And the award for "most improved" goes to...

Chicken and ROFLs! We got a very respectable 7-3 record this week, pulling our rating up to 1401! That should net us a clean 236 points this week, which will put me with 1000 points of my uber daggerness!

Gentlemen, i think we're getting better at this... or they're getting worse.

grack

well, so just some crap fyi

1) i've been in a seminar thing in sf all week so my schedule is all crap and don't really have much internet access during the day -_-
2) going home this weekend and next weekend since my sister got into davis med school and i need to get my dad's truck back.
3) epic mount roxxors and totally kicks ass for quests... of course... now i'm almost out of quests (well, prolly still 1-3 more weeks of netherstorm at my current rate). still, for dailies it just makes them that much faster.
4) netherdrake quests suck big ass.
5) got an awesome tenacious earthstorm diamond for my helm from the steamvaults completion quest

5) now that my income has been freed up, lemme know what kinda crap ya need. tomes, signets, diamonds, pots, etc.
6) should i get a gut ripper for kotonoha? eeeehehehehe

new rides

at long last.....

epicccccc mouuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!


and another new mount...


much gold and real money ;_;

time to farm...

Improvements of all kinds

After going 0-10 our first week, we got a 5-5 record for the week! BBQ FTW!


In PVE news, I finally got exalted with the Keepers of time, leading to this epic dagger! I had to drop all my gold to get Mongoose, but it is worth it, non? Don't ask about the glow, though...

Weeeeee!

So after questing around Shadowmoon last night, and getting ganked twice by a stupid druid, Meef invited the new guy Steve into the guild, who then proceeded to follow me around to make sure the druid was backing off. When Meef logged, I was a mere 5 kills away from dinging. But fortunately Hallisy was around to help me out and rejoice in the moment.

Then tonight, after a delayed real-world event that kept me off the comp for nearly the entire day, I managed to scrounge up enough dough to go shopping. It was a tough decision to pick a color for the flying mount, but alas, one have to make tough decisions sometimes.


Weeeeeee!!!!!!!!! No more having to run all the way around stupid terrain anymore! The Cow is airborne!

WOOOT

So, if you saw me on sometime in the last two days and I totally ignored you, don't take it personally. I've just been singlemindedly grinding engineering ever since the patch hit, and between last minute desperate mining runs and humiliating defeats at the Auction House, I finally scraped together all the mats to get [Deathblow X-11 Goggles], my first crafted epic!. It's kind of atrocious that I went through all that and wouldn't spring for the Blue gem... but after dropping over 400g on the mats for my helm, spending another 70 on the Jagged Talasite seemed too painful...

Here's a screenshot of how it looks on me, plus my new sexy ACE gui.


So, since that whole thing I need to do some quests to get my finances back in order. I'm out of the country for the long weekend (AMSTERDAM, BABY), but I definitely want to start doing the prereqs for Ogri'La and Shatari Skyguard, as I can get an awesome trinket and bracers from them. As always, Black Morass and Shadow Labs runs I need muchly. The new 70 lock can help a lot in both cases; Locks can Offtank in Black Morass and their CC will make clearing that nasty room in Shadow Labs a lot easier.

additions

so you may notice a new 70 lock in the guild... he randomly wanted in because of our awesome name. not sure how long he's gonna stay or anything (he's been raiding, former guild downed magtherion recently, and his gear is pretty pimp) or if he seriously wants to remain with us, but i figured what the hell. he can be dwight's role model :D

screenshot dump

just summore random bbq happenings...

cow took kotonoha on a quick tour of sfk and sm graveyard. no torturing poker, but i did score some watchman pauldrons!
cow also got kotonoha her poisons! woooo!
later i was goofing off in the sm graveyard also...
today i actually ran shadow labs twice. both times were with members of the strange box guild... though strangely enuf with different members each time. they're good folks and we mopped up the place. leggings of assassination dropped twice, but no bold in sight. oh well, completed the quests and got a fat wad of cash out of it.
my questing in shadowmoon has been slow but steady... unfortunately i'm again left with a huge chunk of group quests... where are you bbqers? :P
i hate fighting elementals so much. damn unmitigated damage. well, i guess in that respect earth elementals are ok... but lotsa them have other annoying abilities -_- knockdownsplitupondeath bastards...
also ran botanica a while back... again, no bold armor, but it was fun to get to know the instance.


slowly climbing toward my epic mount. at this rate maybe i'll have it by winter... ^^;;;

if you're looking for bbq activity:
--meef needs group questing help and/or any bc instance run. and be sure to lemme know if you need a run to gear up an alt or somethin.
--kotonoha could really use a new dagger. a torturing poker would be nice (boss in sm graveyard, 5% drop, but it will prolly take only about 3-5 minutes per attempt). swinetusk shank from rfk would also be a nice offhand upgrade.
--nayuki could use a couple runs thru sfk :D

Better Living Through Mediocrity

So... First off, Meef and I created a 2v2 Arena team, with the epic name "Chicken and ROFLs"; Cow, Dwight, go see Meef and get added as alternates to the charter. Second off, we suck. We actually went 0-10 yesterday. Of course, we are both heavily PVE spec'd and geared, and we really just wanted to get our 10 games in to get our points. At our ranking of about 1345, we will still get about 250 arena points for this week. Coupled with the crappy 3v3 team i joined (about a 1400 ranking), I will get over 500 arena points for the week.

According to this point calculator here, if I were to join a similarly mediocre 5v5 team, and earn a fairly horrible 1300 rating each week, I would still rake in over 900 arena points a week. By maintaining a 1300 ranking in each bracket, I'll be able to afford the Gladiator's Shanker in just 3 weeks. Even if my teams get even worse and I only get an 1000 rating in each bracket, I still get the dagger in 4 weeks, according to the calculator.

I mean... sure, having a shitty arena ranking in 3 brackets will hurt the e-peen, and will make me more hesitant to link my armory profile in external forums, but hey, epix is epix. Why didn't I discover mediocrity sooner?

UPDATE: J has shattered my dreams. Apparently you can only get points for one bracket at a time, so my numbers are all off. If I was on a 5v5 team that maintained a 1300, I could get the shanker in 7 weeks. If i maintain a 1000, it goes up to 9 weeks. Blech. I'll stick with PVE i guess...

PASS THE EVADE BUG PLEASE

YES I LIKE IT WHEN MOBS EVADE BUG

AND IF YOU LIKE MOBS THAT EVADE BUG THEN DO THIS QUEST, IT WILL BE YOUR FAVORITE EVER

source: comment on alla

heheh, thank goodness it didn't happen to me while i was doing that already insane quest.

As if My Wallet Wasn't Already a Dark Portal

So, not satisfied with infiltrating my waking life, sleeping habits, and social life, Blizzard has now set its sights on invading my wallet. They're now offering a WoW Rewards Visa. The offer is pretty much:

• 1% cashback in the form of WoW playtime credit


• 1 month of WoW free upon your first purchase


• 0% APR balance transfer blah blah blah


• Recycled box-art, lazily passed off as credit card design

The offer is pretty crappy, considering that you can get more than 1% cashback on some cards in ACTUAL CASH, and the balance transfer is the usual scam, but I may sign up just for the one free month of WoW... I would be less meh if the artwork was actually good, but most of it is just the same old crap from the boxes.

すっきりした！

so i have roughly a billion screenshots... and some big (meef) news!

kinduva an old one from zangar... evidently this is how the world pvp tower capture battles go...
ahhh good 'ol... underbog? or wait slave pens? bah, whatever. damn crabs.i come for you bastard giant!Mennu betrays no more
i'm sooo glad no one frikkin fell off the platform. how do you recover from that anyway?

kinduva neato quest (well, mob at least) i duo'd with bendyr. guess that's the closest i'll ever get to tanking sapphiron. this is that one in the bone wastes...
always make sure to have a strat
more bbq questin :D spider huntin fun no you can't have a pit lord, i don't care if he followed you home. ... ... ... warlocks never listen.
sooo glad we got our caverns of time attunement quest out of the way. i love this place.cow took offense to the human jokes hahathrall is my hero.
you guys remember hindwes? i think that was the name of the 'cna i cmoe?' hunter. he invited me to a mana tombs group. then before they summoned me, the priest dropped and hindwes couldn't find another healer (after like 5 minutes) so he dropped. So we picked up two guys and rocked the place. man i was so happy when he dropped.
i think i like mana tombs. too bad i got no loot >_<
shadowmoon valley is rock. ok, sure it's all dark and burnt black, which would put it in the blasted lands/hellfire peninsula category, but man, all this shit's goin down and it actually feels like a war zone. it's great. and what the hell is this c'thun looking thing doing here.

this is an awesome area, right near the zone entrance. basically a holding area for the infernals.but they obviously didn't count on the bbq!
so yeah, i was running around shadowmoon since i was real close... eventually 28 xp close...one kill later... woooo!!!
and the best for last... *sob* take my money you bitchwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bel Air'd

OK. THIS is my new favorite thread evar. For those of you unaware, there is a meme called "belairing" on the wow forums, where someone will make a post with an extremely controversial title (this one in particular has the incredible name of "Rogues shouldn't be able to restealth"), in which a poster will make some outlandish claim in a wall of text, and somewhere in that wall of text will be the lyrics to the "Fresh Prince" theme, verbatim. Most of the time it gets caught right away, but it is amazing when people fall for it, and start crying about the OP when it is clear that they didn't even read the whole thing.

The thread I've linked is particularly artful. The OP also manages to sneak in "rediculous", another good forum meme. The thread goes on for six or seven pages, and even after many people had complimented the OP on his successful trolling, many people added to the thread talking about what a bad idea it was. Some complainers went so far as to QUOTE the entire original post, which was particularly awesome. I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought "nah, forget it", yo homes to Bel-Air!

In conclusion, check it out.

UPDATE: Blue, in their infinite wisdom, have deleted fun... still, Google Cache FTW here.

Gank Frank

OK, some sweet forum awesomeness here. Someone used some crazy modeling to make a pretty awesome shot by shot re-enactment of Kill Bill, with a WoW themage on it. Check it out. My favorite scene so far:

"What I'm talking about is...this council, which I love more than my own sweet epics..."

"IS MAKING A HALF-NINJA, HALF-PIRATE WHINEY EMO KID IT'S LEADER!!!"



"Just so you understand how serious I am, I will say this to you in Common."

Hehe. Also, some of the scenes look really cool, like they've been traced over or something. I'm not really sure how they achieved this effect, but it's pretty slick; I think some of them might be hand-drawn art mixed in with screencaps and modelviewer generated bluescreen stuff:



Check it out.