Also, yes, Kiril for the win!

Btw BBB – I was thinking of you last night as I was healing a bear tank through the same instance – the boss that keeps over-eating beans and leaving clouds everywhere? This bear tank was most excellent .. he is one of the few I’ve seen who calmly walks the boss backwards out of the cloud, so it’s easy for me to stay behind him. PLUS he had some cool buff that kept making him bigger and bigger – it was VERY easy to stay behind such a huge butt :P

It sounds like this issue is mimicking the effect of buffs (or possibly debuffs, depending on how modular the code is) which legitimately impede threat generation. Without having seen the code, but having seen it visually represented in the form of buff/debuff icons, I’m going to guess that as buffs/debuffs are cast on us they get stored in a dynamic array (a constantly changing table) which then gets cross referenced with a static array (a table which does not change) which details effects. My experience is that pulling an unexpected result from an array usually means a counter does not jive somehow. Like one line of code sets the counter (for say, Enrage), then another (say, Levitate), changes it (maybe to search the “effects” array and find “does not generate threat”) without taking into account (or maybe accounting it incorrectly) where the counter was previously set.

So start looking at not just “does Levitate cause this”, but at “what combination of buffs with Levitate cause this”. Just because it would reasonably be the simplest scenario, look at what buffs are already present (i.e. the ones that would initially set the counter) when Levitate is cast. I’d start with buffs with short countdown timers since they seem like they’d be the trickiest to code.

And, seriously, because everyone should see it and this seems like a good post for the link, Spacebar Clown is, like, the anthem.

Anyway I feel your pain about weapons on a DK. One handers were dropping like flies but a two-hander just wouldn’t drop for me from those instances. The only one that did (the mace from WoE) got ninjaed by a paladin healer. In the end I crafted the molten front one… which of course caused me to win Gurthak in LFR the next time I ran it.