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11 2020 this is why i don t stream part whatever oh sure i ve got a sense of humor about my limitations playing games but this video illustrates perfectly why i don t do livestreams i really feel for the guy who was showing how to do a slow fall to get right to the black lotus location i ve done that exact thing and discovered too late that i don t have any feathers left posted by redbeard at 10 45 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels humor videos wow classic thursday october 8 2020 know when to hold em one of the major reasons why i like to play a rogue is the thrill of outsmarting the enemy not tactically mind you but being so clever that you can sneak around and bypass enemies to get where you need to go it s that rush you get when you sneak through timbermaw hold and none of the firbolg find you or when you re sneaking around orr in guild wars 2 trying to avoid having to fight your way through every five feet or so it seems being able to get all the way to frostwolf hold in alterac valley and drive the horde nuts by moving back and forth and assaulting the two frostwolf towers all without being seen is a huge rush so imagine my surprise when i discovered just how much of a gambler you have to be when you play a fire mage you knew this was coming didn t you one of the major reasons why i specced frost all those years with neve was because frost is not only a great pvp spec but that it is the best spec for questing out in the field all of the damage mitigation and defensive skills that frost has means that a frost mage will typically not suffer much damage at all or if she does she can quickly escape without much issue and while speccing frost is highly sought after for raiding in molten core and blackwing lair for the rest of wow classic it is not seen as a raider s spec per se that s fire s domain when you see a max level fire mage out and about in azeroth odds are good that mage is raiding aq20 or aq40 a lone fire mage out in blackwing lair or molten core is at a disadvantage because the reason why fire mages are so powerful is that their buffs stack based on the number of fire mages in a raid put that same lonely fire mage in aq40 with 4 5 other fire mages they can wreak havoc on enemies scratch one anubisath a lone fire mage in a 5 man instance not a problem only blackrock depths has bosses that resist fire spells a lone fire mage questing in the field well that s a completely different kettle of fish the reason why i say a fire mage is a gambler s spec is because a fire mage has no damage mitigation outside of the fire ward frost ward and mana shield spells and let s be honest the mana shield isn t used much because it sucks your mage s mana dry to shield them so it s typically looked on as a spell of last resort add to that a fire mage doesn t get the slowdown or freezes that a frost mage gets when utilizing frost spells so dumping blizzard or a frostbolt on an enemy doesn t give you the slow debuff that a frost mage gets which is a huge advantage when you want to escape from or dps down an enemy no the fire mage says i bet i can throw more damage at you before you kill me every single pull i believe a fire mage s mantra is go big or go home bring it you blowhard am i comfortable with card rolling the dice like this after a month of speccing fire i m still not really comfortable yet oh i understand the rotation and i don t die if i space out my pulls in the wild but card s survivability pulling a pack of 3 or more at level enemies has taken a bit of a hit i guess i have to embrace my inner gambler a bit more or a class similar to one such as a shadowblade in elder scrolls online guild wars 2 has a thief profession and if you guessed i play that class in gw2 you d be right in star wars the old republic my favorite class and class story is the smuggler i ve played both the scoundrel healer and gunslinger dps subclasses and i ve found both of them to be a blast literally at times hmm i ve never played a burglar in lotro because i can t get into playing a hobbit but maybe i should try one out posted by redbeard at 5 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mages rogues wow classic friday october 2 2020 getting rid of the blur the past 3 4 weeks have been a bit of a blur learning to play a fire mage running raids i ve never or almost never seen before and trying to get geared enough to be useful have been akin to my head spinning around on a turntable like a dee lite video groove is in the heart featuring homeboy bootsy collins however the longer my raiding has gone on the more i ve wondered just how much of my output is decided by gear and how much by skill okay let s be real for a second you have to know what the hell you re doing if you want to be useful in any group format in wow i don t mean that you have to know the entire rotation like the back of your hand but you have to realize that for instance if you re attacking a mob that has fairly low health spamming fireball isn t your best option for one it takes forever 3 5 seconds to cast and 3 5 seconds is a looong time for a cast on a trash mob at that point you re much better off spamming scorch 1 5 second cast to at least get some damage on a mob before they re cut down so that s the sort of basic understanding about your class that i m aiming for here once you get these basics down you re 75 of the way there to maximizing your dps output from skill yes you can practice and improve your output from there but i think at this point you get more bang for the buck by improving your gear and using cardwyn as an example boy did my gear need improvement in order to understand the impact on gear let me show you where card stood when she was convinced to join the aq40 raid from sixtyupgrades com i can thank the mage lead for showing me the site um yeah i wasn t kidding when i said i wasn t ready for blackwing lair much less aq40 the nice thing about sixty upgrades is that with a click you can see the impact of an upgrade on your gear for example clicking on the star of mystara which i held onto because of the plus to hit gives you this yikes the star of mystara doesn t even the top 6 the table is easy to understand the left column is the name of the piece the middle is the impact the gear on the fire spec and the right column is where the gear can be found if you hover over the middle column it gives you the details in the bonuses spell power int hit etc what i did was target gear that were relatively quick upgrades that had a big impact like that silly looking turban from upper blackrock spire that you ll never ever ever see card wearing with show helm active or that robe of the archmage that i had in my bank which ironically enough has better spell power than even the t2 netherwind robe or the fire wand i had also in my bank that gives a better boost than the wand i d been using combine all this with a few lucky rolls and drops in mc and bwl and my gear looked a bit more well raid worthy the net result was that my output went up by a decent amount over the next few weeks something like 18 20 per week that was just gear mind you because i don t think i ve gotten that much better at handling fiery cardwyn over the past few weeks than my first week or so running with the spec i suppose you could say that both gear and skill have their upper limitations gear has a hard upper limit while skill doesn t but skill produces diminishing returns the higher up in skill you go the effort it takes to go from 0 75 is less time than to go from 75 to 90 because you have to work longer and harder to raise your skill to that sort of level gear is just a time grind without any performance pressure you put in the time and the drops will come skill is a time grind as well but one with no set ending you re kind of limited by your physical skillset and the older you get the greater the limitations but for me gear had the biggest impact on my performance in raids i m still bringing up the rear in the mage crew but the gap has lessened considerably i can now focus on skill without worrying about being such a liability compared to before and because i ve gotten a bunch of easy upgrades i can now focus on specific ones that i can target in molten core that have a big bang for the buck to them overall things are much less chaotic and overwhelming for which i m eternally grateful posted by redbeard at 1 09 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gear mages raid wow classic newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred and other junk we have to talk about 1 day ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 1 week ago twisted 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