Give 3.1

Yes, once again a way too long of a break between posts. Since my last post I've gotten a few fury upgrades, lacking only a few items for best in slot everwhere, except for weapons. Last week I killed kelthuzard on both 10 and 25 man on the same day, neither dropped a 2hand weapon, annoying to say the least.

I heard arena points are getting resetted after the patch, so I guess I need to play a bit more seriously and get some rating going. A big fat 2hander would really help in that respect, well maybe this week one will drop...

3.1 is coming, and for someone who really likes arena, that will probably be a blast for warriors. Huge improvements incomming! Armor penetration in battle stance, fury with less penalty, more controlled bursts, increased mobility, very very nice indeed. I think I actually will go mace spec, sunder armor, mace spec, battle stance and the upcomming shattering throw. I am fairly certain you can take someones armor really really low. 3v3 with DK/rogue/hunter+healer should work nicely. You start out with attacking 2 targets, then a quick swap to the sundered one for some bladestorm nukage, if I can find the players that is.

A brand new experience.

Yeah, I'm aware, havent been writing stuff in ages, but I shall try to make an improvement :P

In the past month I made my mainspec dps, which allowed me to get some dps loot. I leveled to 80 as fury, but specced prot almost immidiately afterwards and never looked back at fury. Until last week.

I had missed the guild 25 man run so I was forced to pug and they needed dps. I was a bit tired and didnt want to focus hard on timing the slams/mortal strikes correctly, so I decided to spec fury. Sadly I only had one decent weapon, (2h from HoL), but I figured I would just buy the mace from argent dawn and off to naxxramas. Oh man, dpsing as fury is alot more fun than arms. And funnily enough, though I have a good polearm for arms, I still do more damage with my blue offhand as fury.

No need to watch you rage all the time, just spam bloodthirst/whirwind, use slam when it proccs and if you ever get above 60ish rage spam HS. Very simple, very effective.
Probably alot better in pvp aswell: can keep up the healing debuff thingy without having do spend 30 rage every 6th second.

As a side note: my pvp gear is also coming along nicely. Yesterday in strand of the ancients I had fortitude, kings, mark of the wild and my own hp shout and was running around with 30k hp, thats as much as tanks have!! I'm wearing 80% pve dps gear, mind you, cant wait for the 3.1 buffs in arena.

PS. I will post a screenshot soon, just reformated my harddrive so I'm a bit short of them right now.

Raid markings

I read some guide yesterday, cant remember about what, but
I came across a line that said:
"you dont have time to mark, so you must plan the kill order ahead of time"
Is it really that hard to mark? I binded F5-F12 for markings and it works wonders.

Second point about marks, why do dps always ignore them? When I use marks I use them for a reason. Kill the most dangerous ones first, or the most annoying ones, or the ones that die the fastest. Its hard to make a rule becouse it depends on the pull you are about to make.
But if I am to tank a group of 4 mobs, I usually only mark a skull and a X. My gear is good, so I can aoe tank every trash pull there is, in fact most tankers out there can do it. But I focus my first shield slam on the skull, and try to get revenge on the second mob and then I just thunder clap & cleave the rest.
It is kinda annoying to see some dps go all out on a unmarked mob, and its even more of a pain as tank becouse now you have 2-3 targets you have to focus your aggro generating skills on and that can be very stressful at times.
Anyone else having the same experience?

Keybindings:

When we were to kill gluth for the first few times, we had a mage kite around the adds

-or that was the idea anyways.

Several wipes later, we dedicated a priest to basicly spamheal the mage, becouse he was dieing all the time. After the raid I found out he was keyboard turning(!) and that doesnt work so well for kiting, in fact, keyboard turning is bad for pretty much ever class. Personally I use keybinds for everything, mainly becouse I'm kind of a nervous person when playing, and I usually missclick if I try clicking skills.

Here's a few tips you may find useful:

-bind a and d to be your strafe buttons instead, forcing you to use the mouse.

-start slowly when adding more keybinds, you need to crawl before you walk, walk before you run, it takes time to adjust.

-look at how your hand is positioned, and try to bind key which are close so you dont have to move your hand

here are some of the main keybinds I use:

q=devastate

e=shield slam

1=shockwave

2=revenge/heroic strike macro

3=charge

4=taunt

shift+1=battle stance (rarely used)

shift+2=defensive stance

shift+3=thunder clap/cleave macro (or berserker stance when not prot specced)

r=berserker rage

<=shield wall

alt+1=last stand

alt+2=healing thingy (dont remember the name)

alt+3=vigilance

z=heroic throw

shift+spacebar (this one I really like btw)=aoe taunt

(my ventrilo is on ctrl thus I cant use it for keybinds)

As you probably notice, most of these arent very locigal. Meaning you shouldnt follow it to the letter. Instead look at where your hand is when you play and try to put the closest letters and combinations to use. Shift, Ctrl and Alt are your friends :D 

Proffessions

As you can see from my armory link, if it works(?)

I am a enchanter &  miner.

Mining is just AWESOME. You fly around in northrend for an hour, you find some saronite, which you sell for 30g-isch/stack And most importantly you find a few nodes of titanium, smelt titansteel, sell that bar for 200g. Total gold earned=500g, thats before you account for the occational rare gems and all the eternals that drop.

Enchanting however, is WORTHLESS, less than that. To skill it up to 450 will be a nightmare, I am at 424 and have bought every worthwhile pattern you can buy and I cannot make money with it. Why? becouse everyone and their mother apparently thinks its a great idea to give away the enchanting for matts, some people even pay to enchant for others.  Okay, so how about selling enchanting with your own matts? Would work, I'm sure, just that I have no matts currently, and I would probably make more money by sticking the matts in the ah anyways.

Maybe its possible to make some money by selling the 40 stamina enchants, once I get my hands on the recipe. But the recipe is very expensive, and it will take weeks before it will have earned me back the money spent on the abyss crystals (about 800g). 

Hopefull blizzard will implement a rare drop recipe in ulduar, or possibly one which requires rep, or is othervise hard to get, so that us enchanters have a shot at actaully making some money.

First post

Hi,

I decided to join the milions of people blogging and setup my own blog :D

This will be a blog about world of warcraft, mostly from a warrior perspective, but nothing is impossible :P

I'll try to update as often as possible, hopefully you, whoever you, however you found this site will enjoy the content :D

-Nairi