Does Blizzard really think that all I deserve after this monumental boredom experiment is +24 Spell Power and +15 crit. It's hardly very 'uber', now is it? I think +50 Spell Power and +40 crit would much better reflect the nature of my pain and suffering. What do the readers think? Do people actually enjoy dailies?
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
BoomMummy celebrates
Well, thank my feathers and antlers for that! Exalted with the Sons of Hodir at last. I really don't know why I put myself through so much suffering just for the tiny extra amount of spell damage and crit. It's been pain all the way, doing the same dailies that everyone else is madly trying to farm at all hours of the day and night. The alternative would be to spend a fortune on the AH - and what with the credit crunch and everything, that was a no go.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Patchwerk Punting
Patchwerk is old news for many, now. He is on farm status. So why bring his royal ugliness up? Well, the Boomdaddy finally broke 4k dps on him last night. I know I know, lots of Boomkins are claiming 6k and over....we salute them, but we had hit a brick wall at 3.7-3.8k dps on the bugger. Last night though, we thought we had done a great piece of work on the werk and after the match downloaded the WWS report with trembly talons.
Did we make top 3?...nope...7th place with 4011dps on him (lovely but infuriating rogue was 555 total damage done above me in 6th grrrr). The important thing is we have done it, stepped up to a happier , higher level of dps. Before the fight I had a quick half hour of "eye of the tiger" warming up on target dummies, with the best result being 2980 till OOOMitis set in.
On the loot front, Boomdaddy is a very happy thunder chicken today. We woke up with the delight of equipping Dying Curse ! It does mean a whole mass of changing gear and gems, but its a sacrifice we are willing to make. We can kiss goodbye to the trinket of non-proccness now. Die No Proc Whetstone .
After the Naxx clearance , we went on to say hi to Malygos. Meh i hate that flippin' boss, his death still eludes me.5th place dps was better than 7th though. I wonder if my regular top 3 spot days are gone for good.
Did we make top 3?...nope...7th place with 4011dps on him (lovely but infuriating rogue was 555 total damage done above me in 6th grrrr). The important thing is we have done it, stepped up to a happier , higher level of dps. Before the fight I had a quick half hour of "eye of the tiger" warming up on target dummies, with the best result being 2980 till OOOMitis set in.
On the loot front, Boomdaddy is a very happy thunder chicken today. We woke up with the delight of equipping Dying Curse ! It does mean a whole mass of changing gear and gems, but its a sacrifice we are willing to make. We can kiss goodbye to the trinket of non-proccness now. Die No Proc Whetstone .
After the Naxx clearance , we went on to say hi to Malygos. Meh i hate that flippin' boss, his death still eludes me.5th place dps was better than 7th though. I wonder if my regular top 3 spot days are gone for good.
Saturday, 7 March 2009
PTR lurve
Courtesy of MMO champion.
Starfall cool down has been lowered from 3 min to 1.5 min.
When you absolutely, positively have to pull/kill every muther fooker in the room.Twice. We like anything that gives us the chance to do more damage but still not totally convinced that starfall has any great use in PVE. Is is a huge mana sink. We do love it in PvP though and will make AOE farming quicker. B+
Eclipse now gives you a 33% chance of increasing damage done by Wrath by 30% (up from 20%) when you critically hit with Starfire.
I will wait to read what the theory-crafting numberkins have to say about this. Does it mean that starfire to proc wrath eclipse will be the new black? Damn I was just getting used to it! I think the pendulum swings back to Starfire proccing Wrath as the highest dps rotation, but without some bimbling about I'm unsure how the changes to natures grace will work. B
Owlkin Frenzy now affects all attacks. (Old - Physical melee and ranged attacks only)
Good to see Blizz have changed their minds again. Enough said. B+ for waking up, Blizz.
Celestial Focus now reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Starfire, Hibernate and Cyclone by 23/46/70% and increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.
Losing the stun will effect PvPr's and leveling Boomkins the most. The stun was practically useless for raiding Moonkins. Think overall it just helps me sleep at night better knowing I have this instead of Owlkin frenzy.
Nature's Grace now increasing your spell casting speed by 20% for 3 sec. (Old - Reduced the casting time of your next spell by 0.5 sec.)
Haven't had any coffee yet but i think this is good news. 3 second duration......guessing haste will become even more important so that you can get off 3 wraths or 2 starfires during the proc.
Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral) now reduces the armor of the target for 5 min. (Up from 40 sec) Duration remains 40sec in PvP.
Even without coffee, I know this is good news. Little bit of wee, good news. IFF will no longer be a ginger step child spell. 5 mins!!!!! Bloody fantastic! Mana efficiency without pissing about with rotations.5% armour reduction and 3% haste for the raid, additionally 3% crit to us lovelies.Roll up roll up. We like. We like more than that exotic dancer we met in Greece. A+
Insect Swarm: The bonus damage from spellpower on this damage over time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes.
Again, this will be one for the brainbox Boomkins to suss out. But it looks like fabulous news for the DoT.A-
I think thats it. All in all some good news. We will just have so see what else comes out of the rinse and whether or not these changes ever make it live.
Starfall cool down has been lowered from 3 min to 1.5 min.
When you absolutely, positively have to pull/kill every muther fooker in the room.Twice. We like anything that gives us the chance to do more damage but still not totally convinced that starfall has any great use in PVE. Is is a huge mana sink. We do love it in PvP though and will make AOE farming quicker. B+
Eclipse now gives you a 33% chance of increasing damage done by Wrath by 30% (up from 20%) when you critically hit with Starfire.
I will wait to read what the theory-crafting numberkins have to say about this. Does it mean that starfire to proc wrath eclipse will be the new black? Damn I was just getting used to it! I think the pendulum swings back to Starfire proccing Wrath as the highest dps rotation, but without some bimbling about I'm unsure how the changes to natures grace will work. B
Owlkin Frenzy now affects all attacks. (Old - Physical melee and ranged attacks only)
Good to see Blizz have changed their minds again. Enough said. B+ for waking up, Blizz.
Celestial Focus now reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting Starfire, Hibernate and Cyclone by 23/46/70% and increases your total spell haste by 1/2/3%.
Losing the stun will effect PvPr's and leveling Boomkins the most. The stun was practically useless for raiding Moonkins. Think overall it just helps me sleep at night better knowing I have this instead of Owlkin frenzy.
Nature's Grace now increasing your spell casting speed by 20% for 3 sec. (Old - Reduced the casting time of your next spell by 0.5 sec.)
Haven't had any coffee yet but i think this is good news. 3 second duration......guessing haste will become even more important so that you can get off 3 wraths or 2 starfires during the proc.
Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral) now reduces the armor of the target for 5 min. (Up from 40 sec) Duration remains 40sec in PvP.
Even without coffee, I know this is good news. Little bit of wee, good news. IFF will no longer be a ginger step child spell. 5 mins!!!!! Bloody fantastic! Mana efficiency without pissing about with rotations.5% armour reduction and 3% haste for the raid, additionally 3% crit to us lovelies.Roll up roll up. We like. We like more than that exotic dancer we met in Greece. A+
Insect Swarm: The bonus damage from spellpower on this damage over time ability has been increased significantly to match similar spells on other classes.
Again, this will be one for the brainbox Boomkins to suss out. But it looks like fabulous news for the DoT.A-
I think thats it. All in all some good news. We will just have so see what else comes out of the rinse and whether or not these changes ever make it live.
Friday, 6 March 2009
Boomkin 1 Technology 0
I have to admit that the Boomdaddy is a tech-challenged. The pictures that have been previously posted have been courtesy of my lovely web mistress. She is a busy lady though and I need to stop bugging her with picture related crapness.....so its time to try and stand on my own two feathery feet. Exhibit A
Go me! Bit small but its my first attempt! I downloaded Gimp and have tried the picture crop, with some practice I may even become vaguely able to use the damn thing. Anyhoo that's a quick snapshot of last nights 3 wing clearance of Naxx 25. Curses on locks, hunters and rogues.
Go me! Bit small but its my first attempt! I downloaded Gimp and have tried the picture crop, with some practice I may even become vaguely able to use the damn thing. Anyhoo that's a quick snapshot of last nights 3 wing clearance of Naxx 25. Curses on locks, hunters and rogues.
Exhibit B......why my guildies will never get the Heigan achievement.......
Yup, the Boomdaddy was lying down on the job again. Its a sad day when the raid leader says "and the Boomdaddy will be showing you all where the lava burst comes from" as part of his stand up routine. It was one of four deaths I incurred, in a little disappointing personal performance.
Crit watch says 57% on wrath and 82% for starfire. Crit based mana regen 185,000 over the 9 bosses. Eclipse procced 54 times. One stat that is a tad concerning is that the Meteorite Whetstone only procced 2 times over 3 hours on the 9 bosses. To me , that's a whole load of haste that ain't happening. Its a fill in trinket while we wait for the best in slots, yes, but still it needs to get its thumb out of its arse or it will get filed under b for bin.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Spec Speculation
Duel specs are apparently on the way *insert trumpets now*. How do we feel about the concept? Dunno, at the moment its a mixture of ambivalence with a dash of shrug and a smidge of oh dear. I have read a few eminent blogger's views, done some navel gazing, found a little bit of smelly fluff and then mused some more. Conclusion being drawn in the Boomdaddy's head is that the jury is still out. It solves some problems and is a nice luxury to have , for sure....but its not without some drawbacks, methinks.On a purely personnal note, I may well invest in the latest gold sink but......
As to what the second spec will be ,I am still clueless. I am balance.I have always been balance.I levelled from 1-80 balance all the way (apart from 2 weeks of resto to help the guild finish Kara, and I will say anyone that levels resto deserves a big Boomkin pat on the back).I chose to do this because I fell in love with initially being a druid and then with the balance spec. I love my feral brethren, but being a bear head banger or a sneaky kitty cat simply doesn't float my boat. Our guilds top tank is feral, he's great, so let him have it.....me, I don't know the dribbly end from the stinky end of bears. I'm balance, Im the Boomdaddy, I was there when Boomkins were laughed at and not allowed to raid. I strove to learn my craft, read all I could, practiced practiced practiced...and by the time my guild hit SSC I was consistently in the top 5 dps, sometimes top.
The appeal of the balance druid for me, has always been the challenge to excel and the utility of the class. Utility, yes. We are the finest class around because we are flexible, hard working and have a set of abilities that are finally seen by guilds as being very attractive in raids. The rush of battle rezzing the main healer, cross healing till they are good to go and then swithching back to deal more death is awesome, and many times raid saving. Ok our dps will suffer and we don't like to be out of top 5 BUT we regularly save the day. If a specific fight needed a cross healer, there we were. I say all this because I don't wont to be a leafy drood. I'm more than happy to cross heal, rez and bring that utility to a raid but that doesn't mean I want to heal as a lifestyle choice.So is there a burning desire to have healing as an off spec? Nope, not even a warm tingle. I fought to make the Boomkin viable for raids whilst being a Boomkin, not a Boomkin with a spare healer in his luggage. My fear is for some of my brethren boomers who may get TOLD to have resto or feral as their offspec, that raid places will be assigned to those that have dps/heal rather than the dps'r that heals.
The whole bullshit "bring the player not the class" is simply going to get worse. By homogenising the classes so much, dumbing down the game content and virtually destroying any need for diversity or crowd contol, Blizzard have not done the player base any real favour. Feel free to throw rocks at my head but that's the way I feel. All the classes were there for different reasons, with different responsibilities....now its all some soupy mish mash. I feel for the pure dps classes on this one. Unless they get a bit of love many could feel the chill when they are left out in the cold. Having a completely viable raid with 25 droods or 25 palaroaches strikes me as hysterical. The current content (hopefully Ulduar will be diferent) simply doesn't require the diversity of TBC and duel specs will make this even more apparent.
It will make raiding simpler, the great unwashed shout! Yes it will, and that bloodywell blucks. The content needs to become harder not easier to keep the game a challenge and to keep its product life cycle in growth ,not decline.
From a guild perspective, duel specs could be great for ensuring everyone has the opportunity to do instances etc that they need. It will ease tank and healer shortages, even if the majority of them are clueless how to play their role. It might be nice "for a change" too. All pluses, for sure. I think our hardcore social guild will tell everyone that duel specs are optional and raiding will continue based on current mains. If people want to duel spec, its completely down to them. My fear is that this will not be the case in all guilds and that's where the little bit of "oh dear" comes in.
As to what the second spec will be ,I am still clueless. I am balance.I have always been balance.I levelled from 1-80 balance all the way (apart from 2 weeks of resto to help the guild finish Kara, and I will say anyone that levels resto deserves a big Boomkin pat on the back).I chose to do this because I fell in love with initially being a druid and then with the balance spec. I love my feral brethren, but being a bear head banger or a sneaky kitty cat simply doesn't float my boat. Our guilds top tank is feral, he's great, so let him have it.....me, I don't know the dribbly end from the stinky end of bears. I'm balance, Im the Boomdaddy, I was there when Boomkins were laughed at and not allowed to raid. I strove to learn my craft, read all I could, practiced practiced practiced...and by the time my guild hit SSC I was consistently in the top 5 dps, sometimes top.
The appeal of the balance druid for me, has always been the challenge to excel and the utility of the class. Utility, yes. We are the finest class around because we are flexible, hard working and have a set of abilities that are finally seen by guilds as being very attractive in raids. The rush of battle rezzing the main healer, cross healing till they are good to go and then swithching back to deal more death is awesome, and many times raid saving. Ok our dps will suffer and we don't like to be out of top 5 BUT we regularly save the day. If a specific fight needed a cross healer, there we were. I say all this because I don't wont to be a leafy drood. I'm more than happy to cross heal, rez and bring that utility to a raid but that doesn't mean I want to heal as a lifestyle choice.So is there a burning desire to have healing as an off spec? Nope, not even a warm tingle. I fought to make the Boomkin viable for raids whilst being a Boomkin, not a Boomkin with a spare healer in his luggage. My fear is for some of my brethren boomers who may get TOLD to have resto or feral as their offspec, that raid places will be assigned to those that have dps/heal rather than the dps'r that heals.
The whole bullshit "bring the player not the class" is simply going to get worse. By homogenising the classes so much, dumbing down the game content and virtually destroying any need for diversity or crowd contol, Blizzard have not done the player base any real favour. Feel free to throw rocks at my head but that's the way I feel. All the classes were there for different reasons, with different responsibilities....now its all some soupy mish mash. I feel for the pure dps classes on this one. Unless they get a bit of love many could feel the chill when they are left out in the cold. Having a completely viable raid with 25 droods or 25 palaroaches strikes me as hysterical. The current content (hopefully Ulduar will be diferent) simply doesn't require the diversity of TBC and duel specs will make this even more apparent.
It will make raiding simpler, the great unwashed shout! Yes it will, and that bloodywell blucks. The content needs to become harder not easier to keep the game a challenge and to keep its product life cycle in growth ,not decline.
From a guild perspective, duel specs could be great for ensuring everyone has the opportunity to do instances etc that they need. It will ease tank and healer shortages, even if the majority of them are clueless how to play their role. It might be nice "for a change" too. All pluses, for sure. I think our hardcore social guild will tell everyone that duel specs are optional and raiding will continue based on current mains. If people want to duel spec, its completely down to them. My fear is that this will not be the case in all guilds and that's where the little bit of "oh dear" comes in.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Back to Boom
Hmmmmm I have been remiss on posting the last couple of days, due to a lack of any happy content to share and due to car crashes involving knife wielding ,non insured hoodies. But this is about the highest evolution of druids and not my secret agent like life....so on with some news.
25 man Naxx. Don't even go there. Nope, we were shite.Not just bad but shite.Don't know if it was the mix of battle rezzing, off healing, frequent deaths or what...but we were ashamed to be the Boomdaddy. Some how we managed to both suck and blow at the same time....we blucked I guess. Even the tight arsed magetards ate us up and pooped us out like twiglets.
The upside is we finished off 25 man Naxx again last night followed by Sartharion 25 with one drake up. I didn't capture the figures for the final two bosses in Naxx, but on the big cuddly dwagon (plus friend) the BoomMummy came in second placed dps and the Boomdaddy came in 5th. 3380 dps and 3090 dps respectively. A little pride was restored to the Boomkin nest at least. Warlocks seem unbeatable in raids at the moment...but that may change a little now the Boomdaddy has a new toy......drum roll
Good Head Love
Yep, the T7.5 helm voucher dropped and we were high enough placed in the epgp list to nab it, Sorry Boommummy. That little beauty gives me the 4 set bonus (helm, chest, gloves, shoulders) and we are a token or two away from the legs also. Happy days. It's meant we can swap our crit legs for the haste leggings of the winged serpent. Stats stand at 1742 spell damage, 299 hit, 27.66% crit (now effectively 32.66% with the set bonus..weeeeee) and 333 haste.
Roll on the next raid to see if any of that makes any difference!
25 man Naxx. Don't even go there. Nope, we were shite.Not just bad but shite.Don't know if it was the mix of battle rezzing, off healing, frequent deaths or what...but we were ashamed to be the Boomdaddy. Some how we managed to both suck and blow at the same time....we blucked I guess. Even the tight arsed magetards ate us up and pooped us out like twiglets.
The upside is we finished off 25 man Naxx again last night followed by Sartharion 25 with one drake up. I didn't capture the figures for the final two bosses in Naxx, but on the big cuddly dwagon (plus friend) the BoomMummy came in second placed dps and the Boomdaddy came in 5th. 3380 dps and 3090 dps respectively. A little pride was restored to the Boomkin nest at least. Warlocks seem unbeatable in raids at the moment...but that may change a little now the Boomdaddy has a new toy......drum roll
Good Head Love
Yep, the T7.5 helm voucher dropped and we were high enough placed in the epgp list to nab it, Sorry Boommummy. That little beauty gives me the 4 set bonus (helm, chest, gloves, shoulders) and we are a token or two away from the legs also. Happy days. It's meant we can swap our crit legs for the haste leggings of the winged serpent. Stats stand at 1742 spell damage, 299 hit, 27.66% crit (now effectively 32.66% with the set bonus..weeeeee) and 333 haste.
Roll on the next raid to see if any of that makes any difference!
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