So 4.0.1 is almost upon us... unless of course the patch is delayed for some reason. Everyone will have quite a bit of adjusting to do once we are finally able to log in. The first thing I’m pretty sure I will do in game is redo my talent specs and then re optimize my gear. I will also most likely end up disabling all of my addons just in so my interface doesn't explode. I’ve wanted to do a post on my proposed druid specs and maybe death knight spec just to share how I will approach 4.0.1. I think I will talk a little bit about feral for the time being as I have been raiding as feral dps a lot more often then healing as of late (sadly that may reverse in the future..only time will tell). Because of that I guess I feel I have a little more insight on whats going to be changing with the spec than resto at the moment. I will post my experience with balance and resto after the patch goes live.
Feral Talent spec:
At level 80 we will have only 36 points, and 31 of those have to be spent in the Feral tree before we can put any points in the Restoration tree. This makes the Tier 2 talents in the Resto tree unreachable until Cataclysm is released.
With all the anticipation and preparation for patch 4.0.1, I've been negligent of my blog for a couple of days mainly because I've been trying to farm useful in game pics to use in upcoming posts. Well I guess I haven't really been negligent because I had intentions of improving my content for readers. Anyways, I still want to talk about some patch related stuff but I guess now I need to debate if it would be worthwhile since the patch is so close. I'll worry about that later though. In the meantime I'd like to participate in this week'sBlog Azeroth Shared Topic from Llani ofPocket Heals!
First I'd like to say that this is a very good topic so props to Llani :). For me, when it comes to creating names for my toons I always try to be random with hopes of coming up with something unique and witty. I mean who doesn't want a cool name that people comment on all the time in trade. Then after some time passes and I realize that my creativity isn't quite up to the task I end up either meshing together phrases or words people normally use that I find funny or just using random phrases that no one would think to use for a name. Basically there is no logic involved which I like because I like to think of my naming system as my very own random name generator without the role-play element and weird syllables and silent letters. I'll go into further detail about the thought process (or proposed thought process of all the names that seem like they were literally made on a whim) of my toons beginning with my alts.
By this point a lot of people have already seen most of the endgame content of the expansion and are biding time until cataclysm comes out. I find myself in a similar situation as I have cleared ICC 10 and most of ICC 25 man on my main. I'm more of a casual player than hardcore so I have gotten to see most of the content by filling spots in people's regular 10 or 25 man groups mainly because I can do that at my leisure (also because of my mad skills that people tend to recognize... jk ).
I often find myself doing this because the guild runs that are scheduled tend to deviate from the times I'm actually available. This doesn't really bother me much because I enjoy the people in my guild and I like to be available for help so I stick around regardless.
As of late my primary focus has been to get my 2nd druid and my dk to 80 which I accomplished few days ago. My main goal now is to get their professions leveled and gear them up a bit.
With the start of classes and all, I've been really busy getting situated so I decided that I would take a short break from WoW. After looking over my schedule for the next few weeks I told myself that I wouldn't play. I wouldn't until I reached a point where I could play comfortably and not feel stressed because I knew there were more pertinent things that I should be attending to i.e. grad school apps and things like that. I told myself this to help me be proactive because I figured the less distractions I had the more proactive I would be. But in all honesty though, there is always something to do and I am so easily distracted so I in fact would never not be busy enough to feel comfortable to play for whatever allotted time.
Well I was proactive for a couple of weeks then I gave in and renewed my subscription to hop back in to game play. Oh yea did I mention that I made my resolution at about the end of August/ beginning of September and I renewed my subscription officially towards the end of September. So I didn't do too badly. But what can I say, I can’t stay away. Lol, and during the time that I suspended my account purposely (because I figured that would help me stay less distracted) I couldn't help but stay up to date on all the cataclysm changes (this definitely was counterproductive to me avoiding being distracted). I'm sure most who are interested already check stuff like that out but I think I'll post some stuff here as well as I see fit. On that note stay tuned! :)
