Faction Balance
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Gorillamode
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From these responses it's hard to tell which side is overpopulated, though if I know twink communities I'm sure it bounces back and forth each week. Questions:
-How does feral perform at this level? I already have my nelf at 29, got a few pieces of gear before I took a break so it needs some work but I know what I need, just curious what I'll be getting into with the spec.
-I will be making a horde caster, most likely a goblin mage. Frost and arcane both appear to be viable specs, but I've always had a soft spot for fire (my second twink was a 29 fire mage on vindication, then a 39). How does that spec perform?
-How does feral perform at this level? I already have my nelf at 29, got a few pieces of gear before I took a break so it needs some work but I know what I need, just curious what I'll be getting into with the spec.
-I will be making a horde caster, most likely a goblin mage. Frost and arcane both appear to be viable specs, but I've always had a soft spot for fire (my second twink was a 29 fire mage on vindication, then a 39). How does that spec perform?
Buckdich
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gorilla... 39 UD warr from vindication? I remember u!
prolly don't remember me though ;p
but, I just recently made a fire mage and accidently leveled, deleted, releveled - I'm almost geared again - fire is 'ok' but I haven't had tons of time to play with it. Just 2 game nights. imo, you want to get as much crit as possible - assuming you're going with hot streak instead of blast wave - but if you get blast wave for that utility, then obviously you can gear accordingly. scorch hits like a wet noodle
it seems alright as a spec in general, but I don't know if there's anything you can do against certain classes; rogues for example.
prolly don't remember me though ;p
but, I just recently made a fire mage and accidently leveled, deleted, releveled - I'm almost geared again - fire is 'ok' but I haven't had tons of time to play with it. Just 2 game nights. imo, you want to get as much crit as possible - assuming you're going with hot streak instead of blast wave - but if you get blast wave for that utility, then obviously you can gear accordingly. scorch hits like a wet noodle
it seems alright as a spec in general, but I don't know if there's anything you can do against certain classes; rogues for example.Gorillamode
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Yessir, had some other 39s on vindi as well; enh shaman, fire mage, disc priest, and a ret i rolled for <team malygos>. Who was your 39? (always nice to see someone from the golden days
I was looking at the specs and available spells for mages and it really seems like anything fire could do arcane or frost could just do better. Were I to roll fire it would definitely be a blastwave spec, but frost can lock down better with pet nova + shatter combo, and arcane has the fast casting burst and mobile damage down much better with 2 second arc blasts, .6 second arc missiles and abarr. Am I wrong? based on some chardevs I tossed together and looking at some armories (Nastay, Phreaque and an Undead mage whose name escapes me) crit levels don't seem to get too high.
Kind of thinking out loud here, correct me if I'm wrong!
I was looking at the specs and available spells for mages and it really seems like anything fire could do arcane or frost could just do better. Were I to roll fire it would definitely be a blastwave spec, but frost can lock down better with pet nova + shatter combo, and arcane has the fast casting burst and mobile damage down much better with 2 second arc blasts, .6 second arc missiles and abarr. Am I wrong? based on some chardevs I tossed together and looking at some armories (Nastay, Phreaque and an Undead mage whose name escapes me) crit levels don't seem to get too high.
Kind of thinking out loud here, correct me if I'm wrong!
Willyshatner
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Typically Horde have more in the queue at any given time during game nights. For the past month or so, it seems like horde has almost enough to fill two games while the alliance struggle to fill one. On occasion, there's two games up at once, usually one of them starts off about half full and never fills up completely.
Feral misses the shift break on roots, but as long as you have a disc priest around who can dispel, it isn't so bad. When there are a lot of higher caliber players on the field, Feral suffers greatly vs players with a root ability, particularly mages and other druids. Otherwise, the damage out put is really good considering the up time you have on targets. Right now on my feral druid, I can crit for 1.3k on Ferocious Bite and 900ish on Ravage. Mangle gets consistent 300-500 dmg hits.
Good matchups for me include hunters, rogues, FCs, and anything in cloth.
Gorillamode
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I thought that name sounded familiar. Well I'll be working on my feral druid for tonight, hope to atleast get his gear straightened up (25 agi is going for 1200 on my server atm, so I'll probably be sticking with sader on my boa mace for the time being, even though it blows hard now) and ready for tonight!
Gorillamode
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I'll get on it.
Anyone have any experience with elemental? Forgot about the unleashed lightning glyph and mobile casting appeals to me, as does being able to swap between healing and casting specs.
Anyone have any experience with elemental? Forgot about the unleashed lightning glyph and mobile casting appeals to me, as does being able to swap between healing and casting specs.
allahkazam
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Shaman is really damn annoying for my ret. I've only seen one or two ele alliance side but they piss me off to no end if I don't have a dispel for frost shock. If I ever get close to them can position myself well their TS won't matter. Normally they blow it on my HoJ but at that point they can't position themselves to punt me far enough away.
Gorillamode
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Blastmode, 29 mage (H)Eredar. Leveled him to 39 after about a year.