Metrosexual healing and Assault Cows

Back on the team

2007-10-16T04:42:00.000-07:00

Anyone who read the last post knows I'm fully healing specced now. No let me rephrase that, Holy specced. Which, in paladin country means dps and healing in the same spec. Ain't we Blessed? Not according to Mister Cromfell , who seems to be agitated about something that is going to hit us pallies in 2.3

Ret pallies anyway. Yeah I sold out and I'll tell you why. I specced retribution because I wanted to solo a lot. I like grinding rep and money and the dps tree is usually the one to go for when playing a hybrid class, right? No not really. My damage output has gone up by an estimated one-third of what I used to do and both my mana and health pools are larger now. So holy is the way, at least until the next nerf.

2007-10-11T02:45:00.000-07:00

"The poor Broken never saw it coming. The shock hit him from behind and that was just about it, something stunned him and he felt several other shocks hitting him before the last of his life was drained and he fell to the ground. No blood, no wounds, no sign of anything ever hitting him physically, but dead nonetheless.

Sarge emerged from the nearby bushes. He routinely checked the body for any money, discarded the crude weapon the Broken had been carrying as unsellable and grinned to himself. New planet, new rules eh? He completely understood why so many paladins had forsaken the traditional ways of fighting. This was so much...easier. Shockadins, they were called."

Suck it up, paladin

2007-09-21T00:07:00.000-07:00

I suck.

Yes, I suck at the WoW. I kinda figured it before but it really became clear after my last respec. What was I thinking, when I had:

- Imba Karazahn healing gear (+1600 healing)
- Great shockadin blues
- Great tanking blues/purps

See the one thing missing here is our lovely DPS-plate. None of that. So any wise man would have said: "you know what Sarge, just go shockadin for a while until you pvp-ed some nice Retri gear together or go heal some heroics." Not the Sarge. The Sarge saw someone swinging a big hammer at him and decided it was Something Sarge Needed Right Now. How emo.

So now Sarge runs around silithus (still need moar thorium!) in spelldmg/tanking gear pretending to be Retribution and packing all the punch of a bunny with a asthma. Yes it's that bad. I could probably win an award for it.

Things were fine ofcourse, until other people noticed. I made a post on my realm forum asking whether Crystalforged War Axe was a better choice than The Oathkeeper. To my great joy, the hero of all paladins on Dragonblight EU, Wisedragon, responded! I basked in the light of his wisdom, and he spoketh to me civil, like a holy man would, yet his judgement was clear:

Sarge Sucks.

And I totally agree. But now for the good part: it's okay! I know I suck. And I don't mind, since improvement is on the way. I'm only 60 points in Blacksmithing away from thunder, and I'll get that crit and AP up even if it means wearing greens. As soon as that is done I will gather up some pvp blues and maybe even resurrect the Arena team with Slettis.

So are things looking good? Ofcourse they are. It's a game, what could go wrong?

Have a nice EotS weekend all, and think of lil' ole Sarge down in the hives in Silithus, scraping together the last bits of thorium he needs.

Farmin'

2007-09-16T05:39:00.000-07:00

Sarge is serious about his Thunder. So serious that he downed the Blacksmithing 1-300 guide, printed it and has had it under his keyboard for weeks now.

Copper and Tin were easy, Iron was a bitch, since somehow all the people questing in Alterac seem to think it's "their" iron. WTF? I'm a paying customer mate, live with it. Mithril I hardly noticed since I mined that together with the iron and now I'm finally almost out of Azeroth, miningwise.

Almost, just 330 bars of thorium left. I've been farming it in Silithus, in the hyves-sorry hives, where the once big bad insects live. one round of hives gets me around 45 ores and, amazingly, 1-2 Azerothian Diamonds and usually an Arcane crystal or some other bonus. Those droprates were never this good pre-TBC. On the other hand, I never farmed this much pre-TBC.

Just when I thought I got it wrong

2007-09-14T03:30:00.001-07:00

To be honest, I was kinda doubting my new route through Pvp town towards the mountains of epic ret goodness, until I just stumbled across this.

Thank the world for other bloggers eh?

To do list

2007-09-14T02:13:00.000-07:00

- Finish epic mount quest (Dire Maul <3 )
- Get Blacksmithing up to 375, farm those primals and
- Create Thunder

- Go pwn in pvp.

Busy weekend then.

Gimp spec

2007-09-14T00:48:00.000-07:00

Sarge believes in Retribution spec. I've played holydin/shockadin for a while and before I took a break from the business that is paladin I was retribution specced, for levelling. Ever since I came back to the game I wanted to respec Sarge to the only true spec for a holy warrior and so last weekend, while scouring the WSG's for honour I specced back from the healslave spec I had been cursed with since I loaned the Sarge to my priestly pal for Kara purposes.

Now I'm the proud owner of 1/0/60 spec (you there, in the back, don't chuckle!) Can't get more ret than that I'd say. And the first BG I went in I rode that damage chart like a pro DPS class. Well I ended up fourth if you want the truth but I'm seriously undergeared.

The problem is ofcourse the eternal warrior stats versus caster stats. Retribution pallies need their AP, STR, and +Crit since their big twohanders are their main offensive capability (yay for crusader strike, making it actually worth it to carry a weapon around)

But paladins have another trick up their ornamented plate sleeve: Judgements. Judgements is magics. Magics is mana. Mana is pool. Pool is INT.

BUT MOM MAI GAER HAF NO INTELLECT!1

True. It doesn't. I won't rant on about itemization since we have the paladin forums for that. I've checked out the pvp and arena gear and it seems like those items are actually pretty good, with lots of crit, strength and intellect. Now just to get it, right?

Yeah kinda... You see, I'm not sure if I want to be retribution that bad. After two years of shouting: "ME DPS!" I'm kinda wondering if it wouldn't be better to go shockadin again and just heal my way through life.

But whenever I get that feeling I just load up some screenshots of Thunder and imagine myself in all that shiny Arena gear....Bliss!

Well and truly underway...

2007-09-12T11:27:00.000-07:00

...and to celebrate, I will let you in in the noobishness that has been Sarge and Slettis for over 2 years now. First off, the protagonists themselves:

Slettis: Dwarven huntard, a lover of all pets with a keen eye for any piece of gear with any degree of "cute". One of perhaps a grand total of five grey-haired dorf wimmin on the Dragonblight server, she is never afraid to try something new, providing that the endaveour contains "cute" and spamming of arcane shot.

Possibly also the only hunter to remain uninterested in traps of any sort up to lvl 62. Also note that the "cute" may be different from the cute you know.

Sarge: The paladin. Like any paladin, he rolled the class assuming it would involve warrior action combined with easy self healing. The realization dawned when at level 40, still only one melee move, known as "auto-attack" was available. Sarge saw some brief action as a healer in the ranks of the Armada Alliance, a "damn fine bunch of people" as he likes to refer to them. Currently decked out in the best healer gear Karazahn has to offer, he respecced retribution.

So now you know who we are. Armory profiles will ofcourse follow as soon as I figure out how to link to them in a fashionable way.

Sarge and Slettis do some things different though: They don't do instances (Kara gear was obtained with help of a certain priest who shall remain nameless, and Slettis feels quite fine in her greens and blues, THANK YOU.

More differences when i feel like it.

About the picture

2007-09-05T05:48:00.000-07:00

It's old ok? We do have flying mounts. Jeez.

Time

2007-09-05T05:38:00.000-07:00

I have none. Which is bad. Since my need to do list is as follows:

- need to do Black Morass. (I'm bl**din 11120/12000 with keepers of time and Sarge want Continuum Blade!)
- need to grind gold
- need to make arena team with Slettis, just for the fun of it
- must play Bioshock (awesome!)
- must make sweet love to Slettis
- must enjoy seeing little monster spawn grow up.

when you spend 9-10 hours at work every day a lot of these things do not get the time they deserve. Weekend should solve some of these things, though the sweet love thing will probably suffer once mrs. Slettis gets her pvp boots on. I've seen her pvp once before and it was damn frightening. It's odd how competitive women can get when you think about it.

Anyway, who wouldn't want to have a go at Hunter T4 looks? it's awesome.

Misery

2007-09-01T07:26:00.000-07:00

I was just making coffee and thinking about those who don't have senseo's and stuff. My mind was wandering for a bit until it stopped for this:

"There is always someone worse off than you."

Is there? I mean, the statement in itself implies that somewhere out there, there has to be a last person who should, in theory, have the worst life of all. Would I like to meet that person? Mmm.

Welcome to the great hunt

2007-08-31T03:25:00.000-07:00

It's another WoW-blog. Does the world need one more? It depends. I'm pretty sure there is a worldwide group of permanent addicts that needs their dose of WoW even while they're at work or doing other things that involve not sitting behind a keyboard and a wowaccount. It happens. We have to deal with it. And we do that by reading blogs, nay, devouring them. So from an addicts point of view, you can't go wrong with another WoW-blog, can you now?

And what other sensible point of view is there, apart from the addicts point of view. None ofcourse.

So get ready to read up on the adventures of Sarge and Slettis, two dutch casuals if there ever were any.