Monday, October 18, 2010

New bracers get!

So there has been this terrible, cataclysmic event, known as "Patch 4.01".

No, I don't know what that means either. But class trainers everywhere have come up with new and/or improved ways of doing things, and it's all terribly confusing.

Remember me talking about Turak Runetotem's changes to Swipe, and the Leather Armor Specialisation? Then remember me talking about how I'm relearning how to be a kung-fu bear all over again?

What I didn't mention was that the druidism trainers looked at healing spells as well and decided to change them around a bit. I went in to the druidic tent on the Elder Rise to learn the new Swipe and leather specialisation, and came away from the druidic tent all reeling and confused. So many new things! Though I must admit I do like being able to cast this new Efflorescence spell with a Swiftmend.

Anyway, it's like that for everybody. Suddenly, folks everywhere are reeling, dazed, and confused. Everyone's having to deal with changes to their spells and abilities, and their magic gems not working anymore, and the like, and it isn't pretty. Though I think I've finally got the hang of healing. I've joined up as the healer in a couple of groups and apart from one nasty surprise where the overseer in the Pit of Saron suddenly hit the tank with a really huge blow, things have been groovy.

Oh! Which reminds me. I finally did something about the cloth bracers that were part of my healing armor! I mentioned how I couldn't find any, right? Well, it turns out I didn't look hard enough! In the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar, I found my PVP honor was in good enough standing to get a decent set of healer's leather bracers.

Me. Honoured enough to get something useful. I'm not quite sure how that happened. Generally I avoid hostile actions against the Alliance. (Unless dwarves are involved, in which case I might be convinced... with lots of convincing... and maybe a beer or two...) The folks in the Hall of Legends would snicker as I went by. "There goes Donda, the not-even-a-private," they would laugh.

Anyway. Here are some pictures!


A comparison of the cloth bracers, and my new acquisitions. I don't care if they have Resilience and no Haste, they're leather and otherwise much better for my purposes.

 My stats before...


...my stats after.



Much higher Intellect (and spellpower, and spell crit), woo!  Check out my victory arm pump.

...of course, then I had to go fiddle around with stats at the reforger, which was brain-melting, but oh well.

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