Comments on: Huzzah, Titansteel

By: Tankette

Tankette — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:03:03 +0000

It doesn't seem so large when you are trying to do a 25 man raid with only 21 people like last night. We don't require raid attendance so we need a pretty big pool of raiders to get a full 25. We lost several people with the expansion but also picked up several good people from a guild that fell apart. Our guild has a good reputation for being casual yet able to do pretty decent progression. We turn away a lot of people that want in our guild. We usually only take in friends of guildies - or healers. Tankette´s last blog post..Naxx, gear, etc.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:54:18 +0000

Holy crap, your guild sounds very large. We have 10 80s now, are very healer-heavy, so we usually have to get DPS from outside the guild.

By: Tankette

Tankette — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:13:51 +0000

I never pug but our guild has almost 50 at level 80 now. In BC I didn't enjoy 5 mans. I resolved to get into them in WoTLK and have been running tons of them. Pretty much everytime I log on I have a guildie wanting me to tank something. Getting rep by wearing a tabbard makes it easy. I hit exalted with 3 factions already from mainly running heroics. Try running the easy heroics like Nexus and Utgarde Keep on a daily basis and you will get your Wyrmcrest rep done in a hurry. I switched to the Deep Wounds spec over the weekend and my threat and DPS are definately up. Our guild is short of healers like many are. We are running 25 man raids with 4-5 healers. When we get to a fight where one of the healers has to MC it gets really tough. Some of our officers are trying to level up new healer alts but that will take some time. Tankette´s last blog post..Raid Successes, 5 Man Frustration

By: Alfa

Alfa — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:13:02 +0000

Romoreas is very correct in trusting the people at tankspot. They have run the numbers and made them public on the website, and it’s a significant DPS increase over 3 points of cruelty.

By: tPaste

tPaste — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:58:10 +0000

Well crap. I guess I should have read these comments before I posted in your blog.

By: Romoreas

Romoreas — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:29:05 +0000

As stated above, your only concern is to have a rolling Deep Wounds up as much as possible. Considering Incite and the extra crit for Devastate and Shield Slam you get from the talent tree, most of your special abilities should have around a 23ish percent chance to crit, pushing more towards 25ish percent to crit with raid buffs. DW = 6 seconds; 4 abilities in a 6 second rotation…so if the world was perfect it would be up all the time, the world isn’t perfect but DW does stay up for the majority of the time on a boss you can constantly attack. It has been as much as 14 percent of my total damage on certain 25 man raid bosses.

3 Points in Armored to the Teeth > 3 points of cruelty, all the time. I haven’t actually tested this but I trust the people at TankSpot that have =D. It makes sense though, AP affects most of your special abilities and also slightly increases Deep Wound damage. Plus AttT will scale with your gear where the 3 points in Cruelty will always be 3 percent crit and never increase.

By: Hangar

Hangar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:07:49 +0000

Splendid news indeed! Thankyou!

By: Maritime

Maritime — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:23:44 +0000

Yes.

By: Hangar

Hangar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:47:11 +0000

Will that apply to helms crafted before the patch? (can’t access that link at work, so apologies if that would have answered my question!!!)

By: Niza

Niza — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:16:53 +0000

I’ll be glad to heal some of the 80 instances for you while you’re off work. You know me, I’m pretty much always around. ;P