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The Honor Crunch

Sep5

Now I understand why the Wrathful set doesn’t require arena rating, and why Blizzard won’t pull the items back.  They take A LOT of honor and it’s harder to get now.  For example I ran an EoTS and had 70 HK’s and only earned about 50 honor. So yeah.

I’m generally top damage in battlegrounds now though, in fact in this picture I was the only person at a base and I got to enjoy watching a Horde warlock stare at me for a while, run back and forth, then I waved, and he decided to go elsewhere XD

During all this a certain guild member asked if I have Alchemy.  Yes on my priest.  He asked if I can transmute a gem, yes.  He said he may have the mats.  I reminded him that one cannot transmute anything with no materials, meaning it’s bad enough he wants me to use up my transmute cool down of 24 hours for him, but also use up my own mats. I finish up my BG and note that he has said “I have the gem silver” a few times, which I take to mean he has the items I need to transmute.

I switch to the priest only to have him say that he already found someone to transmute his gem, or he bought it, something like that.  Once again I am reminded why I need to ignore any favor requests from this person, because he does that ALL THE TIME. He also asked Maice to cut it for him, then went AFK or something with Maice asked if he was ready, and didn’t come back for a good 10 minutes.  Bleh.

Jealous of ele shamans with tenacity

Sep5

Worked on enchanting and gemming my new pvp set this morning, then queued for WG and got the message about it being full again.  I flew there and participated out of raid, and fortunately didn’t die the entire time so I wasn’t kicked back to town.  During this a GM contacted me about my ticket from Wednesday and said they would refund the honor for the gems I was unable to return to the vendor on Ocyla.

Joined a VOA 25 group and while waiting for the groups to fill, killed 2 horde that kept coming back to bother people at the vendors.  Shaman are more annoying than ever now, and seem to have a polymorph? WTH? That’s crap!  So you have a tank like nuker who can heal and crowd control.  Yeah.

Did all the bosses in VOA, which is nice since people want the Justice Points (JP) we finally see the stone and lightning bosses again.

Too bad the loot tables aren’t updated.  A number of people die during the storm guy because they don’t know, or remember the fight.  This is one thing I enjoy about WoW’s raids; some no matter what the level can’t just be tank and spank out damaged, you either properly respond to threat in the fight or you lose.  I take a break after emailing a pile of gems to Stoutspectre to cut for my pvp set <3

Day after a patch

Sep4

Well, the day after a patch is always fairly brutal and this was no exception.  We now have many more Glyphs (like L2 tats) to set up, 3 Prime, Major, and Minor rather than just the Major and Minor ones.  Once you learn a glyph you can swap it out at any time with Vanishing Powder, no more rebuying glyphs each time to reuse them.  Buffs no longer take reagents, even though my portals still do, and mage table.

I put my main spec into arcane, and the new trees leave little to mess with.  You pretty much have to learn the entire tree before you can stick a few points into another tree.  I can no longer learn Icy Veins from frost or Icy Shards, but Improved Counterspell is easily available to all trees.  This makes sense and Blizzard clearly knows that most everyone was putting just enough points in Arcane to get Improved Counterspell anyway.  Icy Veins probably didn’t belong being in an arcane mages abilities.

The frost spec is now massively overpowered, with Frostbolt casting very quickly, brain freeze and the frostfire bolt being proc’d insta cast, cone of cold doing massive AOE damage and ice lance and Deep Freeze causing lots of damage and stunned immobility as well as the over all slow freezing effects.  I try to queue for for WG but even getting in 10 mins in advance I get booted out saying it’s too full.  That doesn’t make me happy.  I spend a good part of the rest of the time dueling Leonz, my paladin friend, and I kick his ass the majority of the time.  Frost is definitely goofy overpowered.  In fact the last battleground I ran, over 50% of the people in there were mages.

The health bars over enemies and friendly players are only working some of the time, which throws a giant kink into the way I pvp.  I target on HP bars on mobs and players, so this causes me lots of issues.  I buy my glyphs and log out.

Just kill me I need the mana

Sep3

When on my priest in WG a lower level priest asked someone to kill some “noob hunters” by the alliance camp. I switched to my mage and killed one of them on top of a column by the lake. The battle starts!

The horde takes Sunken Ring early on and they must outnumber us because they are dying very easily. A shaman and I take out a siege engine and a horde paladin (blood elf what else) and hunter driving it with little problems. However they overwhelm our low numbers with vehicles and take over the fortress. At the end I had to stand and let one of them take forever to kill me because I was out of MP and gems and MP flasks and evo were all on cool down (CD). Embarrassing!

Remember queuing at a NPC?

Sep3

I log in and notice that WG is already underway, so I run my tigers little legs off to port in before it ends.

I turn in my quests before heading out.

I’d like to get some kills with the guns but I don’t see any Horde in sight!

I head to Broken Temple since that is closest to their camp but only Alliance is there as well.

We spend the rest of the battle, while the towers are going down, beating them mercilessly at their camp, again.

Then I get a group for VOA 10, only the off tank isn’t taunting and I get aggro and die, then the rest of the party wipes shortly after.

We try it a second time and get it, and no cloth drops. We do the first boss too.

I run my fishing daily which is the Disarmed one where you fish in the Dalaran prison sewers for an eel that bit off a guards arm.  You cut open the eel and bring the severed arm back to the healer.

Other fun things can be found fishing in their like shanks, and half empty, or full bottles of moonshine you can actually drink.

I then cook up some Fish Feasts, Firecracker Salmon and Sauteed Golby and send some to my priest.

I put my gems and ore in the back then log off for now.