World of Warcraft → Re: [Cataclysm] 4.3 LFR/LFD Lame Ducks

I've been running into this same thing. LFR geared toons doing normal 85 dungeons. They definitely make the runs go faster, and they make up for the following two atrocities I saw last night:

1. Destro Warlock with a Voidwalker out. It had Torment turned on. When I asked if he could turn it off (not even commenting on the atrocious not-damage he was doing), all I got as a response was "no".

2. Arcane mage who cast the following spells across a full clear of HoO:
-Arcane Barrage
-Arcane Missiles
-Ice Lance
-Fire Blast
-Ring of Frost (on bosses)

My theory is that he thinks cast bars are the devil.

Oh well, at least the DK is 85 now. I spec'd him Frost last night (with Blood being the other spec). So ... is Frost DK DPS really just 4 buttons? FS, Oblit, HB, and keep up Blood Plague somehow?

you know what, I actually hate over gearing norm dungeons
everything is dead before you'd done hardly anything.

Once I did a norm cata dungeon and couldn't hardly get 2 casts off before the trash was dead, so I can understand some mages just using short cast or instant when way out gearing a dungeon.

With appropriately geared characters, bosses take a minute or more to die and trash isn't that slow. That wasn't him being lazy. That was him being completely ignorant.

There was also a language barrier, and I don't know how to say "use arcane blast" in Spanish.

Well last time I did a reg dungeon it ended up being BRC
(ok might have been H:BRC)

the trash died in about 3sec (as fire, about 1 cast, 2nd cast would be interupted with the death of the target)
the bosses died in about 30sec

not really any time to get the dots going and work on maintaining them

so I normally only do the current top level dungeons just because the reg and lesser heroics have been nerfed and out geared to all crap.

ya if your at the right gear level for the dungeon it can be fun but when you out gear it not so much, part of why I stopped for half a year, at that point dungeons just aren't interesting and I don't feel like dedicating time to raiding anymore (gym wins over wow)

Just link the ablity.. if you can.. LOL

Yeah, I got a link off WoWhead eventually.

He didn't figure it out. Got a bunch of emoticons.

The number of mages I see using ring of frost on bosses staggers me. Is there some secret utility to this I don't know about, or is common sense just that uncommon?

Usually its around the time people just hit 85 and they're like "my last ability! it must be awesome!"

But I think this guy just liked pretty colors.