Druid items on PTR 2.3

Looking through the new leather items that A'dal are selling on patch test realm, I can only confirmed that the items are between tier 4 and tier 5. There are:
4 items for chests (75 BoJ),
3 items for feet (60 BoJ, missing resto),
2 items for hand (60 BoJ, missing bear-feral and resto),
3 items for head (75 BoJ, missing bear-feral, resto's is a drop),
2 items for legs (75 BoJ, missing bear-feral and balance),
3 items for shoulders (60 BoJ, missing bear-feral),
4 items for waist (60 BoJ), and
4 items for wrist (60 BoJ).

Bear-Feral
Chest	Vestments of Hibernation	75
Feet	Footwraps of Wild Encroachment	60
Waist	Waistguard of the Great Beast	60
Wrist	Band of the Swift Paw	60
	Total	255 BoJ
Cat-Feral/Rogue
Chest	Shadowtooth Trollskin Cuirass	75
Feet	Nyn'jah's Tabi Boots	60
Hand	Trickster's Stickyfingers	60
Head	Grimgrin Faceguard	75
Legs	Shallow-grave Trousers	75
Shoulder	Shoulderpads of Dancing Blades	60
Waist	Bladeangel's Money Belt	60
Wrist	Master Assassin Wristwraps	60
	Total	525 BoJ
Moonkin-Balance
Chest	Blessed Elunite Coverings	75
Feet	Moon-walkers	60
Hand	Grasp of the Moonkin	60
Head	Mask of Primal Power	75
Shoulder	Pauldrons of Tribal Fury	60
Waist	Starfire Waistband	60
Wrist	Armwraps of the Kaldorei Protector	60
	Total	450 BoJ
Tree of Life-Restoration
Chest	Shimmer-pelt Vest	75
Head	Helm of Natural Regeneration (drop from Jan'alai in Zul'Aman)	-
Legs	Pants of Splendid Recovery	75
Shoulder	Gnarled Ironwood Pauldrons	60
Waist	Life-step Belt	60
Wrist	Gargon's Bracers Peaceful Slumber	60
	Total	330 BoJ

This is how the whole set looks like:

Here I compared the balance and resto gear and will get to the feral part soon. These new items are in-between Nordrassil (t5) and Malorne (t4) set. the biggest differences are the reduction of +spirit (no +spirit at all on BoJ moonkin gear) and the increase in Mp5 and spell haste rating for moonkin.

Balance:

Nordrassil Regalia
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1703	419	367	341	262	314
Stamina	160	36	37	35	26	26
Intellect	150	32	36	28	27	27
Spirit	114	25	26	24	23	16
Spell Damage	244	54	54	54	41	41
Spell Crit	92	17	26	25	24	-
Spell Hit	44	19	-	10	-	15
Mp5	7	-	7	-	-	-
Sockets	1m 3y 4b	1y 2b	1b	1m 1y	-	1y 1b
Malorne Regalia
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1540	379	332	308	237	284
Stamina	133	28	32	28	24	21
Intellect	142	27	35	29	27	24
Spirit	97	19	18	22	21	17
Spell Damage	195	46	44	36	33	36
Spell Crit	67	-	25	24	18	-
Spell Hit	19	19	-	-	-	-
Mp5	11	-	6	-	-	5
Sockets	1m 1r 3y 2b	2y 1b	-	1m 1r	-	1y 1b
Badge of Justice Reward - Leather spell damage (Ptr 2.3)
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder	cf. t5	cf. t4
Armor	1287	404		328	252	303	-49	79
Stamina	115	33		33	28	21	-8	14
Intellect	126	34		39	30	23	12	19
Spirit	0	-		-	-	-	-88	-79
Spell Damage	179	54		46	40	39	-11	28
Spell Crit	52	22		30	-	-	-14	10
Spell Hit	26	-		-	-	26	-18	7
Spell haste	25	-		-	25	-	25	20
Mp5	7	7		-	-	-	7	7
Sockets	3r 3y 1b	1y 1r 1b		1r 1y	-	1r 1y

Chest: The tier-chest carries spell hit which is over the BoJ chest.
Legs: There isn't any other choice than tier set, is there? Oh yeah, Arena Reward.
Head: Since the BoJ helm does not have meta socket for my favorite Insightful Earthstorm Diamond, I'd say the tier-helm is better.
Hand: BoJ hand of course. Imba spell haste rating and then spam Starfire. I would sacrifice spell hit on shoulder for the tier set bonus.
Shoulder: The hit rating is great, but it can be traded for the sake of set-bonus. Take both maybe?
Feet:Moon-walkers is a better choice over Naturewarden's Treads for its 23 spell hit. Socketed with Potent Noble Topaz for the spell crit or Glowing Nightseye for the stamina.
Waist: Starfire Waistband and Belt of the Crescent Moon are very hard to choose from. The former is good for mp5 while the latter is good for the spell haste rating.
Wrist:Elunite Empowered Bracers from Black Temple owns Armwraps of the Kaldorei Protector for the spell hit rating. However, the latter is still a nice upgrade from Windhawk Bracers or Bracers of the White Stag. If spell hit rating isn't the issue, then throw in a Runed Ornate Ruby on the Vindicator's Wyrmhide Bracers, then you have the best moonkin bracer in the game, for now.

Restoration:

Nordrassil Raiment
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1703	419	367	341	262	314
Stamina	165	36	37	40	26	26
Intellect	151	33	36	28	27	27
Spirit	129	31	27	31	24	16
Healing	461	103	101	103	77	77
Mp5	34	-	11	8	9	6
Sockets	1m 1y 6b	3 b	1 b	1m 1y	-	2b
Malorne Raiment
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1540	379	332	237	308	284
Stamina	127	28	30	22	28	19
Intellect	142	29	38	25	27	23
Spirit	119	25	26	24	25	19
Healing	370	88	84	62	68	68
Mp5	32	-	10	7	10	5
Sockets	1m 1r 1y 4b	1y 2b	-	1m 1r	-	2b
Badge of Justice Reward - Leather healing (Ptr 2.3)
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder	cf. t5	cf. t4
Armor	1388	404	353	328		303	-53	156
Stamina	118	34	30	33		21	-21	19
Intellect	137	35	40	39		23	113	22
Spirit	60	30	-	30		-	-45	-34
Healing	346	101	86	86		73	-38	49
Mp5	34	12	12	-		10	9	12
Sockets	3r 3y 2b	-	1r 1y 1b	1r 1y 1b		1r 1y

Chest: Mp5 on the BoJ chest over the sockets on t5.
Legs: Mp5 and sockets over the spirit on t5.
Head: Since the BoJ helm does not have meta socket for my favorite Insightful Earthstorm Diamond, I'd say the tier helm is better.
Hand: Tier set is your choice as it's better than Bark-Gloves of Ancient Wisdom.
Shoulder: Mp5 on BoJ shoulder over the spirit on t5.
Feet: No new items from ptr2.3. Enchanted Leather Sandals from Mount Hyjal is not much better than Orca-Hide Boots, except for the stamina.
Waist: Life-step Belt wins over Belt of Primal Majesty, which is a Dreamstate restokin belt with spell haste rating.
Wrist: Grove-Bands of Remulos for the mp5. The latter is useful to support the ToL aura if spirit is lacking in other armor pieces.

Next time I'll take a look at the feral gear.

Ornaments of Azerothian's Crusade

From my experience in raiding, I found out that:

Gear is uncommon
Skill is rare
Tactics are epic
Focus is legendary
Patience is artifact

Therefore I made a set of jewelry which the raider would certainly love.

Next time, when someone did something really stupid, take a deep breath and let your negativity be defeated by you. Team spirit is the key in raiding. Think positive.

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Some more on PTR

The new tracking system on PTR is really helpful. You can find banker, various vendors, trainers, quest giver or receiver, flight masters, etc. They are counted as "tracking" so you can't track beast, herbs, veins, etc at the same time.

One weird thing is my bottom-left action bar reseted to empty once I shapeshifted. And it didn't get back even when I shifted back to elf-form. It only came back when I died or log out. I hope there will be a hot fix for it soon.

My mailbox gave me some seasonal feelings. I got a pattern [Leatherworking: Winter Boots] and a cooking recipe:

Hot Apple Cider
Restores 7200 mana over 30 sec. Must remain seated while drinking. If you spend at least 10 seconds drinking you will become "well fed" and gain 20 Stamina and Spirit for 30 min. Standard alcohol.
1x Sparkling Apple Cider, 1x Holiday Spirits, 1x Holiday Spices

I guess this is for the coming Winter Veil celebration. It's a mana "well-fed" buff, I would definitely make a lot of these if there isn't any time limit on.

Tonight I went with some guildies to Zul'Aman for a look. It wasn't really a raid since people took their chance on PTR to try new spec and new gear, not prepared with flasks and addons and no real tactics. There were a lot of silly wipes, some were annoyed but for me it was fun to look at some new content. He's a big druid bear. When did trolls stole the book of druidic learnings?

Leatherworking on PTR 2.3

On patch 2.3's PTR, there are a few new pattern for leatherworking. Hunters can finally get rid of their level 35 quiver or ammo pouch without grinding Consortium or Kurenai/Mag'har reputations.

Knothide Ammo Pouch (20 Slot)
Equip: Increase ranged attack speed by 15%
24x Knothide Leather, 1x Primal Air, 4x Rune Thread

Knothide Quiver (20 Slot)
Equip: Increase ranged attack speed by 15%
20x Knothide Leather, 30x Arakkoa Feather, 2x Rune Thread

Netherscale Ammo Pouch (24 Slot)
Equip: Increase ranged attack speed by 15%
12x Heavy Knothide Leather, 40x Nether Dragonscales, 12x Primal Earth, 1x Primal Nether

Quiver of a Thousand Feathers (24 Slot)
Equip: Increase ranged attack speed by 15%
8x Heavy Knothide Leather, 99x Light Feather, 2x Primal Air, 1x Primal Nether

The 24-slot seems to require a rather insane amount of rare items. It also seems to me that the mats for quivers less uncommon than for ammo pouches. Who would have kept Arakkoa feathers after getting honored from Lower City? While 99 light feathers are easy to grind from Westfall, 20 nether dragonscales are comparatively hard to get by.

Apart from these hunter items, there are two new armor kit patterns as well.

Heavy Knothide Armor Kit
Permanently increase the stamina of an item worm on head, chest, shoulders, legs, hands or feet by 10.
3x Heavy Knothide Leather

Glove Reinforcements
Permanently increase the armor on a pair of gloves by 240.
18x Heavy Knothide Leather, 14x Primal Earth, 1x Rune Thread

Note that Heavy Knothide Armor kit can be put on head and shoulders. (^_^)
Would other armor kits be also allowed to put on head and shoulders later? Though it might not be a big hit for most armor kits since the glyph and inscriptions are by far better, it would be a big boost for the resistant armor kit.
The glove 240-armor enchant is not very exciting since agility or threat would probably be better. Still it is a nice option to give different options for an enchant and a function (or financial support) for leatherworker.

Someone also found a leatherworking bag pattern, oh now I got that from a trainer for 1g20s.
Edited: Oh, did I forget about the drums? The world drop drums patterns (restoration and speed) are now available when revered with Kurenai/Mag'har. The cast time for drums of restoration, speed, battle and war are removed. See details for all professions.

Time for fun! Muhaha

Raiding sometimes can be quite stressful. But I try to keep my spirit up observing the least expected part and enjoy them.
What is more fun than being losing control and do a bunch of stuff that you have never thought of? There's a time I couldn't kill my inner demon summoned by Leotheras The Blind, I was mind-controlled and attacked my mates with hurriance, moonfire, bear form and even healed Leotheras. lol
It reminds me of "Time for fun!", Shadow Lab second boss. The key of that encounter is "hope not to kill each other", while the situation is completely out of our hands.

Innervating with a +70spirit staff

My enchanter shammy alt has finally reached level 50 and enchanting skill 300. She was honored with Thorium Brotherhood after a long grinding on Auction House and then she learned the Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spirit. And then she enchanted that on the Staff of Divine Infusion. Now I have this sweet +70 spirit staff for innervate.


To make it easier to switch weapon during battle, I made a macro so that I can right-click to innervate myself and switch to the spirit staff and left-click to switch back to the healing weapons or innervate someone else.

#showtooltip
/equip [button:2] Staff of Divine Infusion
/cast [button:2, target=player] Innervate; Innervate
/equip [button:1] Light's Justice
/equip [button:1] Windcaller's Orb

Since Moonkin and Tree of Life share the same stance (stance:5),
I would need to change that to Merciless Gladiator's War Staff when Aethel goes as moonqueen.

The Super Arakkoa

Using the Shabby Arakkoa Disguise and carrying the Terokk's Shadowstaff, I became a super arakkoa flying in the air. ^_^
Before Patch 2.2, druids can shapeshift with this effect on, therefore I always flew as a "Super Arakkoa" in Terokkar Forest. It's a shame that this picture has become history. Still I'm keeping this disguise for the cool dance and other animations.