Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

When I got back on tonight Inien helped me get a group quest out of the way in Grizzly Hills.  You actually get to have NPC help if  had known that I could have done it myself possibly.

Then I managed to get a Drak’Tharon Keep group, a tank only invited me then we picked up some DPS.  Inien was still in the area so he joined us.  This let me get omy last dungeon elder!  I still had to get my pantsuit though, i did that purposefully Doing this on Heroic also finished off my Heroic Achievement, and got me Dungeon Master for Northrend.

Next we went to do Heroic Old Kingdoms because that was all Inien needed to get his Dungeon master.  His last group couldn’t kill the last boss.  We on the other hand did it with only 4 of us, and with him agroed on an accident.  We had the rouge telling us that he didn’t think we could kill the last boss, or the other lady.

This was us having fun while waiting for the rogue to repair before we did the other lady.  We used to do this in FEST all the time   It was funny too when we started the lady she immediatlly smacked and killed Inien.  I though oh well that’s a wipe, but we continued on.  Then she did the same thing half way through to our horrible ret pally.  I thought oh that’s a wipe, then we continued through and killed her.  Even though she enraged every time I was able to heal through the enrage.

So we finished all that out, and despite having a horrible ret pally even!  Inien and the rogue were pretty close though.  The tank seemed confused the whole time.  It was an odd group.  Oh I did managed to get the Wand of Ahn’kahet!  Finally an upgrade to my old wand!  It is quite nifty.

After all that before I went to head off to bed I stopped by to buy me a pant suit.  Yes I am now an Elder yay!  I was missing this title since I had it in Beta   After that I wen to IF to get that last Enchanting skillup to 425 and Tailoring to 430.  Yay it is getting so hard to get points

I’m sure you’ve seen them everywhere already, but when I got home today I noticed a post pointing you over to wowinsider. There is a lot in there that looks like it could be true, and a lot that sounds like BS.  I don’t know what to think really.  Last time we had notes like this leaked it was MOSTLY true, I don’t know if it was because people are good guessers or if it is because it was from an early build and things changed.

The changes that were posted for the Priest was certainly interesting.  I like the sound of the changes to Penance, and Gheal.  No mention of Divine Spirit which GC specifically said would be changed in 3.1 along with Penance.  So this is sort of in line with that but we’ll see.  Take them with a grain of salt, it will probably be at least another month before we see one way or another.

• Surge of Light: Also reduces the cast time of your next Greater Heal by 0.5 seconds.
• Circle of Healing: Cooldown reduced to 5 seconds.
• Divine Providence: No longer reduces the cooldown of your Prayer of Mending Spell, but now increases the amount healed by your critical heals by 10%/20%/30%/40%/50%.
• Mass Dispel: No longer has a target limit.
• Misery: Now grants melee and spell hit.
• Renew: Mana cost reduced slightly.
• Greater Heal: Mana cost reduced slightly, cast time reduced by to 2.5 seconds.
• Divine Fury: No longer reduces the cast time of Greater Heal, but increases the critical strike chance of Greater Heal, Penance and Flash Heal by 1$/2%/3%/4%/5%.
• Test of Faith: Also increases the duration of your Guardian Spirit spell by 1/2/3 seconds.
• Desperate Prayer: Instantly restores 30% of the caster’s health and reduces all damage taken by 30% for the next 5 seconds.
• Divine Aegis: The absorption effect can now stack up to 3 times.
• Penance: Channeling this spell will give the priest 3% additional chance to crit for the next 5 seconds.
• Reflective Shield: Also decreases the chance that your Power Word: Shield can be dispelled by 15%/30%/45%.
• Mental Strength: Also increases armor contribution from items by 5%/10%/15%.
• Mind Melt: Critical strike chance increased by 3%/6%.
• Blackout: Mind Sear can no longer proc this stun effect.
• Twisted Faith: Damage bonus for Mind Flay and Mind Blast now requires the target to be afflicted by Vampiric Touch.
• Improved Shadow Word: Pain: Now increases damage by 5%/10%.

Was going to go out today with the family to Sealife, an aquarium park by Legoland.  My son was down for his nap before we go so I stopped in to do cooking daily.  I took a shot of me on my nifty new carpet!  I was out gathering carrots for sewer stew, it is a miracle it wasn’t meatloaf!

I went to go turn in and happen to be closer to the well entrance.  I jumped down and went right through the portal and hit the ground.  I didn’t die but I was stuck! I had to portal out with my dalaran ring!  Silly bugs!  Apparently this happens a lot according to some guildies.

My son was taking a long nap (miracle of its own) so I went over to grizzly to do some questing.  I went for the ones that items in my inventory.  This one had me burning trolls with alcohol.  I had another one where I burned undead miners, I think Blizzard has a piro working for them

Did this other interesting quest where you get to see a vision of something.  The zone quests seem to all be coming together now and it is neat how there is a story line going in each zone.

I managed to see my trinket in action too, it isn’t bad.  The damage one would be neat too.  I was thinking though since the Egg procs when I use Penance for damage, I wonder if the Sundial of the Exiled would proc when healing with Penance.  I’m guessing it must be flagged as both damage and healing and so when you cast it that counts as both.  Inien doesn’t have dots but I’m curious if it might proc if I throw out pain all the time too, as the Egg procs off renew ticks.

I started off this tonight with a bit of questing in the grizzly hills.  I need to finish up there so I can move on to another!  I was in LFG looking for one of the dungeons my remaining elders are in.

So I get a tell invited to a Nexus run, we ended up with a Pally Tank, Boomkin, Hunter, and a fairly new but decent DK.  Based on his guild rank “alt” I’d say he was an alt, and a recent 80   He kept just about the tank in DPS, and the tank was well geared so I was pleased   I managed not to take a screenshot during the Nexus run but it went smoothly.  They even managed to get achievement though I could have swore the hunter never moved.  The hunter was our best DPS most of the time when the Boomkin right behind him her.

After that everyone was so pleased with how smooth it went, and how fast we did it we decided to do something else.  Having got my elder from the Nexus now I suggested Azjol-Nerub next.  So we all agreed and headed there.  There was much talk about how hard the first boss is, and the second boss, and the last boss, but everything went easy.  Apparently none of them have done it with a good group.  Up to this point we have had no wipes, or even deaths.

After that everyone wanted to do another instance.  I was shooting for Drak or HoS for another elder, but the Boomkin really wanted to do HoL.  It was the Heroic Daily, and I happen to have the regular daily for it as well.  Eventually I agreed and we went there.  When we got to the first boss I asked if anyone needed the achievement, the tank was really scared about trying it I told him he would be fine, and the Boomkin really wanted a go at it.  Of course I had no problem with it, I knew he was a good enough tank and we downed him and everyone got the achievement.

We had our first wipe through the elementals that explode.  I was sitting there saying don’t kill them all at once, I went up the stairs and some how managed to agro the elementals at the top.  We wiped of course, was all my fault and I don’t count that wipe technically They were all dreading Loken, of course I don’t anymore now that I can heal through the damage.  He is easy if you can just stand and DPS him.  It was even easier to do with the hunters nature resists.  I told them they would get the achievement and they all did of course.  It was so cake with the nature resist not even close

After that we decided to do HoS.  The boomkin was off geming some of the stuff he she got in the other runs and I was running around gathering the mats to build my Flying Carpet!  I made it just before the summoned me and learned it when I was by the stone.  I flew around on it a bit before going in and it is nifty.  I didn’t realize that they made it a real mount in 3.08 I thought that had to wait for 3.1!  I some how didn’t get a shot of me on it though, soon!

I haven’t done HoS much, I think only once on regular and once on Heroic.  I was on Skype with Inien and he has done it lots so I was getting info from him.  We went up the mining side first and managed to meet the elder quickly.  When we got to the boss over here it went sort of ok but at the very end I got shattered and died, the Hunter died as well.  The boomkin picked up healing and they managed to finish him off though!

She was no problem at all of course but the fight is funny because she is rather insulting through out the whole fight

We wiped on the first attempt of the archive, but the second attempt not only did we succeed, but we go the achievement!  With both the DK and Pally grabbing the mobs none got through.  I really like the lore that comes out in this fight.  I managed to get some new shoulders finally here too!  I can’t recall but I think the CoS ones were better but these were still nice.  I need to get in with the giants though so I can have shoulder enchants.

So up to this point we had only 3 wipes, 1 my fault entirely, and 2 deaths (1 mine) which is amazing   These people were not over geared, we were not doing amazing DPS but they knew their classes.  We started the end boss though of this instance and we did have some issues with him.  I dislike this fight so much now!  We got him down on the third try though, basically I realized looking at the combat log it was all nature damage, and had the hunter use his nature resists.  Then the  fight went easy to the end when I lost everyone but the hunter and I but my dots finished him off.  He didn’t drop exactly the trinket I wanted but he did drop the Spark of Life which both me and the Boomkin rolled on.  I figured it might come in handy.

So I managed to do 4 instances, both instance dailies, get a new trinket and shoulders, and make my Flying Carpet.  Yes I would call this a good night!

I got on this morning to do a little bit of the things I always do before work.  I saw the note about rolling restarts but didn’t give it another thought when I was in.  Usually I just do what I can before the reboot.  Well  apparently I wasn’t pay attention and the reboot was upon me.  I happen to notice hey I have enough mats to get that 425 skill point in enchanting I think I’ll do that.  Sure I’ll end up with another useless mp5 chest enchant but it doesn’t use much dust.

So I make the thing and think I’ll just throw this in the guild bank.  Just as I am doing so I get disconnected.  Immediately I’m like oh crap I didn’t notice the restart.  When I logged back in my worst fear was confirmed.  I still had the crappy enchant scroll, but not the skill up!!!  ARG!  Feels like everyone is trying to keep my enchanting down

I got on and played a little bit with Laneir doing his inscription research and finishing a few quests.  I was really close to 74 and pushed myself over the edge.  So after training and all that I decided I’d get back to Laneer and go look for some dungeon elders.

I got a tell for UK while I was afk but they had already snagged a healer before I got back.  I was thinking about giving up when I got another tell right after for again UK.  I had put myself in LFG for several elder dungeons I needed.  When the guy joined the group with me it was a DK with 30k unbuffed HP.  Of course that meant he was a tank, a VERY geared tank so I was excited.  You can see in this screenshot he actually has like 35k buffed.

Everything was like super easy with him.  It was funny half the time the pulls didn’t even make it through my shield.  I guess that shows how high his mitigation/avoidance was   Everyone in the group was awesome actually.  We tried to do the Achievement on the first boss but didn’t get it.  No one broke any of the icetombs but I did die in one maybe that counts breaking it So with that I only need 4 more dungeon elders before I’m done with this achievement!

After that I made a few enchanting scrolls that no one will probably want but got me some skill ups.  Did some of the exciting mini game of inventory management and then decided to go make some moonshroud.  I need to find a place to farm Eternal Fire so I can make Spellweave every cool down.  I have 3 enchanting bags I’d like to replace with 32 slotters!  I need to get into the giant dailies so I can make the 22 slot bags too

I continued to play on Laneir today after enjoying yesterday so much.  I did get on this morning and do the the cooking daily as always and found out they nerfed the convention cooking quest!  It used to require 12 Chilled meat now it only needs 4.  It was the odd man out on the amount of meat it required for the same pay out.  It is funny they nerfed it though.

I did my glyph research this evening and ended up with a level 40 Recall scroll.  If you use those when your over level 40 you end up at some random place.  I love to find out where they take you.  So far I’ve been dropped in Tanaris, Hinterlands and now here in Darkshore

I continued my quests in Dragonblight and also put myself in LFG for an instance.  I have all this rest exp I can’ possibly use, plus we had the Wintersgrasp buff.  I’m half way inclined to take the extra badges Laneer has and buy one of those +exp items from badges to go with it all!  Anyways I got a good run in here but my mods flubbed up when I joined the group. I had no scrolling combat text or damage meters so I didn’t get to see how I was doing

After that I went back to questing hoping to get 74 but didn’t quite make it tonight.  I am like 7% away though so it is doable tomorrow for sure. This was a shot while questing over at the Ruby Shrine.

I took some time off from Laneer tonight to do a bit of questing on my Mage Laneir in Dragonblight.  I really enjoy the quests in Dragonblight and even though I actually did all these on Laneer I didn’t mind doing them again so soon.  I ran into this cool looking snow formation here in my travels.  I’m guessing this is one of the new “gas” clouds engineers get to harvest.

I held onto a Dragon vehicle you get for a quest to run around doing quests with.  It really saved me a ton of time and made everything even more fun.  This is me doing that time quest where your future self helps you figure out the name of the dragon behind the flight messing with time.    I find it amusing that my future self is wearing all my same gear, and prefers to only melee!

I decided I was going to try and start making the new Darkmoon cards with Laneir to see if I can get a Nobles set for Laneer.  I would like to get the int version I think it would totally rock.  Technically it would rock for my Mage too but we all know who is most important!  He has done pretty well on his inscription though so I’m proud of him

Apparently there was a tiny patch to 3.08 today when I forgot that it was Tuesday I had started up WoW to go check out what the cooking daily was.  The launcher began downloading the patch and then patching.  I was impressed that they finally integrated this whole process into a single interface.  It is now more like the EQ launcher was and well every other MMO’s launcher.   I always thought it was strange the way they did it.  Now it even tells you how long it took to patch so people can brag about how fast their machine applied the patch

Anyways I was glad to see the UI changed for the better.  I already thought the launcher was more visually appealing than the old one.  Now I see it is even more functional too!

Man I don’t know where I find these people, or rather how they find me.  I thought I’d do the heroic daily (Azjol-Nerub) and in the process pick up another dungeon elder.  I get in LFG and get picked up by a full group, they summon me and they are already there.  I thought this was odd but didn’t give it too much thought at first.

The tank was excited they had two Priests (they had a shadow Priest) saying it would make the first boss easier.  I thought hmmm I don’t see how (not that the boss is hard) and asked why he thought that.  His responce was “two shackles” in which I proceeded to inform him that those guys are immune and he and the other Priest kept arguing with me about it.

So we take up the first wave, no one ever breaks the webs, I am webed twice, the tank never controls the mobs and we wipe.  We try another, again I have to stop and break the webs (when its not me) and he still doesn’t control the mobs and we wipe.  At this point I just leave the group, not a word spoken.  I don’t care if they think I’m a jerk, I wasn’t going to kill myself over and over again for them. Then I realize why they were all there, they must have lost their healer before and the suckered me into it!

I give up on the idea of getting a group as it was getting late.  Instead I just farm Chilled meat for a while around there.  Then I was looking at my Achievements and thought I’d go get one of the few classic ones I need done. I check out my list and find I have Diremaul, Shadowfang, and Scarlet Monastery. I’m not sure why I didn’t get the SM achievement from the quests from there   Anyways Inien didn’t have DM so we decided to go do that.

We had all sorts of fun slaughtering the mobs.  We went and killed the tree boss which is pretty amusing because if you don’t kill all the trees in the instance he summons them.  We we killed him (really fast of course) and Inien was like oh they didn’t come.   Then we see two lumbering down, then all of the sudden we have TONS of them

Lots of fun later we had an entire forest dead before our feet.  That was the highlight of my trip I think

We went through all 3 wings and killed the king and became the new king!  I remembered this was one of my favorite places to go but Inien and I always had a hard time getting people to do so because it was harder than some of the other instances, and not a lot of melee friendly gear.  I was glad to Inien along because he remembered the way through the wings and such.  I’m not good at that being a healer I just follow along and keep people alive I don’t pay much attention to details like which way we went and such

With that out of the way I have only 2 easily Holy Nova’d zones left to do