Where's Quor?Follow

Spring break would be my guess.

It started out innocently enough. You know, just a wink now and then, a subtle flirtatious gesture. Just for fun. Then it happens and you feel violated in every single way possible. You damn yourself for letting your guard down.

But what can you do? Nothing. Nothing, except get used to the taste of grapefruit, and then bite down hard on that gag-ball while the collective Warrior community drives a T10 armor set up your rear at full throttle.

wow, theres a thread about me. i feel all warm and fuzzy now. you know, aside from bear form i mean.

no, it was a combo of school and money. havent been working as much as i wanted too, and havent had much time outside of school/work to do other stuff. nobody told me graduate school would suck balls like that.

i may be back for catacylsm tho. thats kinda dependent on a few things, one of which is what theyll do to druids. im not terribly impressed with the warrior changes that have been proposed, so unless the druid ones win me over i may just avoid MMO's till im out of grad school (unless ff14 is hella awesome or something...that would be the only thing that could pull me away).

kouren, and i still talk to her actually! shes been bouncing between ff11 and aion last i checked.

yeah, kouren was pretty much the first major contributor to the druid forums aside from myself. she and i started at pretty much the same time (aka, immediately after vanilla launch).

Don't forget the Eclipse mini-game for Balance and the flower garden aoe proc from crit hots

How do we reset fights against Rogues?

Non-stealth classes are easy as you usually get the jump on them (literally) and can lock them down for a good few seconds while applying bleeds, but Rogues tend to spot me first in stealth, in which case I'm just a goner, unless they mess up their stunlock. Normally I just start out in Bear form versus Rogues and hope that my Barkskin and fur is enough to keep me alive until they drop their stunlock. If they have a modicum of armor penetration, I might as well just /forfeit.

well, assuming equal gear, you bear form until you get an opening for a bash (make sure FFF is on them of course), which is to say you spin around enough to get them spinning around a lot and bash them when their backside is to you. also, dont bash if theyre evading. i typically bash early, since a lot of druids like to "save" the bash for some reason, and rogues tend to know this, so they save evasion for when youre lower to help guarantee the kill.

anyway, after the bash, you start to jet off in travel form, but you make a stop in caster to apply abolish poison. most of the time this will proc the trinket from the rogue, at which point you cancel abolish and hit cyclone instead. dashing off in cat sometimes helps vs the quicker rogues who will trinket + sprint the moment they see you break for it, but if you watch their energy bars you can usually get them at a low point, meaning all but kick is useless (plus their other stuns are likely on CD).

some might blind, so you save your trinket for that, as well as frenzied regen if you can. if you end up running off in cat (useful, since dash is almost as good as sprint for speed gain) be sure to tag them once more with FFF. soon as youre out of combat, you stealth up, then open back on the rogue. layer on the bleeds like normal and hop into bear to wear the rest of their life down.

not a 100% success rate, but its sure as hell higher than every other class out there save prot pallies.

i love you maz, but are you seriously falling for distract in pvp? the counter to that is to not auto-run in a direction. better yet, hold right click down as you move forward and when youre distracted you tap left click down and continue running in the direction your camera is facing (distract changes char direction, not camera).

of course the rogue has counters to this, but out of any class out there save prot pallies (and bubble-hearthers) druids have the best chance of turning a rogue gank around assuming equal gear and skill.