03-10-2006, 07:50 PM
Hedon,Mar 10 2006, 12:05 AM Wrote:...only druid that insisted on remaining feral (i.e no innervate) was almost never again seen in our raids. ...you would hear comments from raid leadership like "Nah, he's feral. We don't need feral druids".
We have theoretically a "pure" DKP system in place. That means, if you have the DKP and you are able to equip the item, you may bid on it. But in practice healers are expected to bid on generic spellpower items only if the established DPS casters are already equipped with said item or an equivalent one.
We had somewhat a row on the guild forums when certain DPS casters noticed that some healers had interest in the [Choker of the Fire Lord] and argued that healers should go for [Jin'do's Evil Eye] instead, because there was enough competion for the choker already.
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Another example was a shammy who dared to outbid a rogue on [Core Hound Tooth]. Said rogue went nuklear about this.
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Sounds like quite an interesting group.... and by interesting I mean unpleasant.
Feral druids mixed in a group of rogues are a fantastic idea, especially since AQ has a bunch of items rather clearly designed for them, that will up melee DPS without gimping the mana pool.
As far as the choker goes, could you propose healers passing on it, if the mages/locks pass on The head of ossiran to allow the healers to get This neck? At a 100% drop, 2x a week it shouldn't take long to get everybody one. The fight is fun and exiting, but not terribly demanding in terms of gear, and if you are in a hurry you can get there after only killing 2 other bosses.
As far as the tooth and the shaman go... the rogue is right. There is categorically no possible use for the CHT in a PvE shamans hands, and not much of one for PvP. Even if you are letting your shaman do a lot of melee (a pretty marginal proposition to begin with), the CHT is thourghouly dominated by a big 2H mace like the earthshaker or TUF, especially since the CHT would demand rockbaiter, and the extra aggro is not a good idea PvE.