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The Doodad is Back

Tepisor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:21:31 +0000

Just when you thought that it was dead, it came back!

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The Doodad is Back

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Other MMOs – EVE, WoW, FML and Aion?

Tepisor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:06:25 +0000

I’m a big fan of computer games. I probably spend too much time playing them and many may think it’s a waste of time. I partially agree with that statement, but we’re not here to discuss that.

I remember playing my first game on an old HC Spectrum, which needed a cassette player to load it’s games from tapes. Computers being a subject which started to interest me, I later started to get some courses on Informatics. I discovered the 286 and 386, on which I played Prince of Persia, Aladdin and some Formula 1 game. Then in 1994 I got my first personal computer, a 386 with 33 MHz processor and 1 MB of RAM. It was the moment that got my hooked to any gaming related activities.

Fast forward 15 years, I discovered MMOs. It started with EVE, continued with Word of Warcraft and with FML in-between. But lately I’ve been looking to widen my horizons and after reading Tobol’s review (and several others), I’m really thinking of giving Aion a shot.

If you’re like me, maybe you would like to take a look at Killer Guides little contest. They are giving away 20 beta weekend passes for Aion. All you have to do is describe in a sentence why should you receive one of the passes. All winners will also get a copy of their Aion Strategy Guide.

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My sincere apologies

Tepisor — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:38:38 +0000

It appears that my contact form got borked at the last update. I only noticed today, so if there’s someone that tried to contact me via that method, know that your message, unfortunately, never got to me.

I’m always happy when people ask me questions and since I’ve started blogging there were quite a few that had something to tell me, not by leaving a comment, but by emailing me. I was always swift in responding, as I enjoy helping people. But now this happens, which saddens me greatly.

But alas, it is now fixed. I’ve put up a new contact form on the contact page and I’ve also set up a separate email account just for the blog. So from now on, when you want to contact me via email, you can do it from my contact form or directly at tepisor @itankstuff.com (without the space ofc).

Thanks and sorry again!

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My sincere apologies

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Sharing the love

Tepisor — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:24:09 +0000

Seeing as I’ve been less than active in the blogging community in the last few weeks due to RL commitments that keep me from having the required time to PvE, I would like to recommend you three excellent Protection Paladin blogs that I check on a daily basis.

Righteous Defense is a blog from a fellow tankadin that’s actively raiding Ulduar. He writes daily about his adventures and he does it very well.

Valor… Paladin… Palordin? is another great blog written by Aureilie and is an excellent stop for tanking resources.

Sacred Dutty is written by Galyan and has some good guides for your Protection Paladin.

Whichever you will chose to bookmark, I can assure you they are excellent reads that deserve your attention.

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Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

Tepisor — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:51:01 +0000

The patch is up, the specs are these:

Prot Pala spec 1

Prot pala spec 2

Prot pala spec 3 (added 4/17)

Prot pala spec 4 (added 4/18, suggested by Gymal) – mana regen and mana conservation, improved heals, helping DPS out

Please feel free to discuss my choices. This post will be updated with future input or insights I might have.

Have fun and don’t forget to enjoy the game and the new content!

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Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK

Tepisor — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:30:31 +0000

The question that was on everybody’s lips (well, at least on mine’s, Ridach’s and Galyan’s) has been today answered.

Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK as of today’s PTR build.

Saw this post from Galyan where he was talking about Protection Paladin Glyphs and in the comments the dilemma if the two of them stack.

I’ve decided to take the matter in my own hands. So I logged into the PTRs, found a Prot Pala with the Glyph and proceeded to test it.

The method I’ve used it pretty simple: I firstly Judged Wisdom with my helper having only BoSanc on him and did X amount of damage. Then he casted DP and I Judged again, making Y amount of damage. See pictures below for further explanations.

Damage with only BoSanc on himself: 598

Damage with BoSanc and Divine Plea: 580

3% of 598 is 17.94.

Thus, it leads me to firmly say that Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc stack.

(thank you Aratar for helping me!)

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Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped

Tepisor — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:11:15 +0000

I already talked about Protection Paladin Glyphs earlier in a post, but Patch 3.1 brings a new set of interesting Glyphs.

It’s not yet certain what kind of Glyphs these will be, but they look OK. Let’s take a look.

Glyph of Divine Plea: While Divine Plea is active, you take 3% reduced damage from all sources.

This might not look good in the first place, but Guarded by the Light talent is changed. Does that mean we’ll have 100% uptime on Divine Plea and thus take 3% less damage? Looks yummy. This will be _the_ Glyph to have (also because they are nerfing Spiritual Attunement – boooooooooooooo! and increasing the mana cost of our abilities).

Next Glyph.

Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous: Your Hammer of the Righteous hits 1 additional target.

One additional target is always good. Makes us even powerful in AoE tanking and trash.

So, until now, we get two excellent Glyphs, that might replace some of the useless ones. But what slot will they fit? Major or Minor? I tried to find an Inscriptor on the PTRs that can craft them, but with no success. They weren’t even on the AH. My best guess is that they will fit a Major slot. Please ignore that, I didn’t check wowhead before posting. They fit Major slots.

Right now I’m thinking I’ll run with DP, HotR/SoV and Judgement/Exorcism as Glyphs, depending on the fights. But things may change.

What about you?

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WoW Bitch Slaps Me. Again

Tepisor — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:44:43 +0000

Long time readers might know that I also have another 80 character, a Priest, which at some point I cherished more than my Paladin.

First I was Shadow with him and tried some PvP, saw that there’s no way I could do good in the current state of Shadow Priests in PvP and went Discipline. I sucked at it (call it "lack of gear" but it was really lack of skill) and went Shadow again, but only to do PvE. Did that for a while and loved it. But I went back to Discipline once i got more PvP gear and now I love it even more.

Why am I telling you this? Because two days ago this happened:

For a long time I was missing only Oculus heroic to get the Champion of the Frozen Wastes title, but never really got to do it, especially since I was Disc and not geared enough to heal it.

But that night I got lucky. The guild was looking to do a heroic, I specced Shadow and the results are as you see above. Yes, I spent 100g only for that.

I got 5 Achievements once that last boss was dead, including the title one. Which I’m missing on Tepisor.

You see the irony? The Priest is an Alt, I play him for fun and kicks and still I finished 10-man content earlier than on my main.

Lady Luck just loves me.

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How To Tell When You Are Stupid

Tepisor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:00:44 +0000

A quick guide for self-realizing when, how and how much you suck.

Let’s say your name is Tepisor and you play a Protection Paladin. Let’s also assume your character copy over to the PTRs is finally over. You rush to the Paladin trainer to look at the new things and notice dual specs. Your try to purchase the specialization. You realize you only transferred with 188g.

That’s when you are stupid.

Later edit: If anyone is on the Brill server and has an extra 1k gold, please tell Name is like always Tepisor.

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How To Tell When You Are Stupid

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Paladins, Stop Sucking

Tepisor — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:09:45 +0000

I want to take a brief moment and let you know that I enjoy playing a Paladin more than any other class. I have a level 80 Priest, going from Shadow to Discipline and back many times, depending on my moods) and a 60 Hunter (that I probably should level seeing how good hunters are at the moment). These are alliance toons. I also have another 80 Hunter (Troll mon’) and a 74 Druid as Horde characters.

But my Paladin is my favorite character to play. That’s why it hurts me when I see another Paladin playing bad and giving us a bad name.

I don’t play my Horde characters very much. But when I play them (well, the Hunter mostly) I try and PuG 25-man stuff. Keep in mind that my Horde characters are on the Karazhan server, where I originally started playing as Alliance.

(small note that might turn to be really big: you have no idea how bad is being Alliance on Karazhan. It was bad when I transferred off and I only imagine now is even worst. The ratio is about 4:1 to Horde. According to wowjutsu.com, there is only 1 Alliance guild in the top10, at place 7. Next one is on 14. That’s bad. Really bad. WG on Horde side has constantly 2 full raids while Alliance is running with 10-15 Tenacity buffs. I guess it’s fun up to a point for them, 1-shoting most players.)

So I was playing my Hunter and found a 25-man PuG for Sartharion. We clear the drakes and prepare to face him. That’s when I noticed no one had any Paladin buffs yet. So I politely ask for buffs. I get a Bok and I think to myself “BoK is good, gid moar cuz I suck at huntering and need all the help I can get!”. 10-15 seconds pass, I only had BoK with 3 Paladins in the raid. So I ask again. Nothing. I whisper one of the Paladins and I finally get a BoM. We wait 30 seconds more, hoping the other Paladin notices that he should like buff and stuff, but alas, he didn’t and we started the encounter.

(another small note: even tho I’m really bad at playing a Hunter and I’m also specced MM, I was able to keep 3k DPS by only spamming Steady Shot and hitting Wyvern Sting every CD. Mana was an issues, but thank Blizzard for Aspect of the Viper.)

This whole situation left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. I hear many people complain about Paladins and buffing, but I never had any problems before. I don’t use a buffing addon (like PallyPower) but I never miss any buffs. Even if I buff greater blessings and someone needs something else, I’m fast on correcting it.

How hard can it be people? It’s a simple thing to do, that only requires at most 10 seconds of your time, then you can forget about it for 30 minutes. So stop giving Paladins a bad name and buff up already!

What’s your experience with Paladins and buffing?

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Paladins, Stop Sucking

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