Dirk's Rift blog

Friday, December 31, 2010

Website update: Priests

I'm going to have time to play both my druid and my priest, so as of today the posts will also include shadow and holy spec priests. Still my druid is my main, but since I'll be following priests now I figure I'll post up the information. As first order of priestly business:

For Holy priests, we’re increasing Chakra’s duration and changing Surge of Light so it can now from Flash Heal and Greater Heal and can crit.

The wording is a little messed up I think, but that was a GC typo error, not mine.

So my opinion is that if they want to fix priests in PvP they're going to need to do a lot more than this. It is a nice change, but with a 25% crit chance* the heal bonus that this Surge of Light change will give is minuscule.

The duration change on Chakra had hopefully be only the duration and not the cooldown. Increased cooldown on the Chakra would be terrible.

Upcoming feral changes

GC posted some disturbing information about feral spec druids on 12/28/2010.

Even after we fixed their mastery, Feral druid bleeds still do a lot of damage and are undispellable. We plan to shift some of that damage back to main attacks. They are also a little too hard to control. Given that they are already hard to root, snare, or polymorph, we think the fear immunity from Berserk is too much.
We’re buffing Wild Mushroom. It’s a cool spell that isn’t getting enough play.
Empowered Touch will now benefit from Regrowth as well. We’re also buffing the Glyph of Regrowth.
We are looking at Holy Concentration (after our most recent buff) and Omen of Clarity to make sure they don’t account for too much mana savings.

So we can expect harder mangle/shred but weaker bleeds. This is a bummer for me because I like gearing for mastery since it effects both tank and cat. If they nerf down bleeds too much it might not be worth it to stack mastery anymore which would make bear ever WORSE for survivability in PVP. They already nerfed down frenzied regeneration to almost useless (0.3% for 10 rage ticks).

On a side note, my main spec in WOTLK, Doomkin, is getting wild mushrooms adjusted. In my opinion they're going to need to make them instant cast AND do about twice as much damage to make them viable.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Aiming High quest

So I'm doing this Aiming High quest line for Fargo Flintlocke where your character gets launched from Flintlocke's cannon onto a horde zeppelin to place some explosives on the airship. Well, its the final part in the quest line before you can see the enchanting vendor and the quest is BUGGED! You end up standing in front of the cannon until it loads you in and it will then precede to do one of the following: Launch you into the middle of the ocean; Launch you 1 foot in front of the cannon.

I went ahead and put a petition in but no luck so far.

Update: 9:06pm
My petition has been escalated! Hopefully a GM's boss will be able to give me quest credit :\

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas in Ga

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Cataclysm

I finally put down Cata for a bit to make a post! My druid is 83 and actually FERAL spec right now! All talents in bear form talents, I am a tank for instant dungeon queues. On my battlegroup, Ruid, its a 45 minute queue for DPS, less than a minute for tanks.

Thorns on a bear is a great way to start a pull, especially for large group of mobs. Mastery is an amazing stat for feral, while I feel its more of a secondary stat for Boomkin.

More news coming! I've been taking screenshots and after I'm 85 I'll take the time to post up a real solid update!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Woah

The guild <Blog> is put on hold, or at least will transfer to HORDE side Arthas, instead of alliance. My Balance druid, Thnxdizzle, joined Kuroi Getsuei as a pvp enthusiast!

Thorns :(

Thorns got nerfed by 60% in the lastest patch. Bummer, I was just getting used to beating rogues :\

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Patch 4.0.3a

Patch v4.0.3a came out today, paving the way for Cata to release.

As of this post the realms aren't back online yet, but when I get home from work tonight I'll try and get onto my doomkin and post up some screenshots of the azeroth shattering!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Keepin' it real!

Alright everybody. I'm honor capped AND justice point capped on my boomkin / resto druid. I'm just tryin' to get level 80 on my paladin before cata releases, but the power of the boomkin keeps drawing me away from leveling! 7 more levels to go :[]

Check out this FREE HOLIDAY GIFT CARD special that I found.

Just paroozin' the internet today for christmas ideas. I was going to go with yachts and golf clubs and car shopping, but I figured I should look up name brand gift cards first, just to be safe. Well, I stumbled on this sweet deal and thought you guys should check it out. Theres probably a yacht or yachts in there, and some fast sports cars, and probably real nice golf clubs too, I don't know. Check it out, though!

http://www.freedealspy.com/ultimate-free-gift-cards-report/?t202id=7368&t202kw=free%20gifts%20cards

Friday, November 19, 2010

Ack! Work

Won't be able to make as many updates as I would like in the next couple weeks. With work picking up my schedule will be hectic, and then the release of Cata... well, I'll just be on WoW in my free time! Haha!

New guild website up soon

I've been working on the guild website for <Blog> on Arthas and it will be up soon.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Bird and the Thorn

I'm sitting at 1300 resil on my boomkin right now, around 41% damage reduction. When I pop barkskin I'm at 60% with an addition 20% chance not to be crit in melee. Then when I put thorns up: HAZAA! between 1.2k-4k damage per melee hit. Rogues and dual-wield warriors don't stand a chance.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

_-~`[ Announcement ]`~-._

I will be starting a World of Warcraft guild on Arthas called <Blog>

The purpose of this guild will be to PvP in rated battlegrounds and do weekly 10man raids. Getting recruits into Blogging and help them start their own blogs will be our secondary focus.

I will post up an announcement when I get the guild opened and another guild-blog website set up.

Doberman update

Taki woke me up fresh and early again today. She always does that; I wish she could wait longer in the morning before whining. I never seem to get enough sleep.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Unbelieve Able

I have to work on re-sizing my images so that I can fit them onto these posts. I just got the Wrathful weapons on my shadow priest, but even with this new found power I think that BOOMKIN is where its at. Lets just hope they still have as much power at level 85.

I found another blog that had some cool 3d images on it. I followed them, check their blog out if you want. Its pretty cool stuff.

My dobe Taco just got her final rack off! Exciting stuff. Theres still a small crease in her ear which makes me think she could use 1 more rack, but its pretty expensive to have extras done.