Daily Journal: Patch 5.3 launches & I have to work

Patch 5.3 hits today. I’ve already updated DBM, WIM, Tidy Plates, GTFO, BattlePetCount, CLCDK, WeakAuras, PetJournal Enhanced, Decursive & Symbiosis.

Shammybook – Minor Inscription Research learned nothing. Scroll of Wisdom learned Glyph of Hemorrhage.  Got to remember I’m done with Minor research.

Hunterbook – Magnificence of Leather learned Ironskin Spaulders.

Book – Got roped into a heroic scenario with Book by Tini. Got Tidesplitter Shoulders of the Zephyr. Will try to see if I can get a group for the new stuff tomorrow after I get up.

 

Done today

Last night: Leveled Booktrey at bit. She’s now at 76. Only 4 more levels for her in Northrend.

Slept about 7 hours according to my band.

Holybook did Terrace of Endless Spring. Apparently they had wiped on Lei Shi. Got her tanking sword off the Sha of Fear.

Book – Finally found a group thanks to someone (I’m not talking to) to do Nalak. Got the quest completed. Got her meta gems. Did Nomi’s quest.

Shubook – daily monk quest.

Book – worked on Isle of Thunder dailies. Got a group for the Champions. Then did LFR Dread Approach with Legacy of the Alliance folks on my Priest.

I started taking to my friend again this evening. Shepard did all the LFRs with Blue & Sombra & Takumi except on Pinnacle she only got Lei Shen….. 4 times we queued for that and got Lei Shen every time. Finally gave up.

Shammybook- did an hour of questing in Uldum. She’s level 84 now. She’ll also soon be in Pandaland.

Booktrey – did an hour of questing in Grizzly Hills. She’s 76. Only 4 more levels till she heads to Cata zones.

How I pick which character to level: In game I’ll do a /roll 9. This gives me a random number between 1 and 9. I have a list with the character corresponding to a number.

1- warlock Bookocurses 87 worgen warlock

2- warrior Tatianaseray 51 gnome warrior

3- horde paladin Booktrey 76 blood elf paladin

4 – DK Badbook 85 gnome death knight [supposed to be leveling with a friend]

5- Shifty Shiftybook worgen druid (feral/guardian)

6- Monk Shubook 61 gnome monk

7- Hunter Hunterbook 85 dwarf hunter

8- Shaman Shammybook 84 dranei shaman

9- Mage Magebook 40 gnome mage

 

OMG I’m not Neutral!

Note that upon joining a different guild, your Guild reputation is knocked down a level – if you had reached Exalted with your previous Guild, you will drop to Revered with your new Guild.

via Guild reputation – Wowpedia – Your wiki guide to the World of Warcraft.

Didn’t realize this. So I was excited when I joined my new guild only to find myself at Revered. Such a nice treat.

Missing Macros Found

My friend found my macros cached on his computer! So I now have my Macros back :D I’ll share a few rogue ones… Plus if I loose them again they are here. Triple click to highlight and copy.

1. Fan of Knives. Since I spam this as my AoE combo point builder it’s nice to have an autoattack targert/combo point victim. This makes sure I have an enemy targeted.

#show Fan of Knives
/startattack
/cast Fan of Knives

2. Fishing macro. This was written by my college roommate, Bluemoon. The challenge was 1 button (though it may need to be pushed multiple times) to equip fishing specific gear and apply a lure and cast.

#showtooltip
/use Sharpened Fish Hook;
/use Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole;
/equip [noequipped:Fishing Poles,nomodifier:alt] Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole;
/equip Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat
/cast [equipped:Fishing Poles, nomodifier:alt]Fishing;

3. Tricks of the Trade macro with all the names. Got this from a fellow guildmate, Miltrath back in Cataclysm when all rogue tier sets had Tricks of the Trade set bonuses and we were trading Tricks amoungst 4 rogues. If I hold down ALT it casts Tricks on the target of my target. If I just hit it normally it goes through the priority list of the raid team members.

#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/use [mod:alt,@targettarget][@Jibjob,exists,nodead][@Miltrath,exists,nodead][@Rinwen,exists,nodead][@Nostrous,exists,nodead][@Scornakira,exists,nodead][@Skriv,exists,nodead][@targettarget] Tricks of the Trade

4. Out of Date Poison macro. This one’s out of date, but I may need to reference it for something later. Basically it was Right click to apply 1 poison on mainhand weapon and Left click to apply the other poison on offhand weapon. MoP changes to poisons rendered this obsolete.

#showtooltip
/use [btn:2][mod]Deadly Poison;Instant Poison
/use [btn:2][mod]17;16

5. Tricks of the Trade for focus target

#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/cast [target=focus,help] Tricks of the Trade

6. Quest macro for the Argent Tournament frog kissing quest

#showtooltip
/cleartarget
/tar Lake Frog
/use Warts-B-Gone Lip Balm
/kiss

7. Dragon Soul Twilight Sapper macro for Death Knight. This was a macro I found & abused to yank the adds around on the gunship. Was very useful when I was tanking this fight.

/cleartarget
/tar Twilight Sapper
/focus
/targetlasttarget
/cast [@focus,exists] Death Grip
/cast [@focus,exists] Chains of Ice

8. Extra Action Button if you can’t see or you want to keybind your Extra Action Button.

/click ExtraActionButton1

9. Cooking with Fire another from Bluemoon. Right click to create a campfire. Left click to open your cooking.

#showtooltip Cooking
/use [button:1] Cooking
/cast [button:2] Basic Campfire

10. Awesome Questing Macro this is from Adam found via WoW Insider

/target [@mouseover]
/click WatchFrameItem1
/click WatchFrameItem2
/click WatchFrameItem3
/click WatchFrameItem4
/click WatchFrameItem5
/click WatchFrameItem6

11. A Mount for below level 20 Mount up on your Sea Turtle for characters under level 20

#showtooltip
/cast sea turtle

12. Have I done Sha of Anger this week? click for the answer. from a former guildmate, Abitomagic

/run local z,t,s={[32099]='Sha of Anger this week.'},GetQuestsCompleted();for c,v in pairs(z) do if t[c] then s='' else s=' not' end print('You have'..s,'done',v) end

13. Sell all your grey items. Another one from Bluemoon.

/run local c,i,n,v=0;for b=0,4 do for s=1,GetContainerNumSlots(b)do i={GetContainerItemInfo(b,s)}n=i[7]if n and string.find(n,"9d9d9d")then v={GetItemInfo(n)}q=i[2]c=c+v[11]*q;UseContainerItem(b,s)print(n,q)end;end;end;print(GetCoinText(c))

14. Get Kraken quest macro. Another one I have left over from Northrend. This made this bombing run so easy. I just had to spam this macro.

/target Kvaldir deepcaller
/target North Sea Kraken
/use Flaming Spears

15. Stock mouseover healing macro. I heal alot on 3 different level 90 toons. Most of their spells look like

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover] Healing Touch

16. Druid Survival Macro. Used to try this for survival in Cata.

/cast Bear Form
/cast Frenzied Regeneration
/cast barkskin

17. Shield Trinket Macro. Use this to apply shield to my focus target.

#showtooltip
/target focus
/use Stolen Relic of Zuldazar
/targetlasttarget

18. Assist Focus. aquire target of your focused friendly player.

/assist focus

19. Target & place raid marker

/tar Wild Turkey
/script if (charm == nil) or (charm < 6) then charm=9; end; charm=charm-1; if (charm==6) then SetRaidTarget("target", 0) else SetRaidTarget("target", charm); end

 

MoP Fashionista: Druid Challenge Mode

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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MoP Fashionista: the basics of Mail & Plate

 

Mail sets

These are listed as reputation sets for some reason.

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My favorite is the red coloration.

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The yellow one looks really nice as well. No idea yet which will be the Int mail and which will be the Agi mail.

Plate sets

I’ve got one plate wearer at 85 & another at 82. For Set 1 I’m really liking the gold look, very bright & shiney. Not sure that it will work for my DK, but possibly awesome on my paladin. But overall I enjoy this set.

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Set 2 I’m still deciding on. Much more sinister looking.

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I enjoy the green & red, but the purple looks like it works very well for a DK.

References: Wowhead News

MoP Fashionista: the basics of Cloth & Leather

So I’m not in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandera Beta yet, but I’ve been keeping up with the armor sets that have been coming out. I must say I’m enjoying several aspects of the designs of the new sets.

Cloth sets

I love the helm with this set. Very simple yet works incredibly well with the theme. My first love was the White one.

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But then I fell for the red one.

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But then again the Blue one is growing on me.

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Leather sets

The one is my main & my main alt’s concern (rogue + boomkin/resto druid) so I have much love & interest in these sets.

Leather 1 to me comes across as very blah. It does have a stylized Shogun Helm, but then again I’m not a big fan of that. I really disliked the Light set & also didn’t care for the Red set. However the Brown & Dark were the least offensive to my personal style & there’s very little difference here between sets so I’m just posting screenshots of the ones I liked best.

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Leather set 2 was the one I was really looking forward to.

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It’s got an interesting look with the single shoulder plate.

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The helm I don’t really care for but it will be hidden for Book.

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The hardest part may be choosing a color to wear. I want it all!

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But I must say that I adore the Indigo.

References: Wowhead News

Very cool

Some of the new visuals from Mists of Pandera beta.

  • I might use Glyph of Stars instead of Moonkin form. I’ve liked the gameplay of moonkin, but always hated being a huge bird.
  • Glyph of the Stag so you can use it to carry someone else. Fun.
  • Glyph of the Orca… Yay better looking aquatic form…. Oh the choices I’m going to have to make with my druid.
  • Hurricane is looking wicked.
  • Faerie Swarm is looking wicked, however I’m not feral.
  • Glyph of the Treant. Trees get to be trees again.
  • You’re going to need sunglasses for Divine Shield’s animation.

Hmmm. Inscription will be able to make staffs & off hand items.

Alchemy: will be able to make Potion of Plunder to allow you to get more treasure when killing mobs. Also looks like 2 quest items will be available for the profession. Got you standard Alchemist’s potion that doesn’t disappear. Not seeing the Alchemy trinket yet.

Cooking: Many fun looking recipes including the prerequisite Pandaren Banquet.

Engineering: Cogwheels are back! Also updated helms. Scopes since there aren’t hunter staff enchants and a few guns. Also the prerequisite Engi trinket.

Mining: new ore, Ghost Iron, Manticyte, Trilliam

Cloth: Windwool

Elementals: Spirit of Autumn, Spirit of Spring, Spirit of Summer, Spirit of Winter, Spirit of the Season, Spirit of Harmony

Skinning: Tanji Leather & Magnificent Hide

Enchanting: Etheral Shard (Blue), Greater Mysterious Essence, Sha Crystal, Spirit Dust. Looks like just step ups from the enchants you see today.

Guild Perks: I’m not liking loosing “Have Group, Will Travel,” but I understand why they did it. They have one to reduce Transmog & Void Storage costs. I’m liking the thought of a flight point speed increase. Really liking the Time Off thought though I’m not sure if you gain rested XP faster or if it’s you get more of it. Increased chance of profession skill gain (yay!)

Darkmoon Faire: new pet & an achievement to slay the rabbit. Interesting…

Gear from Heroics is iLevel 463, Normal dungeons are 425-450. Quest rewards 372-429

Mounts: a Kite String…. Very Interesting….

When a blog post & it’s comments makes you think

 

Elf Storage

Elf Storage (Photo credit: Tatiana Mik)

This got me thinking…. what would I like to see added/changed in future expansions. I’m not a super rich player. I honestly might have 30k gold.

  • I really like the buy orders idea. Granted I could see how many idiots would list wanting to buy 1000 Inferno Rubies at 5gold each (They currently run about 300gold each on my server’s AH). But if I see someone’s wanting 20 Twilight Jasmine at a decent price I might be tempted to dust off my Herbalists & go farm some up.
  • Buy orders could also be great for those green items for Transmog sets while browsing through blogs I see random item X that is a green random world drop from level 50-60 mobs. Great, either I can go farm like mad on low level mobs or watch the AH like a hawk hoping some clothie didn’t DE my pretty green leather item into dust. I could post a 100 gold bounty on a buy order & hope random clothie or plate wearer sees my buy request for pretty green leather transmog item & is more tempted to fill my buy order rather than turn it into dust.
  • Mounts as a gold sink. While this is in the game already as the Chopper & Vial of  the Sands (I’m still thanking my Secret Santa for that one) & the mammoth mount with a vendor (I’m still too cheap to go buy that one), I’m thinking the really nice one would be a carriage. See Gilneas starting zone, you could put 5 players on a carriage & bring your whole party along.
  • Bank space as a gold sink.  Granted there’s void storage, but seriously more bank space is something I could try to create gold for.