Gearing your resto shaman pt 4

Moving down the list onto shoulders and chest.  I am weighting these items on mp5 and spell power.  I am trying to keep the items as drops or crafted pieces from normal instances. Shoulders Epaulets of Market Row: Increases spell power by 60, Restores 20 mana per 5 sec. drops from trash in stratholm past.  [...]

Paladin tanking– The good,the bad,and the ugly

Well to start off the paladin class has had a total rework to our core mechanics.  Gone are the days of put up seal of wisdom then judge seal of wisdom.  It is now just Judgement of wisdom.  Each pally has to keep his own buff on the target the do not self refresh so [...]

Gearing your resto shaman part 3

Going to start on the left side and work our way down and around 2 slots at a time. Lets start off with helms.  Just like before i have stack mp5 above all other stats. Helm of lightning Halls Currently no drop location but ilvl 200 is assuming a heroic drop Hollow Geode Helm Drops [...]

Will enhancment be fixed by launch

Well they are working on the class that much is apparent.  What isn’t apparent is what they are going to do to fix it.   Here is the latest blue post on the current changes. Here are our concerns: Lavaburst makes scaling from spell damage so good that Enhancement shamans were debating wearing Elemental gear. Enhancement [...]

3.0 addons updated

Well a few more of my favorites have gotten there up dates Bagnon mini map button bag There is also a new one.  I personally have not tested it but looks like a sound idea to help you get your head around all the new buffs/class that provide those buff In the buff

Gearing your resto shaman part 2

Figure a good time to talk about trinkets. There are alot lot lot lot lot lot lot lot lot of them lol.  Pick and choise what you like there are haste and spell power trinkets so enjoy.  As always if you spot a item i missed just toss it in the comments and i will [...]

Heated day on the mage forums

Well i am glad it has finally happened.  Mages have taken there QQ’ing to a whole new level.  I personally love my mage.  I will not roll another dps class. The mage takes me back to my D&D days of for lack of a better term blow some shit up. Now don’t get me wrong [...]

Enhancment Blue posts

Well got a little news today from the blues stating that they are working on us. here is the post. I think this sums it up pretty well. We view Enhancement as a melee class that should be wearing melee gear. However, one of the interesting things about the shaman is throwing out some spells [...]

Sad days to be a mage

Death knights win the post count! Gratz DKs? I am sorry we don’t drop by more often. I hear your concerns about Spirit (and the Moonkin ones too) and it’s something we are discussing. We don’t really expect a mage to stand around waiting for FSR to kick in often. I was trying to stress [...]

Blizz trying to explain arcane

We’re messing around with it. In our tests, the most efficient way to play Arcane was to spam nothing but Arcane Blast. Ideally we’d like to see more Arcane Barrage, Arcane Missiles and even some fire thrown around in there.  One way to get that to happen is to let Arcane Blast still be a [...]

Inscription update

A huge number of recipe’s were added in the latest patch.  The scrolls seem to of been added.  There are a bunch of really cool things added this patch.  The certificate of Ownership this allows you to rename your pet.  It has a 7 day cool down so it is kinda long but still very [...]

Changing Mains

For the past year my main has been my mage.  I have been very happy with my mage till i hit Black Temple content.  I just couldn’t keep up with the locks and hunters.  When i rolled a mage it was for the Glass Canon.  We were cloth have little to no survivability as a [...]

Frozen army

Just a couple of cool screens of the frozen battle in northrend enjoy.

Inscription update

Well it looks like they listened to me over on the beta forums.   One week later and now all the glyphs have the appropriate matts to make them. They have also added in some tarot cards:  Strange Tarot,Arcane Tarot, and Shadowy Tarot.  The tarot cards do take a rare pigment so they will be [...]

Utgarde Keep Prince Keleseth

Short video of my mage doing to first boss in utgarde keep Prince Kelesth enjoy   All of the outlands drops have lots of spirit and stam for the new regen.  Only reason i would of needed the blue was to test regen.  :)

UI screens

Figured i would toos up some shots of some of the other UI changes.  Following screens are the inscription pane, Pets/mounts pain and the tokens pain enjoy.

3.0 addons

The addons are not nearly as broken as they were when the 2.0 patch hit. Wow interface has started puting together a list of alot of the new/compatible mods for use when 3.0 launches.  I have not tried alot of mods yet so more to come over the next few days.  I keep waiting on [...]

Priest spell power review level 70

Well after dozens of mana bars casting Greater heal max rank for level 70.  The Numbers were not as far off as i expected.  the avarage greater heal for my level 70 priest on live was 4100 with a spirit bitch build.  Using the same build and just changing out the weapons as stated in [...]

Death Knight Starting Area

Starting out you are in full greens with no weapon.  The quest lines in the Death Knight starting area are really all about learning about your new death knight.  You are imideatly in contact with the Lich King himself The hardest part of the death knight starting area is you really are truly evil at [...]

Spell power comparison

Well after playing around with all the new stuff i figured it was time to check out the changes to healing.  I jumped on my priest on the beta server and found out that a couple of my healing pieces were far outclassed by the dps pieces in the same slot.  For example.   The [...]