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stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#4051: Jan 19th 2011 at 3:31:00 PM

I am picking a server to roll an alt on. Could anyone point me to a server with a great community?

(Decent guilds would be nice too)

edited 19th Jan '11 3:39:26 PM by stevebat

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.
Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
One Winged Egret
#4052: Jan 19th 2011 at 3:34:13 PM

[up][up][up]I'm a jaded, terrible person, so I have very little desire to help my guildies outside of town or raids. If I'm on my alt, I'm on my alt.

ArcanGenth Since: Aug, 2009
#4053: Jan 19th 2011 at 8:24:59 PM

I'm happy on server Eonar.
"MY BAD" for horde, tell 'em Nivi sent ya.
"Ambassadors of Hyrule" on alliance, Trailbreaker.

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#4054: Jan 19th 2011 at 8:52:31 PM

I wonder if the Gingerbread Goldshire Inn is full of level 1 gingerbread night elves dancing on the tables?

Nope. Straight-up gingerbread cyborz.

Funny story, a guild on my old server actually tried to run a cyborz brothel out of there.

Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#4055: Jan 19th 2011 at 9:30:54 PM

Lol, Cyber Brothels.

edited 19th Jan '11 9:31:03 PM by Lanceleoghauni

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
arimnaes Falls Up Since: Apr, 2009
Falls Up
#4056: Jan 20th 2011 at 10:19:28 PM

We downed Magmaw and Omnitron tonight, to much celebration. Magmaw mostly required a change in strategy - we had our DK make a Frost spec and just kite the larvae around the entire fight so that the entire rest of the raid could turret the boss. Down in 6.5 minutes with nary a hitch.

Omnitron just required practice, in the end. Everyone has to switch, everyone has to DPS down the slimes and run away when they're targeted, everyone needs to spread out for chain lightning, everyone needs to interrupt Arcane Annihilator... there's just a lot of moving parts to the fight that have to be handled properly. As long as all the healers stand in the Puddles of Power (TM) dropped by Arcanotron, they don't OOM over the course of the fight, so we just played a survival game and finished the fight in 11 minutes.

We also beat Halfus a couple days ago as he was enraging, which was pretty funny. We're still inexperienced with this tier of raiding overall, but I feel like we're starting to get our act together. And I'd say we're doing pretty decently for a guild that consists of about twelve people and can only raid for five or six hours in a week.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#4057: Jan 20th 2011 at 11:48:26 PM

Killed Magmaw on 25 on Tuesday, then took out Omnitron again on Wednesday in 10 man. Tried Maloriak again, but we just can't beat his enrage timer yet.

Took out Halfus for the second time and killed the two dragons for the first time in 10 tonight, then made some attempts at the first boss in Throne of Four Winds to no avail. The group on the right boss kept getting knocked off the platform, getting the rest of us killed by Silence.

And I haven't gotten any loot from any of these guys! D:

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#4058: Jan 21st 2011 at 6:57:28 AM

My group beat our heads on Maloriak on Wednesday; we got him to under 10% and the berserk timer wasn't an issue, just seemed like people started dying to stuff all over the place.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Blissey1 insert title here from a random Pokècenter Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
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#4059: Jan 21st 2011 at 7:57:09 AM

Our guild took out Halfus on tuesday(dropped the staff and my hunter got it, woot!). Yesterday we tried Valiona and Theralion, and after about 15 wipes learning the fight, managed to get them down to about 10 percent before we called it because people had to go.

They're going down next time. and then we'll hit up BWD because the the next boss, the Twilight Ascendant Council, is apparently hard as hell.

edited 21st Jan '11 7:57:42 AM by Blissey1

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Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
One Winged Egret
#4060: Jan 21st 2011 at 11:01:26 AM

Finally got Chimeraon down. That's really a very healing intensive fight. The final 20% is hilarious though. Also got a number of 1% wipes on Cho'gall.

Rotpar Always 3:00 am in the Filth (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Always 3:00 am in the Filth
#4061: Jan 21st 2011 at 11:55:37 AM

Had a great time last night during my paladin's first heroic tank run. The finale was beautiful, we gave up fighting Setesh in HoO because it was 3am, so we hit Rajh to get our valor points and finish the dungeon. Two of the DPS got killed on the first recharge AE spam, it took like 10 minutes but we three-manned him with self healing, cooldown, and some careful moving/interruption.

But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#4062: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:39:20 PM

Setesh is a real pain on heroic. A good dps helping out with controlling the adds helps a lot. Elemental shaman for Thunderstorm and Earthbind work great.

Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
One Winged Egret
#4063: Jan 21st 2011 at 12:53:53 PM

Which one is Setesh? I'm an elemental shaman but I can't recall any boss in HoO that would be worth unglyphing Thunderstorm for.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#4064: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:12:44 PM

The Chaos construct, the one who opens gates that spew super adds. The gates themselves have to be killed, but the adds get left up for the tank to kite in an ever increasing pack while the boss runs around opening more and tossing out Shadow Crashes. A timely Thunderstorm on the add pack and a few Earthbinds make the tank's job much easier, because once that add pack gets to an appreciable size they can kill the tank pretty quickly.

Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
One Winged Egret
#4065: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:21:25 PM

Oh, I've never wiped to him ever nor had any trouble with the adds killing the tank. I suppose that's just a matter of good dps. Good dps can overwrite many other problems.

I had actually been thinking of him as the easiest of the four bosses on that floor.

edited 21st Jan '11 1:22:04 PM by Clarste

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#4066: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:29:16 PM

Oh heroic? He's a joke on regular, but I think he's the toughest of the four on heroic.

Then again, my judgment may be colored by H HoO being my first Cata heroic a week after the expac launched, and I haven't pulled it on my random but a couple times since.

Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
One Winged Egret
#4067: Jan 21st 2011 at 1:32:58 PM

I've been doing it on heroic since day 5 of Cataclysm. I've just never wiped on him. I do tend to run with a good tank though, so that surely counts for a lot. We usually queue up together while the other three slots are pugged.

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Lost in Space
#4068: Jan 21st 2011 at 2:02:15 PM

First time I tried a complete HoO run, we got pasted by Setesh enough that we finally gave up. Second time I tried him it was super easy. Group makeup has an awful lot to do with that one.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#4069: Jan 21st 2011 at 3:07:00 PM

Argh, Fire is so... fluid. I find my rotation is less a rotation and more a "Click whatever button is glowing at the moment, If nothing is glowing, use scorch"-fest

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#4070: Jan 21st 2011 at 5:12:35 PM

Actual dps "rotations" seem to be on the way out, being replaced with priority lists for most specs like feral druids and enhancement shaman played under throughout Wrath.

Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#4071: Jan 21st 2011 at 5:32:20 PM

unless you're arcane, then it's AB ad nauseum punctuated by AM and the occasional ABarr to drop stacks.

edited 21st Jan '11 5:32:37 PM by Lanceleoghauni

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#4072: Jan 21st 2011 at 7:56:30 PM

call me crazy but when leveling I use A Bar every other spell (With AM used after every ABAR) this leads to NEVER HAVING TO DRINK

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.
Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#4073: Jan 21st 2011 at 9:06:34 PM

Lower damage I suppose, but decent mana conservation.

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
ArcanGenth Since: Aug, 2009
#4074: Jan 21st 2011 at 9:34:20 PM

My boss fights as Arcane tend to go like this:

Make sure Mage Armor & Arcane Intellect are up, and make sure Mana Gem has three charges.
Flame Orb.
Arcane Blast(AB) until about 40% mana left.
Evocation to 100%
AB to 90%.
Eat Mana Gem.
Enter mana neutral rotation: AB x3, then Arcane Missiles(if proc'ed, otherwise Arcane Barrage) to break AB debuff stack.
Maintain mana neutral rotation until Evocation comes off cooldown.

Fire off your Flame Orb every time it's up.
When I use the Big Three(Arcane Power, Mirror Images, Berserking) depends on the fight. If it's a standard Tank & Spank, I blow the Big Three right away and again as soon as they cooldown. If the boss has a "nuke it, nuke it NOW" phase, I save them for that.
Timewarp is also fight-dependent. If there's a shammy in group, it simply doesn't get cast.

Oh, and Remove Curse as needed, of course. Don't be one of the de-curse slacker mages, now.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#4075: Jan 21st 2011 at 9:38:44 PM

[up] Indeed. I employ Remove Corruption liberally as a Boomkin myself.

Boomkins do have a rotation, pretty much, with only a few major procs to worry about. We move the Eclipse bar towards whichever side is next in the sequence by casting Wrath or Starfire, cast Starsurge on cooldown or when Shooting Stars procs, and maintain Moonfire and Insect Swarm dots (ideally refreshing them when Eclipse procs to get the haste bonus from Nature's Grace). Starfall and Force of Nature get used on cooldown or in the case of Starfall saved for key AoE moments.

Mana management is basically moving through Eclipse states as quickly as possible to trigger Euphoria, and using Innervate judiciously. It's hard to go OOM in single target DPS. AoE, on the other hand, can drain you quick quick.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

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