Comments on: What I Expect from Icecrown Citadel

By: mastarwe

mastarwe — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:52 +0000

didn't know about 1), ty for the info.

By: Grimsdel

Grimsdel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:02:52 +0000

k thanks you two!

By: Macbook

Macbook — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:53:20 +0000

Grimsdel — Your aggro issues will 100% be resolved when you pick up Nature's Reach. Drop 1 point from Moonglow, and 1 from Owlkin Frenzy, or Improved Moonfire (its only useful if you have 2pc T9), etc. And put 2/2 Nature's Reach.

It's a must have for any boomkin. Moonkins running with tanks of equal gear should have no issues with aggro — I can't pull in guild runs no matter how hard I try. PuGs, however, are a different story.

Ballerkin

By: Xiera

Xiera — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:22:26 +0000

Step 1: Make sure you have Nature's Reach.
Step 2: Tell your paladins to macro their Hand of Salvation to you.
Step 3: Ask your hunters and rogues to Misdirect and Tricks of the Trade more often.
Step 4: Tell your tanks to learn how to play.
Step 5: Find tanks who know how to play.

It could just be that your tanks are undergeared. This actually happened to me… a brought a bunch of my friends from my old guild over to my new one (it was more like a merger, but yeah) and all of us were pulling aggro at some point or another. If your tanks' gear is as good as yours, they really need to learn how to play.

By: Grimsdel

Grimsdel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:05:59 +0000

so here's a topic and i have this issue alot. For the life of me, I can't stop pulling threat. If you have any ideas on how to fix that please let me know. If you want to check my gear and such just wow-heroes me Grimsdel (Black Dragonflight). I think I've tried everything. The last time i backed off my dps when this happened I was told to pick up dps and I was like we'll if you want me to pull aggro and wipe the raid sure! Well thanks!

By: Xiera

Xiera — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:07:19 +0000

I don't think this is as big of an issue as you think it is, for two reasons:

1) It only applies to cross-server PuGs. That means you can still get a group together on your server and not be subject to those restrictions.

2) Blizzard has been getting better with their itemisation of leather. If that trend continues, we'll hopefully be seeing leather that is on-par with cloth in terms of itemisation.

It is going to be a problem for other classes too, as you mentioned. The thing to remember at lower levels is that you're going to be replacing your items quickly, so hopefully it doesn't end up being a huge deal for you.

What they *really* need to do is just say: okay, all healer gear is going to be cloth, all caster DPS gear is going to be cloth, all agility (rogues, druids, hunters, shamans) gear is going to be leather, all strength (shamans, warriors, paladins, DKs) gear is going to be mail, and all tank gear is going to be plate. There, problem solved.

By: Xiera

Xiera — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:16 +0000

From my understanding, Blizz even admitted that rushed to push ToC out and released it too soon. It was a good idea to try, but I really don't think it played out well.

By: mastarwe

mastarwe — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:30:56 +0000

what I hope for in ICC is challenges that have not been seen, hardmodes that make you think oh shit when you see them, (like earth, wind and fire achievement, or herald of the titans).

The new need before greed system sucks -.-
I think this because you will only be able to need on your major armor class, for druids that's leather. But this doesn't count for raids, and before you raid on 80, some items you will have in your gear are cloth (i need better gear for healing, but same goes for moonkin), this also counts for low-level instances, and because im lvling ele shaman, they will rly have to improve the loot so that it fits, or I won't be able to continue that. I know that this problem i not only for these classes, one example is pala healers, I know of some that use a few SP mail items, etc.
summary:
better gear is needed if the new system will function, at least on those items where preraid BiS means cloth (for druids).

By: Macbook

Macbook — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:43:57 +0000

I 100% prefer hardmodes in the same instance and only by activating — it seems lazy of Blizz to stop using creating mechanics to engage hardmodes and simply have one switch to activate all hardmodes at the same time.

LAME

By: Macbook

Macbook — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:42:10 +0000

I was optimistic today, but I agree with you on — I think its nearly impossible to expect Blizzard to make content difficult such as BT/SWP. Oh well