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by Michael Sacco 
May 1st 2011 at 12:00PM
I'm tired. I've been tanking all weekend. Let's do this Queue so I can sleep and do it all over again tomorrow.
Crispn asked:
Is it me or are the new Zandalari fights way too healing intensive? The eagle boss in Zul'Aman for example, I had 17.8k hps that fight, just to keep us alive. This is a little much, no?
While the new instances are definitely on a higher difficulty level than current heroics and they do require more healing output, most fights are types of brain checks as opposed to heal checks (Nalorakk and Halazzi excepted). For Akil'zon, as I discovered tanking the place yesterday, he only gives one person the Static Disruption debuff at a time, but it'll chain to people who're within 12 yards of his target. So if everyone is spaced out 12 yards, only one person will get hit with it, guaranteed. You then have until the next Electrical Storm phase (or until it expires) to deal with the debuff.
Also, though this has nothing to do with healing, you can melee, stun, and slow the white eagles.
Draol asked:
Is there a particular reason they stopped implementing Dungeon Sets? There were 1 & 2 during Vanilla, and it carried on into BC with Dungeon Set 3, but when Wrath came around they were nowhere to be seen.
Was there a special reason, or did Blizzard just think it was unnecessary?
I can't speak for Blizzard, but nowadays you already have all the elements of dungeon sets in the cohesive art styles of heroic, rep, and point vendor gear at the same item level. The only thing missing is the set bonus, and I think that might be the reason why you don't see named dungeon sets now, actually. Set bonuses encourage people to keep their set pieces together when, nowadays, pre-raid gear is intended to be a stepping stone to the next level of gear, a this'll do for now kind of thing. Besides, jealousy is a pretty good motivator to get better gear. "Aw man, I want a set bonus too!"
Mayanvampire asked:
In vash'jr, one of the shaman mentions that there is a fifth element, which allows shamans to connect with the creatures of the land, and maybe nature, are there life elementals? if so, could there be a life elemental lord?
Commenter Jormund Fenris sums up the fifth element for those who don't closely follow lore:
If you're looking for a life elemental, the closest thing would probably be any of the giant plants you see in various zones or on bosses like Freya and Ammunae. As for an elemental lord of the wilds, well, we don't know for sure, but there sure are a lot of demigods (especially night elf demigods) that could fill that role, such as Aessina."Spirit of the Wilds. The essentials is that shamans primarily use the first four elements, and very rarily the fifth. In contrast, druids focus entirely on the fifth and disregard the other four. The only shaman spell of the fifth element in-game is Ancestral Spirit, the shammie-ressurection spell."
Metzganator asked:
Did the feature to reorder your characters on the loggin screen come in 4.1? if so how do i access it?
Blizzard recently stated in its UI Q&A that it's slated for arrival in 4.2.
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 7)
Elvgren May 2nd 2011 2:15PM
Dornaa will be the next expansion :-) That way they can reuse Outlands!
twbrienn May 1st 2011 1:37PM
Sacco i have to respectfully disagree on halazzi being a heal check as it was at 70. Simply ignore the cat and stand in the water totem's circle. Keep Halazzi out of it and kite him around. The totem negates 80% of the cat's damage. Kill the lightning totem and you're golden....as long as your DPS actually hit the troll and not his kitty. You could say it's a meta brain check disguised as a heal check.
GrumblyStuff May 1st 2011 1:41PM
Are we nostalgic for WotLK yet?
Skarn May 1st 2011 3:31PM
Nah.
Siorra May 1st 2011 1:42PM
Sort of a question:
I sincerely hope I'm not the only who misses random pieces of loot from raids that are the same iLevel but don't match the tier pieces. Except for weapons, every item you get will make you look distinctively like your class. Although that's not a bad thing, does anyone else wish there were little extra pieces? Black Temple was great for this, filled with fun looking items like Cursed Vision of Sargeras, Pauldrons of Abyssal Fury and Cowl of the Illidari High Lord. What do you reckon the chances of items like this making a return one day?
Maccabeus May 1st 2011 1:42PM
Spirit Wolves for enhance shammies are another life element spell.
Scooba May 1st 2011 1:44PM
Question:
What are your thoughts on blizzard putting old out leveled dungeons in the dungeon finder? Maybe my level 85 mage wants to run newbies thru wailing caverns?
Saeadame May 1st 2011 3:17PM
They are in the dungeon finder... if you're that level. I hadn't heard anything about being able to queue as a max-level character for them.
Suzaku May 2nd 2011 7:14AM
Probably extremely low. I know a lot of players probably wouldn't appreciate being grouped with a level 85 who is just going to one-shot everything while they watch.
Gimmlette May 1st 2011 1:55PM
What happened to "Guild of the Month"?
Meighan May 1st 2011 2:12PM
One thing I've found results in extra damage/healing needed is leaving the little eagles up. If I find myself not being able to keep up with incoming damage, I check if there are a lot of little birds trying to kill the party.
(paly healer, i-lvl 356)
Revynn May 1st 2011 2:16PM
- "Also, though this has nothing to do with healing, you can melee, stun, and slow the white eagles."
You can also continue to cast spells and attack them while you're picked up. Even hunters, the birds don't seem to have that dead zone. It also seems like you're permanently considered to be "behind" the bird when picked up, so Kitty's can still Shred and Sub Rogues can . . . Ambush, I think?
gamerunknown May 1st 2011 5:18PM
Backstab, or ambush with shadow dance up.
Mike May 1st 2011 2:39PM
With the random dungeon finder set to give us a bonus 7 times over a week, when does the week re-set? Is it a set day of the week, or 7 days after your first random dungeon?
Saeadame May 1st 2011 3:01PM
Likely tuesday reset, just like the raids.
alpha5099 May 1st 2011 2:48PM
To add on to the question about shamans and the Spirit of the Wild, I believe that Ghost Wolf and Feral Spirits would also be spells evoking this fifth element.
AllOneWord May 1st 2011 3:44PM
Qeustion:
Everyone knows that when 4.2 rolls around all our valor points will be turned into justice points, but what about the pre-existing justice points? Will we keep those or will they disappear forever and be replaced by the incoming valor points?
Skarn May 1st 2011 3:56PM
Current Justice Points should stay, they'll just be added to. I don't know if you can go over the cap though.
Situation 1: Bob has 1000 Justice and 500 Valor pre-4.2. After the patch, he has 1500 Justice and 0 Valor.
Situation 2: George has 3000 Justice and 1100 Valor pre-4.2. After the patch, does he have 4000 Justice? Or 4100 Justice? He'll have 0 Valor
There was a grace period back when badges were converted to points at the end of Wrath. During this period, you could have more than 4000 Justice, if your badges conversion gave you more. Then when Cata was released any excess was wiped. Will that grace period exist with 4.2? I don't know.
GrandOldDuke May 1st 2011 8:06PM
Given they've managed to accomplish it once, and it won't require some oh-so-difficult programming to implement, I'm sure the grace period of overcapping will be there in 4.2.
Anaughtybear May 1st 2011 7:03PM
According to Musashi's Book of Five Rings, the fifth element is Void. It is emptiness, or understanding of all things. It's pretty tricky to describe or implement that, so just go with Leeloo Dallas Multipass.