Yeah two posts in one day, that's right!
Turny the Angry Tree had a healthy stock of lesser charms of good fortune saved up since he had been doing dailies since the 3rd day of release. It was shortly before Christmas that his stash had ran out and I was faced with a dilemma.
I have three level 90's. Two of which are fairly active, and my hunter.. who has lots of potential but unfortunately the player behind the screen does not have enough time to commit to him.
Truny the Angry Warlock on the other hand was lucky enough to be re-instated to become The Main again so she was still receiving a steady flow of charms from finishing off Klaxxi and Dominance Offensive. However, now that those are done, I think I do a grand total of one or two dailies on the warlock so she only has about four weeks of lesser tokens left.
At the bare minimum I will maintain my druid and hunter's stock at exactly 90 so every week they can use their tokens to roll on non-existant sha-weapons and medium existant sha of fear loot.
Lei Shi
Lei Shi is the source of everyone's rage and fury. But why? How can such a cute, scared little water elemental bring about such despair? It's because Lei Shi drops all the fucking important items for my characters. Count it, tier shoulders, caster staff, and the non-existant gun. The ONLY worthy gun in the game at the moment, discounting the bow from MV.
Whatever the hell we do with our lesser charms to consume them, have all been consumed on Lei Shi (except my Warlock, who was lucky enough to get the Sha Touched caster sword of Tsulong for free).
Last week was a lucky week for my druid, having received NOTHING in regular raiding or LFR, he finished his 4P T14 healing set, and got extra tier gloves and I believe shoulders and helm for an off-set AND a sha-touched staff all in one go. And I only spent 1 token after receiving tier-shoulders, it bought me the staff. Huh.
I have given up on getting the mace off Empress, as it is too painful to do LFR, and really...I don't need THAT much spirit.
My warlock was also lucky, she got tier shoulders off Lei Shi last week for free, thus saving a token for me to use on real Elegon for a small chance at his awesome mount!
My hunter has many sad. I have a feeling that unless they put in a VENDOR bow/gun that I can buy with VP I will never see anything beyond a rare quality weapon. Then again my hunter has no purpose this expansion anyways.
So in conclusion, Lei Shi can suck it since I am done with her now, let's see those nipples shimmer lightly now!
Turny the Say Wha?
Monday, January 21, 2013
Maximizing Your Destruction
Wow hello friends it's been quite a long while since my last update!
A short debrief in the real life world. I am in the second module of my professional accounting designation program and thus haven't been doing much but pet battles and levelling pets and well, the usual.
Let's start off with a rant, I don't believe there would be a legitimate Kluptomania post without some sort of rant embedded within the walls of text.
Pet Battles: Singing Cricket
As most OCD achievement hunters are, the oh so time consuming but relatively simple goal of levelling 75 pets to level 25 was one of the "things" I had been working on passively.
I like this achievement in that it allowed me to utilize two strong pets to essentially "carry" a low level through ALL of the trainers. Yes, even the earth Pandaren spirit is totally duo-able if you open up with a Darkmoon Rabbit.
Having found the "right" pet for each trainer, I would try to tag in a level 22 pet for free exp, then as time went on I'd use lower and lower levels, all the way down to 5 sometimes if they're contribution was not needed and won't die in one round.
Anyways, the reward at the end of the rainbow wasn't even that important anymore but when the achievement eventually popped, I was rewarded with a Singing Cricket.
If you look at its max stats, 1546 HP and 273/273 atk and speed. It's not even that great! What the hell? It's color isn't even unique! And it doesn't even SING (for the Empresss)!
Could the pet for this achievement not have been something a bit cooler? Who the hell wants another grasshopper who doesn't even have a unique move-set? I mean, all it would take to make this "worthwhile" is to add a pair of sunglasses or goggles to the cricket and make it super cute! Right?
Trolling PVP Pet Battles
This is an activity in which I am guilty for. I mean, my trolling teams win 75% of the time, but their entire purpose is to give someone the gift of frustration. Be it queuing 3 pets with reflect, 3 undead pets, or 3 pets with multiple stuns and traps. So annoying and stunful.
PvP pet battles is quite time consuming, as I tend to fall into the "just one more battle" trap. I am currently at 146/250 wins for the next step of the achieve. (This was 145, as I like to do just 5 a day, but the last win was a test of another one of my trolly teams).
Maximizing Your Destruction Warlock
Ok now down to the nitty gritty.
Today I am going to talk about some of our nifty wifty spells in Destruction. Just a re-visit.
Havoc: Our spell duplicator.
Chaos Bolt: The truck.
Shadowburn: The new kill shot.
Fire and Brimstone (F&B): The OMG lots of fier!
From a logical bystander view, destruction is a fairly "simple" spec. The gist is, put on your dot, then spam incinerate until you have enough embers and use your embers on chaos bolt, or shadowburn.
In single target, you may time your demon soul cooldown and "build up" lots of chaos bolts, then attempt to build up embers for sub-20%. Or you might even use your demon soul cooldown to build up embers faster with a combination of incinerate/chaos bolt.
Ok, what happens now if you have two mobs? How do you maximize your damage? Remember, as a warlock or any dps spec your sole purpose is to maximize your damage in every given moment based on every given scenario of every fight.
So now, do you use havoc and split your chaos bolt into 2? Or do you wait until one mob is low enough health so you can duplicate three shadowburns onto the other mob? You have to have decided this on pull and plan your "spell schedule" accordingly. Perhaps they have enough health that you can actually split a chaos bolt AND build up enough embers and wait off the cooldown of havoc to split shadowburns 3 times.
Now think of this scenario with three, or four mobs. I don't tend to use Fire and Brimstone unless there are 10 or more mobs, as a F&B'd incinerate on all mobs will generate a full ember back. Then you can either havoc and chaos bolt some mobs, or havoc and shadowburn some low health mobs. You must decide this step before most of the adds reach 50% health because you, my friend, hit like a truck.
Rain of Fire. This is a high mana cost but essentially "maintenance free" spell that can generate extra embers and damage. I like to cast this when there's nothing else to do and my mana has regen'd to near 100%.
So yes, interesting things to think about the next time you are burning face with trucks.
Truny the Troll
A short debrief in the real life world. I am in the second module of my professional accounting designation program and thus haven't been doing much but pet battles and levelling pets and well, the usual.
Let's start off with a rant, I don't believe there would be a legitimate Kluptomania post without some sort of rant embedded within the walls of text.
Pet Battles: Singing Cricket
As most OCD achievement hunters are, the oh so time consuming but relatively simple goal of levelling 75 pets to level 25 was one of the "things" I had been working on passively.
I like this achievement in that it allowed me to utilize two strong pets to essentially "carry" a low level through ALL of the trainers. Yes, even the earth Pandaren spirit is totally duo-able if you open up with a Darkmoon Rabbit.
Having found the "right" pet for each trainer, I would try to tag in a level 22 pet for free exp, then as time went on I'd use lower and lower levels, all the way down to 5 sometimes if they're contribution was not needed and won't die in one round.
Anyways, the reward at the end of the rainbow wasn't even that important anymore but when the achievement eventually popped, I was rewarded with a Singing Cricket.
If you look at its max stats, 1546 HP and 273/273 atk and speed. It's not even that great! What the hell? It's color isn't even unique! And it doesn't even SING (for the Empresss)!
Could the pet for this achievement not have been something a bit cooler? Who the hell wants another grasshopper who doesn't even have a unique move-set? I mean, all it would take to make this "worthwhile" is to add a pair of sunglasses or goggles to the cricket and make it super cute! Right?
Trolling PVP Pet Battles
This is an activity in which I am guilty for. I mean, my trolling teams win 75% of the time, but their entire purpose is to give someone the gift of frustration. Be it queuing 3 pets with reflect, 3 undead pets, or 3 pets with multiple stuns and traps. So annoying and stunful.
PvP pet battles is quite time consuming, as I tend to fall into the "just one more battle" trap. I am currently at 146/250 wins for the next step of the achieve. (This was 145, as I like to do just 5 a day, but the last win was a test of another one of my trolly teams).
Maximizing Your Destruction Warlock
Ok now down to the nitty gritty.
Today I am going to talk about some of our nifty wifty spells in Destruction. Just a re-visit.
Havoc: Our spell duplicator.
Chaos Bolt: The truck.
Shadowburn: The new kill shot.
Fire and Brimstone (F&B): The OMG lots of fier!
From a logical bystander view, destruction is a fairly "simple" spec. The gist is, put on your dot, then spam incinerate until you have enough embers and use your embers on chaos bolt, or shadowburn.
In single target, you may time your demon soul cooldown and "build up" lots of chaos bolts, then attempt to build up embers for sub-20%. Or you might even use your demon soul cooldown to build up embers faster with a combination of incinerate/chaos bolt.
Ok, what happens now if you have two mobs? How do you maximize your damage? Remember, as a warlock or any dps spec your sole purpose is to maximize your damage in every given moment based on every given scenario of every fight.
So now, do you use havoc and split your chaos bolt into 2? Or do you wait until one mob is low enough health so you can duplicate three shadowburns onto the other mob? You have to have decided this on pull and plan your "spell schedule" accordingly. Perhaps they have enough health that you can actually split a chaos bolt AND build up enough embers and wait off the cooldown of havoc to split shadowburns 3 times.
Now think of this scenario with three, or four mobs. I don't tend to use Fire and Brimstone unless there are 10 or more mobs, as a F&B'd incinerate on all mobs will generate a full ember back. Then you can either havoc and chaos bolt some mobs, or havoc and shadowburn some low health mobs. You must decide this step before most of the adds reach 50% health because you, my friend, hit like a truck.
Rain of Fire. This is a high mana cost but essentially "maintenance free" spell that can generate extra embers and damage. I like to cast this when there's nothing else to do and my mana has regen'd to near 100%.
So yes, interesting things to think about the next time you are burning face with trucks.
Truny the Troll
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Year of the Pets
Blah blah blah new year blah blah.
There now that we've gotten that out of the way.
Christmas break was a very un-productive break for me, despite extensive feasting and partying my brain remained relatively idle for the dozen days or so that I had off. That was exactly as I had planned.
I didn't do much except for Pet Battles over the break. Yes, did you know I'm a collector of shit? No realy?
I got hooked on PVP battles for a bit, until I ended up fighting the same people over and over, and their teams just couldn't beat my "super annoying trolling team".
Pet Battles
My main team consists of:
Darkmoon Rabbit
Anubisath Idol
Mr. Bigglesworth
This is my annoying team. The DM Rabbit has a nice dodge and burrow and a bleed and is speedy as hell.
The Anubisath Idol is my reflector/tank, and Mr Bigglesworth's only purpose is to setup a Prowled Ice Tomb, which usually one shots anything.
My 2nd team that I like to troll with is my pure undead team.
Mr. Bigglesworth
Restless Shadeling - to counter flayer's/anubisaths
Scourged Whelp - to reduce heals and do party damage.
Well I bore of talking about pet battles.
Questing - Dominance Offensive
I kind of like the format of this type of story-driven questing, every few thousand rep you get a new snippet of the story, rather than just grinding to each rep tier for useless upgrades. The sad thing is Krasarang Wilds is so far away that I usually just ignore doing these dailies. Also, despite my warlock's questing powers, being able to pull 12+ mobs, actually aggroing 12+ mobs against my will is really annoying. Also, dailies are annoying in general, this will always be true.
2013 Goals
Easy. I've been running Tempest Keep and Onyxia's Lair weekly on three toons in hopes of obtaining the coveted mounts within each of these raids. My hunter is having the hardest time with Kael'thas without doing some fancy LOS dancing and pet juggling, but he's been getting the job done. It seems everywhere I go I am haunted by someone riding one of these mounts, taunting me. No seriously, everytime I'm out doing dailies I see someone different on an Onyxia mount or Ashes, so it must be ultra common and should drop anytime soon right?
I've given up on checking the various time-losts, with CRZ there is no way in hell that I can even SEE any of the rare mobs, let alone tag one. Speaking of which I have yet to see ANY rare mobs in CRZ zones....
This was a rather random useless post. I shall talk about something more productive this weekend.
Truny the Mountless.
There now that we've gotten that out of the way.
Christmas break was a very un-productive break for me, despite extensive feasting and partying my brain remained relatively idle for the dozen days or so that I had off. That was exactly as I had planned.
I didn't do much except for Pet Battles over the break. Yes, did you know I'm a collector of shit? No realy?
I got hooked on PVP battles for a bit, until I ended up fighting the same people over and over, and their teams just couldn't beat my "super annoying trolling team".
Pet Battles
My main team consists of:
Darkmoon Rabbit
Anubisath Idol
Mr. Bigglesworth
This is my annoying team. The DM Rabbit has a nice dodge and burrow and a bleed and is speedy as hell.
The Anubisath Idol is my reflector/tank, and Mr Bigglesworth's only purpose is to setup a Prowled Ice Tomb, which usually one shots anything.
My 2nd team that I like to troll with is my pure undead team.
Mr. Bigglesworth
Restless Shadeling - to counter flayer's/anubisaths
Scourged Whelp - to reduce heals and do party damage.
Well I bore of talking about pet battles.
Questing - Dominance Offensive
I kind of like the format of this type of story-driven questing, every few thousand rep you get a new snippet of the story, rather than just grinding to each rep tier for useless upgrades. The sad thing is Krasarang Wilds is so far away that I usually just ignore doing these dailies. Also, despite my warlock's questing powers, being able to pull 12+ mobs, actually aggroing 12+ mobs against my will is really annoying. Also, dailies are annoying in general, this will always be true.
2013 Goals
Easy. I've been running Tempest Keep and Onyxia's Lair weekly on three toons in hopes of obtaining the coveted mounts within each of these raids. My hunter is having the hardest time with Kael'thas without doing some fancy LOS dancing and pet juggling, but he's been getting the job done. It seems everywhere I go I am haunted by someone riding one of these mounts, taunting me. No seriously, everytime I'm out doing dailies I see someone different on an Onyxia mount or Ashes, so it must be ultra common and should drop anytime soon right?
I've given up on checking the various time-losts, with CRZ there is no way in hell that I can even SEE any of the rare mobs, let alone tag one. Speaking of which I have yet to see ANY rare mobs in CRZ zones....
This was a rather random useless post. I shall talk about something more productive this weekend.
Truny the Mountless.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Weekly Progress Report: 12/18/2012
Hmm it's been a while hasn't it?
Well, enough chit-chat. We are officially 13/16 of the silly little raid bosses as of yesterday, with Empress Shek'zeer downed we strolled into TOES and slayed the Guardians before calling it a night.
Empress was messy. Let's just say we had some unfortunately timed explosions and also an add up into phase 3 but we survived. Somehow. I won't dwell on that point too much.
Healing Shek'zeer
Apparently this is one of the most healing intensive fights. Well, sorta. I find it's mainly timing and cooldown management, as is every other fight out there??
Otherwise, I haven't been doing anything else. Dailies are a thing of the past. I've camped my toons by ALL of the battle pet masters and have been doing those dailies instead.
Dominance Offensive? Meh, I don't care my druid is NOT going to grind another faction. My warlock does about 2 sets a week if I feel like it. The story I should say is quite interesting and I am definitely looking forward to the next stage of my progression. However dailies suck and seriously, Krasaran Wilds is SO far south who the hell has time to fly all the way down there? Not me.
I also finished my first legendary gem several weeks ago but again, what the hell am I supposed to put it in??
Turny the Lazy Tree
Well, enough chit-chat. We are officially 13/16 of the silly little raid bosses as of yesterday, with Empress Shek'zeer downed we strolled into TOES and slayed the Guardians before calling it a night.
Empress was messy. Let's just say we had some unfortunately timed explosions and also an add up into phase 3 but we survived. Somehow. I won't dwell on that point too much.
Healing Shek'zeer
Apparently this is one of the most healing intensive fights. Well, sorta. I find it's mainly timing and cooldown management, as is every other fight out there??
Otherwise, I haven't been doing anything else. Dailies are a thing of the past. I've camped my toons by ALL of the battle pet masters and have been doing those dailies instead.
Dominance Offensive? Meh, I don't care my druid is NOT going to grind another faction. My warlock does about 2 sets a week if I feel like it. The story I should say is quite interesting and I am definitely looking forward to the next stage of my progression. However dailies suck and seriously, Krasaran Wilds is SO far south who the hell has time to fly all the way down there? Not me.
I also finished my first legendary gem several weeks ago but again, what the hell am I supposed to put it in??
Turny the Lazy Tree
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Weekly Progress Report: Actual Progress
It's Tuesday! Tuesday means that everything has reset, for us to do it all again in a more efficient manner.
Last week was the release of Mr Bigglesworth. Go look him up. For collecting 12 rare drop pets from old world raids, you are rewarded with an awesome icy whiskered kitty from the depths of Kel'thuzad's prison. Or whatever.
In an effort to never have to do old raids again I sent ALL my possible toons into Naxxramas, AQ40, and MC and managed to find all 12 pets. Perhaps I'll visit them again to make some money or help others finish their collection. I mean, I did respec to Fury for Viscidus after-all.
In the raiding world we are doing great. Just last week we were still on Garalon and as of yesterday we are 5/6 HoF, with Ambershaper Un'sok's corpse rotting happily away. I also won my FIRST upgrade after setting foot in Heart of Fear, T14 legs.
This is on my druid by the way. T14 legs are nice, however, my warlock has won THREE T14 legs off of the Sha of Anger! I don't have enough specs to use them all!
Perhaps this week will be a lucky week and I will finish my healing 4P, then I can report on it. It reduces our swiftmend by 3 seconds. Very interesting indeed.
Turny the Distracted by Battle Pets
Last week was the release of Mr Bigglesworth. Go look him up. For collecting 12 rare drop pets from old world raids, you are rewarded with an awesome icy whiskered kitty from the depths of Kel'thuzad's prison. Or whatever.
In an effort to never have to do old raids again I sent ALL my possible toons into Naxxramas, AQ40, and MC and managed to find all 12 pets. Perhaps I'll visit them again to make some money or help others finish their collection. I mean, I did respec to Fury for Viscidus after-all.
In the raiding world we are doing great. Just last week we were still on Garalon and as of yesterday we are 5/6 HoF, with Ambershaper Un'sok's corpse rotting happily away. I also won my FIRST upgrade after setting foot in Heart of Fear, T14 legs.
This is on my druid by the way. T14 legs are nice, however, my warlock has won THREE T14 legs off of the Sha of Anger! I don't have enough specs to use them all!
Perhaps this week will be a lucky week and I will finish my healing 4P, then I can report on it. It reduces our swiftmend by 3 seconds. Very interesting indeed.
Turny the Distracted by Battle Pets
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