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Gaming During My Two Year Break

Even though I stopped for awhile, I still had time for the occasional games. I was still playing World of Warcraft. Played Cataclysm when it was released, but eventually got bored of it and canceled my subscription. I do get the urge to play from time

Hello Cataclysmic World

Long time no see! Sorry that I kind of just vanished from the blogasphere all of a sudden without any notice. I guess the real world critted me pretty hard. Over 9000. Wow, it’s been almost 2 years since my last post. I wonder how many of you guys

Frost Mage PvP: 103 – Gearing for PvP

Now that you have and understanding of some of the basics of Frost Mage PvP, and know what stats to aim for, you need to gear yourself for PvP. But where to start?
In Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard has given players many ways to obtain PvP gear.

Frost Mage PvP: 102 – Spell Penetration and Resilience

The stats you need for PvP is a little bit different from PvE. Of course you will still need Spell Power, Crit, Haste, and Hit; but now you will also need two other stats: Resilience and Spell Penetration.
Spell Power: Self explanatory. The more

Frost Mage PvP: 101

Welcome to introductory class to Frost Mage PvP! This will cover the very basics of what you need to know about PvPing as a Frost Mage. I will making additional posts to cover the different aspects of PvP. You can’t learn it all in one post!

One Down, Nine More to Go

I am down to my final ten mounts til I get the Mountain o’ Mounts Achievement, so I’m trying make these final ten mounts be ones I really want- or at least are good ones.
My number ten mount is: Turbostrider
I wanted this

Crashing the Lunar Festival Again

I already had all my achievements done last year, so this year I didn’t bother running all around Azeroth to honor the Elders. I just did the two starter quests which gives you the teleportation stone to Moonglade. Once there, I remembered what

36 Minute Arena Match

The beginning of all my Arena Sessions usually start with, “Let’s do our 10 games for the week!” That leads to, “Let’s keep Arena’ing til 7pm!” On good days it leads to, “Let’s get XXXX rating so we

Season 8 Arena: Week One

The first week of Arena with my new Rogue partner was very fun. It felt really good to participate in Arena matches again. All these feelings I’ve had the last time I arena’d are coming back to me- and I’ve missed them all.
The

Over 1000 Resilience

So what did I do with all that Honor I farmed during the first two weeks of Season 8? New Wrathful gear! There are a couple of pieces you can pick up with just Honor that doesn’t have a Arena Rating Requirement on them. I made sure to pick them

Back into PvP Mode

When Patch 3.3.2 was released, it marked the beginning of Season 8 of Arena- which will also be the last season of the Wrath of the Lich King Expansion. It also gave me a new reason to start PvPing again, and more reason to kill Horde.
107k

Frost Mage PvE: Gunship Battle

After defeating Lady Deathwhisper, you make your way up the Lower Spires of the Icecrown Citadel to reach the next level. On your way, you run into the opposing faction, and at one point the Alliance’s “Skybreaker” and the Horde’s

Year of the Tiger: So Far So Good

Happy (Lunar) New Years to those of you out there who celebrate it. 2010 is the year of the Tiger and like the title says, so far so good.
I got to visit family and friends, collected some Red Envelopes, visited a temple, and bought one of those

Frost Mage PvE: Lady Deathwhisper

“The lich Lady Deathwhisper is the Supreme Overseer of the Cult of the Damned and the second boss of the Icecrown Citadel raid.” – WoWWiki.com
If you were a Sunwell Plateau raider back in the Burning Crusade, you will find

The Blog Turns Two

I can’t believe it has been two years already since I’ve started the blog. It actually turned two on New Years, but celebrating the new year usually blanks my mind for a couple days. Last year I forgot completely and didn’t even write

A Little Late but… Happy Holidays!

And a Happy New Years! Hope everyone stayed safe, and had a great year! Due to the time required for my body to purge the alcohol and other toxins out of my system, this post is just a tad late. Plus, after piss poor game the Eagles had yesterday, I think

A Random Dungeon Finder Solution

There is no denying it, The Dungeon Finder tool has been a great way to find people to run dungeons with. It is a great way to farm [Emblem of Triumph] and get geared in a relatively short period of time. Great for making gold too! Perfect for casual

Frost Mage PvE: Lord Marrowgar

“Lord Marrogar is a unique creature created of skeletons. He is the first boss in the Icecrown Citadel.”
He has one of the coolest boss character models- he is a 4-headed winged skeleton torso, with a big ice ax! As the first boss of

85 Down, 15 More to Go!

I’ve been collecting mounts for awhile now, trying to get 100 for the [Blue Dragonhawk Mount] you get from the Mountain o’ Mounts Achievement. The one thing keeping me from this achievement was gold- I was always terribad with my gold.

Gnomer Sites Prison Sentence and Makes Me Laugh

I had to take a trip back home last weekend for my mother’s and my sister’s birthday, so it was going to be an hour and a half train ride home. I packed a few clothes and downloaded the newest episode of the Twisted Nether Blogcast.
Bought

Couple Things I’ve Learned From Using the Dungeon Finder

With the new revamped Looking for Group tool that came out with Patch 3.3, Blizzard has made it exponentially easier to find other players to run dungeons with- mainly because you can now group up with players across different servers. Blizzard is even

Guide to Frost PvE: Glyphs

With the release of the latest Patch 3.3 – Fall of the Lich King, many Mages are going the trying out the new changes to Frost PvE. Permanent Water Elemental and using Deep Freeze on bosses were reason enough to give Frost a shot again in a raiding

Guide to Frost PvE: Talents

With the release of the latest Patch 3.3 – Fall of the Lich King, many Mages are going the trying out the new changes to Frost PvE. Permanent Water Elemental and using Deep Freeze on bosses were reason enough to give Frost a shot again in a raiding

The Tuna Resurrection

As I’ve said before, I had been occupied recently, and my time on Azeroth had diminished to practically nothing. I haven’t raided or pvp’d for over a month, and had only signed on to do a couple achievements for the new Pilgrim’s

PTR Patch 3.3 – Fingers of Frost Change

“Does the change to the way Finger of Frost is consumed in the next Patch 3.3, does that mean no more ghost charges and shatter combos for us Frost Mages?”
The quick answer to that is: Nope, you will still have your “ghost

Two Reasons for the Lack of Posts Lately…

Borderlands and Dragon Age: Origins. These two games had totally sucked out any free time I’ve had for pretty much this entire month. It has been awhile since there has been any reason for me to completely ignore the World of Warcraft. I’ve

PTR Patch 3.3 Testing: Glyph of Eternal Water

One of the biggest change for all Frost Mages from the upcoming Patch 3.3, is the addition of a Glyph which will make our Water Elemental become a permanent pet. That is the Glyph of Eternal Water.
Art by: John Avon
I’ve been

PTR Patch 3.3 Testing: 20k Deep Freezes

Copied my Mage over to the Public Test Realm, and also copied some pre-made Mages over as well. Holy Crap! 20,000 damage Deep Freezes! That is only self buffed too! If you just add another 13% Damage increase from only Curse of Elements, you’re

PTR Patch 3.3 – Deep Freeze on Bosses

The PTR Patch Notes have been updated once again on the WoW website with a few new changes to the upcoming patches. You can view the the full patch notes here. The only reason you are here reading however, is because of the new change to Deep Freeze.

Early Birthday Gift

With my Birthday coming just around the corner (the 22nd), it looks like I’ve been given an early Birthday presents- and this was given to me by the Headless Horseman. Thanks Mr. Headless Horseman!
I finally got my [Sinister Squashling]

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