Dreadmoon

Quick Update

2008-08-26T15:32:41Z

Geez, almost 6 months since my last entry.

A lot have happened in the land of Azeroth to Dreadmoon and Co.

I am not longer a part of the Royal Regiment guild, Dread and everyone else moved and in doing so, they become End-Game raiders. E Pluribus Unum is their house now, and Dread the raiding wench!

From starting Karazhan in early February to being in Mount Hyjal and Black Temple! Quite the amazing journey!

WotLK talents coming your way!

2008-08-26T15:27:04Z

It seems that Blizzard is bringing the new talent trees before Wrath of the Lich King is released.

With that in mind, I think Dread will be going for this spec 0/50/11

I am very interested in seeing Improve Mangle and Infected Wounds work together.

At this point in time, I am not sure that Master Shapeshifter is worth 5 points, and I am giving away Intensity for the extra damage that Mangle and wounds will inflict.

Slimme, on her side will be completely dependent on her pet, a "full" beast master spec that goes to 51/10/0

Hopefully, the +5 talent points for the pet will make all the difference for my farming toon.

Ayeela is going for a heavy Demonology spec, 5/51/5. First test, before going full affliction 51/5/5, this spec looks like a nice damage dealer but will require more work.

Happy times!

Karazhan, here I come!

2008-02-04T15:09:16Z

Went to Karazhan with Royal Regiment for my first time ever last Friday.

I could only stay for 3 bosses: Attumen, Moroes and Maiden of Virtue.

Lucky me I got Royal Cloak of Arathi Kings and the Bracers of Maliciousness both for my DPS set.

I was off-tanking Midnight and Moroes and trash, when my target was down I always switched to DPS to add to the killing.

BTW, after spending close to 700g in Coilfang Armaments I got exalted with Cenarion Expedition and bought my Earthwarden, which, of course, was enchanted with the +35 enchant

I also bought the Idol of Terror and I am amazed at how regularly it procs .

Finally, I also updated my shoulders to the Arena Season 1 Dragonhide ones, I am getting there

Supposedly this week I am starting in a brand new Kara group with Hrathius, so it will be fun.

Update! I am still ALIVE!

2008-01-22T22:56:37Z

A lot has happened since the last time I blog here. I will try to make a succinct post about the most relevant events and dig deeper on some of them on later entries.

* There was an implosion in Third Life (the guild) that created the need to move most 70s to other guilds. The implosion occurred when the guild lost several of their founding members. The guild came to a halt that did not help the existing high-level players so the overall decision was to take high level players to another guild. Most of us are now part of Royal Regiment.

* I finally succumbed to the pressure of my friend Zaisho and transfered Ayeela to his server (Thrall) to play with him from time to time.

* Dread has begun tanking heroics instances. I find the task very challenging and fun.

Now that we covered the majot topics I will let them be explained in detail in other posts.

Ding!

2007-10-24T19:56:39Z

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After ditching skinning and after a few tedious weeks collecting flowers all over Azeroth and Outlands, Slimme has finally reached the herbalism pinnacle!

She's now the official farming toon of the family.

With Slimme at 375 herbalism and mining now Dreadmoon as taken the charge of leveling enchanting. From 1 to 300 is the fist goal :-)

]]> There were 2 main reasons why I decided to pick up enchanting with Dread instead of Slimme.

1) He has a much higher survivability, soloing instances efficiency. This means that I will be able to run thu old low level instances all by myself if needed to pick up the greens and blues and create enchanting mats for my leveling.

2) Dreadmoon has become the grouping (and in the future) raiding toon, he's the one that will have access to much better loot and b/c of that to DE old gear and weapons.

It is DISCOVERY time!

2007-09-26T19:22:06Z

First discovery I make, now I can transmute primal earth to primal life. Besides, I got 4 diamonds instead of 1.

:-)

]]> First discovery I make, now I can transmute primal earth to primal life. Besides, I got 4 diamonds instead of 1.

:-)

Truism!

2007-08-14T15:04:25Z

Found this quote in the Druid forums today:

"If the tank dies, it's the healer's fault. If the healer dies, it's the tank's fault. If anyone else dies, it's their own damn fault"

]]> Never heard more true words. One thing that seems to be a little hard accomplishing is making sure people in instance groups understand the concepts of "rage" and "focus fire".

If a group can concentrate on a single target and let the tank (druid or warrior) get enough rage and threat, then the instance becomes a breeze. Simply because the healer has only one toon to concentrate in and the tank has to be aware of healing aggro only.

I am still learning the tanking ropes. Lately I discovered that I am doing fine in lower level instances but need much more practice in high-level ones.

More fun sigs

2007-07-25T19:20:48Z

""Why can a Warrior manage to uncork and chug a potion in combat wearing plate gauntlets while juggling a sword and shield yet a bearform druid can not. You'd think the bear could just eat the flask."

Merendel - Moonrunner

Dreadmoon has finally hit the big seven-O

2007-07-25T19:16:33Z

Dreadmoon is now 70 and as feral as ever.

I am pretty sure that most people know that I leveled Dreadmoon from 1 to 60 as a balance druid, the first chicken in the block.

]]> I changed to Feral upon reaching Outlands and leaving We Know just because there was a lack of tanks and someone had to do it.

First few levels were a complete pain. Learning how to tank from scratch was painful (specially for my comrades in arms).

Now, after 10 levels playing the furry bear, I have to admit that I enjoy tanking very much.

Funny sigs

2007-06-12T19:11:45Z

Mages are the inn keeper hero class. giving the group 5 extra hearth locations and free water/food.

World of the Fellowship of the Ringcraft.. WTF????

2007-06-01T20:19:56Z

What happens when you merge J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings with WoW?

]]> http://fellowcraft.ytmnd.com/

Sum durids R bare... the Alamo teachings

2007-03-13T14:57:46Z

Chances are, if you ever played a Druid, you know who Alamo is. For those of you that are still clueless; here are the links to his two teaching guides... and a little something to entice you.

]]> Alamo teeches U 2 play DURID!

Alamo teeches u 2 Burnin Croosaid!

Dreadmoon is going Feral!

2007-03-05T16:39:33Z

One of the things I enjoy most about WoW is the grouping piece, being able to play with friends. One of the reasons we created Evanescent Dawn was to be able to go and play together among friends.

]]> Dreadmoon has always been a balance druid, back in the time, it was the first "chicken" druid of We Know.

Since the closest high level warrior the guild has is Thondir. So, while he levels up, I decided to take charge of the tanking for the guild.

At the beggining the idea of going feral was not very pleasant, I even went with the classical 0/31/21 spec to have Nature's Swiftness.

After this weekend of instancing and questing a lot, I just found myself that it might be better to have a full Feral druid and let the "real" healers keep my furry arse alive.

Tonight Dreadmoon will become this spec.

Feral Combat Talents - 42 point(s)

Ferocity - rank 5/5
Feral Aggression - rank 5/5
Feral Instinct - rank 3/3
Brutal Impact - rank 2/2
Feral Swiftness - rank 2/2
Feral Charge - rank 1/1
Sharpened Claws - rank 3/3
Predatory Strikes - rank 3/3
Primal Fury - rank 2/2
Savage Fury - rank 2/2
Faerie Fire (Feral) - rank 1/1
Heart of the Wild - rank 5/5
Survival of the Fittest - rank 3/3
Leader of the Pack - rank 1/1
Improved Leader of the Pack - rank 2/2
Predatory Instincts - rank 1/5
Mangle - rank 1/1

Restoration Talents - 11 point(s)

Furor - rank 5/5
Naturalist - rank 5/5
Omen of Clarity - rank 1/1

Evanescent Dawn

2007-02-12T15:55:42Z

What is the result of a few friends willing to play with each other? A new guild! Evanescent Dawn is up and running since a coupe of days ago. We are just getting our feet wet.

Our purpose is simply, to enjoy the game among friends. Some of us have spent most of the past weekend helping friends leveling up, and did we have fun! :-D

Progression will be slow, but we have all the time in the world, and as long as we enjoy the company of each other, all the rest can wait.

Today I am grateful for the idea of 5 men instances for small guilds.

The guild that will never die

2007-02-12T15:42:41Z

How do you ensure a guild will never die? You take away the core of it and replace it with the idea of “cool place to hang”. Then, it will never matter why is people hanging in there, the collective will assume it is cool to be part of the guild and that will give enough reason to be there… and the guild will never “die”, or will be?

What happen when you realize that old-standing guild members leave the guild and nobody really cares? You transformed the guild into the myth of the hydra, cut one head, 2 more will replace it. True, they will be different heads, but who cares, the beast will still live.

]]> After a few weeks of leaving We Know, and seeing from outside what my friends are going thru I feel sad for the ones remaining, mostly because it seems nobody noticed the change. But then again, if I am only one of the few who seemed to noticed… maybe it is me, right?