Alliance is no more...

I'm not a sexy Draenei anymore... now I'm a lousy Undead with an uncovered spine.
Updates incoming...

Há bocado estava a dar no espumante!

New gear for my priest:
[Hateful Gladiator's Mooncloth Robe]
[Hateful Gladiator's Mooncloth Mantle]
[Deadly Gladiator's Cord of Salvation]
Looking far more sexy now! Health, Resilience and Spell power have increased.

This weekend I'll specc a PvP Discipline tree, since last one I made all the arenas with a PvE specc... I can't wait for the moment to arrive. Next gear goal will be to get [Deadly Gladiator's Band of Ascendancy], it has hit rating, why? go figure... thing is, I really need Hit to avoid my Mass Dispels and Fears from being missed.

Here's the latest Priest talent tree deployed on PTR. I'm still thinking where to put all the points, there will be some changes since that we now have a paladin on our team. One thing I'm sure... I'll be Discipline, even though Holy now has a new PvP talent called Body and Soul... seems useless to me.

4 became 3

No entries last week because... it was a PvP fail week. Me and 5xKonnis played 12 arenas and lost them all, ending up with a 1383 rating and making us both think that our Arenas campaign had got to an end. We knew patch was coming but... our arses got so pwnt that we thought about stop making PvP.
On the other hand, PvE week was great, our guild defeated Sartharion with 3 Drakes up and cleared all content available.



Today 4xKonnis in arena became 3... and a new teammate got into battle: Physicx, a long time friend. Our combo is now 3 Elemental Shamans, 1 Discipline Priest (me) and 1 Holy Pala. The three of us were able to raise the team rating and reach 1608 points and above all... have fun. So, basically, I'll continue to heal a multiboxer... but not all by myself. Let's see how we will perform when patch 3.1 arrives.

Stay tuned...

Unleash Fury

Not much news since my guild started to focus in killing Sartharion with 3 Drakes. Me and Merujo (5xKonnis) have been spending most of our time farming mats for our wipe feast raids. I've specced Discipline to keep MT up in Sartharion and "ohh boy" I really missed it, <3 Discipline.

So PvP left to a second plan until Merujo SMSed me yesterday asking if I had seen Shaman changes for 3.1 patch. He sent me an e-mail with all changes and I couldn't believe in what I was seeing...

Shaman (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Mana Spring Totem: This totem has been redesigned. It now provides the same mana benefit as Blessing of Wisdom to the entire party or raid, but is exclusive with that effect.

Enhancement

• Earthen Power redesigned: Your Earthbind Totem has a 50/100% chance to also remove all snare effects and make you and nearby friendly targets immune to them for 5 seconds when it pulses.

Elemental

• Elemental Mastery redesigned: When activated, your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning or Lava Burst spell becomes an instant cast spell. In addition, your Fire, Frost and Nature damage spells have a 15% increased critical strike chance for 15 seconds. Elemental Mastery now shares a cooldown with Nature’s Swiftness.
• Elemental Reach: Now also increases the range of your Flame Shock spell by 5/10/15 yards.
• Lava Flows: No longer increases the range of your Flame Shock spell, but now increases your casting speed by 10/20/30% when your Flame Shock spell is dispelled for 6 seconds.
• Lightning Overload: Reduced to 3 points (7/14/20%), down from 5.
• Storm, Earth and Fire: No longer increases the range of your Earth Shock or Wind Shock spells, but now also causes your Earthbind Totem to have a 33/66/100% chance to root all nearby enemies for 5 seconds when initially cast.
• Thunderstorm can now be cast while stunned.

Restoration

• Ancestral Healing and Healing Grace have swapped places in the Restoration talent tree.
• Mana Tide Totem: This spell no longer costs mana.
• Restorative Totems: Reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Increases the effect of your Mana Spring Totem by 7/12/20%, and increases the amount healed by your Healing Stream Totem by 15/30/45%.

This was all we needed. I find some things a bit OP, and I think nerfs will come. But until then... we're ready to roll...

Changes for Priests are also IMBA for a MBer partnership in arenas, specially the Hymns (not sure if both will be allowed in arenas):

Priest (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Divine Hymn redesigned: You recite a Holy hymn, summoning the power of the Divine to assist you in your time of need. Heals 3 nearby lowest-health friendly party or raid targets for 4960-5208 every 2 seconds for 8 seconds, and increases healing done to them by 15% for 8 seconds. Maximum of 12 heals. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell. Cooldown increased to 6 minutes, up from 5.
• Hymn of Hope redesigned: You recite a Holy hymn, restoring hope to those in despair. Restores 3% mana to 3 nearby low mana friendly party or raid targets every 2 seconds for 8 seconds, and temporarily increases their total maximum mana by 20% for 8 seconds. After the effect expires, the mana is lost. Maximum of 12 mana restorations. The Priest must channel to maintain the spell. Cooldown increased to 6 minutes, up from 5.
• Mental Agility, Inner Focus, Shadow Reach, Shadow Focus and Shadow Affinity now all affect Psychic Horror.

Discipline

• Improved Divine Spirit: This talent has been removed.
• New Talent: Improved Flash Heal: Reduces the mana cost of your Flash Heal by 5/10/15%, and increases the critical effect chance of your Flash Heal by 4/7/10% on friendly targets at or below 50% health.

Shadow

• Shadow Affinity: Now also causes you to receive 5/10/15% of your base mana when your Shadow Word: Pain or Vampiric Touch spells are dispelled.
• Vampiric Touch: When dispelled, Vampiric Touch will deal damage to the afflicted target.

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Races: General

• Gift of the Naaru (Draenei Racial): The heal has been changed to an instant-cast direct heal instead of a heal-over-time.

* Source: MMO-Champion

Now add up an overall nerf to the damage all OP classes are making and we're good to go.

Time to farm some [Wintergrasp Mark of Honor] and develop my PvP reaction time for the next arena season.

The Undying

Yeah... I'm one of them

Rewardz

Finally:

New fishing pole: [Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole] ^^

And with the new fishing pole I was able to complete the achievement:
[The Coin Master] (or, as portuguese would say: O Mestre das C*nas) that gave me the [Titanium Seal of Dalaran]


... time to flip some coins.

And yesterday I also got my new PvP trinket: [Flow of Knowledge]

Piii Tiii Are Chaaaanges

Recent changes on PTR (I'm not posting much about this, because there has been updates almost every day):

General

• New high-resolution player textures for Northrend armor sets have been added. Players can enable this feature by setting Player Textures to High in the Effects Panel of the Video Options.
• Players can now return items purchased with an alternate currency back to the original vendor within 2 hours of the purchase time for the original cost of the item. Stackable items (such as Frozen Orbs and gems) and charged items that can be purchased with an alternate currency are not eligible.
• Confirmation boxes have been added to purchases over 150 gold.
• Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.

Priest (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Discipline

• Meditation and Improved Power: Word shield have changed locations with each other.
• Meditation: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting
• Renewed Hope: This talent also now allows you to proc the Renewed Hope buff on all party/raid members every time you cast Power Word: Shield, reducing damage taken by 3%. Lasts 20 sec.

Shadow

• Psychic Horror: Has been redesigned and is now a 1-pt talent. You terrify the target, causing them to tremble in horror for 3 sec. and drop all weapons (disarm effect: including bows) for 10 sec. 1 minute cooldown. Instant cast. The horror effect can be dispelled, but the disarm cannot.
• Improved Spirit Tap: Now grants 17/33% of mana regeneration while casting.
• Spirit Tap: Now grants 83% of mana regeneration while casting.

Shaman (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Enhancement

• Unleashed Rage: Reduced to 3 points, down from 5. Each point now also increases your total Expertise by 3/6/9%.

Glyphs
Priest

• Glyph of Dispersion: Reduces the cooldown on Dispersion by 45 sec.
• Glyph of Fade: Now reduces cooldown by 9 sec.
• Glyph of Guardian Spirit: If you Guardian Spirit lasts its entire duration without being triggered, your Guardian Spirit cooldown is reset to 60 sec.
• Glyph of Holy Light: Can no longer crit and has had its range updated.
• Glyph of Hymn of Hope: Your Hymn of hope provides 2 times the normal amount of mana per time, but its duration is 50% shorter.
• Glyph of Mind Sear: Increases the radius of effect on Mind Sear by 5 yards.
• Glyph of Pain Suppression: Allows Pain Suppression to be cast while stunned.
• Glyph of Penance: Reduces the cooldown of Penance by 2 sec.

Shaman

• Glyph of Earth Shield: Increases the amount healed by your Earth Shield by 20%.
• Glyph of Feral Spirit: Your spirit wolves gain an additional 30% of your attack power.
• Glyph of Hex: Increases the damage your Hex target can take before the Hex effect is removed by 20%.
• Glyph of Riptide: Increases the duration of Riptide by 3 sec.
• Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem: Your Stoneclaw Totem also places a damage absorb shield on you, equal to 4 times the strength of the shield it places on your totems.
• Glyph of Thunder: Reduces the cooldown on Thunderstorm by 7 sec.
• Glyph of Totem of Wrath: When you cast Totem of Wrath, you gain 30% of the totem's bonus spell power for 5 min.

* Source: MMO-Champion

Looks good for Priests. More glyphs to make us think more and more about which ones to use seems to be a very good idea.

Multiboxing isn't easy, and my friend Penguin MB just got ganked :(

Back to 15's

That's right, we've joined yesterday to make some arenas and the result was:

7 wins, 3 losses... and we managed to get back to 1500 bracket. We spent most of the time facing and beating the same team. The 3 losses were against 19xx, 18xx and 16xx teams. We eventually beat the 16xx team the first time we met, gaining 21 rating points :).

Most of the time I was their primary target, it’s becoming very easy to keep all Konni’s up…. resilience is making effect, except when they AoE. Rogues on me are LoL… can’t stand a chance (probably because of my spec - Holy).
We had fun, above all… specially when we met the 18xx on our last arena – 3DKs and 2 Holy Palas, now… go whine about Multiboxing.

450 Fishing Level reached - AYE!?!?!?

Cooking Skillz?

Yeah I got many... here, let me show you:

The reason why people cry

Trying to get some Wintergrasp marks of honor made me realize why I just stopped going to Wintergrasp... it's a real P.I.T.A. soooo much lag, I can't just play like that. I'm afraid it will stay like this forever... or until Blizzard limits the number of players in it. But, what else can I do? I really need [Flow of Knowledge], it offers a very considerable amount of resilience... and the fact that it procs instead of having to be "used"... makes it a very good trinket. I will only use it when all Konnis have it too, for now... I'll stick to [Forethought Talisman] - more spell power and the HoT chance it's quite useful to compensate the resilience Konnis don't have yet.

I should have a major improvement by now, I went to VoA this weekend and [Deadly Gladiator's Mooncloth Robe] dropped, it's a pitty I (as a raid leader, how stupid can I be?) had invited 4 more holy priests (beside me) to raid, result: chest lost.

New objective: [Fish Feast], yeah I know it's crazy... but @ the same time it can be quite useful for my PvE raids. I got to reach 450 cooking though... which means, a lot money to be spent.

EDIT: spent 600G to raise 9 levels of cooking, I'm standing now @ 424 - crazy sh*t.

Just found out a multiboxing penguin team in Howling Fjord's

At least there was an achievement

[PvE day] We were expected to do Sartharion with 3 Drakes, we didn't even try it because we were missing people. We went for it with only 2 Drakes and we managed to do it successfuly, achievement won: [Heroic: Twilight Duo] - I want to thank Tsunamiz for giving me so much support to get this achievement (mama aí puto do crl).

I'm missing 3 gold coins on the fishing achievement in the Dalaran fountain: [There's Gold In That There Fountain] and I'm getting bored of it... grrrrr

Got to farm some Wintergrasp marks for: [Flow of Knowledge].

I'm in for some...

...PvE.

The menu for this week includes as main objective Sartharion 3D - which basically consists in killing Sartharion with 3 drakes up. Seems to be the "real deal" of WotLK...

Just found out this great vid made by a guy I recently met on a Arathi Basin battleground - Pandamonium. Please watch it in HD, looks gr8... also check out his Thunderfuck vids.

It's time for Arenas

Just finished the 10 weekly arenas with 5xKonni testing their new belt: [Hateful Gladiator's Waistguard of Dominance]. We're still finding things a bit difficult but we're taking in care that I don't have the proper PvP spec neither the proper PvP glyphs - gief Dual Spec. Even though, I think things are slowly improving... we had 5 wins and 5 losses, our rating got up by 20 pts, we're currently standing @ 1454.

AoE and burst damage is still a huge issue for us... but we just got some pretty good news today.

BTW: look what I just caught [Dark Herring]. I'm a proud fisherwoman.

"[...] my goods are of the highest quality"

... boots are enchanted with Tuskarr's Vitality because I really feel the need to keep the pace with Konni's Ghost Wolves
... gloves are enchanted with +20 hit rating because I don't want my Mass Dispels, SW:Ds and Fear bombs to be resisted
... chest is enchanted with +20 resilience because 20>15

I went to AV last night with 5xKonni and discovered a new AoE imba class -> Rogue. It seems there were alot of complains about rogues not dpsing enough in PvE compared to other pure DPS classes like Mages, Warlocks and Hunters, mainly because of AoE damage. How did Blizz solve this problem? By taking off rogue's AoE skill cooldown, Fan of Knives... and now we have more incoming troubles in arenas, as if it wasn't enough the AoE made by Ret Paladins, Mages and Hunters. I really hope Blizz soon realizes that AoE damage is becoming a serious issue in WotLK, it has ruined all instances ("get them together and AoE") and it is making PvP stupid.

AoE damage is also one of the reasons that gets me to think if Holy isn't the right spec for 5vs5 arenas with a MBer... Circle of Healing looks imba but if they target me it gets so hard to stay alive, plus... my mana is lacking so much on long fights. That's where resilience comes into play, and all Konnichiwa's toons must have tons of it, so that I won't have to spam so much heal and loose so much mana trying to keep them up.

I am completely addicted to fishing now :(

It happened before with farming and it has happened now with fishing... I know it sounds stupid but it makes me so curious thinking about what type of crap will attach to my bait every time I throw it to Dalaran fountain.

Got Fish?

My fishing and cooking skills are growing up. I decided to move to Northrend once I got 350 and so I've been fishing some quite useful bunch of crap which might get me a good amount money as well.

I've just completed my first cooking daily... YAY!!!

I also had the intention to make all the Valentine Season's achievements but I've just given up... it was becoming too boring.

Check out Konni's blog... it seems he has news on his Multiboxing playground.

I'll leave you with my best fishing moments.

Hmmm... upgrades...

So.. I'm basically still learning how to configure my blog to make it more welcoming to people who visit it.
No PvP news yet. Some Konnis have already [Titansteel Guardian] crafted and they're slowly becoming what me and Merujo need to climb up on 5vs5 arena ladder.

zzzZZzzz

Patch is up and I'm queued to get in server. I'll leave you with patch notes.
Lovely change for Priests in PvP... it was about time Blizz.

World of Warcraft Client Patch 3.0.9

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

Druid (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Ferocious Bite: This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.

Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Kindred Spirits (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet damage at max rank.
• Serpent’s Swiftness (Beast Mastery): This talent now grants 20% pet attack speed at max rank.

Pets

• Lava Breath now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.
• Poison Spit now reduces the target's casting speed by 25%, down from 50%.

Mage (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Arcane Power now increases damage and mana cost by 10%, cooldown reduced to 1 minute. (Note: The spell is actually different in game and increases damage and mana costs by 20% with a 2 minutes cooldown. However it would probably be better to wait until servers are online to confirm that.)
• Arcane Power and Presence of Mind now share a category cooldown. Arcane Power causes a 15 second cooldown. Presence of Mind, once consumed, causes a 1.5 second cooldown.
• Arcane Flows now reduces the cooldown of Presence of Mind, Arcane Power and Invisibility by 15/30%.
• Presence of Mind: The cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes, (down from 3.)
• Slow (Arcane): now increases cast time by 30%, down from 60%.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Arcane Missiles -- Increases the critical strike damage bonus of Arcane Missiles by 25%. (Old - Increases the range of Arcane Missiles by 5 yards.)
• Glyph of Mana Gem -- Increases the mana recieved from using a mana gem by 40%. (Up from 10%)
• Glyph of Arcane Blast -- Increases the damage from your Arcane Blast buff by 3%. (Down from 5%)

Paladin (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• The duration on all Seals has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.
• Divine Plea: The amount healed by your spells is reduced by 50% (up from 20%) but the effect can no longer be dispelled.
• Sanctified Seals: This talent no longer affects dispel resistance, but continues to affect crit chance.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Holy Light -- Your Holy Light grants 10% of its heal amount to up to 5 friendly targets within 8 yards of the initial target. (Down from 20 yards, Tooltip text fix, was already hotfixed to 8 yards in game)
• Glyph of Seal of Righteousness -- Increases the damage done by Seal of Righteousness by 10%. (Old - Reduces the cost of your Judgement spells by 10% while Seal of Righteousness is active.)

Priest (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Inner Fire duration has been increased to 30 minutes and can no longer dispelled.

Rogue (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Hunger for Blood (Assassination): Now increases damage 5% per stack, (up from 3%.)
• Mind Numbing Poison now reduces cast time by 30%, down from 60%.
• Mutilate damage will now do 20% increased damage against poisoned targets, down from 50%.
• Slice and Dice: This ability now increases melee attack speed by 40%, up from 30%.

Shaman (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Glyphs

• Glyph of Windfury Weapon -- Increases the chance per swing for Windfury Weapon to trigger by 2%. (Down from 5%)

Warlock (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Curse of Tongues: Now increases the casting time of all spells by 25% (Rank 1) and 30% (Rank 2), down from 50% and 60%.

Dungeons and Raids
The Obsidian Sanctum
            Changed the color of the fissure in the Obsidian Sanctum to be more visually distinct.

User Interface

• The “GM wishes to speak with you” alert/button, at the top of the screen, has been changed so that addons do not obscure it.
• A clickable chat message has been added that duplicates the GM alert/button.
• When a GM wishes to speak with you the Help Request minibar button will glow.
• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum .

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players using nVidia 3D glasses were unable to see spell cooldowns.
• Fixed a software mouse cursor bug that was causing the mouse curser to disappear from view when over certain UI elements.
• Fixed a player movement error in which other players were appearing to move erratically when traveling beside them.

Aaaand heeeere we go!

Merujo (aka 5xKonnichiwa) SMSed me asking if I was interested in making 10 arenas... just for the points. I joined, didn't spec Disc (even though I get some doubts on how well it works on 5vs5), didn't change Glyphs and... there I went... as a Holy bomb.
Sometimes I forgot to pop trinket, Proximo wasn't working well, we allowed alot of ressing. Result = 4 wins - 6 losses :(
We kept our suxalot rating @ 1434.
Not much to mention... beside the fact that we faced another Grim Batol Multi-Boxer to who we lost one arena and won another.

Another MB made his debut on Grim Batol - http://wokomehee.blogspot.com
Welcome.

And just to end... PvE moment of the day: Malygos-25 man down by my guild - Cartel.

And so we meet up again...

After a long break with alot of PvE in it... we've just met up again @ Aires (see pic below) and we decided to go on with our arenas. 5 Konnis are farming their gear while I'm just leveling fishing and cooking.



Stay tuned for more updates...