10 box ICC

[Theradin]

I'm a little chagrined to see how well do you did despite having most of the gear scores < 5000.

You only say that because you don't know exactly how many times I wiped. > > It was definitely not a "walk in there and kill him" event. It took a number of different runs to work out a successful strategy and each of those runs involved many wipes. Pure stubbornness rather than skill on my part.

I may have had one or two characters just a bit above 5k gear score, I can't remember at this point, though that would have been before equipping the low ilvl FR gear. I may also have equipped stamina trinkets on all party members while learning, but again I'm not certain.

One thing I forgot to mention: I put a /targetexact bone spike into my DPS macro, that way I did't have to worry about targeting it manually.

[Mercurio]

For another perspective on soloing Marrowgar, see the thread I posted on it here:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=29883

I included the write-up I made for myself on how to do it and what key binds I changed to get it done.

I can attest that following that well-documented strategy works pretty well - I tried it from scratch on team #2 yesterday (they have GSs around 5K) and downed him on my third attempt.

Got another tanking mace that one of my pallies was wishing for, too.

[Toned]

Theradin ^^-

Don't think I can really critique you but it is more of a question. Why don't you have a reset=target on your shamasn flameshock macros? It looks to me like you are using a click sequence on all of your dps. The only reason I'm asking is I've watched a lot of your videos and the majority of your fights where you have to change targets (Deathwhisper specifically) Your lavabursts are hitting un shock'd targets A LOT.

[Maxion]

Probably so it won't lock up when he has to change targets a lot and it'll get on cooldown.
Especially if he uses focus based targeting instead of having the dps target the mobs (in which case the reset=target won't happen anyway).

[Toned]

Probably so it won't lock up when he has to change targets a lot and it'll get on cooldown.
Especially if he uses focus based targeting instead of having the dps target the mobs (in which case the reset=target won't happen anyway).

If your dps macros are /cast [@focus] or /cast[@focustarget] and the focus changes or your focus changes targets the reset=target fires

Because really you are getting the UnitID of whatever unit and when that number changes it fires the reset target.

[Maxion]

If your dps macros are /cast [@focus] or /cast[@focustarget] and the focus changes or your focus changes targets the reset=target fires

Because really you are getting the UnitID of whatever unit and when that number changes it fires the reset target.

Has not been the case in any tests I have done. I'll try it again soon to check if it was fixed.

[Whowantstoknow]

i believe reset=focustarget works

[Theradin]

Theradin ^^-

Don't think I can really critique you but it is more of a question. Why don't you have a reset=target on your shamasn flameshock macros? It looks to me like you are using a click sequence on all of your dps. The only reason I'm asking is I've watched a lot of your videos and the majority of your fights where you have to change targets (Deathwhisper specifically) Your lavabursts are hitting un shock'd targets A LOT.

I plead laziness.

It's actually a pretty complicated question, but the short of it is I made these macros a long time ago (3.1 or maybe early 3.2) and haven't tried to tweak them since. When I made them, I was only getting under a 10% DPS loss from not having FS on a target, and that non-FS time was still a relatively low difference next to when I put a reset=target into my FS macro such that the effects on DPS became nearly negligible. Adding the reset=target, though, came with two main liabilities:

On low hitpoint mobs, I was finding it actually increased the kill time. I had to delay the FS a bit in order to prevent DPS lockups while waiting on the FS cooldown ( as Maxion mentioned ) , which meant FS/LB combo would come near the end of a kill, extending the kill time slightly.

I was also still heavily running instances at the time - having the big FS/LB attack at the front of the macro would usually mean I could further disregard the mob I just attacked, speeding up runs a bit. ( At least they felt faster! )

That was my reasoning at the time. I'm not sure how much of it is applicable now.

[Multibocks]

Havent played in a while, but is the zone wide buff up to 10% now? Maybe some later fights are easier such that you can beat them now as one 10man team.

[Whitz]

15% afaik