1.3 Has arrived: Some Impressions

Ok so 1.3 is in and I managed to run BWE and BB last night, with a less than optimal group but with the changes to wards I was interested in how my tanking suit (which was built without wards) would stand up to these city instances.

 

Before we get on to that though I just want to say a couple of things which I like about the patch.  First thing is that I now have 5/5 Greater Wards due to having my Conqueror Shoulders in my pack when the patch was implemented. Bonus!

Second thing is that talismans have become permanent, however the fact you can only have one type in a piece sort of stunts my 2 hander which I wanted to put two strength gems in.

 

On to the runs then, my tanking suit was built when I was tanking hard PQs in a duo.  It is basically a TON of armour as that seemed to give the best bang for your buck on damage mitigation.  
Well BWE was as fast as ever, I was taking minimal damage, even the final boss was thwarted by the thickness of my armour.  Excellent.

 

Oh group for BWE was: Chosen(Me), Sorceress, Shaman, Blackguard, Black Orc, Magus

Its basically the guys I always run with other than our regular Squig Herder was on his BO as a shot at getting some loot.

First thing is that Guard minimises a TON of damage, but even without it I was never in danger.

 

We were a little dubious about BB with a solo healer, and justifiably so, normally even with 5/5 you can get shredded by certain things.  Well we managed to kill everything up to the boss which summons the Nurglings.  He kept kerb stomping us over and over again. 
As soon as we decided to call it a day and I posted up another run for the next day we tried a new tactic…. And BOOM! Boss dead J

 

The final boss was the same as ever, apart from the annoying decision he made to keep gobbling our shaman up last… this led to him dying from the adds multiple times before I gave up guarding him (and taking his aggro) and guarded the Sorc instead.

Well that try was the killing try, but from 30% to 0% it was myself and Zugzig (Shaman) alive, so we dinked him to death.

 

Bad things about 1.3…… My UI is BORKED!  Cant wait for Yak do update, he reckons the weekend so im stoked for that.

 

I think I may organise a LV run, ive never been but would like to see it as I now have the gear to do it.  I also have a few pieces of gear to aim at to round out my tanking set.  The next couple of pieces will give me another 5% block…. That’s awesome!

 

Hope you all have a good day.