1000 Stone Keeper's Shards
Chaos Theory
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Respect Your Elders
Dehydration
Lich King Weapon Stat Changes
By Uncleleo | February 8, 2010
Blizz has seen the error in their ways. Ok it’s not that big of a deal but Lich King drops are already receiving stat changes. Although for most of us who probably won’t see the Lich King for a long time it’ll be a pipedream to obtain these weapons anytime soon. What changes affect Mutilate Rogues?
Lich King-10: Stormfury, Black Blade of the Betrayer: Armor penetration replaced with expertise.
Man I am tired of seeing ArP. Let’s see some of these changes trickle down to other ICC drops to get some more hit and expertise on Rogue gear!
The Competent DPSer, Surviving LFG
By Uncleleo | February 7, 2010
Well I didn’t win the WoW.com submission contest. But here’s my article that was submitted to seed.com. Enjoy!
The new LFG tool is great for a new eighty or even a geared player looking for frost emblems each day. But with the implementation of the system comes new problems. This article is here to minimize that noobish aura you are putting off in party.
1) The 5 minute raider - Nothing sticks in my craw like a person Queing up for LFG, waiting the 10 minutes to get in and then immediately telling the group “GOGOGO I got a raid in 5 minutes”. Here’s a tip if you don’t have enough time to finish a 15 minute dungeon, then don’t Que. Que up after your raid.
2) The Dungeon Off tank – Sound unfamiliar? Let me explain. You waited in LFG for 10 minutes as a DPS for a reason. Your not a tank. Make sure Omen’s working and let the tank get aggro before you start DPSing. It’s not a tanks fault when you pet pull 3 mobs or start range DPS on a target before the tank gets to them. Sure your trying to speed things up but in the end it’s going to take longer when everyone has to ghost back to their lifeless bodies.
3)The AFKer - Que up, buff up, make first pull and then stand there. I always like to think that this person just had some epic event happen in their home that made them have to step away from the game. A freak sandstorm inside their room, spilling orange soda all over their keyboard or fighting the cat over the use of the mouse. Typically this noob is sitting in front of the screen while they eat a bag of Cheetos and watch cartoons. Moving their toon forward to make it look like they are still there. Don’t get me wrong I love Cheetos and cartoons but not during my random daily.
4) The Underachiever - You’ve worked hard for that 5000 gearscore. Use it! Seeing an epically geared toon put out 1,000 dps is very discouraging for the group. Remember that the LFG tool takes gear into account when choosing who to group you up with. Your gear means that the LFG expects you to be able to put out a certain amount of DPS. If you’re epically geared and the tank or a new 80 in blues is out dpsing you then your not trying hard enough. The more DPS you provide the shorter this dungeon will take and the quicker you can get your emblems and get out.
5) The Stressful toon - Remember your playing a game, this toon is why tanks choose not to que up the random daily. You try to control the group. You blame the tanks for wipes. You blame the heals for dieing. Be nice to your tank, thank your heals. If everyone started being nice to the tanks and making their jobs a little less stressful then maybe our wait times in LFG wouldn’t be so long. Simple enough.
All in all just put everything into your groups just as you would your raids. Things will move quicker and you can get those emblems of frost faster. Also if you get one of the DPSers described above, throw them on your ignore list to avoid being qued up with them again. The LFG is a great new tool provided by Blizz to make our lives a little easier. Use it but don’t abuse it.
Disclaimer; Hundreds of Ninja Looters were hurt in the making of this blog post.
WoW Developers Chat
By Uncleleo | January 26, 2010
Just got done reading over the WoW Developers chat from a week ago. Not much info on Rogues here. Seems us Rogue folk are pretty content with where we are at right now.
If you didnt get a chance to check it out there is some good information about general Warcraft stuff. Here’s the link to the full question and answer session; WoW Developers Chat
Make Invigoration Useful
By Uncleleo | January 23, 2010
Ran ICC25 last night and this little number dropped
I didn’t have much time to look at it. But I figured it was a big item lvl jump from the 232 daggers I had been carrying around. So I rolled and won for once! After the raid I looked more into this. Went to the DPS Dummies and checked the uptime on the Invigoration buff that was provided by this dagger. It wasn’t a proc that stayed up all the time. Maybe 2-3 times per minute.
The real thing that made me interested in this dagger was the lack of another stat (Armor Pen, Hit, Haste, Agility or Expertise). So I figured this buff would be pretty useful. Looking at the dagger it says 2 energy every 2 secs for 10 secs. Fact is this was hotfixed back on January 5th to provide a 4 energy bonus instead of the previous 2 energy. I can see that Blizz knows this buff was not a huge benefit to players and they are working on slowly fixing this. Losing other important stats for this buff means that Invigoration should at least make up for the stat loss. I’m not sure the change to 4 energy does enough to make this item really sought after.
One thing that could make this item live up to it’s 264 item level. Make the the buff stackable. Blizz doesn’t have to go crazy but make it proc more often and stack to 2 or 3 stacks. Obviously the last thing that we want to happen is see a buff like this get OPed, we get used to it and then it gets nerfed. But it definitely needs to be made a more viable gear choice when raiding ICC.
On a side note; I could probably save this next statement for another post but what’s the deal with the Tooltips not changing? This dagger still reads 2 energy on it even though this hotfix happened some 3 weeks ago. Hunger for Blood is something else that is still reading 15% buff even though it’s only putting out 5%. Evidently these need patches to update. Blizz get on it. Personally I don’t keep up with gear changes as much as I should be, so rolling on this item I had no idea that what I was reading wasn’t correct. Your messing with head!!
The New Warcraft Armory
By Uncleleo | January 19, 2010
The New model viewer added to the Warcraft Armory is amazing!