Thursday, June 30, 2011

Protection Warrior

Following post should help our warriors to improve their threat and damage.

Talent & Glyphs
If you want to know why I choose this talents and glyphs I will explain you in private ts lesson.

Spell Priority for fast single target threat
Shield Slam
Heroic Strike with Incite Buff
Revenge
Devastate
Heroic Strike

Spell Priority for 2-3 targets for max damage
Revenge
Cleave
Shield Slam
1x rend then thunderclap every 12 sec
Shockwave
Devastate

Spell Priority for >3  targets for max inital aggro
1. Thunderclap
2. Shockwave
3. Cleave
4. Rend 1 Target

then

Thunderclap
Shockwave
Cleave
Revenge

Demoshout and Thunderclap Debuff
These both debuffs and similar debuffs from other tank classes should be on your target all the time.
For any encounter with more then one tank, arrange with the other tanks who applies which debuff.

Stat Priority
1. Block (Mastery) + Dodge + Parry > 72,41%
2. Stamina

Use two stamina trinkets and only for special encounter other trinkets like Mirror of Broken Images
No need for hit or expertise, reforge it or get other item without these two stats.

Gem Tips
Blue Gem - Stamina
Violet Gem (red socket) - Parry + Stamina
Green Gem (yellow socket) - Mastery + Stamina

Only use violet or green gem if the socket bonus is more then 20 stamina, 30 mastery, 30 parry, 30 dodge.
If there are 2 red or yellow socket or 1 red 1 yelloow use blue stamina gems.

Why maximazing stamina?
The difference between maximazing stamina and avoidance stats is very small. If you have current content gear it doesnt really matter which you priorize for normal encounters, but for heroic encounters it can make the difference. My experience as healer and tanking shows me, that it's easier and more mana saving to heal a tank with more hp. - This is my opinion, but following links show a discussion about this topic.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

New Boss in Baradin Hold - Occu'thar

We kill Occu'thar during raid time on Wednesday, therefore you must save your id for Wednesday. If we don't kill it during Wednesday raid, you can kill him on other days alone in pug.

If you have a well geared alt and pass on t12 items if some other main char is in raid, it would be nice to help the raid to form two guild groups to kill occu'thar two times and so every main char has a chance to get t12 items.

Cho'gall down before Patch!


Next time we do a screenshot with all raidmembers, if I dont forget again!

Nefarian and Al'akir will follow after Patch very soon and then we concentrate on heroic fights and fireland raid.

Before we go Fireland raids some player must improve there gear. Now it's easy you can get all old valor point items with justice points.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Help the mage!

This special post is to help our mage!

I try to collect all important informations, which you need for the start for single target damage.
Try to improve your damage trainings dummy.

Fire Mage

Basics
Intellect is the strongest stat by far.
1742 hit = 17%
Reforge Master to hit, crit or haste.

Molten Armor

Fire Mobility - Never stop casting! Fire can use every spell in its arsenal while moving except for Fireball. While moving continue casting as normal, but use Scorch in place of any Fireball casts.

Mana Management - After Patch 4.06 - there isn't much 'Mana Management' required to playing the Fire spec anymore. However, make sure you have enough mana to cast Fireball during Molten Fury range (-35% Health), Boss weakened phases and during powerful trinket on-use or passive proc periods.


Talents & Glyphs



 
Addon
RoguePowerBars (or similar addon for better tracking of own buffs and debuffs on your target)

Which skills to use? (Rotation) - Single Target

Pyroblast (with Hot Streak Buff)
Living Bomb (recast after every explosion)
Flame Orb (use it on cooldown)
cast Fireball or Scorch (while moving, save mana or to reaply critcial mass debuff)
use Combustion in the right moment (don't use it without ignite present)

Friday, June 17, 2011

Patch 4.2 and other news

Patch 4.2 come on June 28th
prepare for it
there will come many new dailys with very good faction rewards
Fireland raid is coming

Patch 4.2 - Baradin Hold
There is a new boss "Occu'thar" coming in Baradin Hold, which drops T12 set items.
We are killing him together during raid times, don't do him alone with a pug, only if announced from raidleader that there is no time for him.

Patch 4.2 - Raiding
All normal encounters in BoT, TotfW and BWD get nerfed very hard, so it should be easy for us to kill now all endbosses. Cho'gall, Al'akir, Nefarian - Prepare for all three!
If the first bosses on Fireland Raids are easy we kill them first, if not we kill first endbosses from this instances and then work on heroic encounters and / or fireland bosses.

Patch 4.2 Valor Points, Justice Points
With the patch all Valor Points will be converted into Justice Points, your old Justice Points remain.
max. 4000 JP if you would have more you get some gold for them.
You can buy old T11 gear for Justice Points, so if you need some items for main specc or 2nd specc, try to max out your justice points before patch.

Legendary Caster Staff - Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest
To complete this weapon the player need some special boss drops and a ragnaros drop.
The guild leaders decided that Terrora get the first staff.

Trinket - Mirror of Broken Images
Every raider (tanks, healer, damage dealer) should get this trinket from Baradin Warden with mastery and use effect 400 resistance for 10 sec. It could be very useful on some heroic encounters. If you don't have it already, try to get it before patch 4.2, because then maybe you don't have the time to do the old dailies and the new one.

Improve your Character, if you have time
long term improvement, get 2 good raiding professions and no gathering, some are easier to level then others, if you need advice ask me!
If you don't want loose your gathering professions you should play an alt.

How to make money?
Use your brain and your professions or ask other guild members how to make money.

Contract with Failean
She is fishing for the guild and get some nice amount of money for this afford.
Running Death want the achievement "That's a lot of Bait" for the Seafood Magnifique Feast.
After we got this achievement the guild is buying
1000 Highland Guppy
1000 Lavascale Catfish
1000 Fathom Eel

next Raids
Monday 20.6  - Cho'gall
Wednesday 22.6 - ***no raid***  - next day is a public holiday and some core raiders don't have time
Monday 27.6 - Cho'gall and farmbosses
Wednesday 29.6 - farmbosses or take a look into Fireland Raid - Patchday, but we try to raid

Trials
Xuma lev 85 priest - from Turkey - currently not very active
Phoenixlight lev 85 paladin -  from Netherlands - no active account now
Krayazele lev 21 druid - from England - hope he plays more in the next weeks
Starless lev 85 shaman - from Norway - with high probability he will join with 2 more friends