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Some of the guys from my old heroic crew in BC came back, including the original GM of my guild (<3 that mexican fool).

I've been chain running heroics and it's been ******* awesome. Every moment on vent is just pure gold with all the random jokes being cracked.

The sad part is, two of them are old guildies and only like 8 people remember them or know who they are.

Change/remove the border from your casting bar, and align the chat frame with your action bars or something. Get Align if you don't have it, and consider hiding the action bars or at least scaling them down.

And I'd remove the arcane stargate art ******** around your minimap.

For tracking buffs, there are three options now - Elkano's buff bars (they're pretty and easy to set up), SatrinaBuffFrames (for loads of customisation) and DoTimer has been updated finally, I'm excited about that but I still need to check out whether it's got as much customisation options as I want/need. I'm not sure if it displays buffs/debuffs on yourself though in its current incarnation and didn't have time to check it out yet.


Also, were you the one with the small screen? :P

I have little time to answer right now, but I hope it helps (also, i`m at work and just discovered that imageshack is blocked here. hope i remember my ui from the top of my head):


In the middle of the screen, there are some faded squares. That`s the addon (Decursive)


Its Elk`s Buff Bar, the same someone talked about. At its side theres a decurse bar too (same addon), I think you can see the ICC debuf there.

I would make the keybags disappear (I think one-bag and bagnon can do that).

Yeah, scale down the action bar. Bind them to numbers, so you dont need to click (and dont need to see much) and make them change accordingly to your form. All you need to do is set up a bar while in caster form, change to another form and set up the same bar (assuming you are using dominos, theres a sub-menu when you click on it allowing the bar to change accordingly too).

I would move your target bar a bit to your right or left. Right now, it will get on your face on raids or heroics when you need to see things. But thats just me. And I would scale it down a lot too. You dont really need to see the name of it + the total health + the health percentage (same with mana). You can change that on Pitbull, on the "text" submenu of the target submenu, if I`m not mistaken. You can change the text size too (on the bars), so dont forget to scale those down also.

Scale down chat frame too, unless you really cant read stuff. I would say make new tabs too. I use different tabs accordingly to what im doing. For instance, I dont want to see trade chat or other chats (including guild chat) while im raiding, so, instead of leaving those, I created a chat tab that only show me raid chat + warnings + yells (its helpfull sometimes to see what the heck the boss is yelling) + whispers (sometimes I disable it) + say.

I would scale down the form bar too. Really small. You are usually on the same form anyway, unless you do a lot of pvp. And if you do, you should macro forms changes and never ever click on those. For pvp, I macroed all forms to my mouse (scroll-click, shift scroll-click, etc). For PvE, only flight form, cheetah form and the current one (moonkin/tree).


Yes, get Quartz. I disabled the dominos default and use Quartz. I use it to see the hots on my target too, it really helps. I think there are some SS I posted before with both the cast bar showing and the HoTs. For the DoTs, Squawk&Awe do the job for me.

For minimap moving, I prefer Chinchilla Minimap. I found Sexymap too distracting / aesthetic-heavy.

The reason I was given for quartz is that it takes into account your latency, etc. Thought being if any of my chars are ever in a position where they have to interrupt a cast, it could suck to have the interrupt miss due to the extra lag time.

But I'm all for an addon that's a lesser memory hog.... XD

Castbars does the red-coloring of latency as well. Only thing it doesn't feature is more than one decimal on the cast time and pushback seen as red-colored digits. The way I'm running it at the moment, latency shows up like with Quartz.

Edited, Feb 6th 2010 5:04pm by Mazra

New gripe, getting gear on an alt that I would much rather have on my Druid. Like 2 trophies in a 25 man ToC PuG... Oh, and they really do need to make Emblems BoA. I love my DK, but tanking on my druid is sooo much easier.

Generally tree heals makes HHoR really easy.

After some guild drama which included ninjaing of the gbank, 8 people going horde and a whole ton of drama leaving the guild.... My guild is back to its normal state. We've got a bunch of new recruits and I hope they're pretty decent players I've yet to see.

Also I healed 10 man ICC and the two healers that were with me on Saurfang could not keep up the healing. So that forced me to go boomkin.

6.7k dps later we wiped again but this time not at 25%. It was more like at 200k.

*sigh* I didn't get my scourgelord baton or my sliver of pure ice. *sad face*

Hello, I hadn't posted in a bit and felt a holla was in order.

Hmmmm, sounds like you were having a lot of fun! I agree that it is a stupidly easy fight but Saurfang is also like the champs in ToC (well TOGC after the nerf) as you have to use your utility spells/abilities in order to make it work. If you stand there and just pewpew then you won't get anywhere. Like a hunter who doesn't put frost traps or doesn't feign death when a blood beast is almost upon them.



I have had similar arguments (but not as heated as yours sounds) with our GM as he wouldn't switch to Arcane :)



So funny, I need stories like this to brighten up my day in work.

Heh, if you think that was bad Brisin.

I played boomkin in BC when we had 0 leather gear outside of t6 content that was actually good for us. So most of the times I was in cloth straight stealing it from the clothies. The QQ was immense.

I swear, caster gear was so much better when it was still spell power and healing power. Being able to say "This is for healing, because it has healing power and this is for casters because it has spell power." Much easier.

Now I sit there and a cloth piece drops and every ******* caster in the game wants it. Mind you it says Haste/Spirit but ****. WE ALL NEED IT NOW!

Feels good to rant.