So, how is 3.3 looking?Follow

As for raids, I did the weekly one by killing a first boss in Naxx. Not much special, free emblems. As for the new LFG, it's brilliant. It really is. It makes instances effectively works like BGs, which means that A) you'll generally find a group to go with within 15 minutes (even at 5 in the morning) and B) low level instancing has just been ressurected.


For as far as I've heard from our guild's shadow priest, pretty nifty. Her damage has gone up splendidly (though I haven't seen her DPS in actual raids yet), even to the point where she does so much bust damage she is pulling aggro on trash mobs.

Yeah, shadow is looking really good at the moment. 2 of the first 4 bosses in IC are just a dream for shadowpriests and the rest are still showing a significant enough damage boost to take us to the middle of the dps pack. Just hope it scales up now.

Oh and btw, if you have a shadow priest go and check out vezax now - I almost laughed my **** off yesterday. Had VT down to about 7 seconds duration without heroism and was only beaten on damage by our best mage.

Haven't raided yet (as Shadow, not that I ever get to) to see how it works there, but in the heroic 5-mans, I'm putting out ~400 DPS more on average than I was before. It'll probably go up even higher when I get an appreciable amount of haste on my shadow set.

Now, I'm loving the change to Vampiric Embrace. With it being a self-buff instead of a debuff, it simplifies the rotation considerably. And I don't have to worry about skipping it on the faster dying trash like I used to do.

Bloodbeasts have to connect with attacks to add blood power to saurfang (just like the boss himself) and i think this is true of blood nova too. So shielding the raid is going to be pure sex on that fight.

I'm using triumph badges to upgrade my crappy deadly gear to furious, so i can hover around 1100 resilience, but finally start building toward 130 spell pen and hit rating. This is huge for my rmp team, since now we can make reliable switches with me sitting on a polyed enemy and fearing as the duration ends even if they have shadow resist aura. We went something like 22 wins, 8 losses this week, so it's looking promising. My mage is doing the queldelar questline at the moment, and the rogue recently got 2 ilevel 232 daggers.

Well, that sucks. Saurfang himself definately has to cause some damage with an attack to add blood power, i noticed it cause i fully block most of his attacks on my palla up to about 35 BP or so when he gets a little stronger.

The latest EJ numbers put Haste equal to Spellpower.

Haste is your FRIEND.

I really should really go and re-gem with the new things in mind (aka: only really gemmed for SP before...)