Thursday, October 11, 2007

Blizzards Paladin 2.3 PTR Notes

I spotted the reference to the new Patch 2.3 PTR notes while on a quick stop reading over at Honors Code blog. So posted a copy of notes list for Paladins and other notes. Don't have much time so posting it here for quick reference. Weapon Expertise seem to be getting a Buff and with some Stamina. WOOT! Link to entire PTR 2.3 Notes here.

Paladins
- Cleanse and Purify range increased to 40 yards.
- Crusader Strike (Retribution) cooldown reduced from 10 to 6 seconds.
- Exorcism mana cost reduced.
- Hammer of Wrath mana cost reduced.
- Holy Wrath mana cost reduced.
- Improved Seal of the Crusader (Retribution) benefits folded into the
base spell. This talent now gives the benefits of the Sanctified
Crusader talent instead.
- Pursuit of Justice (Retribution) is now 3 ranks and increases
movement speed by 5/10/15% and also reduces the chance you'll be hit
by spells by 1/2/3%.
- Sanctified Crusader (Retribution) renamed Sanctified Seals, which now
increases your chance to critically hit with all spells and melee
attacks by 1/2/3% and reduces the chance your Seals will be dispelled
by 33/66/100%.
- Vengeance (Retribution) duration increased from 15 to 30 seconds.
- Vindication (Retribution) frequency and duration increased and now
reduces all attributes by 5/10/15%, not just Strength and Agility.
- Weapon Expertise (Protection) renamed Combat Expertise, now increases
expertise by 1/2/3/4/5 and total Stamina by 2/4/6/8/10%.


In Other News: Professions (Entire List)

Professions
- You can now control-click on a recipe to see how the item that is
made by that recipe will look on you in the dressing room.
- Alchemy
Added a sound for when a cauldron is created.
- Blacksmithing
A new world drop recipe for an Adamantite Weapon Chain has been
added. This new weapon chain both reduces disarm duration and
increases parry rating.
- Cooking
Daily cooking quests are now available from The Rokk in Shattrath
City! In addition to gold, you can receive random cooking reagents
and new recipes as a reward for completing these quests.
- Enchanting:
Duration of wizard and mana oils created by enchanters has been
increased.
- Engineering:
Engineers can now create incredible new flying machines! Find Niobe
Whizzlespark in Shadowmoon Valley to learn these fantastic new plans.
Plans for a new Field Repair Bot are rumored to belong to a select
few Gan'arg Analyzers in Blade's Edge Mountains.
- Fishing:
Fishermen and women can now track fishing nodes. This ability is
learned from a journal sometimes found in crates obtained through
fishing.
New fish can now be caught in Zul'Aman and Deadwind Pass. Recipes
for preparing these new fish are obtained through the daily cooking
quests.
Fishing difficulty reduced for some areas in Nagrand.
- Herbalism
Picking herbs will no longer cause effects on items to trigger.
- Jewelcrafting:
A new skyfire meta gem recipe can be obtained from the Coilskar Siren
of Shadowmoon Valley. This new meta gem increases critical strike
rating and critical strike damage with spells.
- Leatherworking:
Stylin' hats no longer require Zhevra leather.
Greatly increased the radius of the Drums of Battle, Drums of
Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
Removed the casting time from the Drums of Battle, Drums of
Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
Slightly increased the radius of Drums of Panic.
Reduced the casting time of Drums of Panic and added a global
cooldown equal to the casting time.
Drums of Speed and Drums of Restoration are no longer world drop
recipes, and can now be obtained from the Mag'har and Kurenai faction
vendors with revered standing.
A new recipe is available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers
to create glove reinforcements, providing a substantial armor bonus.
Reinforcements are a permanent enchantment and cannot be placed with
other permanent enchantments.
New recipes are available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers
to make 20 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
New recipes are available from the Honor Hold, Thrallmar, and Lower
City quartermasters to create 24 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
- Mining
Mining will no longer cause effects on items to trigger.

Quick Observations in Notes:

- Darkmoon Card: Vengeance: This item will no longer trigger from
environmental damage.
- Ogri'la Faction Vendor: This vendor now sells potions useable
anywhere for a large number of Apexis Shards.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Slow Week for WoW

On my night shift again on the job all this week so slow post week on anything WoW till Friday. But does allows me to catch up reading blogs and forums in the late hours of the morning just no blog posting.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Alchemy - New Discovery!

Discovered my Third Alchemy Flask. Yes, you do get a Alchemy Discovery recipe IF you make enough potions in varying quantities. So today when making potions Galo got this new discovery potion it literally scared the crap out of me as it always seem to do as it happened so unexpectedly. This Flask will be a nice one me a Paladin since this flask also increase Holy spell damage...Woot! Immediately I was off to the Alchemy Lab to make 5 of these Flask for my stash. More spell damage ftw for this Paladin!

If you keep making 300+ level potions never know you can get a few discoveries too. So Galo can now make both Flask of Relentless Assault, Flask of Mighty Restoration, Flask of Blinding Light ...Woot! Yeah you really do get the very elusive discoveries in Alchemy...once in a while.

Screenshots - Steamvault Boss Warlord Kalithresh


Dead boss Warlord Kalithresh. Another morning run of Steamvault, another good PuG group and this time its was smooth clean full clear run. Galo and his new shield (Tank), 2 Warlocks, a Priest and a trigger happy Hunter (Good Hunter & good guy). Made some more good friends :) Three cheers for good PuG's. Healer also made me look good. No one died on the run. And the vault refuse to open up and give Galo some loot. Maybe I need to rob the boss when he's not looking or something. Picked up Mask of Pennance since Galo only one wears plate. Will just throw the mask in my own bank vault. Picked up lots or armament for reps as well as complete the kill Warlord Kalithresh quest for CE. First time I forgot to get the quest. Herb farmed Ancient Lichen after the run was all over in the Instance.

PuG Tales - Mechanar

Another PuG group and another smooth instance run with Galo tanking his first Mechanar Instance run. Was Galo as Tank, 2 Warriors Arms/Fury spec a Shadow Priest and a Resto Shammy. Always nice to run with someone that's been there before as well as a good functional group and good healer (Shammy). We spanked all the bosses (5) and we clobbered "Pathaleon the Calculator" and picked up the 2nd shard to complete my Quest and key for Arcatraz. Actually Galo was having so much fun I walked out the instance and forget the shard, so had to run back in all the way to get it.

We had a few crazy mob moments after the boss Nethermancer Sepethrea with 4 waves of rushing mobs and a few more to Pathaleon. Turning in the quest (How to break into Arcatraz) at A'dal obtained my Sha'tari Vindicator Waistguard which was great to get. Was also hitting at times over 1K TPS (Threat Per Sec) which seems pretty good in just the gear I have but I think it usually average somewhere about 700 TPS usually in a good cycle. Also picked up Cloak of Arcanistry which probably will use for DPS gear. For Alchemy picked up Major Fire Protection Recipe off one the mobs one the mages maybe in the room before the pull with boss Nethermancer Sepethera.. Woot!

Anyway made a lot of friends from the run as the tank, also seem I'm getting more popular with the more runs I do for friend. Galo's now getting lots of whispers to come help with quests or Instance runs. All great though as sometimes I have to decline a invite as can only do so much at one time. Not many Paladin Tanks on my low population server either, as I've personally seem only 3 maybe and all in more progressive guilds. Spent rest of Sunday helping out the same group and a few other people swapped in completing tons of hard group quests in Shadowmoon Valley. Some quests I didn't have as yet, so some was shared that could.

However it was all just goodwill to help friends out for the quests they needed to complete since its usually hard to get anyone to help on group quests. That goes along way to having goodwill among friends as someone that don't mind helping out. In time that often goes both ways. Was going to attempt a SV or BoT Instance run later but was too tired from questing and end up taking a very long nap.