Where to once your 80?

[Perrigrin]

I headed back, finished up training, and have been doing a lot of work on DPS between Elitist Jerks and the practice dummies. I've got all three of them around 1200 with some changes and talent respecs and stuff, so I'm pretty happy, considering the gear they have.

What spell rotations are you using?

[Youngceo]

I just cleared my first heroic Draktharon, id have to say apart from the 2nd boss (the summoner) the rest is pretty cake so long as your half decently geared.

the 2nd boss has alot of adds, and dont think he can be tanked so I had to heal my shammys a buttload, lost 2 guys but managed to just get him. Dred took about 3 go's but was just stupid healing on my part. The last guy I got 1st go with full health on everyone hes that easy its not funny. When he turns your guys to skeles just spam 3+4 on your clones which basically cast a armor and drain life. Takes awhile but he doesnt hit hard at all.

I ended up respeccing one resto and having him dedicated healer. I think the thing with heroics is just practice, i have to get in the habit of healin even when im at full.

Going to try gundrak next.

[Hachoo]

Gundrak is the best for sure. I finally did heroic drak last night and yes if you do it right the last boss is very easy. But yeah, a full 5 badge gundrak run is faster than a 4 badge drak run (and faster than a 3 badge UK run!). Best farming instance for sure. I think I'm going to try heroic culling of strat tonight or tomorrow - haven't even done normal yet.

[Youngceo]

Went into gundrak last night and was gettin the shits cause the rhino boss was just making a mess of my tank and I couldnt hold agro, after about 4 wipes I realised I had a lvl 60 offhand book equipped from ony run like an hour before cause I wanted to see what the skele looked like, and forgot to equip my destroyer back haha. Still managed to get him to 50% with that though!

Heroics are gettin alot easier now im gettin my healing game down, I got the snake and elemental boss first goes, the snake boss I even got the achievement for not getting wrapped and wasnt even trying for it.

By the time I got to the last guy I had a few pieces of broken gear, i lost one guy early didnt realise he got impaled but still managed to get the boss to about 25% with 4 guys and broken gear, I should get him later today easy.

So thats gundrak and draktharon I can farm now at least, what are other decent short instances? I hate UK that place seems to have neverending trash

And my final question, what gear in order did you guys buy with your badges? Im thinking ill prob get the trinkets for my shammys first that increased haste or spellpower or something, im assuming that will add alot of dps and make things even easier.

[Hachoo]

So far all I've bought was the necklace and totem for my shamans and the belt for my DK. Wish I hadn't bought the necklace though - would have bought 4x titanium spellshock necklaces instead and saved up for my t7 gloves or something.

UK does have a lot of trash, but once you overgear it a bit and get some experience you can just keep running killing running killing without stopping, so it does move kind of fast. But, for only 3 badges meh.

[TheBigBB]

If you're going to do heroics there are enough easy bosses that you can save the money you make and just get the heroic gear rather than get craftables. I wouldn't spend 2000 gold per epic when you will just run out of stuff to buy within a month with your badges anyway. However, some slots are seriously lacking itemization, so once you figure out which slots those are, buy some BOE epics for those items if you want to get fully purple. Shoulders is one example.

[Hachoo]

I don't run heroics till it goes out of style. That would be insanely boring. I run a few every now and then for badges. Even if I ran out of things to buy badges with who cares? Over the next few patches they'll be adding T8 equivalent badge items, etc, and those will probably cost 100-200 badges per item - i'll NEVER have enough badges for those, so I might as well get started early

[Pulphero]

for heroics I have one of my shaman as resto doing zero dps, heals only on a cast sequence that starts with earth shield, riptide, lesser healing wave.... ( as many lhw,ch as it takes so that when I get back to riptide it casts right away )
so for button 2 I have 3 shaman doing dps and the resto just standing there and
for button 3 I have the same dps but the resto does his healing castsequence on the tank only.
and the numpad-5 I have all shaman do a chain heal on themselves.
most times when the group needs a heal I can just tap the numpad-5 and only the resto is ready to cast so only the resto heals the group although it is my panic button and if more cast chain heal it's usually ok.

How did you get a macro that casts LHW until riptide is off cooldown? and do you macros set on your resto shammy to only heal the tank? Or are you cycling through the group somehow?

[Youngceo]

I think riptide is on a 6 sec cooldown, but last for 10sec or so? would take too long to figure out how many LHW's you can cast in 10 sec then recast.

Ive tried spamming heals on my tank but he just seems to go out of mana way too quick, resto doesnt seem to be real mana efficient for me, not as well as I would like it to be for boxing anyway. 95% of the time going OOM isnt going to hurt but on semi long heroic boss fights he needs the mana