Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Death Knights

Before I venture off to Christmas adventures, I will depart onto you a Death Knight spec guide, I'll make it quick and simple. Ask me later for rotations.

Frost dps, may not sound good, but has Amazing burst damage.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight=23050205000000000000000000003200505035020301230105101351030000000000000000000000000000&glyph=101213060403&version=9626

Unholy, nice AoE and disease damage, great for PvP. The shown spec is for raiding, not necessarily PvP.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight=23050205000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000230020335003115003150003133151&glyph=171409060403&version=9626

Blood, best single target and sustained dps.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight=23050205300033132310131013510000000000000000000000000000230030305003100000000000000000&glyph=131209060403&version=9626

Have fun, and Merry Crimbo all!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Tanks and You.

I know I only put up the specs for dps in raids, so I'm going to show you the talents for the tanks.

Death Knight- Go Frost, its the best tanking spec of the three trees, which obvious if you look at it. Rotation for abilities should be Icy Touch, Plague strike, Pestilence, Blood Boil, then Howling Blast, Frost Strike to dump your Runic Power. Works out rather well for AoE tanking. With the new Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle, 2h tanking is the way to go.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight=00540210000000000000000000003050505105003101030125131351005000000000000000000000000000&glyph=111619040506&version=9626

Warrior- Apply your 5 Sunder Armor, Shield Slam, Revenge when it pops up, Devastate, then Shockwave.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warrior=050030000000000000000000000000305000000000000000000000000053351025003012521330113321&glyph=051902020605&version=9626

Paladin- Keep your Holy Shield up, Shield of Righteousness, and use Judgement whenever possible(Seal of Righteousness). Pull with Avenger's Shield.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?paladin=050020000000000000000000005305350031523133331232150200000000000000000000000&glyph=171220050401&version=9626

Simple right? That should help you out a bit.

When boredom sets in, I turn to the Spirits.

As you can plainly see, I'm bored. So I will regale you all with yet another WoW raid guide, this time for the Shaman!
First, pick your Race. For Alliance it shouldn't be too hard to decide on a race...seeing as only one exists that can play a Shaman, Draenei. For the Horde side, I'd still go with Orcs because of their Blood Fury racial to give a bonus to Attack Power or Spell Power.
Next, the heart of the subject, the placing of Talent Points. There are 2 possibilities to choose from Enhancement (melee), or Elemental (caster). Elemental is very nice, but in my opinion for the more end-game raids, Enhancement pulls ahead.
For Elemental it's obvious what you'll be using as far as equipment, but for Enhancement, using 2 slow one-handed weapons is the way to go. Obviously, seeing as the staple of your damage, Stormstrike, causes weapon damage from both weapons, so why wouldn't you dual-wield?
Now for ability rotations.
Elemental- (While having Flametongue Weapon on your weapon) Flame Shock, Lightning Bolts until your Flame Shock DoT is almsot out, then Lava Burst.
Enhancement- (while having Windfury Weapon on the Main Hand, and Flametongue Weapon on the Off-Hand) Stormstrike, Earth Shock, Flame Shock, Lava Lash.

Here are the Talent Builds I designed for the Shaman Raid dps in you.

Elemental
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman=55300015011133513125013510050503300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&glyph=081215060403&version=9626

Enhancement
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman=25003015000000000000000000050503310502133303113123105100000000000000000000000000&glyph=211613020103&version=9626

Enjoy. Remember, don't make me get the Tuna.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Oh, its on...

I realize I have been lax lately with my blogs, and come back to see that Mach Farcon has posted a Fan Fic. Not only that, but it happens to be a fan fic about Star Wars (Knights of the Old Republic). This cannot go unnoticed. Listen here Mach, you have thrown down the gauntlet, and I accept your challenge. WARCRAFT!!!
Anyways, I'll be working on a number of Fan Fics now set in Warcraft, the characters being modeled after the characters of people I have had the pleasure of playing with over the course of 4 years. So, at first I'll be writing stories for each of the main characters to help you get a good understanding of it, before they combine into one. Starting with Mr. Fisty himself!