tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36066412118169228922024-03-13T19:46:46.141-07:00Dark Lady, Watch Over our Brew.A Monk blog from an MoP baby, including how I have learned to play my class and any other random topics that interest me!The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-80224071873225423392015-04-21T15:10:00.001-07:002015-04-21T15:35:06.661-07:00Tank Swap 1, 2....3...4? Mythic Gruul, Taunt's at the ready!!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi guys, today I'm going to be going over the mythic Gruul fight, including one of the most awesomely confusing, but epic once you get it tanking set ups Blackrock has to offer. So, grab your finest brews and rocket science degrees, and lets go.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gruul dishes out a fairly hefty amount of both physical and magical damage for tanks, and the debuff he puts on us means that we can employ a 3 tank method for Mythic. Gruul still casts <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=155080/inferno-slice" target="_blank">Inferno Slice</a> at 100 energy, which must be split among your companions, (so you'll want to have 3 groups set up if you're using the 3 tank method, more on that later), which now deals a larger amount of both magical <i>and</i> physical damage to the tank taking it, we found it a good idea to use a CD like sac for every <b><u>second</u></b> Slice each tank has to take. On this note, it's worth mentioning that Gruuls energy does increase quicker on Mythic so he will cast the slice a lot more frequently, hence the need for the crazy tanking organization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The only new ability that Gruul has is <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=165300/flare" target="_blank">Flare</a>, which basically sends some fire balls around the room at various intervals, which are a pain if they hit you but relatively easy to dodge, so we wont spend too much time on those, for tanks they are just your basic "stand out of the bad" mechanic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> There is one ability that is somewhat enhanced on Mythic although this doesn't really affect tanks too much but worth noting, and this is that <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=155330/petrify" target="_blank">Petrify</a> will now affect everyone in the raid apart from tanks, so just try to avoid standing next to people about to explode when not tanking to minimize extra damage taken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will try and explain the tanking in the easiest way possible but first, lets have a look at <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=155078/overwhelming-blows" target="_blank">Overwhelming Blows</a> a little more closely; The debuff itself lasts for one minute from <b><u>each application</u></b>, and unfortunately the stacking 10% damage increase makes this pretty pants to try and heal 2 tanks through on mythic, when adding to the blows you will also be taking more Inferno Slices <i>and</i> melee attacks, it's just not worth it, even if you do have exceptional healers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Groups: We went with 2 groups on either side of Gruul, and one behind him, and we tanked him in the middle. We had one group of 6 (Group A), one of 7 Group B) and a small group of 4 (Back Group) at the back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So <span style="color: yellow;">Group A</span> takes 2 slices</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Group B</span> takes 2 Slices</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tanking is where it gets a little complicated, but for me, once I had written it down it made more sense. I will actually use our toon names instead of tank 1, 2 and 3, as it helped me out. (If you want to rewrite it with one two and 3, I would be tank 1, Drake would be tank 2 and Lala would be tank 3)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here goes...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~I taunt the boss and stand on the tanking spot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~Drake taunts into <span style="color: yellow;">group A</span> (<span style="color: white;">Slice 1</span>) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~I taunt back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~Drake taunts into <span style="color: yellow;">Group A</span> (<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Slice 2</span></span>) and keeps the boss, moving himself into the tanking spot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~LalaGirl taunts into the <span style="color: cyan;">back group</span> (<span style="color: white;">Slice 3</span>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~LalaGirl taunts into <span style="color: red;">Group B</span> (<span style="color: white;">Slice 4</span>) and keeps the boss, moving himself into the tanking spot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~I taunt into <span style="color: red;">group B</span> (<span style="color: white;">Slice 5</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~LalaGirl taunts back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~I taunt into <span style="color: yellow;">Group A</span> (<span style="color: white;">Slice 6</span>) and keep the boss, moving myself into the tank spot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~Drake taunts into <span style="color: yellow;">Group A </span>(<span style="color: white;">Slice 7</span>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~I taunt back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~Drake taunts into <span style="color: cyan;">Back group</span> (<span style="color: white;">Slice 8</span>) and keeps the boss, once again moving into the tank spot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~Lala taunts into <span style="color: red;">Group B</span> (<span style="color: white;">Slice 9</span>) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~Drake taunts back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Please consult my highly professional visual guide* below that denotes where each group is, the boss is the purple blob in the middle. It's <i>that</i> detailed, I have even highlighted where the door is in case you need to run like a little girl when wiping :))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After the rampage I pick up the boss again and we just repeat the process. it's worth noting that at this point I will still have my last lot of overwhelming, not to worry, get some nice big fat guards up and having your healers keep an eye on you is fine here, thanks to stagger working the way it does (for now at least), Monks can cope with this just fine, though if you're feeling a little squishy you can pop Fort Brew here if you like, as this is the biggest damage you will take.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I said previously, we used an external CD on each tank's <b><u>second</u></b> inferno slice, we run 2 Ret Pallys so we just rotated the Sac's (they both took Clemency) and we also used pain Sup and Barrier from our priest, but any externals will be fine here, it just helps take the edge of the second slice as it was one shotting us at times without them!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I use <u><b>Zen Sphere</b></u> (Though <u><b>Chi Burst</b></u> would also be nice here to help out after slices when it's up), <u><b>Diffuse Magic</b></u> (nice for the magic part of inferno slices and if you "accidentally" get hit by the floaty orbs), <u><b>Xuen</b></u> for extra DPS (tight enrage on this one) and <u><b>Soul Dance</b></u> - which has incidentally become one of my "Go To" talents lately.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glyphs I ran Zen Med and Fort Brew, then the third doesn't really matter, I think i ended up with rapid rolling, but for me personally there wasn't a third glyph that <i>really</i> mattered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you can get your head around that lot, congratulations!! I'm currently working on guides for Mythic Oregorger, Hanz & Franz, and FlameBender</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*If you would like your own highly professional visual accompaniment for your blogs/posts my drawing skills can be purchased for a small fee :D</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-47058909451980124422015-04-09T15:53:00.000-07:002015-04-09T15:57:07.374-07:00Bone lord Darklady!! Caution...mog post alert!!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In honor of our Mythic Beastlord kill I have spent the past two weeks umming and ahhing about what transmog to use, recently I have been using my purple ninja outfir but after much deliberation I have now gone full Beastlady mode!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using the staff Mog that actually drops from Beast Lord himself of course.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having a somewhat matching mount is a must, it was close between the Skeletal Raptor from Archeology and the PvP Mount but I love the little skulls on the seat on this one :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've used all the gear you can purchase from the War Mill, except the belt which is the Prideful Gladiator belt from the last PvP season, which I love a lot because it looks badass and changes colour every once in a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Power Torrent is pretty much an essential illusion Mog for me on all my weapons....it's so pretty...how can I not!?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I did try out the bloody one as well but I didn't want to look too drastic or fearsome, I may be a tanky tank but I'm only a soft cuddly Panda underneath, and I didn't want to take that away from my beloved monk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Streaming more raids next week, may even venture into streaming some of my Druid PvP, until then</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-88088397347872164012015-03-29T06:56:00.000-07:002015-03-29T07:54:57.827-07:00Hello Beastie....Brewmasters doing what they do best....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello babies, some of you may or may not know that I am well and truly back in the tanking saddle now and today I am going to talk about Mythic Beastlord in the BlackRock Foundry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This will be a little more in depth than some of my usual "this is how I did it" posts, as I feel a little more qualified now and am going to attempt to write a proper "guide" of sorts, of course in my own way with my quirky spin on things, but never-the-less, if this manages to help just one person, I'll be happy!! As always, any comments or extra bits you feel left out or if you do something different that also works, please feel free to add it at the bottom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So let's get to it (and I will <i>try</i> not to waffle).....</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Boss Overview, what's changed for Mythic?</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As before on other difficulties, Darmac still jumps onto his beloved mounts, Cruelfang (Wolfie), Ironcrusher (Lellaflump) and Dreadwing (Firebat thingy), he also busts out a super duper mount after all these have been dealt with , but more on that later. The main mechanic change is that when each mount reaches 40% HP, Darmac will jump off said mount and you will have to deal with them both, the mount will continue to do whatever ability it has, and Darmac will still not gain use of the ability until after that mount is dead, but he WILL use all the other abilities he has gained so far. (For example, if he already has Rend & Tear, he will continue to use this when he jumps off Iron crusher, but wont gain access to Tantrum until the Elkk is dead.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pack beasts will continue to spawn throughout the fight, and this is where we, my fellow Brewmasters, come into our own once again as the kings and queens of aoe add control. The fact that Darmac and the mount will need a tank each, means a lot of guilds are using a 3 tank method, whereby 2 will manage Darmac and his personal mounts, and the third is there to manage the mass of pets that come in. Incidentally the pack beasts gain a buff that periodically increases their speed and damage done, so towards the end of the fight, you NEED to be able to kite these things, or hope you have good healers as they HURT, and face tanking them isn't a great option!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The final change for Mythic is Darmacs use of a fourth mount, that dramatically charges into the room to his master's aid after the other Three mounts have been dispatched, one of those "oh you thought dis was OVER?!?!?" kinda moments.... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Faultline makes things rather difficult as his abilities are AOE and hit hard, thankfully though, Darmac does not get off Faultline at 40% like the other mounts, but he does gain some of his abilities and his HP will double when Faultline dies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are tanking the adds, which, let's face it, as a Brewmaster, you probably will be, there are one or two things to note, and things that you can do personally to help out your raid. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><i><b>Pack Beasts CAN be slowed/stunned/gripped etc</b></i>.</span> While this is nice, this can also cause you issues if you overdo it too early/everyone uses all their abilities at once. Particularly early on in the fight, Keg Toss on its own along with a glyphed BoF will be more than enough to get these adds over to the boss safely, while there's not a lot going on in the fight, your DPS will be able to AOE these little guys down in seconds, so you don't need to go ham with slows and stuns just yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><i><b>Being Vocal.</b></i> </span>Tell your raid when the beasts are inc, especially towards the end of the fight, the DPS will be having to deal with a multitude of abilities and will likely not have much time to look at timers, when Faultline dies, all hell pretty much just breaks loose and the DPS will likely appreciate you letting them know that you're bringing adds to them, also, calling out for extra slows and stuns allows you to negotiate your way round all the crap on the floor while being chased by 6 beasts with a speed increase ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><i><b>Face tanking is ok to a point....</b></i></span>Be warned, by the end of the fight, if all 6 of these guys connect on you, it's going to HURT. I recommend keeping hold of your leg sweep for this, as that will give you enough room to get the hell away from them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><i><b>Aggro reset?!?!</b></i></span> These pack beasts have a weird little aggro table, when they initially spawn they will not be aggroable (yes that IS a word!). They will run out to the room and then they will stop momentarily, this is the point at which they are able to be picked up, try to make sure you do not have healers stood near this point when they spawn as they will go and attack them instead of you, especially if they are healing their tits off in the final phase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you're tanking the Beastlord and his mounts, you need to have very good communication with your co tank, as you will need to manage stacks and swapping the mounts and Beastlord over between you, as you basically have to pretend you are the only two tanks and act as if your add tank is not there, as he/she will have their hands full and unlikely to be able to help you out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Phase one:</b></span> Darmac will be on foot, pack beasts will spawn and Darmac will throw out spears (if you are the add tank, you NEED to keep an eye out for these, as if you get caught by pinned down it will hurt your group a lot)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Phase two:</b></span> Darmac will mount whatever he is being tanked closest to, we went for Cruelfang first, as rend and tear is the easiest ability to deal with, as it is avoidable by DPS/healers and on occasion, tanks if they can sidestep quickly enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After Cruelfang has been dealt with we went for IronCrusher, as although Tantrum is a pretty heafty AOE spell it's manageable with a good CD rotation and less of a pain in the arse than Shrapnel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Following Ironcrusher's demise you will need to deal with Dreadwing, be careful of the breath as being caught in it needlessly will cause healers to oom/use up CDs that they will need for later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Phase 3:</b></span> Darmac now has all the abilities form his fallen mounts and things will start to get really hectic from here on in. When Faultline spawns you should try to aim to have Darmac up in that end of the room, then "snake" the epicenter spawns horizontally down the room in order to give your raid as much room as possible. (Incidentally we initially tried snaking vertically down the room, only to discover that this makes positioning for the final phase really hard, so not advisable!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Phase 4:</b></span> This begins when Faultline dies, Darmac now has all his abilities and I recommend you use bloodlust here, you want him to die as soon as possible, as he will still continue to fill up your room with epicenters and adds will also continue to spawn. One thing to note here, it is not advisable to ignore the adds at any point, they are very difficult to kite, even for a monk as the room is filled with so much crap it becomes a gauntlet of death and there is a lot of damage coming out so it is just easier to continue to AOE them down and help the add tank with any stuns and slows that you have.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talents/Glyphs and other abilities.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><i><b>Tigers Lust</b></i></span> is nice for little bursts of speed and nullifies Unsteady later on in the fight, though to be honest, any of the movement speed talents would be fine, I just prefer TL personally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><i><b>Zen Sphere</b></i></span> is pretty much my go to talent in this tier now, though <i><b>Chi burst</b></i> is also nice here for helping AOE down adds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><i><b>Leg Sweep</b></i></span> can be used offensively or defensively depending on what pert of the fight you're on, I found myself hanging on to it toward the end of the fight and using it as a get out of jail free card if I got caught by adds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><i><b>Diffuse Magic</b></i></span> is great for when Dreadwing comes out, in case you get caught by a breath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use <span style="color: yellow;"><i><b>RJW</b></i></span> if you are having aggro difficulties, however<i><b> <span style="color: yellow;">Xuen</span></b></i> can be used as a defensive CD as he can tank adds for you, be careful though as if he dies the adds may run loose and hit your dps so keep an eye on him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b>Keg Smash</b></span> - having the range increased can help here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b>Freedom Roll</b></span> - helps you get out of Epicenter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b>Leer of the Ox</b></span> - can pick up an add in a pinch but requires a lot of micro management. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: cyan;">Fortifying Brew</span> </b>- Almost makes this a viable cooldown....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I personally ended up with <span style="color: cyan;"><i><b>Breath of Fire, keg Smash and Freedom Roll.</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Towards the end of the fight things get VERY hectic, being able to dump your statue down at the add spawn location means they will guarantee to aggro on it, ensuring your dps/healers are safe, and giving you time to go and collect them. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Transendence.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Place it near the add spawn, does what it says on the tin. means you don't have to try and run through a bunch of crap to go pick up your adds and can get you away from them if they are too close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We start working on Mythic Oregorger/Gruul this week, I shall most likely be streaming some of our progress, we raid 7-11pm UK time Mon-Thurs so feel free to drop in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the whole I think that Blizz have done a really nice job with the scenery in Draenor, as most of you know I am a huge fan of my screenies, it's one of my "WoW life simple pleasures" to go out on a random journey to nowhere in particular and see what I can find to add to my already overflowing screenshot collection. It is actually a regular occurence for me to find myself somewhere to "sit" while I am blogging, I will often park my monk in a pretty spot, and then just tab back in while I am thinking of what to write and just look at my surroundings. I'm in Nagrand as I write this, sitting on top of the waterfall above the Throne of the Elements, one of my favorite places in Draenor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> These tiny Silverpelts are quite possibly some of the cutest mobs I have come across!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I love how once the quest line is complete you get to see all of the elementals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Using Aviana's Feather from the top of the falls makes for some beautiful flight scenery without the constrictions of a flight path.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I love the way it's got that eerie yet, enchanting feel to the forest areas, being Horde it almost feels as if I shouldn't be here, which makes it all the more fun to explore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> These little guys are pretty awesome, I've ended up accidentally angering a few opposing faction troops and getting myself killed a couple of times, and having less flight paths there makes for a lot of walking to find the nice places but the walk is always worth it....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Places like this just make this game so much more than just leveling, raiding and collecting gear, it makes it a place to enjoy, relax, and enjoy the simple pleasures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Be good xx</span>The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-53609792261629191242015-01-30T14:04:00.001-08:002015-01-30T14:04:45.142-08:00Mt very first WindWalker post.....be gentle with me!!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A very happy new year to everyone!! As most of you know I have predominantly been a tank or healer on my monk, and I have never really gone into using the DPS spec all that much, since WoD dropped though I have switched to windwalker for raiding. So here it is, my opinions on Highmaul from a new perspective, my talent choices and as always, my "this is how I do it" version of tactics :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the moment I'm still in the process of trying out different combinations of talents for various fights, I have to say that at first I was really disappointed with Chi Explosion, it seemed to encourage far too much chi pooling for my liking and it was almost steering me away from using RSK and FoF, most likely because I was not used to the rotation and keeping the RSK debuff up was not something that I was doing naturally. For this reason I stayed away from CE when I first picked up the spec and got myself used to the "old" rotation. Now that I am more comfortable with keeping my RSK debuff up and my Tiger Palm buff up I am finding it a lot easier to utilize CE, especially when I run it with Ascension for the extra chi pool. Serenity Is really nice for opening burst for me, especially with the Chi Brew and lucky mastery procs, if you can start a fight with 8-10 stacks, get TP and RSK up, then "windmill" with BoK for the duration of serenity on single target fights this has produced some very nice opening numbers, especially as the BoK builds up stacks of brew ready for a FoF straight afterwards. I have tried Hurricane strike on some trash pulls and in dungeons but at the moment for me, the CD is too long and it doesn't ever really contribute much to my overall damage, This could be because I am using it incorrectly but on the whole , personally I find it to be the weaker of the 3 new talent choices. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the whole I have to say the raid is quite fun, I really wasn't sure how I would settle into playing a new spec, or how I would cope with not being able to tank. DPS has never really held a lot of intrest for me, I am not really bothered by the numbers, I try to do "too much" instead of doing damage and end up not really doing enough or dying. I have had to learn to find myself a happy medium of running off and doing mechanics and simply just sitting there and belting the boss for all I am worth when I need to. I am finding it a lot easier that when I first started, I don't find myself as frustrated as I initially did, and my overall numbers aren't too horrendous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was the fight where I really learned a nice rotation, for melee it's just a case of sitting on the bosses arse and whoring numbers. It was a nice way for me to practice and let the rotation become more natural for me, it's helped me out on fights like Brakenspore where I can abuse my mobility a lot, while still keeping a good rotation up. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves" </span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edmund Hillary really had that one right when it came to Tectus. This fight is one of the mist fun but challenging fights for me so far in Highmaul. The combination of keeping up DPS while hardly being able to stand still for more than a FoF was really fun to master - I don't think I'm quite there yet, and I could definitely squeeze out a few more numbers, but my survivability on that fight is at an all time high due to having a tool kit almost perfect for the fight itself. I never realized just how well equipped Windwalkers were in general until I abused pretty much everything I had during one pull to stay alive when we were progressing on this fight.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two targets?? Use the Red wun!!</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Twin Ogron is a perfect example of how monks just excel at multi target fights, the other monk in our guild and I have affectionately renamed Storm Earth and Fire "The Red wun, Green wun and the Bloo wun". Funnily enough though, by the end of this fight, our clones have generally our DPS'd us, probably because they don't seem to give a monkeys for tactics, fire, falling ceilings or whirlwinds, basically all the things we spend half the fight avoiding!! on a more serious note, I really enjoy this fight, it's a good test of how much you can sit on a bosses arse when the odds are stacked against you, particularly on mythic, when things can kill you at the drop of a hat. I find Chi Explosion to be the best way to pump out numbers in this, and more often than not, both of us monks will top DPS charts by quite a margin, which is actually quite fun to do - never thought I'd catch myself saying that though!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've been putting quite a bit of effort into challenge modes lately, picked up a few realm best times and am halfway to my 8/8 gold, so keep an eye out for my next blog which may well just cover more Draenor challenges; )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope everyone has been enjoying WoD so far!! I have been having a great time with my new guild, levelling and gearing up ready for next weeks raids. So far I have been playing a lot of WW and BrM, not so much MW but I will hopefully be trying that out in heroic raids next reset ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the most fun things I have done so far is tanking challenge modes, at this point I have done Shadowmoon, Everbloom and Upper Blackrock Spire. I will proceed to go through my thoughts and talent choices etc for each but as a general overview (pre buff to guard) I will say that it was not as easy as MoP!! The overall feeling of it was that I felt squishier than I am used to, bear in mind that until this week I had absolutely NO tanking items whatsoever, so I have been using all my dps trinkets etc, so I was probably a little softer than some of the other tanks anyway, but that aside, it was actually really nice to feel like I have to make conscious decisions as to what I spend my resources on, especially since the gear level I was at means I have very limited resources at the moment, making it even more poignant what buttons I press and when. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then guard became useful again.....</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After the guard buff I have to say, Blizz, I love you. pre buff, having two charges of guard meant little to nothing in CM's. You could press it and think "yay I will be safe!!" and guard's like "I'll save you!! Jk I'm gone with one melee swing." Since the buff I actually feel safer when I have charges to use. it feels worthwhile pressing the button instead of just pressing it out of habit and realizing it dose sweet FA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><u><b>Level 15:</b></u></span> Fro Ww I like to use momentum, but as BrM it's Tigers lust or go home for me. The on demand speed burst makes for some awesome kiting!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Level 30:</b> </span>Sadly I was hoping the sphere would be good, however upon using it, it's just not strong enough at the moment. Chi burst is nice for a lot of AOE when you are playing WW but as BrM I'm still favouring Chi Wave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Level 45:</b></span> I'm still running ascension here, primarily because I have sod all stats and energy seems to be a massive issue for me right now, for WW I still like the brew, but as BrM its Ascension for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Level 60:</b></span> As WW I tend to use RoP, just so that I dont get my tank splatted when LS resets the mob swings. However i have found myself using Leg Sweep a lot more in BrM spec, as when I want to kite it is great to do, then just bugger off :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Level 75:</b></span> At the moment as BrM and WW I am switching between DH and DM depending on the dungeon and how much magic damage is involved overall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Level 90:</b></span> As WW I have one spec with RJW for AOE, and one with Xuen for burst damage on bosses. As BrM I have not let my faithful kitty leave my side, he is REALLY powerful if you want to do big mob pulls, as he will merrily tank the shit out of them for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Level 100:</b></span> Ok, I need to put this in a concise way, as BrM, Chi Explosion is the devil, it encourages stupid chi management, and you will find yourself without shuffle far too much. Serenity is the way forward at these gear levels, on bosses it means you can windmill away with BoK and get yourself a massive shuffle up, leaving you free to spend precious chi on purifying and guards to keep you healthy. I found Soul Dance to be particularly useful in places like Shadowmoon Burial Ground, as it helps you
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before I start, the comp we ran with was Brewmaster monk, Holy priest, Frost Mage, WindwalkerMonk, Rogue (switching between specs) We also weren't going for golds, it was just about getting through the instance, however we got bronze on all of them apart form UBRS. All these dungeons will be from Brewmaster perspective, I will be doing the others but most likely as a windwalker!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Overview:</b> This is a VERY magic damage heavy instance. The caster mobs are particularly nasty so using CC was good for us here, however a word of caution, if you are using glyph of keg smash, you can break CC so be very careful here if you do use it. The bosses themselves aren't much of an issue with regards to melee damage apart from Ner'zhul, who does hit quite hard, but as he stops hitting you to cast his ability every now and then, you will find you have a few grace periods for you to heal up. One of the major issues I have with mobs his size is the hitboxes are really small, and you literally have to stand in the bosses face to attack, and this can sometimes lead to the boss running "through" you and smacking you in the ass, which does hurt, there isn't really a massive amount you can do about this, except for bearing it in mind and keeping on your toes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Talents:</b> I used tigers lust, Chi Wave, Ascension, Leg Sweep, Diffuse Magic, Xuen and Soul dance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One thing to note is that you cannot change talents during the dungeon unless you go outside, so sometimes it might be beneficial to run two of the same spec, on my WW I have an AOE spec and a single target spec.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She doesn't melee too hard, however the Dark Eclipse does a lot of damage without diffuse up so make sure that you sit on a white rune to avoid it. If the fight drags on there will be a lot of aoe patches pof damage that will cause positioning issues, so dpsing her down quickly is important, as aonk you can really contribute to this by using touch of death on the first mob that she summons, meaning your dps dont need to come off her, taking her down quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not much different to normal heroic, slightly more damag, and it is more important to pick up the mobs from his Exhume spirit ability as they will wreck your companions pretty quickly if you don't. Just be careful as they can swarm a little and get behind you if you're not careful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, no different to heroic apart from extra damage, diffuse is best used for his inhale here when you have to stand in the Necrotic Pitch, as your healer will need to be using their heals on your squishier pals ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melees very hard and can have issues with positioning due to the stupidly tiny hit box, again, touch of death with become your team's best friend when he casts his first Ritual of Bones.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Everbloom</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Overview:</b> A chance for monks to do what we were born to do, as long as you co-ordinate it with your team, you can do some REALLY big pulls here, because unlike other tanks we can kite for days and days and then some. Using the statue becomes a big deal here, it will take a lot of aggro off you, and so will Xuen if you use his taunt, he will also do a batshit crazy amount of damage for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Talents:</b> For this dungeon I ran Tigers lust (Dat kiting yo), Ascension, Chi Wave, Leg Sweep (when you get aggro, run in, LS, then run back out ;) ) Dampen Harm, Xuen, Serenity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A nice easy boss to deal with, Dampen Harm and Guard will happily protect you against his Parched Grasp, and Xuen will do silly damage when he goes into his non tankable phase. If you have your ranged stack to the right of the boss you will also negate any orbs going through the vines on the floor, thus not having to deal with any adds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No different to heroic except that Dhulu (the big git that runs about a lot) does hit quite hard, BUT....you can use you're statue to tank him if you wish, just make sure you slap another one down when it dies, and I would recommend using the leer of the ox to keep him on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quite a fun boss, save touch of death for the pale orc to stop him from healing himself by eating it, and if you are running dampen, be sure to stay out of the green fart clouds, as they hurt!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's where it gets a bit more interesting. Depending on how tanky you feel and how well you can manage your cds/co-ordinate with your healer, you can deal with her in a few different ways. The way we found easiest was to interrupt the second parasitic growth, and then leave her in her frost [phase, and move her to arcane just before the end, depending on how quickly you can get her down. The arcane phase is by far the worst and if you can avoid it all together, I would recommend it. HOWEVER....not interrupting parasitic growths will mean you take more damage as a tank, but it all depends on your comp, you and how much you value extra tank healing over aoe healing. in the fire/frost phases, most of the damage is avoidable, but the aoe pule in arcane phase is really painful. I would recommend using lust here unless your damage is big as a group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A nice easy one to finish, make sure you stand him in the fire from your NPc allies, use statue to tank the adds, and you can also help out with the weed whacking using Tigers Lust. also use Touch of death to free allies that are caught in vines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Overview:</b> Well....be prepared for some pain. The trash isn't TOO bad....but the bosses hit like friggin trucks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Talents:</b> Tigers lust, Chi Wave, Ascension, leg Sweep, Dampen Harm (Although diffuse is nice for some of the bosses, so dual speccing may be worth here) Xuen and Serenity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not too difficult, doesn't do THAT much more melee damage, and using transcendence is great because you can help out with releasing the conduits and get back to pick him up quickly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A real tough boss, a lot of movement in a small area with really crappy camera angles. Once the two adds he has are dead he becomes easier, but the adds make things REALLY difficult, and if you get caught by Eruption, you're pretty much guaranteed to die as you can't nimble it :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A lot of add management required here, keep interrupts on the summoners and use your statue to help you out if you get too many adds out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make no mistake, this boss hits like a train, and the breath is devastating if you dont move right out of the way of it, I would save Xuen and the statue for the whelps, and try to make sure you have some cd's left for when the boss comes down onto the bridge as he gets a damage increase the longer that he is up. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Warlord Zaela</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Positioning is everything on this boss. Fortunatley they have removed her knockback, which makes the fight a lot easier, but once the adds start spawning avoiding the fire breath is imperative, as Zaela herself hits like a train, and also has the same affliction as Ner'zhul where she will run through you and slap you on the ass on occasion. I would save Xuen for when she spawns the 3 adds at 60% hp, these need to get killed like, yesterday, as they grip your team mates and pull them into the path of the fire from the drakes, so Xuens cleave and taunt become really handy.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why start a blog?</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I started my blog mainly for me, just as a place to dump my thoughts about playing and other things that interested me. I never actually expected it to get as many views as it has done,so In short, I am really grateful for all the people who have stopped by :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently the guild I was in Midlifecrisis have merged with another guild, Addiction, for WoD, I will still be playing my monk of course, however much more likely to be playing MW/WW, it's been a really exciting time for all of us and we are all excited for the release, I have my energy drinks, my snacks and pots and flasks!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks once again to everyone that's helped make this little blog possible, and here's to another year ^_^</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Special thanks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arielle<br />Vaylen<br />Chai</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoy the release guys, and as always....be good ;)</span><br />
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The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-50786672020352288312014-10-13T15:47:00.000-07:002014-10-13T15:48:50.195-07:00Looking Back, Looking Forward....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello my babies....I am aware that this is my first post in a few weeks, I have not abandoned my blog, I have still been playing WoW, I have just moved house and took some time off blogging to adjust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here we sit at the end of Siege of Orgrimmar, the mighty 6.0 looms ahead of us as we wait in anticipation for reset day. I thought I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the current raid tier, what I've learned, things I've enjoyed, and to enlighten you on what I am looking forward to for WoD. So for the final time this tier...grab your heartiest of brews, and join me on a trip down memory lane....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I didn't start playing until Heart of Fear was released, I have only experienced Two raid tiers, SoO and Throne of Thunder. My Throne of Thunder experience was not all that good, the group I raided with never made it past Tortos, we spent week after week wiping on the council and there was a time when I wondered if this game really had anything to offer me. I was raiding on my Warlock, I grew tired of the class and due to the composition of our group, I was never taken to raid on my monk, which I enjoyed playing far more. After many frustrating weeks I finally plucked up the courage to request that I could be a tank for when 5.4 hit. My request was declined and I knew that I needed to make a change. Moving to Midlifecrisis about a month before 5.4 hit, I was taken straight into a ToT 10m normal raid that week and was thrown in the deep end and told I would be tanking, starting with Durumu. I enjoyed myself so much that night, I was made to feel so welcome and I knew I was in the right place, and was suddenly looking forward to the impending patch, which had previously been filling me with an empty dread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We spent the last few weeks preparing for 5.4, gathering materials for the guild bank and food for the noodle carts. When 5.4 hit, I was part of the flex team, and helped out on a few nights where the main group were short, including a guild first kill of Spoils Of Pandaria. I think I actually fell in love with that fight a little, it's like Blizzard said "Hey monks! You know you guys just LOVE aoe right? Fights with lots of adds? Well, here's a fight completely made up of adds!! Oh, and just as a little bonus, you can open them all up from their boxes like Christmas presents!" to this day that is my favorite encounter in the raid, it's so much fn and a real nice opportunity to shine as a monk tank. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After a while we managed to gather together 10 players to make a second 10 man group for the guild, we had a great start, a shaky few bosses and then finally, against all the odds, managed to get our own Garrosh kill. We did start to work on our own heroics, making 3/14 before our group sadly disbanded due to holidays and schooling schedules. I was eventually taken in by the main guild group and we continued the guilds progress on heroics. We made it to Garrosh but sadly, he remains undefeated, however we had an amazing time getting there, and some really great kills along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although my monk is my main toon, I have switched to others. People have asked my why I do this, so I will endeavor to answer this question. When our group got stuck on Thok, I realized that my Monk dps was not going to cut the mustard, also, as we already had 2 other melee, adding an extra one to the mix wasn't really going to help. I was not needed as a tank at that time, so the only other thing I could offer was my hunter. After doing a dps test on some dummies, I realized that even under geared, I could do more damage on Lazeebow than Darklady, so with a slightly heavy heart I asked if my GM would like me to bring him to the next raid instead, it made sense, he's ranged, and he does more damage, plus hunters do not suffer any of Thok's interrupting shouts, so to me, it was the better choice. After I used Lazeebow for our Thok kill, I also used him for Seigecrafter and Paragons, and then we started on Garrosh. On the first night I noticed that my dps here, although high, would not be enough to secure a kill, so I suggested that our disc priest revert to his main Shadow spec, and I brought in my own disc priest to heal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Why though? Why would you offer to switch from your main, to a toon that you don't use apart from alt runs? You wont benefit from gear unless you coin, you wont get the EP rewards on that toon as they get transferred to your main, what's in it for you? The answer to this is simple, if it gets the bosses down, the guild and team benefit. For me, raiding is not about just me, and what gear I can get, it's about working together and making kills happen, and if that means I need to switch, I switch. I'd rather hear the cheers of 9 other happy people when a boss dies, than wallow in misery wipe after wipe because our composition is letting us down, and if I can change that composition, then so be it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> As I have a lot of alts, I have access to more classes than some people, I keep all my alts that I use for alt runs in good shape, they are all fully gemmed and enchanted, and all of them have their legendary cloak. I know a lot of people do this, and this is not an uncommon thing to do, particularly in hardcore guilds, where it is practically mandatory for each raider to have an array of alts to be used as the guild desires. However, as I have been asked this question numerous times, I hope I have answered it fully!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><u><b>To the future!</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have earned myself a place as an officer for the guild. I have been in charge of recruiting for a few months and intend to continue this going forwards to WoD. Will I be maining my monk? Short answer, yes. I will be going WindWalker at the start of the expansion, and from there, who knows....I am not put off by the MistWeaver changes, and am prepared to go healer if I am needed to. I will level up all my "raiding toons" and as I have done this expansion, switch to whatever is needed to get the fight done. I will be sad not to be a full time Brewmaster, however there will be plenty of challenge modes and alt raids for me to play my beloved tank spec, so I am not too worried about making the change. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I will continue to blog throughout WoD, my little blog is almost a year old, and I'd like to thank each and every person who has taken the time to read my random ramblings, and I am eternally grateful to the people that helped me promote it, and gave me so much support when I started out. I was writing the blog mainly for myself, but over the year I have become more confident and even extended to posting guides (which was not something I ever saw myself doing), more importantly, people have thanked me for doing so, and it's a really heart warming feeling to know that I've helped someone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I am currently in the process of coming up with a redesign for the page, and will dedicate a post to my blogoversary when it comes up next month!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See you through the dark portal.....</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-24154971916612218262014-09-12T06:10:00.001-07:002017-09-02T01:23:21.210-07:00Unsung heroes 1 - Lazeebow<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy Friday folks! Today I am starting a small collection of posts about my 'unsung heroes'. My monk is obviously my main toon and I love her dearly, however I also raid on a few other toons, some of which have contributed to guild boss kills, and I felt like giving them some love and credit, as you know I am somewhat of an alt-aholic, and seeing as my monk takes the limelight on the blog I thought it was time to properly introduce you to some of my other babies...I mean toons...ahem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, for this post, ditch your brew, grab your guns, crossbows and your favorite companions, and meet Lazeebow....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lazeebow is my hunter, he's a loveable cuddly Pandaren with a flair for outrageous outfits, a passion for food, alchemy and is also a skilled engineer. Incidently Lazeebow has gone through some rather drastic changes since I rolled him. He was actually born a female goblin called Snoopscout, I rolled this class/race combo to help out my old guild with the stay classy goblin achievement. For all intents and purposes, she was never meant to go past 85, however, spurred on by the prospect of cooler pets being available at 90, I maxed her out, collected a few pets, then left her while I started to level other toons. After a while she went through a race change and became a female orc called Mogdurz - named after the female orc that works in the Gloombound Mine in Skyrim. However I still never played her, and one day while boredom was getting the better of me, I wondered what could possibly want to make me actually play my hunter. Being particularly fond of the male Pandaren I race changed yet again and renamed him Lazeebow, the name was just something that popped into my head at the time while i was thinking about his lore (I like to have a little story behind all my toons). </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPomm3IItTSr5jJtNodNc1iqgipdl9RKKN3060zwK2nZZWT5cxY8Ap31f0Jz6Vkno_QujmZ2zqGeXjnua04CjoYeQPXK8ba_uk-LWeYvKMbPnewTr3ytl4JTMU7afIZ2xs2jgXF0Ie349n/s1600/WoWScrnShot_091214_120214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPomm3IItTSr5jJtNodNc1iqgipdl9RKKN3060zwK2nZZWT5cxY8Ap31f0Jz6Vkno_QujmZ2zqGeXjnua04CjoYeQPXK8ba_uk-LWeYvKMbPnewTr3ytl4JTMU7afIZ2xs2jgXF0Ie349n/s1600/WoWScrnShot_091214_120214.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lazeebow was born and raised near HalfHill, his parents were tragically killed by a rampaging mushan when he was young, so he was taken in by the Tillers, who raised him, and put him to work. He was content like this for many years, he worked hard on the farm, helped out at the market, gave people rides to nearby farms, and was a generally well known and loved figure. His pet tiger Cringer was never far away from him, although she was really his only friend. Although he was known by many, he never really had any special person to call his own, and often felt like something of an outcast, it never really bothered him too much, but he always wondered if there was something more out there for him than being a farmer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> After many years Lazee was helping out at the market one day when an orc in some incredibly flashy armor approached the stall he was selling bread from. As usual Lazee chatted away, introducing himself and talking about how wonderful Halfhill was, and offering the orc a taste of the fresh bread. However it wasn't long before he had to ask about the orc's armor, it was red and black, and had spikey shoulders that looked very fearsome, he was wielding two huge swords, with red and black hilts and some glimmering red runes engraved on the blades. It was all very impressive. The orc informed him that he was a mighty warrior, and he was gathering up supplies to visit orgrimmar and compete in the Brawlers Guild. Lazeebow had never heard of such a thing, so he probed the orc with more questions, and discovered that it was a tournament, where entrants had to vanquish many foes, in order to claim the honor and prestige of being the best. What interested him most however was the prize, a mushan beast that he could ride around on. He told the orc that he might just enter himself, at which point the orc threw back his head an laughed, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"A farmer? In the Brawlers Guild? Are you crazy?!?! You'll get eaten alive by the first round opponent! Have you never heard of Bruce?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lazeebow cocked his head to one side and eyed the Warrior up and down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"If you can do it, why shouldn't I?" He asked quizzically. The orc chuckled, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The names Darkguyver, look me up when you get there....if you even make it there" With a sly wink he turned and wandered off. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lazeebow knew it was his appearance that was deceptive, dressed in raggedy old clothes and sporting his tillers tarbard with his wooden bow he knew he didn't look like much else than a harmless farmer. Maybe a new outfit would change that....?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lazeebow packed up his things and left HalfHill in search of something more, he got himself a shining new set of armor, which he would later become known for wearing. As ostentatious as it was on anyone else, on a huge Pandaren it just looked incredible, he went to the Brawlers Guild, and there, after some quite heavy rivalry with Darkguyver, they both managed to fight their way to the top and earn their prizes. It wasn't until they discovered arena matches that the pair really bonded, and became firm friends. They spent their time competing against other pairs in their bid to become champions, they traveled Azeroth looking for more interesting armor and tougher foes to vanquish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's actually a lie, being a mobile dps that has only one castable ability that can be cast on the move anyway means you get ALL the crap jobs, but are they actually crap? Most of the time, doing these jobs enables your raid to kill bosses, and in the case of the one I am going to focus on shortly, means you actually get away with not having to deal with a lot of horrible boss abilities. I've used Lazeebow to help our guild get their first heroic Thok kill and more recently, Siegecrafter. I play Beast Mastery as my main spec, with Marksman as my OS but I only use this for PvP. It's not that i don't like survival, it just doesn't play as well for me personally as BM does. I understand that this may end up being to my detriment where I know that survival is better for some fights that BM is, and if it came down to the difference between a kill and a wipe I would switch.Even though Lazee hasn't even broken 570 Ilvl yet, he can still keep up with dps just fine, as I have spent a lot of time playing PvP on him, I have noticed my reactions are quicker and I can take preventative action for incoming issues without having to think about it too hard, thus making me a more capable player, even though my main role is a tank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As myself and the other hunter in our group can obviously just go round and round on belts each time, we spend the entire fight not having to deal with any sawblades, lasers, bombs or magnets. To be honest, once you get comfortable with the matter purification beam rotation and work out your cds, the belts are a doddle. This is a short desctiption of how we managed our cds so that we could ensure we did the 10m damage to each item on the belts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note: If you have even a flex AoC as i do, and it is fully upgraded, you will have Bestial Wrath available for each belt. Very importantly, if you do not have at least this trinket on flex fully upgraded you will not have a short enough cooldown on disengage to get onto the belts on time!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This belt is the easiest, both of us pre pot, get bloodlust, and use nothing more than Bestial Wrath, and kill command with Arcane shot, it is usually dead within around 5 seconds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this belt I used Rapid Fire.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Belt 3: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I use my stampede</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Belt 4:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other hunter uses his stampede, my Rapid fire is back up and it should die before it reaches the second set of beams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I use my gloves again, the other hunter uses his second pot, we both use BW</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I use my second pot, other hunter uses his gloves and we both use BW</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anything and everything we have, my gloves are back up for this one and so is Rapid fire.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Belt 8:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the other hunter has a heroic AoC he re uses stampede.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My second stampede is up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Posthaste</b> and <b>Glyph of Disengage</b> are vital, or you will not make the distance to the belt!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Fervor</b> is nice for extra focus though I found <b>Thrill of the Hunt</b> to be better for me personally. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Spirit Bond </b>- this is quite important, you have next to no healing on the belts (depending on where your raid team is tanking blackfuse), and for us the healers were all the way on the opposite side of the room, so having spirit bond to heal you while on the belt after you take a tick of overlaod is great.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Glyph of Deterrence</b> - great for when you have to run through fire to reach the pipe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Glyph of Liberation</b> - again, just a little help with healing, especially for when you are disengaging onto the belt, the ticks of overload are quite heavy and having those little touches just make it safer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took a spirit pet, purely because it has a self heal. Pet can be somewhat buggy on the belts where you disengage up, so after many trials of different things, I settled on climbing the pipe, dismissing my pet, then re-summoning it as soon as I land, this way your pet stays with you and you get the maximum use from spirit bond.</span><br />
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This is by far my favorite outfit, mostly because its bright and looks outrageous on a male Pandaren. It is the complete set from Ahn'Qiraj, including the bow. It's the set I currently use for PvE. The pet pictured with me is Mayhem (Originally Ban'tholos) my spirit owl, in my eyes he is one of the best looking hunter pets in the game. For PvE I always carry him, a sporebat for spell haste, a Hynena for attack speed, a wolf for crit and any other pet I desire, or anything the raid needs.<br />
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This is my current PvP set, its an old set of PvP gear which I bought for HP in the sewers in Dalaran, the bow drops from Illidan. Pets are quite variable for PvP, my go to pet is Mowgli because he gives me a crit buff, as this benefits myself and my partner who is a warrior. I like to have a carrion bird handy, as it reduces damage taken, a small raven or a gull for disarms, and a crab for stuns. Depending on the comp we are against, I will ususally use one of those pets listed.<br />
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So there you have it! Lazeebow in all his glory, complete with crazy clothes and fabulous pets. Next week I shall uncover another of my unsung heroes, until then....be good ;)<br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-46201480289259369262014-09-07T10:14:00.004-07:002014-09-07T10:14:36.914-07:00Talents for SoO - A closer look at which talents suit which bosses and why.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey guys, I was struggling to come up with a blog topic this week, and while raiding the other night I ran out of tomes of the clear mind and it suddenly hit me how often I talent change depending on the fight, so I though I would explain my thoughts on each talent, which fights I use them for, and let you in on some of my failed experiments when trying different ones out! (note: all from a Brewmaster PoV)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Celerity</b> - Having an extra roll can be really useful, especially on high movement fights, the added bonus of a cd reduction on these rolls means that if you spread them out properly, you can always have a roll ready, nothing worse than needing to move out of trouble and clicking the roll bind like a madman only to see its still got a 5 second cooldown. Some of the fights on heroic don't leave 5 seconds grace before you get slapped upside the head by something. I like to use this talent for Iron Juggernaut, as you need to take 3 bombs between tanking the boss, having the 3 rolls is pretty perfect here. I also like to use it on Spoils of Pandaria sometimes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Power Strikes</b> - As I do not generally have any issues generating chi I do not use this for any fight, that being said at lower gear levels it could be quite useful for ensuring you always have enough chi to keep BoK up and the ability to purify on demand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ascension </b>- This is pretty much the only talent I use in this tree as it stands, I like having 5 chi available and as I do not run any extra haste and have reforged any haste i do have into mastery, the extra energy regen means I always have the 40 I need for my keg smash, coupled with the fact that I am very fond of RJW, I prefer the 15% regen to make sure I can use both as much as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ring of Peace</b> - This is a really nice talent when you have either a lot of adds to deal with or caster adds, the silence gives you a lot of breathing space and time to position yourself in front of the adds and stop them from stacking up behind you, I use this talent for Galakras, Spoils, Garrosh and sometimes General Nazgrim, depending on the raid comp at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Leg Sweep</b> - I used to use this on add fights, until I discovered that when you use it, it resets the swing on each add stunned, which will then all hit you together at once, which is fine if they dont hit very hard, but the adds on Phase One of the Garrosh fight hit for about 200k each, when there's 6 of them, and they hit you as one...it hurts! I have grown to favour RoP over this, once I started tanking bosses that hit harder, the reset swing can really knock you for six if you're not expecting it. One thing I will add, is that the animation for this is hilarious compared to the other two, and watching 6 adds fall over on their arses in unison is always great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Rushing Jade Wind</b> - A particular favorite of mine, even before it was remodeled in 5.4. Especially on Add fights like Tortos. Since the remodel it has become my favorite talent for all 3 specs of the monk, I find it particularly great for extra damage and chi generation on Galakras, Spoils and Nazgrim where there is a constant flow of adds to ensure said chi generation. That's not to say that I haven't used it on fights with less adds such as Sha of pride, or Garrosh. When you need to get and keep aggro on adds that may not be there for long, if you already have high vengeance, this talent is perfect, plus is means you do not have to channel SCK and you can keep using your other abilities. I appreciate that you still dodge and parry when SCK is going, but as someone who has 8% parry and 20% dodge (without taking EB into account) this doesn't really comfort me a lot, and there have been more than just a few occasions where I have fallen over because of this channel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger</b> - one of the coolest looking talents by far, a giant blue electric kitty fighting for you gives a certain amount of street cred over other tanks in my opinion! Xuen also does amazing amounts of damage, and he cleaves, but if you're looking for burst on a single target boss, this is the guy to do it. I like to use him for Malkorok, Iron Juggernaut, Thok, Seigecrafter, and for progress, he was brilliant for Spoils, as if you find yourself overwhelmed, you can bust him out and have him take over some of the ads and tank them for you, while doing batshit crazy amounts of damage, thus helping them melt a little faster. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Chi Torpedo</b> - Ever since I flung myself off Lei Shen's platform when forgetting how far this thing goes in compared to a roll I have been a lot more cautious about using it. In all honesty, for Siege, it just doesn't stack up to the other two options in this tier for me. I don't use it for any fights, purely because it means I would have to forgo either my Kitty or my RJW. It's a shame really, because I believe it has its uses, and the animation is pretty awesome, but with the amount of healing and mobility Brewmasters already have, it just doesn't have any value for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you know I am an avid viewer of Monk Meditation, and the other lady monks and I decided that it was time to take over once more, so last night, we entertained the dojo, with wit, charm, sophistication and some FABULOUS monk info on Monk Meditation Episode 29, Ladies Night Part Deux!! The show was hosted by yours truly, and I'd like to give a huge shout out to the MM gang for letting us take over and have such a fun night. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My beautiful co-hosts for the evening were:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We discussed the recent Beta changes, took questions from the lovely Dojo, and let everyone know how we're all preparing for WoD. Check out the video below ;)</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-52560829185555429222014-08-18T06:46:00.000-07:002014-08-18T06:46:03.390-07:00Pet Battles: Beasts of Fable<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi guys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sorry for the delay getting this post out, I have had some personal things to take care of and I appreciate everyone's patience!! A little plus since my last post, our guild managed to down Thok on heroic so we are now working on the mighty Siegecrafter! To finish off my Battle Pet extravaganza posts, today I will go through my tactics for defeating the beasts of fable, and finish up my favorite pets list, so sit back, relax, and lets get to it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was by far, the hardest category to pick my favorites in, mostly because it houses some of THE cutest pets that WoW has to offer, after MUCH deliberation I have picked 5 that I love, either for their looks or their utility!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <b>Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm</b>, because omg HOW cute? Plus the little trumpet he gives every now and then is just adorable! I purchased this little guy off the AH, and he's usually easy to find on there and not too expensive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dippy my <b>Darkmoon Hatchling</b>, again, just very cute and seeing as I have the mount to match he makes a great "on show" companion pet!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My <b>Direhorn runt</b>, a drop from the isle of giants, he's very cute I hate seeing the place on the isle where they are captured, I want to take them all home!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, <b>Kovok</b>, probably one of my favorite pets of all time, I LOVED the Klaxxi quests involving this guy, and I was quite distraught when I found out that I had to kill him during the SoO raid encounter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jack, the <b>Sinister Squashling</b>, the first pet I leveled to help me deal with the battle pet tamer with 3 mechanical pets, and the one I use against the guy on Darkmoon island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timmy, the <b>Terrible Turnip</b>, this guy is seriously cute and REALLY useful for battling. He is a reward from planting a special seed on Sunsong Ranch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So there you have it, all my favorite pets for each of the pet families! Now onto some much larger pets, the Beasts of Fable. These guys can be found dotted around Pandaria and you can't really miss them as they are all huge!! I don't tend to use leveling pets with these that much, mostly because some of them are quite hard to defeat and they don't really provide a lot of XP, not enough to make it worth it for me anyway!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To be honest, any flying pets (particularly the ones with moves like Take Off and Cocoon Strike) will be just fine here, you can always get away with using your leveling pet first as No-No will always cast his Beaver Dam, which blocks 2 attacks from both sides, giving your level pet its XP and time to change to your first flying pet. Although I find No-No to be a little on the daft side - he casts beaver dam usually followed by a dive, which seems pointless as the dives damage is blocked by the dam, make no mistake, when he does hit with his Tail Slap, it hits for 600 hp each time, so avoid as many as you can with Cocoon Strike and just use what you can to nuke him down, he has a lot of HP but he's not particularly dangerous as he will usually use Tail Slap twice before he starts building dams again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was an interesting one, I tried all sorts of weird and wonderful combinations on this fish, eventually stumbling on a crazy powerful combo of just two pets on <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=68564#comments" target="_blank">Wowhead </a>(the comment I refer to is number 23 god bless that person!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nothing else required, you <i>can</i> use a level pet here though I wouldn't recommend it as it can mess up the sequence you need to kill him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open with the Spirit, Cast Geyser, cast Whirlpool,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Switch to Chrominius, Cast Howl followed by Surge of power, the fish will be dead :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If Dos starts with Whirlpool himself you will need to forfeit and restart as it will kill Chrominius! </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kafi (Kun-Lai)</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ugh this turtle, hits like a truck and takes no prisoners, I don't even bother to use a leveling pet here, because he usually kills 2 out of my 3 pets. His Tidal Wave move is REALLY annoying as he casts it very often and it does damage to your other 2 pets. After much deliberation and many many tears over this damn turtle, here is my pet combination;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, here's the kicker, this fight can go a number of different ways depending on how lucky you are, if you're lucky and Ti'un doesn't block EVERY DAMN SPELL YOU HAVE (Not bitter) then you can almost kill him with the moth alone....however.....I'm generally not that lucky and it usually takes me 3 or 4 goes before I get enough hits on him to kill him, fortunately he doesn't heal. The Whelk is my back up pet, the two flyers can both do damage while avoiding pump (which I appreciate can be unpredictable but it hits for a k so...), as much as possible, when he casts his Tidal Wave, Brian (Rapana) seems to take less damage than most other pets so he is my safety net, though <i>if </i>everything goes correctly, you <i>shouldn't</i> actually need to use him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The hedgehog from hell!! To be honest I struggled way more than I should have with this one, but now I have a pretty safe combo that allows me to kill him fairly quickly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I open with the Tonk, cast Shock and Awe, use missiles until I get to 1/4 HP (this wont take long he hits hard) when I know he is going to kill me next hit I cast Ion Cannon, which will hit him after the tonk reforms from its first death, I then let him kill the Tonk and use Decoy and Missiles on the Zep to finish him off, he should be dead before you need the Animus, but I don't recommend a leveling pet here either.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skitterer Xi'a (Krasarang)</span></b></u><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anubisath Idol (anything tanky here for me, though if i had another flying pet, it would be here)</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He SHOULD die from the second pet, however as with all of these boss pets, he is subject to the RnG gods too, so it may take a few gos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This guy is relatively easy to sort out, and I would encourage taking a level pet here (just be careful of the pet's level, he hits REALLy hard to low level pets!), personally I take;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Tonk and the Zep should be able to see him off, usually I will lose the Tonk but if I use decoy on the Zep it gives enough time to get Bombing run up and finish him off with that and missiles.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kovok</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Zandalari Footslasher/Anklerender/Kneebiter/Toenibbler</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It can be a little risky to take a level pet but it's doable if you get some crits, if you can double up on the little Zandalari guys go for it, I currently only have 1 at max level so I have to use Kovok as he is my only other beast pet. Sometimes it takes a few gos but he should die fairly consistently with only 2 beast pets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As these are the only 3 beasts I presently have at max level, they are all I can use!! He should die pretty easily though ,Kovok should take half his HP, with the dino dropping him to next to nothing if not killing him, with the monitor finishing him off. What i will say is that as soon as I have two more of those Dinos leveled I will use 3 of them against him!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">provided I use Plagued Blood>Howl>Diseased bite, I may even get another bite off before he kills the puppy, of course with no healing he should only have about half HP left, I use Claw on the raptor to finish him off, healing as and when needed. I rarely use the third pet so if you wanted to, you could use a level pet here, but be careful, he does hit quite hard.</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-18225535714744836182014-08-01T06:50:00.001-07:002014-08-01T06:54:28.786-07:00Pet Battles: Pandaren Tamers<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy Friday darlings!! Well it's a rather dreary day here so I'm drinking a nice hot brew - Twinnings English Breakfast tea incidentally - (Someone asked me on twitter what my 'brew' was!) and today I am going to embark on the second of my Pet Battles series, there will also be an opportunity to win yourself a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=93669/gusting-grimoire" target="_blank">Gusting Grimoire</a> in honor of me reaching 10k pageviews on this blog! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First off I shall continue with my favorite pet(s) in each category....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really struggled with this category, seeing as most of my favorite pets seem to be in it! However I managed to restrain and just pick these three... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My <b>Unborn Val'kyr</b>, she's so pretty...I actually have no idea what she is like as a battle pet, I am aware from my readings that I will possibly need her for the Celestial Tournament but she's just so beautiful I mainly got her for her looks (yes I am that shallow)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, my last choice in the category isn't particularly cute, or fluffy, or sparkly, which are the qualities I usually look for in a pet, but I have fallen in love with him none-the-less, I think mostly out of pity as I felt so sorry for him when I saw him. Over the months he has actually turned out to be a great pet and got me out of some crappy battles with difficult opponents, may I present to you, my slightly scruffy looking <b>Stitched Puppy 'Patches</b>'!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An easy choice here, one for looks and one for looks AND utility!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Lishi, the Wild Crimson Hatchling,</b> she's not only really pretty but she's a really nice pet to use in battles due to her speed and self heals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before I start I am going to dish these out in the order that I fly round them in, (bear in mind I also incorporate the Pandaren Spirit Tamers and the Beasts of Fable) it seems to be the 'shortest' route and if you are busy working on other things like blogs and such, there a flight posts near each one so you can take a kite if you don't want to fly there yourself. (Although this is a longer route ultimately)</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aki The Chosen.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Found in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms (now by Mistfall Village - Pre 5.4 she was near the Seat Of Knowledge)</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anubisath Idol</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I use the leveling pet for 1 turn unless they are 20+, then they can sometimes hold out for a few turns but rather than take risk I will use my Idol to kill both Chirrup his Stoneskin pretty much negates all of the Swarms he casts, and Stormlash, for her I will always use Deflection as soon as she is brought out to block her call lightening, which can remove half HP if it crits. This obviously leaves me with Crush/Demolish to deal damage, as Chirrup poses less threat i take Crush which is good against Stormlash, who hits a lot harder and needs to be taken care of quicker. The Idol should easily survive these two, as long as you keep Stoneskin up, I bring out the Amber Moth for Whiskers, as its Slicing Wind, Cocoon Stike and Mothballs are all very strong against him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A little harder to find initially, he is in a tiny almost invisible cave on top of a mountain on the West of Kun-Lai Summit, he looks a little like Taran-Zhu, and his 3 companions are; Piqua (Flying), Lapin (Critter) and Bleat (Beast).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pets I use for this tamer and order;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Son of Animus</b> (If you don't have one, any mechanical pet, preferably with a self heal will be fine) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will, as usual, use the level pet for one turn, and make use of the Idol's Stoneskin ability as once again, it negates most of not all the damage from Piqua's Flock move. I will also use him for Lapin, however it can be a bit touch and go and crit dependent with this fight, though most of the time Lapin should die, leaving you with a small smount of HP, I swap out the Idol for the animus and make a start on Bleat. Make no mistake, this pet can hit like a truck, especially if 'Chew' Crits, although it shouldn't do, if you're feeling vulnerable you can put your shiled up first, then just use Touch of Anima to regain any health lost from his first 2 turns, tha snimus hits really hard and it should only take you 3 turns dealing to kill him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the same Island as Niuzao Temple next to the lake, this Jinyu's 3 pets are; Diamond (ele), Mollus (Critter) and Skimmer (Aquatic).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I use the Pandaren Water Spirit to kill the first pet he has, as he has 3 moves strong against other elemental pets, but is fortunately not susceptible to the attacks that Diamond uses as they are not particularly strong against other ele's. I will bring out my leveling pet against Mollus (who works the same way as the Rapana Welks), for one turn and then use the Amber moth to finish Mollusc and kill Skimmer. If by some unlucky chancce I get crit by Skimmers Pump move, I will bring out the Pandaren spirit to finish him off, being careful to use Dive to negate a move.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For me, this guy is a bit of a pain in the arse, even though he has a really cool looking helmet on, I don't even bother trying to level a pet with this one due to his irritating combo of pets that all hit like trucks and are all quite tanky. He uses; Crusher (Aquatic), Pounder (Ele) and Mutilator (Beast).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have tried using levelling pets,. but so far I have not found a 2 pet combo from my own that can reliably 2 v 3 his pets, I shall keep trying and get back to that at a later date perhaps. With no leveling pet, I simply use the Moth on Crusher (Be sure to use Cocoon when the Whirlpool is on 1 to avoid the damage), the Water Strider against Pounder (who needs to be killed quickly as he damages your other pets), and my mechanical pet of choice against Mutilator the super hedgehog!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Down on an island at the south of Krasrang, this Hozen has 3 delightful pets which took me a while to work out a decent enough combo for to enable me to use him for leveling! He uses; Woodcarver (Beast), Lightstalker (Flying) and Needleback (Aquatic).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will as usual use the level pet for one turn, it will usually be subjected to Woodcarver's Acidic Goo, which, unless the pet is < level 5, *shouldn't* do it fatal damage. I then switch to my Tonk, deposit mines, then use Charge and lock on to finish the squidgy bug off. I don't tend to panic too much if the tonk dies here, the mines will remain in place, and they will dish out a great deal of damage against Lightstalker when he comes out, you can either finish him off with the tonk if it's still alive or switch to the Moth, which is then used to kill Needleback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I always feel bad killing this Pandaren's pets, I love her happy little sunflower and I hate beating him up, however, if I don't get rid of him quickly he can cause Issues!! She uses; Siren (Ele), Toothbreaker ((Ele) and Brood of Mothran (Beast).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I use the Strider to dispatch Siren (Begrudgingly), I ensure that I replace his sunny weather with my cleansing rain, I usually charge pump first and let him cast his Sunlight, then cast my Cleansing water, then let loose with the charged pump, this <i>should</i> almost kill him, leaving a water jet or two to finish him off, if you can recharge pump before he dies ready for Toothbreaker then great. I usually take the opportunity to bring out my level pet once Toothbreaker casts Sons of Root, I will use my charged pump before hand before swapping the Strider out. After my level pet has had 1 turn I will bring back the Strider and do my best to kill him with that, its not quite the end of the world if he kills the strider as long as you have him on relatively low HP, it just becomes a bit laborious to finish him off with your mech pet as he is resilient to their hits. After he has gone I use the remaining mech pet to kill off the Brood of Mothran and job's a good'un!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just south of Dawns Blossom is the final tamer on mainland Pandaria. She has 3 companions, Skyshaper (Flying), Fangor, (Beast), and Dor the Wall (Aquatic).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As always, I bring out my level pet for one turn, then pull out the Zep/Animus and use him to get rid of Skyshaper (the Animus hits harder for this and has a self heal, making him a more kilely candidate for helping with the other pets). If the Mech pet survives Skyshaper i will usually use them until Fangor kills them, then switch to the Moth, fortunately tall of fangor attacks are weak on the moth, so he should go down pretty quick, for the last pet it's a classic Flying Vs Aquatic, and the moth should take care of Dor with ease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lil' Oondasta (Who is incidentally not THAT little)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basically any combination of all Mechanical pets will work on this guy, his Frill blast, which he will open with, will swap out your first pet for your second one, so I use the pets in the order above, so that I can get my Decoy up quickly for his second move Spitfire Beam. After that it's a case of do as much damage as you can while he annihilates your pets with his Crush. Have fun with this one ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So to honor my 10k views i am giving away the TCG pet aforementioned. I have the code to the pet ready and waiting, to win the pet, simply comment on ANY of my pet battle posts, about anything pet related, <i>your</i> favorite pet for example, and I shall draw at random from the comments and announce the winner next Saturday after Fridays post has been up for a day!!</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-32056067003783719652014-07-25T10:06:00.000-07:002014-07-25T10:06:22.510-07:00Pet Battles; Pandaren Spirit Tamers<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi guys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Before I get into how I farm the Pandaren spirit tamers, I am going to go through my top pet for each pet family (only some in this post and the rest in future posts), these will be the ones that I use for leveling other pets, farming, or just for the way they look :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Anubisath Idol</b> - My little Amun Ra, he is an amazing tank pet and he can hit like a train too, plus he looks really cool (I am a massive fan of Egyptian style stuff). The ONLY downside to him is that you must either pay a fortune for him from the AH or farm him from AQ 40. He is an 11% drop from <a href="http://Emperor Vek'lor" target="_blank">Emperor Vek'lor</a>. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Taming the Pandaren Spirit tamers.</span></b></u><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flowing Pandaren Spirit </span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This guy can be found in the Dread wastes, on the long rocky path that runs out into the sea between the Wastes and Krasarang Wilds. The spirit has 3 pets; Marley (Aquatic), Tiptoe (Critter) and the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=66950" target="_blank">Pandaren Water Spirit</a> (ele).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is one of the harder ones as his first pet Marley can cause huge issues if he is not taken down quickly. I use an Amber Moth and hit him with Moth Balls and Slicing Wind, saving Cocoon Strike for when his Whirlpool is about to hit (This way you take only the hit from the pool, and not him as well). After this I just use Sw and MB's to nuke him down as fast as possible (As he is aquatic these spells will hit quite hard and he is <i>usually</i> dead withing 5 turns). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tiptoe is easier to deal with but again you want him to go down quick to minimize the Tidal wave casts as they hit your other pets. I sometimes continue to use my moth as it still seems to hit quite hard and I can avoid an attack every 3 turns with Coocoon strike. However If you want a pet to directly counter him I like to use either my Kovok or My Zandalari Foot slasher, both of which will hit him hard enough to kill him in a few turns. For the Spirit I use an aquatic pet, usually Squirt, my Eternal Strider. Be careful with this water spirit, he can hit really hard and kill you if you don't kill him quickly!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If I am leveling a pet I will always use the moth to kill Marley, use the leveling pet for a round on Tiptoe and take out the eternal strider, replacing for the oily Slimeling as aquatic does not deal as much damage to magic and the slimeling has quite a heavy nuke ability to kill Tiptoe quick enough.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whispering Pandaren Spirit.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is one of my favorite locations for pet battling,m you can find the Whispering Spirit right at the toip of a mountain in the Jade forest, on the left of the map, directly below Dawns Blossom and to the north east of Grookin Hill. He has 3 pets; Dusty (Flying), Whispertail (Dragonkin) and the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=68467" target="_blank">Pandaren Air Spirit</a>. (ele)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In my experience dragonkin pets are the best to use here, I have read that an Emerald Proto Whelp can solo all three pets!! The first pet he uses is Dusty, again, the oily slimeling is great here as he does so much damage, also I have noticed that Dusty usually opens with Moth dust, so you can use your Expunge straight away with minimal risk of having it miss due to Cocoon Strike (Obviously if the RnG gods are displeased with you then Dusty may cast CS first but you can always reset the fight if this happens). After I dispatch Dusty (Badum-bum-Tshhhh) I use Chrominius to nuke down Whispertail, purely because he hits like a truck and I usually want to get him gone as soon as possible, I use Howl and Surge of Power, which will usually get at least half, if not more of his HP. I will then use bite until he is dead, unless she manages to kill Chrominius, in which case I will switch back to the slimeling to finish her off. For the Air spirit I tend to use my water spirit as his Whirlpool/geyser combo usually kills the Air spirit, however if you don't have one I would recommend an Eternal strider, use healing rain and pump as soon as you can to get damage out as the Air spirit hits harder against aquatic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For leveling I get the leveling pet out against the spirit as the first thing he will cast is the soothing mists, so your baby pet will not get nuked, I will swap out Chrominius as the Pandaren Water Spirit can also take care of Whispertail. If I am leveling I will also keep the slimeling out to get some damage onto him and just let her kill it, this way you can split 2 pets over 3 opponents easier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This due is up on the mountain between the Horde Shrine and The Seat of Knowledge. His 3 pets are; <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=68468" target="_blank">Pandaren Earth Spirit </a>(Ele), Sludgy (Magic) and Darnak the Tunneler (Beast).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unlike the other spirits he will open with his mini version of himself, I use the Eternal Strider, open with charging my pump, then he will incapacitate me for a round (there is a chance this can stun for a further round when he deals the damage, I usually reset the fight if this happens!) I will then release pump and try to nuke him down with Water Jet, healing myself with Healing Wave if I drop to 50% HP. All this spirit will do is throw rocks at you, which will hit for 300-400 each time, so you should be able to kill him within 5 turns. For Sludgy I tried anti magic pets but nothing seemed to work for me, so I thought, know what? I'm going to "out Magic-pet" you!! So yeah, you guessed it, out comes the old faithful oily slimeling, and I just mirror his moves, he will usually kill my slimeling just before he dies, so I will pet out my animus to finish him off. I then use the Animus to kill his last pet, taking the spells metal fist, touch of Anima and interrupting jolt. Basic tactic is to nuke down with MF and IJ (although you wont get to interrupt as Darnak is faster) and as with the Eternal Strider, at 50% health use ToA. (Just make sure he has used Burrow within the last 4 turns or you will not get the heal). If you dont have the Animus the Zepplin is also nice here, use Decoy to stop his hardest hitting abilities straight away, then nuke down with Missile after applying Bombing run!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">i have yet to figure out a strat for using two pets aginst this guys, as such I don't use him for leveling, I'm working on it though :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Found in north Townlong Steppes west of Fire Camp Osul, this Spirit uses Crimson (Dragonkin), <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=68466" target="_blank">Pandaren Fire Spirit</a> (Ele) and Glowy (Flying).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ever seen a snail kick 3 level 25 pets butts? Well sit back ladies and gentle men, you're about to see something rather spectacular....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meet Brian. Brian is a Rapana Whelk. Brian is going to <b>single handedly</b> beat 3 legendary pets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (Left) Start with a Shell shield</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (Left) use Absorb until you have 1 turn left on Dive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (Left) As you can see, Crimson is almost dead and Brian is on 3/4 HP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Left) After killing the spirit get out your levelling pet and allow Glowy to cast his Confusing sting, use your turn to switch pets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Right) Brian is back and begin your Shell/Dive/Absorb routine again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Shell will block pretty much every Swarm Glowy casts, it takes a little while but you can kill him fairly easily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So there you have it! A Rapana Whelk that can solo 3 Legendary pets, little dude deserves a medal. If you want to pick up your own Brian, you can find them down in the Briny Muck in the Dread Wastes, they are usually level 22-23 and are easily caught. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is by no means any sort of official guide to beat these tamers, and there are probably better ways to do it and better pets to use, but this is what I do each day to get my pet supplies, which have a chance to contain one of the spirits, good luck!!</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-45499149910205362262014-07-18T03:01:00.000-07:002014-07-18T03:02:43.270-07:00A week away, an all monk flex and more!!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well hello darlings!!!! Seeing as it's been a whole TWO weeks since I posted last, I guess we have some catching up to do!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Firstly, my week away was well spent, I went to visit my family, whom I had not seen since Christmas so it was lovely to catch up with them. We also had some gorgeous weather while we were there so I spent some much needed time in the sun walking my Mum's little dog :). Having a week off WoW was also much needed, Midlifecrisis has been running 2 raid groups per week, enabling us to gear our new folk and gear some alts, which is great fun but it's 5 nights a week of solid raiding, so it was lovely to have a break and not have to be sat at the computer for 7.30 each night! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Upon my return on Saturday night, I took part in the open raid flex race, I was on <a href="https://twitter.com/Sneezer1986" target="_blank">Sneezers</a> team with 20 other monks, we raced against a team of Druids, a team of DKs and a team of Paladins. Monks came second by 2 minutes, but we are still maintaining that we are the best class, plus we were horde so we had more trash ;) I jest, it was all good fun and I really really enjoyed it, seeing 25 Xuens leaping all over the place is a truly beautiful sight to behold!! All the guys were really nice, and Sneezer did an awesome job of leading us, I felt very privileged to be picked as the second tank!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sneezer runs a lot of races on <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenRaid" target="_blank">Open Raid</a>, if you are interested in joining any (EU) you can fins his OR page right...... <a href="http://openraid.eu/groups/index/552" target="_blank">HERE!! </a>He's a great guy, very fun to rid with, and I really look forward to running more races with him in the future! You can also catch him talking about how we did on the latest <a href="http://www.monkmeditation.com/" target="_blank">Monk Meditation</a> episode by clicking....<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU31URYlwv0#t=3910" target="_blank">HERE!!!! </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been doing a bit more "Windwalkering" lately, I have my normal 4 set with 2 heroic weapons and chest piece. I'm really enjoying the spec a lot, I love the extra mobility (That flying serpent kick!!) and I REALLY love when everything lines up and you get those 900k RKS's, but at the moment I'm still feeling a little lost with it. I don't know if this is because I love tanking so much and being a DPS just isn't the same, or if it's because I don't understand the spec enough to get the most out of it, or even a combination of both. Also, I'm still completely confused by the Assurance of Consequence, again I think this is due to my lack of experience with the class to really test out whether I do more damage with or without it, I suppose a few more weeks will tell, especially seeing as we are progressing on heroic Thok at the moment, which up until now I have been doing on my rather undergeared hunter, which I feel cannot pull its weight at the minute. So I shall use my monk (even though 3 melee for 10 man is a bit "meh"), and take Lazeebow to the other raids we run, and get him some more gear, because to be quite frank, hunters are ridiculously overpowered for that fight, being ranged and not suffering to any of Thoks interrupts means that they can push out silly damage (even me sat at 557 i lvl can manage a 1mil burst with 270k sustained), and as we already have one that sits at 400k, I'm guessing it would work to have another. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I'm looking forward to trying out WW for the fight, it should be interesting to see how Lady performs with full raid buffs, as until now I have been testing on dummies with self buffs only, so....watch this space!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am scouting for another victim to interview, as my E-sofa is feeling a little empty right now, I am also coming up on 10k blog hits (Ermagherd), so if you have any ideas on how I can celebrate feel free to let me know! </span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-76457858870581040242014-07-06T06:35:00.001-07:002014-07-06T06:35:59.774-07:00Heroes of the StormTechnical Alpha review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been lucky enough to receive an invitation to play the Technical Alpha for Heroes of the Storm. I am going to give an overview of what I think of the game, and I will also compare it to other games of it's nature. So sit back, grab a heroic brew and join me in the storm....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, for anyone who has never played a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game, here are the basics: Two teams of 5 players (can be less on smaller maps but usually no more) will battle against one another on a (usually) symmetrical map. Each team will have a main base, surrounded by barracks (from which creeps will usually spawn), and towers which will shoot at enemy players. Each player will pick from a pool of heroes, with each hero having 4 abilities (again, usually) which will become available as you gain levels through experience, which will be granted through killing enemy heroes and farming neutral or enemy creeps. Players will also gain money for kills, which will enable them to purchase Items to make their hero stronger. The aim of the game being to make your teams heroes strong enough to take out the enemy base. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you've never played one of these games before, or have played once and not bothered playing again, the reason may be that the learning curve for these games is just too damn steep. Not only do you need to know all the abilities of a hero, but you need to learn how to lane (farm creeps), you need to learn which items to purchase (some items only suit certain heroes), and you need to be incredibly aware of your surroundings and positioning while doing all this. Previous to playing WoW I played Heroes of Newerth quite a bit (Basically DOTA with different named heroes). I really enjoyed the game, after I played it for about 6 months to try and learn how to play it, fortunately having a patient husband meant that I could learn in peace by just playing against him. Unfortunately, the players that play these style of games (in my experience) tend to be more than just a little unforgiving when new payers attempt to learn the game, and instead of encouragement, more often than not, I have seen these new guys (and been on the receiving end of it) take an onslaught of insults and name calling because they don't know how to play. Sadly having just one person on your team who is not self aware and doesn't know how to play means they will get ganked (killed) a lot, thus "feeding" the other team, giving them more money and experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The problem I find is that there is no real safe place for people to learn, when I say safe I mean safe from the constant barrage of "feeder/noob/useless/idiot etc" insults that they will inevitably receive. This makes the game incredibly unattractive to most. Games are meant to be fun, and there is nothing enjoyable about trying to learn a game in such a hostile environment. So for 50% of the people who try playing these games, they end up playing once or twice, assuming they suck, and not picking them up again.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enter HotS....</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first thing I noticed about HotS is that there are NO ITEMS to purchase, and you level AS A TEAM. These two factors alone, completely negate the "oh my goodness what items do I buy" and "omg that guy's shit he's level 2 while we're all level 6" problems that I found quite predominant while playing other MOBAs. You get to pick talents for your hero as you level, and the maximum choice you have is 4 options, which to me, is so much more simple and attractive as a new player. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most of the other aspects of the game are the same, you can kill creeps to get XP, and also enemy players/towers/other structures. However, with no individual gains from kills, there is no contest for getting the killing blow and it becomes more of a team effort, another issue dealt with. (Being accused of Kill Stealing is one of THE most annoying things in a TEAM game!!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Another thing I really like about this MOBA is that on each map, there will be a main protagonist that will assist whichever team earns their favor the quickest, which makes the game less about getting the highest KDR and more about achieving objectives, which is something I think other MOBAs lack, and thus, they usually become a kill fest, which gets boring after a while.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you do not want to know about any game content such as heroes, maps and do not want to see a game play video STOP HERE!!!!!!!! You have been warned!!!!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><u><b>How it all starts.</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You begin the game by playing a short tutorial which goes over the basics of your character and how to use them. It shows you the objectives of the game and forces you to play against AI until you understand enough to get stuck into other players. There is an individual level system in the game, which you can increase by winning matches and completing daily quests. When you queue for a game it will put you against people of a similar level to yourself. (Note that you must only reach level 3 because you can take the training wheel s off and play against real people!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently there is no map selection tool, though I suspect that if you were to create a group you could select a map, or they may have plans to implement this in the future. The maps available in the Alpha are as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A really fun map that makes the team go below ground to collect skulls from mobs to empower their Golem (1 per team) every few minutes, quite a crazy push map that I enjoyed playing immensely!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 Shrines appear at the top and bottom of the map, with another in the middle, one team must control top and bottom in order to activate the central shrine and release the Dragon knight!! One of the more "positional" maps, whereby having the right players in the right place is the key to winning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As it stands, these are the only maps available for play, each of which requires a different strategy to win, I will say that I got put into Cursed Hollow quite a few times in a row, which was slightly annoying as it's my least favorite map to play, but it did encourage me to play some different heroes to add some variety.....which reminds me.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As far as Free to play heroes goes, there are only 6 available, however you can purchase more with real money or in came currency. You may also purchase mounts and alternative skins for your heroes. Each hero starts with a choice of 2-4 talents with 4 becoming available at later player levels, this is nice as it doesn't burden new players with too many choices, enabling them to concentrate on other mechanics. Once you reach a suitable level, you will begin each game by picking a talent from 4 options, from there, your hero will already have 3 abilities available on Q, W and E. Most of the talents I have seen so far are passive, but there are a few "activatable" ones, which seem to go on buttons 1-0, the passives will usually enhance an ability you already have. When your team reaches level 10 you have access to your heroes ultimate ability, this will be a choice from 2, or in Abathur's case, you only have access to a single ability. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> All of the heroes will either be a Warrior, which is your tanky, up-in-your-face, you cant kill me hero, an Assassin, which are your damage dealers, Support, which bring the heals and other buffs or a Specialist, which will have a range of abilities and a a unique playstyle, foe example, Abathur doesn't actually go into battle, he can "enter" other heroes on your team and assist them, or for his ultimate, he can clone any ally and you have access to all their skills for a limited time. This may seem OP, but when you consider that for the majority of the game, you play 4vs5 when you have an Abathur, it balances it out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Short answer, yes. Longer answer, as I previously stated, it is a nice simple game to pick up, that still has all the aspects of other MOBAs, but without the crazy complexity, meaning it is attractive to the less experienced MOBA player, that just wants to have some fun with friends. Over the next week I shall be compiling some game play to put together into a video, which I shall add to this post!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy
Sunday!! Yes I know it's two days late but I've been playing host to
two of my favourite bears this weekend!! Yes, the sofa has been
filled with Panda, Bear and Draenei bums, as I sat down to talk to
<span style="color: yellow;">Sunnier</span> and <span style="color: orange;">Arielle</span> about what they've been up to lately, including
Alpha testing and tanking Garrosh Hellscream!!</span></span></span></div>
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grab your FINEST brews (better make it a big cup, we'll be here a
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guys!! It's wonderful to have you here, I'm so glad that you could
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just
as a reminder, or for people reading for the first time, who are you
both, what classes do you play, and how long have you been WoW'ing? </span></span></span>
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Sunnier, creator of <a href="http://sunniersartofwar.com/">SunniersArtOfWar.com</a>, a Brewmaster guide site and
blog. I've been playing for nearly 9 years, though obviously not as a
monk. :) Before I discovered my true calling, I played a bear druid
(which is why you may see me around as "SunnierBear").</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hello!
I’m Arielle and I play a Guardian Druid. Most people probably
know me as the person that writes for the Inconspicuous Bear
(<a href="http://www.theincbear.com/" target="_blank">www.theincbear.com</a>),
or from Twitter (@ArielleEJ). I’ve been playing WoW since
Vanilla (April 2005 actually), although I have taken breaks now and
again. I actually leveled as a Protection Warrior in Vanilla,
which was one of the most arduous experiences I’ve ever been
through. For the last little bit of Vanilla I played a PvP
Arcane/Fire Mage with some real life friends, and it was awesome.
I didn’t actually switch to the Druid until halfway through TBC,
and I’ve been Feral/Guardian ever since (with a brief stint as a DK
at the start of Wrath).</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something
like that I guess. The guild used to be called <cft> on
Suramar. There was some drama, and then we moved to Sargeras
part way through Throne of thunder. At that point we had been
running double Guardian tanks for some time, and another former
Guardian (Reesi, you may have heard of her) was our Hunter.
Then Sunnier joined and a couple of my friends (Buraan and Ahanss)
added alts. At that point I made a joke or something about us
actually being a bear retirement home. I thought it was
hilarious, and Sunnier even drew some doodles of “retired bears”.
Our GM at the time – Kal / @Cybnext – finally bit the bullet and
changed the name of the guild, and one of Sunnier’s doodles became
our logo. Now we have even more alts from other current or
former Guardians (Lyfa, Mowse, Fasc) and I think it’s just a lot of
fun. I’ve jokingly said that my method of putting together a
successful raiding guild is:</cft></span></span></span></div>
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mean, if they’re no longer Guardians, they’re technically
‘retired’ right? Makes sense to call ourselves the Bear
Retirement Home then (<a href="http://www.brh-guild.net/">BRH website</a>).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
have you been up to lately, how is WoW for you now?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
Garrosh dead raiding is mostly about getting together and having a
good time. We have one new recruit right now so there’s a few
wipes while he learns the encounters, but overall everyone’s still
having fun which is what counts. I’ve been waiting for level
100 characters to be available before doing anything serious in
Alpha, but now that they are I’ll be doing some work on that
soon-ish.</span></span></span></div>
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also have 2 CM groups per week. The weekend one is really just
an excuse to hang out with some of my friends. The Tuesday one
is really just charity (shhhhhhhh). Because I’m nice.</span></span></span></div>
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than that it’s really just making sure we’re farming Garrosh
every week so we’re prepared when the transition to Mythic
happens. I don’t really have any interest in re-progressing
on 25m. Thankfully all of my raiders share that opinion.</span></span></span></div>
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been pretty quiet lately, after Garrosh. Ideally I would be spending
lots of time in the alpha (an excuse to play tauren!), though I've
been too busy IRL to spend as much time as I'd like. My ongoing goal
on live is to level up pets because I want a baby ox celestial, but
that may be a pipe dream since my strategy for pet battles is "pick
the cutest ones".</span></span></span></div>
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I must ask Sunnier, as a fellow mog enthusiast, how is your transmog
looking right now? </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Funny
you should ask, since I just completed a set that I've wanted for a
while -- my orange druid-inspired set. I think it passes pretty well
as a mysterious monk.</span></span></span></div>
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you've both tanked the mighty Hellscream on Heroic, how was it for
you? Any tips?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Honestly
it was underwhelming. I was expecting it to be a lot more
difficult than it was. By far the hardest thing was learning
the timings on Iron Stars in phase 4 (since I’m the kite bitch b/c
Guardians OP). Being a “tank” on Garrosh is pretty much a
complete afterthought as a Guardian. Given that we stack
offensive stats almost exclusively, you’re supposed to push your
DPS as much as possible to make the transitions between phases as
smooth as you can. I am routinely the top DPS through the first
3 phases, and I only get caught in phase 4 because I don’t tank the
boss at all.</span></span></span></div>
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those interested, you can check out my Heroic Garrosh Guardian Guide
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwwCSqhbR30" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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enjoyed Hellscream. There are a lot of different types of fights
wrapped into one, which makes talent choices interesting. There's the
dps fight, there's the high physical damage fight, the high magical
damage fight, the AoE control fight, and finally, the high-damage
tank-n-spank where you're tired and really hope you, the person with
the easiest job, don't mess up. I was switching talents, glyphs, and
gear constantly as we progressed, which I love doing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
qualities of the perfect encounter for me are: high tank damage, high
movement, interesting talent choices, and low tank downtime. I think
Iron Juggernaut fits those pretty well, especially as a Brewmaster.
The periodic magic damage is particularly difficult for Brewmasters,
but it forces you to make hard decisions (like: should I glyph Guard
to better handle the magic damage, or unglyph it to better handle
bomb damage). And in this case, the choices are really great because
there is no defined best build -- it depends on your gear and healers
and skillset. </span></span></span></div>
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The rest of the encounters are not that exciting from a tank
perspective. It’s nice to break out of the mould and do
something different. Paragons requires the most attention to
detail out of the bunch for me – due to our strat – and I get to
turn into a scorpion which is pretty cool. But I still find
Spoils to be the most fun.</span> </span></span></span>
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the alpha landed, how are you both finding it? What have you been
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been enjoying my time with a tauren monk. He is a beautiful
beast. Brewmasters don't have any significant changes, but I've still
been playing around with questing (I always love questing, and every
expansion I enjoy it more), and animations. What I'm really waiting
for is unlocking level 100 talents, particularly Chi Explosion. I
want to see if that talent has some angle I'm missing (because right
now it seems sort of confused).</span></span></span></div>
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than briefly logging in when I first got access, I pretty much
ignored it until Alliance was made available. Now that both
Alliance and level 100 premades are out, I’m having a lot more
fun. SMV is PRETTY. Way more visually enticing than the
Horde starting area (Frostfire something?). I’m really
excited to go through it for real on live.</span></span></span></span></div>
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you both looking forward to WoD? Based on what you've seen/read so
far, what aspect are you most looking forward to?</span></span></span></span></div>
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Guardians specifically it has to be GCD reduction from Haste. I
had my first opportunity to play with it in a dungeon setting last
night, and I </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">loved</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
it. Going back to regular 1.5s GCDs on live afterwards felt
painfully slow. Other than that I’m really appreciating the
increasing dedication the developers have to making sure all of the
different classes and specs are balanced. We had a giant leap
forward during Mists, and it looks like we’re taking another leap
in that direction again. I really appreciate that.</span> </span></span></span>
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new character models. What I've seen is so vibrant, I want to
experience all of them. I cannot wait to see female tauren, but since
I'm Alliance I'll have a tough time picking between draenei, dwarves,
and gnomes.</span><br /><span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Sunnier we should all know by now that you are the
true mistress of the brews, but just in case anyone's not aware,
where is your blog and what can we find there?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: yellow;">My
site is at SunniersArtOfWar.com, where you can find my guide and any
musings I have about Brewmasters. I've also started streaming again
at <a href="http://twitch.com/SunnierBear" target="_blank">twitch.com/SunnierBear</a>.
I stopped streaming a few months ago because a lot of people (by my
standards) were watching and it freaked me out. But now I can pop out
the chat window and never see how many people are watching and it's
okay! You can also find me on Twitter @SunnierBrew.</span><br /><span style="color: lime;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Arielle,
your Inconspicuous Bear forums are awesome, where can people find
those and what can they expect to see there? </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
forums can be found at http://www.theincbear.com/forums . There
hasn’t been a lot of Alpha discussion yet since very little in
terms of mechanics has been available to test until recently.
Other than that there are places to ask general Guardian questions,
discuss specific raid encounters, or ask for combat log analysis.
Quite a few of the top US/UK Guardians are regulars there (including
Danishpsycho, Buraan, Ahanss, Kartog, and Khaelyn among others) so
the discussion is usually polite and detailed.</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sunnier
and I have been friends for gosh....over 3 years now? It’s a
real treat to tank with her, and I can always rely on her to get the
job done (except that one time she clicked a Warlock portal and died
to an Iron Star). I routinely count my lucky stars that I
managed to convince her to come tank for us :)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For
those that don’t know I also help out Tickle (@tickletotem) by
doing reviews of Guardian logs / armories over at Sentry Totem
(<a href="http://www.sentrytotem.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sentrytotem.com</a>).
just a quick reminder that I’m doing it for fun, so any tips you
give for my services will go back to fund the site. You can
also simply ask the same questions over on the TiB forums
(<a href="http://www.theincbear.com/forums" target="_blank">http://www.theincbear.com/forums</a>).
I do stream sometimes (<a href="http://www.twitch.tv/deastin" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/deastin</a>)
but I’ve taken a break from streaming farm since it takes up so
much bandwidth to stream in 1080p :(</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
also host the Team Waffle Podcast (<a href="http://www.teamwafflecast.com/" target="_blank">http://www.teamwafflecast.com</a>),
which is an all-Druid podcast that covers the PvE side of the game
for all 4 specializations. We also do 2-3 “roundtables” per
expansion where I gather up 5-6 people from a given specialization
(Rank 1 Gladiators, top tier heroic raiders, and theorycrafters) to
talk about the spec is doing at a given point. I really enjoy
doing it and I’ve made a lot of friends along the way.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
you’re interested in becoming a better Guardian, it helps to learn
from the best. So definitely check out Buraan’s raid streams
over at <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/buraan" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/buraan</a>.
Who better to learn from than the rank 1 Guardian?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So
guys, there you have it, all that is left is for me to say thank you
SO much to the both of you for joining me on my E-Sofa!! </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-77325272258281003942014-06-20T09:29:00.002-07:002014-07-05T07:37:38.892-07:00The last challenging post.....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi guys, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope everyone is having a great Friday!! I am going to conclude what has been a much more involved set of posts than I thought with the last 4 CM dungeon monk perspectives, and one more voice over video, which I shall upload to YouTube tonight and add to the post tomorrow! For now, join me with your brews, as we wander into the spooky Scholomance.....</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scholomance.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gold Timer: 20m</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 33m</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bronze Timer: 55m</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion Difficulty:</b> Relatively easy throughout with some potential high damage phases (dependent on how much you want to pull at once!).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invis Pots:</b> Yes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>Talents used:</b></u> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: cyan;">Windwalker</span></b> -</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tigers lust/Chi Burst/Chi Brew/RoP/Diffuse Magic/RJW.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3dBWscHiHkhTRflVjfWJdaqSbUniT1OkclsmapmtCOpHOZI9LDMwrFQYlhhByA9-ecX-G4dLzzP7dB45zJlOOpmDDK2AcJjvW8NL4EOrSqBDFeBXl-ql3ryajTxxFZMOITRRaNTZU3jx/s1600/WoWScrnShot_062014_131524.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3dBWscHiHkhTRflVjfWJdaqSbUniT1OkclsmapmtCOpHOZI9LDMwrFQYlhhByA9-ecX-G4dLzzP7dB45zJlOOpmDDK2AcJjvW8NL4EOrSqBDFeBXl-ql3ryajTxxFZMOITRRaNTZU3jx/s1600/WoWScrnShot_062014_131524.jpg" height="200" width="199" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is one of the longer instances, and there are a few different ways you can meet your mob count. You can also run the instance on normal first to get the<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=114800/polyformic-acid-potion" target="_blank"> Polyformic Acid</a> buff which will provide a minor dps boost.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
first 2 mobs are killed as usual, make sure you have someone open the
gate ready to enter the boss room as there are a few seconds of RP
before you can go down to her. One important thing to note about
starting this encounter - when you engage <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=58633#encounter" target="_blank">Instructor Chillheart</a>, she will kill everything in the room with her apart from a skeleton on either side of the room (these two mobs need <i>not</i>
be touched incidentally), HOWEVER.....If you hit the floor before she
does this, sometimes, the 3 caster mobs that are in front of her will
not die, so make sure you start the encounter by hitting her before
anyone's feet hit the floor crackling jade lightening is nice for this
but you will <i>usually</i> have a caster in your team so a ranged spell would be more ideal). The encounter is pretty straightforward, move from the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=114886" target="_blank">Frigid Grasp</a>
(Looks like a Mage's ring of frost) she periodically places at a random
players feet, move away from other players when you have <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=111610" target="_blank">Ice Wrath</a>
on you, and keep towards the wall where you jumped down as the wave of
ice she spawns will one shot you. When she is dead have your casters
back up against that wall to avoid the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=66240" target="_blank">flying books</a> and dps the Phylactery down.</span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> There is one mob in the next corridor which you can pull through into the next room with you, there will be 4 candlestick mages in total, the little skeletons still hit for nothing and can be one shot, make sure you get good use out of your Storm Earth and Fire and RJW here!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=59184#encounter" target="_blank">Jandice Barov</a> is dealt with in the same way as normal, avoid her <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=114062" target="_blank">Wondrous Rapidity</a>, and if you dont have the <a href="http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/barovhelper" target="_blank">Barov Helper</a> addon from Curse, memorise her portrait so that you can be sure to attack the right one when she casts <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=113775" target="_blank">Whirl of Illusion</a>, as dpsing the incorrect one causes party damage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The next room can be done in one of two ways, you can either: pull enough mobs so that you have 30/35 enemies killed or: kill the whole room, which will leave you with 34/35 enemies killed. I will explain what to do for each scenario later when we get to the last boss, but for now, pull and kill whichever amount of mobs your group wants to kill. You can either pull them pack by pack or pull the whole lot out of the room into the previous room and LoS them all down, but to be honest, if you're going at a stead pace, pulling them one pack (meaning one giant mob) at a time is fine and doesn't put any unnecessary stress on tank/healer. It also leaves you with large dps cds ready for Lillian. If you can kill <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=59200" target="_blank">Lillian</a> before she transistions, great, if you have a BL/TW, this is where I would recommend you use it. Do not use dps pots as you will need to invis straight after the encounter. kill her in the way you would on normal, just be aware that all her abilities hurt more, diffuse magic is really nice for dealing with the purple fire on the floor here. Don't forget to help out slower moving players with Tigers Lust if you don't kill her before transition as she will <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=115350" target="_blank">fixate</a> on people, although she moves slowly if someone is in a bad position when fixated it can really help them out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Invis through the Professor Slate room - You do NOT need to kill Slate. If you opted to kill the mobs in the room before Lillian until you have 30/35, run into the next corridor, pull the last pack of 5 casters and LoS them round the corner, making your mob count. If you killed everything leaving you with 34/35 mobs, head straight to the final boss. The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=59080#encounter" target="_blank">Darkmaster Gandling</a> encounter is fairly simple, and he does not deal any major damage deal with it as you would in heroic mode, just be aware that he takes less damage while channeling <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=113143" target="_blank">Rise</a>, so you can just focus down his adds here. If you already have your mob count, you will finish the encounter and the dungeon, if you are still on 34 mobs, simple pop back to the previous room, pull 1 pack and single target one mob, as soon as it is dead you will have your achievement and the rest of the mobs will despawn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tips and tricks from the Tinterwebz: From <a href="https://twitter.com/ArielleEJ" target="_blank">@Arielle_EJ</a>: You can pull Jandice behind the pillar and the "right" image will always be in the closest corner. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scarlet Halls.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gold Timer: 13m 30s</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 22m</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bronze Timer: 45m</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion Difficulty:</b> Moderate tactically with two high damage pulls. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invis Pots</b>: Yes.</span><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talents used:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b>Windwalker </b></span>- Tigers Lust/Chi Burst/Chi Brew/RoP/Dampen Harm/RJW</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>Brewmaster</b></span> - Tigers Lust/ChiWave/Ascension/RoP/Dampen Harm/Xuen </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> After this boss, you should have enough CDs up between the group to deal with the 8 mob pack in the corridor, pull them back into the boss room and LoS, use all of your tank CDs and get full useage out of S,E&F and RoP to silence the casters. Move through the next corrodors, dealing with the mobs on a pack by pack basis, they do not hit as hard as the two packs you just dealt with, make sure you interrupt the Scholars <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=114185" target="_blank">Scarlet protection</a>. The final boss encounter is very simple and deals little to no tank damage provided you don't stand in any bad. Flameweaver Koegler only has a few abilities, only 2 of them are interruptible so make sure you do in fact interrupt them, avoid the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=113653" target="_blank">Dragons Breath</a> and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=113364" target="_blank">Book Burner. </a></span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Siege of Niuzao Temple.</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gold Timer: 19m</span></b></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 30m</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bronze Timer: 50m</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion Difficulty</b>: Easy provided you do not get held up, one or two big pulls and one moderate difficulty boss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invis Pots</b>: No.</span><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talents Used:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b>Windwalker</b></span> - Tigers Lust/Chi Burst/Chi Brew/RoP/RJW</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Apart from being lengthy, this daunting appearing instance is one of my favorites. Mainly because it has one of the biggest "YoloWTF" pulls out of all 9 dungeons (apart from the Brewery), and when done correctly, this can be really fun. The first pack of adds and every other one after it with Mantid in should be stacked up and the Weavers interrupted. Deal with the first pack of 3, move onto the first pack of blobs. The <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=61910#abilities" target="_blank">Resin Flakes</a> leave a debuff on every one, so be mindful of this when moving on. Go left straight after this pack and skip the pack of Mantids, take your first right out of the boss room (the boss will not be able to be activated yet) and prepare fr massive aoe damage. The pack of blobs should be dealt with one at a time, they do not have much health and die quickly however killing them ali at once will usually result in a wipe due to <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=120938" target="_blank">Residue</a>. Kill these, pull and kill the boss and exit the boss room once your residue has dropped off. Continue right the way to the top of the tree dealing with the mobs on a pack by pack basis, get as much out of S,E&F as you can , and keep RoP for the Mantid packs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Move down to the next area, using either of the paths on the picture, do not pull anything. Position yourselves in front of the General. Another option situation: pull just the General, wait for him to retreat to his shell and use the bombs to aoe down the 3 packs of mobs, or, pull EVERYTHING and Yololust it down before he even uses the ability. Either way is perfectly doable, it depends on your composition, and how experienced your tank is as kiting, because unless your a monk, you don't really want to be face tanking these mobs, and even then, they hurt. Use the bombs that get dropped to kill the General and his minions. He will continue to cast <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=124283" target="_blank">Blade Rush</a> on party members, so keep a roll ready to get out of the way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The last packs of adds on the bridge should be dealt with pack by pack, the boss is dealt with in the same way as Heroic, a nice easy end to a long dungeon!! (one thing to note about the packs of mobs, don't pull them before your tank is ready, they will target you with <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=121762" target="_blank">hurl brick</a>, and that hurts!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <u><b>Shado-Pan Monastery.</b></u></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gold Timer: 21m</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 35m</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion difficulty:</b> Moderate Damage throughout.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talents Used: </span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: cyan;">Windwalker </span></b>- Tigers Lust/Chi Wave/Chi Brew/RoP/Diffuse Magic/Xuen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Almost in the home stretch now, another long instance, with some fairly hard hitting bosses and trash packs. But of course, we're monks, so we're going to nimble our way through taking as little damage as possible! Pull everything in the first corridor, these mobs are relatively hard hitting, so be careful that you don't out aggro your tank, use S,E&F to aoe them down, but note that RoP is of little use here as the mobs have no weapons, however you can possibly stop a set of casts if you time it right. Use Xuen on the first boss, and avoid the lightening, diffuse magic is nice here if you do get hit by anything unsavoury. Ensure you group up to <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=107140" target="_blank">release the healing energy</a>. Once the serpent is down, you will want to group up and use some big healing cooldowns to prepare for the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=110852" target="_blank">final phase</a>, where Gu will cause damage to everyone, this is a great opportunity to help out your healer by using Touch of Karma. Take the 4 mobs in the following corridor to the end of it and aoe them down, again RoP will not disarm but can stop a set of casts with its silence ability. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Go out of this corridor, do not pull the 4 mobs outside the door, but hug the right hand wall, mount up and head on up to the next boss room. For the first part of the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=56541" target="_blank">Master Snowdrift</a> encounter, S,E&F can be used on the initiates, as the item squish means they take longer to kill, making it more viable than normal heroic as everything is usually dead before your clone even gets to it. Flying Snow and Fragrant Lotus will deal a moderate amount of tank damage, as a melee dps you may want to use your Fortifying Brew to help out your healer, as Flying Snow will periodically cast <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=106646" target="_blank">Flying Steel</a>, of course it goes without saying that Touch of Karma will once again bail you out. For snowdrift himself the only thing you really need to do is not stand in his Fist of Fury, as this will down even the mightiest of tanks (however if you have ToK ready you can use this, but be careful, ToK is 6 seconds and FoF is 5, so watch your timing!!). You will also need to avoid his Ball of Fire, and have designated people to deal with either side when he splits into 3 to save time finding which ones are illusions. For his final phase you will need to spend a few healing CDs if they are available, the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=106352" target="_blank">Tornado slam</a> can one shot someone who is already on low health. Try to stay in melee range to minimize damage from his <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=106439" target="_blank">Kick</a>, and nuke him as hard as you can without using pots or dps CDs as you will need them for the next boss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Once you have Gotten to know Master Snowdrift by beating him in combat, you will want to run toward the chain fence outside, pop invis pots and run right down to the bridge, the mobs you are invising past are just nasty and you need not deal with them. Deal with the mobs on the bridge and the pack of 3 at the end, ToK and Diffuse magic will be your friends here, again no disarm but a well times RoP can stop a lot of tank damage, the casts these mobs make are also interruptible with Spear Hand Strike. If you have a Bloodlust and Xuen off CD you will want to use both on the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=56719#encounter" target="_blank">Sha</a> to get the encounter finished as soon as possible. The boss will cause moderate tank damage through the fight and high at the end during the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=38166" target="_blank">Enrage</a> phase. During the fight the tank will be the target of the Sha's <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=106872" target="_blank">Disorienting Smash</a>, so players must try to avoid <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=106871" target="_blank">Sha Spike</a> as much as they can, to make things easier for the healer, who will be having to heal through some fairly heavy tank damage. </span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">StormStout Brewery.</span></b></u><br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gold Timer: 12m 30s</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 21m</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bronze Timer: 45m</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion Difficulty:</b> Hard. Short timer, less room for error and some HUGE pulls. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invis pots:</b> Optional.</span><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talents Used:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mistweaver - Tigers Lust/Chi Wave/Chi Brew/Dampen Harm/Xuen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, you've made it to the fabled Brewery, rumored to be the toughest of all 9 dungeons, filled with dancing monkeys and deadly bunnies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you've made it this far, thank you for staying with me though my challenge mode adventures! I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I have enjoyed writing this series of posts, and as always if you have any tricks and tips of your own then feel free to post them below or message me. To anyone else who has done 9x9, congrats on your achievement and enjoy your Regal Lord armor, title and Phoenix!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Following this totally non soppy statement I am going to post a short piece on each dungeon. (Upon getting halfway through I discovered that there is quite a lot to say about each one so I will most likely make a 3rd installment of this!!) I will cover it from my perspective, I have a few videos to share, and I will also cover how we got through the content as a TEAM. I think this is one of the biggest points to focus on here, it takes all 5 of you to get through the dungeon. It should not matter what class or spec you are, as long as you can play your class competently and know how to use all your utilities. A great saying I have heard "bring the player, not the class." Since doing these dungeons on a number of toons now I have discovered this to be more and more relevant. So, without further ado, grab your brew...and let us begin!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>Gate of the Setting Sun </b></u></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;">Gold Timer: 13m 30s</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Silver Timer: 22m</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Bronze Timer: 45m</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion Difficulty</b>: Moderate after the first pull + Boss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invis Pots:</b> No. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>Brewmaster</b></span> - Tigers lust/Chi Wave/Ascension/RoP/Diffuse Magic/RJW.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Mistweaver</b></span> - Tigerslust/Chi Burst/Chi Brew/RoP/Diffuse Magic/Xuen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have healed and tanked this dungeon on my monk, from my experience it is one of the easiest ones to get started with. The first trash packs require some effort and care, as does the first boss, but after that it is really not that hard as long as you all stay alive!! Most of the "oneshot" mechanics appear in the first main pull and Boss (Bomb trails). As a monk, you have a massive advantage over all other healers here, you can heal through the smoke bombs the mobs drop with your orbs. The first trash packs (Recommend Xuen usage here) can be dealt with in one of two ways, you can either pull the first 6 mobs, stop, deal with them and move on to the rest, or, you can pull the whole lot to the very end, and yolo them all down together. Having done it both ways I would say the second method is far more stressful for a monk healer, as all you have to shield your tank is your bubble, so you must rely on the rest of your dps to use AOE crowd control abilities to ensure the tank takes as little damage as possible. Do not be stingy with your cds here, this trash hits hard. After this the bomb boss is relatively simple, you want to take a corner each (ranged and healer) while the tank stays as central as possible without standing in the way of bombs. If you are targeted with her ability: <a href="http://mop.wowhead.com/spell=113645" target="_blank">Sabotage</a>, just drop behind a pillar to minimize potential bomb damage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Following this the next few trash packs are easy to deal with as long as you interrupt the casters and take them out first. The Boss at the top of the elevator is not a problem as long as you remember to keep a close watch on who he chooses to Feed on and ensure that they are healed (I would recommend soothing + enveloping for this - for a clothy you may want to add a surging mist for good luck, better to over compensate than not heal enough). The trask after the cut scene should be dealt with on a pack by pack basis, paying particular attention to interrupting the casters. The boss should be kited up the side of the wall and back down until he is dead with the tank avoiding <a href="http://mop.wowhead.com/spell=107120" target="_blank">Frenzied Assault</a> at all costs. (Even as a monk we can't take this, believe me, I tried :D ). There is one more trash pack to deal with after this before the final boss, which is dealt with exactly as normal. Note: The adds hit HARD, and as your dps will not be there to take them down, if the swarm spawn, you need to use all your kiting skills to avoid them, as a tank that is pretty much all you do on this boss, as the dps will be taking care of the giant bug for you, though feel free to dump kegs on its head after the carpace is down, your dps will love you for it I am sure ;) As a healer you can also just go ham on the boss during the final phase, as if the tank is kiting, they will generally not need a lot of assistance, just keep an eye on them and throw them a tigers lust if they need that extra speed boost. </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 25m</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bronze Timer: 45m</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion difficulty</b>: Moderate with a difficult first pull.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talents Used:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b>Brewmaster</b></span> - Tigers lust/Chi Wave/Ascension/RoP/Diffuse Magic/RJW.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime;"><b>Mistweaver</b></span> - Tigers lust/Chi Wave/Chi Brew/RoP/Diffuse Magic/Xuen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is another one with a difficult first pull. Again, one of two ways it can be done; pull all of the mobs to the top of the flight of stairs before the boss and kill them all there. Or, take the mobs to the boss and start his RP and kill them at the boss pool. Either way, the adds spawn pools on the floor when they die, this HURTS, so do not stand in it. Get ready with your Diffuse Magic, lest you get caught in some as a tank. As a monk tank I would actually recommend method two, and take them all to the boss, and kite them round in circles while your dps kill them. (This method is particularly nice if you don't have a BL/TW). There is an outer circle and an inner circle around Wise Mari, if you stray beyond the outer circle he will proceed to shoot water at you, so don't do that. Keep an eye on the water in the pools, if it starts to bubble black, move away, this can one shot you. Be prepared to take a few pulls on this, getting this right is not easy if you are all new to it, so allow a little time for everyone to get settled into their role and where they need to be stood. As a monk, ensure you are making full use of your transcendence here, you can use it to avoid the water beam the boss spirals around after you have killed 4 of his big adds. Following this boss you will get a speed boost, run up to the next set of adds and get invis pots ready, pop the pots and come out of invis over the little bridge. pull the pack on the bridge and the pack after it, keep interrupts up on the bird which will periodically send your team members to sleep, and pull all of this trash into the boss room and start the RP. This trash will hurt so use any CD's you have to keep your tank alive. Deal with the boss by starting on Agony and swapping to Strife at 6 stacks, continue this until both are dead. There is a fair amount of tank damage from this boss so ensure that enveloping mist is on your tank as much as possible. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Take your free speed boost into the central room and pull 1 pack at a time, as one pack gets to 10% hp, pull the next. do not be stingy with RoP here, it silences the casters, and interrupt them where possible. There is a roaming pack of 3 of the larger sha minions, so watch out for those and focus them down when they are pulled. The serpent boss is easily dealt with and deals a moderate amount of tank damage, so feel free to use up any CDs you have left here as you won't need them for the last boss. Note: when she transforms into Yu'lon she will <i>sometimes</i> randomly aggro on a party member before the tank, so be prepared to have healing orbs/bubble for whoever gets hit. 3 mobs before the last boss, Tanks save your Diffuse for these and kill them as quickly as possible, use RoP to stop them from casting, whichever spec you're in. The last boss is nice and simple, save any CDs for the part where he produces clones of each part member, and remember to protect your clothys first. I found Avert Harm to be a nice CD for this, as tanks take minimal damage from this entire fight. Ensure you dispel <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=106113" target="_blank">Touch of Nothingness</a> as this can wipe your group, other than that as a healer you can help with DPS, I would recommend saving Xuen for this encounter.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gold Timer: 13m 30s</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 22m</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Completion difficulty:</b> Moderate/hard throughout.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invis pots:</b> Yes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: cyan;">Windwalker</span></b> - </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tigers lust/Chi Burst/Chi Brew/RoP/Dampen Harm/RJW.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: lime;">Mistweaver</span></b> - </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tigers lust/Chi Wave/Chi Brew/RoP/Dampen Harm/Xuen.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was actually from my point of view one of the most challenging of these 9 dungeons. As a healer it is quite intense until you get to the last boss (minus Brother Korloff who is not difficult.) As a DPS however this dungeon is a lot easier! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The first pull is one of the gigantic "yolopressallthebuttons" pulls. Note: The big ghosts at the end before the boss...will wipe out anyone that they are in range of when they are stacked, so your tank needs to kite them, they melee for a stupidly large amount and will literally one shot your tank, these need to be killed asap. If like us you have a DK this boss is easy, as the DK can control one of the large minions that the boss spawns. Ensure you dispel any dots off this minons and let it melee the boss to death, it does a fantastic amount of damage, just don't forget to kill it before moving on. If you're a healer you want to amber up just through the doorway, you're going to be pulling all the things from the following hallway and your tank is going to take A lot of damage, so pop all of the things and get your bubble on them asap. Use RoP on the tank/yourself to silence the casters and help with interrupts. Follow the corridor down and kill the three mobs at the end, the monk hits hard so be wary of him, I used RoP again here. Invis just through the doorway and run right up the steps to the higher of the two fountains, pull the boss when he is between the two packs of 3 mobs and stay near the edge of the waterfall for the encounter. This is a low damage fight and a welcome breather for a healer during this dungeon. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Run directly between the two packs of mobs into the chapel, and do not pull them, take the packs in the chapel one by one and use the pillars to line of sight them. These mobs hit hard and they have casters, so be liberal with big heals and RoP here. Mana up if needed before the last boss and contribute as much dps as you can. Be wary that during the first part of the encounter adds will spawn, use the right hand pillar to LoS them and dps them down, taking care that the boss does not get healed by any Zealots. (You can CC this mob for the remainder of the fight if you wish) For Whitemane herself, take her to 50%, have someone ready to interrupt her Mass Rez and someone else ready to interrupt her Dominate mind. Both of these casts will cause a wipe if they are successful, so have back up interrupts too!! As a Mistweaver for this fight you will want to help contribute as much DPS as possible, neither Durand or Whitemane melee for a lot, so your emminence healing will be sufficient once the initial mobs are dealt with. Make sure that once Whitemane revives Durand, you kill her first, paying close attention to the interrupts, as she will continue to attempt to cast these abilities until she is dead. As a windwalker I put my clone on Durand, this meant that he took extra damage on top of the cleave, thus shortening the encounter. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Mogushan Palace. </u></b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gold Timer: 14m</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silver Timer: 24m</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bronze Timer: 45m</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Invis pots</b>: Yes.</span></span><br />
<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talents used:</span></span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: lime;">Mistweaver</span></b> - </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tigers lust/Chi Wave/Chi Brew/RoP/Dampen Harm/Xuen.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I maded a Vidleo!!!!!!</span></span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-35966259484206365022014-06-08T15:43:00.001-07:002014-06-08T15:43:53.792-07:00A rather Challenging post....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi guys! This post has taken me quite some time to compose, so forgive the lateness. Today I am going to impart some of my Challenge Mode experiences with you all. I have done the dungeons as a mixture of specs so I thought it would be nice to share with you what I discovered in each one!! Also, I have noticed a lot of people have different methods for completing each dungeon, there is no "correct way" of doing it. So it's good to have different ideas to throw around. Without further ado, I present to you...my Challenging Dungeon extravaganza!! (Please note this post was bigger than I had originally envisioned so it will be split into one this week and one next week!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: yellow;"><u>Challenge Modes: A Brewmasters perspective:</u></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a Brewmaster you are actually one of the most sort after tanks for completing these challenges. All the top fastest times on record will more often than not have a Brewmaster as their tank. Through my own experiences I have discovered where are three pretty strong reasons for this;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>1. Our "kiteability".</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a Brewmaster we have amazing add control. Got a fight that needs some adds being taken care of? Get a Monk tank. Our unique Keg Toss enables us to single handedly "mass slow" mobs while we run off freely to do what we please. Other tanks don't have this ability, the closest is a warrior with their hamstring but this has to be applied to each individual mob from melee range, whereas ours is aoe, and ranged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>2. Our Speed.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I guess this is closely linked with the previous point, but it is a factor none-the-less. When it comes to getting from A to B we are incredibly mobile with our roll and tigers lust. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>3. Our damage output. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is not to say we can do more damage than all the other tanks, Prot Warriors are also very good at pushing out numbers. When you put this with our mobility and Kiteability however.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The other thing we can do on top of all this as a Brewmaster is take a lot of punishment before we fall over. Which is something you will need to be prepared for as these challenge dungeons are NOT forgiving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mistweavers are unfortunately one of the weaker healers for these dungeons. That's not to say they are bad or cannot do it, but in comparison to other healers we do not have a massive set of cool downs to keep our tank up through periods of heavy damage and actually have to work to keep them topped. I say this in comparison to a priest, who can spirit shell, bubble, pain sup and shield a tank, while keeping the rest of the dungeon topped too. A druid has Ironbark, Cenarion Ward, Tranq, and a constant rolling heal placed under the whole group if needed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do not be disheartened by this. Mistweavers still have plenty of tricks up their sleeves to make us viable healers, we just have a harder time in the big damage phases is all ;). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a monk we have our speed, which means we can keep up with our tank while healing, unlike a druid for example, that must go kitty to speed up, and use an extra GCD to shape shift back to heal. As these dungeons revolve heavily around how quickly you can get through them, being a monk is not a bad thing!! Another thing we have is healing spheres (well until WoD anyway!). Do not under estimate these little green bubbles, they are instant, cheap and can crit for a decent amount and keep your tank alive through line of sight effects such as the smoke bombs in the gate of the setting sun. We also have the damage factor, meaning that unlike most other healers whi will have to switch to DPS for the last boss in the brewery, we can stay healer and STILL put out dps!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stat wise I'd run the same as you would for PvE, plenty of crit! Mana won't be an issue, although you will have very little spirit, the Amber that you can buy from the Kalaxxi will sort you right out between pulls, so don't be afraid to blow all your mana. <span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's where the fun really begins. As a Windwalker, you bring not one, not two, but THREE dps to the fight with Storm, Earth and FIRE! This is by far one of the most "OP" things since the Fire and Brimstone hit the dungeons on warlocks. Combine this with RJW and you have a whole wirlwind of damage just ready to go. As a WW you have plenty of everything, damage, survivability, and mobility. Even though you don't have a Timewarp or Bloodlust, your ring of peace is an awesome cool down to help out the tank during periods of heavy damage. It can also get that all important silence on a group of casters when needed. So bringing a WW monk to your CM runs is definitely something to consider, even though melee are not as "popular" as ranged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before I go any further i'd just like to comment on a few things that I have heard on the grapevine while running CM's.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"Only ranged are viable for proper runs"</i>. This is codswallop. Melee are just as viable. Especially monks. So don't let anyone fob you off with this comment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Tier 2:</u> </b>For me personally, Chi Wave is the best choice for all dungeons. It's spammable, and contributes dps and healing with minimal input from you, so you can concentrate on other things. As a healer you might like to try the sphere but I personally preferred the wave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Tier 3:</u> </b>I liked to use chi brew for healing/dps and the ascension for tanking. Though this is personal preference I would definitely recommend the chi brew as a MW so you have extra tea stacks when you need them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Tier 5:</u> </b>This Varies from dungeon to dungeon. For something like temple of the jade serpent, I would recommend the diffuse magic, as the initial pull comprises of a LOT of magic damage. As a tank it's pretty important which of these you select, so find your way round, and decide as you go through where the magic damage lies. For WW I actually preferred the healing elixirs as they were low maintenance and kept me alive long enough for a healer to help me. For MW again it's dungeon dependent, although you may not find yourself using this talent much as a healer, if there are any phases where you may need to get stuck in, it is preferrable to have a CD for yourself apart from the fortifying brew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Tier 6:</u> </b>As a WW I would recommend RJW all the way. It's extremely powerful and provides consistent damage. As a tank it's really your choice, if you're having no threat issues then Xuen is great, he can also face tank some adds for you, allowing you to pull more than your average tank. As a MW I would recommend Xuen all the way. RJW eats mana and doesnt really provide enough healing to be that useful, whereas Xuen provides a huge dps boost to your group. </span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-19146284321724720302014-05-27T19:07:00.000-07:002014-05-27T19:07:27.966-07:00Therapy is going well...but I'm still a Mogaholic!!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi Guys!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So for this weeks blog I have some update mogs for you, including some mounts as well, (because we all like a mount that matches our mog) So sit back, relax, grab your brews and maybe some diva sunglasses, because darlings...this is going to be FABULOUS!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My Druid's BoomCow Mog, I was going for a shiny astral kind of look, it's the tier11 <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=929/stormriders-regalia" target="_blank">Stormriders regalia</a> which I chose because it goes really nicely with my boomkin spec.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> DK's Frost set, which I use the Frostbrood vanquisher mount for her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THe shoulders are the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=59901/heaving-plates-of-protection" target="_blank">Heaving plates of protection</a>, and the chest piece is the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=25701/breastplate-of-retribution" target="_blank">Breastplate of Retribution</a>. The rest of the set is the Acherus knight set, which can be bought by all DK's. (Not sure about other classes though, unlikely!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lazeebows PvP set, the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/itemset=586/gladiators-pursuit" target="_blank">Gladiators pursuit.</a> (Feat. Ed)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My monk's challenge mode gear and mount (above) and my first healing set transmog (below), I called it "The Ice" and it was made of bits and pieces from all over the place, and still one of my favorites. </span></div>
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-76889493861147630112014-05-12T06:38:00.002-07:002014-05-12T10:30:22.884-07:00We interrupt this broadcast for a very important announcement!!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Calling ALL EU players that would like to find a guild for Warlords of Draenor.....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My current guild Midlifecrisis on Darkspear EU is on a recruitment spree for WoD, and guess who is at the helm of this spree? Yup! Yours truly!! So...I would ask that you share this post about to anyone you think might be interested in joining our team for WoD and for the end of the current expansion. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don't care if your lacking in experience, if you have a willingness to learn and good team ethics we have people in the guild who can train you up and help you learn whatever class you are playing, or even introduce you to a new class if you're still clinging onto that 90 boost!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am going to just copy and paste my recruitment post info below, please please please help me get this out and about, we need to take on about 6-10 players to be comfortable going into WoD, I appreciate any help I can get with this and I'm sorry in advance if I annoy folk by spamming recruitment stuff!! (but if I get people in quickly I will spam less ;) )</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />We were running 2 10 man raid groups up until a few months ago, when people had to sit out for exams and other RL activities, so we are currently just running the one 10 man group, which is sitting at Heroic Spoils of Pandaria progress.<br /><br />We would really like to expand our numbers in preperation for Warlords of Draenor, so that when the Mythic raiding comes into play, we have 20 strong team members ready to rock and roll.<br /><br />I appreciate that the Darkspear server is quiet on the Horde side at the moment, with connected realms seemingly on hold it is getting harder to recruit from the server itself. I would not expect anyone to just up and pay for a transfer, thanks to X-realm raiding we can have people on trial, for you as well as us. If the guild doesn't seem like your particular brand of tea then you needn't waste the money on a transfer!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our raid times are Sun-thur 20:30st - 00:00st<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>What we are about and what we can offer you:</b><br /><br />Fun, but progressive - we like to enjoy our raid times, people pay their subs to relax and have fun with friends, and hopefully get some nice rewards along the way. Nothing feels better than getting a boss down for the first time!!<br /><br />A friendly atmosphere - we have all sorts of people from all corners of the EU on our roster. Friendly and helpful officers, veteran players and MoP babys like myself! There is always someone online to chat to/jump in an LFR/BG/World boss group with.<br /><br />A home - Even if you would just like to apply as a social member, we can provide a home for you. We currently have quite a few social members that do not participate in raids, but like to engage in things like, levelling alts, PvP, pets battles etc.<br /><br />Raiding - At the moment we currently have enough people to run a 10 man group comfortably. This does mean that a certain amount of people would not get to raid every night until 6.0 drops. However...if we can get enough people, we can re ignite our second 10 man group, which I would love to see happen!<br /><br /><b>What we would expect from you:</b><br /><br />As a raider:<br />A good attitude to teamwork.<br />Sound knowledge of your class and a willingness to learn more.<br />Flexibility - sometimes we may need to bench people for certain fights, or we may not have enough raid space to take everyone until 6.0. so we would ask that people can be patient while we are in this recruiting process!<br /><br />As a Social:<br />A nice attitude.<br />Cookies. (They may or may not be for me)<br /><br />If you feel like trying us out, or want to know more, you can visit our website at http://mlc.enjin.com/recruitment or you can add me on Btag Snoopkitten#2104. Just include the word MLC in your friend request!!<br /><br />Thanks for taking the time to read this, and hopefully I will hear from some of you soon!!<br /><br />Darklady - The Brewmistress of MLC</span></span>The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-8916781208633177732014-05-09T08:32:00.000-07:002014-05-09T08:32:48.670-07:00Builds for Bosses Pt 5 - Return of the trinkets.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy Friday guys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope everyone has had a lovely week, today I am going to attempt something a bit brave, I am going to go through all my trinkets and explain why I like them and which bosses I like use them for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, as usual, grab your brew (I've got some Monster energy drink today) and relax, and let me explain why I have become known as a Trinket collector in my guild.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ok so, collector is actually not the term my guildies use, I believe the correct term is "Trinket Whore", as I seem to have developed a rather large fancy for collecting as many trinkets as I can and then using them for various different fights!! It's all In jest though, because if I didn't have them, I wouldn't be able to take all the damages for my squishy little buddies ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, without further a do, here are my Agi based trinkets (leaving out the healing ones for another post) what I think about each one and where I would use it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Galakras</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102302" target="_blank">Sigil</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102301" target="_blank">Haromm's</a> + DPS cloak (Farm)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102302" target="_blank">Sigil</a> + Tank cloak (Heroic/progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Iron Juggabug</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102306" target="_blank">Vial</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> (Farm/Heroic/progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Shammys</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102301" target="_blank">Harrom's</a> (Farm/Heroic/progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>The General</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102302" target="_blank">Sigil</a> (Farm)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102306" target="_blank">Vial</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102297#." target="_blank">Juggs Crystal</a> (Heroic/progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(I should point out that from here on I have no more Heroic experiences on my tank!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Malkorok</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102296/rooks-unlucky-talisman" target="_blank">Rook's Unlucky Talisman</a> (Farm/Progress) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Spoils</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102301" target="_blank">Haromm's</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102302" target="_blank">Sigil</a> (Farm/progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Thok</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102306" target="_blank">Vial</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102297" target="_blank">Juggs Crystal</a> (Farm/progress) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Seigecrafter</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102301" target="_blank">Haromm's</a> (Farm)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102306" target="_blank">Vial</a> (Progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Paragons</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102301" target="_blank">Haromm's</a> (Farm/progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Garrosh</u>: <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102301" target="_blank">Haromm's</a> (Farm)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102311" target="_blank">Ebon Detonator</a> + <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=102297#." target="_blank">Juggs Crystal</a> (Progress)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is by no means the trinkets you HAVE to use for each fight, just my personal preferences. Going from having no trinkets and little experience (thinking back to <a href="http://brewmistres.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/builds-for-bosses-and-trinkets.html" target="_blank">this post</a>) to having all of the trinkets and a lot more experience makes me realize how much I've grown and changed, and how much better my tanking has gotten :) Any questions or suggestions, as always, feel free to comment below or message me on twitter!! Have a great week guys and be good ;)</span><br />
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-74729667536271364822014-05-02T07:03:00.000-07:002014-05-02T07:11:21.929-07:00What a long, Strange Trip it's been!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy Friday guys!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soooo, this week I completed my achievement. I have spent a little while this morning taking some screenies of the titles and outfits I have collected over the last year, so join me on my own long strange trip, which began a year ago, a month or so after i started playing WoW.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first full achievement I actually got was the Flame Keeper one where you have to honor flames in various parts of the world. One memorable moment had me running on foot out of Ironforge with 3 low level Alliance cheering at me as I hurtled past them with half the city chasing me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Next achievement was the Brewfest, which I REALLY wanted the title from being a Brewmaster, memorable moment for this was having about 30 people join me for a dance for around 5 minutes for no reason outside Orgrimmar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Following the Brewfest was my favorite achievement, Hallows End. As a huge Halloween nut anyway I loved all of the events, mini achievements and dailies, I was particularly pleased with my Feline Familiar, which I named Sooty in memory of a black cat we had when I was a child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Pilgrim festival (although not required for the meta) was fun, I loved the cooking aspect of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Winters Veil gave me an opportunity to make a nice holiday card for our raid group, we posed in front of General Nazgrim mid raid as he was also wearing a festive hat, which i thought was a really nice touch by blizzard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The lunar festival was quite a grind, in a similar style to honoring the flames, you have to honor various Elders around the world instead. I did however, love the lantern and the suit that I obtained from this festival!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The love is in the air festival still plays host to my most read blog post where I sent a huge valentine to various people. It's really refreshing to know that being nice inspires happiness and kindness in others, I had some really nice personal messages following that post, I plan to do something similar every year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noblegarden, I actually started playing WoW about 2 weeks before this started back in 2013. Not really knowing much about the game, I went and did a few achievements, but it wasn't until the fire festival I discovered the overall meta and decided to go for it. This year, doing the achievements was fun, I ran various bg's to throw bunny ears on people, I sat outside Stormwind and had a dance with some Alliance while trying to find a female Worgen to bestow my bunny ears on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally Childrens week came around. I had an agonising time in BG's trying to get the achievements there as every man and his dog were doing them. After hours of this horrendous activity I finally had the required achievements, and then realized I needed 2 recipes that were rare drop chances...I spent 2 hours farming them both to no avail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Returned to the AH to find that someone was actually selling the lovely cupcakes so I purchased those and continued with my hunt for the chocolate cake. Finally i gave in and decided to wait on a guildy, in hope that they would have the recipe having played the game since vanilla. However, before they could get online, something totally expected and wonderful happened. I was doing the orphan quests, taking my little baby orc to visit Lady SW in Undercity. While I was there I saw a warrior on the same quest, so I /s'd him/her and asked if by any chance they had the cake. I was ignored and they flew away. An hour later and still fuming at peoples ignorance I received a whisper from a Mage that I didn't know asking if I still needed the cake. Intrigued and surprised I replied, saying yes I did, and then asked how they knew I needed it, as I adn't actually told anyone at that point, nor had I ever seen this Mage before. (I should point out here that the cake, at this point was the last achievement I needed to get me the whole meta and proto drake)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The response was awesome "Oh, no, you don't know me at all, I saw you ask that warrior in Undercity earlier and they ignored you, I have the cake but I've been trying to find you for an hour as you have a funny accent in your name so I couldn't find it to whisper you right away." I arranged to meet the Mage in the shrine and when they traded me the cake I tried to trade a thousand gold in thanks, which they then refused to take. Upon getting my achievement and drake, the Mage congratulated me. All my faith in gamer humanity has been restored, what a lovely thing to do for someone you have never even met before. Although it may have meant nothing to them it was a huge deal for me, so, thank you Arkhul, you are a great person and I hope some day, someone does the same for you, you deserve it!</span></div>
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<br />The BrewMistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08638668952123025748noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3606641211816922892.post-39496701981861329652014-04-25T04:40:00.001-07:002014-04-25T04:40:18.396-07:00On The E - Sofa With Dark. An Interview with Vaylen on his latest venture!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy Friday ladies and gents!! So, more Alpha changes, which left a lot of people on MMO forums crying about Mistweavers, DeathKnights look set to become the first ranged tanks with the removal of rune strike for death coil, I got my Vicious Gladiator mount, and my guest Vaylen started a whole new guild....WHAT A WEEK!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I do not intend to delve into the rantings on MMO, it's far too toxic for my liking and people seem to be belly aching for the sake of it. in my humble opinion, lets just wait for the betas, see what its ACTUALLY like, and then if its bad, the soap boxes can be re-mounted. However I will brag about my mount!! SO pleased, 100 3v3 arena wins with some guildies, which has taken us a good few weeks! I did actually earn the mount on my Hunter but the Monk isn't too far behind!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Now for this weeks main post, *Flumps down on E- Sofa* This week I have with me, none other than the fabulous Vaylen, who you may recognize as the author of <a href="http://nimblebrew.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Legacy of the Brew</a> blog. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark: Welcome Vay! Lovely to see you, and an honor to have you gracing the E- Sofa! Just to remind everyone, can you give me a little of your WoW history and tell us what character you main?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vaylen: Certainly! I started back in 2007 and played a Dwarf Hunter over
on Shattered halls and then moved too Stormreaver once I hit level 65
and when I realised I could use a gun... IM SORRY GUYS! . This was
during The Burning Crusade and being my first character I was still
learning and yes! I was that hunter stealing every weapon because..
Every weapon was a hunter weapon! /cast Raptor Strike! I then got in to
raiding and started in Karazhan with a great guild called Vanguard. Once
WOTLK come out I wanted something new so I decided to try horde on the
server Hellscream. Here I played a Enhancement Shaman through all of the
content heroic included. I continued playing my Shaman but as elemental
during cataclysm and as soon as I saw MOP I was playing a Holy paladin
but with a new class in the works and the new monk class looking as
great as it did, I new I wanted to once again change. The Monk is my
main character now and I'm pretty sure it always will be from here on
out, Its epic. I have also over the years done my share in high end PvP
such as Arenas and RBGS so you could say I have done a bit of
everything, a jack of all trades if you will. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark: An excellent choice! What made you choose the Monk?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vaylen: I love it's feel. The most important thing to me is if I have a
connection to it in terms of having the need to play it and
it certainly does that, even now. Each Monk spec stands out on its own
and can pull its own weight that's for sure. If you follow my blog, you
may also know how much I love the lore, though I admit there's not much,
its still incredible! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark: <span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">So how long have you been playing?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen: - About 7-8 years in total.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Dark: </span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Now onto the juicy stuff...Are you comfortable? I just had the E-sofa restuffed!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen:</span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"> I'm
pretty kooshty right now! Though tired from over sleeping this morning
and rushing off to work within 5 minutes... I'm gravy! </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"> Dark: </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">You recently took a short break from WoW, has this helped rekindle your love for the game?</span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen: </span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">I
would say so, I wanted to take a break for a number of reasons. It was
my actual first real hiatus from the game but it was
most definitely needed and hell yeah it has but strangely for a
different amount of reasons. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Dark: </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">So tell us about Forged Legacy, what drove the initial idea?</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen: </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">If I'm honest it was totally random to an extent. I wanted to create a
guild for all my friends I have met over the course of my wow history
to come together and just have a laugh and enjoy the rest of this
content till WoD. I was also watching alot of the CTR podcasts and I
just wished the EU realms had a community like that... then it sparked a
little thought in my mind, what if? So full steam ahead! I put up a
forum post about my plans, short/long term goals and such and it sparked
the interest in a ton of people and I have been overwhelmed ever since!
We wanted to create a social community for everyone to enjoy, to feel
at home and enable players to feel welcome. Guilds have become celibate,
especially Social ones, we all want to enjoy our game time, so I
thought this guild could be a great way to do so. Right now we have
people who have only just started the game and want to meet new people.
We have veterans who want to stay away from the crazy end game content
now and relax and enjoy the game at a much more slower pace.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Dark: </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">How many people are in the guild at the moment and can any class join?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Right now, we're sitting on around 25/30 active players with the same
mind set as me. I have refused to use the auto invite macro and have
spoke to each and every one about the guilds ideas and everyone of them
agrees with it entirely which is so refreshing, its great to meet people
with the same passion to build a community Its great. Any class can
join, any age can join, friends and family can join! Even if you have a
main and want to have an alt in our little home, you're most welcome
too! Your game time is valuable and we want to strive to make it just as
fun!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><br /> </span></span><span style="color: lime;">Dark: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Any future plans for raiding?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px;">I
get asked this a lot and to be honest we do! WoD will be our real
chance to test out the guild raiding potential. With the current Flex
systems being the new normal's in WoD this also enhances that social
aspect we want to really capture. This means that even if you only have
an hour to come on and fancy a few goes at a boss you can do so, we
don't enforce anything upon our members so if you wish to take part, you
will be invited, summoned and ready to rock. We also have some high end
raid leaders joining shortly, so if they want to make SoO runs, they're
welcome too. I want to focus more on the social aspect so I will be
working on the guild events we have monthly, thats my main priority
right now. If We just end up raiding all of a sudden, we will go against
our goals and thats something I want to avoid, like i said though, if
people want to set up raids they can, but I would like them to refrain from pushing people in to it and such. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22.72px;"><br /></span> </span></span><span style="color: lime;">Dark: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="color: lime;">Are there any activities the guild will be participating in? (non raiding</span>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Oh you bet! How does Pet battle tournaments for gold sound? not your
thing? Maybe the fastest 5 man pre MOP content clears (heroic ICC) open
world arenas 2v2, screenshot competitions, TCG give aways and contracts
sound good? We have these in the works, contracts is one I will be
focusing on alot. This is the way the guild will use the Guild bank gold
to reward those people who help out. Contracts will be set every
Wednesday and players can get a specific herb, food, metal the guild
bank needs and will be paid to do so. Players will also be able to use
their gold to buy items from the GB half the AH price and that gold will
go towards rewards for our competitions and events. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><br /> </span></span><span style="color: lime;">Dark: So...what's the dream?</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"> (And no, "to have all the worlds bacon" is not a suitable answer!)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vaylen: </span></span></span></span>BUT.... BUT I WANT MOAR BACONS! The dream is simple, to create a
unique, special and welcoming home for players. I say home because we
really don't want to become just a normal guild, or a guild that have
200 members and no one talks, we want to build a community, to allow
players to enjoy their game time that little bit more. We also want to
create a Forged Legacy Podcast for our guild members to
be interviewed and share their experiences with us. Seems like a crazy
Idea right? But We have 100% focus on doing so! and doing it right. We
already have website developers working on a site who we met from the
guild, Ventrilo, raid call and so much more to come, its amazing and I'm
so blessed from the responses from it! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark: Well, I've signed up and have a DK alt sat in <fl> already...but I know you, how can people who don't know you get in touch with you if they want to join?</fl></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vaylen: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Simply
mail me in game if I'm not online, only because I seem to get flooded
with whispers when I log on now from new members and people looking to
join, due to this I also have a recruitment Officer Syana who you can
also contact. Their also there to cover our guild basics and make sure
this is the right move for you! If this is still too slow for you, add
my battle tag: Vaylen#2903 and I will have a chat to you in game! We
will also have a website with a open shout box for any other questions
you want asked! more info on that soon! </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Thanks Dark for taking the time to interview me and as always much love the the monk community!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"></span></span></span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"></span></span></span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Vay, you're always welcome!! So there you have it folks, from Hiatus to Guild creator! If you guys want to catch up with Vaylen and the rest of us on our website you can click <a href="http://forged-legacy.enjin.com/home" target="_blank">here</a> to shoot on over there. Also, I have set myself up a Twitch stream finally, though I am waiting for our SP to sort our upload speed out. I will more than likely update on that next week. For now, have fun and be good!</span></span></span></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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