🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mar 24, 9:04 pm, Urbin <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 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?

Manually, though I'd key-bound the various stances to mouse buttons,
so it was a matter of left clicking on Charge with the mouse, hitting
5 or 6 or whatever with my left hand to thunderclap then pressing the
Mouse4 button with my right to switch to Defensive stance.

> >  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.

Throw or shoot to pull mobs if you don't want to waste rage by
changing to battle stance to charge and can't trust the dps to wait
for you to actually get close enough to proximity agro the mobs.  That
should be enough to get all the mobs heading towards you to start with
and then you have taunt for any mobs hit by a fireball.  That'd also
be the time to use a shout (when you get them) for a little bit more
AoE threat.
Still, if you've got enough rage that you don't want to waste it by
changing stance to charge, then you've got enough rage that you can
just stay between the mobs and the n00b dps and thunderclap the mobs
when they get in range. (as if you don't have enough rage to
thunderclap, then you don't have enough rage for it to be a waste to
change stance).  Hopefully the thunderclap would be enough to get you
agro back on the mob fireballed and you can save your taunt for any
casters that were out of range of the thunderclap.

--
Ashen Shugar