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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been trying to write a new post regarding some of the new gear I’ve been receiving as a result of running more and more heroics but everytime I try, I get new gear and it screws up my post ever so slightly! This happened to me again last night! I ran two heroics and [...]
10 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: pally, retribution
This is my gear wishlist. Most of the gear is easily obtainable. The ideas are coming from MaxDPS.com. This list does not include any badge gear, any heroic 5-man gear or any 10/25-man gear. Put another way, this is only 5-man regular dungeon/crafted/quest/drop gear. Slot Current New Source Head The Horseman’s Helm Spiked Titansteel Helm [...]
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. [...]
My paladin finally got exalted with the Shattered Sun Offensive this morning. As soon as I became exalted, I bought two shields, the Dawnforged Defender (for tanking) and the Sunward Crest (for healing) and I bought three amulets, the Shattered Sun Pendant of Might for retribution and the Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen for healing and [...]
26 Sep
Posted by: petewood in: drop, holy, instance, pally, ramparts
From my Ramparts run yesterday, I got a new chest: Light-Touched Breastplate, a new ring: Band of Renewal, and a new back: Mok’Nathal Wildercloak. From turning in the quest to run Ramparts, I got some sorely needed new shoulders, Jade Warrior Pauldrons. All-in-all, I was very pleased with how things turned out yesterday, despite having [...]