playbyplay

Hey, i've been back for a few weeks now and I'm finally starting to get that raiding itch... Been so long that I dont know what runs the guild does or what nights theyre on etc etc... Just wanting some casual fun guild raiding if there is one needing another player... i have a monk and paladin at 90, pally is ilvl505 geared prot/ret, but i may be able to be convinced to go holy... monk is pseudo retired... haven't played it since I quit in january. also, been grinding up some sigils to get the legendary quest chain going... /sigh this takes forever! Are there currently any alt or flex runs going? If so, i'd love to tag along now and then... http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/skullcrusher/Tim%C3%A8consumer/advanced'>Tim

So.... im not even past my first week in this semester and i have already been buried alive by the amount of stupid homework thats been assigned. I will not be able to make it to tonights raid 1/9, nor tomorrow night, 1/10... ill do my best to be on next week, once things kinda balance out, but so far a ton of shit was assigned that is due really soon, so things havent had time to decompress and spread out (or i havent had time to begin successful procrastination yet)... once things balance out, i will do my best to make the 10m raids when i can... but to be honest, its not looking good for this semester... i dont plan on completely quitting by any means, and fully intend to pick up where i left off over the summer and in the future etc... but this semester is my last one of classes before an internship which will reflect the same hours as my future career job (M-F 7/8-3/4... teaching FTW!) i'll do my best to keep up with everything mostly due to the sheer necessity to decompress! so i'd love to sub in when i can, but i do not believe i will be able to continue a full time spot this semester, unless i get to quit work, or hire a full time live-in babysitter (neither will happen unless i win some sort of godly amount of moneys)... so yeah... see you guys around online when i can, and GL progging thru HoF and ToES... kinda hoping they delay 5.2 as long as possible so i can be playing again by that time!

Getting things switched around at work so It looks like I may make Monday after all...

I think there's enough people with alts in the guild, as well as casual "non-raiders" that would probably like a chance to see some content etc. that a weekly guild alt run would probably have a decent turnout, depending on if ppl could make it. It'd also give people from the 10/25m to actually raid together lol. ...if only this next semester wasn't looking to be even worse than this one, cause that'd be something I wouldn't mind putting together tbh...

Lol! ...iirc I made it a few more times than your laggy ass did on blade lord! Wtb an encounter that doesn't punish latency! ...anyway... My semester is over for the most part but I do work tonight, so I can't come. But I'm sure some of the people that haven't raided/want to alt raid, would be down for a 10m... It'd also give perf (if he can make it) some experience healing MV and possible gear... I even think a weekly alt run would be an awesome idea for the guild as a whole, especially to rotate some "bench" players through to keep em current on fights and gear etc... as for next semester... i can definitely still do thursdays... wednesdays i have a lab till 8:55pm server time, so at the earliest, i can do 930 wed, not sure how the work sched is gonna pan out yet tho, but ima do what i can...

just wanted to communicate what ive been told... perfection is finally ready for raiding, gear wise, but cannot make it tonight. he said he will be available tomorrow night, as well as all next week etc. Wreckx told me he will be online at 930 sharp due to family commitments etc. i will also be on no later than 930, but not much earlier.

yeah, i tossed it up quick before i had to run across campus for class... fixed* and added gear breakdowns by armor type/class, including tokens i think one of my concerns here is regarding our heal comp, im happy to sit when necessary, cause MW got nerfed down to painful levels of uselessness for the time being (but i did come to raid, so idk about sitting every heal fight lol)... i would feel bad though, after asking perfection to buy a transfer and pick up playing again to fill our heal spot, then have it filled while he takes for freaking ever to gear up (due to causes beyond his control... his dad's open heart surgery). I do very much enjoy the fact that we have healers from all three different tier tokens, and 3 different armor types. I think there is good synergy regardless of which 2-3 we bring in any fight, but idk if we are "hardcore" enough to sit ppl based on class, seeing as we just got rolling with a solid comp. its nice to have backups in place for when people cant show, but figuring out an effective way to gear them without doing entire alt runs seems difficult to me (blood legion has 2-3 full raids worth of alts that run weekly to flesh out their comp and gear their bench... LOLOLOL)... IDK if anyone has ideas or input on a fair way to do it, especially on a twice a week schedule, but that'd be awesome. Probably speaking too soon about all this, but i just wanted to open discussion for it.

Hey, just figured i'd start another new 10m thread to kind of freshly organize some of my thoughts on our roster, including fillins etc Tanks: Evadd - Bear druid Rugburn - Prot Pala (offspec ret for 1 tank fights) Taunka* - prot warr (?)- not sure if just dps or tank or both DPS: melee: Wreckx - Frost DK Playbyplay - WW monk (offspec for 2 heal fights) Eveningbark* - feral kitty druid Ranged: Aweburn - Frost mage Infertil - Spriest Tychondris - BM/SV hunter Wingsmcgee - BM/SV(?) hunter Heals: Khelendross - resto shaman Playbyplay - Mistweaver monk Tyggles* - holy paladin Pèrfèction* - resto druid *- designates ambiguity regarding fill in vs permanent. (idk if this is 100% accurate, so please correct me if i'm wrong!) one question here for me is regarding Tyggles, is he wanting to permanently be in the group (as raiding with him has been awesome and consistent the last two weeks!) or is he a fill in for lack of a permanent replacement? Perfection should be geared this week or next for MV, and definitely wants to raid, afaik. I included evening and taunka because i remember them wanting to be considered for filling in when they can/if needed... Also, now that we should have MV on farm and start working on progress thru HoF, should we start subbing in the fill-ins to keep them up to date with gear etc, or due to it just being 10m, focus on the 10 constants we have? ...just writing some thoughts out to see what y'all think mainly for discussion. i tend to overthink things, and i am probably only doing this to distract myself from all the stupid class work i have to get done this week lol. EDIT: it's probably way too early to think about subs as we finally nailed down a solid setup... gear/armor type analysis: 1 tank plate 1.5 dps plate (0.5 for offspec) 1 heal plate 2 agi mail 1 heal mail 2.5 agi leather (0.5 for offspec and including evening as main spec) 2 heal leather (including perfection) 2 clothy dps ...so it seems to be a decently fair gear path, lets look at tokens: Conqueror (paladin, priest, lock)- 3 Vanquisher (rogue, mage, DK, druid)- 3-5 (depending on evening/perf) Protector (Hunter, warr, sham, monk)- 4-5 (depending on taunka) pretty even spread here too! some final questions: tbd

I got like a 99% in that class at USF, been a few years but if you need any help with anything I may be able to help... Chem 2 on the other hand... That crap was retarded

i didnt log in past like 6 yesterday... so i didnt show either. i did get a text from rug, but i didnt check my phone till this am lol... infertil told me he wasnt able to get on either so idk if it went at all. Hey on a brighter note: finally done nerd-raging over MW nerfs... And lol @ Blizz for nerfing jab by increasing mana cost but only increasing it for ppl who use glyph of jab because when you have a diff wep type equipped its technically a different spell... Anyways, I've got a major test on thursday so I can't be on too late wednesday, so let's try to get going on time lol.

Was that before the additional hot fix nerf that upped the mana costs by 30% and lowered SM chi gen back to 30%? Probably gonna hafta get more spirit now... Unless crit is strong enough as a regen stat? I'll hafta research it more. The increase to jab, if it went live, will royally screw fistweaving, which was decently maintainable after original nerfs, cause it will up it to 12,000 mana? Gonna be hard for consistent jabjab, uplift/chi burst spam. I guess that's intended for situational use now, and soothing as our main source of chi, but the reasoni rolled MW was for the melee aspect of healing lol. /sigh... Gonna hafta test it out some time in more depth this week between finals and before raiding. jab nerf didnt go live, so thats good at least...

The only thing that's coming close to building the desire for me to level an alt is all the endless MW nerfs bliz is cycling through... Maybe by next xpack they will know what they actually wanna do with the spec, till then, here goes the roller coaster of changes/nerfs/buffs/renerfs that DKs are all too familiar with... But yeah I won't be on due to finals and etc

The mana costs of Jab, Spinning Crane Kick, Soothing Mist, Crackling Jade Lightning, and Renewing Mists have been increased by 30%. Soothing Mist and Crackling Jade Lightning now have a 30% chance to generate Chi when they deal damage (was 35%). sad freaking face! anyone else feel like this is more of a knee-jerk than an effort of fine tuning? but they did fix RM jumping to pets, so thats nice... but still... someone at blizz needs to figure out WTF they're doing with this spec and stick to it... starting to feel a bit like a ragdoll here. first they were gonna fix our mastery, then reverted it, then upped mana costs but made crit a regen stat, then upped mana costs further after nerfing throughput significantly, buffed single target thru soothing chi gen buf, then cut the buff back down in half and increased mana cost 30%. one RM will now be 19,500 mana... apparently they only want us to stack the shit outta spirit even more, and crit, drop fistweaving along with mana tea glyph... all without giving us any sort of actual raid utility CD other than revival (which is at least way nicer in 10m than you see in 25m)... well, now i can at least mention that i am relieved instead of sad, that i'm offspeccing for 4/6 in MV and who knows how many fights in HoF... if only i actually liked windwalker...

Sounds like a good idea to me, unless everyone is on and can do work in HoF. Wouldn't be a bad idea to do an alt MV run and bring perf tho... If he is still up to gearing out etc. Also, it's looking quite unlikely that I'll be on

which chemistry class? either of the gen chem's? GL tho!