Lyntha

I hear you don't even need any loot.

Our lovely and talented Harbinger of Death who prefers to go by the name Psychosi today completed her Legendary Daggers! She is very deserving of these and is an asset to the guild and an all-around great person. Congratulations Psychosi!!!

Looks like a group is starting to form!

Howdy ya'll. I am thinking of throwing together a FL10 Heroic Rag group, but I first need to know who would be interested. Details: Monday or Thursday ONLY but it looks like it will be Monday; Only one day will be chosen but is to be determined. Normal Raid Time (7:30 - 11) Mains or Well-geared alts ONLY IF WE NEED FOR RAID BALANCE Raid Stacking: Heroic Rag is still a very demanding fight. We will not down this if I bring the first 10 people that sign up with no regard for output/balance etc. There are some people in this guild who I sincerely enjoy raiding with and are great people but perhaps don't have quite the output as they theoretically should have. Heroic rag demands perfection so this will be a group that I will stack for the singular purpose of downing the encounter at all costs. If you don't get chosen to go, it's nothing personal; I WILL be raid-stacking and bringing the group that brings us the best chance at success, at least at first. Continuity: The goal of this run is NOT just to do Heroic Rag once then call it quits. This will be a consistent, weekly run. We will get EVERYONE their mounts. Only then will we get people in that weren't part of the original group to get them their mounts. As such, I want people who are going to be there EVERY week. Sign up if you are interested. Include the following: Characters Available and their class/role Days available (Monday or Thursday) What we have so far: Tanks: Snuggelbunny - Prot Pally - M/T Healers: Tulli - Disc Priest - M/T Deftonia - Holy Pally - M/T RPDS: Sazda - Srv Hunter - M Vile - Demo Lock - M Ulq - Lock - M MDPS: Chosi - M/T Zenzae - M/T Siawnhy - M Alternates: Snuggl - Srv Hunter - M/T Ollathir - Resto Shaman - M Mord - T

My 2PC T12 is around the same. I coupled it with 2pc T11 for increased Crusader Strike damage. That + Reforging the T11 gear and using a few T11 rings made my set. Was almost expertise capped and had about 5% hit but lost like 5% CTC.

It's sad that I did 18.6k on baleroc normal a while ago and got 97th percentile. That was without threat gear, changing rotation etc. That was before vengeance change as well, but still... Im thinking that there's a lot of bad tanks out there since nobody really analyzes tank dps any more.

And Set bonuses? I had a threat set for T11/T12 content that I used for fights like Aly but once threat changed to 500%, I just found a lack of motivation to keep stuff like that around.

Wait wait wait. That was the DPS you did WHILE TANKING? I thought that you were DPS spec. That's actually really impressive.

The damage is so low in LFR and you almost never get to the 5 minute mark unless your DPS is just stupid bad, that it doesnt even matter.

I refuse to click the button for LFR Ultraxion. Granted, the last time I did LFR Ultrax, I did 37k. The next closest person did 26k. I think my dps is worth it . How would a PVE MMR possibly work? The only reason it works in PVP is because most PVP teams are 2v2 or 3v3. Your own personal impact on the team's performance is magnified greatly. You can't really carry somebody to 2400 in 2v2 if they're terrible lol. Same thing with 3's. Also, MMR isnt affected by PVP that you queue into with other random people. It's only affected if you manually make a group (For RBG or Arena). So let's say that they made a PVE MMR. You're in a high-end raiding guild so you have a great PVE MMR. What would that MMR even affect? If you do LFR? Why would someone in BiS gear even do MMR? Even if they did, they'd wait 6 hours to find enough people queued into LFR that match their MMR level. PVP MMR is used for Match-making against other players whereas PVE content is STATIC. There's one mode of "Easy" difficulty where your dropped into group with other randoms, and that's not going to change. TL;DR: PVE MMR will never happen.

I think it's funny reading back on this. Right now, Stam stacking (After hitting CTC cap) is the way to go for shield tanks.

Do any of our healers have any question about how we're gonna handle this?

Yeah, this is one of my favorites

Some purple goo goodness: What gives/doesnt give stacks for purple phase: http://us.battle.net...opic/3657444001 Also, pets DONT give stacks when healed. We're gonna have a BM hunter (10% more healing on pet with Spirit Bond) use a Tenacity Pet specced into Blood of The Rhino (40% more healing) for a total of 154% more healing taken. This will be our "Bounce target". Here's what each healer is gonna do: Pallies: Pallies will Beacon a tank and spam holy light on the pet, holy shocking (the pet) on CD and using WOG directly on the tank (It generates no stacks) when the tank gets low. Our pallies will use Divine Light on raid members that get low but will mostly just do the whole holy light --> HS rotation on pet. GoAK also does not trigger stacks and should be used every purple phase if up. Shammies: Our shammies will of course keep up an earth shield on each tank. Healing stream will be kept down as normal. Shammies are gonna be the heavy lifters here spamming Greater Healing Wave on Raid Members that get below 50% HP. Priests: Both tanks will be taking damage so our priests will be popping PoM on CD on the tanks!! Priests will otherwise just GHEAL everything in sight if it's below 50% HP. Druids: Efflorescence doesn't generate stacks so the druid will keep a rejuv on the pet and SM on CD to keep up Efflo. Otherwise, the druid is Healing Touching anything that gets below 50%. What we will probably do is give each healer one group of guys with two healers on the tank group for obvious reasons. Healing Steam Totem and VE all stack so we'll stick any resto shamans and spriest in the tank group. This will mean that without ANY healing that would give stacks, the tanks will receive: SUPERCHARGED [Pet] Beacon Heals WOG Heals GoAK Heals PoM Heals SUPERCHARGED [Pet] Efflo Heals Earth Shield Heals Healing Stream Totem Heals VE Heals I cannot stress enough that healers can do NO HEALING other than what I described above. If you do, you blow up the raid.

How I wanted to do Hagara Frost Phase: Ranged and All Healers stand on GREEN TRIANGLE. When bubble comes out, we get knocked back onto BLUE SQUARE. From there we can DPS the North, East and West pillars. Melee go to RED X and blow it up then go clockwise. Most of the ranged will start on EAST pillar then go counter clockwise until they meet melee. This phase should be over in less than 30 seconds if we do it right. One ranged group will start on WEST pillar then move clockwise with the melee. The goal is to kill the west pillar with melee then have melee and ranged finish off north pillar as the rest of the ranged finish off east pillar and move to help with north. We might have to stick one healer with the melee for dispels but everyone else will be in the ranged pile as healers spam heal like crazy and pop AOE Healing CD's. Please note that the damage done is % based so we will NOT be popping Enraged Regen or Rally Cry. The melee will run INTO the bubble when they get frostflake and the designated dispeller will dispel them immediately. Once they're dispelled, they run back in. Edit: I fixed DPS order.

More bumps needed

O_o Edit: Holy cow, I just saw your pic up there. Awesome!

Good stuff. I like their "Plus" method for lightning phase and we'll use that. They bring up a good point that there's not many other points where you need to use Healer CD's so you might as well use them during Ice phase.

2 and 3 are points specific to our side only - I am not sure that the other side had our problems. The pulling issue needs to be fixed and should be fixed via a DBM Pull command. I will talk to Foto to see if he can get DBM instead of Bigwigs. Then we'll just all be on the same page.

Have fun!

Ya'll know the deal. I will PROBABLY be on but no guarantees

That IS what I thought. I could see how that would be beneficial. It basically gives you a bank of mana as well if healers get low. Good stuff man.