Solo Bear Adventures - Part I - Hagara N25 + Ragnaros H10

The other day, it came to my attention that there exists a spreadsheet of what warlocks can solo... so begins Solo Bear Adventures.

Yes, I know that bears aren't the best for soloing. We're no warlocks or blood dks, but none the less let the adventure begin.

Solo Bear Spreadsheet

I've basically set everything to red and am turning them green as I do them. Note that just because they're red doesn't mean it's not possible, just haven't done it yet.

Garrosh Hellscream - 25 Man Normal - Alt Blood DK

After having to clean up Bad Habit's (my alt dk's guild) on ten man for a couple weeks we finally got a 25 Garrosh kill.

Great work everyone, definitely making some progress as a guild over there!

Heroic Immerseus & Fallen Protectors

We managed to squeeze in an early raiding day this week now that heroics are available. Had a couple sub 5% wipes on Norushen with our most geared dps away : ( Either way, here are the first two boss kill videos!

Week 1 - 5.4 Paragon of Klaxxi Strat And Info

I thought I would share my notes on doing Paragon of Klaxxi this week.

These are pre-notes and I will post the video after the kill!

Start

Bosses - Swarm, Bloodseeker, Dissector

Kill - Dissector

Power - DPS - Mad Scientist - Scorpion transform

• Dissector debuffs tanks that spawns adds at 10, should be dead before this happens

First

Boss - Locust

Kill - Bloodseeker

Power - DPS - Bloodthirsty - Activate to change on ability to spawn blood orb (monk ball 2.0)

Notes:

• Kill one set of bloods while Bloodletter is up
• Spread for charge from Locust
• Lines (aim) start ( soak from boss to targeted player )

Second

Boss - Prime

Kill - Locust

Power - DPS - Strong Legs - Leap to platform to hurl amber

 

Notes:

• Tank swaps on shield bash > attacks
• Amber at 50% - switch and kill
• Amber pools start

Third

Boss - Lucid

Kill - Prime

Power - Tank - Master of Amber - cast on play to immune all damage for 5 sec

Notes:

• Amber at 50%  - switch and kill

Forth

Boss - Poison

Kill - Lucid

Power - Healer - Ingenious - Heal + copy to another raid member (same class or race)

Notes:

• Catalyst - Blues grp with others reds aways move from yellow pools

Fifth

Boss - Manipulator

Kill - Poison

Power - Healer - Vast Apothecarial Knowledge - 10 sec buff for living

Notes:

• Dodge sonics from Manipulator
• Hungry Kunchong - memz link dps and tank pick up

Sixth

Boss - Wind-reaver

Kill - Manipulator

Power - Any - Summons add to fight for 40 sec

Notes:

• Death from above - dodge Wind leap

Seventh

Boss - None

Kill - Wind

Power - DPS - Reave - Leap and damage, can break hungry shield

Eighth

Boss - None

Kill - Swarm

Power - DPS - Compound Eye - SIngle target nuke more damage more distance and increase damage taken by 15% for 10 sec.

5.4 PTR - Heroic Spoils of Pandaria and Paragon Of Klaxxi Testing!

Heroic Spoils of Pandaria



Paragon Of Klaxxi

5.4 PTR - Heroic Iron Juggernaut

5.4 PTR - Garrosh Hellscream

Garrosh Hellscream

Moar 5.4 PTR - Sha of Pride & Iron Juggernaut

Sha of Pride


Iron Juggernaut

Heroic Lei Shen - Prot Pally PoV?!

Thought I would share our Lei Shen kill on 10 heroic, again from the Prot Pally PoV.

Hope you enjoy.

A Bear On A Warhorse?! Live Stream

Been playing a prot pally recently! Raid Night

Thought I'd just throw up the old stream since we'll be doing some heroic progression tonight. Feel free to hop over to http://www.twitch.tv/theetova to get in chat.

Raids are usually Fri and Sat at 7:30 EST

Throne of Thunder - Complete Playlist

Here's our first week clear from the fat bear PoV.

Heroic Shek'zeer

Here's a decent point of view of Shek'zeer heroic 10. In this fight the big thing to take away from a guardian bear tank is 1. Lots to dodge and 2. having a juicy Frenzied Regen for explosions.

Hope you enjoy.

Tooth And Claw

With 5.1 guardian druids now have the Tooth and Claw ability.

Tooth and Claw Requires Druid (Guardian) Requires level 32

Requires Bear Form Your autoattacks in Bear Form have a 40% chance to empower your next Maul for 10 sec.  Empowered Maul causes its victim's next autoattack within 15 sec to deal (max((AP * $AGI) * 250 / 100, $STA * 250 / 100) * 0.4) less damage.

So here are the assumptions:

1. The cooldown of Maul is less than the melee attack speed of the boss.
2. Tooth and Claw does NOT proc from melee misses, dodges or parries.
3. In this math I use 40% melee damage which was about the total melee damage I take over the course of a raid night. You can save this spreadsheet and adjust the green fields as you wish to get a more accurate number for you.

The results:

Tooth and Claw will increase the stat weights of Haste and Hit/Expertise due to faster attacks to proc more and increasing the amount you do proc from melee attacks connecting.

Haste 0.00004

Hit/Expertise 0.0052

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Tips And Tricks

1. Track your Tooth and Claw Buff on you and the Debuff on your target. Do NOT spend rage on maul unless these two conditions are true, the rage is otherwise wasted on just damage.

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More Math:

- Boss DPS: 80000 

- Average Vengeance: ~71000 AP

- Average Tooth and Claw Melee Reduction: ~178000

- Boss DPS redution: ~ 5000 DPS

- % Boss DPS reduction: 6.5%

This just shows how much damage is being mitigated with Tooth and Claw on a single hit and the average percentage DPS being mitigated. Please view the TnC tab on the spreadsheet for more extensive math if you wish. Feedback always needed.

Full Google Doc Spreadsheet

Bear Weapon Enchants

Just a quick post on weapon enchants now that we have access to Living Steel. Windsong is still our better enchant.

Dancing Steel - Permanently enchants a melee weapon to sometimes increase your Strength or Agility by 1,650 when dealing melee damage.  Your highest stat is always chosen. (12 second buff)

Windsong - Permanently enchants a melee weapon to sometimes increase your critical strike, haste, or mastery by 1500 for 12 sec when dealing damage or healing with spells and melee attacks.  Requires a level 372 or higher item.








At first glace, to the average druid who HASN'T been reading along, (jk) Dancing Steel looks to be the better choice.



Windsong (2RPPM)
Uptime 40%
Ave Stat Weight 0.0243    (Crit+Haste+Mastery)/3
Enchant Weight 14.56


Dancing Steel (1PPM)
        Agi         1650             %Uptime        >14.56

This works out that Dancing Steel needs to have a 30.23% up time.

Time to start watching logs, I will update you guys as I see more actual uptimes from mine and other bear logs.

Note: Basic math:

 Enchant Weight = stat weight * amount * % Uptime

Flawless Bear Dance

Finally Will of the Emperor didn't bug for me! I got to dance dance party!

Heroic Feng 10

I thought this was rather amusing, me knowing we were going to get a kill and me screwing up. Enjoy!

TheeTova Online and Live!

Thought I'd just throw up the old stream since we'll be doing some heroic progression tonight. Feel free to hop over to http://www.twitch.tv/theetova to get in chat.

Raids are usually Fri and Sat at 7:30 EST

The Bear Necessities - Macros

Complete Macro List and Description

[Mangle]
Start Attack and Cancel Auras
- Keybind: 4

	Code: #showtooltip /cancelaura Parachute /cancelaura Hand of Protection /startattack /cast Mangle

Note: Removes unwanted [Blessing of Protection] or I delay hitting it to sit in it as well as cancels the parachute for Spine. Also /startattack on every attack.



AoE Rotation
Simple cast sequence with everything I use in the 6 seconds of my total aoe rotation.
- Keybind: Mousewheel Down

	Code: #showtooltip /startattack /castsequence [stance:1] reset=6 Thrash, Swipe, Mangle, Swipe; [stance:3] reset=6 Thrash, Swipe, Swipe, Swipe;

Note: This is one button aoe for both bear and cat. Keep in mind in cat with normal energy regen you can Swipe three times before the Thrash dot falls off.


[Growl]
Simple mouseover > target priority on my taunt.
- Keybind: 1

	Code: #showtooltip Growl /cast [@mouseover, exists, harm][exists, harm] Growl;

Note: I use this for:

- [Growl] - Keybind: 1
- [Faerie Fire] - Keybind: Middle Mouse Button
- [Wild Charge] - Mouse Button 5 (inside) in Bear/Cat
- [Cyclone] - Mouse Button 5 (inside) in Caster
- [Mass Entanglement] - Shift Middle Mouse Button

[Skull Bash]
Stance adjust with focus > mouseover > target priority
- Keybind: Mousewheel Up

	Code: #showtooltip /cast [nostance:1/3] Soothe; [stance:1/3, @focus, exists, harm][@mouseover, exists, harm][@target, exists, harm] Skull Bash;

Stance adjust with mouseover > target priority (no focus)
- Keybind: Shift Mousewheel Up

	Code: #showtooltip /cast [nostance:1/3] Soothe; [@mouseover, exists, harm][@target, exists, harm] Skull Bash;

Note: Both of these will [Skull Bash] while in [Bear Form] or [Cat Form] and [Soothe] otherwise. Mousewheel Up to interrupt focus and if I have a focus shift mousewheel up to interrupt my target or mouseover target.


Focus Macros
Useful for everyone. Mouseover or target set focus with a quick clear focus bind.

Focus - Set
Shift Mousewheel Down

	Code: /focus [@mouseover, nodead, exists][@target]

Focus - Clear
Ctrl Mousewheel Down

	Code: /clearfocus