Warlock Cataclysm Changes

So tomorrow Blizzard is going to talk about warlock changes that are coming in Cataclysm.

Kriz from Frost is the New Black has info about the new warlock tanking tree.

And I say that Affliction will be our healing tree.  All your DoTs will heal lowest health party members for a percentage of the damage they do.  Just you wait, this will happen.   >.>

Noblegarden GOOOOOO!

It’s that time of year again, when the snow melts and we find oddly bright colored eggs laying in the grass beneath.  Makes me wonder just what chemicals are in that snow, maybe we should avoid more than just the yellow stuff.

And to celebrate, Angelya from Revive and Rejuvenate has set up The Great Blog Noblegarden Egg Hunt!  So now around the blogosphere there will be brightly colored eggs hidden around that you all need to find for some awesome prizes.  And because I’m lazy I’ll direct you to visit her blog for more details, that way I don’t need to type them out.

So somewhere on my blog is hidden an egg.  Well, why are you still here reading? GO FIND IT.

Enter the Melee Warlock

In which Deyndor gives sage like advice.

Welcome to the first of what I’m hoping will be many guides on how to be the best damn warlock you can be!

Now, some of you may be wondering what I’m talking about. What I’m going to tell you know is how to create the most overpowered build in all of WoW. The Melee Warlock.

But before I do, I wan’t to bring you back to the discovery of the melee warlock. Back to a simpler time. When the men were men and the women were too. I’m talking, of course, about the arena tournament of 2009. Gather ye round and I’ll tell you a tale…

I first entered the tournament with two friends of mine, who wanted to participate so they could receive the pet. I thought it sounded like fun, and having grown up (read leveled) on a PvP server, I thought it would be a good chance to flex my warlocky pvp muscles.

At first I specced into Demonology for the survivability, but we weren’t doing to so good. Obviously it couldn’t be me. I’m a warlock PvP God. It must be my teammates and their sub-par builds. So I got to looking at our group. It was myself, the amazing warlock, a resto druid, and a frost DK.

The resto druid was doing a fine job, so that points to the DK being the problem. And looking over her gear, oh boy did we have a problem. Gemming and enchanting for strength, stamina, and resilience? Obviously she was in dire need of my expertise. (I’d also like to point out that I am an expert on Death Knights.)

“The first thing you need to do,” I told her in most knowledgeable voice, “is to start stacking int and spell power.” I mean, her attacks show up in her spell book. Right? So they must benefit from spell power. Once we got her straightened out, I decided to experiment a bit with my own setup.

And thus the most OP arena comp ever devised was…..devised. I speak of course of the Spell Power DK, the Stamina resto Druid, and the Melee Warlock.

The Melee Warlock is a thing of beauty. What you want to focus on for this is agility and dodge. At that time, the highest level of gear we were given was Naxx gear and its PvP equivalent.

I think Blizz has known all along that the Melee Warlock is extremely OP, hence why you see no high level cloth gear with agility on it. This makes gearing hard, but not impossible.

I believe that with the gear/gems/enchants we were allowed I got my dodge up to around 28%. This is huge since you want as much dodge as you can get. Hard to kill me if you can’t hit me!

So for gear and what not, you’ll want anything that will boost your dodge. In terms of a spec, I’d go deep demo for Metamorphosis. Your opponents will run away screaming when they see a big purple demon running after them.

For the most part spells are irrelevant, so you’ll want a high DPS feral druid staff. Keep up your immolation aura when in demon form, and keep smacking away. And I guarantee, you will win at least 90% of your matches.

We were undefeated until our first loss after switching to this setup. Not many teams can say that.

I’ve spent a year now debating if I should let the world know about the glory of the melee warlock, and I think it’s finally ready. Enjoy.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one…

But a warlock and a paladin walk into a bar…

Windsoar over at Jaded Alt is celebrating her 6 month blogaversary.  And being the nice person she is, she decided to give those that want it a blog idea.  Since I rarely have ideas of my own, I try not to pass up when someone else if offering one.  Here is what she gave me

/cast Muse

I’m so popular with the warlocks today! Well, let’s see…

If your warlock and paladin met in a bar, how would the conversation go?

If Deyndor and Ollyn met in a bar?  I have a feeling that the bar would be in dire need of repair by the time they were finished.  I don’t RP, but like many WoW players my toons take on their own personalities the more I play them.

Ollyn is a pretty laid back guy.  He’s content to just sit around and relax when he isn’t starting people on fire.  However, if he feels that you’ve wronged him in some way, he’ll be focused on you until you wish you hadn’t met him.  A lot of that comes from when I used to PvP on him.  In battlegrounds, the first person to kill me is who I would focus on for the rest of the match.  Once I rezzed, I was coming back with a vengeance.  It has occasionally turned out poorly for me (oh who am I kidding, it’s almost always turned out poorly for me).  Like when I was first PvPing and chased someone across WSG just to get revenge on them.  Oh sure, I died when I was ganged up on by 4 Horde, but I killed that rogue first.

Deyndor is similar in having a short fuse, but his is focused at anything that goes against the light.  Like, oh I don’t know, Warlocks.  And the fact that they’re of different factions would just make it that much easier.  And when he focuses on killing something, he doesn’t stop until its good and dead.

So really, I would imagine that a brawl would break out the moment that Deyndor saw Ollyn (yes, Deyndor would start it).  I’m not really sure who would win, assuming they we’re of equal level.  But in any case, the bar might not be there by the end of the night.

That or Ollyn would give Deyndor fashion tips while Deyndor braided Ollyn’s glorious hair.

Quick QQ

In which Deyndor QQs.

So I had two other posts that I planned on making this week, but one I haven’t started and the other I need to finish.  This however takes precedence.  Reading the patch notes today (thanks Amber for the google doc of them for those of us with mean IT people) and I noticed something:

World Event Bosses
The previous summoning criteria for these bosses have been removed. Players can queue up for and fight each World Event boss as many times as they want for any standard loot that they may drop.
All rare holiday items (such as The Horseman’s Reins) will have a chance of being found in holiday-themed loot troves which will drop once for each player in the party no more than once per day, in the same manner that doing the Random Dungeon daily quest will provide a specific reward the first time it is completed in a day.

Now, reading that last section, about the holiday bosses, got me quite peeved.  Some of you may remember my post about Ollyn getting a new horsie back in October.   I run the holiday stuff with 4 friends.  When mounts drop, we talk and decide who should get it.  For the Horseman’s Reins it was decided that I would get it (yay me! )  Actually, we rolled and I won, but normally for stuff like that we decide who gets it.  With this new system, unless anything like that is trade-able (which I doubt it will be), we don’t have that option anymore.

Maybe I’m not reading it correctly, but it seems like they’ve just cut down the chance to get rare mounts and what not.  Which, will make them more rare and stop the ninja’ing of them, but still. Instead of having four (or five) chances at the cool holiday items per day, I now have one.  Thanks blizz.  Hope you increase the drop rate to better suit this system.

Thanks for listening to my QQ, I’ll try and have one of the previously mentioned posts up shortly.

Proving the rule wrong

In which Deyndor whore’s himself out for blog hits.

This is going to prove Pike‘s blogging rule wrong.

She said:

@Angelya_au It’s a rule of blogging: the amount of time you spend on a post is inversely proportional to the # of comments you will receive

This took around a minute to write and I’m guessing it will get no comments.  Or it will get comments because I linked it on twitter.  We’ll see.

And yes, this is because I could think of nothing else to post and noticed that I hadn’t posted since early this month.  Besides, I like to think I’m somewhat of an attention whore. 😛

Single Abstract Noun

In which Deyndor joins a guild of…bloggers?

I probably should have made this post last night, but I was tired and didn’t have the energy.  This is actually being written while I’m at work, so the quality of my writing is probably lacking more than usual.  *looks over shoulder for boss*

So yesterday I got home from work and did what I always do, I logged into Twitter (I seem to have become addicted to it).  And notice Miss Medicina talking about a “bloggie guild” as she put it.  I was slightly confused, so I asked her what she was talking about.  Apparently between when I left work and when I got home my google reader finally updated with Tamarind‘s newest post, talking about starting up a guild for bloggers.

However, since he’s in the EU, some of us across the pond can’t join him.  So Miss Medicina started up a US/Oceanic branch!  So come one, come all to beautiful Argent Dawn-US!  Create an alt Alliance side (if you’re US/Oceanic, Horde side for EU) and come join in the fun.

At one point our awesomeness (although Miss Medicina claims it’s because she took off her robe) actually caused the server to crash.  If that doesn’t show how much we rock and that you should join us, I don’t know what does.

This isn’t just for bloggers, this is for people that read blogs too.  If you want to be part of our ever growing community, then create the alt, and if you’re on Argent Dawn-US, just /join singleabstractnoun, and ask any one in the channel for a guild invite, they should all be able to do that.

I look forward to interacting with all of you lovely folks, so stop on by and stay for a while.

P.S. Oh yeah, I rolled a dwarf too.  I feel so short…  But my glorious beard is sexy, see:

Moar Filler!

Just a filler post until I get a better post idea.  You can thank Miss Medicina for the lovely MS  Paint drawing.

Almost There

This is just a quick post that I meant to do on Sunday night, but forgot with all the fun of the secret admirer project.*

Two things quickly:

Firstly, is there anyone more unlucky than me?  I thought I was the only one that didn’t have the drake at this point.  Apparently the pug healer didn’t either.

And secondly:

Deyndor finally hit 70.  Only 10 more levels to go.  😀

*Once again, thanks to Dristanel! It made for an amazingly fun weekend.  I also love that she used my letter to Khi as the image for the post.

The big reveal

Khi my dear,

I’ve been watching you these past 3 days, knowing that while you’re flattered by my words, you didn’t know who I was.

Today I tell you that it was I, Deyndor, who has been stalking admiring you from afar.

Make sure the box has plenty of holes my love, I plan on going with you!