I'm a lvl 80 tauren hunter on the realm Norgannon (Germany).

I personally have no idea why people thought that your race stays the same when you switch factions. I instantly thought that you select a race when you transfer over, and can only pick the race that your class can become. For example I have a Dwarf Paladin, if I went horde I could only be a blood elf paladin. But if I had a BE paladin and went alliance, I have the choice of being Human, Dwarf, or Draenei.

I came to be right when they updated their post on the WoW forums.

i have every bloodelf class on eldre'thalas

Well this news is about a week old, but I'll post it for those of you who are late to the party.

Not long ago, Blizzard filed a patent for Cataclysm. What does this mean? Well, for people who aren't that into lore, the Cataclysm is better known as the Sundering. You see, Azeroth was once a single continent, like Pangea. But when the Well of Eternity was destroyed, it ripped that continent into three seperate landmasses (known today as Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdoms and Northrend). The place where the Well once was still exists. A never ending whirlpool of pure magical energy that we call the Maelstrom.

Some people are saying that this is evidence that Blizzard is in the midst of creating a Maelstrom expansion. If this is true, then we can expect a number of things: Queen Azshara as the main baddy, a possible appearance by Sargeras, and perhaps Deathwing (Blizzard has pointed to the idea of opening up Grim Batol as a raid with Deathwing as the final boss). I've also heard rumors of Malfurion coming out of hibernation, and playing a large roll in the story. Probably as big a roll as Tirion does now.

Level 80 Blood Elf DK, Cenarius server.

I'm REALLY hoping that is Bliz does a Maelstrom expansion, they'll keep Malfurion in hibernation. I'm expecting some major Blood Elf leader for the Maelstrom, given the race's history with both the Naga and large magical energy sources, but if Malfurion comes back not only will that not happen, but it'll get much harder to do an Emerald Nightmare expansion, which I am personally hoping for. With Malfurion staying in the Nightmare, he'll be poised to lead the fight against whatever is messing with it, but having him leave will either raise questions about why he left it without solving the internal issues there (which would screw up the lore, seeing as the Dream/Nightmare is vital to Druids as the site of their hibernation and he's the highest Druid out there) or mean that it's been fixed already and we'll NEVER see the expansion.

On a somewhat related note, does anyone know the lore behind Grand Magister Rommath? He just kinda stands around all day, with no dialogue or quests to give, yet he's a raid boss on par with the City Leaders. He'd probably be a natural candidate to leave Silvermoon and lead the fight against Azshara, unless someone knows something I overlooked in the lore?

As far as I can tell he's either one of a few things:
An advisor to Lor'Themar.
A powerful mage helping to run Silvermoon.
Or, as some have speculated, an emissary sent by Kael'Thas himself.

so very bored of senjin

I r need a new server

Like I said, it was just a rumor. No need to get your pants in a bunch.

Rommath originally went to Outland along with Kael'thas. He came back to Quel'thalas, begrugedly I might add, on Kael'thas' request to tell Lor'themar and the rest of the survivors about Kael'thas' plan to harvest raw magic from Outland. It's a pitty really, because his WoWwiki page said that he was fiercly loyal to Kael'thas. So there was a missed opportunity to flesh out his character when Kael's Felbloods attacked the city and kidnapped M'uru.

At this point in time he acts as the leader of the Magisters. A group made up of all the mages and warlocks of Quel'thalas. Their chief duty is to watch over the dispersal of magic, and make sure every Blood Elf gets only as much as they need. No less, and certainly no more. Because, as I'm sure you're aware, if a Blood Elf gorges himself on magic, he turns into one of the Wretched. And basically, that's what the magisters are there to prevent.

Still hate summer. Totally kills my 25man raids.

/sad panda

What Faction are you?


Ours are doing fairly well. I finally was bumped up from group 3 to Group 2 for Naxx 10 and got 3 pieces of gear, 2 pieces for my main spec, one for my off spec. (My druid has a purple feral shoulders...giggity)

Currently I'm working on my level 21 Blood Elf Hunter on Moon Guard, however, I also have a level 70 Holy Paladin on the same server.

...Heals are made of win.

And yes, Kay, <Hiding from Kayhynn> is still around on Cenarion Circle.

I think I ended up deleting my characters there bcause no one was on when I was on. Heh.

I have pretty much given up on WoW... I have school and everything to worry about.

I had a week's vacation for the 4th (beach, beach, and more beach FTW!) and a move straddling the vacation. In that process, my computer has decided running WOW in any capacity means my graphics card needs to over heat ridiculously, and burn a hole in the floor. It will also freeze or blue screen at this point.

And also helped my sister move as all her friends bailed on her, so Tuesday (my first raid night back) was skipped, and as i found my computer is a jerk, Thursday was skipped. Hopefully tweaking and cleaning have fixed the problem... will have to see.

My guild is apparently progressing well without me (Hodir down in 25 man, moving on to Freya/Thorim).

Sigh.

But ranged dps is sucking at about 4k tops, so I'm looking forward to getting back, and just all out dpsing for first place (forget off healing and CC as needed, you bastards, you can suck an egg!) Ele shaman ftw!

No worries. I've been focused on my characters on Moon Guard.



Just don't overwork yourself, babes.

Heh. My lock and my druid on Bronzebeard are both 80 and have cold weather flying and dual spec.

Been having fun on the PVP RP server I'm on. Got a small guild of RL friends there, pretty enjoyable when we're not on our mains.

I've been sort of taking a vacation from Paladinhood to really look harder at the Hunter class. Although, my Pally-din is Holy / Retribution dual-specced.

Finally hit 70 on my druid and have started practicing healing on her. It was surprisingly easy, but I was pretty well geared though so that probably helped.

Started playing my hordie alt again. Got my BE lock to 26, trying to push to get her to 30 to get her mount. After leveling a ton of alliance toons, the different quests for the horde are really refreshing.

I am eagerly awaiting 3.2, should be awesome

The humorous thing with that: the new patch allows you to get a mount at 20.

The horde quests are really fun to me. I agree.

Except the Horde shaman water totem quest. Biggest pain in the neck EVER.

Both my 80s are Horde

Popsiclepete on senjin (feral pve resto pvp)

Wonderwall also senjin ( resto and enhancement for shits and giggles)

sadly my next highest is a Belf pally lv 72

i want to roll something, ANYTHING!!!

The one class i cant play is a priest... dont ask me why... I just cant... i suck at playing priests pretty hardcore...

What server did u play on O,o

which Rp server????

I was doing recruit-a-friend with my shaman while doing that, saved me hours of walking via the teleport feature.

My horde characters are rather lower levels, 63 DK highest, followed by a 25 Warlock

I'm on Emerald Dreams. Maionna or Kayhynn are the names you can find me under if interested

Cool well im still at work atm... but i think i may make some toons over there i have not done many alliance quests maybe it will be fun O.O

We're horde on Emerald Dreams

I'm Alliance on Bronzebeard if you're interested there. My 2 80s are there heh

lol my bad.... I think my reading comprehension skills could use some improving

I have a space monster on bronzebeard now

I've barely been playing wow lately tbh. The summer tends to hit our guild pretty hard as everybody takes their family's out and about so since we're not raiding, I'm really not playing on any servers.

And I started school again, yay for a free web design bachelor's degree! I love working at a college But since I am back in school I may not be able to play wow as much as I'd like. Heck at this point I really only log to raid anywho 0_o

We've been running 10man Ulduar to death in place of our 25man run, but still I prefer 25's over 10 any day.

I keep wanting to hop over to Steamwheedle but lately since I find a lack of motivation to even play my main I'm having a hard time playing an alt either.

So.... Lets all wait for the new final fantasy mmo to be released!!! Hopefully its controls improved and we can all sit and taru-taru dance!!!

Yeah I know, but by the time the new patch rolls around I will most likely be in my mid thirties on that toon so it wont matter.

It will help with the piles of 20 something alts I have though

-coughStarWarscough-


I've been waitin for the patch till I seriously start playing again.

Also I'd like to note, PvPing as a holy paladin is shaweeeet.

The PTR notes are looking better and better. Healing Nerfs tho...BLAH

I haven't seen all that much for warlocks. On one had that makes me happy, on the other, sad.


On a different note, I tested myself on a dummy last night. Without anything but my own self buffs, no food, no flasks etc, I was able to do 2k dps. I checked my DoT uptime, and it was seriously lacking. Any locks have any ideas on how I can optimize that without using an add-on?

I'm a 4k+ DPS pushing shadow priest (less not in a raid - I haven't checked non-buffed in awhile). I'm all about dots.

I do use macro's. Some shadow priests go bat shit over it (cause it's Bad or something), but if I can macro and not be forced to stare constantly at CD's I can pay more attention to the fight and actually not die to fire and encoutner events that make other SP's do no DPS due to death heh.

I don't know jack about Warlock rotations, but If you lay out what you do I might be able to help you figure out something.

These are what I use for shadow priest pew pew:

START MACRO (only use START MACRO with MAIN ROTATION MACRO on BOSS fights)

/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat vampiric embrace, vampiric touch, mind blast, devouring plague, mind flay, shadow word: pain, mind blast, shadowfiend, mind flay, shadow word: death

MAIN ROTATION MACRO (use anytime by itself, trash, multiple bossess. Manually apply SWP at 5 stacks)

/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target vampiric touch, mind blast, mind flay, mind flay, mind blast, mind flay
/cast devouring plague
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

BLOODLUST MACRO

/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target mind flay, mind flay, vampiric touch, mind blast, mind flay, shadow word: death, mind flay, mind blast, mind flay
/cast devouring plague
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()


When i get about 200 more haste I can probably drop another Mind Flay into my main rotation macro...but these work fairly well. Sure I can loose DPS, but it's DPS I'd loose anyway because I'm moving, being behind a tick or two from a dot because the macro is behind because I had to move doesn't bother me excessively. Sure if I have to move for awhile I'll manually weave my Mind Flay/Mind Blast/DP spells untill my Vampiric touch start to fall off then restart the Main DPS macro.

Building a warlock macro should be a bit easier than mine, unfortunately for us SP's we have no rotation, just priority. We actually have to weave our spells some which means hard stareing at CD's. I'll take the 100 - 200dps loss from macroing if it'll allow me pay attention to the fight more closely personally.

Also I'd suggest getting a dot tracker like Class Timer.

from what I've read the standard rotation is:

SB, Haunt, UA, Cor, CoA then SB spam until time to refresh

I dont like leading with SB because I pull a ton of aggro with it, even when I give the tank a chance to get aggro, so I like to use:

Haunt, CoA, Corr, UA, trinket (when available) SB, then SB spam until time to refresh.

I have the trinket set up as a macro to go off and then cast a SB.

As long as I keep haunt up, I dont have to recast Corr. I also have CoA glyphed so that it lasts longer, thus does more damage.

bah wish i had a rotation... But non of my toons are really dps... except for offspecs... and then i usually go by feel.

Been playing since launch and have always done pretty well playing by feel O.o

You don't have build up other dots or wait for other classes debuffs on mobs/bosses to increase your dots you probably won't need a "starter" macro as intense as a SP's.

hrm.. I'm trying to work out the math for dot refresh times. It's a bit annoying really.

What are the tick times for each of your dots? CoA 25sec? Corr 18sec? unless Haunt stays up... UA 15sec? And SB's are 3sec each.


Maybe something like this:

/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/castsequence reset=25/target Curse of Agony, Corruption, Haunt, Unstable Affliction, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt

Based on your haste will in theory dictate how many SB's you can in there before the macro restarts. You may need more, or you may need less.

The reset=25 is currently telling the macro no matter what to restart after 25seconds (when CoA should be falling off) This is where I'm not sure how well this will actually refresh the other dots. It's possible that by sliding SB's between your other dots IE

/castsequence reset=25/target Curse of Agony, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt, Corruption, Haunt, Unstable Affliction, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt, Shadow Bolt

The dots will refresh a bit closer to their drop off time. I'd have to fiddle with it some honestly. Unfortunately my lock is only lvl 45 so there's not toooo much testing I can do myself with this macro. It probably needs tweaked quite a bit to find that perfect rotation.

also, it's early and I spilled my coffee instead of being able to drink it. So my brain feels like mush lol.

I was told you couldn't do multiple spells in a macro....O.o....does that really work?

im not sure if that will work. the whole point of having haunt up is the extra buff it gives your other dots. I think it is something like a 20% buff

I will have to look when I get home tonight to see how long my spells last and how long it takes to cast my SBs

You also get to take into account the nightfall procs that give me an instant SB.

to help you a bit, the initial cast sequince is not usually repeated after the first time. and since they nerfed affliction pretty bad, the rotation is cake. it is just a matter of making sure i dont clip dots and keeping them up as much as possible.

it is times like these when i wish that EJ was easier to read and updated more often

*Hugs her sister Reader*

*huggles back*

where you been kiddo?

Even that was kind of fun, in its way. I managed to get that rare in the Sludge Fen or whatsit (hoping I got the name right), the sea monster.

Oddly enough, my DK on one server (not my home server, mind you) had another one, the rare slime, in the same area.

I so suck at jousting.

~#~

The level 20 mounts won't help my 35-80 toons on Moon Guard, or a couple other servers where they're 30+, but I did manage to level one paladin to 20 on one server, so maybe it will help her (though not in RFC or SFK) for the class quest.

The one good thing will be the lower mount prices. Two, actually, with hte faction discount on flight training. The lower mount prices will help too, in order to make that 10 mount achievement. Nto that the prices stopped one of my rogues, Moonstryfe (on Mono Guard) from making it. The bug mounts from AQ40 helped, though I kept passing on the red one, mostly because we had people without bug mounts and wanted to get at least one for everyone before they changed the drop rate. 3 bug mounts, plus two horses, a raptor, a hawkstrider or two, a wolf or two, a kodo... Yea. Her tenth was the flyer. No epic training yet, though. Maybe when she gets rep with the Knights of the Ebon Blade... She can hit the dailies till she can affrod the training, and then save up for the skeletal gryphon.

I'm actually pretty good at jousting. On Champion's especially I can normally kill 3 of them before I need to heal up for the fourth.

Unless it's laggy, then I do in fact get the crap kicked outta me sometimes.

I only need like 20 more badges from the Tourney to buy the flying tourny mount. Just haven't really had the motivation lately to do the daily's.

Between school starting back up and what not, normally when I log I've been hoping on my 76 warrior to lvl her. I might get her to 77 then wait for the patch, so I can get the cheaper flying mounts. Back during BC I got her to lvl 69 and didn't lvld her to 70 till after WoTLK. So she never got the flying mount skills at all.

Suppose if she hit's 77 before the patch (which she will) I'll focus on playing my next highest toon my lock who's lvl 45.

Ha. I don't think I'll ever get the jousting down, so no Chillmaw killing, except for healnig the group. I'm actually surprised that I managed to progress to Valiant. I do the dailies wvery once in a while. Mostly I've done the Kirin Tor cooking and fishing (and even the JC, on my DK).

Two level 80 priests, here, my DK is the next highest, she hit 76 last ngiht, my rogues are 73 and 71 (not counting the 34 Ally one, or the other wee ones who are around 14), mages are 38 and 71 (not counting the wee ones: I tend to start rogues and mages at the same time. Hey, someone has to make the bags, right?). My lowest on my home realm us a 33 droo. I have a 40 shaman along with my two 71s on Sisters of Elune (took advantage of the free character transfer with the shammy to make room for my DK, and ended up moving Arrandia and Nozumi over, because Phrantic moved over, and the sisters kind of, sort of, have a thing going on with him, so...). And yes, Moon Guard is an RP realm. Not that I've ended up doing a lot of it, even though that's the primary reason I chose Moon Guard in the first place (and which explains why I had to start Moonstryfe, my Moon Guard rogue, and Moonstryke, my Moon Guard mage, because I missed my mains). Still...

But jousting...? Heh. I fail. Totally. At least the dailies have given me a little Sunreaver rep, here and there, as well as the Argent.

I suck so horribly at jousting. Most of it is because of how i use the keyboard

I am so not looking forward to the new 5 man and the fights where you joust

Well here's some news I ran into. It seems that four new Hallow's End masks are being added in the next patch. One set was Goblin (both male and femal), nothing special there. Goblins have been in Warcraft since Warcraft II. But the other set of masks is a male and female Worgen.

Check it out.

Some are speculating that this is evidence that these two races will be added in the next expansion. Likely Goblins for the Horde and Worgen for the Alliance.

Goblins have been a part of Horde military expeditions in the past, but this has become more obvious in Northrend where you can find Goblins working with the Orcs just about everywhere. Why, it was even Goblins that built Orgrim's Hammer, the Horde airship above Icecrown. Plus, the Alliance needs to learn the pain and humiliation that comes with being killed by something that's only as tall as your shin.

Worgen may also make sense for the Alliance, since, like the Night Elves, they are seen as children of Elune, the Moon Goddess. They were even summoned to this world by the Night Elves through the use of the Scythe of Elune to combat the Burning Legion. And there's also the argument that, since the Horde got a "pretty race" the Alliance needs a "beastial race".

Just something to think about.

That may even make it worth playing an Alliance toon, if that's the case. The Worgen are cute. So, how do you think the goblin and worgen DKs will look?

I got to watch my boyfriend and his guild attempt to take on Malygos. For three hours. They failed all four times. Apparently his DPS is a bit too low and they need another one beside him.