So, after reading WoW.com's post about the 3.2 Patch Notes, I think I am even more excited for this patch than I was for the last one. I'll highlight some things that made me squee.
Isle of Conquest - New battleground omg! It looks like it's going to be a mix of Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley kind of? Grabbing nodes and storming the Keep to kill the General. Sounds pretty cool. I do like to take a break from alt-grinding to PVP so I am excited to try this out.
While on the subject of PVP: They are adding experience gains into battlegrounds. Awesome. And to keep twinks from QQing, they are allowing them to opt out of exp gains - but they will only be able to fight against other twinks if they do. HA. Being that my lowest toon is 50 now it's kind of too late for me to really, really enjoy this, but all the same - it's about time.
Better accessability - As a player of both factions [though I do spend more time Alliance side], I was pleased to see the Horde were getting a long-needed zeppelin to Thunder Bluff. Alliance have their Deeprun Tram to tie things together, but Horde still had to run across Mulgore and through the Barrens if they wanted to get from TB to Orgrimmar/vice-versa. Also, they're adding portals to the Dark Portal in SW/Org, I think it was, so that's awesome too. And mailboxes galore! No more having to deal with idiots parking their mammoths/elekks/kodos on the mailboxes outside the bank. =P I used to envy the amount of mailboxes smattered around Silvermoon City while I was playing the auction house.
Emblem changes - They are adding yet another tier of Emblems for the "hardcore" raiders, and my first thought before reading on was that it was getting a bit out of hand. Then I read that Emblems of Conquest would be rewarded through instances like 10-man Naxxramas and even... HEROICS? What! That's awesome! I forsee an instance zerg in the future for my guild. Gearing people up even moreso will really help us push forward in Ulduar. I just want to *see* Yogg-Saron - I don't want it to be like in Burning Crusade where Wrath was being launched and I hadn't even seen the Illidan encounter, QQ. I am very happy with how Blizzard is doing things this time around. Yes, hardcores will QQ, but the game was meant to be played by everyone, not just them. Whose needs are more important and why? The answer is no one's. Everyone pays the same $15 / month. And Blizzard wants to keep the huge player base rolling in the dough. Sorry, dudes.
VANITY ITEMS - OK, so, I am a complete pet collector. [Mounts to a lesser extent. Much lesser. But I digress.] There are SO MANY new vanity items coming in the next patch! 8 new non-combat pets, NOT INCLUDING Argent Tournament pets, zomg! Children's Week will also be coming to Northrend - at least I hope it makes it to live realms, past the PTR - I REALLY want a baby wolvar pet, and a baby gorloc too.
Aside from pets, they are making the Silver Covenant and Sunreaver flying mounts purchaseable with Champion Seals, AND a new paladin-only Argent Crusade Charger. More incentive to level my Paladin, basically. ;)
Horde will also be getting the long-anticipated Ravasaur mount, which is their version of the Wintersaber from Winterspring.
Along with that, new tabard and banners, and an upgraded Argent Squire who can actually run errands for you... System overload here srsly.
I need a break! Phew! More later!
Showing posts with label paladin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paladin. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
The Usual? II
Post the second: Alts!
I've been playing my warrior and paladin pretty steadily, and while I'm letting them re-collect some rested experience, I've been levelling some of their professions - both main and secondary skills.
Clive, my warrior, has just recently dropped mining for enchanting, so I can stop trying to make Wakizashi's priest my DE slave. I then remembered what a pain in the ass it was to level enchanting, so it's collecting dust until I have the money to powerlevel it.
Instead, I decided at least ONE of my Horde characters should have high-level cooking, and he ended up being it.
So when I picked up this breadcrumbs quest sending me off to get Artisan cooking, I laughed pretty hard at the text. Exactly which part of him is fat? That troll lady is the leading cause of anorexia in Durotar youth.
My paladin, Cadmus, has made his way to Northrend finally. But not before I killed this rare mob in Nagrand. I was kind of confused to find that he was not part of the achievement Bloody Rare. I wonder why that is? I guess Blizzard probably just forgot about him. Poor Bro'Gaz.
A second odd achievement-related thing I noticed on my paladin, as well, pictured above - though this is MUCH stranger than a rare mob missing from a list. I spoke in a previous post about a guildie getting the PVP Damage Control achievement in Ulduar. I figured it had something to do with the vehicular combat, but nope! As you can see I earned the same achievement... grinding on vrykul in the Howling Fjord. Um, okay? /boggle
I then proceeded to drop somewhere from 1200-1500g powerlevelling my pally's damned blacksmithing. He can almost mine Saronite, but he was still stuck at Mithril + Thorium in his smithing, even with some materials I had saved. I took care of that, though, and now he's all caught up to recipes that require Cobalt to make, so now I can relax and level it casually. You know, until he's still stuck at Cobalt or Saronite at 80 and I spaz out and do the same thing again.
Friday night, Cadmus earned his wings when I hit 70 with him! That means that I've levelled every class in WoW to 70+ now, except for a warrior. But Clive's next!
This was with big help from my friend Bruzin, on his hunter Bulmastif. [The same one who helped me on my Charger quest in Stratholme.] I got about half of level 70 doing all of the group quests with him in Nagrand.
When we finished Ring of Blood, Cadmus exclaimed: "Ha ha ha! Woo!" and Bruzin responded: "Wow, he is so gay."
Yes, yes he is. In fact, Cadmus has developed a huge crush on Lou the Cabin Boy, and I daresay it's from spending so much time with Bulmastif that he's acquired a taste for Tauren men.
Ahh... Lovebirds.
[Cadmus would add that Lou looks fabulous in his leather panties. And that closets are for clothes. Really fabulous clothes.]
I've been playing my warrior and paladin pretty steadily, and while I'm letting them re-collect some rested experience, I've been levelling some of their professions - both main and secondary skills.
Clive, my warrior, has just recently dropped mining for enchanting, so I can stop trying to make Wakizashi's priest my DE slave. I then remembered what a pain in the ass it was to level enchanting, so it's collecting dust until I have the money to powerlevel it.
Instead, I decided at least ONE of my Horde characters should have high-level cooking, and he ended up being it.
So when I picked up this breadcrumbs quest sending me off to get Artisan cooking, I laughed pretty hard at the text. Exactly which part of him is fat? That troll lady is the leading cause of anorexia in Durotar youth.
My paladin, Cadmus, has made his way to Northrend finally. But not before I killed this rare mob in Nagrand. I was kind of confused to find that he was not part of the achievement Bloody Rare. I wonder why that is? I guess Blizzard probably just forgot about him. Poor Bro'Gaz.
A second odd achievement-related thing I noticed on my paladin, as well, pictured above - though this is MUCH stranger than a rare mob missing from a list. I spoke in a previous post about a guildie getting the PVP Damage Control achievement in Ulduar. I figured it had something to do with the vehicular combat, but nope! As you can see I earned the same achievement... grinding on vrykul in the Howling Fjord. Um, okay? /boggle
I then proceeded to drop somewhere from 1200-1500g powerlevelling my pally's damned blacksmithing. He can almost mine Saronite, but he was still stuck at Mithril + Thorium in his smithing, even with some materials I had saved. I took care of that, though, and now he's all caught up to recipes that require Cobalt to make, so now I can relax and level it casually. You know, until he's still stuck at Cobalt or Saronite at 80 and I spaz out and do the same thing again.
Friday night, Cadmus earned his wings when I hit 70 with him! That means that I've levelled every class in WoW to 70+ now, except for a warrior. But Clive's next!
This was with big help from my friend Bruzin, on his hunter Bulmastif. [The same one who helped me on my Charger quest in Stratholme.] I got about half of level 70 doing all of the group quests with him in Nagrand.
When we finished Ring of Blood, Cadmus exclaimed: "Ha ha ha! Woo!" and Bruzin responded: "Wow, he is so gay."
Yes, yes he is. In fact, Cadmus has developed a huge crush on Lou the Cabin Boy, and I daresay it's from spending so much time with Bulmastif that he's acquired a taste for Tauren men.
Ahh... Lovebirds.
[Cadmus would add that Lou looks fabulous in his leather panties. And that closets are for clothes. Really fabulous clothes.]
Monday, June 1, 2009
Pally power
My husband recently got his paladin her Charger, so I met him out in Nagrand with my own pally and took some screenshots. :)
I'm the pretty one. Uh... The pretty, feminine one. The girly one. I'm the Blood Elf.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
This and that
So, what have I been up to on Azeroth, lately?
Well, the long and short of it is: Not too much. =) And I'm liking it! I love just vegging out and grinding on lowbie alts. It's been awhile since I've had a long stretch where I've not felt pressed in a way like: "Omg must hit 80!!" or "Omg must hit exalted!!"
So, in between raiding Naxx with my beloved guildies, I've been giving my Horde characters some well-deserved attention.
Since getting his power pony [ahem, Thalassian Charger], my paladin, Cadmus, has hit level 65. I ran out of rested experience at that point, so I set him aside for the time being. Having as many alts as I do, you kind of get frustrated levelling without rested experience [unless I'm in a mad rush to get to 80, like I mentioned before kinda.] As a sidenote, I HIGHLY reccomend the addon Altoholic if you are, as it says, an altoholic, much like myself. It lets you track just about everything with your alts, but the reason I mentioned it is because it keeps track of everyones' rested experience, so you know when they're capped out and it's time to play them again and such.
I took a break to get my rogue, Callidora, up to 71 just because I kind of missed questing in Borean Tundra! Weird? Maybe a little. But whatever, progress is progress!
And last but certainly not least... I've gotten into playing my little Forsaken warrior, Clive, again. It's about time! He's my lowest alt at 42 [on his way to 43!], and consequently, warrior is the only class I've never gotten to Outland + beyond yet. But he'll get there!! Oh yes he will!
Despite Clive's low level, I've been pvping with him all night, in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. I'm having a lot of fun, even if I get roflstomped a lot! I'm really just trying to get marks so I can get him a pvp mount later on. I'm thinking a raptor.
Where would my update be without postcards from my travels?
Gloomy. Aww, muffin.
Gimme food or me eat you.
Well, the long and short of it is: Not too much. =) And I'm liking it! I love just vegging out and grinding on lowbie alts. It's been awhile since I've had a long stretch where I've not felt pressed in a way like: "Omg must hit 80!!" or "Omg must hit exalted!!"
So, in between raiding Naxx with my beloved guildies, I've been giving my Horde characters some well-deserved attention.
Since getting his power pony [ahem, Thalassian Charger], my paladin, Cadmus, has hit level 65. I ran out of rested experience at that point, so I set him aside for the time being. Having as many alts as I do, you kind of get frustrated levelling without rested experience [unless I'm in a mad rush to get to 80, like I mentioned before kinda.] As a sidenote, I HIGHLY reccomend the addon Altoholic if you are, as it says, an altoholic, much like myself. It lets you track just about everything with your alts, but the reason I mentioned it is because it keeps track of everyones' rested experience, so you know when they're capped out and it's time to play them again and such.
I took a break to get my rogue, Callidora, up to 71 just because I kind of missed questing in Borean Tundra! Weird? Maybe a little. But whatever, progress is progress!
And last but certainly not least... I've gotten into playing my little Forsaken warrior, Clive, again. It's about time! He's my lowest alt at 42 [on his way to 43!], and consequently, warrior is the only class I've never gotten to Outland + beyond yet. But he'll get there!! Oh yes he will!
Despite Clive's low level, I've been pvping with him all night, in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. I'm having a lot of fun, even if I get roflstomped a lot! I'm really just trying to get marks so I can get him a pvp mount later on. I'm thinking a raptor.
Where would my update be without postcards from my travels?
Gloomy. Aww, muffin.
Gimme food or me eat you.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Re: Paladon't
I crossposted my last post to wow_ladies, and a girl over there named terra_firma made me this:
Awesome.
Awesome.
Charge!
I did it, I did it! I got my little Blood Elf Paladin, Cadmus, to level 60, AND got him his Thalassian Charger.
But let me tell you, this was no small task.
The Horde version of the Paladin epic mount quest is a lot easier than the Alliance version, or at least less time-consuming. You pay some gold, buy some things from a vendor/AH, kill some Scourge, steal some holy water, and then it's one quick trip to Stratholme, and you're done.
At least, in theory.
I did the goldsink part of the quest no problem, as well as the Scourge slaughtering. Once I got to the next part though, something silly happened.
The object of this step of the chain was to head into Tyr's Hand and procure a sample of the Scarlet Crusade's holy water from their abbey. I had no one to help me [at first], but it was still straightforward enough to me. What I planned to do was run into the abbey, die where my quest item was, corpse run back, ressurect, pop my bubble, loot the item, run out to a safe spot, die AGAIN, run back, res, and then hearth out of there. A bit long-winded, but a very straightforward plan. No real kinks to work out, right? WRONG.
It all went well up to the part where I died and released my spirit. Where I was transported to looked all too familiar, but not exactly because I had been there moments ago...
You see, I was transported to the Death Knights' phased version of Tyr's Hand / the Scarlet Enclave.
Let me re-iterate: I was on my PALADIN.
I res'd at the spirit healer and tried to hearth out. I recieved a warning message saying "You can't leave here until you've escaped the Lich King's grasp!" Uhh... Okay. So, I sent in a ticket, and waited.
In the meantime, I headed up to Acherus to socialize.
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I even managed to find my name in the Death Knight roster. Wow, I hadn't realized Arthas had planned so far ahead. Was he keeping names of every paladin around in there, just in case he might run into them and Scourge them up?
Eventually, I got in touch with a GM, and they were kind of unhelpful. He ported me back to UC. I said thanks, but, wasn't this just going to happen again if I went back to Tyr's Hand and died a second time? He said "yes," and his advice to me was: "You know, you can buy the mount off the paladin trainer at 61 now. You don't need to do the quest."
Umm, thanks? I know that. Some of us like to do things the fun way, or the hard way, depending on which way you look at it. I'm also planning on doing the epic flight form quest for my druid...
But I digress.
My husband ended up helping me with his Alliance hunter to clear me a path to my quest item, as well as a level 80 BE Pally who happened to be there when I returned.
Then I just waited until I got a hold of a friend of mine, and he took me to Stratholme where we kicked the crap out of some Silver Hand after I burned down their church.
[OK, so this is what the instance was really mostly like... He killed most of the things and I just sat there and drank mana juice, QQ.]
All the stress ended up being worth it. I got a shiny new tabard:
AND, of course, most IMPORTANTLYYYY, my Charger!!
YAY!
But let me tell you, this was no small task.
The Horde version of the Paladin epic mount quest is a lot easier than the Alliance version, or at least less time-consuming. You pay some gold, buy some things from a vendor/AH, kill some Scourge, steal some holy water, and then it's one quick trip to Stratholme, and you're done.
At least, in theory.
I did the goldsink part of the quest no problem, as well as the Scourge slaughtering. Once I got to the next part though, something silly happened.
The object of this step of the chain was to head into Tyr's Hand and procure a sample of the Scarlet Crusade's holy water from their abbey. I had no one to help me [at first], but it was still straightforward enough to me. What I planned to do was run into the abbey, die where my quest item was, corpse run back, ressurect, pop my bubble, loot the item, run out to a safe spot, die AGAIN, run back, res, and then hearth out of there. A bit long-winded, but a very straightforward plan. No real kinks to work out, right? WRONG.
It all went well up to the part where I died and released my spirit. Where I was transported to looked all too familiar, but not exactly because I had been there moments ago...
You see, I was transported to the Death Knights' phased version of Tyr's Hand / the Scarlet Enclave.
Let me re-iterate: I was on my PALADIN.
I res'd at the spirit healer and tried to hearth out. I recieved a warning message saying "You can't leave here until you've escaped the Lich King's grasp!" Uhh... Okay. So, I sent in a ticket, and waited.
In the meantime, I headed up to Acherus to socialize.
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I even managed to find my name in the Death Knight roster. Wow, I hadn't realized Arthas had planned so far ahead. Was he keeping names of every paladin around in there, just in case he might run into them and Scourge them up?
Eventually, I got in touch with a GM, and they were kind of unhelpful. He ported me back to UC. I said thanks, but, wasn't this just going to happen again if I went back to Tyr's Hand and died a second time? He said "yes," and his advice to me was: "You know, you can buy the mount off the paladin trainer at 61 now. You don't need to do the quest."
Umm, thanks? I know that. Some of us like to do things the fun way, or the hard way, depending on which way you look at it. I'm also planning on doing the epic flight form quest for my druid...
But I digress.
My husband ended up helping me with his Alliance hunter to clear me a path to my quest item, as well as a level 80 BE Pally who happened to be there when I returned.
Then I just waited until I got a hold of a friend of mine, and he took me to Stratholme where we kicked the crap out of some Silver Hand after I burned down their church.
[OK, so this is what the instance was really mostly like... He killed most of the things and I just sat there and drank mana juice, QQ.]
All the stress ended up being worth it. I got a shiny new tabard:
AND, of course, most IMPORTANTLYYYY, my Charger!!
YAY!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Well-rested
Last night, my guild and I ventured into Naxx-10, as we generally do on Wednesday nights. We were short one initially, so decided to head in with nine of us. I was offtanking on Snooky, my death knight, as usual, and we were doing quite well!
Then, I let a pack of spiders get away and hit the raid. We didn't wipe, and I didn't really mean to but the reason for my mishap was obvious as I proclaimed over Vent:
"Oh my god! Is that Lumpey?!"
A close friend and guildie of mine recently was out of commission when he had an issue with a new graphics card he bought. He couldn't re-install his old one, either, because of DirectX being a butthead. But - he fixed the issue! Yay! Just in time for our raid!
So it turned out to be for the better that we'd hit up Naxx with nine of us rather than 10, since we had a spot saved for him.
In other news, today is the last day of Children's Week, and as it peters out, I'm hit with a minor WoW burnout. Unfortunate! But, it happens. I've been playing way too much trying to get these achievements done for the Violet proto-drake, among other things. I'm going to take it easy, for now, and let my alts build-up some well-rested bonuses.
I did get my paladin, Cadmus, to 56 today.
Here he is, in all his femboy glory, with his little Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling eyeballing him, wondering how it is possible for anyone to look more flamboyant than it does.
Then, I let a pack of spiders get away and hit the raid. We didn't wipe, and I didn't really mean to but the reason for my mishap was obvious as I proclaimed over Vent:
"Oh my god! Is that Lumpey?!"
A close friend and guildie of mine recently was out of commission when he had an issue with a new graphics card he bought. He couldn't re-install his old one, either, because of DirectX being a butthead. But - he fixed the issue! Yay! Just in time for our raid!
So it turned out to be for the better that we'd hit up Naxx with nine of us rather than 10, since we had a spot saved for him.
In other news, today is the last day of Children's Week, and as it peters out, I'm hit with a minor WoW burnout. Unfortunate! But, it happens. I've been playing way too much trying to get these achievements done for the Violet proto-drake, among other things. I'm going to take it easy, for now, and let my alts build-up some well-rested bonuses.
I did get my paladin, Cadmus, to 56 today.
Here he is, in all his femboy glory, with his little Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling eyeballing him, wondering how it is possible for anyone to look more flamboyant than it does.
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