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General Chat / lotro
« on: May 08, 2007, 01:49:34 pm »
Afternoon. I was trying to get it in for review... still not placed a review yet and doesn't look like I will (bah), so not played it yet...

But yeah, some pretty positive reviews are cropping up. I've surfed a few msg boards scouting about it, and seems like they've built it around some pretty impressive instanced quests with strong storylines type thing. And fairly varied classes (ie healer type gets CC and a heal which procs off his melee strikes so not just sitting back botting - or that's the theory anyway!) which can be customised with traits, to an extent, though a tank is of course still a tank fundamentally.

Tempted to try it out even if I don't get a review, though it might be worth waiting a little while for the first patch to iron stuff out anyway (some hiccups with some stats being borked, and the economy a little unbalanced in places).

Been too busy atm to do much of anything, as you may have noticed, not come back to wow yet! Tbh feeling a little burnt out on the high level game ourselves. Been piddling around with alts a little on Thunderhorn but that's about all :)

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General Chat / Happy birthday Sax :)
« on: March 22, 2007, 01:38:34 pm »
Happy Birthday mate! :)

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 06, 2007, 04:24:54 pm »
I haven't used VT as much as I should have done, I don't think, partly for fear of aggro, but was reading up on it and am gonna try some slightly different tactics and explore it a bit more.

So get that res button ready ;)

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 06, 2007, 03:24:47 pm »
In the guide I read it did indeed say the AoE does 80% health dmg, so whatever your HP you will be reduced to 20%.

I'm sure I also read that nature resist gear doesn't have any effect which would bear out your conclusions Sax. Which really sucks tbh (tho prot potions will I think).

Yep, with me and Las I agree, DPS would fall short if I wasn't to nuke much. And yes I shouldn't take aggo, esp not from you! ;) Maybe I should just go shadowform and keep VT up constantly* (as well as VE ofc), thereby refuelling las's mana and helping with the healing that way? At least for the first portion of the fight....

[*tho' that is a big aggro magnet isn't it? - but I do have the trinket as backup to fade now...]

And gonna install a castbar mod for Hel so she can clearly see when to run from AOEs next time, she found it hard to tell as in melee you're staring at the fat twat's ethereal feet ;)

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 06, 2007, 01:35:32 pm »
Ergh, heh. Aye all I'd add would be to double up renew, which I guess would help a little perhaps but not that much...

However you're right I think TM was 2H when we did it too.... so perhaps with shield and defensive gear the warrior might be more healable post-blast.... [maybe just switching in the 2H when murmur is actually casting his AE, as he doesn't attack then for 4-5 secs?]


[Edit: Either that or we take swift-boots-Xan ;) ]

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 06, 2007, 12:15:01 pm »
Ouchie, sounds like a close run thing. But grats :)

Yeah, we forgot about cloak of shadows, guess being tired didn't help....

Resonance is an absolute killer, aye. Hopefully having the tank standing in with two healers might work better? Dunno though. Obviously I can heal at those critical moments such as after the blast, then switch back to DPS.

Stopwatch might help - forgot all about that, must rummage around in our banks and see if we kept it (or indeed got it in the first place... cant remember...)

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 05, 2007, 06:43:57 pm »
Hmm, weird, we had no trouble at all with the 3rd boss (touches wood ;) )

The 2nd boss is bloody chaos though, we managed it first time, though it was a little touch and go. The good thing about him is he doesn't actually hit *that* hard (just as well o/wise it would be too tough prolly!). Really enjoyed that fight... the mass MC is kinda annoying but also fun (for a bit ;) )

That's what happened to us last night I think, tank got snared. I guess there's risks both ways....

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 05, 2007, 11:41:19 am »
Ahh ok, fair enough....

Rocket-powered boots ftw! ;)

Heh, cool.. we still need to do it as we didn't kill him (obviously... didn't help that it was getting late and everyone knacked...)

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 05, 2007, 11:24:39 am »
Yeah, the Python rules :)

Yep, it can be done both ways they were saying, just different approaches. Seeing that we were having some problems with resonance last night I just wondered if it's worth a go using the alternate method.

Ahh, ok, will look for that in the options then. Forgot about eko's post, my bad ;) Really ought to sort some mods out only running a bare minimum really.

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WoW General / Murmur
« on: March 05, 2007, 11:03:53 am »
Just had a look this AM for strategies on this bugger (last boss Shadow Lab). There are two ways you can do it - run away from the AOE like we tried last night (he has this very nasty blast which drops 80% of your HP if caught in it for those who weren't there!) - or keep the tank on him all the time.

The guild page I was reading says both has their risks, but the problem with the Monty Python "run away!" method is if the tank doesn't get back quickly enough, without a melee to focus on Murmur gets all cross and drops resonance (which is what was killing us mostly - last fight it hit both me and las for 6000 and flattened us in one fell swoop).

If the tank stays in, Murmur will never use resonance, so only have to worry about keeping the tank alive after eating the AOE. That's done by me and Las both dropping renews on him, and a shield, just before the AOE goes off, before backing away for the blast and then rushing back to spam some heals; idea being the renews and shield should keep the tank standing after the bomb.

Reckon this is what we should try next time as resonance is a real bitch and a half.

**Oh yeah, question, anyone know a good casting bar mod? The ones that pop up the spell on your screen when enemy casting. For better warning of when boss aoes are gonna drop...

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WoW General / Hi Folks
« on: December 10, 2006, 10:42:32 pm »
You on the stout these days?

Why, of course it is... every Englishman's home is his castle. Especially up here in Scotland ;)

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WoW General / Hi Folks
« on: December 10, 2006, 08:22:55 pm »
Hi all, just thought I'd drop a quick thread about what's going on at D&G Towers ;) We've both been dead busy with work lately, and not really had time to do much gaming full-stop (just a little dark messiah here and there!).

Doesn't seem much point in starting up our wow accounts now, given that we'll be away visiting people in 10 days time, for several weeks, so we'll be back in the new year... just in time for the expansion :)

Anyhow hope it's all going well in, er, what's the place called? Norrath? Derreth? Angmar....? No, don't tell me, I know this.... erm.... ;)

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WoW General / Mirror, Mirror on the wall ....
« on: November 22, 2006, 11:31:09 am »
Made the mistake of reading up on the priest forums a bit, last night ;) Good grief. Lots of ppl moaning about fear nerfs... and apparently shadowpriests can now tank (to some extent) with some spell? At least that sounds like fun :)

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WoW General / Mirror, Mirror on the wall ....
« on: November 21, 2006, 07:04:03 pm »
Aye, true enough..... I'll still be better than many priests anyway on account of the fact that I have the odd heal spell or two hot-keyed ;)

It's interesting that the spells I can still remember where my hotkeys were, even now, are fear (\), flash heal (E) and bubble (Q). Bollocks knows what the others were :)

PS. Here's another long word for you: Wheelbarrow.

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WoW General / Mirror, Mirror on the wall ....
« on: November 21, 2006, 05:25:10 pm »
Yep. I have a stick of newb beating +1, a pair of lead boots, and erm, a pair of goggles of the cross-eyed eagle. Or something. Only purple item is my cloak. Unfortunately, only it's actual colour is purple.

But it looks cool, and that's what matters!

Also my skeletal horse is probably a donkey in comparison to what you can get mount-wise, now.

Oh the ignominy! ;)

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