Okay folks. My last post was in… November 2008. As we all know it is now well into march of ‘09. My apoologies for any who actually do follow the blog (if there were any in the first place) for the lack of updates and new posts.
World of Warcraft 3.02 to 3.09
We’re in the vanila stages of WotLK, and as I mentioned in my previous posts I’ve changed from my shaman main to my warrior that I started to play since day 1 of WoW. I’ve been protection since the first minute of WotLK (levelling as prot), hit 80 in 4 days and have been through every single encounter by January (that was Sarth with 3 drakes up).
IMO, I think WotLK raiding has been satisfactory so far. Some say it’s easy, but compared to what Gruul/Magtheridon/Kara was after blizzard had their tuning right, it’s not really that bad (I’d say Naxx has encounters that are harder than entry level TBC encounters). The major problem is just that Blizzard is taking way to long to release 3.1
The achievement system is interesting but I think some achievements bring more frustration than challenge especially when they provide no extra bonus aside from a shiny title or mount (*cough*immortal*cough)
Warrior Tanking
I confess that the sole reason I switched back to warrior main was the announcement of the 51 tanking talent: Shockwave. It has been one of my favorite abilities in War3. I must say that I was pretty disappointed by the lackluster animation. (meh)
The good things about warrior tanks are: no downtime (haha pallies), decent AE tanking abilities (haha druids), spell reflection, best mobility (warbringer ftw) and better scaling threat (because of vigilance).
The bad things about warrior tanks are: low HP (lowest stamina co-efficient of all tank classes), low AE threat (compared to DKs and Pallies), and utterly crap offtanking capabilities. I think we also have the most complicated tanking rotations out of all tank classes.
There’s enough resources on the net that I don’t need to write a guide for warrior tanks here, unless there is actual demand for one.
Holy Paladin!
Yep, you heard it right. Well, joining a few of my friends on the Taiwan WoW servers, I started a BE pally just for fun and games and leveled her to 80 for some casual 10 man raiding. People kept saying how pally healers are lacklust and what not but from my experience pally healers are able to handle situations just as good as any other healer out there (aside from Shamans and their overpowered cleansing totems). I don’t have much 25 man experience here so I’ll write more if I ever get the chance.
Anime
It’s actually near spring season so another round of anime is about to begin in the following weeks. I won’t go into the Jan-March season anime in detail but here’s the list I watched:
Continuing from last season: Clannad AS, Gundam OO 2nd, ToraDora, Shikabanehime, and Index.
Clannad’s animation is just superb, aside from that atmosphere-killing ending theme, the climatic episodes were just beautifully done. Definitely a must watch if not just for those 2-3 episodes.
Gundam OO’s 2nd season turns out to be an epic. Now if the ending doesn’t turn out to be shit it’s going to be one of the best Gundam series out there.
New series this season: Druaga 2nd, Minami-ke 3rd, Rideback, Ashita no Youichi, Sora kake girl, Koukaku no Regios, Tetsuwan Birdy 2nd.
Druaga starts out just as hilarious as the first season but gets down to serious business within a few episodes. Just to complete the story, but aside from that nothing too special.
Minami-ke’s 3rd season reverts back to it’s manga roots, and has returned to it’s hilarious state like back in season 1.
Rideback is probably this season’s gem (aside from Clannad), it’s probably the easiestly missed series this season but turns out to be one of the best. Must watch.
Sora kake girl is worth watching just to watch Fukuyama Jun as Leopard in that anime. You’ll laugh your asses off this hikigomori tsundere ai voiced by Lelouge from Code Geass.
Tetsuwan Birdy I can’t find decend subs for (*cry*).
This Blog
I’m thinking of doing something else with this blog and changing the way I post here. Most likely I’ll even write my own blog script and host it on my own webserver. I’m currently taking a course in web design and programming so once I complete the course I’ll have a better idea of if I want to do that or not.
Your Input
If there are still people who read this blog I’d definitely like some feedback so I can better know what to post in the future:
Would you like -
More anime related posts?
Warrior tanking guides?
Paladin healing guides?
Other video game related posts (I play alot)?
Arcade game posts?
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