It’s official.  Apparently Blizz last night allowed WoWhead to post this new shiny front page.  More news has come down the pipe as the release of the Collectors Edition has also been released.  And there was much rejoicing in the streets!

What does all this mean?  It means that Warhammer has some competition.  I have to admit that the pre-expansion blues have set in, and set in hard.  Before Burning Crusade was released many players became disinterested in the game.  Their was not much of a point in pushing for gear or raiding because new content was coming out.  And in hind site we were right.  No one runs the old raid content anymore with the occasional “nostalgia” runs for old time sake.  During the wait for the expansion stage servers became ghost towns.

Now with WotLK on its way you can see the same effect on the live servers.  I have stoped raiding, partialy due to moving realms and other issues but largely because I do not want to get deeper into SSC or BT right now with so much new on the horizon.  I have started to make plans for new things like new professions, instances, specs.  I cant WAIT to take Paravel into an instance or raid and heal.  The new healing tools druids have look amazing!!!  But the beta servers are so laggy I cant test them :(  Soon!

So now we have just a around two months to get ready.  And I’m glad.  With the next content patch on the PTR’s we will get a jump start on some of the new features of the game.

Its time to play ladies and gentleman! (it’s also time for me to finish development on a new drupal based guild/casual raiding site *smile*)

Oh, and did I mention Collectors Edition? *smile*

Ok, so last night I’m mulling over in my head gear for Wunderkind.  I discovered the weighted filter search on wowhead a while ago but never really dove into it until now.

I have taken the preset filter for Holy/Disp priests and modified it some.  Right now my weights look like this.

• Stamina: 75
• Int: 75
• Healing Done By Spells: 50
• Spirit: 50
• Spell Critical Strike Rating: 20

My thinking for these figures goes as such.  Stam is important when in PvP.  The more health you have the longer you can stay alive.  So I put that weight at 75.  For a caster class a large mana pool, plus the crit chance from Int is important.  This is why I put Int at the same weight as Stam.

Being a healer I wanted to mana regen and healing to be somewhat equal.  I will probably revisit this thought as in a BG mana regen is often done after you die.  But, if one tries to stay alive as long as possible then running out of mana could be a quick trip to the Spirit Healer.

Link to Filter: http://www.wowhead.com/?items=4.1&filter=sl=10;minrl=10;maxrl=19;ub=5;wt=22:23:24:50:49;wtv=75:75:50:50:20

To use the filter on other items simply chose from the Menu up top from Hands to another item. I’m going to me playing with the settings to see if Wunderkind has the best gear I can get for her, on cheap.

If you have any suggestions on the weight for the list, or would like to post your own weighted list please feel free to drop it in the comments section.