Servers down....
Posted 07-07-2009 at 08:35 AM by Smithnweson
<intro> In a world where Tuesdays are both good and evil.... duhduhduh....<end intro>
Anyways lol, I decided to pop on here and post more about my 3 Mage/Priest/Hunter setup.
I guess the 1st thing I should remark is that after mulling things over I've cut the hunter out of the picture. Yeah only took me 64 levels to realize that I don't really need a tank. Although with the servers down I have yet to try to run an instance without him.
Once the servers come back up my plans are some respecs.
The Mages I have, which are 64,64, and 66, I plan to use this spec
The Priest, which is also 64, will go with this spec
I want to see if by maximizing for Holy Nova and Arcane Explosion, and essentially only needing to spam 1 key over and over, if its a viable alternative for burning down mobs so fast I won't need to have a tank or a 5th box running.
Purely selfish on why i only want to run 4 boxes.. I have 2 monitors, 1 is my laptop's 17" wide screen that I use my slave boxes on and my 19" Samsung 900DF CRT monitor that shuts off randomly controls my main box. :P Now if I can eliminate that 1 window, then I can see the chat room and watch Tim's Live stream instead of just listening to it :P
I will be updating this blog once I implement and experiment with these changes.
If you have any thoughts, ideas, critiques, or just want to say hi, plz feel free to leave a comment below.
Take Care
-- Rob aka CMS aka Smithnweson
Anyways lol, I decided to pop on here and post more about my 3 Mage/Priest/Hunter setup.
I guess the 1st thing I should remark is that after mulling things over I've cut the hunter out of the picture. Yeah only took me 64 levels to realize that I don't really need a tank. Although with the servers down I have yet to try to run an instance without him.
Once the servers come back up my plans are some respecs.
The Mages I have, which are 64,64, and 66, I plan to use this spec
The Priest, which is also 64, will go with this spec
I want to see if by maximizing for Holy Nova and Arcane Explosion, and essentially only needing to spam 1 key over and over, if its a viable alternative for burning down mobs so fast I won't need to have a tank or a 5th box running.
Purely selfish on why i only want to run 4 boxes.. I have 2 monitors, 1 is my laptop's 17" wide screen that I use my slave boxes on and my 19" Samsung 900DF CRT monitor that shuts off randomly controls my main box. :P Now if I can eliminate that 1 window, then I can see the chat room and watch Tim's Live stream instead of just listening to it :P
I will be updating this blog once I implement and experiment with these changes.
If you have any thoughts, ideas, critiques, or just want to say hi, plz feel free to leave a comment below.
Take Care
-- Rob aka CMS aka Smithnweson
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I was just wondering, i myself am hoping to level 4 mages at 1 point, for the sheer burst of damage they can do. However i am curios, at that level when running instances do you need the tank? or is the fact that you can pretty much deal 20k per cast (adding all 3 of there casts) and then all the instant cast damage inbetween? or do you struggle with bosses?Posted 07-08-2009 at 03:36 AM by criticalmage
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My trial run ended in failure. The hopes of being able to just Arcane Explosion/Holy Nova everything into the ground failed when I just didn't have the mana pool on the Priest to compensate the boss damage. I think that I may actually have to do more research on Mage abilities and test to see if there is another way around this issue. And also I might have to respec holy over disc as i am sure that will assist in my survivability.
However... In WSG, which lasted over an hour... the Arcane Explosion/Holy Nova set up went very well. Freezing multiple targets into place 3 times ( so they could trinket out and always chance at a resist) then I would burn them down while healing my mages. We did lose as while I was on defense... we had no offense to speak of.... and the same when I went to go grab the flag.. we had noone on D that knew what protect meant.Posted 07-08-2009 at 07:11 AM by Smithnweson
Updated 07-08-2009 at 07:14 AM by Smithnweson
