First impressions
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. 
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
There is an updated Chatter for the Beta. It should work on the PTR too!
http://wow.tachyonsix.com/beta/Chatter-78789-wotlk.zip
Or try this:
http://wow.tachyonsix.com/beta/Chatter-r79024-wotlk.zip
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September 22nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
SCTD: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10182-SCTD-WotLK.html
SCT: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10181-SCT-WotLK.html
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8202532031&sid=2000
You should probably browse the whole thread, since it looks like the OP hasn’t updated her list in a while, I found SCT/D on page 13.
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September 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I’m really not looking forward to having to rebuild my UI either. It’s taken so long to get intuitive, and now may be broken.
I think I will take the opportunity to work Grid into my setup, though. I know I should use it, but I haven’t been able to get it to do what I want exactly.
Yakra’s last blog post..Illidan Down, and Guild Master-Ness
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September 30th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Uvorus can be soloed by a Prot Warrior on live. Don’t think they changed anything on beta that would make this not possible. The flame breath is the biggest danger, but the cast time is long enough that you can run out of range before it starts and take zero or one tick from it. If you eat a fear, let it work to your advantage and keep running away from him. If you get enough distance, pop off a quick bandage. Measly though it is, Gift of the Naaru helps too. Health pots throughout, last stand and shield wall at the end, and you should have him down. It’s a lot of fun.
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September 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I will have to go back and try that. Gift of the Naaru is really OP, if you ask me (though I love it on my wee draenei alts). Sounds like fun, thanks for the advice.
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