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Ready Check: Mother Shahraz
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Jul 12th 2008 11:31PM Flask of Chromatic Wonder (+35 resistances, +18 stats) did wonders while I was learning the fight, before I could find myself a green helm "of shadow protection" and slap a shadow protection head glyph on it (like many guilds, ours didn't make pants due to expensive HoD cost).
In any case, this fight is all about gear. By the time we downed RoS just about everyone in the raid had all but one or two pieces of the SR crafted gear, and we went up and one shot her. Fatal Attraction is pretty easy if you know what you're doing - just look at the lines connecting you to the two other people, and run in the direction that would maximise your distance according to those lines (for example, if one person is north of you, and the other is west, you would run directly south east).
Also, turning down spell detail helps due to lots of spell graphics occuring in the fight, especially when Fatal Attraction pops up in the raid.
Forum post of the day: Freakin' frogs
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Jul 2nd 2008 5:32AM How on Earth would mages become redundant compared to shammies with this one little change? Last I checked they were one of the premier damage dealing classes which won't be affected at all by this change. It just means that being able to CC will be less of a reason to bring an underperforming mage to an instance.
Now all we need to do is give paladins a short duration CC similar to Cyclone and we're set (they can take our bubble for it if they really want).
Forum post of the day: Freakin' frogs
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Jul 2nd 2008 5:29AM A decent lock knows how to pull the fear target back to give more room to move, and put up/take down Curse of Reck to stop dangerous flee paths.
Midsummer Fun: Desecrating the Flames
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Jun 21st 2008 7:50PM One time only - though you'll get 460 (Alliance) or 470 (Horde) blossoms from doing them all (plus 100 for the four capital city ones, which aren't covered in this topic).
Midsummer Fun: Desecrating the Flames
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Jun 21st 2008 3:19PM Near perfect list. ^^
Just forgot Gadgetzan (one horde, one alliance). ^_^
The Light and How to Swing It: Holy paladin gear enchants, part 1
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Apr 2nd 2008 1:58PM Actually, more often than you'd think. I've got a cookie-cutteresque build of 42/19, and as such have 3 points in Imp RF - that is, increasing that effect of RF's threat modifier, but also reducing damage coming in by 6%.
For fights where I need to out-threat other people or healers (like the Vashj example above - another example is Kael, where I liked to have healing-aggro on the phoenixs before the druid picked them up), having RF on is important. For fights where reducing incoming damage is important and they aren't heal-threat sensitive (for example, Gorefiend and Bloodboil), the reduced damage is nifty.
It's hardly necessary, but it's a nifty little buff, be it its threat modifier or damage reduction. =)
The Light and How to Swing It: Holy paladin gear enchants, part 1
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Apr 2nd 2008 12:41PM Yeah, on the topic of subtlety to cloak - it can actually be detrimental to you, depending on your playstyle.
Example - in an encounter like Vashj I'll have RF so that that adds aggro to me over other healers. They have salv, I have RF - basically, I'm trying to increase the threat gap over them as much as possible, and subtlety definitely doesn't help do that.
Personally, I go with armor as its pretty cheap and comes slightly in handy if the mobs ever actually get to me before a tank. ^^
Build Shop: Paladin 5/8/41 + 7
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Apr 1st 2008 9:16PM If you're not hit capped, it's pretty important to get, as all the str and crit in the world won't do you any good if you miss. ^^
That said, off the top of my head the difference between hit cap with and without precision is only 47 hit rating. If you look at gemming, that's ~47 str. So it's 8 talent points for ~100 AP (with Divine Strength), give or take. I'll leave it up to the individual as to how important that is. Though there aren't a lot of better alternatives IMO.
Build Shop: Paladin 5/8/41 + 7
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Apr 1st 2008 8:21PM Hi, my name is Precision. Please try to select me without getting 5 points in tier 1 prot.
Breakfast Topic: Adamantite and Mana Thistle on Azeroth?
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Mar 30th 2008 2:35PM You have won 1 x Internetz.
