Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Wait what? What patch?

Apparently patch 4.0.1 is being implemented right as I type this, and you know what? I'm not as excited as say....patch 3.3.3, or whatever that other big change patch was.

So we get to use all the new talent trees that we got to preview earlier?

Annoying. I have eight toons all with dual spec except for my Mage and Shaman (which I am having a very hard time levelling to 30). So to figure ALL those trees out, /ragequit

Chill of the Throne Removed?

What? Why? It's not like our 85K hp tanks were having any troubles?

Reforging?

Cool. But sounds annoying. I want haste.

Hunters

Turby doesn't need to waste bag space carrying ammo. Yes.
Time to go pet hunter, TWENTY pets! You already know what I'm going to do: Collect and name all twenty pets PUPPY. I think I still have a dinosaur called Nejibana, or maybe I abandoned him =(
Focus: Good. I hate mana that's un-lifetappable.

Death Knights

I refuse to tank in blood presence! It's so...RED. I think I'll make my tanking tree a DPS unholy tree now.

Druid

What's Eclipse?

Mage

Teleport? I'm seriously too lazy to find the reagant master on my mage. She only has normal mount which is SO slow I just leave her in place and log out.

Paladin

Resource bar? Holy Meter? Ok.

Warlock

New spell fly-out thingy. Good, saves me slots on my action bar to put my non combat pets LMAO
Soul Shards are officially gone. Finally. Extra bag!

That's about it. I still don't think I like how gear is being itemized in Cataclysm. It reminds me of all the USELESS green items we find +99 STR. +77 SPIRIT.

Is it really making things simpler? Is our current system really that complicated?

Say you found a staff that gives:

+105 INT
+150 STAM
+105 SPIRIT

+105 HASTE
+100 CRIT
+895 SPELLPOWER

Three Sockets

Just from looking at the stats you know that the INT is going to add to your mana pool, increase your crit by a little bit.

The STAM will add stamina. DUH.

The Spirit will increase your mana regen but also 40% of it will go into your spellpower.

The additional stats are pretty obvious.

Why do we need to condense all this in Cataclysm to:

+700 STAMIN
+650 INT
+50 MASTERY

Isn't that even more confusing and vague? What does this INT stat comprise itself of? It's a neat little package but its less transparent, see what I'm saying?

So in the future, the higher the INT and Mastery the better? Isn't that a bit boring?

Oh I have another question: Are all the gear in Cataclysm going to be BROWN (or varying shades of it), just like when we were levelling the first 10 levels and first three tiers of Northrend?

However, I did see some spoiler footage of Cata dungeon runs and they do look satisfyingly difficult, rather un-face-rollable, and requires everyone know how to manage their class....even on trash mobs! Though in that video the mage had 75K HP so....hmm......

OK BYE
Are there going to be SM Masks? Rusty swords? Are those days over?

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Brewfest Over: "Quitting" Again

Not that anyone cares that I am "quitting" again, nor should Blizzard care that I am "quitting", they still have million and millions of subscribers and ALSO, when I don't play I just don't play it's not as if I took the effort to go ALL the way into my account settings and took the effort to click "Unsubscribe", remember, I'm too lazy for that.

Now that Brewfest is over, again I find there is absolutely no point in logging into any of my level 80s. The daily 20 minutes of kthxbaicorenlols is no more. Not until next year. I want that RAM. Who doesn't want to ride on a freakin 'ram that BAA's? OMG! So of the 10 or so days, over 4 toons a day so 40 times getting that Keg thingamajigger I have received:

1. Countless frost badges. Extra good because it took about 15 seconds of effort.
2. Three Tankard of Terrors. Whatever.
3. Four Direbrew Remotes. Truny has two.
4. A Kodo, which Turny ALREADY had. What a waste throwing it away.

No RAM! But that's ok, my alliance hunter has a Ram mount. As long as its there.

So about these Frost Badges and Restoration Druiding.

Why? The two piece bonus is nice, wild growth heals more always. But the four piece...meh, why would I want rejuv to randomly jump to someone, when if I saw them take damage I would cast rejuv on them ANYWAYS?

Sure it'd be really nice to know that someone had it, but even so, most of our natural reflex is to hit rejuv FIRST then swiftmend. Unless this is intended for druids to play at an even higher level! In that case, make the Rejuv jump more often. Laame and fat!

I've hoarded enough Frost Badges for the T10, either Restoration or Bear for Turny but at this point I don't feel its needed.

Anyways, I'll be back bitching and complaining and rejoicing over random stupid stuff for Hallow's End I guess.

Laters

Truny's Warlock Tips: Festergut

Let's continue with the Plagueworks shall we?

There is a whole preamble of trash that your party can have fun facerolling through, including two dogs, Precious and Fluffy? I seriously don't remember or care.

Festergut aka Festerloots is on the left side of the hallway which allows you to either engage him or Rotface. Once both of them are dead you may go and murder Professor Putricide.

What does he do??: Essentially, the battlefield is covered in gas which does damage overtime based on the density of the gas. This fight is mainly a cycle of high raid damage and low tank damage, to high tank damage (healers be on your toes), to low low raid damage. Wait say what? Density? Well, Festerloots will inhale 25% of the gas, up to three times. Each time he inhales the gas it will do less damage to the raid. But makes him hit the tank harder.

So what? Nothing really, use your Shadow Ward warlocks! The gas does shadow damage!

Spread out 8 yards please. He will also make random ranged people PUKE, incapacitating them for 6 seconds and doing damage to them. You can't do anything about it. But SPREAD OUT because anyone else hit by the puke will also become incapacitated and puke, and this cause a raid wipe if someone gets too close to the tank.

After he has absorbed all the gas, he will then expunge it all doing enormous damage to the entire raid something like a billion damage. Use your shadow ward here.

Wait what a billion? Well no, but it's a lot. And here is where the next key element of this fight comes in.

Spores spawn on random party members. DBM will helpfully mark spored peoples. What these spores do is that after a certain duration of time, they will EXPLODE and (de)buff anyone caught in the explosion with a shadow resistance buff, which stacks 3 times.

WARLOCKS: When you enter the room, drop your Green Teleporty Fun Thing. This will be the gather point for ranged people. So while everyone is doing their thing, when the spores spawn, you can instantly teleport to the gathering point to get the shadow buff and continue pew pewing.

Be aware, one person with the spore should be in to cover the ranged asses, and another should run into melee if it doesn't spawn in melee.

The cycle repeats after three spores have spawned, hopefully everyone has three stacks. Then he'll do his giant gas release, but don't worry cause the shadow buff will save you. Use your Shadow Ward again, you'll probably take 0 damage.

Metamorphosis: You should be able to use this cooldown right at the beginning of the fight, and once again when he's in Decimation mode depending on raid DPS. If not, save it for the latter half to beat his enrage!

TL;DR: Cause I sure as hell didn't read all that.

1. Use your Demonic Circle as the ranged meeting point for spores. This saves YOU time. And if YOU have the spore you can just teleport and make the OTHER person go into melee.

2. Use Shadow Ward. Every cooldown you see, just do it!

3. Spread out!

Now What: Ok go loot him, thanks.

Truny the Warlock

Monday, September 27, 2010

Not This Gong-Show Again!

You know how after you've gotten all your gear, having ran X dungeon so many times, you never feel the urge to go back..ever? It's kind of like the end-game rut, but not end game? Yeah, think TOC 5 woman *shudder*

Remember when Truny was running Heroic Halls of Reflection like it was going out of style all for Shriveled Heart? Oh the amount of search engine results this blog got for that one item, well HA here's another entry for it LMAO!

I just remembered that Turny also picked up
Midnight Sun yesterday and what other offhand is better for it than the easily (UH HUH) obtainable Shriveled Heart?? Yes I get to heal for a purpose again! I purchased the ilvl200 Handbook of Obscure Remedies to fill in for it, since the dagger itself is 120 spellpower stronger than Perdition, but without many other stats, but that's okay!

Turny the Stabbity Stab Again in Your Ass

Brewfest! and Updates..

It's a sad week, I realized Truny missed the Pirate Day thing, hence she won't have the achievement for the violet thing next year. However, I did do the annoying little brewfest events and got her the Brewmaster title. I'm still running the daily Coren Direbrew Keg Lotto everyday on all the four characters that are 80, usually this takes 20 minutes total.

Log in. Queue, kill. Leave group log out and switch.

So far I have got two of those Tankard of Thingers, maybe I will save them for Shinjen my shaman, if she ever goes enhance and needed tankards? Who knows, they are only worth 80G on the auction house now.

What else has been new lately? Nothing. I've been randomly playing my other toons on and off, hrmmm, this is what happened over the span of about...2 hours.

Truby the paladin went from 48 to 50.

Paladins are the crazy shit and are so OP right now. Yeah I'm talking about retribution. Even though it is faster, like insta-queue faster to get into a dungeon as a tank I am still queuing as RETLOL just cause it's so OMFGDIE!

But the cooldowns are really weird, and if one mob dies and everything is on cooldown, and when I switch to another mob I have to right click to begin attacking which is SUPER annoying so I put the auto-attack button back on my bar, along with divine wrath vengeance holy hand of righteous hammer whatever the hell all these abilities are.

I think I could have prevented a group wipe if I could fuggin' tell the effen difference between all the freakin different shields paladins have, oh wait do I have divine shield, or wait is that power word shield oh no wait wrong class, oh shit why does cleanse have the same icon as renew, oh crap where's the ability called "PALLY BUBBLE" what the hell is the REAL name for that anyways? What's with all the text after all these abilities like I can't use it within 30 seconds of some holy avenging something and not during some other righteous something or other wtf wtf?? I just wanted to use that thing you know that some people have cast on me before where I went completely immune to everything for 3 minutes and the paladin suicided do I even have that yet? Can I cast that thing bound to my '9' key on other people?

Why was I even trying to be helpful I should just stick to: Consecrate, hammer thing that when you hit you get hp back, crusader strike, use exorcism if that yellow icon has procced, which I *think* is the exact same icon as prayer of mending, then use the thing that procs when the mob is at 20% or below I think its' called Hammer of DIE NOW! I watch that like a hawk, like kill shot! And of course that shield looking ability that taunts and does damage when stuff is at low health. But who cares if you taunted paladins don't die!

And buffing other people. Fuck off! Go buff yourself, we're not doing heroic icc we don't really NEED to. Everything can get kings cause its the only one I recognize and its bound to my '8' key. I give myself the hand one.

Ok what else, oh yes then I make sure my Seal of Red One is on, and not all the other seals which are scattered all around my keybinds. The red one procs all sorts of crazy damage.

Druny the Mage is 25, from 24...

Playing at 25 means you will go out of goddamn mana every single fuckin' pull. I respecced to fire, because almost NO ONE is fire nowadays except for this one amazing mage I saw while on my paladin who pulled 530 dps at level 50 by using all these aoes, he seriously had like 10 aoes going on!

But at 25, I should have reset my expectations.

Flamestrike, Blizzard, OOM. Shit. And stuff is still alive! Do I still use frostbolt if fire specced? I spent an entire rfk just trying to see what the optimal rotation was. Yes at 25 and already worrying about this stuff. It wasn't fun.

Do I use scorch? It's "Improved", but its so weak! Or do I use fireball? which takes like 2 minutes to cast? Pyroblast? That takes 20 minutes to cast, and isn't THAT much stronger?

Druny can stay at 25 for a bit longer.

Shinjen the Shaman went from 18-23

I have always thought the idea of a shaman was excellent, great, delicious. What spell is more awesomer than chain lightning?

I actually bought the wrong BOA stuff for her. I got her the SP Leather, and then later I realized OH SHIT Shamans wear mail, oh well she used to wear the cloth set so yeah ok bye.

Healing as a shaman pre level 20 is a joke. Why? Because the only spell you get is HEALING WAVE. Yes the big heal. Why do we start with the big heals?

Good thing one shadowfang keep run got Shinjen to 20. The pulls were like this:

Tank gets mobs, I'd have to start casting BEFORE he pulls or else the 52 second cast time of Healing Wave won't make it and he'll die. Luckily it refillls half his HP.

Once she hit 20 and got LESSER Healing Wave things started to be more "normal", and less mana intensive. Along with healing stream totem.

Oh yeah, totems. What the hell? Why are there SO many earth totems? Stoneskin, stoneclaw, strength of earth, strength of skin, grounding, tremor, Earthbind, earthskin, say what?

I was pretending to be an optimal shaman and wanted to use the optimal totem on each pull, but our party DIED because by the time I read and understood the functionability of each and every ground totem everyone had already died and the mobs were running to me!

After that I just clicked on whatever totem I used last, one of the yellow ones.

Runy the Rogue....didn't change.

I had a lot of fun pvp'ing with Runy. Last year. In the 50s bracket, where subtlety attacks could one shot casters, annoying the hell out of them!

Outlands was okay, I'm not sure how I managed to get him to 70.

Then I went to Northrend.

Some of the initial quests are: Go kill a wolf.

Ok.

Engage combat. Miss miss miss hit hit hit hit hit hit 5 combo points. Eviscerate. 1k. My own hp is at half. Hit hit hit hit miss miss miss. Stun. Bandage. Hit hit hit hit hit. Battle over. One wolf down.

WHAT?

So I should use evasion on every pull?

No no calm down, rogues are for the stealths. Ok so I go Subtlety mode. Ambush. 2k crit. Oh crap its not dead. Hit hit hit hit hit hit miss miss miss miss miss miss. Forget it!

Being a dps whore, running the random dungeons was no fun either. Other than Killing spree, I'm just spamming two buttons. Which is no fun as half the time they don't land!

Runy can stay 70 for another year, that was a fun 15 minutes.

Husbrus the Priest is still 73.

I did TWO quests upon arriving in Northland, since Husbrus is shadowspec, I found her MUCH more efficient and ABLE to do quests than say, my ROGUE. 3 GCDs mobs are dead, rather than the 20 or so GCDs for the rogue. After that it took too much effort to walk from Warsong hold to the shore, so I just started healing and healing and healing. So that'll be the story for her, heal to 80.

Turny the Druid can Lifetap. This was not part of that 2 hours of alt-fun.

I just logged on to queue for Coren Direbrew, because he has free frosts, and its faster than running an entire dungeon for those frosts, yeah I'm getting lazy usually I'd do both for 4 but...meh we don't need that stuff anymore right?

So I logged in at my usual spot by the bank, and the person I had inadvertantly clicked on had my old guild member targetted. I decided to visit. I was invited to the group, and I thought they were doing the weekly, instead we ended up doing ICC 10, clearing 10 bosses easily (except a couple shots at Green Dragon Heals Thing) as a PUG.

Turny picked up a nice
Lifetap Upgrade, which I put on the same button as Truny's lifetap. Also, is the buff in the raid at its max now? Cause everyone had 30K+ health? How could anyone die to begin with??

Ok goodbye.