tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post39929894056596442..comments2024-03-12T19:12:09.186+00:00Comments on Priest with a Cause - A World of Warcraft (Classic) blog: Gearing up is hard to doShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-79941619657011892942011-01-03T13:51:44.750+00:002011-01-03T13:51:44.750+00:00I'm catching up on my feedreader so I'm da...I'm catching up on my feedreader so I'm days late here, but I still wanted to pitch in.<br /><br />I have very similar feelings on the gearing process. I don't mind Heroics not being faceroll like they were in Wrath, but I wish they were a tiny bit more PUG friendly. With their current difficulty I feel restrained to doing them with guildies, which means having to wait until enough people are online (or miss out, or spend 50 minutes in a queue for a PUG that will most likely disband at the first boss).<br /><br />I haven't had as much time to grind gear as I'd have liked either, but even with the time I've had I feel I should have done better. I suspect we will all need a full set of Heroic-level gear before being able to successfully raid (I'm sure some people can manage without, but my guild need the gear I imagine) and getting it with the amount of sheer time a Heroic currently takes is rather daunting.Sagahttp://spellbound.nu/gdpw/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-28326657868991617782010-12-29T14:26:32.746+00:002010-12-29T14:26:32.746+00:00It does seem that Blizz have made it harder for pr...It does seem that Blizz have made it harder for priests to gear up than most classes because of teh spirit thing, I am stuck with 333 hit boots and the 339 PVP crafted wrists with only upgrades seemingly in heroics. Shadowfang Keep seems the best place to go as wrists, boots and a cloak drop there all with spirit and it is one of teh easier ones to do if your group is co-ordinated enough to kill the first boss in there.<br /><br />Regarding group content, Cataclysm is the expansion of the guild and therefore grab them guildies and tell them you want to heal their asses on the TB daily quests.Evlyxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12585191601697235555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-24003115782347597692010-12-29T00:32:52.313+00:002010-12-29T00:32:52.313+00:00@Boxer: Yeah, I'm wearing their tabard right n...@Boxer: Yeah, I'm wearing their tabard right now. Didn't see much else in terms of reputation gear though.<br /><br />@Shay: Would love to! Even in dps spec I've died a few times, and I've seen it happen to others too. Especially in the areas with low respawn timers...<br /><br />@Syl: I was going to say "tell me about bad loot luck" but then I got five upgrades in three runs tonight. Or as one of my guildies put it: "Complaining on the internet <i>does</i> work!"<br /><br />@Anonymous: Blegh, I don't like arena though. Sounds like they've messed up the PvE/PvP balance again if even a little bit of bad PvP gives you better rewards than doing lots of PvE content.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-33753126335797720082010-12-28T23:15:09.895+00:002010-12-28T23:15:09.895+00:00Maybe this isn't the most enjoyable thing for ...Maybe this isn't the most enjoyable thing for you to do, but do some arena. 2v2 with a friend, lose and win some matches (10-20 max even with low rating) and you get enough points to buy a pvp epic per week; which are better then the heroic dungeon rewards, even with the for pve useless resilience on it.<br /><br />Use that to cover some spots in your gear which you weren't able to upgrade otherwise. <br /><br />Those few arena matches won't take much more time then a heroic or two and give you gear much faster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-72119422816363786532010-12-28T19:58:09.933+00:002010-12-28T19:58:09.933+00:00It's definitely a grind, especially if you'...It's definitely a grind, especially if you're unlucky on drops and it feels like 80% of them are mail wherever I go. -.-<br />Bracers are an absolute pita, am still using the PVP ones there as the baron in SFK refuses to drop his and there are hardly any alternatives (some caster ones in GB). <br />Otherwise I've been able to grab most of the JP gear now and a few heroic drops, my trinkets are all normal blues still though and I haven't even come close to TB rep yet. I've favoured Hyjal and got the epic belt there, now I'm working on Therazane.<br /><br />We're somewhat in a similar position in my guild atm, the first raid is scheduled next week but I don't think the majority of the guild is ready for that yet.Sylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04473554645340972749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-36754421332544821192010-12-28T19:24:37.893+00:002010-12-28T19:24:37.893+00:00Tol Barad is pretty rough, you should do those dai...Tol Barad is pretty rough, you should do those dailies with me! :DShayzanihttp://www.2fps.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-26508968812095453962010-12-28T18:15:00.269+00:002010-12-28T18:15:00.269+00:00I think Guardian's of Hyjal has a decent cloth...I think Guardian's of Hyjal has a decent cloth belt which is a nice rep item, on top of Tol Barad. And on Tol Barad dailies, you should just pair up with a Guild DPS or Tank. They are hard for any class to solo. If there's no DPS or Tank in the whole Guild that will help, then the Guild should hang it's head in shame.<br /><br />Almost all of the Cata content is an exercise in pain solo. It's only fun for Guildies. It's interesting, I think bigger guilds will benefit much more than we thought just from being "big".<br /><br />Incidentally, I agree that the gearing is somewhat worse than TBC or WotLK. It reminds me EXACTLY of vanilla, a desperate process of grinding DM 20x for fire resist gear to be MC ready..... a tiny number of epics available from non-raids, generally via painful grinds like AV (when it was hard) or AB exalted, or buying them off AH at vast prices.....<br /><br />The mechanics of this expac are totally different ofc and much improved, but the social infrastructure and gearing rate feels exactly like vanilla, at least to me.<br /><br />Cheerio.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-83710533845420805592010-12-28T17:50:39.470+00:002010-12-28T17:50:39.470+00:00This fellow priestie feels your pain... hang in th...This fellow priestie feels your pain... hang in there :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com