Catriona R
9/6/2012 10:59:00 AM
On 6 Sep 2012 08:14:03 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 5 Sep 2012 22:10:04 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:03:26 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
>> >> Glad to hear Ion seems like Macaroon, I may take the plunge and get it
>> >> then, will be better than me doing without entirely I think.
>> >
>> >It covers pretty much everything. The only thing not working so far is the
>> >vehicle interface at the darkmoon faire. I wasted a few tokens until I
>> >noticed what the problem was. Logout, disable ion, login, do the dailies,
>> >re-enable ion. Hopefully that will be fixed some time...
>>
>> Great, I only use it for extra bars rather than main ones anyway so
>> hopefully will cover my needs!
>
>The problem is, when you activate it, it will hide *all* default bars. As
>that is what I want, I've never tried to find out, if they can be made to
>re-appear or not. So maybe, this is not what you're looking for.
Hmm. Welll, Macaroon certainly used to manage to let me have the
default bars as well as its bars, if this one doesn't, it's fairly
useless!
>On the plus side, if you still want to try it out, it is pretty easy to
>configure (click the minimap icon (or the icon on your Broker bar if you
>have one) and click on one of the two empty default bars it creates and you
>should be able to easily set up some bars to mimick the default behaviour.
>Feel free to ask here, if you have questions.
Might be easy enough, but I can't say I want to spend hours with a
screenshot trying to copy my original button layout for 20 different
characters... ;-)
>> I'm sure it wil be fixed up, the author seems to be pretty actively
>> working on it atm, think the patch just came a little too soon for him.
>
>Yupp, that's the impression I had as well. Vehicle bars didn't really work
>in macaroons either, at the start but were eventually integrated. On the
>plus side, the config options for dual spec based bar switching (which
>worked great in macaroon) are already there (though I haven't tested them
>yet).
Ah, good, that was the bit I was worried about. If I can get to keep
my normal actionbars it should do what I need then.
>> >Yeah right. I can see my Cobra Hatchlings fetching premium prices ;-)
>> >But thanks for explaining.
>>
>> Lol, well, I was more thinking of some rarer BoP pets, like if you've
>> got a few Sprite Darter Hatchlings or the like :-)
>
>Ah, I'll have to check, but I think of the rarer pets I have, there is just
>one, and I'm not going to sell those.
Yeah I'm the same, didn't have any good duplicates to sell, oh well,
if I come across any in the future I'll see if I can make a profit!
>> I suspect your cobras may prove common enough for it to be easier to
>> release them (which just loses them)
>
>Certainly. I used to get them from the oracles while hoping for the mount to
>hatch and couldn't sell them on the AH back then, so it's unlikely I'll be
>able to sell them now.
Yeah, that being said, there may be a bunch of players around now who
weren't around then and might still find a use... don't hold out too
much hope though!
>> >I'll rotate through my other characters to set up their UI, I'll quest a
>> >bit. Then I might lfg (normal), then lfg (heroic), then maybe lfr, but don't
>> >hold your breath :)
>>
>> Good luck! I've still never done any heroics before the three that
>> were added with the Dragon Soul patch, shows how little confidence I
>> have in pugging lol... really should get around to it before the end
>> of this expansion, hmm, haven't got very long left for that!
>
>I find it interesting that you are hesitant to /lfg but seem to do quite a
>bit of /lfr. With me it's just the other way round. I feel I can comfortably
>communicate with four other people, which made most LFG runs fairly
>pleasant. If there was a problem we could usually solve it in /g, unlike
>others I've seen very few bad LFG runs. I waited fairly long before I dared
>to go for heroics, but even those were usually fine. I suspect nowadays
>people just outgear them by so much, that they just brute force their way
>through them like it was at the end of Wrath, I'll be curious to see.
Heh well for me, LFR is easy since you can fly under the radar, nobody
will notice mistakes or underperforming. LFG, I always feel I'll get
blamed for everything, even if I actually did no wrong ("blame the
healer"), just a small group of strangers feels like more pressure to
me. It's the other way round with people I know; I prefer the smaller
groups which are less overwhelming with interaction, but LFR you don't
have to interact or anything, it's anonymous when you're among that
many total strangers.
>On the other hand, I'm not comfortable joining a 25 man raid that I don't
>really know (reading up on a raid just is not the same as being there, at
>least for me) and am not sure I know what to do (and especially not to do
>:-) and then risking to be the one screwing things up.
The good thing about LFR is, so long as you don't go pulling stuff
when you're not the tank, there is nothing to screw up ;-) Stand where
other ranged stand, and follow them; if they go after another target,
copy them, otherwise stay put - there's only a couple of movement
things to look out for and you get the hint fast enough first time you
die lol, it's all fairly obvious. And if you screw up and die, it's
not a wipe anyway, it's designed with a *lot* of tolerance for
differing abilities and lack of communication, it's far easier than
normal raiding as a result. I was scared of joining it first time but
son found there's nothing to be scared of, only role with any pressure
is tanks, dps and healers are no stress.