Leafshine: Lust for Flower

Leafy Plays Chess

We raided Karazhan last time, and had our first go at the Chess Event. I've been having a little play with my movie making skills, and thought you might enjoy this:

Patch 2.3: Resto Thoughts

Resto4Life has published a great run down of the current Druid changes forthcoming in Patch 2.3.

The major changes from my point of view are the addition of Remove and Abolish Poison to Tree of Life and the boost to Tranquility.

I'm less worried by the absence of Remove Curse than Phaelia is - de-cursing is available to more classes than the poison removal is, and I'm called on to shift out of tree for poisons far more than curses. And the boost to the big "get out of wipe free" card of Tranquility is just fabulous news.

Very happy with these tweaks.

All The Fun of the Brewfest

So, I'm back from my hols, and I've been having a blast with the new world event: Brewfest. I believe that it all goes away for another year tomorrow morning, so if you haven't tried any of the events just yet, I'd suggest you do so.

It adds some really nice little bits of mechanics into the game. The Ram Racing (racing against the clock, not other people) is huge fun, with the chance to do it three times in one day. There's a keg delivery quests you can do every 12 hours, and a "barking" quest around you capital that can be done every day. Just like the flying quests early in Burning Crusade hinted at the flying mounts later in the game, I wonder if the highest speed these rams can reach hints at a higher speed land mount for us, as a sop for the early parts of Wrath of the Lich King given that they're not giving us flying mounts until late in that expansion, too?

And quests that you can only do when absolutely hammered? Inspired!

Some video evidence of the event (and the sad results of too much Brewfest booze) after the jump.

Ravens Versus Vim'Gol

Leafy on Holiday

It's Leafshine's holiday time!

I'm off for 5 days' retreat in glorious, scenic Moonglade.

I'll see you all at the weekend.

Be good!

Leafy go PewPew? Free +damage in 2.3

Phaelia reports on a Resto experiment on the Patch Test Realms that gives me hope:

I started with Zahna, the elekk in Nagrand which is part of the "kill an elite of every animal race in nagrand" quest series. The fight was pretty easy, and I downed her on first try,

Truth be told, soloing 60 to 70 as deep resto was a horrible, painful experience. I stuck it out, though, even as Holy Priests and Protection Warriors were respeccing all around me. I was one of the last of the "main" characters to hit 70, but I did it true to my tree roots, Elune be praised…

This change (giving us 1/3 of our +healing as +damage) should make the 70 to 80- run less painful. Use the healing gear until you run our of mana, switch to feral gear until health dropd low, switch back… Rinse, wash, repeat.

Video embedded after the cut, for anyone who fancies seeing it.