Getting rid of the Blogger Navigation Bar

Just a FYI, this is the code i use to remove the NavBar from the top of blogger.

#Navbar1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}

Just go into your blogger settings page, and click on the layout tab. Then click on edit HTML. Find the body tag and paste it around there usually underneath.

Shadow Spec for Leveling the Priest

So i was going along with my previous post about leveling as holy, which seemed fine.

Then i got into a group for Nexxus and it just sucked, wiped about 6 times on the last boss before we called it. So two hours later, i was only 200k exp better off.

As i really want to start gearing up the priest for PVP and Arena's, i just want to get to 80 as fast as possible really, so i decided to spec Shadow. I know its probably the obvious leveling spec, but dam, it has some crazy dps and i dont seem to go OOM that quick either really.

I was just farming lower level animals for some quests in Dragonblight so i guess that may have had something to do with it, but mindflay was ticking for about 800-1200 and it can crit now! I wasnt even bothering to shadow word pain the mobs. Cant wait until 75 when i get the AOE skill, although that does seem to burn through a bit of mana at around 800 per cast or something.

Maybe that still has something to do with the DPS Bug?

Anyway back to grinding ;)

Here is the spec im using at the moment. 13/0/52.

Easily Updating my Addons in WoW

Well I spose most people already know about this application, but thought i would mention it anyway...

Wow Matrix.

Basically, it scans through all of your world of warcraft Addons and finds appropriate updates for them.

I remember before i found this application, i would spend most of Patch Nights going through the curse gaming libraries, and looking for updates to all the mods, but now i can be even lazier than i used to be, and just run this app ;)

Also it provides a super easy way of finding new mods, just as long as you already know the name of the mod you want, type it in and press the install button.

Leveling a Priest as Holy in WOTLK

So i was going to start leveling a paladin from scratch, as they seem so dam OP at the moment. But then i thought it was probably a better idea to level my priest as it was already at 70.

Currently im leveling it as Holy, and surprisingly its pretty quick. Not as quick as shadow i imagine but still very mana efficient, and do a fair amount of damage.

The build im using at the moment is: 14/48/3

By 80 i will be using: 14/54/3

Then i will probably re spec to disc for some PVP and Arena action.

Seems to do fairly well at the moment in standard PVP, although i do get hit pretty dam hard.

For grinding Mob's i usually use: Smite, Holy Fire, Smite, Smite, Wand. And trinket up whenever there not on CD.

If i go hard on the mobs i can take down about 20 before drinking. Just sux a bit when you have several hitting on you and there immune to fear.

Here is a more comprehensive guide for leveling a pries and gear etc that i found a while ago at dwarfpriest.com

Last night i hit 74 and im still in Borean Tundra, Leveling as rested is so much ezier than doing it without!

Dragonhawk Mount, Mountain o' Mounts Achievement

So who can be bothered getting 100 mounts for the new Dragonhawk mount?

Just incase you are wanting to work towards this one here are a few tips ;)

Here is a Mount Checklist, if you can be bothered filling it out. Helps keep track of the mounts you already have and what you need to do to get the rest.

Apparently at the moment, this achievement is almost impossible, unless you can get your hands on one (or 12) or the 1% mount drops from instances. Looks like they have added this achievement, as something for hardcore players to achieve now, and for the rest of us to get a later a bit easier with the addition of more mounts.

Although having blizzard remove the racial requirements of all mounts has made the process a bit easier. So pretty much you need to have all the trading card game mounts, the engineering mounts, and tailoring magic carpet mount. Or if you happen to be lucky enough to have one of the Amani War Bears from ZA, Big Blizzard Bear mount from Blizzcon '08, or arena reward mounts. It is doable for some people, but certainly not an easy task.

Here is the achievement on wowhead.

Dragon Hawk Mount Images from mmo-champion:

Shadow Priest DPS after 3.0.8, bug in Misery.

So some good things did come from the new content patch, It appears that Misery Stacks incorrectly causing some insanely massive DPS.

Unfortunately this isn't going to stay like this for long and will likely be hot fixed very shortly.

/respecs shadow

According to Ghostcrawler:

"There is a bug in Misery probably very similar to what Delmortis describes above.

We want Shadow priest dps to be competitive, but it can be really insane with this bug. We are looking into it. "

Delmortis from the WoW forums:

"The problem is purely with Misery.

Pre-3.0.8 Misery's DPS boosting component worked like this (on Mind Blast, Mind Sear, Mind Flay):

(base dmg + spellpower*base_coefficient*1.15)*

i.e. it in effect gave you 15% more spellpower.

What is currently happening now is:
Mind Blast:
(base dmg + spellpower*(basecoefficient+0.15))*

Mind Flay and Mind Sear:
Every single tick is:
(base tick dmg + spellpower*(basetickcoefficient+0.15))*

They've gone from multiplying the spellpower*base_coefficient factor by 115% to applying an additive boost to the coefficient (which is silly if it's not scaled for cast time) but they've made a mistake and they're applying it to every tick of the channeled spells rather than the spell as a whole.

The numbers back this up and I did proper testing on the dummy adding in talent points one at a time to make sure. "

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