This week I:
– Transferred servers (now on Nordrassil).
– Changed my toon name. Lilac was already taken on the new server. For the first time -ever- I’m actually PLAYING under the name “Nibuca” instead of just blogging under it.
– Joined a new guild (“The Accused”)
– Fiddled my UI (a lot)(fiancé was miffed that I spent 3 days in Darnassus just shooting the test dummy and fiddling addons/UI).
– Respec’d (I’m still only 80% sure what everything does)
– Re-glyphed.
– Spent a while looking for Spellstones.. and Dark Pact.
– Mourned the loss of my Felpuppy and grudgingly welcomed the slutty demon back to the battle.
– Used the numbers at Elitist Jerks to setup a quickie Pawn Scale.
– Setup Pawn and Outfitter to automatically generate the “best” gear set based on what I already own.
– Swapped gems to get rid of spirit. (I was able to get to hit cap just by swapping a few spirit/int gems to hit/int).
– Reforged almost all my items. (Reforging rules: Spirit -> hit (until capped 446) -> haste -> mastery. Crit -> hit (until capped) -> Haste -> Mastery.)
– Ran a few 5-mans and pulled aggro like a roflnoob (Fiancé informed me that laughing uncontrollably is not the proper response to pulling aggro and that I should have my Soul Shatter button out on my button bar because it’s just embarassing to see me with my spellbook open looking madly for the spell).
– Ran in an TotC-10 pug (it was the weekly) and didn’t pull aggro (Fiancé was tanking so I was much much more careful)
– Ran in an ICC-10 pug (finished Rot/Fest/Putricide) and didn’t pull aggro.. but did top the overall damage meter. … ICC was much harder 3 months ago.
– Ran in a Ruby Sanctum-10 pug (my first look inside that instance) and got a few peeks at the final fight. I don’t 100% get it.. but I think I nearly get it.
– Ran with a guild group that Fiancé put together for me so I could finish Less-Rabi and -finally- get my red proto-drake. Considering how long I’ve been trying to get that it was almost a let down to just get it done on the first attempt. But “Yeah!” finally acquired red proto-drake. The cataclysm can now begin. I have proof that I was here for Wrath.
I still need to spend my justice points down to a reasonable level. Seriously? What’s the hot item this season? I have ~11k points to spend.
“For the first time -ever- I’m actually PLAYING under the name “Nibuca” instead of just blogging under it.”
So, if I remember my Nibuca-lore correctly, you’re now technically playing under your real name.
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Well.. technically under my real nickname
I’m still having a weird “THAT’S ME” feeling whenever anyone in vent calls me Nibuca
“laughing uncontrollably is not the proper response to pulling aggro”
Hehe, I find that there’s something oddly satisfying in pulling aggro. Not that I want to end up as a grease spot on the floor, but it’s nice to know that I can tick off the mob to that extent.
Congrats Nib, I hope you found a good, comfortable home.
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Nib,
If you’re lacking a good trinket, I’d highly recommend picking up the Talisman of Resurgence from the old Triumph badge vendor. It’s shockingly good for warlocks now that Intellect is good, and it’s a steal at less than 600 justice points.
Not stellar if you’ve got some 25-man raiding trinkets, but great if you were still sitting on the Abyssal Rune like me!
Glad to see you back and hope you have great experiences in you new guild.
I am affliction also, I noticed that your reforgeing rules “Reforging rules: Spirit -> hit (until capped 446) -> haste -> mastery. Crit -> hit (until capped) -> Haste -> Mastery” the second one was what I was doing but I had another lock say that Crit was not good for affliction locks that Hast was the stat to use. So I regemmed and reforged for haste > hit (until capped) > mastery > Crit. Anyways I may go back. Most of the times it is very confusing.
For the positive I love shadow swap, I have it glyped so the DoTs are left on the original target, it is great to use on mob groups I have been able to get it on three sometimes.
Also with Bane of Doom and putting up and enfernal you can sometimes have 3 minions working for you at the same time.
Darkeyii
I’m not sure I follow. I agree that haste is more important than crit.
Here’s the EJ stat ranks:
Stat SimCraft
Hit Rating 5.0114
*Intellect 4.1835
Haste Rating 3.2885
*Spell Power 3.0770
Mastery Rating 2.6345
Crit Rating 2.0733
Spirit basically worthless
So what I’m doing with reforging is moving lower secondary stats to higher value stats.
So if a piece has spirit on it, then reforge the spirit to hit until I’m a hitcap. If I’m already at hitcap then reforge the spirit to haste. If the piece already has haste then reforge the spirit to mastery. As a last resort reforge to crit.
If the piece has crit then reforge that to hit >> haste >> mastery.
Technically if I -still- wasn’t hit capped I’d reforge mastery to hit (you know, if mastery was available on items).
Ok now I understand that is how I am now.
Why did you leave Khaz Modan? Just curious.
Thanks,
Jinkx
A few posts ago I mentioned our guild blew up. It was ugly. It was icky. It was stress inducing. A few of the guildies who I like to play with decided that the only cure was a fresh start on a new server. They scouted out several options and settled on Nordrassil.
Nordrassil is a medium pop server.
It’s in the pacific timezone (so the clock shows my home-time rather than having to adjust for my real timezone).
The server itself is located.. I think in the LA data center so we (here in California) have very good connection speeds.
It’s a Horde dominated server. People who PVP have said that Wintergrasp is more fun when you actually have to fight. I hadn’t really noticed any difference.
No one shouts “Cata #1″ in /trade. (Cataclysm is the douche guild on Khaz Modan. Personally I’m sick of hearing from them)(especially since they’re not actually #1 on the server).
Overall I’ve found /trade to be less spastic on this server.
But best of all, it completely lacks all past guild members and all past competing guilds.
I transfered because my fiancé transferred.
I agree completly about the douche’s of Cata, Im so over hearing about how great they are. I’m sorry to see you go, I felt that you raised the standard on our server but I understand.
Missed ya…sorry about the guild…been there…..happy to see you on my server though.