Undertanker

Nost ended pretty even 52 percent alli 48 percent horde. Though if PvP is your main priority, a larger percentage of horde queue battlegrounds compared to alli. So Alli get instant queue and horde have to world PvP honor farm while waiting for queue to pop.

Forgot CoS does arcane. Frost tree increases damage by frost spells by 6%, no increased damage % for arcane. Frost gets 100% crit strike damage bonus = so your spell crits do 200% of normal damage instead of 150%. Arcane does not get this. Not to mention 15% less spell cost of your frost spells. Val does a pulsing ability to everybody in the raid so casting frost bolt get's a lot of spell pushback lowering your dps. Arcane missile can spec into 100% reduced pushback so they can spam spells better on this fight.

That was a TBC thing.

Whirlwind Axe / Bonebiter

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It scales worse with gear than just using a proper arcane frost spec: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#of0VfofquZVA0c0s (can swap last point of threat reduction into reach if you want) Not only does arcane missile not scale as well, you don't benefit from Warlock Curse of elements, no increased crit damage, no increased arcane missile damage. Also won't get the benefit of the assigned mage (or two) that will be running deep frost: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#ow0Vf0soZZVA0c0fzA for Winter's Chill debuff so you get even 10% more crit for your frost bolt. Arcane missile mage will only enjoy the Val fight in BWL with avoiding push-back.

Hemo Rogue PVE Spec: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#fhecoxzZZArckhhoq Used when you have T3 and a lot of BiS items.

I prefer lock in my 5 man speed clears since my preferred druid can handle decurse and use HoTs on the lock and they can mind tap to never stop pulling.

A skilled speed running 5 man group with benefit most from a druid due to heals on the run, and insane mana rejen and use innervates on the dps. Rejuv should also be used on your raid for known incoming raid damage. Low rank regrowth, high rank rejuv. Druid has highest skill cap due to slower heals, but doesn't mean they are bad. Here are a couple of the fights that remained on realmplayers from Nost on my alt and some of them I go against BiS healers and I never set foot in BWL with him and didn't have Jindo's Hexxer or DMC: Bluedragon for them. Onxyia: http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/RaidOverview.aspx?Raid=37319 ZG: http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/RaidOverview.aspx?Raid=37723 Rag: http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/FightOverview.aspx?Raid=37426&Fight=11 (what I was referring to with putting heals over time on raid prior to known raid damage) With very little overhealing. If you like playing a druid, play a druid. Pre-cast your slow heal, and use hots. Swift Med to counter burst damage.

Went to the extreme there. Gear set wise, they have a really nice "solo" / world pvp set with T2.5. Druids are fun and not hard to level. Just get 5/5 Furor in the restro tree. For fast grinding, moon fire something rejuv yourself and then go cat. Repeat. Having SOME spirit gear helps you while grinding cause 5 seconds after you shape shift to cap your mana regen kicks in. Pretty much never having to drink once you are level 20+.

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As a healer. Fury warrior will tunnel vision more. Healing will require more knowledge of some fights. Though as a fury warrior you Will still tank a mob here or there in raids if needed.

For earlier content. End game, lock does more dps, and isn't dependent on ignite to do it.

This. Catch a blackmouth, catch a buzz.

Nope. "Huntard" didn't come from nothing.

Seems like joining a US raiding guild would be your best bet. I am in the same situation, where I am in the US but work 3rd shift. So I will be raiding when I wake up in the afternoon.

Yes you need to know your characters name to look them up. Similar to needing to know a person's phone number before you call them. Your complete lack of memory of anything about your "character" is highly suspect.

This. Every class and spec will have learning curves. Being a raid tank doesn't allow the typical "no call no show" on raid night, and are heavily relied on to have great attendance. We all have real life things and can't make 100% of raids, but it should be a majority you can make. As long as you are willing to learn, ask questions you are fine. 5 man tanking is a different world than raid tanking. 5 man tanking is about managing multiple mobs for threat, raid tanking is focused on positioning, timing, and knowing when to use your cooldowns or a specific consumable, and keeping a close eye on what buffs or debuffs you have on you on specific fights. Threat isn't hard. Shield slam > revenge > Sunder > Shield block / heroic strike is the basics.

Yeah which is why I don't let people loot while we are killing. As a healer with last mob up you have a chance to move to a dead body/bodies. Whom ever is the fastest shift+clicker wins. Then when I was done with the rep and doing mount runs, peopled loved 1 less person not needing stones, but I still enforced the same rule so the healers loved coming to my runs.

Was given to a priest on horde side IIRC, raid leaders GF or some crap. Though if you take a general trade of 1 stam to 1 NR, they are pretty even, so not too much harm there.

Yeah the general information given on this was, if you had somebody before the announcement you will still have it, if you had something after the announcement, you will not have it.

I enjoyed grinding the Argent Dawn rep. Spam running Strat UD speed runs, half way through found Scholo is slightly better if you can get 2x whelp turn-ins per run. I had one rule in these runs: DO NOT LOOT UNTIL EVERYTHING FROM THE PULL IS DEAD!!! and would kick you if you did. This gave everybody collecting stones an equal opportunity to loot them. As I would be busy tanking mobs, DPS would ninja them and healer would feel shafted as well. (ironic how people spend hours arguing (theory crafting) about damage done yet will stop mid fight to loot crap. I was grinding the rep because I wanted to be one of the few people on the server with the Tabard of the Argent Dawn I hit max rep back in October, which only a very select few did by that time, and realized I couldn't get this yet until Scourage Invasion Top KeK. I'll get it soon enough, will match especially well with T3 gear. I now grind Strat UD mount runs. One day.... one day.....

"what" not "why"

I am confused with this statement as you act as if the majority of gear itemization changes benefited those leveling up and with instance loot along the way. Only thing I can think of is Mara which the decent loot is level 49 + anyways. Most of the itemization changes came with retarded/useless stats on Tier gear making lvl 60 5 man blues better. Later they added additional drops to level 60 5 mans for a few gear slots once AQ was out to help people skip MC and go right into ZG/BWL. Those said items were not out on Nost server. The major changes that would have effected your leveling was the revamping to talents. Not gear.