Shared Topic: New Class Theories

Hi guys, Over at Blog Azeroth a shared topic brought to you by Shadow at Death Knights Don't Blog is curious to know what will be the next class hero for World of Warcraft. This is actually related to my Poll Question last week about A Possible WoW Class and the result and most voted class was the Monk. Since I started playing Ragnarok Online I had a Monk class, they are very powerful and great skills of martial arts. To give you details we will go ahead and theorycraft what spells, gears, build and more about Monks in general, Will it be worth having in for World of Warcraft Classes?


What is a Monk Class?

"They are well known the Masters of Martial Arts. Monks gain increased speed, attacks per round, high saving throws against special attacks, and immunities unique to the class as experience grows. Monks become increasingly difficult to hit because of their dexterity and armor class bonuses. Monks can gain high spell resistances, making them dangerous to mages, but, in some circumstances, can be overwhelmed when attacked by many enemies at once". 

BASIC STATS

1. STRENGTH = One of the most important stats for Monks. Since it affects how much damage you can dish out. It affects your minimum and maximum damage too. It also affects your weight capacity so you can carry all the equipments (support equips, battle equips and some rotation too.) This is how it works (STR + Weapon Attack + Bonus + Weapon upgrades)
2. VITALITY = This is only a support stats that will help your health points. But its an option if you want to be a Hybrid spec with pure VIT and STR. This stat adds to your defense. (VIT + Total Armor Defense).
3. AGILITY = The partner of Vitality in making a defensive character. But Agility is more than that. Higher AGI means Faster Killing Time. (1 AGI = +1 Flee)
4. DEXTERITY = This stat raises your accuracy and your minimum/maximum damage. (+1Dex means +1 Hit) same as the AGI-Flee but this stat counteracts that.
5. INTELLIGENCE = This stats will take part into healing, because Monks secondary spec is like paladins they can heal too. Stat is helpful for Mana and Health regeneration.
6. LUCK = This stat is very useful for those who are going for the CRIT MONK. Luck affects your avatar by; Crit chance: every (LUCK = +Critical, Every Critical = +Dodge).

Note: DEFENSE/ATTACK = Important pre-requisite skills for Monks. You must Max this skill because this will open the skill tree for monks. This skill also assist us by helping us to stay longer and reduce damages from undead and demon types of monsters.

 Ragnarok Online: Monk Class

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Besides having the healing spells that will also be benefit for the Monk specs. Here below are the skills needed to be a perfect martial art Monk dude! Also credits to Ragnarok Online for making me understand better how to play a Monk 5yrs ago, Here are some special abilities of a Monk class.

1. Iron Hand/Palm = Increases the damage done by Knuckle Class weapons and Bare Fists Passive skill, this is important mastery skill to add some extra damage.
2. Spirit Cadence = Restores a certain amount of HP and Mana every 10 seconds based on skill level if your weight is over 50% then it will restore every 20 seconds Amount is increased with VIT and INT. also a Passive skill.
3. Triple Attack/Raging Trifecta Blow = Deliver 3 blows by a low chance, After use, the caster cannot move for a short period, if Raging Quadruple Blow is used in conjunction with this skill, movement will be delayed even longer. DEX and AGI reduce the delay time. Passive skills the more chance of this skills will increase Attack power.
4. Call Spirit/Summon Spirit Sphere = Summon spirit spheres. One spirit sphere lasts 10 minutes, the caster can summon a total of 5 spheres at once. Certain Monk skills require spirit spheres. This spell cannot be interrupted. 3 second casting delay DEX affects on the casting time. Consumes Mana. This requires Iron Hand.
5. Chain Combo/Raging Quadruple Blow = A cooldown only usable during the delay time that occured Raging Trifecta Blow. deliver 4 blows on a target, the caster cannot move for a short period after use. If "raging thrust" is used in conjuction with this skill, movement will be delayed even longer. DEX and AGI reduce the delay time. Requires Triple Attack/Raging Trifecta Blow.\
6. Combo Finish/Raging Thrust = Only usable during the delay after Raging Quadruple Blow. This is the Final touch of the Combo Skill. If the opponent is still standing..repeat steps 1-3 until satisfied.
7. Finger Offensive/Throw Spirit Sphere = Throw spirit spheres to a target at a distance, This skill level affects on the number of spirir spheres that the caster can use at a time. casting cannot be interrupted, the casting time takes as much as (1second + the number of spirit spheres x1 sec) consumes 20 mana. Has a 0.5 delay time after a use. this is pretty much a Soul Strike. Mid-range attack or use before you clobber an opponent. It requires high INT.

MONK BUILDS

1. Pure Offense Monk = This build is more into Spirit, Int. that casts and Call spirits -Absorbs Spirits. This build works well and good for leveling.
2. Combo-Asura Monk = Triple Blow -> Quad Bloq -> Way of Dragon -> Asura Strike Combo. This build is somehow "weak" in combo due to the low Iron Fist Mastery and Raging Trifecta Blow. Because of this you will depend on Elemental Firsts very much. This build seems to be forever due to that you will only feel the completeness of the guild and thats tough and too darn long. But it will depend on your STR very much.
3. Defense Piercer Monk/Extermity Monk = This monk build concentrate on dishing high damage to monster with high defense that's why we got investigate here and also with high critical rate from critical explosion which ignore defense. A monk must have min 30 INT so we'll have more mana and more health points. This build is awesome in PvP.
4. Hybrid Monk = This is a good build, as long as you have good amount of INT and AGI. Maybe equips that boosts INT and AGI can help you have that. In this build, after the Raging Tri/Quad blows. this build are finishers for the combos.

GEARS

As far as gears goes I suggest having Monks some Cloth or Leather, and for weapons Fist weapons or Mace. They are equipped to mostly physical melee and is also required a lot of movements so these type of gears helps Monks move faster.

Anyway, I think That is it. and Hopefully this will be added to World of Warcraft classes, Monks are awesome! their skills can be as good as Rogues in game right now. Thanks for reading guys! writing this shared topic reminds me of me playing Ragnarok Online and really understand me better and easier for me to list down the spells, stats, build and gears. Please share your thoughts what is your ideal new class for the new expansion in World of Warcraft? For more details go and visit Blog Azeroth or Shadow over at Death Knight's Don't Blog. Have a good one!

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Day 11: My Bad Habits and Flaws

Hi guys, another day for 20 days WoW Blogging challenge over at Spellbound. Today its about my Bad habits and flaws. My understanding on this will be either real life or in game, so I will go ahead and share both. So far though my bad habits and flaws are polished. I managed to be more organized, I also learned a lot from my Psych class about my personality.

In Real Life...

1. One of my bad habits was playing World of Warcraft too much instead of going out and be more sociable. My boyfriend always ask what my plans for the day? and I hate to say I'm raiding, besides raiding and playing I also just go to work too. but I try and spend more time with the people around me now. I know I was a baddie, I was too addicted in playing the game, so yea the big word is "Limitation".
2. I tend to get disorganized some times but at least not most of the time. I'm working on it and I am actually doing pretty good.
3. If I have to study for an exam at school, I tend to study 2days before the exam date its a bad habit, But for me whatever I read just 2days or day before the exam I do better because all the information I read about will still be in my head. I do read in advance but not as often as I used too, especially now I have a bad eye sight. and still getting used of wearing my glasses since I just got it like 2 months ago. but I am trying myself to be successful in what I do, and the results are great.

In Game...

1. I sometimes forget to use my cooldowns. but I am working on it now since I just played shadow priest after Cataclysm has released, I still yet a lot to learn how to play my class for sure.
2. Doing dailies is not a problem but sometimes I have a habit to ignore it, instead of hey! its extra profit you should do it! I know but probably I just easily get bored doing it soemtimes, but since I still have a goal to actually grind reputation from classic expansion then yea gotta work on that.
3. I am not perfect and yes I have my flaws, but that doesn't mean I am stupid and don't know how to admit my mistakes. especially in raiding if I know I fcked up then I tell the officer in whisper and I rather sit out or recieved constructive criticisms and try to fix it.

So far these are all I can think of, all of these bad habits or flaws I am working on it. It is hard to change someone's personality immediately but working on it step by step will also help, never rush and just take a deep breath too. If you missed my other Days Saga of 20 days of Wow Blogging Challenge over at Spellbound. Thanks guys and Have a good one!

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Day 8: 10 Things You don't know about Me

Hi guys, another day for 20 days WoW Blogging challenge over at Spellbound. This will be about 10 things that you guys don't know about me. I was thinking about sharing more than 10, because I admit there are plenty of it that you guys don't know about me, but of course I just don't like to tell you everything because that is just giving out all my information in the public eye, and you know how internet flows its pretty crazy! So to get you to know me a little bit here are the 10 things you guys don't know about me.

1. I love to cook and experiment food, anything that is in the fridge I can try to come up with a dish. 
2. I love dancing, I was a former dance troupe member for 11yrs back home in our University during high school and college. From ballroom, hip-hop, Jazz, folk dances. I am up for it.
3. I am very practical of what I spend my money with. I am not a shopaholic, not really.
4. I love baking cakes & eat sweets (but I have to limit myself because Diabetes runs in the family)
5. I Crosstiched (but I stopped doing it like 5years ago, and until this day I was not able to finish my Angel Cherub pattern, but I will finish it someday.)
6. I love Scrapbooking (instead of buying expensive materials I pretty much recycle out of  used book/magazine. and also collected 100+ stationaries)
7. I collect all greeting cards, even holiday, birthday tags in one box from people who loves me and giving me gifts and I have tons!
8. I used to join beauty pageants since during my elementary, high school and even college days (senior year of high school picture revealed when I joined). 
9. I Sing, yes singing in the shower! who does that?! Me! lolx (but seriously though I love Karaoke.)
10. I collect cans, beer bottles, anything that can be recycled to get some extra cash saved for my car's gas. (for the beer bottles Its from my boyfriend, I never drink and smoke.)

Senior HS omg lmao!

Okay, well I just revealed most of what you don't know about me. /shy but its good at least you know from here what kind of person I am in real life. besides me playing an online games. I know I do a lot huh? for extra extra I post here a picture of me during Senior High school wearing a black gown, I represent our School against other branches of University back home. and yea, I'm still so thin there omg! lolx Anyway, before I embarrassed myself more that is it for today guys! Hope you guys have a good friday and weekend. Please don't forget to like my facebook page and vote for my poll question of the week. Thanks! If you want to catch up with the other Days for my 20 days WoW Blogging Challenge over at Spellbound check the links below;

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Day 06: My Workplace & Desktop Photos

Hi guys, Today is Day 6 of My 20 days WoW Blogging Challenge over at Spellbound, and it is all about My Workplace/Desktop where I usually spend most of my day. I will just make this a quick post to show you where my desktop is. A Gaming Workplace for me is where I spend most of my time at home, It is located in a second Room in our apartment where I am surrounded with lots of Manga Books. Me and my boyfriend loves anime and reading manga. It's fun! My Desktop (PC) is where I always store all my files, photos, research papers, school files, blogging notes, internet, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace), and of course playing online games including World of Warcraft, Starcraft and other MMORPG's.

So this is where my desktop gaming workplace that I spent most of my time, where I play WoW, Rift, and other MMO games, I also sometimes use my pc to download music, watch videos and more... basically its one of the greatest appliances at home. Not only for games but for school and other stuff too. Anyway, To catch up with the other Days for the 20days WoW Blogging Challenge over at Spellbound Please click the links below! Thanks guys and Have a good one!

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Shadow Priest Power Auras

Hi guys, I just thought to repost this power auras here from my old blog at Christine's Blog (it is now deactivated and no longer accessible). So hope this auras will still help, since Patch 4.1 was released it is still working and no  problems at all. But I advised you update the Power Auras addon itself before importing these strings. If you have not download the addon yet, I suggest doing it now. Click here. Installing and following simple steps how to import the aura string to work in game I will show you below how.

UPDATED AND STILL WORKS FOR PATCH 4.2 FIRELANDS, ANY SUGGESTIONS AND COMMENTS WRITE BELOW THANKS!!!

1. Download the Addon Power Auras in your World of Warcraft folder > Interface > Addons
2. Logged in game and type /powa
3. Click Import Set
4. Copy the strings below and Press Ctrl V to paste the strings in the Import set box (Location for your strings needs to be in Page not Global.
5. Done! you should be able to test all the auras with the dummy, no problem. Enjoy!

Set=Page 1@Aura[1]=Version:4.9; b:0.651; g:0.7176; icon:inv_chaos_orb; buffname:empowered shadow; texture:4; alpha:1; size:1.43@Aura[2]=Version:4.9; b:0.9765; g:0.0549; icon:Spell_Holy_DivineIllumination; buffname:dark evangelism; r:0.9647; stacks:1; texture:89@Aura[3]=Version:4.9; b:0.9765; g:0.0314; icon:Spell_Holy_DivineIllumination; buffname:dark evangelism; r:0.6863; stacks:2; texture:90@Aura[4]=Version:4.9; g:0; icon:Spell_Holy_DivineIllumination; buffname:dark evangelism; r:0.7176; stacks:3; texture:91@Aura[5]=Version:4.9; g:0.0353; icon:Spell_Holy_DivineIllumination; buffname:dark evangelism; r:0.749; stacks:4; texture:92@Aura[6]=Version:4.9; b:0.8902; g:0.4706; icon:Spell_Holy_DivineIllumination; buffname:dark evangelism; stacks:5; texture:94@Aura[7]=Version:4.9; icon:spell_priest_shadoworbs; buffname:shadow orb; texture:2; size:0.96; stacks.enabled:true; stacks.y:34; stacks.x:-4@Aura[8]=Version:4.9; target:true; icon:Spell_Shadow_ShadowWordPain; buffname:pain; x:-7; bufftype:2; owntex:true; mine:true; size:0.15; y:-185; texmode:2; timer.HideLeadingZeros:true; timer.enabled:true; timer.cents:false; timer.Relative:TOP; timer.Transparent:true@Aura[9]=Version:4.9; target:true; icon:Spell_Shadow_DevouringPlague; buffname:devouring plague; x:45; bufftype:2; owntex:true; mine:true; size:0.15; y:-186; texmode:2; timer.HideLeadingZeros:true; timer.enabled:true; timer.cents:false; timer.Relative:TOP; timer.Transparent:true@Aura[10]=Version:4.9; target:true; icon:Spell_Holy_Stoicism; buffname:vampiric touch; x:-58; bufftype:2; owntex:true; mine:true; size:0.15; y:-185; texmode:2; timer.HideLeadingZeros:true; timer.enabled:true; timer.cents:false; timer.Relative:TOP; timer.Transparent:true@

For some reason though that if its not working, and you are using a non default interface (not World of Warcraft Interface), it helps that you relogged disable your interface first Test all the auras if its working or not, relogged again enable your interface and your auras should be working now. let me know if there are any problems regarding this, but so far I had been using these auras for a while now and it just works okay. I do want to give credit to Midnight who is my guild mate she helped me with these auras, i added to these strings are the timers importantly for the Empowered Shadow so I don’t have to look up under my buff interface. Anyway, hope this set string will help you in long run, share it to anyone who is playing shadow priest. Thanks guys! and Have a good one! <3

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