So you may have noticed that I haven't been around... anywhere in the last several months.
Long story short I stopped playing World of Warcraft for about five months or more for a multitude of reasons. I decided to take a break when my raid group broke up due to poor attendance because of burn out at the end of the expansion and ended up playing Wildstar. There, I met a guy and we ended up dating for four months and we spent pretty much 100% of our time together. So I didn't raid in anything, I didn't stream, I didn't really take any time to do any of the things that I wanted to do because I felt like I needed to spend all of my time with him. I also started school in August and wanted to take it super seriously (didn't happen as much as I wanted it too but it is still going well).
I initially wasn't very interested in World of Warcraft because he hadn't played in many many years and there was no way that he was going to be able to get into any really competitive raid group and I wasn't very interested in raiding casually or below my skill level just to play with him. Now that I'm back on my lonesome I kind of got my fire back for WoW.
I'm currently raiding with a guild called <Crossfire> on US-Thrall Horde side and am very happy since they have a long history of end game progression that ends with the final boss dying. That is a problem I generally have with guilds is that I get up to the final bosses of the tier, usually the last 3 and never actually clear them on Heroic.
You may have noticed that I have been super active on Youtube distributing SWTOR content. As people might know, 2 years ago when I made this super beast computer it was for two primary reasons. For streaming and to put all of the class story lines for SWTOR on Youtube as I was super in SWTOR at the time that I made the computer and was into the stories a lot. Recently, SWTOR released the announcement of their third expansion pack and if you preordered and remained a subscriber you would get 12x experience on class quests, making it possible to level completely through class story quests and nothing else.
Last WoW expansion, I did nothing but play WoW for the longest time and burned myself out so for the month or so before WoW's new expansion I haven't been touching it at all so that I don't get burned out again. So this month I'm pretty much playing SWTOR exclusively, doing one Act of a class a day and uploading the previous class to Youtube. That has pretty much been taking up 100% of my time after I finish school work for the day. So for the coming month there will be tons of SWTOR content on my Youtube channel.
As for the stream, I'm not going to be streaming until Warlords of Draenor is released since I pretty much spend my entire day recording SWTOR and by the time I finish it's so late at night I'm exhausted and ready to bed or just chill out.
So the streaming will return 11/14/2014 with a 24 hour stream during the launch of Warlords of Draenor. I will then try to stream at least 4 hours a day (probably 8pm-12am) everyday. I will be streaming guaranteed WoW Mythic raiding Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from 9pm-12am EST. The plan is to also find a casual guild in Star Wars and raid one or two days a week on off days once the new expansion drops in December. Streaming has always been a strong passion of mine and I wish I had been more consistent with it over the past two years but I've been super discouraged lately since I've been away for so long.
Thank you so much to everyone who has continued to read this blog. I, once again, did not get into the Warlords of Draenor beta so it was difficult to get any information that wasn't released on MMO Champion and that I couldn't get any hands on experience with it which is really annoying as someone who has been playing every Blizzard game since Vanilla religiously that I still can't get into a beta to create content for myself. Sorry, rant over. And since I've been away from the game for so long I haven't kept up to date with everything so jumping headfirst into the launch will be an experience. I am, however, going to get one of my friends to let me log into his beta account just so that I can make a blog post about what blue gear we'll be going for in Warlords and where to get it so keep a look out for that!
Thank you so much to everyone who has kept reading this blog, or messaged me on various games and Twitter and kept and touch during the last several months it has really meant a lot to me and I am glad to be back!
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Thursday, May 1, 2014
What's That Build!? - It's Build 18179 - WoW: WoD Alpha Changes - Mana Changes Galore
We got a new build this week in the Alpha client and there was a ton of new changes. The biggest news were the mana changes for all of the healing classe.
Restoration Druid
You may remember, in the first datamined information from the WoD Alpha there was a buff to pretty much every healing spell in the game that reduced it's base mana costs by about 2% on each spell. I thought that was kind of low for how much they said they wanted to change healing and it seems I was write. There was another string of buffs to healing spells that reduced mana costs again for pretty much all classes. Big spells for classes like Rejuvenation and Healing touch got big buffs while others got smaller buffs again. Below is the full list for Druids.
Glyph of Travel was changed. Before, it would give you increased 60% mount speed but you couldn't cast it in combat. Although there weren't a lot of instances that were outside that you could even use Travel Form during a raid encounter, there were enough that this glyph would never be used by raiders outside of dailies or questing. However, it's been changed so that if you cast Travel Form while in combat you don't get the glyph affect. So this minor glyph is definitely getting much more appealing.
Holy Paladin
Healing Class Changes
Restoration Druid
You may remember, in the first datamined information from the WoD Alpha there was a buff to pretty much every healing spell in the game that reduced it's base mana costs by about 2% on each spell. I thought that was kind of low for how much they said they wanted to change healing and it seems I was write. There was another string of buffs to healing spells that reduced mana costs again for pretty much all classes. Big spells for classes like Rejuvenation and Healing touch got big buffs while others got smaller buffs again. Below is the full list for Druids.
- Healing Touch cost reduced by 7% base mana.
- Rejuvenation cost reduced by 6.5% base mana.
- Cenarion Ward cost reduced by 5.7% base mana.
- Lifebloom cost reduced by 2% base mana.
- Regrowth cost reduced by 15% base mana.
- Swiftmend cost reduced by 5% base mana.
- Tranquility cost reduced by 2% base mana.
- Wild Growth cost reduced by 1.5% base mana.
- Wild Mushroom cost reduced by 3% base mana.
- Wild Muchroom: Bloom cost reduced by 4% base mana.
Glyph of Travel was changed. Before, it would give you increased 60% mount speed but you couldn't cast it in combat. Although there weren't a lot of instances that were outside that you could even use Travel Form during a raid encounter, there were enough that this glyph would never be used by raiders outside of dailies or questing. However, it's been changed so that if you cast Travel Form while in combat you don't get the glyph affect. So this minor glyph is definitely getting much more appealing.
Holy Paladin
- Flash of Light cost reduced by 15% base mana.
- Word of Glory got a buff, increasing its healing to 104% of spellpower, up from 73%. This change also applied for Eternal Flame.
- Execution Sentence, Holy Prism and Light's Hammer have all gotten nerfed by quite a bit (50-75%) in terms of healing output.
- Divine Plea now regains 7% maximum mana, a 2.5% increase.'
- Holy Light (the original Divine Light) cost reduced by 7% base mana.
- Holy Radiance cost reduced by 5% base mana.
- Holy Shock cost reduced by 5.5% base mana.
Holy and Disc Priests
- Flash Heal cost reduced by 2.8% base mana.
- Heal cost reduced by 1.5% base mana.
- Power Word: Shield cost reduced by 2% base mana.
- Prayer of Mending cost reduced by 0.4% base mana.
- Saving Grace (Level 100 Talent Choice) cost reduced by 5.5% base mana.
- Prayer of Healing cost reduced by 0.5% base mana.
- Binding Heal cost reduced by 1.1% base mana.
Discipline
- Holy Nova cost reduced by 0.1% base mana.
- Penance now regains mana if used to damage enemies and it no longer procs Atonement. Each tick replenishes 1.1% mana, down from 1.5%.
Holy
- Chakra: Sanctuary has changed so that each heal casts now reduced the Circle of Healing spell by 0.5 seconds instead of a passive 2 seconds off of Circle of Healing.
- Chakra: Serenity now causes single target heals to refresh renew on that target.
- Circle of Healing cost reduced by 0.3% base mana.
- Divine Hymn cost reduced 0.6% base mana.
- Lightwell cost reduced 0.5% base mana.
- Renew cost reduced 1% base mana.
Restoration Shaman
- Chain Heal cost reduced by 2% base mana.
- Healing Rain cost reduced by 27% base mana.
- Healing Stream Totem cost reduced by 1% base mana.
- Healing Surge cost reduced by 14% base mana.
- Unleash Elements cost reduced by 5% base mana.
- Earth Shield cost reduced by 8.5% base mana.
- Healing Tide Totem cost reduced by 0.5% base mana.
- Healing Wave cost reduced by 7% base mana.
- Resurgence now gives back 812 mana after casting critical spells up from 347 mana.
- Riptide cost reduced by 5.5% base mana.
- Tidal Waves now increase the critical strike chance of Healing Surge by 70%.
- Shamans also received the same Travel Form glyph for Ghost Wolf form along with the new change.
Mistweaver Monks
- Expel Harm cost reduced by 2.2% base mana.
- Spinning Crane Kick cost reduced by 0.7% base mana.
- Surging Mist got a nerf about about 130% of spell power.
- Enveloping Mist got a buff of about 220% of Spell power.
- Life Cacoon cost reduced by 1.6% base mana.
- Renewing Mist cost reduced by 0.7% base mana.
- Revival cost increased by 0.7% of base mana.
- Soothing Mist got a buff of about 300% (double it's current healing) of spell power.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
What's That Build!? - It's Build 18155! - First Datamined Look at Warlords of Draenor
The Warlords of Draenor Alpha has officially begun and lots of stuff is being data mined from the very first build of Warlords of Draenor. We already went over the Patch Notes for 6.0 so we will be ignoring the Patch Notes and making some inferences based on items that have been datamined.
Alchemy
We saw all of the new herbs listed. We have Frostweed, Fireweed, Gorgrond Flytrap, Starflower, Nagrand Arrowbloom and Talador Orchid. There was also an Uncommon level plant called Chameleon Lotus which can look like the other plants when in the wild. There was also something called Essence of the Shapers which can be made from 5 of any plant (similar to Milling) and creates one of 7 Essence which derive from that type of plant.
We also have a new item called the Alchemist Cauldron. Alchemist Cauldrons are made from 10 Essences, which from from 50 Herbs and 10 Blackrock Ore. These Cauldrons will hold Metamorphic Crystals and Alchemical Catalysts which are used to make potions and Flasks. The tooltip implies that there is a chance for it to backfire and produce nothing.
The Alchemist Trinket is ilvl 620 while the crafted blues are around 637. Alchemist Trinkets are generally Normal Dungeon ilvl so we can guess that Heroic Dungeon loot will probably be around 637.
We have our potions in the game as well. Nothing really groundbreaking here except this time around Potions are made from fish or meat instead of from herbs. Herbs will still be required to make potions since you need an Alchemical Catalyst which comes from the Cauldrons.
Flasks have changed quite a bit for this expansion. There are two of each flask type, one normal and one Greater. The normal flasks are a component to the Greater Draenor Flasks. It should be noted as well that Flasks only give Secondary Stats now and not Primary Flasks. Druids will be going for either Spirit or Mastery Flasks more than likely. Each flask takes 5 of an herb, an Alchemical Catalyst and a Metamorphic Crystal which come from the Alchemist Cauldrons. Greater Flasks are made from the lesser flask, an Alchemical Catalyst, a Metamorphic Crystal and an Embodiment of X (which is named after whatever Secondary Stat you're trying to make). No one seems to know yet what exactly the Embodiment are or how you get them.
Archaeology
We're getting three new archaeology types this time around. Ogre, Shadowmoon Clan and Warsong Clan were named in Relics. We don't have any new items coming out of Archaeology just yet and we may not get any at all if they choose to go down the same route that they did in MoP.
Blacksmithing
We got a long list of items that came with Blacksmithing. There seems to be three sets of armor one Rare (blue) quality which ilvl 637 and two Epic (Purple) quality items which are ilvl 650 and 672. There only seems to be a few of each individual item with a lot of duplicates. We can assume from this that when these items are crafted that they will have a random secondary stat.
Cooking
Cooking seems to be going back to it's roots and thank God for that! A lot of us would agree that the raid food in MoP got a little bit too crazy with what it was asking for. So far, each piece of food seems to be giving 28 of a Primary Stat of 125 of a Secondary Stat. Most of the single food only takes one of a piece of meat or fish with no extras needed. There's two types of feasts; one of Blood which gives you Primary Stat or of Water which gives you a secondary stat. There's no mention of what it takes to make them yet though. Most of the tooltips seem to be broken however because most of the food is for Agility only at this point. I'm hoping that the Intellect food will be a fish because I would much rather fish than farm mobs for food!
Enchanting
There are three ingredients for Enchanting currently. Draenic Dust, Blackfire Essence and Rune Shards; the epic shards are not in the game yet. Currently there are Enchants in the game for Necks, Rings, Cloaks and Weapons with two different qualities. There are Breath of X which are Common quality enchants and Gift of X which are Rare quality Enchants. All of the Weapon Enchants do the same thing and cannot be added to weapons over ilvl 600 (which is lower than the max level blues) so we can assume their either broken or we haven't seen all of the enchants yet. There are definitely tons more enchants per slot with about 12-15 enchants per slot with only 4 slots able to be enchanted as of right now.
Looking at two of the Enchants side by side, Enchant Ring - Breath of Spirit gives 75 Spirit while Enchant Ring - Gift of Spirit gives 100 Spirit. Both seem to cost 20 Draenic Dust which seems a bit odd not only with the amount but the fact that they both cost the same amount. Either the Gift of Spirit Enchant is more difficult to come by in terms of the recipe or the tool tips just aren't finalized yet.
Fishing
Fishing is getting some new mechanics in terms of bait. You can use bate that is useful per zone in order to get the fish you're looking for. This might imply that there won't be any pools and you will use the bait to increase your chance to get fish while fishing in the open water. Not sure on that yet because you wouldn't really need the bait if you're fishing in a pool.
There seems to be several different types of the same fish. The regular fish are named such while there are "Enormous" sizes of the fish that can be caught with more skill in fishing while "Small" versions of the fish will be caught with less skill in fishing. The meat that comes from fish is also listed in the Fishing section so maybe now Fishing will include the gutting/preparing of fish and catching Enormous fish will give you more meat for your potions or food. Unsure of this however, but it could be pretty cool!
Leatherworking
Leatherworking and Herbalism will be playing nice this expansion. We have Native Beast Hide which is the Leather of the expansion but we also have Stitched Starglazed Leather and Starglazed Leather which is Leather treated with Starflower (an herb) to create items.
Mining
We have True Iron Ore and Blackrock Ore this time around. True Iron Ore is common ore while Blackrock Ore is uncommon quality.
Carpnado is a new ability that hurls a tornado of fish at the enemy. This is an obvious reference the terrible direct to DvD movie Sharknado which I am ashamed to admit that I saw.
Some new pets include Lil Leftovers (I really wanna see a screenshot of that!), Tiny Iron Star, Carrotus Maximus (probably a Vermin), Weebomination (possibly a tiny Abomination like Patchwerk or Stitches), Mechanical Toucan (a bird which doesn't look mechanical at all), Mechanical Tallstrider and Echo of Murmur.
We have 7 new Factions listed but it wasn't specifically stated if these factions have reputation tied to them. We have Frostfire Ogres, Red Phantoms, Shadowmoon Orcs, The Pale, Adherents of Arakk, Arakkoa Outcasts, Palemoon Orcs, Shadow Council and Draenei, Draenor.
Restoration Druids
All druids are getting Survival Instincts which reduces damage taken by 70% for 12 seconds. We are getting this very heavy cooldown to make up for all of the cooldowns we're losing from Symbiosis which are getting removed.
Mistweaver Monk
Focus and Harmony - Haste Effects lower the GCD of your spells and abilities.
Detonate Chi - Instantly detonate all of your Healing Spheres, causing each of them to heal a nearby ally within 12 yards for 50% of the affect. Some people might remember back at Blizzcon when the Mistweaver talents were originally announced that this was one of them. However, they've changed the talents significantly since then and Detonate Chi is becoming a stagnant ability.
Special Mention - Mages
Mages are getting Amplify Magic which increases all healing received by 20% for 6 seconds on a 2 minute cooldown.
Professions
Alchemy
We saw all of the new herbs listed. We have Frostweed, Fireweed, Gorgrond Flytrap, Starflower, Nagrand Arrowbloom and Talador Orchid. There was also an Uncommon level plant called Chameleon Lotus which can look like the other plants when in the wild. There was also something called Essence of the Shapers which can be made from 5 of any plant (similar to Milling) and creates one of 7 Essence which derive from that type of plant.
We also have a new item called the Alchemist Cauldron. Alchemist Cauldrons are made from 10 Essences, which from from 50 Herbs and 10 Blackrock Ore. These Cauldrons will hold Metamorphic Crystals and Alchemical Catalysts which are used to make potions and Flasks. The tooltip implies that there is a chance for it to backfire and produce nothing.
The Alchemist Trinket is ilvl 620 while the crafted blues are around 637. Alchemist Trinkets are generally Normal Dungeon ilvl so we can guess that Heroic Dungeon loot will probably be around 637.
We have our potions in the game as well. Nothing really groundbreaking here except this time around Potions are made from fish or meat instead of from herbs. Herbs will still be required to make potions since you need an Alchemical Catalyst which comes from the Cauldrons.
Flasks have changed quite a bit for this expansion. There are two of each flask type, one normal and one Greater. The normal flasks are a component to the Greater Draenor Flasks. It should be noted as well that Flasks only give Secondary Stats now and not Primary Flasks. Druids will be going for either Spirit or Mastery Flasks more than likely. Each flask takes 5 of an herb, an Alchemical Catalyst and a Metamorphic Crystal which come from the Alchemist Cauldrons. Greater Flasks are made from the lesser flask, an Alchemical Catalyst, a Metamorphic Crystal and an Embodiment of X (which is named after whatever Secondary Stat you're trying to make). No one seems to know yet what exactly the Embodiment are or how you get them.
Archaeology
We're getting three new archaeology types this time around. Ogre, Shadowmoon Clan and Warsong Clan were named in Relics. We don't have any new items coming out of Archaeology just yet and we may not get any at all if they choose to go down the same route that they did in MoP.
Blacksmithing
We got a long list of items that came with Blacksmithing. There seems to be three sets of armor one Rare (blue) quality which ilvl 637 and two Epic (Purple) quality items which are ilvl 650 and 672. There only seems to be a few of each individual item with a lot of duplicates. We can assume from this that when these items are crafted that they will have a random secondary stat.
Cooking
Cooking seems to be going back to it's roots and thank God for that! A lot of us would agree that the raid food in MoP got a little bit too crazy with what it was asking for. So far, each piece of food seems to be giving 28 of a Primary Stat of 125 of a Secondary Stat. Most of the single food only takes one of a piece of meat or fish with no extras needed. There's two types of feasts; one of Blood which gives you Primary Stat or of Water which gives you a secondary stat. There's no mention of what it takes to make them yet though. Most of the tooltips seem to be broken however because most of the food is for Agility only at this point. I'm hoping that the Intellect food will be a fish because I would much rather fish than farm mobs for food!
Enchanting
There are three ingredients for Enchanting currently. Draenic Dust, Blackfire Essence and Rune Shards; the epic shards are not in the game yet. Currently there are Enchants in the game for Necks, Rings, Cloaks and Weapons with two different qualities. There are Breath of X which are Common quality enchants and Gift of X which are Rare quality Enchants. All of the Weapon Enchants do the same thing and cannot be added to weapons over ilvl 600 (which is lower than the max level blues) so we can assume their either broken or we haven't seen all of the enchants yet. There are definitely tons more enchants per slot with about 12-15 enchants per slot with only 4 slots able to be enchanted as of right now.
Looking at two of the Enchants side by side, Enchant Ring - Breath of Spirit gives 75 Spirit while Enchant Ring - Gift of Spirit gives 100 Spirit. Both seem to cost 20 Draenic Dust which seems a bit odd not only with the amount but the fact that they both cost the same amount. Either the Gift of Spirit Enchant is more difficult to come by in terms of the recipe or the tool tips just aren't finalized yet.
Fishing
Fishing is getting some new mechanics in terms of bait. You can use bate that is useful per zone in order to get the fish you're looking for. This might imply that there won't be any pools and you will use the bait to increase your chance to get fish while fishing in the open water. Not sure on that yet because you wouldn't really need the bait if you're fishing in a pool.
There seems to be several different types of the same fish. The regular fish are named such while there are "Enormous" sizes of the fish that can be caught with more skill in fishing while "Small" versions of the fish will be caught with less skill in fishing. The meat that comes from fish is also listed in the Fishing section so maybe now Fishing will include the gutting/preparing of fish and catching Enormous fish will give you more meat for your potions or food. Unsure of this however, but it could be pretty cool!
Leatherworking
Leatherworking and Herbalism will be playing nice this expansion. We have Native Beast Hide which is the Leather of the expansion but we also have Stitched Starglazed Leather and Starglazed Leather which is Leather treated with Starflower (an herb) to create items.
Mining
We have True Iron Ore and Blackrock Ore this time around. True Iron Ore is common ore while Blackrock Ore is uncommon quality.
Battle Pets
Carpnado is a new ability that hurls a tornado of fish at the enemy. This is an obvious reference the terrible direct to DvD movie Sharknado which I am ashamed to admit that I saw.
Some new pets include Lil Leftovers (I really wanna see a screenshot of that!), Tiny Iron Star, Carrotus Maximus (probably a Vermin), Weebomination (possibly a tiny Abomination like Patchwerk or Stitches), Mechanical Toucan (a bird which doesn't look mechanical at all), Mechanical Tallstrider and Echo of Murmur.
Factions
We have 7 new Factions listed but it wasn't specifically stated if these factions have reputation tied to them. We have Frostfire Ogres, Red Phantoms, Shadowmoon Orcs, The Pale, Adherents of Arakk, Arakkoa Outcasts, Palemoon Orcs, Shadow Council and Draenei, Draenor.
Healing Class Changes
Restoration Druids
All druids are getting Survival Instincts which reduces damage taken by 70% for 12 seconds. We are getting this very heavy cooldown to make up for all of the cooldowns we're losing from Symbiosis which are getting removed.
Mistweaver Monk
Focus and Harmony - Haste Effects lower the GCD of your spells and abilities.
Detonate Chi - Instantly detonate all of your Healing Spheres, causing each of them to heal a nearby ally within 12 yards for 50% of the affect. Some people might remember back at Blizzcon when the Mistweaver talents were originally announced that this was one of them. However, they've changed the talents significantly since then and Detonate Chi is becoming a stagnant ability.
Special Mention - Mages
Mages are getting Amplify Magic which increases all healing received by 20% for 6 seconds on a 2 minute cooldown.
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