Running with Paladins

I did an instance run last night with a level 64 paladin, we did slave pen and he was the main tank. Now I don't like the idea of Pali's on the horde side, which is what I wrote about in one of my previous post. But boy did his Aura's, and blessings have some benefits, he gave me blessing of wisdom, and it was restoring 33 mana every 5 seconds, that along with my mana spring totem down made it virtually impossible to run out of mana. I really did enjoy playing with one, as much as I hate them. I can see them being a nessacity on each side, alliance with shammans horde with palidins, the instances at higher levels are hard and the spells they have are well worth having one.

67 and Still Leveling

I hit 67 this morning, my toon now has roughly 7.5k hp and mana, I've got some serious saving to go before I can get my flying mount trained and things after spending it all on getting my epic riding skills, but I think I might just have enough by the time I hit 70, I gained roughly 100g today just doing some quests and selling items at 67.





I got a group of guildies together and ran Sethekk Halls, we had 4 67's and a 68 druid as the tank. I was the healer, this is seriously a hard instance. The mobs are in close groups, they fear and they hit really really hard. The first boss in the instance is harder then the end boss in my opionion. I would love to run this instance again, I want the Two Handed Axe (Crow Wing Reaper) that drops from Talon King Ikiss, hes the end boss.

Whats Wrong With the Items??

A little while ago I wrote about some items that have been dropping that have statistics that are mental high, and that they don't actually give the player all those stats, and that blizzard should be fixing them. I called it Crazy Stats, anyway I've been using a mod called Auctioneer, for those of you that haven't heard of it or used it, it allows you to run a search through auction house and keep track of item prices and things like that, the idea is to buy low sell high. Anyway I was searching for items to purchase that I might be able to resell at a higher amount in order to make profit on them and I came across a piece of amour with +0 stats. Thought I'd post the picture :D

66 & Epic

I hit 66 last night, finally and it opens up a ton of stuff to you, the difference in my opinion from 65 to 66 is huge, I don't know if its just that I am over the half way mark to 70, or if the spells I got made a difference, but its awesome anyway.





I got the next rank of Lesser Healing Wave, which now crits for around 2.4k, which is pretty good for a 1.5 second heal. And I got my elemental totem, which has saved my ass more then once I can tell you. I though he would be like a pet you could control, but he actually stands around where you place the totem, so what I've been doing is pulling 4 or 5 mobs to me, dropping my elemental and casting Earth Shield on him, and healing him to keep him alive, while I DoT the mobs and drop my Magma Totem, and just aoe them all down.



Good for quests where you need to kill 10 mobs or so, can complete them fairly easy now. The elemental on a 20minute timer though, but I can't see any reason why elite missions aren't solo able by a shaman now. It has a 20minute cool down, but that's fine, I cranked him out in a PVP game last night I thought I'd have a go at as well and he pulverized a lvl 68 druid.



I know that's I've been talking allot about Clefthoof Amour Kits, but they are fantastic, I searched high and low for mats of the AH and bought enough to make 5 kits, I managed to sell all 5 kits for between 80g and 100g within roughly 4 hours in Orgirmmar yelling in the trade window. It was awesome, gave me enough money to buy my 150 riding skill for 540g, and I had AV tokens to pickup a Black Raptor for my Tauren :D He looks cool, I was tempted to get the Black War Kodo, but I have always wanted a Raptor.

Got Clefthoof Amour Kit

Finally got the mats to make my long waited Clefthoof Amour Kit, I found some Clefthoof near the bone yard at Tekorra Forrest and killed enough to gain the 8 peices of Think Clefthoof Leather i needed to make the kit, this gave me +30 stamina and +10 agility.



That plus finding my new chest peices brought my total hp and mana up to roughly 7k each.....for a level 65 shammy my base stats are hardkore. I had to drop 44 dmg by using my new chest peices but the amount of hp and mana I now have is worth it, I can seriously sit back lighting bolt my way up in levels.

Terokkar Forrest

Terokkar Forrest looks awesome, and I have to say I have found this place to be much more fun the questing in Zagarmarsh, that place gave me the craps. I completed about 10 quests yesterday, and am looking forward to completing more in this area. There is plenty to pick from, the horde towns in this zone are right where they are meant to be, there isn't much distance to travel between quests and I just have to say I'm enjoying killing Wolfs / Spiders and other creatures that are normal as apposed to giant alien walking things from War of Worlds.

Palidins and Horde

You might disagree with me on this, but the general vibe that I'm getting surrounding this is that horde don't want Paladins. I'm really annoyed at blizzard for introducing this idea, in my opinion I think they slacked off and instead of making things interesting and say introducing a completely new class, like a Necromancer for example, they just gave Shaman's to alliance and Paladins to horde.

A new class would have made things interesting, the two new races are great, that was a good way of introducing them into the game and that's fine, but a Paladin on the horde side isn't going to go down well, at least not for another 6-8 months. People on the horde side have built up a kind of aggression towards them, they are what made alliance alliance and what separated the two rivaling sides. Same goes for Shaman's on the alliance side.

Level 65!

I know I haven't posted in a while, I've been flat out organising my wedding / bux night etc.....but I managed to get some play time in last night and finally hit 65, got roughly 160g at the moment as well, so well on my way of getting 150 riding skill. I'll be saving gold from here on in for that exact reason.




I put my new talent point into 1% extra damage in the elemental section, so by the time I'm 69 I'll have 5% extra damage to spells. And the last point I'll be using will either be 1% extra crit with weapons or 8% extra stats from Grace of Air and Strength of Earth totems. The new Strength of Earth totem gives me +86 strength at the moment, its pretty hardkore. Wrath of Air is by far the best new totem shammys get, I absolutely love it, been hitting crazy doing crazy crits....






Any spell that can hit 1836 damage at level 64 is great in my opinion, especially if its my own. Not only has my lighting bolts been great, but my healing has been spot on as well, I've been able to solo heal in many instances and can't wait to get my next healing wave, I think that's at 66. The biggest crit heal I have done is a 4.3k that was at 64 mind you, and apparently a couple of my guildies who are level 70 shammys have hit 5.2k healing crits before with roughly +500 healing.


My rested xp is 4 bubbles from the end of 66, so getting to 66 shouldn't take long. Can't WAIT!!

Crazy Stats

Been a few post floating around the net about some items that are dropping with completely mental stats. From what I've heard the items still give you the correct amount of stats when you equip them. But stuff like this shouldn't even be happening. Boy of boy would I like either one of these.



Reminds me of the south park episode, could wear that one peice of cloth amour on me feet and have more stats then all my equipment put together and run around naked ganking everything....."How do you kill that which has no life."

Underbog

Did a run last night in Underbog, we had a 66 Druid as the tank, 2 mages 67 and 64 and a lock 62 plus me 64 shammy. We did alright, hard to do a 3hr or so instance with a little one. I had to stop a lot to feed the baby, change the baby, look after the baby, settle the baby, dress the baby. But he's worth it. We got pali loot from 2 bosses, and didnt have anyone to DE either so I ended up winning the rolls for both of them and vendored them.

Its a pretty awseom instance, very fun, but one thing I noticed is you can't skin anything in there. I have no idea why that happened to us, the herabilsts could get herbs from the bog creature things, but me and the other skinner couldn't skin the bats.

I've got rested XP to 65 now, and am half way through 64 just from running that instance. So ill probably run another one tonight if I get time and try and hit 65, and maybe get some shammy loot in the process. I socketed a shoulder peice I had aswell with +6 int and +5 dmg to give me +1 dmg / +2 int / +1 sta more then before.