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[Tyval]

Great help and info as always Ualaa, and thanks for the macro tip bobgnarly.

Still coming up to speed on macros , trying to learn a bit as I go along.

The totem pointers are a huge help, i never thought about the delay/stagger to get more/better Tremor totem usefulness.

I wasn't clear on the Totem of wrath tip. I have both drop the ToW as an individual drop, then drop the totem sets with only one shaman using one?

Will incorporate these tips tonight. (I need to go get glyphs so will do that tonight as well (keep forgetting), and I do have a caster team (2 shaman , mage).

I think it is good I"m running the instances on way up, get practice, and often confronted with a fight that forces me to learn something new, or add something to my repertoire. Plus have never played shaman or mage really so still learning those classes.

Really looking forward to finally getting to Wrath, if nothing else so I can use the dungeon finder with my team to get ported to instances (lvl 80 priest messing it up now).

T

[Ualaa]

/assist [target=Focus]
/cast Whatever

VS.

/cast [target=FocusTarget]
/cast Whatever

The difference between these, is if you want your toon to actually target whatever your Focus is targeting, or if just casting at that target (without actually changing targets) is enough.

The full syntax would be:
/cast [target=FocusTarget,Help][target=FocusTargetTarget,Help][Target=Focus] Heal

a) A friendly targeted by your Focus.
b) A friendly who it targeted by the target of your Focus.
c) The Focus.

But your example got the point across.

[Ualaa]

If you were to glyph Totem of Wrath, with both Shaman.
When a Shaman drops their ToW, they receive a personal 5 minute buff, which is 30% of the spell power granted by the totem.

So if both Shaman had ToW glyphed, you would want both to drop their own ToW.
So they each get the 5 minute buff.

Once they have the buff, since ToW does not stack, you only need one between both Shammies.
So if there's another Fire Totem which could be of use to the team, you'd want ToW + another Fire Totem.

[Tyval]

Finally made it to Northrend.

Did some questing, and made it into UK. Went fine but with a couple of hiccups.

Group was
71 pali, mage , shaman x2 70 priest 80. Pali was in some old blues from BC and some new greens from WotLK.

the add boss was fine, though I don't think I was very skilled in the fight, mostly just spammed aoes for adds and iced chars. I may need to get some macros for heroic mode.

Second pair of named. pali seemed to take some big dmg , part way through fight caught me off guard, paid more attention next time. I did mess up though and accidentally killed the melee first, he then went around killing folks while I finished off the mage. Oopsies .

Last named was actually much easier for me than the pair.

All in all it showed I need to keep doing instances and practice, I think without the 80 healer things would have been much harder...

Tomorrow on to Nexus, got the quests all done in that area so 4 quests in there to do.

T

[Tyval]

Did Nexus tonight, was pretty easy till final boss/dragon. wiped several times until I took a break and read a bit on this forum heh. Saw that Grounding totems are really helpful.

Using that strategy things went much better, then I started dying when enraged, wasn't ready for it.

The next time I was ready for it, but some bad timing and died again .

One thing I saw when looking at the log, I got hit for 9.5k critical... So it explains how I went down so fast. I think I have 12k hps buffed.

So the critical came as a surprise, I thought only heroics did that..

Though I guess the dragon is 73, my pali is 71, I had 413 defense.

So crits are something to worry about even in the normal dungeons?

Anyhoo, next time I really made sure to keep my renew ticking and healed up, and took her down.

Now on to questing till 73 .

T

[Tyval]

Question for folks on AoE dmg.


Getting reading to head into Azjol-Nerub and Old kingom as my tank hits 73 , and dps 72.

Was thinking about AoE dmg.

Given my dps 2 elemental shaman and a mage, what would folks think would be the best way to max AoE dmg on fights that require this.

So far I haven't done much, arcane explosion, chain lightning, and seems elemental shamans have many other tools to use as well.

Thanks for all tips/pointers etc.

T

[Ualaa]

Shammies have Fire Nova or Flame Nova.
Whatever it is called, it used to be the Fire Nova spell.
The name is similar.
It is a PBAoE effect, centered on any Fire Totem you have out.
Magma Totem is AoE damage, but glyphed Fire Elementals are every 5 mins, so I use at least two on every boss (usually keep one Totem of Wrath out, for the team).

On my Pally, Shammy x3, Warlock team.
I have Consecrate, Flame Nova and Shadowfury on the same key.

On my mixed team (Druid, Priest, Mage, Shammy x2)...
I have Flame Nova on the same key as Priest Holy Nova (Priest has Holy Nova on its own key too).
The mage has a [nochanneling] Blizzard macro, so I can spam the key and not interrupt her casting.
The druid has [stance:1] Swipe; [stance:5,nochanneling] Hurricane (pretty sure 5 = boomkin).
The druid runs as both boomkin (spec 1) and feral (spec 2).

If you don't want to broadcast mouse clicks..
The mage could Arcane Explosion for decent damage.

[Tyval]

Thanks for the AoE tips.

AN and Old kingdom went okay, had a friend playing so swapped him for my mage (he was DK), came in handy on the last fight in Old Kingdom, That fight isn't very MB friendly hehe.


Raised some questions /issues with my group though.

THe big question...

Is there an easy way to have my dps folks face the mob they are attacking? This caused me quite a few problems on several fights. Like the Lady X before the final boss in old kingdom, adds can spawn from all around, I solved it eventually with placement but still was iffy. I know EQ2 has a turn to face option, I'll check the WoW interface again but didn't see it.

What do others do to make sure casters etc can cast on a mob they aren't facing?

Thanks

T

[Ualaa]

If you have click to move enabled...
Interface Options - Mouse Options, check the box.
Or "/console AutoInteract 1".

And you have a keybind for Interact With Target.
And another for movement to all toons.

Hit your IWT keybind.
Which will have all of your toons turn to the target.
And begin running at it (to melee it to death).
(Range on this is about 3x as far as /follow, which is excellent for recover from a fear bomb).

Then you press your movement key (down arrow, for example).
To break the follow.
You now have all of your toons facing towards your target.