Tuesday, February 24, 2009

about dual Spec

Blizz will put PTR for 3.1 patch. As a druid aka hybrid class, i would love to explore more specs to handle. Right now, i have a feral kitty gear(still working on it), a caster gear(80% completed) and my main healing gear(couple minor upgrades). on next patch, as i discuss with renren and pala, we can not figure out which is the most dual spec for us. renren has intention to be kitty/bear. I amthinking about tank/tree. Pala who has a lv 80 druid is thinking about boomkin/tree.

renren says he has been feral for a long time and he has 2 sets of gears in his bags. Thanks to Blizz making Feral druid split in 2 specs on tank and dps. renren says it is the way to make him enjoying dps and tanking in full spec. Pala's druid is a healer and has some decent boomkin gear with him. It is really easy to make the transition on gears. he just need to swipe some gears with hit rating and we could deliver decent dps.

i am thinking about tank/heal because 2 major spots will cover. I can tank and i can heal. DPSs are easy to look up. but a good tank or a good healer is hard to find. at least, a good healer could save some soon to wipe cases. I admit that i have never been a tank. NOT EVEN ONCE. With min to no tanking experience, i may be the worst tank ever. However, practice makes perfect. I may pay up some repairs bill and learn from instance to instance. hehe. It should be a good time to look up some tanking gear set for my bear. RAWR!
It has been a while that I didn’t update here!

I am leveling my old hunter. LOL. Now he is lv 77.)
his spec is SV/MM. I am really enjoying his dps (roughly 1k dps). The journey on this hunter is long. Currently, I am clearing up quest in Howling Fjord. I have some quests in Grizzily Hills but I think I will complete most of the quest in Howling Fjord and go back to Grizzily Hills. I am thinking about leveling in Storm Peak now since all the chain quests in Son of Hodir is starting there.
Also, I need to do quest with Ebon blade for head slot enchanting….sigh...revered rep…I think I will kill some time with him since it was my 1st character and my beloved character in wow.

Back to Druid~
my guild had down OS+2 in 25 men last week. It was the most challenging instance I had ever encountered with: 7 healers, 3 tanks and 15 dps. It was a great night. I need couple upgrades in Heroic Naxx: Head, neck, cloak, offhand, weapon, and ring. Head should be t7.5 piece. Neck I have no idea, Cloak should be Cape of the Unworthy Wizard dropped at KT. Ring should be Lost Jewel dropped at spider wing, patchwork or instructor. Offhand should be Matriarch's Spawn dropped at big spider. Main hand should be The Impossible Dream dropped at Loatheb. Just up little by little on raid. Wish me luck tonight.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

PuG before reset

Last night, it was nothing special night.
1) Renren went off early for studying exam
2) Torpedo was tired after work. He decided to log after 11pm. Sigh...
3) Paladi, Wass and Pkny held the house party at home. Sigh...
I was looking for group to run Heroic HOL to complete 2 quests in Storm Peaks. I found a group to run Heroic HoL. It was great until we hit last boss. The debuffs on each of us were the killer. So we stacked on each other on winning pull, stayed closed with boss and kept dps him down. However, I ran out the instance. And I turned in the quests, nothing popped for achievement! I was like wtf. Then I searched at wowwiki and found out that more quests would get when reputation for Sons of Hodir honored. I checked and I was on half way to make it. O well…I just need to keep doing dailies over there…sigh...
Then, Pkny and Paladi were trying to pug heroic OS after I got off from pissed moment. We pulled on 12:xx am. It was not long for clearing whole room. We took about 30 mins to clean up the mobs. We wiped like 3 times / 4 times. 1st attempt was good practice for who hadn’t been in instances before. I honestly didn’t expect a pug could be one shot the boss. So, 2nd attempt was bad since all of us didn’t move at all. In the meanwhile, ppl was trying to use the crush toy to hit on boss. Boss got toy one shot. So stupid but it was fun. On winning pull, we called out the safety zone on Fire wall coming. It helped. A tank pant, restor shaman shoulder, t7.5 glove token for mage, druid, dk and rouge, a t7.5 glove token for warrior, shaman, and hunter, Dragon hide bag and the 5 Satchel of Spoils bag were dropped from boss. It was a good experience that I could be easy to pug in server. I lost the glove roll and spoils roll (/cry). So I went to have some more dailies to loot more funding to spend. When I was at Ymirhen for daily, Hildana Deathstealer was in front of me. I was like huh? Elite...wait...with silver dragon on the mobs icon. I killed her asap. It was easy kill and good loot. I hope I will be useful to my other characters. LOL

Tonight, my guild will launch the 1st 25 men instance. I will log on early to finish dailies and I am exciting to raid with them tonight 

Monday, January 5, 2009

New Year First Post

Happy New Year to all of you.
just summarizing how i did on last 4 days

1/1 Thursday:
New Year Day! i logged on the morning and ran some quests in storm peak. Then i ran some heroic with Paladi, Pkny, Wass and renren. nothing special and we ran heroic like regular instance. LOL

1/2 Friday:
Work day. so sux. i went to gym and smached shuttlelocks. Headed home i logged on and Paladi was forming Naxx. I joined. Invited all the people for 10 man Naxx. Then we started to pull at 1:XXam on 1/3/09. LOL. we had one shot Anub'Rekhan and without anyone died. it was the easily boss in Naxx. We moved on to Grand Widow Faerlina. with all adds died, renren and wass managed to taunt Faelina once they had getten 2 or 3 hits. it was like a ping pong on boss fight. We got her on 2nd attempt. The big spider Maexxna was not bad. We had one shot it lol. after completed Arachnid Quarter , it was like 3:xx am. We moved on to Pladge Quarter. Noth the Pladgebringer was easy like hell. We had him on shot without problem. Then we wiped many times on Safety Dance. we explained like couple time and pracitced with boss couple time. On last pull, 6 of us survived, then PK was down. it was like 18% on boss and we finished it. It was impressive that 5 of us didnt give up our hope and do all the safety dance correctly. It was an epic fight lol. The last boss on Pladge Quarter was Loatheb. It was a dps race. we wiped 2times due to lack of healing. Paladi respecced to heal and increase healing strength on tanking. Druid could not heal due to HoTs was blocked on 17 sec out of 21 secs. so, priest and pally healing were the best combo on this fight. at the winning pull, we had 9 men it down to 0. one of the mages either slept or doing sth that didnt accept our resez. we waited for 5 mins and kicked him for 9 men. it was a long fight but we managed to beat him with 9 men. it was great. for the loot, Paladi looted most of the gears(mail and plate). Torpedo got his staff. It was a nice run with Lsevener. i slept at 6am lol.

1/3 Saturday
I woked up about 11:30am and rushed out to pick up my gf for brunch. We went to Mail and looked around. then i drove to 162th street and Northern Blvd for dinner. after dinner, i drove to Manhatten to meet a fd and had some tea with them. I was exhausted when i was home. I went to sleep after shower.

1/4 Sunday
I woked up at 10:30 because my fd called me to go to Jersey Garden. I picked them up (included my gf) around 12:3Xpm. I bought some clothes and 2 ladies were shopping like a big storm. i was tired after 4 hrs. We headed back to NYC about 6. We had dinner at local restaurant. I drove home at 8. I took a shower and tried to complete all the quests in storm peak. I found out i was one more quest to complete the achievement (99/100 quests in storm peak). I hope Paladi could help me to run the HOL tonight. Also, i had burned all my fund to level enchanting. I had reached 440 last nignt and bought most of the receipts. 3 of receipts you bought via shrad exchanged were not yet learned. So, I just ran some heroic and i should be free. LOL

Tonight, i will look for Heroic for shrad and HOL for achievements. :)

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

New Year Eve!

Finally, the end of 2008 had come!

Life in WoW became an essential part in my life. It was a moment to escape from reality. I could relax in wow. I could enjoy questing in Northrend. I could chat with my RL fds in wow like we guys used to hang out in high school cafetria. I felt really nice to have same feeling back. LOL!

last night, all were not free to log. Just me and renren logged after gym. i did some dailies and got invited for Heroic VOA. We wiped once with like 46k HP left on boss. We got him on 2nd time. Funny part was the 1st try that we had only 24 men on it. Loot were hateful chest for rouge, hateful mail chest for hunter, Plate Dps t7 chest, and Druid healing t7 glove. i lost the roll and felt disappointed. I hope it dropped the shoulder next time for healing druid.

i am still collecting Emblem of Heroism to reserve my gear need if we decided to try arena. lol

tonight is New Year Eve. I will not log on 2008. Seriously, my resolution on 2008 was trying not to wow for 2 years. So see you all next year. Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Xmas, Pro Xmas and Pre New Year

Holiday season should be a good time to enjoy all foods and stay in touch with families and friends. It was nice to PUG Lsevener 1st Obsidian Sanctum. We were so pleased to have Paladi, Pkny(in priest), Wass(in DK), Me, and renren. We just looked for 5 more DPS: 1 rouge, , 1 lock, 1 moonkin, 1 shaman and 1 hunter. the reason we need to balance the rail drop. It was nice to pug with all those guys. IT was really fun that 5 of us raided together like KZ old days.
Wass (in DK) got his head (really decent gear), the hunter got the glove token dropped, i won the bag on roll and the moonkin got the bag which had 5 emblems. It was a good Xmas raid for all of us. Even we lost on items, we just laughed and were pleased to raid.
Day after Xmas was a dumb work day. I brought my laptop to work and level my toons abit. After work, i went to gym. I didnt feel well at all...

Saturday, i was resting in home due to stomach virus. It hurt. Still, i woke up at 9pm (i did sleep almost whole day without food/water). Paladi called me and made me logged. We went for 2 Heroics : it was UP and GD. Without Pkny and Wass and with Torpedo finally reached lv 80 on friday late night, we pug 2 from LFG. it came out the 2 old friends from L8raid (a pug raid group to raid almost everything in TBC era). We chatted abit and started to pull. it was fun to have 2 old raiders in our group. it was fast and nice. We got 2 heroics about 2 hrs and found out that it was 2am. i went back to sleep.

Sunday, my stomach was getting better and i could run around in Northrend. It was good to have renren and Pkny back to group. We cleared fast on GD, HOS, and old kingdom. We called at 1 sth and Everyone was happy about it.

Monday night, no one was home when i arrived home. I went out to grab some dinner and logged on. When all logged on, we started heroics again. last night, we went GD, AN, and COT. It was 1st failure attempt to miss the timer. We wiped once and wasted some times on my dead due to healing aggo. but we tried to pull as fast as we could with all AOE on mobs. It was mad crazy if you watched us to pull. When we reached the extra boss, the timer expired. We was thinking if we could pull him out and dps down to gain some time. However, boss was immuned to taunt and stepped to the portal. We summarized up that our AOE (5 of us can do AOE: mage aoe, healing druid Aoe, Tank swipe, pally aoe and Hunter AOE). We should be ok to get him tonight. I will overheal renren and stack HoTs. Then we would do AoE once renren built aggo. i would do AOE when renren was full HP. That would kill mobs faster and spare more time if anything happened.

Tuesday Night is my gym night. i would love to execrise more and went home to farm some badges. :) (2 more emblems for caster t7 chest WOOHOO!)

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

More Holiday Mood

last night, we had one shot down Kel'Thuzad in Naxx.
Some interesting points:
1) no one had died on void zone
2) i didn't use my mana potion (just innervate once on myself)
3) Sirtank was still died once
4) Birthday power from Rub? (we pulled Kel'Thuzad after 12 and Sherider called out on vent. I am wondering if the birthday power was related)

it was so nice that i got my druid head piece. now i had 3 pieces of t7. HEHE
Well, i still needed my T7 shoulder and T7 pant. As i checked with rings and comments, i would buy the rings from badges. now i was still using the lion heart ring from quest. that was a great up for me. 15 more badges i needed. Hopefully i could farm them on Wednesday. Tonight, Dethno will launch our guild 1st 25 man raid in Heroic Naxx. I hear that Heroic isnt hard as it intents to. So, i will have fun tonight in gym and head home for raid :)