Matticus

Matticus is the founder of World of Matticus, a World of Warcraft blog.

Blizzcon Day 1 (Mid day reactions)

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So turns out most of the “rumors” from the various “sources” turned out to be true after all.

Managed to sneak in and try out the Cataclysm demo with the first wave. Credit Wyn for that one. She realized there was a section with turned off machines and a drape over a large sign. She had a hunch and yelled at me to get over there. Turns out the Cataclysm demos were up. We drew straws. She won and picked Worgen while I snapped up Goblins.

Lucky girl won a poster too.

Goblin racials are cool. There’s one where they get all faction discounts for pricing and such. Theres another one where they can shoot rockets or rocket jump (about twice the range of death grip).

Sorry, no live blogging here guys. I’ll mostly be in and out throughout the day and evening. Technical difficulties completely own me. I wish I could get a press pass. But I guess the blog isn’t quite large enough yet to attract such prestige :(.

Met up with the WoW.com guys last night. Will be at the TNB meet up later tonight. Will drag Lodur and Wyn with me.

Not much in terms of panels for day 1 I’m interested in. Will go back to the class panel discussion however.

By the way, Uldum is pronounced “Ol-Doom”.

Guild achievements. Guilds can level up to 1-20 based on quests, raid bosses downed, etc. Mass ressurrection. One guy can resurrect the entire guild after a wipe. Think about a guild talent tree. Joe has a feeling that the implementation of a guild leveling system is going to lead to guild housing. Its been denied for such a long time. But its been seen in other games (the progression of guild… stuff). It appears to be the next logical step.

Archaeology’s a new profession. Opens up different Path of the Titans.

Heroic Deadmines and Heroic Shadowfang Keep too. So overwhelming inside there.

More to come later tonight…

Blizzcon Panels of Interest

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Less than 24 hours remain. Around this time tomorrow, I’ll be state side. I should feel excited and energized. Oddly enough, I’m more tense then anything. Triple checked everything. Whew!

So here’s the panel events below.

Where will I be?

Day 0 (Thursday)

Wow.com meetup at 7:30 PM

Day 1

  • World of Warcraft UI
  • World of Warcraft Class Panel
  • Starcraft II Gameplay
  • Diablo III Gameplay
  • TNB Meetup at 9 PM

Day 2

  • World of Warcraft PvP
  • Raids and Dungeons (Starcraft 2 Lore is oh so tempting however. If it weren’t raids and dungeons, I’d hit up the lore)
  • World of Warcraft Q & A
  • Possibly Diablo 3 Lore and Art. I suspect the WoW classes one is the same as the day before

Wonder what Priest questions or healing questions I should ask at the Q&A that hasn’t already been answered in the Q & A from the blues.

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Raid Warning Podcast Giveaway and Interview with Matt!

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I found some time this week to join my new friends on the Raid Warning podcast. Normally podcast requests are made at times where I have to respectfully decline (my guild comes first) but we managed to work something out.

So what did we talk about?

  • Matt’s preferred drink!
  • And his alcohol tolerance
  • Patch 3.2 thoughts
  • Priest Q&A thoughts
  • Qualities I look for in healers
  • And more!

Anyways, the Raid Warning crew has been feeling awfully generous as of late! They’re giving away some pretty cool prizes in a contest they’re holding!

Like what?

Do you have rage problems? Prone to extreme anger? Throw your headset across the wall because that Priest stood in the fire again?

They’re giving away a Razer Carcharias Gaming Headset!

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A SteelSeries World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse!

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And last, but certainly the most important, a WoW 60 day time card!

Enough already! How do I get in on this?

Your mission is straightforward and simple. You need to read this blog post and listen to episode 12 of the Raid Warning podcast. There’s two phrases you want to make note of:

Key phrase

I cannot heal damage of this magnitude! It’s inconceivable!

That’s the phrase from this blog. Now you have to tune over to the episode 12 podcast and listen for their key phrase.

Once you have it, Email both the phrase from here and the one you heard on episode 12 to raidwarningpodcast@gmail.com. Your subject line should include Raid Warning Contest!

Hurry! Contest closes September 1st! (I know that blog pots says August 18th, but it’s been extended).

How to Find Matt and Co. at Blizzcon

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These just got in yesterday. They look freakin’ awesome! A giant big thank you to our sponsors from Byte Me Gaming!

Check ‘em out!

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All three of us will be sporting these during the convention. I suspect people will get Lodur confused for me many times while we are there.

Don’t stare too closely at the person sporting the shirt! Legends say that a person who catches the full blast of the shirt may experience some side effects.

Such as instantaneous attraction to the wearer.

Yes, that’s Wyn in the bottom shot.

I think it’s about time we all updated our profile shots on the bottom…

Priests: Moonshroud or Merlin?

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Patch 3.2 whipped out two sets of craftable gear: Bracers and chest pieces. Got a few inquiries about it on Twitter about it. Figured I’d do everyone a favor and outline my thoughts on it here:

Moonshroud

Here’s the Moonshroud set:

Royal Moonshroud Robe

Royal Moonshroud Bracers

Merlin

Merlin’s set:

Merlin’s Robe

Bejeweled Wizard’s Bracers

As you can clearly see, the Moonshroud set offers Spirit whereas Merlin’s contains haste. The spellpower and crit ratings remain identical.

Now if you were a healing Priest wondering which of these to create for your sets, there’s some things I’d like to remind you of before you go off dropping your hard earned gold.

Spirit’s been nerfed. Holy Priest mana regeneration’s been nerfed. Spirit is not as strong as it used to be. Do keep that in mind.

Speed is life. The faster your spells go off, the higher the odds that your heals will catch a player before they die.

Socket bonuses aren’t always the greatest. You do not have to socket your gems according to the bonus. There is no law saying that you have to do that. Sometimes socketing against the bonus yields a higher benefit.

So what’s best for me?

As Discipline: I lean towards Merlin’s set. I won’t need the Spirit as it doesn’t provide me any additional bonuses anyway. For gem choices, I prefer having a large pool of mana to work with. I would socket straight 4 x 20 King’s Amber on the chest and the bracers.

As Holy: Not much difference here. I’d approach it the same way as Discipline. I’m all about the mana pool and stacking loads of intellect. Others prefer Spellpower, Spirit, MP5 or Haste gems. Perhaps even a combination of all of them. I wouldn’t say that’s wrong.

It’s just a matter of preference. I top out at around 2700 spellpower during raids. Most of it’s going to over healing anyway. I may as well reallocate some of those points towards a larger supply of mana or increased speed. It’s not like players suddenly gained 7000 health and that bosses are magically knocking out 80% of a raider’s health to warrant that increase in spellpower.