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Daily Journal: VP capping a second character

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Woke up. Banfield was calling to check on Hudson. Cat’s doing fine. Being a lazy bum.

Addon updates: DBM – LibDataBroker, Tidy Plates, IceHUD, Symbiosis

Hunterbook – learned the Magnificent Hide Pack.

Shammybook – learned the Glyph of Skull Bash.

Shubook – did her daily & leveled to 64.

Naturebook – did Pinnacle of Storms. Then got dinner & did the other 3 (2 sets with Miltrath). On Dururmu I got a Phoenix Hatchling in the bag. After that I managed to get the scenarios & the barrens unlocked. I got her VP capped in all this. Plus used my Mojo on her to buy the pet. No significant upgrades.

Shepardbook – did the Barrens quest line. Got her the quest i502 boots. Also she got the Latent Kor’kron Pants. Got shoulders & helm with Book yesterday.

Hunterbook got the 1 hour leveling treatment. Also played past the reset so she learned Linked Gauntlets. She’s now 86 & in the Valley of 4 Winds.

Shammybook – learned Glyph of Aspect of the Cheetah.

Book -got Agi food for a change.

Shubook. Got her monk daily done. 13 more quests to level her.

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MoP Fashionista: Druid Challenge Mode

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Druid challenge mode gear. I think there’s a graphical error in the file for the green one. Can we say shiney gold abs? Anyway not liking this quite as much as I did Tier 13 for druids.

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Rogue

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As my liberal arts background dictates I should self examine periodically so I decided to apply this to my Rogue who primarily is PVE/Raiding. Yes, I know most people will be tl;dr because it’s just me rambling.

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Why should you take an Assassination Rogue as raid dps besides the fact we are dps? In no real particular order.

  1. 8% Increased Spell Damage Debuff.
  2. Interrupts
  3. Expose Armor
  4. Casting Speed Slow Debuff (via Mind-Numbing Poison)
  5. Healing Debuff (via Wound Poison)
  6. Saps/stuns
  7. Feint/Recuperate/Evasion for survivability
  8. Remove Enrage with Shiv
  9. Tricks of the Trade to boost another’s dps.

Let’s take #1 & see who can also bring this 8% increased Spell Damage Debuff since Blizzard was promoting the “bring the player not the class” philosophy.

  • Balance Druid – part of normal rotation, just as with Assassination Rogues. Plus they come with Rebirth, Tranquility, Mark of the Wild, the ability to decurse/remove poisons, a spell haste buff, an interrupt (60 sec cooldown), & an AOE slow.
  • Unholy Death Knight – again part of normal rotation. They come with Raise Ally, Horn of Winter, attack speed slow debuff, cast speed slow debuff, an interrupt (10 sec cooldown)
  • Warlock – any warlock can cast Curse of the Elements. Affliction locks may pick up the talent Jinx which spreads it to up to 15 targets. It lasts 5 min for 1 global cooldown. With a lock you also get Soulstone, Healthstones, Summoning boxes & self-heals via Drain Life. Depending on Spec and/or pet you get Buffs: mana increase, mana regen, replenishment, spell power, stamina; Debuffs: healing & spell critical strike chance.
  • Hunters with Dragonhawk or Wind Serpent pets – depending on spec/pet it’s almost easier to ask what can’t they bring to the table as far as buffs. Marksmen have an interrupt with Silencing Shot (20 sec cooldown). Tranquilizing shot removes enrages.

For #2 Interrupts we work with Shaman (Wind Shear 6 sec), Paladin (Rebuke 10 sec), Death Knight (Mind Freeze 10 sec), Warriors (Pummel 10 sec), Druids (Skull Bash {talented} 10 sec). Lots of options as a raid leader to chose from.

For #3 Expose Armor? 3x Sunder Armor from a Warrior or 3x Faerie Fire from a Druid do just as well.

For #4 & #5? Because of current poison mechanics you can’t run anything except Instant/Deadly combo without significant dps loss.

For #6? Sap’s great for CC, but many others also have options. Kidney Shot to stun? Umm…. Only thing I can think of this working for in a raid environment are occasional adds like Sons of Ragnaros as raid bosses aren’t stunable.

For #7? Feint’s nice that that’s half the AoE damage that the healers don’t have to heal you for, but the other players? Yeah that AoE heal has to be done. Recuperate is also nice, but most healers don’t notice it ticking away at 3% every 3 sec. If you’re taking damage, it’s more than likely going to be more than Recuperate can heal. Evasion? If I’ve hit this in a raid it usually means the tank is down & the raid has 15 sec to try to finish the boss.

For #8. I really like that Shiv can now remove an enrage without Anesthetic poison. In Trial of the Crusader I had a macro for Icehowl’s enrage & I kept a weapon with the poison on it for that fight in case someone got hit. So far this expansion I can only think of the Lynx boss in ZA that has an Enrage remove mechanic. Only other classes that can cover this are hunters & druids iirc.

Which brings me to what could be done to make a rogue a more attractable option to raids?

  1. Make us a team player. Maybe extend Feint to others. It only works against AOE damage & would be a big help to healers in the phases where you group up & all the healers/dps throws out raid cooldowns such as Tranquility, Healing Rain, Power Word: Barrier, etc.

Tier 13 Fashionista — The Druids

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I like this set. I guess that is great since my main alt is a druid. Granted I hardly ever get to look at her gear since it’s hidden under the giant chicken suit. But the phosphorescent mushrooms Blizzard was  aiming for came across really well in my opinion. The bioluminecent fungi avood looking like you fell asleep to visit the Emerald Dream on the forest floor & just recently awoke. You just haven’t brushed off all the mushrooms yet.

The top set is what I refer to as the hot pink set. I like how the hood & shoulders are like tree roots with the shelf mushrooms growing on them. The belt looks like a WWE plate of blood boil on the hot pink set. The kindergartner seamstress looks like there is improvement & with the complexity to the design the dark stiches don’t even appear until your searching for it. In the hot pink version it looks like the base material isn’t leather, but rather tree bark. I guess it’s hard to pull small unnoticible seams when you’re using tree bark as a material.

The middle set is what I’m calling the gold set. It has lots of purple tree bark as well. It still like this even though it finishes as my least favorite of the 3, but I’d still wear it & like pretty well it on my druid. But I’d feel like I was back in high school on a pep rally day because the purple & gold was my high school colors.

The lowest set is what I’ve been refering to as the blue set. This is my favoite of the three, but of course my favorite color is purple. The green tree bark works better that the purple to my eye.

I’ve been thinking about switching my boomkin to worgen so I can have human form for standing around in Stormwind. I kinda like how this looks on a human.

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Gearing up my Balance Druid – Naturebook

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Ok. Looking more at gearing up my Balance Druid with a Resto offspec. Firelands raid drops

Molten Front dailies
Bastion of Twilight
Blackwing Descent
Justice Points
Valor Points
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ZenKiki – NPC – World of Warcraft

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apply his Druid skills in real combat

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via ZenKiki – NPC – World of Warcraft.

I laughed so hard I nearly pee’ed my pants. This is an NPC that follows you around to help you on your quests in the Western Plaugelands. I’d never gotten this far before into WPL since the revamp. He’s a druid with the Cenarion Circle & he’s there to “help” you. But he’s still learning. Most the time he will just cast wrath on your target, but occasionally you’ll see the total Fail!Druid.  You see him as Fail!Seal when he gets turned upside down in Aquatic form. You see Fail!Boomkin when he shifts into Moonkin form & then proceeds to moonfire himself almost to death. Then there is Fail!Bear where he shifts into bear form &  stands with his back to the mob attacking nothing. To round it out is Fail!Kitty. Zen’Kiki turns himself into Cat Form & pounces around everywhere except for at the mob. Absolutely priceless.

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Character progress

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I’ve gotten my Balance druid to level 85 & geared enough for Heroics. I feel like I should gear my level 85 warlock, but I’m just not enjoying her Destruction spec like I was. It was like 2 DoT’s, 2 nukes with cooldowns, & then just Kaboom away with Incinerate. Now I feel like I should just try Affliction. Because I looked it up, I think would have more things to keep track of as Destruction than as Affliction.

Cataclysm: No plans to extend current heirlooms to 85

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Cataclysm: No plans to extend current heirlooms to 85

Bornakk, for example, stopped by a thread asking about how heirloom items will work post-80 in Cataclysm. He said that there are no plans to extend the experience bonus they give past level 80, though there may eventually be new heirlooms available to help bridge that gap. That’s not surprising, really — if they were extended, heirlooms would essentially be mandatory for the people racing to get to 85 first, and that’s a situation Blizzard would like to avoid.

Interestingly, he also noted that it’s “unlikely” that heirlooms won’t work on Worgen or Goblin characters, which is admittedly a relief, seeing how I just bought a set of them for my Worgen Warrior. Battle Howl, anyone?

Glad to hear that the plans are for heirlooms to work on Worgen. I have a pair of Exceptional Stormshroud Shoulders on my Night Elf Druid (NatureBook) who will be leveling as feral at the moment that will get traded around with my planned Feral Druid Worgen. But if they had worked past Level 80, they would have also been shared with Book until she hit 85. I know they are PvP shoulders, but what else was I going to do with all those Stone Keeper Shards? I’m not a Jewelcrafter. I might get the Black War Mammoth when I get 300 this next time, but I already have the Grand Black War Mammoth.

I’m kinda excited about rolling a Worgen Druid. First off druids with some limitations can be anything. Tank (bear form), caster (worgen & moonkin form), healer (tree form), or melee dps (cat form). My main Hordie is a Tauren Druid, Onebook and I’m loving the cat form.  I’ve already rolled a placeholder character to reserve my name, WereBook. A few major questions are still open, like am I rolling a male Worgen or a female? Honestly I’ve stuck with female for my Alliance toons, but my Hordies are male. I’ve only seen the male worgens in the demos, and one concept art drawing of the females & I’ve dug up one shot of dubious heritage.

With a +1% damage as a racial I’m sure the Worgen Rogue will be a popular choice on the end game dps-er race for highest dps.

This expansion & current Blizzard thinking seems to be more geared toward “We want you to roll & level alts.”

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