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 [...]

Daily savings time rolled through this past Saturday. I set (most) of my clocks one hour ahead. My computers did this automagically. My WoW server, did not apparently. I’m a jewelcrafter. I’m a casual player. If I don’t get to play a lot (more than 30m) on a given day, I do like to do [...]

I don’t know how I only realized it now, but the recently implemented patch 3.0.8 added 13 new world drop jewelcrafting recipes. From the greatness that is wowhead, here they are. These drop only if you are a jewelcrafter, regardless if you’re 450/450 or 1/75. Design JC Level Meta Design: Beaming Earthsiege Diamond 420 Design: [...]

I’ve been very busy since my last post. Between the time 3.0.8 went live and now, I’ve been running heroics and leveling jewelcrafting and also doing somethings I never thought I would do – raid 25-man Naxx and 25-man Obsidian Sanctum. The 25-man Naxx/OS runs were very fun. I was the 3rd tank or the [...]

The only thing that I didn’t like about tanking H Gundrak was that I felt I has too little health. Then I remembered I could make one of the stamina-oriented trinkets that jewelcrafters can make, the Monarch Crab and I would still be above the raid crit cap of 540 defense! I added a Solid [...]

This past weekend was a great weekend for my pally. I got a quite a few achievements, raided Naxxramas as ret (I actually left with four drops) and I bit the bullet and respecced prot and tanked my first WotLK instance, a heroic one at that! Naxx I raided Naxx with my guild on Friday [...]

I put on my prot gear this morning, got a Frosthide Leg Armor kit filled in the empty gems slots green gem slots I had and logged out before work. When I left home, I was sitting at just under 20k health. I want my health to be 24,000 unbuffed.  I’ve been looking over the [...]

In the very near future, I will be switching from ret to prot. When dual specs are implemented, I’ll be prot and ret (possibly prot and holy). I have a very decent set of tanking gear (including the Bolstered Legplates from Heroic Violet Hold). I just got the 16 expertise JC pattern,  the Precise Scarlet [...]

I dumped 375 skinning and picked up jewelcrafting the day before Wrath of the Lich King was released. A LOT of people told me that I was stupid for doing that. Some pointed out that I should have waited until I accrued enough money to level JC from 1-375 in one day. I can agree [...]

The Spiked Titansteel Helm is being changed in patch 3.0.8. The old, 3.0.3 version looks like this: AP: str 113 => 259.9 AP (str x 2.3) Crit: 66 => 1.27% crit (agi/52.08, it takes 52.08 agi to give you 1% crit) The 3.0.8 version looks like this, (image courtesy of WorldOfRaids.com): AP, JC pally:  97str+27str [...]