Monday, 4 August 2008

Deep wounds on Beta


OMG! .. so im reading away at the WoW warrior discussion beta forums and there is this guy keeping us up to date with whats going on on the beta with videos that he has posted on youtube.
Been some discussion about Deep wounds to whether or not its rolling or stacking.
At its current form on beta its stacking, meaning in theory the more you crit the more your deep wounds stacks..... But what if there is no stack limit?
Pop Recklessness , Deathwish and what ever other damage/crit boosts you may have at the time..... and this is the result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-nPJ1nnP0


Deepwounds ticking for over 3500... yeah thats right 3.5K! and reports on beta that there has even been higher.
Shocking to be honist but no doubt a bug or as blizz would like to famously say " This is not working as intended "
Again this remains to be seen. Will keep you updated when i know more!
Source
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8557367586&sid=2000

Sunday, 3 August 2008

Add on


Found a nice little addon to keep track of your own and only your own buffs and debuffs. You still have any other buff showing where ever you normally have them, My buffs currently are defulat at the top right of my screen next to my mini map. But this is handy to keep to where your eyes most focus.
Countless times iv forgotten to renew Rampage in the heat of a fight , or let Commanding shout run out for longer than i really should.

You can find the add on at this provided link. Its called "furyDPS"

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/12370/

The addon its self is still a work in progress but so far its looking good and usable right now.
So go download and install and never lose that extra DPS from Rampage running out!
Source
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/addons/

Saturday, 2 August 2008

Movie


Just to let you guys know im working on a couple of movies at the moment, nothing to special.
One movie is about PvPing as a fury warrior, How i find best to pvp as fury spec and the troubles that come with it, The other movie is about PvE, boss fights etc.
ETA on the movies should be roughly about a weeks time..... i hope.
<<< Watch this space! >>>

Rotation


Do warriors even have rotations, i guess some do and some don't, i know warrior players that just slam there face on the keyboard and hope for the best, but there is a rotation for warriors, more so for protection spec warriors than fury warriors i would imagine. Rotation comes down to unique play style as well.

I will talk a little about my rotation and play style.
Ok so the fight begins, i go in and start to attack (auto swing) , get my battle shout up and if i get a crit i get my rampage up also. Now depending if your MT wants you to thunderclap/demo shout at the start, you get them debuffs up to. Once all that initial buffing/debuffing is done i start work on my rotation.... and it really is a simple rotatoin.

Bloodthirst > Wirlwind > Bloodthirst > Wirlwind.

If i find that i have over 50 - 60 rage at any point and need a rage dump (Dont want to waste rage now do we!) i chuck in a Heroic strike inbetween my Bloodthirst / Wirlwind combo. Be mindfull though as Heroic Strike is a threat generator.

Tip: Putting 1 point in improved Wirlwind reduces the chance that Bloodthirst and Wirlwind will never be ready to use at the same time. Meaning you can keep up a fairly good rotation of these 2 abilitys.

Again this i find works best for me. There are many other aspects to rotation. You can find alot more indepth info at any of my Warrior guide links.

Friday, 1 August 2008

Dual Wielding @ 80


I have been thinking allot about what the damage outage of Titan's grip dual wielding will be like. Not having a beta key my self i cant really say. And there is not any fact on the beta forums as of yet to how good this will be. Just speculation.
I thought about it allot and come up with some trains of thought.
- Will there be any haste gear at level 80?
- 20% speed reduction from 5/5 Titan's grip, is that enough?
- Does our auto swing white damage become really bad due to the speed penalty?

I cant really answer these questions but only speculate my self.
In all i do feel it all will become an overall better DPS improvement providing you spec Bloodsurge, and ofc 5/5 Flurry is going to be a must as much as it is now any way. On top of haste gear will the end result be tasty ?
I can really see the benefit of Bloodsurge giving us a 100% reduced swing time of our next slam.
But again like Flurry it will be crit reliant and only on Bloodthirst crits.
It remains to be seen. Let me know what you think.

Hit rating


The infamous question, "How much hit rating do i need??"
Ok im going to do my very best to keep this as simple as possible and try not to flood you with equations and calculations and what not.

15.77 hit rating = 1% hit
Dual wielding hit cap for auto-attack with the talent Precision 3/3 is 395
Dual wielding hit cap for special-attack with the talent precision 3/3 is 95

As we rely more on our special attacks rather than our auto attacks we don't need to have a ridicules amount of +hit in fact the bare minimum is 95. But having only 95 hit rating you will feel a lack of rage so if you can aim for about 190 including talents, you wont feel so much of a lack of rage.
So how much hit do you need? ... in the end its up to you. But for best optimization and rage generation aim for about 190.
Again i must stress this is my own personal preference and find that it works best for me.
Source:
Many warrior guides and own personal experience

Wotlk updates.


Wrath of the lich king updates. First of all im going to let you know that the Class Designer Koraa has announced that, and i quote "We're currently getting back to work on the Warrior, expect changes in an upcoming build" This post was dated 29-07-08 and from what i can see there has been no more news as of yet.
I want to focus a little on the Fury talent tree here if possible as this site is dedicated to fury warroirs. With some of the changes in Wotlk we can expect to see Deathwish back in the Fury talent tree, but a slight change to it,
will no longer break fears or grant fear immunity, I guess this aint to bad from a PvE point of view but from a PvP point of view i can see a problem, Its one less Anti crownd control. None the less, its still nice to see it back at home in the fury tree.
Heroic leap, our 51 point fury talent is receiving alot of bad feed back from people playing on the Beta, Some reported issues have been that the you cant really judge where you will land, The stun effect is not that consistent and that the damage output is rather pathetic. Alot of people are calling out for this to be reworked or changed in some way is it wont be that helpful in PvE environment as the talent now stands. Possible chances to break CC etc.
Titan's grip has had some good feed back even with the reduced speed of this that can be reduced by talent points. The dps outage has been quite nice from what i have seen in videos and is looking that it just might be good for PvP also. Using a 2 handed weapon in your main hand and a shield in your off hand seems like an intriguing idea for PvP.
Slam with the new Titan's grip may find its self being used more than often now by duel wielding warriors. Along with Bloodsurge "Your bloodthirst critical hits have a X% chance of reducing the swing time of your next Slam by 100% for 5 seconds" Its going to be interesting.
Flurry, no official changed to this but a good point was made on the beta forums about making this
6/12/18/24/30%. instead of what it currently is, If it was to change it would benefit the Titan's grip specialists and bring our flurry to match the flurry speed increase of shamans.
There really inst that much official news of what will actual change in the warriors talents, I could only find 2 Blue posts that said
"We have more work to do on the Warrior, yes =) Hang tight a bit longer." and "We're currently getting back to work on the Warrior, expect changes in an upcoming build." So every thing is possibly subject to change. Theres alot of speculation what the changes will be but no one knows for sure what the changes actual will be!.
Sources:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=7573200&sid=2000
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warrior/talents2.html