100 badges! No more BGs!

YAY.

Deutscher hit 27k honor points yesterday, so he should have enough to get the S2 staff once it is purchasable by honor points (in a couple of weeks when S4 comes out). No more BGs!

Also, he got his 100th badge yesterday, so he was able to get the Tormented Demonsoul Robe! We also ran Gruuls last night, and he was able to pick up the Brute Cloak of the Ogre Magi, a cloak that has a ton of +spell crit on it (+1 % spell crit!). I was able to re-balance the gems somewhat, so he is hit-capped out at 204 with almost 24% spell crit unbuffed. He will push to almost 26% once he gets the staff.

He does about 830-1200 DPS at this point, depending on the situation. I tested out the cloak in heroic Mech, and getting 8 5000-6000 crits in a row is disgusting. I love it.

Done with BGs yet PLS? / Guild merger

I am currently working on gathering around 25k honor points in order to pick up the S2 caster staff once S4 hits and S2 will be purchasable through honor points. This morning I was at around 18.5k, with about 7-8k still to go.

Painful.

Why?

- forget Warsong Gulch. It is not winnable unless you are in a pre-made. If they know what needs to be done.

- forget Arathi Basin. Same reasons.

- Eye of the Storm: meh. Sometimes I am in good groups that actually win (I have even seen 4-caps OMG), but not enough honor points. Takes too long.

Which leaves Alterac Valley. This one is usually a hit-or-miss. Either you win the BG in the first 10 minutes or you have a 90% chance of wasting your time and losing it. There is the slim chance that the tables can be turned so Alliance wins an AV by reinforcements, but that is a rare case. I was lucky and have been part of some really good PuGs that just kill Galv, take IBT, TP while another group rushes to RH and takes the Frostwolf towers as well, then we gather and kill Drek. I think that happens to me about 1 in 5 games, so it is not the worst ratio. And you get between 350 and 550 honor points, so this seems to be the fastest and most efficient way to rack up the points I need.

I am still looking forward to getting all the points I need though and then to be done with it. This gets old pretty quick.

On other news, my guild merged with another guild. This resulted in almost 30 70s to be online last night with one SSC run and 1 ZA run going at the same time. Wow. This is definitely promising and I am looking forward to us getting the details hashed out (run schedule etc).

I personally did not like the fact that officers decided to run SSC and ZA at the same time. I for example would love to run SSC and other 25 man raids, but I need badges, and ZA drops way more in terms of that.

I would say that it would make more sense to have the ‘cool’ runs going on dedicated nights.. 25 man raid and 10 mans separated. Sure you can have 2 10 mans going at the same time, but don’t mix 25 mans with 10 mans.. A 25 man raid is much more srs bsns, and I think people would rather go do 10 mans then 25 mans, so if given the choice, the 25 man raid loses out. My theory.

Either way. More people means more chances to do things in the first place, so let us just see where this is heading.

lewts!

Short term plans:

- get Priest to 70 + equip her with some basic ‘good’ gear. I am exceptionally lazy in questing with her — this will take a while. I just can’t bring myself to do any of the quests anymore. Really odd.

- get the Badge Chest and S2 Staff for the Warlock and push him to 25% spell crit unbuffed. Maybe also get him another T4 drop from Mags, Gruuls or Prince to get the T4 set bonus. I will get the S2 staff once Season 4 hits and you will be able to purchase it with honor points only (and marks). This will be a nice upgrade over the Curator’s staff drop.

UPDATE: Prince dropped the T4 piece for the Warlock last weekend! The ‘Flameshadow’-buff (the T4-2-set piece bonus) procs quite often

Wrath updates - Death Knight

The guys over at WOWInsider have a ton of new information about the new expansion. It looks like that the Death Knight will start at Level 55, with mount and gear. Lots more information over there too.

Since the DK will play a DPS/Tank role and everyone and the world will role one, I think I will either focus on leveling the Warlock or the Priest to 70 first. I don’t think the Feral Druid will play a very significant role in the new endgame dungeons.

Logically, the healer will have the most demand out of those 3 characters. So, I will quest with the Warlock and heal runs with the Priest until both are at 80. Druid will most likely wait.

And yeah, of course I need to try out a Death Knight. I’d rather experience the content first though. It is like back in the first days of BC: I did not spend time leveling a Draenei or Bloodelf, I focused on getting the Lock to 70 first.

A lot of good stuff seems to be in the expansion though, pretty exciting!

 

Good times.

Life is good. I <3 Destruction.

Zerstoerungswut Teil 2

I did get the hood crafted, equipped it with 3 x +8 spell crit (Gleaming Dawnstones). I am at 24.75% spell crit now with Adept’s Elixir + Skullfish Soup. I love it. Spellfire Infusion + Shiffar’s Nexus Horn proc + Arcane Revenge (I think it’s called, from the Robe) all going off at the same time, I think I was hovering at around 1400 bonus spell damage. o.O

Ran ZA last night, I almost pulled aggro many times. That is a good sign dps-wise. Gotta keep that threat under control though, it will get me in trouble!

Good times. This is the spec the Warlock is intended to be.  With Succy sacrificed, +15% spell damage, with Felhunter sacrificed, 3% of total regen every 5 secs, which translated means, you never ever run out of mana. I use the Felhunter DS when I farm. I never have to lifetap.

Good times.

Deutscher, 70 Warlock

Insanity? Possible?

A thought I had last night:

• Deutscher’s chestpiece: Robe of the Elder Scribes.. chance to add bonus spell damage (procs quite often)
• T4 2 set bonus: chance to add bonus spell damage (only have 1 piece, so not sure how often that procs.. lets say he would have the gloves and the shoulders (still needs the shoulders from High King Maulgar)
• Spellstrike Infusion set bonus: chance to add bonus spell damage.. will know how often that procs after I get it made tonight..

What if everything would proc? And I use Scryer’s bloodgem? And I would crit? Would I cry? And dance?

I don’t know.

Guess I need to find out.

EDIT: I think I would scream like a little girl. And then my dogs would stare at me and my wife would literally ROFL.

202 is the magical number (that brings on the PAIN) :-)

Alright.. I went and got Spellstrike Pants crafted for Deutscher last night. I gemmed it all up, my spell hit is 203 now baby! Just 1 over the required 202 rating to never have a boss resist my Shadowbolt love.

The GL and RL decided last night that they are bored with Mags and Gruuls (Mags dropped Eredar Wand of Obliteration for me ), and there will be more pain involved in getting a run going in the future. Which sucks for me, as Deutscher and the upcoming priest would certainly appreciate getting all their T4 gear, but I definitely understand where they are coming from — they have been doing those clears for almost a year now, for me its still new, and the world does not revolve around me (ZOMG UNFAIR! ), so I’ll just deal with it.

I’ll spend another fortune tonight to get the Spellstrike Hood crafted for me, replacing the Battlestrike Hood he has been wearing for AGES. There is no stopping now — I tasted the 6k+ Shadowbolt crits, the 2-crits-in-a-row with Backlash.. it is so beautiful it makes me giggle like a little girl. LOL.

So the plan is to get the hood crafted, replace some of the +hit gems with +crit and +damage (since the hood provides PLENTY of hit) and push Deutscher’s DPS up a notch. Sounds like a plan.

Zerstoerungswut or the Art of the Destruction Warlock

“Zerstörungswut” (look it up yourself :-)) is what happened to my Warlock after I decided to respec him to 0/21/40 Destruction last week. I love it. I need to replace most of his gear (started to), but seeing those 6k+ Shadowbolts pop up on your screen is beeeeeeeawtifull. Especially when soloing and Backlash triggers, and the Bolts crit, oh lordy. Double-BAM in your face.

The Warlock is fun again. I got so bored with Affliction and was towards the bottom of the damage meters anyway, so I thought “why the hell not” and did it.

I like spamming critting Shadowbolts. Its like zoning out after tanking and healing an instance. I recommend that anyone who has a tank or healing character level and gear a DPS class. Keeps you mentally balanced.

Tanking trinket! + 62! + Destro Lock!

• Waldengel was lucky on her 2nd heroic MGT run: the Commendation of Kael’thas dropped (+57 sta trinket)! Never again will I _have_ to run it!
  Raid buffed she is at 20k+ hp and 32kish armor now with 35+% dodge!
• Heilerin hit 62! She is an awesome healer and does a good bit of damage (around 300 dps) to boot. I really like that spec.. with healing gear, she is at around +500 bonus healing with around 7.2k mana Definitely a viable healer. I tried healing on a SP PUG, but she was 61 at the time, and the first boss is extremely healing intensive. Going to have to practice that more.
• I respecced Deutscher! He is now a 0/21/40 Destruction Lock. The gear blows — although all epics (Shadoweave set + Battlecast set + other nice stuff), it SUCKS for Destro.. Destro is all about spell hit + crit. He needs to hit the 202 spell hit cap and get up to about 25% crit with basic buffs (not full raid buffs) before this spec is seriously useful. He gets NICE 5-6k shadowbolt crits (and believe me, after 1 year as Affliction lock a fat crit popping up on your screen is something that you really really get excited about ), even had a 4.4k immolate crit last night, but in a raid environment with other locks geared in s2/s3/t5 gear, it is far from being viable. :-(.Anyway, I am excited, because I know that the spec has a TON of potential.. after all, he does the same dps output now as he did as affliction, so I am on the right path. He is my ‘project’, so to speak. Went to Mags and Gruuls last night with him, he lost the rolls on both T4 chest AND legs. GAH! Ah well, another time. He also hit honored with Shattered Sun Offensive and got the VoidShatter enchant. That’s nice, but useless, since he needs a runed Eternium rod to do the enchant. Which in turns costs around 5-600g to make. So, screw that. At a later date maybe, but even with voids going for 25g and 1 large shard going for 25g, it won’t be worth it.

I like the other method a lot better. But I ain’t telling, because then everyone is gonna do it!

UPDATE: the new 2.4.2 patch will reduce the Void Shatter enchant to 0 cooldown. This means that people will be cranking out the Large Prismatic Shards like there is no tomorrow before the price will drop. Which will happen. So, get rid of those shards while you can.. in 3-4 weeks time, I predict that the average price of 1 shard will be no more than 10g. Quote me on that. Or not, since no one reads this blog.