My new mage

Tags

Alts, Mage, PvP

I was bored with my old alts and wanted to play a class which was good in both PvP and PvE, so I chose mage. I already had a level 85 mage on another realm but couldn’t afford to transfer it so I thought I’d just level up a new one, and so I did. I I leveled my first mage as fire, this one I leveled as arcane so it was new and different. On low levels my dps was much higher than other classes, only problem was my hit rating which is hard to cap so early. But I made it through and finally hit 85.

So the last weeks I’ve been trying to gearing up both arcane PvE og frost PvP at the same time, cause I want to be able to do both PvE and PvP, but PvP is my favorite.

I’ve always disliked to meet mages in PvP regardless of which class I played, the mages usually won the duels. They’re like a caster version of a rogue, cause they can do so much. Counterspell, freeze in different ways, poly, blink, invisibility, shields, spellsteal etc.

So now it’s payback time! My turn to be the mage and be super annoying, I just have to learn how to play it first. I’ve finally got enough gear to not be one shotted in battlegrounds, my damage is still a bit weak cause I’m using some PvE parts with haste instead of mastery and crit. I’ve also done some arena matches with a friend which was very good practice. I think we’ve actually won more than we lost, which I think is good when you’re new to a class. And even when we lose I learn something new.

At first I had to keybind the abilities in a good place so they’re all easy to reach when needed, and then when and how to use them. You can easily feel when you have full control and everything “sits”. At least I can, that’s how it is on my druid and warrior, and soon on this mage.

As for PvE, I bought some epics at the auction house and for Justice and Valor points, also did some heroics and Zandalari heroics, Baradin Hold, BoT, BWD and Firelands with the guild’s alt run. People say arcane is so easy to play, but I disagree. It’s more than just spamming one button. You have to know how many Arcane Blasts you can do before your mana is too low so Evocation won’t give you full mana, and you have to time cooldowns and many bosses have so much movement so it’s hard to keep up with those who can dps while moving. But all this is just practice and I can’t expect it to be perfect yet, cause I’ve only done a few raids.

Project warrior

Tags

PvP, warrior

There isn’t much to do online on my main these days. Besides raiding three times each week I don’t do much. Maybe some battlegrounds or Wintergrasp for the veteran achievement, or a Tol Barad and Baradin Hold. I don’t do daily heroics anymore, not on my main and I’m tired of quests and I’m not in need of more gold.

I’ve been wanting to gear up my warrior for a long time now. It was my main in TBC and part of WotLK, but then it became and alt, my 3rd alt. But I leveled it up to 85 like a month ago. It has always been fury main spec cause I really enjoy fury so that’s still my main spec. I don’t have much experience as protection but I’d like to try it so I’ve gathered some tank gear from heroics.

But at the moment I’m more interested in getting good PvP gear. My plan when I started WoW and this warrior back in TBC was to PvP in battlegrounds and arena, but I changed my mind and focus went on PvE. So the last time I did some serious PvP with it was in TBC which is a long time ago. When there was no Bladestorm and mace stun was the shit. I don’t think I was very good, my gear was ok, but poor skills.

I miss it. Especially after watching one of my friends and guildies on his warrior. He’s fury in raids but he’s also very good in PvP. So now my goal is to become as good as him, but I doubt it’ll happen. I’ve already got the blue PvP set and some offset items, not that hard to farm random battlegrounds for honor and play in the bg weekends. I haven’t been lucky with any drops in Baradin Hold and haven’t got enough conquest points for weapons yet, but I’ll be working on getting my weekly cap from next week on.

I didn’t have much experience as arms warrior as almost everything has changed since TBC, but it’s easy to learn and gear helps a lot. Resilience to survive and other stats for damage. I’ve been really satisfied with the last battlegrounds I’ve done. Good damage, not too many deaths and top 3 of killing blows and still playing the battleground and winning. I’m also starting to get good at when to use my trinket and charge or heroic leap out or to a different target to survive or flee, and I’m always looking for healers or casters to annoy by interrupting, Throwdown, fear or War Stomp. Yes I love being a tauren.

What I’m not as good at is duels. I think I’m afraid of losing or being bad and people seeing it, cause there are always people watching those who duel outside Orgrimmar. It’s the same in arena, I don’t wanna do mistakes and die cause then we loose and it’s embarrassing. But I guess the more I play and practise the better I become.

Gearing alts – Shadow’s Edge

Tags

citadel, icecrown, shadow's edge, the lich king, warrior, wow

I decided to transfer my warrior which is my old main and first character over to my current realm. I haven’t really played warrior since Naxxramas in Wrath of the Lich King, only some daily heroics and VoA. I had to read up on spec, glyphs, caps etc to check if I was correct. I just needed some expertise and armor pen.

The reason I transfered him was that I missed to play warrior, after all it was my first character and main in TBC to Naxxramas. He had good gear back then, but not anymore, and he deserves to be geared and played not just sit on some random realm alone. This might sound weird but he will always be special to me cause he was the one I explored the world of Azeroth and Outland on first, he’s been there from the start.

He needed some better gear. His gear score was around 5200 with T9 parts, T10 shoulders and different items from the Icecrown 5-mans, so I couldn’t really get more from triumph emblems and it’s so slow to only do VoA, daily heroic and weekly.

But on my current main I had collected so many frost emblems I don’t need so I crafted the  plate boots from the Ashen Verdict reputation. It was Monday when I transferred him so I didn’t think I would find any Icecrown run to join, and I didn’t have achievement to show on that character either.

Many groups were looking for people and I got to join because I told them I had achievement on my main and this was an alt. In 10 man we did 4 bosses + the weekly Frost Giant. Some people didn’t understand where to go with the spore on Festergut, even tho we told them over and over again, so we stopped there. I didn’t get any loot, but I got emblems.

After that I found a 25 man with a nice raid leader. A lot of items I needed dropped; I got bracers from Gunship heroic, a Protector mark from Saurfang and the blood from Rotface. I rolled 3^rd on the blood from Festergut, but the guy who won didn’t have the quest so he couldn’t loot the item, so people said I should get it instead and I did. I also got two Primordial Saronites. I could buy the rest with frost emblems on my druid.

So we did 6 bosses and wiped on Dreamwalker cause we were 22 and not enough dps and I was alone dpsing on the right side. Suppressors didn’t go down, so already then people started to leave mid combat. But it was a good raid and it had to be my lucky day.

My boyfriend moved a character too by the way, his death knight tank, had about the same gear as me when we started, crafted gear and got some items so he went up like 400 gear score.

I went to buy the rest of the saronites and get Arthas’ old hammer from the Frostmourne Cavern and back to turn in the quest. So now my warrior has Shadow’s Edge!