Yogg Saron downed in both 25 and 10 man Ulduar

The guild Legacy has downed Yogg Saron for a world 3rd kill.  What’s difference about this is that they’ve made the world 1st video of it.  Click this for the link over to warcraftmovies.com

The 10 man version of yogg saron is also dead.  Looks like it only took a few days to complete all of the “easy mode” bosses, and there are some guilds already working on the hard modes.  Hodir and Freya have been downed on their hard modes, no doubt someone is trying to kill Algalon before the first raid reset.  Good luck to them!

And to everyone else, good luck to you in Ulduar.  Sadly, I haven’t been able to log on since the patch came out, but I think this weekend will see my priest getting a few more levels.

If you’re in the northeast US, enjoy the weather today!

~Nick Fox

You Lack Discipline!

I hope everyone knows that title as a classic Arnold Schwarzenegger meme, and if you don’t, you know it is now!  ….Go look it up, kiddos.  ANYWAY.  I’ve been up to a lot recently, thus my lack of posting.  I decided to switch mains, away from my elemental shaman and towards my new priest, Vellem.  Vellem is now a level 72 Discipline priest, quickly leveling up to 80.

I knew I wanted to heal with my priest…Resto shaman got boring in TBC, and I am really starting to hate Taurens and their hugeness and ugly hooves.  The gear on them also looks bad.  Have you seen a Tauren in level 80 blues and purples that arent tier sets?  Really ugly.  The caster shield from Mexxna doesn’t help either, with its primary color scheme and shiny center.  Taurens also sit on drake mounts as if they’re about to fall off, which annoys me after flying around for awhile.

All this led up to my eventual switch back to priest.  My first level 70 in TBC was an undead priest, and I healed up to ZA with that character as holy.  It is an undead…and the reason I switched from that character to the shaman was because of how badly the gear looked on undead.  I’m sorry, but if I spend weeks farming for an item, or get some lucky drop in an instance, I want to see all of it, not just part of it, and my bones for the rest.  Must every item I get have custom holes cut out for my arms and back hump?  Just cover that back hump with a cloak, I dont need to rip it so I can see 4 vertabre when I hobble around. /rant

So as you can see from the picture, I rolled a Blood Elf, and leveled all the way back up to 70, and now beyond.  The gear, while sometimes has a stupid model, looks great on the Blood Elf.  No bones are showing, my shoes completely cover my feet, and im not overly huge so nothing is streatched out.

I decided to go discipline this time around.  I’ve been reading about priests and have seen that discipline are really good single target healers.  Their shields can soak up a lot of damage, and their crits can apply a new shield, Divine Ageis (if specc’ed for it, which you really should be).  Discipline priests gear/gem more for Spell Power, Crit, Haste, and Intellect, since both the increased mana pool and increased crit chance are both great.  Discipline priests also benefit most from actually health points regained, as opposed to overhealing.  We have talents in our tree that regenerate mana back for each health point returned to the target via our heals, so if we are actually restoring health to say, the main tank, we will get mana back.  Holy has a similar talent that works the exact opposite.  Serendipity, which is far down the Holy tree, regenerates mana back to the priest for each point of overhealing done.

There has been some hatin’ on Discipline priests, saying that if a priest wants to heal they should go Holy, but I think most of those people are misinformed.  Holy priests are better for multi-target/group healing, but they lose on their single target abilities.  Priests are unique in that they are the only class with two completely different healing trees to work with.  It is almost like having a holy paladin and resto shaman at a whim.  Once I get to 80 and start doing heroics/intro raids, I’ll write about how end game Discipline is.  So far, for both soloing/questing and 5-man dungeoneering, Discipline is really working out great.  It is definately a spec that cannot compensate for the rest of the group if they suck, but when the whole group is doing the right thing, this spec really shines.

Here is a link to my leveling spec. I am currently filling out Spirit Tap in the Shadow tree to help me regenerate mana faster while soloing.  Otherwise, work down the Holy tree as you move from 72-80.

~Nick Fox

Brr! It’s Cold In Here…

There must be some Death Knight in the atmosphere! oh ee oh ee oh ee…ice ice ice…..

I’ve been waiting to put that down in words for awhile now. Anyway, guess what!
My death knight hit level 80 over the weekend, which means it is now time to rake in the gold and seriously start saving up for that Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth. Must….Have….Personal….Vendors!

Level 80 is nice so far. I dinged in Sholazar Basin, which means I have Storm Peaks, Icecrown and Howling Fjord quests still to do before I can get Loremaster of Northrend. It’ll also bank a fair amount of gold as well.

Today I ran three level 80 instances with some people who used to be in Lux or were on an alt in a different guild. The guild is called Fists of Might and I was invited onto their Ventrillo server for the runs. First we did Culling of Stratholme, then Utguarde Pinnicle, and finally we did the Oculus. They were all pretty good. I didn’t die once, and made out with some nice gold from the quests in each instance. I really like the idea of quest givers for the instance being inside the instance so you have to pick them up before you get going with the killing. Both Culling of Stratholme and Utguarde Pinnicle have quest givers like this.

Also, on a more social stance…I must say the amount of southerns who play on our server is pretty amazing. Now, I don’t know if this branches out to other US servers as well, but damn, the accents I heard over that Ventrillo server were enough to make me never want to look at the bottom half of a US map again! …ill keep my cold winters and good tasting pizza thank you very much…

Other than that, not much is happening. Still iffy about the Lux et Veritas raiding situation, we’ll see what happens with that soon I’m sure.

That’s all folks,
Nick Fox