WTFlux

Mounts:
Fiery Warhorse’s Reins
Deathcharger’s Reins
Swift Zulian Tiger
Swift Razzashi Raptor
Swift White Hawkstrider
Reins of the Raven Lord

We must get them.

Locations:
The Nexus
The Culling of Stratholme
HoL
HoS
Ahn’kahet
Gundrak
Azjol-Nerub
Utgarde Pinnacle
The Oculus
Ahn’kahet
Utgarde Keep

Head
Arcane-Shielded Helm Heroic The Nexus - Grand Magus Telestra
The Crusader’s Resolution from Quest - Icecrown Argent Vanguard village, as well as the quest givers at the table at 83,73
(questline for the helm)

Neck
Pendant of the Nathrezim Heroic The Culling of Stratholme - Dark Runed Chest
Chained Military Gorget 25 Emblems

Shoulders
Iron Dwarf Smith Pauldrons Heroic HoL - General Bjarngrim

Chest
Sun-Emblazoned Chestplate Heroic Halls of Stone - Sjonnir The Ironshaper
Breastplate of the Solemn Council Wyrmwrest - Revered
Heroes’ Scourgeborne Chestguard 80 Emblems of heroism

Wrist
Bracers of the Herald Heroic Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom Herald Volazj

Hands
Horn-Tipped Gauntlets Heroic Gundrak Gal’darah
Refined Ore Gloves BoE AH
Heroes’ Scourgeborne Handguards 50 Emblems of Heroism

Waist
Ancient Aligned Girdle Heroic Azjol-Nerub Anub’arak
Waistguard of Living Iron 40 Emblems of Heroism
Skadi’s Iron Belt Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle Skadi the Ruthless

Legs
Ley-Guardian’s Legguards Heroic The Oculus Cache of Eregos (lol)
Bolstered Legplates Heroic The Violet hold Cyanigosa
Special Issue Legplates Honored with Argent Dawn

Feet
Greaves of Ancient Evil Heroic Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom Herald Volazj
Toxin-Tempered Sabatons FREE - go buy them here
Sabatons of Draconic Vigor Wyrmwrest accord - revered

Rings
Band of Torture Heroic The Oculus - Drakos the Interrogator
Woeful Band Heroic Halls of Stone - Maiden of Grief
Unsmashable Heavy Band Heroic Utgarde Keep - Ingvar the Plunderer

Trinkets
Essence of Gossamer Heroic Azjol-Nerub Hadronox
Seal of the Pantheon NORMAL HoL - Loken
Adamantine Figurine Normal Shadow labs

Relic
Sigil of Haunted Dreams

Enchants:
Enchant Cloak - Steelweave
Enchant Cloak - Titanweave
Enchant Chest - Greater Defense
Enchant Bracer - Fortitude
Enchant Boots - Greater Fortitude
Enchant Gloves - Armsman
Frosthide Leg Armor

Arcanist Ivrenne

Regular Instances
Halls of Stone - Maiden of Grief
Halls of Lightning - Ionar
The Violet Hold - Cyanigosa
The culling of Strat - Salramm the fleshcrafter

Heroics
The Nexus - Anomalus
The Nexus - Ormorok the Tree-Shaper
The Nexus - Keristraza
Azjol-Nerub: Anub’arak
Azjul-Nerub - Krik’Thir The gatewatcher
Halls of Lightning - Volkhan
Halls of Lightning - General Bjarngrim
Gundrak - Eck the Ferocious
Gundrak - Gal’darah
The Oculus - Cache of Eregos
The Oculus - Varos Cloudstrider
Utgarde Keep - Ingvar the Plunderer
Utgarde Pinnacle - King Yamiron
Drak’Tharon Keep - Novos the Summoner

Get this stuff
Head
Faceguard of Punishment from quest - Vengeance Be Mine!

Chitin Shell Greathelm Heroic Azjol-Nerub: Anub’arak

Wrist
Cast Iron Shackles The Violet hold - random (AH)
Golden Limb Bands Heroic Azjul-Nerub - Krik’Thir The gatewatcher

Legs
Staggering Legplates Heroic Utgarde Keep - Ingvar the Plunderer
Legplates of the Oculus Guardian Heroic The Oculus - Varos Cloudstrider

Neck
Gold Amulet of Kings Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle - King Yamiron

Trinket
Sphere of Red Dragon’s Blood Heroic The Nexus - Keristraza

Back
Embrace of Sorrow Halls of Stone - Maiden of Grief
Shroud of Reverberation Heroic Halls of Lightning - Volkhan

Ringz
Band of Frosted Thorns Heroic The Nexus - Ormorok the Tree-Shaper
Hemorrhaging Circle Heroic Gundrak - Gal’darah

Hands
Plate Claws of the Dragon The Violet Hold - Cyanigosa
Gauntlets of Dragon Wrath Heroic The Oculus - Cache of Eregos

Shoulders
Pauldrons of the Lightning Revenant Halls of Lightning - Ionar

Waist
Spiked Metal Cilice The culling of Strat - Salramm the fleshcrafter
The General’s Steel Girdle Heroic Halls of Lightning - General Bjarngrim
Flame-Bathed Steel Girdle Heroic The Nexus - Keristraza

Feet
Rift Striders Heroic The Nexus - Anomalus

Chest
Breastplate of Undeath Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep - Novos the Summoner
Engraved Chestplate of Eck Heroic Gundrak - Eck the Ferocious

• All multi-rune abilities generate 15 runic power.
• Anti-Magic Shell: The cooldown has been lowered to 45 sec from 60 sec.
• Blood Aura now grants 2/4% instead of 1/2% healing. - BLOOD TREE
• Blood Presence now grants 2/4% instead of 1/2% healing. - small buff
• Bloody Strikes will receive extra bonus damage from Pestilence. - BLOOD TREE
• Bone Shield: The mitigation has been reduced from 40% to 20%.
• Corpse Explosion: Damage increased substantially, added 5 sec. cooldown, and changed cost to 40 runic power.
• Dark Command: Range increased to 30 yards.
• Death Knights have access to unique death-knight only facial textures and skin tones. These can be selected at the character creation screen. - LOL
• Death Pact now grants 40% instead of 20% healing.
• Frost Presence: The bonus armor has been increased from 60 to 80% and magic damage reduction increased from 5 to 15%.
• Heart Strike no longer has a haste debuff but will now be able to strike two targets. - BLOOD TREE
• Horn of Winter now has no cost and grants 10 runic power in addition to its stat buff, but has a 30 sec cooldown.
• Icebound Fortitude now reduces damage by 20% instead of 50%. The amount of damage reduced increases with bonus Defense (to about 35% for 540 Defense, but can go higher).
• Night of the Dead now grants 40/70% passive area spell avoidance to your pet in addition to its current effects.
• Outbreak will no longer receive bonus damage from pestilence. The bonus from Plague Strike and Blood Boil has been increased slightly. - MEH
• Pestilence no longer has a 10 seconds cooldown.
• Raise Dead has now been split into two spells: - MEH
  • Raise Dead now raises a ghoul or pet ghoul (if talented). Requires corpse dust if no humanoid corpse is nearby.
  • Raise Ally now raises a fallen party member as a ghoul and has no reagent. Available at level 72. This should now last for 4 minutes.
• Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle (two-handed only) now grants 25 Defense and 2% Stamina.
• Rune Strike: Damage decreased from 200% to 150% but threat increased to 150% from 100%.
• Shadow of Death: The duration has been changed from 45 seconds to 25 seconds. 
• Unholy Blight had had its cost reduced from 60 to 40 runic power. - STUPID
• Wandering Plague will now properly reset after being cast. - ???
• Vampiric Blood: In addition to its current effects, also adds 20% health temporarily. - BLOOD TREE
• Will of the Necropolis will now reduce the damage of any attack that takes the DK below 35% health by 5 /10/15% instead of boosting armor when wounded,

So.  
Red = 5
Green = 11

But, they screwed DK tanks.  Nearly 0 or the buffs are given to tanks, most all are for DPS DK’s, and 3 of the 5 nerfs are directly related to DK tanks.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG.

So you want some addons.  You want them to work.  You’re skeptical of addons already, you don’t need another moron telling you which addons are uber-leetz.

kfine.

Here are the stable ones, the ones that are critical.

Cartographer - mega awesome map mod

Quest helper - The best questing tool evar made

Bagnon - onebag mod that is awesome and moveable

Optional - if you are feeling frisky
OmniCC - puts the cooldown number on the actual ability in your action bar
WhoDrop - adds info on who drops an item to the bottom of the item tooltips
Auctioneer - make monies

There.  Spoonfed.  Easy.

Atanamir for life.

So, it’s not exactly the one you’d expect coming from this blog.

Here is what I am allowed to tell you:

1) There is a Warhammer Online Beta Test currently underway.
2) I am a member of the Warhammer Online Beta Test.

I’ve been wanting in on this one for a long time.  Hopefully the closed portion of beta won’t last long and the NDA will relax a bit on the info I can give out.  More later.  Don’t know when, but later.

Ok, so I’ve talked about it enough.  Here is the new guild:

Grown Ups
US - Korgath
Alliance
http://grownups.wowguildbank.com

If you are stuck on a server you can’t seem to find a decent guild, or are just tired of your guild not being able to focus and organize - BUT don’t want to get tied down to some hard-core 6 night raiding guild, this might be a good option.  People will be held accountable, people will be teachable, people will be relaxed.  We’re going to do things a bit different, keep it small and efficient.

If you are the guy who is prepared for your raid, on time and waiting on all the other slackers - you read up on the encounters and /facepalm when your guild mates screw up on things they should be able to handle with a bit of prep time.  This might be the guild for you.  Please come check us out if any of this sounds good to you, register on the forums- email me, etc.  Please read the About page, the FAQ page and the application README.  I want to be upfront and honest with everyone involved so you know what you are getting into.

Thanks!

Skin these things, make a lot of monies.

Cobra Scales (Twilight Serpent - Nagrand)
Fel Scales (Thornfang Ravager - Hellfire Penn.)
Fel Hide (Warp Chaser - Netherstorm, Deathshadow Hound - Nagrand)
Wind Scales (Scalewing Serpent - Blade’s Edge)

LOTS of monies.  K.  Stop reading, go farm some scales and hides and stuff.

p.s.  sub 30% drop rates, lolz.

So you’ve heard the term- hit capped, right? Well I think I’m pretty much casual capped on my shadowpriest. I got the itch to check out my shadowpriest and see if there was ANYTHING I could do to get her to around 800-900 unbuffed shadow damage. Off to http://www.shadowpriest.com for me.

Let’s take a look at each place of armor and what I could be expected to upgrade as a casual player.

– The [xx] number is the rank of the gear according to shadowpriest.com –

——UPDATED——

Head:
Current [19] - Mana-Etched Crown
possible upgrade [6]: Spellstrike Hood
benefit: BcH +16 stam, +8 int, +9 dmg / HoO +12 int, +6 dmg

ed. note: Jeez o pete I need the glyph of power
need: Greater inscription of the orb (am not close)

Wrist:
Current [8] - Bands of Nefarious deeds
Possible upgrade: [3] - Runed spell cuffs
benefit: -7 stam, -4 int, -3 dmg, +25 haste (might be a good hast alternative)

Hands:
Current [10] - Gloves of the incarnate T4
Possible upgrade: [1] - Handwraps of flowing thought
benefit: The only benefit I can see is +17 hit.

Waist:
Current [1p] - Nethershard girdle
Possible upgrade: [1] - Belt of Blasting
benefit: +spell hit , +15dmg

Legs:
Current [19] - Incanters Trousers
Possible upgrade: [2] - Spellstrike pants
alt [8] Trail-Fire Trouser
benefit: -13 stam, -22 int, +4 dmg, +22 hit/ TfT +18 stam, +10 int, +7dmg

If I could get the TFT’s (opera) I would be extremely happy.

Ring1
Current [bad] - Manastorm Band
possible upgrade: [8] Band of arcane alacraty (MT- Vellaxus)
benefit: + stam, + spell haste

Trinket 1
Current [11] - Glowing crystal insignia
possible upgrade: [6] Quagmirrians eye
benefit: +11 dmg, + haste

Mainhand:
Current [bad]: bloodfire greatstaff
possible upgrade: Staff of infinite mysteries
Benefit: +19 stam, +9 int, + 64dmg (with +40 spelldmg enchant)

Ok, this list has been a bit updated - I made my shoulders, and I’ve taken off everything that I am satisfied with at the moment.  3-5 items that I could receive definite upgrades on is a good spot to be in I think.  I’m sitting at +804 Shadow damage completely unbuffed.  I’ve got 2 epic gems on the way that will bump that up (and my +hit).  My next goal is to get hit capped.  I need increase my +hit by 40.

I am pondering:

Vis vires (latin for power, might or influence)
Grown Ups
Learn or Leave
Eradico malum (latin for destroy evil)
Everbero (latin for -to strike hard and violently)
Ryoku (Japanese for strength and power)

more later