Comments on: Anyone can be a noob at times!

By: Jheusse

Jheusse — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:24:38 +0000

Long ago I ran multiple 5 mans as the tank without knowing that I had a short cooldown taunt available, I thought the only tool I had available was my long cooldown AE taunt, made me work a lot harder. This was immediately after leveling, mostly solo cat.

Recently I was fiddling around solo, got pulled into an Ony10 that had someone have to drop out, got into tank spec but the RL charged before I finished the swapover, so I did Ony10 OT duty on the whelps in cat gear. It’s not a hard fight and the healer was a stud anyway, but was funny. Especially since I did the same thing on Toc10 valks not long after (bear spec and cat gear), though it wasn’t too bad, much of the gear is shared outside of jewelry. Since I cat in Uld25, I’ve recruited a raidmate to remind me to swap spec back after tanking Thorim’s arena.

By: Skiannach

Skiannach — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:10:37 +0000

This makes me feel a LOT better.
I dualspecced my bear for the first time the other day and tanked Coren. Well, tried to. Until the point where survival instinct appeared to have gone missing from my action bar. Turns out that I was of course tanking as a bear-shaped tree.

But as I pointed out to my amused group members…well at least I was wearing bear gear.

By: Tal

Tal — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:10:10 +0000

Great post… Also got me thinking, since just putting the spell name in macros makes them cast the highest trained level every time, you could just make macros for ALL your spells. Nothing fancy, no trinkets, no nothing – just /cast [spell name], and use that on your action bars. If only I’d thought of that before hitting 80… :s

By: Gnomeaggedon

Gnomeaggedon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:23:03 +0000

Err yeah… I keep forgetting every couple of levels… funnily enough I get new ranks of the skills every couple of levels…

I guess that’s punishment for making Blizzard give us dual spec before level cap…
.-= Gnomeaggedon´s last blog ..Mages piss me off! =-.

By: Barbi

Barbi — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:57:40 +0000

lol! Great story… and makes me feel that much better after healing ulduar10 and ony10 this past week as a freshly dual spec’d holy priest… who never trained CoH – yes, I healed w/ Rank 1 CoH. Go. Me.

By: Durathor

Durathor — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:50:29 +0000

Em – that isn’t the problem. The macros were just the signal. The problem is that only the action bars on your current spec get updated when you learn new spells. The other spec stays on the previous spell ranks.

So if you always pickup new spells on the same spec, your alternate spec can get left behind on very old spell ranks – hence BBB’s level 50 tank abilities
.-= Durathor´s last blog ..Dual Spec – Noob Mistake =-.

By: Em

Em — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:45:17 +0000

Forgive me if someone already posted this, I didn’t see it anywhere when I skimmed the comments :)

Mr. Butt, you can avoid this problem in the future by leaving the ranks off of your macros. Since Blizzard nerfed downranking, there’s no reason to use ranks other than the highest one you have:

/cast Consecrate

Automatically casts your highest ranked version of Consecrate.

By: Derek B

Derek B — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:32:00 +0000

This is exactly why I’m a little patient when it comes to other gamers! I actually got this idea from when I was driving one day… I USED to constantly get mad and yell at people while they were driving. Not using turn signals, going slow, etc etc… until one day I was driving and I noticed that I did one of the things I absolutely hated other people doing.. but I had a perfectly legitimate reason for doing it.

So now before I get upset in any situations I think of possible situations where it could be a legitimate reason for it happening! I may have saved a few heart attacks. haha
.-= Derek B´s last blog ..A New Way To Level? =-.

By: miggedymike

miggedymike — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:05:43 +0000

great moments in huntard history. went to do corin direbrew with some guildies. killed him the first two times when someone psts ‘you’re dpsing with two tankards?’. I had forgotten i had equipped them to run around brewfest like a two fisted drunk. doh!

By: KBear

KBear — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:59:21 +0000

I really, really thought you must have forgotten Righteous Fury as I read down. There’s no end to the protadins I’ve know who’ve forgotten it on occasion… or the retadins I’ve known who’ve forgotten to turn it OFF after flipping from prot.

And @Tatia: I did the exact same thing.