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By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:21:21 +0000

@ Marko. 1st up thanks for taking the time for your long response.
Ohhh Mirror Image also drops aggro? Nice to have an additional aggro dump up the sleeve.
re: Pots, I have found it to be a bit of an issue when grinding, just when I get 1 or 2 too many on my Gnomish butt. Then it’s decision time… drop the pot, or just rez…
As for Tier gear… I guess I can dream (Do Gnomes dream, or is the waking world enough?)
I must get around to IV… I just haven’t seen the need… I know, there is a need, but to date my progression level hasn’t required it.
No Medallion? I only got mine so I could forget about it when it was important… something else to smack myself over the back of the head over. And I got it the hard way… Gnomes are soo silly some times.
I am avoiding the penguin… while a penguin is nice, I like my sheep (on the rare occasion I cast it over a turtle). So if I could have penguin and sheep, then I might go there.

@moomajick: Yes you can have a cat, or a snake, for a price. Though for me the ability to change your opponent into the form that should be our familiar, only to then blast it down is kind of a joke…

Kinda like:
“You Mages QQ’ing for a black cat familiar… here it is… Now kill it!”

@ Devv
I normally go with the Scorch rather than fireball, but I have been good lately and remembering to drop the flame strike… especially after my Blastwave-knock-backed mobs return to die.

G&O!

By: Devv

Devv — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:50:00 +0000

I use Dragon’s Breath as the mob approaches me at close range. I usually throw in a three second cast (Fireball Frostfire Bolt) while the mob is still dazed before I pop my instant Flamestrike.

And yeah, I’m a purist. The knockback was my favorite enhancement to Blast Wave. Blizzard wants me to glyph that away? Crazy!

By: moomajick

moomajick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:31:29 +0000

Wait… I want a black cat tome! I must have it, the penguin is getting boring…

By: Marko

Marko — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:04:34 +0000

Phew, a lot of questions, so I’ll answer what seems to be relevant to me. I only raid at the moment so answers from that perspective.
Invisi and iceblock for me are just like in BC, aggro reducing tools. Also mirror image is another tool for this which I use, not for the damage (the images tend to die immediately) but to instantly dissappear from Omen.
It’s weird but nowadays I hardly ever have to use mana pots or evocation. I guess the mana levels in raiding gear and the several replenishment talents around take this problem away. Also, the 2 piece T7 bonus makes mana gems return 4-5k mana and give a temporary damage buff, so I try to use them as often as possible for the trinket effect at least.
Trinkets themselves seem to have gone from usable to proc based, so no need to worry about them anymore. Combustion and icy veins gets either popped early to have another shot at it late in the fight, or saved to a particular moment if the boss needs nuking. Aggro does not seem to be a major problem nowadays.
Finally, I still don’t have medallion of the horde.. and yes, I got the penguin glyph. Still, I hardly ever get to see it with everything being aoe’d down nowadays. Even at Kel’Thusad where you get to use sheep they are in some kind of shadow form making it difficult to see what the animal is!