Heyo, picked up an orange box and I thought it would be a good occasion to get back with some old friends. I usually play medic so if any HWGuys or other beefy classes want to go lay down the law in a pub add me to your steam friends.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Dezzimal/
I run with nearly the same spec as your current one. You may have noticed that you only have around ~150-170 spirit in your shadow DPS gear, which means you're only going to get around 15-25 mana/5sec back from meditation. It is a nice way to spend 3 talent points, but I haven't really found it...
It is incredibly fight dependent. For things like grandmaster vorpil where you have to be on top of killing voidwalkers, and doing enough dps to the boss before the voidwalkers overwhelm you, the skill lies with the dps.
The tank has the ability to turn around botched trash pulls by picking...
My guild just did its first foray into gruul's lair with 4 (maybe 5?) rogues in the group. Gruul was a bit more difficult due to cleave and shatter, but maulgar took only 5 tries.
What we did is we killed the priest, then the warlock, and after those two the melee went onto Maulgar while the...
saving a few pieces of it that there really arent upgrades for, like trinket, wand, neck, but tossing head/body/legs/feet because there are craftables which blow these out of the water.
First boss does only shadow damage, unless you hit him while his green shield is up. He hits for 700-1k normal shadow damage swings with 1-2k AoE bombs which he can do up to 3 in a row of. Plate makes no difference, only HP and shadow resistance. So a priest could even tank :D
Steam tonks don't do damage to mobs :(.
Also: Necro-bump. Yes thats my main on azshara which I'm usually on, although I try to visit and get a level or two on my druid on stonemaul once in awhile.
I wish I knew this as well, the party castbars are neat, but not really necessary, so I just turn them off. It is the target castbars that I get the most use out of.