30 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: jewelcrafting, patch, professions
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: [...]
20 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: defense, drop, glyph, heroic, holy, instance, jewelcrafting, pally, patch, professions, prot, raiding, retribution, tank, trinket
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 [...]
15 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: defense, heroic, jewelcrafting, pally, professions, prot, tank, trinket
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 [...]
14 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: defense, heroic, jewelcrafting, pally, professions, prot, raiding, retribution, tank, trinket, utgarde keep, utgarde pinnacle, violet hold
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 [...]
08 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: attack power, jewelcrafting, pally, patch, professions
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 [...]
09 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: instance, jewelcrafting, pally, professions, raiding, retribution
I grabbed a few more points in jewelcrafting now, up to 280. It’s not nearly complete and has already cost me around 750g. I’ve sold off a lot of my Cobalt Ore and have another 1k gold to blow on mats. I’ve got quite a few gems to cut for skill-up points, when/if they are [...]
08 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: cooking, jewelcrafting, mining, pally, professions, retribution
My pally dinged 80 on Friday! Yay!! Now I get to start working on leveling up jewelcrafting and eventually cooking. I just got my mining to 450 this morning and that means that I can start to craft some Titansteel Bars! My first goal will be the Spiked Titansteel Helm, followed by the Titansteel Destroyer. [...]
25 Nov
Posted by: petewood in: cooking, first aid, fishing, jewelcrafting, mining, professions
There are a few interesting links that I’d like to point out. One is from the wowhead blog. It is part one of a three part series on leveling the secondary trade skills: cooking, fishing and first aid. The second link is from a wow-related site that I very rarely, save this one aspect since [...]