Huato

I know...it turns out Zuato is needed more than Huato, so I have been bringing him more. When I ask whomever happens to be leading the raid asks for Zu, so I bring him. I hope to have the remaining two pieces one of these days though. lol It's like the Elements set. I only ended up with 6 pieces of it too. Never could get the damned helm. And the boots were difficult till the last patch, but it doesn't matter now that I have the EF boots.

Darnit.

So...is the patch today? lol I heard that the PTR was being taken down today...so...is today the big day?

Technically there are two people that are 2 pieces away from their tier 1 set

Thank you!! :bunny: 1 more to go!

Ok, for healing...if anyone has any suggestions on rotations, separating HoT's and direct heals into groups and giving them assignments, etc please post them here. We need to work this out because I think even with the limited healing we have now we can do it. More would be better, but it doesn't look like we're going to see some of our regular priests back for a while.

Ok, so we had problems again this week with Golemagg. Here are my observations, and would like to hear others observations as well (please note that I am not pointing fingers at anyone - just stating what I observed from my very narrow perspective of the encounter Friday night). I was assigned to heal Lomar along with a Shaman (this was with Zuato). What happened right off the bat both times is that the dogs were to be pulled up to us and Golemagg tanked where he is. Problem 1: Keeping Lomar alive. The idea was to pull the dog up behind the spikes on the left as we are facing Golemagg. I had LoS issues because the dog was engaged both times on the other side of the spikes. By the time we could get to him, it was too late or Lomar was almost dead. Problem 2: Damage. Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but it seemed like the dogs were doing more damage then in the past. I wasn't present for the Golemagg encounter the week before because I had to bail due to being sick, but the two times previous I don't remember the dogs hitting the tanks that hard. So, for Problem 1 I plan on placing myself on the opposite side of the spikes right off the bat to keep from having LoS issues and follow Lomar back to the designated position. Problem 2...is this a result of having less healers this time around? Or did the damage go up? I know this really took the raid by surprise, and we have had a lack of healers all around lately.

-icle

Good god...I can't believe that guy keeps his job! If it is any consolation, our damage doesn't scale either. I've had to get a lot of + dmg/healing gear to get to where I am at. That's another reason I am not thrilled with the Tier3 stuff aside from the mana/5 and the raw stats...it's all + healing...no damage and no + to crit either.

Ahh, I see what you mean. I think most agree that they should have focused on one class per patch, even with a new 40 man dungeon (the team that does the dungeon is different from the team(s) that work the classes). So we both get what appears to be half-assed reviews. Truth be told, most believe the Mage review is more focused and better than the Shaman review due to the lack of blue intervention and listening to the Shaman community. The Shaman forum is a cesspool now...it went from every other thread crying nerf Shaman to constant suggestions and complaints about the class review.

8 down, 2 more to go. If you come across these, let me know. I am willing to pay you for them.

What is? For Shaman to do ranged DPS? I can't touch you or Verissi's output overall, but I can do some decent burst damage...and I don't have the AOE that you mages do, so you guys and gals will always out do us on the damage meters. I'd just like to be able to do ranged dps in raid environments too. The time we took down Onyxia I had the Shaman casting lightning bolts between heals in phase 2 and she came down a lot quicker. Lightning bolt doesn't generate much aggro (Chain lightning and Earthshock do though), but does reasonable damage. I don't mind healing and understand the need for it. I just suspect that if given the chance we could burn down some of the bosses a lot faster if Shaman were allowed to unload a little more often.

Oh great. So let me guess - elemental Shamans get nerfed in 1.12? lol On a side note, since Blizzard has Paladins being defensive and buffing for raids, they really need to help the Shaman be able to cut loose on ranged DPS in raids along with our melee buffs.

I can help you with the +healing stuff since some of it is fresh in my mind from my Druid. Rammstein in UD Stratholme drops a pendant that gives +33 to healing spells, Canon Master Wiley in Live Stratholme drops the Redemption staff which grants +66 to healing spells. Another awesome item is the Hide of the Wild...I need to farm the mats for this, but it has +44 to healing spells. Now...if you don't mind BRD, I just replaced Huato's Elements shoulders with Lead Surveyor's Mantle, which drops from Argelmach in BRD. It gives +15 to healing and damage. Those will be my shoulders till I can finally get the EF shoulders (Just need the EF shoulders and Helm on Hu to have the whole set). Also picked up Burst of Knowledge on Huato on the same run I got the Mantle. That gives +12 to healing/damge as well, and on use reduces the mana cost of spells by 100 for 10 seconds. It drops off of Flamelash or whatever his name is. Other awesome items outside of MC and BWL are the Seafury boots and legs from ZG. Those grant a good amount of + healing (and I think damage too). The good thing about Shaman items is most of them that have +damage also have + healing. I'm going all elemental/enhance with Huato once the patch comes out. We don't gain a whole lot from our resto tree (the new tree is much better and finally has aggro reducing for healing). I can heal just as well as a resto Shaman, but without some of the benefits.

Beggars can't be choosers, and I've been out farming for both money and bloods. The extra dark iron I've gotten from my attempts for more Bloods have been going to Smed. The bad thing is I haven't had much time to hit any lately due to RL and raiding. Hope to get back to farming tomorrow. And I only need three more, so the end is in sight for those. Arcanite is always good...I'm further from the end of that than the bloods at the moment.

Ok, I am slowly but surely getting down to the end of the arcane crystal/arcanite bar path here. I need 7 more to be done with these. Just want to thank everyone that has donated crystals, bars, and transmutes so far!

Down to needing three more of these.

Drat, can't view them here at work. Damn nazis.

I am liking the elemental tree more...I played a little with the calculator again last night and decided that I am going with the elemental warding talent which is new...gives a 10% reduction in damage received from fire, frost, and nature spells. I still end up with the same problem speccing Huato though...points I have no idea where to spend because it seems a waste to use them on the crap in any of the trees. I've specced what I want out of elemental and enhancement and end up having 5 or so points left that seem a waste on what is there. It's not like on my Druid where I can look at the trees and spend all 51 points with no problem and not feel like they are being wasted.

Sorry about last night guys and gals...with the server going caput before we could even get started, I didn't have any faith that it would be back up in a reasonable amount of time where we could give it a shot. We'll try again in 2 weeks.

That sucks. So far I think Druids got by far the best review with the Paldins getting an equal or just barely under the Druid's review.

Hey! I have been told I'm a bit windy at times

Got that from a co-worker when I got back from lunch...just had to share!

I agree. Cwn is a helluva warrior without it, and I think she'd be fine in the raid without it as well.