Trying to get back in the flow.

[Tyval]

Hey all,

Have taken about a 6month break from wow, Have gotten the urge to play again but seems lots of changes since I have played last.

I've been reading trying to figure out all the changes with the 4.0.1 patch.

My team was

Tank: Paladin
Healer: Disc priest
DPS: Arcane mage
DPS: elemental Shaman
DPS: elemental Shaman.

Used Inner Space and ISBoxer. (I think that was what it was called, guess I will need to subcribe again ...)

I wasn't great at MBoxing, but had cleared all the old heroics but the Oculus and was working on the newer ones.

It seems Disc priest might require a bit more work (using smite to trigger heals etc.) so curious if I should look into holy spec.

Pali seems changed quite a bit as well , but i had always used a mix of spam one key , but also would often control all the attacks so figure I can adapt with that. Though I guess AoE aggro will be more of an issue..

Haven't checked into the mage/shaman yet, but figure rotation might be different.

My plan is to play each a bit solo to learn the changes and maybe swap macros/keys.

I also read that click macros are no more? Don't think that will impact me too much as I hadn't used many.. as I was just learning how to fine tune things.

Am I missing any other major changes?

Any thing I should look out for, any tips or links of things to read would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[Ualaa]

You can heal, Disc or Holy.
It is still a preference call.

Everyone has new talents.
Rotations are a tad different, depending on the class.

Glyphs are different, in that once you learn them, you know them forever.
And there is vendor sold dust, to un-scribe a glyph which can then be replaced by any glyph you have learnt.
They are now Prime (3), Major (3) and Minor (3).

[Tyval]

Nice to see you are still around Ualaa!

I'm feeling very old with how much I seem to have forgotten.

Think i got most my addons upgraded, Though I may still have something messed up as I upgraded Jamba but getting errors, not sure what is going on there. so will just disable it for now. Also seems my ISBoxer addon is out of date, but can't remember if I used that with Innerspace or not. I vow to write more down this time around , at least I remembered my account info to log in the game .

Hopefully it will start to come back as I start playing again hehe.

[Ualaa]

If you export (from the File menu, in the IS Boxer Toolkit), it will update the addon.
The IS Boxer addon, is purely to translate what you do in the toolkit, into a format warcraft can use.

Quite a few addons have broken, and are not being updated.
Or are taking a while to update.
The latest Jamba should be working fine now.

[Tyval]

Thanks!

Ya, it seemed like my Addons were a mess, and I couldn't remember which ones I used, and had all sorts of dependency errors.

So more or less started over.

Can't remember all the must haves, but figure they will come to me.

Starting with
Healbot,
DBM
Atlas

and now i'm in game I realize I miss titan panel.

I had Pitbull installed and I think it was for Multi-boxing, but can't for the life of me remember what part I used. I seem to remember only enabling a small part of the functionality...

[Ualaa]

I was using Pitbull 3.x, but opted for Shadowed Unit Frames as I could not figure out how to display everything I wanted with Pitbull 4.x.

Pretty sure Titanpanel is still around. Was using Fubar, which isn't being maintained, so decided to go with Chocolate Bar, and a bunch of plug ins (LDB, or something similar, which basically plug into any number of bar like addons). Chocolate Bar was the closest to Fubar, of the ones I checked out.

I really like Auction Profit Master, Dot Timer, Grid/GridCustomLayouts/Clique, Mapster, Move Anything, and Postal.
But there are a lot of similar addons.

[Tyval]

Things are starting to come back.

I got my priest all situated and ran a few instances as a healer. I was pretty rusty, but everyone was over-geared so much it didn't really matter.

Tonight I'll get my pali going and respec'd and hopefully be Mboxing by the weekend .

I think I remember why I was using Pibull. I think I had enabled part so I could casting bars for all party members. Would that be a pitbull thing? Just dawned on em this morning.

I'll definitely write everything down I use and need this time through hehe. I'm hoping the innerspace etc. will be as simple as just resubscribing (maybe updating) and all my old settings will work.

Tyval

[Ualaa]

Any of the unit frame addons should get you the option of Party Member's Targets and Party Cast Bars.
That lets you know what the slaves are targeting.
And that they are casting.

Dungeon Finder is relatively new.
If your group has a class which could spec as a tank, a different toon whose class could spec as a healer, and three other toons, you can queue for level appropriate dungeons as a group.
If you have less then five toons, you can still queue and get a random person/people to join you.
So dungeons are a leveling tool now.

Battlegrounds get you experience, based on objectives completed and winning.
The weekend battleground, is probably the place to be, if you want a change of pace.
You can level entirely in BG's, if you want, although your factions win percentage might make this a good or poor choice.

Not sure if you know about Click to Move and Interact With Target.
The first is under mouse options.
The second is a warcraft keybind.
The combination opens up melee teams, or at least makes them much easier to play or add a melee toon to a mixed team.

[Tyval]

Thanks Ualaa,

Last time I played the Dungeon finder was there, love it.

Curious about a couple of other new things, Reforging, I saw some threads talking about this but wasn't sure if they were talking beta or it was with the 4.0.1 patch.

Also was trying to read up on various changes to classes and which spells, cast orders/ priority and such, but it seems the site I use to go to isn't super active anymore (Allakhazam).

Any site you recommend that has decent class forums?

Thanks!

[Ualaa]

Have not checked out maximumdps in a while, but have used that in the past.
Elitistjerks is always a good site.

This site has a lot of macros for each class/role; it is my primary resource.

As far as glyphs, enchants or talents, I like talentchic.



For the classes I care about, Mastery seems to be the stat to reforge into.