Question on combat/tanking macro fired off same key.

[zenga]

I had never played wow when i started multiboxing back in november. So obviously never had seen the dungeons. Today i'd say i'm pretty well geared, though i used a not some common way to gear up: AV. Doing tons of AV to get honor, buy pvp pieces with it (spell power is spell power in the end). This way i got some decent dps. I only spent gold on BOE's for my tank, nothing big, just blue's and maybe a cheap epic. And then trying to kill easy bosses to get the first piece of T9. I know i could 've used the lfd tool and get carried, but i want to do it myself.

I killed the 2 bosses in gundrak near each entrance (skipping the one who throws the puddles). First boss in occulus. First boss in the nexus, First 2 bosses in DK. First 2 bosses in utgarde pinnacle are very easy too. It took some practice before i could beat the prince in utgarde keep. Which gave netted me about 10 emblems a day. As i practised i could kill more and more bosses and complete my first HC. And then basically the fun starts: you just only get better and better gear, and things become easier.

As for the gundrak snake boss: spread your toons out a few yards from the stairs, tank on top of the stairs. Put down magma totems, when there are a few snakes, use fire nova, and use thunderstorm. No snake should stay alive. Refresh your magma totems when they are gone.

[Tyval]

So when you say top of stairs, you mean pull up to the top of the spiral ramp or at the little stairs leading to the ramp? Good tip about having AoEs ready, I didn't make use of fire nova etc. Also this means I need everyone somewhat close to the tank so the aoes hit everyone(fire nova etc)?

Oh one other question, where do the new instances (IC and ToC) fit into the mix.

I'm guessing the regular versions are certainly tougher than say regular HoL?

Can I go into the regular versions while I'm starting my gear up for heroics?

Tyval.

[zenga]

So when you say top of stairs, you mean pull up to the top of the spiral ramp or at the little stairs leading to the ramp? Good tip about having AoEs ready, I didn't make use of fire nova etc. Also this means I need everyone somewhat close to the tank so the aoes hit everyone(fire nova etc)?.

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This is the snake boss. He is dead now but he should be between the tank and the jamba team frame. That's where i stand the whole fight. The adds snakes run to the shammies, never had them attacking my tank. They wrap you up if you don't kill them. But magma + firenova + thunderstorm should be enough. If you feel like it you can also kill all friendly snakes beforehand, they have only 42 health. But thats a rather tedious job to do

Oh one other question, where do the new instances (IC and ToC) fit into the mix.

I'm guessing the regular versions are certainly tougher than say regular HoL?

Can I go into the regular versions while I'm starting my gear up for heroics?

Tyval.

You can go in the regulars and reset as many times as you want (believe the reset cooldown is 12;5 minutes).
Halls of Light is indeed a rather easy one. It took a while before i was able to get safe past the trash though (the elementals, slug or something; and the walk between the statues where you can be feared). But the bosses aren't too hard.

If you can be arsed to do the jousting, toc normal is nice to farm some gear. Personally i hate the jousting so i skipped that place. And i'd say that the ICC normal instances are harder than most easy heroics, for sure because it requires lots of movement. Which is normal as you get better rewards. For sure the trash can be a pain in the first Forge of souls if you don't have enough dps. The casters are far from eachother and hardly move, not to mention they seem to have a weird aggro table. When not killing them quick enough, you can lose a toon now and then. But it's definately worth it to go in and try. There is some great loot overthere.

[Qbox]

Just wondering - is there an addon that would help players keep a consistent rhythm when using /click /castsequence macros? Something like a visual metronome...

[zenga]

Just wondering - is there an addon that would help players keep a consistent rhythm when using /click /castsequence macros? Something like a visual metronome...

the way i did it was using an simple text editor, use a stop watch and spam a key for 10 seconds, past the output to this site to count it and divide by 10. Do it several times and write down your results. Do the same for 20 seconds (and divide by 20 obviously), 40 and 60 seconds. It should give you a very accurate clicking rate per second.

[Qbox]

Yeah, I've timed my own keypresses, and usually I'm fairly accurate - but when things get more intense than usual (accidentally pulling the whole room), I find myself clicking too fast and getting out of synch with the macros. :-)

[Talos]

Yeah, I've timed my own keypresses, and usually I'm fairly accurate - but when things get more intense than usual (accidentally pulling the whole room), I find myself clicking too fast and getting out of synch with the macros. :-)

the nice thing about a /click macro is that clicking a bit faster or slower than normal is not a big problem, at most your dps may lower by 10%.

when spamming too fast it might reset a macro to quickly before the cooldown is reset resulting in at max 1 second of your character doing nothing before it continues.

when spamming too slow it will cause the spells with cooldowns macro's to reset slower causing you to spam more lightning bolts before the next chain lightning. so while still doing dps it isnt optimal but not detrimental.

[Tyval]

Thanks for the tips and the picture of setup for snake boy.

I'll try the on the stairs position and the top of ramp one and see which works best for me.

I'll also switch to click macros for my casters, probably should have done that a while ago anyway *blushes*.

I got hmm lava burst? a level ago but haven't really incorporated it into my sequence effectively.

Hopefully the practice i"m doing in the instances now, (and on the normal lvl 80 dungeons will help with pre-heroic gear as well as MB skill).

Tyval