Feral Druid Tank First Dps Second

Ybloc — Wed, 08/19/2009 - 23:23

Character Info

Name:

Ybloc

Server:

Tortheldrin

Race:

Night Elf

Class:

Druid

Role:

Tanking

General Questions

Which days are you available for organized guild events? (Raids, RBGs, etc):

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Upload UI:

Which addons do you consider essential and why?:

I've modded everything I ever had a problem with and am heppy with what ended up with. IF it helps and you got the RAM. Why not?

PvE

Raid Experience:

Unfortunatly i was only level 53 when burning crusade came out so i missed alot(Could be a good thing since i probally would be resto today if i didn't).

For Regular wow i know where everything is and where to go in them. Everything from Vancleft to Deathwings Children. I have gotten lost in BRS a few times, have nly gotten to Neferion once, and was extremly pissed when the got rid of Naxx40(i never got a chance to experience it. I was Attuned and had keys to all this stuff before the patch where the took those needs away. Molten i know all to well at this point. Ive only been to these places at lvl 70 or above. unfortunatly i wasn't there to experience them in the real way.

Burning Crusade...All 5 Mans. Kara. gruuls. mags Easy
Tempest keep I've killed Alar(alot of painful wipes, inculding 1%, i still might have the screen shot also). void reaver and solarian.
SSC - Lurker, Hydross, Fathom-Lord Karathress
Hyjal- winterchill
Areas in BC i didnt kill are unlisted.

For WOtlk I've been through all 5 mans. Malygos 10 + 25. Naxx 10 + 25. Os 10(1 drake) + 25. VAult 10 + 25. Ulduar(xt hardmode) 10 except Yogg. Ulduar 25 FL, razor, ignis, XT, auriaya, Hodir, freya trash.

Personal

What timezone are you in?:

United States of America, NJ

Tell us a little about yourself.:

I am a college student finishing up his last 2 classes at Brookdale community college. I will soon get my Degree in Computer Science. I hate Physics and calculus...... I Have Brown hair and brown eyes 5 foot somthing. I live in New jersey and think our state sucks because of Corruption. Other than that i Love it. I work at a Driving range hence my messed up working hours and why i can work around school and wow. I prefer salad over fast food but still eat fast food for convience. I am trying to Stop typing like this"im tryin to stop typin like dis". Also stuff like bad grammer. I am not a Grammer nazi. Like to have fun and joke around. You are all Cartoon characters that talk and move around =O, jk ^^

Open/Closed:

Closed

Me in Bear =P

Ybloc — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 13:24

If you guys say grid then why not. If you think it will help ill get used to it. Well theres me in bear. The worst ive been Called is a badger =P

My main reason to have you go

Enixa — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 09:34

My main reason to have you go bear is to see the bar setup and and whether or not you had keybinds. It doesn't look like it so 1 of two things is hapenning.

1) You aren't using keybinds and thus holding yourself back.

2) The SS didn't show the keybinds which has happened before.

Which is it. Keybinds are essential. The less you have to click the more your left hand starts doing natural movements for certain abilites. Especially when someone comes over to your house, changes your vent queue up button and thus allows the raid to hear you button mash and successfully smash dmg meters while you shouldn't be on the phone mid raid with the person who changed them in the 1st place.

Deuces

Bindings

Ybloc — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 16:32

The only thing i have binded are

flight form to " ` "

Ive macro out a few things.

Maul + HEart of Iron(trinket) " 1 " Bear

Mangle + tigers fury " 2 " cat

I haven't seen a need to bind anything else. For tanking my mouse is ussally hovering over the tanking abilitys like survival insticnts. Im usaslly just sitting still while tanking and those are the only times i ever use those abilitys. I got a bunch macros for random situations.

What would you suggest i bind? Tanking abilitys to letters next to "wasd"

Just so we're clear, you

garreth — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 16:37

Just so we're clear, you have only two raiding abilities keybound and click everything else?

bindings

Ybloc — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 17:55

Yes, I ussally "click" most of my tank abilities. As crazy as that sounds i never found a need. Reaction time in clicking the ability was never a problem.

Shun the

Shihli — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 18:03

Shun the non-believer!

Clicking is INHERENTLY slower than keybinding, there's no two ways about it.

:D

Shinzwei — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 20:43

Bindings

Ybloc — Fri, 08/21/2009 - 18:57

NEver said mouse was quicker then keyboard XD

Give it a shot, you'll never

garreth — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 11:30

Give it a shot, you'll never go back ;) Grid does an amazing job replacing party and, obviously, raid frames. Gives you a lot more room on your screen, shows you a lot more info and improves your performance remarkably.

We're Grid fanatics for one reason: it's the tool every one of our raiders uses. Tanks, dps, healers; we all use it. The addons for Grid allow our healers to spots HoTs on a target to allow thosse HoTs to tick and make more pertinent heals elsewhere, the aggro indicators allow our tanks/pallies to save overzealous dps, and the raid debuff indicators make cleansing, bop'ing, healing a snap in a massive crazy raid setting.

Grid rocks. Once you use it and get it tweaked a bit, you'll never go back to any other party/raid frames. Now, about YOUR unit frame, target, target of target and ToTT, focus and focus target frames: Use XPerl if you want. Xperl handles these types of frames great. I prefer Pitbull 3/4 myself for the customization, but Xperl does just fine out of the box.

UI suggestions

Enixa — Thu, 08/20/2009 - 11:05

Drop Xperl raid frames as well as party frames, DL grid. Cuts down used space on your UI allowing for more tanking abilities. I like the BT4 setup so far but i'd like to see it when you are in Bear.

Deuces

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Poll

What do you think about no flying for an entire expansion?

YES) It makes me feel more immersed in the game lore.

15%

YES) It encourages more PvP! (Please explain how in comments)

YES) I miss riding my ground mounts.

MAYBE) If you make all of my flying mounts able to be ground too.

MAYBE) if ground mounts are sped up to 200% speed (or higher)

26%

NO) I don't have enough time when I'm on to be riding everywhere

NO) I have spent too much time getting various levels of flying to be wasting it.

11%

NO) It encourages more PVP! (please explain in the comments)

NO) I love flying.

19%

Total votes: 74