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.