PTR

Before i go to bed tonight I'm going to re download the PTR and have it patch while I'm at work. I'll be Kordwar on whatever the PvP realm is.

Update:

PTR is not up but character copies are. I made a premade character and copied Kord, look for me on the PvP realm.

Update 2.0:

PTR is up and running and i'm on the PvP realm, the trap changes are awesome thus far in PvP. Isle is conquest is nifty as well. If i can free up some harddrive space I'll try to get another video going.

If you can't find a fight, bring the fight to them.

Peench and I went on an adventure to Ironforge. Total kills: one warrior, one ret pally, one fire mage, two hunters. Why yes, i did use Rhok'delar the whole time. I basically danced in place until someone decided to flag and come after me, then I'd kite them into the trench and proceed to kick ass.

Screenshot goodness

Few recent screenshots I thought i'd share.


I'm not Rifluvr, but i can dream.


Forgive the massive bar of debuffs (turns out it was quartz, it's off now) but i wanted to capture having 8.1k attack power.there are few funnier things in pvp than the ol' double CC. In case you're wondering, the red all around the screen happens when CC breaks, courtesy of Natur enemy castbars.

Edit!

The double CC strikes again!

Rhok 'n' Roll

Well, the guild ran some lowbie alts through Molten Core last night, and of course i tagged along. I went as Marksman because more than half the stuff is immune to explosive shot. Alot of lowbie deaths later we cleared the place, i now have a bunch of fiery cores so I can make a core marksman rifle. More importantly I looted majordomos cache to find....


My leaf!

And with that i give you the video of my epic journey:


For anyone wondering about video uploads, noobflicks is awesome.

Macro updates

I've been looking over my macros and realized that many of them have changed and I felt that readers might benefit from some of them. They range from space savers to just making life easier.

I'll start with the pet macros.

Yesterday i lost a few duels due to one thing: having the wrong pet macro on my bar. I've been leveling my Ravager while I do dailys because I've realized how nice the stun is as an interrupt and for getting melee with hand of freedom off me. I've now solved this problem by modifying a feed pet macro BRK used quite some time ago. The macro goes as follows:

/cast [pet:crab]pin
/cast [pet:ravager]ravage

Now you can insert any pet type and ability into it, or you can make it as long as you'd like if you use many different pets. It's an example of an "if, then" macro. If the pet is a crab then it will cast pin, if the pet is a ravager then it will cast ravage ect.

The 2nd macro is to just save bar space: If the pet is dismissed it will be called, if it's out then it casts mend pet:

/cast [pet, nodead] mend pet; [target=pet, noexists] call pet

For some strange reason i can't seem to get revive pet into the macro and have it work, if anyone knows how to fix that lemme know

This next one is a random mount macro, i found it some time ago and without it I would have fallen to my death many times. Well, more than the 35 I already have >.> Protip: if the water looks "shallow enough" just fly a little bit lower.

/run if IsMounted()then return end local t if((GetRealZoneText()=="Dalaran") and(GetSubZoneText()~="Krasus' Landing") or(GetZoneText()=="Wintergrasp")or not IsFlyableArea())then t={1,2,7,8}else t={4,6,12}end CallCompanion("MOUNT",t[random(#t)])
/dismount

confusing huh?

I'll explain it best I can. in the parts where it says "t={1,2,7,8} you place your ground mounts that you want. It counts top row then bottom row in your mount page. In the second part where it says t={4,6,12} you place your flying mounts. If you're in azeroth/dalaran/wintergrasp it summons a ground mount, if you can fly there (like krasus landing) it summons a flying mount. press it once to mount and again to dismount.

These next ones are more PvP oriented macros but they have use anywhere really. One that comes in handy is a feign death interrupt. You can't feign in the middle of a steadyshot or volley channel (at least not last time i checked)

#showtooltip Feign Death
/stopcasting
/cast Feign Death

simple, quick and gets the job done. Perfect for interrupting a cast aimed towards you while in the middle of a steadyshot cast.

The mashable flare:

Sometimes you hit a button one too many times and you lose the targeting circle, it's happened to all of us at least once and has bitten me in the ass a few times. This solves that problem.

#showtooltip Flare
/cast !Flare

the "!" makes it so the circle won't go away until you cast the spell. I use somthing similar on my rogue so i can spam stealth without it breaking by accident with

#showtooltip Stealth
/cast !stealth

If you're like me you have pyro rockets on every pair of gloves you own, without needing to swap macros you can cast the rockets no matter what gloves you're wearing with the very simple:

#showtooltip 10
/cast 10

when you mouseover the macro it'll show whatever gloves you're using and always cast whatever is on the gloves, be it rockets or the hyperspeed accelerators.


Last of all is something I use in 5 mans when something goes wrong, it lets you feel like a druid if someone dies during a fight. Sorry folks, engineers only.

#showtooltip Gnomish Army Knife
/use [target=focus] Gnomish Army Knife

set the dead person as your focus and get next to them, feign death and mash that macro. You drop combat long enough to start the army knife channel and if the planets allign and RNG is on your side then you rez them.

That's all for now, feel free to leave questions or comments.