I’d Rather Be Wowing!

Some of my thoughts as the patch looms over the horizon.

I wish I’ve done this…

Sarth+drakes (1+).  Reading about it, it sounds like a fun and chaotic fight and I wish I could have experienced it. If the patch comes up  next week, the focus of our raid group will shift to Ulduar and most likely we’ll never end up attempting this.  I know that in the future there are probably pug groups forming trying for achievements. But I don’t think it will be the same rush as when our gears are on par for the encounters.

My most (and least) anticipated things in patch…

Excluding the new raid content (because that’s a no-brainer), it is a toss up between dual-spec feature and the new fishing content (dailies and new turtle mount) :). It just happens that the two specs that I play the most — my shadow priest and resto shaman — don’t really get new things to play with. Sure, E will get an improve DP, but that barely changes her rotation (tangent question: does the initial instant damage for DP crittable?).  V, my resto shammy, doesn’t even get any new spell. It’s hard not to be envious with other specs that seem to get at least one new thing.

When dual-spec comes out…

E will be specced as Shadow and Holy.

V will be specced as Resto and Ele.

Val will be specced as Prot and Ret. Her chance to raid seems to be slim to none (our guild is starting to have a lot of guildies leveling tanks as their alt). It would be kinda nice to spec Ret just for dailies or to go along when they need dps, but I don’t think I’m cut out to be a melee dps :).

My new talent builds will be…

Ahh, finally we might see some different builds for shadow priests.   E’s tentative build will be this. It’s a toss up between taking off IF and putting the point to Veiled Shadows, it will boil down to whether mana regen is an issue or not. It’s really hard to take points off from Imp VE from the view point of survivability, especially with the rumor of having a lot of AoE dmg, but I am hoping that the magic dmg reduction from Imp SF and additional stamina from imp PW:Fort can somewhat compensate it.

I am not seeing any change with V’s build and I haven’t spent my time looking at the new talent tree for Prot pally.