Saturday, January 26, 2008

Mage Arena Weapons

When looking at arena weapons, you are confronted with a choice between getting a two-handed weapon or getting a one-handed weapon plus and offhand. Here is a breakdown, for each of the three seasons.

Season 1:
2 Handed1 Handed + Offhand
Stamina4849
Intellect3532
Spell Hit210
Spell Crit360
Resilience2533
Damage199218
Cost27,000 Honor
+
40 AV
34,200
+
40EotS

Season 2:
2 Handed1 Handed + Offhand
Stamina5554
Intellect4237
Spell Hit2415
Spell Crit420
Resilience2945
Damage225258
Cost3,261 Arena Points3,717 Arena Points

Season 3:
2 Handed1 Handed + Offhand
Stamina6261
Intellect4641
Spell Hit017
Spell Crit460
Resilience2944
Damage247282
Spell Penetration350
Cost3,750 Arena Points4,275 Arena Points


Hopefully this helps in your decision making.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Proximo Doesn't Show Up

For the longest time, I've had trouble with the addon Proximo. One day, it just completely stopped showing up.



I searched and searched, completely unable to find out how to fix it. Finally, today, I emailed the addon's creator, Grayhoof. Here's what he said:
When not in the game, delete the Proximo.lua file from your saved variables folder. It should be in:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT_NAME\SavedVariables
I tried it, and it worked! Special thanks to Grayhoof for personally responding to my inquiry. The world needs more people like you. :-)

For those of you who don't know, Proximo is an addon that helps you in arenas. It gives you a frame (shown above), that gets populated with your opponents. Whenever you, or anyone on your team with Proximo installed, hovers over or targets an enemy in an arena, that enemy gets added to the list. You can then select any enemy by clicking on his/her name in the Proximo window.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Resistance?

So the other day I was running Heroic Botanica. We downed one of the early bosses, and an epic gem dropped that had something like +4 resist all, or +6 resist all, something like that.

Four out of the five of us in the group uttered their own variation of "/sigh, crap lootz" etc.

And then a mage in the party said, "I'm rolling need on that. I'm resist specced."

I lol'ed at first, and then all of a sudden, he rolled /need! I thought to myslef, "Is this guy serious?" So I inspected his gear, he had all sorts of resist gear, and all his sockets were filled with resistance gems!

Everybody else in the party was thinking the same thing: wtf is resist spec? The mage went on to say that he resists lots of spells, and gets mana back every time he does (Magic Absorption talent).

Has anybody seen or heard about that before? There's no way that build has any kind of success!

Is there?!