Malygos 25-Man DOWN!!!

By alex

Mana Issues with Ret?

By alex

Hey guys! Just wanted to take a few mins to talk about something that seems to be bother a few peeps.

Josh @ Eye for an Eye posted about his mana issues and having to go for Glyph of Consecration to over come this.

Now Glyph of Consecration increases the length and cooldown time of Consecrate by 1 second. Meaning you spam it less often.

Rather than use Glyph of Con. I use Glyph of Seal of the Martyr/Blood. This increases the amount of mana you receive from Spiritual Attunement by 10% while the seal is active.

This little awesome glyph keeps you topped up in fights like Patchwerk where you don’t(shouldn’t) receive much healing. (don’t get me started about random 14k Chain-Heal procs you shamans!!)

Reading the comments about the glyph on wowhead.com it seems no-one agrees and now has me 2nd guessing something that seems to help me keep my mana going.

The only time I ever have to consume a potion is if i’m solo’ing stuff now. In last nights raid for instance we cleared 3 wings of naxx-25 and I didn’t take *ANY* potions – not even health pots.
I’m wondering if I should start carrying around DPS potions for the last 20% of boss fights when I pop wings or when Heroism is up.

I’ll list what Glyphs I’m using later in case you’re interested.

Last night I was invited in the Naxx as someone dropped out at the last minute.

Once again all that dropped was stupid Protector T7.5 items, but I manged to get to 60 something Emblems of Valor so just purchased my shoulders that way instead.

I did however get 1 loot item:

Aged Winter Cloak
Back
154 Armor
+38 Agility
+57 Stamina
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 43.
Equip: Increases attack power by 110.
Equip: Increases armor penetration rating by 28.

Which is lovely! I had the emblem cloak before so this was a nice crit upgrade for me.

I also got gems fitted to my t7.5 shoulder and legs, and enchanted my new gloves:

Crude Discolored Battlegrips
Hands Plate
1436 Armor
+75 Strength
+82 Stamina
Equip: Improves hit rating by 74.
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 43.

This was the last piece i needed to get me over the hit cap again which is now sitting at 294 meaning I can possibly play with some new boots/belt/neck or something in the future.

I also went for the Massacre enchant for my Axe – controversial? +110 AP is pretty nice!

I’m sitting at 35.1% crit now unbuffed and way over 3k Attack Power.
(In raids fully buffed I’m hovering around 5k AP and 40-45% crit depending on Druids!)

Cooking Achievements Completed!

By alex

Well almost!!

Hey guys! Just wanted to talk about a few things that I’ve done lately.

I’ve completed all the cooking achievements – well there’s one left – the 100 cooking tokens one.

I managed to scour the face of Azeroth in search of the last 13 recipes I needed for the 160 recipes achievement, and managed to get them all without having to get the chimera chops or the Thistle Tea recipe.

If anyone is interested I could list what recipes I have. Maybe I’ll make a post about it!

I’ve kinda not got the will to level my alts at the moment. Which kinda defeats the object of me being on a raiding break – this has not been helped by having computer problems.

I bought a new case and a new heatsink/fan for the cpu and tidied the cables to promote air flow in the case – just need to buy an additional 120mm case fan and I’m set. Got a lot of things to try out tonight in the hunt to work out what the problem is that’s causing the crashing.

I hope I can get it fixed soon – thankfully it only seems to crash the PC when I’m travelling around Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor and not in Northrend at all.

Chef Firelight the Elder

By alex

Hey guys! I hope you’re enjoying the Lunar Festival!

Well as you can probably guess from the title I’ve managed to get another 2 titles to add to my collection!

Lets start with my thoughts on the Lunar Festival Achievements.

All of them are very easy provided 2 things;

1 – You’re level 80

2 – You can get a group to kill 1 boss in a heroic.

The running around seeing all the elders really couldn’t be easier – just time consuming.

As for the opposite factions city elders – I’d suggest you either go very early in the morning, or with a large group. Thankfully even though I did mine at like 11am on Saturday we didn’t meet any resistance at all and were able to get in and out – no problem.

Other than going to the other factions cities there are no Battleground achievements this holiday(unless you count going to the elder in Wintergrasp)

Most of the instance elders can be solo’d easily by a level 80. I did the majority of the instances with a Mage guildie (Hi Umari!)

So come Saturday afternoon I was Elder Firelight!

So that brings me to the Cooking Title: Chef

Like everyone else who wanted this title we were waiting for the extra recipes to come with the patch.

Then it was just a case of getting the last 8 points to get me to 450. This was expensive – thankfully I was able to get a couple of guildies who had spare fish for me.

All in all a pretty successful weekend when it came down to it.

Aside from my computer problems – I’m really at a loss now – when I run WoW in windowed mode the game will randomly restart my pc in certain places in what appears to be Kalimdor.

I re-installed WoW – that didn’t work.

I re-installed Vista – that didn’t work.

I updated all my drivers and that seems to work OK but I’ve been running the game in full screen mode. I wouldn’t mind if the PC was old – but the kit is only 2 months – well not even that.

Lets see what happens, but I’m slowly starting to loose my rag!! Gaaahh!!!

Oh and before I forget I listened to the WoW Insider podcast over the weekend live and was in the chat and Mike Schramm gave me a mention on air!!

Big Big Thanks to Xaodaria!

By alex

Just wanted to make a quick post about something that’s just happened in game!

Let me just fill you in on a couple of things. I’ve been running UBRS on and off the last 2 and a half years trying to get my Lightforge Spaulders.

They dropped once for me and a warrior ninja’d them back when I was level 60. Ever since then I’ve been running that instance whenever I could get a group together.

Since 3.0.8 I’ve run UBRS 8 or 9 times and The beast has only dropped some cape and Finkle’s Skinner. Every time he went down, those items dropped.

So I thought I’d raise a ticket to the GM’s to ask if The Beast’s loot table was bugged.
(Don’t laugh! It was worth a try!!)

So when the GM finally come to talk to me I’m in UBRS again with a couple of guildies….

“*Jumps out of the bush and screams Buu!* Greetings Firelight, I am Game Master Xaodaria. Do you have a moment to discuss your ticket?”

“Aah!! You scared me! Yes I do”

“What seems to be the problem?”

“In a lot of runs, and i mean a lot, The Beast is dropping the same items over and over”

“Yes the shoulders have a lower drop chance than the other items.”

“But after 3 years of coming here they only drop once?”

“Yeah, they are rare.”

“Oh I’m killing him now again, fingers crossed!……….

….Wahey!! They dropped!!!!”

“Did they? “

“Yeah” I don’t believe it! You must be my good luck charm!!”

She then asked me to stand still and she dropped a Chocolate cake into my bags!!

I ate the cake and I was explaining this on vent to my guildies and the rogue in the group asked if I could ask her to make Drakki drop the shadowcraft tunic -which then dropped!

While we were fighting him I noticed that the GM had /cheer ‘d at me, and there she was!! Standing there for a few seconds!! The first time I’ve seen a GM in game!

So she asked if I needed anything else and I said “You couldn’t make the legs drop for me too in strat could ya!!” as a joke, and after she had gone I went to Strat and they he dropped the legs!!

That was probably just luck to be honest, but it was a fun few mins that’s for sure!

So Happy Birthday Xaodaria I hope you have a great day!!

Edit: Oh and in case you didnt notice I’m back to a man again!!