Preparing for 3.3, Part 1

So we all know that 3.3 is due in either this Tuesday or within the next 21 days. So today, I decided to start preparing for 3.3

First and foremost, Transmute: Titanium is loosing its cooldown. This can mean either:

• A drop in Titanium/Titansteel Bars, in which case I need less money for Titansteel cooldowns and gear for Alts
• A rise in Saronite Ore/Bars, of which I already 200+ of each to re-sell.

Outside of that, the only other preparation I have done besides PTR work is.... well, nothing. :)

I did accomplish somethings, though, including soloing
Thrym, The Hope Ender:



As well as doing over 1,000,000 damage in a battleground:


Until next time!

~Ron

BiS make my Tenticles Wiggle

Had a wonderful loot night from TotC 25! Last Tuesday, I was able to sweep house with my brand new Justicebringer (it took long enough) as well as the Executioner's Malice neckpiece. Finally, in the Onyxia run (which we somehow managed to wipe twice in?) I picked up a Judgement Crown to replace my helm from TotC 10 man.

In addition, I completed the achievements Chef de Cuisine, Mowed Down, and the requirements for the meta Pilgrim. All in all, I am getting closer to the Tabard of Conquest, which I hope to have within my grasp soon.

As always, here is the dataz.


~Ron

Mad Skills, baby!

A Tribute to Mad Skill!
We came, we saw, and we kicked some ass! Out of our 50 attempts, we managed to get to Anub on Heroic TotGC 10 man with ALL of our attempts! We did have a bit of trouble, though, on Anub himself- However, I see that fight as being so needy and tedious that there are many factors that can go wrong.

With downing Anub with 47/50 attempts remaining, I can honestly say that we are setting the bar higher for next week to obtain some new cloaks.


Composition for tonight's raid is as follows:

Tanks:
Eibrocan
Vires

DPS:
Ronark
Remmanak
Minicthur
Jam
Toranch

Healers:
Sondog
Moonsinnah
Chuckmurloc

As always, the data can be found here.


And as a side Victory, I'm past 7000 achievement points (yay)!

Until next time,

~Ron

New week, New loots

Tuesday came and went. Had Justicebringer drop from Faction Champs, but a DK guildie had priority over me. Good news is, that the next weapon that drops I have overall priority over.

Here is the data for the run.

Was also able to get some quick PvP action in and snag both Isle of Conquest All-Star and Demolition Derby (IoC).

Finally, I bought my Pony for my Squire. Hopefully it will make farming things easier in the future.

~Ron

Is it Tuesday yet?

Restarts are tomorrow, so a quick recap of what my guild's been doing:

- Still on NRB for TotGC : /
- Downed TotCG 10 man with 22 attempts remaining
- Still waiting for that sword from Onyxia :P
- Yogg practice on Ulda 25 man. Here is the data.

~Ron

Tier 11 (or 12) ideas.

I got around to drawing up some rough sketches of my vision of future tier gear, as well as 2 weapons that I would like to see in Cataclysm. The link to the post with the pictures can be found below:

Here

I hope to have them modeled in Autodesk Maya soon, but that takes a considerable amount of time to do.

~Ron

Goal: 100k, and some IoC madness

So, as everyone knows, I am an Achievement Point whore- I have the most in my guild currently, at almost 7k. After waiting for a raid to start the other day, I started to add up all the gold items linked to achievements (mounts, etc) and came to a grand total of: 43,000 gold or so, plus or minus a few hundred.

I find the best way to make money (outside of the 200 or so from IC dailies and the Tourny dailies) is playing the Auction House like its my hoe- Most of the time, it is just earning honor and buying/cutting epic gems and posting them. But most of the time, I am able to craft gold- As in, I buy the materials to craft a Nightmare Tear for 115 gold, and then sell the Nightmare Tear for 170. My goal is to make 100k gold by the beginning of Cata- Ideally, 50k gold going into the expansion, and 50k for my mounts/pets/etc.

Also on a side note, I entered Island of Conquest the other day for the first time, and I have to say, it is pretty amusing. So far I have 6 of the 14 possible achievements, and I hope to have that tabard for my Arena set.

~Ron


P.S. Going into 10 man TotC and maybe 10 man TotGC tonight, lets hope for phat loots!

New week, new loots

After the mishap of last night's fail patch data, we were able to go back to TotC and Onyxia 25 and clean house. No loot for me due to our guild's loot system, but it pushes me up in priority for a potential Justicebringer or Death's Verdict drop next week. I was able to pick up a Furious Gladiator's Scaled Shoulders with my EoTs though.



About to do a 10 man Onyxia, hopefully a new Obsidian Edge soon.


Edit:



~Ron

Ending on a Good Note

Just finished our first guild kill for H ToC 10man. Personally, I only filled in for some other DPS from the prior run, so no achievement for myself yet. I did, however, manage to get the achievement Arathi Basin Assassin.



The data from the Heroic ToC 10man can be found here:
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-r0cqfvsg27k5td10/

~Ron

10 man ToC

In addition to blog posts, I'm also going to be publishing data from Raids through World of Logs. Here is this week's 10 ToC data, with a random PuG.


http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-ari07zwny4984dcm/

~Ron

Why need healers when you have a Ret?

So my group just finished up the daily-duo for Heroic Cull of Strath, and we decided not to go with a healer- Well, at least not a mainstream healer, but rather myself as Ret spec. Surprisingly it went fine, most of the healing was passive through Judgement of Light and some well timed Sacred Shield + AoW procs. There was one or two pulls where the shit did hit the fan, but there were no wipes, and nothing that Hand of Sacrifice couldn't fix.

It just made me think of GC when he stated that we were too "tanky" and too "heal-y". Personally, just because everyone out gears the instance in T9 gear and clears the whole place with 7 minutes left on the extra boss timer doesn't mean that we are unbalanced.

Although it was fun to clear it that quickly :)



~Ron

A Day Off

Taking the day off today to spend the day with my girlfriend since it is her birthday.

Maybe some PvP will occur afterwards later tonight ;)
~Ron

Whats better than Old Posts?

Since this blog's original creation I have been slacking a bit.
A tiny bit.
only a little.
(as in forgetting about it completely)

The truth is, I have been rather busy with my real life that I forgot about the blog (having it bookmark would have helped, too). Since the original creation, a lot has happened:

-Attended Blizzcon via the Internet.
-Updated the FAQ on MMO-Champions a number of times.
-Added a new War-tools tree for 4.0 (Pre-Cataclysm release patch)
-I'm duel spec'd for Prot PvP- While I am still gathering gear, I'm not sure if I will stay as Ret for PvP or use this new Prot setup.
-Race Chance to a Draenei from a Dwarf(Yay!)

I'll plan to make at least 1 post a week- Since I now have permission to gather data for our guild through World of Logs, and since that data will be posted here, it should help me to remember to stop here more often.


~Ron