Murloc Roundup

With Squirky and the new World of Warcraft plush I've been on a murloc kick. First, I had to go get my own Squirky battle pet and here's all you have to do:

Head out to Seabreak Isle located off the West cost of Azsuna.

It's a small island with shipwrecks and elite murlocs a plenty! There are tons of Squirky's to go around, so I would recommend heading out there with friends, or a group, to make quick work of the elites, also giving you more time to capture 3 if you so desire it.

Kill those elites and get your pet battle on! I recommend using a Terrible Turnip, or any other pet with Weakening Blow. Starting out with Sunlight makes the battle go faster. Bring along 2 extra pets with critter damage and you should be good to kill it's companions and take your baby murloc home.

Now that we've got our new pet, I couldn't help but round up some adorable, and sometimes down right scary, looking drawings of our favorite little grumblers. Check out these artists and their talented fan-art.

Art by Krrrokozjabrra

Art by Liang Xing

Art by Matt Dixon

Art by Jerry Mascho

Art by Steve Prescott

Art by Oliver Chipping

Art by John Polidora

Art by Ivan Fomin

Game on!
Yanet

Its been too long...

It's been too long since I've posted. Way too long! So much has happened while I've been missing in action I'm not even sure where to start...

We moved back to good old Miami cause Izzy partnered up with some friends to open a printing company. They do custom sublimation, screen printing, transfers and vinyl with a focus on sports and school uniforms. I've been helping them out and it's definitely a lot of fun, but man it has been keeping me really, REALLY busy.

On the upside, the business is growing fast and I am taking full advantage of having access to all this awesome equipment to the point where I started designing and selling shirts, mousepads, metal prints and anything else I can get my hands on that I know my geeky, gaming and movie loving followers would enjoy! Similar to this mousepad I did of my lovely resto shaman, Rhyannon.

World of Warcraft character custom mousepad.

If you want to see more of what I have to offer you can find it in my Etsy shop at NRDRG (nrdrg.com).

The plan is to continue growing NRDRG and, now that they've hired someone at the shop, I may actually have some free time to spend it catching up on games I've missed and those that I'm dying to get back to playing, like WoW and Destiny, YAY!

I'm also very much looking forward to this weekend, we are going to see Rogue One! Already got my tickets and I'm super psyched :D Follow on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook if you want to see pics and my reviews after the movie!

Just in time for WoD - Mythic Garrosh kill

Last night we finished clearing Mythic SoO with our first Mythic Garrosh kill! Woot!

We had a few attempts on him last week consistently getting to this last phase, but with the adjustments to 20 mans we weren't able to get him. This week we had a handful of tries and got him down.

The loot was sexy, I got the Horned Mace of the Old Ones. He also dropped 2 mounts!

And guess who had a sexy roll! Yours truly! 

SOOOOO I ended up with one of the mounts and not even two seconds later I lost it to Izzy (a self proclaimed mount whore) because I'm a retard and give him everything he wants in-game.

So he's enjoying riding around in it while I sit here with fingers crossed that next week he can win one! Anyway, here is a link to the Mythic Garrosh Kill video if you guys want to check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa7-4eE771g

Patch 6.0.2 - First Impressions

Patch is finally here and as usual everyone has mixed emotions. Trade is bustling with people trying to figure out where things are, others complaining about their missing spells, and most secretly enjoying the excitement that comes with a new patch and expansion.

First thing I noticed logging on was Rhyannon. I could see the difference in the character model right off the bat and she looks great!

After logging on you get a prompt about the new changes and a way to start the quest line for the invasion in Blasted Lands.

After I accepted my quest I was sad to see all the gaps in my bars :(

As a shaman healer though, I have to say it is kinda nice to have space for things other than totems everywhere!

Then I went off to check my bank and check out the Toy Box.

SPACE!!! Space to fill with more junk! It's really nice to have that trade goods tab too.

The new map with quest is nice and simple to use. I wish it wasn't as large, but I'll get used to it.

And you can't hate on the transparency when you are on the move!

Quick tip in case you are going crazy looking for this as I was. To remove the outlines go to your interface> display> and at the bottom you will see options for the outline. I made mine go bye bye.

Then I grabbed Rah and put him on follow and I did the invasion story line.

And got us a title:

And a cute little pet, which can be caged, by the way, for some extra gold when the expansion comes out.

When not bugging out I got a chance to do UBRS, which gives you a little taste of what's to come.

I noticed the healing changes but it was nothing too overwhelming that I couldn't handle. Most of my gear lost it's spirit and yet I have no mana regen problems what-so-ever. I'm currently at 587 spirit, with 2689 mana regen with a 565 ilvl. I went from having 50% mastery to 103% O.o once reforge was removed. MUST GET CRIT/HASTE GEAR ASAP! Other than the slower cast timese due to my loss of haste shaman healing remains much the same as before. I'm scared to go on my other characters though lol because I know they have not been as fortunate as Rhy.

You also get a chance to grab some 550 ilvl blues in UBRS, which can be disenchanted into the new enchanting mats and are selling for a butt load on the AH.

And last, but certainly not least, the new Horde mount! It's AWESOME! And I love the way my shaman looks riding it!

Over all not a bad patch day, but the day isn't over yet. Raid tonight should be fun and interesting and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for no resets during that time.

How has patch day been treating you guys? What do you love/hate? Let me know!

Shaman Healing for 6.0.2 and WoD

With 6.0.2 patch coming out tomorrow I decided to take a quick peek at my shaman in the PTR before things go live. Our guild is going to be raiding Mythic 20 mans on and I want to be prepared.

So here are the changes for shaman, in particular to restoration shamans:

New for Restoration:

 Ascendance: The Shaman transforms into a Water Ascendant for 15 sec. While in this form, all healing done is duplicated and distributed evenly among nearby allies.

 Purification: You gain 5% more of the Mastery stat from all sources.

Changes for Restoration:

 Chain Heal: 
Now Restoration only. Now 14.2% of base mana, down from 22.5%. Heals the friendly target for 
162.5% of Spell power), then jumps to heal the most injured nearby targets
. Healing is reduced by 10% after each jump. Heals 4 total targets. - Mana cost lowered and healing has been reduced by 10% instead of 15% per jump. Overall a good thing for chain heal spamming!
 Earth Shield: 
Now 12.6% of base mana, down from 19.0%. Protects the target with an earthen shield, increasing the effectiveness of Shaman healing spells on that target by 20%, and causing attacks to heal the shielded target for 0 (+ 
63%). 9 charges. Lasts 10 min. This effect can only occur once every few seconds. Earth Shield can only be placed on one target at a time, 
and only one of your Elemental Shields can be active on you at once. - Mana cost has been lowered, which is always good. The big change here, and I'm certain all resto shamans are as excited about this as I am, more than one shield can be placed on a target!!! NO MORE SHIELD OVERRIDES!
 Healing Stream Totem: Summons a Water Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that heals 
an injured party or raid member within 40 yards for [((Spell power * 
0.2571) * 1)] every 2 sec. Lasts 15 sec. - Mana cost has been reduced and so has the amount it heals for by 50%. Def not happy about that :(
 Healing Wave: 
Now 10.4% of base mana, down from 19.5%. Heals a friendly target for (
412.5% of Spell power). - Mana cost reduced. This is our Greater Healing Wave renamed. We are now forced to use this spell, and if you are like me I always used Healing Wave for single target and I could spam it all day with how mana efficient it is. Now it's either this or Healing Surge. UGH...
 Restorative Waves: 
Your heals increase allies' maximum health by 10% of the amount healed, up to a maximum of 10% of their health.
 Resurgence: Values have changed and this is no longer affected by Greater Healing Wave. 
Your direct heal criticals refund you mana: (812 * 100 / 100) mana from 
Healing Wave, (812 * 0.6 * 100 / 100) mana from Healing Surge, Riptide, or Unleash Life
, and (812 * 0.333 * 100 / 100) mana from 
Chain Heal. - This hasn't been changed other than having the heals they removed taken off the tool tip.
 Riptide: 
Now 9.0% of base mana, down from 12.0%. Heals a friendly target for 
138% of Spell power) and another 
180% of Spell power) over 18 sec. Your Chain Heal spell is 25% more effective when the primary target is affected by your Riptide. - Mana reduced here as well and the initial heal has been increased by 70% and heal-over-time has been reduced by 20%. I can deal with that, especial when it's glyphed.
 Spiritual Insight: Increases your mana pool by 400%. - Unchanged really since hit will no longer be in the game that part of the tooltip has been removed.
 Spiritwalker's Grace: 
Now Elemental and Restoration only. - Same as always, exept that enhancement shamans can't use it.
 Telluric Currents: Your attunement to natural energies causes your Lightning Bolt spell to 
cost no mana. - This is sexy and about damn time!
 Tidal Waves: When you cast Chain Heal or Riptide, you gain the Tidal Waves effect, which reduces the cast time of your
nextHealing Wave by 
20%
or increases the critical effect chance of your 
next Healing Surge spell by 30%. 2 charges. - Reduced from 30% to 20%.

Changed Talents: Not going over the new level 100 talents yet because there is so much to cover for the current patch.

 Ancestral Guidance: For the next 10 sec, 
20% your direct damage and healing is converted to healing on up to 3 nearby injured party or raid members. - Down from 40% and 60%. I use Rushing Streams here for the most part, so I'm not too concerned about this change.
 Ancestral Swiftness: ncreases haste by 5% and attack speed by 5% at all times. When activated, your next Nature spell with a base casting time less than 10 sec. becomes instant. - Same as before just included attack speed with the new consolidations.
 Conductivity: When
 Your Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Earth Shock and Stormstrike increase the duration of your Healing Rain by 4.00 sec, up to a maximum increase of 30 sec. - Can't use pew pew spells to make this last longer... suckage.
 Echo of the Elements: 
Your spells and abilities have a chance to 
trigger Echo of the Elements. 
Echo of the Elements causes your next short cooldown spell or ability (Lava Burst, Frost Shock, or Earthquake for Elemental; Lava Lash, Stormstrike, or Fire Nova for Enhancement; Riptide, Unleash Life, Purify Spirit for Restoration) to not incur its cooldown. - No longer duplicates your spell, instead it removed a CD. I may try this out, although the haste increase from ancestral swiftness is prob still better. Could work nicely on a fight like Thok with Purify Spirit.
 Elemental Mastery: 
2 min cooldown, up from 1.5 min.
 Elemental Blast: Harness the raw power of the elements, dealing (
145% of Spell power) Elemental damage and increasing your Specialization [Agility (Enhancement only)] Critical Strike, Haste, 
Multistrike or Mastery by 137 for 8 sec. 
Restoration: Also increases your Spirit by 257 for 8 sec. - Hasn't changed, only the tooltip and the addition of a spirit buff for resto shamans.

Unleashed Fury now has three spell IDs, one for each specialization, instead of one lengthy tooltip for all:

 Unleashed Fury, Restoration: Empowers your Unleash Life, increasing the healing from you next single-target heal on that ally by 50%. - Only the tooltip has changed.

New Glyphs: Only one worth mentioning for resto, or any shaman really, is:

 Glyph of Ghostly Speed: Ghost Wolf grants an additional 60% movement speed, but can no longer be used while in combat.This effect is disabled in battlegrounds and arenas and cannot be combined with other temporary speed bonuses. - Yes, please! I'd like to get to Thok fast after a wipe! TYVM lol

Changed Glyphs:

 Glyph of Chaining: Increases the jump distance of your Chain Heal spell by 100%. Now Restoration Only - OH YEAH! 
 Glyph of Cleansing Waters: When you dispel a harmful Magic or Curse effect from an ally, you also heal the target for 4% of your maximum health. - Down from 5%.
 Glyph of Totemic Recall: Causes your Totemic Recall ability to return 25% additional mana when recalling a totem. - Down from 100%.
 Glyph of Spiritwalker's Grace: Now Elemental and Restoration Only - No change, but only used by resto.
 Glyph of Totemic Vigor: Increases the health of your totems by 2% of your maximum health. - Down from 5%.

Class Abilities: Class ability changes.

 Ancestral Spirit: Now costs 4.0% of base mana, down from 84.3%. - 
 About damn time!

 Grace of Air: Empowering winds swirl around the Shaman, granting all nearby party and raid members 141 Mastery and 5% haste. - Added haste!
 Healing Rain: Healing rains blanket the area targeted by the Shaman, restoring [((16.3882% of Spell power) + (16.3882% of Spell power)) * 2.5] health to up to 6 allies in the area over 10 sec. - A bit of a nerf to healing rain, but we'll live ;)

 Healing Stream Totem: Now 8.6% of base mana, down from 23.5%.
 Healing Surge: Now 20.7% of base mana, down from 34.3%. Heals a friendly target for 412.5% of Spell power) - Slight mana reduction.
 Hex: Now 1.7 sec cast, up from 1.5

 Wind Shear: Disrupts the target's concentration with a burst of wind, interrupting spellcasting and preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 3 sec. - Threat reduction was removed.

This pretty much covers all the changes that apply primarily to restoration shamans for 6.0.2. For the most part, it seems that shaman healing is the same as far as the mechanics are concerned. We'll have to make a few modifications to our healing style due to the lack of smart healing, but since we didn't get any instant heals affected by the new cast times, "yanet "S" keys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" <---- Izzy :D lozlwafflesncheese, it won't be as big of an adjustment as other healers. This ^ is what I have to deal with on a daily basis from my husband lol.

Tomorrow night Izzy and I will be raiding with the guild 20 man Mythic. Izzy may be Twitching it at 11:30 pm server time (Bleeding Hollow) which is 8:30 pm PST. Here is the link for his TwitchTV in case you want to drop by to check it out: http://www.twitch.tv/drdopepeddles

The guild is currently 12/14H, so we should be able to down a few bosses on heroic even with the new changes and the extra people being added to the current group.

I can't wait for all the bag space I will have tomorrow and once again being able to experience the pre-expansion event. Good luck to all of you starting your Mythic raiding tomorrow, feel free to drop by and let me know how it goes!