Sunday I Have Pallies On My Mind

Posted by Stropp on January 13, 2008

After spending yesterday experimenting with the different character types of Mythos, I decided to play my Blood Elf Paladin, Selaeya for a little while today. BTW, here’s a link to her Warcrafter Profile.

I didn’t spend a huge amount of time, but dinged two levels to end up at level 11. Unfortunately a lag spike ended my session with a disconnection and I decided that I might as well call it a day.

Level 10 means that I am now looking at my talents. My previous pally was pretty much specced for Retribution. I can see no reason why I shouldn’t go that way once again. For the first 40 or 50 levels the Retribution build makes for easier leveling. In fact, with the level cap at 70 and possibly at 80 by the time Selaeya gets close to 60, it may be appropriate to stay Retribution specced.

I’m going to start with the first ten points in Divine Strength and Spiritual Focus, and from there I will start to spec out the Retribution tree. Divine Strength will increase my strength by 10 percent and increase my overall DPS.  Spiritual Focus when maxxed will give me a 70 percent chance to avoid being interrupted when casting the Holy and Flash of Light spells. Considering how close some fights get, not being interrupted can mean the difference between life and a repair bill.

Once I get close to the level cap, I’ll re-examine the build to suit what I plan to be doing.

Of course, all this may be moot. The last time Blizzard released an expansion, just prior to the release, they reworked all the talents for all the classes.

Will they do this again?

Just guessing, but I’d reckon not this time. I expect that they took into account the next couple of levels when they did that reworking.

I spent most of the game time today around the Wretched and the Murlocs. I took on two bosses, Mrryymm… the Murloc boss, and the Wretched boss at the top of the tower. Both were pretty much pushovers and I took back the trophies, a head and a ring, to the quest givers.

I also decided on Selaeya’s professions. I picked Jewel Crafting as the first primary profession, and Mining as the gathering profession to support Jewel Crafting. The mining is already over 50, and the Jewel Crafting is getting close to 50.

I hummed and ha’ed about taking a manufacturing profession since I believe that they tend to be a waste of time and effort. Since the rewards from instances and raids are better (at the same level) it’s more efficient to just group up and fight for the gear you need.

I’m prepared to give Jewel Crafting the benefit of the doubt at this stage. It has the potential to be really useful. I’ll just have to wait and see.

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