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| Pallanen |
Dual Spec.: Arms/Protection Guild: Club de Jolie Filles Profession #1: Grand Master Blacksmith/Weaponsmith/Master Swordsmith 450/450 Profession #2: Mining 450/450
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| Sairalinde |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 275/375 Profession #2: Skinning 450/450
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| Jaelle |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Alchemy 290/300 Profession #2: Herbalism 291/300
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| Merenwen |
Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Enchanting 352/375 Profession #2: Tailoring 350/375
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| Miriel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Mining 316/375 Profession #2: Engineering 100/150
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| Earanel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 67/75 Profession #2: Skinning 133/150
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| Granuaile |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Blacksmith 300/300 Profession #2: Mining 289/300
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| Horde |
Rubacuori |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Herbalism 111/150 Profession #2: Alchemy 93/150
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| Ki'Leanna |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Mining 450/450 Profession #2: Enchanting 340/375
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| Pallanen And The New Patch |
| Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
I was away for a few days last week and when I logged on Thursday evening I saw that the new patch had finally arrived. As always, I read all the notes as it was downloading. There were a lot of notes this time. Naturally I went straight to the Warrior notes since Pallanen is still my first and most favorite girl to see what was happening there. :)
As I downloaded the patch and read the Warrior stuff I was once again disappointed. They just keep nerfing Warrior talents. Pally was a Fury Warrior and I liked it a lot. The new changes made me rethink that. I think Blizz Hates Warriors. For real, I am getting that impression. But that is the subject for another post. (I tried to write it all on this post and it became quite a long one. Let’s just say that I’ll get back to that subject later.)
Sooo.....
I saw that we had to do a complete respect since the patch undid all of our points. As I was adding Pallanen’s talent points back to the Fury tree (against my instincts) I was also chatting with an old WoW friend. She and I were comparing thoughts on the new talents and all that stuff. Naturally me being me, I couldn’t chat and respect at the same time so I made a mistake and added points in a place I didn’t want to add them. Duh! So off I rode to the Warrior Trainers in Stormwind to pay for a reset.
Get that? I had to pay anyway even though the respec was a freebie. lol
As I was looking over what specs I wanted to try this time around another Warrior came in and this big achievement thingy popped up. It said he had achieved Dual Spec (or something like that). Then I realized that I had forgotten about the dual spec now available. So I checked it out. 1000 Gold for the dual spec! WoW! :P
But then I started thinking that it would be very cool to be able to Tank and DPS in the same Raid or even just to switch for fun, so I spent the 1000 gold (leaving Pally broke again) and began to look over the Talents one more time. I was more cautious this time since the Fury warrior was now being dumped on by Blizz. Then it hit me, I had been wanting to try out the Bladestorm talent for a while and now was my chance. So I specced Pallanen Arms for her primary and Protection for her secondary.
There are some cool talents in the Arms tree since Pallanen had used it looong ago it. The ability to use Charge while in combat, the bonus damage (armor penetration I believe) while in Battle Stance, being able to use Execute a lot and of course Bladestorm. I’ve been wanting to try out Bladestorm since it first showed up. Now was my chance.
So then I took Pallanen to Sholazar Basin. I was tired of wondering what cool items she would get once her Blacksmithing was maxed so I decided to go for it and max out her main Profession. It would be tough since she was still only at 405/450 but I wanted to get it done plus try out the new spec. Sholazar is the best place for Saronite Ore plus I expected that I could find some good fights with nasty Scourge there on The Avalanche, so that was my choice.
For the next few days, over the weekend, I was working the nodes in Sholazar and helping my friends do quests. The first thing I found out was that Pallanen’s DPS suffered a huge setback using the Arms tree. It was not pleasant the amount of time it took to kill things. But of course her gear wasn’t the best so I decided to hang with it until she could make (or find) better gear. The better gear didn’t take long.
By Saturday afternoon Pallanen was at 440 Blacksmithing and wearing decent gear. Not great but better than she had. Her DPS was up and got even better when I made sockets for her wrists, hands and belt. Her Crit got back to an almost decent level, not quite what it was with the (original) Fury spec, and she was holding her own with 3-4 mobs again.
The Bladestorm talent is addicting. I found myself jumping into areas where I knew she would have several mobs to kill just so I could watch Pally swirl and down them. It was a lot of fun just to do that. :)
So by Sunday afternoon Pallanen was a 450/450 Blacksmith. Her gear still isn't the best but she has been hording her Titansteel so that she can make some of the nice purple armor for herself. I may have to sell some first since she now has no money. I'm not sure how I'll handle that yet but we'll see.
It was nice finally getting to 450 Blacksmithing. But there is one thing that really bothered me about about it too. There are no real special items that Pally can make to help her out at level 80. Yes, there are a couple of Titansteel items that are good. But the epics ipeople get in instances are better. They also cost a lot to make. Not as much as before WotLK came out and those last few levels in BC but still.
Worse than all that stuff is the lack of anything decent for a Master Swordsmith to make. It takes a lot of work to get that fancy title and get maxed out on the profession but there are some green items for sale on the AH that are better than the highest level Swordsmith items Pallanen can make. Basically it's a big waste of time. I was very disappointed to find that out.
Anyway, last night I got the chance to try out Pallanen's new talents in the worst case I could think of. One on one with a Death Knight her level. I was in Nagrand with Pallanen helping a friend quest when I saw someone asking for help at Halaa. I love taking Halaa from the Horde so I flew over to see what was up. It turned out that there was an 80 Gnome Rogue trying to take Halaa and an 80 Tauran Death Knight along with an 80 Tauran Druid were defending. I knew right away that unless we had more help there was no way just the 2 of us were taking Halaa. But I also wanted to see how Pallanen would fare against the Horde.
Call me crazy but I also wanted to see how good a DK was in PVP. I know Warriors have been nerfed so badly that doing PVP is a waste of time with them now, but I had the itch to see what a DK could do. So I did what any crazy Warrior player would do. I sat stealthed near one of the nodes where you grab bombs and waited. I knew the Horde would come and try to knock them out. It didn't take long either.
The Death Knight came to the one I was guarding all by himself. I didn't give him a chance to detect Pally. I Charged him right away and let him have it! It was a fast and furious fight for Pallanen initially. She jumed on him, zapped him with Hamstring so her couldn't get away, hit him with Bladestorm and Execute since it now is available almost all the time. Pally was doing well. But it didn't last. The DK was Plague specced and all the damage I did was useless. He hit Pallanen with all kinds of nasty stuff and made it so she couldn't move easily and ended up finishing her off rather easily. In the end the DK had 3/4 health still and Pally was at the Graveyard.
I guess that answered that question didn't it? I'd like to think that the initial attack Pally made would have seriously hurt another class but in the end, a Death Knight is way to overpowered for any normal class to fight. They have to be a bitch in Arenas. lol
EDIT* For whatever reason my blog isn't publishing. This was in Drafts. Others are also in draft. I'll try and get them all published asap. |
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| Template Pains |
| Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
For the past week or so I have been playing around with new blog templates. I don’t know if anyone stopping by has noticed any of them. But as you can now see I am back to my original. I just can’t seem to find one that suits me (and I’m not really very picky). The ones I have found are nice. Some have good designs. But none is exactly what I am looking for.
And why do they all have black backgrounds?
So I came back to this template so I could update and be at least a bit satisfied. I did notice one thing that made me change this one a bit. When I worked from home on the blog the cool Guild Sigs I had for each girl on the sidebar made the sizing of the rest of the blog all wacky. It looks normal from work but at home it made the posting area about 1.5 inches wide. It looked completely stupid. Made me wonder how many people have stopped by and thought “What a dorky blog!” I would have. LOL
So that is fixed now. I like those sigs but they disrupt the layout so bye bye!
In between playing with the blog I have been playing the game too. Honest. :P I have leveled Elenai to 66 now (almost 67), I have leveled Granuaile to 47 and her Blacksmithing to 300. I can’t get her above 300 BS until I get her to level 50 so....... that may be a little bit.
I have been playing Ki’Leana also. Her Guildies have been asking me to Raid with them again so I have been working on getting her some decent gear. I also switched her back to Shadow. I really prefer it to Holy. I kind of left Ki’Leana in a bit of a bind. She has crap gear and no money. But it’s not a big deal on that realm. She is the Matriarch of that clan of girls but it’s just not the same with Hordes. I don’t like the Horde much so I won’t be leveling any more. I will level the Death Knight Earlinde but none of the others. I probably will delete them all except Rubacuori. (WTF was I thinking making a Horde Mage anyway? lol)
Something I noticed while playing my “little Warrior” Granuaile is that leveling a Warrior isn’t so easy. She is specced Arms and it sure does take some time to kill things. I had forgotten how much the casters hurt a little Warrior like Gran. I have had to think back to when Pallanen was that little and remember how I managed with her. I may have to switch Granuaile to Fury to level. But I have been looking over the Protection Talent Tree and some of the new stuff (new since I looked at it looong ago) is kind of cool. I may try that out just for fun but I expect that Granuaile will end up Fury at some point.
So I will continue to try and find a cool template for this blog. Don’t be surprised if it goes through a few more changes before I’m settled again. It is fun to play with new looks and all that anyway. I expect soon that I will find one and then everything will be normal here again...... for however long ‘normal’ lasts with me and my tiny little attention span. :P |
| posted by Jen @ 8:30 AM |
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| Playing With Templates |
| Thursday, April 9, 2009 |
I'm playing around with some new templates. Got tired of the original. Bear with me for a bit..................
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| posted by Jen @ 4:46 PM |
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| Amateur Night At Zul'Gurub |
| Wednesday, April 1, 2009 |
Elenai went into Zul'Gurub last night with her Guild. It was the first time I have been in the place with any toon. It was also the first time I raided with the new Guild. It was.......... an experience. lol
OK, not a bad experience. Don't read negativity into that. It was a lot of fun. Just not what I have become used to when it comes to raiding. It was not organized. The group was such a conglomeration of different classes and none had true assignments. It was pretty much a "run up to the bosses and kill them asap" type of Raid. :P
We went in there with only 2 healers. Two healers for a 20 person Raid seemed a little weak to me. Only one Priest. We had one Druid that either couldn't rez or just didn't understand what I was asking when I whispered to him to see if he could combat rez. He was level 73 so I thought he should know his abilities. ??? The group ranged from a level 80 Death Knight all the way down to a level 55 Warrior. There were no Paladins. Elenai was the only Rogue. Hunters galore joined in. Warlocks and Warriors also. We had one Mage. It was an interesting group to say the least.
But we cleared the place out. :)
......... and it was a blast doing it.
The Raid started on time, which I count as a plus. That is a hard thing to do. But the Guild is a very positive and enthusiastic type of Guild so they like to get things going. We headed inside and just rolled through the trash mobs. Once we got to the first boss (I do not remember order of events or names) we assembled and the Leader sent his pet in first. So did the other Hunters. I was just started typing to ask who was Tanking when the fight started. lol
That was my first hint that the evening would be a little different. So I just ran up there and did what a Rogue does best, damage, damage and more damage.
Once the boss was down this is where I really got a clue about the group. The drops were nice. There was a leather head piece that was perfect for a Rogue. Since Elenai was the only Rogue I was about to ask for it but instantly everyone in the Raid was rolling for it. I kept wondering why a Priest, Warlock or a Mage would roll for such a nice leather helmet.
I was confused.
The Mage won that leather BOP headpiece. I could have cried. All through the Raid people were winning stuff they couldn't use. The Mage later won a nice blue plate leg armor piece. I know her and she is not an enchanter. I knew she couldn't disenchant anything. So I found myself scratching my head a lot at this.
There were some type of coins dropping almost every kill and everyone in the Raid rolled on them. Even the drops that were class specific everyone rolled for. Everyone rolled for every drop in the place. (Except me because I didn't want all that useless stuff. I passed on almost everything.)
LOL
So basically we went into every fight the same way. We cleared the areas in front of the Bosses. Then we all rushed the Boss. Everyone rolled for every drop. We rezzed the lowbies after every fight. Every fight. Or we had to summon the lowbies back since they kept rezzing themselves at the Graveyard. :P We killed everything in the place and got the achievemnent despite ourrselves. It was a blast.
The experience reminded me of Pallanen's younger days when no one knew any better. No one in that early Guild knew a thing about Instances back then, but of course everyone back then was in their 20-30 level. That's a bit different.
When we got to the last Boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, I was just resigned to having a good time. That fight turned out to be a piece of cake until I saw that some trash mobs had jumped our one Priest. I rushed over and began to attack them, using Elenai's Blade Fury which hits multiple mobs. I wanted their attention. Unfortunately I got it and although Elenai killed one of them, the others finished her off. It was her only death. I got a front row seat for the final seconds of the Hakkar fight. It was almost dead anyway.
Then the Druid who I whispered to earlier rezzed me. LOLOLOL!
In the end it was a very fun first Raid. One of the Guildies popped up the stats for the evening. It showed that the Hunters did the most damage. That always seems to be the case. The 80 Death Knight was overjoyed that he was near the top in the damage dealt catagory. I just chuckled since I would have thought an 80 DK should have been way out in front of even the Hunters. No Hunter was over level 75.
Elenai was right in the middle of the pack when it came to her damage output. She ended up #9. I was happy with that. She was near the bottom when it came to how much Healing she had needed, which is also a happy stat. (But I think the healing stats are askew since the Priest kept healing everyone all the time. Many times Elenai was healed even when she had taken no damage.) Generally, the stats tell me she is doing well so far. Being level 64 with most of the raid group being higher levels, I think Elenai did well. I know I have a lot to learn about the Rogue but right now she is on course for being a good group member.
Now the Guild on the other hand, well..... we will have to do a lot of homework to whip that group into good shape for high level Raiding and Instances. No way could we survive Kara doing things the way we did them last night in Zul'Gurub. Not even with a few level 80's mixed in. But we have time to get used to playing as a Guild group. Eventually we will have it together. Until then, we will just stomp our way through the achievement list. Hopefully with a few more Healers and a real Tank from now on. :P |
| posted by Jen @ 7:43 AM |
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| About Me |
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Name: Jen
Home: Pennsylvania, United States
About Me: I started playing WoW after my best friend bugged me to play. I soon learned that I really liked it. Now 2 years later I still play and have 20 characters. LOL I am no gaming expert. I am no WoW expert. A lot of the terms and "how to do's" elude me still. But I love to play. All you will find here are the adventures of Pallanen and her sisters. I love them all and they really kick butt. So stay tuned and maybe we can learn stuff from each other that we never knew. xoxo
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