Comments on: Shared Topic: Surviving PvE as a Melee DPS

By: Cranky Reads « The Cranky Healer

Cranky Reads « The Cranky Healer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:00:36 +0000

[...] 6, 2010 Cranky Reads Posted by crankyhealer under Blog Leave a Comment Bossy Pally has a great take on how to survive as melee DPS in [...]

By: Go Read Something Good! « Jaded Alt

Go Read Something Good! « Jaded Alt — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:36:16 +0000

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By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:16:48 +0000

AND THE TRUTH COMES OUT!

By: Skip Cocoa

Skip Cocoa — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:00:50 +0000

Hehe, well done.

Your stories of time spent on your face were a lot of my inspiration for this topic, so I was excited to see what you’d come up with.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:04:36 +0000

LUFFFFFYYYYYYYY!!!! (That is so much fun to say!)

Awful awful melee is everywhere (Actually, awful awful anything is everywhere, but I was tempted to say that no, no Bloodlust is lovely and you should come and join me on Ner’zhul because you are awesome.) I think the impossibility of getting groups is mostly because everyone wants to play dps warriors, ret paladins, rogues and DKs. Why, I don’t know (healing and tanking ftw!), but it seems all groups and guilds have more melee dps than they can handle.

By: Luffy

Luffy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:27:56 +0000

OMG so awful awful melee isn’t just in shadowburn! I’m just mortified and annoyed whenever I try and do something on my DK. Whenever I see a group advertising in trade I ask them to go and they’re all like “no thanks, we’re full” and then keep spamming trade. But I sort of get it. I should have rolled a better alt. qq

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:58:53 +0000

Oh yeah, how dare you talk about WoW on my WoW blog!

I love discussion in the comments and it’s especially awesome when others get involved.

While people who subscribe to comments here might complain about sort of off-topic comments, I have no problems with them at all. The day I start complaining about discussion here will be the day I delete this blog.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:43:35 +0000

Thank you both very much for the advice. It’s really helped to allay a good portion of my worry.

Some people, it seems at times, forget that everyone was new at their role at one point. (Lord knows I was a Huntard until at least level 30.) But I like to think that the good people outweigh the bad.

Thanks again, and I apologize if I accidentally took this post off the rails with my little tangent…

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:35:42 +0000

Ooo unless its a specific fight where you have a set position or healers need to be at max range, meleeing for mana is perfectly acceptable!

I have the same problems as you when I play melee dps. You would think that being a part time tank would teach me to dps close to the boss, but nooOOOooo.

Most of these suggestions were taken from true stories, including the heal macro.

There actually was an addon back in BC that asked for a heal when your health got too low. I haven’t see it around in awhile, the creator must have received some petitions from angry healers.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:09:40 +0000

The Cobalt set was what I used when I started tanking heroics! As long as you have 535 defense (or 540 if you want to run Naxx/raids) and pull one group at a time, you’re fine for pre-ToC heroics and definitely fine for the normal stuff.

On top quest rewards like Dristanel mentionned, you should also check out some of the faction reps. And the Auction House! BoE blues sell for next to nothing and you might get lucky with some cheap epics as well.