Delays

Yes, as you probably figured the delay for this post was due to me getting sucked into new content. For those of you yet to experience its majesty, by all means skip the rest of this post; it's spoiler-heavy.


So yus, 'tis awesome. I've been going through my mains, carrying out respecs and testing out skills, and I have to say I haven't been disappointed with -any- of them, despite what the class forums may say. Boomkin is fantastic fun; I can AoE grind now, with the changes to Hurricane and the added spells, and I found it is actually totally possible to tank, so long as you've stacked stamina or have a good healer (I chose the latter, since it was spur of the moment). I discovered that the only issue I had was with the 70 warrior who insisted on coming along - and on several ocassions I out-threated even him, which I was infiinitely proud of (Fury with Titan's Grip, obviously).

Next up is Daigeil's Arms spec. I've loaded him up with Bladestorm, of course, and it's totally crazy. Coupled with the updated recklessness, Shield Wall and Retaliation, Bladestorm is a monstrosity; every five minutes I pop recklessness and sweeping strikes, hit bladestorm and kill -everything- around me. Seriously; Blizz cannot possibly have thought it through. The possible DPS on these three abilities is, I believe, well over 10k, although I don't do Theorycrafting. Let's just point out the basics; each Whirlwind hits for 1k-ish, critting for about 2k tops. There are five whirlwinds in the move, so the DPS is more or less sustained for 5 seconds. Recklessness forces the next three specials to crit (yet to see if that's each hit from Bladestorm or the entire skill) and Sweeping Strikes causes yer next 5 swings to hit two targets. If you have 4 targets in range (the most whirlwind can hit), that's 8k damage from those (all critting due to recklessness, remember, unless the targets have insane resilience), and 8k from the sweeping strikes, which will overlap between them. The first whirlwind could crit for -16k-, and you've got four more of those coming, albeit without the effects of the cooldowns. Bear in mind that this is -my- damage, and I don't have any really special gear.

Thirdly we come to the Hunterspec, Beast Mastery, and I have to say... It's not as special as the other three. The actual Beast Mastery talent is very nice - devilsaur has crazy DPS - but there're no really amazing changes that catch your eye until you've got your pet to your own level - which I haven't yet. From Big Red Kitty I've learned that most pets can now hold aggro with the right gear, spec and petspec, well enough that you can spamvolley. However, until they're appropriately levelled the pets really aren't that amazing - and with the changes to 60-70 experience (it's more or less halved) I have this feeling my devilsaur and gorilla will never catch up. Admittedly the auto-levelling is nice, but... Hmm. We'll see.

Finally is rogue. Zul is currently Combat Daggers, as an experiment, and it's crazy enough without the consideration that I'd really be better as swords. Killing Spree is -absolutely nucking futs-, especially in 1v1 PvP or even against more than one. I'd just love to have three combat rogues use it at once and absolutely slaughter a few targets in a couple of seconds; it's that insane. You can't be stopped once you start, either, except with an exceptionally well timed blink, because you teleport after them unless they're more than a certain distance away. Mages get absolutely whacked, although I failed in my duels simply because I've not worked out my keybinds yet. With blade flurry and multiple targets I could see multi-target fighting being very fun indeed.

So.. yeah. And, naturally, I've had a haircut, leaped off a tall building and done various other obscure things (including hugging a corpse) in a desperate bid for achievements. I have no idea what the compulsion is to do so... but it's compulsive. DO IT.

Class: Multiple

So. Introduction, hmm? Sounds good to me.
I'm Alex, or Boris, or Draik, Daigeil, Arranath, Boi or Zulmaran, or variations thereof. If you've found your way here, you might already know me. You might not. If not, you're almost certainly searching for "WoW Blogs" or "WoW {insert your class her} Class" or some such; you get the picture. And I suppose that tells you what I'm bloggin' about. This is a WoW blog.

Herein lies a brief outline of my WoW experiences. Feel free to skip to the bottom if you don't care.

I've been playing WoW for about 4 years, and Draik was my first character - a Night Elf druid on Thunderhorn. At the time I was sharing an account wit' my sister, who I may or may not point you to blog-wise at some point. As a result, when she wanted that last character slot on Thunderhorn, I had to remake my character, and did, reaching the giddy heights of level 48 by the release of TBC. Slow, eh? 2 years, I believe it took me. I just about got my mount in time. Of course, to level that slowly I wasn't levelling Draik alone - I was also developing my warrior, thence-named Brioche, who reached level 60. I was part of a raiding guild and picked up a couple of epixxxxx. I also had a multitude of alts, and I had RPed sporadically on Thunderhorn with the few other roleplayers on there.

Come TBC, then, I had a level 60 tanking warrior, a level 48 feral druid and a level 15 troll rogue. These are the only characters who really mattered, and they have gone on to become my mains, for the most part. At TBC, I started focusing on Zulmaran, as one of my friends was levelling a BElf hunter along with so many others on SSL. Zul and said Belf hunter reached 70 after several months, long before any of my other characters. Brioche hit 63 and stopped. Draik was without hope of getting to 50. I had a Belf hunter at 48 on SSL. I then proceeded to raid with Zul, and acquired a full set of Kara/heroics epix, along with Netherblade panties from Gruul. Gruul was cool. Anyhoo.

At this point I realised SSL had died somewhere along the line. Noone RPed except within their guilds, it was on the tinytiny Battlegroup and so BGs were impossible, we were among the last to clear... everything, and it was basically empty. This was problematic, as all my precious epics were there. As a consequence, both Draik and Brioche transferred to Moonglade (Brioche changing to Daigeil along the way) and have since become my mains alongside Zul, although Zul sees much less play.

In recent times, I have reached 63 on Draik and Daigeil is now level 70, with TWO epix. Zul sees next-to-no play, and my hunter, Arranath, is my current interest, and I aim to reach at least 60 pre-Wrath, preferably higher.

End personal history. Resume interesting stuff.

Now that my personal WoW history is out of the way, I suppose you want to know what this blog will be. I intend to catalogue everything that I do, basically. Wrath exploration, talent experimentation, raiding. There may be class/spec guides, if I bother. Speaking of spec, Feral, Protection, Beast Mastery and Combat. There may be instance "guides", in the form of my experiences and discoveries of what works. So.. yeah. Feel free to browse through. Expect no coherency.

~Draik