More Gear Tinkering and AoC

I can't stop tinkering with Ulushnar's gear.

I've finally retired his Bonefist Gauntlets to use the Crystalforge Handguards fulltime, and replaced Pepe's Shroud of Pacification with my Slikk's Cloak of Placation. I've done this so I can comfortably hit the 490 Defense mark without resorting to using trinkets.

A nice side effect of doing this is that when I have my boss-tanking trinkets (Ancient Aqir Artifact and Commendation of Kael'thas) equipped, I can also afford to equip the Libram of Divine Purpose over the Libram of Repentance for better threat, along with the spelldamage and threat enchant on the gloves. The downside of this is the loss of about 500 unbuffed health, taking Ulu to the 16.5k mark.

All in all, I'll take it. 16.5k seems to be fine for the starting bosses in BT, but I am noticing a marked increase in our DPS with the 2.4 badge rewards, and keeping on top of that is a primary concern. If I do need to max out health for a fight, then it's easy enough to swap the AAA for the Darkmoon Card: Vengeance.

Over in Age of Conan, I created another version of Aretus on the Hyrkania PVE-RP server last night. I don't really have anything new to report since he's only level 16 and in Tortage. Still, knowing what to do this time around makes for faster levelling. Things feel rough in game, with server maintenance in the mornings and new patches every 2-3 days. That's to be expected. No matter how long the Development period or how strenuous the Beta, no MMO is completed on launch. The version of WoW that I started playing three years ago bears little resemblance to the game I play today, and I missed the first month of launch. I'm still having fun, so i'll give it time. Definately beats levelling another WoW toon in my non-raiding time.