I'm sure that most of you know from reading old posts that I only hit 80 a few weeks ago. Well I've done a little upgrading to the gear finally. I've been playing in Season 3 arena gear since I hit 80 and thought it was time for a change. I've saved honor points and some gold and managed to replace a few things this week. Here's a list of what I've picked up so far.
Hateful Gladiator's Satin Robe
Hateful Gladiator's Satin Mantle
Hateful Gladiator's Satin Gloves
Deadly Gladiator's Band of Ascendancy
Darkmoon Card: Death
Titan-forged Rune of Audacity
Titansteel Guardian
It's not everything, but it's a pretty good start. You can see all my gear on the Armory if you want to keep up with what I've got in between updates, or if you want to check out my spec. I've had a lot of people look at my spec and say that it's wrong, but what makes it wrong? Your spec and your gear is all about finding what fits for your playstyle so don't let people push you around about it. I've found a spec that works for mine. In my opinion, if it makes you a better player, it's right! Keep checking back for more gear updates.
Ducky
Monday, July 20, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Priest changes in 3.2
The priest class is getting a few changes in the upcoming patch. The full notes are available Here but I'm going to shorten it up a bit for you. If you play disc for pvp your going to notice that the only real change you have is that the cool down on penance has gone from 10 up to 12sec. Not a huge deal but I'm sure we'll see a good number of people crying about it.
Now onto the true test of a priest in pvp, shadow. Shadow has gotten two major changes to talents, first is Dispersion. The cool down has been reduced from 3min to 2min. and there is nothing in the notes that says they are changing the Glyph of Dispersion either. That would mean that the cool down would be 75sec or 1:15sec with the glyph equipped. That is a HUGE difference from the current 2:25sec that we have now and it makes the spell a very useful advantage for anyone with Shadow spec. The second talent change the shadow tree is getting is to Improved Mind Blast. In it's current form, the talent reduces the cool down on Mind Blast by .5/1/1.5/2/2.5 sec. The new version of this talent will still have that but it also adding a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to reduce all healing done to the target by 20% for 10 sec. That doesn't sound like much to some people but that could be just what we need to be able to finish off classes that heal or even another class who has a healer with them. I've already changed up my spec a little to make use of this.
There is also a little bonus change that Shadow gets and it's to Vampiric Touch. The amount of damage done when the DoT is dispelled has been doubled. This puts it's damage much much closer to what locks get from UA. That alone can be a huge boost to our class.
Overall, the changes to our class look to be a positive. I'll update this post if I find any new information for you guys, Take care.
Ducky
Now onto the true test of a priest in pvp, shadow. Shadow has gotten two major changes to talents, first is Dispersion. The cool down has been reduced from 3min to 2min. and there is nothing in the notes that says they are changing the Glyph of Dispersion either. That would mean that the cool down would be 75sec or 1:15sec with the glyph equipped. That is a HUGE difference from the current 2:25sec that we have now and it makes the spell a very useful advantage for anyone with Shadow spec. The second talent change the shadow tree is getting is to Improved Mind Blast. In it's current form, the talent reduces the cool down on Mind Blast by .5/1/1.5/2/2.5 sec. The new version of this talent will still have that but it also adding a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to reduce all healing done to the target by 20% for 10 sec. That doesn't sound like much to some people but that could be just what we need to be able to finish off classes that heal or even another class who has a healer with them. I've already changed up my spec a little to make use of this.
There is also a little bonus change that Shadow gets and it's to Vampiric Touch. The amount of damage done when the DoT is dispelled has been doubled. This puts it's damage much much closer to what locks get from UA. That alone can be a huge boost to our class.
Overall, the changes to our class look to be a positive. I'll update this post if I find any new information for you guys, Take care.
Ducky
Thursday, July 9, 2009
New Love for AV
I want to start this by saying that I have started a new guild on my server. Actually it's an old guild but we just formed it on this game. Some of my new guild members and I went out last night to do some BG's and we ended up in AV. Now, everyone had their opinion of where to go. Some said we should go straight for Vann and some said we should go take towers. My opinion was to just hang back and play some defense and that's just what we did. I usually don't like playing AV because while it gives decent honor, it's like getting honor for doing pve. You race to a tower and kill some trash, then you race up to the king and fight him. Not my cup of tea but last night was a different story.
We stayed back on defense (the only place to find any real pvp). There was five of us total from the guild. We all stayed inside the kings room. We let the Alliance come and take the towers and the RH there and just kept ourselves hidden. Once they decided to come in to fight the king, that's when the real fun started! We had a warrior, warlock and myself (priest) fearing the oncoming Alliance into the kings room well before they were ready to fight him. This caused them to wipe over and over and over.... you get the idea. Needless to say, we were able to hold them off for a long time, long enough that our team managed to win.
We had no deaths that round and we decided to keep doing this. We ended up running this about four more times. Each time through we came up with a more interesting way to do it and what's better is that we never lost a single round and none of us ever died. I picked up a few gigs of footage from it that I'll share with you guys as soon as I can put it together. Until next time...
Ducky
We stayed back on defense (the only place to find any real pvp). There was five of us total from the guild. We all stayed inside the kings room. We let the Alliance come and take the towers and the RH there and just kept ourselves hidden. Once they decided to come in to fight the king, that's when the real fun started! We had a warrior, warlock and myself (priest) fearing the oncoming Alliance into the kings room well before they were ready to fight him. This caused them to wipe over and over and over.... you get the idea. Needless to say, we were able to hold them off for a long time, long enough that our team managed to win.
We had no deaths that round and we decided to keep doing this. We ended up running this about four more times. Each time through we came up with a more interesting way to do it and what's better is that we never lost a single round and none of us ever died. I picked up a few gigs of footage from it that I'll share with you guys as soon as I can put it together. Until next time...
Ducky
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Farming Honor
Since I've been 80 and trying to get as much honor gear as I can in a short time I've been trying to figure out what the fastest way is. I tend to do a few different things that yield a good amount of honor but I'm looking for some opinions from other players. I like doing Wintergrasp when it's up and I like doing all of the BG's, not just one. My approach so far has been to play Wintergrasp when I can and in the meantime, play a rotation of all the BG's so that I can collect all the different marks needed to turn in for honor. I also know that some people like to just farm AV since it gives a high amount of honor each time.
I have posted a poll on the sidebar of this page to try to find out what everyone else thinks is best. Also, please leave comments on here if you have an option that maybe I didn't get into. I look forward to hearing what you all think, until next time....
Ducky
I have posted a poll on the sidebar of this page to try to find out what everyone else thinks is best. Also, please leave comments on here if you have an option that maybe I didn't get into. I look forward to hearing what you all think, until next time....
Ducky
It's been awhile / Duck update
Hi everyone, sorry for the long break. I've had some RL issues that needed to be taken care of. Now that everything is taken care of I'll be able to get back to getting you some updates.
One update I wanted to share with everyone is that I finally made it to 80! Since making it to 80 I've played my share of battle grounds and I've managed to pick up a few pieces of gear. Instead of running around in my season 3 arena gear I'm now in 3/5 Hateful Gladiator gear. I know that's not the best gear by any means but it's a huge upgrade from where I was. I'm going to continue to keep you up to date on my gear as it advances. I've noticed that I have the ability to compete and have a ton more fun with pvp now.
As part of that fun, I've started a 2v2 arena team with my warlock friend Zeromaz. We're having a lot of fun so far and I think that combo is highly underrated. We managed to make it over 1k rating in our first ten games. Now I know your thinking, "1k rating sux!!", but you have to admit that reaching that rating in ten games with two classes that supposedly suck together and are both in season 3 gear is pretty good!
I'll keep you updated on how the team is doing, but more importantly I'll start putting together the battle ground footage that I have for you. I want everyone to see how much fun a battle ground can be when you have even just one player along side you playing the correct playstyle. Until next time.....
Ducky
One update I wanted to share with everyone is that I finally made it to 80! Since making it to 80 I've played my share of battle grounds and I've managed to pick up a few pieces of gear. Instead of running around in my season 3 arena gear I'm now in 3/5 Hateful Gladiator gear. I know that's not the best gear by any means but it's a huge upgrade from where I was. I'm going to continue to keep you up to date on my gear as it advances. I've noticed that I have the ability to compete and have a ton more fun with pvp now.
As part of that fun, I've started a 2v2 arena team with my warlock friend Zeromaz. We're having a lot of fun so far and I think that combo is highly underrated. We managed to make it over 1k rating in our first ten games. Now I know your thinking, "1k rating sux!!", but you have to admit that reaching that rating in ten games with two classes that supposedly suck together and are both in season 3 gear is pretty good!
I'll keep you updated on how the team is doing, but more importantly I'll start putting together the battle ground footage that I have for you. I want everyone to see how much fun a battle ground can be when you have even just one player along side you playing the correct playstyle. Until next time.....
Ducky
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