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Ding 38; Herod’s Shoulder + Ardent Custodian

October 19, 2007 By Gitr 7 Comments

After running SM Library and Armory last night, Paladr dinged AOE grinding murlocs in STV this morning. Last night saw the much-drooled about Herod’s Shoulder, which I was the only person emminantly qualified to wear such an awesome piece of armor. At times, we had 7 mobs all over the place, with 5 of them generally hitting me. The mage had no concept of waiting for me to get some damage in before tossing a Fireball or Arcane Missles into the mix. At the beginning, the priest thought that she should be the one to pull, because of her range. “Hello! I have Mana Tap! Watch me pull… you stand back and keep me alive.” We had no combat-related deaths, but the shaman was unable to run out of the Library through the mass of repops. At least it was his idea to just run. 🙂 Here is how my run stacked up as a level 37 tankadin, leaving me one conclusion: I can tank, and I can heal. Those are my roles in-game. Luckily, Huntr just has to do damage, and his build and gear lets him do just that.

Ding 37; Really Itching to Equip My Epic

October 18, 2007 By Gitr 11 Comments

One more level to go for my Ardent Custodian MH mace. I read that it is likely the best pre-MC tanking mace available. I haven’t checked that claim, though I saw that one from Dire Maul has good stats but loses the Defense.

I’ve been 37 for about 3 hours now, and can take on Elites multi-levels above Paladr. I’m testing to see what is the highest melee Elite I can down. He can do a 38 with over half health and half mana left. Both could be higher, but I was getting bored and used some spells. I can wear down anything that doesn’t hit harder than my Seal/Judgement of Light + Bubble/Healing. When Redoubt is up, I’m at 40% blocking, have 9% parry and dodge, a 20 point Mithril Spike, 2200HP, and 1700 mana.

It’s class night tonight, so we’ll see how much playing time I get in when I get home. Tomorrow is a busy Friday before a weekend vacation.

Ding 36; Scarlet Monastery Tankadin Time!

October 15, 2007 By Gitr 5 Comments

First thing’s first: I cleaned up my UI after I realized that there was still too much stuff in my field of vision. I hate the feeling of numbers everywhere, information blocking my view of potential threats, etc. I moved the minimap up to the top corner again and dropped my second chat window into the bottom bar, the damage meter and threat meter only come out to play in groups now, and things look a lot cleaner. I even changed the Scrolling Combat Text to arc so the Consecration damage didn’t run right up the middle over all the action. It was going to be too distracting while tanking.

Bhag’thera Down

October 12, 2007 By Gitr 3 Comments

I solicited Punitor’s help last night in STV to take down Bhag’thera (feel free to make fun of his hat). After waiting 15 minutes where he used to spawn, I found him over a felled log-bridge near the ogres. Then silly me aggroed 3 tigresses/panthers at the same time as Mr. 40 Elite. Doh!

Let’s recount:

Two 38s
One 37
Bhag’thera 40 Elite

I had to rez Punitor because he dropped a DoT on Bhag before dying and then I held aggo and tried fighting him off until he fell. I was actually surprised, thinking I was going to be doing a corpse run for sure. /cheer!

Last, but not least, Punitor is very proud of his free mount and was not ashamed to play steeplechase over me while a tigress was trying to chew me a new bung hole. I got him back by killing him in the process of downing Bhag, though, so it was all good. All’s good that ends dead, I like to say.

I doubt any of you had as much fun in 20 minutes as we did last night, but feel free to try and convince us otherwise. If you link up a purple, I’ll /slap you the next time I see you. 🙂

Ding 34; STV or Bust

October 10, 2007 By Gitr 15 Comments

Paladr went all-out last night without rest to level and get another talent point. It was a longer haul at the end, but it was worth it to get Blessing of Sanctuary and a couple more spell rankings and… a BUBBLE!!I completely forgot about the bubble while quest/grinding this morning, so I don’t know how good it works yet.

In my effort to get Paladr to 34, I really started going after some Nesingwary mastery quests that were a tad high for me, but they are totally doable because pallys rock. Last on my list was to go kill Sin’Dall for the upteenth time (Mr. Altism takes a bow). He was so easy when you get to heal by whacking, damage by being whacked, and a big heal when I wanted. I think the level 38 Shadowmaw Panthers south of Grom’Gol are tougher.

I killed a lot of Lashtail Raptors 2-3 at a time for good XP, and was wondering what your favorite grinding mobs are in STV. There are so many to choose from, and we all prefer ones that don’t flee or stun, so what will it be for you?

Amazing WoW: Post-Mortem Animation

October 9, 2007 By Gitr 9 Comments

After killing Frostmaw for the umpteenth time yesterday with my new level 33 Blood Elf paladin, I noticed something… strange. Even in death, he kept gripping and ungripping his staff. I felt like I was in a suspense movie and his corpse was going to suddenly sit up and start fighting again. For some irrational reason, I was ready for another fight; maybe they added some new content after 2.2 that I didn’t catch in the patch notes.

Good for me, he stayed dead, because the whole cave had respawned and I was severely out of mana and I sat down to drink. And. The. Hand. Kept. Moving.

Can you find or recall any other mobs that have post-mortem animation?