May News/Discussions

[Mordekhuul]

It's unfortunate that pallies buffing jobs are so complex. Priests have it a little rough with 3 castable (and stackable) buffs. But pallies have to keep track of so many options and everyone wants something different. Thank goodness for UI mods.

A new pally buff mod has helped us a lot, lately. ZOMGBuffs, despite the horrible name, has a vastly improved blessing manager window than what PallyPower offered, and actually works for assigning buffs for more than just paladins.

At a glance I can see who is missing fort, intellect, buffs from any paladin (even 10m versions assinged to other paladins), etc. It also supports templates and will auto-generate buff assignments for the paladins in a raid based on your pre-configured preferences (you tell it first priority on tank warriors is kings, followed by light, followed by might, and it assigns in that order until it runs out of paladins).

It will even figure out whether a warrior or other class is tank, dps, etc, based on their talent spec (and is generally right).

Downside is it has a few bugs that come up here and there, but the author is active and works through them quickly.

I don't know about you guys, but we find ourselves running between 3 and up to 5 paladins lately, so better buff management has been nice, hence my long sales pitch for the mod.

The fact that it also handles self-buffs and keeps my ret aura (or whichever aura I tell it to keep up) and righteous fury up for me is just a personal bonus for me, the tank that often forgets to put RF back up after a wipe (sigh).