We went and cleared Naxx 25 tonight. Here's the parse from Patchwerk: http://wowwebstats.com/lgs6cmw5h6e3w...015&a=x1e9ab80

I was MTing, and I had to keep up my own shouts and debuffs, which held back my overall damage for sure. I also have a 2.5 speed weapon which reduces the possible damage on Patchwerk. However, you can still see from that parse that Deep Wounds is a huge amount of damage.

If you browse around the parse for the raid a bit, it holds...

My guild is required to post a wishlist of the top items they want for each slot to help loot council decisions. Many people keep asking where items on my list drop from when I mention them in the shoutbox, so I thought I'd copy my wishlist over to this site.

Head: Helm of Vital Protection - Gothik25 [best overall for damage reduction]
Valorous Dreadnaught Greathelm [best for threat, small downgrade in damage reduction]

Neck: Nexus War Champion Beads - Malygos25...

So Cider convinced me to try out a Deep Wounds spec since he said it was such a large percentage of his damage. We didn't have any content left for the week except Malygos so that's all I had to test it on, more to come next week hopefully.

The results are pretty amazing to me.


Deep Wounds did about the same amount of damage as Devastate, and half as much as Shield Slam....

As usual, we did this with a resto druid, rogue, and myself - a protection warrior.


The Violet Hold is a level 75-77 instance found in the city of Dalaran. Similar to The Stockades in Stormwind, it has several guards at the ready outside, and the prisoners inside the hold are trying to break free and attack Dalaran.

You find the instance next to the quest givers that give you the daily heroic quests. First you have to visit the Violet Citadel and receive...

As usual, this was done with just a resto druid, a rogue, and myself - a protection warrior.

Utgarde Keep (70-72): When you first enter Utgarde Keep, you will get to see the new fire effects that blizzard uses in large scale for the first time unless you've done Brutallus. It's pretty nice looking.

The best thing about this instance is the large amount of non-elites. There are tons of opportunities to pull whole rooms of mobs and just go crazy with the new protection...