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 [...]

There was a sweet enchant on the PTR named Titanguard. In it’s original design it was a weapon enchant that gave 75 stamina. It was changed to be a 50 stam enchant. The mats were relatively cheap in my opinion, 4 dream shards and 1 titanium bar. Now it appears that Blizzard has removed it [...]

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 [...]

Today, I installed the WoW Armory addon by Tim of timsworld.nfshost.com. Look in my sidebar on the right, it’s a beautiful plugin. The only thing I saw missing from the plugin was that none of my enchants or gems were showing up on my gear. I asked in a comment if it was possible to [...]

I created a spreadsheet over at Google Docs so that I can just modify the spreadsheet as my situation changes and  this post will be automatically updated as the spreadsheet is changed. Seems simple and efficient, right? This is all pre-raid gear since who know when I’ll step foot in Naxx, if ever. There are [...]

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 [...]