WTFlux

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

I’m having the itch again.  I want to create a guild.  Here is my plan:

Create a very small (15-30 active members) and lean guild with extremely clear rules and goals.  It will be a fun, casual guild that works together to progress through the 10 man dungeons of WoW.  This includes WOTLK.  This will not be a “invite anyone guild”.  We are seeking mature, flexible, casual raiding WoW players that want to have a good time in a low pressure environment but are prepared to read and study and encounter or two to knock out some new encounters.

People must have and agree to the following to be CONSIDERED:
Vent installed
Working microphone
Guild mandated addons
Register and participate in the forums
SWAPS DKP system
Above 18 years old (exceptions can be made)
We /gkick and ask questions later
Max level
*Must be flexible and willing to listen about and learn new strategies and methods for playing your class.

Other rules:
Don’t be a D-bag.  D-bags will be /gkicked.
Drama is not tolerated.  Those involved are /gkicked.
Respect your guildmates.  When you don’t you are /gkicked.
2 month inactivity = /gkick.
Be prepared.  This means knowing the strategies involved, having ALL the required raid mats- (1rst offense = probation, 2nd 1 week raid suspension, 3rd /gkick)
You are allowed 1 non-max level alt.
**Argue/dispute the raid leader over vent/raid chat and you will be kicked from the raid immediately.
Must be flexible and willing to listen about and learn new strategies and methods for playing your class.
Raids will last 2 hours and 30 minutes.  Absolutely no exceptions.
We will officially raid 2 times per week.  1 time during the week and 1 time on the weekend.  Anything else is informal.
***In your “initiate stage” you must join an arena team (and play) with an officer or class leader.

Thinking about these rules:
You are required to support your guild with 20g per week to the guild bank.
The guild bank will pay half of your epic flying mount cost after 6 months of membership with no strings.

*Mainly what I am getting at here is the ability for someone to explain why they do what they do- and if someone (class leader, officer, etc.) has tips or more ideas that could help you get better, you need to be able to listen and admit they might be right.  You could have an arguement against it, and that is ok- but you need to consider and even experiment with suggestions from your class leaders and officers.
**This has no place during a raid.  If you think the raid leader is doing something wrong - whisper an officer (or your class leader) and calmly explain the error.  There are many different ways to beat bosses, so everyone needs to be flexible.
***This isn’t to increase your epeen, it’s to show the class leaders and officers how well you really know your own class.  Are you putting down the right traps, debuffs?  Do you consectrate in PvP?  We shall see…

The thing about these rules is- they aren’t unreasonable.  To a rational, considerate adult- these should be implied.  This guild is going to be created to beat bosses.  Not spend 8 hours waiting around for the 25th guy to show up, then go into a raid and do things half-way.  We will have a ton of fun, but if you don’t have the ability to recognize when it is time to focus and put on your “A-game” then this isn’t the guild for you.  If you are so freaking 1337 that you know every encounter and anyone that dares do things different than you is completely stupid - this is not the guild for you.  If you think that because you have T6 and all kinds of phat l00tz people should recognize your skills - this is not the guild for you.

Back in the day, I knew of a guild that ran MC for the first time - with more than 1 member dinging 60 the day of the raid.  With members still in level 50’s greens, they proceeded to 1 shot through Ragnaros.  Pretty impressive back then.  They did it because they all knew their class.  People were communicating with their class leaders, the raid leader did an amazing job of explaining the encounters and people had their “A-game”.  It helped that they were all adults and had a great time.  There is something to that equation and I think we could give this a shot.

p.s. The officers and class leaders are held to a higher standard.  They need to be able to read and understand WWS reports, be able to confront players about their play- and to /gkick when needed.  Extremely high levels of communication skills are needed.  It’s a bit more work- you are the glue that holds the guild together.

I built a very very simple World of Warcraft addon. It has a list of 50 random messages it /say’s when you ressurect someone.  Theorhetically - you can take this yourself and customize it to do just about anything.  There is a readme file that will help you get going - and the AddonTemplate.lua file itself is also commented very well.

I stole this from a priest addon compilation a long time ago.  They stopped developing the addon, and I forget who did it originally.  Sry.

Anyway - you are more than welcome to[download it here] and play with it.  Enjoy!

I was mowing last night and I had this thought that my Wife is a raid leader (what? What do YOU think about when you are mowing grass?). Lemme back up - she thinks I am a total dork, rolling her eyes whenever I tell her about my l337 epix. She’s never played WoW and I don’t think she will (I’ve tried everything). She is a guild leader though. Her guild is composed of pre-madonna’s, sensitive crybabies, solid team members, and clueless leeches. Oh yeah, they’re also all under 6 years of age. She stays at home and watches kids as we try to make ends meet. Yeah the parallel is sort of a reach, but hear me out.

She organizes raids:
She’s the one to point out the schedule and give reminders. She makes sure each activity is attended.
She prepares for everything:
She’s got the mats for food ready to go, table out, food conjured. She has bandages when you need them, she’s there for a battle rez in a pinch.
She holds discipline:
She hands timeouts justly, and quickly. She kicks them out of the activities when needed.
She knows what they need:
She’s fun when she needs it. Shes serious when she has to be, kind- but stern.
She takes the guild to see new content regularly:
She knows when cabin fever sets in and the guild needs to progress
She teaches:
If they don’t know their role, she helps them learn
She knows how to group up her raid:
She keeps a good kid in each group, keeps the whiny ones separate and placated, and isolates the pre-madonnas.

Kind of startling how many similarities there are.  More best guild in the world posts coming soon.  Remember your guild leader and all the crap they have to deal with before you trash them.  That is all.

People.  I really, REALLY need your help.  I’m BEGGING YOU.  I really really really really want to play my horde characters.  Firetree is a server that is dead - even the freaking gaurds in Ogrimmar are like “Screw this, if no - one is here, we’re going to the tavern…”.

SAVE ME!

If you know of a cool guild, if you are in a cool guild, if your buddy heard about a cool horde guild in a podcast last tuesday, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me about the guild and realm.  Come to this blog, leave a comment and save the world.

Pretty simple.

I’m trying to figure out how to make this thing better.  There is about 2405 blogs that are hunter/priest focused so I’m going to spin this different….or try.

Here are some blog direction ideas.  Plz comment on them.
-Guild managment/happenings
-daily/weekly WTF (something that happens that makes you say - WTF?)
-Professions
-How to find the center of gravity of a rocket.

kkthxbai

oh yeah, I made a druid.  Her name is foshizzil.

It has come to my attention that people like to have lists for their characters.  Lists of “things to do”.  Perhaps you could benefit from a list such as mine.  I will divulge my mysterious methods of loot/reputation/instance information collection for you to peruse at will.

First of all, the best site to find anything WoW (items, quests, etc.) is WoWhead.  WoWhead generates the cool tooltip things on my blog. 

Second of all, the best place to find class specific gear is wow-loot.com.  They have it nailed for the toon that just hit 70 and needs to gear up.

Thirdly you need to check the worldofwarcraft.com PvP section.  If you discount PvP to get some decent gear right now, you are being stupid.  You can loose 10 arena games per week and get around 200 points per week.  Some arena items are 1000 arena points and are very VERY good.  Arena rewards are a good place to start - but don’t forget the regular PvP rewards as well.

Third.5 is the amazing post from The WoW Inn that directs you to the pvp gear you can pick up at honored rep.

Fourthly is of course, the armory.  Find someone in your guild that is geared up the way you want, and check them out.  See how they gem things up, see how they enchant their items, etc.  Go to your own profile and click on the upgrade button tooltip when you mouse over your gear.  It’s a great resource that is sometimes overlooked.

5th is WoWiki.  This is a wonderful site on which instances drop which loot, and extensive reputation guides.

6thly, find a blog.  Find a blog that is written by someone in your class who knows what they are talking about.  Email them questions, comment on the posts, etc.  The most widely known blogger is BigRedKitty - and he has links to blogs written by nearly every class.

Mash all that up and you have a pimp list.  Enjoy.

It’s just easy for me to plan my hunters next steps here. Watch or ignore. idc.

Reputations:
-Get honored with Sha’tar for Shoulders
Terrokar quests, basilisk eyes, venom sacs, marks, fel arms, etc.
-Get honored with Lower cities for head
Auchindoun instances, arrakoa feathers
-Revered with Aldor for ring
marks, fel arms
-Revered with CE for head enchant
underbog steamvaults, coilfang armaments

Quests:
Do Zorus the Vindicator quest line for blue helm (4 quests)- just need to kill the dragon in netherwing ledge (3-4 players needed)

Instances:
Mechanar - beast lord helm
Steamvaults - beast lord leggings, mantle
Shattered halls - beast lord (hands)
BM - desolation helm
Seth halls - ring

Enchants:
Leg- Clefthide armor
boots- agility
back- agility
weapon - agility
chest - resilience

PVP arena:
Shoulders - 1500 arena points

Well, we went 3-7 this week. My warlock buddy left me for someone else. I appreciated his help, but wish we could have done some more matches. I think I will have around 920 points after today, so I will need 1 more week of arena for mah epics.

My prot paladin buddy tried healing a bit with mixed results. He doesnt have any (ANY) healing gear, so healing is a bit of a struggle. He was being stunned and shield bashed? taking away his healing spells for around 5 seconds, in which people would finish me off. I die really quickly, if I’m focus fired, I get about 4-8 seconds before I die. I don’t know if it’s really just horrible gear, or superior opponents. Probably both. Arg.

Anyway - almost there, once I have the axe, I’ll probably stop playing 2s. It will be nice to be completely done getting gear for my ranged weapon and my melee weapon. I don’t think there are many better than the Sunfury bow and the Arena Axe.