Talk Is Cheap

So the other day runnin around between Ironforge and Stormwind with Jason’s little dwarf.. gave me a little taste of the Alliance side.  The short time we were goofin off was plenty for me but it did make me wanna go try one of the most difficult encounters in the game.. something usually reserved for Alliance players and I was jealous that the Horde side doesn’t get to enjoy this difficult event (maybe the most difficult in the game presently)….

Hogger with 3 gnolls up..

I kinda expected a title or at least an achievement.. sadly, no.

One of the questions I see most asked is.. “what factions should I go for”..  Well there are so many rewards at so many rep levels.. It’s best to just look yourself and Wowinsider has a good guide to WOTLK factions.. check it out along with all the stuff on wowwiki about the factions you can gain rep with through dailies and the many, many rewards they offer.

There are four factions that, at level 80, you can gain rep through by “championing“.. wearing of their tabard that you can get at friendly reputuation.  Wearing the tabard in level 80 dungeons and all heroics will give you reputation increases with that faction instead of Horde Expedition (the faction you would get if not wearing one of those four tabards).  Lots of info out there.. wowwiki and the wowinsider guide have it all laid out.

John A. here’s the link to the correct Recount.

Ok.. not a Rick Roll.. really. If you haven’t watched this WoW machinima elswhere, watch it now. Even if you don’t play WoW and I know that’s a few of you out there. Pretty slick and it’s not a bad little story either.

The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo.

Cantra has given us a list of the new WOTLK jewelcrafting recipes she knows.  Might be able to get Xaph to do the same.. I’ll ask.  Click on through to see em.. (more…)

All you aspiring Deathknights should check out Runewatch addon.. cool looking replacement for your rune frame.  Has a slightly sinister look to it and it will show timers on each rune, runic power and a disease tracker.  There’s a little different skin you can apply for frost, blood, unholy look along with different rune graphics (or custom ones you create) and a minimalistic version too.  I’ll be having it load for all our DK’s. =)

Check out a couple of the screen shots after this click –>  (more…)

[Arthas] says: …and then I’ll murder my father.
[Uther] has gone offline.
[Uther] has come online.
[Uther] says: Sorry, D/C’d. Did you say something?
[Arthas] says: Nope.

One of the funniest replies to the rants and QQ about the incoming Paladin nerf (or nerf of any class) I’ve ever read:

from wowinsider.com comments about ret pally arcticle..

“Go ahead, enjoy your days of OPness. Just remember, though, that they will come to an end. The nerf bat may swing slowly, but it hits hard, my friend. And then? Even after you are nerfed into safety-padded, foam-rubber oblivion, you will still have to deal with the world’s hate and resentment. You will be Target Number Uno in every BG and Arena, long after the days that you represented some disproportionate threat are gone. And when, despite being nerfed to a shadow of your former OP self, you do actually manage to kill someone, you will get neither credit nor glory. You will hear the mutterings of “Oh, a ret pally killed me? Figures. Stupid OP class…” even when the devs have left you with nothing but Crusader Aura and your hammer. So enjoy, young OP ret pally. While you can….

Love,
The Warlocks.”

You can tell he’s lived it.  Problem is, I don’t think the warlock’s low’s on their roller coaster ride were as big a drop as ret paladin’s are.  Retrbution is gonna go from the nothing it was to this exalted high that it has been for a couple weeks since 3.0.2 back down to next to nothing (hopefully not).  All of the perceptions and way they are treated could very well be generalized as he says.. you can tell he’s felt and experienced the perceived OP’ness of his class in such that people won’t grant him recognition of skill playing it.  Problem is.. warlock’s never got nerfed into the ground.  Ret could very well go from nothing to The King right back to nothing.

That’s a much wilder ride than warlock’s ever had.. even if they suffered like he said, warlocks still rank pretty high on the power scale.  We’ll see what kind of a plunge the retadin takes.

I better duel Systine soon if I wanna have any chance of winning.. 

So.. this morning, Systine, Nightcreep and I picked up 2 others and went to do the Headless Horseman.  Some freshly prot pally (that I guess Nightcreep knew) and a hunter were the two we picked up.  I didn’t pay close enough attention to Ooga (the hunter) saying he had done it earlier today already or I would have kicked him.  Short story, the Sinister Squashling pet dropped twice.. we all decided to need it (as fair to prevent ninjas) and he doesn’t win the first one.. he curses.  Two summons later and it drops again!  I’ve done about 40 summons of HHM and haven’t seen the pet yet that I can remember.  Or the horse..booo.  I win that Squashling though!

Ooga’s mad again.  Cussing that he’s been at it 80 times and hasn’t gotten it.  Now Ooga has the Bloodsail Admiral’s title.. that tells you he’s a freak at getting the vanity stuff and collecting things.  The grind for Bloodsail Admiral title has to have been in the top two absolute most mind numbing grinds ever..  Not being Alliance, I can’t speak for the Spectral Tiger mount rep grind but I’ve heard it’s beyond ridiculous too.

Anyhoo.. he’s pissed because he’s coming to the realization that, as he said that he’s never going to get the damn pet.  I agreed and said “probably not.”  Then it dropped that 2nd time and I won it lol.  It was then that we realized that he couldn’t do the summons because as he had said, he’d already done it today.. bastard.  I don’t remember exactly if he said he had three manned it “earlier today” or “before”.. he probably did inform us and figured we didn’t care and just wanted him there for the DPS…. NOT.  Was all of our fault for not paying closer attention to chat I guess.  Don’t get me wrong.. he didn’t get pissy with anyone in particular.. or come across (too much) that he deserved it because he’s done it 80 times and hasn’t gotten it.. just pissed at missing out it seemed.

Sooo.. now that I have the developers roadblock to everyone being able to get “the Hallowed” title.. I’ve got to start in on all the other little requirements of the achievement.  They removed the 20 masks requirement (almost impossible too) or said they are going to.  Lots of running around for Rossa now next few days.  I need you guys to save at least one charge of your costume rods for me please please please please!  The random one doesn’t count.

Other news.. Jobu’s inscription is 340something.. and have thrown a ton more glyphs into the guildbank (3rd page) along with Threecard putting em in there too.  Herbs are still incredibly overpriced and I sometimes kick myself for doing inscription instead of just making another 2k+ on the herbs I bought so cheap a month and a half ago anticipating inscription.  That was my intention, just to sell the stuff.  Nobody else said if they were gonna be a scribe though and I had the herbs (really cheap).  I still made about 1,200 gold profit on the stuff I had too many of after skilling up.  I mean herbs are just stupid expensive.  What was 50 silver stack of herbs would sell for 50 gold.  Stuff that was 2g per stack of twenty would sell for 70g.. absolutely insane.. it hurt me to keep milling them for ink LOL.

So in my infinite wisdom, I decided not to try out the new 51 point talent in Demonology with the free respec in order to obtain the new talents in the Destruction tree. After a couple of days with nobody wanting to run heroics, for plenty of different reasons, I decided to go ahead and fork over the gold to check out the new talent of Metamorphosis. Sure he looks cool, and it’s nice to see my old felguard buddy again, but I just can’t seem to find any real “need” for this talent….or tree for that matter. I loved having the felguard while solo questing while leveling, but I had no idea what I was missing out on in the way of dps. I’ll admit it, I’ve become the dps whore that you hate to be grouped with. You all know the guy. He is constantly broadcasting the damage meters and giving the other dps group members crap about keeping up and telling the tank to “grab him” once he pulls aggro. Yeah, yeah…..Thatguy! I can’t help it! I love to blow sh!t up! It’s FUN! Anyhow, I digress. The metamorphosis give you 30 seconds to be a demon (supposedly Illidan) in which time you still have function over your summoned demon, still have the ability to cast damage spells, and three stance specific (yes metamorphosis is a stance) talents: Demon Charge, Demon Growl, and Cleave. Demon Charge is pretty self explanatory in the fact that you, well, charge your target stunning him for 1.5 seconds. Demon Growl taunts all mobs within 10 yards. (yes..a cloth wearing toon given the talent to pull every mob around you) Cleave hits your target and two nearby mobs for 110 shadow damage with a six second cooldown. It should be noted that in “demon form” warlocks get a 600% armor boost, but really, what is 600% cloth armor? ONE PLATE BRACER! Now you may set up the argument that one can still cast ranged spells from this form. That’s correct, but why waste the global cooldown of casting the spell if you’re planning on casting in the first place? Another might bring up the fact that 30 seconds is plenty of time to melee down 1-2 equal or lower level mobs. Fine….if you have a weapon designed for that! My staff kicks a decent amount of ass. I have 250 spell power on it! And a whopping 69 dps melee! So just how long does it take to get the center of a tootsie roll pop? Just long enough to expire your 30 seconds in “demon form” and be stuck trying to melee one, or more, mobs…..IN CLOTH! Sure he looks cool, but I’m re-rolling destruction.

Thatguy