WOW IS FINISHED
PERHAPS WOW IS NOT FINISHED
WAIT NM I THINK IT IS FINISHED
OH HANG ON NOT ANY MORE ITS NOT FINISHED ANY MORE

DO YOU GUYS LIKE ME TALKING ABOUT CASUAL VS HARDCORE MAYBE?

 

Stay in China.

 

I'm having a great time with this expansion.  Leveling all of my characters, enjoying the great work blizzard put into the quests and landscape, and goofing off with my guildies has pretty much eaten up all of my arena time.

 

This entire bill is a complete abomination.

 

Good article as always pwyff.

I'm toying around with a spec that has pretty much made my wow existence complete.  Here it is: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=0tIMzbIoZZVcfxcq0xso

Doing 2s with a mutilate rogue has become so much more fun.  I play just like I was resto, but I can actually throw a dot or two here and there and my "burst" is actually pretty nice.

Warrior healer?  He'll chase after that healer (who has IS on him whenever possible) while i am actually killing the warrior while controlling him with IS and a wrath or two.   Forces the healer to get some heals off on the warrior, and I'm being serious!  I also love having IS to cover my roots rank 1 moonfire FF.  It's fantastic.

Warlock healer?  Well, the rogue ends up killing the felhunter as usual and then the lock pulls out the trusty VW (as usual).  After a nice CC rotation (read: CYCLONE SPAM) on the healer, i jog behind a pillar with the VW beating on me.  Bad position to be in right?  WRONG.  The VW was at around 70% health from SL (because the healer needs to actually HEAL the lock now that wound poison effects DL/SL so it's easy to get them to ignore the pet for a few).  So now that I'm behind the pillar what did I do?  Beat the hell out of his blueberry.  "BUT WAIT HELL PULL IT BAK U NOOB."  Oh really?  Cause it's rooted and out of LOS from the healer.   After the second pet is dead it's GG.

Same thing happened against a very well played hunter / priest team.  Killed the first pet, hunter got off the revive pet while cyclone was on DR.  My rogue was on the priest at this point.  So the pet is on me... I cycloned the hunter, jogged behind a pillar and out of LOS of the priest, rooted the pet, and absolutely decimated it.  Once that pet is dead it's GG.

I thought long and hard about feral charge.  Is it nice? Sure.  But when playing with a rogue i need to be able to take care of myself pretty well (WTB intercept like mobility).  I just don't think that it is all that I had hyped it up to be.  Do I miss it? Sure.  It was a nice threat for spell interrupt.  But guess what? Everyone will expect me to have it.  They still will think twice about casting when I'm in bear form.  The only time I ever found it to be useful in 2s with a mutilate rogue was in getting away from other rogues who had already blown their 2 improved sprints 2 vanishes 2 trinkets.  AKA: not that often.

The DPS (and nearly uninterruptable fast casting wrath)I get from my new build makes taking out pets a breeze.  The extra bit of DPS I can put out against warrior / healer teams led to us DECIMATING three in a row last night.  Those two set-ups (warrior / healer and pet class / healer) were by far our hardest match ups before.

I also hardly noticed a drop in my healing effectiveness.  Think about it.  Lets compare a druid with 1500 healing and Empowered rejuvenation.  You are looking at an equivalent 1800 healing to hots.  Now let's look at a druid with 1500 healing with my spec.  You get around 100 damage/healing from Lunar Guidance putting said druid at a base 1600 healing.  With 3/3 NP and 1/5 ER, you have an equivalent 1664 healing to hots (or a 136 healing difference).  With 2/3 NP and 2/5 ER, you have an equivalent 1728 healing to hots (or a 72 healing difference).  Hardly noticeable.

With improved regrowth I proc natures grace pretty much every time i cast a regrowth (which isn't too often, but DAMN is it nice to have a 1 sec cyclone / roots / hibernate / wrath or a 1.5 sec spammable regrowth).

Mana really isn't much of an issue to me with a rogue partner.  With a bit of CC I can get out to drink pretty much whenever I want.

In conclusion: I love this spec.  I'm only hanging around the 2k ratings in 2s and 3s (don't do 5s) and I hope that it can carry me even further.