The priest I had been casually leveling hit 70 about a week ago. This character is the sixth character that I’ve raised to level 70. Also, despite my previous thought of playing the Druid in WotLK I’ve instead decided to play this Priest. Currently I’ve specced her as 59/2/0 Discipline and really enjoying it. I’m able to heal quite well and also complete quests without getting too frustrated. With the expansion only about a week and a half away I’ve scaled back my normal gearing ambitions. My hope is to enter Northrend with a reasonable kit.

The Headless Horseman event helped. I ran it around level 66 and was able to get a pair of rings that I put in the bank. I was also able to run Karazhan at level 68 and get a pair of boots and an off-hand. At 70 I rounded out my gear by purchasing the blue-quality faction PvP gear.

To do before WotLK:
• PvP for the Merciless Gladiator’s Mooncloth Mantle. I love this model and have wanted a set of these shoulders for a while.
• Purchase an Essence of the Martyr.
• Raise my Shattered Sun Offensive rep to Exalted. This will allow the purchase of K’iru’s Presage and Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen.
• Raise my Scryer rep to Exalted.
• Raise my Sha’tar rep and Keepers of Time rep to at least Honored to purchase Heroic Keys.
• Complete both Tailoring and Enchanting Professions.
• Save up at least 2000 gold. I had originally thought about trying to get Epic Flight, but I’m not sure there is enough time.

Note: I had intended to participate in NaBloPoMo but I neglected to post on the first two days. All isn’t lost though! I hope to put up a post a day for the rest of the month.

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I’m going to be doing National Blog Posting Month in November. This will be a departure from not posting any updates for weeks at a time. Tomorrow is the 1st!

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Now that the 3.0 patch has gone live is time once again for the Add-On Scavenger hunt. This is where I monitor the add-on sites for updates to the plethora of mods that I use. During this time I also find out which add-ons have been discontinued by the author, make a note, and then search for a suitable substitute. Below I’ve listed the add-ons that I use. Some of these have already been updated and some have already been superseded by new add-ons. Thanks to Bre for her head start on finding updated add-ons. Happy hunting everyone!

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In vanilla WoW I leveled two level 60 characters. In TBC WoW I leveled 5 level 70 characters. With the WotLK looming I’ve decided that I want to get as much mileage out of one character before spreading myself thin over many characters. This is a thought I’ve had for some time, but I’ve been very indecisive about which character I would play. With the announcement of dual-specs I’ve started leaning towards playing the Druid.

My thinking is that I’ll choose Balance as my main spec and Feral as my secondary spec. With multiple sets of gear I will be able to fill the roles of spell caster, tank, and (perhaps) healer. This will allow me to play whichever role is needed on a particular night.

The other motivation behind choosing the Druid is his current skill level. It will very easy to max out cooking and fishing. The trade skills of Herbalism/Alchemy are generally always in demand and can help defray the costs of raiding. He is also in a good position to get an epic flyer before the expansion hits.

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I play a lot of hybrid classes. My Tauren Shaman is specced Resto for raiding. We’re not raiding now, so he’s whatever spec I feel like playing. The rest are usually specced as DPSers. This got me thinking about how our class names show up in game.

Check out the Armory and you will see that Blizzard has assigned a name to the spec you have chosen. In most, if not all, cases it’s the name of the tree where the majority of your points are spent. If you don’t take enough points in any one of the trees your character is simply marked as Hybrid.

My suggest is that Blizzard should move this title into the game and attach it to your class name as a prefix. So my Shadow Priest would show up as such when someone saw me and they would know that I probably wasn’t a healer.

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Ha! So I’ve been neglectful in posting to my blog. An update is in order. Messing around with my Dwarven Shadow Priest I got the feeling something was a little off. I was itching to play Horde again. For some reason I like things better on the Horde side. I also love playing the Shadow Priest.

So for the last few weeks I’ve been leveling my Blood Elf Priest to 70. She was 26 when I started out and is 46 when I last left her. I had thought about running up and Undead Priest, but at 26 I figured many of the painful levels were behind me. So why start over? Now I just need to do some daily quests to defray the cost of an epic riding chicken at 60 and I’ll be all set.

For professions I took up the typical Tailoring/Enchanting. I won’t be making the Frozen Shadoweave clothes again though. (I say that now!) My plan is to PvP for gear and hang tight for the expansion pack which I hope will be released sooner rather than later. I’m kind of keeping an eye on Inscription to see if it will be worthwhile for me to take up and which character I think it’ll benefit the most. Polymorph: Penguin anyone?

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In celebration of a new expansion I think I’m going to delete all the toons in my account. Then I’m going to roll a new toon by closing my eyes and randomly clicking the mouse. Once leveled to 70 this will be my main for the WotLK.

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There are still a bunch of items to complete before I’m happy with my Shadow Priest’s gearing. Here are some of the bigger items on my list:

• Run Tempest Keep dungeons roughly 3 more times to get to Revered with the Sha’tar. Result: Glyph of Power
• Farm Heroic Slave Pens for Quagmirran’s Eye.
• PvP for roughly 20,000 more Honor. Result: Merciless Gladiator’s Gavel.
• Save up 100 Badges of Justice for Legwraps of Sweltering Flame
• Try to win a Primal Nether from a Heroic Dungeon run. Result: Runic Spellthread.
• Complete a regular MgT run to get attuned for Heroic and get the +12 Spell Damage gem.
• Once attuned for Heroic MgT try to get Timbal’s Focusing Crystal. This will supercede efforts to get Quagmirran’s Eye.
• An upgrade for my blue quality ring.

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The good folks over at Twisted Nether Blogcast have put together a Wiki to help organize the WoW Blogging Universe. We even have our own page. If you’re a WoW blogger, interested in WoW blogs or just interested in WoW head on over there and check it out.

In other news the fifth installment of the Twisted Nether Blogcast has been released. It has a great interview with Pike from Aspect of the Hare. Be sure to check it out.

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