The Pre-Patch is Here!!

Hi,

The pre-patch dropped last Tuesday, and after some teething troubles with not being able to log on, we finally got a chance to get used to it.

Well, I was quite happy that the Affliction Warlock play style didn't really change much. I was concerned about the Drain Soul healing going away, but for questing, you don't really need it, and Drain Life is there if you really need it. The drop in mana cost is really great, and you hardly use any mana over time. Stat scaling seems to have been well done.

Now, let's talk about gold. The gold missions from the Order Halls are gone. The Champion equipment for Combat Allies have been nerfed to 10g, 5g and 2g. However, a couple of gold things have hung around that I want to make you aware of.

First, you have a 50/50 chance to get about 420+g from emissary caches. I guess that Blizzard thought that this was still reasonable, given that you have to do 3 or 4 WQs to get them.

Getting 442g from Emissary Cache

The other thing I've noticed is that this week's World Boss (Humongris in Val'Sharah) still is giving 446g.

I also cleared out Priestybrit's bags, and did an ICC run this week. It only produced 1.1K though (well with an additional 177 Frostweave Cloth), so I don't think I'm doing that any more.

The other thing is that Hexweave Bags are more in demand than before, and the prices are rising. 2400g on one of the realms I play on, when you couldn't sell them for more than 2K before.

Other than gold, I've been taking all my Warlocks into Argus. I have about 4 on the go right now. The idea is to make gold, and get more geared up for BFA. I think I'll take an army of Warlocks into BFA :). Oh yes, and leveling my new Warlock on Garrosh more. She's up to level 69 now. I've been leveling her tailoring making First Aid bandages :). One more thing. I got to 1000 Wakening Essence on Trappybrit and Priestybrit, and got them their 2nd Legendaries.

Felbrit is still working on getting the Argus reps to Exalted this week. She is getting very close now, and should open up Lightforged Draenei and Shadow Elves very soon. Then I will start two more characters on Garrosh. A Lightforged Draenei Paladin (and may delete Platebrit), and an Shadow Elf Warlock.

Now let's see how the gold is going:

Silver Hand: Base - 500K x 2, 2K x 4. Crazybrit: 483,831
Garrosh: Base: 500K x 1, 2K x 4. Shammybrit: 66,167
Draenor + EI: Base: 500K x 9, 2K x 2. Blizzybrit: 113,105
Ghostlands: Base: 500K x 7, 2K x 3. Elfybrit: 414,875

Overall Base: 9.5 Million + 26K => 9,526,000
Characters: 1,077,978

Total: 10,603,978.  Not too bad. about 70K for the week.

Silver Hand:

Insanebrit (110) - Human/Priest - iLvL 191

Lavabrit (110) - Draenei/Shaman - iLvL 193
Crazybrit (110) - Gnome/Hunter - iLvL 195

Mentalbrit (110) - Human/Warlock - iLvL 191

Battybrit (110) - Human/Hunter - iLvL 190

Loopybrit (105) - Human/Death Knight

Derangedbrit (101) - Human/Rogue

Looneybrit (63) - Human/Warrior 
Madbrit (64) - Human/Monk 
Lunaticbrit (63) - Human/Mage 
Dementedbrit (63) - Human/Paladin 
Maniacbrit (51) - Night Elf/Druid 

Garrosh:

Draenybrit (110) - Draenei/Hunter - iLvL 195
Shammybrit (110) - Draenei/Shaman - iLvL 193
Felbrit (110) - Human/Warlock - iLvL 203
Priestybrit (110) - Human/Priest - iLvL 195
Demonbrit (103) - Night Elf/Demon Hunter
Stabbybrit (101) - Gnome/Rogue
Beastybrit (66) - Human/Hunter
Platebrit (48) - Gnome/Warrior 
Frostybrit (35) - Human/Mage
Voidbrit (61) - Human/Warlock

Draenor:

Flayingbrit (110) - Human/Priest - iLvl 191
Draenybrit (110) - Draenei/Shaman - iLvl 194
Gnomeybrit (110) - Gnome/Priest - iLvl 190
Flictionbrit (110) - Gnome/Warlock - iLvl 191
Fengsuibrit (110) - Pandaren/Hunter - iLvl 191
Unstablebrit (110) - Human/Warlock - iLvl 194
Blizzybrit (101) - Draenei/Mage
Boomybrit (101) - Night Elf/Druid 
Pallybrit (101) - Human/Paladin
Bamboodbrit (101) - Pandaren/Priest

Echo Isles:

Shaolinbrit (101) - Pandaren/Monk
Slealthybrit (103) - Pandaren/Rogue

Ghostlands:

Lockybrit (110) - Blood Elf/Warlock - iLvl 194
Voidbrit (110) - Blood Elf/Warlock - iLvl 191
Huntingbrit (110) - Blood Elf/Hunter - iLvl 194
Beastybrit (110) - Blood Elf/Hunter - iLvl 192
Trappybrit (110) - Blood Elf/Hunter - iLvl 191
Priestybrit (101) - Undead/Priest
Shammybrit (101) - Orc/Shaman 
Elfybrit (101) - Blood Elf/Priest
Mageybrit (101) - Blood Elf/Mage
Combatbrit (101) - Blood Elf/Rogue
Pallybrit (101) - Blood Elf/Paladin

That's it for this week. More Argus on Warlocks next week, making gold, creating 2 new characters, and leveling.

Cheers.