It’s been a good month for guild progression. After kind of a lull in 25-man progression, we are coming into our stride and downing bosses at a good place. Having a fairly consistent team of raiders helps immensely. I spent a fortune chanting and gemming my new tanking gear and my healing set. I replaced … Read more
The Sunwell badge loot vendor popped at around 8am this morning on my server. I really did try hard to find a valid reason why I couldn’t go to work but alas, I’ll have to wait until this evening in order to cash in. I have all of my gems and leg armor materials ready … Read more
Wow, status on the SSO badge vendor is at 14%. It was at 0% as of 10pm last night (phase 3 popped at around 9pm). We really want our badge loot lol. Last night Drysc, a “blue” posted on my realm forums congratulating us on being the first to hit Phase 3. Good job Proudmoore, … Read more
Magister’s Terrace, the new 5-man instance is fun. We ran it a few times this weekend, on both normal and heroic. On normal, the difficulty and loot are roughly equivalent to a low end heroic. On heroic, the difficulty and loot is roughly equivalent to Karazhan (opinion might change once we run it a few … Read more
Gruul is on farm (took a 2-month 25-man raid break during December and January), working on SSC and soon TK (flu hit key raid members this weekend, boo). We’ve been holding off-raid night Karazhan farming runs for alts and people who need badges. Badges, need more badges. Gear: Swapped the Chess Event tanking sword for … Read more
If you don’t already use it, WoW Web Stats is an excellent performance analysis tool. It’s probably the most accurate and detailed out of all the current mods and combat log parsers out there. It doesn’t display information in real time though like DamageMeters or Recount. You have to instead, enable combat logging (/combatlog … Read more
The forums have changed yet again. Toying with new software. I’ve picked up quiet a few items since the last time I’ve posted: The Pauldons of Stone Resolve from the timed chest event in Zul’Aman, the tanking boots from the first boss in ZA, the badge reward tanking coal, the badge reward tanking belt (not … Read more
Soaked up a few pieces for my offhealing set: [Spaulders of the Advocate] off of Halazzi and [Mojo-mender’s Mask] off of Akil’zon. I am not honestly sure what either is supposed to be, the shoulders look like, as a guildy put it, “crap glued together” lol. Got Jan’alai down in Zul’Aman. There are two important … Read more
Halazzi is more or less a, “tank n’ spank gear check add fight”. Have your off-tank pickup the Spirit of Halazzi immediately, have your melee DPS focus on taking down the totems as soon as they pop, and have healers keep both tanks topped off because Halazzi does major damage. Tanks: Halazzi’s most annoying ability … Read more
0 Holy/49 Protection/12 Retribution This build is specifically for raid tanking, as everything is built around maximizing health/mitigation, easing uncrushability gearing and threat generation. There are plenty of great protection builds for more hybrid healing or DPS roles, but this isn’t one of them lol. Protection (49 points) I dropped Reckoning … Read more