Preparing for Deathwing

In only a few short weeks, we will begin the charge to kill Deathwing, but before we even think about the ultimate goal of the next expansions we need to consider what steps we can take now to help us.

The tasks can be broken down into a few small chunks under 2 wider categories, namely things we can do before December 7th and things that can be done after December 7th. I'm going to call these Before and After just to keep it short and sweet.

Today I am going to look at the Before tasks and the After will be covered in a topic early in December.

The Backstory Shorts: Introducing.........

The Backstory Shorts will be a series of short posts about things I have experienced in Warcraft that don't warrant a full post but are too numerous to make a compilation post on.

My first subject is one that was inspired by a post from the WoW Insider, Revenge is a Dish Best Served at Level Cap. That is the mobs I love to kill out of pure, unadulterated hatred because of numerous failures to survive unexpected encounters with them in the past

Flood and Blunder

Image courtesy of UK Jigsaw Puzzle Club

This post has been specifically written for inclusion in the November Wow Gold Blogging Carnival over at Just My Two Copper, while not specifically a gold making blog I do from time to time cover my gold making activities in posts.

As the end of Wrath nears I have focused more in-game time on learning the finer details of the art of gold making and along the way have found many resources, made some nice profits and had a lot of fun. It has generally been easy (if a little time consuming - glyph making and bag making is painfully dull and slow yay for afk crafting though) however, it hasn't been without mistakes.

Golden balls......

You'll all be glad to know that this post has very little to do with David Beckham or Jasper Carrot, but rather a neat trick if you are levelling an alt at around level 40 - 42 BEFORE Cataclysm comes and want to earn yourself a few gold too by farming  Big Mouth Clams for Golden Pearls in a cave on the Isle of Dread, the best place (according to Wowhead).

This will only be relevant until patch 4.0.3 comes as the island that we are going to is disappearing.

Friendly Fire

More thoughts on the changes brought to us in 401, sorry I can't be bothered with all the dots any more, lazy? I prefer to call it efficient.

A general rule in raiding has been "move out of the fire", the "fire" has ranged from the aforementioned fire to poison, void zones and acid. It has come in many shapes, many colours and many encounters from as far back as Zul'Gurub right the way through to Icecrown Citadel. Sure there have been a few examples where the "fire" has been good to stand in, the poison from the Sons of Hakkar in Zul'Gurub, the Blue Goop (as my old guild described the Bog Giants aftermath in Serpentshrine Cavern) and the protective bubbles in Malygos

Grid for Nothing and Your Clique is Free

Patches are time for change in Warcraft be the tiny ones or behemoths like 4.0.1 which we have just received. Blizzard document the major changes that they make but behind the scenes they also make tweeks and major overhauls that go completely undocumented outside Blizz HQ.

Glyphs Galore

The great glyph rush (aka Glyphmas) is still on the massive changes to the glyph system are still being discovered by the mass of players and this weekend will only add more people wanting more glyphs than ever before as the weekend warriors come out to play. My time and gold investment pre 4.0.1 paid dividends, not as much as I hoped but I believe my need to work and my greed prevented me from capitalising more than I did but with the second wave incoming I am hoping to get it right this time.

Evangelysm: Needs You!

I need a nice masthead for my site. I have no graphical skills of my own and to make matters worse I have little idea of what I want.

Currently I use the graphic above as my forum avatar and would like to incorporate it into the logo or alternatively use part of the new logo as an avatar, I also want to keep the current blog colour scheme but that is not a requirement of the masthead/logo just as long as it looks right i.e. a new complimentary colour (or two) is good but a new batch of vivid colours would be bad.

I have seen some designs for a company logo that I like that would fit with the Evangelysm word:

If you are artistically talented and have a spare few moments to have a bash at designing something that befits a priest blogging about wow with a Cataclysm theme, if you could do it for a small fee I would be eternally grateful, free would be absolutely freaking awesome and if you happen to be on Shadowsong EU I could offer some tradeskill services or similar, no not dancing naked on mailboxes, I'm not that kind of (in game) girl!!

Send your designs and your details to me at

Look Who's Back...

Just a little post to announce to the world that Kittiah is back playing WoW and I even managed to get him a /ginvite to the best guild in the world called Saturday Knight Fever.

If you have read my blog thoroughly, you may remember one of my early posts, where I tell how Kittiah is the reason I am here playing WoW rather than sat on my arse watching TV most nights getting bored of Deidre and Ken's marital antics in Corrie.

So dear old friend, welcome back and please don't make your absence so long next time.

/salute

4.0.1: Initial thoughts

Well the first few hours of WoW 4x is done. The game is looking rather stable and the priest class looking rather healthy from my very limited playtime in game so far. Not that I didn't spend much time in game, just not much time playing due to complete addon meltdown, now I am used to addons breaking after game patches but this was simply chaos and I am sure I was not alone. Many of the graphics updates seen in beta have appeared early, the floor textures in Stormwind and the new water textures, along with some interesting display bugs where the reflections in the water are showing as cloned textures rather than reflections, doh! Also noteworthy is the fact that while this has happened my framerate has got better not worse so hats off to Blizzard for making the graphics engine work harder, look prettier and be easier on the hardware.

Sceptre of the Shifting Sands

After more than 5 years of having this in my quest log, I am very happy to have finally completed the Sceptre of the Shifting Sands questline. It all started with a loot drop from Broodlord Lashlayer in Blackwing Lair back in early 2006 and progressed very slowly as I gained rep to hit neutral rep , you start at hated, with the Brood of Nozdormu, which this took me until until late 2008 to achieve, as trying to do the rep grind by completing Hand of the Righteous was just plain dull and the easy way of killing stuff in the Ahn'Qiraj raid instances was difficult as during Vanilla my guilds were struggling to make progress and during TBC nobody wanted to raid them for no reward.