[invictive]

This thread is to discuss your various toons in World of Warcraft.

Give it a try. Someone may point something out to you that you possibly missed or over looked before.

Just recently I was informed of a conquest badge gear upgrade that I was oblivious to. Thanks, Kris.

[invictive]

Here's my armory

http://www.mywowarmo...e.php?id=180506

Site does not reflect passive self-buff.

in game stats:

36.5k hp
28k~ armor (65%~ damage reduc)
570 defense


Kris, why are my gems horrible?

This post has been edited by invictive: 05 February 2010 - 07:08 PM

[Akuhei]

This could probably remain in World of Warcraft thread, but whatever.

[Jyin]

invictive, on Feb 5 2010, 11:06 PM, said:

Here's my armory

http://www.mywowarmo...e.php?id=180506

Site does not reflect passive self-buff.

in game stats:

36.5k hp
28k~ armor (65%~ damage reduc)
570 defense
Kris, why are my gems horrible?

Due to the nature of dodge inside ICC (where 20% is taken off the top rather than the bottom, so you get DRs for 20% dodge even though you have 0%), gemming for it is generally a poor choice. Parry/Stam or pure Stam is usually a better choice.

For 3 socket pieces, a +12 stam bonus doesn't justify the loss of two stam gems, and those gems should be replaced by +30 stam.

You have entirely too much defense, if the socket bonus isn't more or equal to +12 stam, it's not worth the yellow gem. (This only seems to be a problem in your chest which goes by the above rule anyway). You also may want to consider swapping out your SSG rune for Swordbreaking/Shattering, as you can definitely lose the 20 defense and the parry bonus from swordbreaking/shattering provides more overall survival than the 2% stam from SSG.

[REINHEART]

invictive, on Feb 5 2010, 07:06 PM, said:

Here's my armory

http://www.mywowarmo...e.php?id=180506

Site does not reflect passive self-buff.

in game stats:

36.5k hp
28k~ armor (65%~ damage reduc)
570 defense
Kris, why are my gems horrible?

Dk's do not use shields yet that neck has shield block... eww

[Papaya]

You could pick up [Shard of the Crystal Forest] for 19 Emblems of Conquest, I'd say it's much better suited.

[Kris]

Jyin said it the best, I personally noticed for tank gear for a dk that aside from the one red you need to activate your meta should gem pure sta, and/or work on your expertise/hit is your threat is lacking.

Also I dunno where jyin was reading or maybe his armory was bugged but his defense shows up for me as 425 defense, I will look at armory later

[Jyin]

Kris, on Feb 6 2010, 05:28 PM, said:

Jyin said it the best, I personally noticed for tank gear for a dk that aside from the one red you need to activate your meta should gem pure sta, and/or work on your expertise/hit is your threat is lacking.

Also I dunno where jyin was reading or maybe his armory was bugged but his defense shows up for me as 425 defense, I will look at armory later

I was reading his post lol, he said 570 there.

Here's my armory for my DK tank: http://wow-heroes.com/index.php?zone=us&am...mp;name=Liyalai

Things I already know about:

• I know I need a black heart to replace the essence of gossmer. I stopped playing WoW before I upgraded that.
  
• I know DW sucks, I enjoy it. And it looks cooler.
  
• I know a lot of my gems contradict my previous advice, all my def/stam gems are from when I was still trying to hit the defense cap, and I never got around to switching them out.

Incase you couldn't tell: I made this char, or rather, started using it actively, after ToC became the highest raid. I also only do 10 mans, because my computer isn't up to par and can't handle the lag of a 25.

invictive, that site you use sucks ass. The only way we could really help you is with a wow-heroes or wowarmory link. Believe me, no one cares enough to e-stalk you across WoW.

This post has been edited by Jyin: 06 February 2010 - 02:09 PM

[Akuhei]

Never noticed but draenei girls are kind of cute looking. Hooves and all.


I wonder about their evolution and why they have horns. I'm thinking it was only the last few hundred thousand years that they started walking upright, and prior they were similar to quadrupedal horned animals on Earth. I bet that the mating call would have been something like rubbing their horns along their hooves making an erotic grating noise.

[Eurynomus]

sooo when are they going to stop raising the level cap?

[Zaronto]

Eurynomus, on Feb 6 2010, 05:13 PM, said:

sooo when are they going to stop raising the level cap?

Uh... never?

[Kris]

jyin few things out of stuff you didn't mention, get two slow dps one handers or your threat is going to go down the gutter. Also I personally would use both the essence and black heart, the ony trinket doesn't help much.

[Jyin]

Kris, on Feb 6 2010, 06:49 PM, said:

jyin few things out of stuff you didn't mention, get two slow dps one handers or your threat is going to go down the gutter. Also I personally would use both the essence and black heart, the ony trinket doesn't help much.

I keep the Ony trinket for the parry more than anything. I like to keep a nice balance of mit. and HP, as to not overstress my healers.

People keep telling me about the two slow one hander thing, but personally I've never had an issue with threat using two tanking weapons, and until I do i'm going to keep using them.

[Kris]

As soon as you get dps consistently doing 4k+ you'll notice it.

[Jyin]

Kris, on Feb 6 2010, 07:22 PM, said:

As soon as you get dps consistently doing 4k+ you'll notice it.

All the dps I run with do 4k+, and I don't know any dps who don't.

[Trixiath]

DK on the whole has pretty terrible threat, anyway.

[meizo]

I was under the impression that this will be the last wow expansion because of new blizzard games that will take its place. So level cap I'm assuming is 85.

[Akuhei]

what about sargeras

[~Roane~]

Akuhei, on Feb 7 2010, 05:08 PM, said:

what about sargeras

Too much of a ripoff of...
Sargonnas

[Ukkyo]

meizo, on Feb 7 2010, 07:02 PM, said:

I was under the impression that this will be the last wow expansion because of new blizzard games that will take its place. So level cap I'm assuming is 85.

I was thinking that Blizz raised the cap to 85 only so they habe a bit more room for additional expansions if they want to put the final level cap at 100. It strikes me as bizzare as to why Blizzard would stop updating after Cataclysm, especially while its still going strong and being a gigantic cash cow for them. I wouldn't expect to see the final installment anytime soon.

[(-_-)]

bwarharhar.


I had my bags full earlier. :( Should have taken a SS then.

Ukkyo Kuonji, on Feb 7 2010, 04:18 PM, said:

I was thinking that Blizz raised the cap to 85 only so they habe a bit more room for additional expansions if they want to put the final level cap at 100. It strikes me as bizzare as to why Blizzard would stop updating after Cataclysm, especially while its still going strong and being a gigantic cash cow for them. I wouldn't expect to see the final installment anytime soon.

I'd actually be quite pleased if they did the whole "Master Rogue, Master Druid, Master etc." type thing at 100.

This post has been edited by _Derek: 07 February 2010 - 04:23 PM

[Mr.e]

_Derek, on Feb 8 2010, 01:21 AM, said:

I had my bags full earlier. :( Should have taken a SS then.
I'd actually be quite pleased if they did the whole "Master Rogue, Master Druid, Master etc." type thing at 100.

Dude, get the bigbag addon lol..

This post has been edited by Mr.e: 07 February 2010 - 05:16 PM

[Trixiath]

Truth lol...what the nurrz

[BAM!]

Get addons period.

[Papaya]

Ukkyo Kuonji, on Feb 8 2010, 11:18 AM, said:

I was thinking that Blizz raised the cap to 85 only so they habe a bit more room for additional expansions if they want to put the final level cap at 100. It strikes me as bizzare as to why Blizzard would stop updating after Cataclysm, especially while its still going strong and being a gigantic cash cow for them. I wouldn't expect to see the final installment anytime soon.

Yeah, in exchange for those 5 levels all of Azeroth is being re-vamped; so we'll have a lot more reason to go back and start anew - especially with the new class options for old races AND goblins/worgen to play around with.

[Trixiath]

The amount of characters I'm re-rolling for Cataclysm makes me wanna cry :(

[Ukkyo]

Trixiath, on Feb 8 2010, 01:28 PM, said:

The amount of characters I'm re-rolling for Cataclysm makes me wanna cry :(

As tempted as I am to kick out my night elf druid (mostly due to me seething hatered of night elves) I think I'll just hold out until race changing to worgen becomes available.

I care more about my worgen's human appearance than I do it's worgen form. I forsee a long and frustrating process in character creation lies ahead for me as I try to select the right hair/skin/face to correspond with the human form I want.

[Akuhei]

Prob gonna make my undead lock, Director, a goblin when it becomes available. Though I'll probably make a Goblin Rogue my official bank alt, seeing as Goblins get a -40% AH discount rate racial and +15% gold drop rate party buff.

[meizo]

Goblin mage no DOUBT.

[Jyin]

_Derek, on Feb 7 2010, 08:21 PM, said:

Rune Tap... AMZ... are... are you a healing spec DK? o.O I can't imagine you do any dps with points in stuff like that... and I assume you have unholy presence on because you were running recently, and you know not to use it for dpsing?