Posts Tagged ‘Bugs’

Jan

5200 DPS, Howling Blast, PvP Specs, Bugs, and moar!!!

Posted by: Skeleton Jack in Blue, Macros, Specs

Heya guys!! Plenty to talk about today, so lets just jump right in eh?

5200 DPS

So, am I slacking because I’m 500 DPS lower? Nah, not really. First off when I pulled 5700 DPS we had Crypt Fever and Epon Plaguebringer. Due to specs in the raid, we only had EP this time. So instead of a x4 disease multiplier I only had a x3. And then there could have been RNG factors as well. /shrug But the point here is that this is an idea of what you can expect when 3.0.8 releases. You will see your self do less dps than you are used to. Whether you lost some Gargoyle DPS, you lost that 4th disease, etc. So just be prepared.

As a side note Ruthlessness finally dropped!! Yay!! /WIN It hasn’t dropped for our guild, bad luck and all. And then BAMM!!! It drops 3x in the same evening total, lol. Needless to say my fellow DPS’ers were ecstatic!!

Battle Rez Bug?!

So this SS should amuse you some…

Now for those wondering how this is even possible, I use a not well known mod called Two Box Toolkit. Now last I checked it hasn’t been updated in forever, but it is a surprisingly useful mod. It’s designed for a second account where you can make that account auto accept things like group invites and commands to auto follow another character for two boxing. While I used to Two Box all of the time, I rarely do so now.

But I kept this mod for lazy reasons. If I have someone on my friends list I will automatically accept group invites and ressurections from those people. Which is really handy in situations where you’re AFK/windowed out when you get a rez or invite. So I’m sitting there in the fight and I get a B Rez and then the window pops up…after I’m already alive… *blink* *blink* *blink* You have no idea how tempted I was to click one of those buttons…

But I had no idea what would happen. Probably nothing, I know…but what if?! Ya know? Also if I died again somehow, would it work? Who knows? I know server lag in PvP has allowed me to see a “Would you like to ressurrect” message at my corpse where I died before the “Rlease” window comes up. I even managed to click on it once and then kill the two people who killed me before I was magically teleported to the nearest GY. It was weird as hell. But as I killed my attackers, and then got magically teleported away to the nearest GY as the five other Horde nearby started looking at me funny…I count that as pure /WIN.

So I left it up, hoping it’d come in handy. But alas, it went away before the fight ended. /sadface

Howling Blast

Yeah, Blizz decided to weenie out on this one…sigh. No CD was a good move, but because they cannot figure out how to nerf DW, they are nerfing Frost as a whole. /sigh

“I believe the cooldown is 5 seconds now, so at least it should mesh a little better with 10 second rune cooldown.

We knew there was a risk in taking the Howling Blast cooldown off. Unfortunately, we saw dual-wield DK numbers as high as ever even with the Killing Machine and Gargoyle nerfs. It typically only happened when the DK was fighting multiple targets, which suggests Howling Blast is the right thing to change.

We still agree that a cooldown makes rotations more awkward, and we will continue to look for an implementation that lets Howling Blast be off a cooldown without all death knights feel like they need to DW Frost or go home.

(And no, we can’t buff other DK specs and other classes to 7000 dps or whatever to compensate.) (Source)”

Of course we understand. Nerfing the Frost tree as a whole because you can’t figure out how to properly balance the DW specs is the right answer. /grumble I’ve always been a huge fan of the Frost tree, even if you guys never saw me say it. On Beta for LK I was a Frost Knight, and it appealed to me greatly. However when I saw the changes going through and we began to raid Naxx10 in Beta, I quickly swapped to Unholy as it was the far cry winner.

I really would like to see Frost get some loving, and Howling Blast is one the things that needs a fix. The removal of the CD was the right move, and it’s a shame they didn’t keep that change in. This will likely go live as they recanted on it now, and they are still failing badly at addressing DW issues. The biggest saving grace for Frost atm appears to still be the Glyph of Obliterate change, where it is a straight up +20% damage bonus.

Frost will likely scale very well in the end due to the fact that it pulls more damage from weapon scaling than any other spec atm, but we will see. I’ve actually been seriously considering swapping to Frost and doing some testing when 3.0.8 goes live. Shocking, I know!! Whether this will scale enough now before T8 is released in Uludar is the question though.

PvP Builds

I’ve got two little sneak peeks of ideas I’ve been playing around with. Some readers asked questions about variant specs for PvP, and after dropping some of their ideas and tweaking things a bit I’ve got something here for you to play around with.

But before that, lets talk about the 2 big Blood nerfs for PvP viability.

“Will of the Necropolis will now reduce the damage of any attack that takes the DK below 35% health by 5 /10/15% instead of boosting armor when wounded. It no longer affects the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell and retains the current damage reduction bonus.

Vampiric Blood (DK) changed from 20% health / 50% healing to 15 % health / 35% healing.”

Now, the VB change was probably needed. But the WotN change? Really? That was one of the biggest draws to a Blood build for Arena in my book. The ability to use AMS far more often was a big deal. It meant that you could go immune to Sheeps, Immobs, etc…when you knew you had to. And more importantly when you needed to. Far more often. Move in with the VB nerf which made survivability a joking matter for Blood in Arena matches, and Blood loses a lot of it’s new and shiny draw.

22/14/35

Now this little spec is a bit bonkers. It’s so odd in fact, let me explain it to you. Sometimes you may find that survivability is an issue. Or you may find yourself frequently in the situation where your ally has died, and if you could have just gotten a few heals you would have won the match. Well that is where this spec shines like no one’s business.

The basic concept in the Blood tree is straight forward. You want to get to melee buffs while including Rune Tap for healing and filling out your Blood Strike. Even with losing one point in the Blood Strikes talent should still be pure when when combined with the Glyph of Blood Strike. Between Chains of Ice and Desecration, keeping your opponents snared for the damage bonus on BS should be a piece of cake.

This is where we deviate from the basic concept. You dip into Frost now instead of giving Unholy the normal loving you are used to. Toughness is brought online to ensure that you are not kited anywhere near as often (and that you’re harder to kill) while you directly move to get Lichborne for extra self healing.

Macro to heal yourself with Death Coils:
#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast !Lichborne;
/cast [target=player] Death Coil
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Considering that you have at this point given up on Scourge Strike, you now need to ensure you can use Obliterate without destroying your diseases with Annihilation. Now while you have done all of this you pick up 5/5 Desecration, your Ghoul from Master of Ghouls and your Gargoyle.

What you basically lose is:

Overall, I am beginning to slide towards this being an overall advantage. Especially with the Oblit buff going in 3.0.8 and the AMZ/Bone Shield nerfs as well.

0/34/37

This is an odd twist on the Unholy Spec, and honestly I’m not 100% satisfied with it. For example I think this spec has room to possibly attempt to be a “Pure Ranged” spec by specing into Outbreak and using the Glyph of Plague Strike or the Glyph of Blood Boil for bonus damage and/or utility on one of those two attacks.

However with some minor tweaking this spec is very outstanding. Howling Blast, Icy Touch, Chains of Ice, and Blood Boil will allow you to be able to use all of your Runes against any target at range, meaning you’re only losing some of your damage instead of the majority of it when you are being kited.

Overall this is a very strange builds with amazing potential in the hands of a skilled player. Ever get frustrated as hell while a Frost Mage kites you? *YOU* can now be that Frost Mage. This is a kiting spec like you wouldn’t believe. It brings to bear self heals, very solid Plague Strikes, solid snaring, and top end burst damage. Overall it has some potential depending upon your team makeup.

Please note that both of these specs are not finalized “polished” versions in my book, with some room to move points and glyphs.

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

Tags: Blue, Bugs, Macros, Specs

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Dec

OMFG HE’S TAKING OUR FISH!!!! GET ‘IM!!!!

Posted by: Skeleton Jack in Fun

Heya guys!! Time to shout out to my homies!!! Time for a lil DK AoE tip, another DK bug, a shout out to my fans, and random blathering!! For those wanting to skip the humor…go to the end for the perfect starting AoE DK rotation regardless of spec.

So I get whispers pretty regularly in WoW now from random DK’s who have no idea I have a site at all just because I was one of the first level 80’s, but then I get some from people who read my site too. And that’s pretty damn cool in my book. Sometimes I’m busy and can’t talk much, but then again sometimes I’m not.

So anyways, this one DK named Sizmik and I are talking. And he’s telling me about how he was going for this fishing Achievement in Orgrimar. Now…I don’t know what the f this things about really…except I hear people in guild chat talking about it. Typically, someone mentions fishing and then it’s like an ex-girlfriend starts nagging me…I just tune her, or it, out. Heh.

So, his story is interesting though…he’s talking about how these hordies mess with him. He’s just sitting there minding his own business in the spirit valley of orcish e-peen or something or another away from all the Hordies fishin’ his lil heart out. When this rogue comes up and sees him. Well he gets one of his buddies and looks at him and then points to our entrepid DK Sizmik. “HE’S STEALING OUR FISH!!!! GET ‘EM!!!! RRAAAWWWWWRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!” LOL

So they camp him and beat him senseless…and I don’t know…I can just imagine 2 hordies sitting there saying, “Ain’t NOBODY gonna steal *our* fish damnit!!!” ”FOR THE HORDE!!!” /snicker

It made me giggle.

Another time I was in Dalaran getting my new Savage Saronite set crafted for some PvP loving and this male BE started to follow me… Well, you know what I told you about male BE’s…you gotta watch ‘em. No telling what kind of shenanigans they’re gonna try to get up to, or in to if you know what I mean. o.O

And then this cute lil female BE walks up too. /sigh Too bad the person behind the computer isn’t a cute lil sex kitten with pigtails too eh? /dreamon lol

Anyways we all start emoting, casting Army of the Dead, and generally having a good time. Until shortly after I get a whisper from “Omgskelejack” ROFDLMAO

Now that one really cracked me up. Apparently these 2 BE’s were reading my blog since the first week and were readers/fans. The guy and I talked a bit and he was a really cool cat. Apparently he and the girl (who is supposedly really a girl…/highfive for gamer chicks!!) were friends and just happened to bump into me. Well, I took the SS, but forgot to get the one with both of ya’lls names!!

So, I’d give you a shout out…but I can’t. Anyways, here’s to hoping you 2 are still reading and see this. You guys made me smile that day!!

So any of you Unholy Death Knights out there ever die in Naxx, release, and then you turn into a ghoul??!! Happens to me…a lot!! So I explode…and then sit there…at the rez angel chick…and it stinks… You gotta wait to rezz if you die too many times back to back… /sigh

Meanwhile my raid is lol’ing at me… >.<

As a side note, don’t ever get into any vehicle driven by an engineer while at the summoning stone for Naxx… One of ours, my DK leveling buddy, just got his engineering Choppa. That motorcycle. Well…he asks me to get in in Vent. You know…like I get the first ride. He’s making it sound like a special deal to celebrate getting it, kicking other people out who try to get in. So I get summoned in, hop in, and I’m like, “This is pretty cool!” He proceeds to drive off the edge…dismount…pop his engineer parachute…and watch me plummet to my death… “Sucker!!”

/facepalm

LOL, it’s pretty funny now…after the fact…though I was steamed at the time. Yeah so…he got me. Lesson learned? Don’t trust engineers ever. There is a reason why goblins and gnomes lead in that technology…

And have you seen this item!?!?!?!

OMFG WE NEED ONE!!! YOU SEE THAT!?!?! **HUGE GRIN** Ohh man, need to get a good MH weapon and go beat down some Hordies while holding that thing!!! I can be like, “I CUT YOUR ARM OFF !@#$% !!!! WHATCHA GONNA DO NOW!?!?!” Omfg that would be so awesome!! WTB one Surplus Limb, pst!!

An AoE Tip!!

So you want to blast away for some major AoE damage from the start?

Icy Touch -> Plague Strike -> Pestilence -> Death and Decay -> Blood Tap -> Blood Boil -> Unholy Blight

If you’re not Unholy, do the same rotation without UB. That includes Frost specs as well. Do not make the mistake of using Howling Blast (unless you have a Rime proc).

At 5000 AP:

Blood Boil avg hit: 330
Death and Decay avg hit: 299.5 (or 2995 dmg over 10 seconds)
Howling Blast avg hit: 770 (or 1540 with Frost Fever up) (around 2310 avg hits with Frost spec modifiers)

Now, even with +40% dmg and the +45% dmg bonus on crits (above and beyond what DnD gets) HB will still not beat out DnD. I’ve said it before, and will do so again. DEATH AND DECAY IS YOUR BEST AOE. Hence such a massive CD on it.

That rotation will open up with the most AoE dmg possible, while putting the heaviest threat at the end of it. Giving your tanks more time to establish a good threat cushion.

Blood Tap is an often ignored ability for DK’s, but it’s actually quite damn useful. It’s also great for ensuring a Strangulate gets off when you need it.

Tags: AoE, Bugs, Fun

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Nov

Death Knight level 72 in under 3 days

Posted by: Skeleton Jack in Power Leveling

Skeletonjack, my Death Knight, is level 72 with 1 day, 18 hours, and 19 minutes /played. This is by 2 days and 8 hours from release. In that time…I’ve maybe gotten 4 hours of sleep. I honestly have *no idea* how I’m keeping up. But if I vanish for a day or two…it’s cause my body quit on me and said “F YOU!!!” I had not planned on trying to level this fast, but this is what ended up happening. Mainly I wanted to catch up to my friends in WoW. I wanted to experience LK with them. But even that changed….

AND, my gear is starting to actually look cool again!!

A guildy I rarely grouped with before, is now my duo partner. We both rerolled DK’s and happened to both take some time off of work for the LK release. Next thing you know we’re both always on and the same level, so we team up. Now we plan on when to log back in next and to stay on the exact same quest lines. If you ever have someone you can do that with, I highly recommend it. It makes questing a blast and far more efficient.

I’m not doing anywhere near the amount of instances I normally do. I usually live in them and avoid quests, but again…sometimes things work out for the better. I’m seeing in depth plotlines and stories that I’m loving and having so much fun I don’t even want to stop to sleep!!

But sitting here writing for you guys is cutting into my sleep, so we’re gonna wrap this up quick. I’m supposed to be back online in 5 hours.

The highest DK on my server when I logged was level 74 I think. There is one other who was ahead, but we’re not sure what level he is at now. Please don’t think that I’m bragging about setting some kind of record, because I’m not. There are tons of people out there who know about power leveling than I do, and are better at it than I am as well. But I am having fun powering up in levels like I’ve never done before in my entire life. And I wanted to share that here on my Blog!!

That being said…have you ever gotten an Air Lift by your head?!!?!

We’re in HF running for the Lift to carry us up on top of a mountain right? My buddy is ahead of me and I’m hauling tail, but it starts to move before I get to it. Well I’m like right in front of it and the damn thing comes right for me…and the next thing I know I’ve got neck pains like you wouldn’t believe….

And a far away look…

LMFAO, I couldn’t even type. I was so amazed it even happened. I mean, you CAN’T plan this kind of thing!!! It was awesome. Definetly my most prominent memory now for that zone, lol.

And then there is my new term…

“I just got Aldor’d…”

You know Aldor rise right? I had to take that faction because my leveling partner chose that. We needed some quest chains in SMV that were our level… Well I hate Aldor Rise. I mean, it’s too easy to fall off without a flying mount… And well, being one of the highest level Death Knights means that people don’t only notice your triumphs. They’re happy to notice your STUPIDTY as well. LMAO, mad props to Runic for nailing me. I laughed my butt off when he whispered me this…

Right, so that’s my new term. “I got Aldor’d” And believe it or not…I got Aldor’d like 5 frickin times this last day….. >.< Hence it being so poignantly clear in my mind… I’ll give you another fun story about that another time… My only satisfaction is Mack got Aldor’d a few times too, heh.

Tags: Bugs, Power Leveling

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Nov

BEWARE OF GHOULS!!!

Posted by: Skeleton Jack in Uncategorized

OK, so this may seem weird, but there is a bug with Ghouls in SMV. It doesn’t help to Alt-F4, reload your UI, dismiss the ghould, resummon a new one, run for a mile, you name it. You will get randomly stuck in combat for no apparent reason and not be able to do anything about it. It started near the Infernals outside the Alliance base. This happened with Unholy-prema Ghoul pets.

So when you’re leveling up…if you have the tendency to use ghouls…do yourself a favor. Find someplace other than SMV.

Tags: Bugs