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: Destructive Skyflare Diamond
420
Design: Thundering Skyflare Diamond
420
Orange [...]
20 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: heroic, instance, jewelcrafting, pally, patch, prot, tank
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 Sky [...]
16 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: pally, patch, prot, retribution, tank
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 [...]
08 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: heroic, holy, jewelcrafting, pally, patch, prot, retribution, trinket
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 with [...]
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 (from JC gem, see below) [...]
Woot!! This was one annoying ass bug!!
Judgement bug fixed
Okay, we think we have been able to isolate this bug and put in a fix that prevents Judgements from failing any longer. Assuming a little more testing supports this conclusion we plan on hotfixing this.
Sorry you had to endure it for so long. (Source)
In case you [...]
15 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: glyph, holy, instance, pally, prot, retribution, tank
I respecced to prot over the weekend because I really liked tanking instances. I wanted to get to the 540 defense rating that makes you uncrittable by raid bosses 3 level over you (i.e. level 83). I was looking to get as close to that number as possible with the tanking gear that I’ve been [...]