October 2008 Archives

Some highlights:

Demon Form. Need I say more? You gain demon form by speccing into "Metamorphosis", which turns you in a shadowy purple demon for 30 seconds. During this time, your armor is increased by 600%, damage is increased by 20%, your chance to be critically hit by melee attacks is reduced by 6%, and the duration of stun and snare effects is reduced by 50%. There are also unique demon abilities to put on your hot bar. The best part? The three-minute cooldown. That's right- three minutes, meaning you can use it very, very often. 

Demonic Empowerment. Grants the Warlock's summoned demon Empowerment. 

       

              Succubus- Instantly vanishes, causing the Succubus to go into an improved Invisibility state. The vanish effect removes all stuns, snares and movement impairing effects from the Succubus. 

               Voidwalkder- Increases the Voidwalker's health by 20%, and its threat generated from spells and attacks by 20% for 20 seconds. 

               Imp- Increases the Imp's spell critical strike chance by 20% for 30 seconds. 

               Felhunter- Dispels all magical effects from the Felhunter. 

               Fel Guard- Increases the Fel Guard's attack speed by 20% and breaks all stun, snare and movement impairing effects and makes your Fel Guard immune to them. Lasts 15 seconds. 

Fel Synergy (Rank Two). Your summoned Demons share an additional 10% of your Armor, Intellect and Stamina, and you have a 100% chance to heal your pet for 15% of the amount of damage done by you. 

I feel like a mage with a crap ton of stamina. I'm almost unkillable, and I burn stuff down fast, fast, fast. 

I also respecced by rogue, but I rarely play her at this point so frankly I can't remember what I did. 

The new patch is currently downloading; I'm so upset that I have to teach between 3:30 and 8pm tonight, so I won't be there for the first few moments with the new content. I teach classical singing, by the way, for those who don't know, and I also enjoy a career as a harpist. Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise and I'll avoid some server cues and other potential glitches. 

Since the new talents will be live tonight, the first thing I have to do is respec all of the toons that I play on a regular basis: 

Tallis (Warlock): currently almost fully Destro. I've been missing that Felguard, though, so I'm not quite sure what changes tonight will bring. 

Graece (Rogue): currently combat swords (not combat daggers, as I mistakenly say on the most recent episode). I'm using her mainly for her herbalism and alchemy, so I'm not as interested in the changes for rogues at this point. 

Cosmas (Mage): he's about to ding 52, so I'll probably keep him mostly in fire for leveling. 

Graece (Druid on Argent Dawn): she's only level 7 or 8, so no talent points yet. She'll eventually be either resto or feral; probably level feral and then go resto if she ever gets into the endgame. 

Here's to lots of fun playing the patch!

So, what do you, the listeners, want to hear on All Things Azeroth during NaPodMo? Medros and I are brewing up a list of topics; some shows we'll do together, and some will be solo shows. Some of the ideas I've been kicking around include class-specific shows, a discussion of last-minute preparations for WotLK, walkthroughs of the first dungeons on the expansion (once it drops, of course), as well as a "Getting to know Graece" episode, in which which I regale you with my illustrious career in WoW. Har har. 

If you have ideas that you'd like heard on the show, leave me a comment! We've got 30 of these babies to pop out.

Feel free to contact me in the blog comments, or by sending email to graece@allthingsazeroth.com. I can also be found in game on Thunderhorn US, as Graece (70 rogue), Tallis (70 warlock), or Cosmas (51 mage).