Gear Update

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

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

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

So Close

I wanted to let everyone know that I hit 79 last night and I'm hoping that today will be the day I ding 80. I have some footage recorded that I'm going to post up this weekend of the spots that I used to aoe grind my way through Northrend. It'll be quick and to the point and it'll end with me being level 80. Can't wait to ding so I can start working on the pvp videos for everyone. Until next time.

Ducky

Going Up!

So in my last post I told you that I hit 76. Well over the weekend I also hit 77. I managed to get two levels in two days with minimal playtime. I have to recommend that if anyone wants to level as fast as possible to focus on grinding. I'm going to put together a full write up of where I found to go for the best results. I still have not been able to get to a good spot in icecrown to continue up to 80. That is my next task and I'll be doing that shortly so that I can get a decent guide out there for you. After that grinding guide is out, I'll be hitting the pvp videos hard.

I managed to play a bit of pvp over the weekend too. My friend Zeromaz and I had some great runs in Strand of the Ancients and Eye of the Storm. We didn't focus too much on Arathi Basin even though it was it's Holiday Weekend. We were going more for the marks that we didn't have. Overall we ended up getting about 20k honor over the weekend and getting our marks almost full. It was great fun and I'm looking forward to sharing my pvp experiences with everyone. Until next time.

Ducky

Fastest Level Ever

I just wanted to share with everyone that I was 75 and picked up Mind Sear the other day. That spell makes aoe grinding so easy! I started playing yesterday and within 2.5 hours I was 76. I found a great spot in Dragonblight (not the one from my last video) that had 3 camps of mobs. I came up with a good rotation so that I could work my way through the camps and never have any down time. With Dispersion and Shadow Fiend I never had to stop for mana, and I made a good amount of gold while up there also. I managed to bring in (after repairs) about 150 gold in just coin, no greys. I had to go in and empty my bags out twice and with all the grey items I picked up another 102 gold. I still have about 2 bags full of greens and a couple blues that I need to DE and put on the auction house so we'll see where I end up after everything is said and done. I'll put together a quick video of the camp rotation just to show everyone.

Also, I had a 74 Death Knight jump me right after a pull. I was at half life and had almost no mana. I used Dispersion to get the mana back and then proceded to kick the crap out of him. Why do Death Knights seem so easy to kill? I thought they were going to be tough but I'm not seeing it yet. Maybe it changes at 80 and for their sake I hope it does!

Ducky

Dragonblight grinding

This is my first video. Dont be too hard on me. I hope you all enjoy the video and I'll take care of the quality issues in the next one. Hope you enjoy and please subscribe.

Ducky

A quick update

I just wanted to drop a note here and let everyone know that I'm working on a video right now. It's going to be a quick video about a great spot I found to do a little grinding and make some pretty decent gold in the process. I don't want to get into too much detail right now so make sure you come and check out the video later tonight.

Ducky

Enjoying the Pace

So I've been doing some playing the past few days. I'm at level 74 now but I've been doing a lot of pvp. I'm taking my time leveling to 80 so that I can enjoy Northrend and also build up some honor for when I finally do hit 80. I've been finding that the BG's are pretty good fun at these lower levels. I really enjoy being toward the bottom of the bracket right now. It presents more of a challenge when people higher level than me come along. I've been getting through just fine against everyone but pally's. Those guys are pretty rough and especially when they are a few levels higher than you.

I have a video I'm working on right now. I have some clips from the BG's that I want to show you all. It's not a video to show you how good I am (because I'm not the best) but it's a video to show pvp strategy in the BG's.

I'm sure I've talked about the video enough in the last couple posts so I'm going to get to work on it and get it posted for you as soon as I can. In the meantime I might put up a quick pve video just to show some good questing and grinding spots for people who might be new to Northrend and wondering where to go. Keep checking back and I should have an update in the next couple of days. Also, check out the new link in the Blogroll to the right for Shadow Ashey. It's another good Shadow Priest blog for everyone.

Ducky

Another Return to WoW

I'm sure some of you have heard of Zeromaz before and I'm sure some of you haven't. He is warlock on my server and my friend IRL (in real life). He has decided to make the change with me back to WoW. Those of you that know him can find him in game again, and throw him an invite to your vent sometime when you're looking for a laugh. He never disappoints on that one.

I've had some questions online as well as in game from people who knew both of us and to answer your questions, yes. He is also back in the game again. Look him up and myself anytime. He has a huge wealth of knowledge about Warlock PvP.

Ducky

First Couple Days

So I've been back on the game now for a couple days and I've seen some amazing changes. First of all, I'm level 73 now. Leveling isn't going as fast as I want but that's because I'm taking a lot of time out for the BG's. My favorite is AB for sure. I've never played or seen the new one yet so I can't compare that one just yet but like I said, AB is my favorite at the moment.

I put in a lot of time there the past few days and I have to say that I'm impressed with the changes made to my Priest since I last played before Litch King. I have had no trouble killing almost every class solo and in a group I feel much more useful than I used to. My dots hit much harder now and I love that Devouring Plague has been changed and the new Psychic Horror. That ability is amazing for pvp. Most people you run into in the BG's are melee classes, and for good reason. However, now us priests have a good defense against them. Psychic Horror stuns them for 3 seconds which gives us time to get some distance, then it also disarms them for 10 seconds. The target loses a their main hand weapon which severely cripples them for 10 seconds. That could be one of the best things added to the priest class.

I am putting together some pvp footage for my first video. I want to start at low level and show some of where I'm leveling but mostly give some advice on pvp. We've all seen tons of how-to videos for raiding and tons of pvp videos with music over them. I will say that I really enjoy watching Hobbs youtube videos (If you don't know him go check him out) and I also love a good pvp video. Most pvp videos are arena videos, and not everyone enjoys the arena so I'm going to show and discuss the battle grounds in my videos. I see a lot of people running around the BG's that don't really know much about the style of gameplay that pvp requires. My videos will be aimed at the casual pvp player who may not be getting the full fun factor from they're play time. Keep checking back for updates and I'll let everyone know when the first video will be ready to go.

Thanks for reading

Ducky

Down to Business

This is the first of many posts to come. The purpose of this blog will be to track the progress of my character as well as try to keep up on things happening in the WoW community. I'm just getting this blog up and running so give me a couple of days and I'll start posting some content for everyone.