So apparently I can’t go cold turkey from the Warcraft Drug.  I managed to get talked back into raiding again since it’s only 2-3 times a week, and while I often will be out of town and unable to raid, the times I’m not I’ll be working from home and able to do my errands/etc during the day and not consume my whole day with work + raiding. 

Have any of you ever had this problem where you just can’t walk away?

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It appears that conjured pets do not receive the ICC raid buff.  This means that I’m sure shortly gear with the 30% raid buff will surpass the damage of the Val’kyr.

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I hate how it seems all the caster drops we’ve had for us lately in hardmode ICC are crit/spirit, and that no one else wants them.  Since they’re 277 they’re generally more DPS for me when you look at the spirit -> spellpower conversion, given Kings/Imp GotW, but I really hate seeing my spirit push 700 raidbuffed.

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I wish Blizzard would patch the PTR already so I can log in.  (If you have multiple WoW accounts tied to one Battle.net account, you currently cannot log in).  I want to melt the world, damnit.

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Maybe I’m just too lazy to go through all of the options in Rawr after disgust from it’s default settings, however I fail to see how people continue to cite Rawr as a credible source to find upgrades.  I fail to see why it values hit rating so high past cap (or why it values it at all), and why in hell it values haste so high past cap, and why it values MANA PER FIVE AS A SUSTAINABLE DPS TRAIT WHATSOEVER.  Can someone please explain this to me?

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This gripe really has nothing to do with being a druid.  Although it was a druid who caused my ire.  I was pugging ToC on my hunter this week, and a druid decided to claim feral as their mainspec, even though they were healing the instance, and WoW armory showed their specs as resto/balance, wearing balance gear, and the tier 10 balance idol.  They won the roll for [Lupine Longstaff], and the pug raid leader, like a dolt, just gave it to him, even though I pointed out that he’s not feral.

I had my revenge on Anub’arak.  Apparently he doesn’t shapeshift into bear form fast enough when the adds are misdirected to him.  The raid ended up wiping, falling apart, and I had my revenge.

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Am I the only one who hates having to go resto to a) get a nearly instant queue for random dungeons (vice 5-10 minutes as DPS), as well as b) ensure that you have a competent healer so the run goes by decently?  I managed to buy the 3rd piece of Tier 9.45 today, and I forgot I had a piece of 9.32, so I have the 4pc bonus, but I’m trying to grind for a fourth 9.45 piece.  I’ll post some details about the raids and my impressions of the fights and changes to balance druid after this Tuesday, when I have enough experience to get some good data.

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More information was released about Shadowmourne today.  Am I the only one tired of melee legendaries?  Let’s see.  There was [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker], [Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros], and [Warglaive of Azzinoth] / [Warglaive of Azzinoth].  Granted, Sulfuras wasn’t used by many besides enhancement shaman.  This is still the third legendary weapon for warriors.  Healers have had two legendaries, [Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings] and [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian], which was shared by DPS Casters, and it is arguably the hardest legendary to obtain at the time.  (Endgame Naxxramas40 is still probably the least obtained content by guilds, even to this day).  Yet, Blizzard decides to make another melee legendary weapon.

Knowing our luck, the next legendary will be a caster sword.

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Am I the only one who dislikes that MMO-Champion forces you to try to install the java applet so you can watch when they’re streaming the Pro Gaming tournaments?  I’m just there to read about updates, not to see people game.

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Ghostcrawler posted the following about Nature’s Grace:

I agree Nature’s Grace is a big part of the problem here. We changed Gift of the Earth Mother for pretty similar reasons. However, Nature’s Grace is a Really Big Deal. We honestly keep talking about changing it, but we’re also paranoid about screwing it up because Balance dps is dependent on it. NG is probably an overbudget talent, but in this case if we nerfed iit, we’d have to mess with Balance in a lot of other areas to compensate. We’ll almost certainly do it at some point, but I worry about messing with it for 3.3.

I’m glad he finally realizes something the rest of the community has been complaining about for a long time.  A lot of our DPS is situated around one or two talents (Nature’s Grace and Eclipse), and they have no short term method of ever fixing it.  Now if he could only admit that Eclipse is broken.

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