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[Tokzic]

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Yogg is still dead =D

Good show~

Getting girlfriends is probably pretty tough for them.

Ooh

Ba-zing!

hey, i pull 6-7k dps and i still get tons of tail

[Squeek]

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Yay got one of the three pieces of uld25 loot I can use today.

More importantly, I got Less-Rabi right afterwards =D

Anyway, Midsummer randomly reset and bugged all my quest progress. I was like 2100/3000 for The Seeker and now I'm at 1,950. Somehow I fell below 2,000 Quests Completed, which I finished long before Midsummer even began. Kinda annoyed.

[Tokzic]

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During Hodir:

"Oh damn, we'd better say it in Asian so that Efij understands. QUICK EFIJ! IT FRASH FREEZE! YOU GO SNOW NOW!"

DPS charts from VOA PUG:

#1. Niiko (6553, 10.7%)
#2. Eshock (4305, 7.0%)
#3. Zealol (3765, 6.2%)

Ten minutes after leaving on the sixth wipe, four people whispered me begging me to come back.

[Squeek]

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So the Tier 9 pieces are out.

Reactions for mine.

First: HOLY **** LOOK AT ALL THAT HIT

Second: What the crap is up with that set bonus? Why does the Shaman set bonus always have impossibly cryptic wording at first?

"2P Bonus -- Increases the duration of your Flame Shock spell by 61 sec.
4P Bonus -- Increases the damage done by your Lava Burst spell by 0.021 sec. "

Even if you flip them and assume it's something like 1 second on Flame Shock and 61 damage to Lava Burst, the combined DPS increase of these two abilities is lower than the DPS increase of a single set bonus from Tier 8. It's pretty sad. Tier 8 was a huge, huge step in the right direction when compared to Tier 7 (5% cheaper spells! Yes!! Now I can not go out of mana even better! (No seriously, our skills cost 300 mana each. We're not running out of mana, ever, especially with a passive 500 mp5 and the ability to re-generate 8% of our mana every 45 seconds for free. There's a reason we don't like mp5--it's completely worthless. We never go OOM.))

Edit: Someone mentioned that it's 6 seconds added onto Flame Shock and 20% damage to Lava Burst. Both of which are pretty terrible. 6 seconds onto Flame Shock messes up our rotation. It's currently 12+6(glyphed), so your 8s cooldown doesn't come close to the 18s dot and you don't ever risk having the dot expire right as the 8s cooldown is ready to go. 12+6+6 at 24 seconds means you will always miss the last shot and need to restart, which is a DPS loss. Lava Burst needs to go off every time it has cooled down or you lose a lot of DPS. The 20% on Lava Burst is nice, but the increased damage comes every 8 seconds and it's not enough to justify losing the tier 8 bonus. ~1,600-2,400 more damage every 8 seconds (t9) versus ~1,800-3,200 more damage every 8 seconds (t8) is what it amounts to. No thanks. And considering the first set bonus isn't really a DPS upgrade at all, but a convenience one, I'll still with the ~6% dps upgrade from tier 8, thanks.

The relic is out too, and it sucks. The current one (Naxx25) increases the base damage of our most damaging skill. The Ulduar relic increases the base damage of our 8s cooldown skill, which is helpful but not really. I'd rather increase the base damage of the strongest skill than to try to equalize them. The new relic increases haste by 200 for 12 seconds on a proc chance that probably has an internal cooldown. If it doesn't, then it's better. But I guarantee it does.

The new emblem loot is out, and once again, they forgot Elemental Shaman. WE DO NOT WANT MP5. GIVE US OUR OWN SET OF GEAR GODDAMMIT. EVERY OTHER SPEC HAS GEAR FOR IT FROM EMBLEMS.

Ok and then we get to this:

# Elemental Oath now affects non-periodic spell critical strikes.
# Elemental Focus now affects non periodic critical strikes.
# Elemental Devastation now affects non-periodic offensive spell crits.

So... they now affect non-dot crits. Well, up until Tier 8, we didn't HAVE any dot crits. So were they just not working at all, or does Blizzard fail at English? My vote is on the latter.

Looking around the rest of the data, it seems the only other class that hasn't gotten love is Warlocks. They also have that odd 0.002sec spell power increase. Everybody else is just peachy. And that annoys me. It's always the goddamn elemental shaman.

ps - yes i know it was datamined but the PTR is up so this gear already exists.

[ImEric12]

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Those are placeholder things for now. Balance druids have a .0021sec increase in damage on something, too. (I think)

More importantly, though, resto druid set bonuses.

+5% Nourish crit chance? I like
Rejuv has the chance to crit on periodic heals? OMG YES.

The idol for resto is amazing as well, chance to proc a ton of spell power on rejuv ticks. Hot.

[Tokzic]

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Rogue bonuses:

Rupture ticks give a chance to lower next move energy cost by 40: ROFL WHAT
5% crit bonus to Mutilate: ROFL YES

I hope to god they don't change them, that's the first 2pc Rogue bonus I've seen that I've been happy about.

Too bad it'll probably be one proc per minute. ;___;

T7 energy bonus per minute: 18 (4pc)
T8 energy bonus per minute: 20 (2pc)
T9 energy bonus per minute: 40?

[ImEric12]

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Seems like that would be hard to manage... what if it procced just as you were using a 10 energy move or something? Or would that not be a problem?

[Tokzic]

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Well I'm betting it'll have an animation, which would make it a lot less of a headache.

If it doesn't though, it will be a bit annoying. Mutilate's the only ability I'd get the full 40 energy saved out of, and if it procs before I use Envenom or Rupture, I tend to get 25 energy from talents that puts me near the top of my energy bar. I tend to energy pool a lot, so if the cost becomes free, a lot of it will get dumped when the 25 energy from talents procs after.

We'll see though, it'll be a fun mechanic to play with.

[Grandiagod]

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i use powerauras to track my buffs/procs. Dandy mod

[Squeek]

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Dunno if you can use power auras to show tier procs though. Probably only doable if it has a name.

<3 power auras though. Even though my class has very few procs, it's great for bosses like Hodir and Vezax to know exactly when you get certain buffs / debuffs. Sometimes you stand in a beam / crash for a second and you still don't benefit, so I set it up so it shows me exactly when I have the buff. Also useful for telling me when I'm not getting a buff, such as Toasty Fire.

Also, some people tested our new Relic on the PTR (dunno how they got it since I still can't get into the PTR to see what it's like... guessing you can buy tier gear / relics on the PTR?) and it apparently has no downtime. If this is the case when it goes live, then it's an amazing Relic. A constant 200 haste? Hot hot hot hot hot.

[Tokzic]

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more meter destruction

and i'm on interrupts too, rofl

[Squeek]

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Hi ikzoct

1) Probably the biggest resentment I have toward you for repeatedly reporting the fact that you have the highest DPS in your guild is that you're supposed to. Rogues are designed solely for that purpose in PvE. If you weren't the top of the charts, I'd be concerned. There's a huge difference when you, a pure DPS class that is supposed to be #1 on the charts assuming everyone has BiS gear, top the charts, versus me, a hybrid DPS class that is supposed to be the bottom of the charts assuming everyone has BiS gear, topping the charts. I'm still using a damn i213 weapon, even =/

2) Your moonkin's UI absolutely sucks. Get rid of that damn parchment backdrop on Omen. You can't see a damn thing with that backdrop. Re-color Recount while you're at it--red goes with NOTHING. Remove the party frames from your base UI, move the chat box, and for GOD'S SAKES CHANGE YOUR DAMN SCROLLING COMBAT BUFFS.

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If you could just pass that along for me, that'd be great.

3) You guys really aren't as good as you let on, you know. Getting hit with the crashes that often is kinda sad. And why even bother DPSing when there isn't a crash down? Most of the time the guy doesn't bother, but I saw him do it once or twice. Maybe moonkin have some kind of manaless proc. I dunno. But in any event, the ranged DPS should be ahead of you and it's kinda sad that they're not. It proves to me that their gear sucks. I can easily pull 7,000 dps on regular mode. That entire fight is tailored for caster DPS. It actually doesn't benefit me as much as it benefits a moonkin as all of my casts dip below the GCD whereas he can still get right on the edge. You melee guys are slowed down, even though for you it's just a tank and spank. But casters get 2x haste and 2x damage. That's like twice as good as Thaddius's buff, even though you don't have to move as much with his.

But all in all, that's a damn good quality video compared to most of 'em.

/senseless criticism.

[Grandiagod]

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Dunno if you can use power auras to show tier procs though. Probably only doable if it has a namet.

Most tier procs that aren't passive are named buffs =)

[Tokzic]

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Gahhhhh.

We just got Yogg to 2%.

GAHHHHHHHHHH.

[Relambrien]

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Today was an awesome day.

My ten-man group got to Vezax for the first time, but wiped a few times and called it.

The guild's 25-man 2-shotted Hodir and Freya, then 3-shotted Iron Council. The two wipes were due to the tank being one-shotted for one reason or another.

Better than that though, I finally broke 10k dps on Hodir, and got first in overall damage and dps for the fight: http://wowwebstats.com/ypgrsi6cwsjmu?s=106986-160475

And as luck would have it, I got my t8.5 chest too, giving me my 2pc 8.5 bonus and my 2pc 7.5 bonus. Now I'm only one more week's worth of raids away from getting my 8.5 helm as well.