Friday, July 24, 2009

Wait, what happened here?

So I have been getting some drops out of 10 man Ulduar lately and they appear at first glance to be nice upgrades for bear. However, while my attack power, haste, crit, and dodge go up, my health goes down. I have gotten the Valorous Nightsong head and shoulder pieces. And it kills me that it actually lowered my health approximately 2000 over what I was currently wearing. (I think I switched out my hands too, but since I can't seem to remember what the drop was that I switched the T7.5 hands for, ...)

So now the question becomes, should I sacrifice health for the other stats? Now, understand the following, I am not an enchanter, or a blacksmith, or a jewelcrafter so I don't have a huge health pool to start with. I only have about 32.5K unbuffed these days so when I switched those couple of pieces out and dropped below 30K, I nearly had a heart attack. I am not happy with my health pool being at 32.5K to start with, let alone falling below that. However, I do have about 42% dodge and 40% crit with around 6ooo AP.

But still, if your armor, dodge, AP, crit and haste all went up, would you sacrifice health?

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

It's Hammertime!!!

I don't know exactly what the title has to do with the post, but I found it funny. Okay, so I read the Q&A about druids.

And I have to agree with GC right now, I think bears are in a pretty good place. I haven't run across anything that I just couldn't tank, not that I'm always the best tank for the job, but I don't just suck ass. Which is nice. Savage Defense is working pretty well for me, don't really have any complaints.

I can regularly pull 5-6K dps in 10 man Ulduar while in catform depending on the movement involved. While the rotation is quite complicated, I find that it makes me happy that I can kick ass and be #1 in dps. And I still do Battle Rezes and Innervates. I like being very good at my spec, I'm not the best Feral out there, but I am still quite good. And I work very hard not to be a "low contributor".

And I find it interesting that in the next patch they are moving the mana reducing talents to King of the Jungle. I find this interesting because in my feral cat spec, I have both King of the Jungle and Primal Tenacity, however in my feral bear spec, I have neither. So moving the mana reduction does not help me in the slightest. It does however make me rethink my talents for bear. So now with GC talking about wanting to make it even cheaper to switch forms, that makes me very happy. I would love for it to be less costly seeing as I only have 5500 mana typically.

And as far as the Boomkin changes, I think it would be great for them to be more viable in PVP, but I have never actually played that spec, so I don't have a lot to comment on.

As for Resto, that is my wife's department and I sure know I don't have even half the knowledge she does concerning healing as a Tree so I'm not even going to try and comment. However, I do have to say, I love to arena with her on my Disc Priest. We make a damn good healing team! And if they changed it so that Restos spent less time in Tree of Life form, I think I would totally miss seeing the Tree more!

Now, other stuff going on. Well, I raid Ulduar on weekends with my feral druid, but I have now started raiding Ulduar with my Disc Priest during the week. It is a totally different perspective. And it is one I'm enjoying. Not that I would ever change my main, but it is nice to play around with healing some. And I like the Disc Priest mechanics better than healing on my Druid.

Anyway, back to work for now. Rawr!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Rawrcast

So, I listen to podcasts at work to make the time go by quicker. And I just have to say, if you don't listen to Rawrcast with Stompalina and Hafrot, you should. The are funny funny stuff. But it is not for little kids! Give them a listen if you get a chance!!

http://rawrbitchrawr.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 6, 2009

I'm back.....

So after driving 3600 miles in 11 days, I am back home. And I had a great time, but I am extremely happy to be home and in my own bed! Some things I have to say. The Denver Zoo is quite nice. It was cool to see Grizzly Bears, Polar Bears, Arctic Foxes, Arctic Wolves and such. We don't exactly have those in zoos in Texas.... A little too hot for them. Dickinson, ND was very nice. Not too hot, not too cold. And the family reunion was a lot of fun. I really like my wife's side of the family there! We then drove to Little Chute, WI. And let me say, nothing but farmland for 800 miles from Dickinson to Little Chute. We met up with some guildies in Little Chute and had a great time! Even got to go see Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Plus got a lot of cheese. I love cheese!! Overall, it was a great vacation, but now I need to rest up!

We ran into Ulduar on Saturday and Sunday and got all the way to Yogg-Saron, and that was a lot of fun. We didn't get Yogg down but then, we really only tried twice because we were running out of time. I think we will get to Yogg quicker next week. I am still trying to catch up on all my reading about patch 3.2 so I will let you know if I have anything to say about it soon!