Truny's Cataclysm Heroic Reports: 12/30/2010

HA! EAT POO AND DIE! I bet you are not thinking "Calm the hell down its only vortex pinnacle sheesh!", but I digress, if you've been following my long sad Heroic story this is only the SECOND dungeon Truny has managed to complete.

Why? Oh well we only really pugged a competent tank, the healer and dps were all us guildies.
And no one left halfway through the dungeon /gasp gasp

See it's not that hard, we only had one wipe on the windy dragon!

I finally got rid of that ugly dual-pronged dagger from Grim Batol and replaced it with Biting Wind, and also found a nice hit cape off the last boss Asaad.

Now that I look at it, I think Truny's found everything that's possibly shiny for a caster DPS in this place...

Until next time, perhaps after the new year's!

Merry Holidays!

Truny the Warlock's Upgrade Day!

Truny is officially a member of the Dark Coven! Yesterday was a day of four upgrades actually, starting off with 78 emblems of frost I did the daily and we cleared up to Festergut for an additional 14 bringing the total up to 92! We actually controlled Wintergrasp fortunately, and Toravon the Frost Pinata yielded an extra four emblems, killing him on both modes.

That was the first upgrade, the Dark Coven Hood. It wasn't exactly an upgrade from the Hood of Smoldering Aftermath, since it has less haste HOWEVER it has 88 more crit and along with my T10 gloves provides the straight 5% crit bonus to three of my nukes.

The second upgrade was from hitting honored with the Ashen Verdict assholes, a nice shinier ring.

Having hit honored, I also bought the pattern to create and crafted for myself the Deathfrost Boots. Again the Hit on these shoes were needed since I dropped both my points in suppression and put them into Destructive Reach, threat reduction and standing farther away once again!

Last upgrade, which was actually the first upgrade I received was the Cord of the Patronizing Practitioner. Long enough name there? I get to patronize people even more now! This dropped off of Lord Marrowgar. I'd have to say, reading up and watching his strategy was more difficult than the actual fight. Stand in his hit box, don't worry about cold flame. Kill the person who's impaled (which looked really hilarious), and when he spins around, just dodge stuff. Done. Though this is not as strong as the emblem belt, but then again I can accrue the 60 emblems and put it towards the rest of the T10 set!

Um, the end!

Truny the Warlock

Truny and the Shriveled Heart - Updates

Yay guess what dropped in the routine H HOR last night? Yes, the Shriveled Heart! The off-hand where EVERY character with an offhand slot that needs Spell Power wants!

Of course I lost the roll, the heart went to the healer, and also one of our dps paladins rolled on it, it seems they are working on a healing set.

I had just realized I was using the "wrong" offhand item. The violet citadel thinger. I switched to the Handbook of Obscure Remedies. Just for the haste, I like haste, MORE haste! (I am aiming for 1000 haste after spellstone since I do NOT raid I do not count in bloodlusts)

The whole point of going after the Shriveled Heart is to see how "geared" I can get as a non-raider. I guess it's to appease the Godly Raider when they see me in THEIR daily dungeon so I don't hold THEM back in their progress.

(Even though a Demonology Warlock usually tops DPS, Total Damage, boss DPS in every single dungeon in 5-mans. We're just bursty)* Exception: T10.5 geared arcane mages who will just spam Arcane Blast or whatever the hell that thing is on a boss and kill it in 5 hits. (Which is good since its less work for me)

Comparison: Switching from Handbook to Shriveled Heart (Which is NEVER since everyone wants it)

Stamina: +11
Intellect: -2 hmm...
Spirit: -38 (Uh oh) -19 SP later.
Crit: +51. Whatever, don't need.
Haste: +25 (+0.76% haste) ANYTHING more than 0 is good at this point for this slot!
Spellpower: +19 BUT -19 because of Spirit. = ZERO

So we gain a little bit of Crit, a little bit of haste. So it's not THAT much better. And looking at Wowhead it looks like a....Maraca??

One a sidenote, Truny DID receive an upgrade: The Braid of Salt and Fire from Heroic ICK in Heroic Piece of Shi- I mean Pit of Saron. 60 haste and 60 spirit! With this, I can spend my Emblem of Frosts on the haste cloth glove instead of the belt!

Back to the Halls of Reflection grind for that LAST upgrade! Hoping the rest of the party are Hunters and Warriors (because then they won't need even for off-spec), and hmm what's a healer that wouldn't want that? Forget it, maybe I'll heal it myself on Turny. Oh no wait then my Warlock won't be able to join hmm....ok maybe a really geared healer who doesn't need it! (Though most likely once the Heart DOES drop I will stop playing my warlock just like when she was looking for the Spectral Kris back in the ToC days)

Truny the Warlock

Truny on Leggings of Woven Death

Truny is currently wearing Gul'dan's Leggings of Conquest looking to upgrade to the Leggings of Woven Death. Yes, she is noob her pants are only T9.0. Well too bad since I'm not a srs bsns raider those work fine since they are the ONLY piece in all of the Warlock T9 that has haste.

However, things have changed: As long as you are fairly rich, you can buy some of the crafted ICC welfare epics (everything is a welfare epic if you DID NOT receive it in a raid, preferrably hard modes).

Leggings of Woven Death are one of these welfare items. The materials required to craft these pants are:

10 Spellweaves
10 Ebon Weaves
8 Primordial Saronites

The various weaves are no problem, since in a week or so Truny can make enough cloth. Primordial Saronite can sell for as low as 1,400-1,500 gold on our server. Eight times 1,500 = 12,000. Ok fine, about 14,000 gold isn't THAT welfare, but according to our elitist friends if you didn't do it "the hard way, through hard work, with a big group of other hard workers" then you don't deserve it.

Hey I don't deserve anything but as long as you dish out the funds. Hard work? How hard? Knowing what to do when to do it isn't that hard when you know what to do when to do it? It's an achievement?

Anyways, Primordial Saronites, can either be purchased, or exchanged for 23 Frost Emblems. I prefer a mixture of methods since I am too cheap to outright purchase ALL eight of them since the trade-off isn't "worth it". I come from the mentality that "if I can save money, then save money".

What is the net-upgrade from switching to these pants?

Stamina: +31 (SO MUCH HP!)
Intellect: +31 (More MP to Tap, and a bit more crit. Whatever)
Critical Strike: +4. (About +0.10%)
Haste Rating: +64 (+1.34%) that's huge for a single item.
Spell Power: +40 (That's about exactly 40 spellpower)
+1 Blue Socket: That's about equal to approximately exactly one blue socket.

Is it worth about 14,000 gold for this upgrade? If your answer is also: "Why not, it'll help you kill bosses 1-2 seconds faster", then go ahead!

Truny the Warlock