🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:59:50 -0700 (PDT), Ashen Shugar wrote:
>  On Mar 24, 6:30=A0pm, Urbin <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:06:48 -0500, Shiflet wrote:
> >
> > > "Urbin" <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> > > news:slrniokssc.4vp.urbin@stinky-local.trash.net...
> 
>  *snips*
> 
> > > > - Charge is only available out of combat and in Battle Stance. I'd
> > > > love a macro that puts me into Battle Stance (if not already in it),
> > > > Charges and then puts me back in Defensive Stance.
> >
> > > FYI, changing stances removes most of your rage, so that might not
> > > help much.
> >
> > Bugger, I had completely missed that.
> 
>  It's not actually that big a problem.  You charge, gain 20 rage, spend
>  15 of it on Thunderclap and you're only losing 5 when you then switch
>  to defensive stance.  And chances are you'll have enough rage to do
>  something with just from getting beaten on between entering defensive
>  stance and being able to do something/anything.  Did this all the time
>  back in the day.  ; )

Ah, that actually sounds pretty nice. Using the some of the generated rage
for a thunderclap is a nice touch, I wouldn't have thought of that. Did you
do this manually, or did you have a macro for this?

>  Though until you can charge in Defensive stance, you'd probably save
>  this for pulls when you don't have rage left over from the previous
>  fight.

Actually, I was more thinking about situations where I am still running
towards a group of mobs and while running I see a fireball fizz past me into
the group I was heading for. It would be nice to be sure that I'm the first
one to beat on the mobs.

>  If you remember to just auto-attack for the last 4 or 5 seconds of the
>  last mob, you should be able to build up a nice reserve of rage to get
>  you to the next pull.

Yes, I succesfully used this on my druid tank to make sure I had enough rage
for the next pull and have tried using that strategy last night on my
warrior.

The problem is that without a rage-conserving charge I'd often need all of
that rage (and more) to collect mobs prematurely pulled by the ranged dps.

I guess I'll need another standard macro:

"Hi, low level tanking is lacking some of the nice mechanisms available
later. I would appreciate it if you'd let me pull and if you'd wait with
your attacks until I've started beating on a group of mobs."

We'll see how that works.

Cheers
Urbin
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