Return of the Witch Doctor…

Some of you might remember last year when I was deadset on playing my shaman as enhancement spec and all that, well, today my build is more of an elemental/ restoration hybrid setup.  I found this build online of course and decided to give it a shot, what do I think so far?  Well, so far this build is the SHIT!  Why?  Because I get crits quite a bit, when that happens I get put into a clearcasting state, which means anything elemental spell I cast costs zero mana.  Yeah, it’s great.  I am not much into dissecting things, well, yes I am I suppose, but here is a link to my current build…

Shaman 31/0/30 

What am I not getting as a result of splitting up my points?  It looks like if I were to move points over to the elemental tree I would be able to use Lightning overload, which gives me a 4% chance to cast a second lightning bolt of chain lightning spell at the same target for no mana and causes no additional threat, and the totem of wrath, which increases the chance to hit and spell crits by 3%…of course, these are great talents, but I don’t feel I am missing much.

If we take a look at the restoration tree, I don’t have the mana tide totem, which once again is great, but isn’t really a big deal to me, and the earth shield, which is great, but I already have the water shield, which gives me mana when anything hits me…

So far I am really enjoying leveling up my shammy, I hit level 68 last night and got my second pet, the first one was the earth elemental at level 66, I call him rocky, we own in the bg’s.  My new one is the fire elemental, I have yet to come up with a name for him, but he sure does look cool.

I have been switching back and forth between using a 1 handed dagger/mace and shield and a staff,  kind of depends on if I am going to be getting beat up or not, but I do feel a lot more protected when I use a shield.

One last thing is last night I hooked up with a shadow priest in my guild and were hitting arathi basin pretty hard, we won 10 battles in a row…can you say FOR THE HORDE!

Flamen ~ Blood Knight of the Blackhand

And so the tale continues…last time when we left our heroin of the land she was at level 22. Now, after much bloodshed, sweat and tears she has reached level 30. I changed my talent build as well to mainly retribution…link is HERE

Basically I am going for all out damage, once I reach a level where I will be raiding, needed for healing I will gladly change my talent build. I found a really interesting post on The Holy Light, he writes about going protection build to take on many mobs at one time. The idea is very cool, I might have to look into that at sometime in the future.

Last night I was asked to join a group to go to the Scarlet Monestary, which I said sure, why not, but I didn’t realize I would be the main healer…since we went into the Cathedral, I had to cast Blessing of Salvation on myself so I wasn’t drawing all the aggro in the place…this also hindered my mana regen since I couldn’t use blessing of wisdom, so every single fight I had to stop and drink…everyone in the group was at least level 39, I was only level 30. We only wiped twice, and I didn’t roll need on anything since it was all way higher level than I could use. One thing I was getting irritated by was the warlock would lifetap after every battle, so here is the situation, everyone lives thanks to my expert healing, I am dry on mana, I sit down and drink, I am full on mana, at the same time warlock is life tapping, which means he was using his health to gain mana, we are all ready for the next fight except he is at 25% health…the tank says heal the warlock…after the 5th time I said I am not healing the warlock because he is using lifetap…the warlock says that is fine cause he can drain life…well, he never drained life and I only healed him when he was about to die in battle…so it is one of those situations where myself, as the only healer, have to choose whether to conserve my mana for the benefit of the group or use it all healing this retarded warlock…

Well, these past few weeks leveling my paladin has been a lot of fun, I really do enjoy healing, more than I like to admit I guess…but I also like being in the middle of the action. I ran SFK and WC multiple times playing duel roles of tank/healer, it wasn’t easy at times, but we always made it through. That was before I changed my talent build of course…now I am dealing a lot more damage, escpecially with a 2 handed weapon. Here is a pic of me doing battle in Hillsbrad yesterday…

I have a few people searching and come across my site looking for a Mirage UI screenshot, well here you go, I have it customized to how I like it. I also use healbot for healing, works out well for the most part and makes my job pretty easy. I ran into a little problem the other day when I had the quest where you have to control the robot to get the moonwell water, yeah I didn’t have my pet bar active, so I had to figure out how to find it, took me a few minutes but I got it working and completed the quest…now I have it right out in the open for next time…never know when you will have to control a pet…never even considered that when I hid the petbar…oh well…

Overall I am completely satisfied being a paladin, I love all the bubbles, the spells that counteract almost everything, the fact we get a free mount at 40 and it looks pretty damn cool…I will be a true blood knight in no time, and I can’t wait.

Melee Caster Wannabe Witch Doctor Troll

The title best describes my Shaman. I decided to go with a build of 0/40/21. I do enjoy the 2 handed fighting backed up with the capable healing. It is hard to pick just one style and go with that when you have a hybrid class with so many cool abilities. But, after playing this week I have picked Enhancement as my main talent tree.
I reached honored reputation with Thrallmar last night, and I haven’t even reached level 62 yet, but I picked up 2 of these badass axes:

Brunt’s Waraxe.
And I am seeking some attack power and added strength and agility gear to replace half of my gear which is primarily for casting purposes.
It is funny how quickly the gear can be upgraded in the Outlands, I think I only have about 2 or 3 pieces left from the pre-BC days…
Of course choosing your talents is a big decision and I get a lot of visits from people who are looking for a template or maybe just get some ideas. All I can say is pick your talents based on your particular play style and how you play your character the best. Maybe because my first character I ever played in WoW was a warrior I am accustomed to the in your face action of a melee class dealing out the damage and taking the majority at the same time. Like I said in the last post I have retrained my shaman a lot of times, and I will more than likely do it again sometime down the road, but for now I will remain the melee caster wannabe witch doctor troll out there kicking ass.

Multiple Toons (Personalities)

Unlike my previous post stated, I haven’t begun my beast lord set grinding yet. Blame it on ADD or ADHD or whatever, but I decided to go back and work on leveling my long lost troll shaman, Drollam. He is on my original server, Blackhand and I have a friend who plays there part-time as well, so that is nice. The weekend primarily consisted of reaching level 61 and having fun with PVP taking over the stadium, the overlook and broken hill. I teamed up with a blood elf paladin throughout the day and learned some techniques which basically means we were playing hide and go seek… What do you expect when the Alliance outnumber the Horde almost 2 to 1?

Along the same lines I am wondering if I can get some suggestions on a good leveling build for my shaman, I swear I have retrained about 5 times throughout the life of this guy and my current build is 0/30/21, which is alright I guess, but my last build was PVP, focusing on DPS and I really enjoyed that, but it isn’t practical for PVE…I have read wowwiki and their suggestions are what I am using, anyone able to help me out here? Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment, thanks!

Hunter Talent Build updated

Well, my talent tree I posted as the template build I was going with ended up changing somewhat due to the fact that I decided to get silencing shot. I ended up with 18/41/2 as my final build once I hit level 70.

Link is HERE

The new armory feature on the world of warcraft site is cool, but I have to agree with Tobold on his blog where he states there should be an option to share your information if you wish to or not.

I don’t have any reason to hide or anything, but I am sure there are those gamers out there who wish to keep their privacy for whatever reason…anyway, here is a link to my talent build on the WoW talent calculator.

World of Warcraft Hunter Talent Calculator