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It’s a Monday, and somehow I’ve already been awake too long. Let’s dive right in to what’s running through my head and has been happening in-game, shall we?
- Leave it to Blizzard to invalidate anything I was writing about two posts ago. I don’t have to worry about pet control in a 51/0/20 Blood build because, well, it’s completely impossible. The permaghoul is now completely in the hands of heavy Unholy builds.
- I respecced my DK again (0/20/51), grabbed the best slow/fast weapon combo I could get with absolutely no effort, and went to Heroic HoL. I hadn’t had any practice whatsoever with this build, but I still took second place on overall DPS. I would’ve had higher, but the tank was having a lot of problems holding threat against the shadow priest and me. Reason: I don’t think I’d ever really given dual-wielding a fair shake, and so I figured, why the hell not? Not like I’ve got anything else going on these days.
- I really, really, really want to get into a Malygos raid one of these days. I don’t see it happening pre-3.1. /sad
- My baby druid is up to 22, having just finished up the last of the Tranquillien questlines, hitting Exalted with them, and wandered off to Undercity to hand over the good tidings of Dar’khan Drathir’s passing. In all his clothie gear, he’s the funniest-lookin’ moocow to ever moo. I also just remembered he needs to go train. Hopefully I remember to do that tonight.
- I keep looking at my shaman and wanting to level her, but at the same time… I wish it was an orc. And not a her. I dunno. 36 levels isn’t really that much to lose, especially when 20+ of them were RAF granted ‘bonus’ levels. But, I’ve been holding off on that because…
- Vandersloot and I are supposed to be starting new alts soon, possibly as soon as Friday. He wants to make a warlock, and do recruit-a-friend, so I volunteered to be on the ‘new’ account, and will probably be rolling a warrior. Busy, busy.
My Druid (now 71) is also wearing a lot of cloth. Haven’t yet ran him in an instance with clothes, but I can only imagine how that’ll go over when I want to roll them for their drops.
I’m looking at this for a build for Grim come 3.1.
If they’s being nice about it, they’ll let him roll right along with them. Balance and Resto druids are well-known for sporting cloth right alongside their leather. (I sort of envy holy pallies in this respect: they can pick the cream of the crop of spellcasting gear.)
That’s not too bad of a build. The thing with my DW build is that I’m not actually a fan of deep Unholy. I only took it because I liked the idea and playstyle of 0/20/51 better than the other viable DW specs. Don’t tell anyone, but it’s kind of fun.
I imagine my love affair with dual wielding will go away come 3.1, and I’ll be back to a 51/0/20 (or bafflingly, 50/1/20) build, with the buffed-then-nerfed-then-buffed again Death Strike in my rotation. Also can drop Glyph of Blood Strike while in Blood-spec, since it now doesn’t affect Heart Strike. Sigh. Something like this build, I imagine.
Nuu! We need more lightning steaks. Seriously. Do it. Tauren. Shaman. 80. Now. :p
Had myy first instance run on the Druid and as you expected, no one blinked when I rolled. Good stuff.
As for the DK – I really do love the Unholy tree – call it my love affair with the ghoul. I’ve been letting others research for me on the PTR, but it may be time for me to jump over and experiment with things myself.
0/20/51 doesn’t have subversion, the aggro reduction talent.
@BigFire: After last night, I’m pretty sure it’s not the build, it was the tank I had on that HoL run. I took 0/20/51 into Naxx, did more damage than I ever had previously, and never once even came close to pulling threat off the tanks.
I’ll probably still hit 51/0/20 or keep the majority of my current 52/0/19. Yea. I’ve never used Obliterate, except to remove diseases.
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