Remember the other day when I said that my guild was on hiatus?
No, that didn’t change.
But the week before I *gasp* offered to gear my priest up since replacing DPS would theoretically be easier than replacing a healer (and with the exception of Tir, we’ve had pretty crappy luck with recruiting healers in the first place).
I was told, no, I should stay on the mage because my damage would be difficult to replace.
Awwww, how sweet. Continue reading
Alright, it’s been another week-plus since I had time to write, but there’s been valor to cap and bosses to kill.
Not to loot, just to kill. Because I just get gold.
Anyway…
I am now officially 16/16 in T14 content and ready to step up in to T15 Throne of Thunder.
So I had a bright idea.
I should use the +300 food for the new content, really squeak out that extra bit of DPS.
Hmmm…. I’ve got a DK that’s got cooking up pretty close. I bet I could level his cooking really quick and make my little fish stews to get points! Continue reading
I think I need a “not dead yet” tag for posts.
There are three reasons I don’t post:
Thankfully, my latest week-long hiatus was for the reason behind door number 3.
Last week I posted about moving to greener pastures so it’s only fair I give an update on how that transition is going. Continue reading
Hopefully.
The grass is always greener on the other side, but in my case I think the grass was greener EVERYWHERE.
The Sahara has greener grass. Mars has greener grass.
Raiding on Saturday was terrible.
I use the word “terrible” loosely.
Abysmal. Horrendous. Catastrophic. You get the idea.
It was decided to let the druid healer (punk kid) bring in his hunter and let a new (to the raid but longtime standing guild member and nice guy) take his place as healer. Continue reading
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s patch day! 5.2 is loading. Check out MMO Champ for a tidy list of changes.
OK, I admit it, the title is a little misleading.
(Because we all know 2+2=pistachio, derrrr.)
The title implies that I may have had a problem with math.
But I really didn’t.
The math was just fine – great, even! I conclusively proved that a weapon drop was not, in fact, an upgrade for me.
No, the problem wasn’t with the math at all.
My blunder fell squarely in the realm of “garbage in, garbage out.”
You see, I’ve been using the adorable inscription staff, the one with the cute little paint brush tip. I even went as far as to force two alts to grind for valor so that I could have it upgraded without Arioch having to pay for it. Continue reading
I came to the table late for the new Darkmoon Faire, ignoring it for MONTHS before finally dragging characters through it.
Pretty quickly, I realized it was useful for leveling some professions across the awkward humps and MOUNTS AND PETS WERE THERE, DUHHHHHHH!
Pets and mounts went account-wide and suddenly it was worth going after the tickets.
So a cycle of 4 characters developed, dragging my mage, priest, paladin, and DK through the faire each month.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t doing all that I could be doing (picked up ear quests late, didn’t pursue the dungeon drop quests, and often missed several days) so ticket collection was painfully slow. Add to that the ticket cost of the mounts being 180 and the pets being 90 and it felt like I would never get there.
This past month, Arioch got really close to the 180 mark for the first mount. So I braved the AH and dumped some gold on the dungeon items. Continue reading
I’ll admit that when the patch hit prior to the launch of MoP, I didn’t play much with the new talents.
I knew roughly what I wanted, picked what looked good/fun, and ran with it.
And by run with it, I mean I didn’t play my mage much before walking into panda land.
So when I left the airship and landed on foreign soil, it was with an untested mage toolkit.
The level 75 tier is where you pick up your AoE spell as a mage.
I know, no one really recommends Nether Tempest.
But I’m an arcane mage. Continue reading
I have a confession to make.
I might be addicted to farming in WoW.
No doubt, I loved the leveling experience on Arioch. So many new sights and sounds and sparkles.
And a lot of running like hell and trying to peel individual mobs out a of a clusterfuck before the insane respawn led to screams of SHITSHITSHITFUCKFUCKFUCKRUNAWAY.
But I was in no hurry to get to the end game of 90 and took my time exploring each zone.
Without rest XP, I almost made it through all the content before hitting the end, snagged flying and finished it up. (Skipping dungeons helps you cover more ground in quests.)
And then began the dailies.
Which I haven’t done for 3 days running… Continue reading
I don’t want to give away too much and I’m only 88 1/2 at the time of writing this so here’s a quick breakdown so far:
Midnight release at GameStop – Pretty low key (the location at the mall down the road was also holding a release so most people were there), maybe 2 dozen people by midnight, and the employees were awesome enough to let us hang inside.
Collector’s Edition – Everyone with the digital download has been enjoying their mounts and pets for a couple weeks now. But I haz a purty art book (OMG beautiful) and an awesome mouse pad. And the “making of” DVD and soundtrack.
Install – What install? Access your account management page and pop in your code. Log in to game. No need to insert CD.
Entering game – A little rocky. I started with Kaayn just to get rest XP going. DCed on the blue bar a time or two, and again when I attempted to accept the starter quest. Selwyn was a lot faster. Arioch easily made it through. Now there’s a queue.
Lead-in quest – You can’t avoid it. And it was crowded. Slightly buggy. But I was prepared for hordes of Horde and just sat and waited. Most “bug” issues could be resolved by holding still long enough for all the items to fully load. Constant moving around just slowed everything down. WHERE’S THE ROPE???
/1 is the new /2 – In Jade Forest be prepared for everything that trade normally is. And it was all in triplicate on my server. Three times the immaturity, politics, and hatemongering! Most times I turned it off, checking in periodically and infrequently whispering help to people that actually needed it. I FELL OFF THE BOAT HOW DO I GET BACK UP?!?!?111
New quest set up – Achievements for completing quests in zones are now done by quest chain. You get a mini-achievement notification when you complete a chain and all the chains are listed in the main achievement for the zone. You no longer see “Complete X number of quests.” I like the new way, but I wish they had kept the quest counter. The list of chains makes it possible to easily find missing quests using WoWHead or any other research site. Back in Outland, I ended up missing a couple Nagrand quests that took me weeks to track down (by completing quests everywhere else and they finally led back into Nagrand). I only knew I was missing quests, but had no record of what was or was not done. But, I liked the sense of accomplishment I got from seeing 140 quests completed in Icecrown versus 6-8 chains.
New quests – Hilarious. Blizzard always has shown a sense of humor with quest names and content and they did not disappoint here. I was honestly not expecting to be following advice from a monkey convinced that a village of pandas wasn’t suffering from depression – they were just constipated. FYI – Hozen home remedies should probably be avoided.
Quest issues – The opening was not all kittens and rainbows; I did manage to phase myself out of 2 quests. I eventually got credit for completing the quest chains, but I still have those two quests sitting in my log, unfinished. Ticket resolution is 2 days and 1 hour.
Zone layout – Huge. Every zone so far feels immense. I’m on a ground mount. And I don’t really care. I have spent probably the better part of 2-3 hours losing time by losing myself in every little corner. Lore items have great sparklies and a blue aura to them, moth to a flame. I’ve taken dozens of screenshots (request pertinent to this at the end of the post). Everything is so pretty and I want to see it all. The flight paths have gorgeous kites and a lot of quests have transportation to get you around if needed.
Pet battles – Hi everyone, my name is Arioch and I believe I may become addicted to pet battles. HAVE YOU SEEN THE TANUKI????? I WILL HAVE IT!! I MUST HAVE IT!! Honestly, I wasn’t really excited about them. But they are quick and easy and OMG I CAN HAVE EVEN MORE PETS!!!! I am currently training my Guardian Cub, Windrider Cub, and a Wolpertinger. Because little winged animals are cute. And most of them are pretty effective against critters, which is what I’m facing at these levels. I’ll start in on a dragonkin of some sort and probably a phoenix pretty soon. And the best part is that they are account-wide. So if I’m leveling somewhere and see one that Arioch missed I’ll be able to snag it.
Farmville – Now, for a reason completely beyond my grasp, I was looking forward to having my own little farm. Player housing doesn’t interest me, but the idea of cultivating my own little plot of land as a mini game is right up my alley. Perhaps because I have a black thumb in real life. I’ve got my farm started but sure wish you could go a little faster with it. GROW FASTER, DAMN YOU, SCALLIONS!!!
Dungeons – No clue. Haven’t set foot in one. (OK, technically I entered one to turn in a quest.) In Cata I burned through dungeons as my primary leveling tool and, no surprise, burned out, especially on Selwyn. I’ll do them a little later when the guild is ready to do them together. Sel will probably still level mostly through them, but at least I hopefully won’t have already spent a thousand hours in each one.
Gear – Can’t say that I’m much a fan for anything other than my T9, but eventually I had to break and replace my gear at about 88. The deciding factors were stamina (I needed more, shit hits HARD) and bag space. With the new quest reward system (everything you can choose is useful) I was rapidly running out of space. I think by the time I tossed a few new enchants around (160 INT TO RINGS??? FUCK YEAH!!!) I went up a bit in most stats and gained quite a bit of HP.
OK, got a request here. I like to take screen shots. And I like to have names of stuff visible when I’m NOT taking screen shots. For whatever fucktarded reason, Blizz decided that hiding your UI does not include hiding the names.
Does anyone know of an addon (that actually works) that can be assigned to a keybind (or button) that removes all names and puts them back? I do not need it to take the screen shot, I use FRAPS. But I want something that easily removes them and replaces them. Preferably a stand alone and doesn’t require some random broker that I don’t use. Help?
So Theramore has been destroyed in a scenario.
2 things:
Let’s talk about scenarios first. Scenarios equal 3 people, no role requirements, in and out pretty fast. I imagine we could have failed if we tried, but that would have taken more effort than just completing it. (It may have been a gear issue, we had 2 mages and a prot pally – we blew shit up.)
That said, I spent most of my time in the scenario pulling up my map to see where the next target was. I was expecting more of the interface as used in CoS where an arrow directed you to the flag shown on the minimap to indicate your next goal. Perhaps I’ve got an add on blocking it, but it was a bit confusing at first. Continue reading
