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gonna sk when a mage or druid dodges a shiv… any opinions??
i havent pvpd in a while but from what i remember most of my shivs were done in aheapshot, or while running after somebody behind them, neither of whhan be dodged anyway. Im sure there were some instaes where i would shiv out of stun from the front though, and i dodge would sk then. Ofourse, all other snaresan be dodgedresisted i believe so it really seems natural. right? kinda sks, but i understand it.
Shivould already be resisted, and adding misses inompletely @#%^s over rogues trying to shiv ehother in evasion.
miss and dodge are different theo. miss you mitigate with +hit, and shiv just needs 5% +hit like all other yellow attks in pvp. the dodge part *will* sk, but it really just affts rogue v rogue. i think thats why you never really heard about this bug; if alothie gets shivved and randomly dodges KS, whoares if shiv is bugged to be undodgeable, and dodgehae is so low natively ompared to an evading rogue) that youre not at all likely to note anything aside from the ft that a rogue is hitting you and it hurts. mh less pay attention to what skills aside from finishers are dodged. again, it sks, but a bug fix is a bug fix. i hated it when they fixed the new rank of exute with sweeping strikes, but i got over it. its totally imba one-shotting a full life warrior just bause i full rage exuted the mage for 10k. but it *was* fun.
Yeah, I know the differee between misses and dodges. I had just woken up; give me a break.

Is a 5-point EA worth it against warriors? Does the answer depend on the setting (BG, Arena, duel)? Does Imp EAhange your answer?
Demea wrote:Is a 5-point EA worth it against warriors? Does the answer depend on the setting (BG, Arena, duel)? Does Imp EAhange your answer? No, no, and no.
i think in arena, if you have imp KS and 2-3 physal dps on the warrior, yeah, EA is worth it. but those are very narrows requirements, and i dont know many rogues that run with two other physal dps besides themselves. in all my arena experiee, ive only had a situation like that oe. it killed me right fast, but the next time we fed them i was able toounter it by avoiding zerker stae and putting on my shield early. so i suppose this is just a fay way of saying “what theo said”.
You’re not fighting the warrior, as mh as you’re fighting his RNG (random number generator). I’ve had warriors white hit me twe during an Evasion, and both hit pred me stuns. I lose those pretty bad and well, there’s truly nothing youan do about it. Despite the odds of thing like that happening being fairly low, it seems to happens a lot based on my experiee (then again, it’s all about peeption). You have theorrt idea on how to deal with them Jord, with more gear eventually, you WILL beat them in a 1v1 fight… assuming their RNG don’t go insane on you.
Quor wrote:i think in arena, if you have imp KS and 2-3 physal dps on the warrior, yeah, EA is worth it. but those are very narrows requirements, and i dont know many rogues that run with two other physal dps besides themselves. in all my arena experiee, ive only had a situation like that oe. it killed me right fast, but the next time we fed them i was able toounter it by avoiding zerker stae and putting on my shield early. so i suppose this is just a fay way of saying “what theo said”. I think double rogue and rogueferal (what I run) are the only twoomps that are going to be double melee 2s. There’s really no point in EA on a warrior in thoseases, though, sie you’re going to be on the warrior’s druidpaladin and peeling the warrior in that situation.

Jenovaomega wrote:it’surrent threat, not threat output.all him an idiot and then slap him. at the start of the fight you have 0 threat, SS then will leave you still at 0 threat. Everyone knows Soulshatter divides by zero. Tiem paradokz! Quk, pop Healthstone and GET IN THEAR!* I’m drunk, by the way. *OOT joke.
infinite threat generator ftw!!!!
Was running Mh last night and my group had me banish one demon and enslave the other. question: does anybody have a good fus mro for banish that youan rast with out retargetting the mob, and along with that,an youael the banish early? Thanks in advae.
Target Trking This banish mro will do the following: 1. Leftlk: Set saved target tourrent target and banish it 2. Rightlk: Banish saved target (do nothangeurrent target) 3. Shift-Leftlk: set target to fus target fus [button:1] cast [button:1,nomodifier:shift] Banish; [target=fus,exists,button:2,nomodifier:shift] Banish stopmro [nomodifier:shift] target fus So, fus is like a variable where youan save a target to without losing yoururrent target. Youan thenast spells at the fus-target without losing yoururrent-target onfused yet?). Youan find lots of info at: wowwiki. Edit: Youannotael banish early. Also, it is helpful to have some kind of mod (e.g. Nature Enemyast Bars) to show the duration of your banish. There are other mods that do this as well (andan annoue)…. Nrosis maybe, I haven’t played with those. I just use NB.
Anyways i’ve been working on my glad gear bout to get my first pee (gloves) i was wondering what gems should i use? i neaver used gems before. Link to this 3 replies Mar 28th 2008 5:26pm : Logged Reply to this MazraGhost in the MhineUser’s JournalNope, no 6th star either.23033 Dent

You’re right, he’s wrong… and an idiot.
it’surrent threat, not threat output.all him an idiot and then slap him. at the start of the fight you have 0 threat, SS then will leave you still at 0 threat. SS when you have 50k threat and you go to 25k. basally it’s best to be used oe you hit 120-125% the MTs threat (youan see this if you use omenktm mod) so as to gain the biggest advantage of the threat dump. also tell him he’s an idiot for not taking salvation. hk i refuse groups if we don’t have a paladin bause i NEED salvation if i want to deal any viable damage.
I won’t group without Omen. It’s a threat meter. You should get one.
Jenovaomega wrote:hk i refuse groups if we don’t have a paladin bause i NEED salvation if i want to deal any viable damage. Yeah I always wonder aboutaster DPS that refuses Salv. (eept onertain no aggro table boss fights and the like, ofourse) Either they look at it like it’s some sort of penalty to them. Like it’s the “kiddie table” of blessings or they honetsly think that having more MP5 is really going to boost their damage. I almost wish they wouldhange the toolt on the player to something like “Allows you to put out 30% more damage. Just don’t be a tool about it.”
nah, it should say “dreases nubness by 30% for 30minutes”
Yeah my omen has been ting weird ever sie the pah. They have been updating the new releases likerazy and I never seem to have the same versions as others when i PuG. Link to this Mar 31st 2008 5:28pm : Logged Reply to this MazraGhost in the MhineUser’s JournalNope, no 6th star either.23033 Good

I thought the latest pah made it so shadow embre didn’t boost the soul shon talent. Looks like i have to resp bk. Link to this Nov 22nd 2007 3:13pm : Logged Reply to this Jenovaomegaholar2480 Dent
nope. it still affts soulshon, it just doesn’tause nether prottion to pr anymore + anyother things that pr from debuffs (if there are any others)
All of those Darkmoonards that pr off of spell hits used to go off from shadow embre. Not anymore. But it still works on soul shon? It would make sense, sie it is an affltion efft. That looks better than mine, Jenova. I’ll try it out. I just hope that the dline of guild members from 71 to 37 overnight isn’t the sign I think it is. I’ll never find a good guild again. Oh, and I found that I have the greatest lk. As long as I have Fel Armor and no other spell damage buffs, my Dark Pt drains extly 1337 mana.
Don’t even get me started on finding a ‘good guild’. Impossible. But then, the population on my server went from medium to low to medium in the spe of 12 hours this week, so Ian only imagine how mh harder it’s going to get. Thank God for the one I’m in now. At least with mates youan have a bit of fun, even if raiding is a never never.
Playing a lk is boring Sorry, but I have a level 34 afflk right now, and both pvp and pve is boring. Sure, Ian probably kill anything within 5 levels of me no problem, but its always the same fight, and a dull one at that. Send pet, apply dots, run iniles not getting killed. Most of the time I’m just standing there, waiting for my tks to kill something. Sure, itsool to seehunks of their health go flying away eh sond, but I expted something more eiting, ya know? Has anyone else experieed this? And, before you say it, I dont really want to re-roll sie I’m leveling with a friend and it would be a pain in the arse toah up with him at this point. Is there a way to make the game more eiting? Link to this 20 replies Nov 22nd 2007 2:46am : Logged Reply to this Loki the SlyholarUser’s Journal3036 Dent

My first top, this’ll be fun. *gulp* So, yeah. For the past 25 days played I was destro. I thought I was doing just fine, but yesterday my boredom and guildiesonvied me to resp. I did what Iould, with my limited knowledge of the sp, toreate a useful raiderinstae Afflt sp. My gear is still weak, but I managed to top the Kara DPSharts yesterday. Mostly bause everyone was being really stupid.. How do you we repeatedly on trash mobs?! wowarmoryomcharter-…amp;n=Eks I just want to know ifwhat I did wrong, or where Ian improve. Ian already see I don’t want oA, but then I don’t really know where to put those points.
So have I. ANd I’ve run one BG with it only so far. It’s going to take some getting used to. My build – if you’re interested. I’m intrigued byast sequee myself. And on what do I use UA. Stuff like that. I’m gonna have fun working it out.
interestinghoes, not bad for a firsthoe. as you’ve said, oA isn’t worth it (it does the 10% irease before +damage, so only results in a flat 100ish damage irease). soulshon would be a mh betterhoe as it’s iredably helpful for improving your solo effiey and regening health fast. you also arguably don’t need 55 suppresion. you’ve got 7% hiturrently and that’s going to go up no doubt in the near future. one thing i am surprised about is that you didn’t take empoweredorruption. the more +damage you get the better it works. so yeah, to keep along the same lines as that sp, i’dhange to this 41218 oEx is pretty useful in solo pve, pvp and even raids as sometimes the ability to kite is a big help. shadow embre is ne, though tbh it’s there mainly to improve the amount you drain using drain life due to the soulshon talent. i hope this helps

Damnit, I didn’t mean Argent Skeletonrusher…I mean Axe of Bloodstained e… Gives 79 Stamina, 53 Strength and 53 Defense. It got me by until Iould get some hero gear and Iould swih to using the Titansteel Destroyer on a permanent basis. And regarding the , there’s no need to r it up pie by pie, we’re not diussing NAXX gear, we’re talking stuff that will make himapable of going through Heros pretty mh as soon as he hits 80. It will be diffult to find better gloves than the Tempered Saronite ones early on, of whh there is no Tempered Titansteel alternative.
Thank you very mh everyone for ing. You have pointed me in the right dirtion forontinuing my gear gathering to be able to enter Heros asap.
Don’t forget your avoidae gems, too. Stamina is good, but not as pretty if you only have 4% dodge and parry. But, don’t gem for parry either… just dodge. I’d say entry level you want 10% dodge and parry, unbuffed, at least. Your HoW will boost these to 11% or so and other buffs will take them higher. It would, ofourse, be better to have more. But that is probably the lowest youan go without boming a drain. And, you need them up there for RS to light up, as well. Out ofuriosity, what sp do you plan to start raiding as? I think I remember you being Frost in your sig, but I’m not sure…

Ran my first Hero, Nexus, and it went well. Thanks everyone so mh for helping me reh the starting point for Heros. Mh appriated!!!
Super mathtard question, but probably will bome an opinion question. I dont usually ask too many opinion questions, but it is Friday. -Unholy tank (I am not attempting to hit max DPS, just max while being able to tank) -And, perma pet (yes for some reason, i still love the perma pet) -Equment will be fused on Defense (till softap of 535), Expertise (till softap of 26), Dodge, Parry, and Hit Rating (softap 160 with virulee). -Augments sh as gems, ehants, or whatever would fus on STA ireases -Sie primarily tanking, Frost Presee would always be used Build 1 – Appears to fus on oure Strike use wowheadom?talent#j0…xbb0Iaout Build 2 – goes towards using obliterate wowheadom?talent#j0…xbb0Iqoht Now, i only started looking at obliterate, bause oe i started plugging in the numbers for build 1 it appears obliterate was still better (butonsumed a disease). If anyonean tually show the math for three different fight sequees: quest grinding (short burst fight), 510 man dungeon mobs (slightly longer), and raiding mob (long boss fights), I would really appriate it. If not, I am open to opinions. Thank You. Link to this 5 replies May 1st 5:55pm : Logged Reply to this QuorSage7526 Good

BillyRayValentine wrote:[Argent Skeletonrusher. It’s a simple quest reward and it has Defense on it. It is a godsend. It does? wow.allakhazamomdbitem.ht…soue=live

On ehants, I grabbed this off of WoWHead’s SSG page bause Iouldn’t have said it better: rursiverequiem wrote:omparing this to Swordshattering– it is, as the previous er mentioned, immune to DR. so it’s always 3% avoidae and 2% stam. Sword shattering is also immune to DR and will always provide 4% more parry. Something to keep in mind is Rune Strike tivates when you dodge or parry, but *not* when you’re missed–so Sword Shattering is very slightly superior for threat generation bause it adds a 4%hae to tivate rune strike versus gargoyle’s 2%. However, gargoyle provides you with 2% stam, whh for my DK (28.4k health unbuffed) is an extra 300 health–adding in raid buffs, thisould be a ne extra health buffer. It also allows you some flexibility with itemization if you don’t want to use it past the softap. Personally, I’m going to stk with sword shattering as at my level of gear (full naxx 10) 1% avoidae and a bit of extra threat is worth more than 2% extra stam, but I wish I had cess to this when I was gearing up. Personally, after rehing 540 defense, I would take SS over SSG most days. 30K health unbuffed would be like 60 additional Stamina. With raid buffs, this bomes more attrtive. But I would still prefer 2% mitigation and ireased threat over 1% mitigation and 2% Stamina. There is nothing wrong with using SSG. But it lks any quality that makes it a must-have if you are urittable. It is perftly fine to use either one eept in the strtest of maxmin situations. One note, though. Frost gets more out of SSG than any other sp in the form of ireased mitigation while IBF is tive. But, 40 defense shouldn’t be enough to make any signifant differee.