I like it.
I like Looking for Raid and I like the up-scaling for 10-man normal. I like not having an hour’s worth of trash to pull to start. I like not having to do something other than Be A Hunter. I like that there’s a nice mix of Boss Dancing and DPS Like a Mo-Fo.
Why in blue-blazes am I always number one DPS in LFR? And it’s usually not close. When I raid 10s with my guild I have to fight to be on top of the meters, usually with a feral druid and two rogues either barely beating me or nipping at my heels. But in LFR I’m blowing people away. Yes I think I have good gear – GuildOx says I’m in the top 100 of ilevel on my server – but should I be out-dpsing people by 3000dps on Ultraxion in LFR?
There’s few things that make ranged DPS more giddy than listening to melee whine and cry on Morchok. /gigglesnort
I know LFR raid bosses are scaled down damage-wise, but my guild fights like the dickens on Bouncy-Ball Boss, while in LFR we just ignore the d@mn thing. Is completely ignoring the fight-mechanics and being successful at it “Good Design”?
I am confident enough to try my Survival spec in my next Dragon Soul run. On the target dummies I do ~1500dps more than I do as a Beastmaster. I should do something to show how I use PowerAuras to make SV easy-peasie.
For all you hunters thinking about going SV, remember this: your SV-pet is still putting out more than 2400dps. If you let your pet die, you’ll be doing less DPS than if you ran BM, guaranteed. You cannot, CAN NOT, run as SV and ignore your pet. The entire point of running SV is do to more DPS than BM, not less.
Exception that proves the previous rule: If you just stunk under glass as a BM hunter, go ahead and run SV. Run MM if you want. Reroll as a squishie, preferably.
I had more fun wiping/learning Ultraxion than any boss in Firelands. Getting Rags down was a relief, getting Ultraxion down was a rush!
Those tendons on Spine kill my pet almost every time! I need to re-spec a spirit beast just for that fight, methinks.
Yes, I raid with four differently-spec’d spirit beasts. And a devilsaur which I pop out if the tank gets mouthy.
I still really have no idea what’s going on during Madness other than accomplishing my DPS-target rotation.
Best moment in LFR so far, wiping-on-Ultraxion blather:
Mage: Can the #1 dps get Focus Magic?!
BRK: I don’t need it, thanks for thinking of me, though.
Mage: LOL. Nub. I’m #1 dps.
BRK: You have #1 dps because you died after three seconds pulling aggro from the tank. You were dead for five minutes. If you look at the meters again, you’ll see that doing 100,000 damage in two seconds isn’t something to brag about when the rogues and I each have 4,000,000.
Mage: Well if I hadn’t died…
BRK: If you hadn’t died you wouldn’t be a Squishie. Now get your FM and enjoy your #8 spot on the meters while the rogues and I teach you a lesson on Staying Alive.
Mage: /silence
Rogues: /silence
BRK: Notice how the rogues aren’t talking because they’re too busy wondering how a BM hunter kicked their @sses? That’s another lesson for you.
Rogue #1: HEY!
Rogue #2: Shut up n fight.
BRK: Gotta give those rogues Legendaries to make them useful nowadays. I’m here in greenies and shooting with a Fishing Pole.
Rogue #1: LOL
Rogue #2: how u get in LFR with greenies?
Rogue #1: He’s not in greenies, he’s messing with us.
BRK: My pants are on backwards, I’m using a shield, and some Arcane Mage just FM’d me. Pull already; I got loot to ninja.
I am seriously considering macro’ing that last line and using it every time I go into LFR. It reminds me of my Alterac Valley days of macro’ing stupid stuff to encourage people to all rush the mine or KILL RAMS FTW!
Dear Daniel,
I have to say. Almost every single post you put up actually makes me laugh and smile. Does not matter if it has to deal with Cooking to WoW. Keep up the good work! Your LFR Monologue was hilarious.
-Voidmist
Using a different pet on the tendons won’t help as they can’t be healed through whatever is killing them. Check your logs, when my pet dies on Spine of Deathwing attacking tendons it just dies, no incoming damage or anything just dead. Not even sure having heart of the Phoenix would help as they might be falling off. Apparently this is an issue that was reported on the PTR but has gone unfixed so far
Too funny
I would love to see some more funny macros to have on hand to lighten the mood! I’ll even credit then BRK©
Yeah, Mr. BRK, KIN raiders that cleared heroic Dragon Soul had to bench all their hunters to meet the dps benchmarks because of this. Hopefully Blizz will fix it before too long.
I really miss you posting more, BRK. This was as fun an entry as you’ve ever posted.
And no, you shouldn’t be beating everyone in LFR by 3k dps, but for every good player in LFR, there are between 20 and 24 alts/casuals/completely new raiders in there for different reasons. I like that Blizz made it so everyone can see the content, but sometimes it can be confusing when I go in there on an alt, a support class, and top meters.
BRK,
You are my hero. This conversation in LFR is worth more than any loot drop. Sooooo funny.
I think a lot of people don’t know how to play their classes. In my battlegroup, some LFR experiences I will be in the middle of the pack, with DKs, and Rogues doing 45k DPS and me down in the mid 20s. Other times I will be in the top 3. Also in the mid 20s. I think what is strange is the variability of LFR. You get a good group of players with an overall iLvl of 395+ and they will crush it. You get a group of alts or newer players with overall iLvls of 375 and you will struggle a bit.
Happy Holidays
Rock On.
BRK….. Your a credit to the hunter community. ;o)
You gotta have fun in these raids and some ppl are just too serious. It’s a game. Have Fun.
Lead by example….
One of my favorite things to do is queue up on my DK and when we start a boss not dps for like 20 seconds. Then when people are bitching about people needing to pick it up go balls out and climb from like 20th to number one. Then I ask if that was good enough?
However I think Im stealing your saying next time I hit the LFR. Hell I might even steal it on my main on raid night. Guaranteed to make everybody stop and ask what the you know what Im blabbering about.
Good job on Dragon Soul looking forward to some more humorous posts from you adventures in LFR.
LFR reminds me of Isle of Conquest: I have no clue what’s happening and then we win, and I get to lose on a roll. At least I got to down Deathwing within 2 weeks of the raid being released, which is the first time in my WoW casual career I can say that about any raid.
YOU’RE the reason I got the killing blows on all those poor rams???
You B@stard!!!!!!!!!
I like healing in LFR, afking to change my son’s diaper mid fight (literally), coming back and being top heals within a couple seconds…
a christmas miracle, brk made a wow post! glad to hear time in azeroth is still fun.
<3 BRK!
Merry Christmas, Daniel!!
Just woke up a minute ago, and loaded up internet to read a few blogs. Saw this post about the Mage and the Rogues and it just made me laugh and made my day already.
Yeah should use the macro, it could get quite entertaining.
Merry Christmas BRK
This. this is why the world loves you. if you read this and gods hope you do, i have one piece of critical advice.
Dont ever change.
merry christmas bigredkitty, i’m glad you are still writing! the internet is a brighter place with you around.
Loved that exchange. Truly epic.
Yeah, there’s something amiss in LFR sometimes… because there’s been more than a few times that I myself have topped the charts. That shouldn’t happen, since I’m a warrior. If there’s a pure DPS in there, they should at the very least edge me out, if not blow me away.
Always enjoy your posts Daniel…..much love goes your and the fams way this season of holidays. Your Mage/You/2 Rogues exchange……very epic!
Thankyou for the laughs…again!!
I write this whilst enjoying my Spirit Beast shirt…of GREEN Dorf huntery goodness!!!
Ben
Hilarious!
Also, I don’t think there’s a bouncy ball in LFR.
Kalven – Oh there is… it just doesn’t seem to matter much.
Seriously you make me remember the good old 41/20 days of BC where we were the kings of DPS. I am rocking my sunfury bow as I never got the gun to drop but my sunfury was one of the highs of BC.
Daaaamn, Daniel. That was some funny stuff! Thanks so much for sharing you wit with us. It really does make me smile.
Shooting with a fishing pole…where do you come up with that stuff. “IT’S GOLD, JERRY! GOLD!”
FUNNY! Can I borrow that last line for a macro too?? Awesome stuff
I always raid as SV and I generally pull way more than my share of the DPS, so yeah, you should all go SV ’cause it’s big fun.
Thanks for the laugh, Daniel, thanks for the blog and giving me another one to add to my reading list!
Funny stuff BRK……I mostly use my BM spec for tanking and soloing older stuff these days……maybe I’ll dust off and try an LFR or two