Monday, January 5, 2009

Ding 58!

Well yesterday these guys all dinged 58 in BRD, cleared everything including emperor. BRD is so epic and fun, wish it was still a raid. After upgrading the accounts to BC I'll head to Outlands do some quest and get into ramps asap. Truthfully I'm going to miss BRD, I love the vanilla instances and wish blizz would have let them be rather than taking the nerf stick to them. I think it would have been cool if they had left a handful of servers at 60 for people who want to experience the horror of a 40 man as designed. I definitely would have an alt there. But I understand why they didn't and don't.

As for my UI, I don't have a clean screenshot but I do have one from dinging 58 that should suit for what I'd like to show.


The way I designed this was to allow me to monitor my party buffs along with their active targets which sit in between the party frames and the target frame stack. Down the center sit my target with debuffs (should change it to buffs for purge and spellsteal), under that sits my frame with buffs and omen so I can monitor the party's threat as I watch everybody's health. To the right sits aura's and 2x12 bars. Top bar holds spells that I use occasionally, along with assisting and mount macros. The bottom row is used as my shared keys. 1 being used for my initial agro and 2 is my spamable dps button, 4-5 are my healing buttons, 7 is my buff button, 8 is still free, 9 is my consecration/arcane explosion (hello lycen). I'll update my macros further down. Jamba and recount are off to the side out of sit until I need them. Carbonite sits in the upper left corner until I need it.

Well here is a list of the visible addons:
  • Pitbull
  • Bartende4
  • Jamba
  • Recount
  • Omen
  • Carbonite
  • Pallypower
  • Chinchilla
  • MSBT
I need to add in decursive and build a macro to target part and cast cure spells. Eventually this will be turn into modifier keys to support cast from 3 toons.

My paladin's initial agro macro looks something like this:

/startattack
/castsequence reset=combat Avenger's Shield, Consecration

The spam dps looks like this:

/startattack
/cast [nocombat] Seal of Wisdom
/castsequence reset=combat Judgement of Wisdom, Hammer of Wrath

The spam macro also acts as my recast for my seal and since my Judgement sits on cd most of the time if I have a runner a can spam it to finish them off.

The only other macros I've modified are the shaman, priest and druid.

Shaman dps (insane dps at 58 around 500):

/castrandom Elemental Mastery, Chain Lightning, Flame Shock, Purge, Lightning Bolt

Druid dps (this seems to utilize the eclipse affect most of the time):

/castsequence reset=combat Wrath, Starfire, Wrath

Priest heal spells (heals are concentrated on tank with CoH for party wide):

/cast [target=Musani] Power Word: Shield

/castsequence [target=Musani] reset=14/combat Renew, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Flash Heal

/cast [target=Musani] Circle of Healing

The second of the three basically tosses a Renew and spams Flash Heal until the Renew needs to be refreshed. Once I grab PoM I'll add that into the party heal macro with a modifier.

Well I decided to skip out on the videos but once I hit 80 I'll post a collaboration video of boss fights.

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