Help with Utgarde Keep and general Paladin tanking

[Frosty]

Awesome! I never knew this...that's going to make it a lot eaiser.

[Bigfish]

Note to self, stop writing hour long edits.

Edit: See, this is hy I love these threads. They make me go back and look at my macros. Found out my shadow priest has "Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Blast" which leaves a good 5 seconds of nothin going on. Huh. Quick Robin! To the Time Table!

[Frosty]

Note to self, stop writing hour long edits.

Edit: See, this is hy I love these threads. They make me go back and look at my macros. Found out my shadow priest has "Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Blast" which leaves a good 5 seconds of nothin going on. Huh. Quick Robin! To the Time Table!

I went back and read what you wrote, thanks again for the info and tips. I really need to read up on all the classes again..I had no idea they changed the warlock pets.

What kind of DPS numbers is your group putting out? Perhaps its a DPS macro problem? (I use recount to get my numbers)

Well..the funny thing is, I turned Recount off (along with QuestHelper) with the new expansion to try and squeeze out every bit of FPS I could get.
I just re-wrote most of my DPS macro's recently too, so I'll get Recount back up, and hit the training dummies to see what happens.

I don't have access to my macro's right now or I'd post them. :S

[Frosty]

Alrighty...thanks again for the help you've all given me.

Now, let me break down all the ways I suck, and messed things up by myself and with a few other random causes.

Way's I suck and do stupid things:
1. GCD starts at the beginning of spell casts..not the way I had my macros set up..and added a 0.5-1 second delay on every cast ..slowing down all my DPS and trying to recast too early on spells with cooldowns.. This was in ALL my macros. :S
2. The Warlock spell Corruption...over-writes Seed of Corruption...and vise versa. This was a huge loss in DPS the way I had it set up..not to mention waste of mana.
3. Even thought Blizzard rocks in most ways..always check to make sure you main DPS macro is actually the one you thought it was...and not the one Blizzard thinks it should be. My mage was using an old Arcane build macro that I thought I'd delted now that I'm re-spec'd to Fire...
4. Mind Flay has a 20 yard range (I'm guilty of not RTFM)..getting an incription to fix this instead of wasting 2 points on a talent. Only good thing is there aren't enough Shadow Priest spells for me to screw too much up.

I got my my main 3 DPS classes doing about ~800-900 DPS each now on single targets..I'm betting it'll go up once the AoE kicks in.
My Shaman will be doing small random DPS..so that'll help a little too.

Gonna give Utgade Keep another shot tonight to see how it goes. :thumbsup:

[Bigfish]

Got my Shadow Priest macro working about where I want it to.

/assist Focus
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=24 Vampiric Embrace, Vampiric Touch, Mind blast, Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, Power Word: Shield, Shadow Word: Death, Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Vampiric Touch, Mind Flay, Mind Blast, Shadow Word: Death, Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Flay, Mind Blast, Power Word: Shield, Devouring Plague, Vampiric Touch, Shadow Word: Death, Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Flay, Shadow Word: Pain, Mind Blast, Shadow Word: Death, Vampiric Touch, Mind Flay, Mind Blast, Power Word: Shield, Mind Flay, Shadow Word: Death, Mind Blast,

[Frosty]

My Shadow Priest is something similar, but I'm a little afraid of the SW: Death spell.

I also have my reset at reset=target and have Devouring Plague on another key that's spammed less often.

I spam my DPS key too often so I was afraid the reset=(x seconds) wouldn't get Vampiric Embrace on each new mob at the start.

[Bigfish]

I went back and read what you wrote, thanks again for the info and tips. I really need to read up on all the classes again..I had no idea they changed the warlock pets.

I don't think it was ever documented, and I doubt most players know about those changes. I only came across them dropping an infernal on the AH and trying to get King Wrynn to manhandle a doomguard. Was somewhat surprised they didn't try to kill me, and even more surprised they turned out to be pretty good pets.