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		<title>By: Khraden</title>
		<link>http://paladinillumination.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/one-set-of-footsteps/#comment-286</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel there is a bit of a difference though between carrying guildies, which I think is great, and carrying a random person who in all reality could not give a crap as to what you think. If there were more folks, and I consider myself one of them, who are willing to &quot;carry&quot; or even &quot;boost&quot; random players out there would be a decent shift in the attitude towards pugs, and the ever present and evil GearScore.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel there is a bit of a difference though between carrying guildies, which I think is great, and carrying a random person who in all reality could not give a crap as to what you think. If there were more folks, and I consider myself one of them, who are willing to &#8220;carry&#8221; or even &#8220;boost&#8221; random players out there would be a decent shift in the attitude towards pugs, and the ever present and evil GearScore.</p>
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		<title>By: Khraden</title>
		<link>http://paladinillumination.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/one-set-of-footsteps/#comment-285</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Khraden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes I did see your comment, thank you, and I&#039;ll probably take a look at that.

I actually don&#039;t have much room on my actionbars, and have to try and fit as much as I can on there; however, using Clique has been a life/time saver.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, yes I did see your comment, thank you, and I&#8217;ll probably take a look at that.</p>
<p>I actually don&#8217;t have much room on my actionbars, and have to try and fit as much as I can on there; however, using Clique has been a life/time saver.</p>
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		<title>By: Ellamue</title>
		<link>http://paladinillumination.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/one-set-of-footsteps/#comment-279</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellamue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrections:
&quot;you’ll waste* gained&quot;

&quot;so these work out with a* mod* and* one click/press.&quot;

I just realized that other people may have more space on their action bars than I do, so they could probably drop the FoL and stopmacro parts of the macro to have it as a one click action, instead of a mod then click/press.

Also, did you see my comment about video capturing and editing?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Corrections:<br />
&#8220;you’ll waste* gained&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;so these work out with a* mod* and* one click/press.&#8221;</p>
<p>I just realized that other people may have more space on their action bars than I do, so they could probably drop the FoL and stopmacro parts of the macro to have it as a one click action, instead of a mod then click/press.</p>
<p>Also, did you see my comment about video capturing and editing?</p>
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		<title>By: Ellamue</title>
		<link>http://paladinillumination.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/one-set-of-footsteps/#comment-278</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellamue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hehe, this post kinda struck a cord with me, and I agree with you here.  Currently me (healadin) and my guildie (prot tank), are currently carrying two of our guildies through heroics till they can get geared, (although I&#039;m making them go through the BGs to get the honor gear when we&#039;re not on so that they get better gear faster, I&#039;m in the honor gear and do nicely :).  They do about 1.5-2k dps right now, and that&#039;s below the DPS that our tank does.  Me and the meat shield can probably 2 man most heroics if we had the patience to do so, but the boss fights take so long without the extra DPS there.

Me and my tank were in a random a while ago, (before I had all of my honor gear) and a few times a couple of people died and they tried to kick me.  My friend kindly stated that if I go, he would go too.  After that he whispered me: &quot;If they could actually out DPS the tank, I&#039;d have considered kicking the heals.&quot;  He&#039;s always had better gear than me.  DPS means a lot inside of instances when either your tank or your healer are under geared.  But when they&#039;re both well geared, DPS is really just there for the ride practically.

My Crit, Int and MP5 give my mana pool the ability to last an undetermined amount of time now when only casting FoL, (I got bored and tired after like 10-15 minutes of healing guards), but when you add the other spells, Holy Shock, Piggy(Bacon) of Light and Sacred Shield, then I start to run dry trying to heal everyone.  I created a good macro that works great IMO to help.  When you start casting, you don&#039;t want to pop DP early or you&#039;ll wasted gained mana, so I made it require a mod key.  I also realized, (while I was in the BGs) that I habitually hold Alt down, (instead of using Healbot) to heal myself, causing these to pop earlier than desired sometimes, so I stopped that as well.  Only DP activates the Global Cool Down, the other two pop the moment you touch them, so long as you&#039;re not casting or channeling; so these work out with one click/press.

#showtooltip
/cast [nomod][mod:alt] Flash of Light
/stopmacro [mod:alt][nomod]
/cast Divine Plea
/cast Divine Illumination
/cast Avenging Wrath

I keep DP above the others there to visually see if it&#039;s CD is up or not as I don&#039;t think popping DI and AW are worth it when you don&#039;t have DP up as well.  And since DI and AW have the same CD length, it works out quite nicely.  You&#039;ll get error messages saying that the DI and AW aren&#039;t ready, but they&#039;re tolerable if you ask me.  Also, as an added benefit to help you catch up, AW lasts longer than DI.

Holy crap I talk too much........]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hehe, this post kinda struck a cord with me, and I agree with you here.  Currently me (healadin) and my guildie (prot tank), are currently carrying two of our guildies through heroics till they can get geared, (although I&#8217;m making them go through the BGs to get the honor gear when we&#8217;re not on so that they get better gear faster, I&#8217;m in the honor gear and do nicely <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .  They do about 1.5-2k dps right now, and that&#8217;s below the DPS that our tank does.  Me and the meat shield can probably 2 man most heroics if we had the patience to do so, but the boss fights take so long without the extra DPS there.</p>
<p>Me and my tank were in a random a while ago, (before I had all of my honor gear) and a few times a couple of people died and they tried to kick me.  My friend kindly stated that if I go, he would go too.  After that he whispered me: &#8220;If they could actually out DPS the tank, I&#8217;d have considered kicking the heals.&#8221;  He&#8217;s always had better gear than me.  DPS means a lot inside of instances when either your tank or your healer are under geared.  But when they&#8217;re both well geared, DPS is really just there for the ride practically.</p>
<p>My Crit, Int and MP5 give my mana pool the ability to last an undetermined amount of time now when only casting FoL, (I got bored and tired after like 10-15 minutes of healing guards), but when you add the other spells, Holy Shock, Piggy(Bacon) of Light and Sacred Shield, then I start to run dry trying to heal everyone.  I created a good macro that works great IMO to help.  When you start casting, you don&#8217;t want to pop DP early or you&#8217;ll wasted gained mana, so I made it require a mod key.  I also realized, (while I was in the BGs) that I habitually hold Alt down, (instead of using Healbot) to heal myself, causing these to pop earlier than desired sometimes, so I stopped that as well.  Only DP activates the Global Cool Down, the other two pop the moment you touch them, so long as you&#8217;re not casting or channeling; so these work out with one click/press.</p>
<p>#showtooltip<br />
/cast [nomod][mod:alt] Flash of Light<br />
/stopmacro [mod:alt][nomod]<br />
/cast Divine Plea<br />
/cast Divine Illumination<br />
/cast Avenging Wrath</p>
<p>I keep DP above the others there to visually see if it&#8217;s CD is up or not as I don&#8217;t think popping DI and AW are worth it when you don&#8217;t have DP up as well.  And since DI and AW have the same CD length, it works out quite nicely.  You&#8217;ll get error messages saying that the DI and AW aren&#8217;t ready, but they&#8217;re tolerable if you ask me.  Also, as an added benefit to help you catch up, AW lasts longer than DI.</p>
<p>Holy crap I talk too much&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: Railena</title>
		<link>http://paladinillumination.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/one-set-of-footsteps/#comment-277</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Railena]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry if it came off as harsh, I certainly agree with you and it was just a generalized rant :P

Gearscore has become the hot item now that we are reaching the end of the expansion. I pray that once the new expansion is out, we will see less of it being spammed in trade... however I suppose it will eventually come back around full circle.

Greedy Goblin is showing by far that gearscore doesn&#039;t mean jack. I sometimes have a little different view on how he approaches things, but he is proving that you don&#039;t have to be an T10 Heroic geared individual to push your way through content.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry if it came off as harsh, I certainly agree with you and it was just a generalized rant <img src='http://s2.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Gearscore has become the hot item now that we are reaching the end of the expansion. I pray that once the new expansion is out, we will see less of it being spammed in trade&#8230; however I suppose it will eventually come back around full circle.</p>
<p>Greedy Goblin is showing by far that gearscore doesn&#8217;t mean jack. I sometimes have a little different view on how he approaches things, but he is proving that you don&#8217;t have to be an T10 Heroic geared individual to push your way through content.</p>
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		<title>By: Khraden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As am I, I am completely open to any new player to come in and actually require me to push a little bit. I&#039;m unsure if you are agreeing with me or commenting against me though.  Anyway, I guess that the word Carry should only be placed on those who do not want to do better, and just want to get the instance done, and get their emblems. It is more of a teaching experience otherwise.

I have a personal hatred towards GearScore, and have gotten in several arguments in Trade chat about it. In fact, I love what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greedy Goblin&lt;/a&gt; is doing with their &quot;Undergeared&quot; raid group, who has so far taken down Lady Deathwhisper... in blue gear.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As am I, I am completely open to any new player to come in and actually require me to push a little bit. I&#8217;m unsure if you are agreeing with me or commenting against me though.  Anyway, I guess that the word Carry should only be placed on those who do not want to do better, and just want to get the instance done, and get their emblems. It is more of a teaching experience otherwise.</p>
<p>I have a personal hatred towards GearScore, and have gotten in several arguments in Trade chat about it. In fact, I love what the <a href="http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Greedy Goblin</a> is doing with their &#8220;Undergeared&#8221; raid group, who has so far taken down Lady Deathwhisper&#8230; in blue gear.</p>
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		<title>By: Railena</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Railena]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been times that I&#039;ve had to actually work during a pug, because yes someone in there didn&#039;t have over a 3k gear score, but you know what, I&#039;m fine with that. I can remember when running CoS, it was a big deal to get to the extra boss with more than 1 minute left of your timer. &quot;Carrying&quot; someone through content that they should be doing is not a fair usage of the term in any sense. They are running the content they should be running and for some elitist HT10 snob to come in and rip them a new one because they are not meeting some inflated standard of dps/hps/tps is wrong - period.

There are certainly times and runs that having a &quot;failtank/healer/dps&quot;  can not be tolerated due to it putting too much of a strain on the rest of the group. However, even during those times, being a complete jerk to said failure instead of saying &quot;sorry friend but this is why we are going to have to replace you, work on this/that/other and we will gladly have you back&quot;, is so far beyond being constructive. Take a step back, remember when you first started and put that ego in your back pocket.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There have been times that I&#8217;ve had to actually work during a pug, because yes someone in there didn&#8217;t have over a 3k gear score, but you know what, I&#8217;m fine with that. I can remember when running CoS, it was a big deal to get to the extra boss with more than 1 minute left of your timer. &#8220;Carrying&#8221; someone through content that they should be doing is not a fair usage of the term in any sense. They are running the content they should be running and for some elitist HT10 snob to come in and rip them a new one because they are not meeting some inflated standard of dps/hps/tps is wrong &#8211; period.</p>
<p>There are certainly times and runs that having a &#8220;failtank/healer/dps&#8221;  can not be tolerated due to it putting too much of a strain on the rest of the group. However, even during those times, being a complete jerk to said failure instead of saying &#8220;sorry friend but this is why we are going to have to replace you, work on this/that/other and we will gladly have you back&#8221;, is so far beyond being constructive. Take a step back, remember when you first started and put that ego in your back pocket.</p>
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		<title>By: Khraden</title>
		<link>http://paladinillumination.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/one-set-of-footsteps/#comment-273</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Khraden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is kind of one of the points that I tried to make. Everyone has to start somewhere, and if you want to end up with good PUGs in the future, you need to help those who have yet to get geared up get better, cause you never know when you&#039;ll run into them again.

I guess using &quot;failtank&quot;, &quot;failhealer&quot;, and &quot;faildps&quot; is a bit harsh, but it was the easiest way to get it across.

I myself very much prefer to continue on with the instance, even if somebody is complaining, or has yet to master their class. It will only save you time in the long run.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is kind of one of the points that I tried to make. Everyone has to start somewhere, and if you want to end up with good PUGs in the future, you need to help those who have yet to get geared up get better, cause you never know when you&#8217;ll run into them again.</p>
<p>I guess using &#8220;failtank&#8221;, &#8220;failhealer&#8221;, and &#8220;faildps&#8221; is a bit harsh, but it was the easiest way to get it across.</p>
<p>I myself very much prefer to continue on with the instance, even if somebody is complaining, or has yet to master their class. It will only save you time in the long run.</p>
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		<title>By: Zebb</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some call it &quot;carrying the fails&quot;, I call it &quot;leading by example&quot;.  I don&#039;t mind carrying the undergeared and underskilled through 5-mans at all, in the hopes that one of the folks there will at least ask himself, &quot;How can he do that much damage, and what do I have to do to get there?&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some call it &#8220;carrying the fails&#8221;, I call it &#8220;leading by example&#8221;.  I don&#8217;t mind carrying the undergeared and underskilled through 5-mans at all, in the hopes that one of the folks there will at least ask himself, &#8220;How can he do that much damage, and what do I have to do to get there?&#8221;</p>
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