I've been killing Direbrew every night. After I couldn't get any more trinkets on Castassia, not any that were useful really, I started bringing my alt in. My shaman isn't 80 yet, but 71. So two of the trinkets would be nice for when she hits 80. She is elemental/restoration and anything I can get for her now is welcomed. It took me two or three nights of bringing her in to get the two trinkets. Those stupid tanking trinkets were pretty much all that dropped.
After I got the two on Selacia, I started bringing Castassia again.
Tonight, I got the Ram. I'm so happy. Maybe I should bring in Yssrill, my warrior tank since the tank trinkets drop almost every time....
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Patch 3.2.2
With the new patch came a few changes. Onyxia is bigger and badder than ever. Basic flight training got cheaper and the faction discount now comes from SW/Org, rather than Honor Hold or Thralmar.
For paladins, we got a buff to seal of Command. It is now basically a cleave attack that comes off when we use our single attacks like Crusader's Strike. Our aoes don't proc it, but that's ok. It now does better damage overall and maybe Seal of Righteousness will fall behind for ret pallies. The down side is it acts like an aoe and will pull mobs out of CC. But then, so will Divine Storm, so I'm not sure that it's that big of a deal
On a side note, the 5 man ToC has been fixed now. After jousting the three faction heroes, they now despawn and/or run to the door they come in at. This makes the instance so much easier. The tank no longer has to grab agro from the three of them, who are normally quite scattered around that big room.
Overall, I think Blizzard did a good job of fixing some very irritating issues.
For paladins, we got a buff to seal of Command. It is now basically a cleave attack that comes off when we use our single attacks like Crusader's Strike. Our aoes don't proc it, but that's ok. It now does better damage overall and maybe Seal of Righteousness will fall behind for ret pallies. The down side is it acts like an aoe and will pull mobs out of CC. But then, so will Divine Storm, so I'm not sure that it's that big of a deal
On a side note, the 5 man ToC has been fixed now. After jousting the three faction heroes, they now despawn and/or run to the door they come in at. This makes the instance so much easier. The tank no longer has to grab agro from the three of them, who are normally quite scattered around that big room.
Overall, I think Blizzard did a good job of fixing some very irritating issues.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Addons
For many players, addons are a great resource for healing and buffing, as well as changing out the music in game so you can listen to your own music.
I thought it might be nice to highlight the ones that I use.
First and foremost for an paladin is PallyPower. It lets me buff the whole raid party in less than a minute. No hunting and pecking, checking to see if each person has the buff. It tells you right there if someone is in range and if they are in range, whether they are buffed. It will tell you how long the buff will remain, as well. And by either right clicking or left clicking, you can change between single player buffs to class buffs.
A very important raiding one is DeadlyBossMod. This just lets you know when things are happening, and shows you the cooldowns for the bosses attacks.
Headcount is quite useful for the people who would like to keep track of who attended your raid. We use this to put the raid info into our guild website.
Next is titan panel. This I like simply because I don't have to keep my bag open to see how much gold I have. It's also useful because it tells me if I need to repair, and an estimate of how much that will cost. And for those lower level toons, it will give you an estimate of how soon you will level.
Auctioneer is nice just to keep me updated on the economy. I can still pick the amount I want to put an item in for, but I know not to put it in for too high an amount or it won't sell.
One of my favorites right now is Bartender4. I condensed all my action bars and am now using most of the space on the bottom. It's cleaner and you can have more than the three or four bars that WOW has. You can change the scale of them, so the buttons are larger or smaller, so I shrunk them in order to make my screen neater.
Finally, my absolute favorite is SexyMap. It is purely aesthetics but I love it because of the border and the coloring. It is nice to clean up all the buttons around the map. You can turn them off, have them shown all the time, or you can set them to only show up when you hover over the map.
I'm continually looking through things at Curse.com to see what else is out there. My shaman hit level 70 and I've been having fun healing. So I might check into grid instead of pulling groups out of the raid window. Though I need to research healbot as well. I'd like to find something where I can click on the persons name and I can heal them with my hotkeys. This just requires more research.
I thought it might be nice to highlight the ones that I use.
First and foremost for an paladin is PallyPower. It lets me buff the whole raid party in less than a minute. No hunting and pecking, checking to see if each person has the buff. It tells you right there if someone is in range and if they are in range, whether they are buffed. It will tell you how long the buff will remain, as well. And by either right clicking or left clicking, you can change between single player buffs to class buffs.
A very important raiding one is DeadlyBossMod. This just lets you know when things are happening, and shows you the cooldowns for the bosses attacks.
Headcount is quite useful for the people who would like to keep track of who attended your raid. We use this to put the raid info into our guild website.
Next is titan panel. This I like simply because I don't have to keep my bag open to see how much gold I have. It's also useful because it tells me if I need to repair, and an estimate of how much that will cost. And for those lower level toons, it will give you an estimate of how soon you will level.
Auctioneer is nice just to keep me updated on the economy. I can still pick the amount I want to put an item in for, but I know not to put it in for too high an amount or it won't sell.
One of my favorites right now is Bartender4. I condensed all my action bars and am now using most of the space on the bottom. It's cleaner and you can have more than the three or four bars that WOW has. You can change the scale of them, so the buttons are larger or smaller, so I shrunk them in order to make my screen neater.
Finally, my absolute favorite is SexyMap. It is purely aesthetics but I love it because of the border and the coloring. It is nice to clean up all the buttons around the map. You can turn them off, have them shown all the time, or you can set them to only show up when you hover over the map.
I'm continually looking through things at Curse.com to see what else is out there. My shaman hit level 70 and I've been having fun healing. So I might check into grid instead of pulling groups out of the raid window. Though I need to research healbot as well. I'd like to find something where I can click on the persons name and I can heal them with my hotkeys. This just requires more research.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Experimenting
The other day I tried something new. I've been frustrated lately with my dps output since the last nerf. So I thought I'd try switching out some gems. Well, instead of the straight strength ones, I substituted straight expertise. It was probably 3 gems total, and it didn't really change my dps. So I have less attack power, by about 120. But my expertise is up to 12 out of 26. So I guess the expertise helps, because the bosses can't dodge as much, and if I can get some better gear, maybe my dps output will be better.
I know, I know. I've been told time and time again to not gem for expertise because my gear should give it to me. Well, so far it hasn't so I figured I might as well experiment with it. I do want to see how things work with my expertise capped. So I need to get more gear with expertise or swap out more gems.
Feel free to comment with advice. My armory is here.
I know, I know. I've been told time and time again to not gem for expertise because my gear should give it to me. Well, so far it hasn't so I figured I might as well experiment with it. I do want to see how things work with my expertise capped. So I need to get more gear with expertise or swap out more gems.
Feel free to comment with advice. My armory is here.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
New Libram
My husband found a new Libram for Ret. Pallies. It is the Deadly Gladiator's Libram of Fortitude
While the website says you need arena rating, I bought it from a vendor in Dalaran for a little over 15000 honor points. I've never done arena. Only the battlegrounds because for a while, it was the only way to get any purple gear. Raiding Naxx constantly with nothing dropping was becoming tedious. And after all those battlegrounds I had some honor points left over. That may have been due to me wanting that pretty black kitty that you can get by turning in different tokens from the different BGs.
Anyhow, I hope this helps some of you out there, and I'm hoping it helps me out in the raiding department.
While the website says you need arena rating, I bought it from a vendor in Dalaran for a little over 15000 honor points. I've never done arena. Only the battlegrounds because for a while, it was the only way to get any purple gear. Raiding Naxx constantly with nothing dropping was becoming tedious. And after all those battlegrounds I had some honor points left over. That may have been due to me wanting that pretty black kitty that you can get by turning in different tokens from the different BGs.
Anyhow, I hope this helps some of you out there, and I'm hoping it helps me out in the raiding department.
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