Transmogrification – Heirlooms in Disguise, plus post patch wonderings

First thoughts on 4.3. Transmogrification + heirlooms = fun. My lv 2 rogue sporting an autumnal palette which matches her hair. My lv 14 mage who just needs some acceptable shoulders, shame she can’t have the leafy ones too. I know the heirlooms are meant to lose their transmogrifications when you mail them (I mailed [...]

New Beginnings and Sad Goodbyes

The end of the world is upon us. I’m torn between looking forward to a new beginning and mourning the end of a world I’d come to know and love so well. On the negative side, no more Holy Word: Aspire. I will miss you. You were one of the best things about the whole [...]

Holy Priest PvP: Aspire to be the best

Holy Priesting is finally viable for PvP so get out there and grab some chastise fun whilst you can. Reports from the Beta are depressing to say the least about PvP healing at 85 so this might be our only window of opportunity. The fact that we’re losing Holy Word: Aspire is sad too, I [...]

Aligned Chakras and Post Patch PvP Pains

First of all, I have to say I love Holy. The chakras are fun, easy to keep up and the whole tree feels like it has synergy. Power Word: Chastise is useful on it’s own and great when working with the chakras. I ended up speccing like this. Since Holy has so few choices, I’ll [...]

5 things I’m excited about in the Icecrown patch

Icecrown itself. The fight that involves healing a boss in particular. Although I love the look of some of the new bosses, specifically Queen Lana’thel and Festergut (his colours are nicer than Rotgut’s). All in all, I think the fights for the most part sound interesting and dynamic. A big improvement on the current tier [...]

Poisoned Chalice

When the patch was released one of the things I was most excited about was experience from battlegrounds. Finally an alternative to grinding the same quests/mobs. So after raid on Wednesday, I logged my hunter who was half way through lv 79 (I hate Icecrown so had got stuck) and rushed off to Alterac Valley. [...]

New patch, new tears

The first version of the patch notes for 3.2.o have been released and the forums are drowning in nerf driven tears already. So here is my take on what we know so far. The good: Isle of Conquest, the new 40 vs. 40 player siege-style battleground is now available for testing. – I love big [...]

I’m holding out for a hero

Or my random reflections on the patch. I’m really enjoying Ulduar, for the first time we have challenging content this expansion. However I can’t help thinking its a bit too easy. We are now 5 bosses down in two nights, techinically one because all we did the first night was get stuck in random places. [...]

The winds of change

So its been two whole weeks since THE PATCH, the world didnt end and we all survived. Things have calmed down a little (unless you play a ret paladin) but I admit to being a little undecided about some of the changes. Great things: The cower animations: particularly the female nelf and druid treeform ones. [...]

As the Dust settles

So its day 2: Ret Paladins have already been nerfed We are still sharing battlegroup space with a Spanish Battlegroup Around 95 percent of the post patch threads on the PvP forums are complaining about either shared battlegrounds with no common language or ret paladins. The other 5 percent are keyloggers I managed to rescue [...]