My paladin finally reached level 70. It wasn't with as quite a great ding as 60, which had followed the completion of a quality quest chain. But I was at least in the middle of an AoE pull in Shadow Labyrinth, so that's something.Now I had
Desolace started out great and then went rapidly downhill. Felwood, well it also started out great. It went uphill from there.The two ends of the zone are unchanged: enter, kill insane furbolgs, and then wander off wondering what was the point of that
In vanilla we ran around in greens and some blues. Purples were a strange thing to see.In Burning Crusade we were certain to get our blues and as the expansion moved along, we got our purples from heroics and Karazhan.Wrath of the Lich King purples were
I used to notice a clear pattern on my blog: more readers during the week, and barely any on the weekend. There are two obvious reasons for this trend: first, that I don't usually post on weekends, and second, that fewer people are at work on weekends
The nice thing about Desolace was the initially high numbers of demons. And then more demons. As a paladin, that was great. Exorcism was very powerful and it just generally made sense for a paladin to fight demons. I've since moved on to Feralas,
So should 70-80 in Northrend, and 80-85 in Azeroth 2.0, and whatever MoP does too.But wait, wouldn't that mean that going from level 1 to level MoP would take months? years? That's a very long grind!That's why there is the second part
Yea yea, exaggeration, the original Desolace had quests, but not many, and it was pretty easy to tell that it wasn't a great zone. Then came the Cataclysm and Blizzard was faced with the challenge of making what may have been the most disliked zone
Part of why I started up WoW again was for science, and by science I mean so I could evaluate WoW with firsthand information. Actually my original goal was more of the "let's get facts to justify what I'm already saying", but then
Step one: Buy gear off the AH.Step two: Enchant the gear.Step three: Run an instance, watch upgrades rain down upon you.Unbreakable Guardian -> Gavel of Peroth'arn Drape of Inimitable Fate -> Cloak of the Royal ProtectorWitch-Hunter's
I wish I'd discovered BC heroics before my mage hit 71. At that point, it just seems like cheating. So now what? She could level up more, but what's the point? I'm not going to hang out waiting on DPS queues at 85. She hit 72 and that's
Some people flip flop and waver. Mr. Colbert said about our greatest president, "He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday." Well, today is Wednesday and on the metaphorical Monday I made
I had low hopes for the remade Zuls. I expected watered-down shadows of the awesome they once were. And certainly they are not the same. But they are similar and a good sort of different.The plethora of mini-bosses was odd. More like glorified trash
By buffs I of course mean giving them a tanking and healing tree. Frost seems like a good choice for tanking, particularly after they screwed up and made blood the DK tanking tree. BLOOD IS STUPID! Fact. Fire has a cauterization theme going for it,
Why would a level 70 be in a BC heroic? Or a 74? Yesterday I decided to try something different on my mage and queued for a BC random heroic.Surprisingly, I not only found a group, but found it pretty quickly. But that wasn't the best part. The
Imagine a spherical pie in a vacuum.Obviously we want a bigger pie. So, we call on the powers of the market. And it responds.*fanfare**fall of feudalism**more fanfare*Hi, now as you can see, we've brought in some more pie pans. These are the foundation
This run started off with me on the tank's side. There had been a warrior who, as I saw it, ran in and aggroed way too many mobs, then died because the tank didn't grab them soon enough. He tried to kick the tank, I voted against, and then
An unwanted trip is always too long while a longed-for journey is always too short.What is the point of randomly formed cross-server groups? They cannot possibly be to meet people, because well, they're useful for seeing people, but not for actually
My paladin is all alone. There are no friends on her server, no one to play with. So she does randoms. Ugh. Mostly the people are okay, but a few bad apples can really spoil the mood. Even worse, at this point no one takes anything slow or explains
Did you know that when I run Scholomance, LBRS, UBRS, and Dire Maul East I get to fight an extra boss if I want? That's right, I do. You might wonder why. Or you're just wondering what I'm babbling on about this time. Well here are
It's been a while, so I can't remember. This came up over at WoW Insider, about the newness of the dance, perceived or actual, and the penalties of bad dancing. So to you I ask, Do you remember if a screw up on living bomb on Baron Geddon
Lately I've been listening to music from WoW. Some of it is beautiful. This might explain why I've also been writing a bunch of WoW posts. I'm spacing them out a bit, because otherwise there would be ten in a day.I have a habit of linking
After my mage had a disappointingly boring Mana Tombs run I figured the only thing to do was to disappoint myself even more. I'd heard that Dire Maul had been changed, so I figured I'd go check it out.Well on the bright side, the druid at the
Is excessive hyperbole killing democracy?Yes 11 (26%) No 3 (7%) Nazis 27 (65%) Votes so far: 41Poll closeApparently 11 people think that overblown speech is a problem, but the even greater threat is that of the Nazis. Obviously this means
Tesh had a time card. Tesh owed me gaming. So now I have a time card code. Or I did. Now I have a month to play WoW.I did the logical thing: Jumped on my bank alt. I have no clue what I was planning to do there. My mail had bounced back to where
If you've wasted any amount of time reading about PC gaming, you've probably read at least something about this or that game having old code and content, not active, but left in the game. Half of it doesn't work and never will because
We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said. "Take your message of
When I make friends in a game, I want to play with them. If they're not on, but I still want to progress, what should I do?I could hope that enough people are online on my server so I can form a group. This used to be the method, but was rejected.I
I changed a few things around here. Deleted some clutter. Changed some color. Got a new template which also knocked out my google code, so I missed several days of seeing how many of you came here looking for Skyrim porn. Seriously, what the fuck
Back in the dark ages, before I met other smart people in high school, before I had a PC in college, I had a Mac and not many games to play. But I had a few and a few good ones. One of those was Escape Velocity, a 2D game of space exploration, trade,
In a few months it will have been two years since Blizzard officially recognized my insanity.Insane in the MembraneRequirements:Bloodsail Buccaneers (Honored)Everlook (Exalted)Ratchet (Exalted)Booty Bay (Exalted)Gadgetzan (Exalted)Ravenholdt (Exalted)Darkmoon