Comments on: Mr Offspec & I

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:26:32 +0000

Once again someone else has said this better than me (another complain from my wife.. I will write a book, and need to write a sequel to explain the 1st book)…

THD (Of Mr. Tree as he now wants to be known after Mr. Z! was named… Does that make me Mr. G! ?) suggested that this was my real point…

The issue is it was more a shot at a personality type:
I think that’s where your complaint lies…..people that role on anything….even when it is only tiny upgrade…as well as offspec everything without using it before its vendored or sharded

Of course, this is clouded by the fact that the personality type is evident in my group of friends in someone that is Mr Alt-Offspec.

By: pewpewlazerz

pewpewlazerz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:08:44 +0000

I’m finding the whole Mainspec/Offspec thing to be getting a little obsolete these days with the advent of dual specs. Loot homogenisation helps a lot too, all that cloth with spirit on it isn’t just for priests anymore, for example. My priest raids Ulduar 10 as a Shadow Priest, but has switched spec to Holy and healed on at least two raids in the last few weeks because it was needed. She wouldn’t be able to do that if she didn’t have a strong Holy gear set as well as her Shadow set, and the result of her not being able to do that would have been at least one cancelled raid.

Admittedly, a lot of good Shadow gear is also good Holy gear, so much of the shadow gear I’m bidding on can also be used for healing. On the other hand, my warrior’s in a tricky situation on those fights in Ulduar 10 that only require 1 tank (Hodir, I’m looking at you). Since it’s far easier for a druid tank to stack frost resistance and still remain crit-immune than it is for a warrior, the Druid gets to tank and I switch to Arms spec and dps. But because I refused to roll on any dps gear for Gorn until all the melee dps already had it, Gorn’s dps gear is an embarrasment. We can still down Hodir, but I definitely feel as though I’m not pulling my weight.

On the other hand, if I was the Ret Paladin looking at the best in slot 2-handed weapon drop and being outrolled on it by the Protection Warrior, I guess I’d feel just like the Gnome Fire Mage seeing his best in slot dps trinket go to the Resto Shaman.

There aren’t any easy answers, I guess. Probably the best way in your case is exactly what you’re doing: If I get the loot, is the best for the raid? If not, pass. If it works, it works.

By: Spinks

Spinks — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:16:07 +0000

I gotta say, I really appreciate all the Mr/Ms Offspecs these days because I often have to ask people to switch to their offspecs so that we can overcome our slightly weird class balance for raids.

So it actually is really cool that a lot of my friends put the time and effort into getting offspec gear and learning to use it. I would never stop people rolling for offspec, you never know when it might be useful!

By: zupa

zupa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:05:36 +0000

I have to say im rather jealous that you get to play with so many of your mates.

I have one of this server, one on that server, one who doesn’t play anymore, one who is going to reactivate RSN (Real Soon Now)… You may not get much playtime but I think you squeeze the maximum fun out of it!

meanwhile… I’m not as regular as I should be!

ouchies! shame on me!

inc. post on how I’m not as regular as I should be.

I promise no references to diet or fibre or anything of the sort. Oh too late Gnome already went there.

By: Arioch

Arioch — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:25:57 +0000

Posts about loot are fun.
It’s rewarding for me as a fellow mage to vicariously live out getting loot that I’ve had to watch go to a PuG or heard about dropping in the raid I didn’t get to go to.
They also serve as a sort of diary for you to look back and see what you’ve accomplished and when. I would have already forgotten how I felt about some events if I didn’t have my own blog to glance at once in a while.

It’s your blog and your opinions. You can QQ all you want. Besides, bitching and whining are class-skills for mages.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:38:25 +0000

lol… not enough fiber in Zupa’s diet.. though i think he nearly got the runs at the thought of old world raids…

I intend to give him enough to write about…

anyway, I have passed one +blogpower item to Razorbax today… surely that’s enough…

2 a day…. what am I going to do with the one coming in 5 hours?

Although I guess it is a bit of a confession post…

By: Larísa

Larísa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:32:04 +0000

Dear Mr Gnome! You’re killing me with all those posts. Two a day, is that your new standard now?

You’ve apparently had enough of upgrades giving you insane amounts of +blogpower and I expect you to pass the next drop so that one of your fellow mage bloggers could have a little boost as well. Zupa is probably the one in most need. I’ve seen a few posts but he isn’t as regular as he should be.