Mist of Pandaria Pre-beta Thoughts

I have been playing WoW now for 4 years now so I missed the hay day of Vanilla, I started at the release of The Burning Crusade and spent way to many days not studying playing. I do have to admit that since the release of Wrath of the Lich King I did start playing a whole lot less down to playing only 2-3 nights a week most weeks. Through Cataclysm I have wanted to play more but have not had the time due to real life changes for the best.

But I am really excited for Mists of Pandaria because it is new and unknown, where Cataclysm kinda let us down with only 2 truly new zones, Tol Barad, and 2 starter areas that were new, I was really looking forward to going to Undermine. Uldum was a let with 6 years of build up of wondering what was behind those doors. Hyjal a fun zone but it felt very familiar and Twilight Highlands was the same. With Wrath it was new in a WoW sense but in Warcraft it was not. So with Mists we should get that sense of excitement of going somewhere new like we did in Vanilla and TBC.

And this whole notion of Kung-Fu Panda will ruin the game, is bogus the Pandaren have been around since WarCraft3 and have been a race that me along with many long time Warcraft fans (not necessarily wow fans) have been eager to play. Pre-TBC they were even thought to be the Alliance playable race for the expansion.

I did signup for the WoW annual pass so I will be in the MoP beta however I don't play on PTRs much because I like being surprised with content that I will be playing through for 4-8 months, so I am still torn about actually participating in the beta.

My Arms Warrior UI

Raiding Addons:
- Deadly Boss Mods
- Deadly Boss Mods Spell Timers (great for monitoring your groups CDs)
- Parrot (floating combat text)
- Tidy Plates
- X-Perl Unit Frames

UI addons:
- ArkInventory
- Fortress (a broker display)
- Broker uClock
- MrCurrency
- Broker_DurabilityInfo
- Broker_Location
- Postal
- Razer Naga
- Prat 3.0
- SexyMap
- Sunn Viewport Art

Screen Shot comming soon

4.3 and the Glory of Arms

With the coming of 4.3 it has laid to rest the notion that it would kill Arms PvE DPS being competive with Fury, and in fact made Arms the viable PvE spec by a lot. People called me crazy for playing Arms in 4.1 and 4.2 but look at them now all running around with their single 2 handed weapons. The funny thing is that even with full 4.2 gear I am currently putting out more DPS than better geared warriors on my Server and in LFR (yes I know they are normally lazy in LFR). What it comes down to is how I DPS and the way my spec is set up. 1) I know the arms priority system very well for playing it over a year now, and most Fury warriors are still trying to faceroll as Arms, yes it will put out okay numbers, but no where near where it should be. 2) In DS the same as it was in FL the AoE Arms spec seems to be the better overall spec for the dungeon there are a few fights where the single target spec is better but for the over all raid go with the AoE spec especially if you need your 2nd spec for something else (like having to tank because your guild fell apart 2 weeks before 4.3 came out and still hasn't recovered).

Just remember the best DPS priority rotation will look something like this for single target Open w/ Rend - then begin - CS>MS>OP>Slam(Rage<60&MS still on CD)/HS(Rage>60)

and for Multiple Target: Open with Rend - then begin - CS>MS>TC>OP>MS>BS>MS>CS>SS> then settle into the above single target rotation until BS and SS are off cooldown.

Transmog Farming

So with the dawn of 4.3 upon us I decided it is time to do 2 things farm the rest of my T6 and T7 sets for PvE and PvP respectively, well as farm out the Purple Judgement BC remake set. The easy part about T6&7 is I am complete on T7 and just need a few pieces on T6 the hard part is the content is not easily solo-able on an Amrs warrior and i have no drive to do that stuff Prot or Fury. The Purple Judgement set is easy to solo for because it all drops from BC 5mans reg and heroics and the content is easy now, just remember to change the dungeon to the correct difficulty for the piece you are farming (/facepalm), the hard parts is the time it take to farm all the pieces due to the annoying max dungeon per hour limit. You can easily run all 3 of Hellfire Citadel and 3 of Sherpenshrine Caverns dungeons in no less then 35 mins, but you cant because you can only run 5 an hour. Now the other thing is I am not quite sure if it within the hour, or with in an hour of the first dungeon you do, or the last. So it could be a 25 min sitting a full hour or whatever time is left until the clock rolls over at 00.

So my goal is to finish of T6 first starting this week. I even found a wrath belt that matches the color of T6 almost perfectly because I love the textured belt buckles they added in wrath as opposed to the flat belt buckles from Vanilla and BC.

Sun's Guide to Asking Mr. Robot

If you haven't found askmrrobot.com you are missing out on one of the easiest to use gear optimizer and best in slot advice out there.

Today I will give you a step-by-step guid to using this amazing tool.

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