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Question: I heard I can counter blowback with an extremely precisely timed Blink, how exactly is that accomplished? How do I start to practice? I have not heard of avoiding the knock back but you can take bombs if needed by blinking as soon as you click the bomb but you need to have low latency. Th...

Two bosses in one lockout, I think some congratulations is due

Congratulations!!! Did you use the run away technique for phase 2?

Shamans is really easy as well if you can separate them. Keep up the good work.

Whoop, congratulations.

So far as pre-casting anything before the pull is considered a Cardinal Sin in my guild and will result in being benched. This is because our tanks do not always pull at Timer 0. Typically, it is 2-4 seconds after the timer hits zero that our tanks pull. Bench the tanks. Not only are you missing ou...

I have just posted this in another thread in response to a question there, but in order to keep things together should someone come looking, I will post this here as well. This is my Frost / Arcane Mage CD tracker. It is a self expanding / collapsing horizontal bar of icons showing the standard Mage...

Sorry, I must have been half asleep at work today as I have just realised that I directed to you the Macros and Addons section from a thread in that section. Any way... Here is the WA2 string I use to track my CD's. diKczaakcv5ueIClcrTlibnmkvhJISmi4zqKPjv11OOABsvY3iKgNurNJsPMhHQ6EsfYbPOSqk8qirMieQYf...

Im at work now, but I have a WA2 string that I can post when I'm at home and I remember. It is a horizontal bar of icons which is below my character (just above where the Special Action button appears). This will only appear while in combat, it shows which CD's I have left to use (E.g. The icon is n...

[*] Tried to do a HALO jump off the tower, hitting Slow Fall the last moment. At that last moment, realized I'm targeting a friendly unit; I too have made a lot of the same mistakes. but for the one above, use Blink. It will instantly put you on the ground softly and you don't need wait to time slo...

Slightly off topic, but to answer the 1st responders question... I don't know how exactly Blizzard is gonna achieve that (if you have some news unknown to me, please do reply!!), but I guess it's implemented by giving a buff to the players the moment they enter an old instance. This is taken from th...

This is very anecdotal, but I ran Frost Armor for all last night and I felt like I performed better (Bosses 1 – 8). It could be that the guild as a whole performed better as we only had one wipe where we normally have 6+ while people get used to transitioning from 10 – 25 man (or normal to HC in som...

Thank you. I have just skimmed over the guide, but it does look very useful. I'll read that a later today when things quiet down a bit more.

If you are worried about something spawning under you while Alter Time is up, E.g the pools in Spools or Immerseus, what I do is use it in an area that I know is save and no one is standing in and then run a few steps and continue my rotation until it expires and I get put back into the safe place.

Sorry for the late reply. I tend to hit the Wife enrage timer if I play on the weekends. Here is the WA2 string for Invoker's Energy. It doesn't display anything as I already have a timer bar from another addon so all it does it play the sound of a cow mooing (won't get mixed up with other game soun...

Glad I could help. I've never been able to use Alter Time successfully in a raid, as in, I take huge splashdamage or raidwide AoE right before and when I come out of the Alter Time I get down to low health and usually get teleported back to some place with lots of crap on the ground and die. Eventua...

The other people here will be able to pick apart the logs better, but here are a few things I noticed. 1). Mage bomb uptime is excellent. 2). Invoker's Energy needs to up around 95% of the time. Your uptime was 73% and it wasn't up for the 1st 30 seconds of the fight so you are missing the interacti...

Thank you very much @Komma. That is more than I was hoping for. I was expecting people to post a link or two and say "Here, try this".

I will read through the links you gave me and come back to the group with my questions should I have any.

This is not your typical, “I have 2 items, which should I use” request for help, so I just want to say thank you in advance for taking the time to read this post and secondly, any help you can offer. I have been a Mage since I started playing WoW at the end of Wrath of the Lich King. I have always w...

Ahh, that I have heard of but never seen or played so I couldn't give you an honest answer. From memory, the majority of cards being minions the graphic is just a card attacking another card and then you see the defense points drop or the card disappear if the defence points run out. The main specia...

Im sure someone with do it more experience will do more justice than me with the explanation as I stopped playing as soon as I got my mount for winning 3 PvP games. Also, I don't know what MTG is so I apologise if this description seems a bit condescending. You start off with the Mage deck. Each car...