tiistai 16. joulukuuta 2008

Raiding the new content

Hello again! Things have been moving very quickly and I've spent more time playing WoW than I probably should (yesterday straight up from 08:30 in the morning to 03:00 at night); this means that I'm now fully heroic-geared, including 10 epics. Thus, there's no loot left for me in the 5-man instances anymore, except Hemorrhaging Circle which I'm trying to get until it drops - running Gund'rak every day until it does. Now that I'm pretty well geared and as mentioned, no loot in heroics for me nor anything to buy with Emblems of Heroism (except those BoA-items for my future alts), I can focus in grinding gold because still need about 4,000 gold for epic flying skill. And what could be better motivator for that gold-grind than having Reins of the Bronze Drake waiting in the bank! I'm trying to do all quests in Northrend, that should yield pretty nice amounts of gold and at the same time, lots of leather (skinning capped, leatherworking 430 at the moment) and meat (cooking 447) will drop.

And guess what? I finally did the fishing quest from Nat Pagle to get my fishing above 225. It is now 240, steady but sure. I can't wait to get it capped because my buff food is Blackened Dragonfin and the reagents need to be fished.

Also, I'm trying to adapt to a new shot rotation - I almost didn't use to use Serpent Sting at all but now it is the initial shot of my rotation. Why, you may ask? Well, one reason: Glyph of Steady Shot, which is probably THE best major hunter glyph out there. So, I'm keeping the Sting up ALL THE TIME and it's really nice to get the two extra Steady Shots due to
Glyph of Serpent Sting. I really like it that I now have a new rotation to work on instead of the same old Steady-Auto one.

...

So, I finally made it to 10-man Naxxramas! /woot It was not full run but I certainly got a good feel for some of the bosses and just seeing this legendary instance from the inside alone was just awesome. The bosses I participated downing were:


Gluth, Grobbulus and Thaddius from The Construct Quarter.

Loatheb and Helgan the Unclean from The Plague Quarter.


Of course, Sapphiron and Lich King's right hand, Kel'Thuzad went down too. I enjoyed the run very much and can't wait to get there again, now in full run from the beginning. I got Cloak of Mastery and Anarchy as an off-spec roll which nicely replaced my Fang of Truth. I now dual-wield that dagger and Savage Cobalt Slicer. Hit is once again capped, yay!

Our guild also did a rehearse-runs (read: wipe-runs) to Eye of the Eternity to down Malygos - phase 2 was the best we could do and he had 2min left on his enrage timer, so we lacked DPS and BADLY!

Oh, we also did our first The Obsidian Sanctum and got Sartharion down pretty easily. To top things off, we also did the Wintergrasp-boss as 10-man raid! So yeah, I've been busy!! X-D

Well... this time I decided to write a short book, it looks like. :-) I'll get back to blogging again when I have something new!

P.S. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that as soon as my realm's maintenance downtime ends, I'll be the first one in Sholazar Basin to tame the elusive Loque'Nahak (the Spirit Beast). Wish me luck!

keskiviikko 10. joulukuuta 2008

New stuff

I was finally able to hit exalted with Argent Crusade about 5 days ago and immediately bought Polished Regimental Hauberk, enchanted it with +8 to all stats and gemmed with +7 agi/+7 hit gem. Woot. Another thing I bought as soon as I got enough rep in Ebon Blade, was Spaulders of the Black Arrow and got rid of the rogue leather shoulders I had. Pretty sweet - although, there are no longer upgrades for me to be gained from heroics, counting out couple of rings. I'm now officially fully heroic geared! :-)


Oh, and I also spent 80 emblems to our T7-chest, Heroes' Cryptstalker Tunic but at the moment it's gathering dust in bank because when you compare the stats of that T7-chest to the rep chest from AC, you'll notice that Polished Regimental Hauberk has whopping 29 agility and 28 intellect (57 ranged attack power alone from those) more than the T7-chest. Also, it has 9 more hit. The only gains from T7-chest are +7 stamina, 51 haste (which as a BM hunter does no good for me) and one extra socket. Of course, there is the 2-piece set bonus for pet dealing 5% more damage which COULD compensate the lack of agility and intellect...

Here's the nice T7 gloves I got earlier (thanks for BigRedKitty for the screenshot - as it happens to be, I even have the same gem in it! :))

keskiviikko 3. joulukuuta 2008

Geared!

So, I hit lvl80 approximately five days after the release and have now been running heroic instances like there's no tomorrow. Here's a list of my gear so far, each item is followed by the enchantment and gemming I would _DESIRE_ it to have, not necessarily the one I currently have.

Head: Plunderer's Helmet - (going to enchant it with Arcanum of Torment and gem it with Relentless Earthsiege Diamond and Deadly Monarch Topaz)

Neck: Pendant of the Outcast Hero

Shoulders: I currently have an offspec-rolled rogue leather shoulders in Spaulders of the Careless Thief, which are pretty damn nice. I also have Massive Spaulders of the Jormungar in a bank.

Anyways, the shoulder item I desire and am farming for would be Spaulders of the Abomination from heroic CoT: Culling of Stratholme - (going to enchant it with a Greater Inscription of the Axe and gem it with Delicate Scarlet Ruby)

Back: Cloak of the Gushing Wound - (going to enchant it with Enchant Cloak - Major Agility)

Chest: Gilded Ringmail Hauberk - (going to enchant it with Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats)

The upgrade I'm seeking for is a reputation reward from Argent Crusade, Polished Regimental Hauberk - (going to enchant it with Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats ang gem it with Deadly Monarch Topaz)

Bracers: Interwoven Scale Bracers - (going to enchant it with Fur Lining: Attack Power

Gloves: Grips of Chronological Events - (enchanted with +35 AP)

The upgrade I'm seeking is Handgrips of the Savage Emissary from The Nexus, going to enchant them with +44 AP.

Belt: Vereesa's Silver Chain Belt - (enchanted with Eternal Belt Buckle and gemmed with 2x Delicate Scarlet Ruby)

Pants: Leggings of the Stone Hall - (enchanted with Nerubian Leg Inforcements)

Boots: Dragon Slayer's Sabatons - (currently enchanted with +4% mounted speed, but going to replace it with Enchant Boots - Superior Agility as soon as I get the materials for it)

Rings: Bjarngrim Family Signet and still a lvl73 ring in Jedoga's Greatring

Trinkets: Incisor Fragment and Mirror of Truth

Melee weapon: Icier Barbed Spear - (enchanted with +35 agi)

Ranged weapon: Amanitar Skullbow - (enchanted with +40 crit rating)

Upgrade I'm looking for is Drake-Mounted Crossbow

So there, I've got myself pretty decent gear already - upgrading gloves is my main goal at this point, the quest reward gloves from CoT: Culling of Stratholme needs to be replaced!