Notice how I spelt honoUr correctly? Anyway, back in the day when I was heading for Rank 10 Leftenant(phonetic), sorry, Lieutenant Commander on HolyWarrior, marks of honour only had one purpose.
Christ it was a long time ago and you had to get drunk to endure all the BG bullshit, so my memory is a little sozzled. But, I am sure the only point of marks was to hand in 3 at a time and get faction rep, honour and maybe even XP.
Can someone confirm that?
OK, second question: WTF do you do with them now?
I had a meeting so no Raiding last night but PS the Rogue continued his rampaging through all 3 BGS available to a level 57 and he has a nice stack of "Marks", but what is he to do with them?
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Location Spotlight: The Bronze Kettle
Near the great forge in Ironforge is a great little soup kitchen called The Bronze Kettle. Not only can you learn a few culinary tips and tricks here, but they also let you use their cooking equipment; namely a stove or two.
Nah, Bollox. The Bronze Kettle is another Paladin blog (I think) which also has a bit of a cooking bent. Well actually the above description fits quite well :)
Check 'em out!
Nah, Bollox. The Bronze Kettle is another Paladin blog (I think) which also has a bit of a cooking bent. Well actually the above description fits quite well :)
Check 'em out!
The Shockadin and You
Eleanor was kind enough to expand on the Shockadin for me. So for those of you who were equally as witless please read on. As you can see, Eleanor is planning on expanding on this soon. So I am waiting for some bloggin goodness :)
Shout out to Elli!
Quote: "The Shockadin is a Holy DPS spec - it's not quite as good for DPS as a ret build, but a shockadin is still a great healer. The classic shockadin is 40/0/21, but you can get away with less. Bare minimum is 40/0/10 for shockadin; you need the fast judgements and benediction from the Ret tree.
Shockadin DPS is done with a 1H caster weapon with big spelldamage, and a caster shield (or offhand, if you don't mind sacrificing some armor for more caster stats). It relies almost entirely on yellow spell damage; Seal of Righteousness and Judgement of Righteousness, Holy Shock (thus the build name), and so on.
This is an excellent article from WI talking about the Shockadin:
http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/10/30/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-maximizing-paladin-dps-part-2/
(I'll probably be doing a shockadin post of my own soonish, too.)"
Shout out to Elli!
Quote: "The Shockadin is a Holy DPS spec - it's not quite as good for DPS as a ret build, but a shockadin is still a great healer. The classic shockadin is 40/0/21, but you can get away with less. Bare minimum is 40/0/10 for shockadin; you need the fast judgements and benediction from the Ret tree.
Shockadin DPS is done with a 1H caster weapon with big spelldamage, and a caster shield (or offhand, if you don't mind sacrificing some armor for more caster stats). It relies almost entirely on yellow spell damage; Seal of Righteousness and Judgement of Righteousness, Holy Shock (thus the build name), and so on.
This is an excellent article from WI talking about the Shockadin:
http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/10/30/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-maximizing-paladin-dps-part-2/
(I'll probably be doing a shockadin post of my own soonish, too.)"
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
What do you enjoy about the class you play the most?
A suggestion for a shared blog was made over on Blog Azeroth whereby many bloggers answer the same question.
I'm gonna go one further and link to all of the ones I have found and then answer the question.
Other Answers...
Banana Shoulders
Parry! Dodge! Spin!
Lesser Healing Wave
Mystic Chicanery
Anyone else? If I have missed you let me know.
So, what do I enjoy about the class I play the most? Well, first off: What is the class I play the most?
Take yesterday, for example. I spent 2 hours tankadining (badly) the Lynx boss in ZA and then spent 2 hours battlegrounding with my rogue.
The day before I spent 3 hours healadining SSC whilst Voidy and Solarion were ass-raped and about 6 hours on my warlock(63) and 6 hours on my Shammy(27) (simultaneously) clearing out Duskwood and The Wetlands.
A couple of weekends ago I spent the majority of my time on my mage and before that one of my warriors.
So what is the class I play the most? I suppose I should go with /played and therefore it's gotta be the main. The Paladin. HolyWarrior.
So time for me to go on a totally random jaunt ...
He can tank (kind of), he can dps (with ret spec and full epic gear) and he can heal. Jack of All Trades, Master of None?
The Tankadin
There is no real metric for tanking. You cannot look at a threat meter and say "I have 800 threat for that fight, I am uber-tank". TPS is kinda relative to what is going on around you; ie that nub mage with his PoM-Pyro combo just as you step up to pull! You could say the stats are 490 defence, 102.4% avoidance and X HP. But that is nothing more than a minimum you HAVE to have before you should even consider tanking.
How can people judge you? Well, if you have the stats, if you can do your job, then you can tank.
Jack or Master? Master.
The Retardin Retadin
Pre-TBC, even pre-2.3 most people would have considered this a levelling build only and not raid viable. That has all changed. I have seen some great Retadins raiding. Not only have they been topping the damage meters but they bring something else to the party, 3% extra crit chance for everyone (I've never Retadined and I pulled that figure from memory, I assume it's right!!)
Jack or Master? Master.
The Healadin
I spend the majority of my raiding as a healer. I can top the healing meters. Better geared Priests and Druids have to work hard to out heal me. No, I am not just concentrating on the healing meters. I know that the biggest healer doesn't neccesarily make the best healer. When I am not on the top of the Healing meters it is because it is a cleansing fight; I'll have the most cleanses and still be 2nd or 3rd on the healing meters with most often the lowest over-heal.
Contrary to popular belief healadining does not involve spamming 2 keys. I have the top 2 rows of my Nostromo set up for healing. There is Cleanse, AutoCrit HL(11) Macro, HL(11), HL(4), FoL Mouseover Macro incorporating Divine Favour. And row 2 has Divine Intervention, Holy Shock, Divine Favour, Divine Illumination and Blessing of Protection. All of these buttons get used frequently on every raid. Especially Divine Intervention - No Durability Loss FTW!
Jack or Master? Master.
So, in conclusion? Introducing the Paladin: Master of All Trades, Jack of None.
That's why I like my Pally.
and not forgetting ... The Shockadin
The What? I've heard mention of this? Sounds good. I assume it's a Ret pally concentrating on yellow rather than white damage. Someone tell me please :)
I'm gonna go one further and link to all of the ones I have found and then answer the question.
Other Answers...
Banana Shoulders
Parry! Dodge! Spin!
Lesser Healing Wave
Mystic Chicanery
Anyone else? If I have missed you let me know.
So, what do I enjoy about the class I play the most? Well, first off: What is the class I play the most?
Take yesterday, for example. I spent 2 hours tankadining (badly) the Lynx boss in ZA and then spent 2 hours battlegrounding with my rogue.
The day before I spent 3 hours healadining SSC whilst Voidy and Solarion were ass-raped and about 6 hours on my warlock(63) and 6 hours on my Shammy(27) (simultaneously) clearing out Duskwood and The Wetlands.
A couple of weekends ago I spent the majority of my time on my mage and before that one of my warriors.
So what is the class I play the most? I suppose I should go with /played and therefore it's gotta be the main. The Paladin. HolyWarrior.
So time for me to go on a totally random jaunt ...
He can tank (kind of), he can dps (with ret spec and full epic gear) and he can heal. Jack of All Trades, Master of None?
The Tankadin
There is no real metric for tanking. You cannot look at a threat meter and say "I have 800 threat for that fight, I am uber-tank". TPS is kinda relative to what is going on around you; ie that nub mage with his PoM-Pyro combo just as you step up to pull! You could say the stats are 490 defence, 102.4% avoidance and X HP. But that is nothing more than a minimum you HAVE to have before you should even consider tanking.
How can people judge you? Well, if you have the stats, if you can do your job, then you can tank.
Jack or Master? Master.
The Retardin Retadin
Pre-TBC, even pre-2.3 most people would have considered this a levelling build only and not raid viable. That has all changed. I have seen some great Retadins raiding. Not only have they been topping the damage meters but they bring something else to the party, 3% extra crit chance for everyone (I've never Retadined and I pulled that figure from memory, I assume it's right!!)
Jack or Master? Master.
The Healadin
I spend the majority of my raiding as a healer. I can top the healing meters. Better geared Priests and Druids have to work hard to out heal me. No, I am not just concentrating on the healing meters. I know that the biggest healer doesn't neccesarily make the best healer. When I am not on the top of the Healing meters it is because it is a cleansing fight; I'll have the most cleanses and still be 2nd or 3rd on the healing meters with most often the lowest over-heal.
Contrary to popular belief healadining does not involve spamming 2 keys. I have the top 2 rows of my Nostromo set up for healing. There is Cleanse, AutoCrit HL(11) Macro, HL(11), HL(4), FoL Mouseover Macro incorporating Divine Favour. And row 2 has Divine Intervention, Holy Shock, Divine Favour, Divine Illumination and Blessing of Protection. All of these buttons get used frequently on every raid. Especially Divine Intervention - No Durability Loss FTW!
Jack or Master? Master.
So, in conclusion? Introducing the Paladin: Master of All Trades, Jack of None.
That's why I like my Pally.
and not forgetting ... The Shockadin
The What? I've heard mention of this? Sounds good. I assume it's a Ret pally concentrating on yellow rather than white damage. Someone tell me please :)
Monday, 28 January 2008
Post Title Change
I installed Statcounter today and it prompted me that I had to change the name of one of my posts?
Why?
Because I mis-spoonerised the post title "ZA? and TiceNits is Really Pissed" and i saw from the list of referrers that someone got to my blog whilst searching for porn with the following link:
Porn Search Link - probably safe for work!
Well, post title changed now!
Why?
Because I mis-spoonerised the post title "ZA? and TiceNits is Really Pissed" and i saw from the list of referrers that someone got to my blog whilst searching for porn with the following link:
Porn Search Link - probably safe for work!
Well, post title changed now!
Tonights ZA
Well, we were down a tank for ZA, so I respecced for the evening.
Got a bit of getting used to again and my CA was under 102.4% which took a while to figure out. I never took deflection from the ret tree so lost 5% parry :(
We went after Lynx boss and had 3 wipes on him.
1) Me and MT die within seconds even standing on top of each other to avoid cleave double damage.
2) We last for while but I was concentrating on keeping HS up and totally forgot to tank Lynx when it spawned - DOH! - wipe
3) Me and MT die within seconds even standing on top of each other to avoid cleave double damage.
Oh Well!
Got a bit of getting used to again and my CA was under 102.4% which took a while to figure out. I never took deflection from the ret tree so lost 5% parry :(
We went after Lynx boss and had 3 wipes on him.
1) Me and MT die within seconds even standing on top of each other to avoid cleave double damage.
2) We last for while but I was concentrating on keeping HS up and totally forgot to tank Lynx when it spawned - DOH! - wipe
3) Me and MT die within seconds even standing on top of each other to avoid cleave double damage.
Oh Well!
Fucking Gold Selling Wanker Goldsoon has a new Name
Fucking tosspot has just left a comment from a new account called Alibaba.
I swear I am going to track the twat down, rip off his testicles and make him eat them.
I swear I am going to track the twat down, rip off his testicles and make him eat them.
The Weekend
Got me a copy of Ghost Squad for the Wii so Friday night and Saturday daytime were distinctly lacking on the WoW front.
EvilBastard boosted BadBitch through Deadmines again for her last quest, HotPants also tagged along in case any more Blackened Defias Gear dropped, it didn't :(
Then BadBitch got a boost through Stockades too. EvilBastard then did all of HotPants' Duskwood grind leaving only the Mordalim and Morbent Fel quest lines to do. The Shammy is now level 28 so not far from Air Totem goodness.
Sunday Afternoon raid was a re-attempt of Void/Solarion that failed so badly on Thursday due to Blizzard being too busy sucking sweaty monkey balls to be able to put the hamster back in the wheel that powers our server.
We clear through to voidy and 1 shot him and I pick up a Fel-Steel Warhelm for my Ret build for a minimum DKP bid of 40DKP - haha!!
Onto Solarion. We wipe about 3 times and then the raid leader, NicePallyClassLeader, accidentally clicks Release instead of Soulstone - haha - unfortunately there are respawns at the start of the instance so we have to reclear all the way back to A'lar's room :(
That done we 1-shot Solarion on our second attempt.
2 TK raids and 2 TK epics for a grand toal of 70 DKP and I am now in #8 position in the guilds DKP standings with over 1000DKP. Mwuhahahha
EvilBastard boosted BadBitch through Deadmines again for her last quest, HotPants also tagged along in case any more Blackened Defias Gear dropped, it didn't :(
Then BadBitch got a boost through Stockades too. EvilBastard then did all of HotPants' Duskwood grind leaving only the Mordalim and Morbent Fel quest lines to do. The Shammy is now level 28 so not far from Air Totem goodness.
Sunday Afternoon raid was a re-attempt of Void/Solarion that failed so badly on Thursday due to Blizzard being too busy sucking sweaty monkey balls to be able to put the hamster back in the wheel that powers our server.
We clear through to voidy and 1 shot him and I pick up a Fel-Steel Warhelm for my Ret build for a minimum DKP bid of 40DKP - haha!!
Onto Solarion. We wipe about 3 times and then the raid leader, NicePallyClassLeader, accidentally clicks Release instead of Soulstone - haha - unfortunately there are respawns at the start of the instance so we have to reclear all the way back to A'lar's room :(
That done we 1-shot Solarion on our second attempt.
2 TK raids and 2 TK epics for a grand toal of 70 DKP and I am now in #8 position in the guilds DKP standings with over 1000DKP. Mwuhahahha
Friday, 25 January 2008
He So Pretty
I have raved about PS the Rogue and all his new gear, So I thought it was time that I show off his gear. And here it is in all his glory.
Blizzard The Useless Bastards pt 79
We tried to go to Voidreaver and Solarian last night, but before we could even get to Voidys room people were getting disconnected left, right and centre.
Every time I got disconnected I would log back on, zone in and as soon as I tried to move get DC'g again.
I checked my latency at one point and it was over 23,000 but before I could get a screen-shot it was down to only 10,000 :P
Blizzard, sort you frigging servers out you useless bastards.
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