Livestreaming

I got a livestream account on Own3D, and i will be livestreaming from time to time.

I will start off tonight by some 25 man Heroic Raiding, and maybe finish the night off with some arena PvP.

I might also include some other games since i am at a big LAN event.

Own3D Stream:
http://www.own3d.tv/live/34402

Make sure also to check out my/our youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/ReincarnatedTM

Hopefully when 4.3 releases i will release alot of content!

Cheers!

Legendary Staff!

The day finally came! Thursday 13/10-2011 - I got my legendary staff.

I have not have time to decently test it in PvE, but i gotta tell you, PvP. Now THAT has increased it's fun factor with the staff.

I have run some different combo's including RMP/MR/MM and sometimes the kills i get is amazing.

Yesterday i dropped a 4k resi DK in 2 Globals, i'm sure they were quite supprised. But then again, the staff is a proc, and sometimes the staff just does not proc, or proc at bad times, but overall, it is a very big funfactor increase in pvp! I will probably make some video of it soon!

Legendary staff creeping up!

I am currently at 201/250 Essences, hence i will be getting my Legendary Staff next week!

Stay tuned for video and my comments on the staff.

I will also soon fill some more information on this site in general.

Firelands - The premature nerf!

So, the time came, Blizzard noticed their playerbase was stalemating, and what was their solution?

LETS NERF EVERYTHING!


Dungeons & Raids
Firelands

• Hell Hound Rend Flesh damage has been reduced by 25%.
• The damage multiplier granted by energy to Unstable Magma has been reduced by 50%.

Alysrazor

• Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Alysrazor now drops 1 additional feather in 10-player mode and 2 additional feathers in 25-player mode in all cycles.
• The Wings of Flame buff duration on Alysrazor is now uniformly 30 seconds.
• Alysrazor’s Fiery Tornados now move slower.

Baleroc

• Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Baleroc now swings 25% slower while Decimation Blade is active.
• The duration of Tormented has been reduced on normal difficulty.

Beth'tilac

• Beth'tilac's health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.

Lord Rhyolith

• Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
• The health and damage of additional enemies in this encounter have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.

Majordomo Fandral Staghelm

• Health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty. Health and damage has been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Druid of the Flame have had their health reduced by 15%, and Sunfire damage reduced by 25% on both difficulties.
• The health and melee damage of Spirit of the Flame have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty, and reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.

Ragnaros

• Ragnaros' health and damage have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty.
• Ragnaros' damage has been reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Magma Trap damage has been reduced on all difficulties.
• The health and damage of additional enemies in this encounter have been reduced by 25% on normal difficulty and 15% on Heroic difficulty.
• Wrath of Ragnaros now knocks targets up, but not back, on normal difficulty.

Shannox

• Health and damage have been reduced by 15% on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
• Riplimb's health has been reduced by 15%.
• Rageface's health has been reduced by 15%.
• Magma Flare damage and Hurl Spear damage have been reduced by 15% on both difficulties.

If you ask me, was the nerf needed? No!

The nerf should have been introduced once 4.3 was released, the same way they did when 4.2 was introduced.

This is the first time in World of Warcraft's history that they nerf current content to such an extent, and to the majority of the community, it was not a welcomed one.

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On a different note, we got Heroic Alysrazor down today, post-nerf, though we had never tried her pre-nerf, i kinda wish we had.

Getting 280k+ combustion ticks sure was nice! :). Post in your comments below how high you have gotten on your combustion ticks!

Dragonwrath Questline - Smoldering Essences Updated Changes

With all the changes back and forth, here will be the final decision from blizzard about the droprate of Smouldering Essences:

• 25-player heroic has 44% lower drop rates in phase 3 relative to 4.2 launch.
• 25-player normal remains unchanged from 4.2 launch.
• 10-player heroic remains unchanged from 4.2 launch.
• 10-player normal has 33% higher drop rates in phase 3 relative to 4.2 launch.

With theese changes it seems more fair for the 10 man people compared to the 25 man players, and well, to be fair, the nerf was kinda fair, since having too many legendaries around, really takes the legendary out of legendary.

Atm in my own guild, we almost have 1 legendary, and i am about to start collecting my Smouldering Essences. We have one guy on the Seething Cinders and one guy on the Eternal Embers.

Though i must applaud blizzard for the way they enables multiple people to be on the quest at the same time.

Mages and the mystery of the (broken) Arcane Power glyph

As many of you possibly have noticed, the very awesome looking glyph of Arcane Power which should do the following:

While Arcane Power is active the global cooldown of your Blink, Mana Shield, and Mirror Image is reduced to zero. 

In itself, for an arcane mage, shaving off global cooldowns is a huge thing, so why not take it? And ideed this is a glyph we want. But is it working as intended?

The first thing anyone would do after equipping this glyph, is of course to create a macro that binds two important abilities together, Arcane Power and Mirror Image. Why not? Since it would be off the global cooldown, what harm could it do?

A such macro would look something like this

#showtooltip Arcane Power
/cast Arcane Power
/cast Mirror Image

And in essence, what it should do, would be to cast both Arcane Power and Mirror Image! But wait a minute - Try that macro out for yourself and you will notice that this macro actually TRIGGER a global cooldown.

This is because of the way blizzard handle's macro, and they handle them client side, and first checking if a glyph was activated together with Arcane Power AFTER the macro have finished, hence leaving you with a global cooldown less!

What to do, what to do? With this problem, is the glyph even worth something? - Yes it is! As i wrote before, the Arcane Power glyph is first taken into consideration after the macro have finished casting, and by utilizing a Blizzard macro system called "/castsequence", one is able to cast a sequence of spells, by numerous click on the same macro, and hence making sure the game have understood that Arcane Power and the glyph is active. A such macro looks as the following:

#showtooltip Arcane Power

/use Mana Gem

/use 14

/castsequence reset=5 Arcane Power, Arcane Blast, Mirror Image, Arcane Blast

This macro would basically present itself in two different situations assuming Arcane Power is ready.

1. Mirror Image is ready - Repeatedly click the macro untill the second Arcane Blast is casting, then return to your original Arcane Blast button.
2. Mirror Image is not ready - Repeatedly click the macro untill the first Arcane Blast is casting, then return to your original Arcane Blast button.

Video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOM0L9U8KAY

This is a very important thing to notice for an arcane mage, since losing a global cooldown during a dire situation, who really needs that?

This concludes the mystery of the Arcane Power glyph.

Mages and the art of speccing and Macros

I made a guide about how to spec your mage the best way possible for PvE encounters and also how the different specs compare to eachother (Updated as of 4.2).

Mages and the art of speccing

I also updated the macro section

Macro section

Keep updated on the various sub-sites on this blog, cause I will update all of them as soon as i can.