Blizzard has sparked the inner demon in me with this new Achievements nonsense. My mind is tossing around all kinds of things that may come out of this. I know that readers of this blog have seen my ever so fickle nature time and time again. Alliance... Horde... Paladin... Lock... Hunter... Druid... I am all over the place. I have had all the professions but JC maxed now... and dropped them. I just dropped enchanting again last night as it is just easier to buy the mats.
I noticed last night that the toon I love the most, my Warlock, has the least amount of rep. I need to fix this. I think I have time. I am almost done with fishing too. I will need to work on swords and unarmed... then all my skills will be maxed. I should take my lock on a tour of the world to make sure I have it all explored. There are a few more tailor patterns I want to pick up.
With my other toons I can settle for just having them at 70. With the lock... I need him to be complete. Well.... at least until I change my mind again....
Friday, July 25, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Panzerkin
By request here is my good friend Llanion's Panzerkin build...
Enter at Own Risk
I can tell you from experience that although it seems crazy, it works. I have seen him tank, heal, and dps all with the same build. Not just so so.... I mean my prot paladin can throw out a couple heals.... I mean he does it well. Looking at his build I could never have come up with it. I have been Moonkin for a bit, I have been resto for a bit, I am now and have been feral several times. He passes up things I would say to myself I must have.... and still it works. It works very well.
/bow
Enter at Own Risk
I can tell you from experience that although it seems crazy, it works. I have seen him tank, heal, and dps all with the same build. Not just so so.... I mean my prot paladin can throw out a couple heals.... I mean he does it well. Looking at his build I could never have come up with it. I have been Moonkin for a bit, I have been resto for a bit, I am now and have been feral several times. He passes up things I would say to myself I must have.... and still it works. It works very well.
/bow
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Random Ramblings
I managed to get the Druid to 66, then what do I see.... the end of my rested xp... NO! It can not be. You see I have this whole policy about leveling an alt with no rest. It seems that I now have to take a few days off and let rest extend....
/sigh
The bright side is that I am way ahead of schedule.
I went in Kara for the first time in a long time. Got both my tier 4 tokens for my lock and had loads of fun. We had 2 druid healers, a paladin tank, a Panzerkin tank, 2 fury warrios, a mage, a rogue, and 2 locks. We tore the place down. It was a blast. Most if not all were "overgeared" for Kara, but still... and odd mix there.
I am sure by now you have seen info on the new "rumored" WotLK talents. I like a lot of what I see, but what interests me most, as always, is the information on locks. I will never leave Master Demo.... There I said it. I would not leave my felguard.... He will not let me leave... Simple.
Now that the situation is stated allow me to express my thoughts on the new stuff...
Affliction (21 points)
Improved Curse of Agony - Rank 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 10%.
Suppression - Rank 3/3
Increases your chance to hit with Affliction spells by 3%, and reduces the mana cost of your Affliction spells by 6%.
Improved Corruption - Rank 5/5
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec.
Improved Drain Soul - Rank 2/2
Returns 15% of your maximum mana if the target is killed by you while you drain its soul. In addition, your Affliction spells generate 10% less threat.
Improved Life Tap - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 20%.
Soul Siphon - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by an additional 4% for each Affliction effect on the target, up to a maximum of 60% additional effect.
Grim Reach - Rank 2/2
Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 20%.
Nightfall - Rank 2/2
Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Siphon Life - Rank 1/1
Transfers 15 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Demonology (50 points)
Improved Healthstone - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount of Health restored by your Healthstone by 20%.
Improved Imp - Rank 1/3
Increases the effect of your Imp's Firebolt, Fire Shield, and Blood Pact spells by 10%.
Demonic Embrace - Rank 5/5
Increases your total Stamina by 15% of your Spirit.
Improved Health Funnel - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount of Health transferred by your Health Funnel spell by 20% and reduces the initial health cost by 20%.
Fel Vitality - Rank 3/3
Increases the Stamina and Intellect of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter and Felguard by 15% and increases your maximum health and mana by 3%.
Soul Link - Rank 1/1
When active, 15% of all damage taken by the caster is taken by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter, Felguard, or enslaved demon instead. That damage cannot be prevented. Lasts as long as the demon is active and controlled.
Fel Domination - Rank 1/1
Your next Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter or Felguard Summon spell has its casting time reduced by 5.5 sec and its Mana cost reduced by 50%.
Demonic Aegis - Rank 3/3
Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Armor and Fel Armor spells by 30%.
Unholy Power - Rank 5/5
Increases the damage done by your Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter and Felguard's melee attacks and your Imp's Firebolt by 20%.
Master Summoner - Rank 2/2
Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter and Fel Guard Summoning spells by 4 sec and the Mana cost by 40%.
Master Demonologist - Rank 5/5
Grants both the Warlock and the summoned demon an effect as long as that demon is active. Imp - Increases your fire damage by 5%, and increases the critical effect chance of your fire spells by 5%. Voidwalker - Reduces physical damage taken by 10%.
Succubus - Increases your shadow damage by 5%, and increases the critical effect chance of your shadow spells by 5%. Felhunter - Increases all resistances by 1 per level. Felguard - Increases all damage done by 5%, and reduces all damage taken by 5%.
Demonic Resilience - Rank 3/3
Reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by melee and spells by 3% and reduces all damage your summoned demon takes by 15%.
Demonic Empowerment [NYI] - Rank 1/1
Grants the Warlock's summoned demon Empowerment.
Succubus - Instantly vanishes, turning the Succubus invisible and restoring it's health to 100%. The vanish effect removes all stuns, snares and movement impairing effects from the Succubus. Voidwalker - Increases the Voidwalker's health by 20%, and it's threat generated from spells and attacks by 20%. Imp - Increases the Imp's damage by 20% and chance to critically hit with spells by 20%. Fel Guard - Increases the Fel Guard's attack speed by 20% and breaks all stun, snare and movement impairing effects and makes your Fel Guard immune to them. Felhunter - Resets all the Felhunter's cooldowns.
Demonic Knowledge - Rank 3/3
Increases your spell damage by an amount equal to 12% of the total of your active demon's Stamina plus Intellect.
Demonic Tactics - Rank 5/5
Increases melee and spell critical strike chance for you and your summoned demon by 5%.
Fel Synergy - Rank 2/2
Your Summoned Demons share an additional 10% of your Armor, Intellect and Stamina, and you have a 100% chance to heal your pet for 15% of the amount of damage done by you.
Summon Felguard - Rank 1/1
Summons a Felguard under the command of the Warlock.
Demonic Pact - Rank 5/5
Your pet's criticals apply the Demonic Pact effect to the target. Demonic Pact increases the spell power of all attackers against that target by 10% of your Spell Damage for 12 sec.
There is my build at the moment. It may not suit you. It may not suit me... but right now it gets me all I want out of Master Demo and lets me put out the dots. I do not like the Demon Form. It may rock. I am sure it will.... I just do not like it. I play Master Demo for my felguard. It is how I want to play. It is how I envision my toon. By taking Demon Form, that kind of takes away why I like the class. My personal choice.
Enough for one post....
Hermit out
/sigh
The bright side is that I am way ahead of schedule.
I went in Kara for the first time in a long time. Got both my tier 4 tokens for my lock and had loads of fun. We had 2 druid healers, a paladin tank, a Panzerkin tank, 2 fury warrios, a mage, a rogue, and 2 locks. We tore the place down. It was a blast. Most if not all were "overgeared" for Kara, but still... and odd mix there.
I am sure by now you have seen info on the new "rumored" WotLK talents. I like a lot of what I see, but what interests me most, as always, is the information on locks. I will never leave Master Demo.... There I said it. I would not leave my felguard.... He will not let me leave... Simple.
Now that the situation is stated allow me to express my thoughts on the new stuff...
Affliction (21 points)
Improved Curse of Agony - Rank 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 10%.
Suppression - Rank 3/3
Increases your chance to hit with Affliction spells by 3%, and reduces the mana cost of your Affliction spells by 6%.
Improved Corruption - Rank 5/5
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 sec.
Improved Drain Soul - Rank 2/2
Returns 15% of your maximum mana if the target is killed by you while you drain its soul. In addition, your Affliction spells generate 10% less threat.
Improved Life Tap - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount of Mana awarded by your Life Tap spell by 20%.
Soul Siphon - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount drained by your Drain Life and Drain Soul spells by an additional 4% for each Affliction effect on the target, up to a maximum of 60% additional effect.
Grim Reach - Rank 2/2
Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 20%.
Nightfall - Rank 2/2
Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Siphon Life - Rank 1/1
Transfers 15 health from the target to the caster every 3 sec sec. Lasts 30 sec.
Demonology (50 points)
Improved Healthstone - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount of Health restored by your Healthstone by 20%.
Improved Imp - Rank 1/3
Increases the effect of your Imp's Firebolt, Fire Shield, and Blood Pact spells by 10%.
Demonic Embrace - Rank 5/5
Increases your total Stamina by 15% of your Spirit.
Improved Health Funnel - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount of Health transferred by your Health Funnel spell by 20% and reduces the initial health cost by 20%.
Fel Vitality - Rank 3/3
Increases the Stamina and Intellect of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter and Felguard by 15% and increases your maximum health and mana by 3%.
Soul Link - Rank 1/1
When active, 15% of all damage taken by the caster is taken by your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter, Felguard, or enslaved demon instead. That damage cannot be prevented. Lasts as long as the demon is active and controlled.
Fel Domination - Rank 1/1
Your next Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter or Felguard Summon spell has its casting time reduced by 5.5 sec and its Mana cost reduced by 50%.
Demonic Aegis - Rank 3/3
Increases the effectiveness of your Demon Armor and Fel Armor spells by 30%.
Unholy Power - Rank 5/5
Increases the damage done by your Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter and Felguard's melee attacks and your Imp's Firebolt by 20%.
Master Summoner - Rank 2/2
Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter and Fel Guard Summoning spells by 4 sec and the Mana cost by 40%.
Master Demonologist - Rank 5/5
Grants both the Warlock and the summoned demon an effect as long as that demon is active. Imp - Increases your fire damage by 5%, and increases the critical effect chance of your fire spells by 5%. Voidwalker - Reduces physical damage taken by 10%.
Succubus - Increases your shadow damage by 5%, and increases the critical effect chance of your shadow spells by 5%. Felhunter - Increases all resistances by 1 per level. Felguard - Increases all damage done by 5%, and reduces all damage taken by 5%.
Demonic Resilience - Rank 3/3
Reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by melee and spells by 3% and reduces all damage your summoned demon takes by 15%.
Demonic Empowerment [NYI] - Rank 1/1
Grants the Warlock's summoned demon Empowerment.
Succubus - Instantly vanishes, turning the Succubus invisible and restoring it's health to 100%. The vanish effect removes all stuns, snares and movement impairing effects from the Succubus. Voidwalker - Increases the Voidwalker's health by 20%, and it's threat generated from spells and attacks by 20%. Imp - Increases the Imp's damage by 20% and chance to critically hit with spells by 20%. Fel Guard - Increases the Fel Guard's attack speed by 20% and breaks all stun, snare and movement impairing effects and makes your Fel Guard immune to them. Felhunter - Resets all the Felhunter's cooldowns.
Demonic Knowledge - Rank 3/3
Increases your spell damage by an amount equal to 12% of the total of your active demon's Stamina plus Intellect.
Demonic Tactics - Rank 5/5
Increases melee and spell critical strike chance for you and your summoned demon by 5%.
Fel Synergy - Rank 2/2
Your Summoned Demons share an additional 10% of your Armor, Intellect and Stamina, and you have a 100% chance to heal your pet for 15% of the amount of damage done by you.
Summon Felguard - Rank 1/1
Summons a Felguard under the command of the Warlock.
Demonic Pact - Rank 5/5
Your pet's criticals apply the Demonic Pact effect to the target. Demonic Pact increases the spell power of all attackers against that target by 10% of your Spell Damage for 12 sec.
There is my build at the moment. It may not suit you. It may not suit me... but right now it gets me all I want out of Master Demo and lets me put out the dots. I do not like the Demon Form. It may rock. I am sure it will.... I just do not like it. I play Master Demo for my felguard. It is how I want to play. It is how I envision my toon. By taking Demon Form, that kind of takes away why I like the class. My personal choice.
Enough for one post....
Hermit out
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Old School Night
My guild has an Old School night. I have talked about this concept with many many people but it never got of the ground. I am not motivated. This is a really cool concept though, and I wish I had been motivated. All of that is meaningless though as my good friend Llanion is very motivated. He only has one real toon and only wants one. The up side to this he does lots of ingame stuff that the rest of us skip.
What is OSN? Simple. It is a night where we as a group, not the whole guild, go about doing old raids, instances, key quests.... That kind of thing. Last night we went into LBRS to start working on our ONXYIA quest line so that we as a guild can go take her down when we feel.
We were doing great. Killing with reckless abandon... Too easy for 3 70s and my 64 Druid. Then the unthinkable happened..... The servers crashed... :)
We go again next week... come on server....
What is OSN? Simple. It is a night where we as a group, not the whole guild, go about doing old raids, instances, key quests.... That kind of thing. Last night we went into LBRS to start working on our ONXYIA quest line so that we as a guild can go take her down when we feel.
We were doing great. Killing with reckless abandon... Too easy for 3 70s and my 64 Druid. Then the unthinkable happened..... The servers crashed... :)
We go again next week... come on server....
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Much Druid Progress
I am way ahead of schedule on the Druid Countdown. I have been motivated and I am rapidly moving through some quests. It feels like old school leveling. I travel everywhere in bear or cat form and just kill anything that moves until I get to my quest area. I am having loads of fun with this toon and that it all that matters.
I did some research on BBB's Blog and found a small gear list to work towards as I level.
Braxxis Staff of Slumber (AH @64)
Belt of Natural Power (70)
2 Nether Vortex
10 Primal Air
10 Primal Life
2 Heavy Knothide Leather
Badge of Tenacity (70)
Stylin’ Purple Hat (69)
6 heavy Knothide Leather
2 Cobra Scales
8 Primal Shadow
4 Purple Dye
Necklace of the Deep (65)
3 Mote of Water
10 Jaggal Pearl
1 Shadow Pearl
Resolute Cape (70)
10 Primal Mooncloth
12 Primal Earth
1 Primal Nether
Heavy Clefthoof Vest / Leggings / Boots (70 / 70 / 69)
6 / 6 / 4 Heavy Knothide Leather
40 / 34 / 20 Clefthoof Leather
4 / 4 / 4 Primal Earth
Delicate Eternium Ring (70)
1 Eternium Bar
5 Mercurial Adamantite
I already have the Necklace of the deep, and the staff. My lock is currently saving Mooncloth for the cloak... things are looking good. Now I need to start thinking about cat dps clothes too though.
I did some research on BBB's Blog and found a small gear list to work towards as I level.
Braxxis Staff of Slumber (AH @64)
Belt of Natural Power (70)
2 Nether Vortex
10 Primal Air
10 Primal Life
2 Heavy Knothide Leather
Badge of Tenacity (70)
Stylin’ Purple Hat (69)
6 heavy Knothide Leather
2 Cobra Scales
8 Primal Shadow
4 Purple Dye
Necklace of the Deep (65)
3 Mote of Water
10 Jaggal Pearl
1 Shadow Pearl
Resolute Cape (70)
10 Primal Mooncloth
12 Primal Earth
1 Primal Nether
Heavy Clefthoof Vest / Leggings / Boots (70 / 70 / 69)
6 / 6 / 4 Heavy Knothide Leather
40 / 34 / 20 Clefthoof Leather
4 / 4 / 4 Primal Earth
Delicate Eternium Ring (70)
1 Eternium Bar
5 Mercurial Adamantite
I already have the Necklace of the deep, and the staff. My lock is currently saving Mooncloth for the cloak... things are looking good. Now I need to start thinking about cat dps clothes too though.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Traveling Mat
Recently I have been traveling around saying hey to various bloggers. I find more people that know of me than I had realized. Not saying I am a blogging star... no no no... just shocking to find more people than I went looking for. Last night I visited BBB and his guild. I found one of my own guildies there. Small world.
I am not done with my travels yet as I still have some more bloggers to visit. If you are sitting there minding your own business and some little hermit pops up to say hi, give him a warm welcome for me. :)
If you get bored, then tighten up your laces and do a little traveling of your own. You may be suprised at the reception. The way I see it the blogging community is like a bigger version of a guild... I "virtually" know a lot of you...
As you can see by the sidebar over there, I managed 4 bubs last night. You might say that I am slow. I would agree with you, but I have no desire to rush. I do not really plan on raiding with him. I do not plan on instancing with him. I just want a 70 Druid. Yep. That is it.
I have some business travel coming up, and will be out of town the majority of August. I will still be WoWing it up from hotel rooms, and blogging, but D&D is going to have to hold off. As of right now the genral consensus I have seen from those that are interested have said more or less the same... People are busy. This will give us more time to read the rules, and digest the material. If this comes a diappointment to you then I am sorry. Rest assured that I have not abandoned the project, just need to extend.
I am not done with my travels yet as I still have some more bloggers to visit. If you are sitting there minding your own business and some little hermit pops up to say hi, give him a warm welcome for me. :)
If you get bored, then tighten up your laces and do a little traveling of your own. You may be suprised at the reception. The way I see it the blogging community is like a bigger version of a guild... I "virtually" know a lot of you...
As you can see by the sidebar over there, I managed 4 bubs last night. You might say that I am slow. I would agree with you, but I have no desire to rush. I do not really plan on raiding with him. I do not plan on instancing with him. I just want a 70 Druid. Yep. That is it.
I have some business travel coming up, and will be out of town the majority of August. I will still be WoWing it up from hotel rooms, and blogging, but D&D is going to have to hold off. As of right now the genral consensus I have seen from those that are interested have said more or less the same... People are busy. This will give us more time to read the rules, and digest the material. If this comes a diappointment to you then I am sorry. Rest assured that I have not abandoned the project, just need to extend.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Final Countdown
There is a new item over there.... Look... Over there... No... the other side...
I added the Druid Countdown. That way you the readers will get to keep track of the exciting last few levels of my Druid. YAAAAAAAAY.... Sure... as if leveling your own toons was not enough now you to watch the painful way I level a toon that I have really become bored playing. Last night... I gained 3 whole bubs. Who knows.. Maybe I will take a betting poll for the actual ding date of the Druid and give out a prize to the victor.
I have been sitting alliance for a long time now. Alliance side all my toons are in my alt guild. So the only people there are me... myself... and sometimes I. Coming back to horde it is both odd and refreshing to see any comments in guild chat. I am enjoying the commentary. I am still a slacker though. I have yet to do an instance. I do not know why... that just not do it for me. I am not above helping out a friend and tagging along... but the thought of putting together a run... even with friends... just causes me to cower.
I added the Druid Countdown. That way you the readers will get to keep track of the exciting last few levels of my Druid. YAAAAAAAAY.... Sure... as if leveling your own toons was not enough now you to watch the painful way I level a toon that I have really become bored playing. Last night... I gained 3 whole bubs. Who knows.. Maybe I will take a betting poll for the actual ding date of the Druid and give out a prize to the victor.
I have been sitting alliance for a long time now. Alliance side all my toons are in my alt guild. So the only people there are me... myself... and sometimes I. Coming back to horde it is both odd and refreshing to see any comments in guild chat. I am enjoying the commentary. I am still a slacker though. I have yet to do an instance. I do not know why... that just not do it for me. I am not above helping out a friend and tagging along... but the thought of putting together a run... even with friends... just causes me to cower.
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