Patch 5.0.4 stuff

[Nikachelle]

Back to grinding Tol Barad commendations.

SON OF A....

[halabar]

Back to grinding Tol Barad commendations.

SON OF A....

I feel for anyone that spent months running around there killing foxes to get one (or never got one...)..

[Passionario]

Raids
* The Karazhan Chess event has increased in difficulty

What.

[Sagara]

Weirdly, I'm not that happy :-/ We're barely at 4/8, and it was clear in my head we weren't meant to get the mount (like all the other Glory of the XXX Raider).:

Well, if I'm guessing right and you don't have Hagara yet, that fight is more of a challenge due to the dispels. Warmaster is still a pain due to the RNG.

You guess right. But it's worse. People can't for the life of them handle indiviual requirements to even get through LIGHTNING alive. *facepalm*

[Zobel]

Raids
* The Karazhan Chess event has increased in difficulty

What.

Medivh cheats far more than he's supposed to cheat. (That dirty cheater.) It's a known issue.

[halabar]

Weirdly, I'm not that happy :-/ We're barely at 4/8, and it was clear in my head we weren't meant to get the mount (like all the other Glory of the XXX Raider).:

Well, if I'm guessing right and you don't have Hagara yet, that fight is more of a challenge due to the dispels. Warmaster is still a pain due to the RNG.

You guess right. But it's worse. People can't for the life of them handle indiviual requirements to even get through LIGHTNING alive. *facepalm*

Ugh... it also seems that the frost patches have changed.. combine that with the dispells, and.. uggh...

[Sagara]

Short version: f*ck this. If they're not happy, jumping ships we go!

[KysenMurrin]

Guessing this is a bug: My graphics settings are marking the highest setting as "Recommended" on every single option. My computer ain't that good.

[Koatanga]

Weirdly, I'm not that happy :-/ We're barely at 4/8, and it was clear in my head we weren't meant to get the mount (like all the other Glory of the XXX Raider).:

Well, if I'm guessing right and you don't have Hagara yet, that fight is more of a challenge due to the dispels. Warmaster is still a pain due to the RNG.

You guess right. But it's worse. People can't for the life of them handle indiviual requirements to even get through LIGHTNING alive. *facepalm*

There is a positioning method we adopted in which the lightning will chain around without anyone moving, provided they are in the right place to begin with. That was pretty much the only way my raid could handle the lightning. I place beacons where the inner lightning rods will drop so people know how to align themselves. Takes 11 to chain it around, so you have to have at least one pet class and everyone has to survive frost. The entire chaining takes about 4-5 seconds.

[Sagara]

Yeah, I saw that thing on the forum.

I linked it. placed 4 beacons. Nothing works. NOTHING!! *runs crying in the distance*

[masterpoobaa]

So...

Sanctified Wrath Vs Holy Avenger.

Our dear egg-head Theck says SW is the better of the two, but im finding HA to be excessivly powerful.
Particularly in those situations where Poop has hit the fan and you need lots of heals fast.

Macro HA + Wings together then spam a rotation like:
CS > WoG > Judge > WoG > CS > WoG > Judge > WoG.
Thats alotta self healing in a short period of time...

Thoughts?

[Nikachelle]

I have no idea where to put this so I'll just chuck this in here. I was having massive fps problems after the patch - it would jump from my normal 60 down to about 13 and stuttering awfully while it was doing so. I just went through the painful process of enabling and disabling every single addon until I found the problem.

Turns out it was TipTac and the version I had from early yesterday (Wednesday) was causing me problems. There was an update later on that night (about 24 hours ago now) and it seems to have resolved the problems I was having.

Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone happened to be having a similar problem and couldn't figure out what it was.

[econ21]

Our dear egg-head Theck says SW is the better of the two, but im finding HA to be excessivly powerfu

Better for dps, but dps is not our main criterion - Theck says he prefers HA. I agree it does sound good - I hadn't thought of using it to rapid heal via WoG and was thinking of it more as a cooldown for more sustained ShotR, but what you suggest does sound useful. I wonder roughly how much healing you can expect during that short period of time?

[Skye1013]

Is DS Normal/Heroic cross-realm enabled?

Any word on this?

[masterpoobaa]

I wonder roughly how much healing you can expect during that short period of time?

Well in an ideal scenario the first WoG you fire off would have the 50% SoR buff, plus 20% from Wings plus whatever Vengeance gives you.
After that you immediately pop HA (HA lasts 18sec, wings 20sec, so they match up nicely)
0sec - CS
1.5sec - WoG
3sec - Judge
4.5sec - WoG
6sec - CS
7.5sec - Wog
9sec - Judge again
10.5 - Wog
12 - CS
13.5 - Wog
15 - Judge
16.5 - Wog
18 - Last CS, but probably not due to latency and being unable to get perfect 1.5sec casts.

So thats (if my thinking is correct) 6 full WoG's in 18sec.
Forgive me if my thinking/calcs are incorrect - doing this at work with not all data at fingertips.

[EDIT]Glyph of 4 Wings (aka Glyph of Butterfly) is manditory!

[PsiVen]

It's much faster than that. WoG and ShoR are off-GCD, so you can generally fire them off as fast as you can generate Holy Power. And if you're proactive you can stack up duration on your ShoR buff instead of spam healing. If you're hit capped it can easily be 30 seconds of continuous buff coverage.

Holy Avenger has to be the worst choice for average Holy Power generation / DPS because it's amazing on demand.

[Taikishi]

I'm having similar problems, Nika, but I'm not running TicTac. My guild is still relatively dead so I ran LFR for kicks on Tuesday. Dropped down to mid-20s in FPS were as before I was running a constant 60 in LFR. In Stormwind, my FPS can run near 100 then suddenly cut to the mid-to-low 40s before jumping back up It's possible one of my add-ons is causing this, though I'm not sure which. It's also possible that my video card is biting it. At one point I was running two GTX 465s in SLI but then one just randomly bit it - white streaks across my screen after POST.

I haven't done any dungeons or raids on beta, so I don't know if this is happening there as well, but while I get a constant 100+ FPS in most of Pandaria, I occasionally dip down into the 30s and 40s for almost no logical reason.

[djlar]

Dusted off my pally tank, did 28K DPS on Ultraxion somehow... top of the chart! what the?

[Nikachelle]

I'm having similar problems, Nika, but I'm not running TicTac. My guild is still relatively dead so I ran LFR for kicks on Tuesday. Dropped down to mid-20s in FPS were as before I was running a constant 60 in LFR. In Stormwind, my FPS can run near 100 then suddenly cut to the mid-to-low 40s before jumping back up It's possible one of my add-ons is causing this, though I'm not sure which. It's also possible that my video card is biting it. At one point I was running two GTX 465s in SLI but then one just randomly bit it - white streaks across my screen after POST.

I haven't done any dungeons or raids on beta, so I don't know if this is happening there as well, but while I get a constant 100+ FPS in most of Pandaria, I occasionally dip down into the 30s and 40s for almost no logical reason.

Personally, I found the change in frame rate so bothersome that there was no way I could play like that. I guess you could do what I did... turn off every addon and then slowly turn them back on one by one (relogging each time) and running around in a heavily crowded area every time to determine if that particular addon is causing the frame loss. It's annoying, but the relief I got when I figured out what it was definitely outweighed the time it took to find it.

[KysenMurrin]

I noticed my own FPS was around 26 in SW yesterday. Pretty sure it's been closer to 40 since Cataclysm & current graphics card.

[fuzzygeek]

I guess you could do what I did... turn off every addon and then slowly turn them back on one by one (relogging each time)

Highly recommend http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/acp -- Addon Control Panel. Lets you turn addons on and off without relogging entirely.

[Nikachelle]

I guess you could do what I did... turn off every addon and then slowly turn them back on one by one (relogging each time)

Highly recommend http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/acp -- Addon Control Panel. Lets you turn addons on and off without relogging entirely.

:O

[econ21]

I was lagging horribly and WoW warned me it was due to add-ons. The game helpfully pointed out I could turn on "show ULA errors" or some such in the control options; I did so and the error message identified Healbot as the culprit. I don't know if that will allow you to identify which add-ons cause problems, but it was nifty in that instance.

[Gunni]

I guess you could do what I did... turn off every addon and then slowly turn them back on one by one (relogging each time)

Highly recommend http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/acp -- Addon Control Panel. Lets you turn addons on and off without relogging entirely.

:O

Also, if you're using lots of addons and you want to find that one troublemaker, use the stack method:
Disable half of your addons. If you're still having issues, cut the stack of active addons in half again. When the issue is gone, proceed with the stack you disabled last. This method allows you to indentify the broken addon very fast.
Doesn't help in the case of conflicting addons though.

[Ironshaft]

I am looking at gear on WoWHead and have found this helm:

http://www.wowhead.com/item=90516 called Casque of Expelled Corruption

Wowhead lists it in the following versions:

Item Level 483 marked as "Raid Finder"
Item Level 496 not marked as anything (assumed to be from "regular" raids)
Item Level 503 marked as "Elite"
Item Level 509 marked as "Heroic"
Item Level 516 marked as "Heroic Elite"

So, what is this "Elite" thing that I am seeing? I have not heard of it at all.

Cheers,