*Dusts off cobwebs*
/Sneeze
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Discipline Priest Talents
I really was going to go to bed, but meh, it's the weekend! Who needs sleep?
Discipline Talents: Why they rock!
This is pretty much the basics and I am sure that it has all been typed on the internet before, but I am going to blog about it anyway. I have been Discipline (57/14/0) pretty much since the major content patch for WotLK came out and here is why.
It all starts with Penance at the bottom of the Discipline tree (or top depending on how you think about it - just think needs lots of talent points - k!). This lovely (yes I just used the word lovely... oh there it is again) talent launches a volley of holy light at the target - the animation is really cool too - causing 288 Holy damage to an enemy, or 1484 to 1676 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 2 sec. Now, that whole damage thing it does is nice, don't get me wrong. But it's the healing bit that is really cool. Penance will hit a target 3 times. It is a chanelled spell so don't go using it when you are taking damage. Bye bye spell and seeya later mana, since we all know that chanelled spells use mana up at the beginning... as soon as your finger hits that hot key.
So what makes penance so great? well it is all those other talents in the tree. Starting with Grace (2/2). This procs every time you use flash/greater heal or penance and stacks up to 3 times. Reducing the damage done to the target by 1% and increases all healing received from the Priest by 2%. This effect will stack up to 3 times and lasts 8 seconds. The 8 seconds is the important bit. If you put 2/2 points into Aspiration it will (among other things) reduce your penance cooldown by 20% meaning you can use it every 8 seconds. Making it possible for the tank to have the Grace buff on them ALL the time just from using penance alone.
Essentially, put these 3 above talents together and time it right and you have a tank who always has Grace on them. Reducing damage done by 1% and healing received from me (the priest) by 2%
Next on the Discipline list of awesome is... Your Shields!
Apart from Power Word: Shield (PwS) which every priests knows well. Disc priests get another shield - Divine Aegis. This one procs when you crit, creating a protective shield on the target absorbing 30% of the amount healed.
So you have 3/3 points in Divine Aegis and you have put 3/3 points in to get Improved PwS... what then? Well then you use them... and sit back and watch the mana and crits come to you.
First we throw in Rapture: which causes you to gain up to 2.5% of your maximum mana each time you heal with Greater Heal, Flash Heal or Penance, or damage is absorbed by your Power Word: Shield or Divine Aegis.
Then we throw in Renewed Hope (2/2): Increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal, Greater Heal and Penance spells by 4% on targets afflicted by the Weakened Soul effect.
What it boils down to, apart from healing gives you back mana is...
PwS = Weakened Soul
Weakened Soul = Increased Crit Chance
Crit Heal = Devine Aegis
Devine Ageis/PwS = Mana back
Can you say yay for mana and crit? I sure can!
What's Next? Well if you haven't figured it out by now - with all that shield talk - Discipline healing is all about damage mitigation.
Borrowed Time (5/5): Grants 25% spell haste for your next spell after casting Power Word: Shield, and increases the amount absorbed by your Power Word: Shield equal to 40% of your spell power. So the more SP you have the more damage your PwS absorbs.
Okay, it is time for me to sleep now, it being 3am and all (apologies for crappy spelling and/or grammar. I is SPLEEEEPY). My next post is going to be about Stats. /Dance.
Discipline Talents: Why they rock!
This is pretty much the basics and I am sure that it has all been typed on the internet before, but I am going to blog about it anyway. I have been Discipline (57/14/0) pretty much since the major content patch for WotLK came out and here is why.
It all starts with Penance at the bottom of the Discipline tree (or top depending on how you think about it - just think needs lots of talent points - k!). This lovely (yes I just used the word lovely... oh there it is again) talent launches a volley of holy light at the target - the animation is really cool too - causing 288 Holy damage to an enemy, or 1484 to 1676 healing to an ally every 1 sec for 2 sec. Now, that whole damage thing it does is nice, don't get me wrong. But it's the healing bit that is really cool. Penance will hit a target 3 times. It is a chanelled spell so don't go using it when you are taking damage. Bye bye spell and seeya later mana, since we all know that chanelled spells use mana up at the beginning... as soon as your finger hits that hot key.
So what makes penance so great? well it is all those other talents in the tree. Starting with Grace (2/2). This procs every time you use flash/greater heal or penance and stacks up to 3 times. Reducing the damage done to the target by 1% and increases all healing received from the Priest by 2%. This effect will stack up to 3 times and lasts 8 seconds. The 8 seconds is the important bit. If you put 2/2 points into Aspiration it will (among other things) reduce your penance cooldown by 20% meaning you can use it every 8 seconds. Making it possible for the tank to have the Grace buff on them ALL the time just from using penance alone.
Essentially, put these 3 above talents together and time it right and you have a tank who always has Grace on them. Reducing damage done by 1% and healing received from me (the priest) by 2%
Next on the Discipline list of awesome is... Your Shields!
Apart from Power Word: Shield (PwS) which every priests knows well. Disc priests get another shield - Divine Aegis. This one procs when you crit, creating a protective shield on the target absorbing 30% of the amount healed.
So you have 3/3 points in Divine Aegis and you have put 3/3 points in to get Improved PwS... what then? Well then you use them... and sit back and watch the mana and crits come to you.
First we throw in Rapture: which causes you to gain up to 2.5% of your maximum mana each time you heal with Greater Heal, Flash Heal or Penance, or damage is absorbed by your Power Word: Shield or Divine Aegis.
Then we throw in Renewed Hope (2/2): Increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal, Greater Heal and Penance spells by 4% on targets afflicted by the Weakened Soul effect.
What it boils down to, apart from healing gives you back mana is...
PwS = Weakened Soul
Weakened Soul = Increased Crit Chance
Crit Heal = Devine Aegis
Devine Ageis/PwS = Mana back
Can you say yay for mana and crit? I sure can!
What's Next? Well if you haven't figured it out by now - with all that shield talk - Discipline healing is all about damage mitigation.
Borrowed Time (5/5): Grants 25% spell haste for your next spell after casting Power Word: Shield, and increases the amount absorbed by your Power Word: Shield equal to 40% of your spell power. So the more SP you have the more damage your PwS absorbs.
Okay, it is time for me to sleep now, it being 3am and all (apologies for crappy spelling and/or grammar. I is SPLEEEEPY). My next post is going to be about Stats. /Dance.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Master of Arms
Raise four weapon skills to 400...? Not quite, but almost!! I have found the perfect place for a clothy such as myself to level their weapon skills. It won't get you to 400 -- unless you really like pain -- but I did level my weapons to about 350 with ease. I got to 380 with a great amount of boredom and some DVD watching to entertain myself.
The quest you need is Securing the Bait. There is quite a long chain to get there starting at the Nesingway Base Camp. Once you have completely finished there you will be told to go talk to Dorian Drakestalker at Dorian's Outpost. The quest wants you to break primordial drake eggs in the Savage Thicket, east of the camp. When the egg breaks it releases a primordial hatchling, which you can right click and collect for the quest. You can quite easily level your weapons skills on these eggs. They take a lot of hitting to break, I leveled up probably 100 points on one egg and there are plenty of eggs to level on. All you have to look out for are the Primordial Drakes, which don't really do that much damage and I generally was able to avoid most of the time. Just remember to collect the hatchlings after you have leveled all you want. I didn't test the theory, but I assume that you will no longer be able to hit the eggs.
Anyhoo! Back I go to punching eggs!!
Edit: So I pressed "Post" and about a minute later figured this one out. Looks like you can level up on these eggs without the quest. Or at least you can still level after completing the quest.
Happy leveling! /stab
The quest you need is Securing the Bait. There is quite a long chain to get there starting at the Nesingway Base Camp. Once you have completely finished there you will be told to go talk to Dorian Drakestalker at Dorian's Outpost. The quest wants you to break primordial drake eggs in the Savage Thicket, east of the camp. When the egg breaks it releases a primordial hatchling, which you can right click and collect for the quest. You can quite easily level your weapons skills on these eggs. They take a lot of hitting to break, I leveled up probably 100 points on one egg and there are plenty of eggs to level on. All you have to look out for are the Primordial Drakes, which don't really do that much damage and I generally was able to avoid most of the time. Just remember to collect the hatchlings after you have leveled all you want. I didn't test the theory, but I assume that you will no longer be able to hit the eggs.
Anyhoo! Back I go to punching eggs!!
Edit: So I pressed "Post" and about a minute later figured this one out. Looks like you can level up on these eggs without the quest. Or at least you can still level after completing the quest.
Happy leveling! /stab
Uncharted: Can I has mouse and keyboard?
I bought Uncharted the other day after months of wanting to play it but not having a PS3. Now finally I have one so after buying Little Big Planet it was the next game on my list. As I understand it, Uncharted is a Tome Raider/Indiana Jones inspired action adventure. Having never played Tomb Raider I can't speak to that. The Indy influence is definitely there though, with Nathan Drake, a treasure hunter in search of El Dorado. I am only three chapters in so far and I like it. One thing that I have come to realise -- and perhaps I should have already know this -- I really do suck a shooters when I have to use a controller. The platforming sections of the game so far have been a lot of fun. The developer Naughty Dog really did a great job of making me feel like I could fall at any moment. But I have already come to dread the the third-person shooting sections. This is no way a reflection on the game, I am pretty sure it just a reflection on how crappy I am with using a controller to shoot things.
Another -- I guess you could say -- necessary evil, is the cut scenes. I am sure they are great, I just get easily distracted in them and miss important information. Again, I should say, I generally don't like cut scenes. And I can see Naughty Dog were going for a kind of action adventure movie vibe, hence the "necessary evil". I did start liking them more as the game progressed, so that is a definite tick in the plus column, and it is more than I can say about some other games.
Anyway, so far, so good... can I has mouse and keyboard (or maybe I should just practice?).
Another -- I guess you could say -- necessary evil, is the cut scenes. I am sure they are great, I just get easily distracted in them and miss important information. Again, I should say, I generally don't like cut scenes. And I can see Naughty Dog were going for a kind of action adventure movie vibe, hence the "necessary evil". I did start liking them more as the game progressed, so that is a definite tick in the plus column, and it is more than I can say about some other games.
Anyway, so far, so good... can I has mouse and keyboard (or maybe I should just practice?).
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Level 80? Don't wanna!
I am currently 1 and 3/4 levels away from dinging the big eight-o. Now a lot of people would say that this is pretty slow considering that the game came out in November. But I am trying to drag it out for as long as possible. It is also crazy that while getting an entire 8 levels and completing Borean Tundra I haven't moved passed Dragonblight and I am only halfway through Howling Ford. I haven't done a single quest in any other zone!!
So now I go back to procrastinating and doing useless achievements... oh and watching Gremlins.
So now I go back to procrastinating and doing useless achievements... oh and watching Gremlins.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The holidays are over!
*goes back into the past and puts in for more time off work*
Did it work? No? Damn! Oh well, the real question is did I achieve any of things that I set out to over the Christmas-New Year break? Answer: Kinda. In the true tradition of being me, I didn't really have any goals set. So I guess by default, I achieved what I set out to do. Hoorah! Well that's it for Real World (RW) so now I can blog about what I did and didn't achieve in World of Warcraft. So now, in no particular order I...
Got the Merrymaker title (with only hours to spare). I really did procrastinate about the last Winter Veil achievement I needed (With a Little Helper from My Friends) I am not sure what it is about PvP that I hate the thought of. When I am in a BG it's heaps of fun but I just cannot make myself want to queue up! Plus little people do freak me out some... and Gnomes are undeniably little.
Dinged Level 78! This wasn't really a goal, just a byproduct of playing. And seeing as I dinged 78, logic dictates that I also dinged 77! Yay for cold weather flying skill! And if you look really closely in the picture bellow you should be able to see...
Tabard of the Explorer!
And finally (this will be the end of this slightly boring picture posting, promise!) I got my Zhevra mount. Confirming my membership to, what I am sure is a very large group of people, who recruited themselves and payed to get yet another mount! Yay!
And that's what I did on my holidays!
Did it work? No? Damn! Oh well, the real question is did I achieve any of things that I set out to over the Christmas-New Year break? Answer: Kinda. In the true tradition of being me, I didn't really have any goals set. So I guess by default, I achieved what I set out to do. Hoorah! Well that's it for Real World (RW) so now I can blog about what I did and didn't achieve in World of Warcraft. So now, in no particular order I...
Got the Merrymaker title (with only hours to spare). I really did procrastinate about the last Winter Veil achievement I needed (With a Little Helper from My Friends) I am not sure what it is about PvP that I hate the thought of. When I am in a BG it's heaps of fun but I just cannot make myself want to queue up! Plus little people do freak me out some... and Gnomes are undeniably little.
Dinged Level 78! This wasn't really a goal, just a byproduct of playing. And seeing as I dinged 78, logic dictates that I also dinged 77! Yay for cold weather flying skill! And if you look really closely in the picture bellow you should be able to see...
Tabard of the Explorer!
And finally (this will be the end of this slightly boring picture posting, promise!) I got my Zhevra mount. Confirming my membership to, what I am sure is a very large group of people, who recruited themselves and payed to get yet another mount! Yay!
And that's what I did on my holidays!
Friday, January 2, 2009
WoW... I am lazy!
You know you have it bad when you can't even type the word "wow" (as in geewiz) without first typing it as WoW.
I have been slack, this I know... but hopefully this will be remedied soon (or not!) but stay tuned and maybe, just maybe I might blog about something soon.
P.S. This really isn't about anything and therefore doesn't count.
I have been slack, this I know... but hopefully this will be remedied soon (or not!) but stay tuned and maybe, just maybe I might blog about something soon.
P.S. This really isn't about anything and therefore doesn't count.
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