| Alliance |
| 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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I don't get the deal with warriors and pvp either. Blizzard seems to think that warriors are at the top of the pvp tree. I guess none of them actually tried to play one in a pvp encounter.
On the other hand DK's are just insanely overpowered. Who knows, they change stuff so often that who knows what it will be like next week.
Cheers,
Bob
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I don't get the deal with warriors and pvp either. Blizzard seems to think that warriors are at the top of the pvp tree. I guess none of them actually tried to play one in a pvp encounter.
On the other hand DK's are just insanely overpowered. Who knows, they change stuff so often that who knows what it will be like next week.
Cheers,
Bob