LUA-spirits aid me!

My raid team is now 8/12 normal in Throne of Thunder, and I've been a Brewmaster for a little over a month. I've learned a lot this time; my rotation and cooldown usage has improved a lot, I change talents and glyphs depending on which fight we're doing, and I understand the different stats and gearing strategies better (thanks to Sunnier and Elitist Jerks!). I got my tier 15 2-set bonus the other day, and I suddenly find myself interested in knowing how much of the incoming damage at any given time I actually stagger.

I opened WeakAuras, selected New, selected Text, and then... I realized that although I know what I want to say, I don't speak this LUA-language!

Macro that covers all talents in a tier

Since last time I wrote something here, I started tanking. Our raid team had 1 tank, 1 healer, 2 ranged and 5 melee, so we just had to do something about that. I started tanking, the frost Death Knight changed to mage and we're trying to recruit some more healers.

As a tank I find myself changing talents more than I used to do as a DPS. I could/should probably have optimized better before as well, but now I really have to. I find it very annoying to change talents and either having to drag the spell from the spellbook to the bar every time, or macro them together, but then having tooltip not showing the active talent.

Luckily one of my guildies, Fuzzybunny, had a fix! This macro will show the tooltip of the active talent. If you change the talent you will have to press the button once to make it update.

Daily Profession Cooldowns

Made a small overview over the profession cooldowns. Hope I got it all.

Purple draenei monk transmog: Input needed

After being a monk for six months, and transmogging to what I think a monk would wear; simplistic and/or functional gear, I feel like it's time to "get back to my roots" and try the draenei twist. Problem is, while there are some really cool and spacey weapons in Outland, equally spacey gear is not that common.

This is what I have managed to put together so far:

Kinlai in purple transmog with Crystalfire Staff

Windwalker Prepot Ritual

Prepotting means to use use two DPS-increasing potions during one bossfight. We use one potion before we enter combat, as there is a "per battle"-cooldown on potions, and then we are free to use another potion later in the fight, preferably together with Heroism. Trinkets tend to proc early in the fights, so we're able to benefit from both.

Quintessential Quintet: Shadow Priest

I got Quintessential Quintet two days ago when my shadow priest dinged level 90. I had a lot of fun leveling her, I have so much more understanding for shadow priest DPS than what I do for any of the mage specs. Where my mage died and died and died, my shadow priest has been shielding, healing, DOT'ing and fearing, and just owned those mobs. I'm sure good mages are strong when questing, but I am not a good mage. :) My priest looks totally adorable when she gets wings after using Devouring Plague. So adorable in fact that I feel like not waiting for three Shadow Orbs before using it. And she has cool shadow ravens surrounding her, and even her little companion has shadowform. Awww...

Suggestions for Valor Points

After two posts mostly complaining about Valor Points, it's time to get constructive!

Project Valor Point Cap

This reset I made a plan on how to cap my Valor Points. The character that I want to cap on is also the character that doesn't need anything at all from heroics, scenarios or dailies. So what if I instead did the hard work on a character that could benefit from it, and then provide the nice little "Valor of the Ancients"-buff for the rest of the family? Farmraid with that buff makes a very good profit!

My newly dinged level 90 mage, decked out in greens, have been working her ass off this reset.

$#*@! Valor Points

The fun thing about writing something like "$#*@!" is that one can assume there are some really foul words behind the symbols. But it could, in theory, just as well hide the words "cute", "love" or "kitten".

The last three weeks I've been struggling to cap my Valor Points. It's mostly because I'm exalted with everything and everyone that can walk and talk and give out quests. And also I hate don't like 5man dungeons very much. There's only one Raid Finder that I want one remainding thing from. So the last three weeks on the day before reset I've been stressing like mad to get it done! This isn't a very original post about a problem that I'm the only one in the world to have, but it didn't really happen to me before now recently.

The ranged monk spec

I started a thread in the monk forums asking for ideas for how a ranged monk would work, hoping to get some discussion on the topic. My thread flopped unfortunately. But luckily I have a blog where I can discuss with myself. ;-)

Wheee, I got my legen-waitforit-dary weapon

The header speaks the truth!

A couple of weeks ago I picked up Gao-Rei, Staff of the Legendary Protector. I was hoping for two Claws of Shek'zeer, but it seems like I'm a magnet for 2handers, and that I repel 1handers. :) Tonight I finished Chapter I: Trial of the Black Prince and got myself a sweet sweet Crystallized Dread! I decided to equip it, which means if I ever should get my hands on two claws, I will have to pay 10k gold for a new gem... Worth it!

Also, last week I picked up Warglaive of Azzinoth. Will be fun to see if my weekly visits will bring me the other one before or after I finally get the blindfold. :)

/squeeeee
/bow

"Do I need something from this tier 14 Raid Finder-boss?"

Monk Transmog: Jade Serpent

Monk Transmog: Red Crane

Monk Transmog: Draenei Malorne

PVE-gear for a Raidfinding Windwalker Monk

Leveling and upgrading is what we do in World of Warcraft. We level to 90, we level our professions, reputations, Battle Pets, Achievement Points, and we level our gear.

Monk Transmog: VanCleef's Battlegear

There is a transmog gem available from questing in Jade Forest; Leather Tunic of Eminent Domain. When I quested through Pandaria I vendored all gear as I got upgrades. I assumed I would be able to buy all the looks from the implemented adventurer's vendors. This was not the case with this piece, but luckily there is another way of obtaining the look! Many gear pieces from Jade Forest are replicas of gear from Trial of the Crusader, so now I'm gonna go back to Northrend to collect VanCleef's Battlegear Lookalike Set (click link to see the whole set at Wowhead). :-) I might even try to solo it!

Replica Gear Overview

I have over 2000 Darkmoon Prize Tickets spread among my characters, so I think it's about time I start spending some. Couldn't find an easy overview over the available looks, so here goes. The look appears when hovering over the link, but to see it on draenei or other races, you should follow the link and select "View in 3D".

Four weeks in

Yesterday's post was about my experience of the first two weeks of Mists of Pandaria; the ecstatic excitement I felt, confusion about which character to play, and frustration about Lae suddenly feeling unfamiliar.

The Amazing Zen Flight

What made me fall in love with the monk in the first place was the badass moves, the Peak of Serenity, the cool sounds the badass moves made and the mobility I got with Roll. Digging deeper into the specs I really fell for Clash, Flying Serpent Kick and Xuen. <3

Two weeks in

I've been too busy playing the game to actually post this update I made 16 days ago. ;-) I'll post "Four weeks in" tomorrow.

I have been playing A LOT since Mists launched. I've been very "Look at these trees! It's so beautiful here..." for two weeks straight. I haven’t had the time or desire to make an update here, but I think it’s time to gather my thoughts a little.

My first 5,5 hours as a monk

The release was 13 hours ago, and I've slept and am ready for more. :-)

Volunteering for Altoholism

I have decided to become more altoholic in Mists of Pandaria. I was a big altoholic in BC and Wrath, but Cata has been very "hunter, hunter, hunter". While hunters still are the best of course (!!!), I don't want to limit myself too much and entirely exclude the 10 other classes like I've done this expansion. I'm looking forward to being an altoholic, although I know I have to be a bit careful to not "burn out". I can't do dailies, dungeons, scenarios and raid finder on all my characters every day every week, and I can't keep them all geared. But I'm gonna give them a bit more play. One character doesn't have to do all the dailies every single day, they can actually alternate. For example, I could do one Raid Finder each week, but let them take turns. I can find some cool transmog sets for them all, and make sure all my draenei are pretty fly. :) 

Why do we fight?

The (too) detailed leveling plan

I have mapped out a couple of things:

• How big is the XP-bar for a level 1? 400
• How much XP does a level 1 get from killing a level 1 mob? 50
• How much XP does a level 1 get from killing a level 2 mob? 52
• How much XP do the first quests grant? For a draenei, the first quest grants 40 and the second grants 80. It's not possible to complete the second one without hitting level 2.
• How much XP does a level 1 get from being summoned to Dalaran? 0