Heroic SP

I had another run of Heroic SP yesterday, all was going well....regardless of the group I have got very familiar with Slave Pens and can coordinate a group quite well, I almost always have to kite at least 1 add, but am getting rather good at that, so I tend to kill 1 add by myself and come back and help the group out......I did 40% of the total damage for the entire run, and we got all the way to the last boss with only a few deaths here and there and everything was going well.....

I was mid explaining the next pull to the rogue in our group when someone started the event, even after I had yelled 3 times do not open the cage it triggers the event, some noob went and did it!!! And without any of us being ready for it most of us died, including the NPC at the end that gives us our nice Nature Resistance buff for the last boss!! OMG I was so angry, I knew who did it but they wouldn't admit to it....we attempted the last boss regardless, and after 5 wipes I just left the group....

I hope the person who opened the cage and made the other 4 of us not have a hope in hell at finishing the instance feels like a total jack ass.....Also he will never be getting an invite from me again to run any instance....I did how ever get 2 badges, so only 7 more to go till I get my totem! YAY!

Who says elemental can't heal!

The advantage of being an elemental shammy, is all my +dmg and spell crit stacks with my healing...Although I only have 17 points in healing, heals like these can save the day...

3 Months

So its been 3 months since I last posted about WoW, I had a month break and have been getting back into it for the last few months.....I'm actually raiding with the guild as an Elemental Shaman now, pretty rare lol....I got the 3% crit totem and stuff so I'm getting some spots for that, but not very often, and after discussing it with the officers I will be getting more spots, but spaced further apart....bit more planned out which is good for me because I have a little one at home and its hard to manage RL and WL lol...





So I've had a few raids with them and picked up quite a few epics...I've been busy getting enchants and farming mats etc....Got a few more things on the to do list, I need 12 more Heroic Badges so I can get my new Totem, which reduces the mana cost of Lighting Bolt by 25, which will help heaps in raids...

I need a new necklace and 2 new trinkets....which I've been working on doing....and I need to get the enchant from Aldor rep to my head, and the enchant to my shoulders from getting Revered with Shat'tari, atm I'm 20k of that so got a while to go with that one...but they'll come, and when I get those enchant I'll have +800 Nature dmg with current gear and +750 normal dmg, which is really getting up there...I had to respec, yesterday still elemental but put points into threat reduction, I had to keep slowing down or stopping my DPS because I didn't have that talent and basically as my +dmg has got higher I need it now....

So my current build is 44/0/17, I sacrificed 3% critical strike chance with healing / lighting spells for +6% hit chance and -10% threat....

Basically all my items now are epics, except, my weapon, my trinkets, and my necklace, and totem....I spent 33 badges on a really awesome shield, its the best shield I can get in the game for my build....

Getting key'd to Kaz was a total &*%^ but it's done now, I have to say BM was the hardest to pass.....and although I'm raid spec'd elemental I still can gank the ^*&* out of most people, luv it!

WOW Update

So, been playing a fair bit of WoW lately, much to my wife's dismay. I have 500g at one stage and decided to respec and by a shield I was after. I have 3 pieces of my wishlist already. I've updated the one on my PC I need to upload it to the net, will do that when I get home and post a picture of the shield.

I spent 100g and only had 400g remaining, I seemed to be quite stuck at the 400g mark for a while hey. Anyway I managed to get the 900g I needed to get my flying mount, I went from 400g to 840g in 2 days of farming and questing hardcore in Shadowmoon Valley. There is a section there with lots of blood elves that you need to kill for one quest, I camped that area for about 4 hours just farming them. Got 8 Arcane Tomes and 60 Sunfury Rings, which are rep for Scyer people, I'm Aldor, so I sold them all on AH. And made an absolute killing.



So Yeah I got my flying mount Ill post a picture, I've also had a crack at Arena, which is cool me and my Friend Piko made a group called Coldies, we were drunk at the time.....

But yeh I respeced to Natures Swiftness instead of the 3% CRIT totem for this, and it was good in the fact me and him could nuke 1 person dead in a 2v2 comp fairly ez, but in battle grounds I was getting less score per kill with NS then with my 3% crit totem, so I have changed back. I can still hit up arenas, I think maybe a 3v3 arena would be better with the build I have now though, but I havent tryed since I changed back to the 3% crit totem, its heaps better then NS for raids and instance though. Oh also I got revered with Centurion Refuge, so now I have my heroic key for steamvault and underbog and slave pen, gonna try and pull a group together tonight for it that will be really fun :D

Stats and progress

Ok, so here is where I'm at with my toon, previously on my way to leveling to 70, I managed to rack up over 8k Hp and Mana, well I've lost stats in beetween dropping items and things for my different specs that I picked up, not only that but I've been saving like mad and haven't bought anything for ages now haha, have 400g, only 550g to go for my dumb flying mount.



Anywayz, I don't have over 8k hp anymore, but thats because I've been sacrafising that for critical strikes, because of my new build.



This is some of the quipment I've landed in the past week for my toon, all and all not bad, I've had a few chnats put opn em all, but yeh he's starting to rock out!

Steamvault

Done my 2nd Key Fragment for Kaz, fark Steamvault is easy as pie compared to Shadow Lab.... Didn't take long at all, didn't get any drops, but we pulverized through it in about 30-40mins....An awesome piece dropped for the rogue in our group though, I was truly amazed at how good it was, check out these stats....

PVP

I've done a bit of PVP since the respec, and its heaps of fun, took me a while to learn how to use my new spec, but now its wicked, I've been smashing up the BG's even topping the chart a few times.



This one BG I was in a group with another elemental shaman, with Totem of Wrath and also in the group with a Moonkin druid. Moonkin druids give you 5% chance to crit with spells, on top of my Wrath totem, which is 3%, and the cool thing I found out is that Totem of Wrath stacks, so the other elemental shammy dropped one aswell, which gave 2x 3% spell crit totems and a 5% crit aura from the Moonkin Druid. MY LIGHTING BOLT CRIT WAS UP TO 36% IT WAS INSANE.



Shouldn't take long to get either my lvl70 BG Shoulders, or save up to get a new Spellblade.....Yesterday I run into a room, and the 3 ally toons in there had under 2k hp each, I Warstomp'd and pop'd elemental Mastery, my +150dmg trinket dropped wrath totem for +101 dmg, and got chain lighting off, 3x killing blows......was pretty funny!

Crazy crits....

I've bene building up full crit gear for my shammy, he has 13.75% crit chance at the moment unbuffed, with Wrath of air totem he has 16.75% crit, not I don't have much gear setup for my new spec, but its very exciting because the pictures of the crits I'm about to post are only going to get better and better as I get more geared for the spec.






My lighting spells also have an extra 11% critical strike chance on top of the 16.75%, so nearly 1 in 4 lighting bolts crit, thats 1 free spell every 4 spells, pretty much guaranteed. Whats really cool is when Lightning Overload proc's, boy can I dish out some serious damage when that happens. In the bottom picture, I have Mana Spring totem down, which ticks roughly 13 mana every 2 seconds, so all that damage happened in about 2 seconds time. Not that that happens every time but its very cool.

Shadow Labrynth down

I finally managed to get my first key for the Karazhan chain quest, I have done Shadow Labrynth 7 times and this time I finally got a full guild group, which pulvarized through it, I think its mainly the tanks that do it. Good tank, good healer good group, but in Shadow labrynth mainly, agro control is what its all about, so good tank meant me and the mage could go all out in DPS and we were all fine. We did the 3rd and 4th boss with no wipes in like 15minutes, and it took us 1.5hrs to get to the 3rd boss.

I managed to get a nice sheild from teh last boss aswell, called Silvermoon Crest Shield its not to bad, I need the +18 stamina enchant on it, but its pretty kool. Looks nice as well. Now I can finnally spend another 4 weeks trying to get a decent group to get my 2nd key fragment.

Havent posted in donkeys years!

I know its been ages since I posted, alots happened I had my bux night, my wife had her hens night, I got married and went away on my honeymoon, I've changed spec 4 times in WoW and have finally settled with one, which doesn't really suit the website name any more. But you get that and I really CBF changing. Now I'll start from here and work backwards explaining how I liked and disliked the various spec's I tryed. I am now an Elemental Shaman, my build is 41/0/20.

I had a choise with my last point on to very good spells, I could put one extra point into Natures Swiftness in the restoration tree, a very valuable skill, saves my ass when fighting rogues in PVP, saves my ass when I need to fire a lighting bolt off to stop a mob running off and getting backup, saved my ass when running away from mobs and I need to ghost wolf quickly. Its a very very very good spell, I didnt pick it however, the reason for this is that it has a 3min delay between uses, and I put my talent point into getting a totem, which gives a 3% crit chance to the enitre party and I can drop it as often as I want.

Not only that but since tyhe latest patch they have made it so every crit I get, I get a free spell directly after this, this with a combination of 5 talent points into 10% of your totel intelect becomnig mp5, gives me roughly 198 mp5, with bad gear atm, I barely ever run out of mana, I've been getting +crit gear over basically all other gear for this reason, and with the build I picked I have 11% extra crit chance with my lighting bolts on top of my equipment and intellect which provied about 13% atm. Thats 24% crit chance to lighting bolts, overload is awseom when it procs, its not very often but I have managed to do 5k dmg from 2 lighting bolts and a 1.7k earth shock directly afterwards in battlegrounds.

My gear is bad, bad bad, I was not prepared for the change at all but I'm not changing again unless the shaman gets nerfed now. I was dual weild for a while, I picked to low dmg daggers and some AP gear and was doing madness kind of damage with it, but the reason I have changed from that is because in the last patch apparently they have made it so you can only proc one windfury every 3 seconds, which destroyed the idea of having quick wepons and thus I changed from dual weild, not only this but to fight in PVP or PVE you need to be up close and personal with the toon your fighting. Generally you take more damage like this, as elemental I can fire of 2 lighting bolts before the mob reaches me, so hes alot lower and dies quicker, so I have less down time.

As for Restoration, well that was great for raids, great for 5 man instance, great for any group activity except bg's cause its basically fend for yourselfs in those and is basically useless for everythign else, so I cann'd it. I have found myself, and my group doing alot better then me beind a healer, cause when I have a mage and a lock and a priest in the group with me, thats 4 casters and a warrior, we get +101dmg / healing from my Wrath of Air totem, and all +3% chace to crit with my fire totem. The priests heal harder, the mages, locks and me hit harder, mobs go down faster and its just generally alot better.

My toons got roughly +455 dmg with my wrath of air totem down and +16% crit with the crit totem down, my shammy gets +11% on top of that for lighting bolts. Each crit lighting bolt does beetween 2000-2500dmg a pop, each no crit does 950-1100dmg a pop. Ill get some screen shots of the damage thats being dealt, its very awseom. I still don't have my flying mount, and still don't have any epics, the guild is doing great in the Kaz raid, we are progressing fairly well, I still haven't managed to get past Shadow Labrynth, that instance is very very hard, you need a good healer and a good tank to be able to progress in here. I'll post more infomation about my progress when I get home.