Monday Report

Here is an update for those who care to read about my adventures (I know its Tuesday. But yesterday was Memorial Day so i am posting this a day late).

Krakkenskull
This past weekend was pretty dull to say the least. i tried leveling my DK, Krakkenskull, to 80 but stopped short at 79 that week. went and did Hodir rep and went all the way to getting the quests for Halls of Lightning. I spent about 400g on Ulduar Relics and used most of them to gain Exalted. One more level and i can add some shoulder encahnts and never have to worry about hodir rep again. what's pretty awesome is how after i actually turn in the quest to make nice with the Sons of Hodir, i jump straight to Honored rep. wow. that's pretty friggin easy if you ask me.

And Krakken went from mid level 75 to 79 doing mostly instances. He's now pretty sick of VH, DTK and Gundrak. Startig to get sick of HoS.

VH has been a bit of a snore. I've been getting the same bosses over and over and it doesnt help that they drop everything i needed already, the first five times i was there. but now, the second five times im going there, i have never gotten the core hound or the big eyes with tentacles. its been the water revenant, the etherial, the voidwalker, or the arrokkoa and his two friends. same drops, over and over. same routine over and over. although the only real variable is the tank, since no tank is the same, they often make the instancea bit more interesting.

I went through DTK about five times only. yes, that's it. i went through it twice before i actually did the quest for drakuru, collecting about 30 mojos. that's 15g worth of mojos. the other times werent really noteworthy.

Gundrak is amazingly fast tho. especially since the bosses are all pretty close to each other and 1/3 of the instance is essentially skipped (the parts with the trash). overall, its a fast 4 bosses and maybe some loot.

Finally, Halls of Stone has been annoying. Sure, its fast, but that 5 minute survival event has lost its lustre as of late. the people that i've ran with are usually competent enough to stay out of the lazer beams, but they do ignore the purple orb, since i guess, 30% speed decrease and decreased damage really isnt that bad of a debuff. still, not much good stuff to be had there. but i've only ran this place maybe five times on krakken. it's not too bad yet. i really enjoy the large pulls and increased dps, especially when i see an Killing Machine proc and i oh so conveniently have howling blast on standby. that will give me quite a lot of damage to pad my numbers. lol. i feel almost like my warlock doing Seed of Corruption on everyone. it does feel good to boost numbers. but in the end, i know i should be dead last in boss fights.

I queued once specifically for halls of lightning and got my two hodir quests done. loken sucks. how did he blow so hard i do not know. these fights are fun still, but they seem so easy nowadays. has northrend content been nerfed that badly? or is everyone i am going with just rolling alts now? they seem to know all the fights, backwards and forwards. of course, when i started doing these instances, it was done in heroic mode, but i figured, at level 78, it would be just as difficult doing normals.

So after the daily heroic (for ze emblemz!) i will be specifically queing for Culling of Strath, Halls of Lightning, Utgarde Pinicle, and Oculus. Hopefully i will not have to repeat any of these, but chances are, i'll end up having to do a few of them twice. There are two quests inside UtPin that will give me some decent gear and good exp.

Oculus is always fun and is a well-needed break from dw-frost-dps. riding dragons is always fun. what i did wish was that the controls may be a bit more intuitive, that the dragons are used a lot more during the instance than just for transportation. really, we dont even really fight on the dragons until the last boss. what a lame design. may as well keep them as taxis for us and have us kill the boss the old way. nope. it seems like bliz wanted to confuse the hell out of everyone and introduce three new "vehicles", each with their own special mechanic. not only that, but they give us almost no time to learn how to use these new vehicles. whats more? these vehicles are never used later on.... ever. even malygos' encounter calls for a completely different strategy. wtf? granted, these are awesome ideas but hey, Aces High doesnt cut it. and giving us an instance (a very annoying one at that) and giving us mounts we wont use until the last boss is... THE STUPID.

So after having said that, i cant wait to DPS on the wings of the amber drake!
Build 5x shock charges then detonate. then build 10x shock charges, then detonate. run when boss in his shifted plane and he summons balls. timestop right AFTER he does his enrage. Eregos is easy sauce now.

Krakken has also been topping the dps charts vs. pretty much every class. he was outgunned by an 80 warrior. and also a 79 mage who was 3 bars away from dinging 80. what else? 2k dps on average. at 78. in halls of stone. k? not lying. im amazed really. i didnt know these figures existed pre-80. on my first dk, i leveled as a tank, with a tanking spec and in tanking gear, so my dps never went over 1k until i hit 80. then i tanked for months and got my dps to about 2k finally, before switching to dps. and frost dps is a blast. that's how dks should be played. as frost dps. and i started off doing 2k dps with entry level weapons and entry level gear (rep gear, pvp crafted gear, etc.) and quickly jumped in dps. one last thing to take note is that i switched to dps before patch 3.3.3, which made frost dps a lot better. and i see it as i can duplicate devyn's level 80 dps at level 78. not bad at all. what does this all mean? bliz buffed frost dps. thats all. and rightly they should. i cant wait to fight shamans for lowest dps in raids. i can hardly wait. hero class my ass.


Devynity
Devynity is still doing fishing dailies, and should be almost at 300 now. ghostfish is easy to catch compared to 10 terrorfish. easiest daily tho, is finding the severed arm. outland fishing isnt so bad either. although the darkfin darter takes a while to get right. He did ding 72 and also went off to the Black Morass several times, each time with people who need to do their elixir mastery quest. im still hoping to get exalted with them before i hit 76, since 75 is the last level we can queue for it specifically. i think. if anyone knows how a level 80 can queue for this, please tell me. please!

Doing the daily dungeon run sucked for Devynity. somehow, he's getting into crap groups. Please see other post about the buckets of asshats. nexus shouldnt be so bad. but in any case, asshats make me value the good parties i join. well it took me about two hours to finally get a good group to do my daily. and of all places, we went to AN. woot! now when i say good group, i did not mean it was easy. i had a warrior tank who turned with the keyboard still. she didnt have a clue how any of the fights went. so we wiped several times. The healer dropped. but we got a new healer who actually did some dispelling. woot! the tank learned the fights pretty quickly, but the mess with the spider boss took up half the instance. Anub took forever too. his burrowing didnt make the fight more fun, as the developers might have thought. in any case, that's basically all i did with devynity over the weekend.

Other
I still will need to get on my priest and take some screenshots. hopefully i can heal well. i havent healed on her in ages. will have to though since i do want to do a blog entry on healing. since, after all, this blog is called One Tree HEAL. and obviously, i havent been healing in a long while!
Hopefully, i can get back into Druid healing too. I may druid heal first thing come cata though, and end my days on wow that way. speaking of the end, i dont find very many things interesting in wow anymore. as im leveling up two melee dps (DK and Pala) i find that there isnt a lot more to do. leveling an Enh shaman will be similar to leveling a dk or pala. i thought about it and figured its too soon to go through all that leveling again. 58 levels of ugh until i hit outlands. then it becomes less ugh. but still ugh nonetheless. im all heroic'ed out, so going through northrend would suck too. maybe its time to throw in the towel unless i can get my gf to play with me. maybe i'll go alliance. lol. who knows.