I'm sick of the "random" dungeon finder

[Fursphere]

The Oculus had some additional changes made. The Planar Anomlies during the Eregos encounter will have a shorter duration and do reduced damage, some of the drakes above Varos’s platform have been removed, and the drakes controlled by players will move a little faster.

MORE NERFS to Oculus! /holy crap

source: http://www.mmo-champion.com/

[Drizzit]

Don't drakes scale with gear now?

That is the one thing that i hated about this. That you geared didn't matter. Yes, i know that it is the player not the game, but if i am working my ass off to get raid gear then heroics should be a joke.

[Fursphere]

Yes, they have scaled with gear for a long time now.. it was recently buffed again so gear added even more.

[Kang]

I guess I've been very lucky considering I haven't seen Occulus appear once in the random dungeon finder. It's a shame since I haven't completed it yet.

[kadaan]

For Occulus I just temporarily replaced my 1 and 3 buttons for eregos to nuke/channel on 3, and channel/nuke on the other 2. Hit 1, count to 3, hit 3, count to 3, hit 1, count to 3, etc. For timestop I just hit 2 in the respective window.

I failed a couple times my first try because I was rotating the nuke/channel too fast (with the GCD) and it wasn't doing enough damage. After waiting 3s between switches I killed him easily with all drakes around 50% life. I haven't boxed it since the drakes started scaling with gear, so it's going to be even easier now.


Staying on-topic, I _finally_ got ToC as my random heroic last night!

[Drizzit]

I now officially HATE ret pallies. They que for tank, healer, and dps. I got 2 of them in 2 different randoms.

First was the tank. They walked in without a shield and in ret spec i was like are you going to tank ret? He never answered, and then began pulling. I think looked at his buffs and he didn't have his tanking buff on. I told him about this and he didn't do anything. The whole time i was just looking at his health and the priests mana bar just drain so quick. Now this was the first time the priest said she was healing an instance. Every pull he would yell at the priest saying that his health needs to be at full AT ALL TIMES. So after the second wipe he went to tank 1 mob and everyone was able to pull agro off of it. He then yells at dps saying that we need to watch agro. I then voted to take him off and in 1 second he was off. The priest then was like i am going to leave because i suck, after i talked to him i told him that he was healing a dps and not a tank. Then we finally got a real pally tank, first thing i ask is "do you have a shield" he was like "lol, yes i do. why wouldn't i?". Well we destroyed the instance and the healer was actually a great healer. There where a couple times that we pulled too much and we all lived, granted that i threw up a couple dots on the tank, but being feral it doesn't do much.

The second time i did a random we got a pally for a healer. Again i saw the pally without a shield, but wasn't too worried about it because he is just healing. Then looked at his spec and saw that it was ret. Asked if he was going to switch to healing spec, all he said was just start pulling. The tank started yelling at him because all the pulls he almost died because the pally heals suck. The pally then said, well maybe if you didn't suck then i wouldn't have to heal you as much. Every pull he was out of mana too. So being sick of pallies i just left the group and now i am only doing 1 instance a day to get my badges until 80.

It just seems like it is the pally that que for all three. I haven't seen a druid do it yet.

[Trick]

How do you time stop on only one drake while the other continue dpsing? See its fine if you want all your guys to mash the same button, but once you introduce a little complexity it requires macros or a new keymap.

Takes me less than 5 seconds in Keyclone to put Time Stop into my Round-Robin. And most times I don't even do that. I just use my mouse to click Time Stop for the toon I want to cast it.

[Pallarfo]

lol, that so sucks.
I've been into pugs when the holy priest (healer) started to dps since she didn't have to heal me, or needed to throw a renew now and then.
Instances go really quick then

[Fursphere]

I now officially HATE ret pallies. They que for tank, healer, and dps. I got 2 of them in 2 different randoms.

First was the tank. They walked in without a shield and in ret spec i was like are you going to tank ret? He never answered, and then began pulling. I think looked at his buffs and he didn't have his tanking buff on. I told him about this and he didn't do anything. The whole time i was just looking at his health and the priests mana bar just drain so quick. Now this was the first time the priest said she was healing an instance. Every pull he would yell at the priest saying that his health needs to be at full AT ALL TIMES. So after the second wipe he went to tank 1 mob and everyone was able to pull agro off of it. He then yells at dps saying that we need to watch agro. I then voted to take him off and in 1 second he was off. The priest then was like i am going to leave because i suck, after i talked to him i told him that he was healing a dps and not a tank. Then we finally got a real pally tank, first thing i ask is "do you have a shield" he was like "lol, yes i do. why wouldn't i?". Well we destroyed the instance and the healer was actually a great healer. There where a couple times that we pulled too much and we all lived, granted that i threw up a couple dots on the tank, but being feral it doesn't do much.

The second time i did a random we got a pally for a healer. Again i saw the pally without a shield, but wasn't too worried about it because he is just healing. Then looked at his spec and saw that it was ret. Asked if he was going to switch to healing spec, all he said was just start pulling. The tank started yelling at him because all the pulls he almost died because the pally heals suck. The pally then said, well maybe if you didn't suck then i wouldn't have to heal you as much. Every pull he was out of mana too. So being sick of pallies i just left the group and now i am only doing 1 instance a day to get my badges until 80.

It just seems like it is the pally that que for all three. I haven't seen a druid do it yet.

SImple solution.

Ask the pally to change to the appropriate spec. If they don't respond / refuse, explain to the group that they need to kick this player, and vote kick. Works almost every time. Thats why the kick system was put in.

[Malekyth]

Even simpler solution: multiboxing rocks.