Experiences with my new mixed team

[Ken]

Good to see you're so butt-hurt over that other thread you have to make it spill over here.

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That post says more about you than about me.

Also: Please note the fontsize and the ":P".
You've got some logic issues if you're able to tie my link-placement to being butt-hurt :D (Do you actually know that butt-hurt implies being raped?)
Of course I could be wrong with the "logic issues" part, but that would very likely imply that you're just trolling in this topic :)
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[Bigfish]

Sorry to hijack the thread a bit but how much do you do to take advantage of proc'd abilities with this group? (Hot Streak, Brain Freeze, Eclipse, etc)


I run a mixed team also and I have gotten a little silly with this. I'm curious about your experience with that.

Not the OP, but I take advantage of them by setting up my macros to assume a proc every so often. In the case of Hotstreak anyway. No experience with Brain Freeze, and Eclipse never struck me as being consistant enough to accurately plan for.

With Hotstreak, I have my macros set up to cast a Pyroblast every 12-15 seconds or so, which, if your crit rate is high enough, pretty much gives you an instant Pyroblast 90% of the time.


Edit: Ken, if you want to continue this, lets make a new thread or go to the one that's already been derailed.

[Fuzzyboy]

Sorry to hijack the thread a bit but how much do you do to take advantage of proc'd abilities with this group? (Hot Streak, Brain Freeze, Eclipse, etc)

I run a mixed team also and I have gotten a little silly with this. I'm curious about your experience with that.

I pretty much ignore brain freeze procs - there's simply too much micromanagement involved to bother with it, is it's not that big a difference dps wise. I'll spec out of it soon I think. If I can find a way to macro it I will, but the solution I used for my druids eclipse (/castrandom wrath, starfire) doesn't work for my mage since fire dps is only relevant when brainfreeze procs. And mage is still ahead DPS, so I'm ok with it :-) If anyone has a solution I'd love to hear about it though

Edit: A note on my eclipse "solution" - I have a few macros I use depending on situation - on heroic bosses it's usually:

/assist party1
/castsequence reset=target/combat moonfire, null
/castrandom wrath, starfire _OR_ /castrandom starfire, starfire, wrath

for raidbosses I have:
/castsequence reset=target/combat faerie fire, null
/castrandom wrath, starfire _OR_ /castrandom starfire, starfire, wrath

and reapply moonfire/flameshock/faerie fire manually (usually I'll assign the same key, mouse4, to reapply both flameshock and moonfire, although this is technically inefficient and sometimes I leave out moonfire altogether - tbh I don't see much of a DPS increase from using moonfire and I have yet to find a moonfire/IS combo that works significantly better than /castrandom wrath, starfire).

[shaeman]

Or you could make friends and agree to disagree.

I respect you two too much to want to see you becoming the new Deathwalker/glo

[SmackedMeat]

Fuzz. I have a question for you. In my thread, I have the same setup but I was planning to use a resto shammy instead of a holy priest. Do you find the AoE healing (or general healing) is better than the priest? From some of the other threads I have read, it seems like holy is the way to go for priests.

[Fuzzyboy]

Fuzz. I have a question for you. In my thread, I have the same setup but I was planning to use a resto shammy instead of a holy priest. Do you find the AoE healing (or general healing) is better than the priest? From some of the other threads I have read, it seems like holy is the way to go for priests.

Both AE healing and general healing is much less of a hassle with the priest. I do miss earthshield and riptide, but renew + mending makes up for it imo. Circle of healing, holy nova and prayer of healing is a godsend, not only does a holy priest AE heal unlike any other healer, you don't have to stop your dps in order to heal (like you would with 3-4 shaman casting chain heal). If you go from several shamans to one (like I did) you'll probably miss miss the extra heroism when grinding heroics, but thats a minor issue and come 3.1 we'll get a 10 min exhaustion anyway. Don't get me wrong, resto shamans are good to have - the extra totems, heroism, riptide, earth shield, but after trying a holy priest for healer, I'm not going back :-)

[Souca]

Fuzz,

Since the "odd couple" forgot to mention it, you should join us on the other thread .

Glad to hear you are having fun with a mixed setup. I've been thinking of going the mixed route as well. Thing is, I want a DK tank and a 50/21 holy/prot paly for Blessing of Sanctuary. The main concern I've had with the paly healer is the AoE healing. Hearing how good the priest is has got me worried. I really like BoS for DKs, the RP generation is just insane, but I could live without it if the healing on a priest is really that good. Thoughts?

- Souca -

[Greythan]

The healing on a priest is really that good.

[SmackedMeat]

The healing on a priest is really that good.

You guys sold me. Once I get my machine built, I'll be going holy on the priest.

[torytrae]

I have a group a lot alike like yours, just my priest is disc specced and not holy

You ever tried disc priest? Shield + Penance is a great combo. Basically Penance is instant healing (no cast time) but with 3 pulses. Great for tank healing and emergency mouse over, and disc will get a serious buff on top of that with 3.1 (faster Shield, impr Flash Heal, and lots of spell haste) and disc is a much much more mana efficient healing spec compared to holy