[t r o N]

i just out DPS'd everyone in a toc 25 using an ashkandi

[Siendra]

Enjoying the class previews so far.

The Shaman on in particular was pretty awesome. I can't wait to set up Helaing Rain to play the Chorus of "It's raining men" through vent.

I also liked the hunter one since I'll be rolling a Goblin Hunter in Cata and prefer BM and the preview was mostly "BM will be viable now".

The Rogue one was... eh. Basically completely PvP focused. I don't need more CD's >.<! Admittedly Smoke Bomb sounds cool, but I'm willing to bet it will be Cata's Heroic Leap or Soul Link. Cheapshot going on the DM isn't a huge deal to me. Stun locking was basically only arena fair and world pvp (I miss world pvp...) the vast majority of the time. I get hunted by packs of players in BG's, so Stun lock is normally out of the question. Redirect seems really clunky and badly thought out on a base level.

The Druid one was nice. Mostly about streamlining. I don't play resto (And wont as I have a shaman for that) so the Tree of Life change isn't a huge deal to me. It does sound like a serious PvP buff, though...

I like the Warlock changes too. I'll roll a Worgen one eventually, and the new mechanics sound interesting. Would have liked to have seen a new demon or increased range of mobs that can be enslaved, but whatever.

The rest of them I'm not super interested in. Although I can't wait for Life Grip. The griefing will be GLORIOUS.

So, what do you guys think so far?

[Siendra]

So I take it the class previews weren't your guy's thing?

What about the zone previews? I want to see more of Vashj'ir.

[TeleportSandwich]

I honeslty haven't been paying to much attention to WoW lately. I really should seing as I still have to characters to level and I've barely touched ICC at all

[Siendra]

I'm confused as to whether beta or the extended alpha is starting right now. Either way, I wanna fiddle with rage normalization on Druids (War too, I guess) and focus on Hunters :/

[Artie]

Hunter's focus change seems amazing to me, though that may just be because I play a hunter as my main. Honestly, it doesnt seem as if our rotations are going to change much at all, aside that we might have a few more steady shots in there than we do now.

[LeadingMan]

Siendra, on 03 May 2010 - 03:29 PM, said:

I'm confused as to whether beta or the extended alpha is starting right now. Either way, I wanna fiddle with rage normalization on Druids (War too, I guess) and focus on Hunters :/

I assure you that as always most people on the internet who are reporting on this don't know what they're talking about.

[Siendra]

LeadingMan, on 03 May 2010 - 03:40 PM, said:

I assure you that as always most people on the internet who are reporting on this don't know what they're talking about.

That's normally the case with most things ~

I'd laugh if it was all one massive troll that took off.

[t r o N]

mmo champion is usually fairly accurate

I'm probably going to stick with my DK in cataclysm, the new spells look pretty cool and i have too many crazy achievements and titles to want to give them up rofl

[LeadingMan]

t r o N, on 03 May 2010 - 04:59 PM, said:

mmo champion is usually fairly accurate

They're not bad in a lot of ways. Unfortunately a lot of the time they take some piece they data mine and run a bit further than the truth.

[Siendra]

I'm going to main my Shaman. I enjoy healing, and ele is pretty fun as an off-spec. There's a lot of things I like about my Rogue, and I'm going to miss some of the achievements/titles, but they're just so much more annoying to play at every level.

Going to miss doing fetch quests that normally take twenty or thirty minutes in a minute or two...

[Artie]

I'm probably gonna stick with my hunter. I love my DK but I still love the hunter even more.

[Artie]

in other news im really wishing i had an alpha/beta key.

[TeleportSandwich]

I GOT MY SHIT HACKED INTO AND ALL MY CHARACTERS WHERE DELETED! OH HAPPY DAY!

[LeadingMan]

Just call support. They fix this shit all the time. Oh, and get a better password and/or an authenticator. Everyone thinks it won't happen to them until it does and guess what? It happens a lot.

[TeleportSandwich]

Started a Drenia Priest to kill time while Bliz recovers my characters. He's up to level 12 but I'm finding soloing to be pretty slow going so far (guess thats a given with a healer character though). Also I already received some emails saying which of my characters were going to be recovered but they still haven't show up in the character select screen and I received said email a full week ago. Does it normally take them that long?

edit: the person who hacked my account also seems to have respeced my Shaman into enhancement and gotten rid of all the elemental gear and replaced some of it with the proper tier 9 enhance shit. Are enhance shamans better over all in the DPS department or should I just bug Bliz to recover my previous gear/spec too?

[Siendra]

Enh can put out strong dps, but it's not an easy spec to roll with.

[TeleportSandwich]

Finally got to run ICC 10 tonight (with a random PuG no less). Didn't get any new gear but at least I got some expireance running the first 4 bosses.

[TeleportSandwich]

trying to learn how to heal but I am absolutely terrible at it

[Siendra]

What class? Using any addons? What do you have for healing gear?