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Well that's good. Reading with that kaleidoscope of colors going on was making me grumpy. Lord only knows what will happen if Maz ever makes sage.

You have cower, but that's hard to use if you aren't already in cat form.

I'll use Shadowmeld or Nature's Grasp depending on the situation. But you don't seem to be a Nelf, so scratch the racial idea.

Cower is good now!! It is a 10% threat reduction you can use every 10 secs!! It's been nice not having to call for a salve when my omen starts screaming at me :)

That's why I'm dreading Sage. Because of my post count, it's going to be so easy to tip me back to Scholar and then back to Sage again. I don't think I'd remain sane if my colors changed every other post.

Bah, that seems unfair. Mages have a crap ton of threat reducing abilities, and Priests have Fade at least. I don't know about locks, but Boomkins should get something.

Would it be possible to switch into cat form and use cower in the middle of my rotation, or would that not work?

O.o If I have to click the macro three times, wouldn't it just be easier to use my keybinding for cat form, then move forward and hit cower and then use keybinding for moonkin form? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate you taking the time to make and test the macro, it just seems easier and less confusing to not use it.

Then again i'm not all that experienced in using macros. In the past I've just used them to blow cool downs on my mage. I'll give it a try though. Do I have to click on it three times BEFORE I move?

The first time you click it, it puts you in Cat Form. Unfortunately this triggers the GCD, so it's not as effective as I thought (hence all the edits), because you have to wait for the GCD before you can use Cower. Second time you hit the macro, it will cast Cower, if you are within range, otherwise it'll just do nothing until you get within range. Once it's able to cast Cower, it will then put you in Moonkin Form the third time you hit it.

The only actual useful thing about is that you only have to press one button. Instead of going <Key 1>, <Key 2> and <Key 3>, you just go <Key 1>. Makes it easier to spam, especially if you're moving in from a distance since you might not be within range when you hit <Key 2> and might end up hitting <Key 3> before you get off Cower. But yeah, I'd probably go with just using the existing hotkeys. Stance macros like this one is mostly useful if changing stance doesn't trigger a GCD, since you could just hit one button and do stuff at once.

In your case, actually, you'd probably be better off just halting your rotation for a moment and doing a bit of kiting. If the tank doesn't taunt the boss before he reaches you, he's bad and should go away. Tell him I said it. In AOE situations, War Stomp is superior since you just stun stuff and it dies before the stun breaks.

Edited, Nov 10th 2010 3:10pm by Mazra

Shred glyph is only bad because it makes syncing Rake and Rip harder. As you want to get both of them up when under TF as the damage buff is not dynamic. But you still don't want to clip bleeds more than you can help it. Having Shred extend Rip makes the timing even harder to align. IF TF was dynamic then yes Shred glyph would be awesome, without the glyph they usually would fall within the duration of the TF buff with the glyph they don't.

With feral DPS being highly bleed happy for damage, especially when pushing mastery as you should be, getting the two bleeds buffed with minimal clipping is a good thing.

After we start leveling again and our crit rating goes into the ******* things may change but for now with the ridiculous crit you probably have a CP generation rate that is high enough to make extending Rip not as high of a priority compared to getting extra DPS from the TF buff.

The same logic works for not taking the TF glyph.

Tanks and DPS will still be gemming (and potentially reforging) differently so I'm not too keen on the idea of one set of glyphs for every contingency; I just set them up knowing that, for the most part, I can probably switch gearsets if someone leaves and still fill one of those vital roles without spending time prepping or having to hearth and then get summoned back.

Eyes... so... big...

I like how it thinks it can fly.

A lot of people have been bragging about their early weekend on Facebook. I thought they were just lucky, but it seems like tomorrow is some kind of special day?

Well that's a bummer. Unless you need the money, then it's all good.



I have no idea. Not here at least.