Two days ago Paragon defeated Sinestra, a heroic mode only boss in Bastion of Twilight. Today Dream of TW-Silverwing Hold killed the 10-man version of Al'Akir, arguably one of the hardest encounters ever implemented.
So as of today, every hard-mode encounter has been defeated in either 10-man or 25-man!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
4.0.6 patch balance and feral changes
In 4.0.6 balance and feral druids will NOT be able to shift out of root effects. That means feral will have an even harder time getting to mages, and balance will have complete mobility failure when combined with the change to our instant cast roots glyph. When picking the restoration tree, restoration druids will get a new passive ability that allows them to shift out of roots.
Main things to know about 4.0.6:
Balance:
Wild mushrooms will be instant cast, deal 30% more damage, double in fungal growth size, and be more responsive when triggering.
Moonkin form will no longer grant 120% bonus armor, but instead grant 15% damage reduction from all sources.
Starfall will no longer hit targets that are not in combat.
Feral:
Rip and Rake damage reduced by 10%, but shred/mangle/ and white hits will hit harder.
Bear form Fury Swipes damage reduced, as well as bear form white hits.
Main things to know about 4.0.6:
Balance:
Wild mushrooms will be instant cast, deal 30% more damage, double in fungal growth size, and be more responsive when triggering.
Moonkin form will no longer grant 120% bonus armor, but instead grant 15% damage reduction from all sources.
Starfall will no longer hit targets that are not in combat.
Feral:
Rip and Rake damage reduced by 10%, but shred/mangle/ and white hits will hit harder.
Bear form Fury Swipes damage reduced, as well as bear form white hits.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Upcoming Moonkin (Balance) Changes
There are some interesting changes in store boomkin, including a mastery buff for both moonkin and resto trees. Ill post the full changes tomorrow, I'm just too tired right now. ;)
Monday, January 10, 2011
Meta gem change: About time!
Posted in the 4.0.6 patch notes:
Jewelcrafting
Jewelcrafting
- Meta gems with the Chaotic and Relentless prefixes now have a requirement of 3 red gems.
- New meta gems have been added: Agile Shadowspirit Diamond (Agility/3% critical damage), Reverberating Shadowspirit Diamond (Strength/3% critical damage), and Burning Shadowspirit Diamond (Intellect/3% critical damage). These new recipes are unbound and can drop from any Cataclysm creature. The new meta gems have a requirement of 3 red gems equipped.
Thank goodness. More blue than red was a ridiculous req. for both of those metas. The pattern prices for the new one is going to insane no doubt.
Update: Aiming High
The bugged quest Aiming High has been fixed. It used to be you had to run directly into the cannon until you got lucky and it would finally shoot you in. I wasn't able to get launched until 30 tries, some got it on the first shot!
Thats all in the past now, Aiming High has been fixed and you should be able to complete it without any problems.
Thats all in the past now, Aiming High has been fixed and you should be able to complete it without any problems.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Feral tips
I'll list here some tips for gearing your feral druid for cat dps.
Stat priority is Agility > Mastery > Crit > Everything else
Stat priority is Agility > Mastery > Crit > Everything else
Gemming
- Red: Delicate (Agility)
- Yellow: Adept (Agility + Mastery)
- Blue: Shifting (Agility + Stamina)
Glyphs
- Prime: Shred and Rip are must have. The 3rd prime should either be Tiger's Fury or Berserk, there is still a lot of debate about which is best. I personally use Berserk.
- Major: Not a lot of great major glyphs for cat spec, but Feral Charge is good if you're talented in Stampede, Entangling roots is great for heroics as it allows you to be a viable CC on melee targets. I use glyph of Innervate right now to help out the healers since mana is a huge issue for them, but you can swap it out for Faerie Fire, or even Maul if you find yourself going into bear frequently. Rebirth is also a pretty good major glyph if you are one of your raid's battle rezzers.
- Minor: Again, kind of crap for feral. Unburdend Rebirth, Aquatic Form, and Dash seem to be the only viable ones.
- Feral rotation is more of a list of priorities. You should keep up the following buffs/debuffs and prioritize them in this order.
- Mangle
- Rip
- Rake
- Savage Roar
I'll post up some links to guides tomorrow. There are a couple good lists of pre-raid gear to aim for which really helped me out to get ready for Blackwing Descent.
Feral dps
I joined a raiding guild to get a taste of current end game pve! We downed Magmaw 25man and he dropped a ton of cloth gear. I'm pretty sure our priests got them which is cool because it will help with heals for Omnotron. That fight is a loooong fight and they'll need the mana regen. As feral dps I came in 4th place under two hunters and an elemental shaman. I did ~13k dps on magmaw and was at ~11k dps on our Omnotron attempts.
I've got a 346 moonkin set now, and I'm thinking about switching to moonkin for my main raiding spec as the more I read on the raiding progression it seems melee is very undesirable in a lot of the upcoming raid encounters.
I've got a 346 moonkin set now, and I'm thinking about switching to moonkin for my main raiding spec as the more I read on the raiding progression it seems melee is very undesirable in a lot of the upcoming raid encounters.
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:
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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 :\
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
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!
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Alright
Update!!!!:
Still getting that design ready. Its taking a while because I'm playing world of warcraft and gaming on my computer so much!
Still getting that design ready. Its taking a while because I'm playing world of warcraft and gaming on my computer so much!
Check it out!
Hey everybody, this blog is still underway! Please stay tuned as I prepare the finishing touches on the design before it goes live!!
Sunday, August 26, 2001
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