Macros for Moroes and Other Lame But Useful Trivialities

On 8 Sty, 17:15, Orion Ryder <orionry....DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I also set up some marcros that will make it a lot easier for me to
> target and heal the raid members in the other group.These should come
> in handy ill I have time to examine and test some healing add-ons.

Get a healing addon - it's much easier to spot who need emergency heal
and during boss fights, one click vs click+key really can make a
difference. I use healbot, as it's simpler to set up and supports
healing, buffing, cleansing and so on, but people have good opinions
about Grid + Clique combo too.

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mbgaski.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 8, 11:15 am, Orion Ryder <orionry....DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I also set up some marcros that will make it a lot easier for me to
> > target and heal the raid members in the other group.These should come
>
> Um, why aren't you just healing them the same way as you're healing
> the people in your own group? Click name, then press heal hotkey
> (or click button with mouse, depending on preference).

The macro sets me up to heal the other group the same way I am healing
my own group.

> If you're not using some type of raidframes addon, you really should
> (even though Blizzard includes a basic form of this built in - go to
> raid tab, drag out group).

Yep dragged the group out. Still too slow for my liing, that's why i
created the macros.

As for add-ons, I'm going to have to download a few, preferably ACE
ones and test them out beforehand and find the one I like best.

When I have time.

> I use X-Perl right now, but I used CT_RaidFrames for a long, long
> time, and have also used SRaidFrames in the past.
>
> Mike
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Matt wrote:
> On 8 Sty, 17:15, Orion Ryder <orionry....RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I also set up some marcros that will make it a lot easier for me to
> > target and heal the raid members in the other group.These should come
> > in handy ill I have time to examine and test some healing add-ons.
>
> Get a healing addon - it's much easier to spot who need emergency heal
> and during boss fights, one click vs click+key really can make a
> difference. I use healbot, as it's simpler to set up and supports
> healing, buffing, cleansing and so on, but people have good opinions
> about Grid + Clique combo too.
>
> --
> Regards
> Matt

Yeah I'll check them out in due time.

I just want to make sure that the result is that I am actually there
still playing the game as opposed to watching a movie or having too
many things spoonfed by an add-on.

Orion
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:15:30 -0800 (PST), Orion Ryder
<orionryder.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:

>And I also did a respec on my priest. That will be in another thread.

Ok, I'm wanting to hear about the priest

Currently, my priest is at 61. Been holy spec from the start, with 7
in Shadow (Spirit Tap and Imp SW:Pain) and 5 in Disc (Wand spec).

Now, after a level and a bit in Outland, I've respecced to
Holy/Shadow. Shadow down to Shadowform and a couple others, Holy down
to Empowered Healing but leaving out Lightwell (Used maybe two times,
and both times the others started "Whats that? and so on)

So, when I'm out soloing, I get to shadowform, mindflay mindblast and
so on, and when I get asked " r u haela" (before I put them on ignore)
I can still do the healer thing as well as before.

Once I get to 70, I'll probably respec again as holy/disc just like
everyone else, to get divine spirit/imp DS.

But for the moment I can at least kill stuff before the last one I
killed respawns.

Seriously.. the quest from Falcon Watch where you have to collect
tailfeathers off buzzards... My paladin just ran around the skeleton
thats there, collected all the mobs and let them commit suicide on the
shield spike. Then sat down and waited 5 minutes for them all to
respawn.

my priest killed one, moved the next killed that by which time the
first one had respawned.. I basically killed the same two birds over
and over again.
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:47:42 +0000, Barry Freeman <bazz DeleteThis @nospam.co.uk>
wrote:

>But for the moment I can at least kill stuff before the last one I
>killed respawns.
>
>Seriously.. the quest from Falcon Watch where you have to collect
>tailfeathers off buzzards... My paladin just ran around the skeleton
>thats there, collected all the mobs and let them commit suicide on the
>shield spike. Then sat down and waited 5 minutes for them all to
>respawn.
>
>my priest killed one, moved the next killed that by which time the
>first one had respawned.. I basically killed the same two birds over
>and over again.

Seriously? You must've had a pure healing spec build then, because my
priest was killing 5-6 before any respawns, no problems, that being with a
holy/disc build, but including the damage talents. Frankly I kill faster
with that build that I did when I tried shadow, shadow is just *horrible*
to solo with unless you have uber gear already.
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Naomh - Draenei Priest (lvl 70)
Rosad - Human Warlock (lvl 70)
Sealgair - Dwarf Hunter (lvl 70)
Sagart - Undead Priest (lvl 70)
Eilnich - Blood Elf Warlock (lvl 60)
Beag - Dwarf Paladin (lvl 60)
Sgoildubh - Human Mage (lvl 53)
Cathach - Gnome Warrior (lvl 30)
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On 10 Jan, 11:03, Barry Freeman <b....RemoveThis@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:32:55 +0000, Catriona R
>
> <catrionarNOS....RemoveThis@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> >Seriously? You must've had a pure healing spec build then, because my
> >priest was killing 5-6 before any respawns, no problems, that being with a
> >holy/disc build, but including the damage talents. Frankly I kill faster
> >with that build that I did when I tried shadow, shadow is just *horrible*
> >to solo with unless you have uber gear already.
>
> hmm... well, I was specced as I said... Holy all the way with just the
> top bits in Shadow and Disc.
>
> It's not that I couldn't kill stuff, it was just really slow..

Whilst I was levelling in outlands I went Holy/Disc with 5 points in
Spirit Tap from about level 63. With the build that I had I could
kill a load of mobs (1 or 2 at a time) before I had to drink. It
would literally be about 5 minutes between drinks which was good as it
meant that I didn't have to drink at all once I got Shadowfiend
(obviously, unless there was a multi-mob pull). The spec also allowed
me to accept all instance invites for a healer.

The increased speed of killing with shadow spec was offset by the
increased down-time IMO. (I'm like this with driving too - I'd rather
travel 20 miles at an average 40 mph than 10 miles stopping and
starting at an average 20 mph)

steve.kaye
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On Jan 9, 9:34 am, Orion Ryder <orionry....DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> As for add-ons, I'm going to have to download a few, preferably ACE
> ones and test them out beforehand and find the one I like best.

Yeah I prefer Ace based addons too. Of those raid frames that I
mentioned, sRaidFrames is Ace based. You can also get oRA2 as well
which is an Ace based replacment for the backend portions of
CTRaidAssist. Just the part that does tank lists, polls, checks for
durability and reagent counts, etc. Far less intrusive and far less
resource hungry than CTRaidAssist.

Mike
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On Jan 9, 10:32 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS... DeleteThis @totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> with that build that I did when I tried shadow, shadow is just *horrible*
> to solo with unless you have uber gear already.

Shadow isn't that bad at all. Granted, I'm only up to level 55 on my
priest, but overall I haven't run into much trouble with her. Only
problem is handling multiple mobs at once. 2 I an *usually* handle.
3 and I'm toast. That's compared to my hunter where I would
purposefully pull a group of 5 mobs and come out just fine .

Overall though, my problem class lately has been my Shammy. Only to
level 33 on that toon, but man, I die a LOT .

Mike
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:32:55 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM DeleteThis @totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>Seriously? You must've had a pure healing spec build then, because my
>priest was killing 5-6 before any respawns, no problems, that being with a
>holy/disc build, but including the damage talents. Frankly I kill faster
>with that build that I did when I tried shadow, shadow is just *horrible*
>to solo with unless you have uber gear already.

hmm... well, I was specced as I said... Holy all the way with just the
top bits in Shadow and Disc.

It's not that I couldn't kill stuff, it was just really slow..
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:03:45 +0000, Barry Freeman <bazz.TakeThisOut@nospam.co.uk>
wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:32:55 +0000, Catriona R
><catrionarNOSPAM.TakeThisOut@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Seriously? You must've had a pure healing spec build then, because my
>>priest was killing 5-6 before any respawns, no problems, that being with a
>>holy/disc build, but including the damage talents. Frankly I kill faster
>>with that build that I did when I tried shadow, shadow is just *horrible*
>>to solo with unless you have uber gear already.
>
>hmm... well, I was specced as I said... Holy all the way with just the
>top bits in Shadow and Disc.
>
>It's not that I couldn't kill stuff, it was just really slow..

Hmm, did you have the talent for extra damage from smite/holy fire, and
surge of light? Those two talents and some decent spelldmg/crit gear makes
holy/disc great for soloing for me, I try and go all out on the spirit
talents and get decent spirit on my gear as well, works nicely. Doesn't
feel slow, it's maybe not the quickest but it's not slow as such.
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EU-Draenor:
Balgair - Human Rogue (lvl 70)
Naomh - Draenei Priest (lvl 70)
Rosad - Human Warlock (lvl 70)
Sealgair - Dwarf Hunter (lvl 70)
Sagart - Undead Priest (lvl 70)
Eilnich - Blood Elf Warlock (lvl 60)
Beag - Dwarf Paladin (lvl 60)
Sgoildubh - Human Mage (lvl 53)
Cathach - Gnome Warrior (lvl 30)
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:32:24 -0800 (PST), "mbgaski@gmail.com"
<mbgaski.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jan 9, 10:32 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS....RemoveThis@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>> with that build that I did when I tried shadow, shadow is just *horrible*
>> to solo with unless you have uber gear already.
>
>Shadow isn't that bad at all. Granted, I'm only up to level 55 on my
>priest, but overall I haven't run into much trouble with her. Only
>problem is handling multiple mobs at once. 2 I an *usually* handle.
>3 and I'm toast. That's compared to my hunter where I would
>purposefully pull a group of 5 mobs and come out just fine .

I just can't make shadow work for me, tried it and it was no fun at all,
seemed no faster than holy and I had to drink 2-3 times as often :-/ Most
people seem to love it, but it's not for me

>Overall though, my problem class lately has been my Shammy. Only to
>level 33 on that toon, but man, I die a LOT .

Hehe my shammy is lvl 12, not died much yet but no doubt it'll come. I
don't seem to have a problem class currently, haven't got the enthusiasm
for druid/shammy/warrior to actually get them high yet but I can do ok with
them when I get around to it.

Paladin is mixed for me though, it's fantastic on melee mobs but painful on
casters or places where I can only manage to pull 1 mob at a time. I really
had to laugh earlier though, was in the yeti cave in Winterspring and
disconnected on 50% health with 4 yetis beating me up. Reconnected, found I
had 300 health left, bubbled, healed and killed them all
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EU-Draenor:
Balgair - Human Rogue (lvl 70)
Naomh - Draenei Priest (lvl 70)
Rosad - Human Warlock (lvl 70)
Sealgair - Dwarf Hunter (lvl 70)
Sagart - Undead Priest (lvl 70)
Eilnich - Blood Elf Warlock (lvl 60)
Beag - Dwarf Paladin (lvl 60)
Sgoildubh - Human Mage (lvl 53)
Cathach - Gnome Warrior (lvl 30)
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:23:53 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM DeleteThis @totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Hmm, did you have the talent for extra damage from smite/holy fire, and
>surge of light? Those two talents and some decent spelldmg/crit gear makes
>holy/disc great for soloing for me, I try and go all out on the spirit
>talents and get decent spirit on my gear as well, works nicely. Doesn't
>feel slow, it's maybe not the quickest but it's not slow as such.

Well, after reading the comments... I'm still unsure

I also have a pure shadow priest (curently L40) so I'd really like to
keep my Holy priest, well, holy.

So, maybe I'll wait a month and respec back.
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:27:04 +0000, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM RemoveThis @totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>Paladin is mixed for me though, it's fantastic on melee mobs but painful on
>casters or places where I can only manage to pull 1 mob at a time. I really
>had to laugh earlier though, was in the yeti cave in Winterspring and
>disconnected on 50% health with 4 yetis beating me up. Reconnected, found I
>had 300 health left, bubbled, healed and killed them all

Fun isn't it?

I did the gorilla quest (Jungle Fever?) in Booty Bay.. where you have
to go up to a cave, talk to a guy and get 3 or 4 waves of 3 or 4
gorillas to play with.

There was another player there when I arrived and I didn't wait to see
if he was on the quest or not..rude of me, maybe... but anyway,
started the quest and did the usual... when it was all over (me still
on full health and mana) the guy just said "Do you think you could do
that again, for me?".
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