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o go into the front line and absorb damage and it ain t gonna be the mage a mage a priest and a warlock get in a fight with some bad dudes who gets to play damage magnet i figure it has to be warlock as they have a minion already the mage can launch broad ranged attacks from distance and you don t want your rez healer meal ticket to bite it one of these days i m going to try to make a dash to light s hope chapel in eastern plaguelands so i can get the flight point there it will be nice to take a flight from silvermoon all the way to the badlands without having to jump through hoops getting to the undercity first posted by redbeard at 7 35 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 19 2009 tradeskills so i made a real effort this last weekend to push my death knight s tradeskills ahead first off let me say that one major drawback to playing a death knight is the fact that you don t have a chance to level any profession as you go you are suddenly thrust into the world at level 58 and have a lot of making up to do as far as your main professions go so here we go cooking is at 322 i know right cooking who levels cooking i never have which is exactly why i wanted to this time around i m up to the point of cooking up any strange critters i find in outlands that s right if it s dead and has meat it s goin in the fryin pan fishing is at 128 i haven t spent too much time on this but this is another skill i have never bothered to level before it s still kind of boring but at least there s achievements now hey i caught old crafty have you first aid is up to outlands coth drops nothing special here mining is at 160 also nothing special here i chose not to mine nodes on this caracter instead using my level 80 pally to crusade aura around mining the necessary materials for blacksmithing and here we are at blacksmiting 350 with the majority of the materials farmed by myself in one weekend oy that s a lot of mining in fact to advance this far i ve used roughly 133 rough stone 190 copper bar 24 coarse stone 5 silver bar 120 bronze bar 150 heavy stone 5 gold bar 230 iron bar 35 green dye 50 steel bar 5 truesilver bar 60 solid stones 150 mageweave cloth 320 mithril bar 20 dense stone 430 thorium bar 10 star ruby 155 fel iron bar 10 netherweave cloth 70 adamantite bar i m up to the point now however that i ll be needing cobalt bars from northrend to advance and i m not going to bother with that until i m level 65 and can advance to the next tier of skill level for blacksmithing which finally brings me to my point of this all after having spent all the time i did finding all those materials to level a tradeskill it really did feel more like a job irl rant especially when you get to the point of not having any new recipies to learn you only need two more points until you advance to the next tier of materials and the only current thing you can make is of the yellow skill level so you farm up enough materials to make 8 of said yellow items and get one point seriously who the hell thought this up end rant blizzard should make leveling tradeskills in the old world easier smithing up to about the point of using mithril bars went pretty quick and easy then you get to the point where you need a boat load of materials just to get one point for instance to make the thorium helmet you need like 16 thorium bars and a star ruby the going rate for those materials on the auction house is roughly 50 gold 50 gold for just one point in your chosen profession hence the reason i farmed most everything i needed seriously blizz just reduce the number of bars needed per recipie towards the later end of tradeskills in vanilla wow posted by deftig at 11 52 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 15 2009 pug life alright i ll start this off by saying i m a tank pretty much what ever class i m playing i seem to gravitate towards the tank role i realize that by not being in a guild currently i have to suffer the fate of finding pick up groups pug to run dungeons my level why must the random pug always be such a headache group composition level 70 warrior protection tank spec myself level 70 deathknight blood dps spec level 70 shaman enhancement dps spec level 70 mage arcane i think dps spec level 70 druid restoration healing spec dungeon utgarde keep here i am my first northred dungeon on my warrior i have high hopes for this run i remember back to a few weeks ago i did one night of outlands dungeon runs with a group similarly composed to my current one and we did very well first few pulls went ok i noticed the mage pulling aggro a bit so i placed vigalance http thottbot com ta148 on the mage which took care of that the run generally went pretty smoothly up to the first boss the one pull where you get two spell casters and two melee mobs to fight was rough the shaman died and reincarnated himself and the death knight died also i felt bad for letting this happen and apologized to them we killed the first boss successfuly though losing the deathknight again on our way up to the second boss i started feeling more comfortable with the rotation of using my abilities again and started watching my group members they were attacking who ever was closest to them with out a care in the world trying to maintain aggro on all of the mobs in the pack pulls was a complete mess by the end of the run with the each of the three dps picking their own mob to try to kill i m pretty sure i know how to aoe tank charge in thunderclap back pedal a bit to group up mobs and unleash a shockwave followed by a demoralizing shout and then a succession of tab targeting to apply devastate and cleave when rage allows i was like a mad man trying to maintain aggro on all of the seperate targets at once now two realizations hit me here 1 why oh why can t pugs assist the tank i think i know paladins and deathknight tanks have lovely lovely aoes that give them great front loaded threat on the various targets so much so that you can just that s right set it and forget it as having played both a level 80 paladin and deathknight as tank specs i cannot recall having to worry about group pulls pretty much ever warriors can get this too but it requires a bit more work because you have to make sure you position your shockwave to hit all the targets now being lower level i realize i don t have all the tools in my back of tricks yet to help assist grouping the targets up but argh was this frustrating 2 perhaps leveling my deathknight alt once the wife catches up will actually prove less frustrating that the constant struggle i would face in my current predicament of haivng to find pugs why then does playing my deathknight feel like cheating somehow posted by deftig at 12 03 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 12 2009 hypothetical question time the other day when i was putzing around and completing a few quests around thousand needles murtaugh and i were keeping a running conversation going he was over in one of the higher level areas more than high enough to be instant death for a 31st level paladin anyway during the course of the conversation he asked me whether i d be playing the horde if he and missy weren t already playing that faction when they invited me to join i rather quickly tossed back the reply that i d probably be playing an elf of some sort whether horde or alliance and gave as my reasoning that i ve played enough humans in my past that i d like to try something different after his query fermented in my brain for a while i thought it deserved a better answer than that of course the flippant answer would be that i wouldn t be playing wow at all i had no real desire to go play an mmo before being invited to do so the why of that is simple mmos are not what i typically play when i play computer games i m much more in the mold of the turn based strategy player civ is probably my favorite game but the total war series is also damn good the old master of orion was great and it sounds like galactic civilizations ii is following in the same vein sure i d played computer rpgs before but not mmos now putting all that aside for a moment what would i play if i decided to try out wow on my own my rpg history suggests a human priest or a human warrior but in reality i d kind of tired on playing humans the natural extensions of a d d player interested in fighting would be dwarven or orc warrior but i wanted something different the elves of both sides are appealing to me mainly because they re different from humans but not too different to play well yes i slip into ftf rpg mode when i consider characters to play kind of hard to disassociate myself from something i ve been playing since 1980 or so the thing about elves is that well they re popular blame the lord of the rings movies the cult of drizzt all sorts of generic fantasy worlds or even d d but elves are hot for a guy who prides himself on marching to the beat of a different drummer following the pack wasn t exactly what i had in mind two things made me stick to my guns just because everybody else does it doesn t mean that i shouldn t and in an mmo you can make your own path do your own thing don t be an ass and you ll be fine now the question becomes horde or alliance if i d have just seen pictures of the races and made decisions that way i d probably have chosen alliance come on i m programmed just like everybody else to think that the side where humans dwarves elves and gnomes are on is the good guys side when murtaugh and his wife invited me to join however i took the time to read a bit of the history of the races blizzard did a great job of making the backstories neutral enough to keep it from being slanted toward one faction there were enough bad and good deeds all the way around that kept one particular faction from being easily defined as the good guys digging down you find the stereotypes of the horde races don t fit sure they don t like the alliance but that by itself doesn t make them evil okay the forsaken don t help themselves much with their tendencies toward eradicating humans i ll grant you that but given the scarlet brotherhood you can understand the source of their dislike in fact i find the native american slant that blizzard built into the tauren fascinating it s perfect in it s own way taking what would be a stereotypical minotaur and turning it into something else i guess the answer to the faction question isn t simple i still might have chosen alliance but i m comfortable with the horde except for the forsaken even the rest of the blood elf npcs seem to be a bit um uncertain about their erstwhile allies but they play nice for the time being the horde seems to be a good fit for me right now and i m fine with playing it while i might try an alliance character later for comparison i m fine with playing horde at the moment posted by redbeard at 4 53 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels factions races monday october 5 2009 the core question hard or soft there seems to be a few schools of thought when it comes to wow players you ve got your die hard raiders that are all about getting top of the line gear with the best possible group compositions and raid spots all figured out at the other end of the spectrum you ve got the casuals the people who are doing 5 man dungeons for badge gear and pvp ing for gladiator gear they ll occasionally do a raid if they can find a decent pug pick up group this game seems to support both options but leans towards the first in a game that s driven by gear the top gear always wins out classic wow when molten core came out and the very first raid dungeon was introduced into the game our small guild ended up having to merge to attempt to tackle the 40 man content i still remember the very first pull in the dungeons the very first pull of the dungeon and my tier 1 bracers dropped randomly and i actually won them from then on i was hooked we steadily made progress into the core into that lava ridden cave and eventually got burned out yep i ended up retiring from raiding right when we were just starting to conquer an quiraj the requirements of being adequately prepared for the raids were expensive and required a decent amount of time spend just farming every week for materials i would need burning crusade brand new 10 man content oh man was i excited for this expansion flying mounts content that didn t require 40 people and man the gear was such a huge upgrade from the old world stuff even though my collection of level 60 raid gear lasted me a while once i realized however that you still had to do larger raids to get all of your tier set i was not too happy our small guild of friends didn t grow much beyond what was required to just do kara and we ended up topping out there i spend most of my time in bc doing pvp and getting completely frustrated with being a healer wrath again new 10 man content with a harder 25 man version released awesome once again the guild reforms with most of our players from bc we progress through all of the 10 man content including naxxramas obsidian sanctum vaults and eye of eternity next thing you know the guild is looking at merging with another guild to successfuly complete 25 man content you can t stop running the 10 man content for people to gear up to compete in the 25 man content again this led to major burnout as i was the main tank and had been tanking everything since level 70 moral of the story find a group that you will be happy with in the end i came to the realization that i didn t care about getting the 25 man gear and accomplishing the 10 content can actually be harder than the 25 man and i still got to see the content and didn t feel i was being left out of anything with the constant lure of shiny new gear can a guild sustain themselves at 10 man content alone posted by deftig at 7 02 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 2 2009 the past vs the present when i first began playing d d i wanted to be a fighter you know so you could fight with a sword kill things and in general act like one of those knights you d see on the movies as a kid the kid who introduced me to d d a boy named rob had his own fighter whom he d so eloquently named sir robert and boy did i want that so there we were rolling up our first characters he had the old blue box d d set so our choices were along the lines of dwarf elf mystic fighter cleric thief you probably know the drill roll 3 six sided dice once each time for strength intelligence wisdom dexterity constitution and charisma well i rolled an 18 for wisdom and rob told me oh that s good you should be a cleric they need high wisdom a cleric yeah they re like a priest images of the priests at church walking around in a dungeon fighting dragons 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