Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A Quick Update and Patch 4.1

Just letting you know that my rogue ding a while ago. It is take a while to get use to playing a rogue since they're like butter compare to other melee class. It's not an easy class, but I am getting the hang of how they play. This class seem to be weird to play in PvP sometimes. Feels like I'm not hitting certain people hard enough, even casters are a little awkward to kill. Still, I manage to take them down. The only classes I have trouble with are hunters and (Blood) DKs. Hopefully, they won't be too hard to take down when this patch comes up. Speaking of which, here's a preview of the new patch:

Seems like people will be trolling trolls again. Man, I lost count how many times they have been getting killed. It's getting to the point they're wiped out. But anyways, what I'm most interested about are the new stuff and changes coming in. I'm liking the Rogues and Feral Druids changes they got going. Looks like they're going in the right direction of being decent again. However, Warriors are getting some abilties toned down a bit. Colossus Smash loses 50% armor reduction on PvP targets and Spell Reflection went up by 15 seconds on the cooldown. However, Lambs of the Slaughter change is pretty nice. Whenever Mortal Strike lands on a target with Rend, it refreshes the duration. That's actually a good benefit since I usually lose the duration every moment or so and it's kinda irritating if I miss a Rend. Although our Intercept's stun is toned down to 1.5 seconds, that ability and Charge has no diminishing returns, which isn't too bad.

Summary of other classes that I play less often or don't play as, most of Mages abilities are getting toned up, which I'm not surprised but just to be mentioned. Shamans are weirdly getting toned down for Elemental Combat and re-worked a bit for Enhancement and Restoration. Death Knights are getting nice tune-ups with Frost, and some changes for Unholy and Blood (even a Death Knight version of Rebirth). Warlocks have some changes with Affliction and Demonology, but Affliction still seems to be a little iffy in the damage department. Aside from the Priest's dispel toned down, their changes are decent at best. Aside from Feral, Balance is getting toned-down a bit in single target damage and Restoration gains more importance with Tranquility and tune-ups with other Area-of-effects heals. Not sure about Paladins and Hunters though. Didn't care too much about them.

Probably my favorite part about the new changes aside from classes are the honor points being double and using honor and conquest points to convert into justice and valor points. This will make gearing much more easier now. The least favorite would be the Call-to-Arms for Dungeon Finder. Understandable that their should be more (mainly) tanks and healers, but that's pretty much a low blow to damage dealers (mainly pure classes like Mages and Rogues). Not a fair trade off if you ask me, but this is Blizzard game. Overall though, big changes. Some are good, some are bad, but the game might be still enjoyable if you don't let the bad get to you.

EDITED: On the part where it converts PvP points and PvE Points. Yeah, it's only Justice to Honor that's being changed. It's one way for Valor to Conquest. Quite disappointing, but I don't mind since the new feature to get valor is easier now.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

She's Coming Around

Yep, my worgen rogue just hit 80 yesterday. So just five more levels to go and she'll be in the big leagues with super-bads and super-goods. Also, a funny thing happen yesterday. I was playing my druid, and my god it was hard for some reason. Since being a cat is practically being a rogue (and I was leveling my rogue for a while), it was hard doing certain abilities. And I thought my warrior to death knight conversion was bad, but this was worse! Still, I adapted to what I can do and kept going.

Also, I got into BH last night with my druid and got PvP leggings...for healing. They didn't had another druid in the group and I just didn't like to see it go to waste, so I just asked for it and gave it to me. Although I won't sell it, I'll probably not use it either. Still, I should probably become heals one day, but I'm practicing on my worgen from another realm first. Still tricky to do things, but its actually not bad than I thought it was from random rumors. Maybe they're just bads that just spam Regrowth and Rejuvenation 24/7. Still, I wouldn't mind changing at the last minute.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Training the Puppy

Well, I'm still working on my rogue. Got her up to 67 as you can see above the post (hit the refresh button if you still see the worgen with 55 above her). Make sure to pay attention to that for what I'm leveling or might delete off. I'll try to update it as soon as I'm done with my WoW sessions. Speaking of my rogue, shes starting to get more interesting as I'm leveling her up. I had a few deaths here and there, but I'm just trying to get the hang of fighting heavy-hitting mobs. Characters like Alehs and Meomeo had an easier time taking Netherock back when I was leveling them. But my rogue hits the ground way easier since I don't have a lot of cool downs to migrate all that damage. I guess I'm not Combat specc to handle them (only use Assassination and Subtlety). I'm not sure if I want to be Combat specc since it doesn't seem useful in instances, much less PvP. So I'll just stick with what I have until I hit either Northrend or 80.

Also, sorry about the late update. Was playing a little too much to the point I just forgot about blogging at all. However, I'll try to make up with another post later. Not sure when, but hopefully when I get the time and thoughts for it. Not sure if it'll be another character profile, but I do have a 85 shaman to show you. So maybe later, but stay tuned for it.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Postponed (Video NSFW)

I'm just going to try and wait until the new patch kicks in. I might come in next week if I get some of my real life things in order. But if it doesn't come in the week after next week, then I'm just going to use it at that moment. Also, MMO-Champion has been getting on my nerves lately. Every moment I pop in there, there's always some sort of topic of ganking and how it's bad for people or what solutions to get back at them. It's getting to the point of just poor players not be able to handle themselves whenever they get ganked or not. Reminds me of this video here with the guy complaining over two ganks from his own guild mate. However, the rage does make it funny (also NSFW).

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Coming Soon...

Hopefully, I'll be back this week because I'm planning on getting a time card tomorrow. However, if I don't get one, I'll just get it later this month. I am getting back into the drive of playing the game, but I still have a busy life outside. Aside from that, it's time to plan a course of action of what I'm going to do for two months. It's not a lot of time and I'm not going to return when the time runs up, but I want to set my characters up so I'll be better geared when I return. But for now, here are things that are on my mind:

  • Level up a toon: Usually, I have room to level up one toon every two months. I got plans to level out my rogue since she's around 30 more levels to complete. It won't be easy since BC content is up next, but I should manage due to leveling there a couple of times. If I can level her out, then I can try for my lock or a new character on Bloodhoof (for my friend). But primarly, it's mostly to level out my rogue.
  • Fine tuning my 85s: As you know, Alehs and Meomeo could use some improvements on their gear. The new patch made me re-think some of their gearing, enchants, talents, and even glyphs. Also, my DK isn't up to spark, so I'm going to work on her as well. I'll try to make a bio of her if I can, but I don't know when I'll post it.
  • Deleting toons and refining my UI: Some toons on there was for my other friend that was on another realm, but since he's probably not coming back, I'm going to delete most of them but my main druid on there. Also, another realm of another friend, I'm going to delete everything since that person moved to Bloodhoof. Not to mention I'm going to work on my UI a bit. I'm still going to use Tukui, but going to delete some other add-ons I don't need.
But that's what I'm planning so far. It's not going to be easy since school will be involved, but it's slowly coming to a close this semester. Not to mention Spring Break is on the 22nd, so I'll have plenty of time to get at least my first objective done. However, if it doesn't happen tomorrow, then I'll just wait for Spring Break (not a good idea for my life right now, but I won't complain if this happens).