Comments on: Where do we go from here?

By: gt

gt — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:57:00 +0000

I was really apathetic about leveling and etc till I decided to write a blog! The blog also helps because to write something you need to be playing. :D

Part of my blog has always been setting up goals and so forth. Ag and I keep a shared google document wih bullet points of things we want to do in game. Its a good day when we can open it up and strikeout a couple and add a few new ones. :)

(Right now my main goal is 1.3k unbuffed +healing in gear and 75 badge plate healing pants.)

By: Lanae

Lanae — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:53:00 +0000

I have a tanking druid too, and it's a fun challenge to come up with new goals everytime I complete old ones.

Short-term goals:
- finish the trials of the naaru quests (and hope the guild downs Magtheridon sometime soon)
- enough badges for shallow-grave legs (kitty) and Slikk's cloak of placation (to replace the Kara tanking cloak)
- find a reliable arena partner and / or farm honor for more pvp gear
- see more than just 2 ZA bosses :)

Long-term goals:
- get at least a fire and a frost / nature resistance set
- have a decent arena rating (as a feral .. no chance)
- re-gem and enchant my healing gear
- spec resto for a change

By: Finwe

Finwe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:42:00 +0000

@ BBB
How have you not gotten an epic belt for cat form? What are you using in bear form? I can’t remember seeing any good epic bear belts that aren’t also good for cats.

The belt was actually my first epic, which was the crafted Belt of Natural Power. This is craftable by most guilds that are working on Tier 5 content. Chances are pretty good that you know someone in one of those guilds. Next you just need to scrape together some cash so they’ll craft it for you. Since you’ve got epic flight form, I know you are able to get the cash. Mine is socketed with Agi/Stam so it works well for both cat and bear. And if you’re not going to use it for bear form, then go for the Belt of Deep Shadow.

By: SuraBear

SuraBear — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:42:00 +0000

Well, when I run out of goals, I make a new alt *chuckle*

By: Mosshoof

Mosshoof — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:56:00 +0000

My main is a feral druid. I've been working my way through normal instances and just got my key for Karazhan. I even peeked in with a buddy and waved at Midnight. We had a bit of a recruiting drive in our guild, and are going to make an attempt this weekend, with luck.

I have OK bear gear -- uncrittable and ~19K armor/12K health. But I have a couple of pieces I want to get. I am hoping, before this weekend:

* Get honored with Scryers to get the low-end shoulder enchant. (Meanwhile, hope I get two Arcane Tomes to drop, or else I will be buying them on the AH.)
* Run through Arcatraz so I can do the quest which will get me the Verdant Gloves
* Talk to the guild enchanters and put a few more enchants on my current gear.
* Get revered with Keepers of Time so I can get a Glyph of the Defender for my Stylin Purple Hat.
* Once I have enchants & new gloves in place, see if I can swap out some +defense gems for +stamina

* weep at my virtual bank account, since epic flight training will have to get pushed back once I purchase all that I'm going to need to...

By: Floyd

Floyd — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:18:00 +0000

I’m working more and more toward getting geared for bear tanking heroics and then Kara. So I’ve farming mats for the Heavy Clefthoof armor and nethercleft armor.

By: Dorgol

Dorgol — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:32:00 +0000

OK, so I got his name kind of wrong:

“Murtalstrykr”

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Bleeding%20Hollow&n=Murtalstrykr

This was the guy that gave me the idea to get my Mage his Goggles.

My mage is here:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Boulderfist&n=Police

I’ve already got the Engineering skill (heck, I’ve had the weaker and more expensive goggles since lvl 50).

By: dorgol

dorgol — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:26:00 +0000

@Luke: “Dorgol – how do you suppose you’ll get a primal nether at 59? You need 10 BoJ or Heroic boss drops?”

I can get Honored with CE @ 59 using Unidentified Plant parts. Apparently (or so I’ve heard), the Heroic mode zone-in uses the same level requirements as the non-heroic mode. My ex-guild is one of the top raid guilds on the server, so I have a couple of geared out buddies willing to help me out.

Look on the Armory for a 59 Orc Warrior named “Murtlsrik” or something. He’s done the same thing to get his epic goggles @ 59. Hell, that guy is a serious 59 Twink… he got HWL (@ 59) and is one of the only lvl 59 players who can ride epic ground mounts…

By: Drashian

Drashian — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:06:00 +0000

My feral gear’s in the same rut as yours, maxed for my guild’s progression (both forms). For me, it’s all about the off-specs. The other week I went tree for a few days (between the guild raids I had to tank for) and did some quick polishing to the dusty healing gear I’d saved from DE, adding some cheap gems and putting relatively inexpensive enchants on the best pieces. Got myself up past 1400 healing, did a handful of pugs to practice, and ended up getting to heal one of our Karazhan runs.

This week I’m a moonkin, same kind of polishing to get to about 700 damage and I can hold my own in heroic pugs and again I got to go into Karazhan in my fun new spec. Both times were well worth the respec costs, and gave me new respect for my off-spec sets. Now I have tons of new gear upgrade goals to work towards! I’ve already spent 60 of my extra badges on some incredibly sexy new moonkin shoulders.

Back to tanking after tonight though, ZA time tomorrow evening, and I’m our best-geared off tank. Now to decide if I should go tree or moonkin again next…

By: Urthona of Cenarion Circle

Urthona of Cenarion Circle — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Urthona had a list for badge gear, starting with necessities, then huge upgrades, then minor upgrades, then "sidegrades with less +hit", then "mmm I don't wanna, but its more dmg".

1. Icon
2. Elunite Chest
3. Unseen Moon
4. Starfire Belt
5. Moonboots
5. the gloves...
6. the shoulders...
7. the helm... !

Unless I can get into my guild alliance's Gruul's run, I'm going to be smack dab in the last option... a place I do NOT want to be. The T4 is so much sexier than the badge shoulders.

So Urth is kind of stagnant as well.

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But I've also got a protection paladin who's a pain in the ass, considering I need a minimum of 235 badges even if I get lucky with drops.

1. Stoic Guardian - 75!
2. Unwaverings - 75!
3. Protector Belt - 60!
4. Unyielding Ring - 25!

While it'd be great to just get in daily heroics, everyone I normally run with is far and away better geared than him. Plus, I can't find a guild running Kara part 1 looking for a tank. If I could get in Karazhan, I'd have my time cut by a third.

The whole avoidance mathematics thing is a headache, even with mods and amazing forums like maintankadin. Aside from all that, I absolutely LOVE playing an AOE tank.

I just have to find a team first.