03-31-2008, 04:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2008, 04:17 PM by Swiss Mercenary.)
Quote:WOW Blue PvP gear is nice. Statistically of course, it's a huge downgrade from my T4/5 stuff, and when I work with the sockets they're going to get cheapo gems =p, but the resilience really does make up for it somehow. Those little numbers are magical. I bought a couple (the ones that were handy) before doing some lousy arena matches tonight, and this being my first time *in* the arena, I wasn't sure how much of a difference they made. On the other hand, just two pieces (plus the S1 gloves I got a while ago, Medallion of the Alliance, that trinket from Heroic Black Stalker and the Dagger from Thorngrin) made a huge difference, it seemed to me.
As a Tier 4.5 Enhancement shaman, I'm looking at the PvP blues, and the prospect of losing some odd 100 AP and 2% crit. Per piece. For some 20-30 resilience.
I'll just say that I'm not looking forward to that prospect. I'd rather get spiked down in a few of my matches before my healer can react (Although most of the time, that happens when he is silenced/interrupted, with plenty of room for killing me to spare), then be unable to kill enemy healers decked out in Season 2/3.
My paladin partner, on the other hand, bought all the pieces, which is a very good idea, seeing as how +heal is a lesser stat for PvP.
Quote:I went back to Magisters' Terrace, on Heroic this time. It's pretty fun on heroic, with better difficulty balancing in my opinion. I still died on Kael though...didn't heal myself at all during the first Gravity Lapse. Excellent! Not to mention the pull right before him. Arcs and I went down twice.:)
I've done heroic MT twice, with a Enh Shaman/Mage/Hunter/Tank/Paladin setup, and honestly, it didn't seem much harder then the regular. The trash got a bit of a buff to damage and hit points, and the second boss required some forethought, but that was it.
I'll have to say that I'm happy that I finally got an instance where Enh shamans are superior to rogues, in terms of benefit to the party. Between off-tanking, Earth Shock, and purge spam on the Sunstrider Warlocks/Mages, grounding and tremor totems, plus off-healing on the second boss... I bring quite a bit to the table.
Quote:While I was there, I got <span style="color:purple">[Vial of the Sunwell]. I'm wondering if anyone else has any experience with this trinket, since I'm really torn on whether it's good or not. Certainly, I love the mp5, as my gear and gems are tweaked much more toward +healing in general, and I tend to use Elixirs for another +50, at the cost of some potential mana regen in Flask of Mighty Restoration. The Use effect though...I haven't been able to get much out of it aside from another Healthstone for myself. It's a little awkward to use in raids on other people, from what I've seen so far, because odds are if they need it that badly somebody else is about to land one on them anyway. But hey, what do I know, I'm just a guy who tries to not stand in fire and presses the Chain Heal button a lot.
That trinket dropped both times I've ran the instance - it went to our holy paladin the first time, and to me for off-speccing the second time.
It's an amazing trinket for Paladins and Shamans. It gives you an insta-cast heal, that can be used on the move, or when silenced. Your +healing stacks with the 2000 heal, too, resulting in a +3000 insta-cast heal. It's like a Power Word: Shield on crack. While it's true that there isn't too much use for it in some of Tier 5, I could think of a few fights where it would be good - Vashj, Tidewalker, Leotheras (For when the whole raid stays in through a 10% whirlwind...), Lurker, Void Reaver, A'lar.
Quote:The reason why everything is affordable is that inflation really hasn't hit the servers yet.
That depends on what you're going for. Items like Fel Armaments are consumed at a low rate, and produced at a moderate rate. There is rarely a shortage of them.
On the other hand, on my server, gem prices sky-rocketed. Uncut metas are now at 150g, where they were 75g. Mystic Dawnstones are ~60g. Runed Living rubies went up to ~80g. Adamantite ore went from 20g/stack to 30g/stack (Although the latter could somewhat be contributed to one of my gold-selling guildmates to get sick of mining some odd 500 stacks/week.)
And I've been buying uncut gems, ores, and the rest like crazy - because once the badge vendor is unlocked, demand for them will go up dramatically. With the new dailies, people have a lot more gold to burn, and with sockets to be filled, I'm hoping for at least a 15g profit on each of my gems.