A New Beginning...

The wind howled as it tore across the land, bringing a bite the paladin had not expected. He looked ahead to his companion, smiling despite the cold. The hunter made moving through the drifting snow look like a stroll through Shattrath, scowling as she did. Any words he might say to her would be ripped away by a blast shortly after leaving his lips, so he kept quiet for now.
Nakama knew they had been trudging along, clad in full armor and carrying several heavy packs, for more than a few hours without seeing another soul. Ehliana had assured him they were near the temple they'd been directed to. She was never wrong when it came to directions, but this felt different. Almost like the snow and shearing wind were conspiring against them.
"You might watch where you're stepping, else you land at the bottom of a gorge, husband." Ehliana smirked as she held a hand in front of Nakama, using the other to scratch her wolf's ears.
While he was lost in thought, the two draenei had come upon a large chasm of ice and stone. The yawning abyss before them went down further than they could see and impressed the scale of these lands upon Nakama.

Couple of new blogs to follow!

OutDPS.com and BigHitBox.com both seem to have a lot of good info on them, so I'm adding them to the Blogroll.

--Jed

Lots of changes since last I posted!

Still got those same damn trinkets, but I'm rocking all sorts of new gear. I'm dual-spec'd to Prot/Ret, got some T8.5 Legs for both specs and even had the time to get myself a shammie to 80: Sansai

Hopefully everything is going well for everyone out there in Azeroth. We're about to see the 3.2 PTR come up, so it should be an interesting time again testing out new builds and the like, and even Tier 9 bonuses!

For more 3.2 info, head on over to MMO Champion.

--Jed

Naxx Speaks!

Apparently it wanted me to have some gear from the construct wing, jeez!

Sand-Worn Band
Hero's Surrender
Chestguard of the Exhausted

And then we had some troubles on Gluth.... Damn Dawg! :)

In other news, we've gotten a few new members lately and if we can get them geared, we might actually be able to do Naxx10 at some point here....

--Jed

Yay, almost epic'd out!

Now I just need some trinkets, and I'll be epic'd out again! :)

Got myself some Bracers of Dalaran's Parapets, Inexorable Sabatons and Ancient Aligned Girdle this week, so I'm set but for all of the upper tier raiding equipment.

Heather got some very nice Leggings of Failed Escape this week as well, so we're doin' pretty good in the loot department! :)

As for the PTR, I just can't seem to bring myself to spend time on there without people I know. If everyone in the guild was going to go to learn new content, that would be one thing. But since we're still working on levelling alts and recruiting, it's a secondary, far off thing...

Regardless, I'm glad to see that MMO-Champion keeps updating the talent calculator! Very helpful to see some of the different tree changes and how they affect the greater picture.

--Jed

What is all this hubbub over 3.1? Seriously!

I mean, come on, we know that how things start on the PTR is very rarely how they end with regards to the freakin' talent trees and spells we're all looking at.

CALM DOWN, FOLKS! :)

Paladin-wise, I'm pretty cool with what we've seen so far and the talent trees obviously need a little work, but I'm really glad they put the prot tree on a diet. I'll be able to do something like 0/54/16 soon instead of having to dump so many points into the tree. It'll be nice to have some freedom.

Re: Dual-specs
I really honestly can't wait to be able to transform with a 5 second cast and a gear switch from a buff pally tank to a Holy pally healer. It'll definitely be great for our guild (as I know how to heal, I just really don't like spending the money to bounce back and forth) and for the state of the game in general, as I've definitely heard a lot of "TOO MANY TANKS" and there's always tons of DPS out there... :)

--Jed

Maxed Professions!

450 Enchanting, 455 Jewelcrafting!

Nakama's Knicknacks is now open for business on Blackhand, biy0tches! :)

I even blew the Abyss Crystals to get the 40 Stamina to Bracer enchant. Whew!

--Jed

Apparently keeping the same legs is for the birds!

Yeesh, I go through plate legs like a new baby through diapers.

Did Obsidian Sanctum 25 today and got....

Dragon Brood Legguards!

Now if only I could be so lucky with some bracers, a belt and a freakin' chestpiece! :)

Developing Alt-itis developments:
Oubai is up to 26 and lookin' good. I very much love hunters and read BigRedKitty just about every day, both for information for my wife's character as well as entertainment value! :) I just need some extra time to work on her engineering and tailoring.

Keiei is finally somewhat re-outfitted after his harrowing server transfer and I can hopefully get done with Stranglethorn Vale in fairly short order, get to 40 (currently he's 36) and get him on the way to the Plaguelands, then Outlands, then Northrend! :)

In guild news:
We've got our forum up and running, our own 25 man Ventrilo server set up and a 4 tab guild bank going. Now we just need to freakin' do some recruiting! :)

--Jed

Naxxramas!

We went and ran Naxx10 both last week and this week. Last week, it went pretty darn well for most of the people being in there for the first time. Surprise, as it was mostly guild members!

This week, not so much. I had to leave for work (forgot it was the end of the schedule!) and we just had a lot of PuG'd people, etc.

I managed to get a bunch of healing plate, but also got my legs upgrade:
Legplates of Inescapable Death

Nothing was dropping like we wanted it to, it seems. :(

Hopefully the next time we go in, it's a little smoother! :)

--Jed

I very much need to get Nakama some drops from some heroics!

Let's see, I'm after:
Essence of Gossamer - Hadronox (Heroic Azjol-Nerub)
Ancient Aligned Girdle - Anub'arak (Heroic Azjol-Nerub)
Bracers of the Herald - Herald Volazj (Heroic Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom)
Horn-Tipped Gauntlets - Gal'darah (Heroic Gundrak)

That's about it for me. Looks like I need to kick some undead spider ass, ja?

As for my wife, Ehliana could use:
Aviary Guardsmen's Hauberk - Zone Drop (Heroic Drak'Tharon Keep)
Mobius Band - Chrono-Lord Epoch (Heroic The Culling of Stratholme)
Plunderer's Helmet - Ingvar the Plunderer (Heroic Utgarde Keep)
Sovereign's Belt - King Ymiron (Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle)
Sphere of Red Dragon's Blood - Keristraza (Heroic Nexus)
Meteorite Whetstone - King Ymiron (Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle)

--Jed

I love being a Paladin!

Paladins in the World of Warcraft are exactly what I was looking for in a character when I came to this game. While I started out as a mage (Desmier, who currently rots over on Galakrond-US) I quickly changed over to a Paladin and discovered that I loved everything about the class. Healing, melee fighting and tanking all in one? Sign me up! :)

In any case, if you're on Blackhand-US sometime and need a tank, feel free to give me a shout! :)

--Jed

Time to get started!

I figured I'd join the modern world and start a blog of sorts. I had a livejournal, but that's long past dead, I think. Too many people I don't hear from or don't care to!

--Jed