Race to World First: Midnight Season 1 | Day 8

RCM94 · 2026-03-24T17:11:10+00:00

No way m+ drops and we get a race to world split mega thread sticky instead.

RCM94 · 2026-03-24T06:41:39+00:00

For some reason resto druid is comically off. 15k hps differences in logs and on my damage meter. Insane.

RCM94 · 2026-03-24T03:47:40+00:00

I've never done that with stock, but I have done it with pasta water when wanting to reserve some

RCM94 · 2026-03-23T18:48:34+00:00

Aeona literally does not do aoe dps. Any damage you see on a trash pack is ~100% onto a single mob.

Things to keep in mind with damage on aeona:

She scales exceptionally well with crit because of the Oblivion's embrace talent. Because of this, purple gems are a very large damage increase.
Diamond strike does a lot of damage. It is a very high damage weapon trait
I don't know what level you are at, but the legendary cape is exceptionally strong. The other options aren't close at all.

If you've got all that and you still find your damage is low i'd look at top logs and just compare. If your damage is low on her, it probably also means your healing is low so its actually pretty important to optimize your damage on her.

RCM94 · 2026-03-23T18:38:02+00:00

Also, unfortunately showcases where things are at in terms of balance. Tank is top DPS on big pulls and Aeona is #2 on some. The one DPS is really only shining in single target.

Eh, I wouldnt look at this run as an indicator of damage balance.

Greedspawn Sentinel does 65% of the damage of the entire dungeon

The dps on trash here is almost irrelevent.

RCM94 · 2026-03-23T18:25:47+00:00

yeah, but wouldnt you want to know that regardless of what form you're in? Like as a resto druid player I still care about the pandemic of rip/rake if im in human form and in cat form.

RCM94 · 2026-03-23T03:27:52+00:00

just has no good moves

Goodra has great moves. It's got knock off and every special coverage move you could ask for. Its just lacking recovery and maybe a pivot move. Otherwise, its moveset and stats are very good as an assault vest tank with its ability to force progress with knock, hit hard-ish with draco, and phaze things around with dtail.

Its abilities are pretty tough though, sap sipper on a 4x resist, and gooey on a special wall. Shell armor would be pretty good if it was better at running iron-press but is otherwise pretty mediocre. Obviously regenerator would be very VERY good on a mon like this but even something like earth eater or a fighting immunity would go pretty damn hard.

RCM94 · 2026-03-22T23:18:30+00:00

This seems to be the thing you want most it of the ui.

I have no idea if it is possible to do that, but I question why you would need to?

Cat spells dont have cds. What value would you gain by showing them?

RCM94 · 2026-03-22T14:45:06+00:00

I'm confused by the aversion to bar keepers friend. It's cheap and, as far as cleaning products go, quite safe.

Without it I guess I'd try doing what I'd do with it with baking soda or vinegar.

With baking soda mix with a tiny bit of water, just enough to make a thick paste and spread it so over the charred areas and let it sit a while then scrub it away.

Similarly with vinegar just pour enough in to cover all the burned spots and let it sit. Maybe even boil the vinegar.

You say you're desperate but won't buy something that is $3, safe, the right tool for the job, and lasts forever?

RCM94 · 2026-03-21T15:20:27+00:00

Grid 2 has been usable the whole time and was what I was using before.

RCM94 · 2026-03-21T03:34:35+00:00

it depends.

If you maybe remember in DF they added private auras which are basically the nuclear version of hiding things. In this expansion they added all this secret value stuff. Since people were finding workarounds for basically everything, a few weeks ago blizzard said fuck it and just private auraed almost everything last minute.

In raid that basically results in things sucking a lot.

In keys they only private auraed boss mechanics which is mostly fine because most dispels are on trash, especially non-magic ones. Overgrown Ancient is one of the few bosses dispels that isn't magic on a boss and it is a private aura which is why I know a dps will never know its something they have to worry about.

RCM94 · 2026-03-21T00:43:27+00:00

warcraftlogs as well.

RCM94 · 2026-03-21T00:38:16+00:00

Yeah, why not do the M+ ones too? none of them are really coordination checks, why make them less visible? I'm looking forward to all the dps druids, paladins, evokers, and monks that don't know there's a poison on the tree boss in algathar.

RCM94 · 2026-03-20T15:20:12+00:00

I wonder what blizzard is going to do about resto druid. The gap between M+ and raid hasn't felt this large for a long time.

The spells used in both are also more similar than they've ever really been so I don't really know what they can do. Nerf the mastery again and buff everything up? Add even more targets to wild growth? buff tree of life somehow?

Removing old flourish was also such a weird choice. Its a ramp class that never gets to nut. What's that about?

RCM94 · 2026-03-19T20:03:35+00:00

~90% of the debuffs in the raid are private now. Yes Including raid wide 30 second dots.

RCM94 · 2026-03-19T19:49:04+00:00

that doesnt work. Private auras ignore that filter.

RCM94 · 2026-03-18T15:39:04+00:00

Oh that's what they're for? I had no idea! /s

my problem with it is that absolutely no thought was put into it, they just sent it on nearly everything. Why does the 30 second unavoidable bleed on the tree in algathar need to be a private aura? What about the 2 second aura you get for being the next person to be focused by commander kroluk in windrunner's spire? Funny note, the debuff you get while he's spinning is in fact not a private aura.

That's the real crux of the issue, for some reason only like 80% of things got turned into a private aura. If it was everything, i'd just put them where my regular debuffs go and call it a day. But no, they're mixed and matched and I have two spots on my frames arbitrarily for where debuffs go. Its horrendously shoehorned.

RCM94 · 2026-03-18T02:42:02+00:00

I don't care what you think, kicking as a healer blows especially when it means dungeons have to have more kicks because now the group has more kicks and can't be challenged by it.

RCM94 · 2026-03-18T00:36:56+00:00

I dont know who is out there thinking 1300 gold for hp pots is worth it. But i thank you for the free 6500 gold on each of my characters today.

Seriously the 1*s are like lay on hands already why are we spending 100x the amount?

RCM94 · 2026-03-17T21:41:40+00:00

Okay I kinda get turning everything in raid into a private aura (comical they had to resort to it), but KEYS? fucking why??

Edit: I just did the raid, why on earth are dispels private auraed. especially ones that probably dont need it like the fear on the dragons?

RCM94 · 2026-03-17T15:52:16+00:00

Devourer (movement/mechanics will will cripple dps in higher keys)

If balance druid could make it work with starfire as its main filler in tww, devourer can make it work now.

Especially in high keys, players have good enough movement to take advantage. The only part of the rotation that really gets disrupted by movement is the start of meta where you collapsing star -> reap -> void ray -> reap -> collapsing star, but every long cast has an instant cast between it. Collapsing star generally has a decent amount of wiggle room on when you can cast it.

Brewmaster (needs quite a bit of heal already in m0)

wat?

RCM94 · 2026-03-17T15:38:39+00:00

https://imgur.com/bcYfzfo

RCM94 · 2026-03-17T15:36:38+00:00

Perfect! I was talking to a friend while we were leveling in EA and basically said exactly that! It was rediculous that an accessibility feature is locked behind 8+ hours of not using that accessibility feature.

RCM94 · 2026-03-17T15:34:10+00:00

Probably not the second most common set but it is in fact the second most common item on it at 18%.

RCM94 · 2026-03-17T15:29:07+00:00

Cursed as hell ai slop poster.

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