so close!

1 AB && 11 WSG trinkets away...

jyaaaan!

well, so i wanted to add the labels list thingy to the side bar and to do that i needed to upgrade the template to the latest and greatest. in so doing the old changes to the blog template were lost, however i tried to put them back as best i could.

if anything's missing, go ahead and add it back or lemme know. you can look at the old template in the template tab i think.

in other news, i have enuf g for my mount! now i just need to pvp for some tokens. think ima get a red horse. gyohoho

Adventures in Outland

Yes ... the outlands are great fun. Just a few pics from the adventures ...

Yes ... I now have Nightfall AND Backlash which means 4% chance for an insta shadow bolt on a Drain Life or Corruption tick and a 25% chance insta shadow bolt on getting hit by the enemy. I had some great encounters against allies trying to killing me and having backlash and nightfall proc at the same time. This lead to a huge chain of insta cast nastiness: Conflagrate + Nightfall Shadow Bolt + Backlash Shadow Bolt + Shadowburn + Death Coil ... they never knew what hit em ...

Me GUSTA La Armería (Dame mas Armería)

Hola from Peru, and Muchos Grácias a Meef para keeping me updatado en los happenings. I would be going through la withdrawal de WoW right now, were it not for his frequent updates (and the abundance of Coca Tea in this beautiful country).

However, I'm disappointado to inform you that my attempts to stalk you all via the armory have been foiled by a massive language barrier:



Though I did at one point receive a "Cinco" in AP Spanish, that was a long time ago, and my vocab never included stuff like "Aguante" (Stamina) and "Escarcha" (Frost¿). I suppose I'll have to wait til I get back to properly check y'all out.

BTW, I'm about a half hour outside of Machu Piichu, and not only is the internet cafe I'm using to write this ALSO a Chifa (Chinese Restaurant), but they have Vista on every machine. Just weird.

my helm kicks your helm's ass

yepyep, got me a mining helm. it's uber.


check me... uhh pick these flowers... -_-


this was my final hfp quest! wooooo! so long stupid red boringness!!!



ralax, lemme know if ya need me to finish this one, basically same as killing those giants (except this one has a huge knockback). gyooohohoho! meef has now surpassed my priest!

bffffft

so last nite i made my first voyage to bf with meef... and tanked for the first time ^^;;


so yeah, things were going fine... until mutant jellyfish man... broggok is he? blegh. shoulda read up on the encounters more. first time we wiped on the last group of guys... restarted... then we got a group and 2 guys bugged out!!! we couldn't target them! it was utter crap. we figured it might have been because the shaman dropped his totems too close to the unopened gate... poop.

so we wipe a little more, the mage logs -- but to get his 67 priest! so now we're running with 2 shadow priests... and... we wipe again. -_- i woulda quit earlier except the perseverance of the group was refreshing. finally, on our second attempt with the higher lvl priest, we downed the bastard... and got a gun... poooo

well, thankfully after that cockblock we were able to finish the zone off


yay tanking trinkets!


in other news, wholy hell, look at the awesome buff you get *when you gather* dreamingglory!


so awesome. just gotta find more spawn points...

finally... gralax has an awesome hat.

newbers

gyohoho! bc questing ftw. finaaaaaally got rid of some old shit!

so long woven ivy necklace!

no more white bone band and masons fraternity ring!

errr ok, so they're pally gloves. but they're still better than my sunscale gauntlets. <_<


>6k hp!!! now i just need to up all my other tanking stats. heh.

anyone want to run to the brd bar sometime? i want to turn in this damn quest. haha

Dreadsteed ... argh

This is a bit of a pain to get now ... but hopefully it will be easy if I get a little help here are the mats I need:

• 10 Elixirs of Shadow Power (J do you have the recipe? If not I'll buy it for you and the mats)
• 35 black dragon scales (Is one of us a skinner?)
• 6 Large Brilliant Shards (I'll take care of this)
• 25 Dark Iron Ore
• 3 Arcanite Bars
• Some time to do some instances and quests ...

Hoo boy this is gonna be a trip ...

wowemon

hehehe

Re: Mysterious unhatched egg?

Detridinn: What am i suppose to do with this thing am i suppose to hatch it if so how if not and if its for a quest what one and also if its for cooking what do i need please help me!

Ningen: After you take 5000 steps with the egg in your backpack, it will hatch into a Togepi.

Detridinn: wtf ppl im serious what am i suppose to do

Raheven: Its actually a Netherdrake egg... These things are worth like 3000g on the AHs of some servers...

Ningen: Once you have Togepi, you just have to use it regularly in fights. Once it becomes content with its trainer, it will evolve into Togetic!

Congratulations on your new Pokemon!

Mom: Togetic sucks.

Ningen:
Your the kind of player who runs around with a Charizard and 4 Dragonites, right?

Go diaf you PokevPoke scrub.

Siebzehn, Säugling

Hit 70 on Sunday after some crazy questing, but I was too lazy to post until now. I also picked up my epic riding mount; I felt like the only level 70 without one, so I felt like I had to get one. Of course, now I'm the only lv 70 without a flying mount, so I'll be saving my pennies for that now... sigh.

I also did a total revamp of my UI and addons. Cut my memory usage down by almost half, and it looks pretty slick. I'll add some screenshots when I get home.

So... Meef and Dwight still both need a Ramparts run. You guys wanna set something up for tonight or maybe Sunday? I'll probably be massively hungover Sunday, so an instance 10 levels below me will be about my speed.

NOTE: Also I was bored at work so I put labels on the last 50 posts of our blog or so. Yeah...

Update?

Hey everyone, I haven't seen anyone online or anything and was just wondering how everyone's doing. I haven't played a whole lot, but I did get my epic 60 mount, (kodos ftw!) and am now a hair away from 63. I know Bendyr has been leveling like crazy and is probably already 70 or some crap now, but yeah, what's up, BBQ?

I'm back!

I know I've been absent for a while, but I'm back baby! Expect to see me online more often, usually in the evenings from 10pm - 1am.

I did some leveling this week and I'm up to 56 1/2 from 54! Hopefully I'll hit 57 by Monday.

In terms of my status:

• I switched up my talent build from an Affliction build to a Burst Damage Destruction build.
• My tailoring is at 297 ... so I'm very close to using all of Bendyr's spare netherweave. If you need anything let me know.
• My enchanting is a bit weak ... it's in the mid 270s ... so if you have spare items ... send em my way!

Man, it feels good to play again. Oh yeah, I'm also friendly with Argent Dawn AND the Furbolgs ... w00t!

We've Upgraded!

Thanks to our former captain, Julius, we have been able to upgrade! Blogger is out of Beta! Anyhoo, it seems like while I've managed to get the hang of avoiding Fel Reavers, the lovely Alliance has taken to flying around on their uber mounts then swooping down and ganking us Horde folk.

Also, I'm nearly 62 still without doing a full run of Ramparts. Frickin' PUGs... but the good news is that I'm almost ready to pick up my mount upgrade and all my greens are now on par with a lot of the old 60 blue gear. Whoop whoop!

On a side note, I'll be playing even less than I have been due to art school starting. Eh, so it goes.

zomg bc

zounds, it's like playing a whole new game. can't believe i'm lvling my priest again.

frikkin fel reavers... not the one that killed me today, but still...
soooo yeah, i made a blelf priest. name is nayuki
finnnnally got to frikking shattrath or however it's spelled. aldor for me i guess.
it's khadgar! (my priest in on the khadgar server) ... <_<>_> ^_^;
now if i can just buy one of these frikkin birds...

gads, i think ima need a vegathon this weekend so i can get meef up to speed. my priest is only 25% to 61 ><

tuesday!!!

bc is in the mail... should be here on tuesday at the latest! gyarrrr

BC Sweetness

So I was able to get a semi-PUG into the Hellfire Ramparts last night, and now I'm almost level 61!. The bad news is my PUG was unable to defeat the final boss (who has a ridiculous fire AOE that we were not prepared for. The good news is I got crazy XP, rep, and some nice gear. I picked up the Shadowrend Longblade (pictured right), which is a disgustingly sick upgrade for me. I'm now at over 900 AP, which is amazing. Unfortunately, I think I'm gonna have to respec combat, so my AP will take a small hit, but still, this is a niice sword for me.

I've almost replaced all my gear, through light questing and one HFR run. The only items left are my Gloves, Neck, Boots and Rings (and once I get into a group that can beat the last boss of HFR, I'll get some nice Blue replacement boots).

Questing is pretty brutal in the Outlands, with both Alliance and Horde camping every spawn mob and node in sight, but the instance is very nice, and not that hard (until the end).

It's cold out tonight...

Good luck to anyone who is currently out doing the pre-release event of the Burning Crusade. My lazy ass is waiting until after work tomorrow. For the BBQ!

Amusement

So battlegrounds are a fine way to entertain yourself while waiting for the patch, but you know what pastime I really enjoy? Vigilante justice.

Mojito was complaining about a level 50 Hunter corpse camper in Shimmering Flats on /guild, so I fired up my Gadgetzan Transporter to help out. On my way to Shimmering Flats , I ran into "Jollygood", the aforementioned camper heading back to Gadgetzan. I was able to kill him twice before he got in the walls of Gadgetzan, but once there, the guards' nets were stopping me from playing with him. So, I decided to try out some of my new Subtlety talents. Specifically, I found that "Improved Sap" and "Cloak of Shadows" allow you to Chain-Sap pretty much anyone you want. The Cloak of Shadows gives you a 90% chance to avoid flares.



Hehe... this kept me entertained for about 15 minutes, even after Mojito had to log off himself. At one point the Hunter was able to mount, but I just waited 'til he stopped at the mailbox and sapped him on his mount. Good, good stuff.

So- if you guys ever need some Alliance justice, just send up the Bend-signal. I'll be there.

24" of ui

gyooooohohoho!

still nut really happy with it, but i like this ui setup a lot better... oh, the possibilities with 1920x1200! gyoooooohohoho!!!! new monitors ftw

Teh Pain.

Okay, well I haven't been on WoW much because of RL crap, but even when I do try to log on for a Battleground or four, I run into crazy lag and glitches. I'm hoping Blizz works this out soon... I have about 4k honor right now, and grinding that was crazy painful. We should group up for premade AB or something some time.

Also, who's gonna be around this weekend? Anyone up for a high-end instance run?

zomg 2.0

wholy crap there's a buncha goodies to get now... i played 1 av, got like 200 bonus honor for the loss, prolly ~50 for kills... it's gonna be a long climb for those epic lewts. -_- anyhow, we should plan on our arena team. name ideas? team size?

i am still spec'd prot up the ass, so as soon as i get some time, we should run summore instances too :D

Gravy

Dwight, Cowchan, and I continued the tradition of finding borderline psychotic PUGs, this time in the form of a Priest who refused to leave Shadowform, was apparently trying to pull AND tank, and was just generally trying his best to wipe us. We gave him the boot and picked up Wolfenstine, a 59 druid with some Cenarion gear, which was an obvious improvement.

Grats to Dwight and Cowchan on finishing your class quests! Let me know which rewards you end up opting for. BTW, that "Chained Essence of Eranikus" isn't a bad trinket, but if you like you can also turn it in for XP in and gold in SoS: Just find this dude, and talk to him (he won't have a mark over his head, but he's in a cave and you just start talking to him).

Return to the Sunken Temple

After pwning a Turkey and its various fixing minions on Thursday, I now feel revitalized, and think we should organize an instance this weekend. Dwight and Cowchan still need their Sunken Temple goodies, and with three or four 60s in tow, it should be a piece of cake. In fact, what level is Ros? If he can hit 50 by this weekend, we can probably even bring him along...

Prior to this weekend, Dwight should complete the quests up to Trolls of a Feather and Cowchan should complete the quests up to The Green Drake in preparation. If either of you needs help with any of those prereq quests, just /holla.

Given that you guys are interested in some "Big Game" apparently, we can either do this early morning on Saturday or some time on Sunday. What time is good for you?

YATTAAA!!!

YATTA!! Herrooo PTR! Bendyr wa PTR Test Realm ni terepo-to desita! Ore wa ima try new builds for my rogue and macros and crap dekimasu!!!

Yahooo!!

nani shiterunda

blegh, haven't been on in awhile. what are y'all up to?

need more ubers...

Look at my sparkly butt

..CuZ I'm 60, baby :D

Damn BRD conspiracy...

Well, the zionist-conspiracy-controlled respawn times in the Lyceum prevented us from dethroning the emperor, but at least we got some good lewt! Meef came away with a blue and a BOE Purple O_o. Cowchan got some quests completed, and I learned to smelt Dark Iron!

Now if you don't mind, I have some more ethnic groups to defame and some dwarves to aggro.

...

Wait, where am i? Who just took over my blogger account? Did someone just post using my name? Why am I wearing all this lipstick? NO WIRE HANGERS... EVER!!!

it is done

The Endgame calleth...

So, I hit 60 on Wednesday Night! Wooot!!! Time to get some of that endgame content that everyone's always yammering about.

Meef and Cowchan both hit 59 too, so won't be long for them either. Whatsay we try to get one of the high level dungeons done this weekend? BRD? Strat? Scholo? Meef, I've never done any of these all the way through, so can you give us some estimate of what kind of content we could do that would be fun and possibly loot-inducing?

I spoke to Cowchan, and he said that he might be able to do Saturday afternoon or late Sunday afternoon, I think. Both of these times work for me. Meef?

I know Alex is out of town, but maybe Zala will have his account restored by then. Otherwise we'll have to pug a healer ;_;.

Oh well, still should be fun. Respond with times that you guys can meet. I'm gonna suggest 2PM EST for Saturday (that's 11AM for you guys) or sometime your Sunday afternoon.

Leather is not really that much better...

So, I guess I shouldn't be making fun of Tsukikaji's Dresses. I spent a lot of time trying to put together my Embrace of the Viper set, just to find out that it makes me look like a bad, bovine Elvis Impersonator...



Ah well, at least they've been leaving these nice-apple scented baths in every Inn for me to use.

orly

doh, don't mean to push that previous post down so quickly, but ya just reminded me i have a tonna screenshots i wanna upload ^^;

I highly recommend getting drunk. Then get drunk in the game.Looking for trouble in RFC...


ftl

Dig in the dust! +25% to sta, +25% health & mana regen for 2hrs! outside uc, on the way to silverpine

nothing like the freedom of the robe...

which reminds me... i might've posted this before, but it wasn't ringing a bell when i mentioned it to will... big blue dress (make sure to have sound on)

Ros dances with a beast

Meet our new warrior. Lvl 41. w00t!

maybe it was just a long day...

...but i lol'd:

Remove the C'thun trash scorpians/scarabs

[the thread title is in reference to (i think) the tons of time wasting trash you have to fight before the final aq40 boss, prolly a valid complaint... anyhow, 18 pages!!!]

zomg even better:
"Yeeeaaaahhh... I'm gonna need those DPS reports on my desk..."
"I told them....I told them if they told me to clear vent one more time I'd disband the raid."
" Sounds like somebody has a case of trying to raid on a tuesday."
"I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "kel'thuzad strats" in the wiki."
"'Looks like you've been missing a lot of raids lately...'
'I wouldn't say i've been missing it Bob...'"
"' Ladnil, we need to talk about your FR.'
'But I have 120 unbuffed FR, that's the minimum right?'
'Sure it's the minimum, but you don't like to only do the minimum, do you?'"
"'You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time so if you would, would you walk us through a typical raid, for you?'
'Yeah. Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, after that I sorta space out for an hour.'
'Da-uh? Space out?'
'Yeah, I just wand my target, but it looks like I'm DPSing. I do that for probably another hour after I DC for lunch too, I'd say in a given raid I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, DPSing.'"
"So you want me to wear more flarecore?"
"'Now Miltonadin, don't be greedy, let's pass it along and make sure everyone gets an epic piece.'
'Yes but, last raid I didn't receive a piece, and I was told that I could n---'
'Just Pass.'"
"... and if everything goes well tonight, I'll be showing her my o rly face. O rly. O rly. O rly...."
from the wow forums

BG, XP, ST

I'm stalling Bendyr at 59 so we can do guild WSG and AB (if we want, I even have info for a vent server that we can use). We needs to grind our low 50s up so we can get some BBQ BGs. In fact, Meef has suggested that you grind levels on the mobs in AV. Not only do they give decent experience while you can do some minor AV objectives, but you will be getting free rep and honor the whole time AND you have no durability costs O_o. The AV trinkets just add more honor and xp. Other good XP at low 50s can be found in Un'goro where the quests are all overlapping and there are tons of quests with good xp you can complete just by running around (like the Zelda quest).

This weekend, I think we may want to do ST again for Dwight, since he needs to do his Warlock Scythe quest.

tsukikaji

so I rolled a new character. he's a druid. his name is tsukikaji. tsuki = moon. kaji = fire. i'm so novel. anyhow, i'm sure you can see where this is going. before you read any further, you need to view/listen to this ytmnd (Bendyr's Edit: As with any YTMND link, DO NOT CLICK AT WORK UNLESS YOU HAVE HEADPHONES). bendyr also rolled a druid. his name is slotr. he's gonna get twinked out, so he'll end up with a pvp rank of... sergeant! BRILLIANT. here's a pair of screenshots from our adventures:





perhaps i'm just easily amused... but that was easily the most fun i've had with wow since... well actually running thru st was pretty cool... but still!!! BRILLIANT.

assty

wow, what a day of wow. the princess fell quickly, i think we got thru there in under an hour. pressed on to st, snakes in a temple.

trolls fell and i collected their feathers, dragons fell, and we killed a giant flying snake. why stop there?! to BRD!

later in the day we headed to brd... and thus began the most terrible run ever. first we had a druid who couldn't heal me. so we wiped a bunch. i was rezzed during a boss wipe so i got to die twice. excellent. theeeen we had 4. we pressed on. we killed the boss... then we wiped in the areana. aaaand you can't reset the event. great. so we waited for a priest. we waited forever. priest finally comes when we're about to quit. we have a bad pull or somethin and i die... ...and my equipment is broken. so i try to run out... noope! respawn! i die. rezsickness at thorium point. pay 5g in repairs. ganked by 60 warrior. rez. ganked by 60 warrior. rez. run for my life. maaaake it baaack aaaand... we have to backclear so i can rejoin the group ><

in the end we managed to make it to the 7 dwarves, get mc attunement, and kill plugger. but frikkin a it was a terribality. thank goodness the priest was skilled.

damn you brd.

get your asses in here

zomg av holiday weekend ftw. in three days of pvping, i already have 10k more honor than last week. and one of those days was spent in ab/wsg (much less honor). wait times are usually less than 30 seconds and games less than 30 minutes. nyooohohoho!

Cowchan, Bendyr, and Prometheus

After this shot, Cowchan loaded me into his gun, and shot me at someone.

This was taken on the way to get Cowchan his trinket in Jintha'Alor, and to clear up a bunch of leftover quests (including Ancient Egg). Seems like our guild progression is still Maraudon->Sunken Temple. Meef and I are a little over-leveled, but it will make the instances go fast, and at the very least, we all need the reward from ST anyway. Anyone interested in doing one this weekend? After this whole extended downtime crap, I'm antsy for some heavy WoWing.

for the nyohohorde!

Well i played like 5 games of AV just now and we finally won the 5th one... totally forgot about the quest reward for winning!!!


I went back to UC and respec'd so I'm now Arms/Fury for maximum polearm goodness. Can't wait to try this baby out!

Third time is the (Gazlowe's) charm

Ok guys, I thought i'd get the word out early and see if you guys are up for some centaur slaughter in Maraudon this weekend. Meef is scaling back raiding time with his Khadgar priest, so we could do it on either Saturday or Sunday.

Cowchan, are you set up with teh Intarwebs? Dwight, does Saturday or Sunday work for you?

Holiday Weekend

So my plans to travel to exotic Maine to observe the habits of the Flying Panda fell through, so I may be a bum and just stay in New York this weekend. If so, I'll probably be playing a lot of WoW. Is anyone interested in doing an instance on Saturday morning and/or Monday as well?

Right now our progression is pointing to either Maraudon, or back to Jintha'Alor for Cowchan to get his trinket and for us to get that stupid egg. Mara would require a pugged healer, Jintha would not. I think that Dwight still needs to get his infernal, as well.

Who's available this weekend?

zomg bgs

so i went to AV last nite with my priest and man, what a difference. previous attempts had always failed due to a grand total of 0 games being up whenever i tried to get on (like midnight server time)... last nite thanks to the new patch... 28 AVs!!! it was great. wait times < 5 min for the 2 games i played and i scored almost 2k rep in < 2hours. (and i didn't even get to stay for the completion of the second game, that one had reached a stalemate and i had to drop to run human strat with my guildies).

good stuff... i need to get meef in there asap... i can feel the unstoppable force... it's too bad you can't join av as a group, cuz that'd be a great way to spend guild time if we could. we still can for other bgs thou, right?

Mucho Azul en el Desierto

Other than making the unfortunate choice of PUGging a troll healer in a purple dress who was visually identical to the mobs we were slaying, we had an excellent run through ZF. Dwight and I got blued up, and everyone finished all the quests except for the collection of Troll Juice, which really is just as well. It was also our first run with Cowchan back from his world tour, so that was also pretty cool.

See the full post for more pics.




Gojira was no match for us, and I am now using one of his fangs as my ambush weapon.


Chief Uzorz has like a 7% chance to drop Embrace of the Lycan, which is not only the best helm I can get prior to Stratholme, but it also makes me look like Fox McCloud! Rawr! Now I don't have to miss out on my lycanthropy when I'm not playing my druid. And alex can keep saying something about bdussbdbd. The only downside is you can no longer see my awesome mohawk, which is a little sad. Back to the topic of Starfox real quick though, if you haven't seen this penny-arcade strip, it really should not be missed.


Dwight actually got in the way when I was trying to get a screenshot of my cool helm, but I thought I'd include this. Among other things, Dwight was able to snag Zum'rah's Vexing Cane. We're all starting to look very menacing, which is good.

Zul'Farrak

Anyone up for Zul'Farrak this Saturday, same Bat-Time as normal? Now that I'm using ItemRack, I think I want to get that dagger off of Gahz'Rilla and train up Ambush.

Rick, if you're situated, you should come. Level 48 should be fine for the mobs in Zul'Farrak, and then we'll just have to PUG a healer.

Welcome new guildies!

I'd like to welcome Synbian (lvl 8 Tauren Druid), Bitrot (Orc Hunter) and Mojito (Druid). I've also created an alt -- AngelaMartin (undead priest).

I've already sent Mojito some mageweave bags ... I'll be sending some to Synbian shortly.

We'll soon be scheduling some low level grind sessions ... probably in the barrens ... I'll schedule it soon.

Edit: If someone sees Synbian online ... can you /ginvite him?

The Cow Has Returned...

...kinda.

So I'm finally back in the states and anxious to get back to the fleeting summer BBQ fun. I see many improvements have been made, and I will get back to the grind as soon as I find a)an apartment, b)internet access, and c)a job. Hopefully, this will take two weeks or so. Anyway, I just wanted to congratulate everyone on their hard work and I will do my best to join the ranks of the Korean BBQ once again.

For the BBQ!!!

PS - Australia was frickin' cool. No tips! And wombats (which are basically fulborgs!)

Progression

So looking at the items laid out on the BBQ planning page, it seems like the progression from here should be Hinterlands -> Zul'Farrak -> Maraudon -> Sunken Temple.

Also, the Hinterlands quests are not in an instance and may be a little less hardcore. Is everyone cool to do it this Saturday, same time as last week? I'll be 51 and alex will be 50, so it should be doable. I'll throw something in the gCal when i get home.

On another note, I finally created the custom Guild ranks Just let me know if you want to rename/change your rank.