I thougt it was about time i wrote something about World of Warcraft again since it has been a while. Now the first problem is, i don’t know what to write about, the second, i don’t play very much right now except for raids so i really don’t have anything to write about but i will try anyways.
One thing is that the itemization team on average seems to be one patch behind the class designers, items for many classes looks perfect except for the fact that the classes have been changed so the items loooks perfect from a “last patch” point of view. It’s not fun looking at the drops in a new raid and realise that most of the items that you really want are of a different armor class then the one your class uses. For holy paladins a large part of BiS items are mail, for Resto shamans lots of plate/cloth times have BiS stats. Disc priests have a lot of BiS items with hitrating that still is a lot better for them then any item made for healing. To make it even worse plate healing gear is mostly itemized in a way that would fit rather good on Disc priests but is horrible for holy paladins making it so that the only class that might want to use it can’t. Sharding gear that should be large uppgrades due to bad itemization feels horrible and trying to fit your gear set around 1-2 horrible items makes it extreamly hard to get the items you want in to it. It’s also never fun to try to explain to your raidleader and cloth users why a mail/plate class should have the same right to cloth gear as a cloth class and it’s not really resonable but using subpar gear untill all the cloth users that wants it has it is all so a big downer. Same goes for plate dps where in many cases leather still is BiS. While i understand that Blizzard doesn’t want us to get items in the first raid tier that is perfectly itemized it would be nice if they didnät just take your perfect piece and turn it in to leather or cloth and then expect people to not go for it. And there is a big difference between a perfeclty itemized piece of gear and really and piece of gear. You can easily have diffrent balance of the perfect stats on a piece or exchange one of the “perfect” stats for a less desirable stat but exchanging the moste important stat on a perfect item for a less desirable stat and then making a “perfect” item of another armorclass will in most cases result in people going for the item of other armorclass instead of the bad piece, especialy if the perfect or close to perfect item can be bought from badges and guaranteed if both items are bought.  Noone will buy a bad item if a perfect item can be bought for the same price, especially when the bad item is of a lower level and is a part of a set with a bad setbonus no one cares about.

The first room has plenty of trash and some traps that rogues can disarm or you can trigger them for more trash and more reputation with the new faction Ashen Verdict.

After slaughtering through the frist room of thrash you get to Lord Marrowgrave the first boss of the instance. He´s a big skeleton thingie and a fun fight, a bit hard on the healers pre nerf but a bit boring post nerf. After Marrograve there is only 4 trash packs to kill before the lady and they are all in the same room as her.  I enjoy that fight to. A bit different and lots of movement but not really anything hard.

Time to go up the elevator, kill som trash and GUNSHIP BATTLE! quick, easy and more or less a loot piniata, not FL style but if you have gotten this far it will go down. Nice and fun now since the bug was fixed.

Deathbringer Saurfang, last fight currently available and probably the hardest after the Lord Marrograve nerf.

Since moste of the stuff is so easy on normal there will be no further explanation of these fights untill heroic.

New Pre raid gear guides will come and the old guides will be updated. With the new ICC 5-mans and triumph badges from heroics the new guides will focus on badge,ToC5 and ICC 5 gear.

UPDATE 11:03 AM.

Feral tanking Pre-Raid gear guide updated for 3.3

My first reaction to this was a big WTF! when i think more about it however i am starting to hope that there will be no tanking weapon, with plenty of bosses in ICC there probably will be 2-3 tanking weapons dropping in there anyways and with only 2 tanks in a raid group the chance of me getting a weapon from the new raid is highly likely, the chance of me getting a new nice DPS weapon how ever is not very high.

Now i understand that not everyone has a high chance of running ICC every week with their guild for a nice new tanking weapon so perhaps a tanking reward should be in place but for myself i rather hope not since that would remove my best option for a dps upgrade.

A nice caster dagger option should however be introduced for the Boomkins, elemental shamans, shadow priests and possibly resto druids and shamans who really don’t want a MP5 weapon.

Now i can’t say that i did any exceptional AH work but my ~5K was at the end of the weekend ~10K, I had tons of fun doing it and never had to leave the major cities.

“Top-level helm and shoulder faction-related enchants are now available as Bind-on-Account items that do not require any faction to use once purchased (they still require the appropriate faction level to purchase).”

This is probably one of the smartest things i have seen in a long time. Grinding rep for enchants is annoying, now it might be a nessecery evil but doing it with every single alt you level up is just dreadful, im okay with grinding for rep if i need an item that a faction can offer but when i have to do the grind with every character just to get a enchant that has no alternatives except chosing Inscription as a profession it’s stupid. 

I am tempted to say that more rep rewards should be BoA, perhaps crafting professions recipes or resist gear, the point of rep requirements to get those things is usually to slow down the speed at which people get them the first time, not to make playing an alt or switching main in to more of a hell than it already is.