Kringle has finally reached the hallowed heights of level 80, which leaves Pringle, Bingle, and Tingle to go. (Having said that, I’m considering replacing Tingle, the underplayed druid in my lineup, with a new character on the Horde side – at least it would be something different to do)
25-man raiding has progressed yet again, with General Vezax falling before us after a single (surprisingly focused) session. It was actually quite a fun fight from my perspective, and it’s been a long time since I’ve used my wand so much. However, we were having lots of issues with interrupt-capable players failing to, well, interrupt (even our raid leader, a very capable prot warrior, was having trouble with that for some reason).
With this in mind, I’ve finally purchased dual-spec for Mingle, and have put together two slightly newer shadow specs to play with. The first one has 3 points in Shadow Affinity (for those painful times I’m called to do AOE, and am paranoid about fatal aggro-pulls), and is closest to the one I’ve been raiding with until now. The second one is mostly the same, but drops the threat reduction for Silence (and its useless prerequisite, Improved Psychic Scream), for ranged interrupts in a pinch. Admittedly the silence spec is a bit of a reach, especially with the 45-second cooldown on it, but I’m curious to see if it’s actually useful (especially when we’re having issues as we did last night).
Previous build: link
Shadow Affinity build (13/0/58): link
Silence build (13/0/58): link
It’s actually a little embarrassing to go back and look at my current spec, and to see the holes in it (such as only one point in Improved Shadow Word: Pain)… Well, hopefully I can learn from it.
Hopefully we can get our act together next week, and reach Yogg-Saron again for more frantic wiping at the end of the first phase. (Seriously, that transition is insane – which is quite appropriate, considering where you are)
I’m getting Kringle a little more geared up (mostly with crafted epics), after which I’ll either work on leveling Pringle or see about rolling this mythical Horde character I’m considering. I just wish we had playable goblins. Or murlocs.
/wave
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