Been running all my level 80s through heroics as much as possible to obtain Frost badges to convert to saronite.
This past weekend i had enough to make the BOE legs for my Priest. She is all set other than 10/25man raid drops.
Next up is my paladin.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Very very interesting read and analysis
Wow Insider on the Gear explosion
The scaling in gear in this expansion is huge. I recently felt the effects very keenly on my new level 80 Warrior, that attempted to tank some random heroics.
My Warrior is in quested green/blues, some BOE drops (blues) and some crafted epics (ilvl 200 level). Some of the raid-geared DPS had to scale back their DPS and it slowed down the heroic tremendously. Together with a Warrior that struggles maintaining AE threat, DPS was not able to AE to their MAX DPS.
I am queueing my warrior now as Arms-DPS for gear.
The scaling in gear in this expansion is huge. I recently felt the effects very keenly on my new level 80 Warrior, that attempted to tank some random heroics.
My Warrior is in quested green/blues, some BOE drops (blues) and some crafted epics (ilvl 200 level). Some of the raid-geared DPS had to scale back their DPS and it slowed down the heroic tremendously. Together with a Warrior that struggles maintaining AE threat, DPS was not able to AE to their MAX DPS.
I am queueing my warrior now as Arms-DPS for gear.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Saurfang dies again on 25man!
Last night my guild joined our alliance partner Expire for a 25man raid on ICC. I had not planned to attend, but a shortage of healers convinced me to go help.
And was it a great experience. The two groups worked together flawlessly. Morrogar downed 1st try. Lady D needed 2 attempts, battlehsip in 1.
Saurfang needed 2 attempots, and then we got stuck on Fester... Had 2 solid attempts and 2 learning attempts. The last attempt we missed his anreage times while he was less than 10% and wiped the raid. We need to lift our average DPS (raid-wide) by maybe .5K DPS (across 15 DPSers) to down him.
I am sure that 1 or 2 upgrades per person, will lift our raid wide DPS during the next week to down the bad boy.
And was it a great experience. The two groups worked together flawlessly. Morrogar downed 1st try. Lady D needed 2 attempts, battlehsip in 1.
Saurfang needed 2 attempots, and then we got stuck on Fester... Had 2 solid attempts and 2 learning attempts. The last attempt we missed his anreage times while he was less than 10% and wiped the raid. We need to lift our average DPS (raid-wide) by maybe .5K DPS (across 15 DPSers) to down him.
I am sure that 1 or 2 upgrades per person, will lift our raid wide DPS during the next week to down the bad boy.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Buyah! Saurfang down for the first time
My intrepid group of guildies hit the ICC 10man instance last night to continue our assault on Arthas' last hiding place.
Before we hit the first boss Morrogar, my Priest had enough reputation to upgrade her ring to the honored version. We then proceeded to 1shot the big ugly. The new Fury warrior in our team began getting loot like a Bandit.. :D
Lady D's 1st attempt was a wipe. My fault for being really rusty at raiding and standing too close to the tanks, and I got cleaved. More Fury warrior gear!
Battleship event was fun as always, and we got a mail drop and more DPS warrior gear. See a trend?
Then Saurfang. I gotten to him twice before, and the one night we wiped 5 or 6 times. Our first attempt, I switched to Shadow, to help DPS, but we wiped on around 10%. My DPS for the fight was around 2.7K DPS. Our Resto shammie said maybe he should DPS and I heal, as he does about 3.5-3.8k DPS in his elemental set.
And Bingo! Saurfang toppled! Nice cloth DPS item dropped, that went to our mage, and surprisingly.. a DPS 1h sword, that got sharded.
We moved on to the next section, and made it all the way to Festergut. We had 1 try on him, resulting in a wipe.
All in all a satisfying raid.
Before we hit the first boss Morrogar, my Priest had enough reputation to upgrade her ring to the honored version. We then proceeded to 1shot the big ugly. The new Fury warrior in our team began getting loot like a Bandit.. :D
Lady D's 1st attempt was a wipe. My fault for being really rusty at raiding and standing too close to the tanks, and I got cleaved. More Fury warrior gear!
Battleship event was fun as always, and we got a mail drop and more DPS warrior gear. See a trend?
Then Saurfang. I gotten to him twice before, and the one night we wiped 5 or 6 times. Our first attempt, I switched to Shadow, to help DPS, but we wiped on around 10%. My DPS for the fight was around 2.7K DPS. Our Resto shammie said maybe he should DPS and I heal, as he does about 3.5-3.8k DPS in his elemental set.
And Bingo! Saurfang toppled! Nice cloth DPS item dropped, that went to our mage, and surprisingly.. a DPS 1h sword, that got sharded.
We moved on to the next section, and made it all the way to Festergut. We had 1 try on him, resulting in a wipe.
All in all a satisfying raid.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Scattered playtime
Between work, getting ready for a daughter's birthday party, and various household stuff.. My warrior dinged 80 over the weekend.
It continues to amaze me how doing a quick quest here and there over the span of day adds up to a bunch of experience over time.
All that remains are my mage, prior to Cataclysm.
It continues to amaze me how doing a quick quest here and there over the span of day adds up to a bunch of experience over time.
All that remains are my mage, prior to Cataclysm.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wow, just WOW!
Blizzard's plan to sell virtual mini-pets for real money paid off.
The Pandaren Monk Pet is sold on Blizzard's website, but they offered to donate half of the proceeds to Make-A-Wish foundation.
Today the check was delivered for $1.1 million. That is a big MOUNTAIN of pets!
Kudos to Blizzard for supporting the community.
Read more at WoW Insider.
The Pandaren Monk Pet is sold on Blizzard's website, but they offered to donate half of the proceeds to Make-A-Wish foundation.
Today the check was delivered for $1.1 million. That is a big MOUNTAIN of pets!
Kudos to Blizzard for supporting the community.
Read more at WoW Insider.
Wow status check
Based on Tobold's World of Warcraft Personal Status Report I decided to do a similar one.
My only problem is I have much more alts. So sit back, and enjoy the fun/misfortune of an Altoholic.
I currently have seven level 80 characters, a Warrior close to 80 and a mage in the low 60s.
My Priest is my main progression raider. My paladin is my other non-progression raider. My other 80s, are used to fill raid holes, or assist guild members with whatever they need help with. My Hunter and Rogue are not even geared for heroics yet.
My Priest's gear is good - she just needs Frost emblems for her heal set, and more Triumph for her Shadow set. Paladin has a great tank set, but could use a shield upgrade. Her heal set also needs some Triumph badge loving.
The Druid has heal set from Triumph badges, but her tank set needs work. Death Knight's both sets (Tank and DPS) needs Triumph upgrades, similar the Shammie. All of these three can fill both their main and off-spec roles in non-progression raids.
My Hunter and Rogue just both have some BOE new level 80 epics, and quested blue/green gear. My Warrior will have the same when she hit 80 (which should be in the next couple of weeks). I spend over 1,200 gold last night to have a guild blacksmith craft some of the Titansteel BOE epics for her (as he needed the skill-ups). Mage is too far of to really have a good idea of how her level 80 gear will look.
So what's my plans? Previously I thought to get Loremaster on at least on of my characters, but that lost its appeal. I love questing as my army of alts demonstrate... So I think, once all of them are 80, is to start by having all of them complete all the Northrend quests for the zone quests achievements. That should provide me with enough gold in the bank for Cataclysm (and I might even get epic flying on more characters).
Other than that - just keep queuing in either Dungeon Finder or LookingForRaid to collect emblems for T9 upgrades.
My only problem is I have much more alts. So sit back, and enjoy the fun/misfortune of an Altoholic.
I currently have seven level 80 characters, a Warrior close to 80 and a mage in the low 60s.
My Priest is my main progression raider. My paladin is my other non-progression raider. My other 80s, are used to fill raid holes, or assist guild members with whatever they need help with. My Hunter and Rogue are not even geared for heroics yet.
My Priest's gear is good - she just needs Frost emblems for her heal set, and more Triumph for her Shadow set. Paladin has a great tank set, but could use a shield upgrade. Her heal set also needs some Triumph badge loving.
The Druid has heal set from Triumph badges, but her tank set needs work. Death Knight's both sets (Tank and DPS) needs Triumph upgrades, similar the Shammie. All of these three can fill both their main and off-spec roles in non-progression raids.
My Hunter and Rogue just both have some BOE new level 80 epics, and quested blue/green gear. My Warrior will have the same when she hit 80 (which should be in the next couple of weeks). I spend over 1,200 gold last night to have a guild blacksmith craft some of the Titansteel BOE epics for her (as he needed the skill-ups). Mage is too far of to really have a good idea of how her level 80 gear will look.
So what's my plans? Previously I thought to get Loremaster on at least on of my characters, but that lost its appeal. I love questing as my army of alts demonstrate... So I think, once all of them are 80, is to start by having all of them complete all the Northrend quests for the zone quests achievements. That should provide me with enough gold in the bank for Cataclysm (and I might even get epic flying on more characters).
Other than that - just keep queuing in either Dungeon Finder or LookingForRaid to collect emblems for T9 upgrades.
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