DPS post-patch jumped up a fair amount on my tank, and my TPS went from about 2500 to 3500.

[Ñightsham]

I don't use Earthquake on my shaman - it seems to do 1950 DPS when on 3 targets, which is more than 1k DPS fewer than I do with my shaman rotation, and it seems a little fussy to use. I'm going to experiment more with it later, but for right now it seems kind of underwhelming.

Paladin tanking macro is:
#showtooltip
/casesequence reset=9 Judgement, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Crusader Strike
/cast Avenger's Shield
/cast Consecration
/cast Holy Wrath

I don't run out of mana, I have no problems generating and holding threat, and it looks like everything fires off as soon as it's ready. My DPS post-patch jumped up a fair amount on my tank, and my TPS went from about 2500 to 3500.

Very Nice....... Thanx.. it helped me accomplish "Volazj's Quick Demise"

[Sam DeathWalker]

http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.c...rb_v=viewtopic

Make this macro:

/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Need 102.4 combat table coverage. Currently at: "..string.format("%.2f", GetDodgeChance()+GetBlockChance()+GetParryChance() +5))

The goal is to reforge the gear in such a way that the last value the macro computes comes as close to 87,4 as possible while using a minimal amount of mastery rating. (Holy Shield provides the missing 15% )

Less geared protadins should firstly reforge hit and expertise or the higher of avoidance ratings on a given item (mainly in progression gear, of course)

Hit should be 8percent and expertise 6.5 iirc


Well I dont think it is fair to expect that at level 80 people will have stong defense AND a lot of threat. The above will let you have stong defense but expertise and hit rating (and crits I guess) all effect threat. You can go all out offensive and get a ton of agro but die sooner or go all out defensive and have less ago but more survivability, I kinda doubt you will get both.

Thats what I did also, Reforged some excess dodge into mastery and call it a day. Haven't even looked at gems yet.

[moosejaw]

I don't use Earthquake on my shaman - it seems to do 1950 DPS when on 3 targets, which is more than 1k DPS fewer than I do with my shaman rotation, and it seems a little fussy to use. I'm going to experiment more with it later, but for right now it seems kind of underwhelming.

Paladin tanking macro is:
#showtooltip
/casesequence reset=9 Judgement, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Crusader Strike
/cast Avenger's Shield
/cast Consecration
/cast Holy Wrath

I don't run out of mana, I have no problems generating and holding threat, and it looks like everything fires off as soon as it's ready. My DPS post-patch jumped up a fair amount on my tank, and my TPS went from about 2500 to 3500.

I wanted to point out the typo for anyone else doing the copy/paste. It took me a few pulls to figure out the castsequence was misspelled.

[lightstriker]

Paladin tanking macro is:
#showtooltip
/casesequence reset=9 Judgement, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Crusader Strike
/cast Avenger's Shield
/cast Consecration
/cast Holy Wrath
.

This is the problem I see in the other macro threads. Many of them wait for 3 Holy Power to use SotR. You just need one to get Holy Shield up. Its 15% more block. Its up for 20 sec, that's enough time to get 3 stacks.

The other problem is that dps is too high right now. Blizz knows this. This is probably why Zenga's groups was blowing thru with out a tank.

Originally Posted by Ghostcrawler (Source)
Rather than try and address multiple threads, I'm just going to plop our current thoughts in this one post. Please excuse the brevity.

1) We think Fury, Arms, Feral cat and Retribution dps is too low and we will be buffing them.

2) We think mage dps is too high, especially Fire, and will be nerfing it.

3) We think Shadow priest dps is too high, but that's largely a result of Shadow Word: Death spam, which is tough on healers. We'll be fixing that.

4) We think Destro warlock dps is too high, but that's largely a result of Searing Pain spam, which is tough on tanks. We'll be fixing that.

5) As we suspected, PvP dps is just too high given that the health pools of Cataclysm haven't kicked in yet. While competitive PvP is over for the moment, we still want the environment to feel better so we will be buffing resilience. This change might be reverted at level 85.

There will probably be more changes after another night of raiding and BGs. Many of the bug fixes we have made today will affect dps as well. Stay tuned.