Cataclysm

[Soulflame]

The curse of flesh made dwarves out of the earthen.

[Simond]

[Paelos]

The top hat is dead sexy.

[Lakov_Sanite]

There was supposed to be a tailoring top hat pattern in the game that I'm still not sure was added yet. Why? Blizzard hates rp, that's why.

[Tannhauser]

They are shaking hands wrong, typical Alliance ineptitude.  Good comic though.

[Ironwood]

Isn't it a double clasp ?

[Sjofn]

Looks like it to me!

[Simond]

They just want to be assured of a square deal. 

[Ashamanchill]

I don't know what his ambivalence was for, those lupine fellows look top drawer to me.

[Ingmar]

Finally got back into heroics and... they're actually pretty fun now. I even randomed a few (as dps not tank of course) and didn't want to stab myself in the eye. I did want to stab the other 2 dpsers on a Deadmines run just now, but that will happen.

[Sjofn]

You see? You see how bad some DPSers can be? It's amazing.

[Ashamanchill]

Thanks to STO tanking (for me), and LA Noir not being all it was cracked up to be, I caved in and accepted my free week back. Ya normal heroics are actually fun now, even though I am the only soul that interrupts at all in them, as a tank, or as a dps.

As for the new troll dungeons, FUCK THEM. Insta-gib mechanics? Check. Unavoidable raid wide damage to "challenge" the healer? Check. Frustrating enrage timers on bosses 3/4s of the way in, making you realize that, nope, this group just can't do this dungeon? Check. Long and sprawling with Noah's arcs full of trash? Check.

[Setanta]

Just pally tanked ZA/ZG or the first time. Clean runs both times - it helps that my dps chars have been there before.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Dragonhawk guy has a natural 20% soft enrage is that's what you're talking about.

[SurfD]

As for the new troll dungeons, FUCK THEM. Insta-gib mechanics? Check. Unavoidable raid wide damage to "challenge" the healer? Check. Frustrating enrage timers on bosses 3/4s of the way in, making you realize that, nope, this group just can't do this dungeon? Check. Long and sprawling with Noah's arcs full of trash? Check.

I dont think any of the bosses have an enrage "timer" per say.  A few of them use the classic "enrage at low health for the final stretch" mechanic.  Similarily, a few have the "kill X adds before p2, cause if you trigger p2 early, all remaining adds come at once mechanic".

[Sjofn]

Ya normal heroics are actually fun now, even though I am the only soul that interrupts at all in them, as a tank, or as a dps.

You and I should totally do a heroic together and we can glory in being the two people in all of WoW who remember where their interupt button is!

[Merusk]

Hey, I had a whole 16 interrupts on a single fight in the last dungeon I ran, and I was the tank.

[Nevermore]

I interrupt all the time on my DK.  I even took the talent that makes my interrupt cost no runic power.

[Ashamanchill]

Dragonhawk guy has a natural 20% soft enrage is that's what you're talking about.

In Zulgurrub there is the guy who "kills" you and levels up, that is an enrage cause if he does it too much you're dead. Also, in Zul Aman there is the chap who steals your souls and stacks power on himself, and if you don't have the deeps to kill him in time, you guessed it.

[Setanta]

So I've dusted off my prot pally and played it for the last 5 days or so. Cleared ZA/ZG with it but then got told off by a druid for stacking +stam gems. We still cleared but when I checked my avoidance it was only 67%. I reforged highest stats to mastery and got it to 71% but am still struggling for the other 30%. Maybe I've just been very lucky with my healers.

Should I re-gem the solid blues to mastery/stam or even straight mastery for the 4 non-colour specific slots?

Char is here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/blackrock/jetamio/simple

Cheers

[Rendakor]

Conventional Protadin wisdom says yes, put Greens in your blue slots and straight Mastrey in your Yellows/Prismatics.

[Paelos]

Also the Heart of Thunder BLOOOOOOOOWS as a trinket. Dump that shit. I used Impetuous Query, ftw or the Baradin Hold one.

[Simond]

http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow is pretty good for "I've just dinged 85/resubbed/playing an old alt and don't know WTF" gearing et. al. tips.

[Merusk]

Yeah, what Simond said.  It's a fantastic site that takes so much of the Bullshit away from your decisions regarding "Should I reforge this to .. " and "what's going to get me the best socket bonuses possible."

Considering their goal was to streamline stats and mechanics, they sure went a long way to fucking it all up and making it more complicated with reforging.  My little ilevel 339 pally has been stellar in Heroics since I started using the place, and I was struggling for both aggro and survival before.  (Most of my JP has gone to PVP honor & gear, so I know it wasn't an increase in iLevel that made this big of a difference. I've only gone up 6 points.)

Here ya go:
http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow/gear/usa/blackrock/jetamio#v1-z1-o01317q230

[Rokal]

But... I love reforging. Once upon a time everyone might pass on a piece of gear because it was crit/haste instead of hit/haste or whatever. Now gear hardly ever rots, because reforging makes everything so much more flexible.

They also did succeed in making gearing simpler because of how powerful your 'primary' stat is compared to everything else (agi/str/int are the primary stats). While leveling through Outlands/Northrend on my Hunter these last few weeks, it was easy to see that often 'upgrades' weren't really upgrades at all. Often they had a higher ilvl, but the stat budget went into stats I didn't care about. An ilvl upgrade is almost always an upgrade in Cata because, even if the item has crit/haste instead of hit/haste, it still has more agi (str/int) so it's still the better item. I never have to break out a stat comparison sheet, I just pick the one that has more of my primary stat and reforge the secondary stats when I have time.

[caladein]

http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow is pretty good for "I've just dinged 85/resubbed/playing an old alt and don't know WTF" gearing et. al. tips.

Yeah, Ask Mr. Robot's great.  You'll eventually want to feed it weights from something more sophisticated though.

I think the thing with reforging is that it's just about the only system that lets you make your character "worse" instead of just "not as good".  I like it because that means that less gear is expressly useless, something that I grew to despise on my Disc Priest last expansion, but I don't know if this kind of a system is actually good for the game in general.

[luckton]

http://www.askmrrobot.com/wow is pretty good for "I've just dinged 85/resubbed/playing an old alt and don't know WTF" gearing et. al. tips.

Yeah, Ask Mr. Robot's great.  You'll eventually want to feed it weights from something more sophisticated though.

I think the thing with reforging is that it's just about the only system that lets you make your character "worse" instead of just "not as good".  I like it because that means that less gear is expressly useless, something that I grew to despise on my Disc Priest last expansion, but I don't know if this kind of a system is actually good for the game in general.

When you're ready for the step-up from MrRobot, Rawr will be waiting for you.

[caladein]

I've used it before, but sadly, all but one of the models I would use are still non-functional.

[Simond]

Sparklepony 2: Leonine Boogaloo

World of Warcraft® Mount: Winged Guardian

When you take to the skies astride a blazing, eagle-winged lion, your comrades will know you mean business.  Serious business.  So saddle up, because this flying mount will travel as fast as your riding skill will take you, and it can even travel at 310% speed if you have at least one other 310% speed mount.

Once activated, this World of Warcraft in-game pet key applies to all present and future characters on a single North American World of Warcraft license.

[WindupAtheist]

Purple? 

[Rendakor]

That's a crappy pic; it looked dark blue in-game.

[Ingmar]

Ran ZG and didn't think it was too bad, doing ZA now. REVIEW TO COME I know you are waiting impatiently.

EDIT: Yeah so ZA seems simpler, compared to how it used to be, but the tricky bits (in both dungeons) are probably too tricky for PUGs at least for now, unless someone patiently explains everything every time. (In other words good luck.) The mechanics in the Z* heroics are much more raid-y than anything I've seen in a 5 man anywhere else.

[Setanta]

Thanks for the site guys - looked at it and saw how badly I'd gemmed and cringed. I must have had bloody good healers who compensated for the lack of avoidance. I'm going to re-gem tonight.

I wondered about how bad heart of thunder was but it was better than the junk I had before it dropped - heroic runs to improve it I guess.

Cheers

[Ashamanchill]

But... I love reforging.

Reforging is the shit. Without it, ferals wouldn't even be playable this expansion. Good-bye haste! Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

Edit: Holy crap askmrrobot is awesome! Rawr is, kinda meh.

[Sjofn]

I also heart reforging. BEGONE, CRIT AND MASTERY, GIVE ME MOAR HASTE.