Words of Replicant Jesus

Just rolled in and got my Goblin Turbo Trike, yeah I am pimping.

He dies tonight, a great tauren with no peers. I took my last screenshots of Cairne and of my paladin as a Blood Elf, tommorow or more precisely later today she will be a tauren. Thus a new journey shall begin.

But all we are is dust in the wind.

Just some screenshots of me running around with my tauren paladin Go Wigglylight go.

Tank Threat

Some replies by Ghostcrawler on Tank Threat.

I am not sure what to think as of yet on some of the comment on the one hand I do agree that tanks could use stronger single target threat and that the reliance on Tricks of the Trade and Misdirect while interesting from a group dynamic strong point make the tank classes as a whole feel incomplete.  Again we reach the issue of threat scaling, and I agree it was absolutely perfect in Naxx and solid in Ulduar but after that it seemed to not really keep up.  Can we still hold threat, of course we can and I doubt I can lose it once I get going.  But the amount by which threat has scald with damage is not consistent with the increase for DPS classes.

Given this is the second time this has happened though not as bad as Burning Crusade, I am not truly confident they will find an adequate solution.  But I do have hope they will do their best to enhance the tank classes in the places they need it most.  I am not too terribly thrilled about losing more AE threat but I understand why.

Glorious Asian Taddies

How you doing?

Courtesy of Really Cute Asians.

I got nothing else, probably see The Crazies tonight.  Should be fun.

Coming in 3.2 is the Crusaders’ Coliseum which promises to bring another tier of raid difficulty and content to the game.  Along with that is the inclusion of a new Heroic raid dungeon system which according to Zarhym which include the Hard Modes of the bosses and the tribute system.  It seems that according to the official website raiders will have to unlock the Trial of the Grand Crusader by completing the normal version of the raid dungeon on 10 or 25 versions.  Once done they can attempt the Trial but only get a certain number of attempts per week to try and clearing the dungeon with the least amount of attempts used will net higher rewards.

Which means we will 10-man and 25-man normal raid dungeons and 10-man and 25-man Heroic dungeons, giving us 4 completely different lockouts for a given week for a single dungeon.  This will be interesting and I am not sure how it will play out but hopefully it works.  I am intrigued to see how the achievements will work for these encounters and I can almost assume that any mounts will be given for the Heroic mode of the dungeons only but we shall see.

Hopefully more information will be forthcoming once the PTR goes into full swing.

It’s like Christmas but better.

New patch notes!

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I have no updated in a while; truth be told I was a little bored with doing this content over and over. I have not followed Ulduar changes a closely as I used to so it will be a little bit of a surprise but not much. The tank changes will hopefully ad parity at the high end and we won’t have a situation where Deathknights followed by Druids are the best tanks for the extreme damaging content. Although since I was usually add duty or drake duty on Sartharion +3 I was rarely bored.

I find add tanking to probably be the most difficult and thankless role. Even more so in then ten-man version. We finally got the ten-man Undying achievement and still trying to get the 25-man achievement. I hope we can knock it out before Ulduar but if not there are other achievements to get and I won’t feel too bad about it. I really should update more often and will strive to get a post up at least weekly if not sooner.

In other news with all this extra time not playing I have taken to reading and enjoying my Changeling: The Lost books, if I am not doing one nerd thing it is another.

Oh and Happy Birthday to my girlfriend.

Well another one in August I am not sure if I will be able to go; but I will try. I always have fun at these events!

Oh on a side not Twilight Vanquisher Vanifae is go.

Well the new president is in office and I am starting my thrid semester towards my Computer Science degree; everything it seems is moving along at a brisk pace.  Patch 3.0.8 came out and was not without its issues but we soldier on.  I have completed all the content now for the expansion besides the Twilight Zone achievement for ten or twnety-five man content.

I started leveling a druid recently, Wigglebear, using the Bind on Account items bought with emblems.  Specifically Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders and Swift Hand of Justice x2.  I plan to level as Feral and then probably switch to Restoration unless i have too much fun as Feral which is possible.

Keep on tanking.

I really enjoy the new 10-man raiding system, we couldn’t get enough together for the 25-man version so we did the 10-man and down him in three tries.  Very interesting and fun fight, frustrating but I like the direction.  I also got a Barricade of Eternity out of the deal.

Not bad for a casual raiding guild.