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Richwarf/Noxshams guide to playing WoW
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08-16-09, 02:28 PM
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Post 2 – About me
About Richwarf My real name is Richard, I have only relly played 2 online games long term, the frist one is Ulitma Online, I played on the Europa server. I was not very creative with my toons names as they was Richard then a romen number on the end, my active toons become just by random was... Richard who become my mule (who did all my crafting work, and repairs) Richard V who become my warrior Richard VII who become my mage (64 spells some good some bad) Then after the guild moved to World of Warcraft, I was playing both games for some time, after a bit I won a sash that sold for 100 million gold (about 10K in wow terms) which if I sold for real cash I was able to get about £100 at the time (yes you was able to sell items and gold for real cash and you wold not break any game rules, one of a very few games which you can do this in) After a bit a made my last toon in UO, It was Richwarf, He become my PvP (player vs player) or as it was know in UO item vs item, since there was no item like in WoW, You made a item with runic kits which was a pain in there own right to get to get random stats on that item you crafted, the only thing you was able to control was what type of item it was, and how powerful the stats was. So you may of got a item which was no use to any one, or you may of got an item worth more that what you made in a year. Yes if you got lucky you was able to make some sick gold (and cash). Anyways, As you can guess my 2nd game I have played long term is WoW, as of Sunday 16th august, I have played 4,677 hours (I know this as I always keep a program called Xfire running, for more info please see the last part of this post). My 1st toon in WoW was Richardv a human warrior since the time I started playing the game Richardv was my main toon in UO, and was the toon I was know most by in the guild. So it made sensce to make a toon by that name, this days Richardv can be found in IF selling glyphs on the auction house. My 2nd toon I made after finding out playing a warrior was much harder that in UO was Richwarf, The Dwarf hunter, Richwarf was my main toon, I only stopped playing him as a main when Wrath of the Lick king come out. The main reason why I stopped was the lag hell it was trying to level when there was lots of people about trying to do the same quest and just ninjaing all the mobs.. So my 3rd was Auction, a gnome warlock, she does all my auction house work but glyphs, saves me messing about with bags :P My 4th toon was Noxsham. My resto shaman, she is now my main ever since LK come out (see Richwarf above). She is my only level 80 at the time of making this guide. She did start life off as a male but bizz give her the cut and well, I never made a page about it since I was thinking about paying to get him the cut, go and make your self a male draenei and a female draenei, just cast healing wave and look at what they do, I sure you will argee that she looks better casting that the man :P My 5th and last toon is Noxie, She is going to be a tankadin and healadin at level 80, how many times have you been looking for a tank or heal? DPS you can find quite fast, but finding a good healer or tank is a nightmare at times. But she is only level 43 at this time. I am getting there but I have no real rush at this time  How I made my toons names Richardv was my main in ultima online when I started playing WoW, so he a no brainer :P Richwarf got his frist part of his name from my name (rich) and warf from dwarf, since richdwarf looked silly, so I just dropped the D which give Richwarf. Auction, well that a no brainner as well, when I made that toon I know she was going to be my auction house alt, but what makes her diffent from other auction house alt is she level 35, this is so she was able to disenchant anything intill LK come out by being at 275, now after LK she needs to get her skill to 350 ish, but that means leveling her again and I cant be bothered, Noxie will be max enchanting, so I will just use her that items auction cant do :P You can call her the new Richard (from UO lol) Noxsham come about from one of the spells I was casting a lot in UI on RichardVII (the mage), that spell was Poison, and the power word for poison was Nox, really go look it up HERE. Anyways, I was thinking about a good name for both WoW and UO when I was playing both games still, (yes Noxsham was played when I was playing both games but only when I got burn out on the hunter) So Noxsham come to mind and it sounded good :P So Noxsham was born (as it speak) Noxie well that just one of the other names that come to mind, but it did not sound as good for a shamie, so I name saved it for a later date, So it does read Poisonie. So now you know :P Other websites I a fan of I a user of a number of websites, most websites I am know under Richwarf or rwrj88 (school user name lol). So here the links to the websites I am a active member on, for if you care :P Video Sites http://www.youtube.com/user/Richwarf http://www.wegame.com/users/Richwarf Guild Website http://www.guardiansofdestiny.nl/com...ofile/Richwarf I am on other websites as well but most of them are just name holders so people don't 'steal' my name. Last edited by richwarf : 08-24-09 at 07:35 PM. |
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08-16-09, 02:28 PM
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A Cobalt Mageweaver
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B]Post 3 – Setting up[/b]
Editing Nui into 3 rows of 4 (thanks Rossman)
http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...770#post119770 I have attached the edited file to help you save editing the code yourself, but you can DIY it if you like Thanks again rossman for showing me how to edit the bars this way just download this file of lua and place it in your /wow/interface/addons/nui/Layouts/Default and delete the old nUI_Layout_Default_Dashboard.lua and save the downloaded one in that place. Setting up your N52te Now it time to program your N52te, You can do it how ever you like, but this is what works best for me. I set the main keys from one (top left) to 14 (bottem right next to the scroll) as ... Code:
shift, 1, 2, 3, -, Ctrl, 4, 5, 6, =, Alt, 7, 8, 9 Then the small round button above the Dpad as esc I leave the Dpad as it come, so i am able to move my toon ingame vai the arrow keys. And last but not least is the 15th number button under the Dpad as 0. This may look silly but here some pics to help you under stand what each button does.  This is what it looks like (again with more overlay) of what it looks like  Before you ask why i have my 0 under the Dpad is i use this key as a panic button, so i have my arrrrgh macro on it. Links to where you can buy your N52TE Go to http://www.belkin.com/wheretobuy/n52te.aspx?targ=52 to find out where you can buy your N52TE. Pros and cons of using a gamepad vs keyboard Pros Less need to move your hand, so you dont press the wrong key or spell. Made to play on for hours Programable keys (yes you can have a jump, spin and shoot key) Fits your hand better Cons 1 more thing for your desk and get used to. Cost money to buy one Both pro and con Less keys (less licky to press the wrong one but also only able to have a set number of keys) Last edited by richwarf : 01-10-10 at 02:42 PM. |
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Post 4 – Key bindings
Key things to keep in mind for easy key bindings Use kiss, Keep It Simple Silly. Why make it hard for yourself to use the spells you need to when you need to? Sure you have just set your N52TE up so you have (7 sets of 12) 84 key bindings just on the n52te, do you need to use them all? no. What I do is I have the same spells on the same buttons across my toons when I can, So when I scroll my mouse up I cast a small heal, and down is a big heal, cure on MB 4 and a arrrrgh on 0 (under the Dpad). If you do something like this, then you can learn you spells a lot faster. If you spam a spell all the time add it to a easy to hit key, again why do something the hard way? Don't look at your keyboard/gamepad if you are looking at your hands when you are playing you are not looking out for fire/voidzone, this may be a hard thing for you to break, so get something like a towel and cover your hands. Think of it this way, do you look at your hands when your driving on the roads? I hope not, so why do it when you are using a computer? Sure you may need to from time to time to find a key you dont use that offent, but if you are playing WoW with keybindings you shold know where your keys are WITHOUT looking. If you can think of any more tips please send me a PM and I will be happy to add them (giving you the credit) Key bindings for Noxsham and why I have what where it is I have learn all my spells to what button they are on, you dont need to bealbe to learn them all I a week, but start off with what you spam all the time I will note them down as you look at the N52TE, see the post above if you dont under stand what key is where I will be using the following codes... Code:
1 to 0 and – and = is the keys
MB 4 = mouse button 4 (on the side top)
MB 5 = mouse button 5 (on the side bottom)
MS up = scroll up
MS down = scroll down
the scroll on the N52TE is...
Up is tab
Press is space
down is ` (used for smart buff trigger see addons).
NO other key bindings are used but this on that scroll.
}text{ = it's a macro button :) see macro post (next one down)
[test] = different for ele spec
1 Lesser Healing Wave }power heal{ 2 Healing Wave }power heal{ 3 Chain Heal }power heal{ - }chain lightning and lightning bolt{ 4 Riptide }power heal{ [Ele master] 5 }Earth shield{ [thunderstorm] 6 Flame Shock = Lava Burst 7 }Hex{ 8 Lightning Bolt 9 Chain Lightning 0 }arrrrgh{ MB 4 = }Cure and purge{ MB 5 = }Chain Heal{ MS up = }Lesser healing wave{ MS down = }Healing wave{ Shift 1 Mana Tide Totem [ITEM crazy alch pot] 2 ITEM Crazy Alch Pot 3 Hero/bloodlust - }Wind Shock{ 4 Earth Shock 5 Flame Shock 6 Frost Shock = PvP Trink 7 ADDON Smart mount 1 8 ADDON Smart mount 2 9 ADDON Smart mount 3 0 weapon MB 4 = }}Call of A{{ MB 5 = Res MS up = }}Call of E{{ MS down = }}Call of S{{ Crtl (totem zone, in rows of type of totem) 1 Stone Skin 2 Searing 3 Windfury - Mana Spring 4 Tremor / Claw (claw for when I board and power leveling guidies) 5 Nove 6 Grounding = Cleaning 7 Earth Bind 8 Magma 9 Wrath of air 0 Totem recall MB 4 = MB 5 = MS up = MS down = no you are not missing totem of wrath, I did not spec into it. Totem Sets Call of A is Earth Bind Totem, Fire Nova Totem, Cleansing Totem and Grounding totem, I use this one for PvPing in melee range, Earth bind to root the player to the ground for the fire nova totem to go off for some damage, and I running back to range to drop my next Set Call of E which is Tremor Totem, Searing Totem, Healing Totem and Grounding Totem, This is my PvP range drop, searing to help attack them, grounding to stop DK pulling and and healing totem to keep me and my party alive. And my PvE set, Call of S which is Stoneskin totem, Flametonge totem, mana spring totem and Warth of air. If there is a pally in the group I ask them to king use and NOT wisdom us, this makes the group much better, So if needed I will change the totems for this set only for the raid, but I always come back to this set for PvE and raiding. Last edited by richwarf : 08-24-09 at 07:42 PM. |
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08-16-09, 02:29 PM
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A Cobalt Mageweaver
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Post 5 – Macros
This is the post for macros, macros and more macros. Tips for making your own macros You can find a lot of useful macros at http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_macros Sure it a wiki site, but there is a lot of useful macros and help to be found on it, You can find macros for your class and other things, It will even help you make your own macro, But you can always do what I done and know that other class may have already made a macro for there own use. Testing a website works A nice easy website you can use to test a macro works, or get more info on what a macro does is this website macroexplain.com. IF you like more info just click the macro name and it will take you to macro explain. Macros used by Noxsham I now going to go on and tell you about the macros I use on Noxsham, who my Resto Shamie mainly, you may find some of my macros usefull for your own resto spec, But DPSers dont worry I have a few macros for you as well. Resto may be my main spec but it only my only spec, my off spec on Noxsham is ele, So lets get on with it Macros I will be covering are... Power Heal(never fail to cast a healing spell again from no target) Power attack (never fail to cast a harmful spell again from no target) Multi spells on one button Helpful and harmful on one button Arrrrgh Cast and set focus So lets get started. Power Heal (never fail to cast a healing spell again from no target) Code:
#showtooltip Lesser Healing Wave /cast [target=mouseover,help,exists] [target=target,help,nodead] [target=targettarget,help,nodead] [target=player] Lesser Healing Wave Power attack (never fail to cast a harmful spell again from no target) Save as the power heal but for attacking things, so you get. Code:
#showtooltip Lava Burst /cast [target=target,harm,exists] [target=mouseover,harm,exists] [target=targettarget,harm,nodead] [target= ] lava burst This is great for if you always cast the same things in the same order, so lets say chain lightning followed by lightning bolt intill chain lightning off CD. Code:
#showtooltip /castsequence [target=target,harm,exists] [target=targettarget,harm,nodead] [target= ] reset=4 Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt This is one of my greatest macros I have ever made for myself, what it does is if I target a harmful target it will purge them (take buffs off them) then if I got a helpful target moused over it will cure them. Code:
#showtooltip reincarnation /cast [target=mouseover,harm,exists] Purge /cast [target=mouseover,help,exists] [target=target,help,nodead] [target=targettarget,help,nodead] [target=player,help] Cleanse Spirit First it will purge my moused over target, I did not add anymore that just moused over in case I need to cure myself or team mate. At the end of the day you can change it as you see fit, it your game. This is HOW I play. In my eyes if I dont purge some one attacking me but I cure myself which stops me getting killed, that much better that purging them. Then it will move onto curing myself. I will be redoing this macro soon so I can use it for BOTH ele and resto, so in resto it uses cleanse spirit and in ele it uses cure toxin. But you can just make the macro two times, and just use different macros for each spec :P Arrrrgh This is the panic button, it only goes on one place for me, and that my 0 key (rember it under the Dpad). So lets look at it now. Code:
#showtooltip /s O **** i'm PeevPeeing /stopmacro [nocombat] /cast Nature's Swiftness /cast Tidal Force /use 13 /use 14 /use 13 (or 14) this will use your trinket in the top slot (bottem for 14) You will need to hit this macro 2 times cos of GCD, But it will save some one life, I dont have any useable trinks in PvP, but in PvP I have my PvP trink on, so it will proc that and free me to save a team mate. And the last macro is setting a focus and casting a spell on the focus in one button Cast and set focus Code:
#showtooltip /cast [nobutton:2, target=focus,help,nodead] [nobutton:2, target=player] Earth Shield /focus [button:2] Right click will set your focus, if you dont have a target you will clear your target. So that it for my macros. Last edited by richwarf : 09-06-09 at 09:54 AM. |
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08-16-09, 02:30 PM
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A Cobalt Mageweaver
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Post 6 – Addons
Most links will be from there home site (if knowen) or Curse (since i use Curse updater) What addons you CANT use with Nui Any addon that trys to redo waht Nui already done like, Pitbull (3 or 4), trys to play with the health bars, breaks nUI Bar mods, trys to play with the bars, breaks nUI Move Anything, already built into nUI, why do you need it? ((more to come, PM me if you can think of any)) How I keep all my addons up to date I keep all my addons uptodate by scribing to there sites if they have there own, adding them to my favites so the addon site lets me know by mail when there a update. But the best way was to use wowmatix intill it was killed off, now the best way (intill the wowinterface updater comes out) is vai the curse update. But i know i will be moving over to the WoWI one when it comes out, even more when you cna update curse mods off it as well .Addons I have used with Nui and why Addons for overall Autobar, I hate loosing things or having keybindings on flasks, if you do you waste them if you hit the wrong key... http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a.../auto-bar.aspx Bagnon, I hate having 5 bags, this makes it a lot easyer for me :P http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ls/bagnon.aspx Fubar, Lots of plugins, if you can think of it, it been made for fubar (or Brocker) http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ils/fubar.aspx -Broker2Fubar, you can look for fu or Broker plugins :P -http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ker2fubar.aspx Carbonite, great addon, questhelper, tomquest and more all in one addon URL comming later Clique I only use this to make sure my MB4 and MB5 work as they shold over a target. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ls/clique.aspx Outfitter, With this addon i never think about what set of gear i'm in , PvP, Resto and Ele all taken care of :Phttp://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...outfitter.aspx SmartMount, Random mounts from ANY you know :P http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...martmount.aspx Smartbuff, always keep youself and team mates buffed http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...mart-buff.aspx Talented, save preset tanents, Sure you can have two, but sometimes you need more. (PvE and PvP Resto, PvE and PvP Ele, dont get me started on druids...) http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a.../talented.aspx Xloot Keep track of who is looking what, it nice and small so if some one loots you can still see what going on about you. You can also get the other Xloot plugins for it, there usful at times. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ils/xloot.aspx Addons for raiding. Big Brother, Make sure only the tank is breaking CC, not that it relly needed in this day of raiding, Also usful for finding people who dont use the food or flask. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...g-brother.aspx Deadly Boss Mods aka DBM, A raiders must, Also useful for other parts of the game such as 5 mans and PvPing in BG's http://www.deadlybossmods.com/ -DBM-TBC, Usful for if you plan on going to have some fun in TBC raids http://www.deadlybossmods.com/ Grid, Not just for healers, you can also use this as a DPSer to help cure people, or jsut keep an eye on your raid. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ails/grid.aspx Mil Scrolling Battle Text, Much better that the bizzard one, you can set it up so incomming heals and attacks are on one side and out going on the other http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ttle-text.aspx Omen, Sure arrgo does not matter so much anymore, but you can still over do it and get yourself killed by arrgo... http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...eat-meter.aspx Ora2, One of the few addons a raider must have, some guilds will NOT let you come unless you got this and DBM http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ails/ora2.aspx Addons for Getting better Atlas, Never get lost in the old world runs again, intill bizzard adds the maps in for the old worlds that is :P URL comming later Atlasloot Enhanced, WoW head is better, but useful for look ahead for a set boss to see if there anything that may be good for you. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...-enhanced.aspx DrDamage, Dont let it name fool you, it also works out healing spells :P. This works out the range that you will relly hit somthing for. Great addon :P http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...dr-damage.aspx Pawn,Work out vai weights if an item is a upgrade or not, but dont take what it says as a rule, only as a guide. Dont forget to make your own (or copy WoWhead weights), http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ails/pawn.aspx Rating Buster, See what you gain and loose at the bottem of the item, this realy needs to be added by bizzard if you ask me. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ng-buster.aspx Addons for PvPing, BG's, WG or Arena I not going to relink items from above, I'm just list them now for you :P DBM, Mil Scrolling Battle Text,Outfitter, Smartbuff, Talented, Grid Gladius, Know who you are up agiest in the arena. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...s/gladius.aspx Addons for Crafting and Selling [b]Ackis Recipe List/b], Tells you what you cant craft and how to get it, saves looking at wowhead a lot :P http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...tails/arl.aspx Auctioneer, I dont know how you know about nUI and NOT know about aucitoneer :P, It great for 2 things. It works out the normal market price over time, and bulk posting for it price or a set price. http://auctioneeraddon.com Sparkys Workshop, If you use auctioneer, this will tell you what you can craft to make money http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...-workshop.aspx Postal, If your going to be selling a lot on the AH then you need a mail addon to open all the mail for you. You try hand opening 500 mails from the AH... http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ls/postal.aspx Skillet, great addon for crafting a lot of items, sure it not been updated for a long time, but it still works as of 3.2, It also looked after by the same coder as lil sparky workshop, so you know them will work well with each other http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...s/skillet.aspx Last edited by richwarf : 09-04-09 at 03:10 PM. |
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A Cobalt Mageweaver
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Last edited by richwarf : 08-17-09 at 05:39 PM. |
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Post 11 – Saved
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*pocks topic*
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I think I'm going to go over your addon list and see if there's anything I'd like to add to mine. Macros too. Lotta good stuff in here.
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The addon list needs some updating, but mostly the main thing i what to do is edit the list to show. Curse, WoWI and there home website. Sounds easy? but think about it. Each addon will need to be reworded, recoded and posted. Just press quote on that post and see all the lines of code to make it work. It a nightmare... I feel sorry for the big man for codding this WHOLE UI... *takes hat off*
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