Star Wars: The Old Republic

Hmm, /e looks around and taps foot.
"Must get rid of these cobwebs."
/e kicks up some dust.
"Wow, has it been that long?"

In case you can't tell by the name and the lack of posts I have moved on to some different pastures. Now I am running in Swtor and am enjoying it thus far. The story line is awesome and I must admit shooting things with a blaster or slicing things with a light saber are rather refreshing. As of now I am running a Commando Trooper (Skarrde) that is going in heals and a Shadow Consular (Crannoc) that is dps right now but will probably be tank spec.

Yes I know the names have been used before but I enjoy them.

My wife isn't so much getting into it but I much prefer gaming over watching TV so this is where I am. As things come up I will probably post something here, at least I hope so.

Awesome Video

Thanks to Kae from Dreambound for this video. Definitely worth the time to watch.

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/eRsGy ... 2=0x6b8ab6

Great night

Had a blast tonite in ICC, got through the first 4 bosses without too much trouble. Had a new guy come in who hadn't run q lot of raids before so he was pretty excited about going on this one. Had the bow drop off Lady Deathwhisper, splinter of ice dropped for my sister the disc priest, dagger dropped on loot ship and I had the deathforge leggings drop on Saurfang. While I was getting gems and let armor for leggings someone put saranite sword breakers in trade chat so picked those up as well. Have to get a red gem to get my meta gem bonus and get the wide to put greater stm on my braces.

I have set myself up with 2 tanking specs one blood and one frost. Kept the frost since it is one I knew and have familiarize myself with the blood one. Got it from pwnwear.com, very nice site with lots of dk resources especially for tanks, little warning there is some swearing there so wouldn't recommend it to a younger audience. I remember when I went into ICC last week as blood to try it out, wasn't very pretty, felt I as just masking keys and didn't have a plan. Played some heroics this week as blood to get used to it. Totally different story this week, went on and dis the whole first 4 bosses as blood. It isn't quite as smooth to run and you have a lot less air tank available but not bad overall. Will post my blood spec later.

Well time to /logout, u have a good weekend and hope to see you next week.

A good night.

Went into Ulduar for the weekly which was Flame Leviathin(sp). Went pretty smoothly even tho we could only get 8 people for it. Then went into Wintergrasp and held off the Horde to declare a victory there. Will have to setup a bar for pvp as I wasn't having much luck with my Dps bar for blood.

I am really enjoying tanking with my DK and look forward to continuing on with him. Will I make him my main? Doubt it as I have sunk so much work into Airdrigh that I am not willing to give him up yet. I do enjoy the easy playing of not trying for achievements, tho I would like to get glory of a hero at some time. I think it is the only chance I have at a fast proto Drake.

Guild Achievements

Interesting read posted by the wow.com who skimmed thru the WoW forums check it out if your curious about that sorta thing. :)

http://www.wow.com/2010/08/18/cataclysm-beta-guild-advancement-qanda/

The Quiet Before the Storm

I have noticed a definite lull in the game lately. Ruby Sanctum came out and haven't seen a lot of people loading that one up, not like Sunwell was for BC. I almost think people are just getting tired and have been waiting with bated breath for what is to come in Cata. Has Blizz ramped it up too much? I wonder.

I will admit I am looking forward to the changes that are coming and I have enjoyed reading some of the different posts that beta testers have put up but I think they may have flooded the market too soon. Maybe they are worried about people leaving especially with Star Wars: The Old Republic hitting stands some time next year. Maybe they just couldn't keep it in any longer and like giddy little fan bois they wanted to spread the word about their work.

On a toon note, I have been working on Crannoc a lot more lately. I thought I could go back to Airdrigh but there just isn't much of a call for healers as there are for tanks. Could be just me but it seems that every time I queue up for a random as a tank I get in right away. As a healer? Well in no way is the wait time as bad as a DPS but it is still quite long. Not exactly sure why that is but can only assume that people are exploring healing more with their alts than tanks, granted it is much easier to gear up a healer and to go into an instance and heal than it is to tank said instance. I am enjoying tanking and my sister and bro-in-law are getting back into the game so that is helping quite a bit too.

Ah well time to head back into it. Hope to talk to you all again real soon. :)

New Site

Seems Battle.net has been revamped a little, not sure if everyone has it, or if it just happened to me lately or what but must admit I am a little lost without. Ah the joys of change. I keep checking in to see if I have a beta invite yet and so far...no luck. I have been keeping up with some of the changes that are posted on the wow.com site as well as following the pwnwear.com blog whose author is in the beta. FYI pwnwear.com deals with dk tanking which if you don't know has been of interest to me since I leveled Crannoc and have been playing him lately. Just don't see as much call for healers as there are for tanks so figured I would help fill a role that way.

I am a little flighty when it comes to my toons and do have a habit of switching from one to another. I enjoy playing Airdrigh my shaman but like I said not much call for them since it seems that everyone is leveling a healer alt, but not that many want to tank. Did a full clear of ToC last nite that went very smoothly, fastest I have ever gone through there in my whole WoW carreer. Healers and DPS were top on and we only had one wipe that was on the first set of bosses, the pvp part even went smoothly which was unusual. Picked up a tanking ring out of there that was a definite upgrade. Hope to get into ICC with him some time and see how I do against the first 4 bosses minimum.

Side note. Been checking out Tankspot.com, and watching The Weekly Marmot. Pretty informative webcast though a little biased in that one plays a tankadin and the other plays a priest for the most part. They do have some interesting perspectives especially since they are trying out the Beta. Hop over there if you find the time and check it out.