First Heroic

[Simulacra]

lol - yeah, I can do HGrundrak now in 30mins - the mobs blow up so quickly I have to check to see if I'm on normal. I went to H halls of stone and got a wake up call though, the mobs there hit really hard - ouch. Finally did HUP a couple of nights ago - got a real sense of achievement as that place was always a killer for me and I'd been avoiding it, but 3 magma totems and chain lightning sorted out the gauntlet nicely. I might start farming it for the sword.

What really helped early on was food/flasks/potions with +stam +hit +spell +haste +crit whatever etc - they really made the difference, expensive but if you shop around you can get some bargains. I keyed up health pots on key number 5 and would tap that to save mana/time/dps for a LHW. What's nice now is the new insciption recipe that gives you a massive stam buff, combine that with some pots and it's a massive increase. Also the first bits of gear I went for was in WG, really nice +hit items with loads of +stam. More stam = less healing = more dps. My shammies run with 20+k stam now and can stand in poison and yawn.