Tank like a girl

After installing the PTR client yesterday and copying all my 70s over while doing so, I only logged on to fiddle around with obvious visual changes. I liked the calendar, laughed at some of the achievements and cheered the mount change. Who knew, I did 1375 quests on Kadomi. The retro-achievements are a bit wonky, as it didn’t attribute a lot of bosskills, but I don’t care that much.

Then I started looking at my gear. My attack power went up from just over 600 to 1100. However, in my threat gear I was sitting at a measly 463 defense. My threat gear as I currently have it won’t be an option. I fixed the gap by equipping Adamantine Figurine and Dabiri’s Enigma, taking me to 495. I’ll miss my Shard of Contempt, QQ. Or all my other non-defense trinkets. I hope I can figure out a way how to hit the cap without trinkets soon.

Just when I started fiddling with the talents, the server was shutdown, in preparations for build 8970 which I patched to this morning. Apparently it’s really buggy atm, as the higher your hit, the more you miss. Go figure! Then I copied all my addons over, and there were many tears. A lot of my addons were broken, of course. On the other hand, a lot of addons already work. I set up Dominos, mourned the loss of SCT and Chatter, and started spending talent points.

I somehow ended up with a build I didn’t actually want, a very weird 5/2/54. The protection tree seems very bloated to me, there’s a lot of fantastic stuff in there. I think I will drop Puncture, as I don’t think rage is going to be much of an issue, after testing it. Once that was done, I set up my bars (not very happy with them), and set out to AoE wonderland: the Ata’mal Terrace in SMV. I wasn’t the only one with the idea, a bunch of prot pallies, prot warriors and frost mages were about as well.

Pictures say more than a thousand words.

 
What can I say, this is probably the most fun I had for a while. Note the guy on the left. He’s a pathing level 70 elite who just randomly joined the large group I was fighting. If I take the elite solo, I still have 85% health. Good stuff! This is really a blast. My TopScoreFu wouldn’t stop dinging, so many new crit records. It’s amazing fun, I love it. Thank you, Blizzard. Now please don’t nerf it to death, kk?

Afterwards I tried to solo Uvorus, like 5 other people before, even people in T6 gear, and that was full of lolworthy fail. He fears, he casts a flamewave spell, which cannot be interrupted nor reflected, so that was a no. But it was fun trying.

It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day today, ye scurvy sea dogs! If’n yer readin this, drown yerself in rum, like this cap’n wants to do, as she waits fer the PTR client ter install. Arrr, this be a mighty slow process, we can sack whole cities while waitin’ for that slow ship to land in port. But once it’s here, we can be seein’ how well mighty Capn’ Kadomi is farin’ in the New World of 3.0, and if she’ll have to get the shiny Adamantine Figurine from the bank to not be critted in the face by her enemies.

May yer days be filled with lotsa bounty and phat pieces of loot, and don’t ferget to join the pirate’s life by talkin’ to a friendly crew-member in any capital city or Booty Bay, to join the cause. I’m sailin’ off to the PTR now!