Wow Ironman: Ironiana hits 30

Ironiana @ 30

Not much to say as the title says it all its not getting any harder just yet which has surprised me.

The gear I am wearing is mainly purchased gear from vendors in Stormwind with a few drops thrown in and for gray/white gear it isn't too bad looking either.

• Rawhide Shoulder Pads
• Woolen Cape
• Cuirboulli Vest 
• Cuirboulli Bracers
• Cuirboulli Gloves
• Cuirboulli Belt
• Cuirboulli Pants
• Cuirboulli Boots
• Dacian Falx
• Heavy Recurve Bow

Blinded By The Light

Eusebian are you in there?

Been hitting the alts a bit lately and have been hitting LFR with my main tankadin, Eusebian. It has been a bit of a blast but I have had one major problem that I'm sure can't be something I'm unique in experiencing. The headline picture shows the problem, namely the white light of all the spell effects making it almost impossible to see what the heck is going on during fights, especially on 25 man fights.

WoW Ironman: Ironiana <Is Doing It Wrong>

Ironiana @ WildhammerEU @ 25

Just a quick update on my WoW Ironman, take 3 progress. Finally hit level 25 and have also succumbed to the no guild thing because I was getting spammed to hell by people recruiting for their guild or wanting a guild charter signed. I put out a call to my realiID friends and one rose to the challenge and as he has a few accounts did much of the hard work by adding 3 of the 5 signature, thank you Tom!

The Alt Factory: Valdarian

Primary role: Damage dealer
Birth Date: September 3rd 2006

Whilst not the first alt I ever rolled my mage is the oldest one still hanging around on Shadowsong EU. Valdarian began life as a female human mage named Magyxx and was part of an army created to have some auction house fun however I stupidly named my alts with a theme based around their class and the "yxx" suffix I invented when naming Evlyxx so it was bloody obvious the mass postings on the auction house was 1 person! But I digress....

Magyxx eventually became Eyesical and after finally becoming bored with stupid names and deciding I wanted my mage to look like Shade of Aran, led to the birth of Valdaran so named after a wikipedia search for aran led me here. I recently evicted him to a dofferent server to level a NElf mage for the guild achievement but a few days ago decided I wanted the old guy back so deleted my newly rolled 85 Nelf mage and brought the old fella back home. Sadly I had to change name when I put him on his holiday server and simply added an "i" to the name because it was close enough and sounded good too.

Vald, as he is often referred to, has led a mixed life, starting as a herb/ore farmer and ending up as my goto DPS raider back in Wrath until I got bored playing arcane mage and switched over to Strigimaga, his raiding in Cataclysm has been limited to 2 Magmaw kills but soon that will improve with some LFR action.

Newsflash: Pandacraft Beta

A few friends now have their beta keys. Looks good by all accounts and if previous betas are an indication looks like we could have a late Summer/early autumn release.

A quote stolen from Heldy (an SKF guildie)

- awesome new character creation screens
- nice animations on monk class
- skills are all aggregated now in the spellbook now which make them a bit confusing to retrieve (sorted between passive and active skills) but plenty of new stuff, changed effects etc.
- new cool animations, glyphs and spells overall
- new profession level is "zen master"
- Pandaria is not yet open :-( (apart from 1-10 zone), new dungeons are not yet open :-( so can't comment on that...
- leveled a human monk and liked the feel of the abilities very much.

Azerothian Shortcuts

Mages are great they have those lovely portals to all the major cities and we're all dead jealous, druids and death knights get a taste too with their class portals to Moonglade and Ebon Hold respectively. But the rest of us just have to rely on our mounts, flight masters and boats or zeppelins (depending on our faction) or do we?

WoW Ironman Challnge Fail 2

Well I learned another valuable lesson today about patience and over confidence.

My 2nd attempt at the WoW Ironman challenge ended in tears because I was an impatient ass. well on my way to level 24 a bag full of completed quests and needing to get off to work in 10 minutes I decided to grab the item for the last incomplete quest in my log. All that stood between me and success was a few worgen 2 levels below me in Brightwood Grove. 

WoW Ironman Challenge

WoW Ironman "rules"

After having the gauntlet of WoW Ironman thrown down by Branchy, a druid from Saturday Knight Fever and reading the rules (see above), I decided to accept the challenge. The idea of leveling up doing it wrong appealed because with modern talents, heirlooms and reduced XP requirements leveling now is a face-roll and following the "rules" will actually make leveling a challenge, a very BIG challenge!

Just Saying...

Sounds familiar to me.... Ghosts of Progression was originally posted on March 9th 2011

The Backstory Shorts: I Remember When...

The Backstory Shorts is 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 and something I started up in 2010 and then neglected. Way to go!! 

Now I'm reviving this feature and along with this 3 installment I thought I'd share the previous 2 posts to give a refresher! The first was titled Introducing.... which covers my top 3 mobs I enjoy killing because of the hatred I have built up for them over the years and the second was about me completing the grind for my Winterspring Frostsaber, done the old way without the fancy schmancy easy mode daily quest! Damn you Blizzard!