Heya guys!!  So there’s a lot going on here on the SJ side.  This internet website stuff has been delayed slightly as I’ve been getting back into the PvP swing of things.  I’ve also been doing a lot of work prepping my toon for some last minute tweaks.  Being 100% Ulduar ready and all.  SK is going for Server Firsts.  Not sure if we will pull it off, but we will give it a damn good try.

As you may have noticed, the post under this has the basis of a lot of new specs for 3.1 release.  And as you may also have noticed I’ve dropped a ton of specs on you guys so far from each tree.  As I’ve said a TON of times before, PTR is 100% too unreliable to ever give you a truly solid view of what Live will be until it’s opening.  That’s just the way the cookie crumbles.

The specs that I’ve listed below are however what I feel will be the basis of the top end specs of 3.1 when it releases.  I’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work prepping specs for 3.1, and in the end I think you guys will be very happy with the finished products.  And not only will I have PvE dps specs ready, but tanking and PvP ones as well.  Now, I cannot promise the same absolute guarantee on PvP/Tank specs, but they will be damn close and at least solid I promise.

Rotations for PvE are always simple.  Follow the PvE dps ones, and only work in Runestrike during the rotaton instead of traditional RP dumps.  Glyphs may not be gimme’s as well.  Some things are still up for debate.  PvE DW specs are dead in the water as well.  I’ve seen work on a few of them, including a DW Unholy spec relying upon DnD.  But ultimately these will all perform either better with a 2H weapon, or are significantly subpar to the new 2H specs.

Blizzard has made a point of nerfing the crap out of IT spam builds, DW builds, and Disease-less specs.  And they’ve done a pretty solid job of it.  /sigh  The best thing is to move on and deal with what you’ve got.  Well, unless you are a tester yourself and willing to go through the tedium and tirades while trying to make your case and point on the WoW Forums.  But that’s a question of whether you’re willing to fight against the machine, or simply work with what is given to you.  I can’t make that decision for you.

There are a great deal of specs available/possible for 3.1, but what you have to remember is that I only try to bother with the top end specs.  I’m not going to sit here and tell you guys 20 different variations on Frost PvE specs.  I’ve got better things to do with my time, and quite frankly there is better content I can share with all of you.  I’ve seen people wonder about that Disease-less Frost spec for example.  It will be viable.  It will work.  I raided with it, and it was kind of fun honestly.  But it’s not going to net the dps of the Frost spec I will give you.  See where I’m going?

For those DW diehard holdouts I will give you one gem of hope.  DW was “awful” at the inception of DK’s until someone finally figured out how to use DK talent synergies to make it work.  It could happen again.  It’s not likely though, which is actually the true gem of hope you should wish for.  If DW fails entirely, Blizzard promised to do something to make it viable.  And even considered offering to make one tree the “DW” tree.  Also a lot of the newer changes to Strikes and talents are set up very well to be shifted to including the MH and OH for Strike damage.  There is hope.

Cancer

For those longer term readers you may remember me talking about this before.  I did not forget.  I just planned.  A friend of mine that I met in game has an amazing daughter.  Her name is Eleanor.  She is 5 years old and sweet as can be.  I’ve listened to her ramble on before telling her mom about all kinds of things.  And it breaks my heart just thinking about everything that their family is suffering through.

Eleanor has cancer.  And it’s the bad kind in it’s last phase.  They’ve been forced to resort the last and final treatment, killing all of her bone cells with Chemo entirely.  It’s a bad bad bad thing for a child to have to go through.

I will be holding a raffle for 10,000g for any server that you play on, so long as it is a US server.  I apologize to my EU cousins, but I don’t have gold on EU servers to offer as a prize.    If we collect at least $5,000 in donations I will increase the prize to 20,000g.  If we collect at least $10,000 I will get you 20,000g and also 1 years worth of paid subscription to WoW with game cards.  And if we break $20k…well I’ll be giving thanks and figuring out some kind of a bonus if that could actually happen.  Possibly runner up prizes, etc…

This is a donation only.  And it’s to a good cause.  The prizes are only a free raffle you’ll be entered into.  And this will be done through PayPal.  I’ve put this off because I am hoping for maximum exposure.  And since people come back to WoW at major patch releases, and the minor patches always bump my hit count from around 6k to closer to 10k people a day…I’ve decided to hold back on this until 3.1 so I can hopefully help out lil Eleanor as much as possible.  The finalized details will be forthcoming with the 3.1 release. 

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

Tags: Coming Soon, PTR