Crikrunner

I'll be at my 2nd job, unless I go postal and just quit it odds 2 : 3 bookie: Ghosa

/em happy face /em happy dance Had my first day at my new job. It was a lot of fun, I basically make and break beverage containers and parts. Today I got to pull apart rubber hosing to test for tensile strength. Also got to build prototype spouts with a sonic plastic welder, which is really neat. Also got to watch 5 gallon jugs and water bags get tossed from 6 feet in the air to see if they'll break. I'm in heaven, I get to do something I enjoy for living for awhile!!! ie break things and build new things to break On a side I'll be working my old job still for 2 more weeks but starting the week of august 6th, if any one needs an arcane mage or resto shaman for their runs let me know be happy to fill in after then for monday, wednesday , thursday evening or day time sunday/saturday raids. Dabu latz!!!

Vendor trainable from the old dragonscale leather worker trainer (each specialty got a 375 skill set last patch, dragon got 2, and the elemental one is leather so I'll need to respec ) but i could be mistaken

*updated* 7/30/7 I have need of the following 28 Primal Mana (10 more to go, dabu baracko) 28 Primal Air (18 more to go ) 56 Netherdrake scales (40ish more to go ) some way of getting a crafter with the patterns 3 primal nether's or just grind out 375 skill myself Trying to get the chest and belt made Slowly farming up the mats myself but if anyone has any donations can trade you life/earth primals?? gold?? for them, thanks Plan is to grind last 4 points then makes lots of war drums yay! to 375 so if anyone wants the limited edition wardrum reserve yours now

I hear you old friend. (This is from a pvp bent as that is what I tend to do most) The game has changed with bc, shaman used to be the supreme burst damage class, able to drop casters in a single blow. Now everyone has more hps, you can't just charge solo into the midst of the enemy and except a kill or two before you die. Just have to be more patient sit back, with the crowd, don't stick out. Saddly adapting to this has been hard for most. New classes now shine, ms warriors for thier ability to 1/2 your healing and warlocks slow / hard dps now is perfect for slaying 10k hp enemies ie players. I too am tired of patches with no real content. You'd think they could at least add a handful of new quests every month.... On the horizon I'm looking forward to Conan , Tabula Rosa, and Warhammer. For now wow is the bests that our there imho. On a bright note pve Shaman can still shine you just have to better than everyone else to do so. Elemental, have to except the fact you will down 3-4 potions a boss fight to stay near the top of the meter. Enhance can still shine too, just need to manage your aggro, your dps will be limited more by the Tanks aggro then your own ability, group with druids when ever possible. Restoration we can heal amazingly well now. Also turns us into nearly unkillable machines in pvp, I've won every 1v1 vs a rogue / hunter in the bgs/arena that has come up. Raid wise just need to able to use chain heal, ie need people to be close to one another or you two will have to drink pots if you solely single target healing.

Ghosa (69 atm should be 70 by the weekend) be looking for a team Available mornings and after 10pm sunday-thursday (i work 2nd shift)

Skool for Peons 1290 rating atm (Putralia captain) would like to play 5 more matches tonight so we can get those that didn't make it sunday in for points: Oriahtundra Reyox Jasena did you guys need points for the week still? if so you have dibs on the spots for tonights matches (i should be home after 10pm server time but rl may keep me busy till 1am server time) i will make every effort to be on then. Also note Skool for Peons was founded to have fun and be a place to learn the arena many of us are on alts as such are rating will alway be low. (( as such a 1485 rating in 3v3 or higher would get you more points or 2v2 1545 rating)) I know of many other Crushers that would like to start to arena. We need someone to step forth and start a 3rd 5v5 crusher squad. I'd like to propose the we use guild funds for this endeavor? (200g for team) Just need someone to run it , decide name/purpose/regular time to play/rules for if people aren't around at regular time. (you can have 10 people on a 5 man team each individual just needs to play 30percent of the teams matches for the week ((rounding up)) so if the team plays 15 , each person needs 5 matches) Please reply to this if you have interest in 5v5 and characters name what times your open for matches if your currently team less dabu---Crikrunner

I"m on vacation till late monday night. Tonac is leader of Skool for Peons I asked him to put Slythe in charge for this weekends matchs if hes not up to leading them. When you done just make Putralia captain again, I'll be back for the following weeks matches. Nais Yuzuki I will be home late monday night and online around 2am server time if you want to do our 3v3 then? Other wise feel free to just play matches without me as you two see fit Yuzuki is captain for the week still. (Can you make Crikrunner captain after you play matches or decide not to so I can get some in late monday for points on him if your not going to be around then, dabu) If anyones on Monday night late ill be looking to get matches in on Crikrunner and Putralia, may just make some 2v2 teams for fun just so I don't miss out on a weeks points. Have fun see you all next week! ---Crikrunner

Dabu Harne!

Rawr! May your windfury rage across the cake, frost shocking the candles out.

probably Scryll it will be fixed i'm guessing next patch yet to read any blue posts about it though, just happened to be in av and someone was complaining about it, of coarse i like the bug, the other anti stealth shaman totem is really expensive to use like 700 mana vs the 100 ish mana earthbind costs, earthbind does have a 15 sec recast cool down though so you can just spam it dropping them all over, so I feel its balanced

Rawr! can lat fly me aroond nuw me need lift ta Netherstorm?

Earthbind Totem now breaks stealth and snares Rogues n Druids look out for shaman now the totem has a base range of 10 yards (14yards with 2 points in elemental talents) it pulses every 5 seconds starting when its placed Other than us being blue now in raids this is the only buff shamans have gotten in a few patches lets see how long this lasts

lat gunna ruin a perfectly guud meal by rubb'n dem bodies on it

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...39090&sid=1 Really well written guide, it's a very nice!

Looks like arena season 2 will start after June 12th or later. (Depends if the mini patch is ready) Anyone present in 20percent of the teams matches season long will be able to get the season rewards (Titles/Armored Netherdrakes) Teams will be reset to a 1500 rating for season 2 New Epic PvP honor gear and even better arena gear will be added in the patch for season 2. Here is the blue sticky I just summarized http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...71823&sid=1

La vendetta has a cool down timer for it, but it's a random use ability ie he could use once the timer counts down, but he could choose to not use it for another 30 seconds after the timer is up.

Baracko had the groups at least melee well organized for dps. My point I was trying to make is if you optimize groups for dps you cant use the group 1 sw, group 2 nw, group 3 n, group 4 ne, group 5 se set up as group 1 may all be melee. Therefore you waste all the space behind group 1. If you maximize groups for dps, as you should, the set up should be spot based and indivual; ie crikruner you stand at the se healer spot, Baracko you stand at the sw melee spot. Does that make more sense? The second point was just that if we a different plan for shatter, going in melee heavy, 5 seconds before each ground smash (the thing that tosses you in the air) all but 3 meleers need to run to a safe spot. The reason we are loosing so many to shatter is we have all this people in the middle being tossed into the healers and ranged dps and killing themselves and the healer/ranged dps. We either need the melee dps to run and hide some, or we need to trim the group removing extra melee dps and adding ranged dps. I find this solution unacceptable but blizzard does have bosses that are way easier with a certain group make up. For example: Moam in my aq20 days I would have to swap out member or kindly as certain people to sit out this boss fight, unless you had 3 priests 3 warlock minimum we couldn't kill him and never did even when we got good at the fight. There were "alternate tactics" if you had less than the 3/3 you needed but we never came close to pulling it off, as it was gear Dependant. So possibly having all but the few melee dps that can/has to stay run out , or change raid member before the fight should be looked into. That make more sense? Ghules that healer video is amazing. It shows how you can stack people up in the safe spots to avoid ground slam, then run to their spot to avoid shatter dmg, great find! dabu

of corse Odenn its open to all unfortunately i work day time hours(1-10pm ish est) except sunday i'm home at 8pm so i can only run late night raids

*Dancing next to the smoky fire Crikrunner sends smoke signals out for all to see* Ebil tings stir once more in slithius. I bring this call to arms fer Crushers n frends to stop dem ebils in dah temple of ahn qijal. Send word to me if latz would like to join us. Dabu frends. ((Sign up posted at the usual spot plan is to hit aq40 and 20 depending on how many show up are interested in this kind of event. Shinnies will be rolled upon in the following order those that will use ie 60ish lvl, those that want it for rp purposes, and left overs headed to the de'rs ))

Great stuff Kailand! Also from a healing stand point I think assigned healing would be better. We need 2 hot casters (priest /druid casting a single hot on the dps then going back to healing/nuking) Two or three single target healers on main aggro holder, and 1 or 2 healers on secondary aggro holder. After a shatter all classes that can heal need to target #1 and #2 and top them off then back to their jobs. Then as the fight progresses and gruul hits harder have more healers switch from dps to heals. At the beginning of the fight most of my heals were wasted over heals as we had more healing on the aggro bearers then we needed. Also for aggro slot 2, would a druid have more dps to keep up with the main aggro bearer and more hps for the hits or is a warrior better? This would allow the non main tank to dps and swap in a shield should the main tank die? any of these worth trying?

Here are several useful links I turned up researching the Gruul fight this morning. Also included to are videos of kills using the two main strategies for downing gruul. One if for a raid with only a few melee dps, this involves just spreading out before the ground slam and staying in place. The second is for a raid like ours with lots of melee dps that involves them running and hiding before the ground slam and staying hidden till after shatter goes off then running back in. The death wish video is of this notice a dps warrior hides for 30 seconds doing nothing but they are still able to kill him. Please note regardless of the tactic used melee dps needs to wait to move by gruul till the tanks are back in position and tanks need to use intercept (bear charge for druids) to quickly get back in place even if the stance swap eats up your rage. Also bringing lots of dreamless sleep pots to be used before a shatter is mentioned in one of them we should try this once to see how it goes. Info i still need: I still haven't found concrete info on weather pets affect shatter or not. Wowwiki says no, but they do take the snare but don't do dmg to those around them at shatter, while hunters last night said that they were adding to the damage. Every little bit of dps helps so if they aren't causing dmg to those near by during shatter we should be using them. The wowwiki right up of gruul's basic abilities. http://www.wowwiki.com/Gruul_the_Dragonkiller Basic right up and a good explanation of the abilities: http://cyndre.blogspot.com/2007/03/gruuls-lair-pt-ii.html Movie of a gruul kill: ((This if for a raid with only a few melee, they only loose 1 person till near the end and panic have a bad shatter and kill him with only a few still standing)) Notice they group up for easy group heals, then spread out at 5 seconds till ground slam to proper positions also they are using dreamless sleep pots or at least the ele. shammy does. http://files.filefront.com/7385320 Boss Killers right up: (( Has a chart for positions, note: remind leader to put one melee in each group and spread everyone out next time or like Kailand says maximize dps from grouping but, everyone should have a spot to go to for shatter not a group one here group two here setup. ie crikrunner this is your spot etc...)) http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild...&guide_id=7 Death wish right up: (( Small diagram more useful ideas )) http://www.dwgaming.com/GruulStrat Another right up: ((Baracko read the part about starting the fight j/k )) http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild...;sid=e7APoBCGfn Another right up with diagram: (( This one does an excellent job of showing safe spots )) http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=104 Second movie Death wish kill method: (( Cheesy but shows how much melee dps can hide and still do enough dmg to kill gruul ))

Crikrunner's purty much in same boat Demoan, except my 5 man spec is also a great pvp spec, I just can't farm. I say spec how you want and enjoy playing, if thats not conducive to all areas of the game, then play an alt to fill those void (as will be the case with most classes). ie I have a 65 rogue n mage for soloing or when i feel like seeing big dmg number spamed across the screen or watching mobs die in under 5mins each . Yes there are days I miss being able to farm with crik I miss the old days of enhance/elemental but over all I have more fun this way, and head to my alts when I need a break from watching health bars

Flaky flaky dat me, sum tin came up so nub gonna try n start dis tonight. Maybe later dis week. ---Crikrunnah

Ug latz, the alliance be winning dah war fer lands in outlands. Therefore I purpose Monday nights become a world killing spree. Dah plan: kill dem alliance in Hellfire n tak dem 3 towers, do dah same in the swamp n terrokar (( not sure what time on monday it opens up)) after we distract dem to des zones we shall finish up the night with a blitz on nagrand dis open to all, if der be no alliance responce me may move it to dah weekend or a different night, or if der too many alliance on mondays or dey plan for us, we'll swap up nights Start time be around 10pm est Dah Goals: to hab fun, it latz get mad about dying lots n lots n a few more times after dat, don't come please to hab more fun to meet our fellow crushers to store up dem thrallmar tokens n nagrand tokens fer da tresures I may be on tonight to give it a trial go around if latz interested, ib not we do dit next week (( Please respond to sign up so I may gage if there is interest in this ))