Comments on: Alouette meets the Balance Druid.

By: BeerCow

BeerCow — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:00:30 +0000

Are you sure you weren’t subconsciously trying to take out your aggression toward me on some other poor space chicken? :p

By: Korixys

Korixys — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:45:42 +0000

Great story Brajana!

By: Brajana

Brajana — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:36:05 +0000

Yeah, it’s a good idea and I generally do the same (2 is always my best instant cast for grabbing things or finishing stuff off). However I don’t always remember where they are on my action bar since I’m not at all a clicker – ask me where Feign Death is on my screen and I’ll have no answer. But I can tell you I play dead when I hit Ctrl+1.

Unfortunately not only did I lose all my macros but also my keybindings when I transferred. So I can hit Ctrl+1 for Ice Block all I want, it won’t help if I haven’t finished fixing up my keybindings

By: Tigerfeet

Tigerfeet — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:54:15 +0000

One thing I try to do when I'm leveling or working on alts is put bottons that do similar things in similar places. As raiders we start to develop muscle memory. When something "ocrap" happens and I need a fast attack I always hit 3. For a long time in caster for 3 was my moonfire and that memory of "ocrap, hit 3!" is still with me. You'll notice when I try to CC on KT fights I'll accidentally moonfire them instead. It's that same "ocrap, hit 3!" instinct. I eventually got wise and just moved Cyclone to my 3 button instead of trying to re-train my hard-earned instincts. Another example, I've got growl and cower in the same place, that is the place for aggro-management, on my Shaman Wind Shock is also in that spot, my heals all go on the right, mounts in the same spot, trinkets and "make me awesome" DPS/Mitigation cooldowns are all in the same spot across all characters. That way, when crap hits the fan, if I'm running around as a shaman and forget that I'm not a giant kitty of doom at least I'll be finding the proper buttons in generally the right spot. Tigerfeet’s last blog post..Tuesday Fun-Time

By: Brajana

Brajana — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:50:18 +0000

Keep in mind this balance druid was seven levels ahead of me, and I’m still in Outlands greens for the most part. I also haven’t nearly developed the instincts on my mage that I have on my hunter, so I’m not quick enough to react, and it doesn’t help that I haven’t played my mage at all (let alone in PvP) in the last month or so, and have had a Prot Warrior handling the up close business for the last few.

By: Psynister

Psynister — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:41:39 +0000

I don't think my mage ever had any trouble with balance druids in PvP. The feral druids pretty well eat my lunch every time always finding a nice way to stun-lock me after I've already blinked. My arch enemies for the mage though has always been paladins and enhancement shamans. Psynister’s last blog post..Moving to WordPress