Pay it forward

Could you make wow a better place ?

We have all meet em ingame, that being in a pug, in Dalaran or in trade channel. People with odd talent selections, gems or items. People that in some way have misunderstood it all, or simply dosent know better. Many of us playing WOW is players that have played games for a long time or people that use a great deal of time on forums, blogs and such. To read up on builds, gear choices etc.

What if we, instead of being annoyed and just turn and walk away. We stop up and use 5-10 minutes of our playtime to help the player out. Ask him/her why he have choosen the gear he have ? Why he have those gems in his gear ? and so on. I will bet that most simply dosent know better. But that most would like to know.

Would 5 to 10 minutes be to much to ask. I bet alot would be gratefull to get a bit of help. And maybe next time you meet him/her he could actually show to become alot more usefull to you. Am I dreaming here ? Do the majority simply dosent care ?

I like to live in the dream, that if I use 5 to 10 minutes once in a while on a player, who in some way could need my knowledge or advice. That could end up with being something I can draw something good out of in the future. Maybe they will pay it forward, to another player in the future. It could all end up in, we being able to play with a better player next time....

Or simply start a vibe that in the end, would make all of WOW a better place to be and play in.

6,3K Retribution DPS

Yesterday, the eyes was on Naxxramas heroic. We have the place comfortly on farm, but wanted to push myself a bit. To see where I was dps wise. Ofc Patchwerk was the big question. But I still like to expand it a bit. As I like a player to be able to substain damage over a whole raid night. And ofc thaddius is always a fun fight, just to see the "fake" dps number you can get there.

Lets see how it all went.

Patchwerk
I have had some troubles with getting cleaved once in a while on this fight. But as we had problaly out strongest 2 tanks on him for the night, I had little to worry about. So I could focus on my dps and go balls out.
Which ended pretty good, if I shall say so myself. 4,6K damage, which ended me 1st on the dps meter. I was quiet pleased with that.

Recount screenshot incoming as soon as I get home

Thaddius
The gimmick fight. My best score here so far is 5,3K, the tricky about this fight is that you are dependent of the other people in the raid to do max dps. It went pretty good, and I broke my own record, by quiet a bit. 6,3K damage.

Recount screenshot incoming as soon as I get home

Overall damage of the night
I had a bit of a fight with one of our other top melee dps'ers. A Death Knight, which actually use to end above me on the meter. But this time I got him. Ended 4th on the meter for the whole night. As the highest melee dps'er. Very close to 4K. Which I guess will be my next goal. Died on Gluth, which ofc wasent very pro. So that can be better. So My next goal is a 4K overall damage during a raiding night in Naxx.

Recount screenshot incoming as soon as I get home

A few Great upgrades
Have been after a few upgrades lately. A new pair of bracers, gloves and the T7.5 Head piece. As that would more or less make my set complete. Only with a few minor upgrades to go then.
So what did I get last night. My first upgrade was a neck, Fool's trial. Replaced my emblem bought neck. Nice upgrade.
Next was on Patchwerk, he made my night. Crude Discolored Battlegrips. Yes, thank you. As those would mean I could replace my hero gloves, as soon as I got my hands on my t7.5 helm. I really like the 4 set bonus, so would like to keep that.
Kel'thuzad was the next in line, near the end of the night. He went down and there it was smiling at me, the T7.5 helm. Actually first time I have seen it, even though I have downed him several times now. I didnt have enormous amounts of dkp left. After getting the neck and gloves. But went all in, all I had left.... waiting for the Loot master to count down... 3..... 2...... 1......
Impadin for 208 dkp..... wohoo.... :)

So I could get my ass to Dalaran to pick up the head, Valorous Redemption Helm. Gem and enchant it, and use the gloves right away. Also got enough valor emblems to buy the bracers there, Wristbands of the Sentinel Huntress. So the night ended really well. With new neck, gloves, helm and bracers.

Working on the Nobles Deck atm. Im only a few cards down now. 8,5 and 2 to go. So should be able to pick up that nice trinket at the next fairy time.

Its Sartharion+3 tonight, im prepared.

Dualspecc good or bad ?

Ok, I have a confession to make. I have a fetish, which I have had for a good deal of time now. Since I first heard of it. Dualspecc. I just cant get my hands down on this one. I love the idea, I love the concept, I just cant wait to get it. There is now a Q&A on the official wow homepage, which get a lot of details out. I will come with my opinion on some of the questions answered. WARNING!!! Most of the opinions is just me saying how good its gonna be.

Nethaera: Why are we allowing players to dual spec after all this time?
Ghostcrawler: We really felt like this was a great way to increase the flexibility available to players and encourage them to take part in more aspects of the game. To use just one example, some players like to participate in both raids and Arenas, which is awesome behavior that we want to promote. But, there are some talents which are more useful in one part of the game than another. Currently, players have to pay respec costs and go through the process of setting up the desired talent spec and action bars whenever they switch.
Impadin: How much win is this ? Its brilliant. One thing that have bugged me for some time, is that my main have loads of good gear for his offspec. But it hardly gets into use, as it has been so complex to change specc and such. And not to mention after the glyphs have arrived. Some of em is so important, that a re-glyph was have to be done as well. I don’t like to be in a specc, where I cant be my full use. No half solutions. This is now made so much smoother. Not to think of when you want a instance run, and missing the last tank or healer. As im a paladin, I can be main dps specc. But dualspecc one of those, to help out. I don’t care to much about pvp, so 2xPVE specc for me is gonna be so good.
Ghostcrawler: The new system makes this a much more logical process, saving on time and cost and allowing players to easily move from one aspect of the game to another.
Impadin: Thats right, so well spoken.

Nethaera: Who will be able to use it?
Ghostcrawler: Players who have reached the maximum level will be able to set up dual specs.
Impadin: I hope they will reconsider this one. As atm the hardest time to get into instances is while levelling. As ofc the amount of people on the 10-78 level is smaller than the 78-80 part. So really hope they will reconsider here.
Nethaera: Why do players need to be max level in order to do this?
Ghostcrawler: We didn’t want to burden lower-level players with extra complexity as they’re working to level up and learn their class. But if the feature proves popular we might consider expanding it.
Impadin: This makes alot of sense, but what about you get dualspecc, when you have your first character on 80. And then its avaible to all your characters, also while levelling. Then its not complex for new people. But you have the edge of knowledge to be able to use it on an alt as well ?

Nethaera: How do you switch between specs?
Ghostcrawler: Players will be able to switch between their talent specs by visiting any Lexicon of Power provided they’ve paid for the ability to have a secondary spec. Lexicons of Power will be available in major cities, and inscribers will also be able to create a new item that summons one. Anyone can purchase this item, but it requires a ritual of several players to summon it for use by the party. It’s similar to a repair bot in that it will exist in the world for a short duration. It’s important to keep in mind that you will not be able to switch specs while in combat or Arenas. While you won’t be able to switch your spec without the Lexicon, you will still be able to look at your secondary spec whenever you want to.
Impadin: Interesting. Will be carrying those around like I have my bots, always minimum a stack of 5. Good thing as well, is that these will be a good money maker for inscriptionists as well. Yes, I have one ofc… J

Nethaera: Will solo players have the ability to switch their specs outside of the cities or will they still need to visit a Lexicon of Power?
Ghostcrawler: Solo players will still need to go into the city to visit the Lexicon of Power to switch their talent spec or will need to get together with other players to summon one in.
Impadin: Cant have it all. I think its fine like this.

Nethaera: Will you be able to switch gear easily to match your spec?
Ghostcrawler: At the same time we implement dual specs, we will also be setting up a gear system. The feature is called “Gear Manager.” It can also be used to just swap weapons or trinkets or put on that tuxedo to strut around town. It will not automatically switch your gear when you change your talent spec, but it will allow for an easy gear change between them. The feature may not be fully functional immediately in the PTR, but we’ll have more information to share about it before too much longer.
Impadin: Built in feature, which should have been into the game long ago. Great news, this feature have been a must have for many classes in a long time. Smooth to finally get that into the game as well.

Nethaera: Will you be able to change your Glyphs as well?
Ghostcrawler: Glyphs will be tied to each talent spec so that if you switch between them, so too will the Glyphs. You’ll notice the UI will have changed a little bit so that the Glyph panes show up alongside the Talent panes now that they are associated.
Impadin: As said higher up, this have been one of the things I have disliked about glyphs. Respeccing have not done all to change from Ret to holy forexample. This is done now. Good work, Blizzard.

Nethaera: What about hotbars? Will players be able to save them for the talent spec they’re running?
Ghostcrawler: Yes, you will be able to save hotbars and use them with your talent specs. It just saves your bars at the same time as it saves the glyphs and talents. If you want to switch to your other action bar, you will need to change specs.
Impadin: a feature which hopefully gonna be bug free. As that will really make or break some of the success imo. As im a big addon user, I just hope the Bartender people is on there toes and get that addon upgraded asap.

Nethaera: Is there a way for players to choose their talents without them being saved? Currently, once you spend your talent point, it’s spent unless you pay the respec cost again.
Ghostcrawler: With the dual spec feature, we are going to allow players who respec to configure all their talents before they get saved. They will be able to allocate the points, then choose if they want to use that as their spec, rather than needing to carefully diagram out their talents ahead of time. This will allow players a little more freedom when deciding on the talents they want to pick and avoid costly mistakes.
Impadin: This is also great news. How many dosent go to wowhead or the official wow page, to set the talents. Then back into game to set em one by one, with the ALT+tab’ing in and out of game. Well, I do. Thats not needed anymore. Another good feature.

Nethaera: Will players be confined to only setting up two specs?
Ghostcrawler: We will be launching the feature with just two specs, but depending on how we feel it works out, we might consider additional specs in the future.
Impadin: Interesting Paladins, with triple-specc. Talk of jack of the box. Im more than happy with dual specc, but ofc triple specc, will be taken with a smile as well. Hybrid classes ftw.

This is not the full article, you can find the full article by following this link. As you can read im very happy about this feature. And really looking forward to it ingame. I really have a hard time being negative over this one. Ofc the implementation is gonna be bug free, or close to. I hope Blizzard have taken the last patch mistakes up to consideration. And when 3.1 is hitting the servers, we are back on good old Blizzard standard. We all know you can do it, lets see you work your magic.

Sigh.....

Im really having some of a down period with wow. Im in that phase where you log on, and actually dont wanna play much. Just logging on because, well thats what I use to do... sigh....

I have tried to work on my tank gear for my paladin, as that is the dualspecc im aiming for, Ret/Prot. I have also tryed to work on getting some more chars up in level. My warrior got another level, so he is now 76. And worked some levels into my priest which is now, 69.

But damn, I have a hard time leveling in Northrend. It seems even more dull to me, the second time around than outland did. Which I cant really figure out why ? Am I getting tired of the game ?

Have a few more post's in the making, and some more as ideas in my head. But cant seem to find the energy to make em, to publish stage. Ohh, well. Hopefully I will get the spark back. Not even making money on the AH, appeals to me atm.

Our nemesis is down !

Just a quick update. Im home from vacation. Been riding some really nice offpiste, forest slopes in norway the past week on my snowboard.
But back home now. My first night home, we ventured once again into The Eye of Eternity. To once again try to defeat our nemesis, Malygos on Heroic. The first 3 try's we got him to 6-8%. So we where all certain we would nail him this time. And 4th time was our lucky time. With 40 seconds left on the enrage timer, and actually a bad phase 1. (Missed the 2 last sparks in the end of phase 1.) He nail the ground, vanished into oblivion.

While I have been away, my guild have downed Satharion with 2 drakes up as well. So its Satharion with 3 drakes up now for us. And then all is cleared in the current content.

Will end with an Congratulation to my guild, Epiphany for great work, lets get the last gear out of the instances. So we are ready for Ulduar.