Musical Noobs
Posted 06-22-2009 at 10:27 AM by Horacio
So of late, I have been cycling in a few different characters in the weekly Ulduar 10 man raid that I lead.
We have two solid tanks and I get my fill of intense button mashing in 25 man. I could go off spec DPS but I just don't feel comfortable DPSing on my warrior. He's a tank and while I maintain a DPS set and spec, I would rather not go that route.
I had been playing my DK and doing pretty well. His gear is pretty solid and a piece here or there would balance it out really well. He has too much hit and haste at the moment, some 350 hit for a 2 hander. If I could trade that for AP, I'd be happy.
But, our mage has been playing his retadin and asked to swap in and frankly, last night being his first night, it was a net gain in DPS on his end. Our shaman was out so we grabbed a well geared DK and I switched over to my mage.
The good: I had a blast. I stayed alive during all the fights. In previous runs as a raider, I have done some impressive DPS on the mage. I maintaind CC when needed, I moved and did not die to crap that kills other people. Mana was never an issue.
The bad: My damage output was awful. I have a few issues i can fix, the biggest of which is my gear. It stinks. Two upgrades last night helped alot but I need alot more. I was about 2200-2400 on bosses. I need to manage my scorches better but the key is to be on target faster and choose the right spells.
So. What to do?
I like having a mage in the raid for the int buff and the range/melee balance. We have a rogue and now a retadin with an ele shammy, aff lock, and boomkin for DPS. The mage could top out really high with that set up--moonkin buff/wrath totem.
I posed this question before and the DK was the choice but the mage changing to his pally alters the equation. With our normal set up, it leaves us without a DK or without a mage depending on which way I go.
Tonight, we'll be working on Hodir again and I will bring the DK because I have FrR gear already for him and Hodir is a stumbling block for us now and we need the best we can muster.
But beyond that, I'm leaning heavily toward making the mage my 10 man raider.
We have two solid tanks and I get my fill of intense button mashing in 25 man. I could go off spec DPS but I just don't feel comfortable DPSing on my warrior. He's a tank and while I maintain a DPS set and spec, I would rather not go that route.
I had been playing my DK and doing pretty well. His gear is pretty solid and a piece here or there would balance it out really well. He has too much hit and haste at the moment, some 350 hit for a 2 hander. If I could trade that for AP, I'd be happy.
But, our mage has been playing his retadin and asked to swap in and frankly, last night being his first night, it was a net gain in DPS on his end. Our shaman was out so we grabbed a well geared DK and I switched over to my mage.
The good: I had a blast. I stayed alive during all the fights. In previous runs as a raider, I have done some impressive DPS on the mage. I maintaind CC when needed, I moved and did not die to crap that kills other people. Mana was never an issue.
The bad: My damage output was awful. I have a few issues i can fix, the biggest of which is my gear. It stinks. Two upgrades last night helped alot but I need alot more. I was about 2200-2400 on bosses. I need to manage my scorches better but the key is to be on target faster and choose the right spells.
So. What to do?
I like having a mage in the raid for the int buff and the range/melee balance. We have a rogue and now a retadin with an ele shammy, aff lock, and boomkin for DPS. The mage could top out really high with that set up--moonkin buff/wrath totem.
I posed this question before and the DK was the choice but the mage changing to his pally alters the equation. With our normal set up, it leaves us without a DK or without a mage depending on which way I go.
Tonight, we'll be working on Hodir again and I will bring the DK because I have FrR gear already for him and Hodir is a stumbling block for us now and we need the best we can muster.
But beyond that, I'm leaning heavily toward making the mage my 10 man raider.
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Hrmm....well, I went back on the DK last night and hit some pretty decent DPS numbers. I'm frost and I feel like my boss DPS is a little low but if there are multiple targets, I annihilate things with howling blast bombs.
It has become clear to me that no matter how much I want to perform well on my mage, the DK has enough of a head start that there is no comparison.
So....DK it is.Posted 06-23-2009 at 08:25 AM by Horacio 
- ewwwww dk
Posted 06-23-2009 at 09:42 AM by Insom
