Saturday, December 22, 2012

Into the Mists: Return to Blogging!? Reforge headaches?

Hello, hello! It's certainly been awhile (again.. I'm so terrible, I know). This time I'm back for quite awhile. Mists of Pandaria has so much to offer for me (because I'm returning to my Achievement Mongering again). My goals so far were to finish getting 150 mounts, the Pandaren Ambassador, and 60 exalted reps.

My progress so far!

I made the switch from Alliance to Horde; as much as I miss my Night Elf. I play casually on Tichondrius (US, of course). The latency is much better, as I am from the West Coast. I PvP very little because I don't feel to push past 2200. Once I reach it, i'm satisfied (Yay xmog gear!).
I do a little raiding on the side, but for the most part we're a PvP guild. So to fill that gap, I just do a bunch of dailies and Archaeology. I found myself doing achievements here and there.
Even though i'm a casual player now, I still try to min/max my stats in anyway possible by keeping up with information on my class as well as testing things out myself. I guess you can call me a "hardcore casual" or a "tryhard" but I like doing the best I can.
As a Resto Druid our stat priorities are:

Spirit(until you're comfortable) > Int > 1st Haste Cap (3043) > Mastery > Crit

To be honest, as Resto Druids stand right now, I won't be feel comfortable gemming Intellect instead of Spirit until I have heroic gear and for the next tier. Our healing is behind due to our regen and our HoTs going to overheal due to sniping and absorbs. I keep most absorbs tracked on my grid, but it's kind of hit and miss.

Coming to the haste part, I always had problems working ReforgeLite around Spirit (maybe that's just me being dumb). But with that problem, I found a solution: wowreforge.com.



This site enables you to check your reforge numbers and asks for priorities, as well as helps you get the exact numbers you need. If the numbers are too much, you can use Simple Mode.

On the bottom you can choose what stats you're trying to get. As you can see I put our first haste cap and unchecked the Spirit box because I didn't want that stat to be modified. Once the numbers are added up and you like what you see, you can hit the summary button and it will tell you exactly what you need to reforge to get there.
Also if you don't wish to go through all the stuff, you can simply use my template! Keep in mind that I don't modify Spirit for haste, but i'm easily able to access the first haste cap while doing so.
http://www.wowreforge.com/?template=for:Druid-Tree,Haste=3043+,Haste:0.8,Spi:0.75,Crit:0.6,Mastery:0.65

With that, I take my leave for now. I'm extremely rusty on blogging so I apologize if this post was short. I'll have more to come when I raid once more. Happy Holidays, Everyone! <3

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