I give in... How was your patch day?

How was your patch?

Overall for myself, it was an entertaining evening.

Priest:
I started off by hitting the mailbox with my priest, and reaping the rewards of my herb farming and glyph mass production with my priest, then hit the trainer. I bought dual spec, hit one side up Discipline and the other Shadow. Realise now that the talent preview is an interface option… so next time I login I need to respec my shadow tree as I just mooshed it together to try.

Ulduar:
I logged into my mage, talented up and with a few of the guildies hit up Ulduar. After the best part of an hour from scheduled start, everyone was setup and ready to go, we went over tactics, jumped in our vehicles and zoomed off to clear up some trash. This was awesome fun – I recommend everyone try it, even if your not going to take on the boss.

We sidled up to the boss, and with a rough draft of tactics went on in to see how it would play out.

Splat. 60% wipe. Not bad for a clueless first try.

Second time around he bugged and one of the Siege Engines “lagged out” for about 10 seconds whilst being pummeled. Wipe at 75%

Third try ended up being our last as… well… It broke. We went in, one of the vehicles was too close behind when it got targeted, got flattened, quick path to a 70% wipe, but it was a much cleaner fight.

The Crash:
At this point we were unable to re-enter the instance, and were stood outside with hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of other players. (All Choo-Chooing, Argh! The noise was frightening!) We decided to go gank Malygos since we had a powerful group – but it turned out that the instance servers were completely borked and nothing was running, so we called it there and went on our merry way.

Back to Glyphing I went. I still have money streaming in from Auction House sales, and so far I have gone from a balance of 1400 gold to 1700 Gold – and that’s AFTER buying dual spec and some training to max out new skills, so a good 1300 gold profit and counting.


Dual spec:
I only have one Dual specced character, and at the moment I don’t see any point in doing it any other way – and even then, I feel I may have wasted my money.

My priests Discipline abilities got a mojor boost – almost every ability is more powerful. Stackable devine Inspiration (each crit adds a bubble for 30% of the heal value, and I can stack them now up to a 10k Bubble!) cheaper faster and more powerful heals, targetable AOE heals as Discipline… Its looking good.

Shadow – I cant see me using this spec often at the moment. I pull about 1700 unbuffed DPS which I guess isn’t too bad considering im wearing like 2 items from heroics, 2 from Naxx 10 and the rest is quest rewards or level 78 craftables. When grinding Im more prone to AOE grind with Holy Nova – especially now its mana cost has been reduced!

Cant help but think Holy might have been a good secondary spec… but I have little desire to use Circle Of Healing – especially now I have improved AOE heal abilities on my priest – who wasn’t struggling before hand with AOE healing anyway… (49% healing on Loetheb with a pally and another disc priest – both better geared, whilst maintaining 3 bubbles on the tanky types to keep em standing… One death… That’s why Im not concerned with the group heal abilites of Disc.)

Summary:
Overall I am enjoying some of the features of the patch, and for a while, Ulduar will provide much entertainment. We are confident Flame Leviathan will go down in a couple of tries tonight – it’s a surprisingly simple fight if you break it down to individual tasks instead of trying to take the whole thing in. Basically Kite and DPS. Two people get launched to take out the turrets on the FL, and the choppers run around dropping tar in its path, and picking up the catapaulted people once they are done. No big rush at the moment, it should be one-shottable – it’s the next boss that will be the problem, from what I read – he is currently bugged.


-V