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Bilgefilth, Clifhoof, Detk, Deucalion, Illyod, Kénshin
Councillors
Monsj, Zaqzon
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Kune's blog
Are you not prepared?
Kune
Been a while since I posted one of these.
I don't know how many of you played back in Vanilla, but I distinctly remember the few times I played as a healer. In those days, warrior tanks were the must and I remember one or two times having a party wipe and feeling entirely to blame. I expected the same in WOTLK.
It seems there is a new trend, however, which allows me to get away free from any more guilt or blame. Ask the tank if he is defence cap! It doesn't matter if I stroll up to ToC Hc in blues gemmed with stam! Just challenge the tank's defence cap and all the blame effortlessly slides to them. Is your tank wearing Tier 9? Still challenge their defence cap! There is no limit to your amazing 'get out of jail free' card.
I'm posting this because it is becoming an annoying frequency to have my defence and gear challenged when PuGing content. I know my class and its abilities, I know the different stats a tank should stride to aim for to be able to do certain content. If you want to start challenging my gear I am sure I can find fault with yours. Case in point: Hail was tanking on her alliance (Boo! Hiss!) deathknight and they wiped in ToC Hc on champions. Hail's tank gera on this character has been slowly improving and by now she has reached 'uncrittable', be it with some use of resilience. Two druids in the party were feral DPS. Between them, they managed a staggering 1409 dps. Not each, the two of them put out 1409 dps in total. Hail was almost double their dps as her tank and the hunter there was pulling about 2.5k. The party disbands after three wipes and the first thing to happen in the druid to whispher Hail, are you defence cap?
People in glass gear shouldn't throw stones.
I don't know how many of you played back in Vanilla, but I distinctly remember the few times I played as a healer. In those days, warrior tanks were the must and I remember one or two times having a party wipe and feeling entirely to blame. I expected the same in WOTLK.
It seems there is a new trend, however, which allows me to get away free from any more guilt or blame. Ask the tank if he is defence cap! It doesn't matter if I stroll up to ToC Hc in blues gemmed with stam! Just challenge the tank's defence cap and all the blame effortlessly slides to them. Is your tank wearing Tier 9? Still challenge their defence cap! There is no limit to your amazing 'get out of jail free' card.
I'm posting this because it is becoming an annoying frequency to have my defence and gear challenged when PuGing content. I know my class and its abilities, I know the different stats a tank should stride to aim for to be able to do certain content. If you want to start challenging my gear I am sure I can find fault with yours. Case in point: Hail was tanking on her alliance (Boo! Hiss!) deathknight and they wiped in ToC Hc on champions. Hail's tank gera on this character has been slowly improving and by now she has reached 'uncrittable', be it with some use of resilience. Two druids in the party were feral DPS. Between them, they managed a staggering 1409 dps. Not each, the two of them put out 1409 dps in total. Hail was almost double their dps as her tank and the hunter there was pulling about 2.5k. The party disbands after three wipes and the first thing to happen in the druid to whispher Hail, are you defence cap?
People in glass gear shouldn't throw stones.
"I hate you. I hate you all."
Diamonds are a DK's best friend..
Kune
So I made a choice and decided to embark on levelling Jewelcrafting. The irony of abandoning engineering as the patch notes finally decided to start looking good for the profession was not lost on me: I was just too busy drooling at gems to care. A +10 stats gem? +51 stamina? I swear the jewelcrafting angel is raining kisses on blizzard HQ at the moment.
I did not match Felsteel or Stanley in speed of levelling Jcing. I decided that instead of preparing all the mats, I would run head first at the trainer and learn anything and everything that might give me a level. Fast forward a few hours and Gohrok sat at a lowly 180. I went and found a guide for levelling it but it seemed to be wrong in several places. Make green skill rating items to go up 10 levels? Do you think I have that kind of bag space and paitence?
An interesting thing to note was how the profession seemed to stall and then suddenly rush through 30 points and then linger again. Levelling through the Outland was worse for me than the end game Azeroth gems, but only just. Northrend was like a dream come true.
Hopefully I will finish off and be 450 soon. Currently Gohrok is 430/450 and starting on his jewelcrafting dailies. I would like to thank Urmomma, Stanleyknife and everyone who advised me or was generous enough to fling a few gems my way. Hopefully the favour will be repayed with yet another player giving a steady supply of crafted gems to the guild bank.
-Gohrok.
I did not match Felsteel or Stanley in speed of levelling Jcing. I decided that instead of preparing all the mats, I would run head first at the trainer and learn anything and everything that might give me a level. Fast forward a few hours and Gohrok sat at a lowly 180. I went and found a guide for levelling it but it seemed to be wrong in several places. Make green skill rating items to go up 10 levels? Do you think I have that kind of bag space and paitence?
An interesting thing to note was how the profession seemed to stall and then suddenly rush through 30 points and then linger again. Levelling through the Outland was worse for me than the end game Azeroth gems, but only just. Northrend was like a dream come true.
Hopefully I will finish off and be 450 soon. Currently Gohrok is 430/450 and starting on his jewelcrafting dailies. I would like to thank Urmomma, Stanleyknife and everyone who advised me or was generous enough to fling a few gems my way. Hopefully the favour will be repayed with yet another player giving a steady supply of crafted gems to the guild bank.
-Gohrok.
"I hate you. I hate you all."
To tinker or not to tinker, that is the question
Kune
I selected Engineering a few months ago for one simple reason: to get the two stam trinkets to boost my health. My early tanking days consisted of wipes in VH as the poor state of my gear was hammered rather brutally into my skull. I saw the two trinkets as a way to boost on a rather low health pool (24k on that day) and so I levelled engineering with the use of my mining skill.
One of my trinkets still remains as part of my stamina set, the other now vendored after a fortunate gain of Essence of Gossamer. The question of dropping engineering had not been considered by me until a few weeks ago.
If you dared to step onto the profession forums a week ago, you would see many engineers up in arms about the poor state of their profession at end game. The patch 3.2 early notes seemed to be another insult: epic recipes were rewarded to blacksmithing, leatherworking, tailoring, jewelcrafting and engineering was awarded a device that seemed to heal a mechanical object a measly 7k. Cue the grabbing of wrenches and the angry jingle of cobalt bolts. It seemed that Blizzard had missed out Engineering, further cementing jewelcrafting as one of the strongest end game professions for raiders and pvpers alike.
The latest patch notes attempt some reconciliation with several new recipes revealed that seem to capture that fun and mischevious edge engineering had. But I am now stuck at a choice: stay with engineering or pursue another profession? Jewelcrafting has its huge benefits and I feel that with the release of 3.2 I will need all I can get to remain competitive in a tanking role. Fun though the scrapbots may be, are they enough? I'm still not convinced by these changes and I remain mutinous towards the engineering profession. Anyone got any ideas?
One of my trinkets still remains as part of my stamina set, the other now vendored after a fortunate gain of Essence of Gossamer. The question of dropping engineering had not been considered by me until a few weeks ago.
If you dared to step onto the profession forums a week ago, you would see many engineers up in arms about the poor state of their profession at end game. The patch 3.2 early notes seemed to be another insult: epic recipes were rewarded to blacksmithing, leatherworking, tailoring, jewelcrafting and engineering was awarded a device that seemed to heal a mechanical object a measly 7k. Cue the grabbing of wrenches and the angry jingle of cobalt bolts. It seemed that Blizzard had missed out Engineering, further cementing jewelcrafting as one of the strongest end game professions for raiders and pvpers alike.
The latest patch notes attempt some reconciliation with several new recipes revealed that seem to capture that fun and mischevious edge engineering had. But I am now stuck at a choice: stay with engineering or pursue another profession? Jewelcrafting has its huge benefits and I feel that with the release of 3.2 I will need all I can get to remain competitive in a tanking role. Fun though the scrapbots may be, are they enough? I'm still not convinced by these changes and I remain mutinous towards the engineering profession. Anyone got any ideas?
"I hate you. I hate you all."