Ever Closer

So, Dhargaul has now hit the lofty level of 77 and has purchased his Cold Weather flying. Now that the regular flying mounts fly even faster since patch 3.2 has landed this week, this means he'll have a much better time accessing a lot of quests as well as more flexibility in getting around to do his quests. Now all I need to do is to raise the 1k in gold so he can dual spec. I also like the buffed stamina that shaman have gotten from the patch, though Dhargual is still a long way away from the 16k in Health that Zuluki has. Gear wise these two toons are looking for similiar gear so you would think that they would very similiar health stats, and when Dhargaul get to level 80 I hope this is true. I'm also beginning to really like to new totem bar addition for shaman. I'm still playing with it so it's not as refined as I would like, but I really like hitting one button and seeing my favorite 4 totems landing on the ground. This will make the harder fights go much smoother since I won't be missing cooldowns due to refreshing all my totems or having to drop them individually. Since I don't macro my totems or put them on my action bars, that means I'm using the mouse to drop them and clicking them one at a time alwasy slows down what I'm doing.

On another note, Zuluki is sitting very pretty at level 79 and only 4 bubbles away from 80. I fully plan on finishing her run on this by the end of next week. She's beginning her rep grinds now too for gear, as well as getting prepared to craft out her beginning epics. I am really excited about being this close to 80 with her and I have to admit she's my favorite toon right now.

Mohg, and Yrkoon are also getting some attention but not as much as my two main characters. Though it may not be the most optimal build, I'm really ready to get Mohg back to Combat Daggers as that seems to be the funnest build and playstyle for me, all I need to do now is to find 2 new daggers for his and he'll be set for a while. Yrkoon is in the same position as Dhar in that I'm now just waiting to have the funds so that he can dual spec Ret/Holy. I'm really eager to get dual specced before he hits Outlands so that I can begin building decent sets of gear for him.

All in all, I feel good about my characters and the state of the game right now. So hopefully his trend will conitnue. :D

Happy hunter all
Dhargaul.

So...... Life in Azeroth

[Zuluki] Last week Zuluki nailed level 79 and is taking a short rest from slaughtering gorilla's by the thousands for their leather. She passed 440 in Leatherworking so she can now craft anything she has the recipe for. Epics here I come!

[Mohg] In the mean time, Mohg has decided that Howling Fjord is his playground for now. He hit level 71 this morning and is well on his way towards level 72. He's going to stay in the Fjord for a while knocking out quests like a madman. I've respecced him back to Combat Daggers/Fists. I like this better than swords, I need one more fist weapon for my main hand and life will be good. Slowly but surely he's making his climb to 80. Happy days.

[Dhargaul] Dhar is taking a break, though not needed. I really am shooting to generate enough funds for Dhar to get dual specced (Enhancement/Restoration) so until then he's not getting much play. Hopefully by the end of the summer he'll be there.

[Pallasathena] Not seeing much play.

[Helstorm] Not seeing much play except for the occasional dungeon run for loot.

[Yrkoon] Taking a short break before finishing the memorable STV!

Leveling Restoration....

So you think that you can't level as Restoration?

You might want to reconsider this with the new changes from the release of Wrath. When I specced to Resto a while back, I fully expected things to go slower and that I would have to be a lot more cautious in how I went about completing my quests. Well this morning I learned something interesting. In 4 seperate engagements I had to fight more than one mob. In all of the fights I never died and one of those fight was against 5 mobs. Now one of the benefits of being Resto is that due to talents and such it is very difficult for a mob or another player to kill you. This is to your benefit in that it will allow you the time it will take for you to kill off the mobs.

The fight tends to go like this: Drop totems (Strenth of Earth, Searing Totem, Healing Totem and Windfury) then you'll probably rotate as needed among: Earth Shock, Flame Shock, Water Shield, and Lesser Healing Wave. As long as Water Shield is active (and given that you've talented for Improved Shields) you should not have mana problems even in the longer 4+ mob fights. Otherwise keep Flame shock active and Earth Shock the mob to death.

I did have to use my Flame Elemental totem during the 5 mob fight to help DPS the mobs down so that I didn't have to worry about taking each and every mob on at full health. And I followed the Elemental totem with Magma totem for the additional AoE dps numbers. This significantly affected how quickly and easily this fight went down. The key to these fights, like a lot of Shammy engagements is understanding and managing your totems and heals during the fight.