Punted Like a Gnome

Well finally, after months of gearing and raiding I am starting to get back to the way I like to play. Of course as a guild leader if I was ignoring the raiding demands of the guild that would be selfish and would not allow us to grow once Ulduar comes out. But now that my demand for heroics is lowered I can hop on and have some fun.

I prefer the wondering what I will do when I log on rather than scheduled raids. Although I will continue to raid and show some of the content, that is not the main focus of my videos.

Over the last 2 years I have acquired a vast audience that is interested in different videos, so I try to keep them varied so that everyone can enjoy. Everything from PVE to PVP, with gold, leveling, and time saving tips contained within.

Ramparts was a ton of fun, and I was surprised on the big difference, since I hadn’t been in there since level 70. When searching for members to run, by looking to guild or typing /who 58 or /who hellfire, I had found that there were a lot of Deathknights. I tried to limit my groups to 2 Deathknighs maximum. The first power leveling run I made, I had no healing class in my group which was a huge mistake. Well I had figured I could solo it so healing wasn’t a concern, but with the additional players in the instance, the agro was all over the map. So a healer helped, while I regained control of the instance.
In this video the BOP items you saw drop were:

Watchkeeper Gargolmar dropped Scale Leggings of the Skirmisher

Omor the Unscarred dropped the Crystalfire Staff

After defeating Nazan the chest contained Kilt of Rolling Thunders, Witching Band, Shifting Sash of Midnight, and the Mok’Nathal Clan Ring,

By being exaulted with the Cenarion Expedition, I was able to purchase the Cenarion War Hippogryph.

New glyphs incoming soon

Eyonix chimed in on the General forums earlier to say that we’ll be seeing new glyphs soon. It’s just a small line, but it should be good news for all tradeskills. It’s very rare for them to add a significant amount of items to one tradeskill in a content patch and leave all of the others untouched. Personally, I think it’s a good sign that we’ll be seeing a lot of tradeskill love in patch 3.1, but maybe I’m reading into it too deeply.

Even if we’re in some crazy world where only Inscription receives tradeskill love, this is interesting news regardless. We might be seeing more glyphs incoming for a lot of our Wrath of the Lich King abilities that weren’t given glyphs, so we could experience the base abilities before we started augmenting them. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if we started seeing things like Glyph of Mind Sear in patch 3.1

Blizzard reveals new WoW Dungeon

‘Ulduar’ will go live in WoW’s next patch

“For millennia, Ulduar has remained undisturbed by mortals, far away from their concerns and their struggles. Yet since its recent discovery, many have wondered what the structure’s original purpose may have been. Some thought it a cit, built to herald the glory of its makers; some thought it a vault containing innumerable treasures, perhaps even relics of the mighty Titans themselves. Such speculations were wrong. Beyond Ulduar’s gates lies no city, no treasure vault, no final answer to the Titan’s mysteries. All that awaits those who dare set foot in Ulduar is a horror even the Titans could not, would not destroy, an evil they merely… contained.

Beneath ancient Ulduar, the Old God of death lies, whispering…. Tread carefully, or its prison will become your tomb.”

Ulduar is WoW’s most ambitious sounding raid yet. It is a natural progression from WOTLK’s newly introduced Naxxramas and Sartharion instances.

The new dungeon will comprise of two separate raiding areas. One section will be an epic battle between the player and a vast army that stands in front of the dungeon entrance. The second area will allow players to enter the actual dungeon to discover the “secrets of Ulduar”.

The dungeon will feature a total of 14 bosses, 11 of which will have an optional hard more.
For more details check out the official page.

The 3.1 patch will only be available to owners of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack. It is set to hit  public test realms “very soon”, with nothing to indicate when it will be available to other realms just yet.

Are Paladins going to get nerfed?

There’s a cloud of gloom hanging over our collective Paladin heads over here at WoW Insider, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that Divine Plea still works. Even with the 50% healing penalty, Divine Plea is still a critical spell that’s used without much of a second thought. Now it’s just used a tiny, tiny bit less. Of course, Ghostcrawler also mentioned in his explanation of the new mana regeneration changes that they’re going to nerf Spiritual Attunement for “non-tanking Paladins,” too. So yes, there’s that cloud.

Here’s the thing, though… that change will hurt Retribution Paladins more than it will Holy Paladins. Retribution Paladins rely on the synergy of Spiritual Attunement and Seal of Blood / of the Martyr in addition to Judgements of the Wise, Replenishment, and Divine Plea. We’ll probably have to see exactly what the incoming nerf looks like before we panic, but considering how Paladins have a history of getting beaten by the nerf bat, it’s not an altogether rosy proposition. In fact, I think Paladins are probably going to get nerfed beyond the current Divine Plea and the future Spiritual Attunement. My thoughts after the jump.

Farming Mounts with Hobbs – World of Warcraft

The new spell Sacred Sheild works awsome in any AOE pull, and the new taunt Hand of Reckoning is awesome to have. Hand of Reckoning comes in super useful in raiding.

The best Paladin in the World… of Warcraft

“The best Paladin in the World… of Warcraft” reads some fan mail

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.0.9

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

Druid (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.

Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Kindred Spirits (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet damage at max rank.
• Serpent’s Swiftness (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet attack speed at max rank.

Pets

• Lava Breath now reduces the target’s casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.
• Poison Spit now reduces the target’s casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.

Mage (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Arcane Power now increases damage and mana cost by 10%, cooldown reduced to 1 minute. (Note: The spell is actually different in game and increases damage and mana costs by 20% with a 2 minutes cooldown. However it would probably be better to wait until servers are online to confirm that.)
• Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown. Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.
• Arcane Flows now reduces the cooldown of Presence of Mind, Arcane Power and Invisibility by 15/30%.
• Presence of Mind: The cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes, (down from 3.)
• Slow (Arcane): now increases cast time by 30%, down from 60%.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Arcane Missiles — Increases the critical strike damage bonus of Arcane Missiles by 25%. (Old – Increases the range of Arcane Missiles by 5 yards.)
• Glyph of Mana Gem — Increases the mana recieved from using a mana gem by 40%. (Up from 10%)
• Glyph of Arcane Blast — Increases the damage from your Arcane Blast buff by 3%. (Down from 5%)

Paladin (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• The duration on all Seals has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.
• Divine Plea: The amount healed by your spells is reduced by 50% (up from 20%) but the effect can no longer be dispelled.
• Sanctified Seals: This talent no longer affects dispel resistance, but continues to affect crit chance.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Holy Light — Your Holy Light grants 10% of its heal amount to up to 5 friendly targets within 8 yards of the initial target. (Down from 20 yards, Tooltip text fix, was already hotfixed to 8 yards in game)
• Glyph of Seal of Righteousness — Increases the damage done by Seal of Righteousness by 10%. (Old – Reduces the cost of your Judgement spells by 10% while Seal of Righteousness is active.)

Priest (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Inner Fire duration has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.

Rogue (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Hunger for Blood (Assassination): Now increases damage 5% per stack, (up from 3%.)
• Mind Numbing Poison now reduces cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
• Mutilate damage will now do 20% increased damage against poisoned targets, down from 50%.
• Slice and Dice: This ability now increases melee attack speed by 40%, up from 30%.

Shaman (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Glyphs

• Glyph of Windfury Weapon — Increases the chance per swing for Windfury Weapon to trigger by 2%. (Down from 5%)

Warlock (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Curse of Tongues: Now increases the casting time of all spells by 25% (Rank 1) and 30% (Rank 2), down from 50% and 60%.

Dungeons and Raids
The Obsidian Sanctum
Changed the color of the fissure in the Obsidian Sanctum to be more visually distinct.

User Interface

• The “GM wishes to speak with you” alert/button, at the top of the screen, has been changed so that addons do not obscure it.
• A clickable chat message has been added that duplicates the GM alert/button.
• When a GM wishes to speak with you the Help Request minibar button will glow.
• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum .

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players using nVidia 3D glasses were unable to see spell cooldowns.
• Fixed a software mouse cursor bug that was causing the mouse curser to disappear from view when over certain UI elements.
• Fixed a player movement error in which other players were appearing to move erratically when traveling beside them.

Easy Gold in World of Warcraft

I’ve recently collected about 300g without doing anything but sitting in Org for a few hours mailing items.

How you ask? I think I’ve come up with the ultimate mail scam.

To start, go to General goods vendor and buy about 200-300 wrapping pappers (45 copper per paper). Also fill your packs (all 16 slotters empty) with blacksmiths hammers (16 copper). Wrap all the hammers. Sit at mailbox clicking on 60’s walking by and type in their name into the mailto (or just open the who list and search for 60s on the server), put 1Gold COD (or more!) and put the present. send. move on. don’t even put a message, you could if you really wanted to but I find this a waste of time. Just keep doing it, find guy, click, type name in mailto, put prezzie in 1gold COD and send.

You’d be surprised how many people will pay 1g to see what’s in the box.

WARNING: Use this trick at your own risk, people have made a LOT of gold doing this but also take the chance of getting banned, be careful.

Also helps to have a weird character in your name so they can’t whisper you. My name was ÁrrakBBlizzmade me change it because of this.  I know this is a nice little trick, but if your serious of making tons of gold quicker and in a more legit way then you may want to check out a guide a lot of people have been talking about lately, the Valkor’s Gold Guide, there is a small fee for it, but it is worth it in my opinion.

Horny WoW girls and their tales

My friend is in a fairly large WoW guild on the Hydraxis realm. A female guildmate sent him pictures and a video of herself, which were pretty brutal. In respect for the guild, it will not be named, nor the players involved. Later, she invites him into a private vent channel and calls me on MSN via voice chat.

I set Audacity to record all sound input. My friend had to turn up the volume on his headset and let his mic pic it up. Sorry about the quality.

Keep in mind that he only met this girl that night. The two of us were pretty much speechless throughout, we both know what she looks like-if you knew, you wouldn’t know whether or not to laugh or be scared.

Enjoy!

Blizzard announce class changes for patch 3.1

Blizzard has announced that their next major content patch (3.1) has some big things sin store, including the new epic raid dungeon “Ulduar”, as well as new items and some class changes.

The three classes Blizzard discussed forthcoming changes for are the Priest, Rogue and Shaman.
Below are the changes, as quoted by Blizzard

Rogue Changes:
- Hunger for Blood – instead of a self-buff, this ability can only be used when there is a bleed effect on the target. However, it has no stacks and grants a 15% damage bonus.
- Adrenaline Rush – the cooldown on this ability has been lowered.
- Lightning Reflexes – reduced to 3 ranks. In addition to 2/4/6% dodge, this talent now also grants 4/7/10% passive melee haste.
- Killing Spree – while this ability is active, the rogue does 20% additional damage.
- Savage Combat – now causes 2/4% physical damage done.
- Mace Specialization – this talent now grants haste in addition to armour penetration.

Shaman Changes
- Chain Lightning – now jumps to 4 targets but does less damage. We wanted to make the distinction between Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning clearer.
- Storm, Earth and Fire – this talent now increases all damage done by Flame Shock, not just periodic damage.
- Spirit Weapons – now reduces all threat, not just melee threat.
- Unleashed Rage – reduced to 2 ranks, now also increases your critical strike chance with melee attacks by 1/2%
- Totem streamlining: The Mana Spring and Healing Stream Totems have been combined. The Disease Cleansing and Poison Cleansing Totems have been combined
- We are also working on giving Enhancement and Elemental more PvP utility.

Priest Changes
- Divine Spirit – this spell is now core ability available to all priests.
- Discipline has access to a new talent, Power Word: Barrier. (Think of it as Power Word: Shield for your whole group).
- Several area of effect (AOE) heal spells have been improved:
- Prayer of Healing can be cast on any groups in your raid party.
- Holy Nova’s mana cost has been reduced.
- Circle of Healing now heals for more.
- Shadow priest PvP survivability has been improved: Shadow Form now reduces magic as well as physical damage. Dispersion now removes snares.
- Penance – this spell can now be targeted on the priest.
- Serendipity – this talent now reduces the cast time of Greater Heal and Prayer of Healing when Binding Heal or Flash Heal are cast.
- We are also working to give Holy additional PvP utility

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