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Jan

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!! And Blizz epic failed, lol.

   Posted by: Skeleton Jack   in Blue, Coming Soon, Epic Fail

Heya guys!!  Huh?  WTF do you mean I recently posted with the same title?  Hey.  Who’s site is this anyways!?  IT’S MINE!!!  DEAL WITH IT!!!  /harupmh

Who “harumph’s” anymore anyways?  Sheesh…

Heh, lol.  So guys, it’s that time again where I /vanish on you.  Sunday = busy, busy, busy, busy.  It doesn’t help that I got overzealous on Friday night with some PTR testing and research.  >.<

I stayed up until…oh…I don’t know…10am?!  -.-  Inorite!?!?  Crazy!  But I had a blast, and it was fun getting a bit back more to my roots and doing actual in game legwork figuring things out instead of just pouring through the net reading forums and checking other people’s work.  Down side?  I slept till like midnight on Saturday, lol. 

No idea when I’m going to Arena now, becuase we were supposed to try tonight or something.  /sigh  But there’s still plenty to report about WoW.

 

Killing Machine

So…I thought Blizz was going to screw over Killing Machine pretty badly by moving it to a PPM mechanic.  I assumed they’d set it at like 2-3 tops.  But oh no…Blizz, in their infinite wisdom, set it to 5.  If you’re unsure what all of that means, it is explained in: More nerfs…yay!! /facepalm KM, Gargoyle, yadda yadda…

Now I mentioned before that I didn’t see how this was a boon to DW because multiple fast white attacks were supposed to be the bane on PPM.  However, that is because I misunderstood how they decided to make the mechanic work.  My thought process was that the talent just worked for “you”, the DK.  Instead Blizz goofed and made the talent work “per weapon”, making this extremely OP for DW builds.  With a 5 PPM, using instant cast attack (which we have plenty of), and DW’ing…you can expect an actual proc rate of 12-14 procs per minute, or 2+ per 10sec rotation.

Now I couldn’t figure all of this in my head as Blizz said they were trying to nerf it.  I honestly was wondering if I just again was seeing something from the wrong perspective…  Till I read this:

“It sounds like something didn’t work right with the Killing Machine change, because the intent was to bring down the proc rate and make it more consistent between 2H and DW. We are investigating. (Source)”

EPIC FAIL BLIZZARD!!!  /WIN

I am still “lol”ing in /rl.  :P

Sundays

For the non-long term readers, Sunday is an off day for me.  Gotta have one of ‘em right?!!?  No?!?!  No?!?!  OMG SLAVE DRIVERS!!! THAT IS WHAT YOU PEOPLE ARE!!! SLAVE DRIVERS!!!  /sniffle  Can’t a man get a day off?!?!  /whimper

Hehehe, no really I’ve always got a lot on my plate on Sundays.  Off to work, then massive driving around the city picking people up, heading back home to change and get ready, then out to meet the guys and get in some old fashioned Role Playing done, and then lots more driving taking people home.  So you won’t ever see much of me on Sunday.

Deathtards

I recently hinted at a post about Deathtards, the next step in evolution from the dreaded “Huntard”.  Yes, scary I know.  Sadly I won’t be filling your eyes with gleeful tales of the “newly dreaded” Deathtard, but they will be coming soon.  This is a pet project.  And I’m going to do it right.  Not only will you be educated about them, but there will be tips on how to not be one.

New Projects on the way?

Yes, yes, Yes, YES!!!  Since we’re getting a lil bit back to basics with the my old school research on PTR, I’ve decided to go back to my roots from the old days of being a Fury Warrior in vanilla WoW.  Upcoming soon will be write ups on how to DPS, how to Tank, and how to PvP.  And I don’t mean showing you specs, rotations, blah, blah, blah.  I mean the tricks and skills necessary to make you a damn good player.  What to look for, what to watch, how to change your gameplay, etc.

And more?!?  You want more!?!  We gots it!!  Kill Target posts will be coming after the 3.0.8 release and more class changes are finalized.  Not sure what nasty little tricks other classes will be using against you?  Not sure who the best person to kill is?  Don’t even know the right tactics in dealing with other classes!?!?  Patience young grasshopper!!  Enlightenment awaits.

BISI is not scrapped either.  I would have had one up today…but well I slept through “today”.  Hence me writing on Sunday morning before work, heh.  BISI incoming on Monday, I promise!! :)

And!!  A special surprise.  Coming for 3.1 release.  Some of you guys may hate it.  Some of you guys may love it.  Me and Bonechewer here don’t know…  It’s a new style of guides.  Just for Uludar.  I’m getting some…*cough*…release forms signed by some people in WoW.  Need their…uh…consent.  Yeah, that’s it!!  Don’t need people yelling at me for writing about them saying they did or do things they don’t do…

I mean, cause I would never portay people in a fictional manner that has nothing to do with what they’re like, while making fun of them or other people…  *innocent look*  I SWEAR!!!  Damn haters…  o.o

Curious yet?  Me to!!!  Heh.

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

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Hi S-Jack,

Usually not a blog fan, I discovered yours pretty recently and went through a lot.
Having been in the beta since close to the early days, I have had enough time to experiment a lot about DK.
When WotLK went live, I leveled Unholy and am still a big fan of it. At 80, I stayed Unholy for DPSing, with a couple respec as a deep-Frost tank once my gear allowed me to reach DEF cap.
Strong believer of 2H tanking, but interested in DW DPS from a theoretical standpoint, I recently decided to try a DW tanking spec, with little faith in it …
But, in the end, it happened to be pretty efficient.
To make it short, I have a very nice early threat generation, a solid TPS, a better DPS, and all the talents which help improve survivability (Lichform and Unbreakable Armor).
I have respec’ed during this week-end, and tested it with my guild (NB : we are 10-p raids only) in a couple hero-runs with very good results.

Template is a 10/51/10. Here is the link on a talent simulator : http://www.wowdk.com/simulateur.html?b=6c55×3250535100532112301d10035000523z
Site is in french, and this is the only one I can access to at the moment (damn firewall at work ^^).

I will provide feedback from our Naxx10 runs in the coming days, especially on Patchwerk. I need also to complete my stuff by (at last) getting the epic and blue tank 1H swords from the 2 Utgard instances (poor luck out of 3 runs …).
Gratz again for your blog.

PS : not linking my stuff, since I am in DPS gear now. But have 2/5 T7, with close to everything epic except cloak. Got the cloak from Maexxna recently, but am losing DEF cap if I wear it today … looking forward to new sigil in patch 3.0.8 !

January 12th, 2009 at 2:11 am

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