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Ways to Waste Justice Points

16 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by abc in Dungeons, Gold, World of Warcraft

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The expansion is lingering on and you are building up those Justice Points with every dungeon you run. Toss em here:

– Gold: the most obvious place to spend JPs is at the Justice Trade Goods vender, who sits right next to the valor points vendor. WHAT to buy, however, is a tricky question. Your own server’s market will affect the value of items here, but unless you have some amazing farmers driving down mat costs on your AH, the most valuable items are either heavenly shards or savage leather.

– More gold: Now, if you are an enchanter, you can just skip this vendor and go straight to the JP vendor. Buy a relic or wand for 700 JPs and DE that – you will get 1-2 maelstroms which you can then shatter into heavenly shards. CHECK YOUR SERVER’S ECONOMY FIRST before investing a lot of points in this. On a slower server, however, it’s a nice extra chunk of cash.

– Shoulder enchants: I don’t know about you, but I can’t be assed to go through the entire Deepholm quest chain again on my alts. But, sigh, I want to get them some shoulder enchants for raiding. An EASY option? Convert your justice points to honor and buy the PvP ones. Yeah, they have resil, but something’s better than nothing, yes?

– Heirlooms: If you haven’t looked into heirlooms, they are a simple purchase of gear which you can then mail to an alt. Great stats and increased xp while levelling! Easy peasy!

– Reputation: Most people actually don’t know about this way to spend JPs – head to Dalaran and go to the AH/legacy justice vendors in your faction’s area. One of them (for Horde it’s the far left) will let you purchase reputation tokens. You can use this to get exalted with nearly every Wrath faction (you will still need to do the quest line with the ice ladies to unlock the Sons of Hodir vendors).

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Raids: Titles, Mounts and Pets to snag during the DS downtime

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by abc in Achievements, Dungeons, Raids, World of Warcraft

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I posted this list for my guild and figured I’d repost it here. Here’s a near-complete list of titles, mounts and pets you can get from non-DS raids (and some dungeons), in case you/your guild are looking for random stuff to work on.

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A look back at early Cata: dungeons

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by abc in Dungeons, World of Warcraft

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I was looking through some old posts on my guild’s site, and I came across the influx of threads we made to help each other navigate the first days and weeks of Cataclysm. Posted below are some (amusingly extensive) dungeon guides I wrote to help out members.

It’s weird and surreal to run those same dungeons now with the luck of the draw buffs and incredibly higher quality gear. Not only is the difference in difficulty a vast expanse, the player attitudes about dungeons seem to have slid, bit by bit, with each new tier of content. Remember those first weeks, where getting through a dungeon with a random group in under an hour (or two) with only a “few” wipes was something worth breathing a sigh of relief about and deserved highfives all around? Nowadays, players will quit the group at a single wipe NEAR wipe. Players will quit the group if the tank or healer or even a dps is “undergeared” (even though they may be in all 358s or higher). The dungeons themselves have not changed, except to get easier, but our expectations and demands on the players in them have increased as our patience has waned.

I’ll probably return to this topic at another date. I am very VERY curious about how these attitudes will fare at the start of Mists, especially with the upcoming dungeon challenge system (which I am SO SO SO excited about!).

In any case, here are the old “strategy guides” I wrote. I got a giggle out of reading them at the twilight of the expansion…nearly all of these mechanics are ignored for the most part these days, with damage overwhelming the adds and bosses before it matters or geared healers just healing through it. But once…ONCE! Once, these simple little dungeons were a BITCH. Ah, memories…

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