my everything else blog... » enchants http://dfktv.com warcraft from a paladin's perspective Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:28:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 3.1 is live – yay http://dfktv.com/2009/04/31-is-live-yay/ http://dfktv.com/2009/04/31-is-live-yay/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:37:36 +0000 petewood http://dfktv.com/?p=327 Patch 3.1 is finally live. The servers were down all day and most of the night (for me, on the east coast). I guessed the servers would come up around 10pm EST and from what I saw, I was mostly right. I checked at 9 and my server was down. I checked again at 11:30ish and it was up.

I logged in just for a few minutes, mostly to buy my 2nd spec, spend the points and to glyph up both specs.

My account still stands as canceled but I am definitely more intrigued than I have been recently. I believe my boredom with the game stemmed from doing the same thing for too long. I’d log in, do my JC daily, heal some battlegrounds (as ret, in PvP holy gear), look for a group for a heroic and very little else.

Since I canceled my account, I changed my habits a bit. I finally dropped mining and picked up enchanting, like I said I would many months ago. I needed to keep a minimum of 1k gold so I could get the dual spec talent so I didn’t want to spend a LOT of gold leveling it. As a result, I spent a lot of time in Sholazar Basin and did all of the quests there, mostly for the green quest rewards. I made a lot of gold in the process.

I manage to get enchanting up to 380. I was able to DE most of the epics that I no longer use. Another 20 points, and I’ll have access to the ring enchants that enchanters can use.

As for which specs I chose, my primary is ret and my secondary is holy. I’d link to my builds, but my armory appears to be borked!

Regarding the ret major glyphs that I will be using, I’m going with Josh’s choices: Glyph of Judgement, Glyph of Consecration, and Glyph of Exorcism. If I find I need more mana, I’ll be using Glyph of Seal of  Blood in lieu of the consecration glyph.

As for my holy major glyphs, I’m going to be using the Glyph of Holy Light, Glyph of Holy Shock and one other, that I haven’t determined yet.

I haven’t purchased the glyphs yet because they are crazy expensive at the moment. The judement glyph was selling for 75g last night and the exorcism glyph was selling for 86g! It serves me right though, I should have been more diligent about buying them before 3.1 came out.

I currently have 25 JC tokens stock-piled. I assumed the new JC resilience patterns would require JC tokens to purchase, but I was wrong so it looks like I’ll be buying dragon’s eyes and selling them so that I can fund my enchanting.

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Enchants

Head

  1. Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector revered with Argent Crusade

Shoulders

  1. Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle exalted with Son’s of Hodir

Legs

  1. Frosthide Leg Armor 55 stam, 22 agi; LW, easy mats if none are in ah

Feet

  1. Tuskarr’s Vitality 15 stam, minor run speed increase; The loss of 7 stam is very minor but the run speed increase may come in handy on some fights
  2. Enchant Boots – Greater Fortitude 22 stam; 3 lesser cosmic essence, 3 infinite dust

Weapon

  1. Enchant Weapon – Potency 20 strength, increase shield block value by 10 (via modifiers), BC enchant; this is my personal choice
  2. Titanium Weapon Chain 28 hit rating, reduces the length of disarm effects by 50%

Shield

  1. Enchant Shield – Defense 20 def, 6 Infinite Dust and 6 Eternal Earth
  2. Titanium Plating 40 shield block value, from blacksmiths

Waist

  1. Eternal Belt Buckle buy in AH, put a blue gem 24 stam gem in

Wrist

  1. Enchant Bracer – Major Stamina 40 stam; 4 greater cosmic essence, 1 abyss crystal

Hands

  1. Enchant Gloves – Armsman 2% increased threat, 10 parry;  my personal choice
  2. Enchant Gloves – Expertise 20 expertise, 20 infinite dust, 2 greater cosmic essence

Chest

  1. Enchant Chest – Greater Defense 22 defense to chest, 10 infinite dust, 1 eternal earth
  2. Enchant Chest – Powerful Stats 10 to all stats, expensive mats (15 infinite dust, 4 abyss crystals)
  3. Enchant Chest – Super Stats 8 to all stats, relatively inexpensive (4 infinite dust, 2 lesser cosmic essence)

Back

  1. Enchant Cloak – Titanweave 16 def, 2 titanium bars, 2 dream shards, 8 infinite dust

Gems

Blue (green, purple)

  1. Solid Sky Sapphire 24 stam

Red (orange, purple)

  1. Champion’s Monarch Topaz 8 def, 8 str
  2. Sovereign Twilight Opal 8 str, 12 stam

Yellow (orange, green)

  1. Thick Autumn’s Glow 16 def
  2. Enduring Forest Emerald 8 def, 12 stam

Prismatic

  1. Solid Dragon’s Eye JC only, +41 stam
  2. Enchanted Tear 6 all stats; unique equipped

Meta

  1. Austere Earthsiege Diamond 32 stam, 2% inc armor value; my personal choice
  2. Eternal Earthsiege Diamond 21 def, 5% shield block value

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