Being a huge PvP gamer myself I figured now is the time if any to check out warhammer online. They have a couple new classes and free xpac content upgrade coming out in the next week and so now is a good time if any.

I decided to /roll on Dark Crag one of the most popular servers and has some of the best guilds in warhammer online. I’m also playing on destruction side and I started out as a Squig Herder and leveled the toon to 7. What’s so cool about warhammer is that you can at level 1 go straight into pvp!

They have this buff that makes your character equal to a minimum level. So in Tier 1 PvP you are level 8 minimum! So it gives you a real fighting chance even though your gear sucks but at least you can’t be 1 shotted. Still there are up to level 11 guys you have to fight and if they are in pimped out gear, they can really be a pain to kill. The good news is, you level so fast in PvP YES Level! I was making 5-6k a match “win” that only took 4-10 minutes and leveled faster in PvP starting out.

After I reached level 7 with my Squig, I decided to try out a shaman and see how the healing is in the game. The really cool thing is there is no MANA!! Warhammer has a mix of AP & Special Skills Points, so your normal attacks use AP, while some classes build rage, hate, etc… to use other skills. Also the targeting system is a tad different and took me a bit to figure out.

You have (2) targets in warhammer one is your offensive and other is your defensive and playing a healer noob, took me a few minutes to figure this all out. Also a lot of your spells also talk about bonuses to your defensive target. So it’s a little more work then wow is when it comes to targets but really cool because you can DPS & heal without having to change targets, kind of like using focus macros without the macros.

After I hit level 8 with my shaman, I switched over to a tank class “Blackguard” and played around with that class till level 7. All of this leveling was pretty much last week and I’ve been browsing the warhammer forums, etc… searching for a Hybrid DPS/Healer class. Even though the shaman has some cool dps spells, he wasn’t my style of play and I really thirst for the blood lust that a Pali and DK has. I finally found the class I’ve been searching for “Disciple of Khaine” DoK and started to play that toon.

I’ve since leveled her up to level 15 and having a ton of fun! The class is a DW melee front lines healer and you have to DPS to build up your special skill points to heal. The class is super easy to level as there is no down time. And PvP is a blast but since you are in the think of things and a healer, you are a prime target. So I’ve been stacking Wounds (HP) & Str to DPS down people while I heal the tanks next to me. A really fun class and with my Pali/DK experience not a hard switch.

If you can get through the 3 bosses and all of the pulls and down the boss within 20 mins you get to roll on the Epic Flyer! I’ve done about 6-7 runs and we’ve gotten to him a couple times with 1 minute left and he will walk through the portal even if you are fighting him!

Well a couple days ago we flew through the instance and got to him with 3 mins left on the timer and took him down with a min left! “Thanks Skezz” Grats Kimish on the mount!

Last night I ran a 25-man Vault Pug and it was intense! The boss has ~10 million HP and also drops your Deadly Gladiator Set (S5) Gear! I was really hoping for the gear because it would be a huge improvement from my 78 Savage Blues. We’ll the fight was still the same as normal mode “Tank & Spank” and it did take a bit to drop the big boy. After he dropped, I went to loot him to check out what dropped and OMG Deadly Gladiator Chest dropped for Death Knights!!!

My buddy Chase was running it with me and was “Chad your chest dropped! Dude I hope you win that shit!”

The raid leader started to have everyone roll on the loot that dropped and normal sequences where you post the item in raid chat and ask people to /roll. So he went through the other drops and then finally came down to the chest!

I was the first to /roll and got: 61 (not bad but not a perfect 100)

I was happy it wasn’t 1 and I stood a chance to win it. Well the next roll came in @ 32 oh boy only 3 more DKs left to roll!

Next Roll 30

Ok I lucked out, I might actually win this!

Next Roll 6!

Oh man, I actually might win the chest piece! At this point my heart is beating so hard I’m about to have a heart attack and I’m holding my breath!

Last Roll 42!!!

Chase is screaming on vent all excited that I just won the chest drop! And I was speechless and so excited as this is such a huge improvement. Just awesome and then what I was afraid would happen did!

The Raid leader is a DK and is the one that rolled the 6! He gave himself the chest and I was like WTF and everyone in the raid said! “That’s bull shit and started to bitch the guy out.” He logged right after ninja the chest piece.

Our Guild Leader was pissed and we tracked down his Guild Leader and send him an In-Game mail and let him know about his guild mates actions. We’ll 15 mins later, we get a message and they’ve kicked the guy from their guild.

So Ajanitor on Archimonde – alliance is the worlds biggest ASS and you are now posted on my blog bitch and I’ll make your life a nightmare!

So everyone that reads my blog, create a level 1 toon on archimonde-alliance and message this guy when he’s online. How much of an ass he is for stealing loot!

Tonight we are going to be running a couple of raids and I almost have enough badges for my T7 chest. I’ve also started collecting the Nobles Deck and should have the full set by the next darkmoon festival in 2 weeks. That should really had a big boost to my DPS.

So we all (1 Ret Pali, 1 Rogue, 1 Feral Druid, 1 DK & Me) ran over to South Shore and owned up some horde at the Mill then ran to Undercity and took the blimps Org. We all bum rushed the horde dueling each other out in front of the city and spent the next hour rezing and ganking horde.

Later in the week, I meet up with the guys again and we ran OS 10 and had a ton of fun. I OT for the guild and their GL (Gnome Warrior Tank) was impressed by my DPS. I was running in frost presences and did ~1900 DPS and #2 in the raid by 30DPS from 1st.

I’m respecing myself for a better OT/DPS spec and I’m actually going to join their guild tonight. A great bunch of people and even though some of them are young (14/15) they are mature and a blast to play with. Oh and that’s crappy Paladin, I dumped him to start my own 2’s & 3’s team and I’ll keep you all up to date.

Friday night after I hit 80, I ran over to SW and started to run BG’s. I’ve farmed up over 40k Honor over Friday Night and Saturday. Didn’t get to play much Sunday only a couple hours @ night, but Death Knights are a blast in BGs. I also found a random Paladin to run some 2’s with. He sucks so bad but it’s all good as I’m just testing out my own playing style arena builds.

One really funny note is we went up against a Holy Paladin / Hunter team and my partner was killed within 30-45 seconds into the match. I then held my own for over 15 minutes trying to kill the hunter and paladin. I could get the hunter down to a sliver of HP but the paladin would bop him or get a crt heal. I’m sure they where more frustrated then I was. But I made a mistake and didn’t keep up my self healing and lost the match. If 99.99% sure that I could have soloed them as they where horrible, if I didn’t screw up and fall behind on self heals.

Most of the quests are super easy, just killing a few mobs and picking stuff up. “Spoiler” If you haven’t done Grizzle Hills before it’s got a pretty cool theme as you take on these werewolf’s. It all starts when you save this dude from a jail and then the 2 of you ride out on this horse, trying to escape the werewolf’s. Just keep spamming thunderclap and speed boost and you’ll make it just fine.

But all in all I’ve really enjoyed the quest bunching blizzard has done with Northland so far. Tonight I’ll clear out Grizzly Hills, hit 80 and from there PvP or continue questing. My goal is to complete the Loremaster Achievement and so that’s a ton more questing as I still have to do all of classic!

So that’s pretty much it for the night nothing to exciting but still some fun. Off to the next zone!

The past few days I’ve made a few new friends on the server. The warrior & I now chat on vent and help each other when needed or run instances together. One of his RL friends just transferred over and so he’s now joining us in the fun.

I’ve been questing and have a blast with the new achievements system, just clearing out zones and getting the achievements. Since our last chat, I’ve cleared out most of Outlands and headed over to Northland. I’ve cleared Borean Tundra & Howling Fjord and gained the achievements for both zones, plus the D.E.H.T.A achievement. I was level 77 by the time I cleared both of the zones and I’ve soloed every quest boss in those zones! That includes bosses with 100k+ HP! I love Death Knights.

During the leveling spree I also got a chance to do both of the new instances “Utgrade Keep” & “The Nexus” with my Warrior & Lock friend. I tanked for both instance even though I’m not tank geared but my HP was more then enough. We did UTG when I was level 74 and I had 15K HP at the time and my self healing is ridiculous with 4K Death Strike heals.

A little later on when I was level 75 we did “The Nexus” and I tanked that also. We picked up 2 guys and they weren’t sure if I could tank. But we told them don’t worry about it and I tanked it like a champ and was sporting 19k HP with all of the buffs. My DPS was running 1100+ in both UTG & Nexus and I was about double everyone else.

Funny thing was after we finished the run my warrior friend needed some splinters from the mobs in Nexus, so I ran in and soloed the trash till we finished off his quest. We laughed when we where getting 3-4k XP per mob. I later run into the instance and did a little soloing myself pulling 8K+ per mob. You could make a killing in XP just doing the trash but they are not easy soloing and I don’t recommend it.

When I hit level 77, I ran straight to Dalaran and got my cold weather flying skill and started to clear Dragonblight. While I was at level 77, I’ve soled the following quest bosses:

High Shaman Bloodpaw (76k HP but has 4 adds, tough guy with the adds)
Grom’thar the Thunderbringer (123k HP)
Alystros the Verdant Keeper (118k HP)
Kreug Oathbreaker (129k HP – Was a little hard. He hits for 4k+ also have to make sure you clear the area. You don’t want any adds on him.)
Onslaught Commander Iustus (82k HP)
High General Abbendis (96k HP)

Now when I was 72 and out in Shadowmoon I did solo the boss: Cyrukh the Firelord (369k HP) but that quest you have a few NPCs that help. So even though it is a Group 5 quest boss, the NPCs tanked him most of the time and helped DPS him down. So any boss that has NPCs that help, I don’t count even though they are still Group Quest bosses. But he has been the hardest fight so far, just because of his DPS when I did pull aggro.

Last night I did hit 78 and now sporting a whole new Savage Saronite Set with enchants and kits. I’m now running with 21K HP and over 23k when I switch to frost presence. So I’m excited to see how many more bosses I can solo with the new gear. I’ll try and keep you all posted on the bosses I down.

So a 67 Warrior was up for the task and him and I ran over to the Ring of Blood quest area. I got there before him as I’m on an epic flyer and there was a few horde there. 67-69 Hunter, Druid, DK. So I dropped down and ganked them all and waited for the warrior to catch up. (I like to make my dominance known before I start to do any questing, so people leave me alone.)

Once the warrior got into the area, those 3 horde I killed earlier jumped him. I ran over but not soon enough. So I killed them again and as I’m eating, I get jumped by 3 feral druids. I kill 2 of them and then made a huge noob mistake. I pressed ALT + Z and lost my UI. I normally unbind the key but forgot about it when I created the DK So the last one killed me when I had 75% of my health left. /lol

So now we are in bit of an issue as there are now 6 horde and both of us are dead. The warrior says screw this, I’ll brb and comes back with his 80 boomkin druid. I rez, he gives me a quick heal and we own all of the horde.

So we then start the Ring of Blood quests as I have to do it and with an 80 around, the horde started to run away. We get down to the last boss in the quest line when an 80 Pali drops down and starts to beat on me. /lol

We just snare the pali up, while I keep the last boss following me and I focus on the boss, while the druid kills the pali. The pali comes back and rez and tries to gank us again, during the fight he was casting a lot of heals, and the boomkin asked me. “Is he ret or holy?” I said /lol he’s HOLY! We both started to /laugh at him as I just let my pet beat on him. He then ran away after a little bit and the boomkin jumped on his warrior.

We then started the “Ring of Blood” quest again for his warrior and again, got down to the last boss when suddenly, I was taking 7k+ dmg and then died. I looked over and a 80 Druid had shown up and killed me and then killed the 67 warrior. So he jumps back on his boomkin again and we kill the horde druid. A few minutes later another 80 DK horde shows up and the real fun begins.

For the next hour the 80 Boomkin and I (72 Twink DK 14.6k HP + 2k AP) begin to own these (2) Horde. (80 DK & 80 Feral Druid) It was a blast and I love the comp Boomkin + DK, the burst is so high and I can’t wait for 80.

I tested out Scourge Strike and was hitting 2500-2600 Crts not bad for 72 and my DPS is still through the roof. I’m not really happy with the build and I think I might drop SS again and go back to my Blood Strike spam.

My Blood Strike spam build @ 72 is: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=jfV0sI00oZZfT0I0coxcq0fM

When I’m 80 my solo build might be:http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=jfV0qI0hoZZfT0I0coxcq0fcb

The AoE damage with wandering plague is ridiculous and with both blood strikes and death strikes 100% creating death runes. I’m able to spam any attack I need too when I need it. So normally my priority attack routine is:

Keep Plagues Up
Blood Strike Spam
Death Strike for Life
Rune Tap (Early) 30sec cool down so use it first thing
Death Pac & Resummon Ghoul when 50% HP
Mark of Blood if Death Pac is down
Icebound Fortitude at start and refresh when up
Death Coil before max RP and in between rune cool downs

Majority of my Damage is coming from Dots and this build is all about keeping those Dots up and steadily taking down the boss. Since my DoTs even @ 72 are ticking for 300+ damage ea. They are eating the bosses alive and all I have to do is outlast him, so with so much healing it’s not hard.