Yes that right! I have joint the group of King Slayers! After many attempts we finally killed the Lich king! WooHoo! The battle was seriously hard. At one point we didn’t think we would be able to down the King, after wiping around 15 times its kinda a downer on our spirits. But we pushed on.. and on…. and on and finally hit the the final phase! (the one where you cant lose at all!)

With me being the only ranged class we had in this fight it was very hard on me! I had to dispel the Enraged effects from the Shambling Horror, Destroy the Ice Sphere and kill as many Vile Spirits as I could before they decided that they wanted to fly down and explode…

The main problem I had was when we had to run back into the middle (Phase Transitions) I would forget to take out one of the Ice Sphere’s, causing most of our team to try there hand at flying… With no mount. It didn’t work to well.

Our other problem, and this will be for most teams that went in there, was the “Defile” Iv never hated a spell so much! For those who don’t know, this is an AOE spell that gets placed on the ground. The Lich King targets a random player and casts it. The have about a second to move out the way. This grey swirling mess forms at the targeted players feet and deals 3,000 Shadow damage to anyone in the area. Now that doesn’t sound that bad does it, but wait its not over yet. Every time a player is hit with this Defile it increases in size. There is no limit to how big it can grow. If to many people get hit then it will cover the hole boss area. There is nowhere to run. Wipe will soon follow. Agh god the amount of time we wiped because of this spell…

It finally got to that point where people said “Ok lets give it one more go and then well call it a night” One more go! That all we had. (We would of saved the raid for another day but chances are we wouldnt be able to get all the people back on) We tried again. Got to phase 2 with the Val’kyr and Defile and the worst thing happened. Our tank died! Thinking this would be over people were calling wipe… But no! Rebirth was cast on the tank. He sprang back into the action taking the Lich King off the off tank and we continued!

We had got the Lich king down to 19% before but this time we were going for it! “20%….19%…..18%!!” We were hitting the King hard. Before we knew it he had 12% HP left! Just 2% more! We can do this. Team speak was now full of people talking “Come on!!” “We can do this!” “Just 2% more people!” BOOM! The raid fell to the ground, Fury of Frostmourne had be cast! The Lich king was at 10% Cheers were going out on TS. People knew we had won. The Lick King had fallen!

I just want to say a huge thank you to my group. We all did great that night. Epic team!

Oh well... Maybe next time.

Untill that time I will be working on my Pala tank so that next time somthing like this happends we will have another tank ready to take over.

I think I will change this blog so that its not just about my hunter. With Cataclysm coming out soon I will be making a Warrior and will have little time to play my hunter! (Not saying that I will never play my hunter again) At the moment I have 4 level 80′s and it will go up when Cataclysm comes out

As I’m sure most people know, Icecrown Citadel is the final encounter against the Lich King. It consists of 11 bosses and then the Lich King, with each boss more challenging then the last. If you haven’t been in there yet now is the time, you will love it!

I was in Dalaran waiting for the raid invites to go out. The raid was going to begin at 8pm, where we would all make our way to the entrance of Icecrown Citadel. I turned up in style on my 2 seater rocket mount! While I was walking down the main entrance to the Citadel I was starting to get really nervous about my spec. About 3 days before the raid I was with Durkonkell playing around with different pet specs and my DPS wasn’t looking too great (just about hit 4k). Durkonkell reassured me that it was only a target dummy and that when in a raid its a completely different situation. He was, of course right but I was still nervous none the less.

Read on to see how I got on.

We all got to Light’s Hope and waited for everyone to get ready for the battle ahead.

The guild I’m in always use Team Speak when we do raids, whether you have a mic or not you have got to be on there. When I got the information I inputted it into the “connection settings” and logged in. I didn’t really think too much of it after that and was sitting waiting to start. After about 5 min had passed I was thinking to myself “Wow people are quiet today…” I could not hear anyone on there. I decided to alt tab out of the game and have a look. “Whhaaaa?!?” Some how, and don’t ask me how I had managed to join a completely different TS server… Crazy thing was that it was also a wow TS server! (What are the chances) I quickly logged out, checked the setting and re logged back in to TS. This time it was the right one!

So anyway we finally set off about 8:20 pm and started to clear all the trash leading up to the first boss. Now that hunters have lost the “Volley” ability, AOE is kinda sucky. The best I could do was to launch an explosive trap into the middle and multi shot like mad. I didn’t think I would get that much DPS but some how I hit 10k with no problems at all! Apparently AOE still works with hunters!

Within 4 mins we had got to the first boss. Lord Marrowgar!

This is the easiest boss in ICC. There are only a couple of things to watch out on when you come to this boss.

Cold flame – A 4 way Ice attack

Bone Spike – Ice spikes that trap you and do a lot of damage

Bone Storm – A spinning attack that hits the whole raid

We had all been up to this boss and all knew what we were doing so there wasn’t any reason to brief. We all felt confident that we could do this with no problem. So the fight began! The tank (Druid) charged off towards the boss and instantly got an insane amount of aggro. There was hardly any need for me to use my “Misdirect” onto the tank. I hadn’t had much time to learn what my rotation was with BM but I have got to say I dont think I got a single thing wrong. I was hitting Kill Command on every cooldown. My pet was hitting for 16,000 with crits and all looked good! The boss did his first bone storm and started to fly around the room like a crazy person! But me being a ranged person didn’t care, I could hit him wherever he went and continued to DPS him down. After the bone storm finished the tanks picked him back up and all the DPS started to wale into him again. In no time at all Lord Marrowgar was on the floor dead! And by “in no time” I mean it took 1 min 19 seconds to kill him, a boss with 7 million HP! No one could believe it, and there was much rejoicing on TS! After giving out the loot we went on to fight Lady Deathwhisper.

Once again we all knew what we had to do so there wasn’t any real wait between the fight. The first step was to get rid of her mana shield that she had so we all started going to town on her shield. Every 30 or so seconds she spawns adds that come from either side of the room. These were picked up by our off tank and killed very quickly. Yet again we got the shield down in not time whatsoever! She only had enough time to spawn one lot of adds before her shield was destroyed and phase 2 began. Phase 2 is more of a tank and spank. The only thing you have got to watch out for are ghosts that can deal a lot of damage to the DPS or even kill them in one hit. However, before anyone could say “Burger town” she was also on the ground not moving a lot. I decided to have a look at my DPS as a Beast Master in the instance. For Lady Deathwhisper I was top dps with 11K and also did the most damage! Beast Masters CAN raid! (To be fair, I raided as BM before, I just had to put up with people criticising me. Sounds like that won’t be a problem now -Defensive Ed.)

Next boss is the Gunship battle! (Okay not so much a boss, more of an encounter)

For ranged DPS this is a very easy boss encounter… just DPS the Axe Throwers. It’s really trivial when you have good DPS as they die really quick. Once they’re dead you don’t really get to do much unless they attack your gunship with melee, then you can help take them out. But other then that for ranged I’ve got to say this isn’t that fun to play. I’ve always found it best to stick your pet on aggressive so your pet will attack the melee targets even if you’re attacking the ranged. Just don’t forget to take your pet off after the battle or much “noob hunter” will be said in chat (Or over TS). (If you wipe the raid due to poor pet control as a Beast Master, you will never hear the end of it – Cautionary Ed.)

After the battle is over we head up to the upper entrance to the Citadel, but first we must get through Deathbringer Saurfang!

This is another easy boss IMO. The only thing is that he has a lot of HP. 12.3 Million if you wanted to know. As Muradin Bronzebeard says. “A lone orc, against the might of the Alliance” though bear in mind he has been empowered by the Lich king… Muradin Bronzebeard seems to forget this and charges in. Now it’s down to the raid to take him down. For hunters, the battle only has 2 things to worry about. Don’t stand next to each other and don’t let his Blood Beasts get anywhere near you! Other then that you just DPS him till his dead. Now I have the advantage with this battle! Trap Launcher FTW! I’ve never seen a better boss to use in on then this one. Once again the boss was down within 2 mins! We had finished the lower spire in about 20 mins! After the loot was shared out people started to joke about getting to the Lich King because of the speed we were going.

We all entered the upper spire and headed over to the Plagueworks.

The 3 bosses in this area are Festergut, Rotface and Professor Putricide. Most of the time when we go on an ICC Raid we down Festergut and then end the raid as it would be getting late. We charged into Festergut and downed him before he had the chance to use Gaseous blight for the second time! This is one of the bosses that we had so much trouble on in the past. There was always 2 reasons why we would wipe. First was that someone would always miss one of the spores and die (Normally it would be someone like the healer) and the other way is that we just don’t have enough DPS to kill him before we hit the enrage timer. When we downed him there was still another 3 mins before he would have enraged! 3 MINS!

We moved over to Rotface and engaged him. My DBM was still showing me how long we had till Festergut would enrage (There was much laughter over TS). Rotface was another boss that would also give us lots of trouble in the past, mainly because people didn’t know what they were doing and would always be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This time we downed him before he had the chance to make a single Ooze explode! Now people were thinking about us getting to the Lich King as more of a realistic chance. On another glance at recount and I was second DPS on overall damage. We then moved onto Professor Putricide!

I have never done Professor Putricide before but my raid members were more then happy to inform me of what I had to do to stay alive. After a quick briefing (Semseye you just stand here and shoot things) we started the boss. I stood in the place they asked me to stay in and shot things… Quite well if I say so myself ) But we had a problem. One of the orange Ooze sludge things targeted a kitty druid and began its charge on the target. The kitty druid seemed to want to play with the Ooze instead of wanting to run away from it and pounced right into the middle of it… BOOM! Kitty be no more. Due to the “BOOM” The healer also took the brunt of the attack and was sent to the other side of the room. This meant that the tank would not get any heals. Tanks don’t work too well without any heals. We lost both tanks and that was the end of that. I tried to get through it with “Feign Death” but some green slime decided to form beneath me. After a little more talk about tactics and after everyone had regained there life back and buffed up we gave it another go.

“If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!” – Zapp Brannigan

This time we were perfect throughout and the boss was defeated! Also I got the achievement for completing the plague quarter!

Next in line we had the Crimson Hall! Home to the Blood Prince Council and the Blood Queen herself! If you had ever been in Naxx and had done the four Horsemen encounter then the council is a little like this. There are 3 bosses, each share the same HP but only one can be killed at one time. They also do some crazy spells! I’m not too sure what one does what I just know what the spells are! The main one that range need to worry about is the “Kinetic Bomb”. This is a glowing ball in the air that slowly heads towards the ground. If it hits the ground then boom! The only way to keep it up is to shoot it. The more damage you deal to it the higher it will go. I decided to take it upon myself to keep these up and use my pet on the bosses. I was doing a really good job but something happened to the off tank that ended up killing him. At this point I wasn’t to sure what happened so it ended in a wipe. Yet again I tried to use Feign Death to stay alive but wasn’t able to. Now what happens next I’m not too sure. Bug found! When I hit the release I went back to the graveyard but I wasn’t a ghost… I didn’t have any HP so if I was engaged then it would have been the end of me! I quickly mounted up and charged back into ICC. During this time I had found out that yet again the healer was sent flying to the other side of the room and was unable to heal the tank, causing another wipe. This time we knew what we were doing and went crazy on their asses!

I took the time to screen shot the overall recount data. Here is the screen shot!

As you can see being 3^rd highest DPS in the group is very good! I forgot to get a screen shot of my pets damage as well. Got to remember to get that more often now.

Up to this point in ICC It really felt like we were running a Naxx run. It was all a little easy. Granted we had wiped twice, but that’s nothing to what we use to be like. Take Festergut, We would wipe about 5 times before we finally killed him! I couldn’t help but think that maybe it was too easy now. Its all good finishing something but there no real achievement if it doesn’t make you try.

Take this for example.

What would make you feel more like you have achieved something? Killing a level 79 with green items, no pvp gear and not all there spells? Or killing someone who is level 80 in full PVP gear and there using all there spells.

To me Killing the level 80 would be the biggest boost to my confidence then the level 79. That’s what it felt like. No boss in the current raid should be killed in 1 min 20 seconds. There’s just no fun in it.

But anyway getting back to the raid.

We were now coming up to the Blood Queen herself! I’ve only even downed this boss once and that took about 4 tries to do it. So I didn’t think this one was going to be a walk through. We all stood there looking at the her waiting for the storm to begin. The tension could be cut with a knife. The druid shifted into his bear form and charged in! Spells, blades and arrows were flying straight towards her. All looked good. She bit her first victim and vampires were born. When you get bitten by her you have 60 seconds to bite another target or she controls your mind and the only way to break the spell is by death. One good thing though is that your damage is increased by 100%! If your the first one to be bitten then watch your DPS fly! We got her HP down to about 40% Then the worse care scenario happened. We lost our tank! This was bad news, we all thought that was the end But NO! Our off tank jumped in and took the boss. With one of the melee DPS taking the Blood Mirror (Causes the player closest to the tank to take 100% of the damage done to tank as Shadow damage) The melee DPS was there long enough for our main take to be battle rezzed back up and he charged back into the battle! Things were looking good again. We got her down to about 5% when I noticed that a kitty druid was attacking the healer… “OH NOES!” We had lost the kitty to the Blood(y) Queen we had to take her down fast! Her HP was at around the 130,000k when I noticed that most people had been killed around me. There was me a healer and a melee dps that were going at it with the Queen. With my Kill shot glyph I could fire 2 kill shots in one go, and I was never more glad of it than now. The Queen was no more! Wow that was a close one… Maybe it wasn’t so easy after all.

We decided to make our way over to the Frostwing Halls where it was home to Valithria Dreamwalker and the annoyingly voiced Sindragosa! First up is Valithria. Now Valithria is a different kind of boss. The thing is… She’s on your side. The battle is only against adds. You never need to shoot her. Its completely a heal battle. Your healer must heal her back to full HP to win the…. emmm… Fight?? (I will beat you by healing you!) With the new specs this was a little too easy. She opens a portal where you can go over to the “Dream world” and it will increase your healing done by a crazy amount (I think that’s how it works anyway, Being a hunter I’ve never been in there.) Our healer on TS was laughing every time he cast a healing spell on Valithria “Hahaha I just healed for 150,000k and critically healed for 200,000k” Now she starts off at about 6 mill HP and you need to get it to about 12mill. If your hitting for 100,000 – 200,000 each time then it would be easy to reach the 12 million required. And it was. We had finished it within no time. I even helped with my Spirit Beast’s “Spirit heal!”

Next is the most annoying and hardest battle in ICC (IMO) Sindragosa! If you have haven’t read Durkonkell’s blog about the battle on here then do so! You will know what I mean by annoying!

We charged down there talking about the tactics before we were at her lair. This is known as “The Frost Queen’s Lair” and its situated at the back of ICC at the lowest point. (See Durkon’s post about Sindragosa being the farthest point away from the Lich King! Lol)

Lucky we all knew what we were doing when it come to this boss also so it didn’t really take much explaining. More a recap, also with the new raid markers we could mark out where people would need to run to when they get iced!

So we started the battle! Before you get to engage Sindragosa you need to take out 2 other dragons. You may know them! They are Rimefang and Spinestalker, these are easy to kill. Each have about 5 mill HP. The annoying thing is that the second both are dead Sindragosa shows up and attacks. You don’t really get a rest point to get your mana back to max. So we engaged Sindragosa with the sound turned off so we didn’t need to hear that voice. (I’m sure its meant to be there to distract you from what you’re meant to be doing (like driving examiners talking to you during the test – Cynical Ed). All was going really well until we get to phase 3. Problems started to form. Tanks get a de-buff that can only be removed by going behind someone that has been ice blocked, But the person who has been ice blocked needs to get out of that ice block quick before they die. This is done by the other dps who need to shoot or hack the ice block and break it. This happens every 15 or so seconds so you can Imagine it’s easy to get out of hand very quick. The problem is that if one of the ice blocks are not broke quick you could have the whole raid frozen because there’s not enough dps to break all the ice blocks so the dps tends to go all out when they see one. The tank cannot remove the de-buff because of this and ends up dyeing. This is what happened and we ended it in a wipe. We tried again and the same thing happened. Another problem is that when she uses the “Ice Tomb” anyone who is within 10 yards of the person getting ice blocked will also get ice blocked. So you need to run to a place that isn’t full of players and with such a quick cast time you don’t have much time to find a place. On the 3^rd time we did the same thing and 3^rd wipe was in the tin. People were starting to lose faith in if we could do this or not. We decided to give it one more go!

This time we got it right. Sindragosa didn’t stand a chance against us. Everyone was in the right place at the right time and there was a lot of cheers when the dragon fell to the ground!

Phew!

At that point people had to go so we all decided to save the raid and finish (Yes I said finish) it this Friday!

I will create a post about the battle on the Saturday or Sunday! Keep your eyes open on Your Best Shot or on One Shot, One Kill.

Before I go, Here are the final DPS figures for me and my pet:

This got me thinking. I wouldn’t mind a new mount and I know where I could find one. So I set off towards Storm Peaks. I was looking for the Time lost proto drake that was in these parts. I already knew where the spawn points for the drake were so I went on the hunt!

I entered Storm Peaks from the south having flown from Dalaran and went in a clockwise motion. I put my tracker on find Dragonkin and Beasts and had my eyes pined to the radar. From getting Gondria I knew that they will be a yellow dot on my radar (Well that’s what I was hoping anyway). So I checked all the yellows that would show up to see what they were. Right there are some Stormcrest Hatchling and some Snowdrift Jormungar and Skoll and some more Stormcr….!!!! SKOLL!!!

At this point it was pure panic! Everything I know about hunters just left and went on holiday at that split second. I quickly zeroed in on Skoll and started to franticly look for tame beast. For some reason I could no for the life of me find it anywhere on my action bars “ahhh crap!” Open spell book – Click on beast mastery – Looking for tame pet – still looking – Ah found it!! Right tame Skoll…. Emmm Tame Skoll!!

At this point I was beginning to think that there was a bug. Then it hit me… Skoll meet Gondria… At this point Gondria was laying into Skoll like she hadn’t been feed for weeks “AAAAGHH!!! STOP!!!” With Skolls HP down to 32% I clicked “Dismiss pet” and tried the tame pet again. The bar started to tick down till I had Skoll by my side. I’m not sure how long it takes to tame a pet but this felt like an ice age.

The bar finally lit up green and Skoll run to my side! I finially had 2 Spirit Beasts!

When it come to loading the instance It would load the loading screen but then it would just sit there. No loading bar would be present but, I could still hear all the sounds in Dalaran. I left it to see what would happen and I was put back into Dalaran with the message “Instance not found”. Some of the people who were in my group managed to get into the instance though.

I tried the “teleport to instance” and the same thing happened. It showed the loading screen and then it just went back to Dalaran. After the group disbanded I decided to give it one more go to see if it was just a one off. So I loaded back up LFG and cued again. Accepted the invite and loaded the instance. This time there was a loading bar and I couldn’t hear Dalaran any more. I did, however get disconnected from the game. So I re logged back in, selected my character and loaded the instance again. Yet again I was disconnected. I tried this 5 times with no luck. People were talking about how they cant get to there characters anymore because there stuck in the loading screen so it looked like I had fallen to the loading screen problem myself.

The only thing I could think to do at the time was load into another character and create a ticket.

Lets just hope that with all this downtime on the severs at the moment this problem will fix it self. Time will tell.

This is my Deathknight on his Onyx Netherwing Drake. In order to get this mount you were required to get your reputation to exalted with the Netherwing. Once you get to Exalted you take a quest where you fly back to Shattrath City where you are able to pick one of six mounts for free. After that its another 200g to get another.

One of the other drake mounts that I have always wanted was the Proto-Drake mount. Iv always loved the red proto-drake and some would say its very easy to get. They way to get this is by completing the achievement Glory of the Hero. This is done by completing achievement in certain heroics. One all of them are done you have yourself a red proto drake.

These new drakes just look epic in every way! This is going to be my new “Target mount”

Enjoy this eye candy!

You can see the others here!

http://www.wowhead.com/blog=166861#.

Headless Horseman

That’s right people. Its time for the headless horseman to rise again and spread fear to all that oppose him! This is probably one of my favourite holidays in World of Warcraft! His mount will be mine! Now with the new “looking for group” tool its a lot easier to get into an instance to face the Headless Horseman mono e mono and clam him mount. What doesn’t make it easy is patch 4.0.1…

This is my time in there with my 4 level 80′s…. Oh dear

Right first is Semseye (Hunter). Activate the LFG tool and had a wait time of about 6 minuets. Okay I’ll help put out the fires then in Gold Shire. By the time I got down there it was already half way through the encounter so I quickly went into Aspect of the pack and started running like a mad man. Due to me knowing this encounter Iv always found it best to get the fires on the back before anything else. So I start running to the back and throwing water. I do this about 3 or 4 times before I realise that I’m the only one doing this. One person trying to put out a huge fire is like one man tying to use his face to block punches… It just doesn’t work. So I go to type in chat to get people to help me when “Dun dun dhuuurrrrrr” Instance time!

I click the accept button an wait for my fellow players to also do the same. With all the green ticks completed the instance loads. With in a fue seconds we all at the scarlet monastery in front of a glowing pumpkin. “Alright here we go!” I was thinking. My game on the other hand was thinking something else… CRASH! My game completely locked up. I couldn’t even Alt-Tab out of the game. I quickly done the Ctrl-Alt-Del manoeuvre, closed the program and reloaded it. The game reloaded and I logged back in. by the time the Scarlet Monastery loaded the Horseman had been killed and most of the people had left… I still got the loot I would of got from the LFG tool so it wasnt all to bad. So then I left the group and left the instance. “Now to do it with my druid” Nope not going to happen my computer thought again. CRASH! This time the game just sat on the loading screen. Agh! Ctrl-Ald-Del… Reload…Re-log back in. Select Druid.

Okay now I’m with my Druid. Activate the LFG tool again and had about a 2 min wait before the “Dun dun dhuuuuuurr” All the group accepted and we loading into the instance. “Please don’t lock up, please don’t lock up” was all that was going through my head at this time. All looked okay. We had loaded into the instance it hadn’t locked up… Could this be my good run? Looks like the gods like my druid the most as within 2 mins the Horseman had be defeated and loot had been given out! Great news, now to try with my pala tank. *Right click on name and leave group* CRASH! Yet again the game crashed on the loading screen and yet again Ctrl-Ald-Del… Reload…Re-log back in!!

Right this is where it gets really fun (NOT!)

Select Pala, Due to this being the first time I had loaded the pala from the start of patch 4 I had to of course re spec my tank. (This would also be the first time I would have been a tank in patch 4 and had no idea what I would be doing.) with my talents done to what I think would be best for a tank I opened the LFG tool again and looked for a group. Within 30 seconds the group box loaded and we loaded into the instance… Well that what I wanted it to do but yet again Wow decided otherwise. Ctrl-Ald-Del… Reload…Re-log back in… Loading screen come back up and loaded this time would you believe. Okay now time to active my taking spells and CRASH! AAGH! Ctrl-Ald-Del… Reload…Re-log back in. Loaded back in, Spells active… Finally!! Okay groups all ready, lets do this. *Clicks on the big pumpkin head* CRASH (At this point I was ready to just turn off my computer and go do something else) I decided to give it one more go Ctrl-Ald-Del… Reload…Re-log back in. The second I was back in the game I started the encounter and the Headless horseman come flying out of the ground.

“It is over, your search is done! Let fate choose now, the righteous one!”

Yet again within 30 seconds he was laying face (Or headless) down in the mud and we discreetly went through his things to see what we could take from his dead corps. (Its the paladins way… Honest!) I said my good byes from the group and left the instance… CRASH!

At this point the game is still running in the back ground with the wonderful crash. What its doing right now I couldn’t not tell you. Iv still got to do it with my Death Knight… I’m Not looking forward to it…

Sorry for the lack of activity on here. Didn’t go as well as I had hoped.
Anyway I thought this would be the best time to re-try my blog as we enter a new age of World of Warcraft! With the Lich king defeated comes a new danger! Deathwing has awaken and seeks to destroy everything! (Naturally) Being a BIG dragon helps with his plan!

The World has seen an interesting update (4.0.1) and the game is no-longer the game we once new. At one time I knew how to play my hunter… Now its like a new class for me. Within patch 3, I had played with all of the talent trees and fell in love with the survival talent tree. I knew what I was doing, When to use my spells etc… Now with patch 4 things are a lot different. Playing a hunter is a lot harder then what It use to be. (Probably because I’m so use to the old style of play)

There was a time when I could hit 9,000 DPS on any single target with out even trying. On some bosses in ICC 25 I could even hit 12,000 DPS (Still with a single target) but now with the new patch, hitting these numbers is proving hard to impossible to hit. Best I have managed is 6,500 (give or take) but please don’t take this as a “OMG HUNTER SUCK WTF!” type of attitude. I know the reason for why I cant hit the numbers. As I said its a new class, I have no idea what I’m doing or what spells to use at what time also with some spells doing different things now, knowing when not to use them! (Kill Command – Give the command to kill, causing your pet to Instantly inflict damage to its target.)

Once Iv got that all straightened up I’m sure my DPS will return to its previous power (Also when Bliz have fixed all the “Balancing” Issues)

I will be talking more about Cataclysm in the new future so stay tuned!

The new WoW:Cataclysm logo

Let me start by saying I cant wait for Cataclysm to come out. A completely new story line for new players, new races etc, but I am getting worried that when it does come out the old story will be lost forever. I hope that in some way they keep the old kingdom alive in the new quests, just have references to the old kingdom every now and again and I will be happy. We have all come to know the old kingdoms well and are a big part of our toon’s life. We spend from level 1 to 58-60 there. To see it go will be hard.

But I still cant wait to see what they do with this new add on, I see there are mixed opinions about it from all the blogs out there, witch Durkonkell over at “Your best shot” has layed out for all to see.

Head over there now at

http://Durkonkell.wordpress.com

I hope he adds my thoughts on it as well.

There is only one thing I’m not to sure about and that is what I hear about the hunter side of things.

Quoted from “Your best shot”

• No mana, viper, intellect does nothing.

• Hunters use focus. It’s basically rogue / kitty Druid energy. It starts at 100, is used up by abilities and regenerates.

• RAP ultra simplified. Hunters gain 2AP from Agility, but AP is no longer available as a separate stat.

• Armour Pen, hit rating also obsoleted. Crit seems set to stay, as does haste. Haste increases energy focus regeneration.

• Ammo an item, not consumable.

• Fewer cooldowns, apparently.

The idea of not having mana and instead, energy make me think that getting your top end dps is going to be hard before you know it all your energy will be gone and you will be forever waiting in between shots for your energy to get to the right level to fire again. At least with mana you could always use all of your spells with not worrying about when you can or cant fire. If your mana was low, you would just shift into viper and within moments your mana was back to max and you can start laying the smack down again.

When it comes to the new races I really wouldn’t mind trying the Worgen. Durkonkell showed me the new animation for it and I was soled! It just look incredible! They should add something like this to the druids forms as well and remove the rubbish smoke effect they have.

See if for yourself!

Granted you will need to know what your doing when it comes to bosses but then what’s wrong with people who have done it before just letting the people who haven’t done it before, how to do it. It dosnt need to be every detail you must do in order to win. Just little things like

“when the boss starts to cast “death to all” run away”

I say this because I got into a group to do the daily hc, and decided it was best to let them know that this was the fist time I had done the instance. This turned out to be the wrong move…

I was immediately kicked from the group and a whisper saying “we need people who know what there doing in this instance as it’s quite a hard one”… Now I’m sorry but at the level my toon is there is no such thing as a hard instance, only a bad group. Wow heroes says I should be doing Naxx 25 and OS 25. Doing 3800 dps is good in my eyes… Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

To make it even more funny, after a little bit of being gobsmaked I put my toon on the ” looking for group” channel and was invited almost instantly to another group. I decided this time to keep my mouth closed about not doing it before and we started the instance. Within 20 min’s we had completed the instance with no group wiped… In fact we had no deaths at all..! And was probably one of the easiest instances I have done. Probably a little harder then upgard keep but not by much, and low and behold I had the most dps with 3200 (give or take)

sorry if this sounds like a rant. I’m sure we have all been there. All I’m saying is next time you invite someone who hasn’t done it before, give them a chance. What’s the saying “never judge a book by it’s cover”