tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75098090797074377022024-03-19T01:08:36.025-07:00Info from Nightwill the AltaholicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger252125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-30341075752300796902014-04-16T14:52:00.000-07:002014-04-16T14:56:19.436-07:00Of Love, Guilds, and Memories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When I was poking around over on Warcraft Realms (Found <a href="http://www.warcraftrealms.com/">Here</a>) I was suddenly caught in a wave of memories.<br />
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Mostly good and few meh I thought I would share a story of the best guild I have ever experienced.<br />
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<i>So lets travel back to those heady days of 2006. </i><br />
* The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.<br />
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* Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.<br />
* Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.<br />
* Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.<br />
* The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.<br />
* English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.<br />
* And I am a Tauren Hunter on the realm of Thorium Brotherhood.<br />
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Not quite as important as the rest but significant to me.<br />
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Id joined a guild around level 10 but they were just...well...people in a guild. I started looking around asked some random folks. What I came across was the Unseen University.<br />
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They weren't your usual guild because they asked things of you. Farm mats, give them BoE blues and greens to sell, contribute as best you could. In return they promised to give back to you. The whole idea sounded amazingly good to me. You would find BoE blues in those days as you killed the mobs to level but very rarely were they any good to you. I gave many things to the guild and when I was 30 I was head to toe in blues at a time when wearing some white armor was normal. My Harpyclaw Bow meant the world to me. I remember finding a melee weapon that would of been meh for me and giving it to the guild and being proud when someone was giving it when they hit 20 (Searing Blade I think). <br />
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We would do runs to farm materials, level folks, and have fun. My favorite was a troll mage who would pull all of Shadowfang Keep to the courtyard and blow them up all a once. Your job as a low level was to soak up exp and loot as fast as you could before corpses disappear. <br />
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Then we would punch out the bossess, pass out BoE loot to anyone who could use it, and repeat. 'Bad' greens could be disenchanted for more loot and really everyone won.<br />
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But I started seeing people being very negative to the guy barking our blues in trade and hearing rumors on alts. We're Chinese gold farmers. We're a pyramid scheme. The higher levels just extort you for stuff and never help you. I'd get random duels from people and kicked from groups just fr being in the guild. <br />
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But the hostility from those outside the guild was horrid. <br />
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Finally the guild leaders decided to shut down the guild and I was really unhappy about it. From June 06 to June 07 was the best time I'd had in WoW. They had seen me from my 20s to my 50s in level and I wanted to be a 60 with that guild over my head.<br />
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So there you have it, my first real guild. Oh I was in Alliance guilds too but they were generally horrid believing you needed raid experience and to have raid gear before you could raid. Or heal Blackrock spire. Or deserved help. 'I had to solo up without help so should everyone else'. Ugh.<br />
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So do you have a guild that you look back to as Utopia? Brought down by the forces of Jealousy and Ignorance?<br />
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Just to end on a more positive note..<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-72268761429726921022014-04-14T14:25:00.000-07:002014-04-14T14:25:35.459-07:00WoW's constants Life, death, and bags<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Characters live, they die, and you pay a lot for them to have bags to hold stuff. The basic law of Warcraft or is it? I think there is a solution for leveling toons as well as boosters to 90.<br />
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On the auction house they certainly are. Netherweave bags are the easiest to farm and make and give you a 16 slot size. They bind on equip so people price the other 16 slot bags you can trade even higher.<br />
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In 4.0.3 Blizzard gave us a way out on that and I have to admit it slipped my mind. For just over a gold you can purchase a 16 slot bag from a vendor, if your crafty about it.<br />
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Each race was given a faction vendor, each of these vendors sells the same thing; A Tabard with their logo, a Cloak (tmogable) with their logo, and a <u>16 slot bag!</u><br />
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The were to find them is easy - right by the flighmasters for the city. Well, except Stormwind. For some reason she is on a horse outside. Just look for her at the ramp leading up to the Stormwind flightpoint.<br />
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Heck in Orgrimmar they have 3 of them having a little city pow-wow. You cant get much easier to find.<br />
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So as you level up your character the city their by will give them lots of rep. In fact if you only quest you will get one or two factions to revered no problem. But that's just two bags. What you want to do is grab a tabard for another faction when you run dungeons at level 15.<br />
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<i>You do run some dungeons don't you? As I've mentioned before the exp you get is crazy good from the quests, as is the rewards. with this you also can count bags as a reward!</i><br />
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But what if you missed a rep..or boosted to 90. Used Recruit a Friend to level fast, and so forth. Can you get rep easily? But of course! Each faction capital city has a dungeon in it that gives tabard rep. in Stormwind its the Stockade south of the Cathedral District and in Orgrimmar its Ragefire Chasm hidden under the Flightmasters in the The Drag. note that Ragefire is level 15 and the stockade level 22 so you can solo them at different levels. <br />
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Soloing is what its all about here. Run in, smash everyone, loot their stuff with the nice AoE looting, step out and vendor the greys, right click your character portrait to reset instances and do it again. You do have an instance limit of 5 an hour so be aware of it if you plan to run other content.<br />
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So there you have it with a bit of planning you can proudly say "all your bags are belong to us."<br />
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A friend of mine was surprised at the number of characters I had as paladins so I thought for my amusement I would list them off (Just the over 80s) in no particular order.<br />
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Worgen 86<br />
Worgen 90<br />
Tauren 90<br />
Draenei 85<br />
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Hmm..I thought there would be more. Has to be my favorite class in the game and the 2nd one I rolled.<br />
<i>Some statistics;</i> Hunters are the most popular class (13%) Tauren are the least popular race to be a hunter (3%).<br />
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<b>Priests;</b></div>
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Night Elf 90</div>
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Troll 90</div>
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Just the two. I love priests but since Cata they have been a bit difficult for me to love the healing on. after deleting my druid my priest was my first wow character.<br />
<i>Some statistics; </i>Humans top the race for priests with Tauren the least.</div>
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<b>Rogue;</b></div>
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Orc 90<br />
Pandaren (Alliance) 86<br />
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As much as I love rogues they are just hard enough I never entirely feel I'm getting all I can out of them. Loads of fun though.<br />
<i>Some statistics; </i>The least popular rogue is a dwarf at a mere 4,233 characetrs 92%)<br />
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<b>Paladin and Sunwalker;</b></div>
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Tauren 86</div>
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Tauren 90</div>
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Dwarf 90</div>
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Human 85</div>
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Yes they are different even if Blizard is lazy and leaves everything the same.<br />
<i>Some statistics;</i> Dwarves barely edge out Tauren for least popular race but humans handily beat blood elves for most. Draenei fall in the middle.<br />
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<b>Mage;</b></div>
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Well technically half elf. But yes just the one. I love their mobility but in combat I die...a lot.<br />
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Its never felt like it got better for me heck my priest feels invincible and my mage is like she always was - fragile.<br />
<i>Some statistics;</i> Humans are 25% of all Mages while Dwarves are just 1%.<br />
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Blood Elf 90</div>
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Blood Elf 81</div>
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My human turned blood elf when I moved her to horde for RP reasons and left me surprisingly warriorless Alli side. I do feel it every so often, Ill have to fix it one of these days. Fantastic class.<br />
<i>Some statistics; </i>9% of all characters are warriors and 25% of them are Humans. 18% are Orcs and Tauren a mere 8% though not as bad as Goblins at 2%.<br />
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<b>Druid;</b></div>
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Tauren 85<br />
Tauren 90<br />
Worgen 82<br />
I deleted my first druid cause I was told their bad at healing-only to find out later in Vanilla they were bad at everything else. now their awesome but I'm sorta meh on them. Weird cause you'd think they would be my zen home.<br />
<i>Some statistics;</i> 61% of all druids are Alliance and trolls with their techocolor hair are the least popular at 16%.<br />
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<b>Warlock;</b></div>
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Orc 85</div>
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Ah my nemesis. From raiding heroic Dragonsoul to ah fck I don't know what buttons to push. No one would help so I got a new one to 56 and was told I was amazing at the class in a PUG so that's something I guess.<br />
<i>Some statistics;</i> Humans are the most popular (again) at 29% with Undead/Forsaken at 17% the nearest competitor. <br />
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<b>Shay-man;</b></div>
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Draenei 90<br />
Goblin 90<br />
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I love enhancement to death, super meh with eleemntal even when its DPS is higher and as much as I adore Shaman healing its made me wanna cry more often than not because of how horrible it is. but still its fun to punch things .. yay?<br />
<i>Some statistics; </i>Draenei are the most popular Shaman (I blame BC) at 32% and orcs a mere 17%. Tauren are the least popular Shaman. :(<br />
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<b>Shadow </b>I mean <b>Death Knight;</b></div>
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Human 80 (tentative Titan Herald toon)</div>
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Orc 87</div>
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Night Elf 82</div>
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Gnome 85</div>
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I had tons of fun with Frost, unholy, blood, in the original design. The redesign has left me disliking the class quite a bit. Still Unholy still at least kinda plays like it used to so that makes it OK. but man that harm touch is so OP.<br />
<i>Some statistics;</i> Humans are a mere 19 of this population with Blood Elves almost catching them at 17%. trolls are the least popular just behind Dwarves.<br />
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<b>Monk;</b></div>
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Gnome 90<br />
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<i>Some statistics; </i>Pandaren make up a whopping 51% of monks with Humans 15% on top and the losers are Tauren, Dwarves, and Trolls at 2% each. Weird cause Trolls have excellent fighting animations.<br />
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So that's the lot of them. A few interesting things I noticed.<br />
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Mage and Monk are the only two that dont have representation on both sides of the faction line. Mage Monk and warlock are the only ones I dont have a 70's of.<br />
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I dont have any low level hunters any more - deleting tha one lost me my heirloom bow. Blizzard cant find it!<br />
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And just because this made me laugh and laugh...<br />
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In WoD they are disarming CC and hunters get hit hard. So putting on my thinking hat here are some ideas to replace abilities with. Go let Blizzard know what you think of these ideas at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/12413831293#1<br />
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Basilisk: Petrifying Gaze - replace with stone form from the dwarves.<br />
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Bat: Sonic Blast - Sonic Finder works as Faerie Fire vs stealth. Perhaps a + stealth detection on the pet?<br />
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Bird of Prey: Snatch - Grab: seize the target and do damage. While holding on unattackable.<br />
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Crab: Pin - Nerf Bat! No? Well how about Tough Shell (+armor/health) that stacks with last stand.<br />
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Crane: Lullaby - Rush, additional 50% movement rate stacks with dash.<br />
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Crocolisk: Ankle Crack - Powerful Bite: reduces targets armor by a stack of sunder armor per application.<br />
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Dog: Lock Jaw - Ravage: Cause the target to bleed -stacks.<br />
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Gorilla: Pummel - Coconut Toss: Ranged melee damage attack.<br />
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Moth: Serenity Dust - Moth Prophecy; Warp time to return to the place you are when the ability is used a second time.<br />
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Nether Ray: Nether Shock - Nether Winds: attack that does a mixture of Shadow and Elemental (air) Damage<br />
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Porcupine: Paralyzing Quill - Play Dead: Fall down, unattackable, Until told to attack again/use its abilities.<br />
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Rhino: Horn Toss - Potent Lifeforce: trebles passive regeneration of health and doubles healing for a limited time.<br />
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Scorpid: Clench - Venomed Stings: attacks have a chance to apply a random poison (As snake trap, does not stack with the trap).<br />
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Shale Spider: Web Wrap - Shards Onslaught: Pet despawns and spawns numerous little spiders to attack the target as copies of itself with a small health pool (mirror image ish). Until the spider shards are killed the pet will not return.<br />
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Silithid: Venom Web Spray - Gorger's Plague: Little bugs swarm about the pet doing a small amount of nature damage.<br />
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Spider: Web - Grandma Spider's Cunning: Your pet places a random trap on the ground at its feet.<br />
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Wasp: Sting - Itch: after a time this turns into a DoT poison. Sped up and damage increased with each application.<br />
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And of course I have a few ideas for Minor Glyphs<br />
Saddle: Can ride your Rhino as a +30% speed boost (operates as cheetah no stun).<br />
Eyes of the Beast - Works just like the old spell.<br />
Ambiturner - Pet follows on the other side.<br />
Engineering at its best!: When dashing/etc the pet gets a rocket pack!<br />
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Arcane Power: Spirit beast does a bit less damage and regains the original moonfire ability.<br />
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I apologize if there is anything too fuzzy to be used, its been a couple of days since I could sleep.<br />
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P.S. Listen to the Darkmoon Herald - they rock!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-5523995862705304252014-03-11T23:47:00.003-07:002014-03-11T23:47:59.847-07:00Hearthstoned<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Warcraft has had a neat looking mount datamined for a while. Speculation ran rampant on what it was for until recently.<br />
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Hearthstone Patch Notes 1.0.0.4944:<br />
The Hearthsteed mount reward has been added and can now be obtained for your World of Warcraft account! Win 3 games in Play or Arena mode to acquire one of your own!<br />
(See the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmIawMCjDb0">here</a> )<br />
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Thats it, just win 3 games? That doesn't sound hard but it can be when you don't know what your doing. With a bit of luck my deck design can give you a shortcut into getting the mount while not getting into Hearthstone. Not that I think you shouldn't, cause the game is a neat one, but sometimes you just want the mount.<br />
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First you have to complete the tutorial. After its done you have the option of making yoru own deck. <br />
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Click My Collection<br />
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Click New Deck<br />
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Click Mage (Jaina's face)<br />
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And Choose<br />
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This will give you a graphic book listing the cards you can pick. I want you to double click the listed cards so they appear in the list on the right, 2 copies. If you dont have a 2 next to the name your missing one.<br />
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Mage Spells<br />
Arcane Missiles<br />
Arcane Explosion<br />
Arcane Intellect<br />
Fireball<br />
Polymorph<br />
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Click the Hearthstone arrow on the right to move into 'neutral' spells (usable by all classess) here we want;<br />
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Novice Engineer<br />
Raid Leader<br />
Ironfur Grizzly<br />
Shattered Sun Cleric<br />
Gnomish Inventor<br />
Sen'jin Shieldmasta<br />
Booty Bay Bodyguard<br />
Gurubashi Berserker<br />
Lord of the Arena<br />
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As you get more mage cards replace the Ironfur Grizzly with Frost Bolt and eventually Mirror Image.<br />
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A special note on the Gurubashi Berserker. Your special mage power is to do one damage to a target. be willing to hit it with your power to get its attack up. heal it with Witchdoctors and the Shattered Sun Cleric buff. <br />
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Best of luck on getting your mount!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-88158949627720588372014-03-04T08:36:00.000-08:002014-03-04T08:37:36.802-08:00(RP) Nightwill's Idle Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nightwill left guarding and watching for Theramore's spies. her dragon friend gave her a quick flight to the north..and then quickly left. Nightwill thought nothing of it. Nor anything as she killed the scavengers that picked at he corpse of her home. She went to the vague circle of wreckage that marked her home in Camp Taurajo.<br />
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She entered through where the door had been and sat in the dusty ashes. Foehammer hesitated then withdrew the great black lion prowling the shadows to make sure she wasn't disturbed.<br />
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"You were right love. The Tears were the best path even if they didn't give you justice. I know sometimes lives have to be sacrificed but...I don't think I will ever like it."<br />
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Night half closes her eyes and she can see them. her mate crouched across the fire. Feel her child within her again.<br />
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"I met a Pandaren today he was nice and wise but he dint understand...I don't think he could understand.."<br />
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She listens and nods to the dark corner drawing her legs up to her chest and resting her knees upon them.<br />
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"I know they aren't like us I just wish they understood. Their the most like us of any of the races. It would be nice to have someone who ... understood."<br />
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Her voice broke momentarily on the last word. Night closed her eyes and buried her face in her knees silent but her control couldn't stop the tears form escaping her eyes. How long she sat there she couldn't say. Walking in her dreams of the past for long enough her tears were dried when she realized with a start her muscles were starting to ache. Standing up she carefully exited as she had came. Pausing outside the door and saying softly over her shoulder;<br />
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"I will be back. As soon as I can love. And every night in my dreams."<br />
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Straightening up she assumed the expression of a soldier calling to Foehammer and Ukarus to give her a ride to her watch point. She had responsibilities as a soldier and she had only let that down..<br />
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Once...</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-29802970593952457592014-03-03T16:34:00.000-08:002014-03-03T16:34:15.552-08:00Warcraft Legendary Cloak Chain 0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I finally completed the quest chain. forced PvP. Horrid grinding. Just...ugh.<br />
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But it had its good points too. <br />
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So with MoP drawing to a close I'll be going back over my notes and write my own commentary on it. Some of the writing was good, some of it was terrible. The worst of course being anything having to do with Jaina. <br />
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......So I will be trying to be reasonable...<br />
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FOR ONCE! WHAT! <br />
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Ahem... now that that's out of the way. I will be able to more calmly look at the awful pile of garbage and its hidden gems.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-45362637669002423022014-02-27T04:54:00.000-08:002014-02-27T04:54:06.905-08:00Of Justice and Purchases<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At first my reaction was the typical nod and sigh in unhappiness because it sucks. But the more I thought about it the more I became convinced this <b>had</b> to be resolved. I really loved getting the ease of the digital download last time around with Mists of Pandaria but I'm starting to get into more of the artbooks and I would <i>love</i> to own a music CD for the game. I haven't ever gotten a real collectors and with this kind of discouragement I know I wont ever pick one up.<br />
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So lets lay out exactly what the problem is.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>When you purchase the digital copy you get access to some of the features right away. At the very least will be the free level 90. If you buy a physical copy you have to wait for it to be delivered to you. Its like Christmas for the physical copy comes several days later just because. Its an unsolvable problem - right?<br />
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I don't think so. In fact I have a solution I think might work. <br />
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Blizzard distributes character realm transfer cards, blizzards gift cards, and time cards already. produce for the game a preorder card. Give them to the stores making the preorder and BAM problem is solved. You would have to have the preorder work like buying and installing the expansion. If your unfamiliar most stores don't let you return MMOs since the account creation is such a big deal. Heck at <a href="http://www.gamestop.com/gs/help/Returns.aspx">Gamestop</a> once you open it you cant return anything at all. <br />
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This is well within Bliz's reach, solves the problem, and would generate a lot of love from people who want to hold that disk in their hands. It would encourage people like me who are on the fence to fall on the side of giving them money. Really I don't see any serious downsides. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-19843629892671588642014-02-27T04:03:00.001-08:002014-02-27T04:03:33.319-08:00Wisdom and Guilds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington 1st President of the USofA<br />
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Does this still apply in Warcraft? Guilds used to mean something very special. When I see some guilds on my old servers I still have positive feelings from things that happened back when it mattered in BC. Including when they policed their members and refused to let them be bastards to the rest of the realm. <br />
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What does your guild mean to you? Just a collection of guild perks? People you chat with a bit but don't do anything with? Friends you would loan thousands of gold and grind Legendaries for? <br />
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I know what they were and I feel that they are becoming as casual as a group of friends on twitter or Facebook and for me...I don't like it. At all. But unless Blizzard does something to make Guilds mean something in Warlords of Draenor well..its here to stay.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-1753562487259741012014-02-22T10:59:00.000-08:002014-02-22T10:59:24.004-08:00A couple of thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things<br />
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Next week Im going to try and do posts, one a day, come hell or high water. Writing a post and tweaking it to try and make it perfect and never writing a damn thing because of it is my greatest enemy right now. <br />
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So until then here are a couple of amusing pictures. Enjoy!<br />
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You have to have teams that do not use the same pets as used to defeat the other Master Trainers in the tournament because of their stupid cheating no healing rule. <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Zao, Calfling of Niuzao</span></div>
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I start with Zao because he is the touchiest of the bunch for me. his AI has been tossing me curveballs but so far my strategy has held up.<br />
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1) Pandaren Water Spirit (Pandaren Water Spirit Daily pet battle)<br />
B) Whirlpool C) Geyser<br />
2) Something with howl. Example - Alpine Foxling Kit<br />
B) Howl<br />
3) Dragon with Tail Sweep Example - Dark Whelpling<br />
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Start off with Geyser and then Whirlpool, swap to the Howl Pet and Howl. Swap to the Tail Sweep pet and sweep twice. Victory!<br />
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1) Silkbeard Snail (Captured in Jade Forest)<br />
A) Ooze Touch B) Acidic Goo C) Dive<br />
2) Another snail like the first for Example - Rapana Whelk (Captured Dead Wastes)<br />
A) Ooze Touch B) Acidic Goo C) Dive<br />
3) Arcane Eye (Captured - Deadwind pass)<br />
A) Focused Beams B) Eyeblast<br />
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When the snails are down use your Eye's Eyeblast ability to gain the speed advantage and Focused beams till he dies. <br />
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Yu'la did (and can still) give me fits. So I fell back on a simple strategy of brute force. It isnt pretty but it gets the job done.<br />
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1) Flayer Youngling (Captured Hellfire Peninsula)<br />
A) Blitz B) Deflection C) Kick<br />
2) Fast rabbit for example - Talai hare (Captured Kun Lai Summit)<br />
A) Scratch B) Evasion C) Burrow<br />
3) Anubisath Idol (Drop in AQ40 or AH)<br />
A) Crush C) Deflection<br />
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The bunny may seem like madness but it has superior avoidance. Burrow to avoid like off (The cooldowns will match up), use evasion when its over to avoid two breaths. Keep hitting it as long as you can with Scratch. by the time your done you will appreciate what big nasty teeth it has.<br />
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The idol you use Deflection to avoid a lift off and punch her in the face! <br />
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Not the best strategy but its the only one I've cooked up that always makes a win.<br />
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1) Tranquil Mechanical Yeti (Engineering made)<br />
A) Metal Fist B) Call lightning<br />
2) Flock or Swarm Pet for Example - Turkey (Captured in Howling Fjord)<br />
C) Flock<br />
2) Flock or Swarm Pet for Example - Mei Li Sparkler (Captured in Kasarang Wilds)<br />
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The easiest of the bunch he is also the best of them to pick as a pet if you in any way need a beast. Reallt awesome abilities!<br />
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Start with your Yeti and use Call Lightning - not only does it buff you but it overwrites the weather that buffs his damage. Swap to the Turkey and Flock. This will add to his damage taken as well as chewing him up good. Keep flocking till your dinner. The weather will likely be almost over. Bring out your Yeti and use Metal Fist if its not quite then recast it. Swap to your swarmer and swarm to victory!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-33092384282898230522014-01-13T04:34:00.000-08:002014-01-13T04:34:07.168-08:00Celestial Tournament pt 1 - Kiryn, Mari, Blingatron 4000<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1) Fledgling Nether Ray (Caught in netherstorm)<br />
B) Tail Sweep C) Shadowshock<br />
2) Fel Flame (Captured Shadowmoon Valley)<br />
A) Flame Breath B) Immolate C) Conflagurate<br />
C) Darkmoon Zepplin<br />
A) Missile C) Decoy<br />
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As a flyer the Ray is strong against his attacks so its simple - just Shadowshock till Nairn dies.<br />
Tailsweep Stormoen and that will ikely be the end fo the Ray.<br />
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Bring in the Fel Flame. With Stormoen's lightning storm up his Dot will cripple the mechanical. Immolate, Conflagurate, Flame Breath, and its all over.<br />
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Thats likely the end of the Fel Flame too. On to the Zepplin!<br />
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You wil lbe forced to eat the incoming damage for two rounds, its worth being patient and waiting. Trigger Decoy before he can hit you with Prowl. Missile away till you win.<br />
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1) Gahz,rooki (rare drop in the Barrens)<br />
A) Tail Slap C) Whirlpool<br />
2) Magical Crawdad (Fishing or Ah)<br />
A) Snap B) Renewing Mists C) Wish<br />
3) Water Waveling (Captured Zul'Drak)<br />
A) Ice Lance B) Frostshock C) Geyser<br />
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Whirlpool and hit with Tail Slap till dead. Hit Binks then swap in your Magical Crawdad when he kills it. <br />
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Hit banks with Snap, cast Renewing Mists, hit him with Snap, cast Wish, snap and renew. snap, snap again, and dead. <br />
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Lil' B is now up renew or wish depending on cooldowns. Basically continue as you did for banks. <br />
he may manage to wear down your crawdad depending on random luck. <br />
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when you bring your Water Wavelong into play do not hit Geyser right away. Wait till just after plating goes up. With the Cooldowns synched like this it will hit for full damage. It may not even be needed as you can Frostshock and Icelance till dead.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Wise Mari</span></b></div>
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1) Jade Owl (Jewelcrafting)<br />
A) Slicing Wind B) Hawk Eye C) Lift-Off<br />
2) mechanical Pandaren Dragonling (Engineering)<br />
3) Swamp Croker (Captured Isle of Thunder)<br />
A) Water Jet C) Bubble<br />
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Hit Hawk Eye, then Lift off, and smack Carpe around with Slicing wind till he dies. <br />
When Spirus comes out hit Hawk Eye and then damage him to pop his bubble. That should finish off your Owl so bring out your Dragonling. <br />
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Use Decoy when he activates his shield and keep breathing till he dies. When River comes out keep up the breathing till the dragonling falls.<br />
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Bring out your Swamp Croker. Use your Bubble after he pumps or to avoid one of his big attacks. Otherwise Water Jet him away.<br />
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Now on to the spirit beasts! Err Celestials...their kids anyway... kinda..whatever....</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-27079991832267413562014-01-12T14:06:00.000-08:002014-01-12T14:08:58.507-08:00Pet Battlin pt 1 - Vanilla and WotLK Grandmasters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its no secret that my enthusiasm for Warcraft has had a few issues lately. from CSRs who are keyboard snapping frustrating to being Forced into PvP fo rmy Legendary its just...meh.<br />
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The Pet battles have been the same sort of awful with them relying on cheating to make it harder. Making it punishing not difficult. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6UuRTjkKs i think because of the raiders they pushed into it.<br />
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Anyway I thought I would lay out my teams and might help others to fight. If I skip an ability for a per its because I think its a useless slot.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Lydia Accoste (Deadwind Pass)</b></span></div>
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1) A pet level 2+ For this I'm working on my level 8 Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm<br />
Any abilities<br />
2) Rabbits. I use a Talai Hare and a Tolai Hare Pup (Good stats, Captured in Kun-Li Summit)<br />
A) Scratch C) Stampede<br />
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At this level Pet battles arent hard to finish but they can be well worth your time in coming back for the loot bag and for the experience. She has one major 'rule' - use a critter pet so you can quickly smoke her undead pets. Also if its level 25 your other pets in the fight get the full exp.<br />
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Baby pet hits the elemental. It will be putting up thorns so it wont hit back. Even a miss here grants the little pet exp.<br />
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Swap to rabbit. Stampede, scratch, win. My level 8 got 2040 xp (no hat or food) pushing it to level 11.<br />
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1) Any 25 Humanoid - (For example) Pandaren Monk<br />
A) Jab<br />
2) Any pet to level - (For example) lil' Bing<br />
2) Any 25 Magic - (For example) Arcane Eye (Captured in Deadwind Pass)<br />
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Like the fight above we're focused on leveling a little pet. The 2nd pet up (the cat) hits softer than the dragon so is a better pet to take a swipe at with your lowbie pet and have it live. Just dont come out if the prowl is active it hits really hard with that up. A mechanical pet will help since it can die and then be swapped out and still get exp.<br />
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So Jab dragon. Jab cat a bit. Swap to exp pet. Swap to eye and kill the bird. With hat (+10%) my Lil Bing for 2244 xp and went from level 8 to level 11.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Major Payne (Icecrown)</b></span></div>
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1) Lil XT (Pet store, Card Game, Cardgame can be found on the AH)<br />
Abilities A) Zap, C) XE-321 Boombot<br />
2) Fel Flame (Capture in Shadowmoon valley)<br />
Abilities A) Flame Breath B) Immolate C) Conflagurate<br />
3) Aquatic Pet, level 22+ for example a Spiny Terrapin (Capture in Kasarang wilds)<br />
Abilities A) Grasp, C) Headbutt<br />
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Payne can be intimidating at first but there is a simple strategy that will wipe the map with him and leave his last pet to be used to level your pets.<br />
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XT come in and Zaps. Should Payne's bear stun him with its opener, forfeit. You took no damage and are starting at a disadvantage. Never do that. If you resist the stun then zap him till he gets low enough to trigger his heal. Activate your Boombot and then finish him off.<br />
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Next his mechanical pet comes out. Zap as much as you can and with that and the Bot it will be hurting by the time your fel flame comes out. Hit it with the combo of Immolate and Conflagurate and a little flame breath and it will fall down for good. <br />
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When his elemental comes out put your damage over times on it with Immolate and Flame Breath and weaken it down to its last gasp. Usually he will kill the flame but if not swap to your last pet.<br />
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Aquuatic pets hit the hardest but you can level anyone here. The rule of thumb is 22 and blue will bring victory. For my example turtle I hit him with my Headbutt and then my Grasp and its all over.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-4850331284659310852013-08-21T14:04:00.003-07:002013-08-21T14:04:56.746-07:00My Visit to Hearthstone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thanks to a friend I was able to get a Beta account and try out Hearthstone. Its interesting but has some very deep flaws.<br />
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The gameplay is good, the animations over the top but not too terribly slow. I will probably end up playing it off and on. That said lets pick some nits.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The game tossess you into play with an assumption you've played games like this before.I assume they will add a better tutorial but even so it will be more Warcraft and less Wizard101. To explain in Wizard 101 you get a walkthrough fight that explains in great detail whats going on, and why. You cast spells you cant normally cause hey its a tutorial people need to know these things. Hearthstone leaves several things completely unexplained. Id rather not be working things out on the fly if I can help it. Perhaps a little ? in the corner somewhere with the word Manual next to it for people to read.<br />
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Worse yet is the fact your forced to start as a mage and level up as one for a bit in the tutorial. Then you have to defeat the class you want in order to even try the deck out. Oh and since the basic cards you need to be effective are locked away behind 3 hours or so of gameplay you get to be meat for the beat like in PvP in Warcraft. You lose several times before you get those cards. <br />
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Since the AI you face give you less 'exp' for fighting them and have set decks in theory you can grind them but their pretty boring. So you get boring or killed a lot as your options when trying to expand your decks. Heck a random button on the AI opponent selection would of been a welcome help. <br />
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The deck size and card limits boggle my mind. At 30 cards and at most 2 cards of a type you have a low chance to get any combos flowing smoothly. Add to that the fact that everyone has neat special cards that can end the match before you get a chance to mouse over them and the game has some serious balancing to go through. <br />
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Another thing they strayed from Magic the Gathering on is that you can attack minions. This make them at worst a complete waste of time and at best wildly overpowered. Mostly the first for a new player and its an awful feeling to have since they give you so few spells you deck is forced to be creature heavy.<br />
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Flailing around in my spell book I accidentally right clicked a card and found the crafting system. As near as I can tell it takes 8 to 20 lesser cards to make another card a the starter level. So yes crafting will help. but not if your trying to collect or play multiple classes.<br />
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I think the main flaw of this game is it feels so 1990 or 2000. It has all the sorts of flaws Magic the Gathering online clones have already went through. That is weird because Blizzard has a history of incorporating things that work and dropping the dross and here they made a deeply flawed project. <br />
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But if you can overlook those flaws I'm sure you can get some fun out of it, especially the free part. I know I will. Hopefully they let me play my paladin deck again.<br />
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I nit pick because I care and I feel it can be so much more. <br />
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Have fun!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-91731213572219106762013-08-16T04:50:00.003-07:002013-08-16T16:56:30.572-07:00RP: A Letter to the Tears of Draenor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>A bit of backstory. Some RP happened with some of the guild Nightwill is in wanting to RP breaking away from the Horde to ally with the trolls. While I was not able to get really involved with the RP Night did write a letter spelling out her feelings at the time. here it is;</i><br />
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Friends and those once friends,<br />
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These will be some of the hardest words I have ever written.<br />
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When the Shu'halo and Orcs met I joined the Horde. I never approved of the discarding of the old ways for the Orc's but the Horde had a value beyond the damage it did to the Shu'halo way of life. I fought in every front against the enemies of the Horde. They were my enemies - for we were one family. I was proud when I was honored by the Frostwolves an honor only equalled by my joining the Tears of Draenor. <br />
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Battle wore at me as the wind does stone but I found my mate and family gave me strength to complete the task in Northrend. But I was concerned for in Kalimdor Tanks, soldiers, stone, and lumber were being gathered at Theramore. A causeway cut across the swamp built for the tanks. Aimed at the barrens. Excuses were made and nothing was done. <br />
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I retired with my mate to Camp Taurajo. The land and life was good and it was a good place to bring my first child. Then the Alliance and Theramore soldiers came. I lost everything in their attack. It was only by luck Foehammer and I survived. The leader of the Barrens forces was weak, it made him easy to pressure into peace for Thrall, and faltered in our defense. Only Deathwing arriving stopped the Alliance and Theramore form slaughtering everyone. <br />
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Thrall took no action in the Barrens. Horde blood spilled and he was distracted. Those he trusted were weak and ineffective. Garrosh sent Warlord Bloodhilt and finally the Horde had a leader there that fought instead of hiding. The Tears didn't care, whatever occupied them was too important.<br />
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While Thrall was off on his vision quest Warchief Garrosh fought along side us to not only stop the end of the world but to make it a better place. when that battle was done Garrosh struck at the Alliance taking payment for the blood debt and pushing the Alliance off Kalimdor. The rubble of Theramore is fit offering to the ghosts of the Barrens for both Proudmores aggression. <br />
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It is because of my Warchief I no longer hear the unavenged wails of friends, of my child, each night. Their ghosts are at peace and for that I owe my Warchief. He helped me when those that called themselves my family dismissed their lives. The Alliance and Theramore killed without mercy and received, deserved, none in return. The future is change do not fear it. fear is the great betrayer that drives people to forget their oaths and honor.<br />
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Remember these words?<br />
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Lok'tar ogar! Victory or death - it is these words that bind me to the Horde. For they are the most sacred and fundamental of truths to any warrior of the Horde.<br />
I give my flesh and blood freely to the Warchief. I am the instrument of my Warchief's desire. I am a weapon of my Warchief's command. From this moment until the end of days I live and die - <b>For the Horde</b>!<br />
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Lok'tar ogar! <br />
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Nightwill Priderunner<br />
The call to the hunt is deep within all of us.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-41365971738310725972013-08-13T22:16:00.001-07:002013-08-13T22:16:36.970-07:00Thoughts on WoW Cognitive Fatigue <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cynwise wrote a really excellent article about Cognitive Fatigue (<a href="http://cynwise.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/a-thousand-cuts-cognitive-fatigue-in-the-warcraft-ui">here</a>). I just had to add my own thoughts.<br />
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I've been studying game design for a while now as a passionate hobbyist. UI design and execution is one of the things that has majorly changed since MUDs begain them. <br />
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Everquest gave us our first graphical interface for an MMO and Warcraft took much of its inspiration from that source.<br />
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This is one reason I haven't been playing WoW as much lately. After some stressful things I just feel drained by most of the gameplay I do. Add to that the drain of class revamps and I end up not even knowing were to begin. I will log to a character I intend to play. Start sorting through the ability book, trying to figure things out, and after wasting a fair amount of time log off. <br />
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I managed to bungle my troll priest to 90 but I was close to bad for healing and DPS. I ended up taking on a new priest in order to learn how to priest again. With less abilities and simpler play I can have more fun but even then its just broken and weird in many ways. Spells that used to be early additions to your kit just don't exist till later in the game for no reason I can find.. <br />
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At one point I tried to move renew from where I have it under my mousewheel to another button. I coudln't do it. Just couldn't learn its someplace else. 8 some odd years of muscle memory fought me every time and you need that memory because the game is too complex to be taking in every bit of information and consciously deciding how to respond. <br />
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My UI is relatively simple, but it can be so swamped with information I cant reduce the screen size if I wasn't to see anything going on. Especially if I'm doing Archiology. The game itself exhausts me in ways other games don't because it lacks a pause button. <br />
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heck Logging in I have to worry about it throwing up my authenticator window and forcing me to find the thing, hope I enter the numbers right in only a couple of attempts.<br />
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On my main I have dailies I 'should" do, grinding to do, skill grinding/selling, farming, raiding, lore seeking...I cant organize it into any kind of coherent plan. So I log in, do a little of it. Feel like Im wasting time cause I should be doing Y not X go do Y but then I'm ignoring Z. So I end up ignoring it all because the mountain of things really does seem totally impassable. Heck they even revamped the stupid pet battle system and keep dicking around with pet abilities. <br />
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One fix of course is contextual buttons. But that takes work and planning. A more basic response would be to just reduce the number of abilities. why do shadow priests need 3 Dot timers to manage? How about one? Use similar ideas to make the buttons at least down to 7 core with a few situational ones to hit 12. <br />
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Thanks so much to Cynwise and Kathy for their wise thoughts on this. As Kathy said (<a href="http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat">Here</a>);<br />
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<i>"Help them conserve and manage their scarce, precious, easily-depleted cognitive resources for what really matters. To them. And don't forget to take care of your own. Think of the kids. Think of Sparky."</i><br />
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I am Alexia Silverheart Ti'Silvermourn<br />
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I played Dragon and Princess with my Brothers and Sisters. I wasn't the princess or the dragon I wanted tio play the knight. Slay the beast and earn a kiss. I wanted to be a heroine. My mother never supported my goals...in part because the Lordaern society we were exiled into wanted the eldest daughter to be 'proper for marrying' she also wanted to protect me form the horrors ... I know them now and I understand her so much.<br />
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Orcs in service to the Legion would of slaughtered on their alter but my brothers sacrificed themselves to save me. I could feel him tear their souls apart. I...I was so scared I couldn't do anything. My younger sister saved me. I will never live down the shame of being so helpless and letting them die. <br />
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I couldn't fight there so I turned to the Legion. Always an enemy even when it seems calm. So hated. That lead me to the Demon Hunters. The more I learned of their horrible scaring and rituals...the more I learned of their war...the more I felt I was the perfect soldier for them. <br />
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I've sacrificed so much before..such a crusty soldier..I wondered what i could learn. I learned balance..the kind of balance that finds you footing in a hurricane. I learned perseverance and understanding through shared pain. But I learned most of all to remember what I am doing this for. I am not strong for myself...but for everyone else who cant be strong. For them I am unbreakable against the waves of fate to shelter them.<br />
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I've never had faith in book learning. I'd rather do and fight things with my strength. But now I wish I could know more of the rituals and knowledge. I need to be more balanced. I'm like a plate spun by a fair performer wobbling until I bring it all crashing down. <br />
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I've seen you see, my future, its hard to know things you shouldn't. My demon is immortal and strong and the only way to capture him for a long time is in a flesh shell. Good thing I will live thousands of years then with my elven blood. <br />
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My power..my danger...comes from his rage. When I grasp it I can feel it surge through me. It Washes away pain and is a sweet euphoria they never mentioned..but I've seen before in battle. I ride it. I channel it. But I do not become it. Such primal feelings are not for me. I can only hope Lady Elune accepts my offerings after.<br />
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I remember once...I gathered the power close. But its like grabbing glass shards that burn white hot. The agony and ecstasy made me cry..and without my eyes only blood comes from under my blindfold. The Pandaren were afraid but i told them it was alright. Because it was. Such a hard cost for such hard rewards.<br />
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Even Sha fear me for they sense a trap in me. It is what I am..what I will be...what I must be. but the future is always moving, changing, and I fear for my feat. How hard is it to know not only wen to fight. but when to fall?<br />
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Navimie over at the Daily Frostwolf wrote on this topic (if you haven't read it check the post out <a href="http://frostwolves.blogspot.com/2013/06/women-in-wow-is-there-right-way-to-do-it.html">here</a>) and its a really good article. <br />
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But I had some disagreements of my own I wanted to comment about. Usually I would leave a comment on the blog but these aren't really clear cut. Not just objections but objections*. So like Genie I need to ramble a bit and get it clarified so here we go..<br />
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Aladdin: <i><b>You're gonna grant me any 3 wishes I want, right? </b></i><br />
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She asks what I want to look like in a fantasy game and the answer is a believable character. Now that doesn't mean it has to be sexy or not. <br />
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But the most aggrivating thing to me is is "<i>If the whole online world was populated by less than attractive females would people want to play?</i>" <br />
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Who says its a female character's job to try and get you to play a game by how she looks? The answer is the same internet that doesn't testmarket video games to female players because 46% of gamers being female doesn't mean they have a voice yet. The same Internet that objectifies women and idealizes men and their place in stories. This isnt the main thrust of her article but this aside is symbolic of the probematic place female character are out into. They don't stand in a stance of power or authority but one that shows off their sexual attributes to the viewer. I'm not even talk about those awful Team Ninja games but look at the art for the game remember me.<br />
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Which screams more to me 'Remember my ass in tight jeans' than 'I kick ass'. Grrrrrr.<br />
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"<i>Deep down, almost everyone wants to look good, even though we do accept ourselves and others the way they are, or are proud of the way we look.</i>"<br />
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That is a line filled with image issue problems that are at the core of why we need different body types. It begins from the assumption that you aren't beautiful even if your proud of how you look and accept yourself. That is the kind of message that barbies give. When a movie has nothing but size zero models as 'common people'. letting a game inform you of how the human race should look is a really bad idea. Its one reason I refuse to play games that only have white skinned 'good' guys and black skinned 'bad' guys (RIFT when I beta tested it was one such game). <br />
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So how would adding variety 'hurt' ones ability to have pretty characters? It wouldn't at all. Star Trek Online you can make your character look like a wide variety of shapes and sizes. To a more limited degree in Neverwinter Online and Star Wars the Old Republic but those last two games made sure to include a 'thick' character model. They don't have people (nontrolls) crying about this ugly universe they live in. <br />
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I make my characters look good too even if they have 'alternative' (to a human) body types. why shouldn't I? Why does their body type affect their fashion sense or lack of it? It isn't just about it being a fantasy game where your the hero but the fact your in a chain mail bikini when the guy next to you is in full plate. It leaves fantasy rules behind and just becomes silly.<br />
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Why should sexyness be determined by its gender? Why should it be the burden of a female character to have to look good? That's as foolish as saying video games cause people to go on murder sprees. Its an aspect of culture not the entirety of it. <br />
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Ulgyness in this game is code for being evil generally. In part because pretty is the standard model and anything that deviates needs to be hand made. They want the boss to be different from the player so in comes the ugly. Its a fault in the game engine and its age. It likely cant be easily fixed so the best idea would be to minimize the way that filters through into what they do. <br />
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Going to the other extreme of trying to say we want to beat up on pretty people is a Fox News / Trade Troll kind of argument. Variety and needing it in body types isn't the same as 'OMG you hate pretty people!' any more than gay marriage causing republicans to have sex with animals like they keep sayign they will end up doing.<br />
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I do want my female characters to look good but they can look good without having to cling to barbie standards to beauty. That said I do find it interesting I'm more comfortable with my nonhumans being in skimpier clothing. Because I feel if my female humans (or near like elves) dress too skimpily they are 'dressing like whores'. Which isn't true of course. Showing off some skin and having fun doing it is perfectly fine. I juts know too well the cancerous sexism that is out there and can contaminate any healthy fun. <br />
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I also have strong memories of being forced to dress trashy by Blizzard on my warrior and priest and HATING the feeling of the comments I got because of it. but now we have a choice. We can dress skimpily if we feel like it or more conservatively. One of the first things I did on my priest was to dress in my Devout gear and never look back. <br />
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And that's where to some degree both sides of the argument break down. It is no longer tied into game mechanics to look sexy (though you could argue the gold cost counts I think its small enough it has minimal impact). if the player is choosing to look like a sexy girl on a night out on the town rather than someone with serious interest in saving the world that's their choice. But they should be aware of the image they project and the negative impact it can have.<br />
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We do have the power. But do we always the the responsability? To be true to ourselves and to our hobby yes we do. But that's a hard point for me because if someone were to tell me what I had to wear id get my back up just as fas as when Blizzard told me I had to look like I came from a lingerie catalog and mocked me for wanting to play "World of Dollcraft". <br />
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There are very few women to look up to that aren't revolving around men. Even Jaina was made a leader because a man said so removing her leadership because of another man and was made into another stupid 'fated' romance girlfriend. <br />
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I like Magatha Grimtotem because she has always been a complex character. Not very original in starting off her 'oh shes bad' path by saying she married her husband and then killed him off of course. Personally I want to see a situation where she isnt redeemed but becomes more neutral like she was. We need more jerks to hate that we dont draw a blade and kill (Poor Staghelm).<br />
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Sylvanas was obsessed with how a man defiled her and her people. Shes grown in spurts but she normally doesn't pass the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test">Bechel Test</a> and they put her in the sex wear they came up with for the sexy dragon women. <br />
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Garona is a minor character that again has male written all over her. Despite that I do like her shes just a flat stereotype right now but she could be so much more. But her role on the Warcraft story has boiled down to giving a few quests and like Sylvanas not being there when her revenge happens. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_iTcouvGGFeZ_pvsqWbN7DAYf6AxgNk3868KfBBGWEZu6_jmCAQLdVM0B6tVCaNgI2tUR-gSkRudB_fySby0MxqwyfsC0mdRG3MgPNzZT29Kul1i7a5quks9s2yFAzfuJE0uf1_aIqzv/s347/Tyrande+Whisperwind+Malfurion+Stormrage.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_iTcouvGGFeZ_pvsqWbN7DAYf6AxgNk3868KfBBGWEZu6_jmCAQLdVM0B6tVCaNgI2tUR-gSkRudB_fySby0MxqwyfsC0mdRG3MgPNzZT29Kul1i7a5quks9s2yFAzfuJE0uf1_aIqzv/s200/Tyrande+Whisperwind+Malfurion+Stormrage.JPG" width="179" /></a>Ty...oh Ty...how I used to like you. Tyrande started out badass in WC3, wimpified in the books (but it was thousands of years ago so she grew strong ok I can dig it) and then wimpified again in Stormrage and the Warcraft game. her leader store was less abotu her than about her and Malfurion. She needs to kick him to the curb (what the hell is the Druid leader doing ignoring the druids to hang out in the temple where he has no place in the rituals anyway). of special not she got made even super sexier and not combat capable looking while he gets to look like an ugly bird animal hybrid thing cause its ok for strong guys to look like that. This is the same Mal who told her to Hush and has been galivanting around with the Cataclysm being the Night Elf's leader while she stayed at home and was hoping to have kids. At least in MoP she got a scenario where they let her out of the tree. Not really progress.<br />
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Aysa Cloudsinger after the Pandaren starting area has her job done. She sits and meditates while the events unfold around her passively letting the human king handle everything like leading her people. Id expeced more Rp with the 'factional' Pandaren and the neutral ones but nope not at all. its a big failure because she could be so much more. Another failure is that her main plot is the friend-wants-to-be-her-boyfriend-goes-horde guy. <br />
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One standout to me is Amber Kearnen from SL:7. Shes one of the elite spys set to guard Prince Anduin at the start of Pandaria. Through its story she works against the horde, is loyal to the King and her friends, and has a somewhat realistic personality. Like Garona she needs more depth but her role isn't tied to her being a woman like the half-ord/draenei's is. Amber could be a male and be just as believable - and I want more like her. Even Sky Admiral Rogers (though more of a steriotypical man with boobs) is a welcome relief though knowing Bliz I'm just waiting to find out shes seeking revenge over her husband or children.. <br />
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It is very difficult to cross gender lines the way they are drawn now for role models. Strong women are a 'Bitch' to many guys with ingrained misogyny reinforced by games and their environments. Young men taught to think of them as sex objects or family members. (<a href="http://charlesclymer.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-are-we-so-ashamed-of-our-women.html">ref here</a>)<br />
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Women aren't encouraged to be too much like a man because that's not sexy/femmine. You dont want to be unpopular for being too much like a tom boy. Since women with power (too masculine) get punished (Jaina, et all) why would you want to be? <br />
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This needs to change and is changing in the real world but games are time capsules of when their made more or less. But so are their developers. The attitude of the male dev team at Blizzard is very much a stale room and a bit of fresh attitude could not only add to the flow of ideas here but in general. Theres a reason the romance in Star Wars 4-6 worked and 1-3 didnt. <br />
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Writers write what they know - so do writers in games.If they writers can only imagine women who've lost a necklace talking about it vs a Male Guard captain fighting murlocks then that's what we get. I don't think women in Warcraft are 'staying home with the babies' because in this fantasy world there isn't the same level of pressure to do that. <br />
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I'm going to pick on what she wrote very closely here because I feel very passionate abut it.<br />
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"<i>Female gamers may not look at being a home mum as being something to look up to, but there are plenty of women out there who enjoy being the homemaker and vigorously defend their chosen courses."</i><br />
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That's kind of a poison assumption because its just as likely they do and there is nothing wrong with a single Father. <br />
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<i>"So it doesn't surprise me that you don't see as many female leaders in game as males -"</i><br />
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It does me. None of the races in game have any bias towards male leaders expressed in the lore of the game. Well maybie humans but just because the only rulers of the handful of kingdoms we have seen happened to be male doesnt mean that Wyrnn's grandmother wasn't more in charge. You cant say its a fantasy you want to have things idea in and then say it has to be flawed to cause it has to be reality. <br />
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<i>"In real life, people still talk about the lack of female CEOs and their paypackets lagging behind the men,"</i><br />
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Because it does, badly. For no goddess damned reason as to why.<br />
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<i>"but sometimes the ones who get the jobs are the ones who put in the long hours, hard yards,"</i><br />
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*Blows a whistle* Im putting a flag on that play. Your ASSUMING that women are more lazy than men that's why they get paid less? Oh hell no! Especially not after saying how hard women work to juggle things and feel guilty about not doing more. <b>IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT.</b><br />
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<i>"and let's face it, many women don't want to do that."</i><br />
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About the same as men. Funny how that works. Or how it works when your free of guessing Women just don't want those icky man jobs so they should get paid less cause after all they might have kids.<br />
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<i>"- and there is NOTHING wrong with that."</i><br />
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There is everything wrong with that statement. The built in ideas about how the sexes 'really work' are awful and go against every anecdotal experience I've had and respectable study I've seen. The reason is baked in sexism.<br />
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"<i>The General Manager of one of the hospitals I work at is a woman."</i><br />
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This is the part where in order to hold up the merits of comments we get the "I know one so it is true'. The "i met a gay woman who wanted to break up marrages so all gay women are like that" kind of argument. or "My black friend says there's no racism in the south so its ok to repeal antiracism laws".<br />
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<i>"There are many heads of department who are women. And look at the game - I know a number of women who are guild leaders, raid leaders. There is no right way to put women in the game, without upsetting SOMEBODY."</i><br />
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Sure there is. Do it. Someone might be upset, someone is always upset, but that is not justification for not doing the right thing. Even though I dislike the Sky Admiral shes a step in the right direction. but shes a baby step and we need them to do more. The can do more. they should. I believe eventually they will. When they break out of the testosterone.<br />
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<i>"To end this post, I am going to put this which I will probably be chastised over..."</i><br />
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I will not repost that image on my blog.<br />
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Its funny in a haha and a very sad way. Because of the baked in sexism and mocking of women. It can be taken as a joke pointing out how they never cover problems with sexism in other jobs just the flashier ones cause were so obessed with the rich...and their far more likely to be able to afford to sue...but I'm sure many will take it in a literal way that women don't want the common jobs men have how superior men are to these lazy women who just want the best jobs. <br />
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And now kitties as I say my final bit.<br />
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It was hard to chose but I had to say something so I asked Navi if I could reply directly to her on my blog and she said I could. <br />
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Its so easy to pick at what other people say - even easier when you strongly disagree with them. Its why poloticians and public figures often say nothing. I'm hoping I managed to blunt my words so their less of an attack upon her and more upon how and what she was saying.<br />
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One thing is we all love the game and want it to improve...and we all want this to become a better world. <br />
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The way we do this is by talking, disagreeing, listening, and working forward into the future. <br />
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Because in the end we're all in this together. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-21115539479547490982013-06-28T05:04:00.003-07:002013-06-28T05:07:28.373-07:00Gamon, Orgrimmar, thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While I was working on my iron pet character I wandered by Gamon and was surprised to see him not busy killing players but occupied with the current storyline.<br />
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A brief bit of history. Gamon was an NPC in a rogue quest chain that because of mechanics needed to be neutral. Also it was interesting to see how many times the level 8 rogue would kill him before realizing they needed to pick his pockets (3 for me :)<br />
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Because of this people killed him over and over until he suddenly leveled up and became elite leading to this.<br />
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The regular grunts watching as the Kor'kron take him on. Now he needed to not be attackable because while its cute to make him so tough I dont think anyone thought what would happen adding a neutral boss right next to the city leader. If the Alliance attacks you can be certain some horde will drag Gamon into the AoE to kill them.<br />
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I was excited to see this, thought it was really cool, and then realized if I hadn't been a horde I'd never know it was here and thats a problem. This is supposed to be the big Alliance story yet its still a horde story in all the small elements. The changes are happening in Orgrimmar not Stormwind. <br />
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I think despite their trying to make it less about the Horde this expansion is mostly about the Horde in all the thunder and excitement ways gamers love. Alliance is more subtle or just weird (like the Patience Scenario).<br />
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The story has never quite been balanced but the more they claim their making it balanced the more out of whack it seems to get. <br />
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Eh...not much you can do so here for the Alli is a bit of Horde RP that they might be interested in...you can certainly see the change from the noble elite guard that kept all of Thrall's dates with Jaina secret.<br />
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I've been designing what I thought was a unique and innovate combat system for my game if I got my dream and set it as an MMO. Its been rattling around in my head for a while and since I cant sleep I thought I'd inflict it upon you.<br />
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The game would work on EXP earned for tasks done. You heal you get healing exp. You use nature (druidic) magic you get that kind of exp over divine (clerical). You can equip all but exotic weapons and at least try to give them a go though more advanced ones your better off trying lower skill ones first.<br />
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But that's just the start. I'll have a system for player designed abilities allowing the player to have flexibility and personality.<br />
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Each ability starts with an animation 2 attributes. As you 'level up' in the related skill it gets more attributes until you get 4 and then you can assign 2 more at penalties. <br />
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For example the 'Uppercut' (improved punch) is learned after following a brawling/boxing quest chain. It would look like this;<br />
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Attribute 1: Slow attack (heavy damage)<br />
Attribute 2: Root till complete (additional heavy damage)<br />
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The player might not like being stuck in one place until the ability completes so he could swap out that attribute for one he learned earlier from another upgraded punch and since he liked the other animation swap it back to the other attack.<br />
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Animation: Jab<br />
Attribute 1: Slow attack (heavy damage)<br />
Attribute 2: Solid hit (additional medium damage)<br />
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Or even set the animation to random if it amuses them to occasionally have their character Uppercut, Jab, and generically punch things. The player will be able to design how their character plays in combat in an intuitive way.<br />
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Eventually after the skill has been upgraded you will have the ability to use thing that tade off something for the extra effects. For example;<br />
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Animation: Uppercut<br />
Attribute 1: Slow attack (heavy damage)<br />
Attribute 2: Root till complete (additional heavy damage)<br />
Attribute 3: Chance to Stun (2 Attributes)<br />
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Attribute A: Chance to Knockdown (2 Attributes)<br />
Negative: All out attack (damage done to you +5% this round)<br />
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Negative: Unsteady Footing (Resistance to knockback/down -5%)<br />
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Numbers are spitballed of course. The idea being at at that level of skill (player and character) you can select a risk your willing to take in return for some reward. Instead of a knockdown the player could slot an additional stun or 2 more damage increases to really slam their opponent.<br />
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The aim is to have the player have 5 buttons - standard being 3 attack and 2 defense for soloing. Tanks might swap in more defense or healers healing spells and DPS less but its all players choice. <br />
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Or more wildly someone who studied healing and arcane magic might weave a spell that tossed a fireball, lit someone on fire, and radiated healing while they burned.<br />
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I don't want to overwhelm players too much so the system will slowly kick in as you level up with clear explanations. And should you not be interested in any of this in addition to your custom button page in your skill book would be a generic skill set that has the skill you learned. <br />
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It might be better to have these not quite as strong as if you did the quests to earn the skill yourself but being a nice shortcut if you don't have the time right now. another way to do it is to require characters to meet and do a little training interaction which appeals more to my gamer geek side but could make earning a profit harder.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-83877600493593641592013-04-28T15:35:00.001-07:002013-04-28T15:43:36.913-07:00Iron Pet Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
or: <i>Your doing what???</i><br />
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I've been working on the amount of exp you can get from pet battles and it inspired me to try an experiment. <br />
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1) I get exp from pet battles.<br />
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2) No quest exp. i might need to bend this if I find one I HAVE to do but I don't think any zone is locked by a quest any more. <br />
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Though it will make getting around Cata zones..interesting.<br />
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3) No Kill/Grind XP.<br />
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4) Exploration exp is OK because I cant stop it. More on this later.<br />
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5) No equipment upgrades beyond my starting equipment and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=92738">Safari Hat </a>WoW insists every character of mine might need.<br />
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6) Eventually I will be joining a guild, I dunno if they have the exp bonus or not. Just mainly for guild invite blocking.<br />
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<b><i>Some oddities.</i></b><br />
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I created my character and opened my statistics to take screen shots and found by logging in I completed 45 quests. No really.<br />
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My assumption is those are the pet battle account wide quests. So our zero point will be 45 I guess.<br />
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I've Acquired 4c form selling my staff. So I wont kill something if I accidentally click on it.<br />
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I'm selling a few pets to get some capital for flight paths and flight training I don't know if that will alter the number.<br />
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But there is some light at the end of the tunnel...after a fashion.<br />
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So how well did I do after the first evenign /played? here you go..<br />
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Not too awful but it isn't rocket speed.<br />
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I'm to the point I am earning FAR more exp from fights. though I'm also running through level 1 pets like water. So far Ive been able to stick to my stable but soon ill end up leveling wild ones just to get the exp.<br />
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Its a fun little challenge to work on. If you want to give it a try let me know and Ill post your results here.<br />
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Special thanks to Redcow from<a href="http://redcowrise.blogspot.com/"> red cow rise</a> for giving me a bit of help in coin while I was waiting for pet sales. She is amazing.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-48132098860439021392013-04-21T19:37:00.001-07:002013-04-21T19:50:12.558-07:00Ding 90 Monk!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In my much slower effort to get my toons all up to 90 my Monk finally made it.<br />
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Nightli was my effort to make realm first. It was plagued with problems form the get go but I still only missed it by a couple of hours. After that I just stopped playing her for a while because of that. Then I found out about pet battle exp and just had to try it.<br />
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That's from battling a level 24 vs a level 24 in Deepholm. It really amazed me at how fast it went. By comparison a quest was offering me 230k exp at 89. but they expected me to work for it not just squish stuff with my minions :)<br />
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So there she is my noble monk. Time to update my characters list and see who to work on next. Oh and to farm. <br />
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Farming is cool :D<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509809079707437702.post-16216799866187171172013-04-21T01:20:00.000-07:002013-04-21T01:20:50.898-07:00XP, Pet Battles, and You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I didnt have heirlooms or any bonuses besides the basic guild + exp and a couple of days of rested exp. Now I did do some quests, 41 of them, and all the dungeon quests. Well Except Grim Batol. Who can get those quests done in a hurry though?</div>
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The more I looked into it the deeper the rabbit hole went. In part I think because the code is years old and patched and repatched until its very..interesting. But here are a few things I found out.</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Just the facts Ma'am.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2)</span></b> Exp is almost always a bit worse than questing - at least by the numbers. When you factor in time running back and forth on quests and less (usually) in pet battles it seems to be quite favorable to pet battle. Also you can hang out in lower level zones and ignore the normal mobs as you hunt pets.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3)</b></span> The quality of pets affects the exp gained. That's why I picked only on grey mobs. to get some sort of easier comparison. If you beat up a blue or green pets you will gain more exp.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4)</b></span> Capturing a pet will lower exp at the end of the battle.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>5)</b></span> I'm not talking about battling the battle trainers. Those quests give no exp and only benefit your pet. If you can take them down with lower level pets though for fast exp.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">6)</span></b> Results!<br />
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<u>At level 59</u></div>
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<li>Level 17 vs 17 gained me 8.9k xp</li>
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<u>At level 75</u></div>
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<li>Level 23 vs 23 gained me 18.5k xp</li>
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<u>At level 80</u></div>
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<li>Level 23 vs 23 gained me 23.9k xp</li>
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<u>At level 85</u></div>
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<li>Level 1 vs 1 gained me 6.9k xp</li>
<li>Level 3 vs 3 gained me 7.6k xp</li>
<li>Level 5 vs 5 gained me 22.8k xp (Remember at 5 there are 2 enemies)</li>
<li>Level 24 vs 24 gained me 85k xp in Twilight Highlands</li>
<li>Level 24 vs 24 gained me 119k xp in Jade Forset</li>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">So what does that mean anyway?</span></b></div>
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Pet Battle if you want to level really quickly on an alt or in a new casual way - or just want to be all you can be and hunt blues In the end you will make so much more exp and the experience will be really fun. </div>
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Of course there is a danger in that. I hit a problem at 82 on my hunter. Too low for the nice MoP gear I bought and her gear was a bit garbage compared to the zone. That meant I had to wait till 83 for the dungeon quest and a lot more pet battes and quests there. Of course as soon as I hit 83 I was away again in a blur.</div>
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Find a solid farming spot like the vultures in Dragonblight where you can fly to a stable master in a blip if needed and back to devouring the pets. Build a team to smash them and away you go. Easy to do. Its almost like the old fashioned level grinding is back.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><i>Enjoy your pets, Nightwill</i></span></div>
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<u>Data Rough Notes with quest Exp comparison.</u></div>
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Hellfire quests 12k</div>
8900 xp<br />
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@ 59 on a 59 with level 17 pets vs level 17 grey pets</div>
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@85 lvl 1 pet vs level 1 grey 6.9k exp</div>
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1 vs 3 7.6k</div>
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level 3 vs 3 7.6k</div>
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@85 level 5 vs level 5 22.8k</div>
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@85 level 6 vs level 5 22.8k</div>
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4 vs 4 7.3k</div>
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4 vs 6 25k</div>
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lvl 16 vs 18 95k<br />
lvl 17 vs 18 95k<br />
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@ level 85<br />
Jade Forest<br />
Quest: The Path of War (Kill 12 Hozen) 110k exp<br />
1 Pet battle vs grey level 24 pets 85k<br />
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Twilands<br />
Quest; Landgrab (Kill 12 Horde Marines) 60.7k<br />
1 Pet battle vs grey level 24 pets 85k<br />
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@Level 80<br />
Icecrown<br />
Quest: I'm Smelting... Smelting! 22k<br />
Dragonblight<br />
1 Pet battle vs grey level 23 pets 23.4k<br />
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@level 75<br />
Quest: Zul'Drak Trolls Is Gone Crazy! (free 8 Rageclaw) 20.5k Xp<br />
Dragonblight<br />
1 Pet battle vs grey level 23 pets 18.5k Exp<br />
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I put together a list of gear for a friend of mine. She avoids raids for the most part but we plan to do just enough to get a bit of rep for the assault in time. I thought it might be useful for others so here is a lose guide for gearing up in 5.2. Of course this also works for Shamans if your one of the sexy enhancement types.<br />
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Trinkets<br />
Relic of Xuen<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Darkmoon Fair Deck<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Crafted/Quest<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Trinket 1<br />
Vicious Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>463<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Shadow Pan Assault - Friendly<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1750 VP<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Trinket 2<br />
Malevolent Gladiator's Insignia of Conquest<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PvP Vendor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1750 HP<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Trinket -<br />
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Malevolent Gladiator's Longbow<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>470<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vendor, Earn 7500 HP in a Season<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3500 HP<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Weapon<br />
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Cloak<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Malevolent Gladiator's Cape of <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PvP Vendor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1250 HP<br />
Longshot Forestcloak<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>522<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Shadow Pan Assault - Honored<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1250 VP<br />
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Rings<br />
Seal of the Windreaver<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Exalted Klaxi Quest<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep/Quest<br />
Seal of the Shado-Pan Assault<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>522<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Shadow Pan Assault - Friendly<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1250 VP<br />
malevolent Gladiator's Ring of <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PvP Vendor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1250 HP<br />
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Boots<br />
Treads of Ardent Antagonism<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sha of Anger Item Drop<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Quest<br />
Steps of the War Serpent<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Aug Cel - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>875 VP<br />
Odlaw's Everwalkers<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>496<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Operation Shieldwall - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1312 VP<br />
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Legs<br />
Malevolent Gladiator's Linked leggings<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PvP Vendor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1250 HP<br />
Homeguard Leggings<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>522<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Shadow Pan Assault - Honored<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2250 VP<br />
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Belt<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Rotting Bog Cinch<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Kirin Tor Assult-Honored<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gold<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Klaxxi Lash of the Winnower<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Klaxxi - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>875 VP<br />
Chain of Flaming Arrows<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>496<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Operation Shieldwall - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1312 VP<br />
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Hands<br />
Sentinel Commander's Gauntlets <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Aug Cel - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>875 VP<br />
Raven Lord's Gloves<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>496<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leatherworking<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Gauntlets of the Longbow<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>522<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Shadow Pan Assault - Honored<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1750 VP<br />
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Wrist<br />
Tiger-Striped Wristguards<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Aug Cel - Honored<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>625 VP<br />
Powderburn Bracers<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>522<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Shadow Pan Assault - Friendly<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1250 VP<br />
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Chest<br />
Malevolent Gladiator's Linked Armor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PvP Vendor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2250 HP<br />
Breastplate of the Golden Pagoda<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Golden Lotus - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1125 VP<br />
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Helm<br />
Deadly Retinal Armor <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Engineering crafted<br />
Hawkmaster's Headguard<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Shadow Pan - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1125 VP<br />
Dreadrunner Helm<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>522<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leatherworking<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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Malevolent Gladiator's LInked Spaulders<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>476<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PvP Vendor<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1750 HP<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Windwalker Spaulders <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>489<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rep: Golden Lotus - Revered<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>875 VP<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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I've been out of the game for too long to have too much to say. I've been following the recent changes as best I can but without actually doing something in game I don't feel like I should be babbling on about it.<br />
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So something I have been doing is watching Steven Colbert. Even after his mistake of singing the Christmas Date Rape song I'm willing to watch and Chris Kluwe was on. WoW was mentioned so that was my thin way of linking ti to Warcraft, the interview is great, check it out <a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-january-8-2013-chris-kluwe">here</a>.<br />
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Some of my hard drive was able to be recovered and with it my past writing. so a small poem I wrote for a Vampire (V:TM) character to his mortal love.<br />
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Ill be there when your heart starts racing, </div>
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Ill be the one to make your thunder roll.</div>
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Ill be there when you learn you can fly, </div>
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Ill cheer when you make dragons fall </div>
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Ill be there as the long summer fades, </div>
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Ill adore you when your hair turns gray. </div>
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Ill be there to remind you to still sing, </div>
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Ill be the one to make you laugh again. </div>
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Ill be there to hold you with love's touch,</div>
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Ill sing the last note of your song. </div>
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Ill be there to kiss away your last breath, </div>
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Ill cry as you fade into the night, </div>
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And then...I will be gone. </div>
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