This is my blog post advertising/endorsing this addon I'm using now.   http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11935-EventHorizon.html

Saedo's UI 3.2 So Event Horizon would be the bars I have in the middle of my screen now.   What it does is provides a live moving bar for buffs/debuffs you'd be interested in.

Like right now, the top bar is my SnD, the white line you see going down represents "now" in time.    Visually I have to just watch the bar approach "now" and refresh it before that.

The 4th bar you see is my Rupture, with little white lines representing the tick.    In other words, a visual tick/dot timer.

So what's good about all this is that you can watch events as they happen, instead of staring at numbers.   To better optimize your dps rotations.

It also provides a GCD indicator when you hit your buttons to better not get locked like that.

What I've also added are my trinket buffs, which are the 2nd and 3rd bars.    Along with that, I've set up the Internal CD which is represented by the darkened bars.   That way I can further adjust my attacks if I see ICDs winding down and fire away during procs.

Anyways, the cons of this mod is that it's not very GUI friendly.  All the settings must be written out in the LUA files, and they kinda get overwritten when you update mod via stuff like WoWMatrix.   

But it's pretty easy to set up.    I've adjust mines for colors, 10 sec timelines, and trinkets (not in by default).

Anyways, this ends my speel.   Here's the youtube vid they provided to see it in action:

 

So, it is crunch time in the semester. My account is cancelled until post exams.

If anyone desperately wants to talk to me, drop me a line here or catch me on vent.

Otherwise, I'll see you all after finals!

-Zoo

Hey everyone just checkin in to say hey! Was wondering how you all are doing in game and in real life.

 

I don't have much time to play anymore really. Ive just been working and on my free time leveling a blood elf rogue named Marthaastewr on Tichondrius. I'm going to start going to school again in the summer and maybe i'll have more time to play. I hope to start leveling Afton more asap. So, I hope to see you all soon!

 

Love, Aftonioooooo

These are some of the macros I use on my shaman:

This macro checks if I am in a group and in combat before using heroism. It also prints the message in raid chat for those too busy to see that I did, in fact, just use heroism.

#showtooltip Heroism
/stopmacro [nocombat]
/script local u,m = IsUsableSpell("Heroism") if u and not m and GetNumRaidMembers() > 0 then SendChatMessage(" >>> Heroism! <<<","RAID") end
/cast Heroism

 

This is a handy macro that will purge a enemy and clense a friendly, its good for saving a button space.

#showtooltip Cleanse Spirit
/cast [harm] Purge; [help] Cleanse Spirit

 

This is the macro I use to apply my earth sheild. I typically focus the tank when I heal so it checks for my focus target first. Then in order, if the focus doesnt exist or is dead or an enemy, uses my target for ES, if target is unfrendly, uses Target of target, and last if I have no target or focus, it puts ES on myself.

#showtooltip Earth Shield
/cast [target=focus,help, nodead][target=target,help,nodead][target=targettarget,help,nodead][noexists]Earth Shield

 

Since smart res doesn't (or didn't) work for my druid, I didn't install it my last UI build and I use this macro for resing people.

#showtooltip Ancestral Spirit
/cast Ancestral Spirit()
/script SendChatMessage("Resurrecting","Whisper","Common",UnitName("Target"));
/s Resing %t

 

I also use this macro for tidal force and LHW.

#showtooltip Lesser Healing Wave
/cast Tidal Force
/cast Lesser Healing Wave()

 

I use this macro for PvP to interrupt the enemy healer. Since wind shock isnt on the GCD, the stopcasting isn't really needed, but I left it in anyway.

#showtooltip Wind Shock
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus] Wind Shock(Rank 1)

 

I use this macro to do a instant big heal if NS is up, otherwise just HW.

#showtooltip Healing Wave
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast Healing Wave()

 

This macro will use stormstrike or start your auto attack if SS is on cooldown.

#showtooltip Stormstrike
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Stormstrike
/startattack [harm]

 

And last, the most important and complicated macro of all time:

/focus

 

dont laugh, it saves typing.

“Adventures With Nancy”

 

Be warned.  The following is an accurate portrayal of events that happened March 27 and March 28, 2009.  Funny as hell though.

 

Adventure: “She’s a regular!”

 

So it’s a Friday night and my best friend’s and I are kid free.  So my wife, our best friends (Terry and Dina), and I pile into the van to head out for dinner.

 

As we are about to leave the town we live in (McDade), we stop at the stop sign and wait to cross 290 (major highway that runs through the town).  This strange lady with a cell-phone to her ear starts walking up to the van.  So Dina cracks the window.

 

Fact:  The cell-phone was off; discovered later.

 

Dina - “Do you need help?”

 

“Oh, my prayers have been answered, someone is stopping.  Let me let you go.”  Strange lady talking into cell phone then turns to address us.  “Please don’t hurt me.  I’m so scared.  My car broke down a few miles back and I don’t know what to do.  My husband is a priest who was attending a conference in Waco.  His car was hit by an 18-wheeler and they don’t know if my son will make it through the night.  I really need to get to Waco.  I have a friend who will lend me their truck, but I can’t get there.”

 

Hmm.  A PRIEST you say?  Really?  Your HUSBAND?

 

Dina – “Well….  Um...” (Looks at us for the okay.)  “We can give you a life to Elgin if that’s all you need.  Charles, can you move into the back seat?”

 

“Oh thank you, I’m so scared, thank you.” Lady starts walking around van and sees my wife.  “I’m so scared because I’m pregnant.”

 

My wife is noticeably eight months pregnant.  The strange-lady didn’t ‘remember’ her pregnancy until she saw Lara.

 

I take the seat directly behind her because she isn’t taking her hands away from her purse.  The minute a gun popped out I was going to snap her neck.  Scary thought?  My wife and friends knew without my saying anything that was the reason I took the seat behind her.

 

So she gets into the van and as soon as we start moving she starts going on and on about how she’s been to three or four gas stations, but all she has is the checks from the church and none of the gas stations will accept the Houston checks because they are out of area. 

 

Then it becomes “If you have just a little money to get me from Elgin to Waco.  I can borrow the truck but I have to put gas in it.”  And further still. “Oh, I can write you a check if you could get money from an atm, I don’t mind.  It’s just these checks are all I have.”

 

Fact:  Between Giddings (town in the direction she came from) and Elgin, there are only three gas stations in the direction she was driving.  She had only passed one of them.  Three or four huh?

 

So we tell her the honest truth.  A few times.  Like a dozen.  “We don’t carry cash.”  “No, seriously.  We only use our checkcards.  We don’t have any cash, and don’t really have access to it right now, we are a little strapped for cash.”

 

Well, as soon as she knew there was no-way she was getting money out of us, she pointed at a random house “Wait stop!  I know those people!  I know they’ll let me borrow their car!  Drop me off here!”  So we stop the car, but she doesn’t make any move to get out.  Just keeps asking for more money.  Then she holds her hand up for a second and flips the cell-phone to her head for 2-3 seconds (at MOST) and pretends to listen.

 

In Adam Sandler Waterboy styled voice (seriously, it was hilarious):  “Well um… my momma sez, momma sez if you could just give me 20 dollars… momma sez that would be enough to get me to Waco.  Momma, uh… momma sez I can just write you a check from the church.”

 

This is where I noticed the cell-phone was off, but even if it wasn’t.  Her mom would have had to fire off words faster than a gatling gun to get all that out in just a few seconds.

 

So we leave her there and drive to the nearest gas station (which was less than a mile from where we picked her up), filled up, and headed back the way we came.  Sure enough, she was still standing out here with her cell phone to her ear trying to flag down cars.  So I did the good-citizen thing (I didn’t want her raped and killed), and I called the cops.

 

“Yeah, there’s a lady on 290 between McDade and the gas-station right outside who’s trying to flag down cars and scam them for gas money.”

 

“Oh yeah, that’s Nancy.  She’s a regular.  We already have two officers en route.  Oh, and thanks for calling.”  *CLICK* (Hung up on me.  How rude.)

 

 

 

Adventure NEXT: “You’re taking the bus how FAR???!?!?”

 

 

So after the first adventure, we head to dinner and decide we want to go bowling afterwards.  But the girls don’t have socks.  So we stop at Wal-mart and the wives stay in the car while Terry and I run to go buy some socks.

 

While Dina is reading Lara the kids school-menu for next week, she looks up and there’s a lady in a hoodie just talking away as-if Dina can hear her with the windows closed and the radio on.  So Dina locks the doors, and cracks the window.

 

My wife SWEARS it was Nancy.  Seriously swears.  Dina couldn’t tell.

 

Dina - “Can I help you?”

 

Lady – Sob sob sob story: “My daughter is sick and I have to get back to Ohio so I can be with her.  The bus ticket costs $710.00 and all I have is $3.00.  Is there anything you could do to help?”

 

Fact:  From San Diego, California to Ontario, Canada you are probably looking at a less than $600.00 ticket.  This lady is asking for a ticket on something less than a 24 hour drive.

 

From Greyhound:     (Austin, TX to Cleveland, Ohio.  Leaving today, round-trip)

Fare Type	Qty	Passenger	Each	Total
Refundable Fare	1	Adult	$192.00	$192.00
Non-refundable	1	Adult	$171.00	$171.00

 

 

So Dina rolls up the window and drives off without saying another word to the lady.

 

Seriously.  Think up better (or more accurate) stories people.

 

 

Adventure TRY:  “The entertainment value?”

 

So it is now late afternoon Saturday.  We’ve had so much fun all day telling everyone, including a good family friend named Pam, the “adventures with Nancy”.  It was a great laugh, and we couldn’t stop.  Keep that in mind.  Pam has HEARD the entire story.

 

So Pam leaves to go get some more supplies and lunch, and gets flagged down by a lady with a cell-phone on her ear standing next to a red beat-to-hell El Camino*.  She gives the exact same sob story from Friday night to Pam.

 

So Pam, being the kind-hearted person she is, put’s five dollars worth of gas in the lady’s car and tells her that if she’ll follow Pam to the next gas-station, her husband is there getting gas/supplies and he’ll be able to send the woman to Waco with a full tank.

 

Obviously, that red el camino kept going right on down the road when Pam stopped to pull in and meet her hubby.

 

I <3 Pam very much as she is such a sweet lady, but did she give Nancy five bucks for the entertainment value?  I mean, she knew from talking to us she was getting scammed.  Didn’t she?

When I asked her that exact question, Pam really wasn’t sure why she gave the chick five bucks. 

 

 

 

*Red El Camino – Boy, that sounds like the Lexus from story one, doesn’t it?  The two cars are basically the same.

 

 

 

Definitely says something about the state of our economy on how common this is becoming.

Well I've been thinking the last couple weeks or so to perhaps try a few different things.

Combat

Traditionally Combat, and for a min-max raid, you have to have that 1 Combat rogue in for the Savage Combat debuff (2% more physical damage).   

Here are the last 3 weeks of parses of Patchwerk for me:

1. 5463 dps:  http://wowwebstats.com/kk3hiirwch125?s=598256-630236
2. 5053 dps (TotT failkins):  http://wowwebstats.com/asquzi5lbrx5i?s=484361-517307
3. 5336 dps:  http://wowwebstats.com/nmvihnbuf54ya?s=410812-443091

All 3 fights end similarly, 2:40ish.   This is around what I should be doing for the time and gear I have, lower-mid 5Ks.  For gear I'd have about 4 pieces to go, well 1 major one for a ~100dps boost, the other 3 are ~15, ~30, ~1dps each.   So at best it'd be a ~150 dps more through gear. 

Though the other way to boost it would be time of kill.   Combat being a more CD reliant rogue spec, having 3 of them, the shorter time would ramp up the value of those CDs considerably.

Anyways, to change such a spec could possibly mean losing that Savage Combat debuff.    Here's my estimate of how much it was worth to us using the 3 weeks.

1. 4,484,957 Physical Damage x 2% = 89,699.14 / 157 sec = 571.33 raid dps
2. 5,522,291 x 2% = 110,445.82 / 165 sec = 669.37 raid dps
3. 5,769,391 x 2% = 115,387.82 / 160 sec = 721.17 raid dps

So all in all about a 653.96 average raid dps from those 3 raids.    Of course in 3.1 this debuff is boosted to 4% for even higher numbers.

Anyways, on to the other specs...

 

Solo HAT

This would be a bit more interesting to try again.   Me and Shinz did this before to exploit a bug with HaT.   Though even with it fixed, with the right group setup and all, it can still top damage.

It is still a faceroll spec, spam Evis mostly.   Though a tiny bit more thought without the bug, basically hemo or something whenever CPs are low.

This definitely loses the Savage Combat debuff.    Though, in all likelihood, can make up the 600-700 raid dps lost through personal dps.   But, ideally, then you'd want another rogue to go get that debuff, or Arms Warrior should they exist.

A bonus to this spec would be that it'd be the most survivable rogue spec too, with Cheat Death and a few other avoidance talents.  

Well also to see how our raid would suplement a HaT rogue, I went and looked at the yellow crit/sec for everyone:

• Derchlon:  131/157, 109/165, 107/160 = 0.72 crit / sec
• Luminaire:  122/157, 98/165, 109/160 = 0.68 crit / sec
• Grasen:  87/165, 105/160 = 0.59 crit / sec
• Poisondonut: 64/157, 62/165, 64/160 = 0.39 crit / sec
• Luczilla:  66/157, 55/165, 62/160 = 0.38 crit / sec
• Onrique:  61/157,41/165, 46/160 = 0.31 crit / sec
• Garreth:  47/157, 57/165, 72/160 = 0.36 crit / sec
• Karvinen:  63/157, 51/165, 59/160 = 0.36 crit / sec
• Disrupta:  60/157, 51/165, 49/160 = 0.33 crit / sec
• Dangulz:  50/157 = 0.32 crit / sec
• Quisjaa:  44/157, 54/165, 48/160 = 0.30 crit / sec
• Primistic:  48/157, 43/160 = 0.29 crit / sec
• Antiquite:  48/157, 45/165 = 0.29 crit / sec
• Judgedredd:  36/165, 55/160 = 0.28 crit / sec
• Shinzwei:  44/157, 45/165, 42/160 = 0.27 crit / sec
• Knoppix:  49/157, 36/165, 36/160 = 0.27 crit / sec
• Nuitarin:  51/157, 40/165, 39/160 = 0.27 crit / sec
• Deadhli:  47/157, 38/165, 44/160 = 0.27 crit / sec
• Saedo:  41/157, 34/165, 41/160 = 0.24 crit / sec
• Vulk:  38/157, 33/165, 38/160 = 0.23 crit / sec
• Zildo:  28/157, 38/165, 39/160 = 0.22 crit / sec
• Moriella:  35/157, 36/165, 25/160 = 0.20 crit / sec
• Cplnewb:  29/157 = 0.18 crit / sec
• Orky:  28/157, 17/165, 32/160 = 0.16 crit / sec
• Tankard:  36/157, 13/165, 16/160 = 0.14 crit / sec
• Katibug:  10/165, 15/160 = 0.08 crit / sec
• Starshift:  13/157, 10/165, 10/160 = 0.07 crit / sec
• Pudolski:  12/157, 10/165, 6/160 = 0.06 crit / sec

Clearly Survival Hunters are on top.   Well hunters in general.   Pet crits count still.

Fight Report:

Trash - This spec is definitely weaker on trash.  The energy regen is pretty much the lowest of the 3 specs, so spamming FoK was less beneficial.      With all the aoe, I wonder if spamming Evis even during this is better.

Archavon (http://wowwebstats.com/oquyc4qqjflhs?s=10286-33170) - Well this being the first one, was trying to get used to it.   The CP rate was mostly good, though fluctuated.    I definitely capped energy a few too many times waiting for that CP to fill up for an Evis.

Sartharion 3D (http://wowwebstats.com/oquyc4qqjflhs?s=100153-167157) - For the most part it seemed fine.   But I assume pet deaths caused some dips in my CP generation.  But clearly this is lower than combat due to lower ability to aoe adds.    When we got down to single target like Sarth (http://wowwebstats.com/oquyc4qqjflhs?s=100153-167157&a=xf1300070bc000244...), seems to shine ahead obviously.

Malygos (http://wowwebstats.com/oquyc4qqjflhs?s=172287-214684) - Is a bit more iffy.   I do lose any burst CD usage for the sparks.    And parts of P2 I think pets were out of it for lower CP generation.     Plus I'd normally aoe in P2 (with some focus on that skull).   But with 6 min attempt being short, that CD usage is prob more beneficial.

Razuvious (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=50320-77710) - Was a bit more of test.   Part way through that fight I decided to just drop Rupture and spam Evis.  lol   

Gothik (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=115856-144147) - So I went on the living side for once, cause most of my CP generators are there.   

Four Horsemen (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=177037-208615) - Stuck with Rivendare at the start cause of HaT.   With the staying out of Zeliak damage dropped.

Noth (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=242963-270805) - For the most part was fine   Course that period of aoe'ing adds weakened it.

Heigan (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=292905-318398) - This fight I switched 2 of my casters for the more critty melee ones to leech off them.   Able to build up a lead so the dancing portion didn't allow ranged attackers to catch up. 

Loatheb (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=323313-367351) - Of course this fight was made for HaT!  Everyone critting all the time, Evis spam away!    7681 dps, no one even close.  lol

Patchwerk (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=424262-456700) - DPS wise, topped it at 6071 dps.  But that time spent waiting for the Hateful costed damage and couldn't catch up in time, seems like 14% dps time loss, so got 4th in damage.    Though I did make a small mistake in the fight.  

Grobbulus (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?m&s=472268-504537) - Still range advantage with that fight.

Gluth (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?s=508409-532167) - Hmm, perhaps HaT generation was a bit lower with hunters having other tasks.

Thaddius (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?s=556515-604384) - This fight felt odd...  It wasn't a CP generation thing, but it's as if my Evis weren't being boosted by the damage buffs.   Well it was boosted sometimes, but a chunk of the time it didn't seem like it, even making sure I had a 10 stack of buffs.   It was weird.

Anub (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?s=621654-642539) - 6217 dps, able to mostly tank and spank it, and avoided the spikes!

Faerlina (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?s=665434-689701) - Made a bit of a huge mistake mistargetting on this boss.  lol   Oh well.

Maexena (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?s=723580-743895) - Think there was some unlucky interruptions to me and the others.

Sapphiron (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?s=745418-787086) - Topping dps, but need more dps time.  lol   Made a couple mistakes with the tail too.

Kel'thuzad (http://wowwebstats.com/u4dj1o6aipjau?s=802009-846637) - I know I got mc'd for part of it.    P1 was slow for me.  

 

Combat Shiv

This is something I'm tempted to try out cause they're killing this in 3.1.    Shiv will no longer allow poison crits.    However, for now, it's theoretically a 200dps boost to me.

Though, it plays almost exactly the same way.   Just replace one attack for another, one poison for another, one weapon for another.   Everything else is the same, well except the spec of course.    This even keeps the Savage Combat debuff for the raid.    Personal damage distribution is shifted more towards the poisons.

Experience:  http://wowwebstats.com/ri3ge5olo1mbo

Trash:  I definitely think it's lower in trash damage, and it's obvious in hindsight.  I'm using a fast sword OH with Instant Poison on it.    That means no 5% crit on that hand, and less poison procs compared to Wound Poison.

Bosses:  There's basically not much variation from playing Vanilla Combat.   It's similar cycles, CD usages, attacks etc.   Just supposedly better by maxing poison damage with Shiv and Instant Poison.   It is kinda funny to see my Instant Poison damage outdoing everything except white attacks.    That's shiv for ya, instant IP on each shiv.

So did I see a dps increase?   Not particuarly.   Well some bosses might have dropped, like Heigan and Noth, but those could be positioning issues.   Patchwerk was more or less the same.    I'd say that RNG might have been a huge factor to me not seeing much of a diff.   

Also in hindsight I probably wasn't gemmed properly for it.    I gem Agility.  Reasons being that with it being similar to AP in dps value it gives me dodge and fatty crits for epeen.   However, with Combat Shiv being poison reliant, that means AP mostly likely is the better choice for it.    Agi won't affect poison critting, so pumping it all into AP would've boosted that.

I think I'm going to shift to AP gemming, should see higher average numbers hopefully.

Also, was running a new mod that I had to get used to, that's could be partially why I'm not seeing a huge diff.   But I think I'll advertise about that mod later.  

Day 2:  http://wowwebstats.com/bevwh4z3xz5ke?m

For Sarth and Maly it did feel a bit better.   Though it seems still weakest on FoK spamming so dropped a bit in damage overall for Sarth.    Maly I screwed up a bit and missed hitting Killing Spree.    But overall I was more used to watching things for it.