Necessity and Vanity in Glyph Scribing

 

Ah Glyphs. I did say I would get to them didn't I? I know it's a bit later than I claimed it would be and I do apologize. There have been some updates too in the last couple of days. No Scroll of Resurrection for monks, but yes we can get the Recruit a Friend benefits. A few numbers adjustments for balance, vengeance modified, and more.

Making the Zen Pilgrimage

One of the abilities the monks got during the course of the beta was Zen Pilgrimage. As you can see using this ability sends you to the Peak of Serenity in Kun-Lai Summit. A very pleasant sanctuary and monk training headquarters. There's more to it than that though so come have a look...

Changes for the Monk at heart

Sitting on Live waiting for MoP

Another Beta build (yes, another!) dropped in here and gave us a few updates. If you saw it on WoWhead News they list a bunch more that show number changes. I'm disregarding those because it may just be a pull error where it returned a value for a lower level or something strange. Anyway here they are.

Kaivax answers feedback

Kaivax's twitter profile image

Today while I was away at that pit of despair called a job Kaivax took to the forums and gave us a response on both a Windwalker AND a Mistweaver feedback thread.

So what did I miss?

Zen Flight

I missed a few patches, but as time passes the notes get smaller and smaller. After my investigation of blackout kick they changed it with patch 15762. I also missed the last one 15882. So let's find out just what changed.

The Shifting Winds

Well beta patch 15699 is out and it decided to have an impact on the Windwalker rotation I talked about recently. There were a good number of changes for us this build other than just Blackout Kick. There's a new spell that is similar, yet different, to the Druid's Teleport: Moonglade called Zen Pilgrimage. Other major changes include the shielding effect from Statue of the Black Ox, the Ox Stance itself, and Chi Burst actually doing a meaningful amount of damage.

The Windwalker Rotation Implementation Extrapolation

Tiger Palm has just changed majorly on the beta from doing bonus damage above 50% enemy health, to applying a stacking debuff that gives 5%/10%/15% Armor "Penetration" for 15 seconds that is called Tiger Power. This of course changes everything for the previous proposed rotation.

Never Gonna Stop the patches (Never Gonna Stop)

Taken just this morning. Myself using meditation next to my Transcendence spirit.

It's been another couple of days and another couple of beta patches that change the way monks are working. My messed up sleep and work schedule have not contributed well to my beta time but I go on vacation for 8 days to do nothing but relax starting this Sunday so I should be able to get more to you. I do want to do more to talk about the changes but with a patch averaging every 2 days and things like the change to Tiger Palm I don't know that it'd be worth it? You know what I mean? Anyway here comes stuff --->

Faster, and Faster, We have to get through!

Yet another beta build went through sometime early this morning/late night. Faster than I thought it would even. There's some talent changes here so check 'em out. *UPDATED*

Another Day another Beta Build

Well it's another day passed and so there's yet another new beta build. I did say things would start happening fast right? Details here after the break and some of the things I've learned and experienced on the beta so far.

Beta Time

I know it's been a bit of time again since an update. There were changes with the latest beta build that I intended to try out, but I was one of the many people stricken by error 132 so often I just go frustrated and gave up. I'm updating from the launcher right now though so I can get in there and figure some more stuff out.