Post Your Armory Page

Bjorn

Well-Known Member
#76
It's like this.

A man is walking along the street. On the road he sees a car, and sitting in it are 4 people. But, surprisingly, the driver's seat is empty. However, there is a rope attached to the front bumper, and tugging mightily at that rope is another man, sweating like hell and pulling the car along foot by agonizing foot.

Our pedestrian tells the strongman, "You could get into the car and drive it. It would be much faster, and much less of a hassle to both you and your friends."

"No, I like it this way, I think it's almost as fast, and my friends don't have a problem with it," the man replies.
 

Kayeich

Well-Known Member
#77
Not really, haven't forgotten. And I don't really think I was particularly chewing him out. =p

To be fair, I did say it was doable to tank while not being crit capped pre-heroics. You're making things harder on the healer, but yes, it is doable. Heck, it's doable all the way to level 80 even, I'd say, not just level 75'ish.

That said, it never hurts to start hunting for defense gear now, and simple things like switching main hand and off hand isn't really complex.

Also, before both you and Bjorn commented, I'd PM'ed him regarding his spec. He used to have stuff like Endless Winter and Chillblains but not Frigid Dreadplate or Anticipation and had an incomplete Annihilation. I gave him a spec for his level and showed him what it should look like at level 80 as well as pointing him to EJ thread on DW tanking.

Right now, I'm mostly expanding on advice I had already given on talents as I hadn't really looked at his gear until it was mentioned in this thread.

And really, while yes, you -can- tank with dps gear (arms/fury warriors can also tank at these levels by going into defensive stance or retadins can tank by going into Righteous Fury) at least pre-heroics, Akun50's primarily doing it because he doesn't quite understand what stats are important to tanks.

Yeah, stamina is incredibly important to a tank, but strength and agility are not quite so, and he's seriously undermining the importance of defense, armor, dodge and parry. Not to mention stuff like hit and expertise.

He's fine for a couple more levels, but by level 80, he really does want to understand stats for tanking and how to balance the stats he's hunting for, and he'll want to go into heroics already crit-capped or reasonably close so he needs to know what to start looking out for in gear.
 

akun50

Well-Known Member
#78
I wasn't saying your advice was wrong, Bjorn, I was just wondering if I'd understood poorly and explained what I'd gathered.

I was figuring the parry bonuses given by strength to be a good thing and looking at my total armor, but apparently, those don't matter as much and as you and Kayeich explained, I should be looking for items with a Defense boost to become uncrittable instead of just looking at high armor values and stamina bonuses, which I'll definitely be on the look out for now that I know about it.

I apologize if I came off as rude. :(

As for my new spec, I've changed it along the lines of what was suggested by Elitist Jerks, though it might not show up on the Armory for a bit, and I'll be following their advice on speccing in the future. Friend checked out his own spec and it was reading him as 70 and in his previous set of gear (he's since gained 4 levels and replaced at least six pieces).

Just out of curiosity, what's the defense caps to become uncrittable for Priests, Warlocks and Mages?
 

Kayeich

Well-Known Member
#79
The defense crit cap is for tanks only in pve. There -is- a pvp one which involves resilience though, not defense.
 

Solarman

Well-Known Member
#80
akun50 said:
I wasn't saying your advice was wrong, Bjorn, I was just wondering if I'd understood poorly and explained what I'd gathered.

I was figuring the parry bonuses given by strength to be a good thing and looking at my total armor, but apparently, those don't matter as much and as you and Kayeich explained, I should be looking for items with a Defense boost to become uncrittable instead of just looking at high armor values and stamina bonuses, which I'll definitely be on the look out for now that I know about it.

I apologize if I came off as rude. :(

As for my new spec, I've changed it along the lines of what was suggested by Elitist Jerks, though it might not show up on the Armory for a bit, and I'll be following their advice on speccing in the future.á Friend checked out his own spec and it was reading him as 70 and in his previous set of gear (he's since gained 4 levels and replaced at least six pieces).

Just out of curiosity, what's the defense caps to become uncrittable for Priests, Warlocks and Mages?
You have to log out for Armory to even try to process any changes in level , spec and gear, and it doesn't always show up right away.

And unless you're looking to do arenas, nobody other than tanks ever needs to be uncrittable, because once the tanks die you're screwed anyway because the mobs in instances do more damage than healers can keep up with on most others, and battleground pvp is... less demanding than arenas (read: Resilience is nice, but when you're doing a battleground fights will likely be on the order of 4v1 with respawns coming in for reinforcements, compared to arenas, where it's always 2v2, 3v3, or 5v5 and keeping from being critted really matters since you don't respawn.)
 

akun50

Well-Known Member
#81
Solarman said:
You have to log out for Armory to even try to process any changes in level , spec and gear, and it doesn't always show up right away.
The funny thing is, I don't think I've ever logged into the armory...

Though I have logged into the WoW forum.

And unless you're looking to do arenas, nobody other than tanks ever needs to be uncrittable
Right.
 

Kai-

Well-Known Member
#82
What he means is you need to log out of wow for the armory to update
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#83
Actually, it does update in-game. One minute after I got a decent Epic, and still in the game, I got onto the Armory and BAM! There it was.
 

Kai-

Well-Known Member
#84
Possibly the new armory has instant (or near instant) updates that dont require logging out, but the old one didn't.
 

akun50

Well-Known Member
#85
Don't ask me why, but a lot of characters I've been looking at via Armory have been levels below what they should be.

I glanced at a few of the people I've run with on the Dungeon Finder and all of them read as well below the level they were when they were running with me, and all of them have logged out since (since I looked at them later on a patch day) so :huh.:
 

Kayeich

Well-Known Member
#86
The search page on armory is usually going to be behind the actual page, especially if a character is levelling frequently. For example, one of my characters if I look it up on the search page, appears to be level 29, but when I actually go to the character's profile page, it shows up as level 32 (what it should be).
 

Hawk

Well-Known Member
#87
Hmmm, things have changed a bit since my last post in this thread. :)

Now, my main is my mage which I spend my evenings on trying to down that pesky Lich King in 10man or struggling to down that bothersome Professor Putricide in 25man:
Owyn

My former main, is now my most frequently used alt, who's also started to make his way through the frosty halls of Icecrown Citadel:
Iamhawk

And whenever I'm not leveling one of my gazillion alts, I occationally pop in on this guy to tank a heroic or two or assist some mate with a group quest:
'Dahawk
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#88
Hawk said:
Hmmm, things have changed a bit since my last post in this thread. :)

Now, my main is my mage which I spend my evenings on trying to down that pesky Lich King in 10man or struggling to down that bothersome Professor Putricide in 25man:
Owyn

My former main, is now my most frequently used alt, who's also started to make his way through the frosty halls of Icecrown Citadel:
Iamhawk

And whenever I'm not leveling one of my gazillion alts, I occationally pop in on this guy to tank a heroic or two or assist some mate with a group quest:
'Dahawk
Ew. Alliance.
 

Solarman

Well-Known Member
#89
violinmana said:
Hawk said:
Hmmm, things have changed a bit since my last post in this thread. :)

Now, my main is my mage which I spend my evenings on trying to down that pesky Lich King in 10man or struggling to down that bothersome Professor Putricide in 25man:
Owyn

My former main, is now my most frequently used alt, who's also started to make his way through the frosty halls of Icecrown Citadel:
Iamhawk

And whenever I'm not leveling one of my gazillion alts, I occationally pop in on this guy to tank a heroic or two or assist some mate with a group quest:
'Dahawk
Ew. Alliance.
More like "EU, Alliance", amirite? :p
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#90
Solarman said:
violinmana said:
Hawk said:
Hmmm, things have changed a bit since my last post in this thread. :)

Now, my main is my mage which I spend my evenings on trying to down that pesky Lich King in 10man or struggling to down that bothersome Professor Putricide in 25man:
Owyn

My former main, is now my most frequently used alt, who's also started to make his way through the frosty halls of Icecrown Citadel:
Iamhawk

And whenever I'm not leveling one of my gazillion alts, I occationally pop in on this guy to tank a heroic or two or assist some mate with a group quest:
'Dahawk
Ew. Alliance.
More like "EU, Alliance", amirite? :p
*violinmanaáfacepalms.

Yeah. Sure. While we're at it, let me post my armory page again...

WoF
 

Kayeich

Well-Known Member
#93
I have surprisingly never posted my characters in this thread, despite commenting in it.

Cerisse, is my main.

I have some alts in Malganis too, but still in the process of leveling them. Getting close with my rogue and my DK.

All my other alts are stuck in that annoying leveling limbo between 40-60 where I get bored/annoyed.

I do have toons in other servers (Bloodscalp, Darrowmere, Mok'nathal), but I don't really play 'em any more.
 

akun50

Well-Known Member
#95
Posting my Warlock and Paladin, as well as reposting my DK and Priestess.

No, I have NOT made attempts to get them all fully geared. I would have, but I've been having serious internet woes up until late September/early October, and with Cata coming, I haven't been really all that invested in gearing up when it's all going to be completely outstripped rather quickly.

My Alliance Paladin, I've leveled mostly so friends and I could go through the old world raids before they change/drop, and they play largely on Alliance.

My three high level hordies
<a href='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Doomhammer&cn=Cerl' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Cerl</a>. Blood/Frost spec Death Knight. I know some of her gems aren't that good. I'd tossed them on to see if they could boost my gear score... and at the very least, they're SOME form of boost. Mining/Blacksmithing

<a href='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Doomhammer&cn=Reena' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Reena</a>. Discpline/Shadow Priestess. I've already replaced the Vengeance of Illidari with something better. Tailoring/Enchanting

<a href='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Doomhammer&cn=Resalia' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Resalia</a>. Demonology Warlock. Mining/Jewelcrafting


My highest level alliance
<a href='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Doomhammer&cn=Ophania' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Ophania</a>. Protection Spec Paladin. Yeah, she's still wearing two heirlooms, but that's because I haven't found anything to replace them yet and to be honest, I haven't run her much since getting to 80 (outside of a few low level raids that wouldn't give anything remotely decent to replace what she's got), because I'm trying to get loremaster on my DK. Skinning/Mining
 

zedalb

Well-Known Member
#96
elamshin said:
My current <a href='http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silvermoon&cn=Zahaj' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>main</a>. Alt <a href='http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silvermoon&cn=Anhalfel' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>hunter</a>, <a href='http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silvermoon&cn=Furrybone' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>druid</a>, <a href='http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silvermoon&cn=Devota' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>paladin</a>, <a href='http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Silvermoon&cn=Haelol' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>priest</a>.

Haven't played for the summer and as beta invite dropped in last month, I probably won't until expac is out.
....lurker is lurking lurkingly
 

akun50

Well-Known Member
#97
Since the Armory links have changed...

<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/doomhammer/cerl/simple' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Cerl</a>

<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/doomhammer/reena/simple' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Reena</a>

<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/doomhammer/resalia/simple' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Resalia</a>

<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/doomhammer/shalira/simple' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Shalira</a> is my rogue, and I've run her up for the purpose of getting a high level engineer and inscriptionist.

<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/doomhammer/sereluna/simple' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Sereluna</a> is my Horde druid. Admittedly, I haven't gotten very far with her, but she's got her epic ground mount at least! I'm currently running her up as she's my herbalism/alchemy alt.


<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/doomhammer/ophania/simple' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Ophania</a>


I need to get around to picking up some appropriate heirlooms for my rogue and druid..... but they're so expensive. ;_;
 

rolalinii

Well-Known Member
#98
ah why not here's my character
<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/lightbringer/akashiya/advanced' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Akashiya</a>
 

violinmana

(Hardcore) Gamer
#99
I wish they would let you see both of your specs' gear, instead of just one. There should be an option in-game to upload to the Armory what your current gear is for a spec.

And I say that because I'm geared out of my ass in both DPS and Tank specs.
 

Skwissgar

Well-Known Member
been awhile here's my new toon that I FC in Rated Battlegrounds

<a href='http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/illidan/Karelia/advanced' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/illi...arelia/advanced</a>
 
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