Sorry in advance if a similar thread has already been made. I looked and couldn't find one.
I've been farming runecloth lately trying to gain exalted with all of the major Azeroth cities. Going for the 50 mount, albino drake achievement. I've been farming Stratholme as a DW Titans Grip build and its been ok. I can't take on groups that are too big or I'll obviously die. I was wondering about all of the "AOE" grinding stuff I've been hearing about prot spec. I haven't been prot since Kara days and a lot has changed with new abilities and strategies. So I was just going to ask which is better for what I'm doing. Thanks in advance~
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Forgot to add that along with my current DPS gear which can be found below, I have obtained 5-6 epic tanking pieces. None of which include a good tanking sword, just a shield and some random pieces.
Edited, Feb 9th 2009 12:30am by Kalvatar
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I don't know what stuff you've been hearing about AOE grinding in prot spec. The only AOE-ish talents we have are Thunder Clap, Cleave, Whirlwind (each which you would know anyway) and Shockwave, which does a nice bit of damage and stuns the targets, but can take a bit of getting used to when it comes to 'arranging' your mobs so they are all in the cone.
The question is whether it's worth losing some of the other AOE-esque things like Sweeping Strikes to get Shockwave? Whether you're prot, arms or fury you still can't take on groups that are too big, and whereas prot gives you a little more survivabilty it also gives you a little less damage so your eating and bandaging downtime should be less but your killing time is slightly more.
The only answer, I'm afraid is to try a respec and see for yourself. What works for me may not work for you, and vice versa.
The question is whether it's worth losing some of the other AOE-esque things like Sweeping Strikes to get Shockwave? Whether you're prot, arms or fury you still can't take on groups that are too big, and whereas prot gives you a little more survivabilty it also gives you a little less damage so your eating and bandaging downtime should be less but your killing time is slightly more.
The only answer, I'm afraid is to try a respec and see for yourself. What works for me may not work for you, and vice versa.
I'm currently grinding rep for hodir and wyrmrest (like many tanks, I suppose). I know with my prot warrior, no matter how many mobs I take on, I never have to stop to eat or bandage. Once in a while, I'll drop below 20k health remaining and pop enraged regeneration to recover my health. In the cave for "polishing hodirs helm" I grab every mobs I can see and in the process of killing one or two of them, the rest all die due to cleaves, thunderclaps and shockwave (plus deep wounds). When enroute to coldarra for the daily wyrmrest quests, when I need rhino meat, I'll stop in northern borean tundra and kill a dozen rhinos at a time. Again, no stopping to eat, just the occasional enraged regeneration. Same thing with the fire elementals in borean tundra as well. The biggest problem is actually rounding up the mobs. Glyph of Cleave helps a bunch as well.
If you need a good tanking weapon, the fang of truth (wyrmrest) is a good starting point, or find a blacksmith to craft the titansteel bonecrusher.
If you need a good tanking weapon, the fang of truth (wyrmrest) is a good starting point, or find a blacksmith to craft the titansteel bonecrusher.
I always AOE grind as prot.
Go run Shattered halls for the Figurine of the Colossus
I run UBRS/scholo/strat and pull about 20 mobs a time, combat tends to last about 20 seconds after I have them gathered and hit my 1st T-clap.
If I do get in trouble, activate the trinket and use shield block.
Then of course there is Enraged regeneration.
Edited, Feb 10th 2009 2:11pm by redbarronthesecond
Go run Shattered halls for the Figurine of the Colossus
I run UBRS/scholo/strat and pull about 20 mobs a time, combat tends to last about 20 seconds after I have them gathered and hit my 1st T-clap.
If I do get in trouble, activate the trinket and use shield block.
Then of course there is Enraged regeneration.
Edited, Feb 10th 2009 2:11pm by redbarronthesecond
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I've been running Old Strat recently as an 80 Prot. I was loving every minute. All the old feary, stunning, webby, zergy madness in soloable form. The good news is those trick gates with the insect swarm are now taken care off by single TC / SW combo; The Baron's Skeleton adds are now a single TC. The Baron _still_ won't drop his horsey.
It sometimes bugs after the Slaughter Square gates open and close; Typically if you are going fast and arrive between 10 and 20 minutes into the 45 minute run it will glitch and respawn mobs, Rammstein fails to appear, no undead swarm, No means of exit bar the hearthstone, but that leaves you in Dalaran, with pockets full of Scourgestones, and Crypt Fiend pieces.
You get the old "Frodo's aggroed Mordor" moments where the mobs will happily kite you, root you, snare you and fear you into more of the same. It's fun not to have to break these roots, and a few spell relects will take case of the ranged pests, and just keep absorbing the punishment.
It sometimes bugs after the Slaughter Square gates open and close; Typically if you are going fast and arrive between 10 and 20 minutes into the 45 minute run it will glitch and respawn mobs, Rammstein fails to appear, no undead swarm, No means of exit bar the hearthstone, but that leaves you in Dalaran, with pockets full of Scourgestones, and Crypt Fiend pieces.
You get the old "Frodo's aggroed Mordor" moments where the mobs will happily kite you, root you, snare you and fear you into more of the same. It's fun not to have to break these roots, and a few spell relects will take case of the ranged pests, and just keep absorbing the punishment.
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Prot :)
With decent avoidance you can pick up endless amounts of melee mobs and just spam TC/shockwave/shield slam. With damage shield + deep wounds all your targets will take damage over time while you just stand there and block/dodge/parry 95% of their attacks. This is for when you're fighting lvl 60-ish mobs like in stratholme. Most of the time will prolly be spent looting and clearing your inventory =)
With decent avoidance you can pick up endless amounts of melee mobs and just spam TC/shockwave/shield slam. With damage shield + deep wounds all your targets will take damage over time while you just stand there and block/dodge/parry 95% of their attacks. This is for when you're fighting lvl 60-ish mobs like in stratholme. Most of the time will prolly be spent looting and clearing your inventory =)
Thanks for the tips guys. I've gotten a few more pieces of tanking gear lately and although its not up to par for tanking heroics yet, I'm sure it will suffice for some stratholme runs for runecloth. Good news though, the Baron finally dropped his mount for me and I got the achievement! About 10 more mounts and I'll have the Albino Drake. Thanks again for the pointers guys.
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Kalvatar wrote:
Thanks for the tips guys. I've gotten a few more pieces of tanking gear lately and although its not up to par for tanking heroics yet, I'm sure it will suffice for some stratholme runs for runecloth. Good news though, the Baron finally dropped his mount for me and I got the achievement! About 10 more mounts and I'll have the Albino Drake. Thanks again for the pointers guys.
Slightly off topic, but still relevant ito your reason for farming.
You do realise you can get exalted across the board (and in so doing, earn the Ambassador (or Alliance equivalent) title) by simply doing the all the starter zones and follow up zones. Depending on how much extra rep you've picked up along the way, you might have to do quests later on like badlands, blasted lands, and so on. Heck, some Blackrock Mountain based quests give you large amounts of faction rep (talking horde here, I trust it's the same for Alliance)
BOttom line is that a large amount of quests in Kalimdor / Eastern Kingdoms give you rep for all the horde factions, as much as 350 rep for a level 1-5 quest ...
Buddy of mine did this before wrath dropped, but he was going for the loremaster / seeker achievements / titles. Kinda by accident, he hit exalted with all horde factions ...
Anyway, just thought I'd mention it - sounds like a lot more fun that farming cloth if you ask me ;-)
more fun than running old world instances?
I don't thinks so, the propper WOW instances(Strat/Scholo/UBRS/LbRS) beat all the new ones hands down.
Fair enough doing the starter quests will be 100x faster, but not near as good.
I started farming the Arcanite reaper pattern on my server few days ago and sold it for 800g =p plus the Old epix tailoring pattern has a chance of dropping rite next to the rare spawn, so You can make a lot of mony farming old worl instances, also a lto of players still like boosts in them(despite the fact they have better gear) for the fact the instance rock, and maybe achievements. I'v managed to get 20g off a guy desperate for a UBRS boost.
Prot all the way for old world tanking, have lots of avoidance and have a great time seeing how many mobs you can pull at once
=D
I don't thinks so, the propper WOW instances(Strat/Scholo/UBRS/LbRS) beat all the new ones hands down.
Fair enough doing the starter quests will be 100x faster, but not near as good.
I started farming the Arcanite reaper pattern on my server few days ago and sold it for 800g =p plus the Old epix tailoring pattern has a chance of dropping rite next to the rare spawn, so You can make a lot of mony farming old worl instances, also a lto of players still like boosts in them(despite the fact they have better gear) for the fact the instance rock, and maybe achievements. I'v managed to get 20g off a guy desperate for a UBRS boost.
Prot all the way for old world tanking, have lots of avoidance and have a great time seeing how many mobs you can pull at once
=D
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