I'm a tankadin and I'm having a bit of problem with my threat lately. I get pulled off easily by high dps classes like hunters, arms warriors, or locks even. It's getting a tad annoying and I do what I can to hold threat. I use the 96969 rotation which is supposed to give maximum threat and I pop my wings on boss pulls. I always lay down my aoe but it still gets pulled even. My guild won't let me tank ICC until I "fix" my threat problem so I'm benched and healing on my druid instead.
My armory is here http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Azshara&n=Lelandarin
Any tips/suggestions/advice? :(
I have the Libram of Valiance that gives 200 STR by SoV/SoCorr ticks. I use it for threat sometimes since str gives sp via our talent Touched by the Light.

hey ladies, i've recently respec'd my priest holy to try and get used the spec for end game raiding. shes only 77, but i want to start practicing in 5 mans. i've played a disc priest in arenas before so i'm really comfortable with that that style of play, but holy is entirely new to me. i did my first 5man today and it was awful, totally my fault :[

can i get some pointers? i bubbled and g healed the tank, but he still died *plus i was too flustered to even guardian spirit him* while the rest of the group was taking on many damages too. it was the first pull of gundrak, the 3 snakes, and our shaman didn't put down cleansing.

yeah i really need some tips. i hate asking for a "rotation" cause i know there isnt one, its pretty much just priority...
i really miss penance :[

thanks!

-EDIT-
Thank you everyone SOOOO much for all the info!!! ^_^

Teapot
frame or other pretty frames that would fit a diploma (a pair would be awesome because then my BA and my MS could be in matching frames)
Li Bien ornament
White cloth tablecloth, with matching white napkins (or red and white checks)
Air popcorn popper or this
Set of GOOD knives or even just one or two really nice ones for cooking
Silver or silver-look taper candle holders
Sephora gift card
Torrid, Avenue, Lane Bryant gift card (or pretty much anywhere that sells plus sized women's clothing)
Knitting lessons (from a person preferably) and knitting starter kit
Sewing notions (anything a complete beginner with just a machine would need)
Zappo's gift card
Etsy gift card
this
burned audiobook you think I would like
Relaxation CDs I could use at work
Gift certificate to We Love Colors or other hosiery place that does weird and pretty hosiery for fatchix
WiiFit with board
new Brandi Carlile, and entire catalog of Girlyman, which was lost to me (pirated/burned ok with me)
cute plus size patterns
cute material
Picnik premium membership
pink shirtdress like this I am usually a size 24.
this dress4x

Charms I'd like: handcuff charms
UHCL/UH
one that says Counselor or has a counseling theme or psychology symbol or says LPC
hot air balloon one
star charm
clothes hanger
perfume bottle
hearts charm
ice cream, cupcake, or cake charm
unicorn
An enamel pineapple charm
pentacle charm and/or other celtic style charms


Unlikely but still a wish:
laptop
car

Dear everyone,




Say Hello! That's Brooklyn. An acquaintance of mine had to put one of his dogs, her, up for adoption, so I am trying to spread the word in hopes she is given a new home. I haven't been able to get in touch with him since he put her up, but I am fairly certain this pup was placed in the North Central Animal Shelter in Cypress on Tracy Street since it's the closest.

Her name is Brooklyn, and she is a Pit/Shephard mix. She's not quite two years old, and is bouncy, friendly, loves people, and loves to lick/be petted. She cannot be around other dogs; while she used to live happily with her chihuahua and westie roomie, she had an incident of dog aggression against the Westie and thus has proven herself in need of being the only dog in her human's home. Again, she loves people! I'd adopt her myself, but my building doesn't allow it and my roomie has a cat.

I may post again if I find out specifics as to her adoption, if she has to be adopted by a certain date, etc. I kept calling the 1-888 animal services number today and they kept disconnecting me. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS!!

Aside from an icon modification I'm all finished with my latest batch and I'm ready to accept new commissions!

You guys really like elves! Draenei too but mostly elves. XD I think every commission I got was an elf except like 2 trolls and an orc. It was an avalanche of elves!! ( an 'elfalanche' if you will: )

WANT ONE!?
Please read this awesome LJcut first!
( How to Commission Me: )


Annnd I think that's mostly it.
Thanks and I hope to hear from you soon! :D

Status: 10/10 ALL FULL THANKS!

So I decided to dust off my Ret Pally earlier this month and I finally hit 69. I decided to change her to Prot so I can start tanking (something I have always wanted to do)

Wow it is quite a change, I googled a few places and checked Elitist Jerks and now that I have my tree down, can anyone provide assistance to a rotation?

This is the formula I am following for my talent tree: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#sVZE0tAbuMGsIufdxb

The Wow armory hasn't upgraded my changes yet today, otherwise I would post my gear...

How do I create macros? I have never used macros for playing, I just always point and click. LOL

Thanks for the advice and tip, you ladies are wonderful..

*passes out free cookies*

Hello all!
I was wondering if you could help me track down the Tales of the Past trilogy. All I have found so far are really laggy videos on google video or chopped up ones on youtube. The videos on Warcraft Movies arn't working and I don't want to wait nine hours to download them on filefront -.- Ideally, I just want decent quality videos without having to download them.

I've heard many goods things about these movies and I would really like to see them.
Thanks for the help :)

EDIT: My terrible grammar

A vegan friend of mine posted this on her Facebook which I immediately had to share and then come here to share more! Apologies if it has been posted before.

http://pigspeace.org/movies/homeForLifeMovie.html

It's a short documentary about a pig sanctuary and shares some of the stories of the pigs that live there. It's non-graphic and gave me a serious case of the warm fuzzies.

So I know there's a master post about 3.3 however, I think this doesn't only apply to the new raid even though I'm using the new raid as my example, so I thought I'd post it here. Besides, I think this could be a really interesting discussion, and I really want to hear your thoughts, before I make my final judgement call.

So yesterday, I hand picked a team of ten, my main goal was to get my Main Tank, one of my Off Tanks, and my four best healers in there, and learn the basis of the fights as our 25 man raid on ICC is on Friday. Obviously not all of the healers could heal, so we had one come on a DPS alt. We rolled our way onto the first boss, giggling like school children, happy to have our trash back. (Who knew we'd miss trash pulls!) Those who didn't get picked to go were told they were allowed to hang out on vent, since I'd be talking boss strats anyhow, as long as they were quiet.

As some of you know, the first two bosses have a few odd threat things going on. The first one does a cleave on his target that is split to the nearest raid member of the target. Hopefully, that's the tank and off tank who are stacked on top of each other. Unfortunately, at one point that wound up being our DPS warrior and Holy Pally. Also, getting aggro back on the first boss after he does a certain ability takes a moment too. The second boss puts a debuff on the tanks that reduces their threat, so the tanks have to go back and forth, but the tanks also have to build up threat to take the boss back from the other tank. If a DPS winds up higher on threat then both tanks during this process they're toast.

Of course Omen came up during the raid because of the large discussion on vent about threat, and one of the listening DPS (a ret paladin who is a constant aggro whore) said in guild chat that they never use omen, because it's the tank's job to watch -their- threat. And that the in game system telling him he's at 90% threat so he should back off is enough to keep him alive. (Only, it hasn't been.) If he's dying because of aggro, it's the tanks faults for sucking, not his. He then went on to say that I am crazy to expect him to install Omen before he's allowed on any guild raid again, because he's played this way since he starting playing wow.

With the new fights I truly think that going off of "I'm at 90% according to blizzard, I should stop" isn't enough when one of the tanks might be at 89% and you being at 90% can cause yourself and a healer to get one shot. I truly think that being able to see where you are at in comparison to the other DPS and tank is important. Hell, another DPS could unfortunately be the person at 100% and they could feign and you'd be the person taking the cleave on the first boss!

Now said DPSer is complaining that I'm making him install it and prove that he has it installed (He's the type to lie about these sort of things.) before he's allowed to come any raids. Another DPS or two who were online were kicking and grumbling about the fact that I am telling people they have to have it.

So I'm wondering, am I crazy to expect this? Saying, you download a lightweight addon or you don't raid until you do? Most people in the guild say no, because top raiding guilds on our server have whole lists of things you need to have installed. I'm asking for a pretty light weight addon.

Also, is it only the tanks job to keep an eye on aggro? If my two very well geared and talented tanks can't keep me safe, then to me as a warlock, it means I have threat management issues. Have I been looking at it wrong?

Discuss please? I'd like to hear both sides of the discussion in an intelligent manner.

Edited to add: Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy that I even have to have this discussion? I didn't even know people raided without threat meters until yesterday!

I just stumbled across this video, and it sorta bummed me out. It's not even that they eat meat (which is, of course, gross and disappointing)--it's the disgusting way they talk about it.

Also, someone should probably let them know that the corpses that are slung at McDonalds aren't "free range".

I love their music, and have for years, but this video makes them look like idiots.

So, hopefully I'm not the only one who logged on a lower-level character to try out the new features that have been given to us.

Have you used the new cross-server lfg system to join an old world or BC lowbie PuG? Is it an improvement over previous methods?

Have you seen the functionality of the new quest log? What do you think of it?

( My totally valid anecdotes )

My hunter, Sarayana was my raiding main back when we first ran Naxx. She got super lucky and picked up Journey's End. Since then, she's pretty much been sidelined, but with the new dungeon tool, she's trying everything and working her way towards the pug minipet. Today, I picked up two 1-handers for her: Blood Weeper and Nighttime.

Instead of just rushing out and enchanting them, I thought I'd do some research, and I'm scratching my head. The wowhead item comparison (with enchants) shows that they score about the same as my current weapon. They're a huge boost in agility, but a drop in AP (which I expected). However, wowwiki tells me that hunters now only get one AP per agility instead of two (told ya it's been a while...). So my question is, what would you do? Are they upgrades, or not? Should I leave it and hope Orca-hunter's Harpoon drops for me?

As always, your input and help is MUCH appreciated, I'm scratching my head over this.



I don't know if there are any other tags that are appropriate for this.. Sorry.

Still haven't found my totem bar and now my LFG button is missing! I don't mind the totem thing so much, but I need the LFG button! I'm pretty much stuck pugging because of my work schedule and I was really looking forward to trying the new system out. I read the info provided in the post for my previous question, but it says nothing about adding back a button that is missing. I've looked at everything very closely and it's just not there anymore. Anyone have any ideas? I would be greatly appreciative!


Edited to add: I think I'm just gonna use i for now. Not sure what happened to the thing, but as long as I can get to the Dungeon Finder I'm ok lol. Thanks for all your help, ladies! <3

On the 19th of November, I ordered an authenticator. I figured it would be a little late because of the demand and the Thanksgiving/Black Friday mailing traffic. But now it's nearly a month later, and I still haven't receieved it. :\

When I go to the website, it gives me a tracking number and has it only listed as 'shipped'. But when I go to the USPS tracking site, it says that number doesn't exist at all.

Is this sort of wait average? I sent in an email last night and will try to call them by phone this afternoon, but I figured I should check here first. If it is lost, does anyone know if they will replace the lost one, or will I have to cash out for another one?

The VILLALOBOS PIT BULL RESCUE NEEDS BLANKETS!!!

They have 200 freezing pit bulls! With the amount of dogs they have, they go through blankets very quickly. It's so cold up there right now that their pipes have frozen!

The Pit Bulls of Villalobos NEED YOUR HELP!! Please send blankets!! If you are local and you even want to help take the dirty and wet ones to the laundry mat, that would be MUCH appreciated!

Please email volunteer@vrcpitbull.com if you need to make drop off arrangements.

Shipping address is:

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PLEASE PASS THIS ON!

I've been dual-boxing a mage and hunter through Recruit-A-Friend. They're levels 55 and 54 now, so I should have 5 levels of easy XP left, except I'm not getting the bonus. I can summon and grant levels, but as of yesterday I'm not getting the bonus XP or reputation. I've got about a month left of RAF, and intended to level another set as high as I could in that time.

I'm on a Mac. I created a copy of the WoW application so I could open two instances of the game easily, and use the same folders and settings for both accounts. They're on the same battlenet account. I don't know if any of these things are contributing to the problem. Mostly I'm confused. Is it a bug? Is it something I should ticket? I can't find anything helpful on the forums.

I always get alts stuck between levels 50-58- it's not fun and I just can not power through it. The bonus XP has been driving me the past few levels, honestly.

Hi ladies! Yes, it's me again. In the end, I made a Blood Elf mage on Aman'Thul. I love her to bits, but being a squish is not cool.

Anyway.

I made a shaman alt on Nagrand tonight, and was wondering what spec would be best for levelling? And what stats should I be looking out for as that particular spec?

Thanks, and yeah. Sorry about the questions. >_>;;

Ok, so I am officially Mutilate on my rogue because 1. omg damage and 2. daggers have decided to love me and will now drop quite readily in my presence.

I went into ICC last night and got this: Heartpierce

The energy return thing is pretty interesting. Its proc rate isn't bad (energy gained breakdown so far is usually about 60% Focused Attacks, 22% Relentless Strikes, and 16% Invigoration). But without all those stats I've gotten accustomed to seeing on weapons... should I still use it?

It's replacing Nemesis Blade (heroic), so the dps alone seems worth it, but I'm still not really sure how I feel about it. :|





New loot and content makes me feel like such a noob. >:|