All Cataclysm JC Daily Recipes Obtained

At long last all 154 Jewelcrafting recipes that cost daily tokens are mine!

 

The rundown:

14 Chimera's Eye Cuts (@2 each = 28 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token)

52 Rare Quality Gems (@3 each = 156 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token

66 Epic Quality Gems (@4 each = 264 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token)

13 Meta Cuts (@4 each = 52 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token)

9 Epic Accessories (@5 each = 45 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token)

 

So in grand total it took 545 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token.

 

That is 545 days of Orgrimmar Jewelcrafting Dallies done!

What is left now:
Pendant of Shadow's End - Need Revered with Aldor for this one
Circlet of Arcane Might - Drops from Epoch Hunter in Old Hillsbrad
Hard Khorium Band - Sunwell Drop
Hard Khorium Choker - Sunwell Drop
Loop of Forged Power - Sunwell Drop
Ring of Flowing Life - Sunwell Drop
Jeweler's Ruby Monocle - Cataclysm World Drop
Rhinestone Sunglasses - Cataclysm World Drop

17k Achievement Points + Glory of the Cataclysm Hero

With the Glory of the Cataclysm Hero, I hit 17k Achievement Points!

 

I managed to solo a lot of the achievements for Glory of the Cataclysm Hero but I grouped up for a few of them:

 

 

Navimie, Corael, Aurii, and Crooked helped me with Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls. Didn't remove all the Heroic Cloaks before hand so we were AoE Damaging by accident. We had to leave the adds alive so the boss could kill them We reset the boss and did it again easily.

 

 

Nathamanz was with me for Straw That Broke the Camel's Back and Kill It With Fire!. We just DPS Earthrager Ptah down while avoiding things that could dismount us. Then just waited for the Burning Souls to appear during the High Prophet Barim fight and killed them.

 

 

 

I Hate That Song took several attempts with a few groups, including an attempt with Nathamanz again which didn't work out. Muppeteer (Vinyl) and Chihako were with me when we finally got the achievement down. Navimie was in the group for a few of those attempts before having to head off.

 

The strategy that worked in the end was this: I ran down and agroed all the snakes then ran up to solo the boss. The snakes wouldn't respawn because I didn't kill them. I used single target on Temple Guardian Anhuur. Vinyl and Chihako then stood at the switches and used them when Temple Guardian Anhuur started to sing. 

For Glory of the Cataclysm Hero I earned my my Reins of the Volcanic Stone Drake!

Thankyou everyone who helped me out!

Pristine Archaeology

I finished all of the Pandaria Pristine Archaeology tonight. Just lots of grinding archaeology to get it done.

 

But my question now is what goes in the last spot on that stand in the Seat of Knowledge? What have I missed?

 

Countdown to Warlords of Draenor (25 week update/28 weeks to go)

Still been playing too much Diablo the past four weeks. I however have still been making the guild Normal SoO Raids and doing my JC dallies.

Important Stuff to do:
● Get Holy Item Level to over 566 (555 558/566)
● Get Ret Item Level to over 553 (534 538/553)
● Proving Grounds: Proving Yourself: Gold Healer
● Proving Grounds: Proving Yourself: Gold Damage

Old Raid Stuff to do:
● Glory of the Cataclysm Hero (27/28) (Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls left)
● Glory of the Cataclysm Raider (20/24)
● Get Shado-Pan Assault to Exalted (Honored)
● Get all Burning Crusade Raid Pet Drops (5/10)

Misc Stuff to do:
● Get all Pristine Archaeology (26/28)
● Do [The Longest Day] Achievement
● Get all Argent Tournament Mounts (10/15) (600 Tokens)
● Nat Pagle Friendship to Best Friends (7/64 hand-ins done)

Jewelcrafting Recipe Collection:
● 6 Burning Crusade Recipes - 1 Aldor, 5 4 Sunwell, 1 Dungeon Drop
● 7 Cataclysm Recipes - 2 World Drop; 9 5 Vendor Rings/Necks (25 Cata Tokens)

McTacky doesn't saves Noblegarden?

Master Blood Knight Aloysius McTacky entered the Silvermoon Inn.

"So?" asked the Bartender.

"What?" asked McTacky.

"It is a world event at the moment. So where is your tall story about saving Noblegarden?" asked the Bartender.

"I don't know what you are talking about," insisted McTacky, "I'm just heading out the back to play some two-up."

McTacky left the inn and entered Murder Row. A group of Blood Elves surrounded a Boxer collecting money.

The Spinner nodded and threw the two coins went up into the air. They landed odds.

"Look out! It's the blood knights!" said the Cockatoo, seeing McTacky.

"Relax, it's Just McTacky," said the Ringkeeper.

Flashback: Just say No to Demon Blood

At first it seemed that the champions with their The Tempest Key from the Sha'tar had killed Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider and taken Kael's Vial Remnant and one of his Verdant Spheres. Instead he was very much alive and clearly insane.

 

"... did you see how Kael'thas looked?" asked Ellrys Duskhallow.

"Yes. He hasn't been the same since the attack on Tempest Keep," said McTacky. He looked like a Wretched now.

"He was beaten and left for dead. If Priestess Delrissa hadn't arrived when she did, who knows what might have happened!" exclaimed Ellrys Duskhallow.

"That look in his eyes now... it scares me," admitted McTacky,

"Yes, but we will follow him to the end. It's our duty to head to Dawnblade Village on the Isle of Quel'Danas and hold it while he prepares." explained Ellrys Duskhallow.

"Prepares? Prepares for what?" asked McTacky.

"You will find out," said Ellrys Duskhallow ominously, "Also an elite few will be given the chance to become Felblood Elves, they will drink demon blood and gain fast strength and power, the Shadowsword. As a Master Blood Knight, you would rate highly on that list. First you just need to gather some items for us for the ritual."

"Of course," said McTacky.

Later....
"You just ran away?" asked the Bartender.

"No. I realised that the Warlock Duskhallow wasn't actually my superior, so myself and my squad came back to Silvermoon for new orders," explained McTacky.

"You just ran away?" asked the Bartender.

"That warlock wanted me to drink demon blood! I am already superb, I don't need Demon Blood!" said McTacky.

"So you ran away," shrugged the Bartender.

"See here, the Trolls over at Zul'Aman need our attention now. They are infusing their champions with their ancient animal gods!" said McTacky, "they could use that power to threaten the homeland."

"It just sounds like an excuse," said the Bartender.

"Listen. If someone offers you Demon Blood. You just say No!" said McTacky.

"You didn't say no. You ran away," said the Bartender.

Countdown to Warlords of Draenor (21 week update/32 weeks to go)

I have been busy with Diablo III: Reaper of Souls the past two weeks, but I still attended the guild raids. The big news is that I've started attending the Normal Raids, not just the Flex Raids, with my guild, Frostwolves! After a couple of runs I beat my goal of 553 item level for holy! Now to push towards 566! I also now have my four set bonus.

I haven't killed Garrosh on Normal yet since that is done with two heals and not three. If my Ret spec was more viable I would be able to stay in the run. I need to research how to heal better in that fight as well.

The next Countdown to WoD update will be in four weeks, not two.

Important Stuff to do:
● Get Holy Item Level to over 553 (550 555/553) Complete
● Get Holy Item Level to over 566 (555/566)
● Get Ret Item Level to over 553 (530 534/553)
● Proving Grounds: Proving Yourself: Gold Healer
● Proving Grounds: Proving Yourself: Gold Damage

Old Raid Stuff to do:
● Glory of the Cataclysm Hero (27/28) (Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls left)
● Glory of the Cataclysm Raider (20/24)
● Get Shado-Pan Assault to Exalted (Honored)
● Get all Burning Crusade Raid Pet Drops (5/10)

Misc Stuff to do:
● Get all Pristine Archaeology (25 26/28)
● Do [The Longest Day] Achievement
● Get all Argent Tournament Mounts (10/15) (600 Tokens)
● Nat Pagle Friendship to Best Friends (7/64 hand-ins done)

Jewelcrafting Recipe Collection:
● 7 Burning Crusade Recipes - 1 Aldor, 5 Sunwell, 1 Dungeon Drop
● 11 Cataclysm Recipes - 2 World Drop; 9 Vendor (45 Cata Tokens)
- 3 0 Epics = 0 Tokens; 9 Rings/Necks = 45 Tokens

Patch 5.0 Alpha vs Blood Knight Spells

Lets see what the damage is to Blood Knights in the current state of the 5.0 Alpha:

As Blood Knights are all  Blood Elves, lets look at the racials:
• Arcane Acuity is a new racial passive ability that increases Critical Strike chance by 1%.
• Arcane Torrent now restores 1 Holy Power for Paladins. Other parts of the ability remain unchanged.
Nice, nice! Now what is being removed and restricted?

• Blinding Light has been removed - I think I should have used this more. But I suspect it was more a PvP ability. Maybe I am wrong?
• Hand of Salvation has been removed - Haven't used this since Burning Crusade
• Holy Light has been removed - Haven't used this spell since I changed over to my current built
• Inquisition has been removed - One I actually used when I went Ret. This changes damage rotations.
• Divine Plea has been removed. Mana costs for Paladins have been adjusted accordingly. - I use this all the time! Well things better cost less mana!
• Divine Light has been renamed Holy Light - This change makes sense! The name Holy Light is iconic, so it may as well be the workhorse spell again.
• Avenging Wrath is now only available to Retribution Paladins - No more wings while healing then!
• Devotion Aura is no longer available to Protection Paladins - This hurts our guild Blood Knights tanks like Xyn.
• Guardian of Ancient Kings is now only available to Protection Paladins -There goes my heal & haste boost!
• Holy Insight no longer increases the chance to hit with spells.
• Sanctuary now also reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%.
• Repentance cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds - up from 1.7 seconds. Well if I have to crowd control it'll take slightly longer, but I rarely get called on to do it myself
• Turn Evil cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds and now has a 6 second duration in PvP (down from 8 seconds). - Up from 1.5 cast time. I used it sometimes if there when there was absolutely nothing to heal before my current build.

Prot get Guardian, Ret keep wings, Holy get a boosted Divine Favor.

Weakened Blows was a debuff that mattered almost exclusively to tanks, and that every tank automatically applied. We removed the debuff and reduced creature damage to compensate.
The following abilities no longer apply the Weakened Blows effect: Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous. - Wait, Crusader Strike caused weakened blows effect? Well I'm surprised. Well I guess it doesn't any longer!

Holy get their spells rearranged:

Paladin Higher Efficiency: Holy Light, Holy Shock, Word of Glory, Light of Dawn
Paladin Higher Throughput: Flash of Light, Holy Radiance

Well I don't see anything wrong with that...

• Eternal Flame now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast) for Holy Paladins.
• Light of Dawn now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
• Word of Glory now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
Wait, what! Isn't the point of the Holy Power resource to be spent instantly after building them up! That means I really can't heal and move, again! /mourns death of instant cast spell heals

• Guarded by the Light (Protection) now also makes Word of Glory and Eternal Flame instant cast.
• Sword of Light (Retribution) now also makes Word of Glory and Eternal Flame instant cast.

Oh! OH! I see how it is! Ret keep Templar's Verdict, Prot keep Shield of the Righteous & Barkskin (Symbiosis), and they both keep Word of Glory/Eternal Flame as instants! It is only Holy, being balanced against other healers, that loses the instant nature of Holy Power. Meaning Holy may as well just have those spells cost Mana now.

I am excited to see these changes in action and see how the removal of 'smart heals' impacts on my healing. It does sound like healing is going back to being slower and more measured. More clever spell rotations like a Death Knight would, to push up Holy Power so you can cast Holy Power spells as a normal spell.

This is all far more technical than during Burning Crusade where I stacked Crit/MP5 only spammed one spell over and over to get the job done (well two spells if you count putting Blessing of Salvation on those at the top of the Threat Meter).