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Click on the Lightwell

 Priests  Comments Off on Click on the Lightwell
Jan 142011
 

From MMO-Champion – there seems to be some concern regarding the Lightwell mechanic. So in the interest of educating myself and the one or two others who might be reading this, here’s some info.

  • It is the highest heal-per-mana (hpm) spell for priests.
  • You can click it from up to 20 yards away.
  • Clicking it will not change your target and does not trigger the global cooldown.
  • It heals for more per tick than Renew.
  • It can be used while stunned, disoriented, sapped, blinded or casting.

WoWhead’s description:

  • Lightwell
  • 30% of base mana
  • 40 yd range
  • 0.5 sec cast
  • 3 min cooldown
  • Creates a Holy Lightwell.  Friendly players can click the Lightwell to restore (((2878 + ($SP * .308)) * 3) * 1.25) health over 6 sec.  Attacks done to you equal to 30% of your total health will cancel the effect. Lightwell lasts for 3 min or 10 charges.
  • You can click it from up to 20 yards away.

From a comment on that page:

This spell is way more powerful then you all think.  This spell can be used while

  • Tanking
  • Kiting
  • Blinded
  • Stunned
  • Disoriented
  • Sapped
  • Casting another heal or spell
  • You can click it from up to 20 yards away.

You don’t even need to un-click your current target. Lets compare with a more favored heal over time, Such as Renew.

Lightwell costs 30% of base mana, and does 10charges or “casts”.
So really its 3% of your base mana for every charge.

(the following is at 290 spell power)
Each charge heals 10,000 over 6seconds.
As for renew its 6,124 over 12seconds and costing 18% more mana per cast (compared to each charge)

You can literally be in two places at once, having your light well positioned properly. Heal ranged dps, or yourself while your to busy focusing on people who are dieing rather then injured. The ticks also tick faster [down from over 6seconds] with your haste. All you have to do is, Click.. and we will be well on our way to appreciating this spell.

Lightwell

Group around the lightwell

Did you know that  You can click it from up to 20 yards away?

Cataclysm Assassination Rogue Builds

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Dec 302010
 

Assassination’s looking pretty good these days, at least from my point of view. Here are a pair of builds, one for PvE and one for PvP. Naturally some talents may change depending on your exact team, raid, preferences, etc.

For both builds…

  • Daggers only
  • Slow main, fast off-hand
  • Instant poison in main, deadly in off, crippling is applied via deadly brew
  • Wpn DPS > Agility > Mastery/Haste/Expertise > Crit

Level 85 Assassination Rogue DPS Build (31/2/8)

This build is aimed at maximum DPS, not max suvivability.

Assassination (31 Points)

  • Coup de Grace – Rank 3/3
  • Lethality – Rank 3/3
  • Ruthlessness – Rank 3/3
  • Quickening – Rank 2/2
  • Puncturing Wounds – Rank 3/3
  • Deadly Brew – Rank 1/2
  • Cold Blood – Rank 1/1
  • Vile Poisons – Rank 3/3
  • Seal Fate – Rank 2/2
  • Murderous Intent – Rank 2/2
  • Overkill – Rank 1/1
  • Master Poisoner – Rank 1/1
  • Cut to the Chase – Rank 3/3
  • Venomous Wounds – Rank 2/2
  • Vendetta – Rank 1/1

Combat (2 Points)

  • Precision – Rank 2/3

Subtlety (8 Points)

  • Nightstalker – Rank 2/2 – In theory this will allow for more “attack from stealth” situations.
  • Relentless Strikes – Rank 3/3
  • Opportunity – Rank 3/3

Glyphs

  • Prime – Glyph of Mutilate
  • Prime – Glyph of Rupture
  • Prime – Glyph of Backstab
  • Major – Glyph of Tricks of the Trade
  • Major – Glyph of Feint
  • Major – Glyph of Sprint
  • Minor – Glyph of Safe Fall

Level 85 Assassination Rogue PvP build (32/2/7)

Think of this build as a starting point and adjust to fit your game. For example, if Improved Expose Armor doesn’t work for you then change it.

Assassination (32 Points)

  • Coup de Grace – Rank 3/3
  • Lethality – Rank 3/3
  • Ruthlessness – Rank 3/3
  • Quickening – Rank 2/2
  • Puncturing Wounds – Rank 3/3
  • Deadly Brew – Rank 2/2
  • Cold Blood – Rank 1/1
  • Vile Poisons – Rank 3/3
  • Seal Fate – Rank 2/2
  • Overkill – Rank 1/1
  • Master Poisoner – Rank 1/1
  • Improved Expose Armor – Rank 2/2
  • Cut to the Chase – Rank 3/3
  • Venomous Wounds – Rank 2/2
  • Vendetta – Rank 1/1

Combat (2 Points)

  • 1. Improved Recuperate – Rank 2/2

Subtlety (7 Points)

  • Nightstalker – Rank 2/2
  • Relentless Strikes – Rank 3/3
  • Opportunity – Rank 2/3

Glyphs

  • Prime – Glyph of Mutilate
  • Prime – Glyph of Rupture
  • Prime – Glyph of Vendetta
  • Major – Glyph of Blind
  • Major – Glyph of Kick
  • Major – Glyph of Garrote
  • Minor – Glyph of Distract
  • Minor – Glyph of Poisons
  • Minor – Glyph of Safe Fall

More details here: Assassination Rogue Guide

The Farmer’s Class (Gold) Guide

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Nov 162010
 

For those of you needing a short(ish) guide to racking up some more gold on your characters you should take a look at this post. It needs some editing, but, as he says, it’s kindof a “talking to himself” guide. There’s some good stuff there, well worth reading:

This is a Meta-game guide for the World of Warcraft. If you want the complete guide to making money, gain control of the Auction House, and/or compete in a true PvP test of skill and cunning, then look no further. I will take you to a new server that you know nothing about, with only one character, and show you how to build a finical empire at the cost of at least 1 hour a day. If you are further along than that, I will show you how to stabilize your market that you are in and build upon skills that you already know.

Let’s start at the very beginning. If you are farther than this, don’t worry, I’ll get to you soon. At the beginning, I am going to assume a few things about you. Firstly, you have no characters on the server. Perfect! Nothing like starting at nothing, where there are few restraints and the sky is the limit. Secondly, I assume that you have all the expansions. Thirdly, I am going to assume you have great knowledge of the lay out of the lands and have Dugi’s Leveling Guide Addons. And last, but not least, I am going to assume that all that you want to do now is to see how much money you can make and quickly.

the rest: The Farmer’s Class Guide: The Short Version

I did a related set of posts, with new characters, starting from scratch, on a new server. The goal was 1k gold on 30 days and I hit 6,500. The current total is about 10k since I slacked off, a lot, since making those posts. In them I list everything that I bought and sold and added a few notes. Here it is, if you’re interested: 30 Days to (over) 1k Gold

 Posted by at 1:35 pm

Assassination Vs Subtlety DPS in 4.0

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Oct 172010
 

I ran a short test on the target dummies in Silvermoon. One build was Assassination, the other Subtlety, both 4.0. The Assassination build is ElitistJerk’s DPS build, and the Sub is more PvP oriented. Just a short test along the lines of getting the rust polished off.

Note that you need 31 points to grab talents from the other trees, but you do not need to have the top talent in whichever tree. Mastery happens at 80.

Sub. did about 24-2500 DPS on the 83 target dummy and Assassination was close to 4k.I’m not claiming to be an expert anything, but that’s a pretty big difference. I didn’t even have Vendetta up on the Assassination test, showing what a nub I am.  Before 4.0 it was about 2k DPS or so with an Assassination build and the same gear.

  • Mongoose on both daggers
  • Instant poison on the MH, Deadly on the OH
  • No other buffs
  • About 4562 Gearscore (I know, it sucks.)

Assassination build (4.0:)

  1. 3/3 Coup de Grace
  2. 3/3 Lethality
  3. 3/3 Ruthlessness
  4. 2/2 Quickening
  5. 3/3 Puncturing Wounds
  6. 1/2 Deadly Brew
  7. 1/1 Cold Blood
  8. 3/3 Vile Poisons
  9. 2/2 Seal Fate
  10. 2/2 Murderous Intent
  11. Overkill
  12. Master Poisoner
  13. 3/3 Cut to the Chase
  14. 2/2 Venomous Wounds
  15. Vendetta
  16. 2/3 Precision
  17. 3/3 Relentless Strikes

Prime glyphs: Mutilate, Backstab, Rupture

Major Glyphs: Feint, Garrote, Fan of Knives

Minor Glyphs: Whatever. I have Pick Lock, Poisons, Safe Fall

Subtlety Build for 4.0

  1. 2/2 Nightstalker
  2. 3/3 Improved Ambush
  3. 3/3 Relentless Strikes
  4. 1/3 Elusiveness
  5. 2/2 Waylay
  6. 3/3 Opportunity
  7. 2/2 Initiative
  8. 2/2 Find Weakness
  9. Hemorrhage
  10. 3/3 Honor Among Thieves (will probably lose this. Your group gets the extra crit rating, so it’s useful for group fights, but it seems to be bugged right now.)
  11. Premeditation
  12. 2/3 Cheat Death
  13. Preparation
  14. 2/2 Sanguinary Vein
  15. 3/3 Slaughter from the Shadows
  16. Shadowdance
  17. 3/3 Precision
  18. 1/3 Coup de Grace

More DPS?

  1. Drop Nightstalker and Elusiveness for 3/3 Energetic Recovery (more energy)
  2. Drop Cheat Death for 2/2 Serrated Blades

Glyphs:

  • Prime: Hemo, Evisc, Backstab
  • Major: Ambush, Garrote, Cloak of Shadows
  • Minor: Safe Fall, Blurred Speed, Poisons

Macros:

Opener macro, since I can never remember to hit that Premeditation button. The pickpocket is in there for when you’re not fighting players:

#showtooltip Ambush
/cast Pick Pocket
/cast Premeditation
/cast Ambush

#showtooltip Eviscerate (or change to Envenom)
/cast  Cold Blood
/cast Eviscerate (or change to Envenom)

Ambush is looking really brutal in PvP. Glyph for Ambush (adds range) and Eviscerate (adds crit chance to Ev.) Ambush gives 5 combo points with the above build, then Evisc/Rupture

Leveling

At this moment in time all the trees are good for leveling. Combat has better consistent DPS than the others and Subtlety has the huge opener. I haven’t leveled Assassination yet, but it should be between the two, at first guess.

If you’re leveling a Rogue then take a glance at our Rogue leveling page.

They Go Up and They Go Down and They Go…

 wow news  2 Responses »
Oct 142010
 

Rumor has it (Ok, it’s only a rumor with me) that the quakes you’ve been seeing in-game are the result of Mage crits with their spells. Another mountain being destroyed or crater being created. Probably the main reason for the upcoming Cataclysm is the damage the spell casters are causing.

You thought your warrior was tough? Here, eat this 100k crit.

From MMO-CHampion:

We made many changes yesterday. A lot of these were bug fixes, and many bug fixes will affect damage one way or the other. So just because you don’t see a specific change referenced below, doesn’t mean it didn’t change.

With that said, here are the specific changes we made in reference to my previous post:

1) We buffed the base points and coefficients of many warrior dps abilities. We didn’t do as much to tanking abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Ret abilities.

We buffed the base points and coefficients of many Feral cat abilities.

2) We lowered the base points and coefficients of many mage abilities, but lowered Fire more than the other two.

3) We nerfed Shadow Word: Death, but it is possible we didn’t nerf it enough. It should not be Shadow’s biggest spell.

4) We returned Searing Pain’s damage to its 3.3.5 levels.

5) We increased the benefit of resilience by 50% for players level 80 and below. The tooltips will probably not reflect this change.

We don’t have any other changes to announce at this time. I am reluctant to mention additional classes or specs that we are looking at currently for fear of instilling excitement or panic.

I heard rumors that long time players (one or two, anyway) were quitting over the 4.0 changes. I don’t get it. Those are the players, more than anyone, who should know what happens after patches.Yeah, I know that players leave for any numbers of reasons, including boredom, it just seems that giving a reason like “the patch broke my game!” is silly. But, what do I know?

All Your Addons Are Doomed!

 Miscellaneous  Comments Off on All Your Addons Are Doomed!
Oct 112010
 

Hey all,

The 4.0 patch is a few hours away. Consider that this is a huge patch and it will likely break many or most of your addons, especially any that deal with game mechanics, talents, or abilities. Time to head back to Curse and start looking for updates.

Forewarned is forearmed. 🙂

Edit: Yep, they’re broken. So are many of the macros.

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Over 12 Million!

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Oct 082010
 

Really it’s only abut 2 mill, because everyone has 6 accounts, right? 😉

Bliz announced yesterday that WoW has over 12 million subs. Regardless of how snarky one wants to get with the numbers of real players that’s what… 5x the #2 game?

Blizzard Entertainment said Thursday that the number of players now subscribed to “World of Warcraft” and its expansions has reached 12 million.

The multiplayer online game topped 11 million subscribers in October 2008.

The rest is on PC World (and a few zillion other places)

I want Aion’s graphics, animations, and some of the mechanics combined with WoW’s depth and cool features. Ah well, WoW’s what’s taking my game time. Guess that says it all.

edit: Just a last minute thought – people play Aion and the other games for a couple of weeks or months, they play WoW for years. I think that says it all.

 Posted by at 9:04 am
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