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Flying Mount at Level 60 Changes Everything

Renei — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:12:08 +0000

My Blood Elf Paladin, Wesha, is now level 64. I went to Outlands as fast as I possibly could, at level 58, and started clearing out the quests in Hellfire Peninsula. Before I knew it, I was level 60, and to my surprise a note appeared in my Mailbox, inviting to learn the riding skill that would allow me to have a flying mount.

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I thought it was a mistake for sure. I mean, the last time I went through that, Outlands had not yet been nerfed, and I had to hoof it everywhere until I got to level 77 in Northrend (or whatever).

Nevertheless, I didn’t ignore the note in my Mailbox. The riding trainer is right there in Thrallmar, and after a very short conversation with him, I spent 500 WoW Gold, plus 47 Wow Gold for the Flying Mount, and became the proud owner of a Blue Wind Rider. The choice of colors was atrocious, all pastels. You’d have thought that I was choosing a mount from the Miami Vice stables… But that doesn’t matter.

What’s important that my little Blood Elf Paladin got a Flying Mount at Level 60! Let me tell you, that changes EVERYTHING! Since I already have several high-level characters, I know Outlands pretty well, and having a flying mount has allowed me to level faster than ever before.

Between Saturday morning and Sunday evening, I gained no less than FOUR LEVELS! And without breaking a sweat! The Flying Mount allows you to complete quests without bothering how to get there. You can just fly around the map, completing quests, killing mobs, gathering knick-knacks, all in the blink of an eye! Of course this requires either prior knowledge, or the judicious use of Thottbot, but no matter, you get the picture.

I think that I will be level 68 by the end of next weekend, and from then on, Northend beckons! I’ll keep you posted, however I’m pretty sure (without having checked!) that Northrend has not been nerfed, so I can probably say goodbye to my Flying Mount once I reach the northern continent. We’ll see.

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My Blood Elf Paladin, Wesha

Renei — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:08:57 +0000

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Hey everyone! I know its been a long time since I wrote, and I want to talk about what I’ve been doing. In real life, my ongoing battle to quit smoking is still raging, with no easy victory achieved there, and I’ve started learning Kung Fu.

But enough of this real-life stuff! My adventures in World of Warcraft have been ongoing, despite the fact that I’ve not played any of my high-level toons for a while now. Mordauk, Mandorall, Renei, even Grunman have been mothballed for the foreseeable future (an oxymoron, I know, since the future is by definition not foreseeable). Couple of reasons for this: our guild leader, Chianna, seems to have retired (maybe she’s playing Everquest?) and with her gone, the spirit of the guild seems to have leaked out like a punctured tire. This means no other way to do instances than with PUGS and I dislike that quite a bit. Too many doosches.

Plus, as I’m sure you know, running instances take TIME, which I’m trying to spend on some other endeavours.

BUT. I could not – would not – kill the WoW monster entirely, and for that purpose, I have created a new character: it is WESHA, an outrageously conceited, albeit very good looking, Blood Elf Paladin. After what seems like very little time actually played, Wesha is now level48 and well on his way to the Outlands, and Northrend beyond it. I’m not sure whether I’ll have the gumption to play him all the way to 80, but right now it seems like a distinct possibility.

‘You know what I love most about your eyes? When I look deep into them, … I can see my own reflection.”

Love that. Can’t wait to try it out! Of course Wesha has got a dead squirrel on his tabard, so it may make it difficult for him to pick up chicks.

But anyways. The number of zones to clear to gain levels seems to have dropped again, the whole of vanilla WoW seems nerfed and easy. Not that I’m complaining, since I’m playing alone, mostly. But it seems too easy. When I played Mandorall, way back when, it seemed that reaching level 30 – for example – was a real feat, and getting the slow mount at LEVEL FORTY something worthy of respect. Not so much now.

Neither here nor there. My conviction that what I love most about World of Warcraft is to gain levels, rediscover abilities, and enjoy the increased power and destructive potential of my toons is intact.

Of course, I can’t wait for the new expansion, but I’m wondering which of my characters will have the honour of playing it first.

We’ll see when we get there! And remember to check out my food website for cool new recipes and tales of my culinary adventures!

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[Beneficent Bulwark] in Borean Tundra

Renei — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:12:31 +0000

Eheh. A couple of days ago, I got yet another fun little Blue drop in Borean Tundra. I don’t know if its just me that has been playing a lot, and therefore increasing my chances for good stuff to drop, or that Blizzard changes the drop rates, but it seems like Blue items have been dropping like crazy.

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My bet is that its just me. Blizzard have enough trouble managing the server economies without screwing it up by introducing tons of valuable items and contributing even more to inflationnary pressures.

But that’s a topic for another article. Right now we are concentrating on the [Beneficent Bulwark]. It dropped for me from a level 71 Talramas Abomination in Borean Tundra. I didn’t even have to fight that hard to get it!

It is a Blue Shield (pun intended) that has a level requirement of 69 to equip. Here are the stats:

4283 Armor
101 Block Value
19 Intellect Bonus
Improves Critical Strike Rating by 19
Increase Spell Power by 22
Restores 9 Mana per 5 secondes

Overall, the Mana and Intellect bonus make this an excellent shield for a Paladin or Shaman that concentrates on healing. I read that in the Beta version of Wrath of the Lich King, it originally had a +19 Spirit bonus, but that was replaced with a +19 bonus to the Critical Strike Rating, which I think is excellent, since you can get Enchants that will add a Spirit bonus to the Shield. If that’s your thing.

Obviously, I will not be using this item. My Paladin is Retribution, and uses 2-Handed weapons. Even if he did use a shield, for tanking, he would want one with defense bonuses, since he has sworn off healing anybody but himself forever, especially in Instances. See previous article about Utgarde Keep.

The Auction House values for this shield vary from database to database, from 49g on Thottbot to 80g on Allakhazam.

Because I’m greedy, I will probably list it for more at least once, and see how it goes. I’ve sold too many Blues too fast recently to think that I couldn’t have gotten a few bucks more for them!

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Paladin’s Lay on Hands Emergency Spell

Renei — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:58:15 +0000

Lay on Hands is one of the Paladin abilities that are so far out of the rotation that you almost never use them. Personally, I always have to be reminded by someone to be ready to use it, or even that it exists.

I call it an emergency spell because it is very good – very powerful, and it has a long cooldown, 20 minutes.

What Lay on Hands does is restore health equal to caster’s total health, as well as a predetermined amount of mana, up to 1950 at Lay on Hands (Level 5). That means if you cast it on yourself, you will be back up to 100% health and will have more mana that you started with, since Lay on Hands does not cost any mana to cast.

It is a very useful spell when all else has gone bad, to pull yourself or a buddy out of a difficult situation. Moreoever, since the latest patch, the cooldown is down to 20 minutes from the 60 minutes it originally was.

Also, before the patch, casting Lay on Hands would cost you all of your remaining Mana, whether 1 or 10,000. Definitely a big upgrade!

By investing 11 points in the Holy tree of World of Warcraft’s Paladin talents, you can get Improved Lay on Hands, which will reduce the cooldown by 2/4 minutes.

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A Paladin in Utgarde Keep

Renei — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:14:41 +0000

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Utgarde Keep is the first instance you will encounter if you start your Wrath of the Lich King adventures in Howling Fjord. I don’t want to go in very much detail insofar as the story goes, mostly because I don’t really know it, but basically, and much like every other instance in World of Warcraft, you have to go in and kill everything that moves.

Utgarde Keep is a 5-man instance, “man” being a relative and all-encompassing term. Our dedicated group, drawn from the ranks of the “Brute Force” Guild, was composed of:

Hladonar, Level 74 Feral Druid – “The Tank”
Drehand, Level 71 Hunter – DPS, “The Silent One”
Chianna, Level 71 Mage – DPS, “Dear Leader”
Gravewax, Level 71 Mage – DPS, “Chuckles” and owner of big bags

and that’s it… Oh wait. There’s me, too. I was hoping to exclude myself. Darn.

Mandorall, Level 71 Paladin – Healer, “The Clueless”

See, I was hoping that Hladonar would heal, and that Kithany would tank. Unfortunately, Kit respecced to Retribution – good call by the way – so Mandorall was dragooned into respeccing for Healing, against his better judgement.

Was that a good call? Read on!

Utgarde Keep is populated by those same Viking-type Norse giants that seem to haunt the rest of Howling Ford, the Vyrkul. The non-boss mobs were no match for our awesome power, and they went down fast. Everyone was lulled into a false sense of security because I did not have to heal much. Boy, did I have a surprise in store for everyone!

Then we came upon the first boss, Prince Keleseth. What a tool that guy is, sort of like a giant Blood Elf, with the same condescending gaze. To make a long story short, we wiped 4 times before finally taking him down. Several of those wipes were caused by my inability to Heal properly, and at least once because I cast Lay on Hands on myself by mistake instead of on the tank. Oups.

Anyways, on with the adventure, which from my point of view is getting more and more frustrating, mostly because of my nagging sense of responsibility for the numerous wipes.

We then proceeded, as a group, to slaughter a whole bunch of other trash mobs, which dropped absolutely nothing of worth in terms of loot, but did restore a little bid of my confidence. Healing only 800-900 at a time with Flash of Light, I was hoping for a boss-free dungeon trek from then on.

Leaving behind us a path of ruin and desolation, we came upon the next boss, who are two named Vyrkul at the bottom of some steps. Despite a wipe or three, we managed to overcome them without too much aggravation, if you exclude the fact that by then I had chewed my knuckles bloody. The sacrifices we have to make, I guess.

The going was smooth until we got to the last boss. Some giant – again – named Ingvar, who has the terribly rude ability to get rezzed once you take him down. He also “shouts” a lot, besides the usual grunting and complaining. All this unseemly noise turned out to be an area of effect spell that damaged everyone in the party, yours truly included. Since I had so much trouble just keeping the tank from dying, I could not spare any heals for either myself of anybody else.

We wiped 5 times on the last boss. Everyone’s equipment started turning yellow, then red, so we had to go back to the town to repair. When we came back, SURPRISE! the Instance had reset. Everyone was pretty dungeoned-out by then, so we called it a night.

We did not manage to kill the last boss, I’m sorry to say, and it seems to me that most of those wipes were caused in great part by my inability to Heal properly.

But all is not lost! Oh no! I learned a valuable lesson!

And the valuable lesson is: “A Holy Respecc Does Not a Healer Make.” Especially a last minute respecc on a Paladin with low-grade Retribution gear.

That’s the lesson. Anytime you want a Healer, feel free to ask! I’ll then point you to Hladonar, or Vitamina, or Talarin, or anyone esle but me.

Cheers!

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