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Also finally finished my damn campaign. Mmm tasty 865 WW weapon, 857-ish Mistweaver and 850 Brewmaster.
Disc priest supposed to be one of the best spot healers with barrier and mend. Stats are a bit wonky though, everything drops mastery but I want haste and critical!
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Monk on the other hand, holy crap. Mythic Darkheart Thicket- sooo much groupwide damage, especially when group is being derpy and taking more than they need to... And I don't really worry about any of it as MW, I just keep everyone basically perma topped at 834 ilvl. Think on the last boss I popped out ~195k hps, and was still at ~35% mana after 3 minutes of fighting. And that was -without- playing Fistweaving; I prolly would've still been at like 50-55% if I was.
Which is another fun thing about MW: If the groupwide damage is sufficiently manageable with just my HoTs I can get up and start wailing on a boss, and be able to still dish out ~45-60k dps.
Zero regrets making this my main, all 3 specs are decent and fun.. Except Brewmaster. I don't like it, some people stand by it but not me. It's doable, but why bring a BrM to raids if you have a warrior/dk/druid tank available. Even DH is better honestly.
I jest. I feel like for PUGs that Holy would be a lot more reliable. Disc seems like the one that needs coordinated people to work well with, since it looks to be kinda hit and miss with being able to deal with constant groupwide damage. That's been my experience with Disc priests thus far anyway, that I've had heal in mythics/heroics.
Speaking of Mythic PUGs I get a lot of shit like this. Spoilering for size.
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[/spoiler] -Note, I left when he said 'rlly wow' - #4 was also a hunter that died last, after the tank did (he shelled the explosion).
I get that I can be a dick at times, but I don't feel like I was particularly harsh here. Seems to be the case a lot when you leave when people screw up tremendously, or are performing at a level that requires you to absolutely work your ass off in order to have bosses downed... I don't mind having to heal through intense damage, but taking 5-6 minutes per boss that should only be taking 2-3, and REALLY stretching my mana, because people are doing dps that is WAY below their gear level... Ugh.
Generally when you're assured that a group is performing fine before joining, you expect them to be doing so.
Resto druid is OP.
Just realizing I haven't posted my tag anywhere...
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- Assault on Violet Hold (pretty much all of the bosses)
- Maw of Souls (Helya, last boss) -- @Lala
- Black Rook Hold (Amalgam of Souls, 1st boss - probably easiest on this list, just painful sometimes)
- Vault of the Wardens (Inquisitor Tormentorum, 2nd boss. So many fail at it.)
- Vault of the Wardens (Tirathon Saltheril, 1st boss. See above.)
Honorable mentions to the last boss of Darkheart Thicket, and the worm boss in Neltharion's Lair. They can be excessive amounts of aids if people don't do their jobs properly.eta: I heard Court of Stars / The Arcway (mythic only dungeons) are pretty tough without majorly coordinated groups as well. Haven't done them yet though, not really geared enough on either char just yet.
Me running through Broken Shore Isle and see Brutallus chasing me. "Nope, nope nope. F&&k you, Oh hell no I'm gonna die. No no no."
As for Eye of Azshara, @Dunn, someone's obviously not playing a warrior :>
Though the camera zoom issue makes that boss really annoying for melee I've heard.
I'm sad that they were on another server
@Stuneree That fight as ranged is the best thing because a lot of that stuff is telegraphed. I've found people are more likely to just not interrupt Torrent ever.
Feral/Warrior/Rogues should be able to do the same thing really with displacer/leap/grappling hook (or shadowstep to friendly target)... DK Idk... just use abomination huddle/shield I guess for 90% reduction. Or wraith walk out of the way + AMS for safety.
(Not making fun of you, genuinely curious) - Everyone I've heard from says that Shadow DPS is absolutely abysmal and shit to play, compared to how it was in the pre-patch, since you're virtually forced to play Surrender To Madness to do 'good' dps, and boss mechanics can easily fuck you over with that. How've you found it? Have any meters to compare with? Interested to see honestly how you stack up with the high-dps ranged (namely ele/hunter) compared to 'shitty' ranged like Lock.
I'd say DK could just stand in middle and move based on direction.
But the problem with the fight isn't the fact that it's hard (because it's actually extremely simple), it's just that people really don't give a shit to do mechanics in pugs, and just want quick gear assuming everyone else does the work.
EDIT: And yeaahhh dude lock dps is ass right now. I'll unquestionably top dps in pugs, but the moment I'm playing with guild players at similar iLvl there isn't even a competition on single-target. I have to make my own pugs too because almost nobody accepts locks lmao.
@Dunn
Yeeah I've been doing it as ranged without much issue, but yeah people not interrupting torrent is baffling to me.
Honestly its shit for short duration pulls. Spriest is kind of like a train starting from a dead stop. I get destroyed by warriors and DH in aoe because they machine gun out their stuff and I have to multi dot before I can erupt/seat for decent damage. 2-3 target pulls I usually come out on top because I can touch/pain and be into my normal rotation fairly quick.
TLDR Great boss damage, hard rotation, mediocre AOE on large packs, good 2-3 target dps.
Ill grab some meters tonight and post screens.
Oh yeah, I didn't just mean by following my method. I just meant in general DK seems to definitely have the poorest mobility nowadays out of the melee. So they might have the lowest window to react to the breath... Personally can't say I've had the issue with torrent outside of in heroic LFD, but I can imagine the horror of having to get hit by 1-2 in Mythic cause of lazy people. Fortunately tanks have been on point with their interrupts when mine were on CD.
Good to hear, I haven't heard much outside of whining and bitching about how awful Spriest has been without STM this patch, so has lead me to be kinda reluctant on inviting any to my groups. Compared to the dps I'd seen them dishing out at the end of WoD in the pre-patch. Interested to see the meters; on 'proper' length fights (2-3 minutes) I've been parsing between 200-250 myself as WW; anywhere as high as 280-300 on short fights / fights with adds like the first EoA boss.
Trash fight is just... Lol... Short-fight pulls I can do as high as 3M dps if they all die within ~5-6s. 1min trash pulls (standard) I've capped out at around 6-700k if I use storm, earth and fire.
eta: Horde or Ally?
eta2: Did a dummy test just for comparative sake. Was over the course of ~2 minutes. Few mistakes, mostly laxing towards the end- was about 235 before I stopped and started typing.
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then I raised Hashan with Jhui instead.