Posts filed under 'Shaman'
This is a bit of a belated post. I actually dinged 80 on the 6th September.
The route I took to levelling them.
0-60 boosting through various Azeroth instances.
60-66 a mix of questing and early BC instances. I did Hellfire Ramparts, and blood furnace, slave pens, steamvaults and mana tombs. Cleared most of the the nagrand quests (apart from the arena event).
66-68 was mainly in Battlegrounds.
68-71 Mostly questing in Northrend to gear up. Did a chunk of BG’s too.
From 71 to 80 just blew by. 99% of the time was spent in BG’s with brief forays in questing. I did break at 77 to do a chunk of quests in Sholazar basin.
The only negative to the whole BG levelling was the lack of income. Only one of my shaman has cold weather flying. The other 3 don’t even have flying yet. To be fair I had stripped all the gold off of my horde characters a while back to transfer to alliance so i could get an epic flapper on my druid so that didn’t help.
In fact i’ve only just got enough money together to train up all the shaman fully.
I suppose I could go and do a load of quests. There are entire areas I haven’t even hit yet so that would bring in a nice quick income. Then again I believe there are some welfare mounts you can get that fly at walking speed. They are over in K3, but if it allowed me to open up the dailies on all my guys it might just be worth it.
However, the battlegrounds are still calling to me. I haven’t bothered doing anything but AV at the moment but perhaps it’s time to hit up arathi, eye of the storm, strand of the ancient. Not sure if I would do warsong gulch - taking up 4 slots as a multiboxer might not be the best move.
September 14th, 2009
Last night was somewhat unexpected.
No scheduled raid and not enough people to do a run with so I wasn’t expecting much. However one of our guildies has been making overtures to another small guild that don’t quite have the member base to raid, or don’t want to be a raiding guild. We were going to do a few trial runs of heroics with mixed guild runs to see what the other people in the guild were like, when one of our guildies noticed we could put together a 10 man. 7 from our guild and 3 from the other.
So we found our way to outside of Naxx. Gave out vent details and did some brief introductions. The folks seemed nice enough and off we all went.
We had a whale of a time. We did spider wing super quick. Had an unlucky wipe on Faerlina when she was very low on hitpoints, but sailed through it. We then headed on to the plague wing.
Our last run there took out Noth the plaguebringer and we finally downed Heigan after wipes.
This time round we killed Heigan on our second attempt and found ourselves in front of loatheb. Apparently loatheb is a bit of a gear check (similar to the curator fight in Kara).
If you can’t down this guy you need to gear up, it’s as simple as that. It’s a fairly simple tank and spank. Healers have a hard time as they appear to get 3 second windows to heal through, the rest of the time they can’t heal.
We downed Loatheb with no problems at all.
So our joint run was very successfull. The other guild seem to match ours in their attitude. Lots of friendly camraderie, no guilt trips, and no egos in play. So things look bright for fun raiding.
We’ll be hitting up Naxx again on Friday. I’m hoping we will definitely clear at least one of the other wings (if not both)
We’ve done a bit of the construct ring before. Downing Patchwerk but wiping on grobbulus so it will be great if we can take him out this time.
April 30th, 2009
Last wednesday our guild took our second run at Naxx.
We started out in the spider wing, and had no problems, other than wiping on Faerlina who we successfully one shotted last time.
We had plenty of time left and so decided to try another wing.
So found ourselves very quickly up against Patchwork. This was a very easy fight for us. Tank and spank and we downed him really easily.
Then we hit Grobbulus, and just couldn’t get by him. The first few times we were just getting used to where the druid was kiting him, where we would run to to wait out the debuff. In theory this isn’t a tricky fight, but no matter what we did we couldn’t finish this guy off. Our best attempt got him down to about 1/6th of his hits, so we know he was doable. We ran out of kiting room, as it appears some people weren’t dropping off the debuff where they should have. However after about 6-7 wipes on this boss we had to call it a night.
I know everyone else has been running Naxx forever but I’m loving the fact that our guild is learning this fight together. My previous experiences of raiding has always been joining a well geared up group who know the fights inside out, but I definitely prefer being in a group with friends and learning the fights and gaining the achievements together.
April 14th, 2009
So I spent some time putting together my elemental shaman build for Patch 3.0
I’m primarily PVE focused, with a bit of BG’s for fun, so this build reflects that,
Elemental (51 points)
5 Convection
5 Concussion
1 Elemental Focus
5 elemental fury
2 Improved Fire Nova Totem
3 Eye of the Storm
2 Storm reach
1 Call of thunder
1 Unrelenting Storm
1 Elemental Precision
5 Lightning Mastery
1 Elemental Mastery
3 Elemental Shields
2 Elemental Oath
4 Lightning Overload
3 Astral Shift
1 Totem of Wrath
5 Storm, Earth and Fire
1 ThunderStorm
Enhancement (10 points)
5 Ancestral Knowledge
5 Thundering Strikes
In theory it should do okay for PVP as well as PVE although I might move a couple of points to improved ghost wolf for quick escapes.
I love the idea of thunderstorm (mainly for PVP I guess - I at least want to try pushing a few enemies off the bridges in AV and Eye of the Storm).
October 21st, 2008