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#1 Jul 29 2008 at 1:37 PM Rating: Decent

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Well after nearly a year long leave, I finally got roped back into playing WoW by a group of friends IRL who started playing. They all quit within 3 days (Who would've guessed? This has never happened to me before! Wait...), but I decided to stick around anyway.

I'm not going to ask for major changes to the class, since I'm sure I can find those a few pages in (but if something really really important but really really overlookable happened, feel free to say so).

After sitting around for some ridiculously long period of time trying to get my guild Kara ready beforehand, I logged in to find it had finally fallen apart. A quick chat with a raid guild my roommate and I had made friends with before quitting got us into it, and boom, finally into Karazhan. Oddly, this guild seems to have too many druids (if such a thing is possible) and far too many tanks. So, I've pretty much been taken from my old guild's prospective MT to just being brought along for DPS. My first couple runs of Kara went ok, and I was actually top on damage done by a fairly wide margin. However, I'd always like to improve so any suggestions are appreciated on my gear. I've got the S2 shoulders, but currently have the Aldor exalted shoulder enchant for tanking.

Also, I've heard of 'swing timers' but never really used one before. I know the GCD shown by default is pretty inaccurate, and I'm wondering how much this could help Powershifting. Currently I cannot for the life of me time it to get the energy without losing a tick of it in caster form.

Secondly: Any tips for Heroic Magister's Terrace? Specifically the Priestess fight. Reguardless of group composition anyone I've come in with seems to get scattered and spanked in under 20 seconds.

And finally, I'd like to say it's good to see so many of the familiar experts and veterans still around here and give a wave to Quor, Sir Jac, Teacake, Mazra, and everyone who I am sure I'm forgetting. :)

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#2 Jul 29 2008 at 3:41 PM Rating: Good

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Power Shifting Macros
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Mangle
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#showtooltip 
/run if pwx2 then local f="Cat Form";f=GetSpellCooldown(f)>0 or UnitMana('player')>pws2 or not IsUsableSpell(f) or CancelPlayerBuff(f) end 
/cast [form] Mangle (Cat)() 
/stopmacro [form] 
/cast Cat Form

Shred
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#showtooltip 
/run if pwx then local f="Cat Form";f=GetSpellCooldown(f)>0 or UnitMana('player')>pws or not IsUsableSpell(f) or CancelPlayerBuff(f) end 
/cast [form] Shred 
/stopmacro [form] 
/cast Cat Form

Rip
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#showtooltip 
/run if pwx3 then local f="Cat Form";f=GetSpellCooldown(f)>0 or UnitMana('player')>pws3 or not IsUsableSpell(f) or CancelPlayerBuff(f) end 
/cast [form] Rip 
/stopmacro [form] 
/cast Cat Form

Then you have 3 buttons to turn them on & off (plenty of times you don't want to powershift eg. farming)

Mangle Toggle
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/run local c=DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME if pwx2 then pwx2=false c:AddMessage("Mangle powershift disabled",1,1,1) else pwx2=true pws2=20 c:AddMessage("Mangle powershift enabled, 20 energy threshold",1,1,1)end

Shred Toggle
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/run local c=DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME if pwx then pwx=false c:AddMessage("Shred powershift disabled",1,1,1) else pwx=true pws=18 c:AddMessage("Shred powershift enabled, 18 energy threshold",1,1,1)end

Rip Toggle
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/run local c=DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME if pwx3 then pwx3=false c:AddMessage("Rip powershift disabled",1,1,1) else pwx3=true pws3=10 c:AddMessage("Rip powershift enabled, 10 energy threshold",1,1,1)end

You put the first 3 macros on your bars in place of your regular mangle, shred & rip buttons and put the 3 toggles aside somewhere so you can click them to turn the macros on and off whenever you want. You can change the thresholds by editing the "toggle" macros but the ones I have posted seem to be the sweet spot. You are trying to balance the increased DPS with mana usage. It is possible to set it to shift every attack, but you will be OOM in 20-30 secs - not so good for boss fights.

The macros check to make sure you have enough mana to shift before doing it, so if you go OOM it just reverts to a normal attack. You can macro haste potions or mana pots into the macros as well, but if you go OOM and need to battle rez, then you won't be able to pot to have enough mana for the BREZ. There is someone working on a mod which will hopefully allow you to set a minimum mana threshold to stop powershifting - then it will always make sure you have enough mana to BREZ, innervate & shift back to cat. When this happens, you will be able to POT every 2 mins to extend your powershifting or start using haste potions to increase DPS as well.

***** NOTE ***** The macros need to be spammed to be effective. So you hit mangle repeatedly till it fires, then spam shred repeatedly till you get 4-5 pts then spam rip till it fires.

Edited, Jul 30th 2008 12:04am by RareBeast

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